Chapter Fifteen

"Please tell me you didn't make a kill." Jena asked her friend dreading the consequence Saleena had threatened her with.

"No, definitely not." She replied as she walked aligned with her escorts in dark attire who had broken into the room where she was with Tara. Seeing her associates she had quickly said goodbye and left even though the blond still hovered in her thoughts.

"Good, so that must have been a good melt you had. She was hot." Jena asked wanting to know the detail.

"She wasn't a vampire." She said and almost felt her friend's eyes widening and asked without even stopping. "What?"

Before Jena could put a voice to what they both knew would be the next question the phone in Jena's pocket rang. She got it out and saw who it was and gave it to her friend.

She took the phone and looked at the caller id.

'Riley' The caller id of the phone read, as Mulder took it out of his pocket to see who had called him at that hour. He quickly flipped the phone open and answered it and waited for Riley to finish on the other end then got up and walked to where his partner was sitting.

"Scully, I need to go." He said in her ears.

By now Scully was used to Mulder leaving at the critical moments for her to tie up all the loose ends, so she didn't even bother to ask why or where he was leaving, rather she simply nodded and kept her sight transfixed on the man whom she now knew to be some kind of a Prophet.

Dawn on the other hand was taking turns to look at the pale man whom Leo had told her to contact and the FBI Agent who once had become almost a part of her family. Somehow she felt she owed the Agent an explanation even though it was Buffy who had left her. The last person she had thought she would see when she had walked into the precinct was Mulder, but when she saw that Prophet was in Mulder's custody she just waited for Scully to arrive.

When Scully had walked into the basement with Olivia in tow, Mulder had quickly gotten up when he saw the detective but Scully shut him down immediately by telling him that Olivia knew Faith. Of course that revelation made Dawn's eyebrow rise a little but she didn't say anything

After Mulder left the room got smaller every passing silent moment especially for Olivia who still felt completely in dark even though she heard Dawn explain that the man was some kind of a prophet who was going to lead them to save the world, in more or less those very words. What baffled Olivia more was why Dr. Dana Scully, a woman of science actually listening or even believing such an explanation and what Faith had to do with any of it? Olivia was just about to voice out her confusion when Dawn spoke instead.

"So, Faith is also here?" She asked to no one is particular.

"Yeah, that's what we found out." Scully answered even though she didn't look at Dawn.

"Does she know what is happening?" Dawn asked again.

"I don't know." Scully answered once again, but this time she took her eyes off the man and asked, "Why isn't he saying anything?"

"I don't know." Dawn said and once again turned to the man and spoke, "I am the key Prophet. I seek your guidance."

This time Olivia couldn't keep her laughter hidden as the scene in front of her was just simply funny to her. But, to her surprise both the women looked at her as though she was the odd pea in the pod.

"Come on now, this is ridiculous, Prophet and key and whole saving the world thing." Olivia finally said her thoughts aloud.

As soon as Scully heard those words, the pieces started to fit in Scully's head. "Faith is the friend with benefits that was a no-show at the club last night, and when you said you knew Faith, more than I could think, you meant you knew her…" Scully paused surprised that the thought of Faith and Olivia together made her feel uncomfortable and even a little possessive towards the Detective with whom even though she felt a definite attraction, she wasn't sure how she felt about. "You knew her intimately." Scully finished.

"Yeah." Olivia answered feeling guilty even though she shouldn't have after all she was with Faith before she even met or thought about the Agent.

"Well, long story short, to find a vampire who better to look for than Faith as Faith is the slayer." Scully told the detective knowing fully that the words she had used would have to be explained in full to her but later.

"Vampires, slayers, what is this some kind of a game or a joke?" Olivia now asked unable to believe it was Dana who was saying it.

Before Dawn or Scully could try and explain anything to the Detective, her eyes widened as wide as her mouth which had opened simultaneously. Both the women turned to see what had caused her reaction and saw Tara standing behind them.

"Where in the name of god did you come from?" Olivia exclaimed as soon as she got her voice back.

Tara looked at the strange woman wondering why she was there when she orbed to the key. Then her eyes landed on Dawn and she knew.

"You are the key." Tara was staring at the little girl who had now become a woman, whom she hadn't seen since the day they buried Buffy.

"God I wanted to see you but not like this." She said as she ran to the blond woman and hugged her.

"Hi Dana." She said once she unwrapped herself from Dawn's arms.

"Hi Tara." Scully simply greeted her back.

Olivia's mouth was still open as the women greeted each other as though a woman appearing from a thin air was just a natural thing to happen. And just then Prophet got up shocking everyone and looked at Tara as he asked, "Did you find it?"

Tara was taken back a little hearing the man ask her the same vague question that the boy kept asking her and sending her to different places to look for, but by now she had grown tired of asking what it was she was supposed to find and simply answered, "No."

"When you see what you seek, you'll know." He answered in the same exact words as the boy.

"We got to go." He simply said and took her hand. "Take the key." He commanded as though Dawn was actually some kind of an inanimate object. Before the women in the room could react to the just awoken man, the three women disappeared leaving Olivia once again open mouthed, and Scully just sighed as this wasn't the first time she was left behind. Well at least this time she wasn't alone but she had a lot of explaining to do.

"This place seems to be infested with these things." Paige complained as she orbed a rock to hit another werewolf.

"Yeah, the vampire did say that this was their world, you know of vampires and werewolves." Piper screamed back at her sister hoping Paige heard against all the blowing of the lesser powerful vampires and werewolves.

"I told you, we should have talked to Leo before we jumped in here." Paige screamed back .

"Oh don't be a baby. What is the worst that we could happen?" Piper downplayed Paige's concern.

"We could die." Paige said as she orbed few big rocks to barricade herself against the two attacking vampires. Then she orbed the fallen stake into their hearts one by one. "And I don't want to die so soon." She said as she poofed another vampire.

"Dying is not as easy as you think." Piper said almost to herself as she staked two of the frozen vampires at the same time.

One by one the two sisters seemed to have truly killed almost hundreds of vampires and werewolves as they stood in the middle of heaps of ashes and lifeless bodies. They looked at one another not even daring to wonder if that was the last of them.

"Did we finish them all?" Paige asked even though knew she couldn't possibly even hope for that. Just then the ground they were standing on started to shake and low sound of thousands of footsteps coming towards them grew louder. The sisters panicked and ran towards the closest tunnel, as fast as they could just to end up at dead end corner. Piper looked at her sister unable to come up with a solution, but Paige was already at work orbing as many big rocks as she could barricade themselves from their attackers.

"Wow that was scary." Paige said as she took moment to take a breath.

Piper agreed with a nod and leaned on the wall to take a rest when the ground gave away, making them take a fall.

After taking a minute or two to recover from the fall, they helped each other get up and looked at where they had landed. It seemed like they were at what seemed like a huge empty center of a various intersection.

"How come this place is lit? Where is the light coming from?" Paige wondered once she made sure neither she nor Piper was hurt.

"I don't know, but how the hell are we going to find Saleena now?" Piper wondered about a more important question according to her.

"Looking for me?" An awfully attractive dark haired, slim woman dressed completely in black with a long black rain coat said from the top of pile of rocks that was as high as the ceiling from which the sisters had fallen. As the Halliwell women watched her in awe, a part because of her captivating beauty (who wouldn't be), a part because of the realization that they had actually found her; Saleena jumped from that height and landed firmly on the ground. Piper instinctively tried to freeze her but all that did to Saleena was, pause her pace for a fraction of a second.

"Ahh, a witch with fancy powers." Saleena grinned unaffected as she approached the witches.

Paige looked for something to save them. When she saw that Saleena was approaching another pile of rocks. She called for a stone that she figured and prayed was the one without which the entire pile would topple. Thankfully she was right, as the stone appeared in her hand the rocks came down hard on the vampire crushing her between rocks that even with her strength she couldn't move and was stuck. Piper saw that the tables had turned and quickly took out the dragger which was now glowing because it was near its target.

"Go ahead." Paige allowed her sister to go forward.

Piper approached the woman who was helplessly stuck with the dragger in her hand. Saleena just stared right into her with no sign of fear as Piper neared the point of the dragger to her throat. There was only a distance of couple of centimeter between the beautiful throat and visible food pipe inside her skin and the point of the glowing weapon when a familiar female voice shouted from behind,

"Touch her, and I'll split your head in two."

Piper was startled by the voice she just heard, she turned right around and her heart stopped. Everything in the universe came to a complete halt as she stared into the eyes of Faith.