"Did you find anything out?" Millie asked the next day (If it was day) as they wandered further into the mine.

"Well…"

"What…you spend half the night with your tongue down the guy's throat and you still don't know anything more about him!"

"I did not spend half the night with my tongue anywhere near his throat!"

"No you're right, it was probably more than half the night."

"Fine, if you're gonna be like that I won't tell you anything."

"I thought we had already decided that you hadn't found anything out."

"I never said that."

"So what did you find out, other than how good a kisser he is…"

"Very good." Emma replied with a gin.

"I did say other than how good a kisser he is."

"Well…."

"Exactly," Millie sighed, "Do I have to do everything myself?"

"Yup." Emma replied despondently as Millie moved purposefully towards Neithan.

"Neithan," Millie began in her sweetest voice, "I have a few questions to ask you and I want straight answers and no lies, ok?"

"Millie is this really…" Emma began.

"Yes."

Neithan merely looked bemused, "Ok...what?"

"We…"

"You."

"WE want to know why you've been acting so suspicious, how you randomly know so much about vamps, werewolves etc. where you learnt to fight and where the hell your swords come from."

"Oh."

"Oh, is that all...?" Millie nodded. "Oh."

"Well…" There was silence for several seconds as Neithan attempted to find some way of answering the questions whilst still appearing mysterious (and more than a little suspicious). He had just opened his mouth to answer when-much to Millie's annoyance-Emma shushed him into silence.

"Emma?"

"Shhhh." The girl silenced Millie as well.

"What the hell is it?"

"Can't you hear it?"

"Hear what Emma, I'm trying to hear Neithan explain…everything, suspicious bastard."

"Will you shut up for five minutes and listen!"

Silence fell again as Millie reluctantly-and more than a little peeved-tried to hear anything but her seething annoyance. "Wait…what's that?"

"What's what?" Neithan asked unable to hear anything with his feeble human senses.

"Shhhh!" Millie hissed irritably, "I think it might be vamps!"

"And there you would be right."

"Shit!" Amber eyes twinkled in the darkness. There were a lot of them!

"Bugger!" "A Eru!" and "Fuck!" Soon joined Emma's swear as the others noticed the gathering vamps.

"The master has left you alive long enough, now it's time to die!"

"Are you sure you wouldn't like to reconsider?" Emma asked more than a little fearfully.

"I'm gonna tear you limb from limb!"

"Really?" Millie asked sounding far more confident than Emma, "You know you could just roll about on the floor gagging."

"?" The vampire looked confused for about two seconds, then Millie punched it. There was an audible crack as something in the creature's neck broke. Then it fell to the floor gagging.

"Was that a quote Millie?"

"How ever did you guess? Borrowed from Angel."

"Cool."

Then the other vampires attacked.

There followed several minutes of total confusion as our heroes (for those of you who haven't guessed that's Emma, Millie and their respective guys.) fought the deadly vampires. Millie had forgotten everything the elven prince had taught her and was thrashing wildly with her blade, which, being of elven craft, could cut through practically anything it touched. This left many of the vampires screaming for lost limbs long before their heads followed sending them to a dust filled death.

Millie was still thrashing wildly when Legolas-risking decapitation-placed calming hands on her shoulders, "Millie, I think they've gone."

"Those that are alive anyway." Neithan commented.

"Ow!" Millie muttered noticing for the first time a wound on her arm.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, it's just a scratch."

"Let me take a look." Legolas said gently as he quickly examined the wound before deciding that it was indeed merely a scratch. He bandaged it anyway before turning to see if the others required his aid.

Neithan had a few minor cuts and scratches that he refused to have seen to.

Emma…Emma was gone. "Where's Emma?"

"Emma! Emma!" Millie yelled.

"Emma!" Neithan joined in.

"Shut up!" Legolas hissed. "We are still in the middle of a vampire nest remember and we don't want to draw them all to us!"

"The bloody vamps already know we're here, I'm trying to find Emma!" Millie replied with more than a hint of anxiety for her missing friend.

"Where the hell is she?" Neithan asked almost frantic with worry.

"Neithan; calm down, Millie; shut up!" Legolas said quickly taking charge.

"Fine Legolas, so where's Emma?" Millie asked trying to calm down a little.

"I think the vampires have her."

"Bugger."

"Neithan, calm down." Legolas repeated, "What do you think they will do to her?"

"Use her against us if they can. Probably try to turn her into a creature like them. We can't let that happen!"

"No shit Sherlock." Millie replied without a trace of humour.

"If we move quickly we may be able to find Emma before they have a chance to change her." Legolas said somehow remaining calm amidst the anxiety for Emma.

"Right, let's go then." Millie said taking the lead.

"Beauty, we meet again. " The voice floated down out of the darkness that was suddenly filled with gleaming light, blinding after the phosphorescence of the tunnels. When her eyes had finally adapted to the brightness Millie was able to see the extremely gorgeous-but more than slightly annoying-vampire stood on a raised platform across the cavern they had just entered. Between her and him ranged the largest mass of vampires the girl had ever seen, (except maybe once on Buffy.)

"You have an admirer." Neithan commented with a grin.

"Shut up and start worrying about your own admirer!" Millie retaliated.

"I already am." The boy replied all humour leaving his voice.

"Are you talking about this one Beauty?" The vampire asked with a charming grin as two rather large vampires dragged a struggling Emma towards their leader, "A little on the thin side if you ask me, but not wholly undesirable. She'll make a nice little snack."

"Millie!"

"Emma! Are you alright?" Millie asked a little pointlessly considering the enormity of her friends position.

"I'm Ok-ish. Ow!" Emma squeaked as one of the vampires twisted her arm a bit roughly.

"Let her go!" Neithan yelled.

"Let me think about that…no." With that the vampire waved away his lackeys and took the girl in his arms. With a wave of his hand and, Millie assumed, a touch of mind control he tilted Emma's head back, exposing her throat. The girl stood limply in his arms, unable to do anything. "Say good-bye to your friend Beauty."

"No!" Neithan yelled charging suicidally in the sea of vampires with the vain hope of saving Emma. Over the vamps' heads he could just make out the figure of their leader lowering his mouth over Emma's unprotected neck.

Millie followed Neithan's lead with Legolas half a pace behind, "Fuck off you mother fucking, cock sucking, bastard!"

The vampire ignored their futile antics as his minions closed in around them leaving no way forward and blocking their escape. His needle fine fangs brushed against Emma's smooth skin. Suddenly the girl began to giggle. That made the vampire stop. Millie and Neithan froze sending questioning glances back at Legolas who shrugged whilst the other vampires looked worriedly up at their leader.

Emma stopped giggling as suddenly as she had started. She wasn't limp anymore, her knee connected with the vampire's groin and he collapsed silently to the ground. "I always wanted to do that…again."

"Emma!"

"Well the first time it was an accident!"

"Emma, vampires!"

"Oh."

The other vampires charged, carefully separating Millie, Neithan and Legolas and cornering the apparently powerless Emma. Their leader however seemed to have disappeared.

Emma quickly became bored of being defenceless. She dived at the nearest vampire and as it turned to bury its fangs in her neck she turned to tear out its throat with her own. Silky grey fur spread down her back as she yet again took on wolven form.

Millie on the other hand was forced to rely on her swordsman-or swordswoman-ship. Slashing wildly at any vampire stupid enough to come within range she soon realised that she was being forced slowly away from her friends towards the outer edge of the cavern.

Clever girl Beauty, they are leading you to me.

"Good, then maybe I can kill you!" Millie replied with a little false bravado as she realised that the vampire could read her mind. She could hear him laughing as she turned away from her struggling companions to slice and dice her way through vampires whose only wish, now that she was moving in the right direction, was to get out of the way.

Come on Beauty, I'm waiting.

"Aren't you supposed to say something corny like 'Come to me my pretty'? 'Come on' just sounds a bit uninspiring, don't you think?"

The vampire laughed again and suddenly his lackeys had disappeared entirely leaving Millie a clear view of the hansom, and evil, creature.

We meet again my dear.

"What no 'Beauty' this time? My name's Millie by the way."

I like Beauty better.

"I don't."

Pity. The Master wants you dead you know.

"You mean you're not the Master?" Millie asked in mock surprise.

He didn't even want to let me change you. the vampire continued ignoring her.

"Well we have one thing in common then," Millie replied, "I don't want to be changed."

There there Beauty, if you change you won't mind so much when the demon hunter, elf and werewolf die. COME HERE!

"That won't work on me anymore." Millie replied confidently as she forced herself to stand still.

No, but this will. The vampires silently keeping their distance hissed and charged forcing Millie towards the lead vampire and taking her so much by surprise that they managed to take her sword from her without a single one of the being decapitated.

The vampire reached out a deadly pale hand to gently touch the girl's cheek. All fear and anger left her immediately and the crowding vampires backed quickly away from their master. Shh Beauty, You will soon be one of us, but not like those drones. You will be powerful. You'll like that. You will be my queen and we will rule over this world that has never known our kind. He stepped around the girl, holding her firmly from behind as he lifted her hair away from her neck. I knew from the moment I saw you that you would be my queen. You'll have more power than you could ever dream of. Delicate needle like fangs pierced the skin of her neck and the vampire's lips covered the wound, I'll taste your blood, then you taste mine…then you can taste your friends.

The vampire's laughter filled her mind almost obscuring the distant sounds of fighting. Even through haze and laughter Millie could tell that her friends were not doing too well, they were losing. She was losing. They would all die if she didn't do something. A witty line and she could kill this bastard and save her friends…if only she could think up a witty phrase…

"The whole big sucky thing." Millie muttered as she remembered her own explanation of what the vampire planned to do. She almost laughed, loss of blood making her light headed, but this wasn't helping her think up a witty phrase. And what else was she supposed to be doing? She couldn't think of anything with this vampire leaching all her strength. She aimed all her psychic energy at the creature holding her, "I can't think of a witty line so you are just gonna have to Die!" With that word the energy was released. The vampire seemed to fly through the air away from her. He screamed, a long drawn out sound that seemed to go on for eternity. Then he died, and Millie blacked out.

"Ok so what now? The vamps seem to have gone at any rate." Legolas was commenting as Millie came too.

"They've not taken anyone this time have they?" She asked a little hazily as Legolas helped her to sit up.

There was a moment's silence whilst everyone checked that the others were still there.

"Nope, looks like Emma's the only one stupid enough to let herself be taken by vampires."

"Oh, I'm the stupid one, says the girl who almost got herself turned into a vampire…twice!"

"Do you think you two could stop fighting for two minutes!" Neithan asked.

"Nope." Was Millie's quick reply, considering she had nearly died not five minutes earlier, or at least become undead, she was feeling surprisingly good.

Emma on the other hand slipped herself into Neithan's arms with a quick kiss, "So what do we do now?"

"Find Radhnor of course." Legolas replied more than a little jealous of Emma's now easy relationship with Neithan. He helped Millie to her feet knowing that she wouldn't even think about kissing him again. He sighed at the thought. He knew both girls would have to return to wherever it was they were from eventually but in the short time he had known her Legolas had found Millie to be so totally different from anything he knew. So beautiful, so…They were talking again, he had better start listening.

"…then I guess we'll be able to find you a way home." Neithan was saying.

"And you." Emma put in tilting her head back for a better view of the boy.

"OK Neithan," Millie began, her voice showing that her question would not be avoided this time, "Do you feel like answering our…"

"Your"

"Our questions now, if you even need to."

"What do you mean?" Legolas asked.

"Well I already know, or at least assume that Neithan is from the same place as these vampires and I know that he's a demon hunter…"

"You are?" Emma asked, obviously interested.

"Yes."

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"Would you have believed me if I had?"

"I don't know, but Millie might have been a little less suspicious."

"And what would've been the fun in that?" Neithan asked with a grin as he leant down to capture the girl's lips again.

"Great now if you two can keep off of each other for two minutes we might be able to find this Radhnor guy." Millie said a little testily.

Emma looked a little embarrassed but Neithan kissed her again for good measure before turning back to business; "OK so how do you plan on finding him? With all the vamps gone we can't follow them anymore."

"Wait, where did all the vamps go?" Millie asked.

"When you killed their leader they just sorta, died." Emma replied.

"When you destroy a powerful vampire all the drones it created are also destroyed. They rely on their sire's energy or some such thing."

"What about vampires made by vampires made by a vampire you kill?"

"Oh it's only vampire drones that were killed with their sire." Neithan replied as if this were the simplest thing in the world, "And drones can't make more vampires."

"Then who made the dwarfs into vampires?" Legolas asked.

"The vampire leader Millie killed would have brought other normal, powerful vampires through into this world with him. Either he or they could easily make drones of the dwarves."

"And we've killed at least some of them." Emma put in.

"And any that are still alive will be keeping out of our way."

"Exactly." Neithan continued, "But we need to drive them back into my world before they can spread. And…"

"We need to send us back too." Emma concluded for him.

"Right." All the enthusiasm and confidence had gone from the boy's voice.

"But before we can do that we still need to know how to find Radhnor." Millie said drawing Emma and Neithan's gazes away from each other.

"Right." Neithan repeated this time with a little more conviction, "…How?"

"Would now be a good time to mention that I can smell…something…coming from that side passage?" Emma asked.

"What do you smell?" Legolas asked her.

"I donno, something kinda chemical maybe?"

"Like, I don't know, some sort of potion maybe?" Millie asked hopefully, "Some sort of potion that might have been brewed by a powerful wizard after dragging a bunch of vampires out of their world, maybe?"

"There's only one way to find out…"

"Let's go!" Millie said suddenly full of enthusiasm again.