Chapter 8. Buffy faces off with Alyssa once again. Who will be victorious? Sorry for the delay. I always keep saying that. Oh well.
"I have to get down there," says Xander about to jump into the whole.
"That's insane," says Derek trying to stop him. "There could be tons of vampires down there. You wouldn't survive five minutes."
"We can't just stay up here."
Meanwhile down in the lower level, Buffy opens her eyes. She sees Alyssa sitting next to Catia and notices that she is the only vampire there.
"I know she didn't come alone," says Alyssa. "Derek. Aren't you going to come down." Frustrated about waiting for more company she decides not to wait any longer for dinner. "Well, I've done enough waiting." Alyssa walks over to Buffy and pulls her close to her. She bites her neck and starts sucking her blood. Buffy struggles. Catia's eyes widen at the sight. She looks away.
Suddenly, someone jumps from above and falls on Alyssa. Alyssa disengages from Buffy's neck. Buffy slumps on the ground.
"Why little…" Alyssa says as she tries to grab the person that interrupted her slayer dinner. Unsuspectingly, the person shoves a cross at her face and she backs away quickly. Another person jumps down right beside the other person.
"You okay?" ask Derek to Xander on the floor.
"Yeah, I'm fine," says Xander as he gets up. "Buffy." Xander sees her on the ground with blood running down her neck. He turns her to look at him.
"Xander," says Buffy a little daze. He rips his shirt sleeve and covers her wound to stop the bleeding.
"We gotta get her to hospital," says Xander turning to Derek who is untying Catia. "Buffy stay with me here." Xander picks her and turns to face Derek and Catia. "Let's get out of here."
"Xander watch out," Catia says as she sees Alyssa get up and head after Xander. Derek pulls out a stake and throws it at Alyssa. It hits her pretty close to the heart but wounds her. She falls to the ground. With that they all head out of the storage facility. They get in the car and drive off.
Everyone is silent in the car as Derek drives. Xander has Buffy in his arms in the passenger seat and tells Derek where to go.
"Left here," says Xander with a desperate tone. When the car stop Xander swings open the door and takes off into the hospital with Buffy in his arms. The doctors quickly attend to Buffy and the three wait patiently in the lobby.
"Is she going to be okay?" ask Catia to anyone who would answer. Xander and Derek look at her.
"I think so," replies Xander. "Are you okay? Did she do anything to you?"
"No," responds Catia.
"You were lucky," says Derek.
"Who here is responsible for Ms. Buffy Summers?" ask the doctor as he enters the lobby.
"I am. How is she?" says Xander.
"And you are?"
"Her boyfriend."
"I need to talk to you in private if you don't mind."
"Sure." The two head out of the lobby.
"It's very unusual, the two marks on her neck."
"Doc, I'm sure there have been some patients that have come in with this type of mark."
"It looks to me like a snake bite but she isn't suffering from poison. She's suffering from blood lost."
"Big mosquito."
"What happen to her?"
"Doc, I don't think you want to know. I'm the same blood type." The doctor looks at Xander rolling up his sleeve. The doctor nods his head and calls a nurse to take Xander to one of the rooms where they take blood.
Derek and Catia sit in the lobby waiting for Xander to come back.
"You want something to drink?" ask Derek. Catia who is staring at the floor turns her head to look at the Derek.
"Umm, sure," replies Catia. Derek heads to the bending machines.
Evening crept hospital and Xander had fallen asleep next to Buffy's bed on a chair. A nurse enters the room and nudges Xander awake.
"I'm sorry to wake you," says the nurse.
"It's okay," replies Xander a little groggy. "What time is it?"
"It's seven thirty. Visiting hours are over."
"Oh," says Xander as he gets up. "Ms. I'd like to…" Xander gets hit's a tray on the face. He falls backwards and as he opens his eyes the lights go out then he sees some men picking Buffy up. Xander is about to get up when someone jumps on him like wild animal. There was no doubt in his mind that the nurse was a vampire and she was getting fresh with him.
Outside in the hallway, Derek notices the lights go. He wakes Catia who had her head resting on his shoulder.
"What's going on?" Derek ask himself.
Suddenly the emergency lights turn on and Derek says the hallway with dead nurses and doctors. He then sees some of the vampires taking small blonde figure that look like Buffy.
"That's Buffy," says Derek as he starts to run after the vampire.
Xander surprises Derek and Catia as he is thrown out of the room that he was in. He hit's the wall hard and falls on the ground bleeding through his nose. The female vampire/nurse comes out of the room and smirks at him.
Alyssa appears and walks over to Xander. She picks him up from his nostrils, which continue to bleed into her hand. Then tosses him towards Derek and Catia knocking them to the ground. She sticks her fingers into her mouth that were filled with Xander's blood and sucks them clean.
"Hmmm," says Alyssa. "You're yummy. Catch you later." She walks off towards the stairs.
"Xander can you hear me?" ask Derek as he turns Xander to face him.
"We have to…"Xander could not finish his sentence.
"Hold still," says Derek. "Help me get him to that chair." They picked him up and sat him down on a chair. Catia sees a cart with cotton swabs and grabs some to clean his bloody nose.
"They're going to kill her," says Xander.
"Don't worry about her Xander. We're going to find her. I promise you. Right now what we need to do is help you." They look around the hospital.
"I think we need to go to another hospital," says Catia.
"I don't need a hospital," says Xander as he pushes the two away and gets up. He sees the hall way spinning a little bit is standing. Derek holds him up on one side and Catia gets on his other side. "Thanks." the three start to walk down the hallway. Catia touches the elevator button.
"Where is she going to take her?"
"Somewhere crowded," replies Derek as they enter the elevator.
"Why crowded?" ask Catai.
"Alyssa always like the party."
"Lets go crash a party then," says Xander with a grin.