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Chapter 11

Deductions and Preparations

Victoria and Sam pulled into the police station parking lot. Sam felt out of place in his usual plaid and jeans. Victoria noticed his unease.

"It's fine. You won't be asked any questions."

"Are you sure you can't read human minds?"

"No, just humans."

They got out of the car and headed inside.

The desk clerk stood up to meet them. "Miss Doyle? Thank goodness you're here. We are having body after body turn up, which is just causing people to ask questions we can't answer."

"Don't worry, we'll take care of it. I have three colleagues. I assume whoever referred you told you my fee?"

"Yes, we have a check made out here." She rummaged around in the top drawer of her desk. She found the paper and handed it to Victoria. She put it in the inside pocket of her coat. "We didn't know you were working with others, I'll need their names for the checks."

"Cash only for my colleagues."

The desk clerk looked taken aback. "I will have to work on that. Will tomorrow be okay?"

"Yes, that's fine. Will you point us in the direction of the bodies?"

The station was big, police officers were running around every which way. Sam and Victoria had to dodge several to make it to the morgue.

The Medical Examiner was a middle aged man with bright red hair and thick black rimmed glasses.

He looked up when his two visitors entered. Victoria took a pair of gloves from the box on the wall and put them on. Sam followed suit.

"You must be the special detectives. I'm Doctor Green."

"Hello Doctor Green, I'm Victoria and this is Sam. I think you know which bodies we need to see."

The Doctor grimaced and opened a drawer. "Unfortunately, yes."

Sam was surprised when Victoria didn't immediately focus on the body, she was still looking at the Medical Examiner.

"You're new here, correct Doctor?"

"Well, yes, how did you know?"

"That's not important. However, what is important is that you had peanut butter for lunch."

"What? How did you, wait, why is that important?"

"Because you have a fondness for the desk clerk and she is allergic to peanuts. So, if you tried to start a flirtation you might get more than you bargained for. I suggest you change your shirt now and switch to something less harmful to your coworkers for future meals."

The Doctor looked down at his shirt and excused himself as he left the room.

Sam smiled and looked at her. "How?"

"He had remnants of peanut butter and jelly on his shirt and she had an epi pen in her top desk drawer."

"And the crush?"

"He had her card on his workstation with an additional phone number under the work one. Written in a woman's hand."

Sam shook his head and focused once more on the body. "There are definitely bite marks." He opened another drawer while Victoria looked at the files.

"Their blood was drained as well."

Sam looked at the bite marks on the other bodies. "Yep, vampires."

Sam was just about to call Dean from the police station parking lot when the Impala pulled up and parked beside the Mustang.

"Where's Buffy?"

"She's inside figuring out how much money we're getting paid. She called us her 'colleagues'. I've never been a colleague."

"You've been a lot of other things Sam."

Sam looked hard at his brother. He noticed Dean was wincing off and on and shifting his weight back and forth.

"You ate the rest of that pie didn't you?"

"Yeah."

"I told you…"

"It was delicious, and worth whatever intestinal duress I am under right now."

"It has not been a pleasant car ride."

"Shut up Cas."

"I think you emotionally scarred that girl."

"Right, it was my stomach and not the Vampire that was trying to kill her that did that."

"I know that was intended to be sarcasm, but I do not think you're wrong."

Dean just had this look of being completely done with the Angel.

"They only agreed to pay for two rooms at the hotel tonight, so y'all will have to figure that one out amongst yourselves." Victoria said as she approached the men.

"The police are paying for us to stay at a hotel?" Dean sounded more impressed than he wanted to.

"Of course, we're solving their problem. Which we need to discuss. It will be nightfall soon, no lives are in danger tonight, so I suggest we head to the hotel. Sound good?"

The men nodded.

"Sam and Cas are going to ride with you, Tori, I don't want to emotionally scar anyone else."

"Dean."

Dean pretended not to hear Cas as he got behind the wheel of his car.

"I'm afraid you're going to have to ride in the back seat, Castiel. This one barely fits in the front." She motioned towards Sam.

Sam pushed his seat forward so Cas could slide behind. "This is not very spacious."

"It's a Mustang, it wasn't intended to be spacious, it was intended to be awesome."

Sam laughed, she sounded like Dean then.

"Your brother gave me a nickname."

Cas interjected from the back, "He does that."

"I don't like it."

"He won't care." Sam told her.

Dean was in awe of how nice the hotel was.

"Sammy, this place has a lobby. With employees. In uniforms."

"I see that Dean."

Victoria walked over to them with two key cards.

"Here you are gentleman." She handed Sam one of the cards. "Our rooms are adjoined, please do not take advantage of that. Also, no mini bar. I do not get reimbursed for those purchases." She turned to walk away and then looked back at Dean, "Or any other purchases." She repositioned the backpack on her shoulder and went to get on the elevator.

Dean caught her by the arm. "One room. We're three dudes. Can't one of us stay with you?" Dean tried his most charming smile on her. The smile that never let him down.

"No. And you are two dudes who are brothers, and one Angel. He does not require sleep. He can sit on the couch."

"That's true Dean."

Dean both loved and hated the fact Cas was often so oblivious. At least Sam got a kick out of it.

Victoria smiled and removed her arm from Dean's grasp. "I'll be by later to go over our plans for the morning."

Dean fell back on the soft bed. "Dude, this mattress is amazing. And the blanket thing? Clean."

Sam snorted lightly. He was glad Dean could still be happy about such little things.

Cas was flipping through the stations on the television. Sam was scanning the news to see if any more people had 'popped'.

The three of them had become accustomed to each other, to the point where their togetherness was effortless.

There was a slight knock on the door that adjoined their room to Victoria's.

Dean got up from his bed to open it.

Victoria brushed past him and sat a case on Sam's bed. She was wearing pajama pants and a T-shirt but had Ezekiel's coat over them.

She opened the case to reveal bullets.

Dean closed the door and muttered, "Come on in." He walked over to her. Sam put down his iPad and looked in the case as well. Cas decided he wasn't needed and continued to watch television.

"We have plenty of ammo, Tori, thanks anyway."

Victoria glared at him. "I doubt it. These are hollow points with congealed dead man's blood inside. I specifically made them for vampire nests. You both have 45's?"

Sam nodded before he looked at Dean. "She has a degree in Chemistry."

Dean had to admit, he was impressed.

Victoria put 32 rounds in a plastic bag she had in the case and handed it to Sam.

"What do you carry?"

Victoria looked at Dean and pulled a Kimber 1911 9mm with a 5 inch barrel out of the pocket of her coat. She took out the clip, pulled the slide back to make sure it was empty and handed it to Dean.

"Nice."

"Thank you. I'm fond of it."

"Why'd you go with a nine?"

"The mag holds seventeen instead of seven. The recoil's lessened, and the bullet is faster."

"But the 45's bigger."

Victoria took her gun back as Dean held it out to her. She put the clip back in before returning it to her coat pocket.

"Which is not always better."

Sam smirked as he watched his brother's face. He didn't know what would become of them and this girl, but so far he was enjoying the ride. Victoria closed the case and went to sit across from Cas. Sam and Dean followed. Cas turned the TV off as he looked to Victoria.

Victoria waited for Sam and Dean to sit before she started talking.

"The nest is just shy of ten miles from here."

"You can read them from that distance?"

She smiled at the Angel. "Yes. This is the biggest nest I have ever personally encountered. There are twenty one vampires in all. Some are very old."

Dean swallowed, "Twenty one?"

She nodded. "Fortunately for us, at this time they do not have any captives. That prevents us from having to distract or pretend to negotiate. That always complicates matters. We will arrive tomorrow morning, they will be slightly disoriented. We should shoot as many as we can first and then finish them off once they are poisoned. They are making a graveyard of this city."

"If one of us gets caught, what's the plan?"

Victoria turned her head to the side ever so slightly while she focused on Sam. "Do not get caught."

"But what if that just happens?"

Sam didn't have as much regard for his life before his mother came back, but now the last thing he wanted was for her to burn a son.

Victoria ran over the necessary memories of Castiel's in her head. She could see why Sam asked that. They always negotiated for each other. It was one of the rare moments in her life she was unsure of how to respond.

She looked at Castiel. "I know your wings are broken, which is why I'm asking, I don't fully understand what you can and cannot do, but if one of them dies, can you bring them back?"

Cas nodded, "I can."

Victoria looked back at Sam. "If you or Dean find yourself captured, we will still take down the nest. If you die or suffer grievous injury Castiel will bring you back."

"Great." Dean muttered. "What if you or Cas get caught?"

"By a vampire?"

"Yup."

"We'll kill it." She really didn't understand why the shorter one was asking her that, it seemed self-explanatory.

After Victoria retired to her own room Dean looked at Sam and Cas.

"Does she seem 'off' to you? Just in general?"

Cas stood up and walked over to Dean. "We cannot imagine what she has been through. She is one of The Chosen, their lives are not anywhere along the normal path."

"Well, she can join the club."

"Not that your life has not had it's great share of difficulties, but neither Sam, nor I, nor you, can fully comprehend what she is or what her life experiences have been. She is a very special human, and that might be accompanied by what you might call 'quirks.'"

Dean never thought Cas would be the normal one.

"She just seems like more of a robot than a girl. Is that the abilities?"

"I do not know Dean. I'm not sure how she works."

Sam stood up and walked over to them. "Go easy on her. She lost the one being who meant anything to her. I've been there, and she's coping pretty well."

Dean smiled sadly as he roughly patted the shoulder of his big little brother. "Yeah, well, I'm gonna try and sleep. Big vamp nest tomorrow."