The rescue is underway how will they fair? Find out!
Chapter Twelve
The old crumbling Victorian house certainly had seen better days as Christina, Bobby and Castiel found an overgrown hedge and hid behind it, clutching their weapons close to their bodies. It was almost mid afternoon and the vampires were most likely asleep for the time and that only gave the two hunters and angel a small window of opportunity before they would be waking. They froze when a police cruiser flew up the street before slamming on the breaks. The officer from when Christina had stolen the Impala earlier that morning climbed out of the cruiser leaving the vehicle still running. The three hidden hunters sat in silence watching the events that might be following.
"This is kind of like a scene from Blade." Christina muttered looking around and seeing a hill not to far that could give her a better view inside the house. Bobby turned to give her a dark look but saw that she had moved to the hill and was setting herself for an attack. Bobby growled softly but went silent when the loud piercing scream flowed out of the house followed by the officer stumbling out of the front door holding the side of his neck before collapsing onto the ground. Blood quickly pooled around the officer's body when two dark haired men came out, snarled and walked to the body.
"What do we do now?" one of the men asked kicking the corpse as the other turned off the vehicle.
"Get rid of it. We'll call in the morning and make it look like an accident." the other one said before stopping and looking around spooked by a slight flash coming from the hedges he didn't expect to find. "Looks like we got company." He turned and slowly headed towards the hideout of Bobby and Castiel. Before he got too close he heard a thud coming from behind him and knew there was another adversary. His partner was on the ground with a small silver dart full of dead man's blood sticking in his neck. The other hunched over and before he could scream our to say the house was being attacked another silver dark flew through the air and entered the vampire's neck taking him down. The tainted blood raced through their veins causing them to jerk in agony.
Both of the vampires were starting to groan and were weakened as Christina walked out sliding out a machete from it's sheath. Bobby and Castiel stood up and watched as both vampires' head was removed in two quick cuts by Christina who moved her head to avoid the blood spray. Her face for a moment looked dark and dangerous but as she waved her hand silently pointing to two advantage points for the other two to attack from.
Bobby was stationed just below the living room a few feet from the police cruise and braved a look inside. He saw Dean sitting on a chair tied down and looked as though he had five rounds with a crazed wrestler. His bare chest bore slash marks and smears of blood as if someone had spent time lapping up the blood that ran from them. He felt sick to his stomach as he continued to watch. Only one vampire was inside and he was lacking on is guard duty as he saw the vampire's head bob up and down like anyone would be if they were falling asleep. Bobby took in a sharp breath and gently tapped on the window and Dean's head snapped up looking directly at the window looking relieved to see Bobby behind the dirty pane.
Bobby looked up and watched as Castiel vanished for a second only to reappear on the second floor while Christina silently moved to the back of the house. Bobby sighed heavily before quietly moving towards the opened door making sure there weren't any vampires hiding nearby as he slipped into the living room. The vampire that was supposed to be watching Dean yawned loudly before letting out a small startled gasp before his head flew across the room, leaving his body to slump to the floor.
"Not a sound boy." Bobby snarled quietly sliding the knife through the binds that held Dean down. "Here." He handed Dean a shirt which made the younger hunter smile with relief as his body shivered with the cold and loss of blood. He quickly slipped it on and accepted a weapon from Bobby and pulled on his last strength knowing Sam and Lark needed to be rescued too.
~DSCWIN~
Sam winced in disgust as the vampire that stood near the door admired and licked his lips showing his fangs glisten in darkened room. Nobody saw a figure slowly lowering themselves on a ledge just outside the window. Christina saw a small crack in the window that was just big enough for one of her darts to go through. Christina took in a small amount of air and held it for a brief moment before sending a crossbow dart through the crack in the window directly and into the vampire's back, revealing a very shocked and confused Sam who tried to locate the source of the attack. As quiet as a shadow Christina stood up and opened up the window before sliding inside hunching down as small as she could as she rushed to her brother's side.
"Bobby's with Dean." she whispered as she fought back the tears because of the damage her brother had gone through. His body was littered with cuts and bruising. "Can you move?"
"Yeah." Sam replied weakly and smiled when he was handed a tee shirt.
"Figured you needed it." Christina explained before sliding a spare machete into Sam's hands.
The floor creaked just outside of the bedroom and Sam and Christina went to either side of the door and waited for it to slowly open. There was a sharpness of breath before someone rushed in, not seeing the two Winchesters standing against the wall. Sam took a step towards the door to escape only to watch his sister silently take a step behind the vampire, who was about to talk in a radio to inform that Sam had been rescued, and stuck him in the neck with the knife still impregnated with dead man's blood and used her machete to remove his head then quickly removed the last one. She shook off the kill and gently pushed past Sam to join Bobby and Dean who showed up hearing the noise in their room.
~DSCWIN~
Lark woke up when her neck began to ache. She slowly looked around seeing that she was by herself, but that was short lived as the bartender sat staring straight at Lark enjoying the discomfort she was experiencing. A small creak came from the awning outside a window and Lark looked over only to see Castiel slowly moving to the side out of sight. The bartender knew something was happening when she started to sniff and looked both confused and angry.
Moving quickly away from the opened door and windows the bartender grabbed hold of Lark and held her like a human shield. Her teeth fell and hung dangerously close to Lark's throbbing vein in her neck.
"I know you're out there." the bartender snarled, glaring at the window, while also keeping an eye on the door expecting another attack. "Come inside or I'll rip her neck out."
Castiel slowly entered the bedroom door a knife clutched tightly in his hand.
"Let her go you fang mutant." Castiel's insult made the female vampire's face twist in a cold, ugly smile.
"Look what came to save you. A little fallen angel. Well it looks like we're going to be feeding well today. Now boys!"
The female vampire didn't hesitate as she sunk her teeth into Lark's soft peachy flesh. Blood trickled down Lark's neck as she gave out a choking gasp. Lark was already weak from the torture and blood loss and her mind began to whirl around her. Heavy footsteps rushed up the stairs as Lark saw Dean, Bobby, Sam and Christina slowly coming and fading into view.
The vampire looked confused as she saw her hostages standing there plus two more hunters. Her eyes gleamed with malicious intent. She backed closer to the window with Lark fighting to keep her neck away from the gleaming teeth of the vampire knowing that was her only escape.
"Sorry, can't hang around for the party." she snarled tossing Lark at the hunters and jumping from the window to land on the ground below. She looked up with triumph as Sam and Christina rushed to the window to see her rushing to the older Ford camper truck parked nearby.
"Go after her!" Dean yelled as he dropped down beside Lark's still body seeing blood seeping from her neck wound. He pressed his hand over the wound trying to stop the flow of blood and was relieved to see she had not torn her cardiac out. He saw his sister and brother run from the room after the vampire.
"Dean let me help her." Castiel ordered reaching for Lark. He placed a hand over the wound and grace raced to close the injury on Lark's neck Dean saw her eyes widen and then slowly close. When Castiel lifted his fingers the wound on Lark's neck was healed and Castiel swayed before falling hard on his rump.
"You alright there, Cas?" Dean asked checking on Lark, who was unconscious.
"Had to use nearly everything I had been given." Castiel said with words slightly slurring together. "She is just resting Dean. But we have to find that vampire before she hurts anyone else."
"Where's Christy?" Dean inquired when Sam came back in alone.
"She was running after that vampire when we got to the car. She noticed the vampire's truck stalled out not far down the road and took off after her on foot."
"Sonova..." Dean took in a deep breath. "You know ever since we got her away from that Spencer guy she's been turning into quite the little self-appointed Rambo."
"I think she learned that from you." Bobby muttered. "We should get the lass out of here before we have anymore cops show up. Let me take her, both of you look like you can barely stay on your feet." he said scooping up Lark's limp form and headed for the stairs.
Dean and Sam followed closely behind knowing he was right. Sam helped Castiel to stand and stumbled along with them toward the front door. What little they had done just about drained them and it wouldn't do any good for them to collapse. Dean opened the back door of the Impala and allowed Bobby to lay Lark in the back.
Dean's eyes narrowed when he heard a high pitched, angry scream coming from down the road behind a grove of trees. Bobby ran towards the scream while the brothers and Castiel quickly climbed into the Impala driving so that the boys didn't have to walk to far back in case Christina didn't want to comply and come peacefully. However, when they reached the tree line they only saw Bobby looking confused standing just a few feet away from the road. The two brothers looked at each other secretly communicating before both deciding they couldn't stay there. Bobby hurried to the Impala and climbed in back with Lark and Castiel. He didn't need to speak for them to know what he was thinking. They knew leaving their sister behind was a bad decision but Lark's blood loss was their top priority if she was going to be saved.
~DSCWIN~
Dean shifted uncomfortably inside the hospital room while Sam and Bobby went out to search for Christina. Castiel offered to stay behind and help Dean with Lark but Dean saw how weakened he was by helping her and sent him back to the hotel to rest. Sam and him had been bandaged up and were lucky none of their injuries required more then butterfly bandages. His heart ached when he saw the gauze wrapped around her wrists and the antibiotics and tubs that were connected all over her arms. Lark's eyes jolted open making Dean reach a hand and gently grab Lark's trembling one.
"Sssshhhh..." Dean cooed gently stroking the back of her hand with his thumb. "Babe, it's just me. You're safe...you're at the hospital. You're going to be okay."
D...Dean?" Lark looked over at him almost as if she was unsure to trust him or not. Her sapphire blue eyes sparkled with tears of relief. She hadn't dreamed it after all, they had been saved. "She bit me didn't she?" she asked in an angry voice reaching a hand to her neck and feeling the gauze taped to the side of her neck.
"Yeah, she did." Dean said thinking complete honesty was the best idea. He didn't know what sort of nightmare was playing in her head and didn't want to confuse her. But Dean knew she was still upset by that fact. "Lark, you need to relax. Everything is alright. You're safe now. We took care of those vampires."
"Even the one that decided to take a bite out of me?" Lark asked her eyes searching deep into Dean's for the truth.
"No. That one got away along with Christy."
Lark's eyes drifted from one end of the room before looking back into Dean's eyes. "Dean, I hate to say this but your sister...It isn't her. I just...just have this feeling that we're dealing with some sort of possession that we're not familiar with or some sort of mind control."
"Let's not jump to conclusions. I do admit she seems to be different but it could just be those pills. Plus she was under a lot a of stress."
"You don't believe me do you?" Lark asked her voice soft as she struggled with staying conscious as darkness wanted to consume her.
Dean lowered his eyes a he knew Lark would never speak badly of his sister but he couldn't bring himself to admit that there was something awful happening to his sister.
"Dean, I'm not mad that you don't believe me." Lark said even though her voice cracked with betrayal. "Could you go see what's taking the doctor so long? I need to get out of here, I hate hospitals." she complained shaking her head slightly and looking at the lines attached to her arm. She moved to take them out, but was stopped by Dean's warm hand.
"Don't do that, you need to finished the blood transfusion." Dean told her. "I'll go check on a doctor if you promise not to do anything stupid."
"Fine..." she mumbled letting her hand drop and already missing his gentle touch.
Dean got up and left in search of a doctor knowing how stubborn Lark could be and didn't want her leaving until she was stronger.
~DSCWIN~
Sam was getting more upset with worry as Bobby and he continued to search the town for Christina and the vampire that attacked Lark. They stopped for a red light and noticed a crowd of people along with several police cruisers parked on the side street. Officers were taking down statements from people. Sam glanced over at Bobby who gave a slight nod before pulling over just below them and walking towards the crowd before being stopped by the police.
"This is a closed crime scene." an officer said stopping Bobby and Sam at the yellow police tape. Sam silently thanked his tall height as he was able to peer over the officer's head and felt his legs wobble. The headless body of the vampire was lying in the open and it was burnt to a crisp.
"We were just driving by and wanted to see what was going on." Sam said gently tapping Bobby's shoulder and motioning for him to follow him. "Sorry to bother you."
The officer gave Sam a questionable look but rolled his eyes as he went back to keeping people from trying to get close or to contaminate the scene.
"Ya think Christy did that?" Bobby asked climbing into the Impala. Sam nodded silently, not able to stay it out loud. "Balls! We best find her before the cops do. Who knows what's she's capable of doin'."
"Bobby, I don't think she knows what she's doing. I think something is controlling her."
"Let's hope your right. Because if not, we may have harder choices to make." he said looking out the window as fear crept into his mind wondering what was happening to the youngest Winchester.