Part IX

"So, do you think you pushed Wynonna a little far?" Waverly asked as Seras landed another shot in the top left pocket. " The only other time I've seen her like this was the last birthday we celebrated with Willa and daddy." Seras looked over at the girl whose reputation, as a western gunslinger, was not disappointing. Though she looked a bit like a beached sea creature at the moment.

Seras saw Waverly brought a little low, doubtlessly because memories of her old idyllic life crawled to the fore of her thoughts. Seras just smirked, "Some people should know their limit with pancakes." Waverly punched her on the shoulder playfully, but recoiled her hand, as Seras' arm was well, much harder than Waverly's hand. Seras looked over like a fly had landed on her arm, and laughed at Waverly's pout. She bopped the short brunette on the head, declaring her victory as Nicole just chuckled.

"I'm gonna go grab my tea," Nicole said as she started walking back to the booth, grin on her face.

Wynonna sprung up at the booth, though her eyes were unwavering from Seras. Waverly looked at her sister for a moment regarding her, and realizing that the look her sister was giving Seras wasn't dissimilar from the look she must've given Nicole that first day she met Purgatory's wet t-shirt champion: Waverly Earp. Nicole had never let her forget that.

Seras Victoria had not noticed the look Wynonna was giving her, and Nicole was coming back with a heart-stopping smile on her face; or a smile that made Waverly's heart skip at any rate. Waverly snaked her arm around officer Haught's waist as she made her return to the table. Nicole frowned at the state of their dismal attempt to unseat Seras as the queen of pool.

Wynonna was eventually waking from brief spell of near catatonia due to her revelation of having a crush on another woman. Not even a woman, a ridiculously good-looking vampire who in all honestly looked like a girl in her late teens. Great, so that made Wynonna a bit of a cougar now didn't it? Fuck my life. On the other hand, Little miss English will look like that forever.. so am I in the clear? What the fuck am I even thinking about right now?

She forced herself out of her seat and slowly started to make her way over to the pool table. The main door opened and five more revenants walked in, making a beeline for the four who were camping out in the corner. Wynonna stopped in her tracks as a chill ran down her right side. All nine revenants were now looking at her like she was a piece of meat. Which, she supposed she kinda was in a more literal way if some of granddaddy Walter Earp's journals were to be believed.

The revenant bartender made a quick announcement of a gas leak or some other bullshit; the result was predictable, the humans all but stampeded out. Waverly and Nicole both looked tensely at Wynonna as the bartender, some Chinese guy, locked the door.

Wynonna's hand was on Peacemaker, her touch was causing the butt of the gun to glimmer slightly with amber light. However, even a gunslinger as accomplished as Wynonna knew that the revenants were too fast for her to send them all back to hell. Just too many. One or even two would be easy at 8 paces. a All her fears were confirmed when all of them got up at once.

Seras, who had noticed that the revenants looking so intently at Wynonna were about to make their move, sent the cue ball into one of their eyes. The poor fucker's eye was destroyed and his skull was split at the eye socket. He went down screaming, as Seras didn't even react other than an adorably quaint 'oops' expressing which Wynonna could bear to see more of. Wynonna shook her head slightly, Not the time, Earp. The revenants instantly closed ranks around their incapacitated comrade.

"Whore, you'll pay for that," the tallest one yelled at Seras.

"What happened?" Seras asked sweetly, with almost zero snark.

"You fucked up you little slut," the one with the white handkerchief growled.

"But you're gentlemen, so you wouldn't hurt a blind girl would you?" Seras asked with a surprising amount of sincerity as she circled in front of Wynonna, cane extended and probing the ground.

"Bobo said not to kill the heir," one of the more sensible ones said as he tried to quell the anger of the 'leader'.

The revenant thug who spoke before brushed off his comrade as he leered, "He didn't say jack shit about having some fun with her though…or her cunt sister and her lady friend." Lady friend? Wynonna was used to the threats, but was confused on the last part which clearly referred to Waverly's lady friend?

One of the antsy revenants pulled out a gun and pointed it at Waverly…for about a second before Nicole's gun went off. The revenant in question fell to the ground like the sack of shit the women knew him to be. Seras looked bemusedly over at the incapacitated outlaw. All of the guns were out now, nine of them pointed at the assorted Team Earp, since a couple of the standing revenants decided to dual-wield.

Seras suddenly let out a dark cackle of laughter that frightened everyone in the room, even her new friends. She briefly checked if there were any remaining humans in the room, there weren't. Nicole and Waverly had by this point circled back behind Wynonna and Seras.

Seras leisurely stabbed through the wood and stone foundation of the bar with her cane. She expertly fiddled with the handle before producing a Damascus blade with a slight curve. Wynonna nodded appreciatively, because of course Seras' cane-sword was a slightly elongated Shikomizue. Since the seeing-eye cane was significantly longer than a typical walking staff, the blade Seras had made with it naturally took advantage of that. The blade itself was only two feet long, but it struck fear into the revenants' eyes. She then put on a show of stretching her arms. All revenant eyes in the room were on her, and all were equally confused and afraid. Nicole frowned slightly; the British woman was taking all this far too lightly for her taste. "Nicole," Waverly whispered.

Nicole leaned down to the brunette so they could communicate without the revenants getting wise. "You don't happen to be wearing Kevlar, are you?" Waverly asked, almost fearfully as Nicole gave a slight shake of her head. Nicole made a point of edging in front of Waverly, so that her beloved wouldn't come to harm if the situation went to shit town.

Wynonna stood in front of Waverly as she aimed Peacemaker at the head of the biggest revenant, who also happened to be pointing his two guns at Nicole and Seras.

Seras straightened up and just said with every confidence, "So that's how this is going to be."

Wynonna was laterally level with Seras as she watched the English woman cracked a maniacal grin while twirling her blade. Seras was hoping this would happen. Wynonna realized, as she caught herself gazing at the grinning vampire. And despite the danger of it all, despite the frankly creepy way Seras was acting, Wynonna just knew everything was going to be all right.

And that's when all the revenants opened fire.