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Ok...here's chapter two.
Jacklyn and Jamie Caiseal sat on swings at the park near their Manhattan, New York home. Jamie's blonde hair was up in a high ponytail while Jacklyn's brown hair was down in gentle waves. They were quiet and waiting. Jamie's hazel eyes scanning the nearby surroundings. Jacklyn's eyes, slightly darker then those of her sister's, were set on the sky. Both girls were dressed in black clothes. Jamie was in a black tank top and pants and Jacklyn was in a t-shirt and pants.
The only light was from the moon, stars and the street lamps that weren't real close to the park, making the girls hidden in the darkness…almost. Jamie's skin was lighter then Jacklyn's so she stood out more.
"You picking up anything?" Jamie asked.
"Only a car coming from back there." Jacklyn said, nodding towards the road. They went back to being silent. Jamie spoke first again after half an hour.
"Finally." Was all she said. Both girls got off their swings and turned around to face a group of seven guys.
"You girls shouldn't be out this late." The guy in the middle said. Jamie glanced at Jacklyn. "You never know what will come out to get you."
"Oh…I think we have a pretty good idea." Jacklyn said. Jamie's hand went behind her back and a few seconds later a stake appeared in it.
"Oh really…" The guy said. He and the six others advanced on the girls. "And what do you know about night time?"
"A lot more then you think we do." Jamie said before kicking the nearest guy in the stomach, making him fly back and land on his ass. "Looks like you guys really aren't that smart." At once, all seven faces of the guys shifted. Their foreheads became wrinkled, their eyes turned yellow, and their teeth elongated into fangs. Neither girl looked surprised or scared. They both looked extremely calm and slightly bored.
"Slayer." One vamp growled, looking at Jamie.
"Nah…just the reincarnation of one." Jamie said before she and Jacklyn jumped at the vamps.
In the same city, two guys were also dealing with a pack of vampires. They were in an alley full of crates and a few dumpsters.
"Where's a bloody stake when you need it?" One said. He had platinum blonde hair and blue eyes. He was dressed similarly to the girls, all in black with a t-shirt, jeans, a black duster and combat boots.
"We'll just have to make due with what we go." The other said, ducking a punch. He had brown hair and brown eyes. He dressed like the other except in regular black shoes instead of combat boots.
"Bloody hell Peaches!" The first said. He got punched in the face. He growled before his face shifted in that of a vampire. He grabbed the vamp that punched him and threw it into the wall. He threw another one into a dumpster before breaking a crate and using a piece of the wood as a stake, shoving it into a vampire's chest then watched it explode into dust.
"One down." The other said. He kicked a vampire in the stomach before following the blonde one's lead and vamping as well. The vampire he kicked had landed on a crate and burst into dust. "Found it." He ran forward and picked up the stake he had lost at the beginning of the fight.
"Well that's one stake." The first said.
"Well look for yours." The other said. They beat the vampires and walked out of the alley, both faces back to normal.
"Oh…look at this." The first said, looking at his sleeve and finding a rip in it. "Great…just bloody great. Can I not get into a fit and come out of it without a rip?"
"Quit your complaining Spike." The other said. The one called Spike glared at him but sighed and looked around. They walked in silence for a while.
"20 years ago…we were on the other side of the bloody country." Spike said. "Now look where we are, Angel. Bloody New York." Angel looked at his companion. 20 years ago he never would have admitted that he and Spike were companions. Now…they were the only ones left of the group that killed vampires and demons for a living.
"What are we supposed to do Spike? We can't go back in time." Angel said. "Even if we could…wouldn't make a difference. Even if somehow we were able to stop it…they all still would have died…one way or another."
"Quit reminding me." Spike said.
"You brought it up." Angel said. Spike was about to say something but decided against it. So they walked along in silence.
Back with the girls, Jamie had staked the last vampire and the two of them were now sitting on a bench. Jamie was sporting a cut on her cheek and a big bruise on her shoulder. Jacklyn had a cut on her arm and a bruise near her neck. At the moment though, their cuts were slowly healing themselves.
"Seven vampires…twelve minutes." Jamie said, looking at her watch.
"Good or bad?" Jacklyn asked.
"I'd say good…they were pretty strong." Jamie said.
"And now their dust." Jacklyn said. Jamie laughed. It was only two years ago that they found out about Jamie being a reincarnation of a slayer, and Jacklyn was a reincarnation of a seer. All because Jamie did a spell making it so that they saw their past. She was only trying to remember what she was like when she was five, but wound up seeing past that. Jacklyn said something and Jamie turned her attention to her.
"What?" She asked.
"I said you are a really weird twin." Jacklyn said.
"I resent that." Jamie said. They both laughed. Jamie's cell phone rang and she answered it. "Hello?"
"Jamie Lynn Caiseal do you have any idea what time it is?" The voice of her uncle came through the phone.
"Umm…one in the morning." Jamie said.
"Don't try to be a wise ass." Her uncle said. "Is Jacklyn there?"
"Yeah…just a sec." Jamie said. "Jackie…it's Uncle Mike."
"Oh boy." Jacklyn said. She took the phone and moved away from Jamie. The girls lived with their uncle because their parents were killed by a demon when they were seven. They were moved from one part of New York to the other side of it the day after the funeral which was a week after the death.
"What he say?" Jamie asked when Jacklyn came back.
"I told him we were at Megan's house." Jacklyn said. "And he asked why we didn't tell him before. So I told him that it never crossed our minds."
"See…that's what's so cool about you." Jamie said. "You can get Uncle Mike to agree to anything." She looked around. "Which is a good thing right now. Big ass demons." She nodded over at three demons that were walking their way. They were all about seven feet tall with blue, scaley skin. "God…they stink."
"Great." Jacklyn said. "Fighting smelly demons. Fun." They ran forward and met the demons half way before alternating with punches, kicks and ducks.
Spike threw his arm out and caught Angel in the chest. Angel gave him a look but Spike wasn't paying attention.
"What?" Angel asked.
"Use your vamp senses." Spike said. Angel raised an eyebrow before sensing it…demons. "Come on." They took off running. They rounded a corner into the park just in time to see a demon throw a blonde haired girl their way. Spike quickly caught her but got knocked over in the process.
"God…I hate demons!" The girl said. She looked at Spike. "Where'd you come from?"
"Los Angeles." Spike said.
"Fun place." Jamie said, getting up, grabbing Spike's arm and yanking him to his feet.
"Quit socializing!" Jacklyn yelled, ducking a punch then tripping the demon.
"Yadda yadda! I'm coming!" Jamie said, running back into the fight. Spike looked at Angel then they both looked at the girls just as there was a big flash of blue light and two of the demons fell down dead before exploding. "Why do they always have to explode!"
"One of life's great mysteries." Jacklyn said. She swung an axe (that she didn't have five minutes before) at the neck of the last demon, cutting its head off in the process. She looked over at Angel and Spike.
"Let me guess…memory spell?" Jamie said, sighing and running her hand through her hair that was now down, the pony tail having had fallen out during the fight with the vampires.
"You two are bloody witches?" Spike asked.
"Doy." Jamie said. She looked down at her clothes that had green demon blood on spots. "Very messy witches." Just then the senses kicked in and Jamie's eyes shot up to look at Spike and Angel. "Oh hell…you guys are vampires."
"You couldn't have figured that out before?" Angel asked. Jamie looked at Jacklyn who shrugged then nodded. She turned her gaze back on the two vampires. "What?"
"You guys look familiar." Jamie said. "I'm not sure how…but you do."
"We've only been here for five months luv." Spike said, searching his pockets for a pack of smokes.
"We've been here for…umm…" Jamie said. "We were seven…we're now twenty."
"Thirteen years." Jacklyn said. She watched as Spike successfully found a pack of smokes and had lit one.
"Right." Jamie said. She tucked her hair behind her ear. She then looked at Angel…definitely wasn't her type…she could tell right away that he was so not a bad boy type. She had fun with the bad boys because most of them were able to keep up with her. Jamie looked at Jacklyn. "What do you think sister dear? Stake them?"
"You two are sisters?" Angel asked.
"Twins." Jacklyn said.
"Twins?" Spike asked.
"Fraternal." Jamie said. The vampires nodded.
"Don't have to stake us." Spike said. "We're on your side."
"How do we know that?" Jacklyn asked, crossing her arms.
"Well…case you haven't noticed…we aren't trying to kill you." Spike said.
"I have a soul." Angel said.
"A vampire with a soul?" Jamie asked. "Oh my god…how pathetic is that?"
"I was cursed with it." Angel said.
"Fun. I like cursing people." Jamie said. She caught Jacklyn's eye and stopped talking.
"So…you guys are vampires…good vampires…with souls?" Jacklyn asked.
"Yeah well…thought mine was knocked out of me." Spike said.
"How?" Jamie asked.
"20 years ago in a big fight against some real powerful bint." Spike said, flicking away the remains of the cigarette. "She killed everyone…The watcher, Red, the whelp, Bit…and Buffy." Jamie tilted her head but had a sympathetic look on her face.
"Ok…umm…real names…not nicknames." Jacklyn said.
"Giles, Willow, Xander, Dawn and Buffy." Angel said.
"Buffy was her real name?" Jamie asked.
"Yeah." Spike said.
"Oh…" Jamie said. There was a silence. "I'm Jamie by the way. Jamie Caiseal. This is Jacklyn."
"Spike." Spike said.
"Angel." Angel said.
"Angel?" Jamie asked.
"Well…Liam originally." Angel said. "Then I got turned…went with Angelus…and with a soul…I'm Angel."
"Creative." Jacklyn said. Jamie rolled her eyes and rubbed the back of her neck, looking around. "Ok…it's about…one thirty in the morning…Jamie." Jamie looked at her. "Wanna go to Hell's?"
"Sure." Jamie said, smiling. She looked at the two vampires. "Hell's Pit…it's a really popular club. See ya later…maybe." She grabbed Jacklyn's arm and they walked away. Spike and Angel looked at each other.
"Was there something…familiar…about them?" Angel asked.
"As in…we've met them before but not sure when? Yeah." Spike said.
"Think we should figure it out?" Angel asked.
"Why not?" Spike said. "Nothing better to do in this place. Unless we hop a plane and go to Cleveland and destroy that hellmouth like we did in Sunnydale."
"Ok now that was a long time ago." Angel said.
"Thirty bloody years." Spike said, pulling out another smoke and lighting it. "Let's find this Hell's Pit place and see what it's like. Get some drinks." Angel nodded and they went off in the direction that the girls did, following their scent (vampires are very animalistic). When they got there, it was to find the place packed with high school kids and some kids who were probably in college. There was a circle of guys on the dance floor and in the middle of the circle was Jamie. Spike was more interested in that then Angel was. Angel continued looking around then saw Jacklyn at the bar. As if pulled, both guys went different ways.
Jamie, who had managed to talk the bartender into letting her keep some clothes at the club just in case, had changed into jean shorts and a dark red top that showed off her stomach and tied up behind her neck, leaving most of her back bare. Her dancing had drawn the attention of a lot of guys, and some vampires as well.
Jacklyn spotted Angel approaching the bar and raised an eyebrow in curiosity. She had borrowed some of Jamie's club clothes so was now in jeans and a blue tank top. She didn't mind when Angel sat next to her, she felt like she knew him so well already even though she didn't know him at all.
"So…why aren't you dancing?" Angel asked.
"Me?" Jacklyn asked. Angel nodded. "I'm not like Jams." She looked at the dance floor to where Jamie was. "She's the wild child. You know…that whole, one twin is good, the other is bad thing. She's the bad one."
"Well she can't be all bad if she fights evil creatures of the night." Angel said. Jacklyn laughed and shook her head.
"She's not." She said. "She just likes expressing herself…anyway possible. She loves dancing too."
"I can tell." Angel said. He looked at Jacklyn. "This is gonna sound weird but…do you get the feeling that we know each other but not sure from where or when?"
"Totally." Jacklyn said, looking at Angel.
Jamie was fully aware of Spike's presence now. She could tell he was near but didn't look around for him. She was too busy focusing on the other vampires. She turned and looked at one before grabbing it's hand and pulling it outside. She could tell the other ones were following. Outside she got right down to fighting them, but realized that it wasn't only the vampires that were dancing around her, but also what seemed to be all the vampires in the whole damn club.
"Ok…wasn't thinking that all fifty of you will come out." Jamie said.
"That's the problem with slayers now…they don't think." One of the vamps said.
"Hello…how many times do I hafta tell you guys? Not a slayer…just the reincarnation of one." Jamie said. She really didn't expect them to understand that. It seemed that, once they got turned, they got a whole lot stupider. These guys probably wouldn't even know what the word 'reincarnation' meant. Jamie sighed then started fighting them. There were only twenty or so but, in the dark back alley of the club, it seemed like more…and they were kicking her ass.
"Short lived life." One of them said. Jamie struggled but it held her to the wall and was slowly leaning forward. Just as the fangs broke the skin of Jamie's neck, the vamp suddenly and quickly moved away. Jamie looked up to see someone fighting the vamps. One quick glance at the head told her it was Spike. Jamie shook her head and helped him out. Together they beat all the vamps…well…all but three…but those three ran away.
"Ok ow…" Jamie whined, leaning against the wall behind sliding down to sit against it. She put her hand over her neck but a few seconds later felt it get pulled away.
"I've seen worse…and done worse." Spike said, examining Jamie's neck.
"I don't even wanna know." Jamie said, taking a deep breath before closing her eyes and letting her head go back against the wall.
"Didn't think so." Spike said. "Good thing I followed those clowns."
"Could have jumped in to play the knight in shining amour earlier though." Jamie complained.
"Are you always this charming?" Spike asked.
"Yep." Jamie said, opening her hazel eyes only to find herself looking into Spike's blue ones. There was a long moment of silence in which Jamie had her bottom lip firmly between her teeth. After a while though she couldn't stand the silence. "Umm…do you get the feeling that this has happened before? I mean like…not this, itself…but like…a similar thing to this. Did that make sense?"
"More then you know luv." Spike said. He pulled Jamie to her feet. "I think we should find your sis and Peaches then try to find out what's going on."
"Ok…umm…Peaches?" Jamie asked.
"That's what I call Angel." Spike said. "I got a lot of names for him…Peaches, Poof, Forehead…" His voice faded when he looked at Jamie who was staring at him. Suddenly she laughed. Spike stared at her for a moment before laughing too. Neither of them knew why they were laughing. The door opened and they both jumped back to avoid getting hit by it.
"There you are!" Jacklyn said, coming outside with Angel behind her.
"Yep…here I am." Jamie said.
"We were just about to get you guys." Both girls said at once. "Why? Cut it out!"
"Alright…I'll tell." Spike said. Jamie looked at him then nodded. Spike looked at Jacklyn and Angel. "We were gonna find you two because I think we should really figure out why all four of us keep thinking we know each other."
"That's what we were gonna do." Jacklyn said.
"Well we could do a spell." Jamie said.
"But where? Uncle Mike thinks we're at Megan's and Megan isn't even home." Jacklyn said.
"We could try the factory." Jamie said.
"Torn down." Jacklyn said.
"Magic shop?" Jamie asked.
"Locked up for the night." Jacklyn said. The girls kept going on like this: Jamie suggesting things and Jacklyn giving a reason why they couldn't. Spike and Angel stared at the girls then looked at each other. Angel shrugged.
"Club house." Jamie said, after two minutes.
"Which one?" Jacklyn asked.
"Our old one." Jamie said. "The huge one we made with Nick back when we first moved here."
"The one in the graveyard?" Jacklyn asked.
"Yep." Jamie said. "The boys should feel right at home. And we'll need them to do this."
"Totally agree." Jacklyn said. She looked at Angel. "You guys have to come…no arguing…we could tie you up and drag you if you don't agree."
"We'll come." Spike said. "Not much for being tied up."
"Damn…way to ruin my fun." Jamie said. They all headed off, the vampires following the girls. "The only problem with New York nights…is that the weather drops real fast." She rubbed her arms.
"Well that's what you get for wearing a shirt like that." Jacklyn said, but she rubbed her arms as well.
"Hey!" Spike said. Both girls stopped and turned around. Spike looked at Angel and the shared a look before nodding and taking off their jackets. "We don't need them. Already dead. Not like we can die from a cold."
"Gee…souled vamps are nice." Jamie said, taking Spike's jacket while Jacklyn took Angel's. "Thanks." Both guys just shrugged as the girls put the jackets on. "We look good?"
Despite himself, Spike found his eyes sweeping up and down Jamie's body in the way that he used to look at Buffy all the time. Jamie did look pretty good in the duster. He nodded. Angel was having similar reactions to Jacklyn, although, looking at her in the way he used to look at Cordelia…not Buffy. Both vamps were confused at how much these two girls that they just met reminded them so much of their lost loves.
"Bloody hell…are we there yet?" Spike asked after five minutes.
"Ok…the club is on one side of town…the graveyard with our clubhouse in it is on the other side of town." Jamie said.
"Then why are we walking?" Spike asked.
"Oh for…you are a dope." Jamie said. Spike stopped dead in his tracks. Everyone stopped and looked at him.
"I'm a what?" Spike asked.
"A dope. And a bonehead." Jamie said. Spike's eyes went wide. "Ok what?"
"You called me a dope…and a bonehead." Spike said.
"Yeah…it just sorta felt natural." Jamie said, shrugging. There was a long silence in which Spike stared at her. Jamie looked away from him after a moment. "Ok…let's keep going." They all went back to walking.
Once they got to the graveyard, Jamie stopped walking. Spike walked right into, not looking where he was going.
"What is with people and crashing into me?" Jamie asked, looking at Jacklyn. Jacklyn shrugged. Both girls turned to face the guys but, before anything could be said, there was a roar and everyone jumped away from each other before they were jumped by a demon. "FOR FUCK'S SAKE!" Seconds later, three more demons jumped out at them. "Oh…great….this is just fucking great."
"Jams…quit swearing so much." Jacklyn said. Jamie stuck her tongue out at her sister. The two witches and vampires took to fighting the demons, each one had their own to fight. Jamie got knocked over then the demon grabbed her and held her arms down with one arm and crossed the other arm over her throat. The other three demons backed up to it and the remaining three fighters all stared in horror as Jamie struggled against the demon. She let out a yelp of pain and the others saw blood on her stomach. Jamie went unconscious. And the demons disappeared.
"Ok…looks like we go after the chit first…then do this little spell." Spike said.
"She gets kidnapped way too much." Jacklyn muttered. "Ok…let's try to figure out where these guys have gone." The two vampires nodded. They had just met these girls and already were joining in on saving one of them. Spike was trying to figure out whether it was worth it or not. Obviously they needed both girls to do the spell…but did he really want to know what the hell was going on that badly?
Jamie: I do get kidnapped too much.
Jacklyn: That's what I said.
Jamie: I'm not saying you're right. I'm just saying…no wait…that is what I'm saying. Damn it.