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After the Grave
Cat was sitting in her office trying to get her files in order and finish up paperwork so that she could make a clean get away at the end of the week.
She finished typing up the paperwork on getting Jason out of the bar and put in her receipts for the gin she had drunk. Don was never happy to see that bill, but he always reimbursed her.
"Kitten." Bones said as he entered her office.
"Hey, did you get anything?" Cat asked referring to Bones' phone call to Mencheres.
"Of course, luv. Once I gave him a name he was able to tell me who created him."
"What is there a book?"
Bones just looked at her, "Mencheres is able to find things out."
Cat shrugged, "Well what did he have to say?"
Bones smiled. "He gave us an address."
"Wow that was helpful." Cat said surprised that Mencheres had been so forthcoming without getting something in return. Probably it was going to come back and bite them, literally.
"Shall we go?" Bones asked.
Bones and Cat made their way down to the war room where they would meet up with the rest of the guys. Cooper, Juan, and Dave were already there and seated around the table that occupied the center of the room. Vlad was the only one not there, well besides Don but he wasn't going with so he didn't count.
"Where's Vlad?"
"He's trying to talk a couple of syringes out of Doctor Drake." Cooper told her.
Bones brought up a picture of the address that Mencheres had given him, it was of a one story brick home.
Vlad walked in and took a seat without saying a word and Bones began.
"According to Mencheres this is the address at which Jason has been residing for the last seventeen months. There are a group of newer vampires all under six years dead. We have to assume that all of them directly injecting blood." Bones ended.
"Why don't we just do the same?" Juan asked.
"No, we don't know the effects, it would not be worth it." Vlad said. "According to Leslie the oxygenated blood may give vampires an extra boost but the crash afterwards would be brutal. She wasn't exactly sure what would happen, as Jason didn't last long enough for her to study, but she believes that either once the blood cells die off, the vampire would no longer be able to survive without them and die as well. Or it would be addictive, causing the vampires to continually load up on the blood, as if it were a drug, and like drugs they would have to use more and more to get the same boost."
"You got a lot of Leslie, did you get the syringes, because that would be helpful." Cooper wanted to know.
Vlad reached into his jacket pocket and withdrew a handful of syringes, and passed one to each of them. "Use them wisely."
After that they got a plan together on how to stop the vampires.
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The first step in their plan was to surround the house. Bones and Cat went to the front door; Dave and Vlad were at the back door. Cooper was in the van monitoring communications, Juan was with him, moping that he had been left in the van.
Cooper was hacked into everybody cell's phone so that he could hear everything that was going on. He was to send Juan in to drag everyone out if everything went wrong. Don had wanted everyone to wear mics so that they could communicate directly, but Bones informed him that the vampires would be able to hear the buzzing coming off of the electronics.
Bones went directly up to the door and knocked. What looked like a young twenty something opened the door.
"You the new guy?" He asked, already letting them both in to the house.
"Yes." Bones answered him, ditching the plan of overpowering and destroying the opposition immediately for the opportunity to get as much information out of them.
"What's this?" the vampire asked nodding to Cat.
"I brought my own supply." Bones explained, putting his arm around Cat.
"I don't think the boss is going to like that." He said puzzled as he led them upstairs.
He led them down a hallway and through a doorway. "He's here Donovan." They were introduced to another vampire. "He brought his own supply."
Donovan had skin the color of ash and it looked as if it was going to flake away. His hair was stark white and thinning, he looked as if he was going to fall apart at any moment. His voice lacked the raspiness that accumulated with old age instead it had the tenor associated with youth.
Donovan's back was to them when they entered what looked like a home office. He was at a wet bar filling glasses from a decanter.
"Thank you Samuel that will be all."
Samuel bowed out making a discrete exit and shut doors behind him.
"You arrived earlier than we agreed." Donovan turned and caught sight of them. "You are not Jenkins."
Bones smiled showing fang. "No we are not."
A crash downstairs stopped what would have been an opportunity for talk and hopefully an explanation. Donovan dropped the glass he was holding and sprang at Bones, who kept on his feet. They grappled trying to get leverage, Bones used his teeth to tear a chunk out of him, causing him to hiss and try to pull away.
Samuel came barreling through the doorway going straight for Bones not even giving Cat a glance. Cat stepped in front of him, one of her stakes in hand. Samuel plowed through Cat and attacked Bones, pulling him off of Donovan and throwing him into the wall. Cat got up from where Samuel pushed her to the floor.
Samuel was on Bones before he could recover, covered in plaster dust the two of them rolled around the floor trying to get the upper hand. Donovan was down on one knee trying to stop the blood from the wound Bones' gave him. Cat came up from behind him and thrust the stake in to him. Donovan froze.
"What happened to you?" Cat asked him hand on the stake. Donovan remained silent. "What aren't you healing?"
Donovan still refused to answer.
"Is it from injecting the blood?"
There was more crashing from downstairs.
Donovan still stayed quiet, but he moved tearing his heart on the stake killing himself.
"Shit." Cat looked over to see that Bones losing his battle with Samuel. "Bones?"
Cat jumped Samuel trying to get him off of Bones.
"Get out. You have to get out now." Juan told her, coming into the room. "Vlad and Dave are being overrun, the real Jenkins showed up."
"Bones lets go." Cat said pulling on Samuel harder, Juan came over and together they were able to get him off enough that Bones no longer had to fear him going for his throat. Bones grabbed Samuel around the throat; Samuel had trouble pulling away from all three of them. Bones twisted and Samuel was no longer a problem.
Bones pushed Samuel off of him and headed out of the door with Juan and Cat following him. Going back downstairs Vlad and Dave were struggling against five vampires and judging by the shape Dave and Vlad were in they were all 'using' human blood.
Bones and Juan jumped into the fray and Cat tried to stake the nearest vampire but they moved too fast for her and her aim was off. They tried to head to the back to door so they could get out and regroup, but the vampires herded them into a corner.
Bones however was smarter than the younger vampires; he turned and plowed his way through the wall and out of the house. Cat jumped out after him followed by Dave, Juan and then Vlad. They took off to the van that Cooper already had running, he pulled away leaving the back doors open. Before the van could turn the corner they had all jumped into the back.
The vampires hadn't stopped; they were running behind the van and slowly gaining on them.
"Go faster Cooper." Cat told him.
"This is it." Cooper said maneuvering around other cars and not stopping at lights. Cooper turned around a corner and two of the vampires cut around the same corner making them within jumping range. The first one of them jumped and landed on the roof denting it, the second continued running trying to catch up to the van.
"Let's try and leave one alive for questioning." Bones yelled as the vampire on the roof ripped it open, tossing the metal behind them not paying attention where he was throwing it. It went right through the second vampire that had caught up with him. The metal went through the vampire cleanly separating its head from the rest of him. The other three vampires that had been running behind barely stopped to check the fallen one. They just kept running trying to catch up with them.
Bones pulled out the silver nitrate from his inside jacket pocket and stick it into the leg of the one standing on the remaining part of the roof. He quickly depressed the plunger and sent the silver into the vampire's blood stream, he jerked and shuttered once and then fell off of the roof.
Three left, and they were all almost on top of them. Fortunately for them they had made it to the base. Cooper called ahead and let them know about the unfriendlies. They had the gates to the base open for them, they drove through and they started closing before they finished getting through.
There was a thud as the vampires ran straight into the metal gate. It shuttered under their force and dented. The guards abandoned the guardhouse and raced after them trying to get underground and more importantly to the weapons.
The van squealed as Cooper braked to a stop and everybody jumped out, prepared to fight. One of the guards joined them ready to go to battle, Cat stopped him.
"Go tell Don that there are three hopped up vampires on the premises." Cat told the guard, who immediately ran off.
The second guard that had been at the gates hadn't made it to safety of the base in time. He was caught by the vampires and left in pieces as they continued on to the base. The only thing that now separated them from the vampires was a thick door made of steel just as the front gate had been. Cat didn't trust this door to do any better than the front gate had done.
"Get down to the labs." Bones told her. "Take Cooper with you, we'll try and keep them from getting down to you."
Cat pulled out her silver nitrate and tossed it to him, "Here, you already used yours."
Bones nodded his thanks and ran toward the door that was slowly crumbling under the vampires' assault. Vlad pulled his syringe out of his pocket and followed after Bones, Juan and Dave then copied the move and ran towards what was left of the door.
Cat and Cooper rand down into the lower levels were the scientists worked. Everything was normal here; no one was worried about the vampires getting in, because none ever had before. Cat didn't like this plan, she'd rather have been up there fighting alongside the others. She also knew that if three vampires and a ghoul wasn't enough to stop them another half a vampire wasn't going to help.
Cat and Cooper ran into the training room where the other team was practicing techniques.
"We got three supped up vamps at our doors, fellows." Cooper announced as he loaded up on silver implements.
"Supped up?" many off he asked in confusion even as they followed Cooper's lead and strapped on their own silver weapons.
"Really powerful." Cat clarified, heading back towards the door after loading up on throwing knives.
Cat ducked her head back out into the hall to see people running back down the tunnel. It looked like the vampires had gotten through the door as well as past the guys. Vlad and Dave came running down the tunnel from the opposite direction.
"Get back in there." Dave told her. "There are two left but they figured out it what that it was the stuff in the syringe that got rid of their buddy so efficiently and they smashed them before taking off. We don't have any syringes left."
"We need to get to Leslie, hopefully she has more of those syringes stocked up." Vlad said, half through the doorway keeping an eye on the hallway.
Starting off as a group they slowly made their way up a level to where Leslie worked. They passed one hallway that looked as if it had been torn apart, and a vampire was munching on someone.
They spread out and attacked ready for it to overpower them, however what happened was it took a look at the group of them and ran.
"It's Chirpy," Dave pointed out, one of the vampires that they had in captivity. In a silent decision they let the other team go after him and clean up any of the other vampires that my have been released from the capsules.
The reaming four walked through the hallways, some empty, others had people running through them, and still others that held what was left of a bloody carnage that had swept through the base far to quickly to have evacuated the premises.
The pathology lab was in the hallway closest to where the capsuled vampires were held. It made it convenient for when the pathologist had to draw blood to study or process into Brams. This hallway was a mess; it seemed that the newly released vampires unleashed their fury on those that were testing on them.
The lab in which they had met with Leslie before was in ruins, glass was shattered all over the floor, papers were strewn about the room, and blood covered everything. A shriveled up corpse lay just inside the doorway and another one lay half on the lab bench with the syringe still sticking out of it.
"Son of a bitch." Cooper whistled. "Looks like the Doc put up one hell of a fight."
"I will not go easily into the night." Leslie said standing up from behind one of the lab benches, a stack of papers in one hand and a fistful of syringes in the other.
"How many capsules were filled?" Vlad asked.
"We had three full, but another two had burst in out of nowhere, they didn't touch any of us, just released the vamps. As you can see they didn't take kindly to being locked up." Leslie said looking around the destroyed lab and then shoved the papers into a drawer.
"Then we still got two left." Dave counted.
Leslie only had four syringes left; she passed one each to Cooper and Cat, tossed one to Dave. She looked at Vlad and shrugged, "Bummer, this one's mine."
Vlad smirked, "I've never needed them before."
"Well with these sods you need them." Bones said walking into the lab, his outfit a little worse for wear.
"Where's Juan?" Cooper asked.
"We met up with Don and he decided to stick with him, don't worry he's fine."
"Well would you look at this," Someone spoke from the doorway. "You all gathered together so I wouldn't have to chase you all down, thank you."
It was one of the bad vampires and he looked entirely too sure of himself.
A/N: As always I appreciate your advice, help and/or comments.