THEN:
Dean walked by the library area and saw empty seats. "Hey Sam?" he yelled. "Cas and Kuryiel already left. They should be done by the time we arrive in Union City, Tennessee in eleven hours."
"Good let's get our stuff and hit the road." Sam placed his full duffel bag on the library table.
NOW:
Eleven hours later, Dean parked his Impala near a diner in Union City, Tennessee. The brothers got out of the car to stretch their legs. They looked around the town. It was late evening and mostly everyone was in their homes. Dean summoned Cas and Kuryiel. They appeared instantly and looking at their surroundings. Dean raised his eyebrows in wonder has he surveyed Kuryiel attire. She changed into skinny jeans with black leather chaps and a black long sleeve shirt buttoned half way. Underneath the shirt was a black tank top and she walked toward him sporting black leather ankle boots. "Nice threads angel lady." Dean smiled.
"Thanks." She slightly smiled in earnest.
Kuryiel motioned for Dean to look toward an old two story house near the diner. "There were vampires recently in this area.
"How do you know?" Sam looked around to see anything suspicious in the area.
"I can smell them." She closed her eyes and slowly turned her face from the left to the right. "Their scent is like a sweet rotten smell. I never forgotten the smell from the vampires we fought a Crowley's hide out."
Dean grinned. "Great we have a blood hound that can detect vampires nearby. That may come in handy to our benefit. I like having an element of surprise."
Kuryiel crossed her arms. "We'll see about that. So let's check the town out. Who was the person that reported the murders?"
Sam walked up to Kuryiel. "It was a woman named Sally Jacobs. She reported her best friend Beth was missing after she had not heard from her in couple of days. They were doing the typical chick hangout by drinking wine and complaining about the men they were dating. Her friend left her place after 11:45 PM to walk home. Beth's boyfriend called Sally to see if Beth is staying there for a while since they got into a bad argument. Sally got scared and called the police. A few hours later they found her body near a wooded area. Her head was chopped off but there was no blood on the scene. The cops were spooked there was no trace of blood in her body like it was drained. I spoke to the forensic department and they claimed there was no sign of clotting when the head was chopped off. They found a few more victims that were killed in the same manner. My guess there is a vampire that is doing clean kills and chopping the heads so the source of the missing blood will not be figured out."
Kuryiel sniffed around to see if she can detect any vampires nearby. "Okay. We will find who did the killings. Where is the forensics lab so I can see the bodies?"
Dean scoffed. "You will not get in there looking like that."
"Who says I am going to let them see me. You seem to forget I can cloak myself so I can't be seen. So tell me where it is so I can zap there real quick." Kuryiel crossed her arms defiantly.
Sam gave her the address and Kuryiel disappeared instantly. "Well she lucky she can be invisible. We have to play being the Feds and have to sweet talk our way in."
Kuryiel returned after fifteen minutes. She looked deep in thought. "I looked at one of the bodies and there is a trace of vampire but I also picked up a human scent that handled the body as well."
Dean walked toward Kuryiel. "What? You got to be kidding me. What stupid human would help a vampire get fed?"
Kuryiel shrugged her shoulders. "I would not know but there are possibilities. This person may be involved with the vampire."
Dean rolled his eyes. "This is not a twisted version of the movie Twilight. There is no Bella killing for Edward here. I am not buying that so there has to be another reason."
Sam leaned against the car. "Maybe this person wants to be a vampire and doing what the alpha vampire wants to get turned."
Dean smirked. "Now that's a realistic answer. There's nothing romantic about this crap. So where do we start finding this person?" He looked at Kuryiel with curiosity.
Castiel stood next to her. "Kuryiel can locate that person by doing a scan of the town but the vampire scent is a general smell so every one of those creatures will smell the same."
"He's right. So give me a minute to locate this human." Kuryiel disappeared again.
Castiel looked around surveying the area and felt the underlying evil that is starting to saturate the town. "We have to resolve this soon. I have a feeling there will be a killing sometime tonight."
Kuryiel reappeared and smiled to everyone. "I found the person. It's a man that lives two miles away. Should we pay him a visit?"
"Hell yeah! Let's go everyone." They walked to Dean's Impala and got in. "Ok Miss GPS lead the way."
When they arrived to a nicely maintained two story house they got out of the car. Sam asked "Do we need vampire weapons?"
Castiel replied. "No it will not be necessary. The man is alone in the house."
Dean motioned for Sam. "Hey you block the back door just in case he tries to sprint out of here."
"Got it covered." Sam walked around the back of the house.
"We are coming with you if that ok." Kuryiel was behind Dean.
"Fine with me but you may not like me questioning this fellow. I may have to be persuasive to get some answers if you know what I mean." He turned his head to look at Kuryiel.
Kuryiel shrugged. "Hey you do what needs to be done to the answers out of him. If he clams up I can get the answers out of him. I think he needs a serious reality check that helping vampires is a danger to his well-being." She gave Dean a stern look.
"Hey that's my angel lady. I am glad we see eye to eye. So let's crash his alone party. I will even be polite by kicking the door in so we can get a grand invitation." Dean proceeded to it and the three walked into the house.
The man was standing in the hallway looking shocked wearing a wife beater shirt and sweatpants. He was not aware he dropped his glass of water as it smashed on the floor. "What the….Who are you?" He was walking backwards until his back hit the wall behind him.
Dean walked up to the guy and grabbed the front of his shirt. "We came to see you buddy so why don't you tell me your name so we can get properly introduced."
The guy looked terrified. "My name is Greg Stanley." He stammered. "Why did you break into my house? I have no money and I don't have many valuables."
Dean snickered. "We are not here for money or your stuff. The only thing valuable we want is information. So I am going to ask you questions nicely and if you don't answer then I will not be nice anymore. You don't want me to go in that direction. It might involve with you screaming in pain. Your choice pal."
The man braced himself against the wall for support. "What do you want?"
Sam walked in and stood next to Castiel and Kuryiel watching Dean dragged the man into the living room. He pushed the man onto a lazy boy chair. "We want to know what vampire you are killing for and how many in that nest."
The guy's eyes got wide with surprise and then try to recover himself by saying quickly. "What are you talking about? Are you crazy? There are no such things as vampires."
Dean shook his head in disappointment. "Wrong answer." He grabbed Greg by the front of his shirt yanked him to his feet. Dean punched him hard in the gut pushing him back down in the chair. "Well you got your first taste of pain. Do you want more?"
The guy doubled over in the chair coughing. He moaned as he held his chubby stomach. "I don't know what you are talking about."
Dean grabbed the guy by his hair and made him stand up again. He turned his head to look at the others watching the show. "I guess he likes pain so I am going to give the guy what he wants. What's up with people having pain fetishes?" Dean raised his fist aiming for the man's nose.
The man trembled raised his hands in surrender. "Please don't hit me. I will tell you what you want." He sobbed.
Dean let the man go pushing him back once again on his chair. "Well the guy does not have a pain fetish after all. Put the nipple clams away Sam." Dean joked as he saw the man looking pale from hearing Dean's order.
Sam chuckled and stepped next to Dean looking down at the pathetic chubby man. "Well you better start talking or he will change his mind. Why are you helping the vampires and how many are there?"
The man sighed and looked at the floor. "I don't know where to begin."
Dean snarled. "Why don't you start at where met the rotten bastards."
Greg flinched bracing himself to get hit again. When nothing happened he started his story. "A year ago, I was at a bar scoping out the scene. There was a man dressed up in a suit. He looked real clean cut and spotless. We were….." Greg hesitated and he saw Dean's face get dark with anger. "We were checking each other out." He said in one breath. Greg looked up and saw the man in front of him started to have a queasy look on his face. "I'm gay but the folks do not know about it okay? It's not something you brag about in a small town like this. It can cost me my job and….."
Dean yelled. "Get on with it! I don't want to hear about you being in the closet. What you do behind your bedroom door is your deal. Before I start to get aggravated tell me about the vampire you met at the bar."
The man raised his hands in fear. "Okay. We were staring at each other for a while and the man got up walking to my side of the bar to chat with me. He introduced himself. His name is Nicholas from Canada. He had an accent I could not figure out where he was from. He asked me out on a date and I accepted. We went out on a few dates. Things got heated up…." He stopped for a second. "You don't want to hear about those details. After eight months of dating, he sat me down and told me what he really was. I did not believe him until he showed me his pointed teeth. I was terrified locking myself in my bedroom. He pleaded with me to open the door and he kept telling me he was not going to hurt me. We were like this for over an hour with him talking to me through the door. I finally got the courage to open the door. He was very upset. I never saw a person cry red tears. He told me that he loved me and he would never hurt me. I made it clear to him that I needed some time to think about this because I never thought vampires existed. He assured me that I had all the time I needed to let it all sink in. Before he left he place grabbed my hand and told me if I decided to not to have anything to do with him he understood. I would not have to worry about my safety or seeing him ever again." Greg covered his face with his hands feeling remorseful.
Dean crossed his arms with a look of disgust. "Well I can guess happened next. Apparently, you decided to have this vampire in your life and helped him find victims."
Greg looked at Dean with tears in his eyes. "Yes you are right I was a part of this but I did not find victims. I contacted Nicholas telling him that I still loved him and I wanted to give the relationship a chance. He was the only person that accepts me for who I am. I am not a handsome man and I'm a bit chubby. He did not care about that. He is the only person that shown me love with no conditions. Nicholas is part of a nest but he wants to leave the group. In order for him to break away he has to find a way either kill them or get away. His maker is the leader of his nest so he can't get away easily . I made the decision to help him by finding a way for his nest to get blood cleanly from a body without the need to kill so many people. I even developed a method to remove the blood before the person died and sold the leader on it. He was happy with my ingenuity of providing a clean food source since I gave him the impression that I want to be a vampire. The real plan was set up a way to poison them and free Nicholas from this on going torment.
Dean was surprised by the man's story. "Well, did you kill off the nest?"
The man looked up at Dean. "We haven't put the plan into action yet. They captured their chosen food and brought him or her home. I had to insert a tube in the person's carotid artery and drain his or her blood using a heart bypass machine from one of the Vampires purchased keep the person alive for a short time.
"That's sick man. I hope they have a special place in hell for you. I know Crowley will have some fun with you." Dean growled.
Sam asked. "What about your vampire boyfriend? Did he eat well from your way of draining victims blood?"
Greg sighed. "Nicholas will not drink human blood. He told me that he did when a few hundred years ago. Since then. he has been drinking animal blood. At first I did not believe him but all the times I drained blood from the people they captured, Nicholas did not touch a single drop. His preference is drinking blood from deer he hunted. He always brings the meat to me so it will not go to waste. We planned on having a farm away from people so we can breed our own life stock. That way, we both can survive on it and the only difference is that I have to grow my own vegetable garden. He promised he will help me grow the food. What are you going to do with me?"
Dean shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know at this moment but what I am going to do now is have you show us where they are nesting."
Greg looked startled and grabbed Dean's jacket sleeve. "Please don't hurt Nicholas. He was against me doing this in the first place. He truly does not drink human blood. I can't live without him."
Dean yanked the man's hand off his jacket sleeve. "Your guy is a monster. He has to be exterminated before he decides human blood is better than deer. Get up and get dressed. You are taking us on a field trip."
Greg cried silently as Sam dragged the man to his bedroom. Ten minutes later he was dressed was dragged to the car. "Which way to the vampire lair?"
The man sobbed again and pointed his finger to take a left. Greg reluctantly gave the remaining directions until he reached a huge house in a very wealthy neighborhood.
"Fancy neighborhood. His rotten crew likes to live it big. Most likely they will have a security alarm to protect themselves from visitors like us. Do you know the code vamp lover?"
Greg nodded as they got out of the car. Kuryiel and Castiel walked closer to the house to scan how many vampires are in the house. They walked toward Sam, Dean and the chubby guy. Kuryiel gave Dean a slight nod.
Dean asked. "How many vampires in that nest?"
"There are eleven of them including Nicholas. If you kill Nicholas please kill me. I have no reason to live if he is gone."
Dean grabbed Greg's arm. "It's not my call buddy. You have to ask the court house for an execution if you like. If I were you I would plead guilty to accessory to murder. Maybe you might find yourself a buff muscle boyfriend in prison that may want physical favors in exchange for protection." Dean smirked at the guy looking pale by the second.
The two angels stood in front of the Winchester brothers. Castiel looked at Kuryiel and asked. "Did you sense eleven?"
Kuryiel nodded. "Well let's get in there before they go looking for dinner."
Dean grinned. "That's a done deal. Come on Greg let's go have a vampire slaying party. I want them to know before they die that you ratted them out." He grabbed the guy by the back of the neck and steered him toward the house. Dean got the man to punch the alarm and opened the door. Sam looked around and was holding a special crossbow that carries multiple bolts. Each bolt has a vial of blood of a dead person. He walked in the living room as shot two vampires quickly. They gasped as they pulled out the bolt. They fell in silent agony as they started to die from the poison of the tainted blood. Unknowingly, the bolt also came with a strong paralyzer formula that one hunter made a while back.
"Good job." Dean beamed. "Nine more to go." They walked past the living room down a hall toward the family room. Sam left them to go upstairs. Castiel decided to join Sam.
Kuryiel followed Dean with Greg leading to the family room. There were three vampires sitting on the couch watching TV. There was one sitting in a straight back chair reading a book. The vampires instantly turned their heads shocked to see intruders. The blood suckers on the couch started to get up. Kuryiel used her powers to make them sit back down.
The man sitting in the straight back chair cried out. "Greg sweetie!" He tried to get up but Kuryiel enforced her power to make him stay seated. She figured out this man must be Nicholas. Greg was right. The vampire looked very handsome in a suit and neatly combed wavy brown hair. He was a medium framed man with gentle eyes, a straight aristocrat nose and his full lips that was very attractive. The man earnestly begged Dean. "Please don't hurt my Greg."
Kuryiel looked deeply into the light brown eyes of the man named Nicholas and entered his thoughts. She scanned his memories of his life as a human living as a scholar before he was changed into a vampire against his will. How he was full of self-loathing feeding off of human blood to survive. She also saw memories of him trying to regain his humanity of never drinking human blood again and getting nourishment from feeding from animals. Lastly, she saw and felt the love he has for the man named Greg with his dream of being with him.
Dean ignored the man and pushed Greg to the side as he walked toward the couch. With a syringe in his right hand he injected dead blood into a young looking male vampire with a dark brown buzz cut. The vampire shook in agony before he fell over dead. The other two vampires tried to bite Dean in self-defense. Kuryiel placed her hands on each of the vampire's heads and killed them with her pure light energy.
Dean turned to Nicholas and walked toward him with another syringe in his hand.
Nicholas looked at the man with the angry green eyes approaching him with a deadly syringe. He sighed in resigned acceptance of his death coming in a matter of minutes. Greg was on his knees pleading. "Please don't kill Nicholas. He will not hurt anyone. Please spare my love." the man cried openly as he groveled to Dean from across the room.
Dean was getting tired of hearing all this sappy crap. As soon as Dean was close to the Nicholas, Kuryiel appeared in front of Dean looking determined. "What?" He asked stupefied.
She put her hand on Dean's chest to not take another step. "You will have to let him go."
Dean looked incredulously at Kuryiel. "What the hell do you mean I have to let him go? He's a vampire. Sooner or later he will get hungry enough to kill someone. We can't let him live. He's nothing but a walking parasite. Worse, he may change loverboy over there into a vampire."
Nicholas looked angry and said in a matter of fact tone. "I would never change Nicholas into what I am. I did not choose this life. Someone forced it on me over three hundred ago." He said with disdain. "I want to be with Greg for the rest of his human life. When the moment comes when he dies of old age I will consume dead blood and will die next to him so we can be buried together. We agreed on this a year ago."
Dean shook his head hearing the vampire's ridiculous confession. "Sorry man, you are not going to be around to see this man grow old."
Kuryiel stood her ground with a stern tone. "Dean, you are not going to harm this man. I looked inside his mind and heart. What he speaks is the truth. This man was forced to be a vampire but chooses not to act like one. If this man feeds on a human as long as I am on this earth I will kill him myself. I will take responsibility if anyone is harmed by this man. Do you understand?"
Dean scowled at Kuryiel and muttered in anger. "Yeah. If he kills anyone it's their blood on your hands." He turned around and walked out of the room to catch up with Sam and Cas.
Greg ran to Nicholas and put his arms around him crying hard. Nicholas patted Greg on the back and murmured calming words to him. He looked up at Kuryiel. "I don't know who you are and how you know my memories but thank you for sparing my life."
Kuryiel felt sympathy for this man. "I am an angel of the lord. I chose to spare you because I know what is in your heart. You have a heart that is gentle unlike the others in this room that had cold hearts of a killer. You will have to leave this town in a few hours and take this man with you."
Greg looked up at Kuryiel in gratitude. "Thank you lady."
Kuryiel smiled. "I see strong love between you two and I foresee both of you will have that farm. Everything will go as you planned so take care of each other." She patted Greg on the shoulder. Kuryiel nodded at Nicholas and zapped out of the room.
Nicholas was stunned at the realization the woman is an angel since she vanished before his eyes. He stood up and helped Greg to his feet. "Come on sweetie, I have to pack my things and grab my account books. I have enough money to buy us fifty farms." They headed downstairs in the basement to Nicholas's bedroom.
Kuryiel appeared and had to get quickly out of the way as she almost ran into Dean fighting a vampire. He swung the hatchet toward the vampire's head and the sharp toothed woman ducked growling. Kuryiel stepped forward and placed her hand on top of the female vampire's head. "The monster screamed as she felt pure white heat burning her life away."
Dean nudged Kuryiel's shoulder. "Thanks for helping me out. I still don't understand why you spared that leach down there."
"When we have time I will explain to you over a cold beer." She smiled at him.
He rolled his shoulders. "I will hold you to that. We got a few vampires left."
Dean and Kuryiel walked toward the master bedroom and saw two vampires lying dead on the carpet. Sam was fighting the alpha vampire with a small ax and Castiel placed pinned the small female vampire and placed his hand on her head. Castiel got up and he rest surrounded the alpha vampire. The alpha was very tall with pale white skin with various tattoos. His platinum blonde hair was stringy from the sweat of dodging the men. The vampire was very fast and ran around the room quickly. Castiel tried to intercept the vampire's movements but he kept missing the locations where it stopped. Kuryiel was getting tired of the monster's games and telepathically told Castiel to stay on one side of the room. He looked at her in surprise by receiving her unexpected her mental transmission. Castiel zapped on one side of the room as Kuryiel zapped toward the doorway as soon as the vampire started to move with speed trying to get out. Kuryiel manifested her Sai weapons and threw one in the direction the vampire was about to go and she hit her target. The alpha male vampire screamed as he tried to pull the Sai out of his back where it planted in his heart. The distraction was enough to have the angels zap next to the vampire and they both placed their hands on him. He died very sudden as the pure light from both angels went into him.
Dean stood looking relieved the hunt was finally over. Castiel and Kuryiel cleaned up any evidence they were there and located all the equipment where the victims were strapped down. Dean notified the police about the mansion having mysterious killing items in upper levels of the house. They also went by Greg's house and noticed that he packed up this things and left. Castiel and Kuryiel spot cleaned the house with their powers.
When everyone walked to Dean's car and got in. Dean asked jokingly at Kuryiel. "Are you hitching a ride with me?" as he started the car.
Kuryiel smiled in feeling a little tired. "For the moment, but I wanted to say that your theory was wrong."
Dean looked confused. "What theory? How so?"
Kuryiel leaned back in the seat enjoying the moment of sitting down. "You mentioned the situation was not a twisted version of the movie Twilight." Kuryiel chuckled. "There was an Edward like vampire in that house. The only thing you were right there is no Bella. The character Bella was in control of her emotions and hardly cried. Greg on the other hand is..." Pausing to find the right words. "What you would call emotional girly type. This whole event was about a vampire being involved with a human and I did not have to use my angel abilities figure it out." Kuryiel gleamed in triumph.
Dean looked at her from his rear view mirror. "Yeah, yeah you're right. Those guys were too sappy for me. It was making me feel queasy. Anyway, let's pop some old rock in the old girl."
Kuryiel cleared her throat. "That's my cue to zap out of here. Drive safely." She disappeared.
Dean turned his head to at Castiel and smiled. "I guess it will be us three amigos out on the road."
Castiel looked around the car as if he is somewhere he does not belong. "Not really, I agree with Kuryiel. See you at the bunker in a few hours." Cas zapped out of the car.
"Wimp!" Dean yelled. Sam looked at his brother feeling very trapped in the car thinking why could they think of zapping him out of here too. He sighed knowing this will be a long eleven hour ride back home.
To Be Continued... on Chapter 7
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