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Chapter 5: Ah! Monsters!

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Once the blinding kaleidoscope of colors finally stopped flashing before her eyes, Sabina found herself still tight against Willy and in the middle of a graveyard from every horror movie she could think of. "Great place for a date...ick." with that thought crossing her mind she removed herself from Willy's side with effort and stalked over on the other side of Ichabod to find out where they were. Willy stepped closer to the others disliking their current spot of arrival, especially with the various howls that echoed from far off in the distance. The graveyard itself was covered in a faint thick fog, hundreds of various tombstones of shapes and sizes stretched across to a tall iron gate with sharp ends perched at the top and several skeleton like trees lurking behind them reaching out like dead claws. "I don't like this place." He wrinkled his face in worry seeing Ichabod appeared far more distracted with the traveling device then usual.

Sabina took a deep breath glancing around at the icy fog like fingers. "I swear if Dracula shows up…I'm gone." This apparently was enough of a distraction for Ichabod to focus on their current situation.

Ichabod sucked in a startled breath observing the graveyard wide-eyed. "If you faint this time Ichabod…I'm leaving you behind." Willy noticed Sabina stare between the pair before shrugging in response.

"I think I might agree with him." Willy's smug look annoyed Ichabod and her agreeing with him wasn't overly encouraging. "But…I couldn't do it, I would be stuck with him all the time." She smirked at the narrowed violet gaze seeing he was gingerly reaching in his pockets for something. "I won't take any type of candy from you." She heard a crunch of a twig nearby and felt her heart leap into her throat.

"Who said I would give you a ch…

Grrrr

Ichabod froze tucking away their traveling device and followed the sound with his eyes, deep in the fog something moved almost lopsidedly and staggered about even more so then he had ever witnessed Jack doing. Sabina slowly inched between the two staring at the figure, she had a bad feeling she knew what it was and they usually traveled in large very hungry groups.

"Ew…something fell off of it." Her eyes followed Willy's line of vision and she noticed whatever had fallen was moving toward them. "That's so…not right?"

"I think that's his arm crawling to us." Ichabod seemed to turn a shade paler when something grasped his shoulder from behind. "Always check behind, this is a monster world." She turned in time to get a full view of a very rotted, slowly decayed male face. "Take a deep breath…run." Willy glanced behind them while Sabina pushed away the decayed hand on Ichabod's shoulder.

Willy nearly dropped his cane at the sight behind them. "Zombies." He managed to glance down briefly at his feet for signs of other traveling body parts. "Running is good."

The three of them bolted past several staggering bodies straight for the main entrance into the cemetery, unfortunately according to horror movie rules she had a feeling it wasn't the way out. Ichabod was the first to the gate, and as she suspected the doors did not move an inch, the doors were chained shut with a rather large padlock holding them together. Willy glanced at her with a wry smile, he had a guess she knew what would happen they both seen her movie collection after all. "Licorice whip." He reached out studying the padlock and started to move his hand around various pockets, vainly trying to ignore the various growls, grunts, groans, and moans behind them.

Ichabod cringed at the small army of zombies looking for them, he was thankful they weren't speedy creatures. "Willy do hurry it up, they're getting closer." She agreed with Ichabod, but as to what Willy could do about an oversized padlock was still unclear.

Willy paused starting to fiddle with another set of his pockets. "Patience Ichabod, I'm trying to find my acid-lock candies." She met those annoyed violet eyes wondering when he started creating candies as dangerous as that, but remembered it was a different reality and his more demented side was shown a lot more openly.

"Patience is a virtue, not a requirement…those things are hungry." Sabina saw him reach into several more pockets raising a brow at her comment, he finally apparently found what he wanted and turned placing a gummy like candy over the padlock. "Pretty amazing, even for him…then again it's part of his theme song." She observed the lock start to melt away without a sound.

Willy removed the chains rapidly and slid out the doors pulling Sabina out and then watching Ichabod shut the doors behind them. Willy handed Ichabod another candy which made a hard candy lock almost as strong as metal itself. "Thankfully I got the candy making imp for a partner." Ichabod took a deep breath and glanced between Willy and Sabina, she removed her arm from Willy's grasp and walked over checking Ichabod's face for signs of fainting, he appeared to be fine.

Willy glanced around behind them and giggled too gleefully for Sabina's liking; she turned following his gaze and groaned miserably at the sight ahead. The Monster city was full of various wooded areas and such, but it appeared the main part of the undead, were city dwellers and she would be stuck in another city, with less appealing residents then before.

"Why does it have to be a city?" She ignored Willy's amused smirk and saw Ichabod working with the machine again. "There?" he glanced up at the city and smiled in his familiar apologetic way.

"There…it's where the disturbance is coming from, this appears to be the original source of the trouble too." Ichabod saw Willy nervously observe Sabina, this was a bad place for them to be on their own but getting the others there would be hard without proof. "We need to be careful, watch out backs…and apparently trust your judge of character."

Willy snorted at the last statement looking Sabina up from head to toe and rolling his eyes. "What judge of character…she's with us." For once his sarcasm was amusing enough to get a giggle out of her.

"True…but as stated I don't get along with you, apparently I'm better at judging people then you think." Willy bristled at this but for once bit his tongue, they had work to do and her continuous teasing was making him like her a bit more, even if he hated being put in his place.

Ichabod could already see Willy's mind was in overdrive again, oddly enough the more he tried to flirt in his demented fashion the more she seemed to hang around him. This was proving to be just a bit of a distraction, or at least in some cases. Ichabod put away the box and proceeded to lead the way down a crumbling road made of what he assumed was once brick, skeleton trees, foggy grass areas, and thick woods surrounded them on their way to the surprisingly brightly lit city. "Alright, stop with the monster naming in your head Sabina, this isn't as bad as it looks." She shivered at the thoughts of werewolves, and other various creatures watching them from the fog and woods, she wished she was back in Ichabod and Willy's city considering her current options. Halfway outside the entrance of the town without thinking Sabina grabbed onto Ichabod's arm aware of Willy grasping on her arm, something moved off to the side and none of them really cared to deal with another round of zombies.

"Not again." Willy glanced at the movements and took a deep breath seeing someone casually sauntering from the woods, toward town. "Didn't see us." He removed his hand watching her release her hold on Ichabod and glance at the odd figure, something was definitely not right.

After a few minutes the figure paused, an odd rattling sound paused with him. "That's a skeleton." She saw Ichabod and Willy both exchange looks with each other. "He's coming back." Her voice caught seeing the full moon finally break from the thick dark clouds overhead and reveal the skeleton in all his white boned glory.

The skeleton was wearing a black with blue stripes zoot suite and an oversized hat with matching blue feather, his shoes clicked lightly on the crumbled road as he approached them. Willy stepped closer to the others nervously eyeing the approaching skeleton; so far all the monsters they had dealt with had wanted to pretty much kill them, Ichabod tensed ready for trouble.

"Strangers?" the skeletons voice was rather raspy, but he seemed oddly chipper. "Welcome to Monster city…need some help?" he knew that the current visitors were not undead, nor part of this world and had a good idea who they were due to frequent visits from their agency lately. "Seth at your service, I own a local swing club." Sabina had a feeling that he wasn't against them, but she didn't trust him fully either, it may have been because her current day had gone from bad to insane.

Ichabod studied Sabina waiting to see what she thought; Tia Dalma had a lot of faith in the girl. "Ichabod Crane and these are my friends Willy Wonka and Sabina Crystal." She glanced at Seth cautiously seeing what she assumed was recognition in his face, but she wasn't sure.

"Dimension Agents." Willy grasped tighter to his cane ready for trouble. "I assumed you might be, some have dropped in and left recently…would you like a guide to help you about the city? I could take you to the club and introduce you to some of the nicer monsters in the area, some aren't exactly happy with new visitors lately." Willy didn't like the odd tone in Seth's voice but observed her nod hesitantly, she wasn't sure of Seth either.

"Thank you Seth, that would be very helpful." Ichabod and Willy both proceeded to follow the oddly dancing skeleton down toward the city, Sabina glancing back and forth in between them, none of them trusted Seth and she had a feeling that something was definitely happening around there.

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Once they followed Seth into the city Sabina instinctively clung to the nearest person to her, which happened to be Willy and for once she didn't care if he annoyed her or not. "What is she doing?" Willy glanced down at Sabina, her arms wrapped tightly around his arm and noticed she was again very uncomfortable in the city, he wondered what had caused that nervous behavior momentarily until he got a look at the city itself. Every building was in a dark color and most looked ready to be condemned, the lights that lit up the city had varying degrees of gore and other monster like related themes, and quite a few various other things he cared not to focus on. They were engulfed instantly with various monsters and demons of sorts, and the forms of transportation ranged from undead or dead animals, broken down cars, and even occasionally ones that didn't appear broken down but weren't exactly appealing in the way they were built. The city was a Frankenstein monster of horror movies thrown together in a massive clutter.

"My club." Seth paused outside a massive crumbling red brick building with a neon sign flashing skeleton instruments and a skull and crossbones, the sign itself said 'Jazzy Bones'. "I know the name sounds corny, but inside it's quite lively." She wondered if he intended on the pun he used, before he opened a creaking door and led them inside.

Inside the club wasn't much more appealing then outside; the inside was full of various creatures of the night crowded among a dance floor and two bars that looked about to collapse. Ichabod dodged a pair of mummies doing what Sabina found amusing enough to be the monster mash and nearly collided with a waitress with very sharp fangs. Sabina managed to remove one arm from Willy and reached over grasping Ichabod's arm pulling him back over to them. "Off to the wizard." She kept the smile off her face at the sight of a table far back hidden across the room, she got the feeling someone was watching them and didn't like it. Seth disappeared momentarily leaving them to nervously stare around their surroundings and moments later another monster approached them making the three of them jump at her approach from the side.

"Seth said you needed a tour guide?" Sabina tightened her hold on both Willy and Ichabod's arms at the monster before them. She was the waitress Ichabod had nearly knocked into from earlier; she was tall with waist length dark red hair and flashing green eyes, her fangs showing in an almost kind smile. She wore a black ankle length dress with a silver spider web pattern all over it. "My name is Consuela."

"She's a vampire." Willy took notice to how Sabina reacted and was half tempted to drag both her and Ichabod out of the club. Sabina studied the woman before her intently, granted she was a vampire but unlike Seth she didn't appear to have an ulterior motive or hidden agenda. Sabina found herself liking Consuela and offered her a small smile releasing her death grip on Willy and Ichabod to offer her hand.

"Nice to meet you Consuela…Sabina Crystal and these are Ichabod Crane and Willy Wonka." Consuela nodded accepting her offered hand, she glanced over the others realizing who they were and then glanced in the back of the club nervously. "Seth wouldn't dare." Consuela motioned for the three to follow her toward one of the bars.

Consuela paused at the bar and whispered something to the werewolf currently attending to the customers, then the bar went up and she grasped Sabina's arm lightly watching Willy and Ichabod follow them to a back room behind the bar. The door shut with a light click leaving them in complete darkness, then there was the sound of a match and their eyes adjusted to a lamp light before them. The room was as dilapidated looking as all the other places they had been to so far, with a couple of spring showing sofa's and to Sabina and Ichabod's discomfort an aquarium with two large tarantula's in the back. Consuela seemed to sense the change in the two of them and covered the aquarium before turning her attention on the three figures.

Ichabod got the feeling they were missing something. "Consuela, what is going on?" she lowered her green gaze to the creaky floor and then met their eyes head on.

"Why have you come…you were safe until you got here to Monster City." Consuela proceeded to pace before them her dress fluttering with an invisible wind about her ankles. "There's something wrong with the city, everyone has been trying to protect the dimension agents and your agency. I was rather surprised you managed to get out of the cemetery." Willy's eyes flashed with irritation at the mention of the zombie attack they had endured.

Sabina suddenly got a sinking feeling that Seth had been waiting for them to get out of there. "Consuela…start from the beginning, zombies aren't exactly an encouraging welcoming party." Willy smirked deciding to keep his comments to himself for the moment, Sabina was doing rather well.

Consuela nodded and proceeded to explain that something had been going down around monster city, some of the less pleasant monsters were grouping together around a central demon. It was unknown who the demon was and unfortunately this demon had discovered a way to create havoc among other places, which was why the dimensional agency got involved to begin with. Quite a few of the kinder monsters had begun disappearing without explanation and those that were left had started a sort of rebellion, but with most rebellions had remained hidden having secret meetings and such. Consuela and the werewolf bartender whom they had found out was Stefan were part of this secret rebellion and had been watching the shady characters within Seth's club. They also learned that neither trusted Seth entirely, he had always been out to get whatever was good for himself and tended to forget the others involved and the consequences behind his actions.

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Seth knew Consuela was discussing showing their new arrivals around town, he was also slightly suspicious of her and Stefan but they had worked for him far to long for him to worry about what they were up to. He had more important things to attend to and without waiting any more he casually walked over to the darkest corner of his club where several of the less then appealing residents of Monster City were hanging out, he was getting paid for information and telling them of visits from the dimensional agency.

Seth brushed off his suite hearing various rasps, growls and murmurs of conversation upon his approach and was careful not to directly meet any gazes, especially one in particular. "Dimensional agents have arrived again…this time they got out of the cemetery barrier. Ichabod Crane, Willy Wonka and apparently a new girl…Sabina Crystal is with them. I was surprised that they were traveling in three's, but then again I'm not sure she has anything to do with the agency at the moment."

There was a sudden rise in those voices around Seth, which made him for the first time wonder if he was going too far for his own personal means. "Something doesn't feel right and he's far too happy at this news." He kept his gaze locked on the floor when the voice of the demon in charge spoke above the group in his direction for the first time since he met them.

"You did well Seth…you will be well paid for your services." Eyes flashed a brilliant red before fading in the darkened corner. "Remember to attend to their whims until further notice." Seth nodded walking briskly away, deep down he had a feeling he had just cost a great deal of problems for Monster city, dimensional Agency and himself.

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Ichabod listened careful to Consuela and sighed miserably, things sounded by far out of hand. "It appears we might need some back up after all, her information should be enough to at least get someone on the council to send another team." Willy wrinkled his nose at this, the only way that would happen is if he took Consuela with him and faced off with his father and the others. "Willy…do you think your up for it?" Willy tapped his cane in an annoyed fashion but nodded, he then took the familiar device from Ichabod and motioned for Consuela to hold onto his arm.

"I will come back as soon as possible…watch both your backs." Willy started to program the device his violet eyes intense with irritation and concern.

Sabina smiled amused at his scowl. "You sound like you care…be careful you two." Willy stuck out his tongue in response but nodded anyway.

"Stefan will guide you around town and more then likely introduce you to some more rebels. You should both be safe." Ichabod didn't like the doubtful tone in her voice, but nodded in response.

It wasn't long after the colors faded, that Sabina groaned leaning carefully against the table, she hoped it wouldn't fall under her. "This just got more complicated didn't it?"

Ichabod nodded smiling slightly at her. "Yes, but your instincts about the monsters seem very accurate so far, we were just taken by surprise by the zombies and reacted instinctively. Making due without Willy's antics and handy candies might be hard right now though." She wrinkled her nose in annoyance; he was right as much as she hated to admit it.

"I hate to admit it, but you're right…unfortunately." She noticed the amused chuckle and glanced up at him curiously. "What's so amusing Ichabod?"

"You and Willy, it appears you enjoy torturing one another a great deal." She shrugged with an amused expression. "I think he's starting to like you." She rose a brow at this; it had crossed her mind that it was possible as much as he annoyed her.

"Great." She rolled her eyes giving him a sour look. "Alright, he isn't that bad, but…sometimes I just want to drown him." Ichabod chuckled at this before turning to the sound of the door opening. "I kind of like both of you actually, just not sure who I like more." She glanced up at the sight of the very hairy and dark brown Stefan, he wore a red shirt and black slacks with almost sky blue eyes.

"Would you like to get to know some of the allies?" both glanced at one another and nodded; they had a lot of work to do until Willy brought help.

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Once both were back out into the bar, Sabina noticed Seth talking with what she assumed was some water monster considering the seaweed and slime covering him. Ichabod noticed her suspicious look and followed her gaze to Seth; he was quite the host considering how many people appeared to be in the club.

Stefan quickly retreated behind the bar to get his car keys. "I see Consuela and Stefan have made you both feel comfortable?" Sabina nodded already knowing what was coming next. "Where are Consuela and your friend?"

"She's showing Willy around…Sabina and him don't get along overly well to be honest. Long story behind that." Ichabod noticed the suspicion in Seth's gaze fade, finally seeing what he assumed was a smile; a boned face stretching in an upward direction was rather unnerving a sight to say the least.

Seth turned to see her give Ichabod a sour look and then met those black holes serving as eyes. "Could have fooled me…I thought they fancied one another to be honest." She crossed her arms narrowing her gaze at Seth.

"I would rather hang around with Ichabod; Willy's much too demented at times." Ichabod rose a brow at this, but kept his comments to himself. Sabina was quite good at acting; he could see that there was only a half truth somewhere in her words judging by her face. "Your place seems quite the hang out…you must be well liked." Her voice had the slightest hint of sarcasm and Seth caught it.

That unnerving skeletal smile faded slightly, but he kept his composure. "I don't have to be well liked to run a good business Ms. Crystal…I hope you enjoy your tour and when you come back I have some other guests that would probably be happy to answer any questions you may have." With that he disappeared through the crowd leaving both her and Ichabod staring after him.

"I don't like the sounds of that." Ichabod saw Stefan was waiting for them near the bar and glanced at Sabina, apparently she had thought the same thing because he noticed her shudder slightly before turning to meet up with Stefan. Seth wasn't evil, but he wasn't nice or trust worthy either; they would both be watching one another's back until Willy and Consuela returned.

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Consuela flinched at the sudden brightness of the early morning light and ducked into the shadows of the massive yellow building before them. Willy smirked at her discomfort staring up at the dimensional agency main building; she glowered at his amused look half tempted to hiss at him but restrained the urge.

Willy glanced up at the main entrance and snorted in irritation. "Don't like the sunlight…you could use a tan." Consuela let her impulse loose and hissed revealing her pearly white fangs.

"You could too…sunlight may not fry me on the spot Mr. Wonka, but it doesn't exactly feel great on the eyes." She brushed off her dress glaring at him for a long moment. "What do I have to do to get you the back up you need?" he ignored her studying the building a while longer and then glanced at his pocket watch to determine who would be residing on the superiors bench at the moment.

"If you insist on addressing me, Willy or agent Wonka will be sufficient…don't call me Mr. Wonka." He returned his watch to his pocket seeing her eyes narrow at him; he flipped his cane in a familiar fashion starting up the stairs. "This way Consuela." She followed after him mumbling curses behind his back. "Stop being a mumbler please…I don't like it and being annoyed is not good in my current state of mind." She stopped immediately, underneath his childish antics there was something there that made her wonder about him.

Once inside the familiar yellow building he quickly started to the large doors at the end of the black carpet, he paid Consuela no mind he was more concerned about leaving Ichabod without someone to watch his back. He trusted Sabina to do so but wasn't sure if he had left them in danger central for sure or not, he didn't like the idea of them being in any trouble. "Ew…I'm starting to care for that annoying pest." He smirked to himself, as long as he worked with Ichabod he never was overly worried about him, now though he found himself worried for both him and Sabina, Sabina being the annoying pest he was referring too. Once inside the familiar room, he ignored the sudden bright light and allowed his gaze to meet his fathers, Tia Dalma, Katrina and El were present along with Norrington who stared back with cold blue eyes, his commodore uniform prominent with his usual 'I'm better then you' aura, he looked highly annoyed which meant more then likely Jack had just checked in with Sands a while ago.

"Your partner isn't present?" Norrington's brow shot up glaring at Willy who ignored being addressed and brushed at his frock coat, he didn't like the man any better then Jack did.

Willy finally allowed his attention to return to the superiors. "No, he's currently protecting Sabina…Consuela has an interesting story for you all." He motioned for her to come up beside him and ignored the almost disgusted look on Katrina's face, she hadn't been fond of him since he was partnered up with Ichabod and he left her an interesting candy that glued her mouth shut. "It was a quiet day for Ichabod after that." He smirked at her. "We are going to need a team to back us up, maybe more after you hear the story." He waited for Consuela to finish her story.

Willy tapped his cane at the end of the story and waited for the superiors to whisper among themselves, Ichabod had been right it was enough but they were going to make him wait he could feel it in the air.

Tia Dalma stood brushing out her skirts. "We'll delegate and let you know our decision in an hour." With this she and the others returned to discussing the situation among each other.

"An hour will be too long, something is up I could feel it." Consuela startled not only the superiors with her outburst, but even Willy did a double take usually they could make anyone think twice about doing that, even Sands.

"Don't speak out of turn again girl." Tia Dalma's eyes narrowed in warning, Willy took the hint and dark look to heart slipping a gumming candy into a startled Consuela's mouth before she could again address them.

Willy ignored the surprised look when she realized she couldn't move her mouth. "Sorry about that." He grasped her wrist firmly and exited the main room. Once he had her outside the building and away from the prying eyes of the agency building the candy wore off. "It isn't wise to disagree or argue with them…we will get the help, but we have to wait otherwise they will make it much more difficult. You almost got us a longer wait." She attempted to say something but was ignored watching Willy walk down to the bottom of the steps and lean against the wall, he was thinking about what was going on with Ichabod and Sabina at the moment.

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Once outside 'Jazzy Bones' Sabina found herself relaxing a bit, something about the way Seth was acting sent off several of her warning bells but she couldn't put her finger on it. Ichabod also appeared to relax and leaned against the side of the crumbling entrance watching Stefan run off to get their transportation. "She's thinking about something." He placed a hand cautiously on her shoulder and watched her nearly jump out of her skin.

She whirled seeing Ichabod was just as startled and felt herself flush slightly. "Sorry…Seth gave me the creeps." He nodded understanding where she was coming from. "I don't get it, he's not evil and yet he isn't safe…I feel like my way of reading people is off somehow." She covered her face in frustration taking several more breaths.

She was aware of Ichabod more cautiously placing a hand on her shoulder this time. "You're not off about him…I can't put my finger on it either Sabina. I hope Willy gets some back up and soon." She nodded in agreement.

"Honestly…I would feel better if that backup was Sands and Jack, even if they have issues with each other." Ichabod couldn't help the brief smile and rose a brow at this. "Sands will shoot first, then worry about the questions after the fact…it feels like a good option right now." Both glanced up at the sound of a very annoying engine and saw Stefan drive up to the crumbling sidewalk across from the club. "In that?"

Stefan nodded staring at the pair; both were considerably pale after staring at his choice of vehicle. "Yes, this is my car…Consuela helped me find it, she has a thing for arachnids."

"Oh great." Sabina sighed miserably at the car, which was currently a massive imitation of a black widow spider with web like seats and other various webbed decorations including the tires which served as eight round spider legs. "At least it's not alive." She didn't sound so sure of that walking almost cautiously toward the car; Ichabod was also warily eyeing the contraption before them.

Sabina hesitantly hopped into the convertible car into the back finding the seats oddly comfortable even if the image of the car wasn't, Ichabod cautiously climb in the front and felt her hands lightly rest on his shoulders when she leaned forward to listen to Stefan's brief tour of the town. Stefan drove them around introducing various buildings, historical land marks and then started to explain into detail more so about the current situation of the town.

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--Story--

The town started to have the riff raff come from the woods, and mountains outside of Monster city when a group of powerful demons seemed to come into a lot of interesting trade. Soon they started to profit and gain right under their noses and now practically own monster city, those that stood up to these particular monsters began to vanish and that's where the rebels come into the picture. We somehow managed to contact the Dimensional agency which is why you got involved to begin with, the witch that helped us soon come up missing,

From what we've gathered the demon has been causing havoc and you're the first ones to get past the protection we set up, we realized getting the agency involved could be a bad thing when another of our connections came up missing, she was a specialist in vision seeking. According to what we gathered she found one of your Superiors and got some information that would have bee quite useful for whoever is in charge of this change in Monster City. When you three showed up Consuela and I knew that things would become a great deal more complicated and realized that somehow Seth got in the middle of the situation.

Seth isn't a bad guy, he just has a bad habit of doing things to get himself ahead in the town's clubs and other various aspects. He's basically a sneaky individual out for himself and yet does occasionally care for the consequences he causes, this is very rare for him so he might be involved and yet innocent as well. The rebellion has learned of your arrival and we are worried the head demon that is in charge is already set whatever plans he has in action.

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Ichabod was aware of Sabina's hands resting on his shoulders and tensing slightly in the middle of Stefan's rather long story, the town was one large massively oversized version of an undead Vegas and both of them knew that this situation had just become dangerous for them both.

She glanced between Stefan and Ichabod thoughtfully. "Did you friend mention that those bad demons, monsters and such might be chasing the agents from the dimensional agency through various periods, time warps, wormholes and the like?" Stefan kept his eyes locked on the death trap called a road, which was full of more crater like holes then she cared to recall.

Stefan nodded in response, Ichabod's eyes narrowed in thought at this. "So basically we've been being followed." She glanced at his face, seeing his hands were resting in a thoughtful fashion on his chin and arm. "They are after Sabina then." She let her hands slowly slip from his shoulders; this was the last thing she wanted to hear.

Ichabod turned seeing her troubled expression. "Why…I'm not exactly a super hero or anything of importance." She noticed the almost sad smile on Ichabod's face and rose her brow. "What?"

"You seem to put yourself down frequently Sabina…Tia Dalma said you were unique, you must have a special gift or two that you're overlooking." She shook her head and leaned back in the seat curling her knees under her chin and lowering her face into her knees, she knew better and him trying to help was making her a bit annoyed. "Sabina?" she shrugged ignoring him, Ichabod sensing something was off ignored the curious look Stefan offered him and stood sliding carefully into the back of the car, he fell rather ungracefully in the seat beside her but managed to quickly compose himself.

"You could have fallen out." She found herself looking up at the light bounce beside her.

"Stefan would have stopped." Ichabod smiled slightly at her frown before she ducked back into her arms. "Explain…you've proven your unique, considering most people wouldn't have come to our aid…most would have run to the nearest doctor for a check up." She shrugged again, she was proving to be almost as stubborn as Willy, luckily he was used to dealing with this issue. "You have things people wouldn't even consider learning of in your house; you've easily kept Willy in his place and helped us along the way. Why do you put yourself down so often and stop refusing to answer…I deal with Willy on a daily basis, I know ways around stubbornness." She glanced up at that her brows rose in a 'you think so' fashion.

"If I'm so special…why did my so called friends turn their back when my grandmother passed? Why the hell do I live alone and have no social life? I'm completely out in orbit; no one in their right mind could stand to be around me, or would want to be for that matter." She glanced ahead at the crumbling road watching Stefan halt at the end of town and go to turn back. "Stefan…there's another town." She pointed out seeing he had already turned away.

"Unless you feel the need to get chased with pitchforks, burned, maimed, and probably killed…we really don't want to leave city limits." Stefan noticed her and Ichabod both pause in their conversation and eye him curiously. "The whole village of people that chase monsters…live there." Sabina nodded already getting the point, Ichabod returned to prodding her again.

"First off…those aren't friends. A social life isn't always for everyone and if no one can stand or want to be around you, what do Willy and myself count for?" he noticed a faint smile curl at the corner of her mouth. "Alright…me at least, I know you and Willy mostly banter back and forth." Her smile grew at that, she sat up staring at him almost curiously. "She's still too nice for her own good and yet not always, she knows how to put people in their place."

She finally relented and allowed herself to meet his gaze. "Are you flirting with me Ichabod?" this caught him off guard, he had been trying to make her feel better and restore her confidence. To his surprise he had actually flirted with her in the process and wasn't aware of it until then, it was something he hadn't done in a very long time. "What's that?" Ichabod was briefly aware of a faint warming sensation around his face before Stefan stopped the car a few feet away from the club and saw several monsters enter into the building, none of them even remotely looked friendly.

"Some of the riff raff." Stefan turned off onto a side road in the city and drove to an area down near a black as midnight docking area, the water was oozing with a thick slime coating and almost green to look into. "That boat…is where we hold the meetings for the time being." Ichabod and Sabina both glanced over at the large wooden barge; it looked ready to sink to the bottom of the slime ridden water it currently was floating in.

"Pleasant." Ichabod could still feel the color in his cheeks, and saw Sabina was still studying him. He considered her gaze for a moment and said something that normally would never leave his mouth. "Maybe I am." She regarded him a bit thrown by his retort; this was definitely a side of Ichabod she had yet to see.

Stefan hopped from the vehicle and lead the pair slowly up a rotting dock, looking down Sabina reached over and locked herself around Ichabod's arm. She wasn't going to chance falling into the water and wasn't about to leave him alone with a bunch of strange monsters if she could help it.