Chapter 5,
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Dean was jolted awake by a knock at the door, forcing himself to stand up he stumbled his way to the door only to find Willow and Sam standing outside with take away bags and coffee. He stepped aside to let them in and was rewarded with a coffee thrust into his hand from his brother and a bright smile from Willow.

Sam placed the bags on the small table and gestured to his state of undress. Dean realised at that point he was standing at any open door in only his boxers and quickly slammed the door.

"I ran into Willow at the diner round the corner getting breakfast and she decided to join us and fill us in on the case." Sam supplied while digging into the bags of food and sharing it out onto some paper plates.

He grabbed his jeans from where they lay over the chair and motioned for Willow to sit down while he composed himself. He was embarrassed to be certain, but so far his state of dress had managed to render her speechless so he decided to chalk it up as a win.

All three of that sat and started to eat while knocking back their coffees, enjoying the peace quiet which allowed them to force down their mild hangovers.

"So" Willow supplied "I'm off to Texas, there's a Slayer there who needs some help with a nest of vamps, I can't get any of the senior Slayers away as they all have charges of their own, and she doesn't think she can handle it herself."

Dean swallowed his food, "how many in the nest?"

"She's guessing about a dozen, but that's too many for her to handle alone all at once. I can help out with floating stakes and whatnot but it would take us at least a fortnight to clear them out without arousing too much suspicion. We need our Slayers to remain as unknown as possible so their families aren't targeted. We've found it's generally easier to clear them up in one night but we need some more bodies, and I'd rather not risk another week of them on the prowl while we free people up and get them to Texas."

Sam looked worried, "sorry did you say stake?"

Willow looked confused for second before her face levelled out and her eyes shone. "Oh yeah, you guys deal with different types of Vamps. We deal with demonic vampires, they're basically the result of inbreeding between real demons and humans, you guys tend to deal with the other types, one ones who can go in the daylight and don't go poof."

"Poof?"

"Well yeah, dusted, no body or heads or blood to clean up. Our vampires work a bit different, beheading, staking through the heart with wood, fire, sunlight, it all works. But they are also stronger and faster."

Willow resumed eating and Dean looked concerned, "we've never faced Vampires like that before."

Willow put her food back down and offered him a smile, "they don't normally have weapons besides their teeth, and the only one we've ever met with magic was Dracula, so I think you'll be fine. Plus you have me at your back and a Vampire Slayer; it's kind of in their job description to kill these things."

Dean nodded and Sam looked at his him, "well, it's about a 20 hour drive to Texas, we can be there by tomorrow afternoon if we get going soon and just stop to sleep."

Willow smiled and balled up her empty food wrapped before placing it back in the bag. "So, I can take a wild guess and say we will not be taking my car?"

"That's right, we have an arsenal in ours, so grab what you need out of yours and we can find some secure parking."

"It's a rental actually so, why don't I get sorted out, grab my bags and you can follow me to the rental place by the airport?"

"Sounds like a plan," Sam followed Willow's empty wrapper with his own. "Give us half an hour, we have a little time before check out and we could both do with a shower."

"Well if you want, I've already had one so one of you can use mine. The sooner we get on the road the happier I will be."

Dean saw his brother start to stand, no way was he letting his brother get naked in her room. "Fine, let me grab some clothes and I'll pop over, you're in room 13 right?"

Willow grinned at him, "Yup, 3 doors down."

Willow walked back to her room and left the door unlocked so Dean could let himself in. She hastily closed her bag so her underwear wasn't visible and started gathering the rest of her things. God, 20 hours in a car with horny and hornier was going to be interesting, and she wasn't going to deny it, frustrating. She hadn't dated anyone since Kennedy and the odd one night stand had just left her feeling unfulfilled, it was difficult to connect with anyone in the council, and even harder to explain her life to someone outside the business. She'd probably end up back with Kennedy, or maybe Xander and her would fluke again. Who knew?

A knock at her door sounded before the door opened to let Dean enter. Ah there was that smile again, "Sam is packing up my stuff, if I leave my dirty stuff in the bag would you mind running it over to Sam so he can pack it up?"

"Sure, there's another towel in there and some shampoo if you need it."

"Thanks" and with that, he closed the door. She moved around straightening up the room and putting her bags together before she heard the shower start to run. A second later the door opened a crack and his head and a backpack popped round the corner, he threw her a wink and disappeared back behind the door.

"Right, well I'm finished packing to I'm going to take your bag and my stuff to your room, I'll take the key. Be back in a minute."

She heard a muffled acknowledgement through the door, grabbed the bags and started out into the car park only to be faced with the car unattended, no sign of Sam then. She awkwardly brought the bags over to the door to their room and knocked.

After a minute she heard a thud, cursing and then the door was finally pulled open. Sam stood in front of her with wet hair wearing only a towel round his waist. She stared at his chest; it was so toned and shiny and dripping wet. It took her a while to think back to when she had last seen a man who looked that good topless, before it dawned on her it was probably Angel when he lived in Sunnydale and would work out with Buffy. It was only then she realised it had been more than a few seconds, and she still hadn't said anything, she dragged her eyes up to his face, boy, he's tall, before stuttering out about the bags.

Sam offered her a lopsided smile and grabbed Dean's bag from her before her own two were taken out of her hand.

"No problem, let me finish up in the shower and I'll meet you by the car in ten okay?"

The noise that came out of her mouth couldn't be classed as a language but she assumed from his nodding and closing the door he understood what she meant. She stared at the door for another moment in a daze before returning to her room.

The shower was still running and she could hear some rock song being sung what she only hoped was out of key. Slumping at the table she decided to send a group text to Xander, Giles and Buffy to let them know she was heading to Texas with the Winchesters. She sent a second message to Buffy to let her know how they were both trying to charm her and unless she came and saved her she might let them. With that done she took another sip of her coffee. Whoever said women were bad in the morning clearly hadn't met these two.