Disclaimers: Please see Part One
Sunday, July 12, 2015

A/N: Not betaed but it will be sent to my beta for editing.

Fire

Boston Is Burning

Part 49

Dawn watched as Buffy seemed to drift over to the young police officer. He was handsome enough she supposed and clearly able to defend himself against most threats. It was still too early to know if he would hold up under their type of battle but she had a feeling he would do well enough. To say this entire situation was bizarre was an understatement of massive proportions. She wondered how freaked out Xander was going to be and how pissed off? Well he would have to deal with it. Buffy was their leader and he should trust her by now. Of course her being interested in a new guy was not going to help. It hardly mattered that Xander appeared to have moved on to Renee. She knew he still longed for his sister the fool. She just hoped it would not cause issues she was kind of sick of his idiocy. She loved the boy like a brother now but he could be stubborn. She texted him asking for updates. Hopefully they would soon find a patter to track these bastards down and end them.

The group spoke and worked on theories when suddenly there were explosions outside. They ran to the windows only to see their limo engulfed in flames.

"Get down." Frost called in shock as he saw several people with rocket launchers grinning at him as they pulled the triggers.

Explosions rocked the mansion as they hit.

"What the hell!" Faith shouted not quit believing someone would dare attack the master of the city in broad daylight. Then again it did make sense as he could not run out and kick their asses as the sun was still in the sky even if twilight was falling now.

"Follow me we need to evacuate." Luke shouted. He called to his butler to get his human employees out. "Everyone out he shouted Evacuation plan delta we use the tunnels."

The lights flickered then went out and the emergency ones went on.

"We got to get out now. Follow me." He ran to a wall and pulled out a book the fireplace moved out of the way."

"Wow cool just like the movies." Emma said with a grin. It might be scary and the building may be coming down around them but the youngster found the idea of secret passages cool.

Maura could not believe what she was hearing. However Jane had a grin on her face despite the situation. This kid had guts. She would make a fine Rizzoli and she was certain that movie nights would be a lot better now. I mean with a kid that had to mean they get out of some of the more exotic films Maura liked. Jane love Maura with all her heart and soul but she sometime just had poor taste in movies. Chick Flicks she could deal with the imports in French not so much. She spotted a timber burning and falling and dove to pull Frost out of the way. It was a near thing. Better get my head back in the game.

The rockets flew by the dozens as did the spray of gun fire.

"Come on I hear Sirens it's time to split."

"We have to be sure we ended them." The second shouted even as the house began to burn. Its wards were designed to keep our magic users and while it had been updated to fight human weapons they would not withstand the firepower thrown at it. Gasoline bottles were tossed in to help the fire along.

"We aren't supposed to kill the bastard. That's just bonus if we do. This is a message Pete we got to go I'm not dealing with the cops. Stay if you want. I'm out of here."

"Ok ok Stan I'm with you it just be nice to know the vamps dust is all. Be great if we got the bitches too."

"Yeah well they aren't coming out the front. Jolly and Jasper are in the rear they might have got them. In any case we have to bug out."

"Yeah yeah I hate this hit and run bullshit. Oh well for now it will have to do. Pete you ready?"

His friend rolled his eyes as their companions came running from the back. "No sign of them they had to have another way out and we got incoming."

"Ok let's go." Stan said as he muttered a spell under his breath with the recent sacrifices they had magic enough to hide in plain sight. This would make life a lot simpler. They easily drove by the incoming police and fire departments which saw only a school bus full of children and waved them away eager to get innocents out of harm's way. The fools so easily deceived.

The tunnels under his home were extensive and lead to the underground of Boston. Most had been built when the city was young and new were a part of the old smugglers road. He had helped build them so Luke knew them well. He was leading his people and the council members to safety even as he vowed those who had attacked his home would feel his wrath. He had promised safety and someone mocked that they would pay. He was just glad Caylin had managed to catch his hand and he held it. Her warmth a reassurance she was safe with him. He couldn't would not lose her. Of course this attack reminded him that even he a vampire could be ended. It was something to think about with care. Perhaps turning her would not be a good idea as she have his weaknesses. As a human she could have run outside of course given the gunfire that would have been as deadly as the sun but it gave options and that was important too.

"B this is starting to piss me off." Faith said.

"I know we have to find these assholes." Buffy said shocking everyone with her language.

"Buffy really is swearing needed." Giles said.

"Hell yeah it is."Jane said for the first time liking Buffy and Faith. They got it. Bad guys had to go down.

Buffy grinned maybe they could work with the BPD detective and her team yet.

"I agree with Mr. Giles there is no need for foul words."Maura said.

"Darling as much as I love you this bullshit has to be ended before it kills us and our allies. Buffy and her companions and Jane are right and crude or not they make a point."

Maura looked on in shock her mother never swore but she was now and it was clearly aimed at their attackers and her father seemed to find it amusing. The world was certainly going insane when the Isles swore like sailors.

Doyle smirked and Faith winked at him. Maybe the Brahman were human after all.

TBC….

Disclaimers: Please see Part One
Sunday, July 19, 2015

A/N: Not betaed but it will be sent to my beta for editing.

Fire

Boston Is Burning

Part 50

Alexandria Cabot was sitting in the living room of her park avenue apartment reading over the files sent over by both SUV and Homicide on all the cases of missing and murdered girls and teenagers. She looked up and noted Olivia and Elliot were both deeply engrossed in their files. Dr. Wong looked angry but resolute. Under normal circumstances this would be against procedure but given the news she had gotten from her "Uncle" she had decided it would be best to keep this case under the radar. Her home was one of the most secure and as she lived alone with the exception of her cat Mason she was certain it was the best place to explore the files and come up with a way to look into this massive conspiracy. She nibbled a piece of pizza which was not cold but it gave her something to do for the moment and distracted her from the files she was reading. Her phone rang.

"Alex turn on the television on channel 7." Her father said his voice was shaking.

"Father what is wrong?"

"Alex just do it."

She flipped on the large screen TV and paled.

"Breaking News from Boston there has been a terrorist attack once more on our fair city. Several armed men attacked the home of a notable Bostonian today. They fired Rockets and Firebombed his historic home."

"What the hell!" Alex said angry and jumping to her feet. Her phone rang again.

"Alex we are alive and safe. I cannot reveal our location at this time. However myself and our allies are secure. Do not fret we will deal with the ones who dared bomb my home and make a mockery of the protection I offered my guests. Stay safe and if possible get your parents out of the country. I will not tell you to do the same as I know you would refuse but please be careful. I have to go." The phone went dead.

"Damn it." Alex quickly dialed the Boston Police department. She knew it was up to her to let them know their people were safe. Damn this was so going to be a bitch to explain. She dialed BPD and texted her father encouraging him to get the jet ready and take her mother to Paris.

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Maura texted Susie not wanting the tech to worry she would panic if they did not check in. She also wanted her to take extra care this looked like it was going to get bad quickly. They needed help and perhaps some back up.

Susie Chang read her mentor's text and frowned she then decided they needed help. With that thought in mind she sent a forward text to all of the departments she was inquiring to. They had to be warned and maybe they could offer some insight and support. She never considered several would consider this an SOS and come to Boston to help fight the darkness.

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"Horatio we got a problem. Someone has attacked Boston again and they bombed one of the leading heads. The issue is that the lead investigators and the chief medical examiner were visiting at the time. Someone may be trying to stop the investigation on these deaths." Alec said. She looked worried and that worried her boss. "I just got a text from Susie Chang. There was an attempt on Dr. Isles and Detective Rizzoli's lives along with several other key people in this investigation."

"Yes it could be an issue. We do need to speak with Dr. Isles and Senior criminologist Chang about possible connections. I think maybe it would be a good idea for someone to fly to Boston and check this out." Horatio Cane said he looked angry and worried.

"I'd like to go. I met Dr. Isles a few years ago and her insights might help with this case." Alec said "I can afford the ticket."

"All right but I am not sure I can get authorization to pay for the flight." Horatio said he fully intended to fly on his own dime. He did not want to jump through hoops to get this approved and lord knows he had more than enough vacation time.

"I'm in." Callie said. "You will need strong back up. Don't worry I can get my own ticket. I have plenty of miles." She had a lot of frequent flyer miles and plenty of vacation time. Hell given her recent sales of custom work on her weapons she could easily afford to buy the ticket our right.

"Yeah H I'm going too." Eric said. "Money not an issue, we have to find a way to bring justice to these girls." He was thinking about his sister and how she had died. H would get it. Besides Marisole would have approved of him using the money she left him to help solve these crimes and maybe prevent some other girl from being killed.

"We can't all leave." Horatio said. As Ryan Wolfe was about to speak up and volunteer he sighed and instead said. "I'll hold down the fort here and maybe see if any other departments have news. I know some of the people out in L.A. and Las Vegas they might have some leads."

"Thank you Mr. Wolfe. Everyone head home and pack. I will order tickets for all of us. I will text you with the flight number and time. It will be the first one out so we should all get a move on.

They all nodded and headed to gather their things. Their counterparts in Boston needed them and they would be there.

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The NCIS team heard the alert about the attack on Boston and they were grabbing their go bags before the director could order them out. Gibbs smiled proud of his team and the Director merely shook his head and said. "Keep them safe Gibbs. Parnell is joining you along with the BIU team. This has just become a joint taskforce."

"Yes sir at least we will get there quick with the BIU plane. I plan on keeping them all safe sir." He said following them out. He did not seem happy about the joint task force but he would deal with it. He just wanted to keep Ducky out of the line of fire. Well at least Parnell was going along he could help with deflection of attention on his ME.

Less than ten minutes later they were heading for the airport and the BIU plane.

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"What the hell. Boston been attacked Grisham. We need to go help them." Catherine Willows said She was not really angry this case was making her sick and it had just gotten really personal as she considered Susie a good friend and she knew she would be devastated if Dr. Isle was hurt or worse not to mention the fact that it looked like the BPD was onto something in this massive case and someone was trying to silence them. That was so not going to be allowed.

"I know I have already put in for vacation for you and me. I knew you would want to go. I can spring for tickets." Grisham knew Catherine was raising her daughter on her own and likely might not be able to afford a last minute plane ticket.

Catherine sighed and then said. "It won't be necessary Sam has a plane waiting to take us and the team if they want to go. He somehow learned about this and he is pissed. Someone been killing in his town and he is not happy about it. So he wants to help. We have the plane and rooms at the Ritz."

Grisham looked shocked that Catherine was allowing this. She was working on a relationship with her father Sam but it was only just getting to the civil and perhaps cordial stages. That she would allow him to do this was a shock.

"Yeah I know but it's the fastest way and the best way to get us there and we need a place to stay. He has also agreed to pay for anyone else who comes in to help. He said there will be a car waiting for us as well. So let's get going. Sam is keeping mum and Lindsey for me at his place due to security concerns he has. I have to agree with him this time. He also gave me the name of a contact there. Patrick Doyle. So we should have some leads to help the BPD with. So who else is going?"

"I am." Warrick said.

"Brass and I will hold down the fort here." Nick Stokes said. Someone has to Catherine and I know Warrick won't let you go alone."

The tall African man glared at his best friend. Yes he was falling for Catherine but he still had a long way to go in straightening out his life before he was ready for a relationship. He just hated that Nick spilled the beans.

"Yeah well someone has to watch their backs."Warrick said.

Taking pity on her friend Catherine said. "Yeah ok then, but so help me if either of you break the coffee machine there will be hell to pay."

They laughed at her and then grew sober as it was clear she was not joking.

"Ah ok, we will treat it like a baby." Nick said.

Catherine nodded and headed to the locker room to grab her bag. They had a flight to catch.

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In New Orleans several teams moved quietly down a back street. It was the old quarter where the voodoo queens still ruled. They were here to secure aid in against the slayers. Two watchers entered the darkened black temple. They felt a wave of power rush over them.

"So do you have it witch?"

"Yes white boy I do. Now show me the green."

With wariness the watcher set a case on the table and opened it. Inside was 20000 dollars. The black witch queen smiled and took it handing over several dolls framed to represent the slayers and their allies all with items taken from them to ensure the dolls worked. It had been costly to obtain the items and even more so to find this witch. Most of those in the dark arts feared the council and the Red Witch. However this one seemed eager to damage the strongest witch in the Americas.

The nearest watcher grinned and poked a pin into the doll representing Willow Rosenberg. She was their strongest magic user and she had to be slowed down.

The doll bleed black and red blood as the pin entered her head.

In Boston Willow was helping everyone get comfortable when suddenly she cried out and buckled over blood coming from her nose and mouth. She felt like a spike had been driven through her skull.

"Willow ok my goddess." Kennedy shouted and ran to her side as she fell to the ground screaming in pain.

The Voodoo queen laughed and danced then slipped away none of the watchers realized they had just been played by a vampire seer. Drucilla would make them pay for stealing her pet and daddy and turning them to good and costing them their un-lives. Stupid watchers made it only to easy to attack the protectors of the human world fools.

TBC….

Disclaimers: Please see Part One
Sunday, July 19, 2015

A/N: Not betaed but it will be sent to my beta for editing.

Fire

Boston Is Burning

Part 51

"Miss Edith the witch screams oh how pretty." Drucilla laughed as she danced in the darkened crypt. It had been oh so easy to trick the watchers. They had expected to see an African Voodoo Witch so a simple glamour and she was that and they paid oh so well for the privilege of attacking the White Witch. Dru hated the people from Sunnydale as they had stolen her daddy and her prince of darkness. They had twisted the two best of House Aurlus into the champions that ended all but her un-lives. She was the last of the line as Angel and Spike had killed all the others. Even Sam was dead as he had tried to gain revenge on Angel. However the souled vampire had dusted his only childe created after his soul. It seemed that even if he had a soul he still sired only evil. She hated that Angel had ended their proud line and Spike, Spike hurt even more as he had sought out his soul for that tramp of a slayer. Her lovely Spike who had once killed two slayers both oh so much more than Buffy Summers, she deeply regretted wanting to bag a third slayer now. However the watchers wanted things to go back to as they had been and so did she. That however did not mean she would not charge them heavily for her help. After all she had a family to rebuild and needed funds to buy safe houses. Places she could ward well as her homes for her and her childer. It was perhaps past time she let go of her lusts and longing for her daddy and Spike. It was time to begin again an new branch of the Aurelus was about to rise.

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The group had rejoined the other members of their team including the detectives and Doyle they were getting ready to plan their next actions when the attack on Willow happened. It came out of nowhere and it seemed to be random.

Blood poured down Willow's face as stab wounds appeared on her body. The Watchers hit the doll several times then stopped. No point in making the witches death quick. Willow was caught as she fell by her beloved who swept her up bridal style and carried her to couch. "We need a doctor."

In her panic Kennedy forgot she had two present. However Maura or Hope did not forget they were doctors they ran to her side and began to help Willow.

"Let us look at her." Hope commanded.

Kennedy froze and stood protectively over Willow until Buffy and Faith came to her side.

"Hey Ken let my sis and her mum check out Red. They are doctors remember." Faith said softly knowing that Kennedy would be hyper protective of Willow.

Kennedy looked up panic clearly showing on her face. However it was clear that Faith had managed to get through to her and she set Willow down allowing the doctors to come close enough to examine the witch and to perhaps help. She stepped back as they needed room to work. However she did not go far and it was more than clear to everyone she was hyper alert.

Frankie watched the scene with unease. He had felt something but had no idea what it was then he has seen Willow start screaming. He noticed the others had not felt a thing well perhaps Doyle had as he had stiffened but it was clear he too had no idea what had happened and that he was clearly not the cause.

"What happened?" Frost asked clearly concerned. "It's like she was hit with something."

"I believe she was detective." Doyle "I felt something but I don't know what it was. It was hot and moved over us."

"Yeah that describes it perfectly like a wave of warm water or blast of heat." Frankie said. "I never felt anything like it. It was oily and dark."

"Some sort of magical attack then one aimed at taking Willow down and perhaps out. She is our strongest magic user and the one most likely to be able to track those doing these attacks by magical means. If she is injured or worse we would have to find them by differing means." Buffy said clearly worried.

"Well we planned on that anyway, it's what we do so whoever did this will be in for a nasty surprise." Jane said looking angry. She did not like this. It was the kind of attack one could not fight. It felt way to much like a sucker punch for her. She noted that Frankie moved closer to Buffy as if to protect her. She wondered about that as it had been a long time since he had dated anyone and she was not really sure the Slayer queen was a good choice. Then again given her past record before getting lucky with Maura she had no real room to talk.

"We need to set up some protective wards." Doyle said. "I could use some help with that."

"We will help you." Dracula said. "What we could be attacked as well. While we may not have been allies in the past for now we are and it is in all our interests to look out for each other. Someone is clearly up the stakes no pun intended and I for one want my family safe."

"He has a point." Jane said shocking everyone. "So far he and Luke have been up front with us. We do need to work together so what can we do to help?"

"Mojo not really our thing, it never been something I have done a lot of." Faith admitted.

Doyle frowned at that he knew Faith had power and he supposed it made sense she did not use it if she had no idea it was there. "I'll show you some basic protections spells."

"Buffy can you help?" Frost asked not sure he totally trusted Doyle.

"Yeah, though like Faith Magic's never been my strongest suit. I tend to be more hit the bad guy and stand guard type but I have done one or two protection spells. I guess we need to make the blood based to be strong enough to keep us all secure."

"Well as long as it's not my blood." Dawn said with a smirk.

"Yeah like we don't have enough issues little D, we can use mine." Faith offered."Oddly enough she trusted Doyle to not harm her. She also wanted him to know it. It seemed to her he deserved a chance. Then again maybe she just wanted a father?

Buffy frowned but did not stop her. It was Faith's choice. She kind of understood where she was coming from.

Maura and Hope worked on checking Willow over. "I don't see any signs of her having a stroke or anything similar?" Hope said clearly confused.

"It almost seemed like she was stabbed." Maura offered. She helped peel back Willow shirt and noticed the deep wounds. "These definitely look like stab wounds and they look infected."

"Yes we need to get her to medical facilities and clean them. Perhaps some antibiotics would help as well. However for now I guess all we can do is bandage them and wait for help." Hope said. "Call for an ambulance."

"Yes that's a good idea." Maura said as she pulled her phone out and did just that a little worried on how they would explain this one.

"Faith your blood," Doyle said "I can use it as a barrier."

"Ok, here you go." Faith said cutting her hand and allowing some to fall into a small ash tray they found."I hope this will work."

"It will." Doyle said taking the blood and then dribbling it around the doors and windows. The barrier it made would be some protections but he knew they needed to get behind strong wards soon. They were to in the open right now.

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The Demons were not happy the various attacks had killed a lot of them. Most were peaceful and the day care had been a community project to let those that worked together gather in peace and foster good relations. They like humans had their own issues to work out and they had decided that if their young were friends then perhaps the issues of the past could be avoided. However the watchers had killed not caring that those they injured were children and peaceful the families rage burned and they would soon make the humans pay.

TBC…..