I fastened my seat belt as soon as I was seated in the car. Nikki pretty much took the same action once she realized who'd be behind the wheel.
"As if our lives aren't dangerous enough already, let's add to the possibility of a gruesome death.", the Slayer quipped as she fiddled around with a stake. "Where exactly did you get your license to drive
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"I can't remember the last time I got an invite to this sort of thing." Slipping out of the van behind Abby, I decided to pull on my jacket..to keep the large .45 caliber gun out of obvious view. "Yeah, but she lives with a vamp. Maybe she is on a slayer sabbatical."
With a shrug I followd the group as we all piled into the lobby of the hotel. The old hotel door shutting with an audible thud behind us.
"No one home?"
Looking around the lobby there was no one in plain sight, didn't mean they weren't here. Quietly walking through the lobby I could sense so much pain here, so much grief. This was a sad place. I pulled myself up on the hotel desk, facing the rest of the team.
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I looked around. Nobody in plain sight.
I put my fingers in my mouth and pulled off a high pitched whistle.
I looked at the others.
"What?"
It's not like we were going commando or something. I mean, this WAS somewhere Cordy had spent some of her life...right?
"We could just continually ding the bell till someone comes...or it breaks...that sometimes works--or, you know...we also couldn't"
God they made me feel like a kid sometimes.
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"No one home?"Pffft, we're not THAT lucky ( ... )
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"Angel, Charles Gunn, Winifred Burkle and Corde--"
Glancing at the names on the cards as she read them the words 'Angel Investigations' caught my eye.
"Hmmm...what do we have here an investigation agency ran by a vampire..Sounds a little like us, not nearly as cool though.Nightstalker has a much better ring the Angel Investigations."
I slid off the desk and walked to the cabinet Abby had been looking in.Primitve is a word for it. Who hunts with an ax?
"Our toys are alot better too."
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The team name did tend to grow on you, no matter how much you want to hate it... I know I did at first. Now it's something I'm proud to call myself. A Nightstalker. Doing our part to keep the population of vampires and other things that go bump in the night in check. I just try not to think about how big or small that dent we make in the vamp populous is. If its big then that'll just lead to an inflated ego, which could result in carelessness and ultimately death. If the dent is small then that leads to hopelessness, and that's never a good thing.
"Our toys are alot better too."I nodded in agreement and was suddenly extremely thankful for Mic. Not that I don't appreciate all of the Stalkers, 'cause I do, but without Mic...we'd probably be out there with rocks and sticks. Well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but still ( ... )
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"Yeah, not so helpless. We are looking for your boss, Angel." I turned to Nikki "Did you meet this one?"
Looking at Nikki I could tell this had to be the girl she was talking about from earlier. She didn't look thrilled to be greeted by the ever bubbly young girl.
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Great, show the geek inside why don't you.
I butted infront of Nikki.
"We met her, it's cool. So Dawn, this is our 'others' and the adults want to talk to Angel, lord knows why"
She looked slightly perplexed.
"Uh...I know this invasion looking but it's not, really, you'd know about it if we wanted to come raid the place, especially with my sister"
I smiled at Nikki but got no reaction back. Ah...okay, not in a good mood then.
"So, not really helpless but you can help us"
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"Ok so aside from you, the vampire and the slayer..what else we have going on here? Honestly, I am a little surprised to see that you are here alone."
Sitting down next to Nikki I rolled my eyes. The more I hear, the more I am starting to dislike this place. Now I can see why Nikki had no interest in coming here.
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I looked at the host of weapons on the wall and grinned to myself.
"Cool"
The room was quiet and I turned round and everyone was looking at me.
"What?"
It was! look at all the shiny sharp things with handles and stuff. It was like vampire slayer heaven...but with more death.
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I looked over to the girl who said that. She seemed shocked about it. Which I guess if its a first time hearing that it could sound a little weird.
"Okay well I take it you guys all fight vampires. I know Nikki over there is a slayer. But I get the feeling you guys aren't. That's not an insult. It's just after slayers start to pile up in here it comes easier to tell who is and who isn't. This is kinda a slayer housing school type deal."
"Ok so aside from you, the vampire and the slayer..what else we have going on here? Honestly, I am a little surprised to see that you are here alone."I turned my attention to the other girl who asked what we did here. Or had going on ( ... )
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"Okay well I take it you guys all fight vampires. I know Nikki over there is a slayer. But I get the feeling you guys aren't. That's not an insult. It's just after slayers start to pile up in here it comes easier to tell who is and who isn't. This is kinda a slayer housing school type deal."
"No, not Slayers, but we do our part keeping the vampire population down."
My attention drifted over to King as he took interest in, what else, a wall-o-weapons. Yeah, the guy's easy to please. You can always count on him to retain his...'King-ness' no matter what the situation was.
"The better stuff is in the basement."Better ( ... )
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"He still is a vampire right?" Looking around the room I made eye contact with King "Since when did they start making that variety of vampire, the kind with a soul?"
Vampire and soul really had no right being in the same sentence. Sure he was working with a slayer, this might imply that he has good intentions, but you can not change what you are. This is proving to be a more difficult adventure then I had planned.
"So Dawn, can you tell us anything about the law firm, Wolfram & Hart? Or... who can tell us, if you can't?"
If anyone else was here, they weren't coming to check on her. I found that a little unsettling, if we were anyone else she might have been hurt by now. Really what kind of team is this, they all run off into the night, no way to communicate, leaving this young frail looking girl behind to keep watch. I was happy to have found Abby and King before this mess.
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I snorted, thankfully not too loud.
What, it was funny.
"So Dawn, can you tell us anything about the law firm, Wolfram & Hart? Or... who can tell us, if you can't?"I looked at Jac ( ... )
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