season two: in which the council notices our heroes
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The ex-mummy is running. She's not super sure where she's running, because she's never been in this city before and she can't read any of the street signs, but for someone who hasn't gotten any exercise in five hundred years she's really remarkably fast.

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What's the thing that's after her, can he read its mind? He runs another red light. He tries to send the mummy instructions to the church. He sends the nearest Bureau strike team instructions to Karen.

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The thing that's after her is a human guy with a sword. He's mostly thinking about how he really really needs to stop the mummy before it hurts someone.

Ex-mummy doesn't go for the church; she turns, runs faster than a human should honestly be able to go, and ends up out of Alex's range.

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Understandable but not fantastic. Well, idiot with a sword, she wasn't hurting anyone ensconced in her room with the door locked and the windows sealed and a pint of ice cream. 

 

He keeps driving in the direction where he lost her.

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Karen's tracking Drusilla. At a certain point Wishbone stops, sniffing around in confusion. Apparently the trail ends in this... totally unremarkable random alley.

Karen looks up. Yep, terrifying-looking woman in a white dress and vamp face standing on the roof of one of the nearby buildings. That'll be her.

Karen fires her crossbow. She aims for the heart. Drusilla steps out of the way exactly as she fires, like she's able to predict these things down to the tenth of a second. Maybe she's just telegraphing things. Not everything has to be magic.

Drusilla leaps down to the street. There's no time to reload. Karen drops her crossbow and pulls out her stake.

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He slams on the brakes to watch anxiously - 

Where the fuck are you guys -

 

       We're five blocks away and closing in on her - is there a problem -

Every time the Slayer is near a vampire is a problem even though it is almost always a problem she will solve. 

       So she's located Drusilla.

That's right. 

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She attacks. She's aiming to kill. Drusilla does some combination dodge-deflect thing, and Karen's stake misses her completely. She moves into a different attack, but Drusilla's fingers are moving through the air now, tracing some kind of shape there, and -

- and -

- Karen drops her stake.

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Karen.

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KAREN.

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Karen is not super capable of thinking right now.

"Be in me," says Drusilla, fingers still tracing patterns in the air. "Naughty slayer stole our Spike away. Wicked, wicked slayer."

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YOU FUCKING MORONS WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU

- DRUSILLA HAS MIND CONTROL POWERS

JUST FUCKING SHOOT HER FROM FAR FAR AWAY

NOW
ARE YOU THERE YET

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Drusilla steps forward. She bites into Karen's neck. She pierces the skin and starts drinking her blood.

Karen makes a tiny, tiny sound, the barest token protest, but her arms are hanging limp at her sides. 

Her head tips back. The stars seem really bright tonight.

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He screams at her and everyone around really really really loudly.

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- and Wishbone takes a running leap and lodges his teeth in Drusilla's leg. He bites down as hard as he knows how. He strikes bone.

The vampire screams and drops Karen, flailing wildly in an attempt to get Wishbone off of her. "Bad dog! Bad! No, no, no!"

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Karen falls. Her head hits the pavement, hard, and she blacks out.

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This is - not helpful - he should instead - tell the neighbors to call 911 - tell the team where to find her - 

- he does that -

Michael get the mummy girl, there's a guy with a sword chasing her - 

He turns the car around.

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It takes Drusilla a moment to tear Wishbone off her leg. She throws him against the alley wall. He whimpers. He briefly considers trying to follow her as she runs away, but he's suddenly having a very hard time moving. He opens his eyes again and looks around for Karen.

 

She's bleeding.

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Told people to call an ambulance - I'll, uh, also call an ambulance - thank you - thank you - 

He calls an ambulance.

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Wishbone drags himself over to Karen and considers whether there's any way for him to apply pressure to her neck. He tries; it doesn't work very well. Not having opposable thumbs is kind of terrible sometimes.

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The Bureau gets there a bit later. Most of them race off searching for Drusilla but some of them do first aid for Karen until the paramedics arrive. And some try to calm all the alarmed neighbors who were woken by telepathic screaming.

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Drusilla is apparently weirdly good at hiding, for an insane sobbing vampire with an injured leg. She doesn't seem to be around here anywhere.

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He arrives about the same time as the paramedics. They take Karen to the hospital.

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Elsewhere in Sunnydale he limps around looking for a mummy or a swordsman out to kill the mummy.

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Ex-mummy is trembling on a park bench, looking around for someone with a sword. She seems to have lost him at some point.

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Hey. Are you okay?

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