Chapter Thirty-Six - Raid
Elizabeth tucked her coat to the side, unsheathing her trusty machete, strapped to her thigh.
Jody got her's from a duffel bag she'd brought.
"Alex?" She called out, heading for the bedroom. "Alex, come on, we gotta go!"
The sound of glass smashing and Alex screaming made the Sheriff jump.
Elizabeth Vamp sped to the door, but someone had blocked it.
"Damn it." She hissed through gritted teeth, ramming it with her shoulder and all her strength.
It tore the hinges from the door frame, the dresser that had been pushed in front of it crashed to the floor with a loud 'bang'.
"Alex!" The women yelled as the girl was dragged through the broken window by a man.
Elizabeth used all her abilities to run to the door, unlocking it and speeding out to the back of the cabin, where a truck was waiting.
"Let her go!" She growled, bearing her fangs.
"Well, well." The man holding a struggling Alex grinned. "Ain't you something new."
"New to you, maybe. Let her go." Elizabeth sneered.
Jody ran up behind her, only to be clothes-lined by another male Vampire hiding behind a tree. It took the Vampiress off guard, giving the Vampire with Alex time to shove her in the truck.
Elizabeth was split. She could either go after Alex or save Jody.
She chose Jody.
She ripped the Vampire off of her, but not before it knocked the Sheriff out cold.
Elizabeth threw him to the floor, wasting no time in beheading him just as the truck sped off.
She ran over to Jody, shoving her machete back in its sheath. She picked the woman up, slinging her over her shoulder and took her back inside.
It was morning by the time Jody came to.
The boys had turned up just as she opened her eyes and dizzily sat up on the couch.
Elizabeth Vamp sped over to the front door to open it before speeding back over to the Sheriff.
"Jody?" The boys called.
"We're in here." Elizabeth replied, crouched down by the couch, releasing a breath she didn't know she'd been holding. "She's only just come to. That Vamp hit her good."
"Are you okay?" Sam asked the concussed woman.
"Where's Alex?" Jody frowned.
Everyone's eyes landed on the Vampire, who sighed.
"They took her. You were about to get your throat ripped out so I had to make an executive decision – I chose you."
"You think they went back to the nest?" Dean asked the room.
"Of course they did. Why wouldn't they?" Sam shrugged. "Question is, what are they gunna do when they find their brother dead?"
"So we go back now." Dean nodded.
"Okay. I'm coming." Jody moved to get up, earning herself a small shove back onto the couch from Elizabeth.
"Hell no you don't. You can barely look at me straight." She protested.
"Yeah, hold on. You're hurt." Dean frowned.
"If it weren't for Elizabeth, you'd be dead." Sam concluded.
"I'm coming." Jody argued.
"We can handle the nest on our own." The younger brother told her.
"I don't give a fig about the nest," The Sheriff started, looking to the Vampire for some support. "That girl was under our protection."
"Okay, that girl can't be trusted." Dean said. "She was a lure. She's a honey trap. She's been feeding people to those Vamps."
"I don't care. Whatever she did, she did because they made her." Jody replied.
"Oh, and that's a reason?" Dean scoffed.
"She's a kid!" Jody raised her voice.
"Yeah, a kid who's been playing Vampire murder since before she was in braces." Dean countered.
"Jody, he's right. At best, her loyalties are screwed. Even with her trusting Elizabeth. It's just not enough on its own." Sam sighed.
"Boys." Elizabeth snapped, grabbing the room's attention. "She's not even a Vampire yet, but you're treating her like one."
"Not all monsters are supernatural, 'Liza." Dean's voice quietened. "Just like not all of the supernatural are monsters."
"Don't use my case against me. Especially when it's not bloody relevant. You didn't see her last night. The last thing she wanted to do was go back with them. She was trying to fight – to get away from them." Elizabeth spat.
"This isn't a rescue mission. It's a clean-up operation." Dean huffed.
The room fell uncomfortably silent.
"I'm coming." Jody spoke up, getting up. "If either one of you lays so much as a hand on Alex, you'll have to go through me."
Elizabeth's gaze watched as she left the cabin before it fell on the Winchesters.
"What she said." She shrugged, following her.
"Truck's in the drive way." Jody announced, walking back over to Elizabeth and the boys, who were arming themselves with the contents of the Impala's trunk.
"So we're walking right into it." Sam sighed, collecting a handful of syringes filled with dead man's blood.
"Well, we've faced worse odds." Dean commented.
"Jody!" Sam called as she started walking off towards the house.
"This is a raid." Dean informed her. "So tread lightly, stay close. Priority is clearing the nest. Alex comes second, you got it?"
Jody looked between the boys, then at Elizabeth, who sighed, shaking her head.
"Got it." The Sheriff huffed, walking off again.
The house wasn't that big. So they decided to stick together, entering through the back door with their machetes at the ready.
Dean entered first, followed by Elizabeth, then Jody and Sam.
The first rooms – the dining room, living and kitchen areas were clear. Even the downstairs bedroom was empty. There was a creek of floorboards coming from upstairs, so the brothers decided to investigate, silently instructing the girls to stay downstairs. Elizabeth glanced to Jody and rolled her eyes.
'Come on.' Elizabeth mouthed, tilting her head towards an area of the house they were yet to check out.
They both heard a girl's pained groans coming from somewhere in the house. Elizabeth tucked her hair behind her ear, getting a better sense of which direction it was coming from.
She pointing downwards.
The Vampire took the lead as soon as the found the basement door, moving down the stairs as silently as they could.
The cause of the groaning noises was Alex. She was laying on a dirty old bed, appearing to be cupping her jaw.
"Alex, come on." Jody urged, pulling her up. "Come on, honey."
"Go away." Alex mumbled into the sheets.
"We've gotta go!" The Sheriff hissed.
Alex looked up, revealing blood on her mouth - blood that wasn't her's.
"Crap..." Elizabeth sighed, going back to looking out for company.
"What did they do to you?" Jody gasped, cupping the girl's jaw.
"I'm sorry, Jody." Alex breathed. "She gave me no choice."
A woman came out of the shadows, coming at the Sheriff, but Elizabeth got there first, slicing off the arm she'd swung out to hit Jody with.
The woman screamed out in agony.
"She chose me!" She yelled, laughing manically through the pain.
"Kidnapping her is hardly her choosing now, is it?" Elizabeth shrugged, resting her machete blade on her shoulder as she circled the woman on her knees. "Did you really think we were just gunna let you go? Play your screwed up happy families?"
"It's too late now." Momma gasped out, a smile still prominent on her face.
"Hm, that's not exactly true though." The red head scrunched up her nose. "Because Vampires can be cured. Sure, it may not be easy sometimes, but it's definitely possible. And the answer," She crouched down next to her, tapping the blade of the machete on the woman's wound. "Is right on the end of that freshly made stump of yours."
The woman turned a shaky head in the direction of her severed arm, looking at the blood flowing from it.
"That's right, mamma. Your blood is just as much the cure as it is the disease." Elizabeth stood up, taking a deep breath. "You see," She continued walking circles around the sneering woman. "It's kinda like anti-venom. You've got to use the venom from the snake to cure the bite. I suppose Vampires are a little like snakes – the fangs are a bit on the nose, but it's the unpredictability that gets you. Like me, for example."
The woman looked up at Elizabeth, who grinned through a chuckle, bearing her fangs.
"You're a disgusting example to your kind." Momma hissed.
"Thank you." Elizabeth smiled, putting a hand over her heart. "That means a lot."
From upstairs, she could hear Sam and Dean had been captured and were in the process of taking a beating.
'They can take it.' Elizabeth thought. 'To think they wanted to come here alone. Morons.'
Meanwhile, Alex was getting a little too close to Jody for comfort. The girl took a deep breath, sniffing out Jody's blood.
"Alex, you hang in there for me. Don't go doing anything you'll regret." Elizabeth told her.
"You want me to get her out of here?" Jody asked.
"Not yet. We've got company upstairs and it's daylight. That's gunna sting like a bitch on her eyes. It'll do more harm than good." Elizabeth said.
Momma laughed again.
"As soon as my boys take care of yours upstairs, they're gunna come down here. Do you really think you can take both of them on, plus me? Do you think Alex'll thank you for it?"
Elizabeth crouched down by the woman's side again.
"I took out my entire nest once, single handed. Twenty of them. You and your boys? Please, I could do it bare-handed whilst feeding." She whispered.
The woman bore her full mouth of fangs, hissing at the red head as though she was going to be scared.
Elizabeth just laughed.
The sound of Sam's barely audible groans took her away from the current situation. What worried her more was that she couldn't hear Dean at all.
"If you'll excuse me, mumma. Looks like your sons are right on cue." She smiled bitter-sweetly before turning to Jody. "You got this? Those idiot boys need me."
"Go." Jody nodded, still hugging Alex tight.
Vamp speeding upstairs, Elizabeth moved too quickly for the Vampire brothers to even realise she was there before she'd beheaded one of them.
The remaining brother, who was in the process of draining Sam, growled in anger.
"Damn, that sucks. I hope he wasn't important to you." Elizabeth sighed, leaning against the living room door frame as she licked the blood from her machete, wincing at its bitter, Vampiric taste. She looked down seeing Dean with his eyes closed, but his heart rate was going too fast for him to be out cold – either he was faking unconsciousness or all those bacon double cheeseburgers had finally got the best of him.
"You killed my brother." The remaining Vamp sneered.
"I'm about to kill you." She shrugged. "Also, your mother's downstairs lacking an arm. I'm sure she'll be lacking a head soon enough, too."
The remaining brother went to charge, but as soon as he went to step over Dean, the older Winchester opened his eyes, plunging a syringe of dead man's blood into his leg.
The Vamp groaned out in pain, dropping to the floor.
Elizabeth took her chance, raising the machete above her head, only to swing it back down, taking the Vamp's head clean off.
"Good old Deanabeth team effort never fails." She smirked, helping Dean up.
"You're damn right." He grinned, bringing her in for a hug.
"It's fine. I'll just sit here trying to get some blood pumping back into my body." Sam groaned from a few feet away.
The pair separated, moving to untie the younger brother.
As Elizabeth took care of the duct tape round each foot, she dipped her finger in the bucket of blood the Vamps had collected from him.
"Mm. Sweet, dash of adrenaline." She critiqued.
Looking up, she saw the boys had stopped what they were doing to frown at her.
"What..? It's a waste of a bucket of blood." She shrugged.
"Get a doggie bag when we're done, come on." Dean sighed, just as the sound of Jody crying out in pain could be heard from the basement.
"Oh, crap." Elizabeth mumbled, scrambling to her feet.
"You almost had me for a sec there." Momma smirked, circling a chained up Jody. "Thought you and your Vamp friend were gunna get what you came for. But no..."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Elizabeth spoke up.
Momma turned around, seeing the Vampire between her and Alex.
Elizabeth held up her machete, showing the woman the amount of fresh blood on it.
"Your boys were way too easy. I hope you'll be more entertaining." She cocked a playful brow.
"You murdered my boys." The woman growled.
"Pest control." Elizabeth corrected. "Your boys were gunna murder mine." She looked down at Jody's leg, clearly broken. "You hurt my friend."
"You left a Human alone with a Vampire. What did you think was gunna happen?" Momma sneered.
"Fair enough." Elizabeth sighed. "Just know, you're definitely gunna die. Just as soon as you've cured Alex."
"You named her after someone." Jody realised, clearly having been thinking about this while Elizabeth kept the Vamp busy. Momma shot a glance between the three. "Was it your daughter? I couldn't figure out why you changed her name. I thought, maybe, you were ashamed of your theft, but you have no shame. You said I was using her to fill a hole in my life and, you're right. I am. You are too."
"Momma?" Alex whimpered, sitting back down on her bed.
"I guess it takes one to know one." Jody concluded.
"That Alex, she died a long time ago." Momma sighed, addressing her 'daughter'.
"And it still hurts." Jody said. "You still feel it – loss, pain, like a stone in your gut that hurts just a little bit less whenever she's near."
Something triggered inside Momma. She turned back to Jody, walking over.
Elizabeth was pretty sure she needed to be alive when Alex fed from her, she was conflicted as to what to do.
"You bitch." She said, only inches from Jody's face.
She reared up and got two licks in before Elizabeth grabbed her by the shoulders, throwing her back into the basement wall.
Out of nowhere, Alex lunged at her, burying a syringe of dead man's blood into her back.
Momma looked up at her, her eyes filled with betrayal.
"Alex..." She breathed as bloodshot veins formed up her chest, neck and face. "How could you? You are my girl..."
"I'm sorry, Momma." Alex whispered.
Elizabeth took the empty syringe from the girl, moving over to Momma. She stabbed the woman, retrieving enough blood for Alex to make the transition back to Human.
Jody limped over, grabbing Momma's thick, strawberry blonde curls, holding a machete to her throat.
"Don't watch this, sweetheart." She told the girl.
Elizabeth walked back over to her, resting a hand on her shoulder.
As Jody took the swing, Alex turned her body away and fell into Elizabeth. The Vampire hugged her tight, stroking her jet black hair soothingly.
"Nice work back there." Sam complimented his brother and Elizabeth back at Jody's cabin. "But... 'Deanabeth?'"
"Damn right." Elizabeth smirked, high-fiving the older brother.
"Don't you think that you're enjoying it... Maybe too much?" Sam hesitated. The pair looked at him, confused. "I mean... Dean, sure, whatever. But Elizabeth, considering you're having what you think are repressed memories resurfacing where you went on murder sprees..?" He trailed off.
"If they are repressed memories of me going on murder sprees, don't you think it's a good that all I've killed and wanted to kill for the past two and a half centuries is homicidal monsters?" Elizabeth cocked an eyebrow. "All I'm saying is that I'm not going all Jack the Ripper on any Humans any time soon. Or ever." Sam sighed, nodding his head. "But, should the highly unlikely event occur where I need putting down, I wouldn't want it to be anyone but you two. And if it's you, Dean. I want one of your crappy one liners to be the last thing I hear."
Dean chuckled.
"Well, that's not gunna happen. But your dying wish is my command." He smiled, leaning down to kiss her hair, seeing Jody hobbling her way over in a knee brace. "How's things at the station?"
"Oh, well... They beat Frank up pretty bad, but at least they left him alive." The Sheriff replied. "He kept apologising for spilling the beans about the cabin, but that one's on me."
"Speaking of apologies, um... We owe you a big one." Sam started, looking from Jody to Elizabeth as the Vampire untucked herself from under Dean's arm. "Both of you."
"We were wrong about the girl." Dean admitted.
"Yep. Yes, you were." Elizabeth nodded.
"No. You were right." Jody shook her head, earning a frown from the Vampire. "About me. My judgement was clouded. You know, working this case brought feelings back – feelings I've been trying to bury for years; buried it under work, religion, even dating... And we know how that turned out."
"Woah, there... What did I miss?" Elizabeth gave a breathy chuckle.
"Jody went on a date with Crowley." Dean casually dropped.
Elizabeth's eyes went huge.
"I'll give you the details in the car." Sam told her.
"I'm really sorry, Jody... Continue." Elizabeth bit her lip.
Jody gave a small laugh.
"It's all there, ya know?" She said. "Underneath. The grief. Dunno what that means for me, just that I've been fooling myself to think that I could ignore it. Anyway..." She smiled. "Thank you. For coming out, for curing Alex."
"You don't need to thank us." Sam spoke.
"Are you sure it'll work?" Jody asked.
"Well, speaking from experience, it'll be a rough couple of days, but she should pull through. You sure you don't want us to stay?" Dean offered.
"Na, I'm good." Jody smiled again.
"What's the plan for you and her, anyway?" Elizabeth frowned.
Jody shrugged.
"She needs me." She said. "And... I think I need her too."
Elizabeth smiled, walking over to hug the woman.
"You take care of each other, okay?"
"You got it. It's good to see you back, 'Lizabeth. And I hope you find the answers to your vision problem soon." The Sheriff smiled, hugging the Vampire's middle.
"Yeah. Me too." Elizabeth replied, parting from her. "Right, boys. You can tell me why I didn't know Dean was a Vampire once, whilst you're telling me about Jody and Crowley." She smirked, walking back to the Impala after picking up the bucket of Sam's blood from the floor.
"Have fun with that one." Jody laughed, hugging the brothers.
"I can't believe she kept all that blood..." Dean groaned. "If she gets that on my damn seats..."
"She said she didn't want my torture to be for nothing and for all that blood to go to waste when – quote; 'I'm right here and I'm bloody hungry – pun definitely intended'." Sam commented.
"That girl's certainly got a way with words." Jody shook her head, unable to keep the smile from her lips. "I'll see you boys soon."
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