Fallen Angels

Currently this girl was being brought in by the police to a local jail. She tries to run, but it's no use.

"Alright missy, calm down!"

"Let me go!"

"Calm down!"

"Let me out!"

"Hey Frank, someone smashed the front window over at Dawson's Hardware...possible B&E. Need you to check it out."

"Yeah copy that, but the bullpen's empty, and I got someone in holding."

"Sheriff's heading to the station now. They won't be alone long."

"Roger that. I'm heading out."

"Hey, don't leave me. Please."

He does end up leaving, and she's there alone. Hours later a door closes and she gets up to check it out, but it's not the officer.

"Cody."

"There you are, girl."

"How did you find me?"

"Come on. You don't really need to ask that, do you?"

"A-are the others with you?"

"Everyone was off on a hunt when I'd realized you'd run away. Figured I'd do you and them a favor and come take care of this before they even know we're gone."

"You can't get me in here."

He just chuckles and holds up the keys. He unlocks the door and walks inside.

"Cop sure was in a hurry to check out that 'B&E' I faked. Barely even saw me coming. I keep telling you...you can run and you can hide, but we will always find you."

He then bares his teeth before Jody shows up and beheads him. The next day, that's when we show up, because she called us.

"You three are a sight."

"Jody. How's the shoulder?"

"Eh, only aches when it rains. How've you three been?"

"Peachy."

"Great."

"Touch and go."

"I know the feeling."

"So, what you got for us?"

She opens the car trunk and we see the beheaded kid. We make sure no one is looking and Sam checks to see if it's a vamp.

"Yeah uh, that's a vamp alright."

"I don't know Sammy. Looks like Jody might not need our help anymore."

"Oh, they grow up too fast."

"Don't they?"

"Yeah, joke all you want. There's more where this came from."

"More?"

"My men brought in a runaway last night. There's no I.D. on her...nothing on her actually, except for a bus ticket out of Nebraska. Total Jane Doe. She won't even give me her name. Girl's basically feral. She's got zero manners, didn't even thank me for saving her. Anyhow, this thing went to plenty of trouble to get at her. And to her him tell it, the 'others' will want her at least as bad as he did."

"Sounds like a nest."

"Pretty much."

"Yeah."

"Nest? I'm guessing that's not half as cute and cozy as it sounds."

"Oh, I'm afraid not."

"It's bad, basically. But where is this girl?"

"Inside, I'll take you to her." She nods and walks to the station and we follow.

When we get there, she's put in a room.

"So gonna do a fang check on her just to be sure?"

"Safest way to go before questioning her."

I nod and we go in and introduce ourselves before Sam starts the fang check.

"Wilson, Fisher and Barnes? You three are FBI, then I'm Taylor Swift. That wasn't a dental I.D. It was a fang check. You're hunters."

"And you're alive because, uh hunters trained the sheriff. I think the first words out of your mouth should be a thank you. So, who were you to this vamp anyway? Hmm? What's so special about you? Is there a nest?"

"Sorry to interrupt. We got a match on her DNA." Jody says as she comes in for a second and we follow her out.

"Annie Jones. Reported abducted outside of Kenosha in '06. Raised by an elderly grandparent. No living kin. You think the vamps are the ones who took her?"

"Eight years is a long time for a human to live with vampires without getting killed or turned."

"You're the experts, but there was something...familiar about the way this vamp talked to her."

"Jody's right. And she had scars on her neck, feeding scars. Uh...they're layered, as if they'd been built on for years."

"So she's a blood slave. We've seen it before...vampires keeping people as pets, human feedbags. Sometimes these slaves..."

"...stay loyal to their captors." Sam finishes.

"Right." I nod.

"So...this girl's not talking 'cause she's got a case of what? Vampiric stockholm syndrome?"

"She's protecting the nest."

"So, you feel a debt. They gave you a home, raised you."

"Annie, we get it. Loyalty is a very powerful thing."

"My name is Alex."

"No, it's not."

"It's Annie." I state.

"Annie Jones." Sam adds.

"Those vampires stole you. They're monsters Annie."

"Alex."

"And they didn't love you. They loved your blood. They fed on you."

"I fed them. My choice. My brothers...they brought me food when I was hungry. So when they struck out on a hunt, I fed them. They're my family."

"Okay, you care about them, but, Alex...there's a reason you decided to run away."

"It was time...to move on and get out on my own."

"And how do you think that decision is gonna sit with the rest of the nest? One of them already pursued you. You think when the rest of them find out that you left, that they're just gonna shrug and cut their losses?"

"You lived with them for years. They've tasted your blood. They have you scent down cold. I mean, how far can you run and for how long?"

"Can't be too much longer." I add.

"You didn't think this out, did you? What would happen, who might get hurt...your uh, 'brother' for one."

"His name's Cody. And she killed him."

"Because of a choice you made. These are the consequences."

"You got two options...them or you. And we can help you. We can keep you safe. But you have to help us."

"Where's the nest?"

"I can't. After what's happened...mama finds me, she'll kill me."

"Mills, you okay?"

"No wonder she didn't thank me. That creep was her brother. I'm fine. You know, mostly I'm just...hung up on the name. Alex and Annie...they're so close already. Why'd they change it?"

"Who knows."

"Okay, so we know from her ticket that Alex hopped a bus out of O'Neill, Nebraska right? Obviously, it'd be better to go in with a firm location, but the town ain't that big. There are no caves or other natural hiding places."

"Alright, so go in, canvass it cold."

"Well, I worked together a short list of possible nest locations. Uh, there's an empty fire station, four or five derelict homes. Nothing we couldn't hit in a day."

"Okay. You sure you're alright to babysit by yourself?"

"Oh, well, girl's a flight risk, not exactly friendly, but I think I can handle babysitting detail."

"The station's been made. It might be worth heading upwind for a while. I mean, vamps are trackers."

"Terrific."

"Yeah."

"Well, I've got an old family cabin outside of town."

"That'll work."

"Okay. Well, shouldn't raise too many eyebrows, me being gone for a day."

"Maybe, but you uh, sure you don't want backup?"

"You want me to enlist my men in a protection detail against vampires? Frank's still in the dark about what hit him last night. The guy still has nightmares about the barn episode of 'Walking Dead'. They're good cops. They're not ready for this."

"Jody, in your late night reading, did you ever come across anything about dead man's blood? It takes vamps down like a horse tranq."

"I wuold not say not to some of that. I mean, not that I'll need it. You guys are gonna get the jump on these vamps and be back here before they even realize their kin's missing, right?"

We nod before walking out. In the meantime in Nebraska, a woman who works at the bus station had just locked up and walked to her car to go home for the night.

"Well it's not my fault. Well, Ralph didn't show up for work today. I had to pull a double shift. I'll be home soon." She hangs up her phone.

Before she could even unlock her car, she was approached by someone.

"Connor, you scare the..."

"...I'm sorry. I shouldn't have snuck up on you like that. It's just, you haven't seen Alex around, have you?"

"Uh, your sister. No, I can't say I have. Sorry."

"Huh. So you didn't sell her a bus ticket out of town?"

"Did I help your shut-in kid sister get away from her weird, scary-ass squatter family? Answer's still no."

"So you're saying Ralph lied to us? 'Cause he said...that you sold her a ticket...right before we killed him."

She then turns and starts to run away from them, and they do follow her. But before she could get oo far, this woman stopped her.

"You calling my family weird? Oh, honey, you have no idea." She says before she bares her fangs and the younger woman gets killed.

In the meantime, Jody had just made it to her family cabin where she would be staying with Alex until it was safe.

"What? Too rustic for your taste? Well, I have a lot of great memories. Used to come up here all the time...first as a kid with my parents and then with my...anyhow, it's a lot nicer than it looks from the outside. F.Y.I....the woods around here...really easy to get lost in if you don't know your way around. Me...I know them like the back of my hand."

"I got it. Don't try running. You won't get far."

Once they got settled, Jody was getting food out to make something to eat, leaving Alex to walk around and explore the cabin a bit.

"You know this doesn't work right?" Alex says about the cross on the wall. "On vampires? It's useless."

"That's not why I have it."

"This your family?"

"Yes."

"Where are they? Oh. Dead."

"You know, there are about a thousand more polite ways you could say that. I'll give you a pass on account of the whole raised-by-monsters thing."

"How'd they die?"

"Horribly. You must be exhausted. I know for a fact you didn't sleep last night."

"I'm fine."

"It's no problem. I can make up a bed."

"I'm fine."

"Suit yourself."

However with us, we had tracked down an abandoned house to see if that's where the nest was. It had to be since we checked everywhere else anyway. When we went in, there were beds and everything as if someone had been staying there.

"This place is a foreclosure right?"

"Yep. It is, just like the rest of them."

"Well, somebody's squatting here."

"Blackout windows."

That's when we hear this buzzing sound and then go to check it out. We decide to split up and do a sneak attack when he's not paying attention.

"Hey! Hey, you need a hand with that? Oh. I guess not."

He bares his teeth and then heads for us, Sam coming up and hitting him in the back of the head with a shovel and knocking him out. We then bring him inside and tie him up for questioning.

"You go out with the family, bring home a nice dinner. How did you get stuck doing the dishes?"

"We all have our roles to play."

"Yours being destroying the evidence, yeah? Nice job. Ralph Hedges. Stacy Kepler. Any reason you targeted them?"

"Yeah. Hunger."

"And so the family's what? Out taking a nice after-dinner stroll?"

"Oh, I'm sure they'll be back real soon."

"What I asked was...where are they?"

"This one is gonna be a tough nut to crack." I remark.

Meanwhile at the police station, Frank was sitting at his desk doing a puzzle in the newspaper.

"Nice shiner."

"Can I help you all with something?"

"As a matter of fact...I think you can."

"You don't want to talk. No skin off my back. 'Cause you see, a blood-sucking, body-chipping vamp...that's bad enough, but vamps...that kidnap kids...well I'm going to enjoy putting you down."

"Of course. Oh I knew this was about Alexis. I warned Mama that girl would screw everything up for us one day."

"Mama?"

"The vamp that turned them all."

"Well, all of us but little sis. She was uh...too good to turn. Mama couldn't bring herself to, no matter what we said, no matter how bad Alexis got."

"Bad?"

"Let me guess. You never had a teenage sister. Dragging her heels, whining, near constant, about everything, but more and more about the blood, like she's somehow above it, like she's better than us 'cause she don't feed on people."

"She is better than you, dumbass."

"She's a human, and humans are better than you things."

"Her moping? That teenage crisis-of-conscience crap? It's annoying as hell, but it's just an act. When the chips are down, she'll always choose us over humans. I mean, how do you think we stayed off your radar all these years? Pretty, young, lost-looking thing like her? Irresistible, especially to the kind of man few people would miss. I mean sure, we hunt sometimes for sport, but it's a lot easier and a lot safer to get delivery."

"Come on sweetie. Aren't you gonna give me a name?"

"It's...Ann."

"Mm. Sweet Ann. You got any idea what I'm about to do to you?"

"Yeah. I do. Nothing."

"What the...is this a party?"

"She's your lure."

"Best a vamp could ask for. And you better believe you don't get that good at it unless you enjoy it. In her own sweet way...girl's as bloodthirsty as any vampire."

"Jody." Sam states and we realize what's wrong.

"Alex? Alex?" She calls out when she comes back inside from getting firewood. "Alex?" She calls again and opens the door.

She then goes into the bedroom and finds Alex sleeping on the bed. So she goes over and grabs a blanket to cover her up with.

"Whoa! Easy."

"Sorry."

"I made you a sandwich. It's out there if you want it."

"Sheriff. My grandma?"

"I'm so sorry."

"No, it's...it's fine. I figured...it's been years, and she was old."

"You got it. Thank you."

"She's not answering."

"I just ran the victims' names through local P.D. They both worked at the O'Neill bus station."

"So they killed them for Alex's location. Jody?"

"Dean, what's up?"

"Listen to me. The vamps knew that Alex went to Sioux Falls, okay? They're probably already there. We're on our way there next. Look, there's something else. There's something about Alex. "

"It can wait. They're here."

"What?"

"At the cabin. Now."

"We're on our way."

"Hurry."

"She hung up."

"We moving?"

"Yeah. Meet you outside."

Sam and I go out to the car while Dean goes back into the kitchen and cuts off the vamp's head. Alex however wakes up from her sleep and knows something is wrong.

"Alex? Alex come on, we got to go!"

But it's too late as one of the vamps looking for her crashes through the window.

"Jody, help!"

"Alex! Alex! Alex!"

"Help me! Help! Let me go!"

Jody is stopped however, as Alex is taken and they drive away. We couldn't get there quick enough, as when we pulled up it was daytime and we saw Jody laying on the ground.

"Jody?"

"Hey you okay?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa."

"Where's Alex?"

"You tell us."

"They cam and I tried to stop them."

"And you got knocked out. Well, happens to the best of us."

"Just lucky you're alive."

"You think they went back to the nest?"

"Of course they did. Why wouldn't they? Question is..what are they gonna do when they find their brother dead?"

"So we go back now."

"Okay. I'm coming."

"Uh Jody? Hey, hey. Whoa. Hold on. You're hurt."

"I'm coming."

"Jody, we can handle the nest on our own."

"I don't give a fig about the nest. That girl was under my protection."

"Okay, that girl can't be trusted. She's a lure. She's a-a honey trap. She's been feeding people to those vamps!"

"I don't care. Whatever she did, she did because they made her."

"Oh, and that's a reason?"

"She's a kid!"

"Yeah, a kid who's been playing vampire murder since before she was in braces."

"Jody, he's right. A-at best, her loyalties are...screwed."

"And how do you even know she wants to be saved? For the past eight years, she's been baiting the hook for an entire nest. She's got more blood on her hands than most monsters we kill."

"Are you saying she's on your list?"

"I wouldn't say she is....but it's only a matter of time before they turn her and then she will be."

"Look, it sucks, okay? It does. But with hunting monsters comes harsh truths. This is a clean-up mission. It's not a rescue."

"What is this even really about? You barely know the girl."

"I'm coming. And if either one of you lays so much as a hand on Alex...you'll have to go through me."

"Put up quite a struggle with Connor. Says you nearly took his eye out. Maybe that was just his excuse for knocking you out. You have any idea the mess you made? Hunters raided the place while we were out, tortured and killed Dale. Our home's been made. We're gonna have to move again."

"Mama, I-I never meant..."

"Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh! We will all find our way. Things got screwy...but you're back now."

"Why? After everything, I thought that you..."

"You thought what? That I'd hurt you? Kill you? I woul never hurt you. Not my baby girl, not my sweet Alex. How could you even think that? Baby, why did you do it? Why did you run from us?"

"I love you, Mama. I do. I just...I couldn't take it anymore. The blood and the death, the sounds of their screams. I just...I can't do it anymore. And the way I feel afterwards, the guilt...I'd rather die than feel that way again."

"It's my fault."

"What?"

"All of it. This is my fault. I should've turned you years ago."

"Well, their truck's in the driveway."

"So we're walking right into it."

"Great."

"Well, we've faced worse odds."

"Yeah. Jody."

"This is a raid, so tread lightly, stay close. Priority is clearing the nest. Alex comes second. You got it?"

"Got it."

"It was so selfish. I wanted to watch you grow up. I kept putting it off. Don't you see? These things you've been feeling...all the guilt and suffering...those are human feelings. It ain't too late. I can take the pain away. And then we can stay together, as a family. Like none of this ever happened. Wouldn't you like that?"

We had made our way to the house and snuck inside, ready to striker at will. Sam and Dean go upstairs while I stay downstairs with Jody. She notices a door to a basement after we hear some moaning sounds coming from there. Dean comes across one of the vamps with a shotgun to Sam's back.

"Drop it." He refers to the blade and Dean drops it.

Then another vamp comes out and knocks him out. With me and Jody, she has me wait on the stairs while she goes and checks out what's happening in the basement.

"Alex, come on. Come on, honey. We got to go."

"Go away!"

"We got to go! What did they do to you?"

"I'm sorry, Jody. I made my choice."

"She chose me."

"No, no, no. No. Unh-unh-unh-unh. Hell of a sight to come home to...brother lying dead on the floor. No idea it was a Winchester that had done it. So...which one of you was it? Which one of you took off my brother's head?! Was it you? Was it him? Pretty fitting...brother for a brother. This place has been a good home to us. But since you two had to come around and ruin it, we're gonna have to hit the road and find a new one. And when we hit the road....we like to pack a lunch."

With us downstairs, I was still hiding on the stairs while Jody was tied up.

"Can't say you didn't come prepared."

"Alex."

"Hey. Don't be bothering my girl. She's going through something, a process."

"What did you do to her?"

"Fed her my blood. She's on her way now. All that's left is to feed."

"Please, Mama. Let her go. I already drank from you. Let her go."

"Made an impression on my girl, I see. Baby, this is the human half of you talking. After the change, this human...she ain't nothing to you. Clearly, Sheriff, you got issues, some hole in your life you're using my Alex to fill. I would say go and get a family of your own, but well...you know."

"Wow. That's pretty rich coming from the woman who stole Alex to begin with."

"I have fed her, clothed her, loved her going on nine years. You think motherhood's just about blood? You don't know the first thing about it."

"Maybe not, but I know what it isn't. And it ain't about forcing her to be like you the second she becomes inconvenient."

"Don't you see what she is trying to do? This hunter cop bitch is trying to turn you against me to save her own hide. Don't believe a word she says." She simply says before kicking Jody in the bad knee. "She ain't your mother."

Sam however was being drained of blood fairly quick and into a bucket for the vamps.

"Tapped this keg. Get the short hair one ready."

He kicks him and goes to set up the blood draining before Dean injects him with dead man's blood and fights with the other vamp.

"Time to finish this."

"Alex! Was that her name? You named her after someone. 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 that I was using her to fill a hole in my life, and you're right. I am. You are too."

"Mama?"

"I guess it takes one to know one."

"That Alex....she died a long time ago."

"And it still hurts. You still feel it, the loss, the pain...like a stone in your gut. It hurts just a little bit less whenever she's near."

"You bitch." She states before she proceeds to just beat the crap out of her.

Dean in the meantime was overpowering the vamp fighting him and pinned him against the wall.

"Look at me. Look at me, bitch!" He exclaims and with that, he decapitates him.

"Dean."

"Yeah I know. You wouldn't have done the same for me."

"No. Jody and Brooke."

"Good news, lady cop. Whoever you lost...you're gonna see them again real soon."

I decide to finally come out from hiding to help Jody, but as soon as I get to the bottom of the stairs, I see Alex stab and inject 'mama' as she called her with the dead man's blood.

"Alex? How could you? You were my girl."

"I'm sorry, Mama."

Jody then takes her own blade and holds it to the woman's neck. Since she was going to decapitate her, I go over to Alex, getting ready to hide her.

"Don't watch this sweetheart."

Just then Sam and Dean come downstairs, and Alex turns into me so she doesn't see anything. What we do next is get the blood from 'Mama', and make the cure for Alex so she can be human again. We all clean up before heading back to the cabin in the woods, where Jody lets Alex lay down and rest before she gets better.

"Nice work back there. Look at me, bitch?" Sam says to Dean.

"What are you talking about?" I question.

"Dean, and when he killed that vamp."

"Well hey, you got another snappy one-liner, I'm all ears."

"What I'm saying is...it looked to me like you were enjoying it. Maybe too much."

"And?"

"That's a problem Dean."

"Well, sorry for not putting on a hair shirt. Killing things that need killing is kind of our job. Last time I checked, taking pleasure in that is not a crime."

"Right, but..."

"How's things back at the station?" Dean asks Jody.

"Well, they beat Frank up pretty bad, but at least they left him alive. He kept apologizing for spilling the beans about the cabin, but I told him that one's on me."

"Well, speaking of apologies, um...we owe you a big one."

"We were wrong about the girl."

"No. You were right...about me. My judgment was clouded. You know, working this case, it brought...feelings back. Feelings I've been trying to bury for years, you know, buried it under work, religion...even dating. We know how that worked out. But you know, it was still there, you know, underneath. The grief. Don't know what that means for me, just that I've been...I've been fooling myself to think that I could ignore it. Anyway, thank you...for coming out, for curing Alex."

"You don't need to thank us. I mean, you're the one who killed her sire, got her blood."

"Sure it'll work?"

"Positive." I nod.

"It'll be a rough couple of days though. You sure you don't want us to stay?"

"I'm good."

"After it's done, you know what to do with her?"

After we left, Jody went back in to check on her and she was tossing and turning in the bed.

"Don't get up on account of me."

"I'm...I'm hot."

"Should I grab a..."

"I'll just be cold again in a second. It's part of the cure, I guess."

"You want something to eat?"

"No, I'll just throw it up. But uh, thank you. I want you to know that...when Mama offered, I just...I couldn't disappoint her again. I had enough to be ashamed of as it is. Jody, I-I've done things."

"You don't have to explain. I know. Whatever you want from me, I'll give it. If you want, I'm here. But what you've been through the last 48 alone, losing your entire family, everything you've ever known or loved...no one can understand that."

"You can."