Strangers


"How could you be sure it was her honey?" Laura asks Angelica.


"It's her mom. She was wearing the same black dress from my dream." The girl paused, like she was trying to remember some details to help her mothers look for the woman. "But I did not get a look at her face."


"That's okay honey," Carm says quickly to calm her daughter down. "We'll find her. Don't worry, okay?" Lina nodded (another nickname Carmilla gave her because her name was too similar to Angelina). "Okay. Now, let's go home. They are waiting for us."


The drive to their house was about fifteen minutes. Everyone was silent, probably lost in their thoughts. Angelica was a little shaken. She was afraid that her dream, tainted by the mystery woman, would become true. She was not prepared to—or would not have the heart—to hurt other people. Carmilla was driving a little over the speed limit but carefully. The last thing she wanted was to get into an accident and have her little vampire daughter surrounded by blood. She could snap. Laura was as afraid as her daughter, but she was confident that she would be able to sooth her and stop her if that ever happen; just like in the dream.


"I'm hungry," Angelica says as soon as Carmilla stopped the car in the alley.


"I'll make you a sandwich if that's okay?" Laura asks, hesitantly, because the girl's appetite was slowly leaning towards blood more than actual food.


"Yes," she responds with a smile. "I will try it."


"Come on then."


Laf's car was parked on the other side of the street. Carmilla instructed Laura that she would go talk to them in the meantime. But, as the former vampire opened the door, she felt a gun against her temple.


"Don't scream," a female voice warns her. "Let the others enter."


Carm did as she was told and gestured to Laura and Angelica to go inside. When they did, Laura gasped as she saw Laf and Perry being tied up to a chair and a tape over their mouth. In the corner, there was another woman with a gun in her hand. She made a sign to the family to take a seat on the couch, in across the hostages.


"Hello gang!" she exclaims, a smile on her face. Laura thought that the woman was either smug or crazy to be smiling in this situation.


"Who are you?" Carmilla asks.


"I believe only I have the power to ask the questions here," she says while waving her gun.


"Is that so?" Carm retorts. The woman nodded. "I'm not afraid of either of you or your gun."


"Look at her being cute. Last time I checked, you've lost your vampirism," she says, walking dangerously close to Carm's face. The latter gulped as the reality hit her. She could have taken them down in a split second if she were still a vampire. The look on her face saddened. Laura squeezed her hands and told her not to worry about it.


"Oh you should be worrying," the stranger says. The other woman just stood by the door, saying nothing. "Because, if you do not start telling me where to find that woman in the black dress, I'll start shooting."


"What did you say?" Laura was quick to ask.
"I will start shooting. You heard me the first time."


"No, about the woman in the black dress?"


"Oh. I want you to tell me where to find her."


"We have absolutely no idea who you are talking about, and we would not know where you could find your precious woman," Laura says.


"I know for a fact that you are lying because we've followed her a couple times here," the woman says.


"What?" The blood was drained from both Carmilla's and Laura's face when they heard the statement. They started to imagine the worst.


"Still we do not know her," Carm replies with a firm look.


"What do you say you untie our friends, and we share information," Laura intervenes. "Apparently our cases are connected.


The woman looked at her with a frown like she was thinking hard about the proposition. She moved to the other one standing by the door, discussed the subject a little bit, and they both went to untie Laf and Perry.


"Thank you," Laura says. "Now if you don't mind, I'll go prepare a sandwich for my daughter whom you've scared with your guns." She had all her strength back, and was ready to lecture these women for invading her home and scaring her family.


They both looked at Lina and mimicked and apology. Laura took her daughter to the kitchen to make her that sandwich and put her to bed because it was already 6 going on 7 pm. They all waited for her in the living room.


"Okay, why don't you start by telling us who you are now?" Laura asks, as soon as she entered the room.


"My name is Wynonna Earp, and this is Agent/Officer Haught. We are from purgatory. Our special skill is to track demons and for me to kill them with peacemaker." She pointed to the gun in her hand. "Not long ago, my sister—Waverly Earp—was possessed by some kind of spirit or demon and left the city, although demons cannot because of the triangle thing. We have been following her since based on clues she has left behind."


"We did not have the time to do a lot of research to find out what took over my girlfriend's body because she left as soon as it happened," agent Haught says.


"When we've gathered enough clues about her whereabouts, we found her and followed her to that storage unit. She was in the middle of some magic spells and whatnot when we interrupted her," Wynonna explains. "We were so busy trying to retrace her steps that night that we did not notice what was going in the other part of the place. It was not until we saw a car moving that we realized there were other people present. We followed your car home and been surveilling this house for five years now because we figured out that it was her target."


"And why didn't you do anything when she came here to do her spell under my window," Carm asks. Her voice was filled with anger.


"I slept during my shift," Haught says with an apologetic look.


"You seem like you know who I am talking about," Wynonna says towards Laura.


"I do," the latter confirms. "My daughter, who is now a vampire, had a dream about her. She was forcing the child to drain people and hurt me and Carm. But I stopped my daughter from doing that. That was when I woke her up. And today in the park, she said she saw her."


"Shit. Wasn't Doc the one on car duty today?" Wynonna asks agent Haught.


"Yes. But I'm sure that if he saw something, he would have called us."


"You seriously have no idea what possessed your sister?" Laura asks.


"No, but we're trying our best."


"I know that it was strange that you got your heartbeats almost at the same time as Angelica's vampirism," Laf exclaims. Perry was lost in her books. She was trying to find which ingredients exactly were in those spells. They were lucky that the storage unit stayed the same since the last time they were there because it allowed them to take samples.


"How many of you are looking for her?" Laura questions.


"Me, Haught, Doc, Dolls—my boss but his help is limited because he has the bureau up his ass—and our nerd, Jeremy."


"That's a complete team I'll say," Carm answers.


"Yes it is. Now," Wynonna exclaims, "do you have booze in this house or you hide them because of your daughter?"


Carmilla said nothing, got up, took a key under a book on the shelf that was on the opposite of her, and opened a cabinet. She took out a bottle of bourbon. She fetched some glasses in the kitchen before returning to the living room.


"I think everyone needs a drink right now."


"Then you might want to go get another bottle because I can drink that one by myself," Wynonna says with a smile on her face. Carm looked confused while Haight just shook her head affirmatively to her. She was midway to the cabinet when Wynonna's phone rang.


"This better be good Jeremy because I was about to drink some good, top shelf bourbon...Yes...Really...What did you got then? Okay...Thanks Jer." She hung up the phone and looked around the room. "Sounds like we have a name the thing shouted when it took Waverly over." She was not sure whether to say it or keep it in the team, but she was sure that the couple could help. She hesitated a second time before saying: "Does the name Elle mean anything to you?"


The silence in the room was broken by the bottle that fell out of Carm's hand.










Hi guys!


I apologize for this long break. Now that I am back, I plan to finish this story this week. If I do not post every day, feel free to notify me. I mean it! I made you wait long enough.


Tell me what you think about this chapter and the cross-over. This idea came to me this morning when I was actually in the shower :D.


Happy reading!


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