FF Hunting Tigers Chapter 4.
Title: Hunting Tigers
Author: Dark Wyldchilde (wyldchilde37@yahoo.com)
Rating: I don't think I'll ever be anything other then NC-17.
Pairing:Faith/Tara, Abby/Ziva, Buffy/Angel
Setting: The Lock, if you don't know you need to start back at "Life on the Farm" otherwise you may wonder how all these familiar characters got into such unfamiliar situations.
Summary: An old enemy returns.
Spoilers: Buffy, Angel, NCIS, The Executioner all are fair game in this AU. As is Supernatural.
Disclaimers: This is a nonprofit work of fanfiction and is in no way a challenge to anyone's copyrights,intellectual properties, or similar.
Wyld's Notes: Seven stories in and eight is plotted out...
Chapter 4.
Everyone was brought up short, and even Buffy deflated as she watched Ziva as she had never seen someone pale so quickly without a feeding vampire attached to their body.
"My... brother?"
Faith was the first to recover her wits, and she used them to give a wave to Gunn, Tim and Xander at the bar. The three men nodded and returned.
Slayer was then speaking to Buffy. "Where's Angel?"
Buffy's voice was much more subdued as she replied. "Looking for her brother, he disappeared after talking to me."
That got the attention of Tara, Ziva, Abby, and Tony, but Faith was the one to express it. "Tony, take Lex, find Angel. You see Ari and can waste his ass without any civilians in the crossfire then do so, but main thing is to get Angel back here safely."
That got Buffy's attention. "You mean the guy is dangerous?"
Tony's voice was the trained calm he got in dangerous situations. "He caused the one and only casualty on our team when we were at NCIS, and he did so just to get at Gibbs."
Only now realizing the danger Angel was in Buffy obviously wanted to join Tony and Lex, but Faith was shaking her head. "They'll find him. I need you to tell me exactly what happened."
Before she could do so however Abby had finished tapping into her smartphone and held it up.
"Was this the guy you saw?"
Before Buffy could answer Xander chimed in as he Tim and Gunn joined them. "Wow! That kind of looks like Dracula."
Buffy nodded almost absently. "Paler skin, longer hair, but yeah looks just like him."
Abby was then speaking. "Okay so Dracula really was a vampire. Problem is this guy is supposed to be dead too." Abby swiped her finger across the screen and it was then filled with the attached file listing the name Ari Haswari and in all capital letters DECEASED.
Buffy deflated. "Damn it!"
Faith however took command. "Buffy, what happened exactly?"
She let out a breath before complying with the order. "Angel and I were taking a break from dancing. At one point Angel was grabbing us drinks when a guy came up and asked me to dance. I tried to explain that I was there with my boyfriend, but he still managed to talk me out to the dance floor."
Ziva interrupted, her voice showing still showing signs of her shock, and even as she spoke Abby was pulling the Israeli woman to sit close to her to be comforted. "He could convince you of just about anything."
Summers had a distracted nod as she continued. "Once out the dance floor he said he thought he knew me. At first I thought it was a line, but then he said my full name 'Buffy... Buffy Summers'. That was when the alarms started going off. Before I could do anything however he said I worked with his sister. I tried to to say I didn't know what he was talking about but he had a mocking expression as he said he knew it was all hush, hush at the Lock, but he asked me to send his sister his regards."
Ziva's gaze shot up at that as Buffy finished her recounting. "I was ready to grab him at that point, but he slipped away and into the crowd. Angel got back and after a quick explanation he offered to find the guy while I came over here and found out what was up."
Tim and Abby were both rapidly tapping at their smartphones while Tara was talking into hers. Faith spoke to Gunn. "Call the drivers. Tell them to go over their vehicles with everything they've got to secure them. Then tell them to pull in front of the club for our hasty departure."
Faith then turned to Tim. "You know this guy by sight..."
"Well I mean I never actually saw him... in person..." Was stammered out in response by McGee.
Tony had arrived with Lex and Angel in time to beat Faith to reassuring the obviously worried agent. "No, but you did spend countless hours working on his image McGee. Don't worry, you see him, you'll recognize him."
DiNozzo got a smile and a nod that he gave right back to Faith as the woman resumed speaking to Tim. "Tim, I want you and what we've got of Scooby Squad as one team looking for Ari."
She then turned to Tony. "You and I will be the other."
Turning to Lex and Ziva Faith gave them their order. "You two are going to secure the fuck out of everything to make sure that he didn't leave any surprises, because even if he doesn't come after us directly we are in the middle of one giant soft target. Start with the VIP area. scour the rest of the club. Once you've double checked our rides out of here we book back home."
Gunn cut in. "I can have security help. They've puzzled out that we're something military. I tell them we have an unconfirmed threat, and we need to make a check without causing a panic... gets us extra eyes."
Slayer considered it a moment, and then nodded. "Make sure they know not to touch ANYTHING they have any suspicions of." Gunn didn't bother agreeing, and just got back on his phone to carry out her order.
Turning to Witch Woman the blondes blue eyes were regarding her calmly. "Gunn, Abby, and myself hole up here where it's as safe as we can make it and get in touch with the Lock to get them starting the search there... already done Darling."
Slayer rewarded her woman with a kiss that had their lips pressed together for several seconds while Faith had a gentle hand on the back of Tara's head. "Love you."
Witch Woman whispered the words back as the kiss broke. "Love you too."
Abby and Ziva and Buffy and Angel took similar moments before moving to their assignments.
Tony put on a grin and looked to McGee. "Don't get your hopes up Probie. I haven't had that much to drink."
McGee shot right back. "You might want to use another nick name when trying for the homo humor Tony."
Which actually got him an appreciative nod from the senior agent as they started breaking into their assigned groups.
It would be inaccurate to say that their searches quickly turned up nothing because their searches were anything but quick. Quick was not their ally here, it was Ari's and they were anything but as they made sure they were secure, and their enemy was long gone.
Though it might not have been a pleasant revelation it was hardly a surprising one, and once they were back in the limos they made all due haste back to the Lock. There was some argument when Gunn asked to be let out, but with Ari knowing the who's of the Lock at the very least they admitted that his safety with them would be relative to Ari's plans for them.
On his own he could pick any one of his safe houses and hole up while all the while using his contacts to track their new (old) foe.
The idea that they might not be as safe at the Lock as they usually felt was obviously telling as they got back and Faith ordered all guards in areas where they can't be viewed by the public start carrying M-16s while those who could be seen were ordered to have them close at hand.
The order was being complied with as they entered the control room to find it even busier then usual with Willow in her typical place at the eye of the storm, but over Oracle's shoulder was Leroy Jethro Gibbs, his eyes their own storm of silent rage as he looked up at the immense main screen.
On it there was a video capture from what was obviously a security camera, it's time/date stamp putting it toady at about the time Buffy would have seen Ari.
In it Ari walks up to the camera, smirks, raises his fingers in a gun fashion and mimes shooting the camera before walking away with a grin still on his face, and while the time/state stamp may have made it recorded a few short hours ago it was an old image.
It was the image that they had captured of Ari so long, long ago. It was the image they had used to chase him before they even had a name. It was, even more then the knowledge he had displayed to Buffy proof.
Proof that Ari Haswari was back.
Author: Dark Wyldchilde (wyldchilde37@yahoo.com)
Rating: I don't think I'll ever be anything other then NC-17.
Pairing:Faith/Tara, Abby/Ziva, Buffy/Angel
Setting: The Lock, if you don't know you need to start back at "Life on the Farm" otherwise you may wonder how all these familiar characters got into such unfamiliar situations.
Summary: An old enemy returns.
Spoilers: Buffy, Angel, NCIS, The Executioner all are fair game in this AU. As is Supernatural.
Disclaimers: This is a nonprofit work of fanfiction and is in no way a challenge to anyone's copyrights,intellectual properties, or similar.
Wyld's Notes: Seven stories in and eight is plotted out...
Chapter 4.
Everyone was brought up short, and even Buffy deflated as she watched Ziva as she had never seen someone pale so quickly without a feeding vampire attached to their body.
"My... brother?"
Faith was the first to recover her wits, and she used them to give a wave to Gunn, Tim and Xander at the bar. The three men nodded and returned.
Slayer was then speaking to Buffy. "Where's Angel?"
Buffy's voice was much more subdued as she replied. "Looking for her brother, he disappeared after talking to me."
That got the attention of Tara, Ziva, Abby, and Tony, but Faith was the one to express it. "Tony, take Lex, find Angel. You see Ari and can waste his ass without any civilians in the crossfire then do so, but main thing is to get Angel back here safely."
That got Buffy's attention. "You mean the guy is dangerous?"
Tony's voice was the trained calm he got in dangerous situations. "He caused the one and only casualty on our team when we were at NCIS, and he did so just to get at Gibbs."
Only now realizing the danger Angel was in Buffy obviously wanted to join Tony and Lex, but Faith was shaking her head. "They'll find him. I need you to tell me exactly what happened."
Before she could do so however Abby had finished tapping into her smartphone and held it up.
"Was this the guy you saw?"
Before Buffy could answer Xander chimed in as he Tim and Gunn joined them. "Wow! That kind of looks like Dracula."
Buffy nodded almost absently. "Paler skin, longer hair, but yeah looks just like him."
Abby was then speaking. "Okay so Dracula really was a vampire. Problem is this guy is supposed to be dead too." Abby swiped her finger across the screen and it was then filled with the attached file listing the name Ari Haswari and in all capital letters DECEASED.
Buffy deflated. "Damn it!"
Faith however took command. "Buffy, what happened exactly?"
She let out a breath before complying with the order. "Angel and I were taking a break from dancing. At one point Angel was grabbing us drinks when a guy came up and asked me to dance. I tried to explain that I was there with my boyfriend, but he still managed to talk me out to the dance floor."
Ziva interrupted, her voice showing still showing signs of her shock, and even as she spoke Abby was pulling the Israeli woman to sit close to her to be comforted. "He could convince you of just about anything."
Summers had a distracted nod as she continued. "Once out the dance floor he said he thought he knew me. At first I thought it was a line, but then he said my full name 'Buffy... Buffy Summers'. That was when the alarms started going off. Before I could do anything however he said I worked with his sister. I tried to to say I didn't know what he was talking about but he had a mocking expression as he said he knew it was all hush, hush at the Lock, but he asked me to send his sister his regards."
Ziva's gaze shot up at that as Buffy finished her recounting. "I was ready to grab him at that point, but he slipped away and into the crowd. Angel got back and after a quick explanation he offered to find the guy while I came over here and found out what was up."
Tim and Abby were both rapidly tapping at their smartphones while Tara was talking into hers. Faith spoke to Gunn. "Call the drivers. Tell them to go over their vehicles with everything they've got to secure them. Then tell them to pull in front of the club for our hasty departure."
Faith then turned to Tim. "You know this guy by sight..."
"Well I mean I never actually saw him... in person..." Was stammered out in response by McGee.
Tony had arrived with Lex and Angel in time to beat Faith to reassuring the obviously worried agent. "No, but you did spend countless hours working on his image McGee. Don't worry, you see him, you'll recognize him."
DiNozzo got a smile and a nod that he gave right back to Faith as the woman resumed speaking to Tim. "Tim, I want you and what we've got of Scooby Squad as one team looking for Ari."
She then turned to Tony. "You and I will be the other."
Turning to Lex and Ziva Faith gave them their order. "You two are going to secure the fuck out of everything to make sure that he didn't leave any surprises, because even if he doesn't come after us directly we are in the middle of one giant soft target. Start with the VIP area. scour the rest of the club. Once you've double checked our rides out of here we book back home."
Gunn cut in. "I can have security help. They've puzzled out that we're something military. I tell them we have an unconfirmed threat, and we need to make a check without causing a panic... gets us extra eyes."
Slayer considered it a moment, and then nodded. "Make sure they know not to touch ANYTHING they have any suspicions of." Gunn didn't bother agreeing, and just got back on his phone to carry out her order.
Turning to Witch Woman the blondes blue eyes were regarding her calmly. "Gunn, Abby, and myself hole up here where it's as safe as we can make it and get in touch with the Lock to get them starting the search there... already done Darling."
Slayer rewarded her woman with a kiss that had their lips pressed together for several seconds while Faith had a gentle hand on the back of Tara's head. "Love you."
Witch Woman whispered the words back as the kiss broke. "Love you too."
Abby and Ziva and Buffy and Angel took similar moments before moving to their assignments.
Tony put on a grin and looked to McGee. "Don't get your hopes up Probie. I haven't had that much to drink."
McGee shot right back. "You might want to use another nick name when trying for the homo humor Tony."
Which actually got him an appreciative nod from the senior agent as they started breaking into their assigned groups.
It would be inaccurate to say that their searches quickly turned up nothing because their searches were anything but quick. Quick was not their ally here, it was Ari's and they were anything but as they made sure they were secure, and their enemy was long gone.
Though it might not have been a pleasant revelation it was hardly a surprising one, and once they were back in the limos they made all due haste back to the Lock. There was some argument when Gunn asked to be let out, but with Ari knowing the who's of the Lock at the very least they admitted that his safety with them would be relative to Ari's plans for them.
On his own he could pick any one of his safe houses and hole up while all the while using his contacts to track their new (old) foe.
The idea that they might not be as safe at the Lock as they usually felt was obviously telling as they got back and Faith ordered all guards in areas where they can't be viewed by the public start carrying M-16s while those who could be seen were ordered to have them close at hand.
The order was being complied with as they entered the control room to find it even busier then usual with Willow in her typical place at the eye of the storm, but over Oracle's shoulder was Leroy Jethro Gibbs, his eyes their own storm of silent rage as he looked up at the immense main screen.
On it there was a video capture from what was obviously a security camera, it's time/date stamp putting it toady at about the time Buffy would have seen Ari.
In it Ari walks up to the camera, smirks, raises his fingers in a gun fashion and mimes shooting the camera before walking away with a grin still on his face, and while the time/state stamp may have made it recorded a few short hours ago it was an old image.
It was the image that they had captured of Ari so long, long ago. It was the image they had used to chase him before they even had a name. It was, even more then the knowledge he had displayed to Buffy proof.
Proof that Ari Haswari was back.