Sheriff Forbes lets out a frustrated sigh, the autopsy reports have all been the same, throats torn out with no blood in their system. The recent killing involved a fire and it made it difficult to find more evidence of what happened or who the victims were, but it was still obvious for her to see. The vampires have returned.
A knock at her door brings the Sheriff out of her thoughts. "FBI here to see you Sheriff Forbes"
"FBI? What for?"
"He didn't say." The secretary says with a shrug. "I see, thank you Jeff." Jeff moves out of the way and a tall man in a suit enters the office, nodding his thanks to the secretary.
Sheriff Forbes gestures to the chair in front of her, "Please, have a seat." The agent makes his way to the sheriff, holding out his hand "Finn Malfred" he says, "It is to my understanding that this fine city is having a problem with some animals."
Sheriff Forbes lifts an eyebrow, "Why is the FBI involving itself with an animal problem?"
"It's a matter of state."
"Of state?"
"Yes. Did you honestly think we'd let this wild animal run loose? What if it goes to another town? If the local town law enforcement can't handle it we get involved and this has gone on for far too long."
Sheriff Forbes frowns "We have it covered Agent."
Finn scoffs "Five deaths and no animal killed, I don't know about you Sheriff but to me that doesn't sound like it's being handled."
"There will be a small hunting party going into the woods tonight to search for this animal, so we have it under control-"
"Great, I'll join this little party of yours, just to make sure the animal is put down for good."
Finn reaches into his suit jacket pocket and passes over another card "Here is my contact information, let me know the time and place and I'll be there. I'm going to go and take a walk around this lovely town and do a little investigation of my own." And with that, Finn stands, nods his head to the Sheriff and exits the police station.
Sheriff Forbes glares at his retreating back and calls the Mayor "We have feds poking their nose into our 'animal attack' case. What do we do? He wants to hunt with us tonight!"
"Let him, if he gets killed then it isn't our problem anymore."
Sheriff Forbes sighs "Fine, but if this brings more attention to us it'll be you who answers to them." She hangs up and puts her head into her hands.
Finn walks and stares at the buildings in the city, comparing the village he was brought up in to the current civilization. After a couple of hours reminiscing he decides to sit at a bench. He gets a text which reads:
Meet Logan Fell at the edge of the woods at 9:00. He is filled in and is willing to let you tag along. -SF
As the sky darkens so does Logan's mood, he walks through the woods, watching the tracker for any movement. The sound of wings flapping makes and a twig snapping puts him on edge; the arrow snaps towards the noise and he looks up, his hand touching the gun just in case.
"I take it you're Mr. Fell." A voice says in the darkness, Logan lets out a sigh in relief when he saw a tall man in a dark brown leather bomber jacket"You're the Agent, good god don't sneak up on someone like that."
Finn walks closer to Logan and takes the tracker from his hand, turning it in different ways, the arrow turning to him. He lets out a little hum of disappointment "What exactly does this do? Is this what hunters use?"
Logan racks his brain for a response "It's an old rabid animal detector. Did Sheriff not inform you of this?" Finn shakes his head and continues to mess with the tracker "I think it may be broken. It's only following me."
"Are you sure you're just not a rabid animal in disguise?" Logan asks while glaring at Finn.
Finn ignores the comment and walks a few feet ahead. He takes a deep breath and with his back to Logan he lets the veins under his eyes turn black and uses his sense of smell lead him to the vampire. Once he catches the scent the veins under his eyes disappear and he turns to Logan. "The arrow moved, it looks like it's heading toward the cemetery."
"Oh? And how do you know where the cemetery is?"
"I did my research." Finn walks towards the cemetery, his hand touching the stake in his coat. "Let me call the sheriff then" Logan says, he follows Finn.
He dials the sheriff and keeps a good distance away from Finn, out of human earshot. "Hey sheriff this guy just took over, he has the watch and everything. What do you want me to do?"
"Just let him lead, if the vamp finds him first then it's out of our hands."
Logan smiles "That's alright with me. The vampire is at the old cemetery." He hangs up and catches up with Finn.
"You got ahold of the sheriff?"
Logan nods "Yes, she'll meet us at the cemetery." Finn nods and continues to lead the way.
As they near the cemetery Finn hears two voices, a male and a female.
"He said that I'll need to feed." The female voice sniffs, "What will happen if I don't?"
Finn fastens his pace leaving Logan to jog to keep up.
"I want to go home," the girl sobs "Will you take me home?"
Finn and Logan get writhing human earshot of the two in the cemetery. Logan puts a hand on Finns shoulder to stop him' "I hear something."
Finn looks around, pretending to look for an animal "Where do you think it is?"
Logan pulls out a handgun, "I think it's further ahead, let's keep moving."
Logan motions for Finn to lead the way and they walk towards the spot they believe they heard the noise.
They see two people, a female sitting by the opening of a tomb and a male in front of her, trying to comfort her. The male turns and stands when Finn and Logan get into their view.
Finn steps forward, "You guys aren't safe here, there's-"
Logan points his gun at the male and shoots, "What-" Finn looks at Logan "I thought we were looking for a cougar or something!"
Logan rolls his eyes "Now is not the time for the 'vampires are real' talk."
Blood rushes out of the wound as the male looks down at the wound in shock before he falls to the ground in pain. Dropping the gun Logan takes out a stake and walks to the vampire.
"What are you doing!?" Finn shouts, rushing to Logan. Logan throws a punch at Logan and Finn moves his face away to avoid getting hit fully and falls to the floor, holding his cheek.
Logan walks to the wounded male and leans down to press the bullet wound, causing the male to groan out in pain.
Logan lifts the stake and aims for the vampires heart, the females shout goes ignored. A hand grabs his own and a pair of fangs tear into his throat.
The new male vampire throws Logan to the side and moves to the other male. Finn watches the female stare at the blood rushing out of Logan's neck.
Finn turns his attention away from the female and watches the newest vampire as he tries to remove the bullet in the other ones chest. The two males' voices are drowned out when he hears the female creep towards the body, hypnotised by the blood. She leans down and goes for a bite, only to have a hand grab her by the back of her throat and lift her into the air.
The female lets out a shout in fear as she struggles to get away, the sound of her struggles brings the two males attention to Finn. "Let her go!" the wounded vampire shouts, as the newest addition gets to his feet. Finn looks at the girl then back to him "Now why would I do that Stefan?"
The boys look at each other in confusion then turn their attention back to Finn. "How do you know my name?" Stefan asks.
"We met once, in a speakeasy in New Orleans back in the 20's."
"That was a dark time for me."
"Was it? It seems like you're still up to your old Ripping ways."
"That's not me." Stefan defends, slowly trying to get to his feet, "Oh? Then who is responsible for all the deaths here in mystic falls?"
"That'll be me" the new vampire says "Damon Salvatore at your service." He says proudly with a mock bow. Finn lifts an eyebrow and lifts the girl higher "Is this your doing?" Damon shrugs "What can I say, I was bored. Now if you can let her go and go on your way this wouldn't need to end badly."
Finn's eyes look at Damon then to the terrified girl before he snaps her neck and takes out his stake.
"No!" Stefan shouts, Damon charges at Finn only to be thrown into a tree, his back breaking.
Finn turns to Stefan "I have some questions for you." He drops the female's body and walks to Stefan, "You ran with two other vampires, siblings," He says, stopping in front of Stefan.
"Where are they?" he growls out.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
Finn stares into Stefan's eyes and Stefan feels the compulsion over take him "Tell me the truth. Where are they?"
"I don't know."
Finn frowns "Then you are useless to me." Finn pulls his hand back in preparation to remove his heart when a branch breaks through his own chest. Finn looks behind him and lets out a curse.
He forgot about the other Salvatore.