in the dark of the night//DEAN

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Alex slumped slightly when he heard another voice, relieved that there was another person in this situation, who sounded to be on his side, not the vampire’s. He felt absolutely stupid that he had been snuck up on so easily. Oh, he would just have to be more careful from now on.

The name that the vampire said caught his attention. Winchester…Winchester…hadn’t Zelda mentioned someone by that name? It sounded terribly familiar. Oh, Alex was always so bad with remembering names. He was tossed to the ground with a grunt as he hit the pavement.

Alex had to leap out of the way as the vampire slammed the man called Winchester against the van that Alex had previously been held against. After he had gotten his bearings once again, he reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out what appeared to be a small dart gun. He aimed carefully and fired, hitting the vampire in the neck.

It was a gun that contained a serum that weakened and, if they were lucky, would knock out the vampire. Alex had developed it once he found out that his cousin had been killed by a vampire in his research.

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”Glad to be of service,” he said with a short bow of his head before tucking the dart gun back into his inside jacket pocket. Alex stayed off to the side in order to allow the vampire’s head to be cut off.

If he had been given the chance, he would have tried to reason with the being. He never really wanted to kill anyone or anything if he could help it, but in hindsight, it probably would have been a wasted effort. The vampire had obviously made up its mind to be one of those vampires.

“Ah, yes! And I believe thanks are to be offered to you both as well. Don’t want to think about what may have happened if you hadn’t shown up,” he said, laughing nervously, touching his own neck where the vampire had been so close to biting him. He extended his own hand and shook the man’s hand vigorously. “Teamwork and all that, I suppose!”

“Hmm…no, no, not a hunter. I suppose you could call me a researcher. Yes…yes, that would be the proper title,” he said, squatting down to retrieve the dart from the vampire’s neck. He had rigged it so that after the vampire was injected, the dart would pull a sample of the vampire’s blood.

After standing up, he held the blood-loaded dart up to the street light to examine it. “Did he say Winchester?” he asked curiously.

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Alex raised his eyebrows as he caught onto the tension that was suddenly sparking up between the two men. His gaze bounced between the two of them as they bantered back and forth.

“Ah, no, no, I appreciate the interjection, but it’s perfectly alright,” he said, shrugging with a smile. After all, Alex wasn’t exactly secretive about his research in the community that was aware of supernatural creatures. If he told absolutely anybody, they would think he was crazy.

“No, I suppose you could call it the family business,” he said with a chuckle,”My father began researching this subject when he was a young man and my sister and I quickly picked up an interest in it.” He didn’t need to delve into the exact reason as to why his father had started this research, but he wouldn’t be surprised if the two men inquired.

He raised his eyebrows, surprised at the sudden change of demeanor in the two men when he asked about their name. “Oh, oh, it’s nothing bad, I assure you,” he said, straightening his tie,”My father assisted a man named Winchester quite a few years ago and I believe my sister mentioned two men that had that same name. Just curious."

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Alex smiled and nodded at Dean’s comment. “Are your stories something along the same lines?” he asked, glancing between the two men.

“Yes, yes, that was it! John Winchester. Lovely man, from what I remember. Of course, it’s been awhile. Had something to do with werewolves,” he said, with a wave of his hand,”He’s a relation, I assume then?”

While the Garretts researched all manner of supernatural creatures, their specialty was werewolves. It all started with Adam Garrett’s obsession, which let to him getting bitten…and later to Zelda getting bitten as well, which was still a secret from the rest of the family.

“Oh, oh! Where are my manners?” he said, lightly tapping himself on the forehead before extending his hand once again, this time in introduction,”I’m Alex Garrett.”

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”Yes, I imagine so. You’re hunters, I assume? I mean – I suppose it is rather obvious, but – well, anyway,” he said, cutting himself off with a laugh before he rambled on a bit too much for the poor men’s ears. Alex really did have a rather bad habit of going on and on and not stopping until someone else did it for him.

His eyebrows shot up. “Your father,” he repeated with a look of surprise on his face,”Well, then! It is a small world, isn’t it?” He laughed slightly and shook his head. Alex only vaguely recalled meeting the man named John Winchester. He was flitting about outside in the world at that point in time,after all.

“Ah, Sam and Dean, short and sweet. Well, it is an absolute pleasure to meet the both of you. And thanks again for coming to the rescue. I’m terribly embarrassed that happened – should really be a little more on the lookout. They’re quite sneaky,” he said, glancing down at the decapitated head and body.

“Hmm? Oh, does it sound familiar?” he asked rubbing his chin thoughtfully,”Well, at the risk of making the world an even smaller place, you would happen to know my sister, perhaps, would you? He name is Zelda.”