Car Chase!

I'd expected the others to object to my liberating the fire-truck, but Percy seemed as delighted with it as I was. I stayed around the drivers seat, testing her out, while Percy did most of the loading up.

Then we heard it, a howling, grinding growl that made me think "werewolf" for a second, before I saw the thing. It hardly needed the waves of killing hatred coming off the creature to tell me it wasn't friendly. It seemed to be looking at us with its teeth!

( Car Chase )

The turn into the coast road is pretty much blind, but we were the only people who used it and Sam and Percy were were on the back. I slowed the truck just enough to take the curve - and then I saw!

The Crash!

We'd had more cars than people after Percy and me had brought some up from town. The Jetta had been the last one in and I'd stashed it at the top of the Coast Road.

Grant knew that - but I used to take the car off the road and run it in under the branches of an old willow that reached nearly to the ground. Hidden and convenient.
( The Crash )

It looked as if we'd lost the demon, but I didn't think they'd want to go back to the camp, and I certainly wasn't going back myself. I wanted us to cut straight back through town to my base, so I could release Erynne.

We could pick up refreshments there and then drive straight on to LA. I was pretty sure that Grant would find somewhere for Erynne to stay there, if she didn't already have plans.

Portalling Out

It had been a real kick to drive the fire truck - until it hit and smashed the Jetta, totally blocking the Coast Road. It'd happened near enough to the house for us to switch to Grant's antique Eldorado Caddy without too much delay.
( Recap )

I was eager to leave Sunnydale even though we seemed to have lost the demon that had chased us out of the army camp. As we pulled up outside the Old Embassy Theater (apparently derelict, and a useful base) I thought the worst was over - when will I learn?

( At My Base )

I leapt for the door, jamming the lock open with the keypad as I reached it and racing to the car. It was easier to see the pursuing demon now...

I jumped in the front passenger seat, knocking into Percy before standing, still clutching my things. The crack in the road ahead was much wider. There seemed only one choice left.

( We Left By Dimensional Portal )

The jolt as we landed, far from Sunnydale, had knocked me back into my seat. I looked at the scene ahead of us before turning to the driver and saying,

"Percy, I don't think we're in Kansas..."

Then I realised that Erynne wasn't in the car...