Blood Heat

Preface:

There have been multiple Buffy/Castle crossovers, and in many of them Alexis has been called as a Slayer. How would Richard Castle deal with learning about the supernatural world with vampires and Slayers in it? He’d write a Nikki Heat story about them, of course. And then because he’s a writer of serious detective fiction, and not urban fantasy, he’d stick it in a drawer.

If you haven’t read any of the Nikki Heat books, all the characters in them are pretty thinly disguised versions of the characters from Castle, so when Slayers start showing up in this story, I keep up the same tradition.

Acknowledgements: Nikki Heat and associated characters are the creation of Richard Castle, who is himself fictional, and was created by Andrew W Marlowe, and is owned by ABC. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the creation of Joss Whedon. Some inspiration for this story came from tanstaafl’s Checkmate.