Mountain Potential

This is a WIP... sorry.

Okay, I am just a huge Spike/James Marsters fan... also a lover of BtVS.

I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE "BtVS" CHARACTERS... I JUST USED THEM.

also, I picked and chose what I wanted in order to make this work. This is kinda after all the BtVS seasons are over... Spike is not with Angel Investigations because in order for my story to work that's just how it is lol. Spike and Buffy are now just really good friends who have a history... Anya is dead as is Tara so that's why they are not in here. Willow is now a key player in the New Council... Giles is overseas with the motherhouse of the New Council...etc

Ellieis a character I created... so please don't steal her. TY.

i can't figure out how to go back and add/edit the codes of what's involved in here.... any help would be appreciated...

erm, i hope i didn't leave anything out in my disclaimer...

anywho... onto the story! :-)
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I carefully picked my way through the forest with Angel beside me, the two of us had been sent on a mission to retrieve a Potential that had eluded every other human attempt. She was apparently isolated somewhere high up in the mountains, and the only Watcher who had even gotten close had been found a week later at a one of the local resident’s front step – hog-tied, naked and beaten; but worse was that he couldn’t even give us a description of the girl claiming he had never seen her. So Giles, now head of the New Watcher’s Council, had appealed to me and the Poof to go and retrieve her. Apparently she was quite valuable, so here we were, cautiously and painstakingly making our way to the general area she was believed to be living in.

We had already made the mistake of thinking that since we were vampires we could get the job done quickly, but soon after beginning our journey through the wooded lands Angel found himself hanging upside down from a tree. After getting him down with plenty of mocking, a few hours later I almost fell into a large pit. The girl’s clever; I’ll give her that. I thought begrudgingly to myself.

So now we were trying to beat the sunrise and get to her. Looking up I saw that we were close. Almost there and then we can bag the bint and head on our merry way. No sooner had the thought formed in my head than I heard a gunshot and Angel growled in pain as he went down onto the ground holding his shoulder, the area wasn’t to far from his heart. What the bloody hell? I looked around and couldn’t see anything, but then from somewhere up ahead a feminine voice with a thick Southern drawl and a soft twang called out.

“Y’all have done gone far enough. Now just hold it right there. I suggest y’all two just mosey on back to wherever it is y’all done come from ’cause your presence ain’t welcomed here.”

“Ellie?” Angel called out. Ellie? What kind of name is that? I thought to myself with a snort. There was a pause, and then an angry voice replied to him.

“An’ just how in the name of Hades do you know my name stranger?”

“We-” I began, but was shortly cut off.

“You done got three seconds before your friend there gets one to the head.” She replied with a cock of a shotgun.

“We were sent to get you. You’re one of many special girls who have been Chosen to work for us.” Angel replied as he rather painfully got to his feet. The Potential laughed, it was not an amused one.

“Right. And how was I ‘chosen’ seein’ as how I ain’t never been out of these here woods on my mountain. Know what I think? I think y’all strangers are lyin’ to me and I hate liars.” While their conversation had been going on, I had been using my vampire senses to try and locate her, and I saw the barest of movement as she repositioned her weapon.

“Right you are then Ellie, we’ll just be leaving now. Don’t want any trouble.” I said as I tapped on Angel’s shoulder. He glared at me before hissing in my ear while we walked away:

“What the hell do you think you are doing? We have to bring her with us, she can’t just be left here.”

“And she won’t mate; while you were flapping your gums I located her.” And I whispered my plan to him. He looked at me, unwilling to admit that I had a good plan. I smirked and he glowered at me.

“Fine, let’s get this over with.” He conceded grudgingly and we went in two different directions, doubling back to surround her. Luckily, Angel had thought of bringing some sedatives in case she didn’t come willingly like she hadn’t for the Watcher.

We had her in our sight; while she was looking for us and trying to make sure we were leaving as we had promised, I made eye contact with Angel and we crept closer to her with the sedative was in a syringe trying to get within striking distance. Since Angel was wounded, it was up to me to restrain her until he could inject her. I nodded at him and we jumped her. I grabbed her arms causing her to drop the gun, and I pinned her arms behind her back.

“Get yer filthy girl-pawin’ mitts off me ya fucking cunt!” she yelled as she struggled against me. I laughed at her language.

“My, my, feisty aren’t we?” I said. “Now just hold still poppet, we didn’t want to do this the hard way but-” I was cut off when she used my arms which were holding hers as a lever and picked herself up higher before slamming her head backwards into my face, breaking my nose.

“Bollocks!” I yelled while focusing on not letting her go as she struggled some more, kicking out at Angel. I growled, extremely pissed off. I got down the both of us onto the ground, pinning her legs down by using mine behind hers; I then held both her wrists behind her back with one hand using my vampire strength. I had morphed into game face when she had broken my nose, blood was flowing down my face, and with my free hand I shoved her head forward and down.

“Now you bloody ponce!” I snarled at Angel. He hurried forward and injected the sedative into her neck; she still continued to fight against me, and actually managed to buck me off. She took off running and we set after her hot on her heels, we found her unconscious in the doorway of a log cabin.

“Let’s get inside.” Angel said as he picked her up gently. “Sunrise is just around the corner and we need to stay here.”

“Wait, how do we get in we’re-” I started as Angel just walked in. I looked puzzled.

“She was passed out in between the outside and inside, kind of a loophole.” He shrugged, smirking at the fact that he knew more than I did. I grumbled under my breath as I prepared to fight off one angry mountain man of a father, but surprisingly as we entered the place, nobody was there.

“So we sleep in shifts then mate? Case daddy comes home?”

“Sounds like a plan.” We flipped for the first shift; I won so I went to sleep first, leaving the Poof to deal with the bint. But not before we had both tended to our inflicted wounds. I helped Peaches take out the bullet, and he helped reset my nose. When his shift was over and he woke up me, the Potential was all tied up and still asleep. “Here you go it’s some more of that sedative. If she starts to move too much, give her some more.” He said as he handed me an already filled syringe. I nodded that I understood him, and as he went to sleep, I sat near the girl to keep an eye on her.

Before long, my fidgetiness got the better of me and I got up to look around the place. I made my way room-by-room, curious about the fact that there was a lack of something important, and by the time I had gone throughout the entire cabin, I knew without a doubt. I walked over to Angel and woke him up.

“What is it Spike?” he asked sleepily.

“She doesn’t have anyone.” I replied.

“Huh?” this had gotten his attention and he sat up. “What do you mean?”

“I walked and searched through this entire house, there’s no sign of any more than one person living here. She doesn’t have a dad, a mom, an uncle, nobody. It’s just her. Only her clothes are in the bedroom, only one bed, and only her scent is in this cabin.” I responded.

“Then how does she survive if she’s all alone up here? She’s only what, thirteen years old?”

“I don’t know Peaches, guess we’ll ask her once we get her back to California, but I’m telling you what I know.” We both looked at the sleeping form of the Potential and wondered.

“Well, keep the vigilance up; we need to sedate her if she starts to wake up. I’m going back to sleep.” He said as he rolled over and drifted back to sleep. I sighed and went back to watching over the girl. I took this time to take good measure of her.

She had wavy light brown hair with au-natural honey-colored highlights and dark brown lowlights mixed in with it. Her face was very symmetrical; she had a button of a nose, a full-lipped and pouty mouth, her skin was blemish free, and fawn-colored freckles sparsely decorated her cheeks, nose, and arms. I smiled. She wasn’t too bad looking; a hellion in battle she is. I smirked as I gingerly touched my still healing nose, remembering how she hadn’t given in without fighting tooth and nail.

Her body had the prospective to be a knockout when she came into her own. It wasn’t waif-like like a lot of the other girls I had met; this one was healthy-looking, muscular and lean. She began moving a lot in her sleep, and her eyes underneath her eyelids began moving more, and I knew she was waking up. We still had 7 hours before sunset, so I gave her some more of the sedative, and she slowly stopped moving. I knew it would keep her until well into the night, so I nodded off.
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i can't figure out how to go back and add/edit the codes of what's involved in here.... any help would be appreciated...