Never Come Back

A/N:- Seems I cocked up a bit and forgot to add Chapter Nine... Opps! Sorry!! I hope you don't punish me by not leaving me any reviews :p


Chapter 11

They all came to a halt at the mouth of the cave.Buffy and Spike stood side by side, Giles, Xander ,Willow and Tara stood facing them. Buffy dropped the heavy bag from her shoulder and bent to retrieve her dart gun.

"Are you sure this dose of repressant will work on him?"

Giles stiffened "It should be, there's a double dose in there and it's in concentrated form. That would be enough to knock out five slayers .You recall the effect a single dilute shot had on you"

Buffy shivered against the memory it bought up.Giles continued .

"It won't disarm his mechanical parts but his demon parts will be weakened dramatically."

"Right and that should give us the time needed and the advantage until the spell kicks in?" Spike said just to be sure.

"Yes" Giles answered "Now , where did you all come up from the labs?"

Spike lead the four away and showed them the exit up from the Initiative.He handed Giles Maggie's I.D card and then ran back to Buffy.

It was time.

Spike shook into his game face and looked down at Buffy.She bought hers forward and hoped that Giles and Maggie were right, that it gave her enhanced speed and strength. At her sharp nod, they entered the cave.

Giles swiped the I.D card through the electronic reader and sighed with relief when the door sprung open. The four of them raised their weapons and walked into the darkened corridor. This was it, no turning back.They had to follow the map that Buffy and Spike had drawn, all the way through to room 314.Once there, they would set up and perform the spell.


Spike turned a corner, hugging the cave wall, trying to remain as inconspicuous as possible and remain in the shadows. Adam sat at a computer console similar to the one in Maggie's office.He stopped dead and looked over his shoulder.Upon seeing nothing, he went back to his task.Buffy and Spike watched as he typed something in and then turned his attention to someone out of eye shot.

"I have waited patiently.Have you still not found her?"

Buffys eyes widened as Riley came into view.He had the same metal plates around his head and chest and his left arm was now one of a demons. As he turned towards Adam, they saw that now his face had taken a green hue.Buffy felt the bile rise in her throat but kept her head.

"Mother still has not set off her locater, we searched the campus and had tried to follow the slayer and her pet vampire, but they escaped"

Adam rose from his chair and faced Riley. "This has displeased me, I was hoping to reunite us , be a family and have Mother continue the work I have started. The slayer and her followers will not know what has hit them until it is too late."

He continued talking, Buffy felt her anger boiling under her skin.Her demon bayed for vengeance and wanted nothing more than to charge in and rip and maim until nothing remained of the two easts before her. Spike sensed her fury and held out a calming hand. Buffy willingly took his hand and fought her demon and it's blood lust.

"Have you any good news for me?" Adam asked

Riley smirked, revealing his teeth that now resembled that of a shark or piranha.Spike knew that the demon who had originally owned them, had poison sacs in the jaw and that the poison could kill a human in seconds. He swallowed hard, Buffy wasn't one for demonology and he knew that she had no idea .He turned and whispered the facts to Buffy.

"Don't let him get so much as a nibble of you with those teeth pet, highly toxic saliva,kill you in a heart beat"

Buffy nodded and peered around at them as Riley spoke.

"We have the watcher and her friends under surveillance, they are heading for room 314 ,we believe"

"Good.This is an interesting situation. Why would the slayer send them in like sheep among the wolves? "

Adam scanned the cave with his heat sensors. He picked up Buffys heat and smiled to himself.Of course, she wouldn't.They were more than likely ,the decoys.

"Brother? I do believe that they are the decoys and that the slayer will attempt to take us down this very night"

He signaled their position with his eyes, Riley's followed Adams and he nodded .Riley walked to the area that Adam had seen the slayer. He completely missed Spike and passed him without awareness. As Riley reached Buffy, Spike attacked.

Spike leapt onto Riley's back and roared his fury. Riley shook ,trying to dislodge Spike from his back, Spike hung onto his neck and finally got his arms around it. With speed and all the strength that he possessed, Spike twisted Riley's neck until he heard the loud telltale crack and Riley slumped from under him.

Buffy charged into the cave as soon as she saw Spike mount Riley's back. Adam stared at the small girl and smiled as she raised the small rifle.

"Your small shells cannot harm me.My skin is impervious to bullets"
"Good job it's not a bullet then" she shrugged as she fired at his neck and reloaded. The dart hit Adam on target , he reached to pull the first dart out as Buffy hit his torso with the second. Adam staggered and reached for the console to steady himself. His right arm swiveled in it's socket and morphed into a sophisticated canon like machine gun. Buffys eyes grew wide as she saw the change occur and with preternatural speed, dived behind the console as Adam started to fire round upon round at her.

At this point, Adam saw Riley fall to the floor, dead. He turned the gun on Spike and Spike just made it behind a protruding rock.

Adam fell to his knees, his body unable to fight the effects of the serum. Buffy peered out from behind the console.

Meanwhile...

Giles lead the group down into the bowels of the Initiative. Willow put a ward up to protect them from attacks as they made their way through the series of corridors. Tara glanced up and tapped Giles on the shoulder.She drew his attention to the many CCTV camera's .He hurried them all up and hoped that they could make it to their destination before any commando's or worse still, any of Adams goons, came in search of them.

They entered the room and Xander and Willow moved objects in front of the door to form a barricade. Once they were satisfied, they sat in a ring on the floor and laid out the various items needed for the spell. Tara nodded, happy that things were ready, Willow joined hands with Tara and then with Xander.Giles held Tara and Xanders hand and they all nodded. With a deep cleansing breath, they all started to chant.

Buffy felt the first wave of power wash over her.She shuddered as it reached her head and she realized that she could hear her watcher and friends in her head. Spike backed up to the cave wall and gasped as he felt the spell radiate through him. His connection to Buffy opened again and he could hear her thoughts ,as well as the others.

Adam grasped the edge of the console and tried to raise himself up. He got to his knees before he fell again.The second dart had started to kick in, and he slumped to the floor .He tried to raise the gun and found his muscles to weak to support it. Spike thrust himself off the wall and ran to join Buffy behind the console. He skidded up behind her and sunk to his knees.

"Looks like the gits going down pet, might be time to go for it"

"Not yet " she gasped "I don't think the spells fully activated"

Spike felt his demon rising, begging for release, waiting with bated breath for the joy of any act of violence, especially one that would ultimately protect it's childe.

Buffy peered over the console and felt another wave of power hit her.She gasped and started to glow white. Her eyes paled until they were milky.Spike stood beside her, frowning

"Buffy? Pet?"

She glanced his way and stepped out from behind the console. Her movements were stiff, calculated .She stood before Adam and looked down.

Spike panicked .He rushed to her side and tried pulling at her arm to get to cover. He felt the buzz of something go up his arm and watched as her glow crept up his arm towards his shoulder.

"Oh bolocks!"

The glow continued to encapsulate him and he stood motionless as it took him over. Buffy saw the effect on him and then moved forward.Spike moved with her, both seemed under some kind of hypnosis.As one they chanted as Adam fired his gun at them.The bullets hit a barrier that they had created .Your magic can't outlast me .

"We can" they said together , their voices haunted by others.

Adam frowned and switched the gun for a small missile launcher.

Buffy and Spike chanted again and as the missile reached the barrier, Buffy and Spike raise their hands, changing the projectile into a three doves.

Adam looked worried as he laid beneath them. "Interesting"

He tried to launch two rockets and watched as the two beings before him turned them to specs of light and with a wave of their hands, his weapon folded back into itself and back inside his arm.

"How... how can you ..."

"Together, Buffy and Spike look down at Adam "You can never grasp the source of our power."

Buffy lowered herself down and blinked Spike remained standing still.

Buffy tilted her head and stared at Adams chest .Her hand shot out at speed and embedded itself in his chest. Adam screamed and tried using his feet to push himself back and away from the being before him. His arms flailed beside him, unable to co-operate and unable to pull the beings arm from his chest cavity.

Buffy pulled hard and felt something dislodge from his spine. She pulled her arm free and stared at the long thin yellow tube within her grasp.

"But yours is right here"

Spike looked down at Adam as well as Buffy. Adam tried to raise his head but failed .He died staring at Buffy with fear and wonder in his eyes.

Buffy returned to Spikes side and they turned to face each other. They joined hands and raised the uranium core between them. They chanted the Sumarian spell and the uranium core blinked out of existence.

Once that had been done, they both fell unconscious to the floor of the cave.

Back in 314, the spell broke and the spell casters felt the power drain from them. Willow smiled, pleased that she and Tara had been able to pull it off. Giles sighed and slumped against a filing cabinet. Xander wore a goofy smile and gave both witches a thumbs up before he fell against the same filing cabinet.

After they had a few minutes to recover Tara stood.

"Shouldn't we go and find Buffy? "

They all nodded and packed up the items that laid around them. Once done ,Giles and Xander removed the barricade and peeked out to make sure the way was clear. They all made a mad dash for the exit .They were all grateful when they reached the surface. The group sighed and looked around to make sure that no demons or threats were around.Once satisfied, the group headed towards the cave.

Buffy woke and instantly hissed at the pain in her head. She raised up onto an elbow and saw that Spike was still unconscious and laid over her legs. Feeling weak, she laid back down and tried to will herself to be strong.After her third try at moving Spike, she managed it. He groaned and opened his eyes.

"Oh bloody buggering hell" he pushed his hand against his forehead and hissed "Remind me to not do that again"

"Baby"
"Sod off slayer"

Buffy rolled her eyes and stood on weak legs.After staggering to the console for support, she looked down at Spike.He pushed himself up on his arms and tried to get to his feet.After another attempt he managed. Buffy was feeling a lot better and stood on her own. She watched the monitors and saw her watcher appear, followed by her friends.

"Looks like the calvary have turned up.Can you walk out of here Spike, or do you need a shoulder to lean on?"

His blue eyes met hers and he nodded.Buffy slipped his arm around her neck and helped him to the mouth of the cave.Once there she leant him against the wall.Giles watched them and he knew that his slayer and Spike had a bond that would prove hard to break. He'd been fooling himself into thinking that Buffy wouldn't need him and vice versa.Spike had proven that he would work along side Buffy and that he somehow gave Buffy strength that she hadn't tapped into before. Reluctantly, he took one side of Spike while Buffy got the other and walked him out of the cave. Buffy looked across Spike to look at Giles.He caught her eyes and smiled his acceptance .

"Thank you" Buffy mouthed silently to him.

Once back at the house, Buffy helped Spike up to her room.He flopped backwards onto the bed and groaned as his aching back sunk into the soft mattress.

"Hope you don't have plans to ravish me tonight Love"
"Do you think of anything other than.... 'that'?"

Spike sniggered "Not when your around and certainly not when I'm in your bed"

Bufy knelt at his feet and took off his boots and set them down .She stood and knelt on the bed, pulling his duster off of his shoulders and then pushing it down his body to remove it.He held his arms over his head as she took off his t shirt and tossed it across the room.

"As nice as this is pet, I meant it when I said I doubt I'll be able to manage it"
"Spike, I'm just getting you undressed cos it won't be comfy sleping in all of it and plus it's dirty and stinks of sewers and musty old caves"

"Oh"

Buffy heard the edge of disappointment in his voice and smirked. She reached down to open the fly of his jeans and felt the bulge there.His hand cradled hers and he stopped her from going any further with the zipper.

"Pet, you undo them and take them off and I won't be able to stop myself. Let's leave them yeah? Tomorrow morning We'll both feel hundred per cent .I'll be able to give to you good then"

Buffy sat up on his lap,facing him.He wrapped his hands around her back and pulled her down close to him. He nuzzled into her hair and brushed his lips over his mark. Buffy sighed at the contact his lips had on his mark and leant her head on his shoulder. A feeling of peace and calmness fell over them both and they found themselves drifting off to sleep.