Oh My Patient Prisoner

This has taken me a while to write but finally I come out with a new chapter, yay for me. Whether this is becoming a Buffy and Spike fiction I'm still not sure, hey I've very indecisive at times,

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Chapter Three: Alive with such possibilities.

"Spike, Spike are you dead?" She had helped him onto the bed and he had curled up into a ball, howling in pain, only for the last few minutes he had been quiet and Tess was acting her stupid self and asking a question that didn't make sense because hey if he was dead how could he reply.

"Buffy" he mumbled hands still covering his face, she was there, please let her be there, he was remembering how she had rescued him from The First, how she had looked after him when she could've killed him after he went on his unknowing killing spree, she had taken him to her home, feed him blood, still believed in him throughout it all "Buffy love"

Tess frowned at his insistence at calling her Buffy but she realised that this 'Buffy' was probably the girl that he wanted to find and that he was delusional. She felt equally insane, he had turned into some creature, demon, vampire thing and what had she done? She had went straight back in the lift with him and once again it had closed on them both. Tess had willingly trapped herself in with a beast, something that wasn't a human. The way his face morphed into the creature told her he wasn't human, but for whatever reason she didn't feel as scared as she should be. Admittedly up until now she had kept her distance, but she decided he needed some kind of comfort and knelt down by the side of the bed removing one of his hands from his slightly bloodied face, looked like she could hit then and taking it in her own hand and rubbing the palm tenderly.

"Buffy, I love you pet" He continued, his vision was blurry and he was desperate for blood, he was hallucinating only to him it was real, it was Buffy the girl who had gave him the greatest moment of his life just by letting him hold her fne nne night before another brush with the end of the world, before she and Angel has kissed and ruined his idealised world "Its real love passion, you know you feel the same way"

Tess took a deep breath before uttering her words, it was probably cruel pretending to be someone she wasn't but he sounded so tired and hurt that she did her best to convince him it was okay. She didn't know what Buffy was like, only that by the words he spoke maybe she hadn't told Spike what he wanted to hear, that maybe she didn't love him. Of course this situation was mad, if he was truly a vampire could he even love and why the hell hadn't he killed her? Jesus Tess had no idea but she felt compelled to reassure him because there was something about the 'man' that she was drawn to. It wasn't love, it wasn't even a like of him or repressed desire, it was only that she felt as if she needed to protect him, that he was special, that if she didn't help him she would be failing herself and him and others. She reached over to him and brushed aside a piece of his hair that had fallen in his scarred face "I do love you Spike, I do"

"Don't leave me" He begged, rolling closer to her "I need you"

"I won't, I won't leave you, I love you" Tess continued and she leaned in, kissing his forehead gently, her own heart swelled with pain, memories of her last boyfriend came flooding back, she had loved him, she had wanted him but it had ended, in the end he wanted something she couldn't give and that was sex and fate had been cruel to her and made that impossible.

"Slayer" Spike moaned, she felt different, her lips but then it felt like a lifetime since he tasted her flesh, since she kissed him and her could smell the power radiating from her skin, the strength of what she was. He was just glad she was here, and reached out for her arm, gesturing for her to get on the bed.

"Get some rest" Tess advised trying to stay calm, and running her hand through his blonde locks "You be okay, I love you"

"I need blood pet" He croaked, eyes were still shut tight and in his ever delirious state, he hadn't noticed the difference in accents between Tess and his one love Buffy, and also how the woman who touched him wasn't who he believed it to be.

Tess inched away and bit her lip, 'shit, fuck, fuck, fuck' she thought, what was she meant to say to that? Instantaneously a growing voice, power in her head spoke for her, like the one that had governed the strength to punch him, it was a subconscious voice, telling her to do what was right. "Drink from me" she extended her quivering arm out and placed her wrist neared his mouth.

"No, no, I'm not like that you know t it it hurts too much in here" He clenched his hand into a fist and placed it on his chest, indicating his soul.

"Sorry" Tess moved away again, 'so a vampire with a conscious, nice to know they had some morals', she tried to laugh but instead panicked. She knew she couldn't keep this charade up any longer, she didn't know about him, what he did do or didn't in regards to being the demon he was. On top of this she realised how cruel she was being pretending to be someone he loved, playing with his mind.

"Please come back love" He begged, grabbing out but clasping nothing but air, why was she leaving him again, why, if she didn't love him, why turn up in the first place to save him.

Tess got herself up from the floor and paced up and down the small confines. She tried controlling her rapid heartbeat by breathing in and out, she closed her eyes several times to wake herself up from this but every time she turned back to him he was still there mumbling and moaning again. Running her fingers through her hair she stared upwards towards the right corner of the ceiling, she noticed a small camera and wondered if whoever was doing this was watching.

"Why are you doing this?" she spoke softly, remembering that the voice had opened the lift doors and she had run out only for it to demand she go back, that it was being very contradictory and confusing. "Do you want me to help him is that it?"

No response, Tess tapped her foot impatiently "Then what, why put us here? Where are the others? Tell me what you want me to do and I do it, if it gets us out of here, then I will do anything"

"Buffy are your still here?" Spike coughed, trying to pull himself up but failing.

"Yes Spike, honey, I'm here" Tess answered softly.

"Well, Mr voice, you have any orders you want to give out do it now, whilst I still have the patience!" she snapped but she gained nothing "Okay, fair enough'" Tess muttered pissed off at what was going on, she walked back over to Spike, taking a deep breath, she reached inside her pocket and found her wallet. Taking a video store card out she broke it in two, and using the ragged sharp plastic of one of the damaged pieces she slit it painfully against her left wrist, biting down hard on her bottom lip to conceal the agony she was in and closing her eyes to stop herself from fainting at the sight of the blood she could feel trickling down her arm, it wasn't a deep cut but still she wanted to scream out.

"Spike please drink from me, its your only hope, you feel better, please" She beseeched sitting up her on her knees and forcing her arm to his mouth.

"Your doing just fine" she swore she heard the voice tell her as she found a set of fangs bury themselves deep inside her flesh and she slumped forward resting her head on the edge of the bed as he began to drink her essence.

Spike was taken back by Buffy's willingness to feed him her blood but the smell of it was beyond temptation and he punctured her skin, drawing in deep on her wrist. The intake of human blood filtered into his own body and shook him, it had been a while since he tasted anything so sweet and intoxicating and from the Slayer of all people. His strength immediately built again and he found enough to open his eyes, realising that they had been closed all along. It hit him, it wasn't Buffy allowing him to feed off her, it was Tess and her body was turning limp as her head collapsed on the mattress. But something else was controlling him, it was the power, taste of her blood, it wasn't as stimulating as that of a Slayer but it wasn't devoid of verve and he found himself pulling Tess up closer to him, continuing drinking even as he could feel her heartbeat slow gradually, it was just too much, he shouldn't be doing it but he couldn't stop.

Tess struggled to keep her balance as he pulled her closer and she half hanged of the bed, something obscure was happening to her, she kept seeing faces she didn't recognise, women, lots of women, a middle-aged man with glasses, no not women some just teenage girls and they were standing in a room all staring at her, whispering something to her, she couldn't make it out, only the sense she got from it, that she needed to be with them.

"Buffy" she yelled out finding Spike release her from his grip and grab her before she fell over.

"Shit Tess, love" he panicked and got himself off the bed to place her on it instead, his heart was consumed with a deep guilt as she stared blankly at him "Fuck, keep breathing its okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, why did you do it?"

Tess stared up to the ceiling clasping his hand "We need to find her, find them. It doesn't hurt, I'm fine" she mumbled

Spike let go of her briefly so he could take his shirt off and rip it to pieces, in order to wrap around her wound that he had inflicted, 'oh god what have I done, I'm bad, I'm evil bad, wrong, for doing that to her, she could die because of me' "I'm sorry for hurting you, it overcame me, I had to, please forgive me. Tell me who we have to find?"

"Buffy, she's waiting for us, waiting for me, for you, she needs us, the others are looking but can't find her, we can, we can, help her, please help her" Tess found herself crying, she was experiencing an extreme sense of anguish for Buffy, a woman she didn't know but was needed, had to be found.

"Ssh pet" Spike rested his hand on her forehead worried she was getting a fever of some sort, she seemed to be recovering quickly though "I dreamt she was here too, it felt so real, it must have been an hallucination"

"Must have been" She muttered in return feeling guilty at her little pretence, she shifted herself in the bed and sat up slightly, for some reason she didn't feel as weak as she should be, though her head was spinning with images of those strangers gazing at her like they needed her help, needed Spike, how she had gained this sudden power was beyond her reasoning "She's alive but they can't find her, they really need to, the others are looking for you and me, they want me, why me?"

"Because your one of them" Spike soothed Tess anxious voice, he didn't want to scare her with his revelation but it seemed to make sense "I think you're a Slayer, your blood, I haven't felt like this for years, we can escape this place, I know it, I'm powerful now"

"I think it's trying to help us" She began sitting up fully and crossing her legs, she shook her head, trying to comprehend what her mind was trying to show her "The voice it spoke to me, approved of me giving you my blood"

I don't get it pet, it would've killed you before, or, maybe it realised it couldn't that you would be strong because you're a chosen one

"I'm not a slayer, I didn't even know what was until" she hesitated, realising that the moment Spike began to drink from her she had gained a new knowledge of his world, of people she didn't even know.

"Your something love" Spike smiled and sat himself down on the bed, for the first time since he had woken in this place he felt positive that he would be able to escape, and also anxious at what was wrong with Buffy "How could you see Buffy, the others are probably the rest of her gang and the girls who changed, you must be connected somehow, maybe that's what happened now they've all changed, feel your power Tess, its there" he placed his hand in hers and squeezed tightly, brief images of how Buffy had done that to him and told him she loved him as he was being burnt alive entered his memory.

"Its not, Spike I did what I did because something inside of me told me to, it wasn't strength but instinct said I have to look after you" Tess pulled her hand away and rose her voice in frustration "That's why I had to go into this lift with you; the voice knew I'm here for you"

"Tess, you were chosen because your companions are a bunch of dickheads who wanted you to die, they thought I would kill you; they were saving their own skins" Spike retorted, he wished she would just deal with it, she was something other than a human and that something could help get him out of this place.

"I trust the computer, it I don't know approved of me feeding you, maybe it wanted to see who would be brave enough to sacrifice themselves to save the others because that is what I was doing, it was testing me" Tess had began to convince herself that was the reason, that she was like his guardian and everything that had happened was for her to prove she was able enough to take care of him, because they had to find Buffy for the others.

"You truly think it's trying to help us?" He asked incredulously "Why put me in here then? It could've let me go, and I want to know how the hell I came back anyway you know, I died pet, I died, I shouldn't be here, it must have brought me back, I need answers!" He rose from the bed and banged his fists on the door "Let me out you bloody wankers"

To his surprise but not to that of Tess the lift stopped again and opened its door, Spike quickly stepped back afraid of his previous encounters with sunny corridors and stared confused at his companion who cautiously got of the bed and took a step outside. The corridor was devoid of any windows; it was safe from the harmful sun and when she looked left, then right for the first time since entering this building she realised there wasn't any red beams waiting to attack, to kill.

'This is strange' she considered before gesturing Spike to join her as they walked out of the lift and took a right turning down the hallway.

Spike sauntered in his confident way, he knew this could be a trap; it didn't seem at all dangerous out here, like the pair of them would be able to walk down how many flights of steps and straight out into the foyer and then out the doors, he was trying to forget about the little issue of sunlight in his plan and the fact that this was a bloody trap and he knew it. He turned his attention back to Tess, to him she seemed to be dealing with her lot very well, even if she wouldn't admit to the high possibility no certainty that she was a Slayer. In the matter of less than ten minutes she had recovered from his little feed, something he knew he wouldn't be able to simply brush aside as an act of need. Even is she had forced him to drink from her, it didn't make it any better, his soul was barely two years old and it was full of his past deeds, of what he had done to Buffy, of what he had once been capable off. So he had saved the world, it didn't excuse him for all future pain he could cause and he saw that Tess was really putting a brave face on as she began to trail behind and started to look pale. He waited for her to catch up and took her arm placing around his shoulder and helping her walk.

"Thanks" she smiled wearily looking in front of them, she noticed that there seemed to be a lot of noise coming from a door at the end of the corridor.

"Tess promise me to trust no one other than me, not even the computer, I'm getting us out of here once and for all" spike declared but as they continued their walk he like Tess was drawn to that door. In fact that was all he focussed on and he hadn't noticed that fact that they had just walked past a door leading to the stairs that could get them out of here.

"Stay together do what you can to survive, be...." The computer voice began echoing down the hallway but was abruptly cut off

"Be what? Carry on please!" Tess demanded gaining no reply, she looked towards Spike "You heard that right her voice trailed off, her interest feigned almost immediately

"Yeah, come on" Spike urged her to move, he had to get near that door.

"Oh look who we have here" Kurt sneered walking out of the room with Mark.

"Want me to kill them for you" Spike said automatically and this is when his emotions began to almost split him in to, part of him strongly wanted to go into his demon face just to scare the hell out of this wanker but then really all he wanted was to get pass this guy and into that damn room.

"Later" Tess whispered she put a fake smile on "Hiya guys. Giving up on getting out of here then"

"Tess this place is mind-blowing, you have to see" Mark enthused grabbing hold of Tess arm and dragging her through the door, she still held onto Spike who was tugged into the room with her

"What is this place?" Spike exclaimed as the door shut behind him, he gazed transfixed by the walls.

"Paradise" Tess responded.

TBC>>>