Healing

Part 37

Once inside, Tara waved her hand around the room and uttered a quiet incantation. The apartment fell into complete silence and everyone began looking around frantically. Tara touched Willow's shoulder and whispered something to release her from the spell. She then repeated the process on Spike and Xander.

The four of them, being the only ones capable of speech, began telling the others to sit down and to pay attention. Tara released Giles from the spell as soon as she was able to make her way across the room to him. He smiled up at her from the chair he was sitting in.

"Thank you. I think if I'd had to endure another moment of that I may well have slaughtered the lot of them."

Tara smiled fondly at him and handed him the missing lens to his glasses.

"I think you may have lost this."

Giles accepted the lens and shook his head in exasperation as she walked back toward Willow. The silence was a blessed relief from the earlier chaos, but he knew it was only a temporary reprieve. He could see the others glaring at each other. He needed to take control of the situation before they were able to speak again. Although, he'd be quite happy if Ethan and Angelus never spoke again. Damn vampire was not helping matters.

"Alright, here is how this is going to go. Wesley and Cordelia will patrol together, as will Buffy and I, and Xander and Spike. Tara and Willow will remain here to watch after Angelus and Ethan and also to finish preparations for tomorrow. Is that understood? Please nod if you are unable to answer."

Spike, Xander, Willow and Tara all answered vocally while the others nodded, reluctantly in Buffy’s case. Giles smiled at Tara.

"I think you can release them now."

Tara set about the room releasing each person individually. She could have done them all at once but it would have released Angelus and Ethan as well, and seeing as how Willow and her would be there by themselves she wanted them to remain silent.

"Well I would just like to voice my opinion..."

"Enough Buffy! We've all heard your opinion. It's settled, we go out in pairs."

"But Giles..."

"I said it's settled."

Spike could see that Buffy wasn't going to let this go so he decided to help her change her mind. He darted across the room and had Buffy against the wall, hand around her throat and squeezing before she even saw him move. She looked at him with wide panic-stricken eyes, and just as he was about to release her he felt the sharp point of a stake in his back.

"Drop her Bleach boy."

Cordelia Chase had a stake at his back and a gleam in her eye. Spike swallowed and slowly lowered the slayer until her feet were on the floor once again.

"No need to do anything rash there, luv. Wasn't goin' to hurt her, just proving a point."

Cordy lowered the stake and smiled at Buffy,

"So was I."

Xander let out the breath he was holding as he stood behind Cordy, ready to defend his lover from his ex-girlfriend.

"Don't threaten my lover again Cordelia."

"Oh chill, Xander. It's not like I'd actually stake the guy over Buffy. Sheesh!"

"See slayer, you do need back up. I'm not at full strength, and I could have killed you just then. Let the watcher go with you. Let the man do his job."

"Fine. But this is so not over between us, Spike."

Giles hung his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. He wondered when his life became such a mess. Vampires in his bath tub, Chaos wizard in his bedroom, witches everywhere and the head of the Sunnydale High cheerleader squad threatening a master vampire with a stake in his living room. Oh yes, of course. It was when he was appointed Buffy Summers' watcher.

"If we are finished with the theatrics, may we go now?"

The group loaded up on weapons and filed out into the night. Willow and Tara sat down at the table and began going over the list of spell components they would need.

Once outside the three teams split up and headed out to patrol their section of town. Spike and Xander volunteered to patrol the worst parts of Sunnydale as Spike was a lot stronger than the slayer was at the moment. Buffy wasn't happy about it but she did understand why he was the better choice. Not that she would admit it.

Patrol was actually slow that night, there was a surprising lack of vampires and no other demons were seen at all. Buffy and Giles had gotten exactly two vampires, one each. Cordelia and Wesley had gotten three. The former cheerleader dusted one while the ex-watcher got the other two. Spike and Xander fared better than the rest with a total of five. Mostly because their patrol route went directly near Willy's. Spike had even managed to find a mugger to snack on. The not killing wasn't so bad, at least he was feeding again.

Xander was so happy that Spike hadn't killed the mugger that he decided to reward him for his behaviour, after all he wanted him to continue with the non-killing. He waited until they were passing a dark alley, as soon as Spike gave the all clear Xander pushed him into the alley and up against the wall.

"Hey, now. What's all this then?"

"Shhh. Want you."

Xander plundered Spike's mouth, kissing him with as much force as he could muster. Once Spike relaxed into the kiss and Xander was sure he had control of the vampire he deftly undid Spike's jeans. He took the vampires semi-erect cock into his hand and began stroking it lightly. Spike moaned into the kiss and thrust against the warm hand enclosed around his shaft.

Xander used his other hand to get himself out as well. He took both their cocks in hand and began stroking once again. As he was doing this, an evil thought occurred to him. He smiled into the kiss before changing tactics.

Spike felt Xander pull away from his mouth and whimpered, he wanted that sweet, hot mouth back. As he felt Xander’s warm breath gusting across his throat he decided this was good as well. Then Xander bit him, hard. Spike howled and shifted to game face. Which was exactly what Xander wanted.

Xander lifted his head and looked into Spike's yellow eyes.

"Don't change back."

Spike opened his mouth to reply but before he could utter a word Xander was kissing him again. He felt the first tentative touch of his lovers warm tongue on his teeth and shuddered.

Xander lightly ran his tongue all over Spike's sensitive teeth, he wrapped his tongue around one of Spike's fangs and sucked. The vampire bucked hard into his hand. Xander wrapped his other hand around their cocks and did it again. Spike began thrusting wildly as Xander repeated the process on his other fang.

Xander was almost as worked up as Spike was. The feel of those razor sharp teeth under his tongue, the fact that he could hold such power over this fierce and deadly creature was almost his undoing. He nicked his tongue against the vampire's fang and sped up his hands as he sucked fiercely. He could taste his own blood in Spike's mouth and it only excited him more.

At the taste of Xander’s blood, Spike was gone. He came with a howl, shuddering and shaking against his human. He knew Xander was close as well, he just needed a little push. With that in mind Spike pulled back from the kiss and dipped his head toward Xander’s neck. Xander, wide eyed with passion, bared his throat to the vampire. He let loose a scream that would have frightened most demons as he felt Spike's fangs enter his throat as he spilled his seed.

Spike pulled back from Xander and licked his lips, he smiled and Xander could still see traces of his blood on Spike's fangs. He kissed him again and licked at the blood. Spike shuddered and began growing hard again. Spike eased Xander away from him and smiled.

"Time to go luv, we need to report back to the watcher and then I'm going to take you home and... take you."

Xander nodded enthusiastically and did up his pants.

"Come on then, the faster we get back to Giles' place, the faster we can go home."

"I do like the way you think, luv."

Xander and Spike practically ran back to the apartment complex to check in with the others.