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Chapter 4


"Right then Red, what's a vamp gotta do?" Spike sniffed against his cuff and cricked his neck.
"Not so much a vamp at the moment " Buffy said
"You just love this don't you, your gettin' the better end of this deal " he argued
"Hardly"
"Yeah righ'"
"Can we not argue like five year old's and just get on with it" Giles yelled
Joyce sipped her tea and watched Spike and Buffy as they got in each others faces

"I think you make a better teenage girl than I did, maybe we should just stay like this" Buffy had a smug look on her face , knowing it was the one thing that would irritate the vampire the most "Wait til the end of the month happens, and the PMS, oh wait no, a world of no on that, your moody enough without that"
"End of the month?" he frowned then raised his brows again as he caught on. "M'not dealing with that, Red you gotta fix this now!"

Joyce grimaced , so did Giles. Everyone else made out they hadn't heard them and tried to look busy.

Willow smirked, she set the chicken feet out with the other bones and trinkets and put the bowl and the sand beside her. Now all she had to do was wait for the two of them to stop bickering.

"The cramps are a bitch, I'm so glad to be rid of those"
"Shut it Slayer"
"That would be you, me, I'm a big bad vampire now, wanna try me ?"
"You would just love that wouldn' you , still works for me, I'll jus' get Red to put me back in my body after you snuff it an' I'll get to claim my third Slayer"
" Whatever"

Giles' patience was wearing thin . This situation had already reduced him to drink, he cast the tea aside and reached for the whiskey.Joyce watched and smiled, obviously she felt the same way and Giles poured them both a whiskey.

Willow pushed Buffy towards the circle and pushed on her shoulders to make her sit down, Spike huffed and sat down next to her and they held hands , forming the circle needed for the spell.
Giles and Willow performed the ritual and the portal opened .Buffy looked at it and swallowed hard, Spike didn't react, acting as though it was an everyday occurance. Buffy wish she could act that cool under circumstances like this.
Maybe if they got through this alive, she would take the time to get to know him and he could give her lessons on cool. Wait, did she really just think that?
She groaned.

The four of them stood and did last minute checks, making sure they had everything they could need. Spike took Buffy's hand and they walked into the portal.Buffy looking back over her shoulder, a worried look on her face.
She had to put her trust in the being that had been the bain of her existence.
He had to put his trust in the Slayer who had been the bain of his existence.

They portal spat them out together which was a good start, or maybe it was Reds spell , he thought. Buffy got to her feet and brushed the dust and grass off her jeans. Spike shook his head and looked around. It was pretty much the same as it was back home.Tree's swayed in the breeze, grass was green and a sun shone in the sky. Which was purple, and clouds were turquoise.
Okay not so much like home but he wasn't going to complain.
Buffy looked around, took in the same view and shrugged "It's pretty here"
Spike looked up at her " Yeah, s'not bad I guess"
"C'mon we best find some shelter and make some kind of camp, who knows how long we'll be here for" Buffy headed for the tree's in the distance.
Spike watched as his body walked off into the distance, shrouded in sun.He ran to catch up once he got over that revelation.

"Wait up, you don't know what kind of nasties are about 'n' I don' either"
"Scared are we?" she blustered
"No!, Just don' want anything takin' a chunk outta my body ta very much" he looked at her as she walked along side him.

She watched the distance and hardly looked at him.She was focused completely on their task.Find the demon, get his staff and return back to Sunnydale intact and together.Mores the pity she thought.
Buffy was intent on finding the demon today, but she knew they would no doubt need somewhere to crash for the night. Nothing was ever simple for her, her present circumstances her case in point.

They came to the forest and wandered through it. No sign of alien life so far which was good Spike thought.The clearing looked promising, they could camp out here. Buffy had other idea's. She stormed off, Spike muttered something about stubborn bints and unpacked the tent. Buffy came back ten minutes later saying she had found some food for him and held up a rabbit like creature.

He took the creature by the floppy ears and grimaced, there was no way he could eat that, and he had eaten some things in his time. He looked it over and saw the puncture marks , he turned and stared at her.
"You put the blood of this thing in my body?"
"Um.. I was hungry and it was so not my fault, blame your stupid demon"
"Not a chance of blaming it on the demon pet, it reacts to you"
"Your saying I wanted to drain a cute little fluffy bunny, I don't think so"
"Denial"
"S'not"
"Is to"
"Shut up Spike" she sat down and belched
"Charming Slayer, an I thought I was uncouth"
"It's repeating on me, can't help it"
Spike raised a brow at her "Thought you said it was the demon?"
"Don't make me stake you in your sleep" she picked up a stone and threw it at him. It hit him in smack in the centre of his forehead and bounced.
"Ow!"

The tent was set up and their sleeping bags were set out side by side. As much as they hated each other, it was only temporary he told himself, he could cope with that.
She hated the idea of sharing a tent but Willows spell and the danger that they could be in dictated they do this, so , Buffy sucked it up and dealt. As long as he didn't snore or grind his teeth, he'd survive til morning.

They went in search of the demon.
They went down a path that looked like it headed in the direction of some caves, still no sign of demons, which was of the good.
Spike stopped dead in his tracks and looked towards the cave.Buffy stopped along side and watched.
"The slayer sense is going off, think it might be in that cave pet"
They armed themselves, Buffy with a sword and Spike with a crossbow.They ran into the cave and saw a group of demons huddled together. They didn't attack though. Which disappointed the two 'warriors'.

"An' I thought I might get a decent spot of violence from this trip, aint had a decent kill since" he looked like he was deep in thought " Well , it's been a while let's jus' say that"

The demons surrounded them and picked at their clothing and poked them.The leader came forward and nodded, as if satisfied.
The demons beckoned them deeper into the cave and then sat down in an opening, it almost grotto like .
A tallish demon stood beside Spike and sniffed, then he sniffed Buffy and grunted. He walked back to his group and they chuntered in their own language.
"Spike"
"It's okay, he's just telling them that we're the ones that they hunted "
"You understand it?"
"Yeah, sort of, not fluent or nothin' pet but I know enough to get by"
"What do they want with us?"

Spike cleared his throat and asked the question she wanted an answer for.

"Bloody hell!"
"What, what did he say?"
"She, it's a bird luv and you don't wanna know"
"I do, I do want to know, I'm all about the knowing"
"Don' say I d'int warn you "
"Spike just bloody spill"
"Mating"
"You got to be kidding me?"
He looked at her with his do I look like I'm kidding face
"Oh crap" she paused "Why though?"
"They got some inter dimensional zoo thing , they need one of our 'breed'.
"So not gonna happen"
"Too bloody right, not going to make it with poxy Slayer"
"Like I'd let you"

They didn't even take into consideration that their roles would be reversed in mating , then Spike got it, and then a few seconds later , so did Buffy.

"A whole world of no!" they said in unison.

The demons were nice enough, they made what Spike guessed , passed as tea, and made them a feast of bar be que'd meat, he figured it might have been one of those cute rabbit type things , but it wasn't all fluffy and tasted good. Buffy made do with the same thing, against the wants from the vampire inside her, but they had blood back at their camp so she could wait.
If they got out of there that is.
Without mating.

Spike kept up quite a conversation and every now and then he would laugh and they would make a grunting noise Buffy assumed was their laugh. She felt alone and almost outcast. Spike must have sensed it and to her horror, put his hand on her knee.
Buffy stared at it, he was still engrossed in the conversation.
Then he patted her leg and put his hand back in his lap and leant forward to continue his story, whatever it was about he had them all spell bound.
Buffy thought it must be about his many battles and about the Slayers he must have killed.
Just like him to brag.

Since she wasn't included in the conversation, Buffy decided to go out of the cave and get some fresh air. She stood at the mouth of the cave and watched as two moons rose quickly amidst a shower of what looked like shooting stars.
Spike came and stood beside her and asked if she was coming back to the group.
"I don't think so, you go back, you look like you bonded or something"
He watched as she sighed and her shoulders slumped.

"I just want to get the staff and go home"
"Trouble is pet, they need a human to put in the zoo, and they want a mate for it, that's what the chat was about.I asked if they would swap us back and allow us to go home, and we would find them two people that either volunteered to come 'ere or that deserved to come 'ere as a punishment"
"I can't get people to come here in my place Spike, whether they deserve it or not"
"I think you need to see where they would be kept luv"

He took her hand and dragged her towards a tunnel that branched off from the main cavern.The 'zoo' was large and had small caves off of the tunnel. Each one had a different habitat in it, dependant on the type of demon or being in it. They had a human male and his habitat resembled a very luxurious house. He actually seemed happy and nodded to them as they stared in at him.He returned to his book and ignored the fact they were there.

"Why doesn't he ask us for help?"
"He doesn't wan' it, he likes it here and wants to stay, he's just lonely.That's why the demons want more humans"
"Okay so not so much with the bad guys , just kidnappers, but why us? They must be able to tell what we are, and that we're not like other humans, your not even human, and they must know how much we hate each other"
"They only take couples that they consider equals"
"You are so not my equal"
She saw the glimmer of something resembling hurt in his eyes

"We have to find more humans for them or stay, what's your choice Spike?"

"If it was just us, I'd stay, but it isn' , there's your Mum, Niblet and all your little Scoobies, and the hellmouth to protect, I say we go find someone else to come 'ere"
"Your right, I hate that you are but, you are"

They walked back to the main cavern and sat down . Spike told them that they would go back and get some humans for them and that they would like their own bodies back, thanks very much.
The leader stood and frowned.
Not a good sign.