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Chapter 8


London

William returned to the hotel to find Angelus waiting by the bay window. His stance gave off the usual air of self importance and something that made William shudder. Not wanting a confrontation, William walked past him and got as far as the bedroom door before he heard the low growl.

"And where might you have been til this hour hmm?"
"Hunting, got hungry and after your pep talk , I thought I'd go out and grab someone to eat" William didn't turn to face the larger vampire, hoping that he had bought it.Not like it was a complete lie, he had ingested Slayer blood.
"And I'm a monkeys aunt" Angelus scoffed "You must think me a complete idiot boy" Angelus grabbed William by the shirt tails and spun him onto the couch and promptly sat beside him. Slapping him on the leg and laughing "I can smell her on you"
"I....."
"You did in the Slayer, I'm so proud" he said with honesty in his voice "A reason to celebrate if ever there was one"
"How?"
"How'd I know? I can smell her all over you, and her blood, you even got to fuck the stupid bitch too"

William felt anger rise in him at the crudity that Angelus used , but if he was going to survive then he had to play along with the sick vampire.
Dru emerged from the bedroom followed by Darla , both women were dressed in only their underwear. Angelus rose to meet them , putting his hand upon Dru's breast and the other hand into Darla's knickers. Both women gasped and moaned.

"William has already shown that he is one evil son of a bitch, killed that Slayer wife of his after fucking her"

Dru walked away from Angelus' attentions and held her arms out to William. He watched Angelus and noted the narrowed eyes. As much as he hated to, he walked into the offered embrace . He felt her hand cup his cock and inwardly groaned as she stroked him til he was hard. She bit into his neck and drank from him, savouring the Slayer blood that flowed through his veins. To him, it was the last part of her that he had and Dru was stealing it from him. His fangs dropped and he bit into her shoulder, taking back the blood. Dru squirmed as she felt her orgasm hit , she knew that he was a special one. Now she knew that her wicked boy wouldn't disappoint.

"If I'm not mistaken, I promised a celebration, come, lets get our finerys on and go out. I think tonight calls for a massacre"

Sunnydale


"Buffy?"
"I never thought I would be so glad to see you"
"Thanks pet, make a bloke feel wanted"

She glanced around, her vision was still blurred but at least it was night here, not the bright morning that she had woke up to in London. Spike knelt beside her now and she could just make out the worried and confused look that he had . He must be as mixed up emotionally as I was. Buffy glanced down at his hand and saw the gold ring there. He noticed the path of her gaze and lifted his hand and bought hers up to his lips and applied the gentlest of kisses.

"I wasn't sure that it was all real" she muttered
"Makes two of us, unno they thought I was going as barmy as Dru, I knew you hadn't died."

As soon as he mentioned his sires name Buffy backed off .

"What did I say? Hey, what's wrong kitten?"

He didn't remember, of course, history was changed and he wouldn't know any different, except for the me part.

Spike scooped her into his lap and held her , he drank in her scent and the fact that she was back, and alive.
Buffy relaxed into his arms. They felt so familiar and yet so different. Spike kissed her cheeks and her neck.

Automatically, Buffy leapt away from him. She clutched at the wound that he had given her. Spike sniggered

"Pet, no need to cover up that little bite, you forget, I was there too"

Her hand fell away and he nuzzled the mark, running his tongue across it and eliciting a sharp intake of air from her. He smiled against her skin and let blunt teeth toy with it. Buffy felt weak and Spike caught her as her legs gave way .

"Lets get you home, the others will be worried, in fact I know they are.Red thought she'd buggered up the spell to get you back" he started carrying her towards Revello Drive
"I don't want to face them yet, don't take me back there" he halted and smiled
"Okay, my crypts not far, you know I'll end up the wrong side of a bloody stake for this though" he raised a brow at her
"No you won't, nobody messes with my husband and gets away with it" she smiled back and hugged into him
"C'mon Mrs Davenport, not a posh abode but it's home" he carried her across the threshold of the crypt and kicked the door shut.

L.A

Angel tapped his pen against the desk top and sat staring at the phone. Cordy and Wes sat out in the foyer watching through the window in his office door.

"How long has he been like that ?" Gunn asked as he looked at the same thing, having just come back from a job
"Hours. " Cordy said as she propped her chin up on her hand and then swapped hands. "He mumbled something about her being back and that he should ring Willow or Giles"
"So what's stopping him?"
"We don't know and he is not forthcoming with any information" Wesley replied
"Can't English just say he don't know?"
Cordy leaned forward keeping her eyes on Wesley, she smiled and whispered loudly "You think he's stuck up now, you should have known him back in Sunnydale. It was like he'd swallowed a dictionary and had a stick up his stiff upper ass"

Gunn laughed and then let it die as Wesley gave them both killer looks "I was not that bad!"
"Pffttt yeah, whatever" Cordy shot back.

They turned back to the window in the office door in time to se Angel pick up the phone and then drop it back into it's cradle.
Cordy hopped down off her perch and walked into the office .

"Enough already, gah, just phone them, just get it over with, the suspense is killing us out there!" she dialled Giles and once the ring tone started , she handed Angel the phone. Despite his refusals, once the Watchers voice was heard muttering a "Hello" Angel put the handset to his ear and returned the "Hello".

Sunnydale


Giles slammed the phone down and ran his fingers through his hair. The temptation to clean his glasses was overwhelming but he managed to control the urge. Angel had alerted him to the fact that Buffy had changed his memories as well as Spikes. Not just that, but Angel had also told him that Buffy had in fact had an affair of sorts with the vampire, confirming what Spike had said. How could the girl be so stupid? What had him even more bloody annoyed was the fact that she had married the bleached moron. Once she got back, if she got back, he would be having severe words with her. As for Spike, he would be lucky if he didn't bury a stake in his heart.

The Watchers gaze fell upon the bottle of whiskey and he gave in to temptation, something he had been doing a heck of a lot lately.

Willow walked through the cemetery with Xander. The usual nightly routine beckoned. Go and collect Spike, Patrol, go back to Revello Drive and check on Dawn and then Xander would go back home with Anya, leaving Spike and Willow .Most nights,Willow and Xander would stop by Buffy's grave and replace any dead flowers. Spike would always make his excuses and disappear whist they tended to her grave. Willow sympathised with him. It couldn't have been easy for him. She found that she was growing to like him, she appreciated the fact that he wasn't abandoning Dawn and that he helped keep them all safe by patrolling with them.

They arrived outside the crypt and thought that he must be asleep after a rough night or something. Normally he heard them coming and met them at the door, his duster on and ready to go. Tonight not only had he not met them at the door, but the crypt was dark and yet they could hear faint voices.

"Maybe he's got a girlfriend, which would be good, no more Buffy mope-age" Xander said shrugging and about to walk off
"No, Xan, you don't get it, he loved Buffy, it wasn't some fly by night stupid obsession"
"Okay it's a rebound gal, big deal, let the vamp get his jolies, but I for one don't wanna stand here and get with the hearing and that leads to visuals and bruergh ... okay see now" Xander wagged his finger at her "It's too late, vamp sex in my head and not of the good"

Willow found it hard to supress the laughter at Xander " I bet you it's all innocent"
"You just keep telling yourself that"

Spike rolled Buffy over and kissed the dip in her shoulder. She shimmied into his arms and rested her head on his chest, savouring the feeling of being back. He had given her a quick run down of events as they had happened here since she jumped.

Dawn had been doing well at school and she had been a godsend at home. She had formed a bond with Tara and Tara had felt the same way. Often the wicca had stayed with Dawn when she could have joined them at Scooby meetings or at the Bronze. Tara seemed to have taken the role as Mum, often waking up to cook breakfast for everyone and had even started to stock up on blood for him.


He had kept the girl safe, in fact had protected everyone. He told her about patrolling, which then had him stiffen in her arms. A quick glance at the time and he shot out of bed, yanking on his jeans and t shirt, he slipped his feet into his boots and then swung back to the bed quickly to give her a peck on the cheek.

"Gah, bloody buggering hell" he yelled before coming back to devour her lips for a full on kiss. He whirled away , pulling the duster on as he climbed the ladder .


"What took you so long?" Xander snapped, we could have been eaten!"
"M'not that bloody lucky unfortunately " Spike grumbled. His mood was back to moody since he had to leave his warm and cosy bed that was full of sexy Slayer ." Here now ,so just keep your gob shut and try not to become vamp bait again"

Spike stomped off ahead leaving the two comrades to speculate on his latest snit.

Dawn looked out of the lounge window, she kinda felt something was going to happen, she just didn't know what. Tara looked up through the shield of hair , "Come away from the window sweety, you know that Spike said that the demons know that she's.... not here now. They could see you and attack through the window"
" He's just being protect-o-vamp , something's happening , I can feel it, can't you feel it?"
"It's nothing, want some hot chocolate?" Tara tried , desperate to change the girls train of thought. It seemed to work .

Dawn settled on the couch, hugging a pillow as she scanned through the channels to find something suitable enough to watch.

Xander and Willow made their pitstop at Buffys grave. On approach to it though Willow saw the disturbed soil. Crouching beside it, she looked up at Xander and bit her lip

"You don't think she came back do you?"
"Nah, she'd have come back to the house if she had, it's prolly just rabbits" Xander replied
Willow snorted " Maybe, if they were big fluffy demon bunnies with fangs"
"Good thing Anya isn't here to hear you say that" Xander smiled down at Willow "So the spell? It worked?"
"Yep. We just need to find out where she went"

Spike felt bad , they needed to know that she was safe and okay, but he had said that he wouldn't tell them she was back yet and his selfish side wanted her to himself for a while longer. The only person he actually felt bad for was Dawn, Niblet didn't deserve to be kept in the dark. He made a decision , he'd make his excuses, run back, tell Dawn , and get back here before they suspected anything.

"Err , think I just heard a demon, a big demon" he gestured how big with his hands " over there , I'll just go kill it , be back in a bit" and he took off after 'it'.

Dawn sipped her hot chocolate and watched as Tara poked the marshmallows in hers. She was deep in thought and didn't initially hear the front door burst open. Dawn leapt off the couch and ran to the front door, thumping into Spikes hard chest.
Tara looked up and frowned, why on earth was Spike so jittery? "W...w ... what's wrong S..spike"
"Nothin' , just needed to check up on Niblet here. Yeah, " he looked down at Dawn and winked at her, making her frown at him too "Past your bedtime isn't it? Get that ass of yours upstairs, go on "

Dawn was about to protest ,he motioned upstairs with his head and then looked back at Tara. "She looked so tired an' school night so"
Tara just nodded and smiled knowingly. Dawn huffed and then did as he had said , muttering all her not fairs and then slamming the bedroom door.

"Right then, I'll be off, "he opened the front door and left in a swirl of black leather.

Dawn sat on the bed mimicking him "Go to bed Dawn , it's a school night Dawn, let me treat you like your five Dawn" when she heard the faint tap tap on her bedroom window. She got up off the bed and opened the blind and opened the window when she saw that it was Spike.

"C'mon Niblet, aint got all night. Got someone that needs to see you"

Dawn climbed out of the window and once Spike had jumped down, she leapt, Spike caught her in his arms and put her back on her feet. He took her hand and they ran off towards his crypt.


As the door to the crypt opened , Buffy called out "That you William?"

Confused, Dawn stared at him and mouthed William, causing Spike to groan and roll his eyes "You bloody call me that and I'll snack on your neck Platelet" he let go of her hand and then walked to the edge of the ladder "S'me, an' a visitor love"
"I told you I don't want....." her voice stopped when she poked her head up through the hole and saw Dawn. "Well maybe not Dawn, but you best not have anyone else stopping by" she smiled at him as she came the rest of the way up.

Dawn suddenly found herself in a hug that was squeezing the life from her. Spike stood and watched the reunion for a second and then shook himself out of the trance like state "Right pet, best go make sure those pesky mates of yours aren't demon fodder , back soon " he kissed Buffy and ruffled Dawns hair before running back out of the crypt.