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Chapter 9


London


Angelus was drunk, Dru and Darla were tipsy and he felt light headed. They staggered back in through the hotel room door and all fell into chairs and couches. Williams legs splayed in front of him and he held his head in his hands. How had he allowed tonight happen , he had no idea.

Angelus had taken them back to his Mothers house. William had walked in and been confronted with his irate Mum. She lashed out with a cane and had beaten him, finally drawing his demon out. His growls did nothing to scare Anne off.

"What in Gods name are you William?"
"I'm a vampire you stupid woman!" he yelled at her "What was you bloody hitting me for?"
"You and Buffy didn't return, what have you done with her you vile creature!"

A scream from somewhere in the house alerted him to the feeding frenzy that the rest were indulging in. William closed his eyes and hoped that they would give him enough time to save his Mother.

"Mother, listen to me, you have to go or they will kill you, they'll make me kill you. Run, go to your friends, and don't return until the morrow evening "
"I refuse to let you and those beings run me from my home" she stood firm "You should know me better than that William"

He hung his head and felt the grief that would soon be hers, Dru swaggered into the room ."Why William, you haven't fed, and such a tasty treat "

Dru took his hand and pulled him into her, she danced with him and then pulled him down on the couch, attacking his lips , blood from his maids smearing across his face.

"William! Get off that woman at once!! What of Buffy?"

A cruel snigger from behind her drew her attention from her son, she stared into Angelus' eyes and froze.

"He killed her, took her life's blood and danced round her corpse, she tried to save him of course , but all she got for it was a few bruises and an ugly death"

"William still thinks he has a heart beat" Dru interrupted "Can't let go of his soul" she whimpered, throwing him off of her.

William fell to the rug and looked up at Angelus

"Well now boy, I'll have to do something to remedy that" Angelus picked him up by his collar and held him to his face. Snarling and baring his teeth, Angelus threw him into a corner and snatched his Mother into his arms, he yanked her head to the side and tore into Anne's neck. William yelled out to stop him and rushed at the vampire that was now draining his mother in front of him. Dru and Darla joined him, blocking his view of his mother. William sunk back to his knees and sobbed. He couldn't watch , his stomach would have rebelled against him. The three vampires let go of the lifeless body and laughed at him, Angelus took him by the shoulders and forced him to look.

"See boy, death and destruction, that is what we do, it is our nature. We revel in it, the sooner you learn to accept it and embrace it, the better and easier it will be for you. " he wrapped an arm around his back and held him in a manly hug. "Now, what do you say to that massacre now?"
William grinned , realising that the only way he was going to survive was to join them, to let his demon have the blood it craved. Inwardly he said a million apologies to the girl he loved and hoped that could forgive his weaknesses.

"I have a group of friends and acquaintances that I believe are at this very moment having a gathering of sorts. Maybe it's time I showed them how I really feel about them"
"Good man" Angelus patted his back and lead them all back into the night.

Sunnydale

Spike opened the door to the crypt, his hearing assaulted by the shrieks and laughter coming from the lower level. He smiled and tossed his duster over the chair. He went to the fridge and pulled out a pouch of blood. He sunk his teeth into the bag and drained it before throwing the empty bad into the trash. Buffy came up from below, giggling and was followed by an equally happy Dawn. Both girls rushed at him and enveloped him in a hug. He wrapped his arms around both of his girls and then released them.

"So you two all caught up then?"
Buffy nodded and Dawn gave a "Yep".
"It's getting late so we best get you back before dawn" he said as he busied himself at the back of the crypt. Spike saw the veil of sadness fall on Dawns face and it made him halt for a second. Letting Dawn stay would just draw attention to him and that would lead to the rest of the group finding Buffy.
"C'mon Niblet, Buffy just needs a few days to adjust, we all do"

Begrudgingly , Dawn nodded and went to the door to wait for Spike. He took Buffy in his arms and kissed her tenderly. He turned to Dawn and lead her out into the cemetery.

"So what the hell is going on, really?"
"Your sis ended up back in London, when I was human 'n' we got together, got married but I died an' then she came back"
"Fine!" she snapped "don't tell me! "

Dawn raced off ahead of him, Spike threw his fag away and gave chase "It's not cause I don't want to , s'just that your sis an' I haven't got our own heads round this yet an' we need to work it all out"
Dawn stopped and turned back to the vampire " Fine! I get it, you have Buffy baggage and things haver changed, before she went away" her voice hitched at the memory " you two could be left in a room with stakes and you would come back out alive, but she couldn't stand you apart from the boinking, I'm not stupid, but now your all with the love and the being married, but I don't get how that's a bad thing. You and my sister are a perfect match"
"Dunno bout that Niblet"
"Oh come on. You telling me that you didn't care about her before?"

Spike stood there , not denying it and not exactly confirming it either.

"Just as I thought. If you can't admit it to me then what chance have with the rest of the Scoobies"

She had a point. When I get back to the crypt I'm gonna have to do some talking and get her to open up to me.

Dawn climbed the tree and snuck back into her room. She looked back out to where Spike stood below the tree.The smoke from his cigarette curled around him as he waved her goodnight and then silently disappeared into the night.

London.


The four vampires stood outside Cecily's house . Darla was bemused. High society gatherings repulsed her, Dru on the other hand loved them. All the rich in one place, the pretty dresses and jewels, all hers once she had drained the persons that wore them. Angelus loved them for the artistry that could be formed from the setting. William just wanted to repay the guests for their cruel treatment of him and the embarrassment he suffered at their hands. He knew that they would treat him like it again, as soon as they entered the house, it started.
His companions circulated and behaved with decorum at first. William acted with dignity and poise , until he came face to face with Cecily herself.

Angelus cornered a lady under the stairs as she returned from the toilet. He forced her into the recess and leant his bulk against her so that she was out of view from passers by. Darla had made suggestions of a sexual nature to a handsome man and had taken him into another room. She had been on her knees performing an act that was below a lady when she sunk her teeth into him , he didn't feel the pain until he looked down at her face and saw the change in her features , making Darla bite down harder, almost biting his appendage off.
Dru danced to the classical music that drifted around the room. Finally she made her choice of victim. The woman who sat beside the fire place, she looked lost, her face devoid of emotions." Perfect " Dru whispered, catching the womans attention.

William smirked. Cecily had been her usual unpleasant self.She tried to ignore the fact that he was stood before her, and continued a conversation with a female that William hadn't met before. He introduced himself and smirked as Cecily squirmed.
If William was honest with himself, he was actually enjoying this. Watching Cecily fluster as he flirted with her companion and hold her attention, was giving him a thrill. He shut away the William that was in love with Buffy and hoped that this side of him wouldn't spoil and taint that part of him. As he lead the woman away , he glanced back at Cecily , her temper was hard to hide and she stood, she clasped her gown in her fists and stormed out of the room. The dozen or so witnesses knew that William had made a pass at her before and that she had turned him down and had told him that he was beneath her, securing his fate as a loser in love and an embarrassment to the gentry due to his ill written poetry about her. Her shock at finding out that his awful poems were of his affection for her, made her a joke too.

William didn't care about where she had gone. For now he would be content to slaughter the people who had jibbed at his expense.Starting with this woman who had associated herself with them and had sniggered as Cecily had told her about him.

His fangs sunk into her neck , her blood was hot and tasted of lust. He could become addicted to this. The thrill of the moment rushed to his groin and he found himself grinding his erection into the dying woman's skirts. Her heart stopped beating and he released his bite. Blood coated his lips and chin , his tongue darted out to lap up the spilled blood. He wiped the blood from his chin on her dress and went back into the main room. He picked up the bag that he had bought with him and smiled. This would be the making of him in the eyes of his new family. All thoughts of Buffy were now gone. His demon resided there inside him now, and he was going to become something more than William the Bloody awful poet.


Angelus returned to the main room. Blood and gore coated everything. William was just hammering in the last of his rail road spikes , the man hung on the wall , a spike through his wrists and feet, and now William was just about to deliver the killing blow. The spike rested at the man's forehead, the hammer poised ready to fall and drive it through his skull. Angelus leant against the door frame and watched. He wiped blood from the door jam and sucked it from his finger, never removing his attention from William.

"Have to say, I didn't think you had it in you, but this is quite something" Angelus said as the man's dying scream echoed through the halls. "I would never of thought of such a cruel punishment for them all, but it lacks a certain flare"
"Sod flare, why have flare when you can just go for the killing and the pain?"

Angelus shrugged " That is what sets us apart from the rest of the vampires out there boy. We are the elite. We are the Order of Aurelius, masters in our own right,we don't just go for the hunt and the kill, we have somewhat of a legacy to uphold"
"Like vampire royalty then?"
"If that is how you see it then, yes"

Darla and Dru returned.
Darla's cry of "Oh my" got the attention of the men and they watched as she surveyed the destruction in the room. "Well now there is nothing worth taking from here. You could at least teach the boy some restraint. If he continues like this then we will be found out and hunted like the fledglings . It won't do Angelus, get the boy under control or else" With that the woman turned and left the house.
Angelus rolled his eyes, "Come, lets gather the jewels and monies and get out of here. Something tells me we are going to have to work hard at keeping our women happy tonight. "

William and Angelus walked out of the house, Angelus put his arm across his new childes shoulders, proud that Dru had found a man worthy of the name his clan held.


Sunnydale

Buffy woke up and stretched, Spike turned over and his arm slide around her waist ,pulling her to him. He whispered kisses along her shoulder and onto the mark at her neck. She pushed her back against him and ground her ass into his groin. His teeth toyed with the mark and he laughed when Buffy let out a groan.

"Mornin' minx"
"Somehow I doubt it's still morning, more like afternoon" she turned in his arms so that she faced him
"Best not get you used to vamps hours pet, you got a life to get back to"

He knew he shouldn't have said anything , but he needed her to get back to normal as soon as possible, not for his sake, but for Dawns.Buffy sat up and rubbed at her eyes, she threw the covers back and rose off the bed. She began pacing the room .
"Bollocks" he slammed his back down into his pillow
"You don't want me now, is that it" she choked out
"Don' be bloody daft Buffy, I waited one hundred an' twenty four soddin years for this so don't even try that on me"
"So what is it then? You blame me for that night? You hate me for changing your past?"
He sat back up and grabbed her hand as she past the foot of the bed, pulling her into his arms he answered her.
"I wouldn't change a bloody thing love. If it hadn't of happened we wouldn't be here like this, I wouldn't..... you wouldn't love me, we wouldn't be married"

Buffy picked up on his pause, and smiled at him "You loved me before all this didn't you?"
Tears prickled his eyes, he tried to blink away the itching they caused only to feel them fall . God he was such a ponce .
"Yeah okay I did but .."
"Why didn't you say anything? I used you, treated you badly, you were my way of getting the stress of Glory and Dawn out and you just let me" she kissed him "Because you already loved me"
"Yeah, that's about the size of it. I took what I could get Buffy, even if it was just crumbs."
"God, how did I not see it then?"
"Like you said, you had all that other crap in your life, I don't blame you for it, or anything else"

Giles groaned as his door opened, Xander ,Anya, Tara and Willow came in, Dawn followed them in and dropped herself into the chair facing him. Her eyes looked dark and she was obviously focused on something other than the meeting.Giles felt for the girl, his fatherly affection for Buffy, now being transferred to this young energetic girl as well.
Willow looked at him and smiled sheepishly. Tara squeezed her hand , Xander was busy chowing down on the doughnuts that they had bought as part of the routine. Scooby meeting equals sugary goodness .

Giles didn't know where to start. He noticed the lack of a certain vampire, which he found odd, considering he had little patience for him. He raised his brows and shook off the concern for his absence.

"Right I want to hear everything regarding the ritual , and then we will go over why it is it failed to bring her back"
All eyes shot to him as he said
"She is back" Willow replied "We checked her grave, just to swap the flowers and it was 'disturbed' "
"Disturbed, how? she had the Watchers attention fully focussed on her.
"Like a vamp had crawled from the grave kinda disturbed "

Giles rushed to a text book and read it, then he turned the book round and pointed to a passage with the text.

Xander and Willow looked at him and together they muttered the immortal words " Oh crap"