DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of these characters except from Kayla or any other people you don't recognise. Don't sue me, I have nothing.

Kayla and Spike

The Initiative

Written by Hani

Opening Credits Blocking Brainwaves - Ghost Of The Robot

Chapter 1 - Captives

Grey Day - Madness

Spike was lying on a white tiled floor. Slowly he came into consciousness;

"Not...so tough...I...kill...Slayer...I-" he awoke to find himself in the tiled cell. He got to his feet unsteadily, his head spinning, and looked at the huge wall-to-wall-floor-to-ceiling glass door. Through this he could see more cells with other demons in them. Some of them were lying unconscious or pacing about restlessly. Confused he placed his hand on the door and in turn recieved a severe electric shock which sent him flying into the back of the tiled cell. He glared at the door, his hand throbbing.

Kayla (another vampire captive of the Initiative) was sitting in the corner of her cell playing with her bracelet. She had reddish hair, blue eyes and a distinct taste in dark clothes and unusual jewellery. She was not entirely sure how long she had been locked up in the cell. She had been watching the vampire in the cell opposite her for quite some time, he was trying to open the hatch in the roof of his cell where the drugged blood fell from.

"Idiot." she murmured watching him fall to the floor and desperately begin his attempt again. She got up and walked to her cell door, careful not to touch it. The demon in the cell next to the vampire she'd been watching, a blue-ish skinned one with one eye, kept grinning at her in a pathetic attempt to flirt with her. She sighed and looked at the only other demon she could see - Spike. He was pacing up and down, his long leather duster flowing behind him. She watched him for a while.

"New one in." she said to herself, "Hmm. Not bad."

Just then he stopped pacing as a packet of blood, if you could call it that, had fallen from the roof of his cell.

"No! Stop. Don't drink it." she whispered, knowing that even if she shouted he wouldn't hear her. Luckily the vampire in the next cell to him told him not to drink it and he angrily threw the packet down and started talking to the other vampire.

"Is that right? And who are you, mate?" Spike asked examining the wall.

"A rat." said the other, "A lab rat just like the others. They're gonna kill us you know."

"Is that right? And they are? The government? Nazis? A major cosmetics company?"

"Who cares?" The other snapped, "All I know is they starve you and when you're ready to bite your own arm, they shoot out one of those packets, you drink and next minute you're gone. That's when they do the experiments."

Just then Kayla saw Spike slam his hands against the glass door angrily.

"The Slayer! I knew it! Always worried what would happen when that girl got some funding!" he shouted, "That's it. I'm gonna take her apart. I don't care how brilliant she is!"

Kayla sighed and sat down against the wall. A packet of blood fell from the hatch in the roof of her own cell. She glared at it.

"Feeding time." she said to herself. She was so hungry. She glanced at the blonde guy again, he'd given in and was drinking the red gunk that was impersonating blood.

"Fool." she sighed snatching her own packet, she ripped it open with her teeth and took a drink. It was bitter and cold, she could even taste the drug cocktail, there was so little blood, in fact she had a suspicion that it was perhaps red food dye that was in the packets. She shuddered and downed the last. She glanced at the blonde vampire again, he had collapsed from the drugs.

"Oh well..." she sighed throwing the empty packet across the cell and felt herself slip into unconsciousness.

The drugs don't work - The Verve

She woke up hours later lying on her back in the middle of her cell, her head throbbing.

"Shit." she groaned sitting up and crawling to the door. Her stomach was painful and when she lifted her T-shirt to inspect it she found a stitched up wound which was already healing, "Fuck. What have they done today?" she said.

She looked out of the door, the blonde guy wasn't there. She sat for a while watching the wound on her stomach heal and thinking about how hungry she was.

Just then three men in white coats and two commando dudes toting guns, came along the corridor with a gurney. The blonde vampire was lying on it, still unconscious and strapped down. She watched as one of the white coated men unlocked the door of the cell and the other two unstrapped Spike. The two commandos then lifted him by the shoulders and legs and flung him unceremoniously into the cell.

"Whatever happened to respect for the dead?" she grunted to herself.

The men then locked the door with a card and left him.

Although hours had passed, the vampire still hadn't moved, he was lying in the same position he had landed in when the wardens had thrown him there. Eventually the white coats returned with the gurney. Kayla wondered how he could possibly still be out of it: unless they had given him more drugs.

But just as they began to strap him onto the table he opened his eyes. Kayla watched, amazed, as he made his fantastic escape with the other vampire.

"Wow. Not bad at all." she stood up and kicked the door hard, the glass shook violently but didn't break. Alarms were sounding everywhere and commandos were running all over. Suddenly an idea struck her, just as one white coat was hurrying past she slammed violently on the glass door pulling away just fast enough to miss the shock. The white coat carried on, ignoring her. Again, she slammed and kicked the door violently. He stopped and mimed, "What?" She signalled for him to come closer and signed "I saw him escape." through the glass.

The white coat radioed someone via walkytalkie and soon two commandos arrived toting guns. They opened the door just wide enough for the men to enter and closed it behind them. The commandos held the guns threateningly in her direction.

"What. Did. You. See?" the white coat asked slowly, pausing after each word as if she were stupid or deaf.

"I. Saw. The. Vampire. Escape." she said, mocking him.

"Should I shoot it?" one of the commandos asked pointing the gun closer to her.

"No. Let it speak." the white coat said, "Do. You. Know. Where. It. Went." he said to Kayla, again as if she were stupid.

"He. Went. Out. The. Door." she said, again mimicking his tone.

"It knows nothing." said the trigger-happy commando waving his gun threateningly at her, "Let me shoot it."

"It? Listen you, I'm not gonna take any of your-" she began, but the white coat brought out a syringe and she quickly shut up.

"Now, demon."said the white coat, Kayla glared at him, "Do you know anything?"

Kayla glanced warily at the syringe of green liquid in his hand. Being shot was one thing, but wounds heal. They could do anything to you if they drugged you.

"I-" she gulped as he lifted the syringe, "I.... No." she said finally. The white coat sighed and put the needle back into his coat.

"Shoot it." he said walking to the door. The commando pulled the trigger and the bullet hit her in the shoulder, she screamed in agony. The commando laughed and went to follow the others through the partially opened door, but Kayla ran up behind him and knocked him out with a sharp blow to the head.

She slipped through the closing door and swiftly dodged the other two men. The other commando shot at her, but the bullet missed her and instead hit a sign on the wall which read;

"Experimental Subjects May Be

Mentally Unstable

DO NOT TAUNT!"

She ran quickly down the corridor, ignoring all the yells from other captives, and clutching her wounded shoulder. Luckily the alarms from Spike's escape had stopped and had not yet started for her. She managed to clamber through the same air vent Spike had used, out into the bright sunlight. She attempted to shield herself from the dazzling light with her unwounded arm and ran to the shade of some trees nearby.

Spike was not far away, he was attempting to obtain help from Harmony.

"I don't need you to complete me!" Harmony yelled angrily, pointing a stake threateningly at Spike, he made a break for it and ran right into Kayla.

"It's you." Kayla said, "You escaped from that thingy place."

"How'd you-?"

"I was...there too."

"Oh well...listen..."

"You look really-"

"Hungry?" he asked.

"Yeah. 'Starved' was actually what I was-"

"Yeah." he walked off leaving her standing there, "I'm hungry." he called back

"Wow. Very nice." she said watching him swagger away.