1. The Party
Spike's Crypt.
Buffy:Stop it that tickles. (Looking at Spike she can't help laughing with delight.)
Spike: That's not wot you said last night luv. Fact don't think stop entered your vocab. If I recall.
Buffy: (Blushing) Well maybe I didn't let you nibble on my neck last night.
Spike: Dare I remind you, where you did let me nibble last night luv? (Gives Buffy a wicked, teasing and seductive glance.)
Buffy: Spike if you don't stop that I will leave. (Fains getting off the bed.) Ah Spike. (Laughs uncontrollable, and contentedly as he, pulls her back onto the bed, and things take on a much more intense turn.)
Spike: Guess I'm just gonna have to remind you after all. (Goes to do just that.)
Some time later in the crypt.
Spike: I love watching you sleep. (Holding a sleeping Buffy, contentedly in his arms.) You don't know how long I wanted this for. Before we ever got together then after, I have always wanted you. Sometimes this all don't seem real to me. Sometimes I just pinch myself, to believe it's real.
Buffy: Spike did you say something? (Slowly waking up, she turns in his arms to face him.) I guess we know who has the energy around here tonight. (She smiles up at him genuinely happy, and gently kisses him on the lips.)
Spike: I've been thinking bout stuff, (strokes her hair as he looks down at her. Thinks it's hard to believe that they are here together like this, but he smiles in gratitude.)
Buffy: Ow, your ring is snagged in my hair again. I don't think I can be with a someone who wears more jewelry to bed than I do. There is something just wrong with that.
Spike: Thought you liked my jewelry. Thought you thinked it looked sexy.
Buffy: No. You thought it looked sexy, I am just here to amuse you and your whims.
Spike: Mean you don't think I'm sexy, you don't want to put your hands all over my tight little body? (Gives her his raised eyebrow look.)
Buffy: You know I never said that. (Reaches over and nibbles on his ear lobe.) I think some parts of you are a little sexy.
Spike: Which ones luv? (Smiles down at her knowingly, she hits him.) Ow, you still have a wicked little smack me hand, when you're ready. Didn't I teach you there are propriate times for a spanking? See I've been remiss in doing my tutoring, well at least it's not a total loss, at least you got the candle wax, portion down, and a very nice job at that I must say. ( Points to a mark on his chest, still discolored from candle wax.)
Buffy: I am also getting quite good at french lessons too, (tastes his chest where the mark is.) I understand french requires good dexterity of the tongue. (He pulls her to him, they wrestle a little bit. She kisses him deeply, and passionately.)
Spike: Oh, (almost breathless from the kiss they are sharing,) I see. ( Catching his breath, as he pulls her away a bit.) Buffy, we need to talk, there is stuff, that I have been trying to sass out, and I think I've finally come to a decision.
Buffy: You sound serious. Is this something that I'm going to like?
Spike: Well I don't know how you're going to react, so I've been sassing it out giving it some thought. You might not like what I have to say but I have given it thought, and...
(From inside the crypt upstairs)
Xander: Buffy, Spike, you here? It's me Xander. Of course you're here, I remember it well, Buffy dropping off Dawn with me and Anya, then saying she was spending the night at the Crypt. No accounting for taste, and if you are both naked down there, I don't want to know cause I am still not use to the thought of all this.
Spike: He does go on a bit doesn't he Slayer? There now he's fully gone and ruined the mood, I promise we will pick this up later. (Shifting to business mode.) This better be bloody good, yours was not the voice I intended waking up to.
Xander: Oh it's good all right, it's about Dawn, she's run off to some party to defend her reputation. Apparently some kids at school have been talking some real trash about her. Anya and I talked to her, but when we went to go check on her she had run off.
Buffy: It must be any day of the week, Dawn's in trouble again. Where does she get it from? She is always getting into some scrape.
Spike: (Giving Buffy a knowing look) You would think since she turned sixteen last week she'd start to settle down. Little bit's more rambunctious than ever, I can't imagine where she gets it from. (He smiles again, and looks over at Buffy.)
Xander: I thinks we should be on our way now. If you don't hurry up I'm coming down there to get the both of you, besides it's probably nothing I haven't seen before anyways. I did see you two under Willow's spell, and then I saw Spike with the Buffy bot, so nothing that I haven't seen before. (Suddenly he has a disturbing thought.) Wait I take that back, I'll wait outside the crypt you have 5 minutes.
Xander exists the crypt.
Buffy: Where's my shirt? ( Buffy is looking around as she frantically tries to get dressed.)
Spike: It's on the lampshade. That's where I threw it, and your thongs are on the chair over there. That's where I threw them after I got them off with my teeth. (Stops, reminisces fondly for a second.) Ok let's get going, my other girl is in trouble and we have to go save her. You're both a handful, but I wouldn't have it any other way. You ever think of grounding her? Military school? Lo- jack? Just an idea.
Buffy: What did you want to talk to me about? And not a word to Xander about how and where my tongs ended up when you attend his bachelor party next week, got it? (Buffy gives him a threatening look.) They are all still adjusting to the whole thought of us, and I don't want them knowing everything.
Spike: It will have to wait till we are alone again. Can I at least tell him that great trick you do with hand cuffs? I'm sure Anya would get a kick out of it on the wedding night. (Gives her a mocking look, to contradict his serious tone.)
Buffy: Not a word do you get that. (Pulls out Mr. pointy, and threatens him with it.)
Spike: Fine I won't say a single word. Scouts honor. (Says holding up one hand, he uses the other to move Mr. pointy away from him.)
Buffy: You were never a boy scout. (She puts Mr. pointy in her bag, as she grabs her jacket.)
Spike: Parts of me were, oh no wait that was Adam. My bad. ( Smiles at her as they both start to make their way up the ladder.)
Somewhere across town at a house party.
Dawn: Jessica is so dead when I get my hands on her. Talk about a ho. How could she say that about me? I've been parking once, and with only one guy, who turned out to be a vampire. He's dead now, but how could she say that I'm fast, and that I'm so trampy. I can't even show my face at this party. She wants to bring it on, I'll bring it first. (Dawn adjusts her low rider jeans, and her mid rif sweeter.)
Emily: She's just jealous cause her man want's you and she knows it. It's cause she is seventeen and she thinks she rules the whole school. Wish Janice could have come, she is such a bad ass when it comes to things like this.
Dawn: Well I am here now, so she is just going to have to stop shooting off her mouth. I refuse to never be able to show my face at school again, cause of her trashing me. Devon is not that hot anyways, and he says the grosses things. He keeps trying to hit on me, and I told him I'm into someone else anyways.
Emily: Hey look at those guys over there, I don't think they go here. They look way too mature, and look at the girls they are with can you say scanky? They look like they haven't seen the outside of a house for days. I think Julia Roberts wore longer skirts in Pretty Woman. (Laughs at her own joke.) Well you know I'm right.
Dawn: I just want to find Jessica and get this over with before, Xander and Anya know I gone. They tell my sister, the stuff will really hit the fan.
Emily: They don't know you're here? Wow you really like to walk on the wild side don't you? You Wild Woman.
Dawn: Yeah that's me, Sheena Queen of the Jungle, Zena, all rolled into one. I think I saw her heading into the kitchen with one of those guys, lets, go and do it there. I don't want to make this more of a scene than it has to be.
In the kitchen Jessica makes sure her guest is entertained and feed properly.
Jessica: So do you like what you see? ( Bends over so that the spread can be more easily displayed.) We have quit the spread as you can see. I am sure there has to be something here that can ..shall we say wet your appetite. (Gives him a saucy and inviting look.) My boyfriend Devon is here at this party somewhere, he hasn't come looking for me once this evening can you believe it? He is hot to trot for this no account, do nothing, goody two shoe, little tramp at our school. Can you believe that? ( She offers him a helping of the first thing that comes to mind.) You seem like you know a good thing when you see one. Where did you say you go to school again? I don't think I have seen you and your friends before.
Syica: I didn't say. You are right about a couple of things though, your boyfriend is an idiot to leave such a tasty little morsel like you all by yourself, all night. Secondly I definitely see something that I like. (Looks at her seductively.) Fact I can't wait to sink my teeth into it. You game?
Jessica: I'm always game. (Wets her lips in anticipation.)
Syica: I am so glad to hear you say that, cause you are just the game I have been hungering for all night. (Smiles in that same strange way, then suddenly he turns. He gets all vamped out, and before Jessica can scream, she becomes the main course at her own party.)
Dawn and Emily enter the kitchen.
Dawn: Jessica, I need to talk to you. You are so dead when I get through with you, how dare you say those things about me? Oh I see you have company. (Turns about to leave, then Jessica's life less body falls to the floor.)
Syica: Well your right about one thing, she is definitely dead. What have we here? More tasty little morsels. It's like a drive threw at these crummy little house parties. We just see what we want, and order whatever is on the menu, and it seems like you are what I am going to be having for dessert. (Starts towards the two girls.)
Dawn: Run Emily, run. (Dashing out of the kitchen, they both scream frantically, reaching the living room moments later still screaming. Runs into the College crowd) There's a vampire in the kitchen. You have to get out of here, you and your friends and everyone else.
College Boy: I know there is a vampire in the kitchen.
Emily: How do you know? (She whimpers, already guessing at the answer.)
College Boy: (Smiling he turns to face them both fully.) Cause I am one too. (He gets fully vamped out, and suddenly he and the girls who look like they haven't seen the light of day, all change and get their real party faces on.)
Dawn: I can't believe this is happening all over again, this is Halloween without all the great kissing. (Grabbing Emily, she starts moving away from the crowd of Vampires. Suddenly, it seems there are as many, Vampires as there are regular partiers. The Vampires start aggressively moving forward.)
College girl: This is our initiation. You see we each have to tag and bag someone, and turn them all the way. That is the only way we can get initiated into the sorority.
Dawn: What sorority? The sisterhood of the scanky undead? I would say get a life, but.. (screams as the Vampire from the kitchen grabs her from behind.)
Syica: Where are you going? We haven't even gotten our first dance out of the way? You don't want me to think you are shy or just playing with my feelings do you? ( He says mockingly, as he loosens his grip on her ever so slightly.)
Dawn: (Turning to face him she realizes that he has the most intense eyes she has ever seen on anyone. He looks back at her for a moment, the mocking glance and the smugness disappearing for a second. He is seeing something too. Then the next second he is down on the ground doubled over in pain.) No. I just want you to understand that I am not very forward, and for a first date I think you are reading way too much into this. We will just have to save the whole dance thing for another time.
Syica: You are so going to pay for that. (He is still on the ground, reeling from the pain in his groin.)
Buffy: Yeah, you and what army?
Syica: Ah, look around. Don't just stand there like idiots, get them. (The other vampires advance. Slowly he begins to rise to his feet.)
Buffy: Oh you could have a point there. (Buffy notices the other vamps)
Spike: He does have a point there, bout the army and all I mean. I think we should even up the odds a little don't you? (Turning to face the crowd, Spike gets his party face on too.)
Xander: Ok anyone not wanting to be massacred, or wanting to do any massacring had better get the heck out of here. (Suddenly there is a huge rush for the door, as the Vampires move in for the kill. Buffy, and Spike get ready to take on the fray.)
Spike: I love a good party. Nothing like it to get the blood pumping, and well yeah, to get the blood pumping. (Grabs a vamp and knocks him to the other side of the room.) Having fun now?
Buffy: Didn't you get the memo? (Turns addressing Vamp girl 1. Who looks confused.) The scanky look is just so out this season. But I can see you are trying to be spokes person should the look come back in again. (Ducks as Vamp girl 1 lunges at her, and Buffy stakes her.) Guess she doesn't take criticism very well, oh well.
Xander: Who says you need a College education, think about it. Four years thousands of dollars, and this is how you end up? Boy am I glad I didn't go. (Address male Vamp # 3 who lungs at him, and they start to fight.)
Syica: So what are you suppose to be, some kind of a super hero or something? (He turns to address Buffy.)
Buffy: No, I would be Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. That girl you just tried to kill that would be my sister, so that would make you ...oh yeah dead. You must be new to these parts, or you would know that. ( Gives him a knowing look, before lunging at him with her stake.)
Syica: (Leaping just out of the way, but not missing the look in her eye for one second) So it pays to know people in this town. Had I known it was your sister, well... I probably would have had her for my main course and saved something less filling for dessert, my apologies. (Laughs, oh did I forget to say duck. As two vampires attack Buffy from behind.) I must be going but perhaps another time. (Makes his way to the front door, slips out.) This scene is so played out.
Buffy: Did no one ever teach you two about fair play? (Stakes one, and flips the other over her head. Then stakes the other one.) Now I guess you'll never learn, but I don't think that two against one rule makes a difference in my case. Oh now look what you did, (addresses big pile of dust.) I broke a nail, ok now I'm mad. Who's next?
Spike: So you kids nowadays think you're all rebels. You go out get a gang together, and turn a few squares and you think you have a gang. (Head butts another male vampire.) Your youth is so wasted, another few hundred years and you might have figured that out. (Stakes the vampire.) Oh but you don't have that much time, now do you?
Xander: Take that. Bet they didn't teach you how to survive being dead in that fancy prep school of yours. Hey that's what they call an Oxymoron. In your case it means you are an Ox and a Moron. (Puts the finishing touch on the vampire)
Somewhere outside the house.
Syica: (Sees the girl from the kitchen, and heads towards her to finish what they started.) How bout that dance now, Little Miss Muffet?
Dawn: (Picking up a stake, Dawn holds it out threateningly.) If you really want to dance that badly, take another step, but I'm the kind of girl who likes to take the lead.
Syica: (Syica takes one look at her and takes several back, something about her seeming too familiar.) Nice necklace, Dawn is it? You can bet there will be another time. I get the feeling when you're ready, we will dance beautifully.
Dawn: You can count on it, and if you come near me again you will find out. I am not afraid to step on toes, and I will be right here waiting when your ready to die. (She is unwavering with stake in hand. Breathless by the sudden rush that is coursing through her.)
Syica: I'll be there with bells on, you can count on it. (Something about this girl was special, he could feel it in his blood, and other places. When she was ready to die, he would be the one to do the kill, and nothing and no one would stand in his way. Walking away, he mysteriously vanishes into the night.)
Dawn: (Watching him walk off into the night and vanish, Dawn suddenly starts to shake violently. The stake falls from her hand. She still feels so strange, like something else completely outside of herself had taken over.)
Back inside the house where it has suddenly gotten very quite.
Spike: Well you would think if they were going to trash the house, the least they could do was leave some nummy treats for the rest of us. (Looks around and sees nothing, but a wrecked house with dust, ashes, and not a single vamp in sight, besides himself.)
Buffy: Yeah I am sure that was on their list of priorities. Right after they killed all the party guests, leave something nummy for Spike to snack on. Guess you're out of luck for tonight.
Spike: Less you want to volunteer? ( Giving her a seductive look, as he unvamps.) Well how bout it? You, me, my crypt?
Xander: Ok can I be deaf and pretend I did not hear that? Ewww yuck, still adjusting to the wonder of all things Spike and Buffy. Don't need the visual imagery right now.
Buffy: Do not make references like that in front of our friends. Also I won't have time, since I am going to have to ground Dawn till she is like 50 or something.
Spike: I never think of Xander as a friend, thought he was an exception to that rule. (Turning to Xander) No offense eh.
Xander: Believe me none taken. Plus you know you're only ushering cause Anya insisted, after Buffy asked her right?
Spike: (Turning to face Buffy.) You didn't have to go through the effort pet. (Turning back to face Xander.) After all I'm only throwing you the bachelor party cause Buffy insisted, after Anya asked her.
Buffy: (Giving them both a scathing look.) You two are impossible, and you both need to grow up.
Spike: (To Buffy) What you gonna do? Tie me down, whip me and make me? (With a very hopeful look on his face.)
Xander: What did I just tell you about the imagery? Not deaf you know.
Buffy: Come on you two, we need to find Dawn before she gets herself into more trouble. What it's been like about 5 minutes right? (Buffy sounds really annoyed as she walks out the front door.)
Back outside the house.
Dawn: There you are, I was really worried about you. Are you all ok?
Spike: Should be asking you that. How's the little bit doing? Quite the night you've had by my reckoning.
Buffy: What were you thinking, coming to this party? I left you with Xander and Anya so that you would be safe. You run off into the middle of the night, to a nest of vampires. Are you out of your mind? What were you thinking? You almost got yourself killed. Are we going to have to do this a few times a week? You get into trouble, and we all have to drop what we are doing to save you. Cause believe me, it's getting really old. You are not a child any more. You turned sixteen, it's time you started growing up. You need to think about other people. other than yourself.
Dawn: You don't know anything. You don't know why I came here, you don't know anything.
Buffy: Some stupid girl calls you a few names, and you run off into the middle of the night, to get yourself killed. I know that is a really stupid move, and not good decision making. You say you want me to trust you, but you don't take the time to think. How am I going to trust you to be responsible enough if you keep pulling this crap?
Dawn: So you do know, but you just don't care. You only care about you and about your stuff. You are never there, and even when you are, you don't care.
Buffy: No Dawn I do care, but it's like sticks and stones will break your bones, but names? And we are not talking about sticks and stones. These were Vamps. The kind that sucks your blood first and ask questions later. Then they turn you, and I have to go and hunt you down and kill you. Is that what you want? To become a vamp? No soul, no conscience, nothing worthwhile.
Spike: Hey easy on the compliments there, a sensitive guy could get his feelings hurt.
Buffy: (Turns to face Spike.) You know what I mean!
Spike: Sometimes I wonder if I do. Don't you think your being a bit hard on her? Sometimes words can be just as painful as being bit into. I put up with it all the time, I should know.
Buffy: What are you trying to say? That I rag on you all the time? That I hurt your feelings? I don't want Dawn to end up like you. The undead, someone I don't know, someone I can't love.
Spike: (Looking dumbfounded and hurt, Spikes takes an emotional step back.) Well I see how it is.
Buffy: You know I didn't mean it that way. You're different. Your... (She looks stunned and shamed realizing all the things she just said.) I am sorry.
Spike: Am I really that different? I don't have a soul, and I don't always have conscience the way you would like, anyways. Yeah and maybe Dawn would not be the best addition to your super friends family as the undead, but I still think your not understanding where she's coming from.
Xander: I hate to interrupt your little lover's spat, but I think the question now is where Dawn is going to. She just took off again.
Buffy: (Turning to face Xander.) Why didn't you say something?
Xander: I tried to signal to motion, but I was afraid I would get caught in the cross fire of words. You two finished now? Cause I think we need to go after her again.
Buffy: Of course you're right. We need to go after her.
Spike: No, that's where you are wrong. We don't need to go after her. I will go after her. Buffy you are way to emotional right now. So is she. She is now this 16 year old blob of energy, and that has to really be working itself on her, you are both just way too emotional right now. If you and Xander go to your house, I will go after her. I will bring her by the house after I will find her. We will have a talk. I won't let her off the hook for this, but she needs understanding too, and me and Dawn we have this connection. We understand each other, and I do know where to find her.
Buffy: Spike I... (She looks him in the eyes, and all her worry and frustration shows there. Along with her sorrow for what she said earlier.)
Spike: (Pulls her into his arms.) It's ok, I still love you. Even though you think I am evil. You didn't really hurt my feelings... (kisses her) much.
Buffy: I am sorry and we will continue the conversation we started earlier. Just find her and bring her back safe. (Looking into his eyes, she knows he will. A final kiss, then they pull apart.)
Xander: What did I tell you two about the visuals? Now I'm going to have to be deaf and blind for my wedding. Would you get going.
Spike: Just get yourselves back to the house safe. I'll will bring Dawn back, safe.
Spike leaves, as Buffy and Xander watch him go.