The first few pages are from the original script, Season Five, Episode Spiral, when Willow Finds a spell that will work on the RV is when it turns into my work, along the way there are some lines I threw in. I just needed the beggining of the eppisode for this fic to make sence, so all credit for the first few pages goes to Joss.
I don't own the characters...blah blah blah
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"A-and then whoosh! All of a sudden Glory's standing right there in front of us, all skanky and blonde and thinkin' she's all that just 'cause some bumpy heads kiss her stinky feet" Dawn Pauses in her speech "She does have nice feet. A-and she's comin' right at us, and- Buffy's just standing there not even blinking, like 'Bring it on' and then, wham! Hell-bitch in orbit." Dawn smiled proudly at the rest of the occupents in the room
"Go, Buff!" Xander Cheered.
"I knew you'd best Glory eventually, I mean all-all our years of training..." Giles stared to say proudly before Buffy cut him off
"A truck hit her" She said so sadly and a bit distractedly
"Oh"
"You threw it at her?" Anya supplied hopefull
"Well, no. She more kind of waited for it to hit Glory. Uh, but then Buffy ran really fast and we got away." Dawn stated with her head facing her shoes, upset that her cool story, twisted a little but true was ruined.
"I don't know how we got away. That truck couldn't have slowed her down for more than a second" Buffy looked at Giles close to tears
"Well, how isn't important, all that matters is that the two of you are safe." Giles replied cleaning his glasses. and looking anywere but at his slayer.
"Safe?" Buffy scoffed angrily "We've barely been able to manage not getting seriously dead every time we've crossed paths with Glory. Now that she knows that Dawn is the key?" She ended in a reprimanding question
"There must be something in the Book of Tarnis that we've missed, something we can use against Glory" Giles said in reasurch mode. Buffy just turned away from him staring out the window for any sign of the hell god.
"Piano!" Anya yelled triumphantly
"Because that's what we used to kill that big demon that one time!" Xander interjected quickly trying to cover up the embarrassment over his girlfriends comment. "No wait, that-that was a rocket launcher." He sighed finally giving in to the raised eyebrows staring at him.
"Anya what are you talking about?" Giles asked thoroughly confused.
"We should drop a piano on her." After looking around at the odd faces she continued in a effort to make them understand her crazy point. "Well, it always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment."
"Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing tunnel on the side of a mountain. Let's just keep thinking, everyone." Giles added sarcastically and rolling his eyes. He turned to Buffy who was still preoccupied with glancing out the window past the closed blinds. "Perhaps we should reassemble at the magic shop, see if there's anything..."
"We can't fight her." Buffy interrupted
"W-well not yet, no, but-" Suprise clearly in Giles voice.
"No" Buffy Yelled at him "Not ever. She's too strong, Giles. We're not gonna win this with, with stakes, or spells, or pulling out some uranium power core. She's a god and she's coming for us. So let's just not be here when she starts knocking." Buffy finished near tears and wrapped her arms around herself and turned back to the window.
"Run away?" Anya asked, but Buffy ignored her. "Finally, a sensible plan." she said under her breath
"That's not what she meant" Xander said to Anya, then turned to Buffy "Is it?"
"Well, we can't stay here! She'll just kill us off one by one until there's no one left standing between her and Dawn" Buffy said nearly irrational
"Buffy, we all understand the severity of the situation, but there must be another way." Giles tried to reason with her.
"No." She bit out harshly "We stay, we die. Show of hands for that option." She glared around the room.
"All right. Nobody goes home, nobody tells anybody we're leaving. Just pack up whatever supplies we need and that's it, we're gone." Buffy wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and straitened her back starting to head up to her room.
"Don't have to study for that geometry test then" Dawn whispered lamely
"What about wheels?" Xander asked quickly stopping Buffy at the second step "I don't think everybody's gonna fit in the Xandermobile."
"Just get your stuff together. I'll handle the rest." Buffy softly replied without once looking back and continued heading up the stairs.
"Anybody else feel that?" Anya asked looking around at everyone.
"Feel what?" Willow asked from her bench seat next to tara curiously.
"That cold draft of paralyzing fear" Anya stated matter-of-factly
"We just need to stay calm" Giles said calmly pulling his glasses off again to clean them
"Calm, right." Willow whispered skeptically
"Hey, we gotta be like Sergeant Rock. Cool and collected in the face of overwhelming odds." Xander said all to brightly in a attempt to lighten the mood.
"Overwhelming?" Anya turned to face Xander, a glare on her face. "How much more than whelming would that be exactly?" She challenged.
"Look, everything will be all right, we just need to stay here calmly. As soon as Buffy arrives..." Then everyone sees Buffy's idea for a ride screech to a stop in front of them. A large, beat up, musty old Winnebago.
"...we'll feel oddly worse." Giles finished lamely
"What's he doing here?" Giles said grimly
"Just out for a jaunt. Thought I'd swing by and say howdy." Spike replayed with a cocky grin on his face.
"Out." Giles commanded him, pointing to the door of the RV.
"He's here because we need him." Buffy said distractedly, looking at the city maps she had strewn all over the small table.
"The hell we do." Xander yelled.
"If Glory finds us, he's the only one besides me that has any chance of protecting Dawn." Buffy said with more conviction.
"Buffy, come on.." Xander pleaded. Buffy jumped up from her seat angrily. Glaring at everyone in the small cramped space.
"Look, this isn't a discussion! He stays. Get over it." She grabbed her maps, stomped into the back room and slammed the flimsy door on all there faces.
"Well then lets get this show on the road shall we" Spike chipped in " Buckle up, kids. Daddy's puttin' the hammer down"
1 hour later
"Shouldn't somebody be asking, 'Are we there yet?'" Anya asked timidly. "Isn't that what small entertaining children do?"
"That kinda only works if you know where you're going." Dawn supplied with a sad smile on her lips. Anya nods at her thinking to herself.
"Do we know where we're going yet?" Anya said after a moment
"We'd already be somewhere if Captain Slowpoke would give up the wheel. Hey! Gramps! Bloody step on it!" Spike Growled.
"Step on what? I've driven tricycles with more power." Giles said under his breath, clearly annoyed with the entire situation.
"Is anybody else queasy?" Xander interjected before Spike and Giles could get in a argument
"He doesn't travel well. He's like fine shrimp." Anya patted his shoulder sympathetically, while Xander just gave her a odd look, then threw his hand over his mouth.
"I shoulda nicked that Porsche I had my eye on. There's just enough room for me, you, and big sis." Spike said, looking at Dawn.
"Would you give it a rest, or..." Xander said with a queasy glare.
"Or what, you're gonna toss your cookies on my shoes?" Spike replied snidely, clearly amused with Xander's obvious motion sickness.
"Or you can be undead man walking. See how fast you can hitch a ride with a flaming thumb"
"Fine. Shrimp." Spike said, amused when Xander ran to the small bathroom.
"Any luck?" Dawn asked Willow hopefully
"Uh, if you define luck as the absence of success, plenty. There's a couple barrier spells I could try." Willow supplied.
"Well get on it then pet, 'aint like we got all day" Spike said grabbing the witch's spell book to read it over. "We got all them ingredients in that cubbord over there" Spike pointed, still reading the page Willow was talking about.
"Well, I'm not sure it will work" Willow said heading over to the cubbord.
"Don't care if your sure, best find out, and can only do that if you try now cant you. Be a good witch and get started will you" Spike said flippantly, and Dawn glared at him.
"Anyone hungry?" Dawn asked as willow started setting up the supplies on the small table.
"Ooh! Snacks! The secret to any successful migration." Anya said cheerily, pulling out a frying pan and some canned meat product heading over to the small kitchenette.
"Not what I meant" Dawn said under her breath, staring oddly at the jared supply's. "How did you guys get all this stuff anyway" she asked Spike.
"Whata' think, stole it" Giles shot a glare back at Spike quickly, and Willow gave him a shocked look. "From the magick box you ninny's" Spike said raising his eyes at everyone.
"Well, ok" Willow said mixing in the last ingredients "Give me the book" Spike handed it over, looking as if he was already bored again. Willow took her bowl of ingredients and sat down on the floor, the only available space big enough was the small patch between the door and the drivers seat.
"Uh-oh" Willow said quietly
"Uh-oh, Will's Uh-oh is never a good sign, don't Uh-oh us, I feel we've had enough of the uh-ohs" Xander said finally coming out of the bathroom, holding his stomach and plopping down on the available seat.
"I know, you've probably already jinxed my food, nice going now we'll all starve. Thanks to you." Anya said angrily as she continued cooking.
"Willow, do tell us what's wrong" Giles said glancing down at her, and then back at the road.
"Well I translated the text in my head, cuz you know its a form of latin I guess..." Willow said nervously.
"We don't bloody care what language it is, just get to the damn point" Spike said angrily, already anxious.
"Fine I'll Just read the original text to you then" Willow said sarcastically, and began reading the page.
"Proteggasi, da danno e da dolore, i godess della luce sentono il mio elogio. Coprali di fodero di alimentazione, forgiato per arrestare tutti i prowlers diabolici. qui è il mio uso dell'essenza esso per la mia volontà, Circondili in uno schermo allineare. L'anima di tutto il bisogno proteggendo che offro voi nella ciotola di nettare. Abbracci tutti che vi chieda di proteggere, nessuno spazio della materia, tempo o movimento, fino a che mio non inviti siete stati alzati." Willow finished.
"Willow...I" Giles said quietly, fully understanding what she had just said.
"It's the only way Giles, but I don't think anyone would really be able to do it, and we cant used the weapons we have because...eww..and..."
"Bloody care to fill us in red" Spike said impatiently from his seat, glaring at her. "because I'm glad you and the watcher have this language connection but the rest of us here are in the dark"
"Yeah I flunked Spanish remember" Dawn said lamely.
"Protect yourselves from harm and pain, godess of the light hear my praise. Cover us with a sheath of power, forged to stop all evil prowlers. Here is my essence use it for my will. Surround us in a shield true. The blood of all that need protecting I offer to you in the bowl of nectar. Embrace all that I ask you to protect, no matter space, time or movement, until my call on you has been lifted." Giles translated.
"So, what, spill a little blood into that concoction of yours, and walla instant protection?" Xander asked
"Well, Yeah" Willow replied.
"Ok then, I vote we used dead mans blood over there, how much do you need a pint, gallon, all of it maybe?" Xander said glaring daggers at the bleached blond vamp the entire time.
"Not quite Xander" Giles started, "She needs a little bit of blood from each of us"
"Your kidding right" Xander said feeling even more queasy then before.
"No, I'm afraid she's not, and we have nothing to cut ourselves with" Giles said a bit hopeless.
"Why don't we use the ax we have in the closet, or the sword or you know one of the many weapons" Anya said still flipping her meat
"I agree with Willow on the ewww, Buffy has used them all on icky demons and infection not what I'm hoping for" Dawn supplied
"And extremely dangerous, we could hit a major vein or something, and we can't stop for medical help, it's to risky" Giles said mostly to himself but loud enough for the others to hear "Willow look for something else." Giles said more sternly.
"Bleeding hell" Spike said rolling his eyes. Everyone stopped and looked at him oddly. "I have fangs you know"
"Yeah how could we forget" Xander jipped in.
"You've always been a moron you know" Spike said and continued before Xander could defend himself "You need blood and I happen to have fangs, did I mention the healing properties of a vampires spit, stops blood from flowing, one of them odd healing properties we can bestow" Spike said like his answer was obvious
"No absolutely not" Giles yelled
"No way am I letting your teeth in my neck" Xander jumped up angrily, his sickness momentarily forgotten.
"And that would kinda be like cheating on Xander wouldn't it?" Anya asked. And everyone just kinda looked at her.
"I think it would be kinda cool" Dawn said, Spike gave her a smile that said he was thankful that at least someone was on his side on this.
"Dawn you have lost your mind, it's the whole key thing, maybe you should go to the back and get some rest, with Buffy." Xander moved to direct Dawn to the back of the RV.
"Let's do it" Buffy said, standing in the door frame.
"Buff.."
"Xander, we have a hell god after us and Dawn, Willow found a protection spell, then I'm more then willing to do anything to get it up as soon as possible" Buffy looked around at the occupents daring them to challenge her "Spike, you can start with yourself"
"Right" he said under his breath, morphing into his "game face". He bit into his wrist and let a few drops fall into the bowl.
"Now me" Buffy said walking up to him, pulling up her leather sleeve. Her eyes cold and dark, letting him know that if anything went beyond what it was supposed to that she would kill him.
Spike tilted his head to the side, then took her offered wrist,and bit into it softly. Drawing in a bit of blood to make it bleed. Then she held her wrist above the bowl and let a few droplets fall to mingle with Spike's.
"Right then, So who is next" Buffy punched him across the face hard sending him into the counter, next to Anya's burning meat. "Bloody hell" But Buffy just went back into the room and closed the door, angry at herself for resorting low enough to letting a vampire bite her and her friends.
"D-Does it hurt?" Dawn asked timidly. Spike smiled at her.
"Only if I wanted it to pet, sometimes a vampires bite can be, very appealing, with the right intentions" Spike said eyeing the red head Witch with a leer, even though Dawn had asked the question.
"Oh you mean like during sex, the bites are always good during sex" Anya stated knowingly.
"Ahn, were ganna talk about this later" Xander said, tension and anger rising in him.
"What" she stomped her foot at Xander "I'm over a thousand years old, think I haven't had sex before, and with a vam..."
"ANYA!" Giles yelled "That's quite enough"
"So it doesn't always have to hurt right" Dawn asked fingering her long sleeve on her right wrist.
"Of course not lil' bit"
"O-okay then" she whispered pulling up the sleeve she was just toying with.
"Dawn what do you think your doing!" Xander said reaching for her arm
"What I have to" Dawn bit back angrily, glaring at him, Xander stopped.
"You hurt her..." He warned.
"And I'll be catching a ride with a flaming thumb, yeah yeah I got it" Spike said annoyed. He took her small wrist and paused. then slowly sunk his fangs into her tender flesh. He had thought Slayer's blood was a delicacy as far as blood went, but his lil bit was even more amazing. He could feel himself harden as he took another deep drink before releasing her wrist and holding it over the bowl. He leaned close to her ear and whispered low enough so no one else would hear. "You taste delectable pet"
"Thanks" Dawn whispered back and blushed, as Xander grabbed her hand and started pouring anaseptics on the small wounds and bandaging them. Spike just rolled his eyes at the boys antics.
"Right then watcher, Witch take the wheel" Willow did as she was told and Giles took his turn, Spike nearly spit out the blood he had to drink to get the wound to flow, but kept the urge down and swallowed. Next was Anya, then the daft boy zeppo, and the only one left was Willow.
"Ok Red, your turn then you get to chant away, yeah" Willow looked down at her wrist unsure of what she should do, did she really need the protection, she asked herself.
"Red" Spike said impatiently
"What if I don't taste good?" Willow said so low that only Spike's ears caught what she said, and he cocked his head to the side with a questioning look on his face.
"Come on Red, last to go, best get it over with, it's not like its judgment day you know." He said for the others benefits, and walked up close to her, taking her wrist and kissed it, and quietly he added "Impossible" in her ear, to her earlier statement.
Her eyes widened, then he glided his fangs into her pale flesh. Willow gasped at the sensation he was creating, and she nearly wined when he pulled away from her, holding her wrist above the bowl for her. She stared at her own blood curiously as it swirled in with the others and then suddenly yanked her hand away from Spike's as if his touch burned her skin.
He looked hurt for a millisecond until her saw her eyes, solid black orbs replacing the green pools she had earlier. And then her lips started moving, chanting but almost undetectable even for his ears.
Everyone stepped back, and Giles was tempted to pull over but curved his impulse on the notion that it might be safer to keep moving. After all they did have a very pissed off hell God after them, or more like after Dawn.
Then a black circle erupted from the small red head with a thunderous sound and threw everyone back. Her body jolted forward but her feet didn't move. She fell to her knees and when she raised her head up, and brushed her hair out of her face she could see everyone breathing hard, and Giles clutching the wheel to his chest , pressed against it from the blow. Her breathing was fast and shallow and she felt weak.
"Cor Luv, what the hell was that" Spike asked almost giddy.
"Wow, just wow Will's it felt like a billion volts of electricity burning my body but...wow" Xander said amazed that his friend had that much power.
"Willow, What the Hell is going on" Buffy stormed past to stand in front of the exhausted witch.
"I did it " she whispered before passing out.