A Death In The Slayer Family - or is there?

Title says most of it - just flippin' READ IT!!

(NB, just in-case you hate them - although I can't understand why anyone would, this is a B/S fic)

They were on the cliff, and the demon finally had the upper hand.

He had Buffy gripped by her neck over the cliff, and the more she struggled, the tighter he gripped.

"You know, I really wanted him first, but as you won't tell me where he *is*, I'll guess you'll have to do," he told her, tightening his grip that little bit more on the word 'is'.

He held her high over the cliffs edge, and looked like he was about to let her go, when a slightly out of breath, and very concerned sounding British male voice shouted from behind them, "No!! Don't kill *her*!"

At the sound of the voice, both Buffy and the demon turned around.

Meanwhile, Spike had heard the obvious concern in his voice, and quickly adjusted it to his normal 'big bad', before stepping out of the shadows, and saying, "It's me you want."

At that, the demon flung Buffy into the bushes and went for Spike, saying, "You're right about that."

As Spike fought the demon, he saw that Buffy seemed about to re-enter the fight, and he shouted to her "GO!"

She just looked at him as if he were crazy, but he looked back just as stubbornly, and narrowly missed a large whack to the head from the demon in the process.

As he returned to the fight he flung over his shoulder to Buffy "Just bloody well GO!" and when he next looked back upon the spot where she had stood, she was no longer there.