This is set after series 7: Buffy and after series 5: Angel

Disclaimer: I only own Roxanne and the plot the rest is Joss Whedon's!

Title: Family Matters

Summary: After the epic and once again apocalyptic battle in Angel: The series, season five, Spike searches for Buffy, but after a run in with an angry demon he's left for dead in a haunted forest. That's until he meets a new powerful friend.

Chapter 1

Roxanne was running as fast as her legs could carry her, muscles stretching and contracting with each bound. She had been running for so long, trying to forget. The sounds and smells haunting her every step. Her dad's scream for her to run, her brothers falling while the remains of the survivors scattered. She slowed when she neared the trees of a dark forest. No idea where she was. She carried on at a jog, now all her adrenaline had left her body she was tired. She stumbled forward. Yawning and climbing into a tree, she curled up and let her eyes droop.

Spike was hurt, he was bleeding from multiple cuts from a very angry aggressive monster, he didn't know what it was he just knew that it wasn't happy when he hit it in the back. He stumbled towards shelter, just for a rest, he wouldn't die here, no way. He owed it to her to make it back. Where ever back was, he was just chasing leads and reports of an army of girls, fighting the good fight as always.

Roxanne's senses went into red alert, her eyes popped open as she scanned her surroundings for the danger her nose was telling her of. Vampire.

She jumped from the tree, landing silently and padded through the under growth. Pushing a bush out of the way, she saw the danger. But danger wasn't the right word, the vampire, that's what he definitely was, was sat against a tree, bleach blonde hair and all black attire, including a large black coat. He smelled different from normal vampires, he smelt of humanity. A soul. Among the other smells of alcohol, sex and blood, she could smell it.

"Who's that," He said, an English accent wrapping around the words. A small smile tickled Roxanne's lips at a familiar accent. As she walked out of the undergrowth.

Spike could hear something in the trees, a padding of feet, and the sound of slightly uneasy breathing, "Who's that," he shouted out, a little worried about how his current state would affect his fighting chance, to his amazement a beautiful wolf stepped into the moonlight, tall as a man at it's shoulder, big enough that a human could ride it as horse. Its fur was white, with strange midnight blue markings patterned around it. There were circles around its eyes and muzzle. As well as the base of its ears, all were joined by neat lines that traced along its temple and bridge of its nose. From its ears the markings ran in lines parallel to each other either side its spine. There were also bands across its ankles, knees and the top of each of its legs.

"Hey there," Greeted Spike,

The wolf let out an uneasy growl,

"Easy now, I'm not going to hurt you," Spike soothed.

The wolf tilted its head, a questioning look in its deep brown eyes, it took a tentative step forward, sniffing the air.

Roxanne smelled the air, checking it was safe then she changed, like diving into warm water she changed into her human form, just an enchantment that was built in, since her great ancestors.

"That's a neat trick," said the vampire. "I'm Spike," he smiled.

"I'm Roxy," she replied, "Not meaning to be rude, but what are you?" she asked.

"I was about to ask you the same thing, I probably wouldn't have warned you about being rude, though," He smiled at his own little joke.

"I'm a wolf,"

"You're not any more,"

"It's an enchantment,"

"Wow, I'm a vampire, with a soul."

"That's what I thought, but I thought a vampire with a soul would try and tot themselves." Roxy said honestly.

"My survival instinct is too strong," he smiled.

"What happened to you," she asked, looking at his various injuries.

"Big guy wasn't too impressed when I tried too move in,"

"That was stupid, I thought vampires were clever,"

"We have our moments,"

Roxy walked slowly towards him, the smell of vampire prickling her nose. She sat next to him, then put a finger on the patch of his skin, the circle marking on the back of her hand glowing slightly as she pressed gently against his cold flesh and watched his wounds close over.

Spike watched as a tingling sense of relief washed through him, his injuries healing over. He looked up at the girl, she looked young about 17 in human standards. Her hair as white as the wolf's fur, her deep brown eyes smouldered and burned. The mark on the back of her hand so similar to the wolf's markings, was glowing slightly. She gave him a small smile,

"Where you heading? Lost in a big old forest. Cos, no offence you look out of place, love" Spike said,

"You'd be surprised and I don't know yet, just keeping out of trouble," She replied her voice quiet and soft, like she hadn't used it much. "What about you?"

"Me? I'm off to find a girl. Very special girl."

"Where?" She asked, intrigued.

"Don't know, we lost contact a while back, I'm following reports,"

"Well…" she shook her head and resolved into silence.

"Go on, you can't leave me hanging, now. Can you Luv" Spike smiled.

"If you've got something with a scent, I'm a pretty good tracker. Sort of comes with the gig," she grinned coming out of her shell.

"Yeah, what was that?"

"The basic answer is werewolf." she smiled.

"I'm not going anywhere till tomorrow night, we can go into more detail, don't you think," he smiled, probing. It was like talking to dawn or the other Slayer-ettes except she had a better story to tell.

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