Chapter 2
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"I don't understand why did Angel say it's nice to see you again Anyanka? The only time that you two really interacted was when he was here a couple of thanksgivings ago and you acted like you never met him before." Xander asks Anya confused as he Willow, Tara, Anya and Dawn enter the magic box.
"Angel? He's here?" Buffy asks surprised from her position at the table with Giles who she was just telling what had occurred minus the details about her beating up Spike.
"HOW COULD YOU? HOW COULD YOU HURT HIM LIKE THAT AND THEN LEAVE HIM? HOW COULD YOU BUFFY? HOW COULD YOU?" Dawn says angrily before running into the backroom.
"Who's she talking about?" Buffy asks her friends confused.
"Spike." Willow says simply "We know what you did Buffy. If it wasn't for Angel turning up Spike would be dead as soon as the sun rises. We would have walked passed that alley without realising if he wasn't here." Willow says angrily.
"What happened to Spike? And what does anything have to do with Angel?" Giles asks confused.
"Buffy happened to Spike." Anya explains "Buffy beat Spike to a bloody pulp and left him in an alley unable to move. Angel showed up saying that Cordelia had a vision of the beating and that he is here to help Spike." Anya explains.
"I thought he would be fine." Buffy defends.
"He's not, and unless Angel can seriously help him he's not going to be." Tara says quietly.
"I should take them blood. Spike is going to need it." Buffy says wanting to do something to make up for what she did, while she knows this is just a small step it's a start.
"NO." Xander, Willow, Tara and Anya say together.
"Why not?" Buffy asks confused.
"Angel said to tell you that once Spike is well enough to travel he is taking him back to LA with him and he said, honey he said, to tell you to stay away from them until then." Willow says comforting but she is still angry at what Buffy did to her friend.
"Oh."
"Which brings me to another question. Since when does Dead Boy Senior care about Dead Boy Junior?" Xander asks confused.
"Yeah that was weird. I always thought Angel hated Spike and vice versa." Willow says as everyone present in the room take as seat at the table.
"How do you fight vampires and no so little?" Anya asks surprised.
"Something you want to share Anya?" Buffy asks sounding a little irritated.
"Is that about why Angel said to give us a history lesson?" Tara asks interested.
"Yes it is. It will also explain why he called me Anyanka." Anya says looking at Xander.
"Well we're listening Anya." Dawn says walking into the room sitting down between Tara and Willow, far away from her sister who she isn't looking at.
"Well the first thing is Giles. In the Watcher Diaries who does it say sired Spike?" Anya asks Giles.
"Officially Drusilla, but there is some debate about that as some sources say it was Angelus." Giles answers, wondering why she started her explanation with that question.
"Both answers are correct but I'll explain that in a minute. All of us fight and kill vampires every day. Do any of you wonder if we are destroying a family when we do? Because I do." Anya tells the group.
"Vampires don't…" Xander begins
"Yes they do." Anya says simply "When a Vampires sires another they become family. Most only stay together for at the absolute most a couple of years until the fledgling is grown up and is capable of surviving on their own, but that doesn't always happen." Anya explains "The Whirlwind is one of the only Vampire families to have more than two members and stay together more than five years."
"What do you mean? I fight groups of Vampires all the time, and what is the Whirlwind?" Buffy asks confused.
"You fight bosses and their minions not families. Yes they may have been sired by the same vampire but they aren't a family. The Whirlwind was just that a family. The strongest, closes and most deadly to have ever has existed among the Vampire world." Anya explains.
"Oh." Giles says realising who she is referring to.
"Yes. As Giles just realised, Darla, Angelus, Drusilla and William the Bloody, or Spike as we know him as. Together they made the Whirlwind" Anya explains
"What made them so special?" Xander asks curious.
"They cared about each other." Anya says simply.
"Look I saw Drusilla, Spike and Angelus together; they didn't look like they cared about each other. Spike hit Angelus over the head with a crowbar and told his plans to me, knowing that it may end with Angelus being killed." Buffy says not believing that there was some kind of amazing relationship between the four Vampires.
"From the stories I have heard about what happened here when Angel lost his soul you didn't meet the real Angelus." Anya tells Buffy.
"Of course I did." Buffy says angrily at the same time Giles, Willow and Xander say "Of course she did."
"No you didn't. If the true Angelus was loose everyone in this town would be either dead or turned. Trust me on that, I saw it more than once in my demon days." Anya tells the group.
"So what are you saying we dealt with?" Giles asks as everyone else sits in shock.
"He was Angelus just not the true Angelus. There was talk among the demon world, theories, that after being suppressed by a soul for so long Angelus went insane. That's what you all dealt with an insane fragment of the true Angelus." Anya explains. "And after what you did to Spike today you are really lucky both that Angel has a soul and that the true Angelus is gone." Anya says to Buffy so calmly as if she is just saying a fact.
"I know I'm going to regret this but I have to know, why?" Willow asks looking like she internally debated for a long time before asking.
"Because from the moment Spike was sired, something I will explain in a minute, Angelus put a warning out. If you hurt Spike in any way, shape or form he will take it as a personal attack against him and retaliate as such. Of course by doing that Angelus made it perfectly clear that Spike was his weakness, but very few were stupid enough to test that out, though I do remember once I was in the same city as them when a human hurt Spike. At the time I found what Angelus did to the person inspiring." Anya tells the group.
"Angel super overprotective of Spike, wow, can't really picture it. I mean I can better after earlier but that's still odd." Willow says with a frown.
"What did Angel do?" Dawn asks interested.
"Angelus Dawn," Buffy corrects, "and I don't think that it would be appropriate." Buffy tells her little sister.
"It wasn't too horrible; Angelus just beheaded the human and his entire family and put their heads on stakes in the town centre to warn people about what happened to people or demons who hurt his family." Anya says simply like she is talking about the weather.
Everyone else in the room, sans Anya, look disturbed by that and no one talks for several minutes.
"Why was Angelus so protective of Spike? And who sired him?" Giles asks Anya interested.
"Both questions have the same answer. For decades there were rumours, suspicions and gossip about who turned Spike, in some circles there still are today. With how much of legends the Whirlwind are it's not surprising, the demon world loves gossip. I am one of the few beings who know the truth about Spike's siring." Anya says looking rather proud at herself.
"How?" Xander asks interested.
"Angel told me." Anya says simply and everyone looks surprised "But that's not the story I'm telling now." Anya says "Drusilla was the one who drained Spike, and she was the first to give him blood but she didn't give him enough. Dru brought the human William not fully turned back to where they were living at the time. Angel told me that Darla wanted to stake him but he wouldn't let her, there was something about him, so Angel gave him the rest of the blood he needed and completed the change. That is the only intense of a vampire having two sires that I know off. That's why Angel is so protective of Spike. Angel's Blood runs through Drusilla and she gave her blood to Spike and then Angel himself did, because of this Spike has more of Angel's blood, he's more of Angel's than any other Childe. As far as I know it's the only bond of its kind that there is." Anya explains.
"I still don't get it then why did Spike come to me when Angelus was going to destroy the world? Why do Spike and Angel always act like they hate each other? And why did Angel help us try and kill Spike multiple times when they were both in Sunnydale? If Spike and Angel have this strong connection then why would he do that?" Buffy asks, standing up, clearly confused and doesn't believe what Anya said.
"Buffy do you remember what Angel first said when Spike came to Sunnydale?" Willow asks remembering something.
"No. Not really." Buffy admits.
"He said that once Spike starts something he doesn't finish until everything in his path is dead. I think he may have said something about how we shouldn't go after him but I could be wrong." Willow says remembering.
"What does that have to do with Angel and Spike's relationship?" Buffy asks confused.
"Well one, Does that really sound like Spike, really? Two, Angel could have said what he said so that he could get Spike and Drusilla to leave without us hurting or killing them." Willow suggests.
"If that's true then why did Angel fight him when he attacked parents' night?" Buffy asks still disbelieving about the strong relationship Spike and Angel apparently have.
"Angel never fought Spike not directly, not that night at least." Xander says remembering.
"Okay so then that maybe explains Angel but not Spike. Spike is fond of insulting Angel, saying how much he hates him." Buffy points out.
"It's because he thinks Angel abandoned him." Anya says from the table causing everyone to look at her.
"What?" Buffy asks.
"After getting his soul Angel returned to the Whirlwind, briefly, when Spike killed his first slayer. Darla who knew Angel had a soul gave him a chance to try and be the 'old' Angelus he pretended to be but she knew that he wasn't really. After that the Whirlwind broke up for good. Angel wanted to explain things to Drusilla and Spike but he heard Darla telling them that Angelus didn't want to be a part of their family anymore. That he didn't want to be their Sire. Spike feels betrayed by Angel." Anya explains.
"Okay, how do you know this?" Buffy asks Anya.
"Like I said, Angel told me." Anya says standing up and walking over to Buffy.
"When?" Buffy asks.
"About a hundred years ago." Anya answers to the surprise of everyone.
"Um, explain please." Xander requests, being the first person to come out of his shock.
"It was after Angel got his soul. After the Whirlwind broke up; after Angel heard Darla talking to Spike and Drusilla. He was miserable, at a bar drinking. I was looking for heartbroken woman to grant wishes for when I spotted him, the famous Angelus. I decided that he was a better way to spend my night. He was drunk and luckily for me, very talkative. He told me everything I just told you. After seeing what state Darla put him in I was tempted to grant him a wish but I didn't, he was a scorned man not a scorned woman. I didn't realises it at the time but his soul was also part of the reason he was acting the way he was." Anya explains to everyone before turning back to Buffy "That's how I know everything I said was true. I was told by the source." Anya tells her.
"Do you think Angel got Spike to safety?" Dawn asks everyone several minutes later when no one has spoken "He looked bad."
"I'm sure he did Dawnie." Tara tells her.
"Do you think Angel will let me know if I can visit Spike today?" Dawn asks the witch.
"I don't know Dawnie. It would depend how badly Spike's hurt and what exactly Angel can do for him." Tara tells her.
"Wait Angel is letting you visit Spike." Buffy says surprised.
"Of course, I'm not the one who hurt Spike." Dawn says to Buffy angrily before turning back to Tara "Can we go home? I want to go to bed."
"Of course, that's not surprising you've been up all night." Tara tells her.
"Hey, it was yours and Willow's idea for the movie marathon." Dawn objects.
"And it was yours to go for the early morning stroll." Willow reminds her.
"I'm glad we did." Dawn says quietly.
"Me two Dawnie." Tara whispers to her putting her arm around the young girl.
"I'm so glad its Saturday." Willow says as she stands up and follows Tara and Dawn out of the magic box, all three of them saying goodbye to Giles, Anya and Xander first, Buffy walking besides her.
"Do you know where Angle was planning to take Spike?" Buffy asks Willow.
"Yes."
"You're not going to tell me, are you?" Buffy realises.
"After what Anya said and how Angel looked earlier it would be better if I didn't. You didn't see Angel earlier, he was scary Buffy. If he says that he wants you to stay away then maybe you should." Willow tells her friend.
"Maybe." Buffy mutters.
"Look if Spike okay with me going to see him I'll talk to Angel when I do, okay. Tell him that you want to talk to him." Willow tells her.
"You're going to visit Spike." Buffy says surprised.
"Of course. He's my friend." Willow tells her.
"He is? When did that happen?" Buffy asks surprised.
"Over the summer." Willow says quietly.
"Oh." Buffy says and the pair walk back to the Summers' house in silence. Dawn and Tara walking in front of them chatting quietly to each other.
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AN2: The next chapter will go to Angel and Spike I just wanted to get the backstory done so that when we go to Angel and Spike in the next chapter you understand their relationship a bit better.