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Author's Note: Same goes from last chapter…By the By Spike owns his own apartment.
Feedback: Yes please! E-mail me at pixie_of_dollywood@hotmail.com or say it in the review. If you have any ideas just send them, I'll try to put them in.
"…You can't be serious Willow this is not a good thing!" Buffy said stalking toward Willow, Dawn wide-eyed and defenseless on the couch.
"Look Buffy I'm not saying YEAH Dawn your dating an ex-bloodsucking creature of the night; but you have no idea how good he was for her, to her this past summer when you were..were…"
"DEAD…..Willow just say it!" At this point Dawn's head jolted up from the floor dead center at Buffy, up until this point she had no idea how mad Buffy was.
Angel, Fred, Cordy, Gunn, Xander, and Anya sat very uncomfortably in the summer's kitchen. Each person doing there own thing: Xander and Anya were making coffee, Gunn was sharpening a stake, Fred was scanning the newspaper, and Angel and Cordy were sitting at the small table staring at each other. After what seemed like ages trying to block out what was going on in the other room Gunn broke the silence.
"Are they always like this or were they saving this for us?" Directing the question to Xander and Anya
"It's always like this with hurricane de Summers! And were on Buffy turf now and as if there's not enough drama they're two of them! It's like watching a marathon of Passions!" Cordy said butting into the conversation
"Well he's here…." Fred said almost at a whisper
"What?" Angel asked knowing what her next words would be
"Angelus he killed-make that disemboweled a girl last night and put her body parts on the front steps of her parents house." Fred finished with a utterly disgusted look on her face
"BUFFY! GET IN HERE…..NOW" Angel hollered in the other room
"Wha- what is it?" Buffy questioned
"Well the big bad made his big entrance." Cordelia said handing the paper to Buffy
"Call Giles tell him to meet us at the Magic Shop….and-and as much as I hate to say this at the moment, call Spike. We need as much people as we can that know Angelus patterns."
Everyone made their way to the front door, as Dawn began to rise, Buffy put up her hand up "You're staying. And before you say anything here are the reasons A) It's too dangerous B) I don't think I can stand right now you and Spike in the same room together."
As Dawn was deep in her English reading the phone rang. She had lost track of time it was about 9:00 pm. She felt sorry for herself it was 9:00 pm on a Saturday and where was she, at home reading Macbeth. She picked up the phone only to be greeted by loud music in the background.
"Um…Hello?"
"Hey chica!"
"Janice?"
"Yeah who else? Are we still going to the Bronze, test out our fake I.D.'s?"
"I'm on house arrest, but you go have you fun!"
"Are you sure-Alright you don't have to tell me twice."
"The pouf has reverted to his original form!" Spike declared as he walked into the Magic Shop
"Now not the time, or does Mr. Pointy have to tell you?" Buffy gave Spike a stare of death.
"What do we know, seeing that I'm not a seasoned veteran like all of you?" Fred said putting out some research books
"Fred, as I must say most answers are in books and this one I wish was in a book, but it's not." Giles said cleaning his glasses and placing them on the bridge of his nose.
"Again I say what do we know?"
"Well he likes to end the world, so he's probably going to do that!" Xander joked
"He likes to kill Buffy!" Cordy added
"And he likes to assemble his childe." Angel whispered softly
At 10:30 pm the phone rang again at the Summer's house. This time Dawn was watching Die Hard.
"Hello?"
"I guess the fake I.D. worked…a little too well!" Janice said
"Are you drunk? Where are you I'm coming to pick you up! Where are you?"
"At the Bronze, HEY SUGAR YOU LOOKING FOR A DATE!"
"Don't move!" Dawn hung up the phone and grabbed her jacket.
A dark figure immerged out of the bathroom.
"Hey, come with me." The man whispered into the girl's ear
"Wha-okay…"
"What's your name?" He asked pulling her out of the Bronze and onto the street
"Janice…Where we going?"
Dawn didn't know why she was running so fast, she just had a feeling deep down inside that something bad was going to happen. She was about to pass her 5th cemetery and nothing had happened, which was always a good sign. The graves passed by her in a big gray blur. Dawn was about to pass Spike's old crypt when she heard a blood-curdling scream, quite like the ones you see in B movies. She ran to the source of the scream. The next images she saw made her heart go faint. Angel's alter ego Angelus was taking the last bit of life Janice had in her. He took notice of Dawn, he throw Janice's limp body on to Dawn. He licked his fangs and moved seamlessly towards her.
"Hey Dawnie, this your friend? Man she tasted good. I wonder how good you will taste." He gave his usually laugh. Dawn dropped Janice
Dawn felt like she was moving in slow motion and everything around her was going in fast forward. The last thing she remembered was leaving the cemetery and now she was at the door to the Magic Shop. She look down at herself she hadn't realized that Janice's blood was on her, there was so much. Something just snapped inside her. Although this moment only took a spilt second it felt like hours in Dawn's mind. She started pounding on the door.
"HELP ME…OPEN THE DOOR…SOMEBODY HELP MEEEEEE!!" Dawn screamed in the door.
Spike was standing up against the book case by the front door. It was 11:00 pm and they had gotten no where. Then he smelled Dawn and everything seemed fine. She smelled like sunflowers and silk, and perspiration. Then there was the overwhelming smell of fear. Then he heard pounding on the door. He opened it and Dawn feel into his arms. It hurt him to see Dawn, his Dawn crying and couldn't do anything about it. After she calmed herself down he gathered her up in his arms and placed her on the counter.
"Nibblit, Baby Doll?"
"Home, take me home."
"One round trip to Casa de Summer coming up."
"No, I want to be with you…at your home."
"Do what you need to do, to help her." Buffy said
Spike picked her and turned to Buffy they gave each other a mutual nod. He walked to his apartment. He was almost shaking the only thing that calmed him was the steady beat of Dawn's heartbeat.
The next morning Buffy, Willow, Giles, and Angel gathered again in the Summer's kitchen. Willow was scanning through the newspaper to see if anything had happened last night and maybe some clues of what happened to Dawn. She got the bottom of the front page and throw her hand to her mouth.
"Oh God, Poor Dawnie." Willow whispered
"What happened…Will?" Buffy grabbed the paper
"Janice died…Buffy. They say that it was alcohol poisoning but the police can't figure out why she had to puncture marks in her neck and no blood left."
"Who's Janice? Was she important to Dawn?" Angel asked guilt in his eyes
"It would be as if Angelus had killed Willow" Buffy said
"Oh…" was the only thing Angel could think of
Author's Note: Same goes from last chapter…By the By Spike owns his own apartment.
Feedback: Yes please! E-mail me at pixie_of_dollywood@hotmail.com or say it in the review. If you have any ideas just send them, I'll try to put them in.
"…You can't be serious Willow this is not a good thing!" Buffy said stalking toward Willow, Dawn wide-eyed and defenseless on the couch.
"Look Buffy I'm not saying YEAH Dawn your dating an ex-bloodsucking creature of the night; but you have no idea how good he was for her, to her this past summer when you were..were…"
"DEAD…..Willow just say it!" At this point Dawn's head jolted up from the floor dead center at Buffy, up until this point she had no idea how mad Buffy was.
Angel, Fred, Cordy, Gunn, Xander, and Anya sat very uncomfortably in the summer's kitchen. Each person doing there own thing: Xander and Anya were making coffee, Gunn was sharpening a stake, Fred was scanning the newspaper, and Angel and Cordy were sitting at the small table staring at each other. After what seemed like ages trying to block out what was going on in the other room Gunn broke the silence.
"Are they always like this or were they saving this for us?" Directing the question to Xander and Anya
"It's always like this with hurricane de Summers! And were on Buffy turf now and as if there's not enough drama they're two of them! It's like watching a marathon of Passions!" Cordy said butting into the conversation
"Well he's here…." Fred said almost at a whisper
"What?" Angel asked knowing what her next words would be
"Angelus he killed-make that disemboweled a girl last night and put her body parts on the front steps of her parents house." Fred finished with a utterly disgusted look on her face
"BUFFY! GET IN HERE…..NOW" Angel hollered in the other room
"Wha- what is it?" Buffy questioned
"Well the big bad made his big entrance." Cordelia said handing the paper to Buffy
"Call Giles tell him to meet us at the Magic Shop….and-and as much as I hate to say this at the moment, call Spike. We need as much people as we can that know Angelus patterns."
Everyone made their way to the front door, as Dawn began to rise, Buffy put up her hand up "You're staying. And before you say anything here are the reasons A) It's too dangerous B) I don't think I can stand right now you and Spike in the same room together."
As Dawn was deep in her English reading the phone rang. She had lost track of time it was about 9:00 pm. She felt sorry for herself it was 9:00 pm on a Saturday and where was she, at home reading Macbeth. She picked up the phone only to be greeted by loud music in the background.
"Um…Hello?"
"Hey chica!"
"Janice?"
"Yeah who else? Are we still going to the Bronze, test out our fake I.D.'s?"
"I'm on house arrest, but you go have you fun!"
"Are you sure-Alright you don't have to tell me twice."
"The pouf has reverted to his original form!" Spike declared as he walked into the Magic Shop
"Now not the time, or does Mr. Pointy have to tell you?" Buffy gave Spike a stare of death.
"What do we know, seeing that I'm not a seasoned veteran like all of you?" Fred said putting out some research books
"Fred, as I must say most answers are in books and this one I wish was in a book, but it's not." Giles said cleaning his glasses and placing them on the bridge of his nose.
"Again I say what do we know?"
"Well he likes to end the world, so he's probably going to do that!" Xander joked
"He likes to kill Buffy!" Cordy added
"And he likes to assemble his childe." Angel whispered softly
At 10:30 pm the phone rang again at the Summer's house. This time Dawn was watching Die Hard.
"Hello?"
"I guess the fake I.D. worked…a little too well!" Janice said
"Are you drunk? Where are you I'm coming to pick you up! Where are you?"
"At the Bronze, HEY SUGAR YOU LOOKING FOR A DATE!"
"Don't move!" Dawn hung up the phone and grabbed her jacket.
A dark figure immerged out of the bathroom.
"Hey, come with me." The man whispered into the girl's ear
"Wha-okay…"
"What's your name?" He asked pulling her out of the Bronze and onto the street
"Janice…Where we going?"
Dawn didn't know why she was running so fast, she just had a feeling deep down inside that something bad was going to happen. She was about to pass her 5th cemetery and nothing had happened, which was always a good sign. The graves passed by her in a big gray blur. Dawn was about to pass Spike's old crypt when she heard a blood-curdling scream, quite like the ones you see in B movies. She ran to the source of the scream. The next images she saw made her heart go faint. Angel's alter ego Angelus was taking the last bit of life Janice had in her. He took notice of Dawn, he throw Janice's limp body on to Dawn. He licked his fangs and moved seamlessly towards her.
"Hey Dawnie, this your friend? Man she tasted good. I wonder how good you will taste." He gave his usually laugh. Dawn dropped Janice
Dawn felt like she was moving in slow motion and everything around her was going in fast forward. The last thing she remembered was leaving the cemetery and now she was at the door to the Magic Shop. She look down at herself she hadn't realized that Janice's blood was on her, there was so much. Something just snapped inside her. Although this moment only took a spilt second it felt like hours in Dawn's mind. She started pounding on the door.
"HELP ME…OPEN THE DOOR…SOMEBODY HELP MEEEEEE!!" Dawn screamed in the door.
Spike was standing up against the book case by the front door. It was 11:00 pm and they had gotten no where. Then he smelled Dawn and everything seemed fine. She smelled like sunflowers and silk, and perspiration. Then there was the overwhelming smell of fear. Then he heard pounding on the door. He opened it and Dawn feel into his arms. It hurt him to see Dawn, his Dawn crying and couldn't do anything about it. After she calmed herself down he gathered her up in his arms and placed her on the counter.
"Nibblit, Baby Doll?"
"Home, take me home."
"One round trip to Casa de Summer coming up."
"No, I want to be with you…at your home."
"Do what you need to do, to help her." Buffy said
Spike picked her and turned to Buffy they gave each other a mutual nod. He walked to his apartment. He was almost shaking the only thing that calmed him was the steady beat of Dawn's heartbeat.
The next morning Buffy, Willow, Giles, and Angel gathered again in the Summer's kitchen. Willow was scanning through the newspaper to see if anything had happened last night and maybe some clues of what happened to Dawn. She got the bottom of the front page and throw her hand to her mouth.
"Oh God, Poor Dawnie." Willow whispered
"What happened…Will?" Buffy grabbed the paper
"Janice died…Buffy. They say that it was alcohol poisoning but the police can't figure out why she had to puncture marks in her neck and no blood left."
"Who's Janice? Was she important to Dawn?" Angel asked guilt in his eyes
"It would be as if Angelus had killed Willow" Buffy said
"Oh…" was the only thing Angel could think of