Chapter 2

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"Ok What the Hell JUST happened here people!?" Piper said waving around a chunk of fresh mandrake root; she was now fuming…it didn't matter that all she was doing was re-organizing the fresh spices…because this was still a strange and unwelcome disturbance in her life; but what else was new.

"Well suffice to say, that worked." Wesley said smugly.

"Well unless you were casting a spell to really piss me off I don't think it worked!" Piper yelled. She was seething and it was rather evident.

"Well um Miss, Miss." Wesley said finally addressing Piper.

"Halliwell Miss Piper Halliwell. And these are my sisters Phoebe and Paige." She said condescendingly.

"Now that we have made all the lovely introductions. Can you tell me what exactly is going on?" Paige said in an annoyed tone.

Wes seemed stunned after Piper's outburst. He was expecting a soft celestial set of women in gauzy dresses (much like the furies), yet what he got were three beautiful but obviously earthbound women.

Spike decided he was rather impatient about this whole corporeal thing; he took a step out of the circle where the women were standing severely shaking their nerves. He spoke, directing it at Phoebe.

"You see pet I'm rather see-through at the moment and my lovely friends here at Wolfram and Hart would like to remedy that." Spike grinned wolfishly as he looked all three of them up and down.

"Hey Casper we're up here." Phoebe said finding her voice.

"Sorry ducks, how bloody awful of me." Spike said giving a stately but mocking bow.

"Yes well you can be useful and tell us why we're here." Phoebe said curtly.

"Well, that is to, um." Wesley said stumbling over his words, staring at Piper.

"Re-corporeal-ize Spike, as it were." Fred blurted out.

Well Wes wasn't going to get it out so I might as well. She thought. Wes shot her a look.

"And why would we want to do that? " Piper said, stepping out of the circle cautiously, sticking close to her sisters.

"That would be cuz' I'm a bloody champion; I saved the world and I want what's coming to me." Spike was starting to feel that this was the beginning of a huge crusade that only had a 50/50 chance of Spike getting his body back.

"How do you know that what's coming to you is a new body?" Paige looked at him with skepticism.

"Champions die all time what makes you so special?" Piper said, thinking of Prue.

Spike thought for a second and opened his mouth to answer. When Paige looked to her sisters and asked in a hushed tone.

"Can we even do that?"

"Not really" Phoebe interjected, as she stepped closer to Piper and further out of the circle.

"Well I wasn't exactly Mr. Heartbeats and sunshine before, so…" Spike was on his way to a strange yet explanatory sentence when Piper got curious.

"Wait what are you talking about?"

"Well, Spike is actually a vampire, actually." Wesley offered.

"Ok. That just confuses me." Paige began. "I mean the whole idea behind vampires is soulless evil and very much with the grrh." Paige made an attempt to pantomime a vampire in strike mode.

"Well that's usually true honey-doll but our little Blondie here is different, he has a soul, a rather sweet poetic one in all honesty." Lorne had just waltzed into the room in one of his loud suits, a luscious violet that really made the green of his skin pop.

TBC