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Chapter 4 - Crypt, Sweet Crypt.
Ballad For Dead Friends - Dashboard Prophets
"Well, this is it." Spike said as they neared the Crypt.
"Nice. Very....murky." she said looking at the dying vines on the wall.
"Well....not saying it's exactly pleasant living as yet, but in progress." he said opening the door to reveal the upper room. It looked quite bare, except for the t.v., coffin and a few other objects lying here and there.
He led her downstairs where he'd begun re-decorating. There was a manky-looking sofa, an old bed and a fridge.
"As I said,- in progress." he said, "Linked into someone's power supply....need to get myself a few....whatever."
"Uh huh." she said, putting down her small leather rucksack which contained her few belongings. "Hey...um, you wouldn't happen to have anything to..."
He threw a half empty bottle of blood to her, "...eat." she finished, opening the bottle. Spike sat down on the old sofa with a bottle of beer, Kayla seated herself beside him with what was left of the blood.
"So...you help The Slayer?"
"Now and again. In return for money, help, whatever." he said taking a swig from the glass bottle.
"And she doesn't stake you or, you know, try to?"
"Oh she threatens. All the bloody time, actually, but she never does it. They don't want to hurt a 'poor harmless creature'." he made a face.
"Harmless creature?" she said, "She said that?
"Well...Giles did, but it's all the same."
"Giles? Who's-?"
Just then, as if to answer her question, Giles, Buffy,Willow and Anya burst into the crypt.
"Haven't you people heard of knocking?" Spike growled angrily, "Just burst into a person's home like that - uninvited...enough to make you-"
"We don't have time for games, Spike." Buffy said angrily, she folded her arms.
"Yes, quite." Giles said stepping forward, Kayla noticed he was holding an axe, "We apologise for intruding, especially when you're...entertaining." he glanced at Kayla.
"And you bloody well should!" Spike said indignantly.
"Cut the crap, Spike." Buffy cut in, "Come with us."
Spike looked at her in surprise, "I'm sorry. I don't take orders." he said.
"Just come with us now." the small blonde woman said, she loaded the crossbow in her hands and waved it threateningly in his direction, "Now."
Spike sighed and stood up, Kayla followed suit. "What is it?"
"We need someone to track a blood scent." Buffy said.
"And-and seen as you're a vampire...we thought maybe you were the best candidate." Willow added.
"Listen, just because you need a blood hound does not mean that-" Spike began, but Buffy pointed the loaded crossbow at him threateningly.
"Now, Spike."
Spike put the empty beer bottle on the sofa and followed grumpily, "This better be good." he growled.
"You're girlfriend can come too." Buffy said signalling for Kayla to follow.
"It's Kayla." Kayla said, "And I'm not his girlfriend."
"Yeah, whatever." Buffy said walking out.
"We've been tracking this for bloody hours." Spike said as he and Kayla led the others, "What exactly are we looking for anyway?"
"Demon." Buffy said point-blank.
"Yeah." Spike laughed, "We gathered that much, anything in particular or will any one do?"
"We're looking for a demon that took Xander." Anya said.
"Oh." Spike smirked, "The little boy been kidnapped has he?"
Buffy glared at him, "Just find the demon."
"Is she always like this?" Kayla whispered.
"Well sometimes she's even more unpleasant and sometimes she's only obnocious." Spike said. He stopped suddenly, "Wait, got something."
"I got it too." Kayla said, "It's as if someone put a bucket of fresh blood in front of me."
"She's a vampire too?" Willow whispered to Buffy.
Buffy shrugged "If she attacks anyone I'll stake her later, right now we need to find Xander."
"Ugh." Spike said suddenly, "The boy's in there," he indicated the Magick Box, which was closed for the night, "I can smell him."
Buffy and the others crept up to the building and 'stealthily' broke in by breaking the window. Spike and Kayla followed. They were met by two demons very similar to the one which they had killed in the alleyway. They fought them with the others, exchanging blows and swapping weapons. When the demons were both dead Spike and Kayla moved the large heavy oak bookcase which was blocking the door to the basement and broke down the door so that they could reach Xander.
"Well, if that's you lot finished with us we'll be off." Spike said as he and Kayla left, "Tell Xander not to follow strange demons in future."
That's Entertainment - The Jam
By the time they'd reached the Crypt again it was getting lighter. Spike took out his almost empty packet of cigarettes and the lighter again as they sat on the couch.
"You not bothered about getting used like that?" Kayla asked.
"What? Oh...well, nothing much else to do, and I'd rather hit demons than nothing." Spike said.
Kayla nodded, she looked around the dark room. The bed at the other side looked old. She noticed some candles and metal candle holders lying in a pile in the corner.
"What're the candles for?" she asked.
"Nothing, really. Just looked interesting, thought they'd brighten the place up a bit. Make it more posh."
"Wanna actually set 'em up?" Kayla asked.
"Do what you want, Pet."
Kayla put the candles up, the tall gothic metal candle stick in one corner, a few about the room. It looked quite creepy; gothic; vampire-like. They lit a few of the candles to see the effect and sat on the sofa for a while talking about the drastic change in life-style the Initiative Behaviour chips had caused for them. Soon Kayla, however, actually fell asleep. Spike lifted her over the room to the bed.
When she woke up about noon, it was to find Spike lying next to her topless Yum or what?!!!, he was still asleep. She sat up slowly and walked across the room. Only one of the candles was still alight, and there was a layer of smoke near the ceiling. She went up to the ground level of the crypt, staying well clear from the sunlight coming through the windows, and switched on the television on a low volume. There was basically nothing on so she just sat and stared mindlessly at it for a while until Spike woke up and joined her. They were just about to open the last packet of pigs' blood that was in the fridge when Kayla suddenly lunged forward and screamed in pain.
"What is it?!" Spike asked, shocked.
She fell to her knees on the concrete floor in agony, clutching her stomach.
"It's...it's the....oww!" she yelled.
THE INITIATIVE BASE SAME TIME-
"We have finally managed to activate the internal tracer in Hostile 14's electro-chip." said an official-looking man in a white coat. The commando next to him nodded.
"Right. Good. I'll send out a search troop, see if we can track it down. It's taken us a while, but we will get it back."
"Better?" Spike asked. Kayla nodded. She was lying flat out on the concrete floor. "What the hell was that?"
"I don't know." she said quietly, "But it hurt like hell."
"You don't say." he helped her up. "Look, I think it would be better if you ate something."
"Any chocolate cake?" she smirked.
"No." he said smiling, "But-"
Just then the door burst open and Willow came in.
"What is it, Red? We were kinda-"
"The commandos are coming this way, I was on my way from the Magick shop and I saw them sneaking about." she said abruptly, "They had this little bleepy thingy and-"
"Oh." Spike said grabbing Kayla by the arm roughly and snatching his coat from the back of a chair. He tossed it over his and Kayla's heads and pushed past Willow.
The sun scorched their undead flesh as they bolted from place to place, only to find that the commandos were there. Although the soldier boys never showed any signs of seeing them, both vampires knew that they had a tracer or something on them, because they seemed to know exactly where they'd be every time.
Eventually they found themselves near Giles' house and Spike banged savagely on the door. When Giles opened the door, Spike shouted something that sounded a bit like;
"Let....in!" which Kayla suspected was supposed to mean 'let us in!'.
Luckily, Willow was there, and they were soon allowed in.
"Not again Spike honestly, it is very careless of you allowing yourself to be shot with tracers every week." Giles said once they were inside.
"I bloody haven't!" Spike panted, "I haven't seen a commando in weeks!"
"Well there must be some reason they're chasing us." Kayla said looking warily around.
They waited there uncomfortably awaiting the darkness, sitting alone in the diningroom. When it was finally dark enough for them to leave they did.
The commandos must have given up their search as they weren't bothered all the way home. Except by one vampire, a very grimy, sleazy wretch who followed them down the road and attempted to bite them a number of times. Spike eventually punched the weirdo in the face and left him unconscious in the middle of the street.