Title: Living In Danger
Author: MSKBSwedish
Rating: Mature
Summery: Set four years after the first story 'Midnight Sun'. Buffy and Spike's daughter Linn is now four years old and it's up to Spike and Buffy to protect their little girl from demons and other sorts of evil when the word gets out that the Slayer and the Slayer of Slayers have a child together. Set as M for heavy adult themes at times.
Note: I own nothing of the Buffyverse.


Chapter Nine – Without Fear


It was dark in the crypt as it always was. It scared Linn. She could hear rats and mice running about. There were spiders and little bugs almost everywhere. It wasn't like at home where it was bright and clean and bug-free for the most part. The only issues she ever had was when she would sometimes go into the basement with mommy and a spider would be in the corner of the room. That scared her. Of course 'mummy' was her hero. Linn missed Buffy so much that it hurt. She didn't know it but it hurt Buffy to be without her little girl too.

"My mummy is going to kick your bus!" Linn shouted at the two vampires who were holding her hostage.

Angelus and Dru looked at one another and laughed.

"Oh dear child. Your mummy is going to die." Dru bent down to look Linn in the face. "I'm going to be your new mummy and Angelus is going to be your new daddy once we dust your daddy." Dru's eyes flashed with anger when the little girl reached out and scratched at Dru's face.

Linn's nails were a little long for most little girls her age and she knew how to use them.

"You little twit!" Dru cried out, grabbing her face in pain as it bled.

"What did she do?" Angelus asked from across the room.

"She scratched me!" Dru stood up quickly and held her face in her hand.

Angelus walked over to Dru to take a look at the cut and it was pretty good for being done by a four year old.

Angelus looked down at Linn who glared up at them. "Good job, kid." He couldn't help but laugh. Dru scoffed and pushed Angelus away. "What? You said you wanted a cold blooded killer, love. This is just the first step." Angelus smiled.

Dru shook her head. "Not towards us, my darling, towards other people. We are her new mummy and daddy and she needs to learn a lesson!" Dru shouted.

Linn watched as the vampire walked around the crypt and over to a small bag sitting on a table by a few candles. Dru pulled out a small sized object. She held it in her hand as she walked toward the cage that held Linn. There was a deranged look on the woman's face that caused Linn to tremble in fear.

"You want to attack me? You never attack your mummy!" Dru shouted at the child. She quickly unlocked the cage and crawled half way in to grab Linn.

"NO! Leh' me go!" The small child screamed and kicked at Dru. "No!" She cried out as the vampire drug her out of the cage.

Linn's eyes dropped to the object in Dru's hand, the shining of it caught her eye. It was a knife.


After explaining the situation to Xander, Anya, Willow, Tara, Giles and Dawn, Buffy and Spike helped everyone except Tara and Dawn to gear up. Dawn begged Buffy to let her tag along but Buffy begged Dawn in return to stay home. She explained that if anything happened to her or Spike, Dawn would get all rights to Linn. She wasn't just Linn's aunt but her god mother and if anything happened to Spike and Buffy, she wanted to make sure her baby sister was safe so she knew her daughter would be in good hands and taken care of.

Tara stayed back with Dawn. She was going to look through her spell books to try and find a spell that might help them. She and Willow had tried spells before but for some reason they were leading them to nowhere. She was wondering if there was something she and Willow had been doing wrong because she was certain the spells were going to work and should have worked. No matter, she was going to do her best again to help the others out there looking for Linn.

Once out in the graveyard, the gang began breaking into the mausoleums. They searched every nook and cranny. They flipped open coffins, pulled on wall ornaments to see if any secret passages would open. They looked around for any switches, any clues of which a mausoleum would be holding a secret room and compartment.

They had been out there for three hours and were already half way done searching the cemetery. Buffy was starting to feel discouraged and wondered inside if her so called 'connection' with Linn was just in fact a dream that she had merely wished had been more and was leading her to her little girl.

Buffy took a deep breath and coughed when they emerged from one of the mausoleums. She bent over with her hands on her knees and began to vomit. Spike put his hands out to hold Buffy's hair back.

"You alright, love?" Spike asked once Buffy had stopped puking and was simply panting. She didn't answer with her voice. She simply nodded her head before spitting a few times.

"Here, Buffy." Anya reached in her bag and handed Buffy a bottle of water.

Buffy gratefully took the water and swished it around in her mouth a few times and each time, spitting the water out to the side of her.

"The dust and the dirt are just getting to me." Buffy lied. She wasn't going to tell the others that she believed that she was pregnant once again. Not here. This wasn't the time or the place.

"We've searched everywhere." Xander sighed, throwing his hands up in defeat.

"No, we still have at least four more I can think of and that's not including-" Willow had no chance to finish her sentence.

"Wait." Spike lifted his nose. Something struck his senses.

"Spike?" Buffy asked, looking up at her boyfriend. "Spike what is it?" She asked, her hand tugging on the back of his duster.

"My crypt." He shifted his face as his vampire came forward. His senses were stronger like this. Taking a good wiff of the air, Spike followed his nose. The others followed closely behind him as he walked in the direction of his old crypt.

Once they got to the entrance of the mausoleum, Spike's eyes narrowed further. "Linn."

...TBC...