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Chap.10: Do you wanna work for me?

"What happened?"

"Are you ok?"

They started asking all together, but Buffy shut them up with a hand

"I've been called by professor Walsh today" she began to tell "she told there was a demon into sewer conduct, she said he was a low level demon, a raccoon, nothing more. So I've been imprisoned with a flawed weapon, fighting two demons all but weak, demons that Enterprise had already caught"

"So did Walsh cornered you?" Julien deduced

"She sent me in a no-return mission"

"Are you sure? Maybe it's a mistake" stammered Willow, astonished.

"I knew" Xander leaped "I knew there was nothing good in those little soldiers!"

"I told immediately that those guys gave me goosebumps" Anya added

"But why do Walsh want to kill you? What sense does it make?" Julien asked worried.

If Walsh had a torment with the blonde, they have to help her, but what if she had it with all the slayers? Maybe it was better to start being ready for anything…

"I don't know, but she didn't like that I did too many questions"

"It means you went too near to something" Anya answered

"Maybe that 314, whatever it is"

"What do we have to do?" Willow asked

"Julien, have you got some weapon here?"

"Yes, but I don't think…"

"We fight against the organization? Well! I'm ready! Attack!"

"Idiot" Spike grumbled sat on the sofa

"Hey, nobody asked for your opinion… although, why are you still here?"

"First this is not your home, second I'm here because… effectively I don't know. Now that soldiers are looking for Buffy, I guess that danger for the old Spike has disappeared. Well, so I guess I'll go rooting for them" he picked his jacket and wore it going out from the room.

Julien followed him "Spike"

The vampire turned back looking at her, rising the famous eyebrow.

"If you want… you can stay here."

If she would explain the embarrass she felt for asking him something like that, the brunette couldn't do it and been looked like she was a weird and bizarre creature didn't help "The organization could still find you and you can't defend yourself with the chip, so if you want to…" the weird heat sensation on her face became stronger, Julien prayed not to be blushed like she was afraid of.

Spike looked at her in silence, for a moment the slayer was sure that he would accept and she felt oddly happy about that, but it was just a moment before the vampire's look became disdained.

"I appreciate the disgusting generosity, snotty. But I'd like to remember you that I don't have any need of your help, now or never. Don't make that face now, it seems obvious… I hate you all, from first to last and if I have to root for someone, it'll be your enemies. I'm just waiting for you to fall dead to dance on your tombs. So… be ok!" he rose his jacket on the head and he ran through the road.

Julien remained paralyzed on the opened door, weird… her stomach hurt again... and why were her eyes burning?

It was absurd.

"I'm just a fool"

What did she expect? Spike was a vampire, a demon and she was a slayer… it was normal for him to hate her and wanted her dead, isn't it? So why did she feel bad? Did she really believe they were… friends? "Stupid… he hates you."

"Julien" Buffy's voice took her back to reality, the brunette passed her hand on the eyes to dry them "is everything okay?"

"Yes, I was just… closing the door. Did you need something?"

"It's okay if we all hide here for a bit? The organization doesn't have to know a thing about you… so this must be the safest place."

"It's not a problem, I've got two guest room so we're going to be comfortable."

Julien forced herself to smile coming back into the living room to the others.

That night, they shared the rooms, Giles and Xander, Willow, Buffy and Anya with her.

Not without moaning by the latest, which wanted to stay with Xander.

"I don't understand why he gotta stay with Giles. Couldn't Giles stay with you or Buffy?"

"No" the three interested answered in unison.

"Well… in those situations I'm always the one who lose and you never do something to defend me Xander, don't think I don't understand. You love Giles more than me."

"Okay, this discussion is becoming really embarrassing, why don't we argue in private?"

"Don't make anything indecent into my kitchen! Thanks!"

Back into the living room, a few minutes later, Anya was oddly ease… Julien didn't want to know what Xander told her… or worse, made.

The morning after she was waken a few after ten o'clock by the other's voices, it was weird for her to wake up so soon and also much irritating.

She went down still in her pajamas, she didn't want to get dressed, and greeted all.

The girls were on the sofa looking at cartoons and Giles stood aside, sat drinking a cup of coffee with the look of who woke up with terrible mood.

"Xander?" she asked noticing the boy's missing.

"He went buying something to eat, your cupboard is empty."

"I forgot to shop" she went on the sofa too and began to look at Warner's cartoons.

A few after Xander ran into the house, shouting to look the TG.

The journalist was talking about a child, found dead right there in Sunnydale.

He had been wildly killed with something which seemed a big spit.

"The polgora" Buffy exclaimed "Meggie sent us looking for it, but she ordered us to catch him alive. He got things like that on his arms, is his fault!"

"So we found this thing and kill it" Julien resumed.

"Yes but where do we found it?"

Buffy took out her captain look "Julien and I will go looking for some clues on the crime scene, you'll look for everything you can about the Polgora"

Waiting for everybody to nod the blonde stood up with determined look "Ok, let's go Julien."

"Maybe is better if you take off that pajamas before" Xander adviced pointing at them.

"Yes, and I'd like to take a shower before we go out" the brunette agreed.

A half hour after they were both ready for the battle, but along the road Riley joined them.

"Buffy! I'm looking for you since yesterday, something terrible has happened."

Buffy and her stopped walking to hear this terrible new "Professor Walsh is died. She's been killed."

"What?" they both asked.

"Tonight. We don't know who's been."

"Riley, listen…"

Julien felt to be the gatecrasher in a such private discussion so she decided that it was better to disappear for a few.

"Buffy you go with Riley investigating for the Polgora, it could even be the same who killed the Walsh. I'll look around for some information, I'll go to Willy."

"Ok, so see you later."

"Well, bye Riley!"

Julien spent the next hours looking for information.

She went to Willy, but he couldn't tell her nothing useful about the Polgora, or where it was.

He didn't see him around, or at least this was what he said.

He could lie, but Willy wasn't someone who risked slayer's anger for nothing.

So she went back home empty-handed, with the sensation that something important was escaping from her in that situation.

She found everybody gathered into the kitchen, they were talking worried "What's happening?"

"Is Riley" Willow explained "it seems he's bad, but we don't understand what he's got."

"Maybe they made something to him at the Enterprise" Anya said.

"I don't know, but it's time to find it out" Buffy said.

"What do you wanna do?"

"I'll go with Xander into theirs headquarter, I'll try to discover something about the 314 and Riley."

"Why Xander? You can't have Xander, bring Julien. She's got super muscles like you."

"I need someone that could seem a soldier and Xander here's the only one who can… and then Julien is too young, they'll catch her immediately."

"And what have I got to do meanwhile?" the brunette asked feeling outcast, even if she wasn't sorry not to go into the crazies headquarter.

"Try to look for some information more… you too, keep on researching… and Julien go on patrol, let's see what you find out, okay?"

"Ok, patrol. I can do this."

So Buffy and Xander went to the college, Willow and the others went to Giles looking among the looker's books for a good way to kill a Polgora demon, while Julien, armed with picket, went to the cemetery.

Along the road she stopped buying an hot dog, hunting always made her starving.

It wasn't a very busy road, there was nigh Willy's club and people used to stay far from it on night.

She was paying when she thought to hear a scuffle's noises in the neighbour "Could you keep it for a moment?" she asked the vender, before she went controlling.

The noises came from a bad lighted alley, coming nearer she saw three people's shadows, two were clearly demons, she couldn't see good the third, but he was really losing "You kill demons, and no one of us do this" she heard one of them, while the other opened the club's door, lighting up the road.

Julien looked at the person on the ground… if he was a human she had to help him, right? Even if he seemed all fake… the brunette was hesitant about to go or not when she noticed the long leather jacket and the blond platinum hairs, those features were unmistakable.

"If I see you around again..." the demon kept on threatening him and the brunette went on without minding "Hey!" she shouted "You'll be better if you disappear little monster or I'll kick you."

"Awesome" muttered the vampire still on the ground.

He got his face covered in cuts, a smashed lip and the right eye bruised and swollen.

"The second slayer, obvious… relax, I don't wanna fight with you… and you, don't show yourself around, or it'll be worse" he went into the club slamming the door back.

Julien bent for helping Spike standing up, but the vampire slapped her hands, giving himself sharp pain to his head "Why don't you take care of your business?" he hissed to her.

"What? That's how you thank me?"

"Thanking you? For what? For ruining that little reputation I still had?"

"Uh?"

"You're a slayer! Can't you guess? You just informed the entire demoniac world that I'm you ally, a kind of stupid follower! Come on, that's the big Spike! Hidden behind the snotty slayer's skirt! 126 years spent building a name and you come and destroy everything in a moment! Thanks for all! Now go away!"

He shouted the last part pointing a finger on her chest, Julien wasn't afraid, or felt guilty.

Okay, maybe it hasn't been a genial idea, maybe she really ruined his reputation or something, probably demons didn't like the ones who were defended from the slayers, but she couldn't even stay aside and look while they hit him, could she?

The brunette rose her arms, surrendered trying to calm the vampire "Well I'm sorry, okay? Are you happy? I didn't want to do something bad. Just help you, I couldn't leave you there!"

"Why?"

"Eh?"

"Good heavens! What have you got into that head? I-hate-you! How could I make you understand it?"

"I understood. You hate me, you'll dance on my tomb… blablabla… instead I think you're nice, let's say I like you… a little bit, so I decided that I don't care if you hate me, because I-don't-hate-you."

"I understood..." he looked at her seriously "you're totally stupid… what a bother" he stood up with a groan of pain and he turned on a cigarette.

"Where are you going?"

"Far from here, in a place where I don't risk to be infected by your idiocy."

"You could work with us."

"You don't understand, do you? You're one of those people who stick to you like glue… I don't save the world and overall I don't save that gang of idiots you call friends!

"Let's work just for me then!"

"What makes you believe to be excluded from the idiots?"

"Think so… you need money to pay the cigarettes right? I can give it to you"

"You want to pay me for killing demons?"

Spike seemed suddenly more interested in her offer

"Bingo!"

"And how much would you pay me?"

"500 dollars by month."

Spike laughed and threw away the stub "You have to do better, I worth more… let's try a thousand by month."

"You don't worth so much… 600."

"800"

"700 not a dollar more."

The vampire pretended to think for a bit and Julien held her breath… "accept, accept…"

"Deal, so, but I want the first payment or it's broken."

"I don't go out with so much money."

"No readies, no deal."

"I'll give you tomorrow, ok?"

Spike shrugged "Keep your word, I'll come to draw. Oh, snotty? Tell someone about this deal and I'll consider it finished, okay? I don't want those stupid snotty to think I'm their little slave or something. The deal is just about you and I accept it just because I need money."

"Ok, I'll keep it for me."

"I haven't got any intention to say it to someone…"

"So, see you tomorrow… snotty"

Spike disappeared and Julien remained vacant into the alley.. did she just took on Spike? For 700 dollars?

Maybe she was really crazy…

But… she thought going far…

It wasn't so bad, although…

…she felt almost… happy…

tbc...