Disclaimers: All the characters in this story belong to Joss Whedon.

Chapter ten: First patrol

The same underground lair that had plagued Buffy's dreams was were two vampires were. They seem to be agitated and nervous. Another vampire was pacing in front of them. This vampire was different than the rest. He wore a leather all in one suit, had no hair and was permanently in vampire form. Also, around his mouth was stained with blood. Red eyes stared back at the vampires.

"Well I thought I told you to go feed, make me stronger...so why are you back here?"

Both of the vampires swallowed hard and the brown haired one pushed the black haired one forward.

"I'm waiting, Jonus!" he barked

Jonus cleared his throat.

"Well, you see...the thing is...erm-"

"There's a new slayer! She petite, blonde and very tasty looking, did I mention fragile, Master?" the other vampire interrupted him.

Master's look of anger turned into a smile.

"Fragile, did you say Lucas?"

"Indeed I did,"

He chuckled and looked at them both again.

"I want you to find out more about this slayer, but don't kill her, I want the pleasure of that myself!"

A small, strawberry blonde haired boy stood at a locker, sorting out his guitar case. He saw Spike exiting the school and made his way out to him. Spike was found sitting on a bench, smoking. The boy sat next to him.

"Do you think that's a good idea what with Synder on your back?"

Spike threw the stub to the ground and crushed it under his foot. He turned his head to the voice and shook the guy's hand.

"Oz man, hows it going? Can see you're still into playing," he stated, pointing to the guitar case.

"Yea, well more like for the band...anyway how come I haven't seen you at the bronze recently?" Oz questioned his friend.

"My dad grounded my arse and I can't go bleeding well anywhere without him! I mean I can't even go outside for a smoke..." he explained with a sigh.

Oz and Spike had been friends since Spike had moved here. He caught Oz scanning the crowd. Brows furrowed in concentration.

"Looking for someone in particular, Daniel?"

Oz laughed at the use of his proper name.

"Erm...just some girl I saw at the bronze the other night...kinda cute, red hair...sat next to some black haired guy,"

That could have been any red-head in the school. Red hair and she was sitting next to a black haired guy could only mean one person. Willow.

"If we see her in school you should point her out..."

His voice faded as something caught his eye. Drusilla and Angel walking together up the stairs and it looked like they were holding hands. He had to go and find out what was going on. Spike said his goodbyes to Oz and ran up to them, just catching them at the top.

"Hey! What's going on?" he breathed heavily as he caught his breath.

Angel and Dru swiftly turned to face him. Realising that he was staring at their hands Angel formulated a plan. Not that he wanted to.

"Dru's not feeling very well, are you?" he nudged her and let go of her hand. Spike was now holding her hand. She shook her head in the negative.

"What's wrong?" concern etched on his face.

"Just a headache, my love," she smiled weakly

The blonde wrapped his arm about his girlfriend and Angel spoke.

"I was just about to take her home,"

Spike's hand ran down her dark hair and let it rest on the small of her back. Blue eyes ran over her in concern.

"Thanks mate..I can take it from here,"

Angel nodded. As he watched the couple walk away he caught her blowing him a kiss. Angel sighed. This was definitely wrong but he couldn't help what he felt for her.

Buffy saw her friends sitting in the chem lab, huddled together. She walked towards them, slowly as she tried to hear what they were saying.

"No, you ask," Willow whispered

"Ask what?" Buffy said.

Both of their heads snapped up to meet their friend's inquisitive eyes.

"Buffy! Look Willow, it's our best friend Buffy,"

"I know it's Buffy, Xander," Willow said giggling.

These two were really acting strange, like they had done something wrong or were planning something. She sat down next to them. Cordelia went by and spilt something all over Buffy's book bag.

"Opps! My bad.." she said and purposely knocked into her shoulder.

All three of them scowled at her.

"Nothing you want to tell us, you know get off your chest?"

"No," Buffy said rather quickly. Too quickly.

Willow kicked him hard in the leg. He stared at her, pain on his face. While Buffy looked on at her friends. She had no idea of how dangerous being the slayer was and the trouble that it would cause.

Buffy huffed and groaned. She had read three books. Well more like one and she got Giles to read out the others. Giles detested this but was trying to ease her in after all. She lay her head on the table.

"Buffy, it is imperative that you keep focused,"

She lifted her head up, tiredly.

"I've been reading now for the past two hours, can't we just leave it at that?...besides school ends in a few minutes and I'm meant to be going to the bronze with my friends,"

That was it. He frowned at her.

"You cannot have a social life AND do your sacred duty, if I had it my way you wouldn't even be in school," he put his point across to her.

Buffy frowned at him and narrowed her eyes at him.

"But since I have to have an education you can't do that and how would you explain it to my mom if you did?" she grinned and raised her brow. Giles eyes sank as the bell went and as she got up to leave he spoke in an authoritative voice.

"Regular patrols are mandatory to your slaying, meet me tonight, 8pm, outside the bronze and we will go from there,"

"Okay!"

She pushed opened the library door and nearly went smack bang into Spike. She just ran past him, not even apologising to him. He shook his head and entered.

Wednesdays were never that pack in the bronze. What with it being the middle of the week and all. Buffy, Willow and Xander were dancing and all of the Cordettes pushed past them, causing Buffy to huff.

"Hey! You you've got eyes, use them!" Xander shouted but it fell on deaf ears.

"Xand it's fine, really, I've just grown immune to her stupid self, although one of these days she'll get what's coming to her," Buffy stated as she looked at her talking to Drusilla.

"And how exactly were you planning on doing this?" Willow questioned.

She shrugged and gave a grin.

"Maybe feed her to the lions on the next school field trip or stick gum in her hair...wow she'd definitely have a fit there," she giggled and her friends giggled too.

"Do the gum! Coz if you decided to feed her to the lions you would be charged for murder," the red-head pipped out, worriedly. Xander nodded his head in agreement. The blonde looked at her watch. 7:55 pm. She groaned inwardly, made her excuses and left the bronze. Xander and Willow looked at each other and saw this as an opportunity to follow her, so they seized that chance. As Buffy exited the club Giles was approaching her, Spike in toe. She rolled her eyes.

"Does he have to tag along everywhere?"

"Yes, he is grounded and therefore I do not want to leave him alone in the house," Giles explained

"What's it to you, Blondie?"

They were still squabbling all the way to the graveyard. Buffy's friends spotted her with the Giles' and found this odd. The second time in the space of two days she was caught with them. Something was definitely up and they were going to find out what.

Buffy sat on top of a tomb and surprisingly Spike was sat on next to her, which Xander and Willow found even more odder. Giles however was sharpening some stakes, with his back turned to the tombstone that they were hiding behind. The blonde began to swing her legs like a little child and tap her hand on her legs.

"Giles, how long do we have to wait exactly?"

"Well it depends really, hour or two or until something shows up," both of the blondes groaned and Spike rolled his eyes.

"I don't even need to be here, I could just go home..." he moaned and Buffy nodded in agreement.

"You are not going home! Now deal with it...plus you will benefit from this too, improve your fighting skills, William I want you to be able to hold your own if you come across a vampire or demon when you're alone," Spike grimaced at his father's use of his proper name and this caused Buffy to giggle at his annoyance. Vampire? Demon? What the hell? A group of three vampire came towards them and she hopped off the tomb and began to fight them. Spike jumped in one of the other vampires and Giles tried to fight the other one but failed miserably. Meanwhile, Xander and Willow peeped their heads up over the tomb to get a good look at what was going on. Eyes widened as the scene unfolded. Buffy threw multiple kicks and punches and the vampire match her blow to blow. Spike on the other hand had already dusted his vampire and started fighting the other. Buffy and Spike had now come back to back, each fighting their own vamp. The vampires both threw a punch at the pair and they ducked causing them to punch each other instead of the blondes. Spike was tackling the vampire and as he staked him Buffy staked hers. Giles, Willow and Xander looked on in shock. She helped him off the ground and she smiled. Spike smiled back and for the first time he found himself entranced by her smile and then he snapped out of it.

"Good job, anyone would think you were the slayer, not me," and that was when they emerged from their hiding place.

"So you gonna explain this to us?" Xander said and Willow looked on sheepishly.

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