Glory was a God.
That was something no one wanted to hear, to be honest, it was something that they never thought about. Glory was one of the 3 gods that ruled over the deadliest demon dimensions that were trying to get into the human world. The God absorbs the essence that contains the human mind, leaving the person insane.
Giles, Buffy, and Eris finally told the rest of the group that Dawn was the key. They were shocked but nothing changed, they still cared for Dawn greatly and agreed to keep her safe. After that being around Dawn was quite awkward, they no longer treated Dawn like they used to. Buffy, Giles, and Eris still did but that was because they were better at being composed.
It was Buffy's birthday and the group decided to celebrate with a small party, just the Scooby gang. Dawn was becoming incredibly suspicious, and frustrated. She felt like no one wanted her around and treated her differently. She didn't understand why everyone was being so rude and awkward, so she snuck out to steal from the Magic Shop. What she found was terrible, she was the key, the thing that Glory wants. She wasn't human, she wasn't supposed to be alive, she was a thing, a bright, glowing orb of energy.
When she returned home she had slit her wrists, asking what she was. The Summers family decided it was time to tell her about what she was, it was hard to talk to her, as she felt like they were forced to love her, that it was their duty to care for her. It was hard for the family, to suddenly be so strongly hated by Dawn, to see her suffering, on the precipice of suicide.
The sweet brunette had lost it, her mind cracked. She destroyed everything that had memories, and feelings attached to it. She felt so lost she left her family, thinking it was better to be alone than surrounded by people who didn't really care for her.
The group split up to search for Dawn, Spike and Eris would travel together. Xander went with Giles, Willow went with Tara and Anya stayed in the shop. Buffy wandered off alone "I don't know where she would be," Eris said stressfully.
"Wouldn't she go where it makes her comfortable?" Spike offered.
Eris shook her head "no, the last thing she would want to do is go somewhere that makes her remember she's not human" she ran a hand through her hair, sighing in frustration.
"She'll be fine" Spike walked closer to her, trying to give off comfort.
The group met up at the cemetery, none of them found her. They went to the hospital in case she was checked in.
Glory was there, standing right over Dawn. Once again, the Slayer and God got into a fight, well more like they tried to fight, she was a god after all. "Time to start dying" Glory pointed a crowbar at Dawn "start with the welp."
"No, you fucking won't!" Eris shouted.
"Dawn!" just as the crowbar went flying so did Buffy, instead of the brunette being pierced by the weapon the Slayer did.
"Buffy!" Eris shot down and helped to pull the crowbar out of her chest.
"Nice catch, is that the best you crap-gnats can muster? Cause I gotta tell you, so not impressed" Glory walked forward slowly, threateningly, the promise of a gruesome death was in her gait "Hey!" she shouted when Tara and Willow threw a handful of silver powder over her form "Look what you did to my dress, you little-"
"Discede" with a clap of her hands, Willow made the God disappear.
"What did you do to her?" Buffy asked as she clutched Dawn to her.
"Teleportation spell," Willow said breathlessly, a trickle of blood ran down her nose " it's tricky, still working out the kinks."
"Where'd you send her?"
"Don't know" Willow replied, "that's one of the kinks."
Eris raced over and helped Spike up, checking the back of his head for any injury as he was thrown across the room by Glory "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, heads all scrambled" Spike shook his head, "I thought the skank wouldn't be so tough" Eris snorted.
"What do you expect, she's a God" Eris dusted off his leather jacket.
"She's tiny for a God, thought she'd be bigger, scarier" Eris nodded, when she saw Buffy and Dawn standing up she raced to them and joined in on their hug.
"Never scare me like that, please Dawnie" Eris hugged her tightly.
"I'm sorry."
"I love you so much Dawn, my love for you isn't fabricated, its genuine" she leaned back and stroked Dawn's soft hair.
"You mean it?"
"Of course I do, in here" she placed a hand on her heart "my heart cannot be forced to love someone, it's my heart that's gonna protect you, it's gonna make sure that Glory never uses you or hurts you ever again" Dawn sniffled and hugged Eris again, feeling immense joy in her heart.
She wasn't fake, she was real, she was alive, and she was loved.
Spike was getting restless, nights of smelling Eris' clothes and watching her sleep were not enough for him now, he wanted more -no- he needed more. He needed her badly, mind, body, and soul yet she never acted like she was interested. Then again, it was hard to tell if she was interested in anything. Eris was a flirter, flirts with anything on two legs, even him so it was difficult to determine whether she was interested or attracted to him. She was also an intimate and caring person, she would hug anyone and kiss someone to say hello, so he never thought her affectionate kisses and hugs meant anything.
Then Buffy had to come along, it seemed that everyone knew about him being in love with Eris, everyone but said woman. He hated when the Slayer would tell him he was way out of Eris' league. She didn't believe that his love for the ravenette was real, that vampires could never grow such feelings.
He stepped into his crypt in a dampened mood after his stakeout with Buffy, once again she told him he could never be with Eris. He slammed the door behind him and rubbed at his eyes "whose there?" he asked when he felt a presence.
"A happy memory" came the sweet, soft reply. Then, out of the shadows stepped his beloved Drusilla "here to make everything right again."
"So, let me get this straight" he began after Drusilla told him everything "Darla got her mojo back from the beyond, you vamped her and now you and her are working to get Angel back to how he was" she hummed in reply "sounds fun."
"It is, like lollypops in the circus," she said in her dreamy voice "although, didn't care for Angelus setting us on fire" she touched her scars gently.
"And this had got you what, all nostalgic now is it?"
Drusilla glided towards him "I want us to be a family again my William" she pressed her lips to his ear and whispered seductively "come back with me."
"To Los Angeles?" he asked "I've done the whole LA scene, Dru, didn't agree with me" he stepped away from the enchanting woman "besides, I've got a sweet little set up here in SunnyD, decent digs, not to mention" he sat on his couch "all the tasty townies I can each."
"Naughty, shh" she teased "you know not to make up stories, I already know why you're not coming" she reached her hands up to her head "poor boy, tin soldiers put funny little nit knacks in your brain, can't hurt, can't hunt, can't kill" she looked at him intently "you've got a chip."
Spike once again stepped away from Dru "right, so you've heard, poor Spikes become a…a cautionary tale for vampires, right, you better be good kiddies or they might wire you up someday" he kicked a broken fence in anger.
"I don't believe in science," Drusilla said strongly "all those bits and molecules no one's ever seen, all just hearts and minds alone" she swayed up to him, seductively, slowly "and you know what mines singing out? Right now" she placed Spike's hand on her chest, right over her heart "You're a killa" she whispered "you want to slash and bash, and bleed like beautiful poetry" Spike pulled her against him, creating a passionate aura around them "no little tinker toy could ever stop you from flowing."
"Yeah" his mind raced back to him "but the pain, love you don't understand it's, it's searing, blinding."
Drusilla reached up and touched the top of his head "all in your head, I can see it, little bits of, plastic, spider webbing out nasty blue shocks, and everyone is a lie, electricity lies Spike, it tells you-you're not a bad dog but you are."
"What the heck is this!"
"Oh, bloody hell" Spike turned around and looked at an enraged Harmon.
"Who is-" she stopped "oh wait, I get it, our little sex game is just the beginning, now you've gone and picked up some cheap queen of the damned to dress up like your precious Drudzilla."
"Harm-"
"You better not be thinking what I think you're thinking cause my answer is the same as always, no threesomes unless its boy, boy, girl, or Charlize Theron."
"Harm, you moron, this is Drusilla."
"Oh, well" she marched over to the female master vampire "you've got some nerve showing up here like this, after all this time, after breaking my sweet boo-boos heart" Drusilla looked at Spike in amusement and mouthed the words 'boo boo' "Do you have any idea how hard it's been to break down the walls he put up after you left? I mean serious trust issues."
"Harm-"
"So its no use you crawling back to him cause Spikey don't play that game anymore Mautitia" she turned around to Spike only for him to grab her by the throat.
"It's been fun while it lasted Harm, but I think it would be best now if you hit the road" he threw her into the wall behind him.
"Why?" she asked whilst clutching her throat "because she's back?"
"No, because I am" he pulled Drusilla against him
"And here you are, my darling, deadly boy."
Eris walked into Spikes crypt when she didn't hear him, he was usually home at this time as that was when Passions was on the Tv "Spike?" she called out "you home?"
"Yeah, I am" she turned with a smile but it dropped when she was zapped, she gasped and fell to the floor, hitting her head and blacking out "no more playing" he turned and looked at Dru who was also laying on the floor, unconscious.
Eris groaned as she came to, her head was throbbing in pain and her eyes felt heavy "there she is" she opened her eyes and noticed she was standing, chained by the wrist to two pillars "was beginning to think you'd sleep the night away pet."
"What are you doing?" she asked softly, her head still hurting, Spike moved to the side to show Drusilla bound against a thick pipe "Drusilla?" she had never seen the vampiress but it was not hard to tell who she was by her outfit alone.
"Not nice to change the game mid-play Spike," Dru said with a pout "you've taken my chair and the music hasn't stopped."
"Sorry pet," he said to Dru "my house, my rules."
"I think I should be very cross with you when I'm free again."
"What's going on?" Eris demanded, no longer confused, now she was angry.
"Simple. I'm gonna prove something" he stepped in front of Eris, forcing her to look into his intense, icy blue gaze "I love you."
"What-" she snorted "no you do-"
He grabbed her chin when she went to look away "look at me, I love you, you're all I bloody think about, dream about, you're in my gut, my throat, I'm drowning in you Vanzetti I'm drowning in you" Drusilla started cackling madly "could do without the laugh track, Dru."
"But it's so funny," she said in amusement "I knew, before you did, I knew you loved the shadow, whispers in my head whispered it to me."
"You can't tell me there isn't anything there between you and me" he turned back to Eris "I know you feel something."
"And this is how you ask me?" Eris asked in disbelief.
"You still don't believe, don't think I mean it, you want proof, how's this" he turned and grabbed a stake, with confident strides he moved to Drusilla and placed the stake right above her heart "I'm gonna kill Drusilla for you" Dru cackled.
"Killing your ex-doesn't prove anything" Eris shot back.
"Don't mock this, this is Drusilla girl!" he yelled "you have the slightest idea of what she means to me? It's the face of my salvation" he turned back to the enchantress "she delivered me from mediocrity, for over a century we, we cut a swath through continents, 100 years she never stopped surprising me" he stroked her pale, silken skin "never stopped taking me to new depths. I was a lucky bloke, just to touch such a black beauty" he brought the stake back up "so don't you see, it means something."
"As romantic as this sounds it makes me feel like you'd do that to me if you found someone else" Spike looked to the human woman that held his affection and stalked over to her.
"If you don't admit that there's something there, some tiny feeling for me, I'll untie Dru, and let her kill you instead."
"Yes please," Dru said cheerfully "I like that game much more."
"Just, give me something," he said softly "a crumb, a barest smidgen, tell me, maybe, something of a chance" he walked up to her so he was in whisper hearing range.
"Spike," she said sweetly "I'm gonna let you suffer for tying me up."
Spike expression turned dark, he roared angrily and threw the stake against the wall "WHAT THE BLEEDING HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU BLOODY WOMEN! WHAT THE HELL DOES IT TAKE, WHY DO YOU BITCHES TORTURE ME!"
"Which question do you want me to answer first?" Eris was unfazed by his anger, determined to make him suffer.
"I-I'm at the end of my bleeding tether, you know, I-I don't know why I even bother, you know, it's your fault" he pointed at Dru "you're the one to blame for all this you know."
"Am I?" she replied dryly.
"BLOODY RIGHT YOU ARE! IF YOU HADN'T LEFT ME FOR THAT CHAOS DEMON I NEVER WOULD HAVE COME BACK HERE! NEVER WOULD HAVE HAD THIS SODDING CHIP IN MY SKULL!" he turned to Eris "And you, wouldn't be able to touch me because this, with you is wrong, I know it, not a complete idiot" Eris furrowed her brow "you think I like having you in here, destroying everything that was me till all that's left is you in a dead shell, you know what I should do, I should get rid of both of you" he turned to Dru who was shaking her head "burn you, cut you up into little bits so there won't be any bits to-" he was cut off by an arrow stabbing his back, he fell to the floor.
"Spike!" Eris gasped in surprise, she looked behind him and saw Harmony holding a crossbow.
"What about me Spike? You forget about me again? The actual girlfriend."
"You're dating Harmony?" Eris felt a bad taste in her mouth.
"I gave you, some of the best bunch of months in my life" Harmony walked up and smashed Spike in the face with the crossbow.
"That's right little girl," said Drusilla "teach our naughty boy a lesson."
"Can you hit him a couple more times please" Eris encouraged.
"Oh so you're all ganging up," said Spike.
"I thought I could change you Spike" Harmony continued "I thought maybe if I gave and I gave and gave and gave maybe you'd come around, maybe be a little nicer, stop treating me like your dog" she notched another arrow "but now I see it's you, you're the dog who needs to be put-" Spike rushed up and tackled Harmony, he punched her in the face and threw the crossbow away, Eris used the distraction to try yanking on the chains, hoping the walls were so brittle that she could yank the chains off them, unfortunately, it seems that Drusilla thought of the same idea as she managed to get untied faster than Eris did. When the vampire was free she raced over to the chained woman and started to attack her, Eris did her best to block and hit the woman back but with her limited movement, it was a struggle. Drusilla had managed to grab her by the throat, Spike rushed in and threw Dru off, he quickly grabbed the key out of his pocket and unlocked her chains.
"Poor Spike" Dru said sadly "so lost, even I can't help you now" she looked like she was about to cry so she turned and walked away.
"Oh Spikey," said Harm, Eris rolled her eyes "you can say goodbye to this" she pointed to her ass "because you're not gonna see it anymore unless you run into me somewhere and it's me walking away from you, but even then, I'll probably just…you know, back away" she did just that and left the room.
"My ass is better" Eris muttered to herself before turned to Spike and punched him in the face.
"Ow! What the hell!" he shouted whilst he clutched his nose.
"That's for tying me up, you didn't have to be so dramatic" she crossed her arms over her chest.
"And what was I supposed to do then?" he demanded.
"Oh, I dunno, go to me and ask 'hey I love you, I hope you love me, do you wanna be a couple?" Spike looked surprised "or just walk up to me a kiss me passionately, that would have told me everything, and I probably would have said ye-" she was cut off by Spike doing just that, kissing her passionately. She quickly succumbed to the pleasure and kissed him back just as passionately, her arms came up and wrapped around his neck, clutching his bleach blonde hair. She moaned slightly when he pulled her against his body. They pulled away and looked into each other's eyes.
"So, I love you, I hope you love me, do you wanna be a couple?" he asked with a hopeful smile.
"If you kiss more passionately than you just did then It's a definite yes" Spike smirked and swooped down, capturing her lips in another, searing kiss.
Finally.