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 Eleven – Song of The Caged Bird
Making her way down the ladder, Buffy jumped down into the sewer system. Xander and Giles following behind her. Willow and Anya would need to help more with Angelus seeing that Anya was a demon and Willow was a witch who cold hold her own fairly well.
Buffy could hear faint cries and quickly ran in that direction. Angelus and Drusilla were definitely not expecting the slayer or the vampire to bring their friends to tag along. It was making it more difficult for the two vampires to win this war.
While Buffy ran through the sewers, Spike continued to fight with Angelus. The two of them battled fiercely with one another. Fists broke bones and blackened eyes while feet hit ribs and knees were jabbed into stomachs.
"You will rot in hell for what you've done." Spike growled at Angelus.
Angelus growled back as he smiled devilishly. "I'm already in hell. Killing me will not stop me. I've come back before. I'll come back again." Angelus laughed this time.
The two circled one another. Willow was struggling to get up from the ground as Anya made her way over to Willow to help her up. The two had been knocked back by a very angry and determined Angelus.
Suddenly Spike flew towards Angelus. When they hit, he hit him so hard that they flew back against the wall, Spike over Angelus. He had him by the throat and he was close to crushing the piece of muscle in Angelus' neck when Angelus grabbed Spike by the throat and pushed down harder.
The two vampires growled and grunted at one another. Without warning, Anya came beside them and slammed the baseball bat down on Angelus' skull, causing him to let go of Spike's throat.
"You're going to pay." Spike grabbed the handcuffs from his back pocket and locked them around Angelus' wrists. Quickly he drug the vampire over to the corner of the room and tied him to the bed leaving the vampire shouting and growling at him.
In the sewer, Dru continued to run through the maze of the pipeline with the screaming child on her hip.
Finally Dru couldn't take the screaming in her ear and pushed the child down. "Oh bloody hell, git!" Dru put her hand on the little girl's chest and pushed her back onto the ground. One Linn had fallen back, Dru placed her boot over the child's chest to keep her down. "You need to shut it! You are driving me absolutely bonkers! You're lucky I haven't strangled the life out of you, pet!" Dru shouted once more in Linn's face.
"Go ahead. See what happenes when you do." Buffy dared Dru. Dru lifted her head in shock to see the slayer and two of her friends. "Now I suggest you take that boot off of my child's chest before I impale you on my stake." Buffy warned her once more.
Dru laughed and quickly yanked the girl up. "Oh look, dear. It's your old mummy." Dru growled out.
"Mummy!" Linn cried out and tried to reach for her but Dru pulled her back. "Le' me go!" She cried out.
"It's alright, moonshine. Mommy's here and you're coming home with me." Buffy said confidently as she locked eyes with Linn.
"Oh, sweetie darling, don't listen to her. You don't want to go with her. She's so boring and plain." Dru laughed evilly.
"She is coming home with me. You can let her go. Or I will use violence to force her out of your hands." Buffy warned her. "What's it gonna be, Drusilla?" Buffy took her stance, sword in one hand and a stake in the other.
Dru thought for a moment before pushing the little girl back behind her and Dru launched herself at Buffy. Buffy swung the sword only just barely missing the vampire's side.
Xander used the holy water in his hand and flung it in Dru's face, causing her to cry out and grab her face in pain.
Buffy kicked Dru back and ran over to Linn.
"Mummy!" Linn cried out and wrapped her arms around Buffy's body.
"I've got you baby." Buffy kissed her daughter's head a few times. "Listen. Listen to me." Buffy pulled away to look into Linn's eyes. "Remember the time when that big hairy monster tried to get in the house and I told you to run and hide, count to 100 and then come find me and daddy?" Buffy asked her daughter.
Linn nodded in response.
"Can you be a big brave girl for mummy and do it again? You count to 100 and you come find me." Buffy asked the small child.
"No mummy! No! I'm not leaving you!" Linn cried and reached to hug her mother again but Buffy shook her head and pushed her daughter's hair from her face.
"No, no. Listen to me, baby. Listen to mommy." Buffy cupped her daughter's cheek. "I promise you that I will be right here when you come back out and the evil lady will be gone. Okay? You have to trust me, Malin. Go." Linn cried but she didn't question her mother again and ran.
Buffy took a deep breath when suddenly hands were pulling her back.
Angelus cried out as the whip cracked into his chest once more. He was bloody and near death at this point. The torture felt like it was never ending and even as he screamed and howled in pain, Spike's face never changed. It never softened. It only grew harder with anger as he tortured Angelus.
"Had enough yet, Angel?" Spike asked before tossing a hot burning coals from the fire onto his chest where he was bloody and beaten the most. "You going to try taking my daughter from me again, eh? No. No you're not. Because you're going to die, you sod." Spike's whole demeanor was no longer the Spike that everyone knew but back to the ruthless killer that he was known for being.
Bloody and weakened, Angelus licked his bloody teeth and laughed weakly. "You won't dare. You couldn't. We are brothers and your child is one of us. She deserves to be raised by vampires. She deserves to know the truth of her upbringing. She deserves to run with her own kind." Angelus tried to get through to Spike.
"Look at you. You've aged. You have grown soft." Angelus said to the vampire who was in the midst of his torture. "Humans? Humans brother? How can you sleep beside them without wanting to feast? Because they've ruined you! You are no longer the strong leader I knew you could be and your daughter will suffer greatly!" Angelus cried out.
Spike used the back of his hand and slammed it down across Angelus' face. "You lost the privilege to call me brother the moment you started shacking up with Dru. I never trusted you, Angelus. I knew you would be back one day to find a way to hurt me but Buffy.. You claimed that you loved her. Well guess what?" Spike gripped Angelus by his throat and looked into his eyes. "I didn't need a soul to love her. I won the girl in the end and attempting to kidnap my daughter was the worst mistake you ever made."
With that, Spike gripped the hem of the sword that he held in his hands and held it above Angelus' head. Within second he swung the sword down, beheading the vampire which caused him to quickly turn to dust. Tears dripped down Spike's cheeks silently from the realization that he had killed Angel, the vampire that tried to take everything he loved from him. First Buffy then Linn and the realization that he was gone, this time he would make sure for good, was a relief.
Meanwhile in the sewers, Buffy was losing the battle towards Dru as she was becoming worn down and fast.
"You can't even protect yourself from me, slayer." Dru struggled to stand as she too was growing weak from the fight. "What makes you think you have the power to protect your daughter?"
Buffy growled before spitting the blood from her mouth from the last hit to the face brought on my the boot that had held her daughter firmly on the ground.
"I'm still here, aren't I, Dru?" Buffy staggered as she stood up completely. "I'm still standing."
"Not for long." She mumbled and went after Buffy. Before she could however, Xander and Giles grabbed her hands simultaneously and held her back from getting to the slayer who was trying to regain some strength but she was going to admit, it was going to be a challenge to finish off the woman.
However, Dru was far too strong for Giles and Xander. Within seconds they were flung against the sewer walls and Dru laughed evilly.
Buffy ran toward Dru and knocked the vampire down. Buffy began to throw her fists mercifully at the vampire beneath her. Her teeth clenched, her jaw tight and she wailed on the vampire. Her emotions surfaced as her tears fell from her face. The anger she felt for the vampire was deeper on every level.
"Mummy!" Buffy looked up to see Linn.
"Don't... look... Malin!" Buffy shouted.
The little girl crouched in the corner and shut her eyes. She buried her head in her knees and covered her ears with her hands.
Buffy grabbed the stake from her back pocket and held it above her head. "Say goodnight for good, Drusilla." With that, Buffy forced the stake into the vampire's chest before she turned into dust beneath of her.
Buffy collapsed on the floor of the sewer from mere exhaustion. She was out cold on the ground of the sewer after everything just went black.
...TBC...
