Not a long delay this time huh?

Enjoy.

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Buffy was arranging her makeup in the bathroom of the club. She had a violent nausea crisis, but got to the rest room without any incident. She was going to tell Angel he was going to be a daddy, but she wanted to prepare something different for him to break the news. She didn't want a part, but rather something quiet and for just the two of them.

She was just finishing when Darla appeared beside her in the rest room. They stared at each other, but neither talked anything. Buffy turned around and left. However, she didn't go too far because someone caught her from behind and held a cloth with something in her face. She struggled a little, but darkness overcame her.

Spike had followed Buffy to the rest room three times trying to get to her, but saw other women around. He knew there was the best place to get her without many people noticing because the doors were secluded. He had his chances in the third time when the party started to wind down. He looked around anyway to see if someone had seen him or heard Buffy's struggles. He had just lifted Buffy in her arms to carry her out when Darla came out of the rest room.

"What… Spike, What are doing?"

He turned around to look at the blonde in front of him.

"Cleaning your way. You can have your boy toy now."

He turned around to leave.

"What… wait! What are you saying? Spike, leave the girl. Did you lost your mind for God's sake?"

"What? Now are you having a conscience attack?"

"No! Angel doesn't interest me anymore! I don't want him anymore. Are you crazy? You can't force someone to like you. "

Spike got angry with Darla´s noise because any moment and someone would appear.

"Too bad."

Without thinking Spike shot Darla too.

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Angel had just felt a squeeze in his heart and turned around looking for Buffy when a commotion was heard.

"What is it?"

"I don't …"

Fred didn't finish what she was going to say to Angel because someone screamed for help and an ambulance. People were running outside. The information that someone was shot finally got to the main table.

With his heart thundering in his chest, Angel was the first to get up on shake legs and run to the place of the commotion. He found an unconscious Darla in the floor with anguished Harmony, Faith and her actual boyfriend hovering around. There was a lot of blood.

"Angel, what…?"

Sean arrived to see what the commotion was and found out the same scene. Darla was on the floor already being attended by the health staff in the club. A siren could be hard.

"Who would want to shot Darla?"

"I don't… have you seen Buffy?"

"No."

"She… she came to the rest room. Where is Buffy?"

Angel's voice showed his despair. He was ready to run around the club looking for his wife when Darla recovered he conscience. She tried to remove the oxygen mask on her face to talk. What she said turned Angel's heart cold.

"No…. I have… tell… Angel… Spike… Buffy"

Angel's eyes widened when his brain grasped what was being sad by the bumble woman. Angel's legs gave up and he fell. Spike had his wife.

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Angel couldn't hear anything. He knew someone was holding him, but he couldn't reach his emotions. His whole body was just numb. His Buffy, his beloved wife, was taken by a crazy lunatic. He thought it once, twice, three times. When it sank in the tears came, but the numbness didn't allow him to feel them.

"Oh, God! Angel… I'm sorry. We, we found her. We will."

He could hear Fred's voice trying to comfort and reassure him, while Sean was giving orders around. He could hear people's hiccups, but everything was frozen with the knowledge that his wife was taken from him. He couldn't breathe.

"Angel. Angel. Please. Look at me."

Fred and Anya lifted Angel's head. It was frightening to see his empty face and his desperate sobs, which shook all of his body.

"Angel, please. Look at us. We need you. Buffy needs you."

He finally looked at his sister. When he spoke, his voice was hoarse and pained.

"He took her, Fred. He took my beloved."

"We know. Everyone will help and we will find her."

Sean appeared around them and he seemed even more worried. Angel gave one look at the man and knew something happened.

"What happened?"

Sean looked at Mary and she shook her head affirmatively. It was better if everyone knew the horrible news.

"I called Ethan's house. The police are there. It seems that Spike killed his own father."

Angel put his two hands in the dump soil and vomited. Spike was going to kill his wife too. And he was going to kill him for that.

"Oh my God! Angel! Angel!"

Fred and Anya supported their brother.

"He is going to kill her… he is… I want to die. Please… please let me die too."

"No. He is not. Clem in on his away here. He thinks that if he wanted to kill her he would have done the same he did to Darla. In his twisted away, he loves her. Clem believes she is safe for now."

"He took her."

Fred grabbed hold of her brother face and turned him to her.

"Angel, look at me. We will find her. She will back with us in no time. But you have to be strong. Buffy will need you."

"We don't… don't even know where he went"

"I think my friend here can help."

Everyone looked to Lindsey.

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Spike was driving madly across the highway going to his house. He was furious with himself because he shot Darla and may have gotten attention to what he was doing. Hd used the silencer, but knew that someone was going to found her body. He hoped the bitch had died or at least would remain unconscious until he could get to his house and devise a new plan for their escapade because he was sure that his Buffy was going to stay with him. He loved her. She loved him. It was just a matter of remind her to whom she belonged.

Spike knew they were safe in the house because nobody knew he had the house first. Vivienne was not a big real estate seller and he was aware she did not know anyone connected with him.

He had just carried Buffy in the house when she started to wake up. He got incensed when the first word she said was Angel.

"Bitch!"

Buffy had a big headache and avoided to open her eyes, however she immediately sat up, groaning, when she heard her captor's voice.

"Spike… Spike?"

"Hello, my beautiful."

Spike leaned and tried to caress Buffy's face, but she recoiled from his touch.

"Where, where am I? What… what did you do?"

"You are home, baby."

"Home? HOME! Where… what…"

"Don't worry. I'll take care of you from now on. You are safe, baby. That disgusting man will not touch you again. You are here with me now… forever."

Buffy's eyes widened and she looked at Spike like he had grown a head. Spike's eyes were grazed.

"Spike. I want to go back."

"NO! Don't you see baby. That man was not being good to you. I know. He doesn't deserve you the way I do. He doesn't worship the ground you walk like I can. You are the love of my life."

Without giving him time to think, Buffy punched Spike hard on the face and run to the door. When she got outside she realized they may be far from any civilization because of the intense vegetation around the house, which seemed like a forest. She saw a patch almost hide at her left side and run to with, but didn't got two far because two arms encircled her from behind, a cloth was put on her face, and everything else turn to blackness.

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After hearing what Lindsey's girlfriend said, which was confirmed by Harmony, they had a lead. Vivienne was a real estate and was the one to sell the house to Spike. She remembered it because it was the first really big sale she did. When Lindsey and Angel's friends started cursing Spike and his true name come up she realized who they were talking about. It seemed that Spike had bought a house that belonged to Harmony's family 100 miles outside the city.

Angel just listened to what the people around him were saying, which brought a hush of strength back to him. He knew that Buffy could handle herself as it was reminded by Sean, but Spike was dangerous and was armed. He didn't want to think what he could do if Buffy reacted in the wrong moment.

"Ok. I think we should go. Kate, my partner , and a team are going to the house too.

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Spike carried Buffy to the house basement. He didn't want to do it, but she was still infected with whatever that man had said to her to realize she belonged with him. After he convinced her he was her man for good, they would leave the country.

He put her in a mattress in the far corner of the place and slightly kissed her mouth. Since Buffy was uncooperative at the moment, they would have to stay in the house a little more than he found necessary. So, he left the basement to go back to the house so he could recover his gun. He wanted to be prepared to defend him and his love if someone came there.

When he came back, he walked to Buffy and put her hair away from her beautiful face and then proceeded to sit in the last step of the basement. He would wait her to wake up so they could talk.

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The car arrived at the gate in the main entrance of the property with lights turned off and slowly so no tire noise would be made to alert the kidnapper. From there, everyone decided to go on foot. After a 10 minutes' walk, the house came into view.

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Buffy slowly came true. She was dizzy and slowly opened her eyes trying to focus. She saw the white ceiling above her and turned around. Spike sat in the last step of the stair looking at her with crazed eyes.

"So, you woke."

Buffy sat in the mattress and backed herself against the nearest wall.

"Spike. Let me… let me go. I won't tell anyone what you did."

Spike gave her a smile.

"Buffy. You are not going anywhere. I know it is… it is confusing for you. I know you think you love that poof, but I know you in fact love me. You are safe with me now. Can you… can you tell me what menace he made so you would be with him? You can trust me. I can help you free yourself from that man."

"Spike… what… what are talking about? I… I am with Angel because I want too."

Spike got up and came near Buffy. Hovering his face near hers, he held her jaw and looked into her eyes.

"Buffy. You. Are. Not. Listen to me, you aren't going to see him again, sweet. We will leave the country as soon as possible and you will be safe."

He kissed Buffy. He tried to pry her mouth open, but got bitten.

"Bitch!"

He slapped her hard on the face. He got up and walked away from her to the stairs. He bent down, grabbed the gun, turned around and came back near Buffy. He crouched in front of her and kissed her forcefully again.

"I am trying to help you, but I see you don't want to see the truth. I didn't want to do this like this, but I have to remind you of whom you belong two."

Spike was on her, pinning her against the mattress while still holding the gun. He kissed her desperate and forcefully. Buffy tried to pry him from her, but he was stronger and she was afraid if they wrestled the gun would fire. She would have to wait a better opportunity.

"No! No! Spike. Stop!"

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Outside, the cops were peering around the house to see if there was any movement. Angel was near the main door when he heard Buffy's scream. Before anyone could do anything, he kicked the door open and run inside. Clem was the first one to go after Angel.

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"I know you'll feel it... When I am inside you... You're going to let me inside you... You'll feel it again, Buffy... "

Buffy panicked fully when she heard her dress being torn and her bra being pulled from her.

"No! Stop!"

Spike put the gun on the floor near the mattress and covered Buffy with his body trying to kiss her, while forcing her legs apart.

"I'll make you feel it... you will feel it. You belong…"

Suddenly, his weight was removed from Buffy and he was thrown to the wall in the other side of the room.

"Stay away from my wife!"

Angel roared, rage like he never knew he had cursing through his veins against the man attacking his beloved. Spike was dazed and tried to get up near the stair. Angel turned around and knelt down near Buffy, who backed away against the wall and curled like a baby. She winced when Angel touched her not recognizing him at first in her panic. When she realized who was caressing her, she cried out and tried to get up, but she didn't have the strength.

Clem came running through the basement door holding his gun. He didn't see Spike, who kicked him, grabbed the gun and turned around.

That day, yet again, another shot was heard.

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AN.: Spike's words are the same he used in Seeing Red. I know! I am bad! Another cliffhanger. Don't I like them? Ehehehehehe.

Everything will end tomorrow. Just one more chapter to go. Next stop: Love Found Me and Insanity. So, stay tuned.