Previously…

Carrying Lucas in her arms she, Spike, and the rest of her friends, Alex and Serena included, all walk into the Crashdown. Standing in the middle of the room dancing to a tune only she can hear in her crazy head is a vampiress in a black and red simple yet expensive gown. As if sensing instead of hearing the audience she stops and turns towards the group.

"Dru?"

Chapter 20

February 18, 2005; 12:14 a.m.

Crashdown

"Dru?" Liz stared at the crazy vampire in front of her. Tears rose inside her eyes and her lip quivered at the emotion bubbling so close to the surface. The Slayer gently deposited Lucas into Spike's arms and faced the woman in front of her.

Drusilla glided up to the brunette slayer and held her arms open knowing what her family needed. "Come sister dear. You've been holding on to it for too long." She heard Elizabeth's pain from the jungles of Brazil. Nothing could keep her from the ray of sunshine hidden by the violent storm of powerful emotions.

Spike took in the sight of his Dark Princess embracing his Lightning Goddess. Even after two years he couldn't get used to them being friends. He'd always care for Dru, she's his Sire and he was with her for over a hundred years but even she couldn't compare to Liz in his eyes.

Lights from passing cars play tag on the walls of the darkened restaurant, every pain, every heartache came pouring out in the arms of a cold-blooded friend. Drusilla killed without remorse didn't matter if it was a child, old woman, or young man. She was as heartless as one could be but she had a soft spot for Spike, Liz, and Luke.

"There, there dear heart. Let Sister take care of you." She stroked a cold hand down her hair. Liz gripped her tightly thanking the Gods above that her friend was there.

A week of emotion that she only let out with Spike flooded to the surface and she could do nothing but let it flow out. A year after she and Spike were married she was on a hunt, searching for the next vamp to add to her total for the night.

She'd been following a newly made vampire; she felt how new he was in her gut, freshly risen and looking for it's first meal as a creature of the night. Then everything went black, she woke up in a nicely furnished dining room but she wasn't alone. Next to her was a woman she had never met, tied up the same as her. The woman was Drusilla.

Another woman with long blonde hair was at her other side, tied as well, but refused to shut up. She found out that her name was Harmony Kendell. Turned out the whole reason the three of them were there was because they had been or were involved with Spike.

Drusilla had been there for a week with only the bare minimum of blood to keep her awake and somewhat aware. While she and Harmony had been recently captured.

When she hadn't returned from patrolling Spike and the others went searching for her. After a few days of researching the AI team figured out who had them and where they were keeping them. The creature that had them was a vampire and they hated Spike with a vengeance.

According to what she was told while in the vampires home, Spike took his lover, used her for a few weeks, then discarded her giving her back to him and Drusilla helped her Childe in all that. He'd been waiting for decades to pay his Sire back, didn't matter that the woman had wanted to be with Spike and Dru.

After she was rescued Spike told her what he thought she'd be comfortable with, she knew he had been with many other women in his undead life. But Spike told her that the woman propositioned him and Dru first wanting to be their lover. It was sort of a test run in a way and neither Spike nor Dru would have wanted her as a full time companion.

It was during that time though that she and Drusilla bonded and became friends. When the vampire that held them would leave to go hunting she'd cut herself on a piece of glass and feed her. She could really explain why she did it but she couldn't let Dru starve. It made no sense because she didn't try to feed Harmony.

Now Slayer and vampire were bonded in a way that transcended conventional methods. Since then they had been friends, Dru returned to Brazil but occasionally came back to see her, Spike, and Luke. While they were friends one thing she wouldn't allow would be Spike and Drusilla to be intimately involved. Spike told her that that point of his life was over with his Sire. He'd always be bound to her but he was with her, Liz, for eternity now.

"Come deary, let's get you upstairs." Slowly she guided Liz toward the back and up the stairs to her parent's home and into her bedroom leaving the others downstairs.

Fred, although knew of the close relationship between Slayer and vampire, couldn't help but worry when Drusilla took Liz into the apartment alone. She never completely trusted the crazy creature and never would.

Spike on the other hand smiled and sat down in the booth with Lucas, keeping him close and rubbing his back letting his son know even in sleep that everything was okay. Whispered to him that his Mommy would be back down in a little bit and she'd tuck him into bed and when he woke up Grandma Dru would be there to play with him.

Angel sat at the bar talking to Buffy on the phone. He hadn't seen her for a couple days and couldn't wait for her flight to come in tomorrow night. Giles didn't approve of her returning to the States so soon but Buffy told him that Willow would be in town by the time her flight took off from England. He wouldn't be alone for long, besides there were a few Potentials who despite their non-Slayer status were still training, they would be there to help him in case of an emergency.

When Willow did the spell to make all the Potentials into Slayers they didn't know it would be only temporary and eventually the spell would wear off and go to whom it was meant to. All Potentials got a taste of what it was like to be super-strong and powerful; they wanted that back and were going to practice and train till they were called.

Cordelia and Gunn were sitting in another booth holding hands. Over the last five years Gunn had learned to love a woman who had demon abilities. He never thought he and Cordy would be dating, for many reasons but the main one because he didn't think he could handle having a supernatural being as a girlfriend. As he got closer to Cordelia that changed and he had been able to look pass the demon and see the woman he had grown to love.

Wesley watched the room taking in everyone and thinking on what would happen tomorrow. So many problems had arisen and he didn't think Liz would be able to handle much more. Tomorrow morning would prove interesting, he didn't think the Roswell group would let that evenings events go unexplained for long.

TBC