"Hold still" Ana warn Spike with a dark glare as he once again moved his hand.
"I'm trying" He whine with a small pout on his lips. "It's not my fault that that sodding Tv isn't working as it should"
She wave the wet brush slightly in warning over his nice new shirt and he instantly shut up. Ana turn her focus back on his nails which she was painting black. Spike was completely unable to paint his own nails so that responsibility had fallen in Ana's capable hands. So at least once a week they would sit down and she would paints his nails their standard black colour and when his roots started showing it was her responsibility to bleach his hair again. The bleaching didn't happen often because Spike's hair grew slowly which means that it didn't need bleaching that often. Ana had never seen his natural hair colour but she had seen old paintings of him when he still had his adorable curls and light brown hair. He still had the curls but you couldn't see them.
"I'm almost finished you big baby" She give his thumb nail one last coat of the shiny polish before putting it away. "There, all done"
"Thanks, pet" Spike tell her with one of his trademark smirks. "You know what I've been craving recently?"
"A good shag?" Ana ask the male vampire with a small smirk of her own.
"A dead slayer" He smirk diabolically and his eyes glaze over as he relives his past kills. "The one during the boxer rebellion gave me this" He point to his scar on his eyebrow.
"I know, you've told me that story like 6 times this week." The elf tell him with an eye roll.
"Hey" He warn. "Don't roll those eyes at me"
"I'll do what I want, when I want and who I want" Ana retort with a scoff. "You don't own me Spike"
"Sure, I do. You're my elf Ana" He tell her, leaning over to give her a peck on her cheek.
She pretended to be disgusted even though she was melting on the inside and wipe the kiss away. Her very mature response was to blow a raspberry and sink down in her chair.
"Sweet Ana?" A dreamy voice called to the young elf from the doorway.
"Yeah, Dru?" She called back.
"Do you want to walk to the angels with me? The moon tells me that I shouldn't go without you" The female vampire tell the elf with a small smile on her face and her hand already outstretched expectantly.
Giving Spike a little wave she walk away from the small living room and cross the floor and put her warm hand in Drusilla's cold one.
"Goodbye, my sweet Spike" Drusilla call over her shoulder as she and Ana walk out the front door.
The two walk in silence as the older woman lead them towards a destination only she knows. Ana cast worried looks to the vampire every now and then, she didn't feel entirely comfortable in her company without Spike close. Sure she could fight and all of that but this was against Drusilla, an experienced old vampire who Ana's best friend loved. She couldn't hurt the vampire and that gave her a big disadvantage if Drusilla brought her out to attack her.
"Miss Edith was very bad today, she snitched on Pruth" Drusilla told the elf walking beside her with a frown on her face. "I had to put her on time out"
"Snitches get stitches" Ana joke in an attempt to lighten the tension between them.
"Yes, snitches get stitches" The vampire repeat, nodding her head with every word.
"So" Ana drag out the O as she stop walking and turn to Drusilla. "What did you bring me here for?"
"It's a secret" Drusilla giggle, putting a finger in front of her mouth and shush. "We're not there yet"
"Where are we going?" The younger girl ask again.
"I can't tell you" Drusilla airily reply. "Snitches get stitches"
"That's too bad" Ana tell the vampire with a tense smile, she didn't get a good feeling about this.
"The moon tells me you look pretty today" Dru compliment the girl
Ana abruptly stop and sharply turn to her companion. "Sorry dru, I'm so changeable, it is a weakness with me"
"You need to come with me, sweet Ana" Dru urge the girl and stretch one dainty hand for Ana's.
"Fine" Ana mutter and ignore her instincts, Spike was gonna pay when she got back from wherever Drusilla the crazy vampire was taking her. Maybe Ana should make him take a long nice nap in a nice little coffin in a crawl space in a house somewhere. Not forever, just a few weeks so he can learn a lesson. Who is she kidding? She couldn't bear being without him for that long.
Drusilla lead the elf down many alleys and through many streets the girl had never heard of but eventually they or rather Ana stumbled when Drusilla suddenly stopped in front of a big warehouse. She could see that the lights were on in there, meaning that Dru had taken her to a place where other people were. Which could mean only bad news for Ana.
While Ana was observing the warehouse and thinking she didn't notice that Drusilla slipped away from her side and had instead picked up a rock. Just as Ana turned around to see where Dru had gone, the vampire in question slammed the stone in Ana's head. The elf was knocked unconscious and fell to the hard, wet gravel at Drusillas feet.
"I'm sorry Ana but I need to do this" Drusilla whisper to the knocked out girl and bestowed a kiss on her brow before leaving the place. She didn't mean the girl any harm, she quite liked her to be truthful but she had to do this.
Only a few minutes after Dru left the scene a door to the side of the building opens and another vampire walks out with his game face on and blood smeared on his face. The vampire stalked up to Ana's body and after taking one look at her he decided to bring her inside, opportunities like this doesn't present themselves everyday, the vampire thinks to himself.
He dropped her hard down on a cold metal table in a dark corner of the warehouse and he left the young girl and went into the only room in the building. He walked back out with four pairs of handcuffs, he was going to have some fun before really enjoying himself. He not so gently cuff her legs to the table and yank them to make sure that she can't get out of them and then does the same to her arms rendering her immobile. By this point Ana has started to stir a little and is beginning to wake up.
Not bothered by his soon to be victim waking up he calmly walk over to another dark corner of the enclosure and drag a heavy machine behind him. He position it behind her head and put some water on each of her temples and a belt in her mouth. If she wasn't awake now then she would soon be.
Ana shake to life with a scream bursting out of her throat and her panic grows when she realises that she can't move. More and more shocks flow through her small body and her eyes soon roll into the back of her head and her body desperately buck on the table totry and escape but her restraints hold her down. She pant heavily with tears streaming down her face when the vampire briefly stop sending the shocks through her body and she slump down on the table exhausted.
Her short pause doesn't last long and he once again position the cool poles on her temples and the electricity flow through them and into her brain. Scream after scream tear their way out of her sore throat and she choke up. She can feel her brain frying with each shock and her thoughts turned into mumbles and her head fill with voices. They scream at her to get away, to break the restrains and walk away but even with all of her elven strength she can't get free.
The vampire thankfully stop his incessant torture after he decided that he her screams wasn't amusing anymore and he dried her temples and cheeks.
"Hi there" He tell her with a big smile on his face.
"Go to hell" She try to tell him but it comes out muffled because of the belt.
He chuckle and lean closer. "I'm sorry, what was that?"
She repeat herself.
"I can't hear you" The vampire mock the elf with a twisted grin this time. "No matter, we'll have fun anyway"
He pulled the belt form her mouth and she took a deep breath trying to calm her rushing heart but it seemed to pump even faster if it was possible.
"If you do as I say I'll make you rich, otherwise I'll make you into shoes" Ana tell the man out of breath and shakily.
"Pfft, you can't even touch me" The cocky vampire reply and to demonstrate his power he laid his hand on her throat and apply a little bit of pressure. The elf doesn't try to buck him off, instead she looks straight into his eyes hoping to get him to change her mind. She didn't know what she did to deserve this, she's been good.
"Why am I here?" She ask with tears rushing down her cheeks again and pitiful whimpers escaping her mouth.
"Well, I found you outside and I wanted to have some fun" He reply with a noncommittal shrug.
"I want to go home" Ana cry out, her head hurt and she couldn't think. "I want Spike"
"Spike?" The vampire ask shocked and a little bit scared. "You know Spike?"
"He's my bestest friend, I love him" Ana answer with a smile despite her situation.
The vampire panic at the revelation and quickly uncuff her from the table and bring a cloth to wipe her face with. When her face is dry enough to his liking he scoop her up bridal style and carry her out of the building.
"What are you doing?" She mumble to him, confused by the change of events.
"I'm bringing you home" The vampire answer anxiously. "You won't tell him right?"
"Snitches get stitches" Ana reply absentmindedly.
"He's a good friend of mine, Spike" The vampire tell her and start describing how he met Spike and bla bla bla, Ana could barely hear the man anymore. She was so tired.
She manages to stay awake the rest of the way to the crypt and she could feel her hope building when the entrance comes in sight. She could also feel how frightened the vampire was, she was somehow doubting that the two vampires were friends.
The vampire knocked on the door and it quickly slammed open by an anxious Spike who let out a sigh of relief when he saw her. Spike yanked her body over to his and glared at the other vampire.
"What are you doing here?" Spike sneered.
"I have some business here" The vampire answer vaguely.
"Ana" Spike ask but she doesn't hear him, he shake her and ask again but she still does not answer. "What'd you do to her?!"
"I swear I didn't know who it was. I'm so sorry Spike" The vampire squeak out, cowering beneath the glare Spike gives him.
"You played your sick games on my Ana?!" Spike was raging, who dared hurt his Anna. He'd make him pay for it.
"I didn't know it was her, I stopped as soon as she said your name. I swear" The vampire was close to tears now.
Spike was filled with uncontrollable anger and brought a nearby stick into his hands and drove it through the other vampire's heart before anyone could say what. "No one hurts my Ana"
