Title; Return to Me
Author; Ariadne
Email; ferret@in.com.au
Rating; could change without notice, at the moment R
Disclaimer; All the Characters belong to Joss, and the talented ppl at Mutant Enemy, and Scream appears thanks to Wes
Craven… etc, etc I own no one (unfortunately) Oh and I forgot this with Chapter 2 but A HUGE thanx to Peter Cook of "Pook Australia" for letting me use his business in this fic.
Feedback; Love to hear from you
Distribution; Yep but please let me know so I can gloat about it!
Chapter 4; Confrontation
Pieces of glass littered the floor and crunched under the newcomer's feet. Willow and Xander looked towards each other an expression of fear crossed their faces.
"Well this is just great!" Spike said. He couldn't see who had smashed their way in as he moved around Buffy trying to see. "It's probably someone just pissed off at not being invi… What the hell?" Spike looked from Willow and Xander to Willow and Xander, confusion clearly evident on his face, "Have you two been playing with a cloning machine or something? Spells maybe? Or just got in the way of that sodding Toth guy again? What's with the leather, not a normal look for you pair!"
"Hey! Willow get your hands off my man..." Anya started towards the leather clad couple, clearly angry that Willow and Xander were together.
"Whoa there, slow down a second Anya. I'm right here. That's NOT me, and I'm kinda thinking leather Willow might not want to hand me… um Him over that easily." Xander held her back, turning her to face him. "We'll just let Buffy and Fang-boy handle this for a second."
"Bored now, why aren't they screaming or something?" Willow looked towards her leather clad partner "Even Puppy look's different."
"Don't know Will, but we might have some fun in a second" Xander looked up at the surprised group letting his game face show he looked around the room, as expected everyone moved back fear showing on a lot of faces.
Spike moved towards the front of the crowd, Buffy slipped quietly past the tables to the Scoobies. Angel and Gunn watched the events unfolding and started moving towards the others. Vamp Willow looked at everyone, carefully surveying them all. Closely watching Spike, she could sense that he was also a vampire, but she didn't understand why he was here with all these humans.
"I'm hungry," she said in an innocent tone, moving towards Oz "You'll do, should make me feel all warm and fuzzy"
"Keep away from him" Buffy said in a low tone, standing apart from the others "I thought we told you not to return here? So why are you and your little friend here?"
"Who the hell are you?" asked Vamp Xander "Look like you might be fun to play with for a while!"
"She's the slayer, and she's gunna kick your weak, sorry ass out of here" Dawn said defiantly
"Shut up, Dawn" Buffy looked angrily at her sister.
"Yes, Buffy is quite right. We don't want to provoke them Dawn. We just need to wait while Willow, our Willow that is, works on a spell with Tara to send them back where they belong." Giles looked thoughtful "Who knows what would happen if we tampered with the natural continuation of time in their dimension, it could upset the whole universe."
"Slayer huh? Since when did a slayer live to be so old?" asked Vamp Xander, trying to provoke Buffy, hoping she would let her gaze drop for just a second. "And since when did other vampires start hanging around the slayer." He looked directly at Spike and Angel.
Willow and Tara started whispering a spell, hoping the spell would be strong enough to send the vampires back to their own dimension, when all of a sudden Vamp Willow was upon them, quickly flinging them apart. Tara was thrown across the room landing near Pike who was busy with a bag trying to get a zip undone.
"I don't care what that old dude says, I'm going to be prepared." He said as he finally got the zip undone and pulled a couple of stakes from the bag, he handed one to Tara saying, "Here you might find this helpful."
"Tha…thanks." She said as she got up shakily "But I think Giles is right, we should try to return them to where they belong."
"Yeah, well this is just in case."
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Spike was trying to watch Buffy and keep a watchful eye on the two vampires at the same time. It was proving to be difficult now that they had split up. Finally he decided to try and distract the vampires by talking to them. He knew that if Willow could get the spell finished that they would be sent packing back to their own dimension. 'Typical' he thought, just as he seemed to be getting through to Buffy that she wasn't just a passing attraction, but the love of his existence, something happens and takes the moment away from them. He looked across the room to her. She looked beautiful, standing there ready to fight if she had to.
"Oi, you two are invading my hunting grounds." He said to the vampires, his game face coming out. "Why don't you sod off outta here!"
"That's enough from you peroxide boy." Vamp Xander said "This is our home, we stepped out for a second to find someone to eat and come back to find this!" he said sweeping his arm across the crowd of people in a confused voice.
"Yes," vamp Willow backed him up "Where's the Master, and how did Puppy get loose? This is all very confusing"
"I don't give a damn how confused you are, get sodding out!" Spike yelled at them, starting to loose his temper, "Hang on," he said, starting to look confused, "Did you say the Master? Buffy killed him years ago, I mean I wasn't around to see it or anything but stuff like that gets around you know."
"Well he was here when we left, and he…" Vamp Willow pointed to Angel, "was in his cell, chained up!" She glared angrily at Angel, like she was scolding a naughty child. "Anyway who are you?" she looked back to Spike, a seductive smile playing across her lips.
Buffy had caught on to what Spike was doing and had moved around the edge of the group ready to make her move. If Spike could just keep them talking for a bit longer it would be perfect. She heard Spike reply to their question with a smart-ass remark. Suddenly she knew they were looking straight at her. She looked up, a defiant expression on her face and said, "Exactly what part of Sod off don't you understand?" she glanced at Spike to see him smirking to himself over her use of his favourite expression.
"So you're the famous Buffy?" Vamp Xander said, looking her up and down. "Don't look like much of a slayer to me, I could take you out just like that." He said with a snap of his fingers.
"Like to see you try," Dawn said defiantly
"Shut up Dawn" Buffy, Angel, and the other Scoobies said together
"I need them to be together to do the spell." Willow whispered to Giles "they need to stand inside a circle so I can send them back." Her voice was urgent
"Do you think they are going to do as we ask Will?" Xander said in a sarcastic tone "I don't think so, they are not exactly Mr and Mrs Controllable Vampire, now are they?"
"I didn't mean that if we asked them they would do it. I meant if we could lure them inside a circle I could do the spell and poof! They would be gone." She replied a little hurt by his sarcasm. "Anyway I don't hear you coming up with any helpful suggestions."
All of a sudden Vamp Xander took a swing at Buffy. She ducked swiftly out of the way and retaliated with a solid punch in the stomach, sending him flying backwards across the room, she leapt after him ready to follow up with her attack as Vamp Willow rushed to defend her partner. All of a sudden everyone tried to get away. Spike and Angel moved in to help Buffy as she fought off the two vampires.
Realising that they were outnumbered, Vamp Willow shouted to Xander to get out of the place and they both bolted out through the window they came in. Buffy started to follow when Giles blocked her
"Not yet Buffy," he said "Willow and Tara don't have everything they need to send them back to their own dimension right now.
"But, Giles." She looked her watcher. "I can't let them get away, who knows what they might do."
TBC