She knew he was hurting bad. She had seen the symptoms before. Buffy had already delt with this. Perhaps that was what bothered her the most. It was something she had already ex-ed off the list, the painful, none dusty end to a vampire that was... uh oh.
Hold up.
She wasn't in love with this one. Nope. No way. Never. Buffy assured herself this was different. With that one comforting thought she returned to the task at hand.
Xander burst into the shop, glowing. "Buffster, da ja vu or what!" Trailing behind was Anya, confusion blatently apparent on the ex-demon's face. "Well, are we going to try to save Spike?" She asked. "Here I though for a long while we were trying to have him staked. Are we trying to save him?"
Everyone turned to look at the blond. Buffy knew she was right, they all did. A lot had changed but, what were they going to do? What was the game plan?
Spike craned his neck to see her, a very annoyed look on his face in this brief moment of consiousness. He moaned and fell back into the fever, hitting the leather hard.
Buffy felt a pang of worry in her and tried to brush it away. This was not the time to be growing a consious for Spike's well being.
She distracted herself by listening the gang's arguing.
"Anya..." Giles spoke gently to silence her. The confused look on her face flashed with a bit of anger.
He turned to face the rest of the group and began to lecture. 'Oh good. The fix-all lecture lesson,' Buffy thought.
"We're all aware of the nature and affects of this poision. In fact, we've already had an encounter with it a number of years ago. Really, the only way to halt the destruction of the compound, killer of the dead, is to..."
He couldn't even say it. Perhaps it were the memories, or just the pain of the thought. The scoobies stood in a tense silence, no one meeting eachothers eyes.
Spike's thick accented voice broke it, pausing every few seconds for unneeded air to ease the pain. "Drain... a slayers... blood."
Everyone soaked the information in.
"Guess I'm a gonner." Spike choked.
TBC soon.