Giving A Little Hurt Back
Chapter Two
by
Julia Duvall

Author's Note: Thanks to Heather for beta-reading.

"Well you two certainly have an imaginative plan. I think my poof of a sire might have a slight problem with you turning the slayer." Spike threw some clothes at Harmony.

"This is Buffy, we're talking about. She is not going to let you turn her." Harmony muttered from her place underneath the covers.

"You are a naughty girl. Naughty girls need to be punished." Drusilla started to move towards
Harmony, when Darla stopped her.

"Drusilla, no. We are not going to harm her. Harmony, it comes down to breaking Buffy down, not just physically but emotionally." Darla looked into Harmony's eyes.

"Ducks, the slayer is not well right now. Her mother is very sick. You picked a real dandy time
to strike." Spike didn't like this at all.

"I sense there's something wrong with my pet. You haven't killed her, why? Drusilla arched her eyebrow.

"Spike's got a chip in his head, that he can't hurt a living thing." Harmony said.

"Harm..." Spike glared at her.

***

"Buffy, will mom be all right." Dawn asked her through her tears.

"I don't know, Dawn. We have to have faith." She hugged Dawn.

"I'm scared, Buffy, that she might die." Dawn was worried too.

"I am too, Dawn. We have to think that mom will beat this." Buffy felt the same way as Dawn.

"Joyce is a fighter like her daughters." Angel came up to them.

"Angel." Buffy's eyes shimmered brightly when she saw him standing there.

"Hi Angel. Nice to see you. I'm going to check on mom." Dawn left them alone together, so they could have some quality time.

***
"Darla and Drusilla are in town." Wesley told the other members of the scooby gang that were
piled into the waiting room.

"Who are Darla and Drusilla?" Anya asked Wesley, while everyone else's faces went a pale shade of white.

"Darla is deadboy's sire. Drusilla is a pyscho who he sired, Anya." Xander told his girlfriend.

"How did Darla manage to rise from the dead?" Willow didn't think that it was possible, but she was wrong.

"Wolfram and Hart brought her back through a dangerous ritual." Wesley tried to explain in his stoic manner.

"Yeah, they brought her back as a human, and then Dru sired Darla." Cordelia couldn't get around that fact.

"Well, you sound bitter about it, Cordelia." Tara picked up on how tense she was about Drusilla.

"I think you would be too if Dru almost killed you. Thankfully I showed up." Gunn commented while he stared at the scar on the right side of her neck.

To be continued...