[Note:Vamped Buffy will be referred to as V-Buffy]
Chapter 25: Forever
Buffy was turning in and out of corridors so fast that she was starting to get dizzy, but the thought of V-Buffy with Xander kept her going.
She suddenly felt a burst of adrenaline as she saw a big opening in the corridor up ahead. As she approached the opening she slowed her pace and started creeping up, not knowing what to expect.
When she made it to the opening she came upon a flight of stairs. Buffy looked up the stairway as she slowly made her way up them. When she reached the top stair should was staring into a room that was about twice the size of her bedroom.
Buffy scanned the area only to find it bare, except for a door across from her on the other side. However, when she stepped into the middle of the room she turned around to see five open doorways each of them with stairways descending back into the maze.
Buffy turned around as she slowly started walking towards the door across the room. Halfway to it her slayer senses went on alert as she heard growling coming from within the maze. She turned around, readying herself as vampires came out of all five passageways running at her.
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Spike smiled as he watched Drusilla look at Giles and vamp into her game face.
Giles was trying to fight back, but because of the lack of oxygen he wasn't much of a challenge.
Oz aimed his crossbow at Drusilla and fired, hoping that he didn't hit Giles. However, Spike caught the arrow inches away from Dru's face.
"You better be careful with these things boy. You could put someone's eye out"
"How bout yours" was the reply Spike got from someone to his left before being thrown to the ground with Drusilla as she dropped Giles.
Spike was furious as he pushed his attacker off of him, "Slayer I'll... he broke off when he saw a man sporting a goatee getting up about ten feet from him.
"Who the Hell are you?" Spike said after getting to his feet.
"Let them go and this doesn't have to get violent" the man said as he stared down Spike.
Spike laughed at this, "Well now, we can't have that can we?" he said before rushing the man.
Spike came at him with a swing that the man ducked, then coming back up the man shoved Spike back to the ground. Spike had underestimated this man and he knew it. He thought him nothing more than a human, but it seemed he was wrong.
Willow, Oz and Ms. Calendar were now helping Giles up as the other eight vamps surrounded them, waiting for Spike to give the order.
Giles is still a little disorientated as he gets to his feet, with the help of Willow and Jenny, but he hears a familiar voice.
"That's him" Giles mutters under his breath as he watches the confrontation in front of him.
"What?" Jenny asks as Giles leans on her.
"That's the man I told you about"
All of the sudden Ms. Calendar and Giles heard a sound they know all to well as they turned to see a vamp that was about to grab them from behind holding onto a stake to his chest before turning to dust.
"Well, I'll say one thing about him. He's got good timing" Ms. Calendar said as Giles and her were joined side by side with Willow and Oz as the remaining seven vamps seemed to back off a little, but not enough to disqualify them as a threat.
"Violence it is" Reed says after throwing the stake before looking back at Spike who is now getting off the ground laughing.
Spike as he gets up, reverts to his human face, "I like you, you have spuck. I'll tell you what, if your a good boy after I kill the slayer and her groupies here I'll do you a favor"
"Oh, and what's that?" Reed asks as he reaches his hand slowly towards his jacket only to be grabbed by the back of the neck from behind.
"I'll let Dru here kill you just once." Spike said grinning.
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Buffy ducks under the attack of one vamp, pushing him to the ground as she comes up and kicks another vamp coming at her. Buffy's giving it her all, but there are so many vamps she is starting to get tired as she grabs ahold of a vamp's wild swing towards her and stakes him. When she looks up after staking the vamp she gets a fist to the face that sends her against the opposite wall. As she gets up two vamps meet her and grab her arms as they pin her against the wall. She knocks the one to the right off of her, only to have another take his place. They hold her against the wall as she struggles to get free. Buffy is then met by another vamp that walks up to her and grabs her by the throat.
"I've always wondered what slayer blood tastes like." he says as the two vamps holding her start to wish that they were in his position.
He smiles as he bares his fangs and lowers his head towards Buffy's neck.
Buffy tries once more to free herself, but to no avail. She had dusted nearly twenty vamps and it had taken a lot out of her. A sudden rush of fear overcomes her as she anticipates the bite. Buffy knows the bite of a vamp all too well. She starts breathing hard as she remembers the master's bite. The stinging sensation of his fangs piercing the skin, the sensation of being pulled to him as he took her life source. It was an experience she didn't want to have again, but it seems she has no choice as she closes her eyes. Just as she closes her eyes she feels the sting as the vamp's fangs pierce her skin. Just like before, it was like a sharp needle being plunged into her neck, only this time there wasn't the sensation of being pulled to the vamp. In fact, the sting was all that she felt and then it was gone as quickly as it had came.
Buffy opened her eyes just in time to see a cloud of dust as the two vamps holding her arms seemed to loosen their grips. At that instant Buffy probably could've swung the vamps off of her, but she was too busy staring straight ahead of her at Xander who had just finished off another vamp with a stake to the heart.
That left only the two vamps holding her as most of the others ran back into the maze appearing to be afraid of the same fate as the others.
Buffy felt a sudden rush of adrenaline as she swings her right leg up and kicks the vamp on her right arm, busting the vamp's nose as he releases her. That left only the vamp on her left arm which was no match as she reaches into her jacket, pulling out a stake and then jabbing the stake into the vamp's chest as he turns to dust with a shocked expression on his face.
Buffy wastes no time as she races to Xander and swings her arms around him.
"Whoa there Buff" he said as she hung onto him.
"Xander I thought that I'd lost you. God, I was so worried"
"Shh... Shh... I'm okay Buffy"
"I've lost too many people. I couldn't have lost you too" she said as she buries her face into his shoulder.
"Don't worry Buff I'll always be here for you. In fact, I'll be here forever"
Buffy suddenly looked up into a face that she would never forget as Xander's sweet face was replaced with one of absolute evil. Buffy somehow found the way to push herself away from him as she backs up shaking her head, "X...X...Xander, Nooo."
Buffy backed up against the door that she was about to go into a few minutes ago, "Why, why did you save me?" she asked as she felt for the doorknob behind her with her hand, but still focused on Xander.
"Well, I couldn't just let him go and ravage you, now could I? I mean isn't that my job?" Xander said smiling, making his fangs seem even bigger.
Buffy didn't even get to reply because the door which she was against suddenly was swung open. As she stumbled back she was caught by someone.
"Watch your step." V-Buffy said as she grabbed Buffy and slung her across the room.
Buffy gets up with tears in her eyes. As she gets up Buffy looks around the room she is in. It looks like a bedroom. There was a bed in the room that seemed to be fit for a king. However, the thing Buffy noticed most about the bed wasn't the size, but the engraving above the bed on the headboard. It read B/X Forever.
V-Buffy smiles as she looks at Buffy looking at the bed, "You like it, I had it engraved myself. Well, actually I had someone else engrave it, but I did trace over it with his blood when he was finished"
Xander smiled beside her until he looked at the bed, "Honey, how many times have I told you to put up the um..toys when we're through" he said as V-Buffy noticed for the first time what Xander was talking about as she smiled innocently at Buffy across from her and went to the right of the bed and pushed a button extending from the wall. After she pushed the button the bed shook as the crosses on the bed disappeared back inside of the bed.
"Pretend you didn't see that." Xander said to Buffy with an apologetic expression.
"What do you think lover? Should we kill her or have some fun first?" V-Buffy says as she looks at Buffy with a smile.
"I don't know, two Buffy's couldn't be a bad thing. Maybe we could have some fun." Xander said as walks to V-Buffy and looks at the button, then at the bed before looking at Buffy with a smile.
This earned a glare and a growl from V-Buffy as she looked at Xander and then back at Buffy, "Kill her it is!" she said before charging Buffy.
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Reed couldn't believe he'd let the woman vamp get behind him. He was so occupied with helping Giles and the others that he had lost his concentration and with what was at stake he couldn't let that happen again, even if it meant the other's lives.
"You've ruined our fun" Dru says as she turns him around to face her while vamping out.
Despite his lack of air Reed reached into his jacket with his left hand only to have Dru grab ahold of it and snip at him playfully, "Naughty, but don't worry princess knows how to deal with bad boys."
Spiked smiled at the scene before him. That was one thing that he loved about Dru. She could look like a frightened kitten one minute and then a vicious animal the next. Well, that and the fact that she was his sire.
Just at that moment there came an explosion of glass from the second story of the house as two people came flying out of the window.
As Buffy hit the ground she heard her shoulder make a sound that she didn't like, even more so when the pain started to come. Fighting back the pain she got up and tried to take a defensive posture. At that moment something caught her eye to her left.
"Giles!" she yelled seeing him and the others slowly being pushed back against the house.
Buffy's sudden appearance drew Spike's and Drusilla's attention, giving Reed his opportunity as he wrapped his legs around Dru and using his free hand hit her in the face as she dropped him to the ground.
Reed rolled to his right as he hit the ground, then getting back up he reached into the other side of his jacket and pulled out something that seemed to shine in the darkness as he threw it towards the vamps that were starting to wear down Giles and the others. It whistled through the air until it came in contact with a vamp as it went clean through his neck, until it hit another and another before coming back to Reed who caught it a foot away from his head, "Whoa, I really need to practice more" he said as three vampire heads fell to the ground, turning to dust.
Buffy was so caught up in the show that she forgot about why she had came through the window in the first place. She was reminded with a fist from V-Buffy that sent her in the air before landing on the ground in front of a tree. As she got up she saw a tree limb sticking out. She broke off a sharp piece and looked back at V-Buffy. The only problem was now she wasn't only looking at V-Buffy because Xander had just joined her side after jumping down from the shattered second story window, armed with his vamp visage.
"You really like it rough don't you?" he said looking at V-Buffy with a smile.
"What can I say, I like foreplay" she said before charging Buffy.
Buffy blocked her initial attack as they exchanged blow for blow. It was like fighting a mirror image of herself. Buffy looked for an opening to stake her vamped self, but found none.
"You think I don't know what you're doing?" V-Buffy said laughing as they continued their attacks on one another.
Neither one were getting the upper hand as they blocked each other's blows. That is until Xander joined in, "I know it takes two to tango, but mind if I cut in" he said sending a punch towards Buffy that sent her back against the tree.
As her back connected with the tree she started feeling woozy. The only good thing about the feeling was that it almost helped her block out the pain. Almost, that is until she felt a pair of hands fling her up to her feet and shove her against the tree.
"This may be a first. I don't know if anyone has actually ate themselves before." V-Buffy said before shrugging and lowering her fangs towards Buffy's neck. However, before she could get a taste of Buffy she was thrown to the ground by someone to her right.
"This should be fun." Spike said before looking at Buffy against the tree, then back at V-Buffy on the ground with a questioning look, "What the bloody..." was all that Spike said before being lifted by the collar of his black duster and tossed in the air towards the house.
Spike hit the side of the house with a loud crash as pieces of wood shattered from the house. As Spike looks up he sees Xander standing over him, "Looks like you've stuck your head in where it doesn't belong. Now I'll have to separate it!" Xander says looking down at him.
"Bloody unlikely" Spike says as he sweeps his leg towards Xander's legs, knocking him to the ground.
Spike picks up one of the sharp pieces of wood that shattered from the house as he raises it up over his head ready to bring it down on Xander's chest, "Looks like your the one who stuck his head in where it doesn't belong mate" he said as he brought the stake down.
However, it was caught a couple of inches from Xander's chest by someone, "Mind if *I* cut in." Reed said before punching Spike in the face, sending him back a couple of feet.
Spike once again got back up, "Not you again." he said in a frustrated manner, before continuing, "You know you really are starting to get on my nerves. Guess now I'll have to...{Spike stops when he hears Drusilla call his name to his right. He sees a now free Giles, Willow and Ms. Calendar backing her up to a tree with crosses while Oz has a crossbow pointing at her.
"Dru" he whispers under his breath as he takes off to help her.
Reed is about to stop Spike, but his attention is drawn behind him as he hears fighting. He sees a very tired Buffy trying to fend off both V-Buffy and Xander at once. Reed reaches into his jacket, but doesn't find what he is looking for. He looks around on the ground for the weapon he had used earlier on the vamps that were circling Giles and the others. Finally, he sees it laying about twenty feet from where he is. {I must've dropped it after helping Giles and the others fight the vamps}
Reed hears a cracking sound from Buffy's direction. What he sees terrifies him. Buffy is now up against the tree with Xander and V-Buffy both holding her there. From the sound of the crack Reed knows that Buffy broke a couple of ribs and seems to be in no shape to fight back as she was against the tree helpless. Reed then saw the most horrific scene he'd ever seen. V-Buffy and a vamped Xander lowering their heads together towards Buffy's neck as they started feeding.
Reed knew he couldn't get to Buffy in time, but that didn't stop him from trying as he dashed towards her direction only to feel a gust of wind that almost made him lose his balance as he came to a stop. However, V-Buffy and Xander were not so lucky as they went flying through the air until landing about fifty feet from where they were before. Buffy simply fell to the ground unconscious, either from the loss of blood or the battle. Reed figured probably both.
Reed looked over towards the direction the gust had came from to see a man standing there. He was standing there with an expression on his face that looked stone cold. Reed also noticed that this man seem to have a certain something about him, something Reed couldn't put his foot on until the man held out one of his hands palm up and a long blade formed in his hand.
"Of course, magic" Reed said aloud as he took a step forward only to have the man look his way, sending Reed flying back against the house.
"Stay out of this!" The man said as he made his way towards V-Buffy, who was now getting up with Xander by her side as they both snarled at the approaching man.
Reed looked back and forth towards V-Buffy, Xander and the man and then at Buffy. Just when he was about to make a move towards Buffy's unconscious form on the ground he heard Willow scream, drawing his attention.
Reed watched as Spike, who was laughing, held up Oz by the throat while Drusilla watched in amusement.
"I told you to watch were you pointed that thing" Spike said as Oz dropped the crossbow.
Reed was torn between helping Giles and the others or going to Buffy who was unconscious by the side of the tree. "I'm sorry guys" he said under his breath towards Giles and others as he started making his way towards Buffy. He heard a snarl in the direction of Giles and the others as casted a quick glance towards them to see that Oz had shoved a cross in Spike's face making Spike drop him.
{Good Man} Reed thought as he saw Spike grab Drusilla and run, "But I wanted to play" Reed heard Dru say as they disappeared into the night.
Reed dropped beside Buffy on the ground and started looking at her neck. She'd lost alot of blood and he knew he had to get her out of here fast or else they all might be in for the same thing. Giles, Jenny, Oz and Willow came up from behind him at that moment.
"Is she?" Giles said not being able to finish his question.
"No, she'll be fine as long as we get her out of here" Reed said as he picked her up before looking towards V-Buffy and Xander fighting off the man up ahead.
"What about Xander?" Willow said in a panick.
"You've got to let him go!" Reed yelled looking at Willow before looking towards Xander and continuing, "He's gone, you're going to have to let him go" this time with a little sadness and concern towards Willow as a tear went down her face. Reed watched the tear as it went down her face and dropped to the ground. Oz looked at Willow and knew that she wouldn't be satisfied with leaving it at that as he grabbed ahold of Willow and held her.
"Look, we don't have time for this, we've got to get out of here" Reed said as he seemed to come out of his trance as he looked at Giles and the others.
"And Fast..." Jenny said as she pointed towards a group of vampires coming from around the front of the house as they stood looking at V-Buffy and Xander fighting with the man before looking at Reed, Giles and the others as they started growling and made their way towards them.
"Take her." Reed said to Giles as he gave Buffy to him as he looked at the ground a few feet up ahead and found what he was looking for, "Get her out of here, I'll meet you back at the library." he said before taking off in the direction of the vamps.
Giles lead the way back around to the front of the house with the others as he carried Buffy in his arms.
The last thing Giles saw before going around the corner was Reed kicking a weapon, which looked like a boomerang made of metal, up from the ground with his feet while catching it with his right hand.
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Chapter 25: Forever
Buffy was turning in and out of corridors so fast that she was starting to get dizzy, but the thought of V-Buffy with Xander kept her going.
She suddenly felt a burst of adrenaline as she saw a big opening in the corridor up ahead. As she approached the opening she slowed her pace and started creeping up, not knowing what to expect.
When she made it to the opening she came upon a flight of stairs. Buffy looked up the stairway as she slowly made her way up them. When she reached the top stair should was staring into a room that was about twice the size of her bedroom.
Buffy scanned the area only to find it bare, except for a door across from her on the other side. However, when she stepped into the middle of the room she turned around to see five open doorways each of them with stairways descending back into the maze.
Buffy turned around as she slowly started walking towards the door across the room. Halfway to it her slayer senses went on alert as she heard growling coming from within the maze. She turned around, readying herself as vampires came out of all five passageways running at her.
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Spike smiled as he watched Drusilla look at Giles and vamp into her game face.
Giles was trying to fight back, but because of the lack of oxygen he wasn't much of a challenge.
Oz aimed his crossbow at Drusilla and fired, hoping that he didn't hit Giles. However, Spike caught the arrow inches away from Dru's face.
"You better be careful with these things boy. You could put someone's eye out"
"How bout yours" was the reply Spike got from someone to his left before being thrown to the ground with Drusilla as she dropped Giles.
Spike was furious as he pushed his attacker off of him, "Slayer I'll... he broke off when he saw a man sporting a goatee getting up about ten feet from him.
"Who the Hell are you?" Spike said after getting to his feet.
"Let them go and this doesn't have to get violent" the man said as he stared down Spike.
Spike laughed at this, "Well now, we can't have that can we?" he said before rushing the man.
Spike came at him with a swing that the man ducked, then coming back up the man shoved Spike back to the ground. Spike had underestimated this man and he knew it. He thought him nothing more than a human, but it seemed he was wrong.
Willow, Oz and Ms. Calendar were now helping Giles up as the other eight vamps surrounded them, waiting for Spike to give the order.
Giles is still a little disorientated as he gets to his feet, with the help of Willow and Jenny, but he hears a familiar voice.
"That's him" Giles mutters under his breath as he watches the confrontation in front of him.
"What?" Jenny asks as Giles leans on her.
"That's the man I told you about"
All of the sudden Ms. Calendar and Giles heard a sound they know all to well as they turned to see a vamp that was about to grab them from behind holding onto a stake to his chest before turning to dust.
"Well, I'll say one thing about him. He's got good timing" Ms. Calendar said as Giles and her were joined side by side with Willow and Oz as the remaining seven vamps seemed to back off a little, but not enough to disqualify them as a threat.
"Violence it is" Reed says after throwing the stake before looking back at Spike who is now getting off the ground laughing.
Spike as he gets up, reverts to his human face, "I like you, you have spuck. I'll tell you what, if your a good boy after I kill the slayer and her groupies here I'll do you a favor"
"Oh, and what's that?" Reed asks as he reaches his hand slowly towards his jacket only to be grabbed by the back of the neck from behind.
"I'll let Dru here kill you just once." Spike said grinning.
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Buffy ducks under the attack of one vamp, pushing him to the ground as she comes up and kicks another vamp coming at her. Buffy's giving it her all, but there are so many vamps she is starting to get tired as she grabs ahold of a vamp's wild swing towards her and stakes him. When she looks up after staking the vamp she gets a fist to the face that sends her against the opposite wall. As she gets up two vamps meet her and grab her arms as they pin her against the wall. She knocks the one to the right off of her, only to have another take his place. They hold her against the wall as she struggles to get free. Buffy is then met by another vamp that walks up to her and grabs her by the throat.
"I've always wondered what slayer blood tastes like." he says as the two vamps holding her start to wish that they were in his position.
He smiles as he bares his fangs and lowers his head towards Buffy's neck.
Buffy tries once more to free herself, but to no avail. She had dusted nearly twenty vamps and it had taken a lot out of her. A sudden rush of fear overcomes her as she anticipates the bite. Buffy knows the bite of a vamp all too well. She starts breathing hard as she remembers the master's bite. The stinging sensation of his fangs piercing the skin, the sensation of being pulled to him as he took her life source. It was an experience she didn't want to have again, but it seems she has no choice as she closes her eyes. Just as she closes her eyes she feels the sting as the vamp's fangs pierce her skin. Just like before, it was like a sharp needle being plunged into her neck, only this time there wasn't the sensation of being pulled to the vamp. In fact, the sting was all that she felt and then it was gone as quickly as it had came.
Buffy opened her eyes just in time to see a cloud of dust as the two vamps holding her arms seemed to loosen their grips. At that instant Buffy probably could've swung the vamps off of her, but she was too busy staring straight ahead of her at Xander who had just finished off another vamp with a stake to the heart.
That left only the two vamps holding her as most of the others ran back into the maze appearing to be afraid of the same fate as the others.
Buffy felt a sudden rush of adrenaline as she swings her right leg up and kicks the vamp on her right arm, busting the vamp's nose as he releases her. That left only the vamp on her left arm which was no match as she reaches into her jacket, pulling out a stake and then jabbing the stake into the vamp's chest as he turns to dust with a shocked expression on his face.
Buffy wastes no time as she races to Xander and swings her arms around him.
"Whoa there Buff" he said as she hung onto him.
"Xander I thought that I'd lost you. God, I was so worried"
"Shh... Shh... I'm okay Buffy"
"I've lost too many people. I couldn't have lost you too" she said as she buries her face into his shoulder.
"Don't worry Buff I'll always be here for you. In fact, I'll be here forever"
Buffy suddenly looked up into a face that she would never forget as Xander's sweet face was replaced with one of absolute evil. Buffy somehow found the way to push herself away from him as she backs up shaking her head, "X...X...Xander, Nooo."
Buffy backed up against the door that she was about to go into a few minutes ago, "Why, why did you save me?" she asked as she felt for the doorknob behind her with her hand, but still focused on Xander.
"Well, I couldn't just let him go and ravage you, now could I? I mean isn't that my job?" Xander said smiling, making his fangs seem even bigger.
Buffy didn't even get to reply because the door which she was against suddenly was swung open. As she stumbled back she was caught by someone.
"Watch your step." V-Buffy said as she grabbed Buffy and slung her across the room.
Buffy gets up with tears in her eyes. As she gets up Buffy looks around the room she is in. It looks like a bedroom. There was a bed in the room that seemed to be fit for a king. However, the thing Buffy noticed most about the bed wasn't the size, but the engraving above the bed on the headboard. It read B/X Forever.
V-Buffy smiles as she looks at Buffy looking at the bed, "You like it, I had it engraved myself. Well, actually I had someone else engrave it, but I did trace over it with his blood when he was finished"
Xander smiled beside her until he looked at the bed, "Honey, how many times have I told you to put up the um..toys when we're through" he said as V-Buffy noticed for the first time what Xander was talking about as she smiled innocently at Buffy across from her and went to the right of the bed and pushed a button extending from the wall. After she pushed the button the bed shook as the crosses on the bed disappeared back inside of the bed.
"Pretend you didn't see that." Xander said to Buffy with an apologetic expression.
"What do you think lover? Should we kill her or have some fun first?" V-Buffy says as she looks at Buffy with a smile.
"I don't know, two Buffy's couldn't be a bad thing. Maybe we could have some fun." Xander said as walks to V-Buffy and looks at the button, then at the bed before looking at Buffy with a smile.
This earned a glare and a growl from V-Buffy as she looked at Xander and then back at Buffy, "Kill her it is!" she said before charging Buffy.
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Reed couldn't believe he'd let the woman vamp get behind him. He was so occupied with helping Giles and the others that he had lost his concentration and with what was at stake he couldn't let that happen again, even if it meant the other's lives.
"You've ruined our fun" Dru says as she turns him around to face her while vamping out.
Despite his lack of air Reed reached into his jacket with his left hand only to have Dru grab ahold of it and snip at him playfully, "Naughty, but don't worry princess knows how to deal with bad boys."
Spiked smiled at the scene before him. That was one thing that he loved about Dru. She could look like a frightened kitten one minute and then a vicious animal the next. Well, that and the fact that she was his sire.
Just at that moment there came an explosion of glass from the second story of the house as two people came flying out of the window.
As Buffy hit the ground she heard her shoulder make a sound that she didn't like, even more so when the pain started to come. Fighting back the pain she got up and tried to take a defensive posture. At that moment something caught her eye to her left.
"Giles!" she yelled seeing him and the others slowly being pushed back against the house.
Buffy's sudden appearance drew Spike's and Drusilla's attention, giving Reed his opportunity as he wrapped his legs around Dru and using his free hand hit her in the face as she dropped him to the ground.
Reed rolled to his right as he hit the ground, then getting back up he reached into the other side of his jacket and pulled out something that seemed to shine in the darkness as he threw it towards the vamps that were starting to wear down Giles and the others. It whistled through the air until it came in contact with a vamp as it went clean through his neck, until it hit another and another before coming back to Reed who caught it a foot away from his head, "Whoa, I really need to practice more" he said as three vampire heads fell to the ground, turning to dust.
Buffy was so caught up in the show that she forgot about why she had came through the window in the first place. She was reminded with a fist from V-Buffy that sent her in the air before landing on the ground in front of a tree. As she got up she saw a tree limb sticking out. She broke off a sharp piece and looked back at V-Buffy. The only problem was now she wasn't only looking at V-Buffy because Xander had just joined her side after jumping down from the shattered second story window, armed with his vamp visage.
"You really like it rough don't you?" he said looking at V-Buffy with a smile.
"What can I say, I like foreplay" she said before charging Buffy.
Buffy blocked her initial attack as they exchanged blow for blow. It was like fighting a mirror image of herself. Buffy looked for an opening to stake her vamped self, but found none.
"You think I don't know what you're doing?" V-Buffy said laughing as they continued their attacks on one another.
Neither one were getting the upper hand as they blocked each other's blows. That is until Xander joined in, "I know it takes two to tango, but mind if I cut in" he said sending a punch towards Buffy that sent her back against the tree.
As her back connected with the tree she started feeling woozy. The only good thing about the feeling was that it almost helped her block out the pain. Almost, that is until she felt a pair of hands fling her up to her feet and shove her against the tree.
"This may be a first. I don't know if anyone has actually ate themselves before." V-Buffy said before shrugging and lowering her fangs towards Buffy's neck. However, before she could get a taste of Buffy she was thrown to the ground by someone to her right.
"This should be fun." Spike said before looking at Buffy against the tree, then back at V-Buffy on the ground with a questioning look, "What the bloody..." was all that Spike said before being lifted by the collar of his black duster and tossed in the air towards the house.
Spike hit the side of the house with a loud crash as pieces of wood shattered from the house. As Spike looks up he sees Xander standing over him, "Looks like you've stuck your head in where it doesn't belong. Now I'll have to separate it!" Xander says looking down at him.
"Bloody unlikely" Spike says as he sweeps his leg towards Xander's legs, knocking him to the ground.
Spike picks up one of the sharp pieces of wood that shattered from the house as he raises it up over his head ready to bring it down on Xander's chest, "Looks like your the one who stuck his head in where it doesn't belong mate" he said as he brought the stake down.
However, it was caught a couple of inches from Xander's chest by someone, "Mind if *I* cut in." Reed said before punching Spike in the face, sending him back a couple of feet.
Spike once again got back up, "Not you again." he said in a frustrated manner, before continuing, "You know you really are starting to get on my nerves. Guess now I'll have to...{Spike stops when he hears Drusilla call his name to his right. He sees a now free Giles, Willow and Ms. Calendar backing her up to a tree with crosses while Oz has a crossbow pointing at her.
"Dru" he whispers under his breath as he takes off to help her.
Reed is about to stop Spike, but his attention is drawn behind him as he hears fighting. He sees a very tired Buffy trying to fend off both V-Buffy and Xander at once. Reed reaches into his jacket, but doesn't find what he is looking for. He looks around on the ground for the weapon he had used earlier on the vamps that were circling Giles and the others. Finally, he sees it laying about twenty feet from where he is. {I must've dropped it after helping Giles and the others fight the vamps}
Reed hears a cracking sound from Buffy's direction. What he sees terrifies him. Buffy is now up against the tree with Xander and V-Buffy both holding her there. From the sound of the crack Reed knows that Buffy broke a couple of ribs and seems to be in no shape to fight back as she was against the tree helpless. Reed then saw the most horrific scene he'd ever seen. V-Buffy and a vamped Xander lowering their heads together towards Buffy's neck as they started feeding.
Reed knew he couldn't get to Buffy in time, but that didn't stop him from trying as he dashed towards her direction only to feel a gust of wind that almost made him lose his balance as he came to a stop. However, V-Buffy and Xander were not so lucky as they went flying through the air until landing about fifty feet from where they were before. Buffy simply fell to the ground unconscious, either from the loss of blood or the battle. Reed figured probably both.
Reed looked over towards the direction the gust had came from to see a man standing there. He was standing there with an expression on his face that looked stone cold. Reed also noticed that this man seem to have a certain something about him, something Reed couldn't put his foot on until the man held out one of his hands palm up and a long blade formed in his hand.
"Of course, magic" Reed said aloud as he took a step forward only to have the man look his way, sending Reed flying back against the house.
"Stay out of this!" The man said as he made his way towards V-Buffy, who was now getting up with Xander by her side as they both snarled at the approaching man.
Reed looked back and forth towards V-Buffy, Xander and the man and then at Buffy. Just when he was about to make a move towards Buffy's unconscious form on the ground he heard Willow scream, drawing his attention.
Reed watched as Spike, who was laughing, held up Oz by the throat while Drusilla watched in amusement.
"I told you to watch were you pointed that thing" Spike said as Oz dropped the crossbow.
Reed was torn between helping Giles and the others or going to Buffy who was unconscious by the side of the tree. "I'm sorry guys" he said under his breath towards Giles and others as he started making his way towards Buffy. He heard a snarl in the direction of Giles and the others as casted a quick glance towards them to see that Oz had shoved a cross in Spike's face making Spike drop him.
{Good Man} Reed thought as he saw Spike grab Drusilla and run, "But I wanted to play" Reed heard Dru say as they disappeared into the night.
Reed dropped beside Buffy on the ground and started looking at her neck. She'd lost alot of blood and he knew he had to get her out of here fast or else they all might be in for the same thing. Giles, Jenny, Oz and Willow came up from behind him at that moment.
"Is she?" Giles said not being able to finish his question.
"No, she'll be fine as long as we get her out of here" Reed said as he picked her up before looking towards V-Buffy and Xander fighting off the man up ahead.
"What about Xander?" Willow said in a panick.
"You've got to let him go!" Reed yelled looking at Willow before looking towards Xander and continuing, "He's gone, you're going to have to let him go" this time with a little sadness and concern towards Willow as a tear went down her face. Reed watched the tear as it went down her face and dropped to the ground. Oz looked at Willow and knew that she wouldn't be satisfied with leaving it at that as he grabbed ahold of Willow and held her.
"Look, we don't have time for this, we've got to get out of here" Reed said as he seemed to come out of his trance as he looked at Giles and the others.
"And Fast..." Jenny said as she pointed towards a group of vampires coming from around the front of the house as they stood looking at V-Buffy and Xander fighting with the man before looking at Reed, Giles and the others as they started growling and made their way towards them.
"Take her." Reed said to Giles as he gave Buffy to him as he looked at the ground a few feet up ahead and found what he was looking for, "Get her out of here, I'll meet you back at the library." he said before taking off in the direction of the vamps.
Giles lead the way back around to the front of the house with the others as he carried Buffy in his arms.
The last thing Giles saw before going around the corner was Reed kicking a weapon, which looked like a boomerang made of metal, up from the ground with his feet while catching it with his right hand.
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