Would you dance
if I asked you to dance?
Would you run
and never look back?
Would you cry
if you saw me crying?
And would you save my soul, tonight?
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Spike stared at the roof of the cave trying to assimilate what had happened. It had felt like seconds but it might have been minutes. For the sake of his ego he would say minutes. After all they hype of Jacob he had really expected more.
'An earthquake, a soddin earthquake. Fireworks and levitation, all that rot sure, but a simple little rock shower. How bloody embarrassing.'
Sitting up he tried to survey the damage. Willow was lying unconscious a few feet from the opening they had come through. It looked like she was half buried under a slab of what had once been the roof. Jinx was gone, or at least she wasn't anywhere that he could see her. Growling Spike jumped to his feet.
'That bitch! When I find her I am going to rip out her throat and drag her broken body back here by the hair.'
He had to get Jinx back in order to get Buffy back. This was his fault. If he hadn't been trying to get a reaction out of her this never would have happened. He had just wanted her to admit she felt something for him, even if it was jealousy. A crumb, that's all he ever asked her for. It seemed that was all she thought he was entitled to. She had given him her body but the part he craved , her heart, was locked up as far away from his as it could get.
"What did you think, you bloody poof? A little snog with an ex was going to have her falling in your arms."
Shaking his head Spike looked for some kind of exit. He had to find Jinx and he had to rescue Buffy. He had to tell her he was sorry for getting her into this. And then he had to get the hell out of her life.
Searching through the wall of rock that seemed to encompass him all sides he came across Willow again. Feeling a bit guilty for pretty much forgetting her presence there and realizing that she might have a magic way to get them out of there. He crouched down beside her and eased her limp torso into his arms.
"Hey Red!" Spike shook the body of Buffy's best friend. She was still breathing but he was pretty sure her legs were broken.
"Time to wake up now pet, things to do"
He watched as Willow's eyes squinted open. She stared at him with a glassy look filled with pain.
"Spike……What…….Where's Buffy…….Did we get her…….Why is my head in your lap?"
Spike had to grin at her. She really was quite cute , well once you got her away from the scoobies.
"I don't know where Buffy is, pet. Jinx bolted and I need your magic mojo to find a way out of here, so I can go get her."
"I must be dying. You called me pet."
"Your not dying. Your legs are broke but your not dying. And I call everyone pet. Now if I was calling you luv…."
Spike trailed off. This was not the time to get into a vernacular debate.
Besides Willow had seemed to dismiss the subject and was searching the cave for something.
"There are no openings, I checked. We are sealed up tight pe…"
Willow grinned at the slip.
"I wasn't looking for openings, well I was, just not the usual kind. I was trying to figure out where that guy took Jinx out of"
Spike dropped Willow.
"Bloody hell!"
"You mean she didn't run off with her tail between her legs"
"Now I am going to have to rethink the whole killing her thing, and I was kinda looking forward to that"
Willow levered her upper body off the floor, wincing at being unceremoniously dumped there, again.
"You were knocked out, and can I just say, not a shining moment for the big bad when a human outlasts you in stamina. Anyway, that guy came in and took her. He kinda just poofed open a wall and walked right in"
Spike slammed his head against the brick.
"Of course. Earth. I am such a wanker. He controls earth"
"How do you know that" Willow questioned "I mean I know you, well ,know Jinx in that icky not going to go there way, but how do you know Jacob."
" I don't know him personally, Red. I just know about his peoples abilities"
"How? There was nothing in the books and when I called Giles he had never heard of them. What do you know?"
Spike sat down next the confused witch.
" It's like this, about a million years ago. Some idiot in the other plane needed to fix up some mistakes. You heard the whole kicked out of heaven story from Jinx right."
At willow's nod he continued
"Well her ancestors were the mistakes. So anyway, this paragon of free thinking, made with the magic and created a being that could take out the traitors. "
Willow was starting to look a little green so he figured he had better get to the point.
"These beings were strong, fast and deadly. Course they didn't have a soul mucking up the works. It was really to bloomin bad about that nasty aversion to sunlight. You think they could have worked on that."
Grinning at the flabbergasted witch he reached over and pushed her jaw shut. His amusement doubled when she started to stutter.
" So… what …..what your saying is vampires aren't evil. They are actually some kind of ……….heavenly warrior"
Her voice dropped to a minor decibel on the last words.
" We are too evil!!" Spike shot out. Imagine, the idea that vamps were some fluffy bunny type, time to set her straight.
"For the record don't put heaven and vamps in the same sentence. That was the plan, that wasn't the result. Fortunately, for me, my kind never did take to well to being given orders. They pretty much just killed whatever happened to cross their path. And having been doing quite well at it all these years, I might add."
Spike was starting to get antsy under Willow's steady gaze.
"And you know all this how, Spike?"
"It's in the manual"
"You have a manual! Why didn't you tell us. Buffy could have used that"
"Don't get your knickers in a knot, we don't have a bleedin manual. Jinx told me."
"Speakin of…."
Spike glanced at the impenetrable walls then back at Willow. She was a witch wasn't she.
Rounding on Willow he grabbed her arms.
"Can you do that? The poofy wall thing"
"We…Well I can try. I mean I don't have my books or anything but…."
"Just do it Red, Buffy needs us and this time I am not going to fail her"
