Chapter Three: The Park

Spike was running as fast as he could, hoping against hope that Cassie would let him

find her, cause he knew that if she didn't want to be found, she wouldn't be.

**Cassie, luv!** Spike reached out with his mind to see if she would let him into her mind, **Common pet, let me in so I can find you.** Then one name came in to his mind, 'Sunnydale Central Park'.

Spike was deep in thought as he ran to the park, about how Cassandra had been blocking him from her mind. Even when he was 'talking' to her he knew that there was a part of her mind that he wasn't able to read because of the mental barriers that she was holding up.

A few feet away Spike saw Cassie, her body shaking with every sob that escaped her mouth. She could sense Spike as he came closer.

Her sad eyes looked up at him and he nearly melted as tears streamed down her face.

She turned away from him, embarrassed to let him see her weak. Cassie kept him blocked and he hated it because it only meant that she felt she couldn't trust him. Spike stopped, realizing why Cassie had been hiding, and it hit him like a ton of bricks.

A small tingle of fear crept into her mind, as the thought of Harrison invading and violating her entered her mind. She couldn't take it anymore. Over the weeks and days her mind had been flooded with the memories of that night. She just couldn't take it any more.

Spike looked at her as she suddenly hunched over in pain and began to cry harder. In her pain she had let her guard down for a brief second and now Spike saw a fraction of what she had kept hidden so well. Spike had never felt her emotions before, only heard her thoughts and she his, but now he felt her anger, her guilt, her fear. This was something he'd never experienced before. Cassie was one of the strongest people he had ever known since Buffy, and now she was frightened, not only for the future of her baby, but for the future of her and Spike.

Cassandra knew that Spike would always be there for her and that he put on a good face, but she thought that she saw a hint of disappointment in his eyes that she could let this happen to herself.

"Don't you dare think that." Spike commanded sitting down next to Cassie, pulling her into his arms.

"I can't help it." Cassie replied. She buried her face in his chest.

"That doesn't matter, luv, you didn't...."

"Yes it does! I let him do this to me."

"You stop this right now," Spike grabbed her face and looked deeply into her eyes, "He drugged you. He raped you. He was the one that was wrong. He did wrong, not you and not this baby. This baby, your baby, will be loved and cherished, by two parents. If you'll let me?"

Cassie looked up at him. Surprise apparent in her large eyes, he kissed her gently tasting the salt of her tears on her lips.

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Chapter Four: Did Ya Miss Me?

It had been two and a half months since the Scooby Gang had found out about

Cassandra being pregnant and lots of things happened during those weeks. Though, some of the changes that Cassie had made, like Spike living with her, they were a little less understanding about.

"Tell me again, 'cause I'm just not understanding this," Xander was saying to Cassandra on one of there many study sessions at the library, "Why the hell is Spike living with you?"

"Because, this baby needs a father figure, and I hate to think about the psychiatrist bill if you were the only man around him or her 24/7." Cassie answered him, grinning.

"Well now." Came a voice from the doorway, "Even though I agree whole heartedly, that was a bit uncalled for."

"Shut-up, Spike," Xander leered back.

"What? Do you think you could take me on?" Spike questioned, going in to a mock-fighting stance.

"Anyday, any-"

"Quit with the mocho show, you two." Cassandra said, giving them her patented 'death glare'. They both stopped instantly upon seeing the look on her face.

"Sorry" The two men mumbled looking at their feet.

"That's better," Cassie said smiling in satisfaction, "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some vampires to dust, demons to kill and other bad nasties to fight." With that said she exited the library and walked out into the night. She continued toward the cemetery thinking of baby names, this was because she had told the doctor to keep the sex of the baby a secret until he or she was born. Cassie looked down at her stomach, in approximately four months she'd be due, it wasn't showing too bad and she could still keep up with her slayer duties. She walked around for a while longer her feet getting a little tired.

"Come out, come out where ever you are." Cassandra was purring 2 hours later as she prowled the dark cemetery, "Oh, common, My feet are sore, my ankles are hurting and I'm retaining water, plus I want to kick something's ass!"

She froze, her Slay-Dar going haywire, she reached out with her mind to see if it was Spike.

"Did ya miss me?" A low voice whispered from the shadows.

"Who's there?" Cassie yelled, not really sure where the voice was coming from.

Then to answer her he came out of the shadows and faced her and said, "Tisk, tisk, Cassie dearest, don't you recognize the voice of -"

"Harrison Malcolm Davis," Cassandra snarled. Before Harrison could finish, she launched herself at him, punching and kicking, trying to take out all her frustration and pain out on the person who had caused it in the first place. After ten minutes of fast and furious fighting, Cassandra was getting tired. *Oh, Shit! I can't keep this up much longer, shit, shit, shit, shit, SHIT!!!*

Then another voice popped into her head, one she was very glad to hear,

**I'm on my way, luv. Wh-**

*Spike get your ass over here now, Central Park Cemetery!*

**Ok, I'm going faster than I should in a car, but, oh well. What's going on? Who is it?**

* It's Harrison*

The knowledge that Spike was coming, and going be there soon, gave Cassie a boost to her power supply, and she laughed. "You're going down, you b- Ooof!"

Harrison dealt Cassie a blow to the head, knocking her down.

"Not so full of yourself now, are you, you little bitch" Harrison sneered.

But Cassandra wasn't listening, *Spike?!* she called out with her mind.

**Right here, pet.** Spike answered, **Right at the entrance to the cemetery.**

*Good, when you get to where I am, near the fountain, I don't want you to dust Harrison.*

**Why the bleeding hell not!?**

*Because, I have something planned for this guy, and plus a dusting is just too damn good for him*

**Ok, but I'll get to beat him into unconsciousness, right?**

*Ya, you do that.*

Spike watched cautiously as Harrison approached Cassie. The Slayer stopped fighting when Harrison began to look at her strangely. Spike took the opportunity to tap the new vampire on the shoulder and slugged him. Cassie smiled as Spike began to beat up Harrison. He threw two sharp blows to the vampire's jaw and then gave him a quick uppercut snapping Harrison's head back. He quickly recovered and delivered a series of punches to Spike's mid-section and then he threw a simmering dust over Spike. Suddenly it felt like the air had been sucked out of cemetery, and he was frozen. He couldn't move at all. Cassie watched in horror as Harrison grabbed one of her fallen stakes and menaced toward Spike. Cassie knew which kind of spell it was and just how to break it. The only problem it didn't work.

"Since when do you know about Magic?" Harrison asked.

The reversal spell took a lot of energy and focus to work and she had little of both at that point, "Since forever."

"Well it still didn't stop me from getting what I wanted." Harrison winked at her and Spike growled furiously trying to will himself to move. Cassie went into Spike's mind

*Give me a second Spike*

**Hurry up and get this spell of me so that I can pound him the bloody into the ground!** Spike snarled furiously.

"Now Cassie what are you going to do with that vampire? Especially when I came back for you. You are my true beloved." He smirked licking his lips, then leered at her taking in every inch of her body. Cassie launched herself at him and belted him hard in the face.

Spike could feel the spell around him weakening. Cassie's next punch sent Harrison flying. The Slayer quickly stomped on his chest as he laid stunned on the ground. She was about to stomp on him again but he grabbed her leg and twisted it awkwardly.

Cassie fell face forward but her other foot caught Harrison in the head that moment of distraction broke the spell off of Spike. Cassie landed hard with a thud on the ground. A striking pain speared through her body like electricity. Spike watched in horror as Cassie crumbled to the ground.

Harrison got off the ground watching the Slayer strangely again as she gasped in pain.

Before he had a chance to react a ball of hate and fury headed his way. Spike tackled him to the ground both vampires showing their true game faces. Spike and Harrison fought furiously and viciously but the older vampire had more strength and experience. Before too long Harrison laid on the ground a blood drenched mass of broken bones and bruised flesh.

During Spike's rage Cassie sat crying. Spike could here her soft moans of despair and his game face quickly receded. Cassie sat on the ground holding her stomach praying that her baby would be Ok. Spike ran to her side and held her close, "You Ok, pet?"

"I think. I think so." She looked over at Harrison and then her face turned cold and the tears suddenly stopped.

Spike could hear the baby's heartbeat. It was a steady normal rhythm.

"Spike my weapons bag." Spike dashed the few feet to her bag. "The rope."

"Your plan, luv."

"Definitely." She grit through her teeth.

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About twenty minutes later Spike and Cassandra got how dragging the unconscious Harrison behind them.

Harrison awoke to find himself bound and gagged, in Cassandra's basement, he stayed quiet as not to attract attention to himself and listened to the Cassie and Spike argue

"Cassie are you sure that this is a good idea? I mean this, having this sodding idiot in our basement for... well how ever long you keep him here, especially in your condition?"

"My condition? Spike, I'm six months pregnant, not deathly ill. And it's a fine idea, where else would we keep him?"

*Pregnant? Who's bed has she been- Hold on! I was human about six months ago... Damn! I'm gonna be a dad! I wonder what Bleach Blunder thinks of that?! This is to good.* Harrison did something he hadn't done since he was turned, he laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Cassandra literally spat out.

"You're pregnant. With MY child. Why shouldn't laugh?" Harrison said, "So, Bleach

Boy, why do you stay with her? You know she's carring my child, that I'm her first, and yet you stay with her? Why? You think she loves you? Ha! After the night I gave her, as soon as the baby's born, she'll come crawling back to me. She's just using you." He smirked hoping that his tactic would work.

Spike growled at Harrison, "Take that back."

"Why? I'd only be lying." The captive vampire sneered.

Spike vamped out, "At this point, mate, lying just might save your un-life."

"Spike be quiet." Cassandra spoke in a soothing tone, then she got a mischievous glint in her eye that Spike loved, "I have a much better idea."

She walked over to where Harrison was chained and put her hands on earthier side of his head and started rubbing in a circular motion, Harrison purred at the sensation, but when he looked into Cassie's eyes they were a glowing purple color.

"I call on you, Veritas, Great God of Truth, aid me in my quest! The one called Harrison Davis has been changed, I wish to know the cause and the events that led to this change. Answer my plea for the truth. So mote it be!" And with those final words, Cassandra pushed her fingers into Harrison's skull. With a bright flash of light, Cassie and flew backwards into Spikes arms, she was laughing.

"Cassandra, pet? What's do bloody hilarious?" Spike was worried, she had done something similar to a 'Glory brain-suck' crossed with a Vulcan mind meld, from the looks of it.

"Dru sure can pick 'em, can't she?" Cassie pulled out of Spike's arms brushing herself off.

"What?" Spike asked, confusion written all over his face.

"Drusilla. She was his sire." She said jerking her thumb in the direction of the now unconscious Harrison, "She found him wandering around, drunk the week after he... you know. When he ran into her in some cemetery, he proceeded to tell her all about what happened and that I left him after his plan to keep me backfired, and, well, she felt sorry for him, so she turned him. And she's not as crazy as you think she is, that girl has a very solid grip on reality, if you ask me. She knew I was the Slayer, and that we were dating, she also knew that once Harrison woke up, he'd come after me, and try and turn me, there for she'd get you back."

"Oh." That was all Spike's mind could come up with.

"Insane, huh?" Cassie asked him.

"I guess?" Spike was still speechless.

"You ok, big guy?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'll be fine, just a bit shocked."

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