author: Brandi Vincent

disclaimer: Everything belongs to Joss Whedon. I only watch his show and make a prediction on what is going to happen next. Joss Whedon owns all of the characters and should take credit in this story for my imagination would be nothing with out his show.

title: Questions to Answer

chapter: 4 Rockin' the Suburbs

genre: Humor, Romance, and Action

rate: PG-13 (for language)

summary: Dawn was kidnapped so Buffy and Spike are going to face a wacko to get her back.

mostly about: Willow, Xander, Anya, Tara (meaning they all got an equal part or were just in it). Mainly about Dawn, Spike, and Buffy (meaning they are included important and or they got a bigger part).

scenes: 11

thoughts: Sorry it took so long for this chapter. I was doing my story at a friend's house and forgot to email it back to my computer and she didn't know how to send it back (yea right). Anyways, it really only took me 2 days instead of a week. I'll try and bring my next story out in a day or 2. I have alot of fun writing these, right when I get home I want to write it, but my sisters are always on the internet doing crap, so I only get to at night. Thanks for reading this and review your opinion, any is welcome.



Scene 1

Buffy and Spike ran upstairs, followed by Willow and Tara.

"Dawn? Dawn?? Where are you?" Buffy ran in Dawn's room and she wasn't there. All of them looked everywhere upstairs but no sign of Dawn. "Dawn?" Buffy started to sob a little, falling on her bed.

"Buffy?" Spike ran in there, sitting next to Buffy. "We'll find her, don't fret luv." Spike said calmly, running his fingers through her hair.

"Where is she? It hasn't even been 15 min." Buffy whispered. Spike shushed her and said,

"We better get Xander and Anya, get help from them."

"What will they do?"

"Uhhh...I don't know, but they can worry with us." Buffy cried more, but then wiped her tears away.

"I, the words of Xander, let's mellow up." Buffy said, full of revenge. She got up and went downstairs, Spike following her. "Willow! Tara! Come on! We're going to get to the bottom of this." Buffy said, passing Tara and Willow. "Get your coats, we're leaving now. And don't worry Spike, it's still dark out since it's 6 am. Let's go."

"OK, but hurry, it doesn't stay dark all morning." Spike said, concerned. They ran quickly to the Magic Box, hoping to see Xander and Anya there, and did. "Dawn's gone." Spike said to them as he ran in.

"Dawn's what?" Anya said, back to normal in her regular clothes. Thank god. Buffy thought.

"Dawn's gone, guessing somebody took her." Willow said. "And probably the person that was supposed to come."

"Oh Willow! Why'd you have to be such a witch?" Anya asked.

"I can't help it!" Willow yelled.

"It doesn't matter now! That guy is half an hour early! No fair!" Xander complained.

"And there is no clue or anything on where she might be." Tara said.

"There is one." Buffy said, pulling something out of her pocket.

"What's that? You didn't show us that at home." Willow said, looking at the note.



Scene 2

"Buffy,

some guy........room........all black..........vampire........help...........he's taking me to........Wisconsin......no time....help!

Dawn." Buffy read out loud the messy crumpled note.

"Wisconsin....?" Willow asked.

"I think it says, Wisconsin." Buffy said, looking hard at the note.

"Pack up guys, we're going to Wisconsin!" Xander yelled.

"But where in Wisconsin?" Anya asked.

"Wait, it says on the back of the note...Jacko Diply. Is this the guy?" Buffy said. Spike started coughing a lot. "Jacko Diply? The Jacko Diply?" He asked as Buffy nodded, relooking at the note.

"Who's he?" Willow asked Spike.

"Jacko? He was a bloody evil vampire, we were the best of friends in my day." Spike answered.

"And how does that make it good?" Buffy asked, wiping off the smile off of Spike's face.

"Oh no! If I know Jacko, he's going to kill Dawn for some apparent reason, never knew the reason." Spike said, now realizing it.

"Now you're gettin' it." Anya told him.

"Where's he going honey?" Buffy asked him.

"When we killed our victims, we took them to like any water park or amusement park and tied them to the track, and had a bloody fun time running them over on the roller coasters!" Spike answered, amused. "Wait, never mind. Is there some sort of amusement park or water park up in Wisconsin?"

"Yep." Xander said. The whole time since he heard Wisconsin, he's been on the internet. "It's some city called the Wisconsin Dells. In there, they have a water park called Noah's Ark. It's the biggest in the country." Xander looked up at everyone and said. "We're going to Wisconsin people."

"I'll get tickets, see you all later." Buffy said, got up, and ran out the door.

"Noah's Ark?" Tara asked.



Scene 3

"Where would we look first?" Willow asked Spike, still at the Magic Box while Buffy left. Tara, Xander, and Anya left to pack and dress.

"Of course, a roller coaster." Spike said a matter-of-factly.

"Ummm...Spike? Were you a kid when you got turned into a vampire?" Willow asked.

"Noo, It was just fun, so was pounding spikes in our victims but that wasn't the only thing."

"Oh, well, I thought you were a professional, you proved me wrong."

"Hey! I'm still good at what I do...or did! It's just now if I do it I'll get a shocking pain in my bloody noggin, that's all."

"No need to get all touchy."

"I'm not!" Spike ended and lit a cigarette. But Willow didn't give up.

"So how's Buffy? You two seem to be getting along very well."

"Why do you care? Didn't know you liked her that much in that way."

"No! Buffy's my friend-"

"And Buffy's my girl friend. Make your point."

"Buffy's my friend and I don't want to see her wasting her time and love on you!" Willow yelled, suddenly got silent and clamped her mouth.

"What are you talking about Willow? You're making me seem out to want to kill her! If she's happy, don't tamper with love then!" Spike shot back. Well, he is helping us out tons, why get mad now? Let it out when he screws up, what did I just think? Willow thought.

"I'm sorry, I-I just don't want Buffy to have her heart broken yet again, by having some one she loves leave her. It's what everybody's been doing lately. Leave and never come back."

"Willow, I'm not going anywhere. I love Buffy just as much as you do, maybe even more. Why would I leave her? Just because everyone else did? I am never going to leave her. Have I so far? Even when she made me miserable and I wanted to kill her? No. I still stuck around and I always will."

"Sorry."

"Just never mind." Spike layed back in his chair and puffed out smoke. She isn't sorry, she wants us apart. Spike thought to himself. A couple of people walked in, looking around the shop. A lady came up to Spike and asked,

"Excuse me sir? Do you work here?"

"Um, yea, what do you want?" He asked hesitating.

"Oh, yes, well, how much is this item?" She asked back. Spike got up and picked up the box in her hand and yelled, "Listen up everyone! I've got a bomb in this box! Get up and out the back doors!" "Oh dear!" The lady said, scampering out the door. Everyone screamed and ran out the door. Willow looked at Spike.

"Don't tell me, I remember my own dream." Spike had a confused and weird look all of a sudden,

"Did I just yell that I have a bomb?"

"Yep."

"I didn't do that."

"But the dream did." Spike sat back down, looking like he was about to smack himself. Willow suddenly bean to laugh a lot.

"Shut-up." Spike lowered his voice in a menacing tone. Willow tried holding back her laughs but couldn't, she started laughing harder. Spike shot up.

"Shut it witch!" Buffy, Xander, and Anya walked in right then.

"Shut up about what?" Buffy asked Spike.

"Uh, nothing luv." He answered, sitting back down.

"And why is Willow laughing?" Anya asked. Willow stopped laughing to answer.

"Well, one part of my dream came true."

"Which part?" Tara asked, coming in behind Xander. But Tara answered her own question. "No wait, I have a bomb?" Willow nodded and they both started laughing hard.

"And he said it right in this woman's face with a bunch of people in the room, it was hysterical." Willow laughed while Spike slunk back in his chair. Buffy, Anya, Xander tried holding back their laugh, imagining how Spike looked like when he yelled those four words.

"OK! You had your laugh! Do you have the tickets luv?" Spike said, turning to Buffy.

"Yep, 9:00 pm. Now let's get serious guys..." Buffy couldn't be serious, she started laughing again after being content for a moment. Spike just shook his head. Buffy saw his face and shut-up. "Sorry guys, I could only get two tickets."

"Sorry guys, that's Anya and I'm, you can't come." Xander said. Buffy shot him a look.

"No. Dawn's my sister and Spike watched over her when I was gone. So Spike and I'm going." Buffy exclaimed.

"What? That's not fair Buffy! We've been more loyal to Dawn then...him." Xander complained with a disgusted look at Spike.

"We'll have a bloody ball." Spike said, grabbed Buffy and kissed her. No one else said or complained anything after that, they didn't want Buffy to kick their ass about insulting Spike and her.



Scene 4

"Do you have everything luv?" Spike asked Buffy as she took her suitcase downstairs.

"Yea. Let's go, plane's leaving soon." Buffy answered, heading out the door and hopping on Spike's motorcycle. They drove away, not looking back.

Buffy and Spike made it right on time before the plane left and ran to board it. It wasn't that full so they found a seat quickly.

Buffy looked out the window, looking depressed.

"We'll find her." Spike whispered, rubbing her hand.

"I hope you're right." Buffy answered, still eyes away from his. Spike just sighed and turned away.

"Dawn's ok. I doubt anybody would plan on doing anything with her in a day. The poof hasn't got all his brain cells if you know what I mean



Scene 5

Buffy had snuggled up against Spike and slept there until they got to Wisconsin. Spike was the only one who wasn't sleeping. Everyone else was in snoreville. When they got there, it was 11:00 pm, and he was wide awake then. He woke Buffy up and got ready to land. When they were awake and ready, Spike and Buffy got off of the plane and saw a big city.

"Buffy, did you get tickets to Wisconsin, or New York?" Spike asked, looking around, out of the airport windows.

"Well, the Dells tickets were sold out, so I got us tickets to Milwaukee instead, that's ok though, we can take a train the rest of the way." Buffy answered.

"Fine." Spike said as they left the airport. "Well, there aren't many taxis." Spike said, looking at the buses all around them.

"Well, this isn't a big city, it's not like Chicago or anything." Buffy said."Let's go on the bus then, couldn't get any worse." They ran to the bus across the street.

"Do you have any idea where the train station is?" Spike asked.

"Oh yea, it's just a few blocks down!" Buffy said, changing direction. "Come on!" When they got to the train station, hardly anybody was there.

"I'll get the bloody tickets," Spike said, running over to the counter with Buffy.

"Buffy, you should have told us we were heading for Milwaukee instead of our direct location." Spike said, trying to be calm.

"They were all out of tickets to the Dells! Don't blame me, so I got tickets to the closest city." Buffy answered. Spike payed for the tickets and took them.

"I'm pretty sure I got the right tickets." Spike said, looking at Buffy.

"Great, let's go, the train's leaving in 5 mins." Buffy said giving Spike a mean look, running to the train and boarding it. "Well, this is very roomy, and empty." Buffy told Spike as they boarded a cart.

"Except for them." Spike said, gesturing to a couple in the back.

"Let's just sit down." Buffy said, still looking at the couple in the back.



Scene 6

Buffy was still curious about the couple in the back.

"Luv, what are you doing?" Spike asked, noticing Buffy's curiosity.

"They don't look...normal." Buffy answered, but then turned back to Spike. After 5 mins, the couple came up to them and asked, "Hello, couldn't help you looking at us earlier, us there something in our teeth?" Suddenly, their faces changed into ugly, vampire ones.

"That's what was wrong with you! Look, just because I'm in a new state doesn't mean I can't still kill you." Buffy said, got up, and pulled out a stake. The vampires looked confused.

"You're not the slayer here." They said, looking at each other.

"Let your love carry on through death." Buffy said and staked them both. "Hey, that was easier then I thought!"

"Or not," Spike said as doors slid open from the other carts and more vampires flooded in.

"Shit!" Buffy said, swinging her fists everywhere in the stomachs of vampires. Spike shot up and protected Buffy from the back of her, punching jaws and kicking shins. Buffy passed him a stake and he started dusting dozens of them at a time. They fought their way to all but one vampire left.

"Boss isn't going to like this." The vampire said, tried getting up to run. But Spike helped him by the throat.

"Who and where's your boss?" He asked menacingly.

"I'm not telling you!" The vampire whined.

"Tell, or we're going to need a pretty big duster." Buffy said.

"Uh...OK." The vampire saw the stakes Buffy held and gave in, "He lives in the Dells, he sent us out here to bring back a girl, a beautiful one, so we just chose you." Spike snarled.

"Why and what's the bastard's name?"

"We didn't know she was a slayer! We were going to take her and we don't know the rest, he needs one more, he already has this loser 15 year old!" the Vampire answered. Spike's face changed into his vamp face.

"What's his name?"

"Hey! You're a vampire! You're that master vampire who was great at killing, until he started helping out the humans and turned against his kind, heard a lot about you, especially from Jacko!" the vampire exclaimed.

"Jacko Dipply? How do you know him?" Spike asked.

"He's our boss! Know let me go!" the vamp yelped.

"I was thinking...no." Buffy said and staked him. "So, is this your friend, Jacko Dipply, trying to take you're girlfriend I see."

"He always was a player." Spike said, changing his face back to normal.

"Well, he's not getting me, and he's not getting Dawn. He never will." Buffy said, sitting back down. The train started to slow to a stop and Buffy and Spike boarded off of it.

"Let's rent a car, the fastest way around here." Spike said, luckily, there was a place to rent cars down the street. Buffy chose a black Saturn, the cheapest she could get with her pocket money. Spike hopped in and drove to a hotel.

"Hotel? I thought we were supposed to look for Dawn Spike," Buffy said.

"It's not like Jacko is out in the open luv, it'll take a while to find him and we need a place to stay 'till then." Spike answered, resting his hand on her thigh. He drove to a hotel and checked in. "Home sweet home." Spike said, throwing her bag on the bed and took her in his arms.

"Let's not get side track on our mission." Buffy said and sat on the bed. Spike tried resisting not to throw himself on her. "Where do we look first?"

"Water park." Spike answered exasperated.

"Let's go," Buffy said, jumping up.

"Do we have to?"

"Yes! Oh, I see, you only checked in to have a little fun. You can wait." Spike gave a horny smile and said,

"Fine, let's go." When they left the room and down stairs in the lobby, Spike stopped them. "What?" Buffy asked.

"Its' him, Jacko Dipply. He's checking in." Spike answered, moving towards Jacko. "Jacko, is that bloody you?"

"Spike, is that you?" Jacko asked, looking Spike in the eye. "Spike! You havn't changed a bit! But how can you change your style when you can't see your reflection? And who's that?"

"Oh, her? Buffy, she's my girlfriend. What have you been up to? Still not hanging out with those bloody poofs are you?"

"Trying to get enough women to do a pay back spell, you?" "Pay back spell? Why do you need women to do that?"

"Sacrifices, if I get 30 I'll win a prize."

"You mean it'll become more effective? Pay back to whom?"

"Remember Angel?"

"What he do?"

"Got in the way."

"Jacko, give me a bloody reason."

"OK, OK, Angel beat my fucking ass in last week when I was passing him on the street one day a couple of states away. He always hated me, liked you better. Angel bumped my sholder and I shoved him, walked away, but he put up a fight! The nerve of him! OK, maybe I did more then a shove but nobody messes with me!" Jacko was always a bit crazy, that's why Spike and Angel always called him Jacko instead of Jack, and it stuck.

"Where are your sacrifices?"

"In a room up there, I'm checking in my own, my goons are rounding up more."

"How many do you have so far?"

"About 20. Tons of teens from different states though, nothing big."

"Not for you." Buffy butted in.

"Is she a human or vamp?" Jacko asked Spike.

"I'm a-"

"Vampire, she's a vampire, and a bloody sexy one too." Spike interrupted her, checking her up and down.

"You're lucky Spike, always had good taste, sometimes." Jacko said, said bye and went to his room.

"Was that a way to get stuff out of him, or a reunion?" Buffy asked him angrily.

"Both, you got the info you wanted luv, let's have some fun now." Spike said, grabbing her around the waist.

"How could you think of sex when Dawn's in trouble?"

"Bloody hell, forgot, well don't think I'm gonna kill Jacko because I'm not." Buffy gave him a mean, annoyed look and Spike changed what he said.

"I mean if I have to, I'll risk his life." Buffy gave him another look and followed after Jacko in the elevator.

"Come on, to see where Dawn is!" Buffy whispered to Spike as he followed. They ran in the elevator and Spike asked Jacko,

"Sorry, but where are they, the girls?"

"Classified." Jacko answered, pressing buttons.

"Jacko, come on, we're like brothers."

"Fine, right next to mine, 3L."

"OK." Spike pressed a few buttons and went right to their room after Jacko got off the elevator.

"Buffy, luv, can we relax now? Jacko's goons won't let us near his sacrifices, wait until 3 am to go, they won't be there then."

"Fine, I'll give in, but not for another 4 hrs." Spike gave his cocky smile.

"Finally." He savagely and greedily took Buffy into his arms and licked the inside of her mouth, pulling off her shirt.



Scene 7

Willow and Tara were in Buffy's house on the couch because Willow asked Tara to stay a while.

"You know, I haven't been doing any magic, just to let you know." Willow said.

"I know." Tara said quietly.

"And I have been thinking about you."

"I know."

"And," Willow took a deep breath, "I miss you and, you know, still love you."

"I do too."

"You do?"

"Yes, but how can be sure you won't take advantage of it again?" Tara's voice rose and she sounded irritated. "Look around Willow, Spike and Buffy are together, Xander and Anya are getting married soon, who knows if you might think that we are the only ones left in the group so we belong together and since there's nobody else I can do what ever I want. Like spells and magic for instance."

"I won't do spells nor magic! I promise! I haven't been doing it for a long time now, haven't you noticed? I love you and will do anything to get you back!" Willow's words slipped out like butter as she said them quickly, yet not calmly.

"Willow-"

"No! You don't believe me still! I give up magic for good and that still doesn't satisfy you?" "Willow! OK! I get your point, you're doing it for me-"

"No, that's not even half the reason why I gave it up, I gave it up for everyone, not just you anymore, and Dawn's sake-"

"Yes. That's exactly why. Because you hurt Dawn with your irresponsible magic. Dawn told me a couple of days ago the exact same thing, that you only gave it up now because you interfered with somebody elses life. That's the only thing to get through to you, isn't it?" Willow was speechless. She was silent for a moment. Tara got up to leave, but Willow pulled her arm down.

"I'm giving up magic. I still love you, you still love me." Willow said content, but Tara pulled away and walked out the front door.



Scene 8

"Spike! We totally lost track of time! We need to get Dawn!" Buffy said, shooting up from Spike's grasp when she woke up. Spike's eyes shot open. Buffy and Spike started getting dressed fast and ran out the door. "What room was it?" Buffy and Spike ran down the hall to the elevator.

"3L. 3rd floor luv." Spike pressed a the 3 botton and the elevator went to it. They got off and ran down the hall again, looking for 3L. "It's right next to 3L I mean." Spike said, standing infront of 3L.

"Well, which is it? 3K or 3M?" Buffy asked.

"Both, you take that one pet and I'll take this one." Spike said, going for 3M. And of course, it was locked, but that didn't matter to Spike. He kicked the door right open and saw two old ladies playing checkers. They shrieked and got on the floor. Spike didn't give it a second thought and ran out of there into 3K. "Wrong room."

"Right room." Buffy said, stake ready for a fight. And like Buffy predicted, 5 vampires turned around the side of a wall and jumped for Buffy. She staked 2 as soon as they came, but one came from behind and pulled a knife to her throat.

"Bloody poof. Don't think so." Spike said, kicking the vampire in his side, snatching the knife and dusted him with it. "2 more to go." But Buffy had already staked them.

"They really need to get proffessionals." Buffy said, looking around for hostages, and by the bed were about 20 tied up and covered over their mouth's with clear white tape. "Dawn!" Buffy ran over to Dawn's aid and untied her, pulling off the tape.

"OW! Well, I was meaning to get my stash waxed but not that way." Dawn said, hugging Buffy. Spike untied the others and ripped off the tape as they yelled out of pain. "Spike!" Dawn got up and hugged Spike. Spike smiled as Buffy got up herself and hugged them both.

"I can only handle so much love for so long, let's go Little Bit." Spike said and walked out the door. But couldn't because Jacko was standing there with his goons.

"Spi-ike. What are you doing with my sacrifices?" Jacko asked, stepping closer to him.

"I'm sorry Jacko, I thought-" Spike began and punched Jacko in the jaw. "GO!" Dawn and Buffy ran out the door past the stupid vampires. Spike pushed past Jacko, took out his stake and started staking past vampires. "Sorry mate! Call me!" Spike yelled running out the door leaving Jacko and very few vampires standing alone. But not for long, the sacrifices ran past them and down the stairs. Spike chuckled to himself and ran after Buffy and Dawn. Someone shot infront of him and banged him on the head with a large book. I guess that proves God hates Spike because he was Spike on the head with the Bible. Spike fell to the floor, being dragged away by his arms, Buffy and Dawn thinking he was still behind them.



Scene 9

"It's not fair! Why does just Buffy choose who goes and leave us behind? We're way more loyal than Spike!" Willow complained the next morning.

"I guess it's Buffy's choice. Like it always is." Anya said.

"I know they had more tickets to Wisconsin, they couldn't just be...out. I want to help Dawn too, you know?" Willow complained again.

"They aren't, or weren't out of tickets guys. They were practically empty." Xander said, looking at the lab top.

"So what you're saying is that Buffy wanted alone time with Spike, or either she...can't trust us anymore?" Anya asked.

"I knew it. It's hard to say though because Spike and Buffy have been getting touchy touchy, but also doesn't want us part of action some times. No wait, I'd go with the Spike thing." Willow said.

"Why are you mad anyways? It's not like you'd be getting ice-cream and a toys at Wisconsin." Xander said, closing the lab top.

"I just think Buffy gets out of hand with her boy friends a lot. She always wants 'them' to help, never let's anyone else help her. And Spike is worse. Out of all of Buffy's boyfriends, she's most attracted to him, even if she doesn't show it. And I'd have to admit, he's kinda cute. But that's not the point-" Willow was cut off short from Tara walking in and her saying,

"Willow, don't tell me you're going to tamper with love again? Leave Buffy how she is! If she's happy, that's all the excuse in the world!" Willow looked up at Tara.

"I'm not going to." Willow said, with an 'I've got a plan' face.



Scene 10

"You know Spike, you think you would have more commonsense than that, huh?" Jacko said. Spike was tied up to a chair waking up just then.

"Bloody hell," Spike groaned with a nasty bruise on his head. "Oh no, not the chair stage again." Jacko smiled.

"Dear old friend. I've heard stories about you just till now. I hear you kill your kind and help people. For instance, I hear you're in love with a slayer down in California and help her out with staking. Is this true?" Jacko asked, pacing the dark room. "What will your girlfriend think when she hears your in love with somebody else?"

"Somebody else? She is the girl that I'm in love with." Spike said, looking up at Jacko.

"So you mean to tell me that that vampire you were drooling over, was actually the slayer? I am deeply offended." Jacko replied.

"Get used to it. She will always be the one and only you half wit. You were always a crazy nut. But I'm not sure if this is the worse idea you've ever come up with."

"I don't want to kill you." Jacko started laughing. "William the bloody will REALLY be William the Bloody now!" Jacko had a laugh that stopped and went on. Like HA....Ha.....HAHAHAHAHA! "But seriously. Do you know what I want now?"

"No. I'm stumped. I'll never guess. What the bloody hell do you want man??"

"Know that you chased away all of my beautiful sacrifices, I need the blood of a slayer for 2 things."

"What? Bathing and hair care products?"

"No silly. Of course a slayer's blood helps in MANY ways, but this is for a different purpose. Change of plans just till now, you're going to help me get the slayer and her blood for a revenge spell on an amount of people! It's brilliant! Pure genius!"

"Speaking of stupidity...What makes you think I'll help you get Buffy?"

"Because I'll kill you if you don't."

"I'd rather die in slavery with a broken bottle jabbed in my back then ever think of telling you. And besides, the 'I'll kill you if you don't tell me' thing has been done to me a numerous amount of times, so don't waste your fucking time on a blond neutered vampire."

"Oooh. Harsh buddy. You must really love her."

"More than you could imagine. Now why do you need the blood anyways?"

"First, I need it for a revenge spell, second, I could go into a small business of slayer blood. Do you know how much fun it is to run over people on roller coasters and water rides? It's fascinating."

"Duh. I should know. I'm the one who came up with the idea. Why are you in the Wisconsin Dells anyways? You don't seem to be running over anybody."

"I'm always near a water park and a theme park idiot. But the spell has to do with certain things that only come in Wisconsin know don'tcha know?"

"No, tell me more. Can I go now?"

"Not just yet." Jacko laid a heavy hand on Spike's sholder and whispered, "We're going to do something first. So sorry if it hurts you. BOYS!" Jacko walked out the door of the dark room and 2 large men appeared.

"Let's see how tough you are now." One said in a rough, fat voice cracking his knuckles. Spike put his head down knowing what to expect now. Right before he took his first blow, he said out loud,

"You ninnies need to come up with different ways to get something out of me." And got hit hard in the jaw, taking kicks in the stomach and pounds on the head, only groaning in a low voice. Not trying to show pain or weakness because then they'd do it even more to know they have more power over Spike.



Scene 11

"Dawn, where's Spike?" Buffy asked in the lobby, looking furiously everywhere.

"The last I saw him he was pushing past vamps. Maybe he's still there." Dawn said, now noticing too that Spike wasn't with them.

"Come on, where ever Jacko is, Spike is." Buffy ran up the stairs, there was no time for an elevator. Dawn ran after her, just as worried.

"Spike? Spike?" Buffy called through out the hall. Silence. Now Buffy was starting to worry even more. Dawn ran to 3K. Nothing.

"Buffy, let's go check in your room." Dawn ran down a few corridors to Buffy's room. Nothing but the smell of cigarette smoke. Buffy ran in after her, eyes a bit misty.

"Spike?" Bufy yelled. Again, nothing but the sweet silence of December. She sat on the bed, hopeless. She picked up her shirt she wore the night before and smelled it, it had the odor of Spike all over it. Buffy started to cry a little, then heard Dawn's muffled sob and cried even more.

"Buffy, do you think he's d-" Dawn began, but was interrupted by Buffy's strict crying voice.

"He's not dead! Never think that! Spike is strong. He can handle anything."

"I hope you're right." Dawn cried, eyes red.

"Come on, if he is, then we better kill who ever killed or even touched him!" Buffy wiped away tears and got up. Dawn tried to act as brave and stood up straight, walknig out the door behind Buffy. When they got back to the lobby, Buffy and Dawn weren't as brave anymore and sat down next to a heater, trying to wipe away tears. After a couple of minutes, Dawn looked up and asked curiously,

"Did you hear something?" Buffy looked up too. Dawn eared around until she came to the heating vent and had a bright smile on her face. "Buffy, I think a close friend is not dead anymore." Buffy put her ear against the heating vent too and knew right away she was right as well.

"Spike." she whispered happily. "He's down in the basement, come on, let's go!" Buffy shot back up and ran into the elevator with Dawn right by her side.

"Blow the man down, oh blow the man down. Hi! Ho! Blow the man down," Spike sang tuneless to himself, bloody face and scars all over his stomach. "No wait, I've got a better song to play. I've got a lovely bag a coconuts, deedly dee dee, there they are sitting in the road, dum dum dum, big ones, small ones...I never knew the rest, oh well. Got plenty others to sing."

"Shut-up!" Jacko yelled at Spike, sitting in another chair. Spike just gave an evil smile and started singing again,

"Show me the meaning of being lonely. Is this the meaning of being lonely? Tell me why, I can't be there where you are! I hate the Backstreet Boys. A bunch a pathetic fags if you ask me. I'll sing something else...Somebody once told me the world is gonna blow me, I aint the sharpest tool in the shed-"

"Shut the hell up! Where do you learn such annoying songs?" Jacko asked, getting up and punched Spike in the face.

"That would be me." Dawn said behind her sister.

"Didn't your mother ever teach you not to play with your food?" Buffy asked, ran in and jump kicked Jacko.

"So you're the slayer of Sunnydale, California? I would have never guessed. I need something of yours." Jacko said, standing back up with vampires pouring in the room. "It'll only take a sec." Buffy turned around only to find a hard punch in the face. Dawn ran over to Spike and untied him. Once he saw Buffy get hurt Spike turned into his vamp face and went furious. Dawn stayed in the corner of the room cheering Buffy and Spike to win. Buffy kicked the vampire in the face and pulled out two stakes.

"Catch!" She yelled to Spike as he caught the stake and dusted three vampires. Tons of vampires surrounded Buffy, ignoring Spike now.

"Kill her!" Jacko yelled. Once he saw the circle of vampires he went nuts and staked four carelessly. For some reason, Buffy looked hopeless and confused so Spike picked her up and ran out of the room, Dawn right on his tail. Only four more vampires were left but hurt badly from Buffy. "Fools! They're getting away! Get them!" Jacko screamed with a red face at his minions.

"Forget it Jacko, they're to tough! We'll never kill that slayer!" One said and fell to the floor. The rest agreed and fell too.

"Well, if you won't, I will." Jacko said softly and walked out the door with his unnoticeable guns.

TBC