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AN: This is me, apologizing for taking so long! I got the cursed writers block, and I've been hella busy…but here it is! And this one is for gyrlfrend, who made me remember not to neglect this story! And Kira, Spike's in leather!

CHAPTER 5 – Unstakable

"The pontianak," Darla began. "Is a South East Asian vampire, with unusual properties."

"Arent they all," drawled Spike lazily, draped casually over his armchair. Drusilla nudged him sharply, and he frowned at her, but sat up straighter. Angel smirked at his fellow Slayer.

"Pants getting to you?"

Spike rolled his eyes. He was dressed in leather pants, and they had a tendency to be kind of clingy, much to Angel's amusement.

"Yes, why are you wearing those, anyway?" Darla asked.

"I forgot to do my laundry and now all my clothes are dirty." Spike shrugged. "But let's not dwell on my cow-hide wrapped bottom. Continue with the pontiak."

"Pontianak," Drusilla corrected.

"Right."

"Well, these pontianak can walk in sunlight and cannot be staked. The only way to defeat it is through an elaborate spell, involving enchanted scripts."

"Well, we've done elaborate before," Angel said, standing up. "We'll do it again."

"There's a slight problem with this one," Drusilla spoke up. Spike and Angel turned to face her. "This one involves bloodletting."

"Excuse me?" Angel blinked.

"Yeah, these are very evil creatures, very powerful. They require the enchanted scripts to be in blood."

"In blood," Spike repeated disbelivingly. "Well isn't that f-"

"No need to swear," Darla interrupted him.

"Right. Isn't that freaking fantastic." Spike said dryly, his accent coming out strong.

"But we have to do it anyway. I mean, we cant just let it walk around in day time, being all unstakable." Angel said.

"Buffy and Giles's really done it this time," Spike shook his head. "They know we'll be reluctant to kill an innocent so they conjure up this bad ass unstakable, unflamable vampire."

"Actually, if I'm correct," Darla began. "They aren't actually conjuring it up."

"But then….." Spike tilted his head in confusion. "What?"

"If I'm right, they're basically paying reverence to it."

"And why….?" Angel asked.

Darla frowned as she flipped through a book. "Because they get the pontianak's powers."