Part Four
"This is what I was thinking. A quick sweep of the cemetery. Then a round of all the main streets and alleys with a stop over to threaten Willy for some info. Then check out the empty warehouses and anything that looks suspicious." Buffy explained leading the way over to the cemetery.
"Let me guess. We're gonna ask Spike for the low down also?" Sora said. She wanted to see Spike but she still was afraid. She knew he still had questions but she didn't know how to answer them.
"Spike is still in Sunnydale?" Angel asked, stopping suddenly at the row of tombstones.
"Yeah. He never left since he got chipped. Why?" Buffy asked.
"Does he know Sora? Of course he knows. I mean he was in love with you." Angel said.
"Angel, what are you talking about?" Sora asked, confusion filling her eyes.
"Sora! Spike is William!" Angel said. He realized that Sora didn't know that William had been turned. Sora turned pale and sat down on a tombstone.
"William? But Spike…he never said anything! Never gave nay hint. My memories…I could never picture Williams face. But now…. you're right! I remember. But when was he turned! He was human when I died, wasn't he?" Sora said. It all made sense. The attraction she felt for him. That he felt for her. They had been in love before. Sora had denied her feelings back then. Just as she was doing now.
"Yes he was. He was turned the night you were buried. The ceremony was during the day so Dru and I couldn't attend. As soon as the sun set we headed over to your gravesite to pay our own respects. William was there and we watched him from the shadows. He had never stopped loving you, even after you married. Before he left, he placed a white lily on your grave." Angel said.
"He would always send a white lily with the poems he wrote. He said it was a symbol of the pure and exotic love that he had for me." Sora said softly. As Angel talked, everything made more sense. It was like finding the missing piece that completes the puzzle.
"Dru found him later that night, staring into a glass of whiskey at a local pub. She lured him out into the alley and as she fed, she decided that she must turn him. Dru once told me that he wasn't officially hers, but belonged to her sister, you." Angel said.
"So then he forgot about her and fell in love with vamp chick?" Buffy asked.
"Not at first. I used to go to your grave and talk to you. I would always find a white lily at the base of the headstone. I eventually told Spike of our friendship. We talked about. Sharing in the memories. He told me about how much he loved you and I told him how much I had wanted to turn you and how much I hated you for ruining your life. Almost a year after you died, we found out that Fredrick had poisoned you. It was Drusilla who had told us. I still don't know how she knew or how long she had kept that information a secret. That information was the turning point in Spike's life as a vampire. He killed Fredrick the same night we found out that he killed you."
"And then he let me go and fell in love with Drusilla." Sora said. Angel nodded.
"Wow! That's just weird. How come Spike doesn't remember her then?" Buffy asked as they continued their patrol.
"He pushed her so far back in his mind. He refuses to think of his human memories. I'm sure he just hasn't put 2 and 2 together yet." Angel said.
"He still calls me his Songbird. Just like he did back then." Sora said.
"You played the harpsichord, didn't you?" Angel asked.
"Yeah but now I play the flute." Sora said and then suddenly turned to Angel with a panicked look. "He can't know, my Angelus! Its hard enough now. I can't even tell him why I left him back in Chicago." Angel wrapped his arms around Sora and held her in a brotherly fashion. It wasn't his place to tell Spike but Angel thought that it was unfair to him not to know.
"What the bloody hell do you think you're doing, peaches?" Spike said stepping out of the shadows, glaring with envy at his grandsire as he held Sora. Sora moved out of Angel's embrace.
"Hello Spike." Angel said. Sora watched Spike remembering how he looked when he was human. The only difference was the hair and the sarcastic remarks.
"We need some info." Buffy said stepping forward, blocking Sora from Spike's sight. "We'll pay you."
"I don't want your filthy cash. I want answers!" Spike said staring straight into Sora's eyes.
"First info, Spike. We want to know about the Hycuda demon." Angel said.
"I know what you want to know, peaches. But no info until you let me talk to my Songbird, alone." Spike said. Once his sources had told him about the new demon in town, he got all the info the Scooby gang needed from the book he stole from Giles. The only book that had info about the Hycuda demon. He came up with the plan knowing Buffy wouldn't let Spike alone with Sora to get into info he wanted. To convince her that she was his.
"You know that that'll never happen, Spike." Buffy said.
"That's too bad Slayer. Seeing I'm the only one who knows how to kill it." Spike said and turned to walk away. Angel turned and found Sora looking at him.
"I'll have to talk to him sometime, won' I?"
"I'm afraid so. He deserves to know Sora. Even though he's too blind of an idiot to see the truth, itself." Angel replied.
"Sora, you don't have to do this. We'll find some way. We still have Willie left to threaten." Buffy said. Sora shook her head.
"It's okay Buffy. I can't keep hiding form it. You told me that." Sora said. She ran off in the direction Spike had went, in order to try and make a deal with him. Angel and Buffy continued the patrol, knowing Sora would catch up to them.
"Spike?" Sora called out as she stopped in the middle of a row of graves. He wasn't in sight and she was afraid that she had lost him. Just then a hand broke through the freshly laid earth, causing Sora to fall on her back. Kicking hard, she crawled backward as the newly made vampire rose up from the soil.
"I really don't need this now!" Sora said and she jumped to her feet. Grabbing the stake out of her jacket pocket, she lunged at the vamp who grabbed her wrist just as the stake was about to penetrate his dead heart. Twisting her wrist, she dropped the stake, which the vampire kicked, away into the bushes.
"You know, mate. I really don't like it when others touch whats mine." Spike called out as he stepped out from behind a crypt.
"Ever think that I don't like it when you treat me like a possession?" Sora spat out, trying to ignore the pain in her wrist from the vampires tight grip.
"But pet, you are a most prized possession. You are rare and one of a kind. And no one can have you but me." Spike said moving a few feet closer. The younger vampire looked in-between the two in confusion.
"Can you believe him? And he wonders why I refuse to talk to him." Sora said to the vampire. "Maybe I should let you bite me in order to put me out of my misery."
"You two have problems. You should really work them out." The vampire grumbled and let her go. He started to walk away when he suddenly turned to dust. Sora picked up the stake that she had thrown at him. Turning around, she came face to face with Spike's annoying but damn sexy smirk.
"What? He was rude!" Sora said innocently.
"I heard you calling my name. What did you want?" Spike asked.
"I wanna make a deal with you. You want answers, right?" Spike nodded in reply.
"That help us. When demon boy is dead, you get answers."
"How do I know I'd get them? You may just run again. Or hide behind Buffy and Angel."
"If I wanted to run, I would have already. I know Buffy and Angel will make me talk to you anyway. According to Angel, you deserve to know." Sora said.
"Alright. The demon is hiding out at the warehouse on 52nd and Nash. He's strong. Angel and Buffy may not be able to kill it alone. I'll help. You have to cut off it's head first then cut out its heart." Spike said.
"Meet us at Giles' tomorrow after sunset. We'll kill it then." Sora said to Spike who then watched her disappear through the trees in search of Angel and Buffy.
"This is what I was thinking. A quick sweep of the cemetery. Then a round of all the main streets and alleys with a stop over to threaten Willy for some info. Then check out the empty warehouses and anything that looks suspicious." Buffy explained leading the way over to the cemetery.
"Let me guess. We're gonna ask Spike for the low down also?" Sora said. She wanted to see Spike but she still was afraid. She knew he still had questions but she didn't know how to answer them.
"Spike is still in Sunnydale?" Angel asked, stopping suddenly at the row of tombstones.
"Yeah. He never left since he got chipped. Why?" Buffy asked.
"Does he know Sora? Of course he knows. I mean he was in love with you." Angel said.
"Angel, what are you talking about?" Sora asked, confusion filling her eyes.
"Sora! Spike is William!" Angel said. He realized that Sora didn't know that William had been turned. Sora turned pale and sat down on a tombstone.
"William? But Spike…he never said anything! Never gave nay hint. My memories…I could never picture Williams face. But now…. you're right! I remember. But when was he turned! He was human when I died, wasn't he?" Sora said. It all made sense. The attraction she felt for him. That he felt for her. They had been in love before. Sora had denied her feelings back then. Just as she was doing now.
"Yes he was. He was turned the night you were buried. The ceremony was during the day so Dru and I couldn't attend. As soon as the sun set we headed over to your gravesite to pay our own respects. William was there and we watched him from the shadows. He had never stopped loving you, even after you married. Before he left, he placed a white lily on your grave." Angel said.
"He would always send a white lily with the poems he wrote. He said it was a symbol of the pure and exotic love that he had for me." Sora said softly. As Angel talked, everything made more sense. It was like finding the missing piece that completes the puzzle.
"Dru found him later that night, staring into a glass of whiskey at a local pub. She lured him out into the alley and as she fed, she decided that she must turn him. Dru once told me that he wasn't officially hers, but belonged to her sister, you." Angel said.
"So then he forgot about her and fell in love with vamp chick?" Buffy asked.
"Not at first. I used to go to your grave and talk to you. I would always find a white lily at the base of the headstone. I eventually told Spike of our friendship. We talked about. Sharing in the memories. He told me about how much he loved you and I told him how much I had wanted to turn you and how much I hated you for ruining your life. Almost a year after you died, we found out that Fredrick had poisoned you. It was Drusilla who had told us. I still don't know how she knew or how long she had kept that information a secret. That information was the turning point in Spike's life as a vampire. He killed Fredrick the same night we found out that he killed you."
"And then he let me go and fell in love with Drusilla." Sora said. Angel nodded.
"Wow! That's just weird. How come Spike doesn't remember her then?" Buffy asked as they continued their patrol.
"He pushed her so far back in his mind. He refuses to think of his human memories. I'm sure he just hasn't put 2 and 2 together yet." Angel said.
"He still calls me his Songbird. Just like he did back then." Sora said.
"You played the harpsichord, didn't you?" Angel asked.
"Yeah but now I play the flute." Sora said and then suddenly turned to Angel with a panicked look. "He can't know, my Angelus! Its hard enough now. I can't even tell him why I left him back in Chicago." Angel wrapped his arms around Sora and held her in a brotherly fashion. It wasn't his place to tell Spike but Angel thought that it was unfair to him not to know.
"What the bloody hell do you think you're doing, peaches?" Spike said stepping out of the shadows, glaring with envy at his grandsire as he held Sora. Sora moved out of Angel's embrace.
"Hello Spike." Angel said. Sora watched Spike remembering how he looked when he was human. The only difference was the hair and the sarcastic remarks.
"We need some info." Buffy said stepping forward, blocking Sora from Spike's sight. "We'll pay you."
"I don't want your filthy cash. I want answers!" Spike said staring straight into Sora's eyes.
"First info, Spike. We want to know about the Hycuda demon." Angel said.
"I know what you want to know, peaches. But no info until you let me talk to my Songbird, alone." Spike said. Once his sources had told him about the new demon in town, he got all the info the Scooby gang needed from the book he stole from Giles. The only book that had info about the Hycuda demon. He came up with the plan knowing Buffy wouldn't let Spike alone with Sora to get into info he wanted. To convince her that she was his.
"You know that that'll never happen, Spike." Buffy said.
"That's too bad Slayer. Seeing I'm the only one who knows how to kill it." Spike said and turned to walk away. Angel turned and found Sora looking at him.
"I'll have to talk to him sometime, won' I?"
"I'm afraid so. He deserves to know Sora. Even though he's too blind of an idiot to see the truth, itself." Angel replied.
"Sora, you don't have to do this. We'll find some way. We still have Willie left to threaten." Buffy said. Sora shook her head.
"It's okay Buffy. I can't keep hiding form it. You told me that." Sora said. She ran off in the direction Spike had went, in order to try and make a deal with him. Angel and Buffy continued the patrol, knowing Sora would catch up to them.
"Spike?" Sora called out as she stopped in the middle of a row of graves. He wasn't in sight and she was afraid that she had lost him. Just then a hand broke through the freshly laid earth, causing Sora to fall on her back. Kicking hard, she crawled backward as the newly made vampire rose up from the soil.
"I really don't need this now!" Sora said and she jumped to her feet. Grabbing the stake out of her jacket pocket, she lunged at the vamp who grabbed her wrist just as the stake was about to penetrate his dead heart. Twisting her wrist, she dropped the stake, which the vampire kicked, away into the bushes.
"You know, mate. I really don't like it when others touch whats mine." Spike called out as he stepped out from behind a crypt.
"Ever think that I don't like it when you treat me like a possession?" Sora spat out, trying to ignore the pain in her wrist from the vampires tight grip.
"But pet, you are a most prized possession. You are rare and one of a kind. And no one can have you but me." Spike said moving a few feet closer. The younger vampire looked in-between the two in confusion.
"Can you believe him? And he wonders why I refuse to talk to him." Sora said to the vampire. "Maybe I should let you bite me in order to put me out of my misery."
"You two have problems. You should really work them out." The vampire grumbled and let her go. He started to walk away when he suddenly turned to dust. Sora picked up the stake that she had thrown at him. Turning around, she came face to face with Spike's annoying but damn sexy smirk.
"What? He was rude!" Sora said innocently.
"I heard you calling my name. What did you want?" Spike asked.
"I wanna make a deal with you. You want answers, right?" Spike nodded in reply.
"That help us. When demon boy is dead, you get answers."
"How do I know I'd get them? You may just run again. Or hide behind Buffy and Angel."
"If I wanted to run, I would have already. I know Buffy and Angel will make me talk to you anyway. According to Angel, you deserve to know." Sora said.
"Alright. The demon is hiding out at the warehouse on 52nd and Nash. He's strong. Angel and Buffy may not be able to kill it alone. I'll help. You have to cut off it's head first then cut out its heart." Spike said.
"Meet us at Giles' tomorrow after sunset. We'll kill it then." Sora said to Spike who then watched her disappear through the trees in search of Angel and Buffy.