Title - Buffy, The Vampire Slayer - Guardian : Like A

Author - Shane A. Hopkins (thesorcererbard@I-am-the-key.com)

Rating - R

Pairing - Spike and Dawn

Disclaimer - What I don't own. Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and 20th Century Fox own Buffy the Vampire Slayer and everything related to them. What I do own. Everything not owned by the above mentioned people / companies is owned by me but you may use any of it as long as you give me credit.

Authors Note - It is highly recommended that you read my 6 part story, Restoration for the back story to this story.

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Guardian : Like A

"You cannot be serious!" Spike exclaimed. Buffy had just finished explaining her plan.

"Deadly." Buffy replied then with a small smile said, "As in if you don't you'll be dead."

"Buffy!" Dawn exclaimed.

"Okay so I'm kidding, but if this Devsh'k demon finds a vamp and it's someone who wants me dead then we could all be dead." Buffy said looking at Spike, "If however it's you."

"Yea, Yea I get your point." Spike said, he still didn't look too happy about it.

"Well, well ain't this one of life's little surprises?" came a voice from behind Spike. He was sitting at the bar in Willie's, drinking a pint of O-neg, human not orang-utan.

"What is mate?" Spike said as he turned round to see a badly dressed green skinned demon with purple horns sprouting from either temple.

The demon looked at spike with pure blue eyes and frowned, "You should know

better Spike."

"Yea, Jimmy I do know better." Spike said, "Can I get ya a pint of WD40?"

"Yea, why not it's not like it'll kill me." the demon, Jimmy said sitting next to Spike, "So how longs it been anyway, seventy, eighty years?"

"Eighty, the last time we met was in Switzerland you were trying to catch that Dervish demon with the thing, what was it?" Spike said with a quizzical look.

"The Ring of Tripolitan, the power center of the Tricentric Demon Council." Jimmy said with a smile.

"Yea, that's it, how'd that work out for ya, anyway?" Spike said with a laugh.

"They caught me and threw me into an Iraqi jail for the humanly challenged, spent a decade there." Jimmy said taking a swig of his drink, "Actually I meant to ask you, what were you doing there with that young brunette female? You know the one that's not quite human?"

"What brunette?" Spike said looking at him with curiosity.

"Never mind." Jimmy said with a wave of his hand, "So what's been happening with you?"

"You know, the usual, human mobs, demon fights, an apocalypse or two, oh and Angelus almost got the world sucked into hell." Spike said with a smile as he thought back over his past activities, he came to the realisation that he actually preferred the life he was living right now.

"So how's that Drusilla chick you used to hang out with?"

"We broke up a couple of years back." Spike told him.

"Oh, that's too bad, she was just a darling little crazed woman." Jimmy said with a smile, "How'd it happen?"

"After the slayer defeated Angelus and sent him off to hell, me and Dru skipped town, we ended up overseas and she began carrying on with all sorts of demons, the final straw came when I caught her making out with a chaos demon." Spike said with a sad laugh.

"Ouch, harsh so what did ya do to her?" Jimmy asked.

"Nothing, I just couldn't bring myself to hurt her." Spike answered taking a gulp of his drink, "Came back here and got buggered up by some Government soldier boys, now I can't even hunt humans."

"Yea, I heard 'bout that, it's the talk of the demon community." Jimmy said, "They said you been hunting them with the slayer."

"Yea, but I won't hurt any demon that doesn't hurt me or the sla." Spike began

"Yoou aare Sspiiike?" came a voice from behind them.

"Who's askin' mate." Spike said not looking round.

"Iiii am Devv." came Dev's voice. Jimmy turned round to look at him and promptly was hit across the room, which is hard to do to a seven foot tall demon.

"Yyoou wiilll coome wiiith me." Dev said to Spike before hitting him on the head and throwing him over his shoulder.

Willie who was standing behind the bar sighed and picked up the phone, he dialled Buffy's number and told her that Dev had taken Spike.

"Right, phase one is under way." Buffy said putting down the phone.

"The Devsh'k's got Spike?" Giles asked.

"Yea, sounds like he wasn't too gentle with him either." Buffy said taking her seat.

"So, now what?" Xander asked, coming out of the kitchen.

"Now we wait." Adam said.

"Giles, Xander lets go get weapons." Buffy said getting up again and heading towards the stairs.

"Gottchya, Boss lady." Xander said with a cheesy grin as he and Giles followed her upstairs.

"She has a hard time waiting?" Adam made it sound like a question.

"Yea, she's been like that for as long as I've known here." Willow said with a small smile.

She and Tara were curled up together on the couch. Dawn was standing in the corner of the room as far away from the windows as possible. Anya was in the kitchen trying to cook, Tara had been giving her some pointers over the last few weeks, she could now cook odd shaped pancakes with the greatest of ease.

"What's going to happen once the demons and Spike get here?" asked Dawn.

"Buffy with the help of Giles and myself will kill them." Adam said.

"As simple as that?" Dawn asked in a disbelieving tone.

"Yes." Adam simply answered.

Willow, Tara and Dawn all stared at him.

"Well Spike, my boy," The Bloatbed demon turned to the vampire, "This is the slayer's house?"

"Yea, Fred, that's it." Spike answered.

"lsn'e ot'll nu-so v'll." came Dev's voice from a few feet ahead of them.

"Yea, kill em all." Fred said with a wicked smile.

"Yea, all of em." Spike repeated with a small slightly false looking smile.

They hopped off their bikes and began walking towards the house.

"Hey Spike, I heard a rumour that you got a full access pass to this house, that true?" Fred asked.

"Yea, what of it?" Spike answered.

"Well, here's you with your access and you still ain't killed her." Fred said with a smirk.

"Yea well this slayer's tough, and she's got friends." Spike said with a small look of annoyance at being reminded of his failures.

"At-ll R'kj nak e'u'jn nus b'j-go j'z!" Dev hissed as he swung round and hit Fred and Spike across their faces.

"Jeez, take a chill pill, boss." Fred said holding his jaw.

"G'kos ki." Dev said turning back towards the house.

"Show time." Adam said standing up.

"What they're here?" Buffy asked. Giles, Xander and her were heavily armed with swords, stakes, crossbows and one uzi.

"Hey, Buff when did you get an uzi?" Xander had asked.

"A week before Dawn came back, I found I needed some extra firepower, the bullets are melted crosses with hollow tips filled with holy water." Buffy had answered.

"I'll go in first." Fred said taking a step forward.

"I'k, E'z-tos at-ll c'k ti b'tyen." Dev said as quietly as possible.

"Me?" Spike asked his voice sounded a little frightened.

"Yea, he said you go first." Fred said with a very disappointed tone.

Spike walked up to the front door, kicked it in and jumped through, a second later a cloud of dust came wafting out the doorway.

"Stupid vampire, got himself killed." Fred sneered.

"Nuv'n ave nus z'l'vi." Dev said standing up.

"The plan? What plan?" Fred asked.

"Nut'e z'l'vi." Dev said picking Fred up and throwing him through the boarded up window.

To be continued.