"It's my life, and it's now or never // I ain't gonna live forever" –"It's my Life", Bon Jovi

Chapter Five

Becoming

Spike turned and ran. He grabbed hold of the ladder, but he was no more then four feet in the air, when he felt Dru's hand grasp his leg and yank him down.

He fell to the floor in a heap, hitting the ground with a large bang. Some sticky red substance trickled down his forehead from a large cut in his head. With a loud groan, he sat up and rubbed his forehead. Blood was all over his palm, and he stared at it nervously.

Drusilla bent down before him on her knees and gently pulled to palm towards her. She licked the blood off of it, in two clean swipes, and then tentatively looked at Spike.

"My William. You need to come back to me."

Spike felt a surge of pain as Drusilla vamped out and sunk her fangs into his palm.

***

At the Summer residence, all was not well either. Buffy paced around the living room, while Angel watched. Dawn had already gone to a friend's house for a sleepover, and Willow and Tara were- um- upstairs.

"It's been half and hour, something's wrong." Buffy murmured. Angel wrapped his arms around her, and held her close to him. She sighed.

"Do you want to go out and look for him?" He asked, looking down at her small blonde head. She looked back up at him, her small, soft pink lips morphed into a semi-pout.

"Yeah."

Angel immediately let go of Buffy, and headed towards the door. He pulled it open, and then waited for Buffy to come out before him. She did, stakes and an axe in tow.

Together, they marched towards the graveyard where Spike's crypt was located.

***

Drusilla drew the blood from Spike like there was no tomorrow. Spike slowly drifted into unconsciousness, and felt his spirit riding above his body.

From high above, he saw Drusilla drawing the life force from him, and he felt an immense pain. Not a physical pain, but a pain none-the less. It was the pain of knowing that he was going to soon be either dead, or worse than that. A vampire.

Spike's head shot up as he heard a noise on the upper level of his crypt. It must be Buffy!

Spike's spirit forced himself back into his body, trying as hard as he could. He floated down to his lifeless form, and forced himself roughly back inside it. Gathering all his strength, he let out a sharp scream.

Drusilla's head immediately shot up from her handy-work (pun unintended), and saw Spike's round blue eyes clouding over. She took a nail and cut into her wrist, drawing blood. She grabbed Spike's head, and forced it to her wrist, making him drink the blood. Spike tried to resist, but his throat reflexed, and he swallowed the red liquid. He let out a sharp cry of defeat, and fell backwards, unconscious.

***

Angel and Buffy immediately turned towards the cellar, where the scream had come from. Spike must have been attacked. Climbing down the ladder, Buffy jumped down, and saw Drusilla, Spike's head against her wrist. Spike tore his head up from Drusilla's wrist and tried spitting out the blood, but Drusilla shushed him, and rolled his head back. Buffy saw Spike's throat swallow, and Buffy's heart sank.

"There, my pet." Drusilla said lovingly. She stroked his forehead, which had broken out into a cold sweat. Spike let out a small cry of defeat, and then fell limp in Drusilla's arms.

Buffy felt the anger bubble up from deep within her. How could Drusilla do this to Spike? And Spike- she would have thought he'd love to be a vampire once more- but she was wrong. Spike had fought the transformation, even to his last. It pained her greatly to imagine a friend going through the torment of becoming a creature of the darkness.

And a part of her was afraid. Spike would be returning without his soul, and it may be quite possible that his chip would malfunction. What would he do when he awoke?

"Angel, go tell Willow something for me." She whispered softly to Angel. Angel waited for her expectantly.

"Tell her to look for Jenny's Spell. She'll know what I'm talking about."

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Author's Note:

Yes, yes. The chapter was very short, I know. But hey, it works!

I'm so pleased with the way this story is turning out,

and I'm positive it will be done by the time the Angel and Buffy seasons are done.

Can't wait to continue writing, next chapter should be up sometime this week (around Friday), so keep checking!

~Luna