Email: tenik42@yahoo.com
Rating: PG I think
Status: Part 1 of ?
Setting: 15 years after IWRY, with some flash back memories.
Summary: This is an answer to challenge #11 on Sunlight and Shadow. It's the year 2014 and Spike's in Los Angeles where he sees a very familiar looking girl. If you want to know more about the story you could read the challenge details but it might give away some of the story plot.
Feedback: I read a lot of fanfiction but rarely write any. So I would love to get some feedback on how I'm doing. With a bit of encouragement It might stop me procrastinating and I'll finish it sooner. Also if I've doing something really wrong with my writing, advice is welcome too.
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimer applies. This means I don't legally own much of the story, characters, concepts, or even the original plot idea isn't mine. So I guess all that's mine are the words, simple words strung together to make sentences.
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Los Angeles, California. 2014.
The cold grey buildings loomed over the darkened streets blocking out most of the night sky. A few stars were barely visible through the cities smog and lights. The streets were still fairly busy as people hurried on paying no attention to one another, lost in their own personal worlds.
Spike stood in the shadows at the corner of an alley. He liked shadows. Shadows are where evil lurks. Spike could stand in the shadows and smirk while pretending that he could kill people if he wanted to. He hated the chip and cursed the dam initiative. But he hadn't given up all hope, over time the chip had been becoming less effective. Now he could commit small acts of violence like shoving someone out of the way. Spike knew it was only a matter of time before he could kill again and being immortal he had all the time in the world. Now all he had to do was learn to be patient.
Spike sighed from frustration. Patience is a difficult thing to learn. He fished into the pocket of his black leather coat, pulling out a cigarette and lighting it. The rising smoke from the cigarette started to make him feel a bit better. Spike leaned against the wall while smoking and watched the many faceless people walk by. He was about to put his cigarette out and leave when a familiar face in the crowd caught his attention.
It was like seeing a ghost or more precisely a image from the past, a shard of memory jarring his thoughts. The picture was perfect from her slight nose to the soft pouting lips. Her eyes were so bright, highlighted by the short browny blond hair. Spike growled deep in his throat and muttered, "Bloody Slayer".
It was at that moment that reality caught up with Spike. The girl standing a couple of metres in front him looked younger than the memories he had of Buffy. Then there was also the fact that Buffy was dead. Spike wore a puzzled expression as he watched the girl stop under a street sign, pull a crumpled map out of her pocket and stare at it intently. He was intrigued, who was this girl who looked so similar to Buffy. Spike decided he had nothing better to do and started following the girl keeping to the shadows.
As it got later the crowds began to thin. The strange girl turned off the street and into an empty alley. She walked a couple of metres before realising that the street was a dead end. The girl pulled out her overused mag and glared at it angrily. She was too busy trying to figure out where she was that she failed to notice a scruffy looking figure appear from behind a dumpster nearby and stalk towards her. Spike who was standing at the entrance of the alley did however notice the figure and could straight away sense what he was.
The girl screamed as she was grabbed suddenly and tried to struggle out of the vampire's grasp all the while yelling at the top of her lungs. Spike rushed quickly towards the pair and pulled the vampire off her. The attacking vampire snarled at him "Get your own" and focused his attack on Spike. Spike ducked his punches easily burying a stake in his heart. He turned to look at the girl who had collapsed on the ground. Surprisingly she didn't look shocked at all to have just witnessed a vampire turning to dust.
"You okay?", Spike asked helping the girl up.
"Yeah, thanks" She answered then mumbled to herself, "stupid vampire".
"Vampire?"
"Yeah, you dusted it so I'm guessing you know that vampires are real right?"
"Well if your so knowledgeable on vampires, then what the hell were you doing alone in an alley at night?"
"I'm lost. How about you, what's your excuse for lurking around alleys at night?"
"I wasn't lurking! I was walking past and heard you screaming your head off."
"Oh my hero!" she said with obvious sarcasm.
"Dam right."
"I can take care of myself."
"Oh so I didn't just see you screaming helplessly in the arms of a vampire."
"Why do you care?"
"I don't."
"Well Mr I-don't-care, you'll just let me go on my way now then."
"Spike, my name's Spike."
"Well I'm Samantha, friends call me Sam and I'm going now", she blurted out while pushing past Spike and walking away. But Spike was quick and grabbed her arm before she go very far.
"Your not going anywhere. It's not safe for you walking alone through these streets at night."
Sam looked at Spike like she wished he'd just combust on the spot. Little did she know how easily that could have been arranged. "Okay then., what do you suggest I do?"
"Suggest? I'm meant to have suggestions"
"Well as fun as this conversation is, I really don't want to stay in this alley all night."
"Do you have a place to stay?"
"No" Sam admitted, "I was trying to find this teen shelter I heard about."
"My place isn't far from here."
Sam's eyebrows raised.
"I don't mean anything like that! I have a spare room, extra bed."
Sam was tired and lost so she gave in. "Okay lets go then."
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