Title: I Will Always Be With You
Chapter: Why Won't You Dead People Just Stay Dead?
Author: Niki (Sunnygurlie)
Rating: PG13-If you watch Buffy, you can read this. It's got some sexual innuendo, implied sex, and a little swearing(Bloody Hell mostly) I love Spike's swearing. He wouldn't be Spike without the swearing. Plus a lot of smoochies! Can't forget the smoochies!
Spoilers: Takes place ten years after the end of season six, so anything up to season six is fair game. Season 7 didn't happen. I don't watch Angel, so Cordy & Angel's timeline thing is kind of warped. Here, Angel and Cordy had started Angel Investigations, and Cordy had become half demon. Connor never existed, and none of the other characters are mentioned. And, because I felt like it, Cordy had a baby with Doyle before he died, but he did confer the whole demony vision thing onto her. Takes place after my story "I Won't Leave Again."
Summary: The sequel to "I Won't Leave Again" (read that first), Spike and Dawn are living happily ever after. Or not. What do you get when you mix the Watcher's Council, the Initiative, the Scoobies, and the next generation of scoobies? And a cameo from our favorite deceased slayer? A scoobyrific adventure!
Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Jos owns everything. Although I wish I owned Spike (insert evil laugh here) I'm just borrowing, and I promise I won't break anything. I might dust a few, though! (another evil laugh) Any brand names mentioned here belong to their respective owners, I'm just borrowing.
Ships: Mainly Spike/Dawn, there may be some references to Angel/Dawn. Secondary characters who are together in the story- Oz/Cordy, maybe Anya will get a guy later.
What do you think? Should our resident dead people shack up? All in favor of some Angel/Buffy say so in your review. All who think it's too squicky, please say so in your review. All who don't care, say that in your review. Hell, I don't care what you say, just review ;)
Author's Warning. This story will make no sense unless you have read "I Won't Leave Again." Since I know you are all busy people with lots of fan fiction to read, I will include a quick summary of previous events at the beginning of each chapter. I hope ya like it! Review please!
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Wow, this is the third chapter this week! My muse has decided to be nice. Thank you for all your reviews, you guys rock! Hope ya like the chapter!
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Previously: Spike, a very-pregnant Dawn and the kiddies are shacked up in their new mansion hiding from the Initiative and the Watcher's Council. Buffy's back from the dead for a week to help with the latest big bad, and, at the end of the last chapter, our favorite tall, dark, and broody blood-sucker is back.
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"Okay." said Dawn, pointing a crossbow at the tall vampire's chest. "Explain. Now. And prove that you are indeed souled, or I'll stake your ass."
"He's got it Pet, I can tell. You can put the bow down."
"Thanks Spike." Angel said, as Dawn lowered the weapons. Before he started to explain, he looked at his former wife. "Dawnie! You're pregnant!"
"If one more dead person tells me that I'm pregnant, I will stake them! Yes, I'm pregnant, the baby is Spike's, we can discuss later. Explanation now."
While Angel was still speechless, Spike came up behind the pregnant slayer and whispered into her ear, "Nibblet, you're pregnant!"
"Argh! Don't think that just because I'm carrying your child means that I won't stake your ass!"
"Oh, but Dawnie," Spike smiled innocently. "It worked for Angel!"
Before the brunette could dust the father of her child, Buffy stepped in, both literally and figuratively. She stood between her little sister and the once bleached blonde vamp and tried to get back to the subject at hand.
"So, you were saying, Angel?"
"Maggie staked me. I...I went to hell. I've been there about 150 years. Yesterday, Joyce came to me-"
"What! mom can't be in Hell!"
"She's not Dawnie, calm down. She's a vessel, a messenger for the Powers That Be. Let him finish his story. It's pretty much going along with mine so far, except for the whole hell thing." Buffy interceded.
"She told me her daughters needed me, both of them, and I had a week to help them. Then she waved her arm, and I was here."
"Okay, very weirded out now."
"I think Dawn speaks for all of us."
"What could be so bad that The Powers would send us both Buffy and Angel."
"This." said Giles, walking into the room holding a letter, his hands trembling.
They all gathered 'round the ex-watcher.
"It's from Wesley. The Watchers have found about Maggie's parentage, along with who the twins' father is."
"Oh God."
"That about sums it up. They have enlisted the help of multiple entities to rid themselves of Maggie, and decided to add Dawn, Spike, and the kids into the package, except they want the twins alive to... experiment on."
Spike growled, his eyes turning yellow.
"Spike my boy, calm down. They will not touch our children." Angel growled.
"How, Who, When, and Where?" asked Buffy.
"Its bad. Really, really, really bad."
"Just tell me Giles"
"They've found a way to bring Glory back."
"Bloody Hell!"
"That would just about cover it."
"Same old, same old? She wants the key to get back home?"
"Not only that, but she will want revenge on those who beat her before."
"You, me, Dawn, Willow, Spike, and Xander." Buffy said quietly
"Yes"
"Wait Giles, you said will want."
"We have a few days before they resurrect her."
"How many is a few?"
"Two."
"Okay, and when are all the planets and stuff in alignments for her to use the key?"
"The next full moon."
"Oz, when is that?"
"Five days from now."
"Okay, so we enjoy the next two days to the fullest, since we will no longer exist after that."
"Buffy, be optimistic." Cordy said.
"Um trying, but the whole her killing me once already is just keeping any glass half full thoughts far, far away."
"Okay, Umm did I miss something? Because this is making the kind of sense that... isn't." Oz interceded.
"Couple years ago this hellgod, Glory tried to use Dawn, the key, to open a portal back to her world. Well she failed, but this scary evil dude opened the portal by slicing Dawn open and the only way to close the portal was for the blood to stop flowing, so Buffy jumped off the tower and died so that Dawn could keep living and the world wouldn't end and I'm babbling again. Damn, I thought I got over that habit forever ago." Willow explained.
"Got it"
"Wait, you said multiple entities."
"They'll do the typical, send vampire assassins after us, the initiative, other demony things. From what Wesley says, all the baddies, and therefore all the bad, will go down on the full moon, at the old high school. They attempted to rebuild it, but they never got past making a bell tower."
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Dawn cornered Angel as everyone went to go figure out sleeping arrangements.
"We need to talk."
"Yeah."
"Why don't we go upstairs." she led him into her bedroom, and out onto the balcony. That sat down facing each other.
"Dawn, I want to apologize for the hell I put you through. I-"
"Don't"
"What?"
"Don't apologize. You can't control Angelus. I know you can't control Angelus. I forgave you before the dust settled."
"I don't deserve it."
"I don't care if you think you don't deserve it. You're forgiven. You have a week to imprint in your children's minds what their father was like. Don't waste it moping."
He smiled.
"Then why did you want to talk to me?"
"Umm, shouldn't that be obvious? Hello, pregnant with your childe's child!"
"Oh, that."
"Oh, that? That's all you have to say?"
"Sure, it's kind of weird, but I'm dead. I have no reason to be jealous of the two of you. I'm not going to begrudge him or you for something I can't have."
"Thank you." she hugged him "You have no idea what this means to me."
He hugged her back. "As his sire, I give you guys my blessing."
She laughed. "Do you know how messed up we are?"
"Oh, I do. Believe me, I do."
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Dawn had found everybody beds and bedding, and was finally ready to go to bed. They had decided it would be best if they all stayed at the mansion for the next week, it was safer to be all together.
"You okay Luv?" Spike asked from the bed as she undressed.
"Not really. Everything's kinda...okay really weird, especially with Buffy and Angel being back."
"Is Buffy okay with..."
"Us? Yeah. It's just this whole big mess, especially with both her and Angel back."
"You talk to him?"
"Yeah, he gives us his blessing. It still feels like something out of Jerry Springer, one big love quadrangle."
He laughed.
"I'm not joking," she protested weakly. "I'm about to have your child, you are the father of my dead-but-back-for-a-week sister 's child, add your 'father,' who all three of us have had relationships with, and with whom I have two children, and there's just one big mess. Add to that the whole slayer-vampire-key thing, and you've boggled my mind."
Spike laughed heartily.
"I love you Nibblet. Only you would think up something that twisted."
"I love you too, but it's not that twisted," she argued, "after all, it *is* all true."
He shut her up in the typical guy fashion. He kissed the beautiful slayer, knowing it would grant him a few moments of much-wanted silence.
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Dawn woke up to the wonderful smell of eggs and bacon. She got up and threw a robe on, noticing the empty space beside her in the bed. She walked down the stairs, wondering at the quiet. *Shouldn't the kids be up by now?" she wondered. He question was answered when she walked into the kitchen and had to laugh. All five children were sitting at the table, eating breakfast. Spike was at the stove, wearing a Don't Steak the Cook apron. She had had it specially made for him a few months before, when she discovered how much he loved to cook. The printers had made the spelling mistake, but Spike loved it the way it was, double joke and all. Buffy, Willow, and Xander were sitting at the other end of the table, sipping coffee and catching up. Angel leaned against the wall, sipping a mug of blood. Giles walked in with a Kiss the Librarian mug full of tea. Cordy and Oz were by the coffee maker, waiting for the dark liquid that would rejuvenate them. Everyone was in their pajamas except for the kids, who were all dressed and ready for school, and Spike.
"Kay kids," said Spike, turning around. "We better leave, wouldn't want you to be late."
"Um Spike?" Dawn asked. "Daytime? I really don't want to sleep with a big pile of dust tonight." Angel and Buffy both choked on their drinks, Cordy and Oz giggled, Xander and Willow's mouths dropped, as they didn't know about the slayer and the vampire, and Giles just sighed.
"Amares Sweets. We're all going out later anyway, so I took it a little early so I could drop the Nibblets off and save you the trouble."
"Thanks" she said, kissing him. Angel and Buffy started choking again, Cordy and Oz kept giggling, Xander and Willow's mouths fell even further, and Giles sighed again, taking off his glasses and cleaning them.
The once evil vampire handed each child their lunch box and herded the gaggle out of the door.
"Dawnie" Xander started.
"Explain" added Willow.
"Now." Xander finished
"Well, you know how I told you I was pregnant, and the father was a guy you didn't know?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I kinda lied about the you not knowing him part. Spike and I kinda.... well... you know, on a full moon and.."
"Now you're shacked up with Deadboy Jr.?"
"Well....yeah Xander, I am."
"Well, if you're happy..." Willow said uncertainly.
"It's fine with us. But if he hurts you, there will be some serious slayage, and lover-boy will find himself on the pointy end of Mr. Pointy." Xander pulled out the aforementioned stake. "What is it with Summers women and vampires?" Willow smacked him upside the head "Ow!"
Dawn smiled. "Thanks guys, it means a lot to me that you approve. Now what are we doing today?"
"Beach. Angel and Spike have never been during the day, people didn't swim when they were alive, I haven't swum in years, and it looks like everybody's tans could use a little sun." Buffy answered.
"Sounds like fun." Dawn smiled.
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Dawn was in complete bliss. It was four in the afternoon, and they were having a barbecue on the beach. Angel was in a pair of board shorts, flipping burgers while Buffy, Willow, Cordy, and Anya lay on towels nearby, either sunning or napping. Oz was tossing a football back and forth with Will and Xander, while Spike was playing in the water with the girls. She was sitting on a blanket holding Beth, while Giles sat reading nearby. They had actually gotten him into shorts and a T-shirt, but he refused to swim. Dawn got up, and walked down to the water. Spike had seen her coming and ran over, picking her up and throwing her into the ocean before she had any idea what was happening. She came up sputtering and swam over, planning her revenge. She tackled the handsome vampire, slamming her weight directly into his stomach. As he went down, he grabbed around her waist, pulling her down with him. They came back above water, he lowered his face down to hers, their lips were barely touching when-
"Mommy! That's icky!" yelled Joy. Spike smirked at the slayer as the four girls, Anna, Maggie, Joy, and Kim tackled them, followed by Will, Oz, and Xander. Those sunning on the beach heard the shrieking and decided to join in. Buffy, Cordy, Anya, Willow and Angel ran down to the water and attacked the writhing group. Giles walked slowly down near the water, holding a camera in one had and Beth in the other. He started snapping pictures of the laughing group. When everyone had calmed down a bit, they got a passer- by to take a picture of the entire group, all sixteen of them.
It had been a perfect day. They packed up their things after having a wonderful barbecue. The sun was setting as they put all the beach stuff into the back of Dawn's SUV. Kim had climbed into Oz's van, and the other kids had piled into Spike's minivan. The adults were about to enter the three vehicles when Dawn heard something and instinctively looked behind herself.
"Riley. You just don't give up, do you?"
"Hi Dawnie, nice to see you too."
He was standing, in full military gear, at the front of a group of similarly dressed commandos. Dawn took a quick head count. There were 20 of them. With ten adult scoobies, they were outnumbered two to one.
"What brings you to the beach? Shouldn't you be out torturing vampires or something?" asked Spike.
"Dawnie, I thought you told me you didn't know where Hostile 17 was."
"Hostile 17? I don't know anyone or anything by that name." Dawn said innocently.
Riley sighed. "Just give us the vampire and the little girl he kidnapped, and I'll leave."
"Kidnapped?" Dawn asked.
"Yes. He kidnapped the little girl. She is the daughter of a watcher. He attacked her parents and took her, a few years ago. I've been tracking him ever since."
"Oh come on Riley. She isn't as dumb as I was. She's not going to believe any of your lies." Buffy said, stepping out of the shadow of the car.
"We will take them forcibly if we need to."
"Hey Oz, Cordy." Dawn called. "Would you mind going over by the vans and kicking the asses of the three commandos who are about to sneak in and steal our children?"
"Sure thing Dawnie." The two moved purposefully towards the vans.
"Fuller, Nelson, Jamison! Fall back." Riley called. The three commandos joined him.
"Riley. Think sensibly. We have two slayers, two vampires, a werewolf, a witch, a vengeance demon, and a watcher, not to mention two very capable humans." said Buffy, not wanting to completely blow their cover by revealing Cordy as a seer. "You have 23 humans. Who do you think will win this fight?"
"Oh come on, Buffy. Face it. Dawnie's the size of a house, It's not a full moon, so your werewolf is useless, Hostile 17 couldn't hurt a fly, Willow quit doing magic years ago, and you know as well as I do that Anya lost her powers. You're not in your prime anymore, you're just a merry band of mystical misfits who-" Before Riley could finish, the Scoobies attacked.
Buffy only had time to yell, "Don't kill if you can help it." to her followers before everyone was caught in a whirlwind of action. As she beat the shit out of Riley she informed him. "You've been gone a long time Riley, a lot has changed."
Ten minutes later, Oz was morphing back to human form, Cordy and Willow's eyes were bleeding back their color, the vampire's faces were becoming human again, and 23 commandos lay unconscious in the parking lot. Cordy threw Oz a towel and a pair of shorts, as he had shred his in his change, and they got into their cars and drove back to the mansion.
When they got back, they put the kids to bed, then sat around the kitchen table, planning on how to stop a hell god. Again.
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Nope, no surprise return this chapter. well, unless you count them finding out Glory is coming back. Hope ya like so far!
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Chapter: Why Won't You Dead People Just Stay Dead?
Author: Niki (Sunnygurlie)
Rating: PG13-If you watch Buffy, you can read this. It's got some sexual innuendo, implied sex, and a little swearing(Bloody Hell mostly) I love Spike's swearing. He wouldn't be Spike without the swearing. Plus a lot of smoochies! Can't forget the smoochies!
Spoilers: Takes place ten years after the end of season six, so anything up to season six is fair game. Season 7 didn't happen. I don't watch Angel, so Cordy & Angel's timeline thing is kind of warped. Here, Angel and Cordy had started Angel Investigations, and Cordy had become half demon. Connor never existed, and none of the other characters are mentioned. And, because I felt like it, Cordy had a baby with Doyle before he died, but he did confer the whole demony vision thing onto her. Takes place after my story "I Won't Leave Again."
Summary: The sequel to "I Won't Leave Again" (read that first), Spike and Dawn are living happily ever after. Or not. What do you get when you mix the Watcher's Council, the Initiative, the Scoobies, and the next generation of scoobies? And a cameo from our favorite deceased slayer? A scoobyrific adventure!
Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Jos owns everything. Although I wish I owned Spike (insert evil laugh here) I'm just borrowing, and I promise I won't break anything. I might dust a few, though! (another evil laugh) Any brand names mentioned here belong to their respective owners, I'm just borrowing.
Ships: Mainly Spike/Dawn, there may be some references to Angel/Dawn. Secondary characters who are together in the story- Oz/Cordy, maybe Anya will get a guy later.
What do you think? Should our resident dead people shack up? All in favor of some Angel/Buffy say so in your review. All who think it's too squicky, please say so in your review. All who don't care, say that in your review. Hell, I don't care what you say, just review ;)
Author's Warning. This story will make no sense unless you have read "I Won't Leave Again." Since I know you are all busy people with lots of fan fiction to read, I will include a quick summary of previous events at the beginning of each chapter. I hope ya like it! Review please!
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Wow, this is the third chapter this week! My muse has decided to be nice. Thank you for all your reviews, you guys rock! Hope ya like the chapter!
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Previously: Spike, a very-pregnant Dawn and the kiddies are shacked up in their new mansion hiding from the Initiative and the Watcher's Council. Buffy's back from the dead for a week to help with the latest big bad, and, at the end of the last chapter, our favorite tall, dark, and broody blood-sucker is back.
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"Okay." said Dawn, pointing a crossbow at the tall vampire's chest. "Explain. Now. And prove that you are indeed souled, or I'll stake your ass."
"He's got it Pet, I can tell. You can put the bow down."
"Thanks Spike." Angel said, as Dawn lowered the weapons. Before he started to explain, he looked at his former wife. "Dawnie! You're pregnant!"
"If one more dead person tells me that I'm pregnant, I will stake them! Yes, I'm pregnant, the baby is Spike's, we can discuss later. Explanation now."
While Angel was still speechless, Spike came up behind the pregnant slayer and whispered into her ear, "Nibblet, you're pregnant!"
"Argh! Don't think that just because I'm carrying your child means that I won't stake your ass!"
"Oh, but Dawnie," Spike smiled innocently. "It worked for Angel!"
Before the brunette could dust the father of her child, Buffy stepped in, both literally and figuratively. She stood between her little sister and the once bleached blonde vamp and tried to get back to the subject at hand.
"So, you were saying, Angel?"
"Maggie staked me. I...I went to hell. I've been there about 150 years. Yesterday, Joyce came to me-"
"What! mom can't be in Hell!"
"She's not Dawnie, calm down. She's a vessel, a messenger for the Powers That Be. Let him finish his story. It's pretty much going along with mine so far, except for the whole hell thing." Buffy interceded.
"She told me her daughters needed me, both of them, and I had a week to help them. Then she waved her arm, and I was here."
"Okay, very weirded out now."
"I think Dawn speaks for all of us."
"What could be so bad that The Powers would send us both Buffy and Angel."
"This." said Giles, walking into the room holding a letter, his hands trembling.
They all gathered 'round the ex-watcher.
"It's from Wesley. The Watchers have found about Maggie's parentage, along with who the twins' father is."
"Oh God."
"That about sums it up. They have enlisted the help of multiple entities to rid themselves of Maggie, and decided to add Dawn, Spike, and the kids into the package, except they want the twins alive to... experiment on."
Spike growled, his eyes turning yellow.
"Spike my boy, calm down. They will not touch our children." Angel growled.
"How, Who, When, and Where?" asked Buffy.
"Its bad. Really, really, really bad."
"Just tell me Giles"
"They've found a way to bring Glory back."
"Bloody Hell!"
"That would just about cover it."
"Same old, same old? She wants the key to get back home?"
"Not only that, but she will want revenge on those who beat her before."
"You, me, Dawn, Willow, Spike, and Xander." Buffy said quietly
"Yes"
"Wait Giles, you said will want."
"We have a few days before they resurrect her."
"How many is a few?"
"Two."
"Okay, and when are all the planets and stuff in alignments for her to use the key?"
"The next full moon."
"Oz, when is that?"
"Five days from now."
"Okay, so we enjoy the next two days to the fullest, since we will no longer exist after that."
"Buffy, be optimistic." Cordy said.
"Um trying, but the whole her killing me once already is just keeping any glass half full thoughts far, far away."
"Okay, Umm did I miss something? Because this is making the kind of sense that... isn't." Oz interceded.
"Couple years ago this hellgod, Glory tried to use Dawn, the key, to open a portal back to her world. Well she failed, but this scary evil dude opened the portal by slicing Dawn open and the only way to close the portal was for the blood to stop flowing, so Buffy jumped off the tower and died so that Dawn could keep living and the world wouldn't end and I'm babbling again. Damn, I thought I got over that habit forever ago." Willow explained.
"Got it"
"Wait, you said multiple entities."
"They'll do the typical, send vampire assassins after us, the initiative, other demony things. From what Wesley says, all the baddies, and therefore all the bad, will go down on the full moon, at the old high school. They attempted to rebuild it, but they never got past making a bell tower."
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Dawn cornered Angel as everyone went to go figure out sleeping arrangements.
"We need to talk."
"Yeah."
"Why don't we go upstairs." she led him into her bedroom, and out onto the balcony. That sat down facing each other.
"Dawn, I want to apologize for the hell I put you through. I-"
"Don't"
"What?"
"Don't apologize. You can't control Angelus. I know you can't control Angelus. I forgave you before the dust settled."
"I don't deserve it."
"I don't care if you think you don't deserve it. You're forgiven. You have a week to imprint in your children's minds what their father was like. Don't waste it moping."
He smiled.
"Then why did you want to talk to me?"
"Umm, shouldn't that be obvious? Hello, pregnant with your childe's child!"
"Oh, that."
"Oh, that? That's all you have to say?"
"Sure, it's kind of weird, but I'm dead. I have no reason to be jealous of the two of you. I'm not going to begrudge him or you for something I can't have."
"Thank you." she hugged him "You have no idea what this means to me."
He hugged her back. "As his sire, I give you guys my blessing."
She laughed. "Do you know how messed up we are?"
"Oh, I do. Believe me, I do."
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Dawn had found everybody beds and bedding, and was finally ready to go to bed. They had decided it would be best if they all stayed at the mansion for the next week, it was safer to be all together.
"You okay Luv?" Spike asked from the bed as she undressed.
"Not really. Everything's kinda...okay really weird, especially with Buffy and Angel being back."
"Is Buffy okay with..."
"Us? Yeah. It's just this whole big mess, especially with both her and Angel back."
"You talk to him?"
"Yeah, he gives us his blessing. It still feels like something out of Jerry Springer, one big love quadrangle."
He laughed.
"I'm not joking," she protested weakly. "I'm about to have your child, you are the father of my dead-but-back-for-a-week sister 's child, add your 'father,' who all three of us have had relationships with, and with whom I have two children, and there's just one big mess. Add to that the whole slayer-vampire-key thing, and you've boggled my mind."
Spike laughed heartily.
"I love you Nibblet. Only you would think up something that twisted."
"I love you too, but it's not that twisted," she argued, "after all, it *is* all true."
He shut her up in the typical guy fashion. He kissed the beautiful slayer, knowing it would grant him a few moments of much-wanted silence.
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Dawn woke up to the wonderful smell of eggs and bacon. She got up and threw a robe on, noticing the empty space beside her in the bed. She walked down the stairs, wondering at the quiet. *Shouldn't the kids be up by now?" she wondered. He question was answered when she walked into the kitchen and had to laugh. All five children were sitting at the table, eating breakfast. Spike was at the stove, wearing a Don't Steak the Cook apron. She had had it specially made for him a few months before, when she discovered how much he loved to cook. The printers had made the spelling mistake, but Spike loved it the way it was, double joke and all. Buffy, Willow, and Xander were sitting at the other end of the table, sipping coffee and catching up. Angel leaned against the wall, sipping a mug of blood. Giles walked in with a Kiss the Librarian mug full of tea. Cordy and Oz were by the coffee maker, waiting for the dark liquid that would rejuvenate them. Everyone was in their pajamas except for the kids, who were all dressed and ready for school, and Spike.
"Kay kids," said Spike, turning around. "We better leave, wouldn't want you to be late."
"Um Spike?" Dawn asked. "Daytime? I really don't want to sleep with a big pile of dust tonight." Angel and Buffy both choked on their drinks, Cordy and Oz giggled, Xander and Willow's mouths dropped, as they didn't know about the slayer and the vampire, and Giles just sighed.
"Amares Sweets. We're all going out later anyway, so I took it a little early so I could drop the Nibblets off and save you the trouble."
"Thanks" she said, kissing him. Angel and Buffy started choking again, Cordy and Oz kept giggling, Xander and Willow's mouths fell even further, and Giles sighed again, taking off his glasses and cleaning them.
The once evil vampire handed each child their lunch box and herded the gaggle out of the door.
"Dawnie" Xander started.
"Explain" added Willow.
"Now." Xander finished
"Well, you know how I told you I was pregnant, and the father was a guy you didn't know?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I kinda lied about the you not knowing him part. Spike and I kinda.... well... you know, on a full moon and.."
"Now you're shacked up with Deadboy Jr.?"
"Well....yeah Xander, I am."
"Well, if you're happy..." Willow said uncertainly.
"It's fine with us. But if he hurts you, there will be some serious slayage, and lover-boy will find himself on the pointy end of Mr. Pointy." Xander pulled out the aforementioned stake. "What is it with Summers women and vampires?" Willow smacked him upside the head "Ow!"
Dawn smiled. "Thanks guys, it means a lot to me that you approve. Now what are we doing today?"
"Beach. Angel and Spike have never been during the day, people didn't swim when they were alive, I haven't swum in years, and it looks like everybody's tans could use a little sun." Buffy answered.
"Sounds like fun." Dawn smiled.
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Dawn was in complete bliss. It was four in the afternoon, and they were having a barbecue on the beach. Angel was in a pair of board shorts, flipping burgers while Buffy, Willow, Cordy, and Anya lay on towels nearby, either sunning or napping. Oz was tossing a football back and forth with Will and Xander, while Spike was playing in the water with the girls. She was sitting on a blanket holding Beth, while Giles sat reading nearby. They had actually gotten him into shorts and a T-shirt, but he refused to swim. Dawn got up, and walked down to the water. Spike had seen her coming and ran over, picking her up and throwing her into the ocean before she had any idea what was happening. She came up sputtering and swam over, planning her revenge. She tackled the handsome vampire, slamming her weight directly into his stomach. As he went down, he grabbed around her waist, pulling her down with him. They came back above water, he lowered his face down to hers, their lips were barely touching when-
"Mommy! That's icky!" yelled Joy. Spike smirked at the slayer as the four girls, Anna, Maggie, Joy, and Kim tackled them, followed by Will, Oz, and Xander. Those sunning on the beach heard the shrieking and decided to join in. Buffy, Cordy, Anya, Willow and Angel ran down to the water and attacked the writhing group. Giles walked slowly down near the water, holding a camera in one had and Beth in the other. He started snapping pictures of the laughing group. When everyone had calmed down a bit, they got a passer- by to take a picture of the entire group, all sixteen of them.
It had been a perfect day. They packed up their things after having a wonderful barbecue. The sun was setting as they put all the beach stuff into the back of Dawn's SUV. Kim had climbed into Oz's van, and the other kids had piled into Spike's minivan. The adults were about to enter the three vehicles when Dawn heard something and instinctively looked behind herself.
"Riley. You just don't give up, do you?"
"Hi Dawnie, nice to see you too."
He was standing, in full military gear, at the front of a group of similarly dressed commandos. Dawn took a quick head count. There were 20 of them. With ten adult scoobies, they were outnumbered two to one.
"What brings you to the beach? Shouldn't you be out torturing vampires or something?" asked Spike.
"Dawnie, I thought you told me you didn't know where Hostile 17 was."
"Hostile 17? I don't know anyone or anything by that name." Dawn said innocently.
Riley sighed. "Just give us the vampire and the little girl he kidnapped, and I'll leave."
"Kidnapped?" Dawn asked.
"Yes. He kidnapped the little girl. She is the daughter of a watcher. He attacked her parents and took her, a few years ago. I've been tracking him ever since."
"Oh come on Riley. She isn't as dumb as I was. She's not going to believe any of your lies." Buffy said, stepping out of the shadow of the car.
"We will take them forcibly if we need to."
"Hey Oz, Cordy." Dawn called. "Would you mind going over by the vans and kicking the asses of the three commandos who are about to sneak in and steal our children?"
"Sure thing Dawnie." The two moved purposefully towards the vans.
"Fuller, Nelson, Jamison! Fall back." Riley called. The three commandos joined him.
"Riley. Think sensibly. We have two slayers, two vampires, a werewolf, a witch, a vengeance demon, and a watcher, not to mention two very capable humans." said Buffy, not wanting to completely blow their cover by revealing Cordy as a seer. "You have 23 humans. Who do you think will win this fight?"
"Oh come on, Buffy. Face it. Dawnie's the size of a house, It's not a full moon, so your werewolf is useless, Hostile 17 couldn't hurt a fly, Willow quit doing magic years ago, and you know as well as I do that Anya lost her powers. You're not in your prime anymore, you're just a merry band of mystical misfits who-" Before Riley could finish, the Scoobies attacked.
Buffy only had time to yell, "Don't kill if you can help it." to her followers before everyone was caught in a whirlwind of action. As she beat the shit out of Riley she informed him. "You've been gone a long time Riley, a lot has changed."
Ten minutes later, Oz was morphing back to human form, Cordy and Willow's eyes were bleeding back their color, the vampire's faces were becoming human again, and 23 commandos lay unconscious in the parking lot. Cordy threw Oz a towel and a pair of shorts, as he had shred his in his change, and they got into their cars and drove back to the mansion.
When they got back, they put the kids to bed, then sat around the kitchen table, planning on how to stop a hell god. Again.
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Nope, no surprise return this chapter. well, unless you count them finding out Glory is coming back. Hope ya like so far!
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