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Slayer's Revenge



Chapter 3: Research Party



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'Bloody hell.' Spike thought. He really should have smelled and made sure it was the slayer he was yelling at . . . . .

"'Bit?" He asked.

Dawn stopped screaming. "Spike?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you . . . . ."

"Don't touch me!" Dawn yelled. "I heard what you did to my sister! And I - I've got a stake!"

"No you don't 'Bit. Besides, I'm not going to hurt you. Not like I could as I'm tied up in your living room."

"Huh?" Dawn turned on the light and blinked rapidly as her eyes adjusted.

Spike was in her living room. And he was tied to a chair with his back towards her.

Spike tilted his head over the back of the chair again. "Bit?"

"What are you doing in my house?" She asked.

"I don't know."

"Yes you do! You wouldn't be tied up for no reason!"

"Hey, I didn't tie myself up! Ask your sister, she won't tell me." Spike said sulkily. "Why are you out so late anyway?"

"I was, um, out."

Spike laughed. "Nice outfit."

Dawn blushed.

"Don't worry, I won't tell your sister."

"Thank you." Dawn felt very relieved. "Is there, um, anything I can get you?"

"I'm feeling hungry, got anything to eat?" 'Really hungry.' Spike added in his head.

"Sure! What do you want?"

"Well, blood."

"O, right. I don't think we have any of that."

"Never mind then, I'll wait for the slayer." Spike almost growled. "She'll probably be back soon." He added.

Dawn got the message and ran upstairs.

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It was 1:30, and Buffy quietly opened the door. She didn't want to wake Dawn.

Spike sniffed the air, this time making sure it was Buffy. It was.

"SLAYER!!!!!!!" He yelled even louder this time. He was HUNGRY.

Buffy jumped and a scream escaped her. She covered her moth.

'God these Summers women are easy to scare.' Spike thought.

"Spike!" Buffy hissed. "Be quiet. You'll wake Dawn!"

"I'm HUNGRY Slayer! You didn't feed me!"

"I'm supposed to feed you?"

"Yes! It was already hard enough with the chip, but now I can't get ANY blood because I'm tied up! You have to feed me!"

Buffy just looked at him.

"Unless you want me to starve to death." Spike added, "but trust me, that will take awhile."

Buffy went through the kitchen, and she finally found some pig's blood in the cupboard. She put in a mug, and held it out for Spike as he drank it through a straw. Soon there was no blood left in the mug.

"That better Spikey?" Buffy asked, tousling his hair again. Spike growled as Buffy walked upstairs. Damn Slayer.

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"So apparently this demon kills its victims by making small cuts all over their body and letting them bleed to death." Willow said.

Xander shuddered.

"Sounds like fun." Spike offered.

The scoobies were having a research party at Buffy's house, and Spike was still in the tied in the living room.

"Shut up dead boy." Xander told the bleached blond vampire.

"Why, does it scare the Whelp?" Spike taunted.

"Would you two stop it!" Buffy yelled at them. "You've been at it since Xander got here!"

"It's not my fault The Whelp doesn't like a little blood." Spike said.

"And it's not my fault we have an annoying, disagreeable, undead vampire in the living room!"

"You think I want to be here?"

"I wouldn't know, but you seem to be enjoying it!"

"O yes, I LOVE being preached to by a construction worker!"

"Both of you SHUT UP!" Buffy yelled again. "We have work to do."

"Me? I'm not the evil one!" Xander protested.

"Xander . . . . . " Willow said in a warning tone.

"O, the whelp gets scolded by the witch, maybe this will actually turn out to be something like a party." Spike continued.

"Spike!" Buffy was getting annoyed. "If you don't shut up, you're not going to get any blood for a long time."

"Fine, just deprive your prisoners of food." He muttered.

"One more word . . . . . "

Spike looked at her, and saw she was serious. He raised two fingers at her, flicking Buffy off the English way.

Buffy muttered something along the lines of, 'Guys NEVER mature. '

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Willow had her laptop on, and was searching for info about the demon online. "I think I found it guys!" She said excitedly. Xander, Buffy, Giles, and Dawn who were in the kitchen getting food didn't hear her.

Willow sighed and got up to go look for them.

Spike moved his chair towards the outlet, and after some struggling, managed to pull the plug from the wall.

The computer screen went blank.

The scoobies ran in. "Here!" Willow said, excited. "I think this it the right de-"

She looked at the blank computer screen. "Shit!" The rest of the scoobies looked surprised that Willow had actually sweared. Willow ignored them, franticly pushing buttons and typing things on the keyboard. The computer stayed off.

Willow sighed and closed the laptop. "I guess we can just use books." The scoobies sat down and began to research again.

15 minutes later, all the scoobies except for Xander had made their way back into the kitchen.

"Come eat something Xan!" Willow called.

"I think I found something." Xander called back.

"We'll look at it in a second. Come and eat something first."

"All right." Xander agreed, and carefully marked the page in the book before walking towards the kitchen.

Spike maneuvered over to the table, knocked the book off, and, with a lot of effort, pushed it under the couch.

When the scoobies came back in, they of course couldn't find it.

"But I put it right here!" Xander protested.

Buffy sighed. "I guess we'll just start again."

As the scoobies wandered in and out of the living room, books disappeared or lost where they were marked. Notes also disappeared and tables were over-turned as Spike grew more and more pleased with himself.

"Ok," Giles said after a few hours of this. "Something's up. The computer refuses to function, we've lost an unusual number of books and notes, and the table just got knocked over."

"Whatever it is," Xander said, "It's evil."

"Wait a second," Buffy looked over at Spike. "What have you been doing all this time?"

Spike smirked.

"SPIKE!!!!!!" Buffy yelled at him. She grabbed the back of his chair and dragged it out of the living room and kicked it/him into the dining room.

"I HATE YOU!" Buffy screamed at the vampire, who, though still tied to the chair, was lying sideways on the floor.

"You've sure made that clear." He replied.

Buffy stomped out of the room. Time to find all the books they'd 'lost.'

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Dawn stepped into the dark living room. "Spike?"

"Hey Niblet. Would you mind helping me up here?"

"Sure." Dawn pulled Spike, still sitting in the chair he was tied to, up so that he was sitting upright again.

"Thanks."

"No prob."

"You couldn't untie me by any chance?" Spike asked hopefully.

"No. Buffy would kill me. Actually, I'm sort of surprised she hasn't killed you yet." Dawn stated, before adding quickly, "No offense."

"It's fine Bit. I'm kind of surprised too. I mean she bothered to capture me and tie me up."

"Why'd you do it?"

"Do what?"

"Chain up my sister and threaten to let Drusilla kill her."

Spike sighed. "Because I wanted to tell her I loved her, and I wanted her to tell me that we might have a chance."

"So you tied her up? That's seriously NOT the best way to get girls."

"I know, I didn't know what to do. She wouldn't let me talk to her. It would have worked on Dru."

"My sister is not an insane vampire."

"I know. That's my problem."

Dawn looked at Spike oddly.

"If she was, she wouldn't have reacted like this." He explained. "I didn't know what to do. She's not like anyone else."

"Do you really love her?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"I don't know. I know it's wrong. I know there's no reason for me to love her. I know it doesn't make any sense. And I know she'll probably never love me back. But I don't know why I love her."

Dawn moved so that she was looking strait into his eyes. They were sincere. 'He really does love her.' She thought. She suddenly felt sorry for him. She loved her sister very much, but Spike was probably right. Dawn was almost positive Buffy would never look at Spike with anything short of disgust, not to mention love him.

"What did you want her to do? Tell you she loved you?" Dawn questioned.

"That would have been amazing. That would have been like something out of a dream that was so good you never wanted to wake up, a dream that made you want to forget life and dream for all eternity. All I wanted was for her to let me love her. Tell me we might have a chance someday. Just maybe. Just a chance."

"And she wouldn't." Dawn finished.

"No, she wouldn't. It's like she ties me up because she can't tie up my love for her. She wants to restrain my love but the only thing she can restrain is me. But I will always love her. Always."

"I know." Dawn said. And she did know.

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AN: Did you like it? Please review and tell me! All comments and ideas welcome. Might be awhile before the next chapter is posted, I'm going away for a little while. Once again, PLEASE REVIEW!!!!