A/N: This is Part Four of the CLOSURE series. This is a sequel of the ENOUGH series, so please read that one first or this won't make any sense. WARNING: If you by any reason happen to like the character of Riley Finn then do yourself a favor and skip this chapter. Really.

Disclaimer: You should know that this belongs to Joss Whedon and the parties involved in getting the show on the air.

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An Eye For An Eye.

Riley blinked in disbelief. Had he heard correctly what Spike had told him? Had the vampire said that he was chipless?

No. He wouldn't believe.

"Now you're lying to save your sorry ass?" Riley asked, without stepping back. Spike didn't laugh or made any sarcastic remark at Riley's statement. He seemed to be lost in a different world.

Riley noticed and once again took aim with his weapon.

"Everybody, take your positions!" Riley ordered his unit. Sam seemed to hesitate a bit but her training kicked in and she followed orders. Soon, the fourteen members of the pack surrounded Spike. Seven of them were still aiming at the vampire with their weapons and the other seven had taken stakes out of their pockets. Spike, however, had not changed his posture. His eyes still glowed golden in the night, and they still stared at Riley.

The lack of comments from the vampire was not unnoticed by Riley. Spike was notorious for never shutting his mouth, and the vampire in front of him was not uttering a sound.

Riley decided to attack.

"Everybody, fire at will!"

The seven armed members discharged their weapons at Spike. Semi-automatic rifles that fired three bullets per second attacked Spike for over ten seconds. A slight cloud of smoke rose from the weapons and from the ground.

"At ease." Riley ordered. He grasped tightly his stake and walked to where the vampire had landed after being pushed backwards by the bullet's impacts. He approached slowly, with four men covering his every move. They knew that bullets didn't kill vampires, but after such an onslaught, the vampire should be left incapacitated.

"He's not moving, sir." A man said, and proceeded to approach the body of the vampire.

"Careful." Riley said. The man moved cautiously and poked Spike's form with his rifle. The vampire didn't move but the trained men noticed something odd.

"Sir, he's down but there are no bullet holes!" The man poking Spike said. Riley's eyes widened.

"What?" He said, "We shot him point-blank!"

The soldier nodded and once again turned back to examine Spike. However, instead of facing a body lying down, the man saw two glowing orbs of yellow and golden light. The last thing the man heard was a low, animalistic growl.

Spike punched the soldier in the stomach so savagely that he crushed several organs and even shifted the man's spinal chord. Unknown to the soldiers, they had positioned themselves in a way that they were easy prey for the vampire. Spike leapt at the nearest soldier and placed in front of him.

"Sir! We can't shoot him with Daniels on the way!" A soldier cried. Riley was still shocked by the events and he took a few instants to realize the danger they were in. Spike was indeed chipless.

"Shoot at the legs!" Riley ordered. His men did so and soon they had crushed their comrade's legs but Spike's were unfazed by the rain of bullets. Spike used his human shield and slammed him against two more soldiers.

At this point, the unit had lost all notion of their positions and training. Riley was panicking and he knew that his wife was in the path of this savage creature. And still, he couldn't understand why the bullets weren't even slowing him down. What had happened to the vampire in the past three years?

He was brought back to reality when he heard his teammates crying for their lives. Spike had ripped off a man's arm and was using it as a club against another soldier. Riley had read the reports about Spike's brutality in his early days, but he never expected to see it ever in his lifetime. Obviously, the weapons weren't making a difference and he froze when he saw who was the next target.

Sam. His wife.

She was trying to use her rifle to get Spike off one of the soldiers. She had also understood that bullets weren't making much impact on the vampire, so she used the next best resource at hand. Use the rifle as a club.

Riley was running to her, making certain adjustments to his rifle. He saw that Spike was about to kill the soldier on his hands and decided to act.

"Sam! Duck!" Riley shouted. Sam obeyed immediately and jumped away and ducked. Riley charged his rifle and shot Spike clear in the face. The impact was enough to throw him off from the soldier underneath him. The vampire growled and looked at Riley. In a gesture of recognition, Spike smiled and licked his lips. Riley felt a cold breeze run through his spine. Spike wasn't vamped on. He still had his human visage.

"What are you?" Riley asked, before shifting another piece of his rifle, firing a blast of flame at the vampire. Spike grinned widely and waited for the flame to engulf him. For his part, Riley dosed him with some more flame, before running to where his wife was on the floor. He kneeled before her and hugged her.

"Are you ok?" He asked. She nodded and looked around. She saw the limp bodies of her teammates and the bonfire that the vampire had become.

"What happened, Riley?" She asked, "Wasn't he unable to hurt humans?"

Riley also looked around and nodded before returning his gaze to his wife.

"He was, until three years ago." He said. "We should take our men to the hospital. If they're still alive."

The two of them stood up and ran to where their fallen teammates were. They checked every one of them and gave each other knowing smiles. Probably most of them would make it, but they were either beaten unconscious or bleeding profusely. Riley was still trying to understand why didn't the vampire just vamped on and bit them all. He was still thinking when he saw that Sam was shaking in front of him.

"What's the matter?" Riley asked. Sam had her eyes wide open and she was shivering like a kid. Riley tried to hold her but then noticed that she was staring at something else besides him. She was looking at something that was behind him.

Riley turned around and saw what Sam had seen before.

Spike was standing up behind them, smiling.

"That look in your eyes makes it all worthwhile, cardboard." Spike snarled at him. He was still a bit smoking but there was not a trace of flame in his body.

"Y'know, I managed to save my coat," Spike said, as he patted the leather duster, "but the drycleaning's gonna be murder."

Spike cracked his knuckles and walked towards Riley. It resembled when a cat was approaching its prey.

"Now, where were we?" Spike asked, "Ah, yes, I was about to kill you."

Riley tried to move fast and slam the stake in Spike's chest, but his speed was nothing compared to that of the vampire.

"Missed me." Spike said. Riley repeated the motion but once again failed. Sam, on the other hand, was calling for backup and an ambulance. Spike noticed and chuckled.

"As much as I'd like to stay and play," Spike said, looking more at Sam than the attacking Riley, "I have to bolt now."

With that, he stepped out of the way of the charging soldier, moving fast enough to grab the hand that held the stake, and twisted it painfully. The crack of the bone was audible and Riley cried out in pain.

"Already crying?" Spike growled, and kicked Riley hard on the chest. Even with all the body armor that the soldier used, a few ribs were broken. Sam moved instinctively and tried to help her husband. Spike threw Riley to the ground and grabbed Sam's upraised hand. She had a stake and was trying to jam it in his chest.

"Don't." Spike said, and he roughly grabbed Sam's hair, "Your daughter needs at least one parent." Then, Spike backhanded Sam in the back of her head, knocking her out. He turned around and saw that Riley was dragging himself towards a rifle on the ground. Spike laughed out loud and slowly walked towards the soldier.

"Run, run, run," Spike said, "all you're good at is running, isn't it?"

Riley reached for the rifle with his good hand and held it. Spike kicked Riley's side and made him tumble a bit. The rifle was then discarded and Spike looked around.

"You've never been good at anything, cardboard." He said, and then looked at Sam's unconscious form.

"She's worth a thousand better than you."

"H-how?" Riley tried to ask. Spike smirked and gave Riley the finger. The finger that had the ring of Amarra on it. Riley focused on the gem and sudden realization sank in. Fear then was written all over his face.

"That's more like it." Spike said, he lifted a stake of the ground and smiled at Riley. "Have you ever felt a stake in your body?"

Riley didn't have the time to answer, because Spike rammed the stake through his left shoulder, crushing Riley's clavicle and dislodging his arm. Riley cried some more and lost focus of the situation.

"Oh, no, don't pass out on me." Spike said, and grabbed the soldier's leg, turning him upside down.

"I've read that in this position you humans don't pass out." Spike said, "It seems that when all the blood rushes to your head it keeps the brain flowing with oxygen. Books can teach you a lot."

Spike lifted Riley up in the air and slammed him down into the ground. Hard. The impact shattered more ribs and a lung was pierced.  Spike smiled when he saw the pain in Riley's face. He laughed out loud when he smelt the blood and heard how the soldier's heartbeat became erratic.

"I've given it a second thought." Spike said, as he looked at the man bleeding in the ground, "You seem to have a problem with women who are stronger than you and don't need your help." Spike once again looked at Sam.

"Let's do something about it, shall we?" Spike then spotted a large knife in one of the unconscious' soldier's legs. He smiled and went to retrieve it. Riley saw the motion through blood covered eyelids and hoped for his torture to finish fast.

"Hang in there, cardboard," Spike said as he played with the knife, "you won't die. I want you to suffer, knowing that you'll always be weaker than someone else and will always need help."

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A few minutes later, Sam Finn opened her eyes. On the distance she could hear different sounds. The first one she recognized before standing up was the sound of an ambulance approaching. She rushed to her feet and then another sound filled her ears. A high-pitched howl that was very near to her. She turned around and saw that the noise came from a man. Her husband. Lying down on a fetal position. She looked around searching for the vampire that had decimated her unit but saw no one. She ran to Riley and knelt down next to him. She saw the different bruises he had and the stake still jammed in his left shoulder.

"Oh my God, hang in there Riley, the ambulance is coming!" She tried to ease him but he was still howling in pain. She turned him on his back to try to identify the damage done to him. Then she saw what was making him howl like an animal.

It wasn't the stake piercing his shoulder.

It wasn't the severe wounds in his face.

It wasn't the weird way he was breathing.

It was the fact that a knife had been used to cut off both his hands.

End of Chapter.