Hey people I hope you like the story and want to continue reading. And
don't worry it won't be this sad for the entire story. I am writing another
fic called "How to Lose a Vampire in 10 Days." It isn't ready to post yet
but it's a happy one. I'm writing another AU fic to but it is far from
being ready to post. I think this one is my flame right now so you should
see the chapters come up pretty quick. This is the second chapter and I
have only been writing for a day. Pretty quick huh? I thought so. So this
is my first fic so please be kind. And to satisfy the disclaimer people I
don't own any of these characters except Electra and she is mine. I hope
you like her because I do and I think you will fall in love with her
personality once you get to know her.
Chapter 2 "New Beginnings"
Spike awoke to the sounds of cars passing by. He pulled on his clothes and walked out of the room. It had been 163 years since the death of his slayer and he could still smell Buffy and Dawn. They were his life for so long and in one split second it was ripped away from him. Dawn had died thirty-two years later by the same kind of demon. She had walked away from him one night because they got into a fight and she went off to patrol. His mind still made him think he could hear their voices and smell their body spray, but in reality it wasn't there. But to him that was the only link to sanity was the possession of believing what wasn't there.
He walked down the stairs and picked up his cell phone that was now ringing fiercely. "Hello."
"Spike I have bad news. Scarlet died last night. The new slayer is here right now and I need you to come over here and train her." Linnet said softly with a hint of sorrow filling her voice.
"What killed her Linnet?" He asked in a very firm tone.
"Spike I don't think you need to know that." She said trying to keep him from perusing the question.
"Linnet God Dammit just tell me the fucking answer!" He yelled as he dug his fingernails into the flesh of his palm.
"A Siren Demon." She replied in a worried tone at the silence on the other end of the phone.
"I'll be there in 3 minutes!"
At the Magic Box ......
"What's her name? Did you explain the demon/vampire thing to her yet?"
"Electra and she already knew. She is physic kinda, she can remember things that didn't happen to her." Linnet replied looking at the girl that was setting on the table in the training room.
"Electra this is Spike. He is gonna train you." She said crouching in front of the young girl.
Her black hair fell around her face and her green eyes found his blue ones. The fire her eyes reminded him of Buffy, it was filled with the same passion.
"Why should I work with him he's a vampire, you know and evil creature of the night." Electra said pulling her eyes away from his.
Spike walked in and sat on the chair in front of her. "Okay Electra I am a vampire but a long time ago I got caught by the Initiative and they put this government chip in my head so I can't hurt humans. I still wanted to hurt humans instead of just demons and other vampires. Then I fell in love with this slayer and I got a soul for her. She turned me good and now I train slayers and fight with them to make sure they live longer than she did." He explained as pain washed through him like it did whenever he thought about Buffy.
"She loved you, didn't she?" Electra asked as she felt the pain that consumed him.
"Yea she did. She wouldn't tell me until it was to late but I knew before she said she did." He whispered remembering her dying words. *What if she knows too much? I can't risk this getting personal, if I become a friend it will hurt when she dies. *
"She wanted to tell you. She just thought she couldn't." Electra replied in a maize of memories that didn't belong to her.
"Yea she told me that. Okay so you know the normal stuff about Vampire and Demons but do you know how to fight?" Spike asked patting her on the back.
"Well you fight me and you can decide Mr. I can do Everything." Electra teased jumping off the table. She ran across the floor and stopped at the other side of the room in a fighting stance.
He took his place in the room and kept taking steps toward her like a predator. He could hear her heart speed up and sweat start to run down her blue shirt. "Your scarred I can smell it."
"I am not." She replied making a graceful back flip to get away from him. "You apparently are loosing your ability to smell fear."
"I am not." He retaliated kicking her in the stomach making her stumble backwards. She smiled and punched him in the nose.
He felt blood tingle down his face and he just licked it off making Electra make a discussed face. He rammed her in the stomach taking her down to the ground with him. She punched at him and he caught her fist and elbowed her in the face. Enraged Electra flipped him off of her and she jumped to her feet in an effort to get the advantage. He was on his feet a split second after her and was sent back to the ground with a kick to the groin.
"That my friend is a woman's way of hurting you."
He flipped up and kicked her legs out just as the 5-minute bell went off. "Good job. You have a lot of natural talent Electra. You're graceful and a quick learner. You should be a good slayer in a matter of months." He complemented pulling her to her feet.
"Thanks but I could have had you in a minute. You are weak and if I could hurt you even a little bit then I could kick your butt now. I was holding back in a major way." Electra retaliated
"Honey he was playing with you. You should see him in a fight." Linnet said from the doorway. "You never want to fight against him when he's out to kill. Two slayer in his lifetime and he was only 156 when he killed the last one. That is very young for a vampire. He's 369 years old now. That's pretty young still in the vampire community."
"Don't bring that up ever again Linnet. I don't want my past talked about that far back. Not when I was a killer. That was reserved for Dawn." He said his eyes growing soft.
"She loved your stories Spike. She told Buffy how it was like watching a horror movie except you actually believe that it happened." Electra whispered then getting a caring glance from Spike.
"Buffy didn't like me telling them to her. She hated the fact that I was exposing her little sister to violence." * But I would have never laid a hand on the Nibblet * He whispered smiling at Electra
"So when do I get to go slaying?" She asked trying to change the subject.
"When you can fight me and actually put up a good fight. I'm a Master Vampire so when you can hold your own against me you can go slaying."
************* Later that night.
Spike prowled the graveyard waiting, watching, and hoping that something would challenge him. He stopped at the spot of her grave and knelt down in front of it. "I'm sorry Buffy I couldn't save her, I can never save them. I couldn't save you and I am still in love with you. But I promise I won't let Electra die, I won't let another one die. I'll save her Buffy, I'll save her because I couldn't save you."
Buffy's spirit stood watching him. A tear trickled down her face as he spoke. She knew he still loved her, he said he always would.
Spike stood and wiped the feelings of regret from his features. He walked away and once again he was alone. He walked silently through out the graveyard not even making a sound and then he heard a leaf crumble and a stick snap.
He grabbed his stalker and slammed it against the wall. He smelt human blood roll off its face and the sound of a heartbeat just as she kicked her knee up slamming it into his manly hood for the second time that day. "Electra if you don't stop doing that I am gonna kick your ass! That hurts like hell!" He growled as he released her throat.
"You made me bleed! You bloody deserved it!" She yelled back in a mocking tone.
"Are you mocking me you bleeding little girl? Because if you are I'm gonna I don't know yet but I'll do something and you won't like it." He said in a joking tone.
"So Electra why are you here? I thought I told you no slaying until you were trained?" He asked in a unfeeling tone.
"Well I wanted to come and I'm the slayer it's what I was called to do right?" Said Electra as she walked ahead of him. "The slayer slays and the vampire follows her because without the slayer you would still be evil."
"No not how it works. I made a promise to a lady that I would take care of her family and friends and you are apart of her family she told me you were connected. Look I don't want you coming out here but if you feel you must I will take you with me." He said very reluctantly her attitude reminding him of his Nibblet.
"Okay now first things first, you need to learn how to walk without all of Sunnydale being able to hear you. When you learn that we can kill something."
"Okay so can we work on the walking thing later and skip to the part where I get to kill something?"
He gave her his trademark grin and motioned for her to follow him.
"God it's cold out here!" Electra pouted wrapping her arms around her chest. Spike looked up at the sky and there was not one star in sight. Pictures of her body laying in his arms surfaced in his mind.
"Electra screw slaying lets just go home."
"Where do you live? Can I see it?"
"Yea sure just keep up." He said quickly as they turned onto an all too familiar road. He walked into the yard and Electra walked to the tree outside Buffy's old window. "She liked when you watched her. She felt needed and wanted. She watched you when you left. She hated when you walked away it made her cry. She wanted to run to you and hold you just to tell you she loved you and you didn't need to go." Electra said as she glanced over into Spike's eyes, which were now filling with tears of blood.
"Lets go in." He whispered his voice shaky and sorrowful.
He walked into the house and sat down on the couch before she followed him in.
"Why didn't she tell you that she was in love with you?"
"When she came back from the dead we started sleeping together and then she wanted to leave it at that and not tell anyone about us. I went with it for a while and then she broke up with me. I don't know why I did what I did to her after that but I did and then I went and got my soul. She had forgiven me before I even left but I knew I had to do something. I didn't want to risk hurting her again. She was scared of me then but she still loved me but she just couldn't tell me. She told me when she was dying." He said with his eyes turning cold and hard.
"Spike what happened in the bathroom was a mistake she knew that. She wanted to tell you it was okay but you left and she never got the chance." Electra said putting a hand on his cheek like Buffy had the night she was killed. Her eyes gleamed with the same passion the same fire and it made Spike quiver.
"I couldn't stay El I couldn't. I saw her and the tears were streaming down her face. I remember the night that I told her I would never hurt her."
*Spike what is this all about. I mean we screw and I leave but yet you always stay. *
* Buffy you know I would never hurt you. Even though you won't admit it, it would hurt you if I left. *
* You could never hurt me Spike. * She said coldly pressing their lips together. Their lips touched and his tongue found the inside of her mouth and their tongues dueled. They made love and then she left the way she always did.
"So Electra I think you should go get a shower you smell like crap." Spike whispered in an effort to get a moment to himself.
"Yea I'll find my way don't worry." She said as she walked up the stairs taking each step with grace.
"I'll get you a towel and some clothes, pet." He yelled up the stairs as he walked up them slowly.
He went into his room and walked into the closet and pulled out some clothes and then took a towel from the rack. He opened the bathroom door and rayed them inside.
Electra smiled and went about getting a shower.
She walked out a few minutes later in a long gray tee shirt and a pair of shorts. "I don't like wearing these."
"By the way does Linnet know that you are here or did you decide you were going to sneak out?" He asked picking up his cell phone.
"Well I asked and she said I couldn't go so I decided what she said didn't matter and went anyway." She replied giving him her innocent look. "Okay I'm gonna make something to drink, you call."
"Okay but your gonna be in a lot of trouble." He replied shaking his head at her as she walked into the kitchen. "Hi Linnet."
"Yes William I'm glad you called I cannot find Electra."
"Well I thought she should go on patrol with me so I came and got her. Yea and she is gonna stay with me tonight so don't worry about it."
"Are you sure William you never have company. I could come pick her up if you want me to."
"I'm sure. Okay Linnet bye."
"Spike how much trouble am I in?" Electra asked walking from the kitchen with two glasses of hot chocolate.
"Well she said she was going to have a talk with you and that you would need to be talked to about your actions." He replied then smiling at her. " None I told her that I wanted to take you and that you were spending the night."
"You are the coolest!" She replied hugging him tightly.
Chapter 2 "New Beginnings"
Spike awoke to the sounds of cars passing by. He pulled on his clothes and walked out of the room. It had been 163 years since the death of his slayer and he could still smell Buffy and Dawn. They were his life for so long and in one split second it was ripped away from him. Dawn had died thirty-two years later by the same kind of demon. She had walked away from him one night because they got into a fight and she went off to patrol. His mind still made him think he could hear their voices and smell their body spray, but in reality it wasn't there. But to him that was the only link to sanity was the possession of believing what wasn't there.
He walked down the stairs and picked up his cell phone that was now ringing fiercely. "Hello."
"Spike I have bad news. Scarlet died last night. The new slayer is here right now and I need you to come over here and train her." Linnet said softly with a hint of sorrow filling her voice.
"What killed her Linnet?" He asked in a very firm tone.
"Spike I don't think you need to know that." She said trying to keep him from perusing the question.
"Linnet God Dammit just tell me the fucking answer!" He yelled as he dug his fingernails into the flesh of his palm.
"A Siren Demon." She replied in a worried tone at the silence on the other end of the phone.
"I'll be there in 3 minutes!"
At the Magic Box ......
"What's her name? Did you explain the demon/vampire thing to her yet?"
"Electra and she already knew. She is physic kinda, she can remember things that didn't happen to her." Linnet replied looking at the girl that was setting on the table in the training room.
"Electra this is Spike. He is gonna train you." She said crouching in front of the young girl.
Her black hair fell around her face and her green eyes found his blue ones. The fire her eyes reminded him of Buffy, it was filled with the same passion.
"Why should I work with him he's a vampire, you know and evil creature of the night." Electra said pulling her eyes away from his.
Spike walked in and sat on the chair in front of her. "Okay Electra I am a vampire but a long time ago I got caught by the Initiative and they put this government chip in my head so I can't hurt humans. I still wanted to hurt humans instead of just demons and other vampires. Then I fell in love with this slayer and I got a soul for her. She turned me good and now I train slayers and fight with them to make sure they live longer than she did." He explained as pain washed through him like it did whenever he thought about Buffy.
"She loved you, didn't she?" Electra asked as she felt the pain that consumed him.
"Yea she did. She wouldn't tell me until it was to late but I knew before she said she did." He whispered remembering her dying words. *What if she knows too much? I can't risk this getting personal, if I become a friend it will hurt when she dies. *
"She wanted to tell you. She just thought she couldn't." Electra replied in a maize of memories that didn't belong to her.
"Yea she told me that. Okay so you know the normal stuff about Vampire and Demons but do you know how to fight?" Spike asked patting her on the back.
"Well you fight me and you can decide Mr. I can do Everything." Electra teased jumping off the table. She ran across the floor and stopped at the other side of the room in a fighting stance.
He took his place in the room and kept taking steps toward her like a predator. He could hear her heart speed up and sweat start to run down her blue shirt. "Your scarred I can smell it."
"I am not." She replied making a graceful back flip to get away from him. "You apparently are loosing your ability to smell fear."
"I am not." He retaliated kicking her in the stomach making her stumble backwards. She smiled and punched him in the nose.
He felt blood tingle down his face and he just licked it off making Electra make a discussed face. He rammed her in the stomach taking her down to the ground with him. She punched at him and he caught her fist and elbowed her in the face. Enraged Electra flipped him off of her and she jumped to her feet in an effort to get the advantage. He was on his feet a split second after her and was sent back to the ground with a kick to the groin.
"That my friend is a woman's way of hurting you."
He flipped up and kicked her legs out just as the 5-minute bell went off. "Good job. You have a lot of natural talent Electra. You're graceful and a quick learner. You should be a good slayer in a matter of months." He complemented pulling her to her feet.
"Thanks but I could have had you in a minute. You are weak and if I could hurt you even a little bit then I could kick your butt now. I was holding back in a major way." Electra retaliated
"Honey he was playing with you. You should see him in a fight." Linnet said from the doorway. "You never want to fight against him when he's out to kill. Two slayer in his lifetime and he was only 156 when he killed the last one. That is very young for a vampire. He's 369 years old now. That's pretty young still in the vampire community."
"Don't bring that up ever again Linnet. I don't want my past talked about that far back. Not when I was a killer. That was reserved for Dawn." He said his eyes growing soft.
"She loved your stories Spike. She told Buffy how it was like watching a horror movie except you actually believe that it happened." Electra whispered then getting a caring glance from Spike.
"Buffy didn't like me telling them to her. She hated the fact that I was exposing her little sister to violence." * But I would have never laid a hand on the Nibblet * He whispered smiling at Electra
"So when do I get to go slaying?" She asked trying to change the subject.
"When you can fight me and actually put up a good fight. I'm a Master Vampire so when you can hold your own against me you can go slaying."
************* Later that night.
Spike prowled the graveyard waiting, watching, and hoping that something would challenge him. He stopped at the spot of her grave and knelt down in front of it. "I'm sorry Buffy I couldn't save her, I can never save them. I couldn't save you and I am still in love with you. But I promise I won't let Electra die, I won't let another one die. I'll save her Buffy, I'll save her because I couldn't save you."
Buffy's spirit stood watching him. A tear trickled down her face as he spoke. She knew he still loved her, he said he always would.
Spike stood and wiped the feelings of regret from his features. He walked away and once again he was alone. He walked silently through out the graveyard not even making a sound and then he heard a leaf crumble and a stick snap.
He grabbed his stalker and slammed it against the wall. He smelt human blood roll off its face and the sound of a heartbeat just as she kicked her knee up slamming it into his manly hood for the second time that day. "Electra if you don't stop doing that I am gonna kick your ass! That hurts like hell!" He growled as he released her throat.
"You made me bleed! You bloody deserved it!" She yelled back in a mocking tone.
"Are you mocking me you bleeding little girl? Because if you are I'm gonna I don't know yet but I'll do something and you won't like it." He said in a joking tone.
"So Electra why are you here? I thought I told you no slaying until you were trained?" He asked in a unfeeling tone.
"Well I wanted to come and I'm the slayer it's what I was called to do right?" Said Electra as she walked ahead of him. "The slayer slays and the vampire follows her because without the slayer you would still be evil."
"No not how it works. I made a promise to a lady that I would take care of her family and friends and you are apart of her family she told me you were connected. Look I don't want you coming out here but if you feel you must I will take you with me." He said very reluctantly her attitude reminding him of his Nibblet.
"Okay now first things first, you need to learn how to walk without all of Sunnydale being able to hear you. When you learn that we can kill something."
"Okay so can we work on the walking thing later and skip to the part where I get to kill something?"
He gave her his trademark grin and motioned for her to follow him.
"God it's cold out here!" Electra pouted wrapping her arms around her chest. Spike looked up at the sky and there was not one star in sight. Pictures of her body laying in his arms surfaced in his mind.
"Electra screw slaying lets just go home."
"Where do you live? Can I see it?"
"Yea sure just keep up." He said quickly as they turned onto an all too familiar road. He walked into the yard and Electra walked to the tree outside Buffy's old window. "She liked when you watched her. She felt needed and wanted. She watched you when you left. She hated when you walked away it made her cry. She wanted to run to you and hold you just to tell you she loved you and you didn't need to go." Electra said as she glanced over into Spike's eyes, which were now filling with tears of blood.
"Lets go in." He whispered his voice shaky and sorrowful.
He walked into the house and sat down on the couch before she followed him in.
"Why didn't she tell you that she was in love with you?"
"When she came back from the dead we started sleeping together and then she wanted to leave it at that and not tell anyone about us. I went with it for a while and then she broke up with me. I don't know why I did what I did to her after that but I did and then I went and got my soul. She had forgiven me before I even left but I knew I had to do something. I didn't want to risk hurting her again. She was scared of me then but she still loved me but she just couldn't tell me. She told me when she was dying." He said with his eyes turning cold and hard.
"Spike what happened in the bathroom was a mistake she knew that. She wanted to tell you it was okay but you left and she never got the chance." Electra said putting a hand on his cheek like Buffy had the night she was killed. Her eyes gleamed with the same passion the same fire and it made Spike quiver.
"I couldn't stay El I couldn't. I saw her and the tears were streaming down her face. I remember the night that I told her I would never hurt her."
*Spike what is this all about. I mean we screw and I leave but yet you always stay. *
* Buffy you know I would never hurt you. Even though you won't admit it, it would hurt you if I left. *
* You could never hurt me Spike. * She said coldly pressing their lips together. Their lips touched and his tongue found the inside of her mouth and their tongues dueled. They made love and then she left the way she always did.
"So Electra I think you should go get a shower you smell like crap." Spike whispered in an effort to get a moment to himself.
"Yea I'll find my way don't worry." She said as she walked up the stairs taking each step with grace.
"I'll get you a towel and some clothes, pet." He yelled up the stairs as he walked up them slowly.
He went into his room and walked into the closet and pulled out some clothes and then took a towel from the rack. He opened the bathroom door and rayed them inside.
Electra smiled and went about getting a shower.
She walked out a few minutes later in a long gray tee shirt and a pair of shorts. "I don't like wearing these."
"By the way does Linnet know that you are here or did you decide you were going to sneak out?" He asked picking up his cell phone.
"Well I asked and she said I couldn't go so I decided what she said didn't matter and went anyway." She replied giving him her innocent look. "Okay I'm gonna make something to drink, you call."
"Okay but your gonna be in a lot of trouble." He replied shaking his head at her as she walked into the kitchen. "Hi Linnet."
"Yes William I'm glad you called I cannot find Electra."
"Well I thought she should go on patrol with me so I came and got her. Yea and she is gonna stay with me tonight so don't worry about it."
"Are you sure William you never have company. I could come pick her up if you want me to."
"I'm sure. Okay Linnet bye."
"Spike how much trouble am I in?" Electra asked walking from the kitchen with two glasses of hot chocolate.
"Well she said she was going to have a talk with you and that you would need to be talked to about your actions." He replied then smiling at her. " None I told her that I wanted to take you and that you were spending the night."
"You are the coolest!" She replied hugging him tightly.
