Author's note: Well.thank you ANNA for reading my story.and reviewing it.cause you were the only one.now I'm all sad. Oh well, I love Spike so it's all better. Anywho, I'd really like some more reviews about how you think the Spuffy aspect is working out and if you think that the Lord of the Rings Crossover is a good idea. So please review, and tell me everything you're thinking about my story!

Disclaimer: Um, duh, no I'm not Joss.though that would be fun, cause then I would know James Marsters.he's so cute, OMJ, I love him. Anywho, I don't own anything in this story. except the Author's note.

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By the end of the evening, Buffy and Spike had gone down into the basement to show Aragorn what strengths her slayer powers had given her, and give him a brief explanation of the slayer's duties. Aragorn found their weapon closet, and they were doing a little training. Spike was also dutifully sitting on the stairs, watching, waiting to jump in if the fighting got a little too close for his comfort. As he smoked a cigarette, Gimli came down the stairs, and looked at the cigarette with great interest. He pulled out his pipe and showed Spike, and there they sat for an hour, watching Aragorn and Buffy compete in sword fighting, and after Buffy taught Aragorn the secrets of the crossbow, he returned the favor by showing her some sword tricks. Whenever Buffy or Aragorn picked up any weapon, Gollum recoiled around the pole. He didn't speak all night, only peeked out of the darkness to make sure no one was coming with any more 'elf rope'.

"Buffy! I'm gonna show Legolas what the Bronze is. We'll be back.um, later okay?" Dawn yelled from the top of the stairs.

"Why don't we all go?" Buffy asked, walking toward the stairs.

"Where shall we go at this hour of the dark night?" Aragorn asked, his dark eyes curious and anxious.

"Though Gimli son of Gloin is always one to go on an adventure, I think I shall retire. 'Twill be my duty to take the first shift of watching the wretched creature in the basement." And with that, Gimli put away his pipe and lay down on the couch, one eye open. This action freaked out Gollum, and he skittered around to the other side of the pole. Then he saw Aragorn's sword sitting on the ground, and he scooted back around towards Gimli, got scared, went back to the side with the sword, jumped back to looking at Gimli, and after a minute or two of springing back and forth, he put his head in between his knees and started to wail. Aragorn raised his eyebrows and put the sword back into the scabbard at his side, and pushed Gollum around to that side of the pole. Gollum looked up, and when he saw no sword, perked up his ears and closed his eyes more peacefully.

By this time, everyone else was at the top of the stairs, staring. Buffy sighed and went upstairs, with Aragorn and Spike close behind.

Before they left, Giles had decided to stay home with Gimli, and Willow and Tara said that they would patrol. Buffy, Spike, Aragorn, Legolas, Dawn, Xander, and Anya set out for the Bronze around 9:00, and Aragorn and Legolas decided to take the excuse that they had been to a costume party, instead of wearing any other clothes.

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At the Bronze, as expected, people stared at Legolas and Aragorn with curiosity and some fear at the shining weaponry. Dawn whined for a while and finally got Legolas to take off his weapon belt. She dragged him to the dance floor where her friends were waiting, and all of them immediately fell into condescending voices of praise and flirtation. Legolas just smiled for a bit, then looked toward Aragorn to help him. Aragorn was deep in conversation with Buffy.and Spike was getting quite annoyed. Spike watched Legolas stare pleadingly at Aragorn for a while, and snickered to himself. He only took action when he saw the something that struck him as strange. A young, oddly pale girl, took Legolas' hand and pulled him into another room. "The boy was strong, yet he seemed caught off guard with this girl.maybe a strange coincidence or maybe some not-human strength is on her side. Either way.I probably should go help the boy before he's caught.too off guard." Spike thought to himself. He went over to Buffy, and whispered that he was going to go help Legolas, and that he thought he could handle it. "Just come looking if I'm too long for one vamp." Spike added as a caution. Spike swept up Legolas' belt and ducked into the small room, which he had to break the lock in order to get into.

"Elf boy! Where'd you go?" Spike went into vamp face when he heard no response. "Look out, here comes Spike."

Just then, a dark haired girl, taller than the other Spike had seen before, stepped around the corner.

"No escort? Well, you must be just a walk in then." The girl stepped out of the shadows in full vamp face, and was obviously surprised at another vampire looking back at her.

"Well, where's the elf?" Spike asked to break the silence.

"Your friend? He's a little.occupied." Spike heard a loud crash from a few rooms away, and when the girl looked back as well, Spike staked her.

"Oh." Was the girl's last word.

"New at this, are we, pigeon?" Spike muttered to the pile of dust. Spike heard another crash and followed the sound down a close staircase, hidden in shadow.

He Spike smelled another vampire and followed it to a back room, with a door stained in blood. He kicked the door, and it easily fell off its rusted hinges. Legolas was standing there, pressed up against the wall by the girl, who was still trying to find his pressure point in his neck.

"None of you know the first thing about being a vampire do you?" The girl whipped around, and Spike kicked her in the jaw, sending her wheeling onto an old cot/ moth house. Spike threw Legolas his belt and bow and arrow, and he put them on quickly while the girl was still getting up. Spike punched and kicked the girl down to the ground without much effort. "Hey, elfy, why don't you do the honors? Shoot her with your arrows.right in the heart." Legolas whipped out an arrow and easily shot her at such close range.

"Damn it." And she exploded into a pile of dust.

"What-what was that.thing? She was a woman.but then-"

"She was a vampire. Like me. That's Buffy's job, to slay these things."

"Then why aren't you dead?" Legolas held up his bow again.

"Whoa, hey. I've got a soul, unlike the other vamps. I'm a good guy. But why Buffy still doesn't kill me? I don't know. I guess she's just kind of used to me."

"Well I'm glad you explained that, because I definitely don't know." Buffy walked in, with Aragorn in tow. She smiled, and looked into Spike's eyes for a quick second. "God, he's so cute." She thought to herself.

"Well, hello hello." Cackled an evil sounding voice behind them.

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