Title: Bleed For Me Disclaimer: I own nothing except Ranae and Kanika. A/N: This is my first attempt at a Buffy fic, and I haven't really been watching the show that long, which is why I have almost no Buffy characters in it besides Spike, Dawn, and a little talk about Buffy. I don't feel I know the rest of the characters well enough to write them in a believable way. I may not even be able to write Spike and Dawn believably, but please review and tell me how I'm doing.

Also, this story takes place somewhere around what was happening in late Season 5 to early Season 6, but I kinda cut the Spike/Buffy stuff in Season 6 short and twisted it around a lot.

Chapter One

Ranae woke to the sound of a familiar voice. She tried to ignore it and go back to sleep, but the thundering drum beats, searing guitar riffs, and heavy bass lines that accompanied the voice were too much to ignore. She sat up in bed and glanced at her clock. 10:00 pm. She sighed and climbed out of bed. She walked to her closet, pulled off the over-sized Slipknot T- shirt she had slept in and reached for a black tank top with a sliver pentagram on the front. She pulled it on and searched in her dresser for pants. She finally found a baggy pair of black jeans and pulled them on.

She exited her room and walked down the hall toward the room of the vampire she had sired a year ago, where Korn's "Embrace" was blaring. Ranae stopped in front of the room and savored the music for a moment before opening the door.

"Kanika"

No response.

"KANIKA!" Ranae had to shout over the music.

Kanika turned to the door then leapt from her bed to turn the volume on the stereo down.

"Oh.hey," Kanika said sheepishly. "I wondered when you'd get up."

"Yea, you did a wonderful job of waking me by the way." Ranae said, brushing her black hair out of her face.

"Oh, did I wake you?" sarcasm was clearly present in Kanika's tone. "So sorry."

Ranae growled both in warning and in annoyance. Kanika laughed in response.

"C'mon, I'm hungry." Ranae said leaving the room so Kanika could change her clothes.

Kanika turned the stereo off and went to her closet. She found a pair of red pants and a black shirt with the Rancid logo in red. She ran her hands through her thick maroon-colored hair, trying to smooth it out and finally gave up on it. She still hadn't quite mastered fixing her hair without a mirror.

She ran down the stairs to meet Ranae who had lit a cigarette, I sign that she was getting impatient waiting for Kanika to get ready. Kanika quickly stole one from Ranae's pack just as she was putting it in her pocket.

"Hey!"

Kanika smirked as she lit the cigarette and bounded out the door.