Chapter Two

Buffy looked to her sister and scowled, while Joyce laughed.

"What?" She asked innocently catching Buffy's look of death she was throwing at her.

When Dawn saw Buffy take a deep breath readying to give her the worst verbal beating of her teenage years, she asked Joyce if she could have some money to go buy a soda from the gift shop in the lobby.

Once she was safely out in the hall she started walking towards the lobby when she heard an argument going on down the hall in the other direction. She knew that she shouldn't eavesdrop but she couldn't help herself. She tiptoed soundlessly towards the door where the argument was taking place; she placed her head so her ear was just barely touching the door. What she heard behind it was very interesting.

"…this is happening. When I put good money down for a thing like this I expect results. And you know what? I expect them NOW!"

"Listen here, mate…"

Dawn pulled her head back as shock filled her. The second voice sounded exactly like the guy who Buffy had in their room…Spike! She pressed her ear closer to the door so she could hear better, her curiosity taking over.

"…said you wanted the girl dead, and she will be dead! But killing her will be harder than originally planned. She already caught me off guard once today; we both knew she'd be strong, but somehow different from the others."

"I don't care what she's like, this operation is too delicate and I will not have her interrupt it."

"Bloody hell! I told you the girl won't and I mean to stick to my word, but when you told me she was coming in you said not until next week, mate. She's here now!"

"Well William; that's a problem you'll have to deal with on your own. Right now I do believe you have some planning to do. You've already met the girl?"

"Yes, and I have already made plans to meet with her tomorrow. I figure I'll get close to her, make her trust me…then kill her."

Dawn gasped; Spike was going to kill someone! *I better tell Buffy!* She thought, she was just leaving when something that the other voice said caught her ear.

"Very well, Spike. Let's just hope you'll deal with her like you did the others. And if your reputation precedes you, the Slayer will never know what hit her!"

OMIGOD! The Slayer?? They were talking about Buffy! She leaned in to listen again, but this time leaned in to quickly and hit her head off the door. *Ouch!* Then Dawn heard footsteps on the other side of the door, she thought about racing back to her room, but it was too far. *Oh shit!* she thought as she looked around for somewhere else to hide. All she saw was the elevator, more rooms, and a laundry tub. She dove into the laundry tub just as the door was opening.

*That's odd,* Spike thought, *I swore I heard something.* He took a quick look down either side of the hall, before giving up and thinking it was just his imagination. He walked back into the room, closing the door behind him.

Dawn poked her head over the top of the laundry tub once she heard the room door close. She took a look both ways just to make sure that Spike wasn't around before throwing the dirty towels off her head, and cautiously creeping out, and tiptoeing back to her room.*Eww, now I have dirty people cooties!.* She thought as she pulled her key card out of her pocket and tried to open the door. Every time she tried slipping the card in, the red light would flash, and she didn't want to knock encase Spike heard it and saw her in the hall. She tried the card again, only to see the red light start flashing again. *I really miss keys,* she thought irritated as she tried the card again.

"Having a lil' trouble, luv?" A voice behind her asked. Dawn recognised the voice, it was the voice behind the door, the voice of the man Buffy had in their room earlier…Spike's voice. She didn't even hear him come out of the room again. She slowly turned around lifting her eyes to meet Spike's ocean blue ones.

"N-no, I-I'm okay." She gave him a quick smile, and turned to try the key card again. *Stupid key, please work, please work, please work!* She raised her hand to try the key one more time, before Spike grabbed it from her. "HEY!" She yelled before remembering who she was talking to…evil-hot-sexy-killing-Londoner. Spike brushed her off, and flipped the card around in his hand, and then he leaned across and slid the card through, smiling when the green light flashed.

"Well, pet it seems like you and your sis' have the same problem with these cards."

Dawn looked up to see a smirk on his face, "Thanks," she said nervously before reaching to open the door.

"Not so fast, luv," Spike said while reaching quickly out to grab her wrist.

Dawn at first was shocked at how cold his hands were on her wrist, but her fear brushed that thought away as she hesitantly raised her eyes to meet his. "Yes?" She asked nervously.

"Will you tell big sis that I have forgotten about another appointment I have made, and that I'll meet with her later on, around 6-ish."

"Uh, yeah sure I'll tell her." Normally she would have invited him in to tell Buffy that himself, seeing how yummy he looks, but since Dawn was scared shitless of him, she decided against it.

When he finally let go of her wrist Dawn quickly grabbed for the door handle and hurried inside the safety of their room.

Spike watched as the Slayers younger sibling hurried into their room, he kicked himself mentally for touching her, she might have noticed his lack of heat, but he figured the girl looked too scared to notice something like that. With one quick glance towards the door he headed down the hall towards the main lobby. Already thinking of ways to make the Slayer trust him more quickly.

When Dawn got inside the room, and shut the door behind her, and make sure all the locks were in place. She looked around the room and realized her mom was in the bathroom taking a shower, and Buffy was laying on her bed listening to music.  Dawn ran over, and jumped on the bed beside Buffy; pulling off her head phones in the process.

"Dawn what the hell ar-."

"Buffy, Spikes not what he seems." Dawn blurted, interrupting Buffy.

"What do you mean 'he's not what he seems', and how would you know?" She gave Dawn a confused, yet irritated look.

"I mean I was walking down the hall and I heard people having an argument, so I went to the door to listen, an."

"Wait a minute, Dawn what did mom tell you about listening in on what you're not supposed to? What does that always lea-"

"BUFFY LISTEN TO ME!" Buffy immediately shut up. Dawn took a deep breath; this was not going to be easy. She looked Buffy right in the eye, "Buffy, I think Spike was hired to kill you."

Buffy just stared at Dawn, dumbstruck. She turned away from Dawn, and stared at the blanket in front of her pondering what her sibling just told her. She heard the bathroom door open as Joyce stepped out in her pyjamas freshly washed. She looked at Buffy and knew something was wrong.

"Honey what's wrong?"

Buffy looked up at her mom, this was her vacation, she was happy to get away from the worrying if her eldest was coming each night. Buffy shot Dawn a look that said 'Tell mom and I will hurt you.'

"Oh no mom, I'm just feeling a little queasy, that's all. I think I'm going to go have a shower than hit the sack."

"Oh okay Hun, if you insist." Joyce watched Buffy carefully as she walked into the bathroom, then she looked over at Dawn who was still sitting on Buffy's bed, "You didn't fill her soda with toothpaste again, did you?"

A/N: I forgot to add, this is my first story so any suggestions would be awesome! Please review I really want to know what you think, do you like it? Do you hate it? Please let me know, thanks!

 -Lynsey