A/N: Thanks to Basketball Slayer for reviewing, but if no one else wants to read this story, I will probably stop writing it.

Chapter 6

Buffy trained harder than ever with the thought of the Saturday coming. Her mom never suspected anything, just thought Buffy wanted to stay in shape for when they got back to Sunnydale, since she wasn't getting any exercise slaying here…boy was she wrong. Each day Buffy woke up and spent the morning, and most of the afternoon hanging out with Dawn and her mom, going to gallery's, seeing the sights, shopping, going any where they wanted. But after dinner she retreated into the hotel gym, unfortunately she couldn't spar, so she thoroughly used the boxing equipment that the hotel supplied. She never saw Spike, but when she went on a spontaneous patrol she felt him, he never tried to contact her, never made a move to physically show his presence. It confused her, why was he following her? Why doesn't he just fight her now, and get it over with? Was he just studying her to find her weakness? Every night those questions rang in her mind as she drifted into a deep sleep, nightmares of Saturday haunting her dreams.

Spike stood in the parking lot just under the slayers hotel window looking up at her floor. He himself didn't even know why he was following her every time she left the building, but every night as soon as the sun set he found himself going to the slayers hotel, and waited. Whether she came out or not didn't matter to him. He tried to tell himself that he was just studying her, trying to find a weakness, he knew as soon as he saw her that she wouldn't be like the other slayers he fought. But that's what drew him to her every night, not as a predator, but as a…he didn't even know. He knew she knew he was following her, sometimes he'd see her from his place in the shadows, turning her neck, searching the darkness, trying to make out his figure. He smiled to himself, oh that neck, at times he just wanted to sink his fangs into it, feeling her life wash over him like a warm bath, but at other times…he shook his head. Not a good time to have lusty thoughts about the girl you're supposed to kill in 2 days. With one last look up to her room, he turned and walked back to his Desoto.

What he didn't see as soon as he turned to leave was the light in Buffy's room turn on, and Dawns head peer out the window. She saw Spikes retreating form, and ran over to Buffy's side of the bed lightly shaking her.

"Buffy…wake up."  Buffy mumbled something, and swatted her hand pathetically at Dawns. "Buffy…" Dawn tried again, but louder, when that didn't work Dawn leaned right into Buffy's ear and screamed, "BUFFY!" That worked, Buffy sat straight up smacking Dawn in the head with her own. Rubbing her head she turned to glare at Dawn who was also rubbing her tender scalp.

"Dawn, its 3 o'clock in the morning what do you want?" Buffy asked Dawn.

*Geez, if looks could kill...* Dawn thought grimacing at the look Buffy was giving her. "I woke you up because I saw Spike."

That caught her attention. "Who…? When…? Spike…?" Buffy jumped out of bed and started pulling on her jeans, "Dawnie, I need you to tell me where he is." This was the first time there was any sign of Spike since that night with the vamps in the parking lot.

Dawn pointed towards the window, "I saw him watching the window standing in the parking lot, and then he started to walk towards his car."

"That doesn't give me much time." Buffy said more to herself than Dawn. She looked up at Dawn, "Okay I'm going to go see if I can catch him, I want this done tonight. If mom wakes up tell her I went for a patrol because I was restless."

Dawn nodded her agreement, and stood and walked to Buffy and threw her arms around her. "Be careful okay?"

Buffy smiled into her hair giving her a tight squeeze before letting her go. "I'll be back in a couple of hours okay. Don't worry about me, my cell doesn't work in this country, but I'll contact you somehow if something goes wrong okay?"

Dawn nodded once again, not trusting her voice, tears threatened to fall. Buffy saw this and pulled her into a tight embrace again. "Don't worry, I'll be fine." And with that Buffy took off, running towards the lobby hoping to catch Spike or at least follow him to wherever he was going.

Buffy ran out of the lobby just to see Spikes Desoto pull out of the lot, she spotted a taxi not very far away and sprinted to it, jumping in and ordering the driver to follow the Desoto.

They followed Spike from a good distance, to a high class apartment building. She waited until she saw Spike enter the building before sneaking in behind him. She walked with her head high and smiled at the guy behind the lobby desk. "Hi, my names Buffy and I'm looking for a friend of mine."

The guy looked up from his car magazine and gave Buffy a once over. "American, eh? Well lets see what we can do shall we? What's his name?"

"Well actually he changed his name on me, a problem with his old girlfriend and I don't know his new last name. But I was wondering you being so nice and all, if you could help me anyway?" She lied easily, and batted her eyes at the man.

He smiled from the attention, "Well pet, lets see, what does this bloke look like?"

Buffy smiled in triumph. "He's average build, platinum blonde hair, and he always wears black."*And he's damn sexy, oh wait no I didn't just think that!* Buffy added silently.

"Oh he goes by Mr. Winthrop now, penthouse floor, number 2." He pointed towards the elevators and Buffy smiled her thanks.

She hurried to the elevator and pushed the button for the penthouse floor, and sat on the plush bench that was also in the elevator. Not to long after she heard a beep, and looked up and saw that they were at Spikes floor. She stood up ready to exit the elevator, but when they doors opened she saw something that caught her completely off guard.

"'Ello luv." Spike said pointing the gun at her from the hall, smirking at the surprised look on Buffy's face.

Buffy flinched when she heard the gun shot, and felt a prick. She looked down and saw that he only shot her with a tranquilizer dart. She looked up at Spikes smirking face and that's the last thing she remembered before she blacked out and fell, only to feel strong arms encircle her.

A/N: Hee hee, don't you love cliffhangers?? I sure don't! Well good thing I know what happens next eh? LOL, if you review you'll find out soon also!