Chapter 3

"Are you sure you can't stay in tonight? We could rent movies and have a cry fest all night." Melissa said.

"As much as that is appealing to me, I'm gonna have to take a rain check." Alex told her. "Those friends that I told you about from Sunnydale are coming into town tonight and I wanna hang with them. It's been a while." Melissa nodded.

"I understand, just be careful." Alex kissed her on the cheek as she headed for the door.

"Always," she replied back as she left the house. Alex was heading towards the hotel and she was hoping that she wouldn't have a repeat performance like she did last night. She was walking when suddenly two vampires appeared in front of her. She should have known something would happen. She turned around and saw two more vampires, they had her cornered.

"Look what we have here boys, dinner." One of the vampires in front of her stated.

"Sorry to disappoint, but I don't taste that good so maybe you could go suck on someone else." The same vampire laughed.

"We got ourselves a feisty one here, I get first crack at her." With that he lunged at Alex and grabbed her by the neck. "Let's see how great your remarks are if you can't breathe." Alex just grabbed his hand and twisted it really hard and the vampire cried out. Then the other vampires attacked her and she was trying to fight them off the best way she could. She knew how to fight, but she wasn't the Slayer. She was going to need some help. She pulled her stake out that she always took with her just incase. She managed to stake the vampire to the left of her and watched as he exploded into dust. Another vampire knocked the stake out of her hand and then jumped on top of her knocking her on the ground. "That was really stupid, girl." He claimed as he lowered his fangs to her neck. She tried to get him off of her, but wasn't having much luck. She knew that she was about to die when he suddenly exploded into dust. She didn't know what happened when she heard struggling around her. She got up to see a familiar blonde girl fighting one of the vampires and a familiar bleached blonde man with a long leather duster taking on the other one. They fought perfect together and each staking their vampire at the same time. They then walked back over to her and the man helped her up.

"We just get here and already you get yourself into trouble." He told her. She couldn't help but smile as she attacked him in a hug. "I missed you too, bit. Luckily I don't need to breathe because you would be cutting off my oxygen supply right now." She let him go.

"Sorry, it's good to see you again Spike. You haven't changed, but being a vampire I guess you wouldn't." He nodded.

"Yeah, that is what I was going for." He smiled at her.

"Well, it's a good thing we got here when we did." She then noticed Buffy and forgot that she was there for a second.

"Yeah, you're timing is great." Alex told her as she hugged her also.

"It's good to see you too sweetie, but I actually do have an oxygen supply." Buffy told her and she let go.

"Sorry, sometimes I don't know my own strength. I've been working out lately." Alex told her.

"It shows; guess we should get to the hotel. Everyone else is already there; we just wanted to get in a few stakings." Buffy said.

"Yeah, turns out that she doesn't get the concept of time off. Always has to be the Slayer." Spike said and Buffy elbowed him in the abdomen.

"Shut up and let's go." She said as she headed for the hotel, the others behind her.