Demonized

Buffy felt the blade begin to cut into her flesh of her neck. She closed her eyes.
Then the blade's grip loosened and was pulled off fast.
Buffy opened her eyes and saw that Spike had pulled off Reese. He held her arms hard behind her back, almost breaking them.
"Spike!" She screamed out. "What are you doing?"
"You can't do this!" Spike said grabbing the dagger from Reese.
Buffy grabbed her throat and coughed a little. She looked up at Reese and Spike.
Reese kicked backwards and hit Spike in his shins, while she did it she dropped the dagger and got loose.
Buffy grabbed the dagger and stood up.
She jumped at Reese and put the dagger in her side.
Reese cried and punched Buffy off.
She grabbed the dagger and pulled it out of her side.
Non flowing blood dripped out of the wound slowly. Reese put her hand over the cut in her side to keep the pain low.
She looked at Buffy, and then at Spike.
"You helped her!" She said not believing what happened.
"Reese, calm down..." He said but Reese didn't wanted to hear it. She turned and ran out of the crypt. Still with her hand over the wound, defeated.

"That's just great." Spike mumbled looking at the door where Reese ran out. "What were you thinking?"
"Uhm, hello, SLAYER." Buffy said.
Spike growled a little.
"Yeah." He said.
"So, dyou?" Buffy asked, Spike turned his head to Buffy.
"What?" Spike asked.
"Love her?" Buffy finished. Spike paused for a moment.
"She's there..." Spike just said.
"That's just typical you, get someone into bed who you don't even like, just for the fun?" Buffy blurted out. "Dyou need to throw love away for a howe like that? And I'm gonna tell you, you're better." Buffy said, and she meant it, every word.
Spike looked at Buffy.
"A-are you,... jealous?" Spike asked amused.
"What?! NO!" Buffy shouted.
"You are! You just can't handle the fact that you aren't loved anymore!" Spike said.
Buffy smacked her fist in his jaw and Spike fell on the ground.
"I am NOT jealous." She said demanding and walked out of the crypt with big steps.

Dawn was sitting in her class, bored, drawing pictures in her exercise-book.
Suddenly the door to the class opened and a boy entered.
"Class?" The teacher spoke. Everyone looked up. The boy walked to the teacher and then turned to the class.
"This is Victor Larson, and he'll be joining us this year." The teacher continued.
"He's cute." Dawn heard girls whispering behind her.
"Victor, why don't you go and sit next to Dawn, Dawn, could you help Victor get to know the class and the school?" Dawn nodded and Victor walked to the empty seat next to her and sat down.
"Hey." Victor said to Dawn when the teacher continued class.
"Hey, I'm Dawn Summers." Dawn said and smiled at Victor.
Victor smiled back and Dawn felt her cheeks getting red.
She quickly looked away to the teacher, hiding her blushing.

"Dawn!" Dawn walked home but froze when she heard her name being called over the school area.
She turned and saw Victor approach her.
"Hey Victor." She said and smiled at him. He stopped next to her.
"Wich way is your house?" Victor asked.
Dawn pointed at a park and Victor smiled.
"Yeah? That's my way home too, dyou care for some company?" Victor asked and Dawn nodded. Together they began walking.
"So, Victor..." Dawn asked.
"Please... all my friends call me Vic."
"Okay, Vic, when did you moved to Sunnydale?" She asked.
"Yesterday, I arrived very late but my aunt insisted on me getting to school..." Vic explained.
"Hey, how funny, maybe you live in that house down my block, new people just moved in there yesterday." Dawn smiled.
"Hey maybe, how long did you live here?" Vic asked.
"Oh, I think like five years. When my mom and dad got divorced I moved here with my mother and sister."
They walked into the street where Dawn lived.
"Hey, here's my stop, is that your house?" Dawn pointed at a few houses away where some trucks where.
"Yeah, hey we're practically neighbours... how nice." Vic said.
"Hey, would you like to hang out or somethin,.. I've got nothing to do anyway." Dawn suggested and Vic nodded.
"Would be fun."

"Yes, I kicked her butt, but I'm n-" Buffy was interrupted by Xander laughing. "What?" She asked.
"You said 'butt, but...' and I..." He saw Buffy's face. "Never mind."
"Like I said... But I'm not sure she'll stay away." Buffy continued.
"Well, we have to prepair for another attack, and especially today." Giles said.
Dawn came in and cleared her throat.
"Ah, visitors." Buffy saw Dawn and Vic when she turned to the door.
"Everyone, this is Victor... well Vic." Dawn said.
"Hey Victor." Xander, Anya, Buffy, Willow, Giles and Tara said at the same time.
Vic said hi back.
"I didn't know this was a magic shop." He said looking around. "Dyou really sell things like rabbit feet and chicken claws?" Vic asked.
Ëhm, nothing like that but we do have other things." Giles answered.
Dawn and Vic sat down at the table. Vic saw the books lying open on the table.
"So, are you guys witches?" Vic asked.
"Yes we are, in day we are normal people but in night we hunt demons to save the world." Buffy said.
Vic's face turned white.
"I'm just kiddin' , Willow here likes to study this things." Buffy said and tapped Willow on the shoulder. The color returned into Vic's face.
"Vic here moved here two days ago, I was planning on let him see Sunnydale." Dawn told Buffy.
"Sounds good." Vic answered.
"Just be back before dark okay?" Buffy told her sister.
"Why, what's after dark?" Vic asked.
"Ehm, nothing, she's just overprotective, affraid some creep wil jump me." Dawn told Vic.
"Then I'll be there to back you up." Vic assured her.
"Yeah okay, we'll be back before dark, but now..." Dawn turned around to hide her red gained face. "We're getting outta here." Dawn pulled Vic with her out of the magic shop door.
"Don't you think that's the cutest thing?" Willow said.
"At least she HAS a boyfriend." Buffy stood up. "So, Giles, if Reese DOES turn up again what dyou had in mind?"

Dawn and Vic walked to the little bar on the corner.
"This is the coolest place where you can get coffee." Dawn told Vic.
"Nice place." Vic noticed when he and Dawn took a place at a table. Dawn stopped and took out of her wallet some coins.
"Well, dyou want some?" Dawn asked.
"No thanks, don't drink any." Vic said.
"Me neither, so, hot coco then, my treat?" Vic nodded.
Dawn walked to the bar.

"Hey Victor." Vic turned his head and saw a girl approach his table. Blond hair, pretty, his age.
"Gladys? What're you doing here?" Vic asked surprised.
"You know... " Gladys said flirting. She put her hand on his, but he pulled back.
"Still... " He sighed. " Gladys, give it a rest! I'll not come with you! I told you once before!"
"I won't stop." Gladys crossed her arms. "You'll come with me, if you like it or not!"
"And WHY would I come with you?" Vic asked snarling.
"Because in some way,... we're family, Victor, you might not know it, but we belong together." Gladys said demanding.
Vic looked at her. Then he looked back at Dawn standing in line.
"You'd better go, people are going to see you." Vic snarled again.
"Oh, you mean your new GIRLFRIEND?" Gladys asked.
"Yeah! Maybe! NOW GO!"
Gladys took off mumbeling: "You'd better know what you are doing."

"Who was that?" Dawn asked when she came back with two hot coco.
"Ehm, who?" Vic asked while taking the coco.
"That girl that was here just now." Dawn said.
"Dunno, she asked for directions, she got really pissed when I didn't knew them either." Vic lied. He took a zip from his cup.

Buffy walked over the cemetery, patrolling.
A vamp dug himself out of the grave.
Buffy came quick in action and dusted the guy.

"Great move." Spike said whom stood behind her.
Buffy sighed and turned around, annoyed.
"WHAT are you doing here?" She asked.
"Just help you patrol." Spike answered.
Buffy sighed again and turned away, she walked away from him.
"Just don't get in my way or annoy me." Buffy warned and tried to continue her job.
Spike followed her. In silence.
"You know?" Buffy started standing still again. "Why aren't you with your Reese?" Buffy asked annoyed, still.
"She took off remember,... haven't got any bloody thing to do without her..." Spike paused for a second. "Eh, no, that didn't come out right."
Buffy rolled her eyes.
"You pervert." She yelled at him. "Nothing more to do then rumble and tumble with her?"
"I didn't mean to upset you!" Spike yelled back.
"So don't talk about sex with Reese GODDAMMIT!" Buffy yelled and Spike was silent again.
"I'm sorry," He said whispering. "I didn't mean t-"
Buffy silenced him.
Spike heard why.
Footsteps approached them, from the trees behind them.
Buffy and Spike duck behind a gravestone and waited for the owner of the footsteps to reveal.
Spike was pressed close to Buffy.
Buffy noticed it and her heart began to speed up.
What the .... , Spike thought when he felt her heart speed up too.

Someone ran out of the woods. Buffy's attention was drawn by it.
It was a demon. Buffy saw in the moonlight that it had a grey face and blue vains running through it, it just seemed a kid-demon.
Buffy attacked it right ahead.
She stood up and ran at the demon.
The demon saw Buffy approach and took a step back. Buffy slammed it to the ground and grabbed it's throat.
"B-Buffy... pl..ea...se.." she heard coming out of the mouth of the demon. The demon transformed into his regular form and Buffy realized she was choking a teenage boy.
She let go quickly. Her eyes whidened from what she saw.

"VICTOR?!" She yelled and pulled the teenager up.
"What the hell are you!" Buffy shouted holding his arm to keep him from running.
"Come on! I can explain!" Vic said.
"Right, then you can right ahead explain what you are doing with my sister!" Buffy shouted.
"What's the matter?" Spike decided to join.
"Spike, meet Dawn's new boyfriend." Buffy said.
"She has a boyfriend... who's a DEMON?" Spike yelled.
"Apparantly." Buffy said.
"I-I'm not evil!" Vic tried.
"Yeah, well, I heard that one before." Buffy said rolling her eyes.
Spike's face fell.
"If you didn't know before, you are in a lot more trouble than for Dawn finding out, I'm the slayer." Buffy said.
"You're the ... Slayer?" Vic's face turned white.
"Yeah, and I have the power to kill you here on the spot, cuz... HEY, you're a demon." Buffy said.
"Eh... Buffy." Spike interrupted.
"WHAT?!"
"Tell me how you can explain in the morning to Dawn why you killed her boyfriend." Spike had a point Buffy realized.
Vic saw his chance, he wriggled out of Buffy's grasp and ran off.
Buffy wanted to ran after him but Spike grabbed her arm.
Buffy shook off his hand.
"He just want some time." Spike said.
"Okay, but he's telling Dawn about it, voluntarily ... or I'll make him." Buffy said.

Dawn walked into the magic shop.
"Hey Buffy." She greeted her sister who greeted back.
"And how was your day?" Buffy asked.
"Oh great, Karen, you know the snobby girl? She got a tatoo for her birthday from her parents, she showed it on school, she was just SO obviously drawing attention and WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Dawn ended her sentence seeing the two wiccans searching books.
"Searching for a demon." Willow said not looking up from her books.
"I bumped into one last night." Buffy explained.
"What did it look like?" Dawn asked.
"Oh, ehm... all grey, with this blue veins everywhere." Buffy told her. "And it looked kinda like a fish."
"On land." Dawn filled her in.
"Yeah, so ehm, can you tell me when you find something?" Buffy walked towards the training room but Willow called her back.
"Hey, I-I found something." Willow held up the book, pointing at the picture.
Buffy took a look at it and she nodded.
"That's it."
Dawn took over the book.
"An Arkwuella demon?" She asked.
"Arquella demon." Willow rephraised.
"He has a skin hard like scales and his nature can be compared with that of a fish." Dawn read.
"So it's a fish." Tara said.
"On land." Buffy added. "That's your guy."
"EW!!!" Dawn suddenly shouted still reading the book.
"What?" Buffy asked.
"the demon does not live on killing and eating humans but his animal behaviour forces him to casually torchure people, especially innocent and young, from the age of ten to eightteen." Dawn read. "The Arquella demon around 17th century in Russia kidnapped the thirteen year old daughter of the emperer and he got her back without her eyes, her heart pulled out and all of her bones broken including her scull." Dawn shivered. "The girl was wrapped up in gift paper and send to the emperer for his birthday."
"That's just horrible." Tara said.
Buffy stared at Dawn.
Vic, she thought.
"What?" Dawn asked. Buffy realized she had said it out loud. "You said Vic." Willow took back the book to study it.
"Wic-.... ed, power they have to kill, -wicked-." Buffy felt so stupid.
"Talking about Vic, where is he anyway?"
"Oh, he didn't come to school either, sick maybe." Dawn responded. "So Willow how dyou kill it?"
"By...," Willow began. "Salt."
"Salt?" Tara, Buffy and Dawn said together.
"So that's how we kill it?" Dawn asked.
"WE? You mean I?" Buffy said.
"Oh come on, like you can have all the fun!" Dawn stood up.
"If you only think for one second that this I do is fun, you are wrong, it's horrible." Buffy shouted angrilly.
"Well, I don't think it's horrible." Dawn said.
"You're stupid." Buffy said. "Now excuse me, I have to train for the job I HATE, and you have to train for yours you hate ... Like your homework." Buffy said to Dawn and walked to the training room.
Dawn sighed.

The cemetery was quiet. For one exception.
A boy ran through the graves, running for his life. He was followed by two Arquella demons.

The boy looked over his shoulder and tripped.
The Arquella demons caught up with him.
"No.... DON'T....!" The boy screamed, but the demons jumped him before he could finish his sentence.
The demons grabbed his legs and his arms.
"So, you don't think you could get away with it, don't ya?" A female appeared, running after the demons.
A demon turned to her.
"Get away Reese, this is our prey." It said.
"Actually it's mine, you took it from me, by the by, since when do we steal eachother's food?" Reese asked with her hands on her hips.
"Since you killed a nest of our kind in Brazille!" One of the demons answered holding the boy by his throat, so he wouldn't escape.
"Yeah, and that was SO much fun." Reese said with a grin. "Still, that's mine." Reese pointed at the boy.
One Arquella demon attacked her. It was the leader, and she slapped him. He punched back, in her face.
Reese grabbed the leader and threw him over her shoulder against a tree.
The demon hit the tree and then hit the ground.
Reese pulled out her dagger and buried it deep in the heart of the Arquella.
With one scream it died.
Reese turned to the other demons.
They stood there stunned.
"Who's next?" She asked.
One of the demons let go of the boy and together they ran away.
"Thank you..." Reese looked at the boy who was in tears.
"No problem," Reese neeled before him. "Are you okay?"
The boy nodded.
"So far yeah." Reese helped him up.
"Good." Reese said with an evil voice. The boy looked up and saw Reese's game face. "Cuz I'm getting hungry."
The boy screamed and Reese sank her teeth into his neck.

Buffy was in the training room of the magic box.
She gave the boxing bag some good puches out of anger.
"Are you pissed?" Spike came in through the back door.
Buffy stoppde.
"One more word out of that mouth and you'll fell how pissed I am." She threatenen him.
"Well if you wanna fight..." Spike pulled off his leather coat. "Let's fight."
Buffy turned around and walked to Spike.
"You can't fight me." She said.
"Let's see." Spike answered.
Buffy swung a fist at his head.
He blocked it. She swung up another and he blocked it too.
"Don't hold back for me." Spike said hoarse. Buffy stopped holding back and gave him five punches in his face and two in his stomach.
Then she tackled him, he hit the ground on his shoulder.
"Enough?" She asked him.
"Not even close." Spike stood up quickly and wanted to hit her against the head.
He did, persued by a headache.
Buffy held her hand to her head, where Spike hit her just now, and she looked up at him.
She hit him in the chest with her fists and drove him to the wall.
When Spike's back touched the wall she pinned hin against it, facing eachother nose to nose.
"You knew you would lose." Buffy said, her heart racing. She let go of Spike and walked to the middle of the training room.
Spike felt her heartbeat.
Spike walked after her a bit and grabbed her shoulder to turn her around.
"Buffy." He faced her again. She looked at him silently.
Spike bent down to her and kissed her gently on the lips.
Buffy didn't push him away, she kissed him back.
Spike got deeper into his kiss and Buffy too.
Buffy threw her arms around his neck when he threw his around her waist.
Now it was Spike's turn to drive Buffy to the wall.
He pushed her to it and they continued kissing.
Spike's hands searched their way under Buffy's shirt to the closing of her bra.
Buffy felt it and broke up their kiss.
She pushed him off of her.
Spike looked at her with a stunned face.
Buffy didn't look at him but walked to the corner of the room. To a table.
When she turned around she had a crossbow in her hands, loaded and aimed at Spike's heart.
Spike took a step back.
"Hey! Watch where you point those things." Spike said.
"Out." Buffy only said.
"No need to get bloody dusted over this luv." Spike said and Buffy shot off the arrow.
The arrow was way off, it hit the wall next to Spike.
Spike looked at Buffy, terrified form what she did.
"BLOODY HELL WOMAN!" He shouted at her.
"Don't be shocked, I didn't kill you." Buffy lowered the weapon.
"You allmost bloody did!" He kept shouting.
Buffy layed down the weapon next to her and turned back to Spike.
"Next time, I will." The door of the training room opened and the scoobies came rushing in.
"W-we heard yelling, is everything okay?" Dawn asked Buffy.
"Yeah, Spike was just leaving." Buffy said not taking her eyes off of Spike.
Spike pulled himself together and turned around.
He grabbed his coat and turned back for one more glance at Buffy.
"Go, before I kill you." Buffy answered his look.
Spike shook his head, turned and dissapeared out of the back door.
Dawn ran to her sister.
"A-are you okay? Did Spike hurt you?" She asked.
"Spike can't hurt me." Buffy said.
"What did bleach boy wanted from you?" Xander asked who stood behind Dawn.
"Nothing, I guess he was just pissin' me off for fun." Buffy told Xander.
They heard someone enter the magic box.
"I-is Dawn here?" They heard Vic's voice.
Dawn walked out of the training room, followed by the rest of the scoobies.

"Hey Vic, why're ya here so late?" Dawn approached Vic.
"Sorry, I had some buisness to take care of and I lost track of time." Vic answered. He saw Buffy give him the evil eye.
"Vic," Buffy spoke. "Can I talk to you for a minute?"
Before waiting for an answer she grabbed the boy by his arm and pulled him away from the group.
In a whisper she spoke to him.
"You gotta tell her today, if you don't, I will." Vic swallowed. Buffy let go of Vic and he walked back to Dawn.
"What was that about?" Dawn asked.
Vic took a glance at Buffy.
"Dawn, can I speak to you in private?" He said to her.
"Yeah sure." Dawn answered and walked together with Vic out of the shop.
"So, what dyou wanted to talk to me about?" Dawn asked when they closed the door of the shop behind them.
"Erhm, let's walk." Vic suggested uncomftorable.
"Okay, it's already dark, I suppose you can walk me home." Dawn noticed.
"Sure." Vic said and they began walking.
There was a minute of horrible silence.
"So, Dawn..." Vic began.
"Yeah?" Dawn responded.
"Erhm, you know I'm new, in Sunnydale." Vic continued.
Dawn nodded.
"A-and you don't know me very well, cuz that's ofcourse the cauze of being new." They walked further over the allmost pitch dark streets of Sunnydale.
"But there was this -thing- I am supposed to tell you."
"What?" Dawn asked him, still walking.
"My family, -and- me, we're..." He paused, searching for words.
"-Different- than others." Vic ended.
"Oh, same here, I've got an uncle who is master of shooting olives with his nose... not something you're proud of.... It's just discusting." Dawn said quick.
"Yeah, well, that's -too- different... but my family is not like that."
"We're ..." Vic sighed not getting his confession over his lips.
"Moer different than MY family.... oh, NO way!" Dawn said with whide eyes.
"Yeah, more crazy." Vic responded. "Not that you are crazy, I mean you're funny and pretty...." Dawn stopped walking. They were near a park.
"You said I was pretty?" She asked smiling. Vic blushed and smiled too.
Suddenly Dawn's vision blurred and turned black.
She was hit on the head with a wooden stick and she fell down into Vic's arms.

"I think it's cute." Willow said. She sat next to Tara at the shop's table.
"What honey?" Tara asked.
"Dawn and her boyfriend Vic." Buffy looked up at Vic's name. She sat at a stool at the glass counter of the shop.
"Willow, there's nothing cute about it!" She tried to convince Willow.
"It is, two kids like them, a couple." Willow continued.
Buffy slammed the stake she was making and the knife hard on the counter as protest.
"What's up with you." Xander asked carefully. Buffy sighed.
"Nothing." Buffy said bitter.
"No, there is –something-, Buffy." Willow concluded.
"It's just… Nothing." Buffy repeated. And she continued on her stake.
Xander walked to her.
He grabbed her stake.
"Hey! What you're doing right now is deadly, and a painfull deadly one." Buff said frustrated.
"C'mon, what's up with you?" Xander asked.
Buffy stood up.
"Nothing." She walked to the middle of the magic box and turned back to the scoobies.
"Vic, that's up…." She finally shot out.
"What? Is he wrong for Dawn?" Anya asked from behind the counter.
"YES,… NO!.... sorta…" Buffy began pacing.
"I mean he's nice and stuff, he's attractive …. Like Dawn would be attracted to… but…. Not ugly…"
"What's your point?" Xander asked.
"Vic is….." She couldn't say it.
"What?" Anya asked.
"Vic's a demon." She said it.
Anya smiled a little.
"Oh." Anya said.
"WHAT?!" Xander shot out. Anya looked at him.
"What? Is that not good?" Anya asked.
"A demon? And he's right now alone with Dawn?" Xander shouted.
"Xander cool down, he's not gonna kill her." Buffy defended Vic.
"Since when did he gained your trust?" Xander asked.
"There's something, in his eyes, he's different." Buffy explained.
"You've becoming more and more soft for those monsters." Xander said.
"What is that suppose to mean?" Buffy asked on a demanding tone.
"Spike…." Xander began.
"Oh, so everything has to do with Spike now all of a sudden? Spike can't kill anymore, the chip…"
"Screw the chip, he can manipulate and he can kill, but now through an equal….. Reese." Xander cut her off.
Buffy just stood there, not saying a thing.
"You're wrong." Buffy whispered. She didn't knew why she was still protecting Spike.
Suddenly the silence was broken by the door being slammed open.
Vic entered breathing hard.
"DAWN! THEY TOOK DAWN!!!" He screamed.
Willow and Tara stood up out of shock.
"WHAT?!!!" Buffy screamed.
"WHO?!" Xander approached him.
"They took her, near the park." Vic shouted.
"Vic, calm down, who?" Buffy grabbed him by the shoulders.
"Boris took her.!" Vic said.
"Who is Boris?" Buffy asked again.
"M-my uncle." Vic answered.
Buffy's expression changed.
"If anything happens to her, I hold you responsible." Buffy said angry.
Vic nodded.
"Show me the way." Buffy said.

Dawn came to.
"So, the bird is up." She heard a male voice.
"Don't touch her, remember that he will not join us if we kill his mate, or even harm it." A woman's voice spoke.
Dawn opened her eyes and stared into a pair of male brown eyes.
She crept backwarts.
"Oh, don't be affraid, I won't hurt you,... well... not yet." The man said.
Dawn tried to speak back but her mouth was tape shut. Her arms and legs were tied together with rope.
There was no where she could go right now.
Dawn looked around, she was in a basement.
Who's basement, Dawn thought, and what do they want?
The woman sat on a brown couch opposite from Dawn.
The man stood some where in the middle.
Dawn heard a door in the upper level close.
"We're down here!" The female shouted up.
The door to the basement opened and a girl stood in the opening. It was the girl at the cafe! Dawn noticed.
She had black jeans and a pink tank top on.
"Hey mom... hello, what are you doing?" She asked seeing Dawn.
"We saw Vic with her so we took her." The man explained.
Dawn freaked out when Vic's name was called, what had it got to do with him?
"Oh please take that thing off of her mouth." The girl said and the man took the tape off of her mouth.
"You, you were the girl at he cafe!" Dawn said after the man took off the tape.

"Hey, she's smart." The blond girl said and sat down next to her mother on the brown couch. Something in her voice sounded sarcastic.
"What does this have to do with Vic?" The blond girl glared evilly at Dawn and grinned.
"We're family." The man said and then his face changed.
Into something unhuman. Grey with blue veins.
Dawn held her breath.
It had no nose, chills and no hair.
The girl and the mother did it too.
They too looked like the man.
"Are you family of Vic?" Dawn said panicking.
"Yes, and there's no person who can change that." The girl changed back into her human form.
"Vic Belongs to me," She walked to Dawn. "You want to take him? You'll have to get past me."
Then the door to the basement opened and a woman's face came round it.
"Gladys, Boris, Annie... What are you guys doing?" The woman asked.
"This is the female that wants to steal Victor away." The man named Boris said.
"Oh, you guys... LET HER GO!" The woman began walking down the stairs. "Victor made up his mind, don't you go forcing him."
Boris stepped up to block her way to Dawn.
"Boris, get away." The woman said demanding.
"No." Boris said. Gladys backed him up.
"You can't go past us, she's ours." Gladys said.
With one blink the woman's eyes turned black.
"Let her go, or I'll-"
"You'll what?" The woman named Annie stepped forward.
The unknown woman raised her hand and the three demons flew up and fell to the wall.
The woman's eyes turned normal again and she walked to Dawn.
"Let's get you loose." The woman mumbled and wriggled Dawn's hands loose from the rope.
The woman helped her up.
"Let's get you home." Dawn walked thankful with the woman up the stairs, out of the house.

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"Who are you?" Dawn asked when the woman led her to a car that was parked outside. The woman held the door for her but Dawn stopped.

"Just step inside, then I'll tell you." She said and Dawn stepped into the car. When the woman started the car she began talking.

"My name is Jill." She said not looking at Dawn, she was watching the road while driving.

"And who are you if I may ask." Jill asked finally taking one look at Dawn.

"I'm Dawn." Dawn said with a soft voice.

"Dawn, of course…" The woman mumbled. She turned her head to Dawn. "Victor has told me about you, you are in his class right?" Dawn nodded.

"What's up with Vic?" Dawn said before she could stop herself. When the sentence was out she wished she hadn't said a thing.

"What?" Jill asked.

"Well, those people said that he was family of them… but he can't be… can he?" Dawn asked looking at Jill. Jill didn't say a thing. Jill pulled over the car and stepped out.

"We're here." She said and Dawn too got out of the car. Dawn saw her house at the end of the block.

"I live there." She said to Jill. Jill looked at her.

"Yeah, Vic told me you were practically neighbours. I live here." Jill pointed at the house before them.

"You live with Vic?" Dawn asked. Jill nodded.

"I'm his aunt. He lives with me since his mother died." Jill answered. "Dyou wanna come in? Or shall I bring you home?"

Dawn shook her head.

"No one's home, I'll come in with you." Dawn said and followed Jill into the house.

"Dyou like any tea?" Jill asked walking into the kitchen. Dawn nodded and sat down at the chair Jill pointed her. While Jill made them some tea, Dawn looked around in the kitchen.

All kinds of powders and herbs stood on the shelves. Dawn recognised them because Willow too had that standing in her room. Dawn had already noticed in the basement Jill was a witch, but this confirmed it.

"Since when are you a witch?" Dawn said when Jill finished and put the cups of tea in front of her.

"As long as I can remember, my sister, Victor's mother, was one too. Well she was until she met that man of hers, Victor's father, Raymond." Jill told Dawn. Dawn had stopped panicking from the stuff in the basement, and now she noticed in Jill's voice she was sounding a bit like Giles. Maybe English too, she thought.

"They moved from England," Bingo, Dawn thought. "And I moved with them, to LA, there they created a family, so they had Victor." Jill explained. Dawn took a zip from her tea. "That Raymond wasn't to be trusted, I told her, but she wouldn't listen."

"What happened?" Dawn asked. Jill sighed.

"He finally told her he was a de-" Jill stopped and looked at Dawn. "Donut salesman..."

"Jill it's fine, I do know about Demons." Dawn said and Jill frowned.

"How dyou…?" She asked.

"My sister is the slayer." Dawn said.

"Oh,… THE slayer?" Dawn nodded.

"Okay, where was I?" Jill said.

"Raymond was a demon."

"Oh Right, Raymond was a demon, and Cally, Victor's mother, made me his guardian, cause she knew Victor wasn't safe with her, and a week after she did this she died." Dawn listened with open mouth.

"What did she die of?" Dawn asked carefully.

"Raymond killed her, I know it. Because he wanted his son to be brought up in the Arquella community." Jill said.

"Vic's an Arquella demon?" Dawn's eyes grew wide.

"Yeah, but I brought him up, he'll never do things his father would EVER do." Jill assured her.

"You are sure?" Buffy asked when she, the scoobies and Vic stood in front of Boris' house.
"Positive, he lives here." Vic said and Buffy walked to the front door.
She kicked it open.
"Hey calm down! You're responsible if this is the wrong house!" Xander said.
"No..." Buffy said. "He is." She gestured towards Vic.
"Hey!" Vic said but Buffy ignored him.
"Dawn?!" She yelled through the house.
She heard something up stairs.
"Upstairs." She said and ran up.
In the hallway she looked around.
"Dawn?!" She yelled once more. Somebody locked the door next to her.
Buffy's glance shot to the door and her hand to the handle.
Of course it was locked and Buffy took a step back.
She lifted her foot and kicked it in.
The door fell out of the locks on the floor.
Buffy rushed inside and saw two women and a man stand inside the room.
She rushed to the man, who was the nearest, and lifted him by his throat.

"WHERE IS MY SISTER?!"

"Are all of these yours?" Dawn asked walking to a shelve full of trophies. They were from horse riding.
Jill nodded.
"I used to ride a lot when I lived in England." She explained.
"I've never sat on a horse before, only been to a race once." Dawn told Jill. "My mom didn't like it, well she liked we spend some time with my dad but she didn't like the fact that he had bet on one of the horses, she got really pissed."
"Well, that's one way to use horses. I really love taking care of them, I had a horse when I was your age." Jill said.
Dawn nodded.
"Mom used to like horses a lot."
"Not anymore?" Jill asked.
"She died." Dawn said and a silence crept into the room.
"Ow." Jill finally got out of her mouth. "I'm sorry."
There was an awfull pauze after that.
"Do you only live with your dad then?" Jill tried.
"My mom and dad are divorced, he lives in LA, Buffy takes care of me." Dawn said and Jill was quiet again.

Suddenly they heard a noise coming from teh front door of the house.
The doorbel rang and Jill stood up.
Jill opened the door.
"You must be Buffy." Dawn heard Jill say.
"I-is my sister here? Dawn?" Her sister spoke.
Footsteps left the hallway and walked to the kitchen.
"Dawn!" Buffy entered the kitchen and took her sister in for a hug.
"Did they hurt you?" Buffy asked concerned. The scoobies and Vic followed.
"No, not much." Dawn answered letting go of her sister.
"Thank you, for..." Buffy turned to Jill.
"No problem, it seems tha Dawn here met the tip of the iceberg called the Arquella community." Jill said. "We're not freed of them yet."
"yeah, I've noticed that." Buffy shot a quick glance at Vic.
"Anyway, I'll be glad to help. If you need it." Jill offered. Buffy looked at Jill.
"Sorry, didn't introduced myself, My name is Buffy..." Buffy started.
"The Vampire slayer, I know, I'm Jill." Jill ended.
"Nice to meet you," Buffy said and turned to Dawn. "Shall we go home?"
Dawn nodded and stood up.
"Thank you for the tea." Dawn said to Jill and dissapeared out of the house with her sister and the scoobies.
Vic turned to Jill.
"I blew it didn't I?" He asked and Jill nodded.

A demon, He's a demon.
It spooked around in Dawn's head.
She lay in bed, thinking about the day.
The one guy I finally like... and he's a demon.
After some hours of thinking she finally fell asleep.

***
The next day she woke up from her alarm clock going off.
She stood up slowly.
School, she thought, again.
She hated the fact to be in one room with Vic more than the idea of school.
She got dressed and walked down stairs.
"Hey Buffy." She greeted her sister soft.
"Hey Dawnie." Buffy greeted her back.
Dawn grabbed the cereal box and poured some in a bowl.
Buffy handed her some milk.
"Okay, know what? Don't be quiet like this just over a guy." Buffy said. Dawn shot her a glance.
"Okay, so it isn't just JUST a guy, but still." Buffy corrected.
Dawn didn't reacted.
She ate her bowl empty and stood up.
"I'm going to school." Dawn said and grabbed her schoolbag.

***
"Hey Dawn..." Vic leaned over to her desk. Dawn didn't reacted.
"Dawn?" Vic asked again.
"Vic, do you like detention?" The teacher asked.
"No sir." Vic turned to the teacher.
The teacher continued with his class.
After two minutes someone threw a folded paper on Dawn's desk.
She unfolded it.
- 'Can we talk?' - It said.
She took her pen and wrote an answer on it.
She threw it back to Vic's table, who unfolded it.
- 'What's there to talk about?' -

***
That afternoon Dawn walked home alone.
She'd seen Vic and avoided him immediately.
She just didn't felt like talking to him.
When she got home she ran upstairs immediately and sat down on her bed.
She rested her elbows on her knees and her face in her hands. She started sobbing soft.
Someone knocked on the door.
Dawn quickly whiped her tears away.
"Dawn? Are you okay?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah just doing my homework." She yelled back and grabbed her books from her bag quickly.

The doorbell rang.

"I'll get it!" Vic ran to the door. When he opened it he saw the blond slayer standing outside.

"Buffy, hey." Vic said.

"Hey Vic." Buffy greeted him. "We need to talk."

Vic let her in and closed the door behind her.

"About what?" Buffy looked at him.

"You damn well know about what." Buffy sneered.

"Dawn." Vic whispered.

"Yeah, she's taking this hard, this about you." Buffy said.

"What can I do about it?" Vic asked.

"Well not be her friend in the first place, but I think that's too late now." Buffy crossed her arms. "What do you think you should do?"

Vic thought.

"I'll go talk to her." Buffy nodded.

"That'll be a good start."

"But what do I say?" Vic asked

"I don't know, maybe apologize…" Buffy suggested.

"Apologize? Of me being a demon?"

"Apologize for you not telling her you were a demon." Buffy said.

Vic sighed.

"That'll probably be the best." Vic said and Buffy nodded.

Buffy turned away from him and headed back to the door.

"Buffy?" Buffy turned back.

"I'm a demon, and you are a slayer, …. Why didn't you kill me?" Vic asked.

Buffy didn't answer, she turned away again and walked out of the house.

***

That day at school Dawn still ignored Vic.
At her way home he caught up with her.
"Hey Dawn?" Vic walked next to her. She ignored him.
"Oh please don't ignore me, it's not my fault..."
She suddenly turned to him.
"Yes it is!" She said.
"How?" Vic asked.
"I don't know, it just is." She tried to walk away, but Vic didn't let her go.
He grabbed her shoulder and turned her around.
With this action she dropped her bag on the ground.
"I'm sorry." Vic apologized and picked up her bag.
Dawn didn't said a thing.
"The point just is,... the chance I get killed is higher with you than with a normal guy." She finally said. "And I nearly got killed thanks to you, so why would I trust you?"
Vic grabbed her hand but she pulled away.
"Don't..." She whispered.
"What?" He asked.
"Don't touch me, don't follow me,... I never want to see you again." She said looking him in the eyes. "The next time you come near me, my sister will definately kill you." She said and turned to walk away.
Vic kept quiet and saw her walk away.

Buffy sat on the wooden bench in her backyard. It was night. She stared up at the night sky and thought about the day.
The summers' house was dark.
"Why aren't you inside?" Spike approached her. "You know, warm in your comfy little fluffy bed?"
Buffy turned her gaze at the bleached vamp.
"I just got back from patrolling." She explained. "Didn't feel like going in."
"Ow," Spike walked closer. "Mind if I join you?"
Spike didn't waited for an answer and sat down next to Buffy.
"Why are you here?" It was Buffy's turn.
Spike looked at her.
"Haven't got anywhere else to go." Spike answered. Buffy looked at him with a yeah-sure-how-come-I-don't-believe-ya-look.
"I mean it!" Spike protested.
"Sure, and what happened to Reese? Isn't your fun bunny so fun anymore?" Buffy mocked.
"She isn't a bunny okay?!" Spike defended Reese.
"Sure, if you say so." Buffy said laughing.
There was a pause. Spike was searching for another subject.
"How did the niblet take it?" Spike suddenly said.
"What?"
"The whole Demon/Boyfriend thing,"
"Ow that, she took it better than I expected." Buffy said. "And okay, she still locked herself in her room but that's one of the same things I did when I found out about Angel."
Spike flinched a little when she said Angel's name.
"So everything's okay?" Spike checked.
"Yes,… and… how come are you so interested?" Buffy asked looking at him.
Spike looked back.
"Oh my god." She saw it in his eyes. He was still in love with her.
"Still?" She asked.
"Is it your problem?" Spike defended.
"YES!" She shouted, trying to keep her voice down. "I am the one who you are in love with remember?!"
"Okay, I'm sorry." Spike said soft.
"Ow." Buffy was silent for a moment. She didn't expected him to apologize. Maybe he wasn't so bad after all…
"And I'm sorry for that time in the magic box." Spike continued. Buffy frowned.
"The last time… when I kissed you." Spike helped her.
She didn't said a thing. She only felt sorry for him.
"I'm sorry." He repeated once more.
"You'd better be." Buffy shot out. She flinched.
She didn't wanted to say those words, but they suddenly escaped her mouth.
"BLOODY HELL, I AM! Even when I accidentally sent evil bitch bunny your way." Spike shouted, too holding his voice soft.
"I tried to make it alright by giving you that letter." Spike said.
"You wrote that letter? About that information of Reese?" Buffy said with a small voice.
"Yeah." Spike said.
Buffy felt small. How could she still hate him this much, even if he had done everything for her.
"Sorry for not being your average big bad." Spike said.
"Don't be." This was the first sweet word that escaped her mouth. "I am sorry for what I have treated you the past years."
Spike looked at her. She was apologizing, to me?
Spike leaned in and gave her a soft kiss on her mouth.
When he pulled back he looked at her again.
She didn't spoke. She stared at him, stunned.
Then she leaned to him and kissed back.