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Genre: Romance/Mystery
Summary: Buffy Summers is stuck staying at her Aunt Jenny's house for the summer. There she runs into a pile of mysterious happenings, and a tale that will shock her.
Title: A Strange House
Author: TK
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Part 8
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Reaching into the safe carefully, incase there was something sharp or alive in there, her hand encountered something hard and bump. The darkness really didn't give her that much light to see the object her hand was feeling, but she moved her hand along it anyway. What she felt, felt like some kind of box with writing on it. Sitting up on her knees the best she could with as much space as she had she reached her other hand into the safe and pulled the object out.
Once the object was out she was able to determine it was a box with some kind of a lock on it. Deciding that trying to open in the dark would be useless, since she wouldn't be able to see it, Buffy tucked the box under her arm the best she could and looked for a place to turn around at. As she moved forward she began to worry when the tunnel didn't seem to have anymore turns.
Stopping for a breath, and to think of another way out,' There has to be some way out of here,' she reasoned. 'If someone was able to hide this box, they had to of gotten out somewhere.'
She looked around her surroundings once more, that's when she spotted an out line of a what looked to be a door not to far a head. 'Please, let that be a door,' she hoped crawling towards the light. The tunnel's dampness was sinking through her clothes, and she it was getting a bit cool.
The outline came closer and closer with each crawled step she took, until finally she was right in front of it. To her surprise there was a thin area between what she now determine was a door and the tunnel. The thin area was big enough for her to stand so she did just that. Tucking the box under her arm, she slowly opened the door, and peeked inside.
"Spike, do you think, Buffy is going to be able to help us?" asked Madeline to Buffy's surprise. Opening the door more she found herself in a room with Spike and Madeline only she didn't think they saw her.
"I don't know, Maddy," answered Spike honestly from his perch on the old four post bed. "I hope she can."
"Do you?" questioned Madeline knowing her brother had something else on his mind then getting out," or do you want to stay?"
Spike looked at his little sister like she had grown a second head," Why on earth would I want to stay?" he demanded although he knew why part of him wanted to stay.
"I don't know," played Madeline grabbing her old torn doll," Maybe because you are falling in love with Buffy," she stated simply surprising Buffy to no end.
'Spike loves me?' inquired Buffy leaning back against the brick wall. She was stunned that Spike and Madeline had yet to see her. Hearing that Spike loved her made her feel stun and unsure of what to do if it was true.
"Maddy, I don't love Buffy," lied Spike trying to make Madeline believe it. "I like her, she a nice girl and all, but she's alive and has pretty boy hovering over her," he mentioned sitting up.
"Angelus is very handsome," agreed Madeline hoping off the desks she was sitting on," but I think that if you tried you might be the one she falls in love with," she encouraged.
"Maddy, new topic," commanded Spike standing up. "I'm going up to see if she's home yet," he excused himself and headed up the stairs.
Buffy watched as he made his way out of sight. 'That must be the way to my room,' she thought trying not to think about the other topic she had just heard. 'If I follow that I should be able to get to my room.'
"Hey, Mrs. Christine," she heard Madeline say to her doll. "You know it's weird all these years and Spike and I have been here I have always wanted to leave. Now that we have someone to help us once more, I am wondering again if I really want to go," she rambled on hoping up on the four post bed.
Buffy watched with sad eyes as the sweet little girl curled up on the bed and was soon out like a light buld. 'Poor Maddy,' she thought simplathinly. 'I promise, Little One, I'll help you,' she swore before walking quietly past the little girl, and up the stairs just as Spike had done.
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Pressing her hands to the doorway once she reached the top step, she felt it give way at her hand, the wall opened revealing her bedroom and a very shocked Spike.
"Where did you come from?" he asked the minute Buffy walked out of the passage way.
"The tunnel," replied Buffy knowing she was going ot have to explain more, but she would do that in a few minutes. "I found something," she informed the bleach blonde sitting on her vanity chair and moved the box, which now she could determine was brow and wooded onto her lap.
"Where did you find it?" inquired Spike still surprised at where Buffy had just come from. Had she heard his and Maddy's conversation just now? If she did what did she think about it?
"In my Uncle's den there is this little square door, that if you're not careful you'll miss," she began looking up at Spike' s curious eyes. "Anyway, I crawled in, and it lead to a tunnel, and the tunnel led me to a littler doorway. I opened it up and inside was this box," she determined turning the box over and casting her eyes back down to the object.
"It looks like it has something in it," supplied Spike when the two heard something moving around in the box.
"Here's the latch," claimed Buffy un hooking the goldfish color hook that keep the box locked. The box opened to reveal a black book.
"That looks familiar," stated Spike moving up beside Buffy. "It looks like…,"
"It's my Uncle's journal," Buffy finished running her finger over her Uncle's name at the corner of the book.
"That's it," responded Spike recognizing the book now. "Your Uncle was using that to write down what he found out."
"Let's see what he found out, shall we," directed Buffy trying to ignore the weird feel she got as Spike leaned closer to her.
Flipping open the book Buffy registered her Uncle's writing right way. The first page had what looked to be a family tree of some kind. One of Spike's family and another of the Angelina girl Spike had told her about. As she flipped further throught the book she found a whole bunch of notes on the fire that happened in Old Creek so long ago, and she scanned information about the house as it was rebuilt, but nothing looked to promising.
"All this stuff we knew," Spike pointed out as he too, scanned the pages. "Maybe he didn't find out anything either," he said with regret and sat back against the vanity.
"There has to be something here," reasoned Buffy getting up from the chair was walked over to the desk. 'My Uncle wouldn't have gone through so much trouble to hide it, if he didn't have something useful,' she thought turning the page.
"but what?" added Spike watching the beautiful golden blond sit down on her bed. She was perfect, he hated to admit it, but when his sister had claimed that he more then liked Buffy, she was right on the money, but he was righ when he said there was no future there.
Buffy noticed Spike looking at her, and she got a uncomfortable feeling. Setting the book down, she decided that now would be a good time to talk about what she heard," Spike," she began taking a deep breath.
"You heard didn't you?" he asked already knowing what she was going to say. "Look, Buffy, my little sister has a great imagination," he went on standing up. "You shouldn't take anything she says about me loving you seriously," he finished facing away from her.
"Spike, we're friends, right?" implied Buffy glancing up at him.
"I would like to think so, yes," returned Spike sitting down beside her.
"Good," stated Buffy, not really knowing what to say. Everything she thought of to this point sounded lame, and she didn't want to say anything she would later regret.
"Buffy," yelled her Aunt saving her from having to say anything more.
"Coming," she yelled back, " I'll check the book some more and let you know if I find anything," promised Buffy getting up from her bed.
"Okay," repeated Spike standing to head back down to the passage way.
Buffy was almost to the door, when she suddenly turned around and gave Spike a hug," I'll do my best," she whispered and then out the door she went leaving a surprised, but smiling Spike.
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