At 11:30pm the next night, Spike tried to sneak out. He opened the front door to find Angel and Gunn on the porch.
"Where are you going?" Angel asked.
"Out."
Angel stepped in front of him. "Where is that?"
"Any where but here." Spike tried to get past him, but Angel wouldn't let him.
"After last night, I'm not letting you out."
"What are you my sitter?"
"You need one." Gunn put in.
Spike growled, and turned and walked back into the house. He went out through the basement. By the time he got to the cemetery, it was five after twelve. He found Jake sitting on her bike at the entrance.
"You're late."
"Well, I'm grounded, because of you."
"That must be a sight to see."
"You want me to start you training or do you want to fight all night?"
"Ok, so how do we do this?"
"I know a place we can go."
Jake handed him a helmet. By taking Spike's directions, they ended up at a warehouse on the edge of town.
"This is it?"
"Yup," Spike led Jake inside. "I watched this place all day it's abandoned, so it's perfect."
Jake looked around, Spike had set up and obstacle course. "Cool."
Spike led her to the beginning. "Ready, go!"
Jake took off. She finished in five minutes.
"You're going to have to get faster than five minutes."
"Faster?"
"Yes, faster, so you can out run demons and the like. Now hit me!"
"What?"
"Hit me!" So she tried to punch him in the nose, but he blocked her. "Again."
The two fought for a couple of hours, after a while they took a break. They sat down and talked.
"Can ask you a question?" Jake breathed.
"Shoot."
"Why wouldn't you hit me back?"
"I can't, I have this chip in my head that prevents me from hurting humans."
"A computer chip?"
"Yeah."
"How does it prevent you?"
"It's like getting hit in the head, except from the inside."
"Ouch."
"Yeah, okay, my turn. Why do you dress like a boy?"
"I do it to get back at my mom, so she'll notice me."
"Why, what did she do?"
"Well, she's a theatre actress, so she was always on tour when I was growing up."
"Mmm."
"Yeah, do you think that's weird?"
"No, I've seen things like that before."
Jake glanced at her watch. "Wow, it's 3:30."
"You want to stop for the night?"
"Can we?"
"Sure."
"You want a ride back to the house?"
"Sure."
As he hopped off the bike, she asked, "tomorrow same time?"
"Yeah."
Spike walked into the house to find Angel waiting for him.
"Where were you?"
"Out."
"Where?"
"Why do I have to tell you, you're not my mother. And I don't need a sitter."
"Are you sure? Jake would have killed you if I hadn't pulled her away."
"I was fine, I didn't need you help." Spike stormed out of the room.
"What was that all about?" Cordelia asked as she walked in.
"Spike."
"Oh, can we kill him?"
"I wish, but Buffy says he's harmless."
"So?"
"I think she's gotten attached to him."
"Eww."
"Yeah."
"So I know it's early or late in your case, but want to help me make breakfast?"
"Sure," Angel answered smiling.
Meanwhile, Jake parked her bike in the garage. She had left the window opened, so she walked around to that side of the building. She looked up, thankfully the window was still open. She jumped up and grabbed the ledge under the window. She pulled herself up and climbed in. Jake closed the window, changed, and slipped into bed.
After two weeks of doing the same thing every night, Spike took Jake out on patrol. They went to the cemetery. They usually trained for three hours a night, but that night Jake killed three vampires in two hours. After the third vamp, Jake sat down on a grave. "Are we done yet?" She panted out of breath.
"Nope, one more hour."
"Aww, come on…"
"Shh!" Spike interrupted.
"What?" She whispered, standing up. Suddenly Spike grabbed her and pulled her down behind a bush. They watched as Gunn and Angel appeared.
"Damn." Spike whispered.
"I don't like them," Jake whispered, and then she smiled. "Can I?"
"Attack them?"
"She smiled wider. "Please."
"If you want."
"Wait by my bike." She said and then jumped out and tackled Gunn. They rolled around for about five minutes, when Angel finally pulled her off of Gunn. She flipped over him as a vamp came out of a grave. Jake punched Gunn in the stomach and kicked the vamp off his feet. Angel punched Jake, but she blocked it. The vampire got up, as Gunn ran toward Jake. She tripped him and jumped kicked the vamp. Angel went to attack Jake again, but saw her face as a car passed the cemetery. He grabbed Gunn before he could punch Jake. She kicked the vamp, it kicked her in the stomach and she fell to the ground. As it tried to bite her, she staked it. The dust fell as she jumped up. She saw Angel and Gunn staring at her, so she ran and jumped onto her bike. Spike who was wearing the spare helmet, got on behind her, and they rode off.
Jake took Spike back to the house. Then she went back to school. As she jumped into the window, a figure appeared from the shadows. It was Ryder!
The next day at the house, the gang is sitting around eating breakfast and talking.
"Mumft." Xander said with his mouth full.
"Eww! Xander, close your mouth." Buffy exclaimed.
"Yes, please do." Giles added.
Xander swallowed, "very good, Cordelia."
"Thank you, but Angel actually did most of the work."
Angel blushed as she spoke. Xander nodded his head toward the vampire as he took another bite.
"You can cook?" Spike asked from the corner.
"Yes, Spike I can cook." Angel replied.
"Well, I think its great." Willow added.
"Here, here," Oz applauded.
"Anybody want more eggs?" Angel asked. Gunn, Wesley, Buffy, and Xander raised their plates. Angel dishes out the eggs as Cordelia refilled glasses of Oj.
"So what are we doing today?" Willow asked.
"Well, we've been here for three weeks, so we should really try and find Jake." Wesley answered.
"Mmm," Gunn swallowed. "She attacked us last night."
"What?!" Both Giles and Wesley exclaimed.
"Angel and I were patrolling around two, and she attacked us."
"Someone must be training her, she was able to fight the two of us and a new-born vampire." Angel explained.
"I wonder who." Giles said, as he took a sip of tea.
Angel looked over at Spike.
"What?"
"Are you helping her?"
"Why would I want to help the bloody slayer? I'd rather be off killing her than helping her." Spike stormed out of the room. What everyone couldn't see was that he was smiling.
Jake got up and went to class. Afterward she met Ham for lunch by the lake. "So did you have fun last night?" He asked as she sat down.
"Last night?"
"Yeah, you went out."
"No, I didn't."
"Yes, you did. I woke up at one and went to get something to drink and you weren't there."
Jake didn't say anything, but made a mental note to talk to Spike.
"Jake, what's going on?"
"I can't, I wish I could, but I can't."
"Why?"
"Remember when I asked you about believing in destiny?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, it has to do with that."
"But you said, you didn't believe in it."
"I don't, but…"
"But what?"
"Things have happened to convince me otherwise."
Suddenly Jake noticed that Ham wasn't looking at her. He was looking over her head.
"Hamilton, hello?"
"Hey, Jake, Hey, Hamilton." Jake turned around to see Xander and werewolf boy.
"What are you doing here?" Jake asked as she stood up.
"We need to talk." Xander said.
"No, we don't. I'm not doing it. Tell Wesley to leave me alone."
To make that moment even worse, Ryder walked up. "Jake, just the person I wanted to see."
"No, no, no." She said under her breath.
"You might want to be careful, when leaving campus after curfew someone might see you." Ryder continued.
"He knows?" Xander asked.
"Knows what?" Ham asked standing up.
"No one knows anything." Jake said firmly.
Ryder smiled. "Looks like you're trapped. Spill."
Jake glared at Ryder and then turned to Xander. "This is all Wesley's fault, so yes, I will go with you. Come on, Ham, Ryder. Let's go find out what's going on."
Xander led the way to his car. Ryder tried to walk away, but Jake grabbed him by the back of his shirt. "You're not going any where, you're coming, too."
"But this…"
"If you want to annoy and torment me, then you're going to be part of this, too." Jake shoved Ryder in the car and got in after him. Xander drove them to the house.
Jake walked into the living room first to find Wesley and the rest of the gang. "You want me to embrace my destiny? Well, here I am."