Chapter 2 "LA"

Dawn sighed and let her head lean on the window of Spike's car. The drive had been long and the trip had been filled with silence all except for the rapid beating of Dawn and the baby's hearts. Spike listened and smiled at the sound of the child's soft heartbeat. It was an odd thing to him to be listening to such a small infant's beating heart. It was sturdy and soft at the same time, weak but yet strong. The babe was only four weeks of age and yet it was still there. It amazed him to know end.

"Nibblet are you okay?" The blonde vampire asked in a soft tone. His concern coming off of him in waves.

"Spike I'm fine! You are sending me to live with a guy that you call a Bloody Poof and Peaches all the time but yea everything is just all fucking okay!" Dawn screamed her entire body filling with rage.

"Pigeon please. He might be all those things but he is still my sire! You feel safe with me and I always felt safe with him. He is the vampire that made me what I have become. I hate him but you are not I repeat not allowed to!" Spike growled making the young teenager lean back in her seat and a tear to slip down her cheek.

"Spike. I'm so sorry! I don't wanna leave you! I don't want Angel I want you and Buffy!" Dawn sobbed hiding her face in her hands trying desperately to wipe away the pain that was consuming her entire body. "Like it isn't bad enough that I am carrying this child against my will but now I don't even have a choice where I have to carry it at!"

"Quit right now! It is not like you are alone! We hate this Dawn but it isn't safe for you or the child in Sunnyhell and I am not going to allow you to be there. And as for the kid thing we are going to figure out a spell to identify the father." He added his voice raw with emotions that he was trying to conceal in his chest.

"Whatever Spike like you even give a shit rather the child lives or dies! As soon as Buffy dies you know you are gonna start killing again, and if the child lives then she would kill you, so I think you just wanna send me the fuck away just so the child will die!" The brunette yelled wishing she could take it back when the hurt look spread over his face, but he didn't speak he just turned away from her his eyes filling with sympathy for his Nibblet.

The ride was silent the rest of the trip, not even so much as a whisper exiting either of the occupants of the car.

Dawn quickly fell into a deep sleep. She saw the images of the night when it had begun and shook her mind making it seem almost as if it was happening all over again. Darkness wanted her to scream wanted her to feel the pain of that night again and it wanted the young teenager to fear life.

Hours passed and the car came to a stop the hotel right in front of him. Spike saw his sire standing out waiting for them. He swallowed the lump in his throat and began to get out of the car. He walked to the back and opened Dawn's door and picked up the young girl in his arms. She wrapped her arms around him trying to come back to the world but the darkness had her trapped. Spike placed her coat on top of her shielding her from the rain that was beginning to fall. A bolt of lightning struck across the sky and thunder crashed making the world seem like Hell.

Angel smiled at his childer and got the youngest Summers' woman her things from the car. Spike stopped before the doorway letting Angel walk in front of him and letting him invite him inside the hotel that was banded from him until the occupant invited him in. He followed Angel up the stairs and placed his sleeping Nibblet on the bed that had been given to her to stay in while she was there.

The two vampires silently walked from the room making sure not to awaken the sleeping teen. She whimpered in her sleep, making Spike turn and look at her for only a second. Angel tapped him on the back and motioned for him to walk away from the girl he knew ment so much to him.

"It'll be okay Spike it isn't like we are gonna kill her or anything. She will be fine, it's just a nightmare, you know how bad they can get." Angel whispered compassion for his childer in his voice. I have no idea why he feels so much for her. He should hate humans but he is different the soul and Buffy has really changed him *

"I know Peaches but she is just so." He trailed off not wanting to sound like the vampire in front of him had came to sound. It disgusted Spike to no end the way Angel had become but at the same time he was glad because he knew Angel would protect the slayer's little sister with his life.

"Well you better go before she wakes up or she is never going to let you leave Spike. I would love for you to stay * not * but she would make it really hard for you to go." The older of the two vampires stated.

"Yea well I'll you soon enough." Spike mumbled walking from the hotel only glancing back once to make sure his Nibblet wasn't watching him as he went.

TBC. Well I hope you like the second chapter as well as the first. I know the first chapter and this one are kinda small but in the future they will become much longer and more in-depth but for now they are short and to the point. The major part of the story line hasn't started to occur but it will very soon, I promise. I am hoping to get the next chapter to start that but I don't know if it will work out like that right this minute. I am gonna have a tight schedule for the next little bit so the next chapter might be a while. I'm sorry about that but my teachers are shoving so much crap down are throats and along with church and soccer it is really hard to find time to write. Well I better cut this off now, bye!

Trinity Dawn Armstrong