The Vampire God

Disclaimer: The characters from Buffy and Angel all Joss Whedons creations, not mine.

Buffy smiled as she looked over the remains of Sunnydale. She could move on now, live a normal life, like a normal girl. She wasn't the Chosen one anymore, there were hundreds of Slayers all over the world just waking up. Waiting for their chances to fight the evil.

"Well then," Giles said slowly turning back towards the bus. "I think we should head on the L.A. If we leave now we should be there just after sundown."

Buffy simply nodded and turned towards the bus.

With that everyone got on the bus and Giles continued to drive towards L.A.

Faith watched as the bus pulled up outside the hotel, it hadn't been two weeks since she had been here last.

Faith was pulled out of her day dream by a small moan next to her, she looked at Robin, he had fallen asleep just after they left Sunnydale.

"We're here." Giles said as he stood up, "Myself Faith and Buffy will go in first to check if they have enough room for us." Giles turned and walked off the bus towards the hotel. Faith got up and followed him, as they walked up the steps Faith turned to look for Buffy. The older slayer hadn't said anything since they had left Sunnydale, she had just sat there looking out the window while Dawn slept on her shoulder.

Buffy pretended to look around as she walked into the tall building, she didn't want to seem worried but really her mind was somewhere else. She was afraid for Spike, he had died to save the world and for all anyone knew he could be being tortured in hell at that very moment.

"Hey Fred," Buffy looked over to see Faith greet a woman with long curly dark brown hair, "What's with the box?"

"Oh, well we're going to move Angel Investigations to Wolfram and Hart."

"Isn't that place evil."

"We got really good offer."

"Excuse me," the three girls turned to look at Giles, "It really is nice to meet you Fred, but would it be possible to talk to Angel."

"Oh, well he's down at Wolfram and Hart, can I ask why you want to see him."

"Well Buffy wanted to tell him that we don't need a second front, and we were wondering if it would be possible to stay here for a while." Fred looked over a Buffy.

"You're Buffy?"

Buffy tried to forced a smile "The one and only." Fred walked over a shook her hand,

"It's really nice to meet you."

"You to, so can we stay, there are others in the bus I'm afraid they might get a bit restless."

"Of course you can stay, I'll call Angel and tell him you're here, unless it's really urgent you can talk to him when he gets back."

"I'll talk to him later."

"Hey Fred," Fred spun around to look at Faith "We really need a hospital, where's the closest one."

"Oh I'll take you there." Fred and Faith turned and walked outside.

"How do you feel?" Buffy's head jerked towards Giles.

"Fine, I just need some rest." She knew she was lying, but she didn't feel like talking right.

At that point the doors burst open and the room was flooded with the new slayers. A tired looking Dawn strolled over to her sister followed closely by Xander and Andrew. Buffy could see Willow across the room talking to Kennedy, it was funny to think that for seven years her best friend had been a slayer, and now her girlfriend was one as well.

"We're allowed to stay," Andrew said happily as he reached her.

"Hey Wesley," Xander had just seen Wesley walking through the door. "Funny seeing you again."

"Nice to see you, I've been told to appoint rooms for everyone." Wesley announced as he walked towards them.

"I could do with a sleep." Dawn yawned

"I think if everyone slept two to a room we should fit everyone."

"Buffy I'm sharing with you."

"Okay."

"Right then," Wesley went of and began making sleeping arrangement with the S.I.T's, though everyone accepted happily it was obvious none of them would actually sleep. So many people had died, including their own friends.

Dawn finished helping Wesley with the S.I.T's sleeping arrangements and looked over at her sister. She was beginning to worry about her, Buffy had hardly said anything since they had left Sunnydale. Now she was standing in the middle of the room looking into nowhere. Dawn looked across at Willow she was standing near her new girlfriend Kennedy, but she was looking at Buffy, she seemed pretty worried. Dawn decided she was probably just thinking about Spike, Dawn had spent the entire trip trying to forget about the people who had died in Sunnydale. But she couldn't forget, Anya had been her friend and Spike was like a brother to her, she couldn't forget what he had almost done to her sister, but if Buffy could forgive him, then so could she.

"And this ones for you," Dawn turned to Wesley who was showing her a room just at the tip of the steps.

"Thanks Wes,"

"She will be oka y won't she, just needs some rest."

"Yeah I'm sure she'll be fine."

Dawn walked towards her sister.

"Buffy, we have a room, come on I could use some rest."

When Buffy didn't move Dawn lightly took her hand, and headed her towards the stairs, reluctantly Buffy followed.

Xander stood watching Dawn take Buffy towards the stairs, he couldn't understand what was wrong with her. He understand that Spike and her had gotten close, but last time he had seen her anything like this was when Glory had taken Dawn and Buffy decided she was going to die.

"Xander," Xander turned to see Wesley, "Would you mind sharing a room with Andrew."

"Nah, that's okay."

"Ohhh! Are we bunking," Andrew jumped up to them.

"I guess it does." Xander turned and started up the stairs, followed closely by Andrew, once they got into the room Xander turned to Andrew.

"Look is there any chance we could just get sleep, I'm really tired, ok."

"Course Xander, look I'm really sorry about Anya, she was a great person."

"Thanks Andrew, now lets just go to bed."

Spike looked around himself as he stood up, he still didn't understand what was going on. He had just been burnt in the middle of Sunnydale and yet he stood here completely healed and wearing his normal clothes, even the murderous amulet was still there. Spike turned around he was standing in the middle of a huge hallway, its walls were perfectly white and it had large chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. The roof was so high you could have fit 3 storeys inside it.

Before he knew any different a white smokescreen appeared in front of him. When it cleared there were two people standing in front of him, a tall man and an equally as tall woman. The woman approached him, she seemed to float over air. Spike took a few steps back.

"Who the hell are you? Where am I?"

"Do not speak to me in that tongue vampire. We are The Powers That Be, and you are in the In-Between."

"Well that would explain why there isn't any fire, So when are you going to send me down."

"We aren't." Spike spun around, the man had just appeared behind. Suddenly Spike felt surrounded, there were only two of them but they were so tall he just couldn't help it.

"What do you mean you aren't."

"We have been sent orders William," Spike turned back around to face the woman.

"The Powers That Be get orders?" Spike found it all very doubtful.

"We do." The woman answered, "and because of it we are going to send you on to another destination."

"Well you can hardly send me to heaven I've gotten myself into to much crap."

"Do not tell me what I can and cannot William, I believe that we should understand what is going on here better then you."

"Okay, calm down, so are you sending me to heaven."

"Where we send you, you need not know."

"Okay… so when do I leave."

"Right now," Spike turned back towards the man, "Follow us.

The powers started moving down the hallway. Spike couldn't believe how repeditive the hallway was, could swear that no matter where he stood it looked idsactly the same. Spike couldn't see the end of the hallway in either direction, it was like a never ending pit it just never stopped. They must have walked for about 90 minutes, Spike getting very bored from the lack of scenery. Suddenly the Powers turned towards the right and faced the wall, they just stood there as if they were waiting for something to happen.

"Look, I'm sorry to tell you this but, walls don't move."

"Silence vampire."

The Powers both raised their right hands so that they just touched the wall with their palms. Slowly the wall began to move, a rectangle in the space between their hands began to look like flowing water. The wall began to flow faster and eventually a door appeared, it was black and didn't match its surroundings at all. The man took a step forward and opened the door, inside was a hallway much like the one he was standing in, just blue. Spike could see a door at the other end identical the black one, just white.

"Continue through William, we may only open the door we can not go thorough it for you." The man gave Spike a small smile.

"Okay, so I just have to trust you that the white door what burn me to a pulp for the second time today."

"William, I promise you, the people at the other end of that door would like to do what is best for you."

"Okay then, Bye" Spike walked through the door, as soon as his second foot hit the ground in the blue hallway the door was shut behind him. Spike spun around and was amazed to see that the wall had turned to look like water again, this time much faster and it quickly turned into a wall. Spike took a deep unneeded breath and began to walk forward. He put his hand on the knob and pulled the door open towards him, Spike gasped when he saw the multicoloured wall behind the door. Spike reached his had foreword, it went straight through the wall.

"Well duh Spike it's a portal." Spike felt immensely stupid after talking to himself. He couldn't help but be a little excited, he hadn't been through to many portals and he had always known where those ones were going. Once again Spike took a deep breath and stepped through the portal. He automatically felt himself fall. Spike tried to move his head to look at all the many colours around him, but he couldn't, he then tried to move his arms but realized they were glued to his side. With nothing else to do Spike just allowed himself to continue falling.

A good twenty minutes later the colours turned to a straight white, and before he knew it he had fallen onto a fall. Slowly Spike raised himself to his feet. He was standing in a very pale blue room, the roof was about as high as it had been in the hallway. Spike realized that he was facing the back of the room, slowly he turned around. There were about 100 metres between him and a large table at the front of the hall. There were about ten people sitting and it all between about 20-40, with the exception of a man sitting right in the middle, he seemed to be in a throne and would probably have been in his 50's. Slowly the man stood up.

"Nice you could finally make it William, we've been waiting for you."