Violet finished eating her toast and turned off the TV, she went out to the
kitchen to put her plate In the sink and said good morning to willow and
then went upstairs had a shower and pulled on a pair of cropped khaki jeans
and a cream thin cotton jumper.
After tying her hair up into a bun and making her bed she went along the hall and knocked on the door next to hers where spike was unpacking.
"Come in!" he shouted through the closed door.
Violet turned the handle and walked in "Are you busy?" she asked nervously
He looked at her and answered "I'm never to busy for you baby, why?"
She sat down on his bed and said, "I don't know I just felt like talking that's all"
He put the shirt he was holding onto a hanger and into the wardrobe before sitting on the bed next to her "Well what do you feel like talking about then pet?"
She looked at him for a moment and grinned saying "Everything, I want to know about you, and mom and. well yeah everything really!"
He grinned at her and said, "Well ask me anything you want to ask and I'll answer it as best as I can pet."
"When did you meet mom?"
He looked at her for a minute and said "Well lets see, the first time I met your mom has got to be the night when me and the gang I was with broke into the high school on parent teacher night and we had set are hearts on having a major kill, was really shocked to see the slayer, your mom there if I'm honest not many slayers really tend to stick out to long once their well chosen. She was amazing that night didn't really notice it at the time but now when I look back she was so organised she hid everyone she could, locked them in cupboards and rooms mostly but couldn't get to everyone in time. She was crawling around in the pipes in the ceilings checking on everyone she could and then Angelus turned up well really I should say Angel cause he was cursed, he came in holding the whelp.um. well I guess that would be xander to you and pretended that he wasn't cursed and was going to eat him he thought I didn't know can you believe that I mean how would I not know he was my sire well my grand sire but if we're going to be correct."
Violet was staring at him transfixed in his story but interrupted only to ask,
"What's do you mean he was your sire, what is a sire?"
He looked at her for a moment and said "Sorry pet I forgot that you weren't totally up on all the crucial vamp terms, a sire is the one who turns you, my sire is Drusilla, cause she's the one who turned me, Angelus was her sire so he is my grand-sire, Get it?"
She thought for a moment and said "yeah so it's kind of like being born into a different family when you become a vampire?"
"I couldn't have put it better myself pet, cause that's exactly what it's like, being born again."
He grinned at her for a moment and said "So where was I?" thinking for a moment "Oh yeah, So angel had come back pretending that he was all bad again, saw right through it all though. A couple of minutes later after Angel got into some fight with a couple of my minions I was walking around looking for a buffy I could hear he up above me and was following her as best as I could then she fell out of the roof it was kind of funny now I think back to it cause like one minute she was there next she was on the floor we all stood their dazed for a couple of minutes and then she jumped up and attacked, she was good and quick but not quick enough we fought hand to hand for a while and then I got her caught in a strangle hold, thinking oh yeah I got me a slayer and then suddenly out of no where your grand mother, Joyce another amazing woman by the way, comes out of no where and cracks me across the head with a fire extinguisher. That was it then we left the papers blamed everything on drugged up yobs."
Violet sat still for a moment "Did you realise you love mom then?"
Spike looked at her and said "Pet what you have to understand is that I was. am a vampire it's in my nature to hate the slayer, I had killed two earlier in my life, and no I didn't love your mom then I had a respect for her but at that time I thought. no I was in love with Drusilla. It wasn't until a couple of years later that I realised I loved your mother. Ok?"
She looked thoughtful for a moment and said, "Ok" and smiled at him.
She then looked as if she was going to as him another question but he interrupted her saying, I've told you something about me but now I want to know something about you.
"OK." She said brightly, "What do you want to know?"
"Well lets see." he said thinking or a moment, "why don't you tell me about your friends?"
"My friends? I've only got a small group of close friends really so it wont take that long to go through them all! Well firstly my best friend is Erin, you might remember Erin, they moved next door when I was about two?"
He thought for a couple of seconds and said, "Yeah I think so her mom is an food critic or something isn't she and her dad's an estate agent?"
"Well her mom was a food critic, she died about 3 years after mom when I was 8 while she was giving birth to Erin's younger sister Kayleigh, Kara and Johanna."
"Oh I'm sorry pet, was she alright?"
"Yeah she's fine now, she was so upset at the time though, but it kinda made us closer as friends, cause I was the only one who could really understand what she was going through at the time because I had been through myself with mom. Then there's Hayley I met her in middle school and we've been friends since, she's really funny but sometimes she gets on my nerves cause she can be to in your face, do you know what I mean? Ok um then I guess it would be Alex he lives round the corner, the three of us, me Erin and him used to go swimming class together when we were about 6 so we've been friends for like ever, Pete well he's really tall plays tennis for the school and is really bad at history Mrs Loy said that she might send him back to the first grade if he doesn't buck his ideas up a bit before finals."
"Sounds like a good collection of friends you've got their pet I'm glad you've got good friends, you don't get pushed round by anyone now do you?"
She smiled at him for a minute before saying
"I used to in Junior high by the Jocks and some of the cheerleaders, especially one of them his name was Anthony, he used to be really horrible to me and Erin saying stuff bout our mom's and stuff.."
Spike stood really quickly and said, "What did he used to say bout Buffy Violet? I'll kill him, I swear to god I'll kill you just tell me where this wanker lives now!"
Violet looked at him for a moment and then started to laugh. "What are you laughing at pet I'm not kidding."?
She smiled at him and said "Sorry it's just now I know that you and Angel are related,"
"What do you mean about me and peaches?" spike said pacing up and down across the room looking suddenly very confused.
"Well Angel was down from LA with Cordy and they had taken me out on a shopping trip as like a back to school thing, and Anthony was out with his little whore, Amy hanging off his arm and started shouting stuff at me from across the road, I was just ignoring him and carrying on looking at clothes with Cordy in the window of this shop, when after a couple of minutes he moves on to shout stuff at me about Mom and Angel turns to Cordy and says he's had enough of this and walks across the road to where Anthony was standing and held him up by his neck against the wall brushing Amy aside and saying that if he or any of his friends ever said anything about me or my family again then he would take great pleasure in breaking every bone in his body and leaving him in a place where even the vultures wouldn't find him, he then turned to Amy and told her to stop gawping at him, dropped Anthony on the floor and walked back across the road where me and Cordy were standing speechlessly watching before bursting into laughter."
Spike had sat back down in the middle of the story and his face had changed, displaying different emotions throughout it, he wanted to kill that kid Anthony who had said stuff about his baby And Buffy but had also felt appreciation towards Angel for acting the way he did, he knew how much Angel had loved Buffy she had been one of the only things that would bring out his temper he would not stand for anybody to say anything about her in a disrespectful of hurtful way.
Violet was worried he hadn't said anything, she had finished her story and he hadn't said anything.
"Dad?" she asked nervously
"Huh oh pet sorry I was just thinking, s'all. This guy hasn't tried anything since then and neither has none of his friends have they cause I will kill them if they have and I'm sure from the sound of it peaches will help me."
"Nope they haven't."
They sat in silence for a couple of minutes until they heard another knock at the door, "Come in!" they both shouted at the same time.
The doorknob turned and Willow appeared at the door.
"Violet have you made up the cot in your room for Aria to sleep in?"
"No, what time is it?"
"It's ten to six." Willow answered cheerfully, they had been talking she could tell and she was glad about it, it was good for them to talk, they needed to especially after all that they had been through. They needed to get to know each over again.
"Ten to six!! Sorry will I didn't realise it was that late." Violet said as she jumped up off spikes bed and ran into willow's room to get the spare bedding for the tiny little cot.
"Hey spike how are you?" willow asked as she sat down on the bed in violets place.
"I'm doing ok thanks love it's just that it's hard you know, I've been telling her about everything, we just have so much to say to each other, I've been telling her about Dru and Angelus and Buffy. And she's been telling me about her friends and some poofter called Anthony."
Willow looked at him for a moment and said "I'm sorry we never explained to her about you spike we never told her about vampires or about Buffy being the slayer, it just I don't know. we just wanted to try.. And."
"Look Red," spike interrupted suddenly "It's ok, I didn't want her know about any of that, that's why I left. But know I'm back and she's so much older I don't it just feels right to tell her all about it I mean I think that Buffy would want her to know now, now that she's old enough to deal with it all." Willow answered, "I'm sure your right spike, in fact I know you are."
"And by the way are you going to tell her about the time when you kidnapped me and Xander and threatened to stick a glass bottle in my face until it reached my brain?" She asked with a smirk
"When the bleeding hell did that happen?" Spike asked suddenly livid "What? I. I really don't remember that. and Christ that's something you would expect me to remember isn't it?"
Willow laughed at him for and said "I didn't think you remembered that, you were so drunk you had driven up from Brazil to do a spell cause Dru had left you. You took Xander and me and locked us in the old factory and I think you must have forgotten about us cause you never came back. Oz& Cordy found us in the end."
"So that's were I went when me and Dru broke up all I remembered was waking up in an ally in LA without any memory of how I had gotten there from Brazil!"
He laughed for a couple of moments and then went dead quiet.
"I didn't do anything to you did I pet?"
Willow looked at him and said "You thought about it but I managed to persuade you not to."
Spike looked at the petite red head and said "God I must have been bleeding drunk cause back then I didn't care a rat's arse about any of you."
He started laughing again,
"What are you laughing at this time?" Willow asked him
"It's just the idea of you persuading me not to something, I mean back then I was the big bad and you were just some scared little girl how the hell did you manage to do it?"
She looked him squarely in the eye and said, "I gave you my resolve face."
This only made spike howl with laughter and he nearly fell off the bed.
"Your resolve face pet? I must have been pissed it that's all it took to stop me!"
"Well you did say you would kill Xander if I didn't do what you said, and then you fell over."
Spike did fall of the bed this time.
OZ walked into the room only to find his Willow sitting on spike's bed glaring at him while spike was rolling around on the floor howling with laughter.
"You making with the funny's babe?" oz asked her
Willow grinned and said "I was just telling about when he kidnapped me and Xander and left us in the factory, he asked if he tried anything on with me and I told him the truth that he had tried to but I persuaded him not to. And he seems to have found that to be the most hysterical thing he has ever heard!"
Oz shuddered for a moment he still remembered that day in the factory when he had found willow lying on top of Xander he had to calm himself a moment because it still hurt to think of it so brushing the memory to the back of his mind he said.
"We're going to have to go to the airport in a minute babe to get Giles &co."
"Ok, Spike?" She asked addressing the hysterical vampire,
"Would you like to come to the airport with us to pick up Giles or do you want to stay and help Violet tidy up?"
Violet came strolling in at this moment just as Spike was collecting himself And asked, "what's going on?"
Spike started to look as if he was going to explain it again but burst into laughter,
Willow looked at him for a moment and said "I was just walking down memory lane with spike s'all babe ok now are you going to get changed, and will you keep an eye on the lasagne while I go to the airport with Oz to get Giles and Clara?"
"Yeah of course how much longer does it need in the oven?"
"About thirty minutes. I think your father is staying here so if you need anything ask violet ok spike?" she said with an amused smile on her face.
Spike stood up and said "ok red see you later, bye Oz!" as the two left and then turning to violet said "Now hadn't you better go and get ready?"
After tying her hair up into a bun and making her bed she went along the hall and knocked on the door next to hers where spike was unpacking.
"Come in!" he shouted through the closed door.
Violet turned the handle and walked in "Are you busy?" she asked nervously
He looked at her and answered "I'm never to busy for you baby, why?"
She sat down on his bed and said, "I don't know I just felt like talking that's all"
He put the shirt he was holding onto a hanger and into the wardrobe before sitting on the bed next to her "Well what do you feel like talking about then pet?"
She looked at him for a moment and grinned saying "Everything, I want to know about you, and mom and. well yeah everything really!"
He grinned at her and said, "Well ask me anything you want to ask and I'll answer it as best as I can pet."
"When did you meet mom?"
He looked at her for a minute and said "Well lets see, the first time I met your mom has got to be the night when me and the gang I was with broke into the high school on parent teacher night and we had set are hearts on having a major kill, was really shocked to see the slayer, your mom there if I'm honest not many slayers really tend to stick out to long once their well chosen. She was amazing that night didn't really notice it at the time but now when I look back she was so organised she hid everyone she could, locked them in cupboards and rooms mostly but couldn't get to everyone in time. She was crawling around in the pipes in the ceilings checking on everyone she could and then Angelus turned up well really I should say Angel cause he was cursed, he came in holding the whelp.um. well I guess that would be xander to you and pretended that he wasn't cursed and was going to eat him he thought I didn't know can you believe that I mean how would I not know he was my sire well my grand sire but if we're going to be correct."
Violet was staring at him transfixed in his story but interrupted only to ask,
"What's do you mean he was your sire, what is a sire?"
He looked at her for a moment and said "Sorry pet I forgot that you weren't totally up on all the crucial vamp terms, a sire is the one who turns you, my sire is Drusilla, cause she's the one who turned me, Angelus was her sire so he is my grand-sire, Get it?"
She thought for a moment and said "yeah so it's kind of like being born into a different family when you become a vampire?"
"I couldn't have put it better myself pet, cause that's exactly what it's like, being born again."
He grinned at her for a moment and said "So where was I?" thinking for a moment "Oh yeah, So angel had come back pretending that he was all bad again, saw right through it all though. A couple of minutes later after Angel got into some fight with a couple of my minions I was walking around looking for a buffy I could hear he up above me and was following her as best as I could then she fell out of the roof it was kind of funny now I think back to it cause like one minute she was there next she was on the floor we all stood their dazed for a couple of minutes and then she jumped up and attacked, she was good and quick but not quick enough we fought hand to hand for a while and then I got her caught in a strangle hold, thinking oh yeah I got me a slayer and then suddenly out of no where your grand mother, Joyce another amazing woman by the way, comes out of no where and cracks me across the head with a fire extinguisher. That was it then we left the papers blamed everything on drugged up yobs."
Violet sat still for a moment "Did you realise you love mom then?"
Spike looked at her and said "Pet what you have to understand is that I was. am a vampire it's in my nature to hate the slayer, I had killed two earlier in my life, and no I didn't love your mom then I had a respect for her but at that time I thought. no I was in love with Drusilla. It wasn't until a couple of years later that I realised I loved your mother. Ok?"
She looked thoughtful for a moment and said, "Ok" and smiled at him.
She then looked as if she was going to as him another question but he interrupted her saying, I've told you something about me but now I want to know something about you.
"OK." She said brightly, "What do you want to know?"
"Well lets see." he said thinking or a moment, "why don't you tell me about your friends?"
"My friends? I've only got a small group of close friends really so it wont take that long to go through them all! Well firstly my best friend is Erin, you might remember Erin, they moved next door when I was about two?"
He thought for a couple of seconds and said, "Yeah I think so her mom is an food critic or something isn't she and her dad's an estate agent?"
"Well her mom was a food critic, she died about 3 years after mom when I was 8 while she was giving birth to Erin's younger sister Kayleigh, Kara and Johanna."
"Oh I'm sorry pet, was she alright?"
"Yeah she's fine now, she was so upset at the time though, but it kinda made us closer as friends, cause I was the only one who could really understand what she was going through at the time because I had been through myself with mom. Then there's Hayley I met her in middle school and we've been friends since, she's really funny but sometimes she gets on my nerves cause she can be to in your face, do you know what I mean? Ok um then I guess it would be Alex he lives round the corner, the three of us, me Erin and him used to go swimming class together when we were about 6 so we've been friends for like ever, Pete well he's really tall plays tennis for the school and is really bad at history Mrs Loy said that she might send him back to the first grade if he doesn't buck his ideas up a bit before finals."
"Sounds like a good collection of friends you've got their pet I'm glad you've got good friends, you don't get pushed round by anyone now do you?"
She smiled at him for a minute before saying
"I used to in Junior high by the Jocks and some of the cheerleaders, especially one of them his name was Anthony, he used to be really horrible to me and Erin saying stuff bout our mom's and stuff.."
Spike stood really quickly and said, "What did he used to say bout Buffy Violet? I'll kill him, I swear to god I'll kill you just tell me where this wanker lives now!"
Violet looked at him for a moment and then started to laugh. "What are you laughing at pet I'm not kidding."?
She smiled at him and said "Sorry it's just now I know that you and Angel are related,"
"What do you mean about me and peaches?" spike said pacing up and down across the room looking suddenly very confused.
"Well Angel was down from LA with Cordy and they had taken me out on a shopping trip as like a back to school thing, and Anthony was out with his little whore, Amy hanging off his arm and started shouting stuff at me from across the road, I was just ignoring him and carrying on looking at clothes with Cordy in the window of this shop, when after a couple of minutes he moves on to shout stuff at me about Mom and Angel turns to Cordy and says he's had enough of this and walks across the road to where Anthony was standing and held him up by his neck against the wall brushing Amy aside and saying that if he or any of his friends ever said anything about me or my family again then he would take great pleasure in breaking every bone in his body and leaving him in a place where even the vultures wouldn't find him, he then turned to Amy and told her to stop gawping at him, dropped Anthony on the floor and walked back across the road where me and Cordy were standing speechlessly watching before bursting into laughter."
Spike had sat back down in the middle of the story and his face had changed, displaying different emotions throughout it, he wanted to kill that kid Anthony who had said stuff about his baby And Buffy but had also felt appreciation towards Angel for acting the way he did, he knew how much Angel had loved Buffy she had been one of the only things that would bring out his temper he would not stand for anybody to say anything about her in a disrespectful of hurtful way.
Violet was worried he hadn't said anything, she had finished her story and he hadn't said anything.
"Dad?" she asked nervously
"Huh oh pet sorry I was just thinking, s'all. This guy hasn't tried anything since then and neither has none of his friends have they cause I will kill them if they have and I'm sure from the sound of it peaches will help me."
"Nope they haven't."
They sat in silence for a couple of minutes until they heard another knock at the door, "Come in!" they both shouted at the same time.
The doorknob turned and Willow appeared at the door.
"Violet have you made up the cot in your room for Aria to sleep in?"
"No, what time is it?"
"It's ten to six." Willow answered cheerfully, they had been talking she could tell and she was glad about it, it was good for them to talk, they needed to especially after all that they had been through. They needed to get to know each over again.
"Ten to six!! Sorry will I didn't realise it was that late." Violet said as she jumped up off spikes bed and ran into willow's room to get the spare bedding for the tiny little cot.
"Hey spike how are you?" willow asked as she sat down on the bed in violets place.
"I'm doing ok thanks love it's just that it's hard you know, I've been telling her about everything, we just have so much to say to each other, I've been telling her about Dru and Angelus and Buffy. And she's been telling me about her friends and some poofter called Anthony."
Willow looked at him for a moment and said "I'm sorry we never explained to her about you spike we never told her about vampires or about Buffy being the slayer, it just I don't know. we just wanted to try.. And."
"Look Red," spike interrupted suddenly "It's ok, I didn't want her know about any of that, that's why I left. But know I'm back and she's so much older I don't it just feels right to tell her all about it I mean I think that Buffy would want her to know now, now that she's old enough to deal with it all." Willow answered, "I'm sure your right spike, in fact I know you are."
"And by the way are you going to tell her about the time when you kidnapped me and Xander and threatened to stick a glass bottle in my face until it reached my brain?" She asked with a smirk
"When the bleeding hell did that happen?" Spike asked suddenly livid "What? I. I really don't remember that. and Christ that's something you would expect me to remember isn't it?"
Willow laughed at him for and said "I didn't think you remembered that, you were so drunk you had driven up from Brazil to do a spell cause Dru had left you. You took Xander and me and locked us in the old factory and I think you must have forgotten about us cause you never came back. Oz& Cordy found us in the end."
"So that's were I went when me and Dru broke up all I remembered was waking up in an ally in LA without any memory of how I had gotten there from Brazil!"
He laughed for a couple of moments and then went dead quiet.
"I didn't do anything to you did I pet?"
Willow looked at him and said "You thought about it but I managed to persuade you not to."
Spike looked at the petite red head and said "God I must have been bleeding drunk cause back then I didn't care a rat's arse about any of you."
He started laughing again,
"What are you laughing at this time?" Willow asked him
"It's just the idea of you persuading me not to something, I mean back then I was the big bad and you were just some scared little girl how the hell did you manage to do it?"
She looked him squarely in the eye and said, "I gave you my resolve face."
This only made spike howl with laughter and he nearly fell off the bed.
"Your resolve face pet? I must have been pissed it that's all it took to stop me!"
"Well you did say you would kill Xander if I didn't do what you said, and then you fell over."
Spike did fall of the bed this time.
OZ walked into the room only to find his Willow sitting on spike's bed glaring at him while spike was rolling around on the floor howling with laughter.
"You making with the funny's babe?" oz asked her
Willow grinned and said "I was just telling about when he kidnapped me and Xander and left us in the factory, he asked if he tried anything on with me and I told him the truth that he had tried to but I persuaded him not to. And he seems to have found that to be the most hysterical thing he has ever heard!"
Oz shuddered for a moment he still remembered that day in the factory when he had found willow lying on top of Xander he had to calm himself a moment because it still hurt to think of it so brushing the memory to the back of his mind he said.
"We're going to have to go to the airport in a minute babe to get Giles &co."
"Ok, Spike?" She asked addressing the hysterical vampire,
"Would you like to come to the airport with us to pick up Giles or do you want to stay and help Violet tidy up?"
Violet came strolling in at this moment just as Spike was collecting himself And asked, "what's going on?"
Spike started to look as if he was going to explain it again but burst into laughter,
Willow looked at him for a moment and said "I was just walking down memory lane with spike s'all babe ok now are you going to get changed, and will you keep an eye on the lasagne while I go to the airport with Oz to get Giles and Clara?"
"Yeah of course how much longer does it need in the oven?"
"About thirty minutes. I think your father is staying here so if you need anything ask violet ok spike?" she said with an amused smile on her face.
Spike stood up and said "ok red see you later, bye Oz!" as the two left and then turning to violet said "Now hadn't you better go and get ready?"