Violet turned up the stairs and walked into her room where she had a shower in her bathroom and then walked into her room deciding what to wear. She decided that she shouldn't get to dressed up but she didn't want to look scruffy so she settled on a black three quarter length skirt with black ribbon going around the hem, and a semi fitted bright pink shirt, she finished off the look by brushing out her hair and leaving it loose settling in its naturally semi curled way. She put on a spray of the perfume, which Clara had sent her from London earlier that month and then went down stairs to check on the lasagne.

Spike was in his room; he had just had a shower in the main bathroom and was now putting on a clean pair of black jeans a tight black t-shirt and a blood red silky shirt. He cast a look down at himself just to see whether he looked ok, that was one of the things he hated most about being a vampire not having a reflection how the bleeding hell was he supposed to know if he looked ok without being able to see himself.

He violet walking downstairs and decided he would go down and help her set the table for dinner.

He walked downstairs and turned to the kitchen he stood in the door way and watched her it was as if the wind had been knocked out of him she was beautiful she looked exactly like buffy.

Violet turned round to look at the door as she heard a noise and saw her dad standing there just staring at her

"Are you going to help me or watch then?" she asked good-naturedly.

"What do you want me to do pet?" he asked her moving closer to where she was standing,

"Could you get the best plates down from that cupboard?" she asked pointing to a cupboard at the opposite end of the room to her,

"I can't reach up there"

"Sure pet, where should I put them?"

"On the table please, I've just got to put the mats out."

She said as she pulled open a draw and grabbed a handful of pink silky place mats with cute cat pictures sewn onto them.

She laid them out on the table in the dining room and spike followed her out by putting a plate on each matt, violet was in the kitchen giving the wine and water glasses a quick wash, the door bell went, Spike looked towards and shouted

"Baby are you expecting any one?"

"Um no I don't think so." She answered him still washing the glasses.

Spike made a move towards the door, he knew he was probably being paranoid but he didn't like this.

He opened the door quickly and found a teenage girl out there, there were tears swimming down her face and she had a black eye and bruises appearing elsewhere on her face, she was slightly built and was wearing light blue jeans had a black jumper and a denim jacket on and in her hand she held a bag which looked like it had just had clothes stuffed into it on the spur of the moment.

The girl looked up at him and looked scared, she started to mumble something and then violet appeared in the hall behind him.

"Oh my god, Erin!" violet shouted as she pushed past spike and pulled the girl into the house. "What happened who did this to you?"

The girl just looked at violet and then she collapsed spike caught her in his arms before she hit the floor and said,

"What am I doing with her pet?"

Spike asked, the girl weighed hardly anything

Violet looked at him for a minute before saying "bring her upstairs she can stay in my room, I'll bring her bag."

Violet grabbed Erin's bag and ran up the stairs with spike following with Erin in his arms. She opened her bedroom door and Spike laid Erin out Carefully on her bed.

"Do you have any idea how she could have got into this state?" Spike asked as he looked at the girl lying in front of her she had been through the mill from the look of her, she had a black eye, maybe a broken nose, split lip and bruises appearing along her face there were red mark on her neck which looked like someone had tried to choke her, he turned her face so that he could see both sides of her neck, thankfully it didn't look like a vamp had tried to bite her which he let out a little sigh of relief about.

"I don't know." Violet answered she was shaking partially from the sight of her best friend in this state she honestly had no idea what had happened to her or why she had suddenly appeared at the door with a bag in her hand.

Spike looked at her and smiled reassuringly at her, "It's ok pet I'll take care of her now, will you go and get me a bowl with some hot water in it, medical Alcohol some cotton buds and ice please?" violet nodded and ran out of the door.

He turned back to look at Erin he remembered her now; she hadn't changed much since she was child.

She started to wake up he eyes were fluttering a bit and then she opened them and he could see she had sparkling green eyes, they reminded him a bit of red.

She looked like she was about to shout or scream but spike interrupted her saying.

"Shh now pet it's ok I'm going to look after you ok."

Her eyes widened in fright when he said that, luckily Violet re-entered the room at the point and ran across to the bed when she saw that Erin was awake again.

"Erin! What happened are you ok???" she asked staring into her friends' eyes deeply

"I need.I can't.please." she said before shutting her eyes and drifting of into unconsciousness again.

Spike turned to look at his baby she was speechless,

"Listen pet, she obviously has been thorough something horrible, her body needs to recover. She needs to sleep. She's not moving from here and I promise you I'll take care of her and clean up her cuts and bruises ok. pet now would you help me by taking off her jumpers and coat and outing her into a thin night shirt or something so I can see what the damage is?"

Violet looked at him and said "yeah sure"

Spike got up and walked towards the door. "I'll be right outside ok pet and short sleeve/ no sleeve if possible. But make sure she's decently covered ok?"

Spike walked out and shut the door, whatever had happened to that girl she had been really laid into.

He heard a noise from downstairs and then a voice shouting "Hello is everything ok? Hello?"

Spike walked down the stairs only to be confronted by Angel standing in the Doorway fangs bared and ready for a fight.

"Spike?"

"Hello peaches."