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Chapter 18

Coming towards one another, Angelus grasped Glory in his arms, kissing her harshly in front of Dawn. "Time is almost here..."

"Bout damn time too. Come on Dawnie, you're gonna send me home." She grabbed Dawn roughly by the arm and sighed as Dawn struggled against her. "Oh stop that. Ben isn't gonna save you this time dearie. Ben can't do anything anymore. You're the key, you have a purpose. You get to go home too, not this stupid hell of an earth, but you're gonna go into your lock. Fit all snug in your lock, and if you try anything... well, Angel here is here to make sure that you don't." She threw her forward. "Now get moving."

Angel pulled her back for another kiss. "I'll keep anyone from getting up there. Including the slayer." He laughs. "Not that she'll have idea what's going on. God I love her, so fucking naive."

Buffy, holding onto Thor's Hammer and Spike's hand, led the two of them through Sunnydale to an old abandoned area. Spike could hear the sounds of construction for a little while now and it was growing stronger. They stopped as they reached the fence that guarded the area and looked in to survey the grounds.

"Oh my God... she has her own fucking army! It's all of... it's Sunnydale's insane... oh God..."

Spike rubbed her shoulders and kissed her neck where his mark lay. "Don't worry about them luv. All we have to worry about it gettin Bit back, Glory and Angelus. Let me take Angelus, you go after Glory and get Dawn, I'll meet you up there if I can." He spotted Angelus walking through the crowds of workers and growled. "Pillock."

Buffy looked up at Spike and suddenly pulled him down for a kiss. Her lips touched his and the gentle caress seemed almost like a goodbye. So tender were her lips, her gentle tongue darting into his mouth, sliding against his own. He felt the tears that dripped onto his cheeks from her eyes and held her close. As she pulled away she looked up at him. "I love you."

"Luv, this isn't goodbye..."

"It might be... I might lose..."

"You can't save um all luv. But I do love you and I do have faith in you."

"You said that already?"

"Said what?"

"That I can't save them all... in my dream..."

Hugging her close he sighed and kissed the top of her head. "We make our own destiny and no bloody dream can tell us different. This isn't goodbye, believe that. Now come on, let's go finish this."

She nodded and he gave her hand a little squeeze before walking out into the area where Angel stood.

His easy swagger carried him over to Angel and he grinned as he put his hands in his pockets. "Heard that you were startin a little somethin here. How are ya man? Glad to see that the old Angelus is back, not some bloody poofta..."

"What do you want Spike? Thought that you were house whipped now, the slayer's lap dog?"

"Just talking some old advice you gave me... That in order to kill this one, you gotta love her... Didn't you say that to me?"

"Glad that you finally started to listen after what? A century? She is fun isn't she?"

"Oh yeah... fun. Bloody fantastic." Spike swung, not even giving Angel a chance to react as his fist connected with his jaw, and his other fist being swung into his stomach.

Buffy ran, jumping onto the tower and running as quickly as her feet would carry her to the top of the tower, where her sister and Glory were.

"Well well, looks like Angel's having fun down there. Better get this show on the road huh Dawnie?"

"Fuck you."

Glory smirked. "Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? Don't worry, it'll be quick, well not really... it'll actually be really slow for you... but never mind that."

"Buffy is going to kick your ass, you bitch." She spat at her as well as she could in her confines of the ropes.

Glory watched the spit fall harmlessly to the ground in front of her. "Buffy isn't going to save you, you little brat; she knows that she can't win. If she does come, it's not going to be to save you... it's going to be to kill you... Cause you know what? The portal only closes when your blood stops running, and the sooner that your blood stops flowing, the quicker that the portal that is going to kill everything here closes. Your sister knows that, so she's probably just waiting around..."

"Think again bitch." Buffy swung with the hammer, hitting Glory in the jaw and sending her reeling into one of the pillars. "No one messes with my sister."

Angel fell backwards into a pile of garbage and growled, his features that of his demon. "Not a smart move Spike old boy."

"Wasn't a smart move on your part to hit Buffy, kidnap her sister or take up with the god of bad home perms." He shrugged his duster off, letting him have more freedom to move. This was his sire, nearly twice his age, with nearly twice as much strength, but not nearly as much heart.

Angel launched himself at Spike, going for his throat to pin him back, but Spike anticipated it, ducking, shifting to the side and kicking Angel in the back as he neared him, sending him to the ground. "What's a matter Angel? Getting too old?"

"Fuck you, you insolent little prick!"

"Me thinks you are the prat here." Spike pulled out a stake and twirled it around in his hand. "You aren't leaving here tonight."

"Neither are you." Angel moved suddenly, taking Spike's legs out from under him. Spike fell to the ground, the stake falling from his fingers. Grabbing for something to wield, he grabbed onto an iron bar and jumped back to his feet. Angel already had another bar in his hands and swung, hitting Spike in the head with it.

"Now wouldn't it be funny if Spike got Spiked?" Angel grinned and swung the bar around again, this time to be blocked by Spike.

"Ha ha." The bars clanked back and forth, where one was, the other was, anticipating each other's moves, knowing what the other would do, but Spike was impatient, impetuous and all around less mature than Angel.

Angel bade his time till the opening presented itself and then he'd strike. "How does it feel that I got to her before you did? That I took her innocence?"

Spike growled and launched himself forward at Angel, ready to rip him to pieces, Angel sidestepped and Spike felt the sting of the bar sliding through his stomach, ripping through the skin. He fell backwards and ripped it from his body, blood falling to the ground.

"You should know better Spike. I'll always be better than you. You were always second best to me. With everything... Drusilla, fighting, and Buffy... She loved me... she just thinks of you as some monster..."

"Take it back! She loves me!" Spike, catching Angel off guard sent one more attack at him, slamming the bar through him and imbedding it into the fence behind him, trapping him there. Looking around Spike picked up a piece of wood and flipped it around in his hand.

He walked up to Angel, grinning madly as he watched Angelus's eyes watch the spinning wood. "She loves me you bloody pillock. She'll always love me. You were her little schoolboy crush. But she and I will dance in your ashes and thank God that you are gone... Do you hear me? You mean NOTHING to her or to me. You are nothing..." With that he slammed the stake into Angelus's heart and watched as he turned to dust, falling before his feet. "Goodbye dad."

Buffy swung, hitting Glory again square in the jaw as Dawn screamed behind her. Glory, picking herself up would go to hit Buffy again, only receiving another blow from the hammer. She had to get the hammer away from Buffy somehow.

Thinking Glory down for the moment, Buffy went to go untie Dawn, but that was her mistake. Glory took her opening and kicked the hammer away from her grasp and watched it fall to the ground with the slayer. "Well well... looks like I just upped the odds in my favor."

Buffy looked at Glory and went to swing at him, her hand being caught in Glory's grip. "Say goodnight to your big sis Dawnie. She's gonna go for a little trip..." Glory spun and kicked Buffy square in the chest.

She was falling back, stumbling backwards, she couldn't stop it, she couldn't save Dawn, she was falling... Her feet couldn't hold her and she stumbled on the edge, falling, she grabbed a hold of the edge, but could she hold on? Where was Spike?



Spike, turning, looked up at the tower and saw as Glory unarmed Buffy and kicked her... she was falling... grabbing the edge... "BUFFY!!!!"