A/N: I wrote the first chapter several months ago, and then I completely
forgot about it. So from now on it's new chapters, and since I haven't
written fanfiction for about six months I'd be very happy for reviews.
*hint hint*
Chapter 2
"You really think this is a good idea?" she asked him and looked around to make sure no one was watching them.
"No worries, Slayer, I'm a master at breaking into places. Just watch."
Spike confidently started working on the locks on the front door, but it didn't go as quickly, and as well, as his comment had made her think it would.
"Someone's bragging a bit, I think," she teased him, and after another ten seconds or so of watching him trying to break in, she sighed and kicked the door open, her foot meeting the wood only centimeters above the blonde vampires head.
"Bloody hell, what'd you do that for? I almost had it!" Spike complained while she walked in and looked around in the dark and dusty house.
"This'll be just fine," she said absently. "Hope there's water. I desperately want to get the vamp dust off of me."
Spike rolled his eyes and tried the best he could to put the door back on its hinges.
"Great, we're stuck in an alternate universe and all she can think about is whether or not the house has a shower," he muttered while he looked around. "And you're doing a very good job keeping quite, by the way!" he shouted after her. "The kicking in doors will absolutely not draw attention to us!" Seeing what looked like a kitchen he walked in and happily noticed the fridge. He opened it, and to his surprise it was on, the air inside of it cool.
"Oy, Buffy," he called out. "Don't think this house is as abandoned as we thought it was." He heard a creak in the floor behind him and turned around, only to see Buffy surrounded by five vampires.
"Tell me about it," she said tensely.
The fight kept on for about fifteen minutes, but eventually Buffy and Spike had to give in. The five vamps were all skilled fighters, and neither one of the two blondes had been able to land more then a few punches at them.
"Who are you?" the biggest one, who also seemed to be the leader, asked Spike while shoving him into a wall so his head slammed against it.
"Ouch," he muttered and stared angrily at the larger vamp. "We're just passin' through, needed some sleep and thought this place looked like a good choice." Spike smirked cockily at the other vamp. "Obviously, it wasn't."
The big vampire snorted and shot a glance in Buffy's direction, who were held back by three other's.
"And she? What's up with her? She's strong, and definitely knows how to fight."
"And cute too, Vin, don't forget that," one of the other vamps said, receiving agreeing nods from the others.
Spike straightened up and tried to look as threatening as possible, even though Vin was a head higher then he.
"Just a friend of mine, who I wouldn't mess with if I was you."
Vin looked at him for a moment, and then burst into laughter.
"You're funny," he said, still laughing. "I like it, you got some attitude. What's you're business here?"
Spike looked at Buffy, who rolled her eyes and shrugged. Deciding to have some fun, Spike, who was now allowed to move away from the wall, started talking.
"Me and the bird was just here on a visit, you'no, seeing our history. We're just driving around, looking for fun." He grinned at Buffy. "And I think we got some."
One of the vamps that were holding Buffy laughed and let go of her.
"You think getting you're asses kicked is fun?" he asked, amused.
The other two also let go of Buffy and she took a step from them. "We were only warming up," she said confidently. "If you'd given us another minute we'd have so beaten you down."
"Whatever you say, baby doll," Vin laughed and turned to Spike. "She's cocky," he said. "Where'd you find her?"
Spike shrugged and grinned widely.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," he said, and a second later they both were holding up stakes, circling around with their backs against each other's. But the vampires didn't seem too threatened, more amused.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Vin said, crossing his arms and leaning against the wall. "You've just lost a fight against us, and now you wanna do it again?" He shook his head in disbelief.
"Normally I would've staked you, blondie, and then bitten you're girl, but I won't this time." Now it was Spike and Buffy's turn to be baffled.
"And why is that?" Buffy asked.
"Because you've got guts," he said with a big grin on his face. "And I like that. I'm going to introduce you to some people. Come along."
Spike and Buffy exchanged glances, and then Spike turned back to Vin.
"We wanna discuss it." Both of them put back their stakes into their pockets. "Just me and her."
Vin looked at them for a moment, and then he shrugged.
"Whatever you say. You've got ten minutes. But don't try to escape, we're keeping an eye on you."
"Gotcha," Buffy murmured as she and Spike walked back into the kitchen. There they just stood quiet for a moment before Buffy burst out into laughter.
"Can you believe this?" she asked him. "We come here, to another dimension, and these vamps think we're cool? They want to introduce us for their friends, for Gods sake. And they're not just regular vampires. That one we dusted earlier, he had a very expensive car. The vamps back home doesn't have those."
Spike nodded and though about it for a second.
"You're right. Something about this place is different. But the best way to find out what it is, is to have a look around. At least until we find out a way to get back home."
"So you think we should go with them?" Buffy asked, not a single sarcastic thing about her voice, it was just a regular question. Spike couldn't believe that it took for them to go to another dimension before she started treating him like a person. Or, kind of a person, at least.
"Don't think we have that much of a choice, pet," he said, keeping and eye on the closed door that separated them from the vamps in the other room. "Unless you wanna try kicking their ass again." She looked like she gave it some serious thoughts, but then she shook her head.
"Nah, don't think so. As fun as it might be, they're a bit to good to take out as a group. Maybe if we could take them one and one, but that'll have to be a later adventure."
Spike nodded and pushed the door open.
"We're ready to go," Buffy told the vamps.
The huge van took them from the not-so-abandoned house to what was the mayor's office. Buffy hadn't been there in years, and the sight of it gave her the creeps. But the old mayor was dead, he might not even have existed in this dimension, and there were some differences between this building and the one back home. For one thing, it didn't have any windows. Buffy turned to Spike to point that out to him, but he'd already noticed.
"Something's really off with this place," she whispered to him.
Spike nodded and made sure the other vamps weren't listening before he talked.
"And have you noticed that there's no one out on the street's? The sun's coming up any second now, and no one's out to get to work. You're right, something's very off."
"Do you think-" Buffy started to say, but Vin who turned his head around from the front seat to look at them cut her off.
"We're here," he said. "The sun's coming up, so we're in a hurry. Danny's going to drop us off outside the main entrance, in a second, so be ready."
The two blondes nodded as the driver, who's name seemed to be Danny, stopped the car and everyone but him got out. As soon as they'd gone up to the door, he drove off.
"This is where the power is," Vin said, his voice filled with a mixture of reverent and disdain. Then he knocked several times on the metal door and waited for someone to open.
"Yes?" a voice called out just a second later, and Vin cleared his throat.
"This is Vin. I've brought some newcomers to see the mayor," he said with a loud, rumbling voice. He obviously wanted to sound as though as possible.
"Wait," was all the man on the other side said, and then there was silence.
The six of them stood outside for more then five minutes and waited impatiently for something to happen. When the door finally opened, a tall woman who held some resemblance to Drusilla stood there, but it definitely wasn't her. The fact that Drusilla was insane had always been quite evident in her way of moving and talking, but most of all in her eyes. This woman, whoever she was, was not insane. When Buffy met her eyes, she could see nothing but intelligence, and cruelty. Her eyes flashed yellow when she looked at Buffy.
"You didn't say one of them was a human," she said coldly to Vin, and the large vampire took a step back from her.
"I'm sorry, Dinah, but I wasn't aware I had to." She kept on staring at him and Buffy had to hide a smile as he looked like he was about to pee in his pants. "B-But she's special. She's really strong, and she could fight very well. She was just as strong as her friend," Vin pointed at Spike, who stood just behind him. "And that guy was strong," he added after a couple of seconds of silence. Dinah snorted and looked away from Vin in disgust.
"Come here," she said, and both Buffy and Spike immediately stepped forward, like there was something in her voice forcing them to. She put a cold hand on Buffy's forehead, and then closed her eyes. Slightly panicked, Buffy tried to move away, but she stood as frozen. Beside her Spike started to lift his arm, but stopped. When Dinah eventually took away her hand, she dried it of on Vin's T-shirt as if Buffy'd infected her with something.
"Take them inside," she ordered.
Too confused to fight back, at least that was what Buffy told herself, she and Spike followed the vampires inside into a huge hallway lit only by small lamps standing on the four tables that stood in each corner of the room. The walls were in an odd red color, blood red, if it was paint or the actual thing she wasn't sure. A chill ran up her spine and when Vin pointed to the staircase on their left she was thankful to leave the room.
The staircase went from the first to the ninth, and top, floor, and despite her good physique she couldn't help but whish for an elevator. But the vampires didn't seem to like electricity, for the only electric equipment she saw was a lamp here and there. The sun had already risen outside, but inside the building she had to concentrate to see more then a couple of meters ahead. But after a while her eyes did adjust, and she gazed at the paintings hanging on the walls. If she wasn't mistaken they were painted in oil and the theme was very clear. Mayhem and murder; small children looking up at their slain parent's whose faces seemed white and their throats had two small holes with tiny droplets of blood dripping from them. Buffy looked away in disgust and shot a glance at Spike, who obviously found the paintings quite interesting and amusing, at least that was the impression his excited smile gave her.
She frowned and decided just to look straight ahead as they continued to climb the stairs upwards. 'He's a vampire. Don't forget that,' she told herself. 'This place must be like heaven for him.' Before them Vin walked, his pace fast and rushed, and behind them two of the other vampire's that they'd met in the house followed, they both seemed to have trouble keeping up.
"Stop," Vin suddenly said and if Buffy hadn't had such good reflexes she'd have stumbled into him, but she managed to stop in her tracks just behind him, and she saw Spike do the same.
"What?" she prodded to know and scowled angrily, more because of the fact that she'd been growing bored the last couple of minutes then by actual anger.
Vin was silent for a while before he turned to her.
"I might think that you're attitude is quite charming, but if you keep it up in there you'll be in trouble. When we've entered the room you have to remember only to talk when someone's addressing you." He paused and stared into her eyes coldly. "You understand?"
Buffy was about to tell him to forget it, but something within told her to follow his advice, or order, depending on how you saw it. This was not a time to be cocky and proud. So she shrugged, and Vin took that as a yes. Then he turned to the vampires behind her.
"Suit up," he commanded them, and they immediately brought out their game faces. After thinking about it for a moment, Vin told Spike to do the same thing.
Satisfied with their appearance, Vin took a deep, very unnecessary, breath and knocked on the door. This time it was opened immediately, and a tall dark strangely familiar man stood there. It took Buffy a second or two to recognized who he was, or whom he looked like.
"Trick?" she asked out loud, earning an angry look from Vin. She didn't care and just kept on staring on the vampire before her. She knew he was dead, but still here he was. She glanced over at Spike, who looked at the man indifferently. Then she realized he might never have met the mayor's sidekick.
Trick, or whoever he was, looked at her oddly and then turned his gaze at Vin.
"Who is this pretty young lady, and why haven't you thought her some manners?"
Vin shifted uncomfortably under the other vamp's gaze, he obviously wasn't very high up in rank here, and straightened up self-consciously.
"That's none of you're business, sir," he said with spite in his voice. "We're here to see the mayor."
Trick snorted but moved out of the way to let them in. Buffy felt a sudden bolt of fear that the mayor he was talking about was actually the old mayor from Sunnydale, anything was possible. When she saw who sat on behind the large desk she couldn't help but yelp in surprise and take a step back. Beside her Spike frowned and tilted his head to the side, like he was deep in thought. There, with two vampires on his sides, sat the Master.
End part 2
A/N: I had a hard time making up my mind about posting this story or not. I don't really have time to write it, and I'm also working on another story right now, so the updates might come quite far apart. But judging by the few reviews I've received I think no one will really care. *sobs* But I'll do my best to write this, and I can definitely say this is the story I've enjoyed the most-ever-to write. And also, please tell me if I have some serious grammatical mistakes. English isn't my first language and all the help with teaching me more would be very much appreciated. OMG, this became a long Author's note. Going to stop now.
Chapter 2
"You really think this is a good idea?" she asked him and looked around to make sure no one was watching them.
"No worries, Slayer, I'm a master at breaking into places. Just watch."
Spike confidently started working on the locks on the front door, but it didn't go as quickly, and as well, as his comment had made her think it would.
"Someone's bragging a bit, I think," she teased him, and after another ten seconds or so of watching him trying to break in, she sighed and kicked the door open, her foot meeting the wood only centimeters above the blonde vampires head.
"Bloody hell, what'd you do that for? I almost had it!" Spike complained while she walked in and looked around in the dark and dusty house.
"This'll be just fine," she said absently. "Hope there's water. I desperately want to get the vamp dust off of me."
Spike rolled his eyes and tried the best he could to put the door back on its hinges.
"Great, we're stuck in an alternate universe and all she can think about is whether or not the house has a shower," he muttered while he looked around. "And you're doing a very good job keeping quite, by the way!" he shouted after her. "The kicking in doors will absolutely not draw attention to us!" Seeing what looked like a kitchen he walked in and happily noticed the fridge. He opened it, and to his surprise it was on, the air inside of it cool.
"Oy, Buffy," he called out. "Don't think this house is as abandoned as we thought it was." He heard a creak in the floor behind him and turned around, only to see Buffy surrounded by five vampires.
"Tell me about it," she said tensely.
The fight kept on for about fifteen minutes, but eventually Buffy and Spike had to give in. The five vamps were all skilled fighters, and neither one of the two blondes had been able to land more then a few punches at them.
"Who are you?" the biggest one, who also seemed to be the leader, asked Spike while shoving him into a wall so his head slammed against it.
"Ouch," he muttered and stared angrily at the larger vamp. "We're just passin' through, needed some sleep and thought this place looked like a good choice." Spike smirked cockily at the other vamp. "Obviously, it wasn't."
The big vampire snorted and shot a glance in Buffy's direction, who were held back by three other's.
"And she? What's up with her? She's strong, and definitely knows how to fight."
"And cute too, Vin, don't forget that," one of the other vamps said, receiving agreeing nods from the others.
Spike straightened up and tried to look as threatening as possible, even though Vin was a head higher then he.
"Just a friend of mine, who I wouldn't mess with if I was you."
Vin looked at him for a moment, and then burst into laughter.
"You're funny," he said, still laughing. "I like it, you got some attitude. What's you're business here?"
Spike looked at Buffy, who rolled her eyes and shrugged. Deciding to have some fun, Spike, who was now allowed to move away from the wall, started talking.
"Me and the bird was just here on a visit, you'no, seeing our history. We're just driving around, looking for fun." He grinned at Buffy. "And I think we got some."
One of the vamps that were holding Buffy laughed and let go of her.
"You think getting you're asses kicked is fun?" he asked, amused.
The other two also let go of Buffy and she took a step from them. "We were only warming up," she said confidently. "If you'd given us another minute we'd have so beaten you down."
"Whatever you say, baby doll," Vin laughed and turned to Spike. "She's cocky," he said. "Where'd you find her?"
Spike shrugged and grinned widely.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," he said, and a second later they both were holding up stakes, circling around with their backs against each other's. But the vampires didn't seem too threatened, more amused.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Vin said, crossing his arms and leaning against the wall. "You've just lost a fight against us, and now you wanna do it again?" He shook his head in disbelief.
"Normally I would've staked you, blondie, and then bitten you're girl, but I won't this time." Now it was Spike and Buffy's turn to be baffled.
"And why is that?" Buffy asked.
"Because you've got guts," he said with a big grin on his face. "And I like that. I'm going to introduce you to some people. Come along."
Spike and Buffy exchanged glances, and then Spike turned back to Vin.
"We wanna discuss it." Both of them put back their stakes into their pockets. "Just me and her."
Vin looked at them for a moment, and then he shrugged.
"Whatever you say. You've got ten minutes. But don't try to escape, we're keeping an eye on you."
"Gotcha," Buffy murmured as she and Spike walked back into the kitchen. There they just stood quiet for a moment before Buffy burst out into laughter.
"Can you believe this?" she asked him. "We come here, to another dimension, and these vamps think we're cool? They want to introduce us for their friends, for Gods sake. And they're not just regular vampires. That one we dusted earlier, he had a very expensive car. The vamps back home doesn't have those."
Spike nodded and though about it for a second.
"You're right. Something about this place is different. But the best way to find out what it is, is to have a look around. At least until we find out a way to get back home."
"So you think we should go with them?" Buffy asked, not a single sarcastic thing about her voice, it was just a regular question. Spike couldn't believe that it took for them to go to another dimension before she started treating him like a person. Or, kind of a person, at least.
"Don't think we have that much of a choice, pet," he said, keeping and eye on the closed door that separated them from the vamps in the other room. "Unless you wanna try kicking their ass again." She looked like she gave it some serious thoughts, but then she shook her head.
"Nah, don't think so. As fun as it might be, they're a bit to good to take out as a group. Maybe if we could take them one and one, but that'll have to be a later adventure."
Spike nodded and pushed the door open.
"We're ready to go," Buffy told the vamps.
The huge van took them from the not-so-abandoned house to what was the mayor's office. Buffy hadn't been there in years, and the sight of it gave her the creeps. But the old mayor was dead, he might not even have existed in this dimension, and there were some differences between this building and the one back home. For one thing, it didn't have any windows. Buffy turned to Spike to point that out to him, but he'd already noticed.
"Something's really off with this place," she whispered to him.
Spike nodded and made sure the other vamps weren't listening before he talked.
"And have you noticed that there's no one out on the street's? The sun's coming up any second now, and no one's out to get to work. You're right, something's very off."
"Do you think-" Buffy started to say, but Vin who turned his head around from the front seat to look at them cut her off.
"We're here," he said. "The sun's coming up, so we're in a hurry. Danny's going to drop us off outside the main entrance, in a second, so be ready."
The two blondes nodded as the driver, who's name seemed to be Danny, stopped the car and everyone but him got out. As soon as they'd gone up to the door, he drove off.
"This is where the power is," Vin said, his voice filled with a mixture of reverent and disdain. Then he knocked several times on the metal door and waited for someone to open.
"Yes?" a voice called out just a second later, and Vin cleared his throat.
"This is Vin. I've brought some newcomers to see the mayor," he said with a loud, rumbling voice. He obviously wanted to sound as though as possible.
"Wait," was all the man on the other side said, and then there was silence.
The six of them stood outside for more then five minutes and waited impatiently for something to happen. When the door finally opened, a tall woman who held some resemblance to Drusilla stood there, but it definitely wasn't her. The fact that Drusilla was insane had always been quite evident in her way of moving and talking, but most of all in her eyes. This woman, whoever she was, was not insane. When Buffy met her eyes, she could see nothing but intelligence, and cruelty. Her eyes flashed yellow when she looked at Buffy.
"You didn't say one of them was a human," she said coldly to Vin, and the large vampire took a step back from her.
"I'm sorry, Dinah, but I wasn't aware I had to." She kept on staring at him and Buffy had to hide a smile as he looked like he was about to pee in his pants. "B-But she's special. She's really strong, and she could fight very well. She was just as strong as her friend," Vin pointed at Spike, who stood just behind him. "And that guy was strong," he added after a couple of seconds of silence. Dinah snorted and looked away from Vin in disgust.
"Come here," she said, and both Buffy and Spike immediately stepped forward, like there was something in her voice forcing them to. She put a cold hand on Buffy's forehead, and then closed her eyes. Slightly panicked, Buffy tried to move away, but she stood as frozen. Beside her Spike started to lift his arm, but stopped. When Dinah eventually took away her hand, she dried it of on Vin's T-shirt as if Buffy'd infected her with something.
"Take them inside," she ordered.
Too confused to fight back, at least that was what Buffy told herself, she and Spike followed the vampires inside into a huge hallway lit only by small lamps standing on the four tables that stood in each corner of the room. The walls were in an odd red color, blood red, if it was paint or the actual thing she wasn't sure. A chill ran up her spine and when Vin pointed to the staircase on their left she was thankful to leave the room.
The staircase went from the first to the ninth, and top, floor, and despite her good physique she couldn't help but whish for an elevator. But the vampires didn't seem to like electricity, for the only electric equipment she saw was a lamp here and there. The sun had already risen outside, but inside the building she had to concentrate to see more then a couple of meters ahead. But after a while her eyes did adjust, and she gazed at the paintings hanging on the walls. If she wasn't mistaken they were painted in oil and the theme was very clear. Mayhem and murder; small children looking up at their slain parent's whose faces seemed white and their throats had two small holes with tiny droplets of blood dripping from them. Buffy looked away in disgust and shot a glance at Spike, who obviously found the paintings quite interesting and amusing, at least that was the impression his excited smile gave her.
She frowned and decided just to look straight ahead as they continued to climb the stairs upwards. 'He's a vampire. Don't forget that,' she told herself. 'This place must be like heaven for him.' Before them Vin walked, his pace fast and rushed, and behind them two of the other vampire's that they'd met in the house followed, they both seemed to have trouble keeping up.
"Stop," Vin suddenly said and if Buffy hadn't had such good reflexes she'd have stumbled into him, but she managed to stop in her tracks just behind him, and she saw Spike do the same.
"What?" she prodded to know and scowled angrily, more because of the fact that she'd been growing bored the last couple of minutes then by actual anger.
Vin was silent for a while before he turned to her.
"I might think that you're attitude is quite charming, but if you keep it up in there you'll be in trouble. When we've entered the room you have to remember only to talk when someone's addressing you." He paused and stared into her eyes coldly. "You understand?"
Buffy was about to tell him to forget it, but something within told her to follow his advice, or order, depending on how you saw it. This was not a time to be cocky and proud. So she shrugged, and Vin took that as a yes. Then he turned to the vampires behind her.
"Suit up," he commanded them, and they immediately brought out their game faces. After thinking about it for a moment, Vin told Spike to do the same thing.
Satisfied with their appearance, Vin took a deep, very unnecessary, breath and knocked on the door. This time it was opened immediately, and a tall dark strangely familiar man stood there. It took Buffy a second or two to recognized who he was, or whom he looked like.
"Trick?" she asked out loud, earning an angry look from Vin. She didn't care and just kept on staring on the vampire before her. She knew he was dead, but still here he was. She glanced over at Spike, who looked at the man indifferently. Then she realized he might never have met the mayor's sidekick.
Trick, or whoever he was, looked at her oddly and then turned his gaze at Vin.
"Who is this pretty young lady, and why haven't you thought her some manners?"
Vin shifted uncomfortably under the other vamp's gaze, he obviously wasn't very high up in rank here, and straightened up self-consciously.
"That's none of you're business, sir," he said with spite in his voice. "We're here to see the mayor."
Trick snorted but moved out of the way to let them in. Buffy felt a sudden bolt of fear that the mayor he was talking about was actually the old mayor from Sunnydale, anything was possible. When she saw who sat on behind the large desk she couldn't help but yelp in surprise and take a step back. Beside her Spike frowned and tilted his head to the side, like he was deep in thought. There, with two vampires on his sides, sat the Master.
End part 2
A/N: I had a hard time making up my mind about posting this story or not. I don't really have time to write it, and I'm also working on another story right now, so the updates might come quite far apart. But judging by the few reviews I've received I think no one will really care. *sobs* But I'll do my best to write this, and I can definitely say this is the story I've enjoyed the most-ever-to write. And also, please tell me if I have some serious grammatical mistakes. English isn't my first language and all the help with teaching me more would be very much appreciated. OMG, this became a long Author's note. Going to stop now.
