Chapter 7

"Let me go!" Buffy yelled her plea loud enough that it woke the sleeping Spike from his slumber. She struggled as hard as she could but Angelus had a mighty grip on her arms and the falling rain was making it additionally hard to get away.
"You know I like it when you squirm", he said it with a chuckle. "What's your rush Buff? I just got here and now you want to run off?" He laughed again just as his grip slipped and she climbed off.
Even as a vampire she was still very afraid of the darker side of Angel and it affected her greatly as she tried her hardest to get away. The endless path of mud and water puddles caused her to loose her footing and fall over and over. She was still missing her top; she didn't care. All she wanted to do was get as far away from Angelus as possible.
Spike had gotten up and was running through the headache that he had from the blow to his nose. He really didn't know where he was running but he knew that he was in no shape to face Angelus and he now knew the only way for him to become human.
"Nothing can stop me now", he said in his British accent.
Angel sat in the rain, surrounded by a thick puddle of muddy water that resembled coffee with two creams in it. He was wearing a huge smile that stretched to both sides of his face. His face slowly shifted from his beautiful and angelic mask into the demon that he held inside. His fangs showed as he smiled and his yellow eyes had a bit of an unnatural glow to them in the dark.
A lightning bolt cut itself through the sky, ripping clouds and sheets of rain. The light showed the world for just a moment as if the light of the sun covered it. Angelus looked at the dripping trees and the swinging boughs and thought about seeing the scene in the sunlight.
"Human again--", he let his words drip out of his mouth and it came with a sense of satisfaction. "It's been too long."
He pulled himself to his feet and pulled his pants back up. An old nursery rhyme came to his mind, one that he'd heard when he was a child, and he began to whistle the tune. He stepped over puddles with a new bounce to his step and his arms started to swing at his side a bit.
"Angelus is back." He said it to himself with a bit of self- satisfaction. "I'm back!" He yelled it out into the cold night's air.

***

Buffy could barely hear a yell coming from behind her and her pace speed up a bit. If she'd still been alive her pulse would have been pounding in her ear. No such noise graced her. She tried to keep her mind focused on what she had to do.
Yotio demons. Three of them. Drink the mixed blood of them all. All found in Sunnydale. Less than two months. Yotio demons. Three...
She repeated the thoughts over and over again in her until she knew that they were there forever. Before she knew it she was at her old home and the sun was starting to come up. The sky was becoming a magnificent canvas with red and orange paint mixed all over it. The clouds that were starting to break up were stained dark purple with sparkles of dark maroon and red.
She walked up the steps and through the door just as the gang was waking up. Their sleepy eyes showed that they'd all slept pretty hard and she thought about how much more pleasant their nights had been.
She walked past Willow and Oz standing in the doorway and a very specific scent filled her nose. She stopped at looked at the two of them with a puzzled face. Oz too caught a smell in his nose from Buffy.
"You had sex?" They said in unison.
Buffy and Oz looked at each other with little smiles on their faces. Willow looked at Buffy and put a single finger to her mouth as to say "be quiet".
I guess they want to keep it a secret that Willow isn't a lesbian anymore. She had sex with Oz tonight. That's awesome.
"Buffy, you brought Angelus back?" Oz said it with a certainty in his voice. It wasn't even a question as much as a statement.
"I made a mistake tonight. Things are going to get bad but we can't focus on that."
By this time everyone was in the room and Giles stood in the corner with a hot cup of coffee in his hand. He didn't have to say that he was disappointed in Buffy because she could smell it.
"Giles, I need you to look up the Yotio demons."
"What's going on?" He asked her with curiosity in his voice.
She spelled it out for him over the next twenty minutes and everyone was very intrigued. They all started to search through books and Willow started a search on the Internet.
"I need to go to bed. I'm way too tired to search."
They all understood and she went up to her bedroom.

***

Angelus stood in his crypt, looking through one of the many books that he'd found that might refer to the Yotio demons. He read as fast as he could because he figured that Buffy already had the Scooby gang doing the same.
He stopped reading for a second when he heard a footstep behind him. "You shouldn't have come here", he said. "I thought you'd have more sense than that." He turned around to see that Jennifer Longheart was standing behind him. She was full inside the crypt and was too far away from the sunlight for her to retreat. It made Angelus want to smile.
"I watched you and Buffy tonight. I know that you are Angelus now and I have to kill you."
"You seem like you don't want to finish me, why?"
"It's a waste of my time. I've killed things bigger and scarier than you with one arm tied behind my back. You are no different than any other vampire that I've faced."
Angelus laughed a bit. "Maybe you're right. But, if you are wrong you will be dead in a few minutes. You must be very secure with yourself to put yourself that far from the door."
She turned around to give a glance to the door to see if it was in fact that far away. As she did so she pulled started to pull her stake out of her large pocket. By the time she looked back in Angelus' direction he was standing a few inches away from her.
She screamed a bit and he put his hands tight on her arms and the stake fell to the ground with a bouncing sound. "You aren't as good as Buffy thought you were. Inexperienced and foolish, that's what you are." He paused and put his lips on the soft skin on her neck. "I like it when you are scared. It makes you smell so much better."
"Let me go!" She screamed.
"That's better." In one quick movement his face changed and his teeth sank into her skin, piercing the vein. The metallic tasting blood rushed into his mouth and the power surge made him want to sing and dance with pleasure. He drained her as much as he could and then he let her drop to the ground.
"Nothing like a slayer's blood to wake you up in the morning." He laughed at his own joke and looked back down at the dead slayer. "You were good kid, but I've had better." He reached down and grabbed the corpse by the arm and began pulling it off to a dumping place. "No body likes a dead corpse in the living room. We have to get you somewhere else."

***

Spike barely got into an abandoned crypt before he burst into flames. The smoke was still billowing off his back and hair. He was pacing back and forth in the smallest crypt that there was in the whole cemetery.
"I've got to find out where these Yotio demons are. I've never even heard of the buggers before." He looked outside and realized that there was nothing he could do for twelve or so hours but sleep. So he did what he could and went off to slumber land on the dusty floor.