(( Ello All! It tis The Izzy here to bring you yet another fantastifully splendiffiourus chapter! Sorry 'bout all the spelling mistakes here and there but hey, we stopped taking Spelling in English (w00t highschool english!) and this is notepad because my word.doc is screwed up worse then the Bush admistration drums and cymbal Anyway this chapter is really short cause I'm working on another chapter for this. Oh yeah, incase you were wondering the virus kills a vampire a vampire in 24 hours from the start of the symptons, and the virus kills a human in 28 hours. So it's really fast acting and Spike's not being a baby or anything lol back to the fic! ))

Spike lay on his cot in the basement sleeping, it was a couple of hours after the symptons of the virus had started showing up in him. He wondered how long it would be before he dies, how long it would take for him to finally end his pain. He heard the steps down to the basement creak and saw Buffy coming down the stairs. He opened his eyes but they started to sting from his head ace.

" Hey." Buffy said simply with a smile. She walked up next to his cot and kealed down and handed him a mug of blood.

" Did you find anything yet?" Spike asked sitting up and took the mug from her.

" No not yet, but we will." Buffy said, she had slipped her hand over his and was tracing a light pattern over his knuckles. Spike took a sip of his blood and made a face and spit it back in, " What's wrong?"

" Tastes rotten or something." Spike said cringing and shuddered.

" I thought I warmed it up enough...." Buffy said thinking back.

" It is, it just doesn't taste good. It's probably just me." Spike said shaking his head and layed back down.

" Just stay alive untill I get back." Buffy said smiling as she stood up, " Well you know what I mean." She said and walked back up the stairs to where Riley, Sam, Dawn, and Willow were.

" Have you found anything yet?" She asked sitting down next to them at the table, it was about 1 pm now and they've been studying for hours.

" Nothing of use." Willow said flipping through another book.

" Is Spike really going to die?" Dawn asked Buffy looking up at her older sister with worry in her eyes.

" I don't know Dawn...." Buffy said shaking her head and looked through another book. They continued studying for about 15 more minutes untill a crashing sound was heard in the basement, Buffy and the others rushed to the door only to find it barricated. Buffy took one good kick at it and the door flew off it's hinges crushing a man underneath it. Buffy sprinted down the stairs and found Spike's cot tipped over on the floor and the window to the basement shattered, some blue liquid on a peice of cloth was laying on the floor as well, but Spike was no where to be found.