Ch.18
"No way! You were in love with the slayer?"
"You know what the slayer is?"
"Well, duh! Any vampire knows what a slayer is! It's like automatic knowledge when you're turned!"
Spike and Sair were walking along rooftops of various buildings, homes, factories, businesses; all the while, talking of their pasts.
"So," Sair started up again as she crossed over to another roof and looked back to Spike when she landed, "When did this all happen?"
"Well," Spike said as he jumped over to the other rooftop, landing lightly and continuing to walk, "This happened awhile ago, but not too long."
"So I'm assuming not like a century ago."
"Right, I just forget the time, a few years back."
"So, you went to this place called Sunnydale, and you were with Drusilla right?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, so what exactly were you doin' in a small town place like that?"
"Well, me and Dru had our little things over there. At first, we went to get Angel because Dru was so sick."
"Ah, the blood of her sire to make her strong, right?"
"Yeah, it worked halfway and then Buffy came in and stopped us.."
"Buffy?"
"That was her name, the slayer."
"Oh.."
"Well, after that, Angel lost his soul, then he got it back...and na na na na. Kinda complicated."
"I got that."
"But after that, something changed in me."
"What?"
"I don't know, it just happened. I started caring about her."
"…"
"I knew it was a doomed thing, but somehow didn't, you know what I mean?"
"Kinda."
"Well, after that, I got my soul and then-"
"Wait, you got a soul?"
"What? Oh yeah."
"How?"
"Too long of a tale to tell. Long story short, it's in me now."
"What good has it done?"
"I really don't know...it's done something different, that's for sure."
"Well, that's something new at least."
"Well, after that, I died, saving the world from the Apocalypse. And then came back here."
"What an adventure."
"I'll say."
"What happened to the slayer? Were you ever reunited with her?"
"No."
"What happened? Did she die?"
"No, she…lived. But…I dunno.."
"I get it, you don't have to say anymore."
"Well, what about your life?"
"Well," Sair started, "Me and Lucia lived happily for awhile after you left, we moved to New York and started our business there too. Well, after that, you know. Dorian came in."
"Yeah," Spike said, "But how did you live after..you know?"
"Dorian took me in a couple weeks after. He just came in, killed Lucia, and then left. We grieved for awhile-"
"We?"
"Me, Arien, and Ni."
"Who?"
"Vampires me and Lucia turned after you left. They have and I'm pretty sure always been honest workers. They took care of the business for a little while after Lucia was killed. But I dunno where they are now."
"Oh, so what happened to the demon business?"
"Dorian somehow stole all the papers to it afterwards. Bastard probably snuck in. When I found out he had the business funds and stuff, I immediately went after him. Bad move I guess.."
Spike stopped walking, "What happened?"
Sair stopped as well and sighed, "I made a deal with him."
"What kind of deal?"
"At first, it sounded so simple, but then it was more and more complicated. He promised to keep the business going, using the funds for mostly good and he ensured Arien and Ni enough money for them to lead happy lives. But…"
"But?"
"But I had to stay with him. It was that, or the whole thing would be lost. That was the catch. I knew Lucia wouldn't have wanted that, everything she ever worked for taken by someone so easily. So I did. I stayed with him.
At first, it was simple. I would just tag along when I could, listening to his ramble and everything. Then something happened…..he told me something that pissed me off. I don't remember what it was, but I was really ticked. I attacked him and then he came close to staking me."
"What?" Spike asked.
"He put his sword into my chest. Really close to my heart and it hurt. It took me three weeks to recover. After that, there wasn't respect. It was fear in me.
Time after time, we fought and it all ended the same. Dorian was always stronger than me, he always won. That's how I got the way I was, I followed all that he said from fear of him."
Spike was silent for a moment.
"So now you know," Sair finished as she started walking again.
"Yeah," he said as he started walking too, "I'm kinda wishin' that I didn't though."
"Well," was all the young vampire could say, "But now…it's better. You're here, and everything can work out."
Spike smiled, "Yeah."
Sair smiled back and jumped over to a nearby rooftop, "C'mon!"
The vampire smiled and was ready to jump when he heard a familiar voice behind him.
"You vampires and your little quirks."
Spike turned around, not surprised much to see Dorian.
The immortal smiled, "You jump rooftops for fun?"
Spike stared him down, "What the hell do you want?"
Dorian shrugged, "A lot of things, but you see. To get something, you must always get something else first, that's why I'm here."
"You want Sair."
Dorian said nothing, but just kept the glint in his eye as he unsheathed his sword from his cane.
Spike stood at ready for any attack that might have come his way.
"Spike!" Sair yelled from the rooftop behind him.
"Run Sair! Go back to Angel!"
"No! I'm not leaving you to fight him!"
"Go!"
Spike told her to go just before Dorian's sword came swinging down upon him. He rolled to the right and buried his fist in Dorian's gut. Thus, the battle began.
Sair watched as Spike and Dorian exchanged blows across the way from her. Not wanting to leave her brother, she ran and leapt off of the roof she was on. Her temporary flight would have been smooth, if not for a person tackling her in mid-air.
She fell against the wall to the alley below and then to the ground. After a groan and a sharp stab of pain in her head, she got up to see a woman.
She was tall, wearing all black leather, fangs bared and ready to fight. Her long black hair spilled over her shoulders in many curls, making her look all the more fearsome.
Sair got to her feet, "And just who are you?"
The vampire said nothing, instead, she just hissed and leapt for the younger vampire.
Sair dodged and pushed the woman roughly to the ground, "Good enough introduction for me."
The woman got up and landed a back-fist across Sair's cheek. The younger vampire retaliated by kicking her foe in the stomach, and landing an uppercut on her chin, sending the vampire flying into a nearby dumpster.
Sair was about to finish the woman off, but she heard an all to familiar yell, followed by Dorian's own yell to the vampire she was fighting.
"Mina! Come!" he ordered from the rooftop, "We've got what we want! Let's go!"
Without a word of protest, Mina, got up from the ground and jumped onto the walls, then to the rooftop.
"No!" Sair yelled as she repeated these motions and landed on the top of the building.
She saw Dorian with a smirk on his face and a bloodied sword in hand. She looked to Mina, who held her brother in her arms. Spike's eyes were closed and for a moment, she thought he was dead.
As if reading her thoughts, Dorian spoke.
"Don't worry, we're just going to borrow him for awhile!"
"You take another step away and I'll gut you where you stand," Sair replied angrily.
"Oh, I'm so scared by your words," the immortal said in sarcasm, "But I really think you should be afraid."
"And why is that?"
"Just look at the horizon."
Sair looked and saw the early light coming. Oh no, dawn was coming soon.
"Yeah," Dorian said, "So now, my advice to you is, run fast."
And with that, he laughed.
Sair watched in horror as Mina transformed into what must've been a hundred bats, enveloping Dorian and her brother, and carrying them off faster than anything.
The young vampire looked at the coming dawn with fright and backed up a few steps, hitting something with her foot.
It was Spike's phone! Sair remembered seeing her brother calling the vampire named Angel a few times on it, it must've fallen out of his pocket.
She picked it up and went through the directory as she ran to the edge of the rooftop and jumped to the one across, hoping to outrun the sunlight. As she ran, she found a number labeled 'Peaches', that was the only one that was there and Sair hoped it wasn't a number to one of her brother's girlfriends. She hit the call button as she jumped another rooftop.
It rang, one….two….click.
"What is it Spike?" came the distinctive vampire's voice on the other line.
"Angel! It's Sair!" the young vampire spoke into the phone, "Help!"
"Help? Help what? What's wrong?"
"Me and Spike were walking, we got into a tussle with Dorian and he took Spike away!" Sair said as she looked back at the deadly sun about to rise, "And now, the sun's gonna come up!!"
"Sair! I want you to listen to me," Angel said, "Find a dark alley, dark enough for you to stay for awhile."
"Right," the young vampire said as she looked down in between the two buildings she just crossed, "Found one."
"Go into it," the other vampire told her.
Sair obeyed and dropped down swiftly into the alley beneath her and going into the darkest corner there was, "I'm in it now."
"Okay look, I need you to keep on the phone alright? I'm gonna send someone to get you," Angel told her.
"But Spike-they took away Spike.." the young vampire almost cried.
"He'll be fine, when we find you, we'll find him okay?"
"Alright…"
"Stay hidden and be safe. Someone will be there soon," and with that, Angel hung up the phone.
Sair cringed as the first rays of sun peeked out on the side of the alley and hoped that they would get here in time.
Damn….that was a long chapter wasn't it? Please review!