Chapter 16
Hours later, Drusilla rolled her eyes as she looked at her phone again. Spike was trying to call her, yet again!
She was watching Cole play a slot machine and not very successfully.
'You don't seem to be very lucky tonight,' she noted, 'maybe if you hadn't brought me along, you'd be doing better.'
Cole looked over at her.
'What kind of talk is that? Look, why don't you answer the phone this time? You are going to have to tell Spike that you're living with me again, sooner or later.'
Drusilla nodded. Cole was right. There was no avoiding Spike forever. Drusilla walked out of the noisy casino and found a quiet spot near a hotel entrance. She sat down on a bench, next to a potted plant and answered the phone.
'Hello?'
'Dru? Where the bloody hell are you?! And what happened in our bedroom?!'
Spike had had Paige orb him and Wesley back to his apartment to see about Dru. He could tell she had been there...and he could tell that someone else had as well. The chunk that had been taken out of his wall, showed that a vicious fight had taken place, not to mention that the bed was unmade. Spike feared that Dru had had to fight Angelus off, or had not been successful in fending him off....he didn't know what to think!
'Oh, like you don't know!' Drusilla snapped. She moved away from the plant a bit, since some of it was rubbing against her hair.
Spike didn't like her tone.
'No I don't, Dru. And we don't have time for guessing games here! Something has happened and we need for you to get back here!'
'Fine,' Drusilla said, ignoring what Spike had said about his needing her to 'come back'. 'When I returned to the apartment, your little girlfriend was waiting for you. I guess you figured I'd be gone a lot longer!'
Spike looked at a curious Paige and Wesley. He turned away from them slightly.
'What the bleeding hell are you talking about?'
'Buffy! Buffy, Spike! Your little slayer bitch was in our bed! She was waiting for you, she wasn't pregnant and I knocked her into a wall by just waving my hand! How I did that, I don't know! So don't lie to me, Spike!'
There was a silence. Drusilla raised a brow.
'Oh, nothing to say?'
She could almost hear his smile over the phone.
'You said, 'our bed'. Dru, you don't know what that means to me, to know that you're willing to sleep with me.'
Drusilla heard grossed out groans in the background!
'Who is with you? Buffy?'
'Dru, Buffy could not have been here! She's married, pregnant and in Paris! Somebody is diddling with your mind to try and screw us up! And I'd bet my arse that it was the bastard Belthazor! Now, get back here and let me explain...'
Spike suddenly heard her cry out!
'Dru? Dru, answer me, damnit?!'
'I....I...I'm having a vision...Angel is coming here....why?'
'Dru? Dru, listen to me he's....'
But the phone cut off! Spike threw it against the wall and it smashed! Wesley moved closer to him.
'Did you find out where she was?'
'No! Bloody hell! Angelus is there already! Where is there?! Where is there?!' Spike almost screamed.
Paige moved forward and put a hand on his shoulder.
'Look, we will scroll for her, okay? Do you have a map?'
Spike was breathing hard, but he managed to nod.
'Yes, in the drawer over there....she'll think he's coming to talk about work or something! She didn't even say if she was with that bloody bastard Belthazor! At least he could protect her from him!'
'Spike,' Wesley said quietly, 'Leo was right before. Drusilla can protect herself.'
Spike's eyes suddenly widened, as Paige took out the United States map and began scrolling in the state of California.
'What is it?' Wesley asked, seeing that something was wrong.
'Dru said that she saw Buffy here.'
'What?' Wesley asked, looking over at Paige, who looked up from her task.
'That's right, only there's no way she was! Not unless someone tricked her into thinking she was seeing her.'
Paige nodded.
'Cole can morph into anyone. He's pulled that trick on us, more than once.'
'I knew it!' Spike snapped. 'Dru said that she waved her hand and threw Buffy into that wall.'
Wesley nodded slowly.
'Which would explain the damage.' he murmured. But Paige stopped scrolling altogether.
'I can't do that. I have to call out to things to the move them, but....'
Wesley walked over to her.
'What is it, dearest?'
Paige smiled. She liked it when Wesley used a term of endearment in that cute little British accent!
'My sister, the one I never knew, Prue, she could move things with her mind that way. But that makes no sense.'
Wesley shook his head.
'Drusilla now has one more power than you. I wonder if she will be able to attain more?'
'Well is that supposed to happen?' Spike asked.
Paige shook her head.
'I don't know...I mean, our powers have grown...I guess.' was all she said, before she returned to scrolling for Dru. Spike clasped his cold hands together, praying that Paige found Dru's location soon.
****
Drusilla was more than a little stunned, when Angel appeared before her, just as she was coming out of her vision. He had snatched the phone out of her hand in a teasing manner.
'Hey, Dru. You look good tonight. So, who are you down here with? Spike?'
Drusilla rolled her eyes!
'No, that was just him on the phone now. I'm glad you came when you did. I don't want to hear anymore of his sorry excuses.'
'What did he do now? Do you want me to fire him for you?'
Drusilla looked at Angel with surprise. She half smiled.
'Uh, no. I'll get by. What are you doing here? Did you bring Phoebe?'
'Nah! I dumped her tonight.'
Drusilla stared at him. The hair on the back of her neck was beginning to stand, but she did not know why.
'What?'
'Yeah, she was a little too fast for me...I like to make the first move, you know what I mean? Of course you do, Dru. Because, we are made for one another...'
Angelus suddenly pulled Drusilla into his arms roughly, and revealed his vampire face! Drusilla screamed, as she realized that somehow, someway, Angelus was the one that was trying to kill her now!
She managed to wrench away from him, and began to back away. No one else seemed to be around. Why, in a crowded Las Vegas casino/hotel, did she had to pick the area that was deserted, to curse Spike out over the phone?!
'Now Drusilla, darlin' that isn't very polite! One would think that now that you're human, you think you're too good for the local vampires! Is that why you dumped Spike? Not that I blame you. Hell, Dru, I wanted to stake him the very first minute I saw him, but we kept him around for you!'
Drusilla began to shake as memories of being chased down by this creature, began to flood her memories!She backed back some more.
'Things are different now.' she said, trying to keep her voice from shaking.
'Oh, because you have a new boyfriend? Who is he Dru? I'll rip his throat out just like I did that one guy...you know the neighbor boy that seemed sweet on you? I remember thinking, as I sucked him dry, that I was doing you a favor! He couldn't have provided for you in a proper way...even if you had changed your mind about going into that convent!'
'He's me.'
Angel turned around and looked into the face of an old enemy. He looked back at Dru.
'My, honey, you have really stepped it up in the guy department! Belthazor, old buddy, old pal...how the hell have you been all of these years?'
But for Cole, looking at Angelus was bittersweet. Obviously Utha's spell had worked, meaning this vampire bastard had touched his Phoebe more than once! And while he knew this was probably the end of Angel's relationship with Phoebe, he could see that Drusilla was too terrified to use any magic on Angelus at all! He felt bad for her.
Cole produced a fireball.
'Stay away from Dru...and Phoebe.'
Angelus cocked his head.
'Phoebe? That would be the sweet piece I had earlier tonight? You know, I've never liked short hair on my women. I like brunette's, with long, lustrous, DARK hair, isn't that right, Dru?'
'I'm giving you one more chance to leave here with your life.' Cole said in a tight voice.
Angelus held up his hands in surrender.
'Fine, fine. I'm 'hungry' anyway. So, I'll just see the two of you back in L.A.. Gotta go hitch me a ride back...unless either one of you....'
Cole bounced the fireball in his hand, itching to fling it! He had forgotten what a bastard Angelus could be!
Angelus looked back at Dru, then blew her a kiss! He then walked past Belthazor and down a dark hallway of the hotel. Cole extinguished his fireball, just as Spike, Paige and Wesley orbed in.
Spike ran to Drusilla.
'Are you alright, luv?'
But Dru was too overwhelmed to speak, as she began to shake. Spike wrapped his arms around her.
'Can you orb, pet?'
Cole walked up to them.
'How is Phoebe?'
'Not in good shape, not that that is any of your concern!' Paige hissed. Cole then shimmered away. Wesley shook his head.
'What a gentlemen. He brings Dru here and leaves her.'
But Spike pulled a shell-shocked looking Dru into his arms. She had her arms around herself in a protective fashion.
'Good riddance! Let's take Dru back to my place so that she can calm down. I don't like the looks of her.' Spike said.
'Spike, does Angel have an invitation into your apartment?'
Spike sighed.
'Bollocks! Yes, he bloody well does!'
Wesley looked at Paige.
'He's orbed in before...but he's never stepped over the threshold. I guess once he's been in, he's in. I doubt we could keep him out now.' Paige said.
'There are reversal spells that can be used...spells that can disinvite a specific vampire.' Wesley informed her. Paige nodded.
'Well then let's get working on it. Spike, I want to bring Dru back home with us. She's family...you're welcome to stick close by.'
Spike just nodded and kissed the top of Dru's head. She hadn't said a word.
****
Cole orbed into the manor, as Piper and Leo were comforting a distraught looking Phoebe. Leo looked up.
'What are you doing here?'
Phoebe looked up as well and wiped her eyes.
'I'm not in the mood to fight with you, Cole. Get out.' she said in a hoarse voice. But Cole shook his head.
'I just had to protect Dru from Angelus.'
That got their attention. Piper moved towards him.
'Is she alright?'
'Spike, Paige and her boyfriend are with her now. She's a mess.'
'Oh God!' Phoebe cried out. Cole moved closer to her.
'Phoebe, there is nothing you can do about him. He's a lost cause...though I would call Darryl and tell him to be on the look out for rashes of killings by neck wound, in the area. Have you disininvited him yet?'
Piper looked at Leo. She had not thought of that! Leo nodded.
'Cole's right. The man we met tonight, can't have cart blanche entrance into this house. We'd better work on that. No telling when he might come back.'
'He's on his way back from Vegas, so you have a bit.'
'Vegas?' Piper asked.
'Yeah, Dru and I were in a casino when the creep tried to turn Dru back into a vampire. You know, another thing, Dru told me that she gained a new power.'
Phoebe looked at Cole.
'What new power?'
'She can also move things by moving her hand, like Prue used to.'
Piper, Leo and Phoebe looked at one another in shock, just as Spike, who was carrying Drusilla by now, Wesley and Paige orbed back there.
'Oh my God!' Leo cried out, taking a look at Dru's eyes. She was staring into space.
'That bloody bint! I was afraid of this you know! What the hell are you doing here?!' Spike snapped, glaring at Cole.
But Cole did not answer. Phoebe took one look at Dru's catatonic state and began to cry again. Cole could not resist going to her. She did not fight him, as he put his arms around her.
Meanwhile, Spike carried Dru up to her old room. The Charmed Ones had fixed the broken window by now. He laid her down on the bed. Leo stood over her.
'I'm going to talk with the Elders. They may know more about why she's in this condition.'
'I don't need 'The Elders' to tell me why this happened! That bloody witch was working for Belthazor! He's the one that gets something out of Angel losing his soul! He now has Phoebe right where he wants her, never mind about the evil he's unleashed! Dru is in this 'state' because she's scared to death...just like she must've been when she first met Angelus.' Spike said, his voice breaking. He picked up her hand and squeezed it.
'Drusilla? Drusilla? Pet? You have to snap out of this! He's coming for you...he's coming for us all. You have to be ready to fight him.'
But Drusilla just continued to stare into space. What Spike did not know was, that what to him looked like a catatonic state, was for her, the re-living of her life, as her mind took her back to London, when she first met Angelus....
Hours later, Drusilla rolled her eyes as she looked at her phone again. Spike was trying to call her, yet again!
She was watching Cole play a slot machine and not very successfully.
'You don't seem to be very lucky tonight,' she noted, 'maybe if you hadn't brought me along, you'd be doing better.'
Cole looked over at her.
'What kind of talk is that? Look, why don't you answer the phone this time? You are going to have to tell Spike that you're living with me again, sooner or later.'
Drusilla nodded. Cole was right. There was no avoiding Spike forever. Drusilla walked out of the noisy casino and found a quiet spot near a hotel entrance. She sat down on a bench, next to a potted plant and answered the phone.
'Hello?'
'Dru? Where the bloody hell are you?! And what happened in our bedroom?!'
Spike had had Paige orb him and Wesley back to his apartment to see about Dru. He could tell she had been there...and he could tell that someone else had as well. The chunk that had been taken out of his wall, showed that a vicious fight had taken place, not to mention that the bed was unmade. Spike feared that Dru had had to fight Angelus off, or had not been successful in fending him off....he didn't know what to think!
'Oh, like you don't know!' Drusilla snapped. She moved away from the plant a bit, since some of it was rubbing against her hair.
Spike didn't like her tone.
'No I don't, Dru. And we don't have time for guessing games here! Something has happened and we need for you to get back here!'
'Fine,' Drusilla said, ignoring what Spike had said about his needing her to 'come back'. 'When I returned to the apartment, your little girlfriend was waiting for you. I guess you figured I'd be gone a lot longer!'
Spike looked at a curious Paige and Wesley. He turned away from them slightly.
'What the bleeding hell are you talking about?'
'Buffy! Buffy, Spike! Your little slayer bitch was in our bed! She was waiting for you, she wasn't pregnant and I knocked her into a wall by just waving my hand! How I did that, I don't know! So don't lie to me, Spike!'
There was a silence. Drusilla raised a brow.
'Oh, nothing to say?'
She could almost hear his smile over the phone.
'You said, 'our bed'. Dru, you don't know what that means to me, to know that you're willing to sleep with me.'
Drusilla heard grossed out groans in the background!
'Who is with you? Buffy?'
'Dru, Buffy could not have been here! She's married, pregnant and in Paris! Somebody is diddling with your mind to try and screw us up! And I'd bet my arse that it was the bastard Belthazor! Now, get back here and let me explain...'
Spike suddenly heard her cry out!
'Dru? Dru, answer me, damnit?!'
'I....I...I'm having a vision...Angel is coming here....why?'
'Dru? Dru, listen to me he's....'
But the phone cut off! Spike threw it against the wall and it smashed! Wesley moved closer to him.
'Did you find out where she was?'
'No! Bloody hell! Angelus is there already! Where is there?! Where is there?!' Spike almost screamed.
Paige moved forward and put a hand on his shoulder.
'Look, we will scroll for her, okay? Do you have a map?'
Spike was breathing hard, but he managed to nod.
'Yes, in the drawer over there....she'll think he's coming to talk about work or something! She didn't even say if she was with that bloody bastard Belthazor! At least he could protect her from him!'
'Spike,' Wesley said quietly, 'Leo was right before. Drusilla can protect herself.'
Spike's eyes suddenly widened, as Paige took out the United States map and began scrolling in the state of California.
'What is it?' Wesley asked, seeing that something was wrong.
'Dru said that she saw Buffy here.'
'What?' Wesley asked, looking over at Paige, who looked up from her task.
'That's right, only there's no way she was! Not unless someone tricked her into thinking she was seeing her.'
Paige nodded.
'Cole can morph into anyone. He's pulled that trick on us, more than once.'
'I knew it!' Spike snapped. 'Dru said that she waved her hand and threw Buffy into that wall.'
Wesley nodded slowly.
'Which would explain the damage.' he murmured. But Paige stopped scrolling altogether.
'I can't do that. I have to call out to things to the move them, but....'
Wesley walked over to her.
'What is it, dearest?'
Paige smiled. She liked it when Wesley used a term of endearment in that cute little British accent!
'My sister, the one I never knew, Prue, she could move things with her mind that way. But that makes no sense.'
Wesley shook his head.
'Drusilla now has one more power than you. I wonder if she will be able to attain more?'
'Well is that supposed to happen?' Spike asked.
Paige shook her head.
'I don't know...I mean, our powers have grown...I guess.' was all she said, before she returned to scrolling for Dru. Spike clasped his cold hands together, praying that Paige found Dru's location soon.
****
Drusilla was more than a little stunned, when Angel appeared before her, just as she was coming out of her vision. He had snatched the phone out of her hand in a teasing manner.
'Hey, Dru. You look good tonight. So, who are you down here with? Spike?'
Drusilla rolled her eyes!
'No, that was just him on the phone now. I'm glad you came when you did. I don't want to hear anymore of his sorry excuses.'
'What did he do now? Do you want me to fire him for you?'
Drusilla looked at Angel with surprise. She half smiled.
'Uh, no. I'll get by. What are you doing here? Did you bring Phoebe?'
'Nah! I dumped her tonight.'
Drusilla stared at him. The hair on the back of her neck was beginning to stand, but she did not know why.
'What?'
'Yeah, she was a little too fast for me...I like to make the first move, you know what I mean? Of course you do, Dru. Because, we are made for one another...'
Angelus suddenly pulled Drusilla into his arms roughly, and revealed his vampire face! Drusilla screamed, as she realized that somehow, someway, Angelus was the one that was trying to kill her now!
She managed to wrench away from him, and began to back away. No one else seemed to be around. Why, in a crowded Las Vegas casino/hotel, did she had to pick the area that was deserted, to curse Spike out over the phone?!
'Now Drusilla, darlin' that isn't very polite! One would think that now that you're human, you think you're too good for the local vampires! Is that why you dumped Spike? Not that I blame you. Hell, Dru, I wanted to stake him the very first minute I saw him, but we kept him around for you!'
Drusilla began to shake as memories of being chased down by this creature, began to flood her memories!She backed back some more.
'Things are different now.' she said, trying to keep her voice from shaking.
'Oh, because you have a new boyfriend? Who is he Dru? I'll rip his throat out just like I did that one guy...you know the neighbor boy that seemed sweet on you? I remember thinking, as I sucked him dry, that I was doing you a favor! He couldn't have provided for you in a proper way...even if you had changed your mind about going into that convent!'
'He's me.'
Angel turned around and looked into the face of an old enemy. He looked back at Dru.
'My, honey, you have really stepped it up in the guy department! Belthazor, old buddy, old pal...how the hell have you been all of these years?'
But for Cole, looking at Angelus was bittersweet. Obviously Utha's spell had worked, meaning this vampire bastard had touched his Phoebe more than once! And while he knew this was probably the end of Angel's relationship with Phoebe, he could see that Drusilla was too terrified to use any magic on Angelus at all! He felt bad for her.
Cole produced a fireball.
'Stay away from Dru...and Phoebe.'
Angelus cocked his head.
'Phoebe? That would be the sweet piece I had earlier tonight? You know, I've never liked short hair on my women. I like brunette's, with long, lustrous, DARK hair, isn't that right, Dru?'
'I'm giving you one more chance to leave here with your life.' Cole said in a tight voice.
Angelus held up his hands in surrender.
'Fine, fine. I'm 'hungry' anyway. So, I'll just see the two of you back in L.A.. Gotta go hitch me a ride back...unless either one of you....'
Cole bounced the fireball in his hand, itching to fling it! He had forgotten what a bastard Angelus could be!
Angelus looked back at Dru, then blew her a kiss! He then walked past Belthazor and down a dark hallway of the hotel. Cole extinguished his fireball, just as Spike, Paige and Wesley orbed in.
Spike ran to Drusilla.
'Are you alright, luv?'
But Dru was too overwhelmed to speak, as she began to shake. Spike wrapped his arms around her.
'Can you orb, pet?'
Cole walked up to them.
'How is Phoebe?'
'Not in good shape, not that that is any of your concern!' Paige hissed. Cole then shimmered away. Wesley shook his head.
'What a gentlemen. He brings Dru here and leaves her.'
But Spike pulled a shell-shocked looking Dru into his arms. She had her arms around herself in a protective fashion.
'Good riddance! Let's take Dru back to my place so that she can calm down. I don't like the looks of her.' Spike said.
'Spike, does Angel have an invitation into your apartment?'
Spike sighed.
'Bollocks! Yes, he bloody well does!'
Wesley looked at Paige.
'He's orbed in before...but he's never stepped over the threshold. I guess once he's been in, he's in. I doubt we could keep him out now.' Paige said.
'There are reversal spells that can be used...spells that can disinvite a specific vampire.' Wesley informed her. Paige nodded.
'Well then let's get working on it. Spike, I want to bring Dru back home with us. She's family...you're welcome to stick close by.'
Spike just nodded and kissed the top of Dru's head. She hadn't said a word.
****
Cole orbed into the manor, as Piper and Leo were comforting a distraught looking Phoebe. Leo looked up.
'What are you doing here?'
Phoebe looked up as well and wiped her eyes.
'I'm not in the mood to fight with you, Cole. Get out.' she said in a hoarse voice. But Cole shook his head.
'I just had to protect Dru from Angelus.'
That got their attention. Piper moved towards him.
'Is she alright?'
'Spike, Paige and her boyfriend are with her now. She's a mess.'
'Oh God!' Phoebe cried out. Cole moved closer to her.
'Phoebe, there is nothing you can do about him. He's a lost cause...though I would call Darryl and tell him to be on the look out for rashes of killings by neck wound, in the area. Have you disininvited him yet?'
Piper looked at Leo. She had not thought of that! Leo nodded.
'Cole's right. The man we met tonight, can't have cart blanche entrance into this house. We'd better work on that. No telling when he might come back.'
'He's on his way back from Vegas, so you have a bit.'
'Vegas?' Piper asked.
'Yeah, Dru and I were in a casino when the creep tried to turn Dru back into a vampire. You know, another thing, Dru told me that she gained a new power.'
Phoebe looked at Cole.
'What new power?'
'She can also move things by moving her hand, like Prue used to.'
Piper, Leo and Phoebe looked at one another in shock, just as Spike, who was carrying Drusilla by now, Wesley and Paige orbed back there.
'Oh my God!' Leo cried out, taking a look at Dru's eyes. She was staring into space.
'That bloody bint! I was afraid of this you know! What the hell are you doing here?!' Spike snapped, glaring at Cole.
But Cole did not answer. Phoebe took one look at Dru's catatonic state and began to cry again. Cole could not resist going to her. She did not fight him, as he put his arms around her.
Meanwhile, Spike carried Dru up to her old room. The Charmed Ones had fixed the broken window by now. He laid her down on the bed. Leo stood over her.
'I'm going to talk with the Elders. They may know more about why she's in this condition.'
'I don't need 'The Elders' to tell me why this happened! That bloody witch was working for Belthazor! He's the one that gets something out of Angel losing his soul! He now has Phoebe right where he wants her, never mind about the evil he's unleashed! Dru is in this 'state' because she's scared to death...just like she must've been when she first met Angelus.' Spike said, his voice breaking. He picked up her hand and squeezed it.
'Drusilla? Drusilla? Pet? You have to snap out of this! He's coming for you...he's coming for us all. You have to be ready to fight him.'
But Drusilla just continued to stare into space. What Spike did not know was, that what to him looked like a catatonic state, was for her, the re-living of her life, as her mind took her back to London, when she first met Angelus....