The Missing Slayer
Chapter 3: Accusations
Spike was strolling down the street and thought 'I wonder how her stupid lil friends are handling this.' So he quickly turned a corner and quickened his pace. He pulled out a cigarette and lit it up. When he arrived at the Summers home he put it out the cigarette and let himself in through the front door.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" he asked, but no one paid and attention to Spike. "Uh, ok? What the bloody hell is going on here?" Spike asked, he abviously didn't like that fact that nobody was paying attention to him. (not like he cared).
"Oh! Spike! Y-you startled me!" Willow asked, she seemed to be worried. "What are you doing here?"
"Came over here to talk to Buffy, you seem a lil jumpy." He said, then noticed Willow's face fall at the mention to Buffy's name.
"Oh, um…a-about Buffy" Willow began. "Have you seen her?" she looked at Spike hopefully, hoping that he would have some good news about her missing friend.
"Uh- no why? Well ya, she stopped by last night for five minutes and then she left, said that she was going home to help the lil niblet (Dawn) with some studying." He lied, Spike knew exactly where the Slayer was.
"Well she never came home yesterday night and we haven't heard from her either." Said Willow "and we're waiting for Giles to come."
"Oh alright. So how's the lil bit' holdin up?" Spike asked trying to be calm so it wouldn't be obvious that he was lying to Willow.
"Not good" said Willow. She's upstairs sleeping.
"Oh. Well I'm feeling a bit peckish, you got anything for me in the fridge?" Spike asked, he hadn't fed since Buffy and he was kinda hungry.
"Ya there should be some blood in the fridge." Said Willow. "Well, I'm going to call Giles. I'll be right back." And she left and went upstairs, leaving Spike alone in the kitchen. He starts talking to himself:
"Well won't you look at that?" said Spike, opening the fridge, "they're worried 'bout their bloody Slayer." Takes out the packet of blood, pours it into a cup and put them in the microwave, and heated them up to 98.6 degrees, just the way he likes it. "What a bunch of bloody ponces! They have no idea, do they?" he gulps the blood down and tosses the mug into the sink and heads out the back door. "Just wait, you'll get Buffy back, but it won't be the same Buffy you all know and love." He begins to laugh and heads back to his crypt to check up on Buffy.
Just as Spike left, Giles and Xander arrive.
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"Hey Will, what's up?" said Xander as he walked in through the door. "Where's Buff?" Willow looked sad all of a sudden. "What's wrong Willow?"
"Hey, come in" Willow said as she greeted the two.
"Hello Willow, still no word on Buffy?" said Giles.
"Nope, but Spike came by and said that she stopped by for a few minutes and then left."
Xander was obviously confused, "Uhhhh, guys?" putting his hand in the air. "I've been obviously kept out of the loop again, so if you don't mind, can you fill me in?" Xander hated it when they didn't tell him things.
"Oh" said Giles realizing that Xander had no idea about Buffy. "Well uh. Buffy's missing" he took off his glasses and wiped them with his handkerchief. "she never came home last night." Willow looked like she was about to cry again and went to go take a seat on the sofa.
Xander's eyes widened at the horrible news. He looked at Willow crying and quickly looked back at Giles. "What do you mean she's missing? Wait-no I know exactly what you mean, but are you sure?" he began freaking out.
"Yes" said Giles, not sure at what else to say to Xander's reaction. "Dawn apparently alerted Willow this morning that Buffy wasn't in her room."
"Well this isn't something that Buffy would do. I mean she wouldn't just disappear like that! Something's wrong and I know it!" he was ready to point his finger at someone.
"Xander calm down!"
"N-No! I'm not calming down! For all we know she could be lying in a ditch somewhere!" he knew that something or someone was behind this and he didn't like it at all.
"Xander!!" Willow didn't like what he just said. "How could you even think that?"
"Look I'm sorry Will." He began to calm down. "So you say that Spike saw her last night huh?" Xander had a suspicious look on his face. "It's him! I knew it! That bastard did something to Buffy." Xander's face was turning red with fury.
"Now now Xander" Giles cut in. "let's not jump to any conclusions. Spike wouldn't do anything to hurt Buffy. He loves her too much to do so." Giles said trying to convince himself and the others, it didn't seem to work.
"Do you have ANY idea who we're dealing with? This is Spike we're taking about! You know, the mass-murderer! Think of how he got his name." Xander was yelling at this point, but hadn't noticed.
"Shhhhh, Dawn's upstairs trying to sleep." Willow said. "And by the way, he has that chip remember? Or did you forget about that?
"No, I haven't forgotten that. But he can still hurt Buffy!"
Meanwhile Dawn was sitting on the stairs listening to the argument and crying at this point. 'Spike didn't do anything. He wouldn't do anything to hurt Buffy' Dawn thought. Spike was like a brother to her after her sister died trying to save her. He was the only person that seemed to understand and care. 'Why do they always point a finger at Spike the moment something goes wrong?' With that, she stood up and headed to the living room quickly wiping her tears.
"Hi. What's going on?" Dawn rubbed her eyes, trying to act as if she had just woken up.
"Oh nothing Dawnie" Willow quickly stood up and walked over to her "go back to bed."
"Bu-."
"Go!" said Willow. She wasn't in the mood to argue.
Dawn was clearly upset at the fact that she couldn't stick around and how they always try to shush her away from everything. "Fine!" she said, "but just so ya know, Spike didn't do anything so just leave him alone! Okay?" she turned around and stormed off up the stairs and slammed the door to her room for a lil drama.
"Poor girl" whispered Willow, she turned around to find that Giles and Xander were bickering. She rolled her eyes, "Look! We're not going to find Buffy if we just stand around and argue like little kids!"
"You're right Willow." Said Giles "Xander and I will take my car and we'll drive around, see if we can find her. You stay here, just in case Buffy calls ir something." He grabbed his coat and headed out the door, then 5 seconds later he came back in and grabbed Xander by the arm. "Come on!"
"Geez!" Willow said "could they be any more childish?"