Something had the break the peacefulness she was feeling though. Looking at
the clock she saw that time was quickly moving on, and she only had a
couple of hours before she was meant to be at Grimmauld place.
An hour later she was standing in the hall dressed in her new cowl neck and a pair of jeans.
"Xander Harris, Louise Martin, Spike Get you assess down here now if you're coming with me! We had to leave about ten minutes ago to be there on time, now we're going to be late."
There was a lot of crashing noises coming from upstairs and suddenly two figures thundered down the stairs towards her,
"Sorry Faith."
Louise puffed out breathlessly. She looked pretty wearing a pea green sleeveless dress; Xander was dressed in his good jeans and a black sweatshirt.
"Sorry."
He said simply putting his arm around her and stroking her back trying to calm her down, he knew that she was nervous about tonight. Hell he was nervous if he was honest. He wanted everything to go well for her, she deserved this, but there was always the Willow factor. He wasn't sure whether he was mad with his old best friend of whether he was just disappointed that she had left when he needed her the most.
"Where the Hell is that dumb-ass vampire?"
"I'm Hurt pet, you know that I prefer to be called: Evil conniving sexy Bastard, or the Big Bad of course."
Spike said leaning against the doorframe of the living room wearing his black jeans, t-shirt and open red silk shirt. She was nervous, he could tell that.
She looked around and saw that they were all ready and said,
"Well let's go then."
The ride over was uneventful; faith was so nervous she just sat there fiddling with the hem of her shirt until Xander had reached over and squeezed her hand reassuringly choosing not to remove it afterwards.
Louise just sat staring out of the windows until they reached Grimmauld place, Spike had been driving and parked the car on the side of the road next to a garage which had been locked up for the night.
"So where we going then?"
He asked climbing out of the drivers seat and pulling his lighter and cigarettes out of his pocket.
"It's just here."
Faith said moving to stand outside numbers 11 and 13,
"So which one is it the Faithanater?"
Xander asked grinning at her, suddenly a door appeared from no where and out of it a man with greying hair appeared and beckoned to them saying,
"Hurry up."
They followed Faith's lead as she ran to where the man was standing, trusting her as she approached the stranger and ran in through the door which had appeared out of thin air. It was only when they were inside and the door was shut that they were able to look around and see hat they were inside an actual house.
The man was standing smiling at them, he put a finger to his lips and beckoned for them to follow him, Xander was about to open him mouth to ask what was going on when Faith placed her hand firmly across his mouth and shook her head.
They walked down the short corridor and walked into a room, which Faith had not been in during her previous visit to house. It turned out to be a medium size sitting room. When the door was firmly shut Faith smiled at the man and turning to her friends said,
"Well guys this is my Uncle Remus,"
Remus smiled and Faith continued saying,
"This is Xander Harris, Spike and Louise Martin."
"Pleased to meet you"
Remus said moving forward and shaking the trio's hands before quickly hugging Faith and saying,
"Well if you and your friends would like to sit down a moment I'll go and see where the others are."
And left the room. Faith looked round the room and sat down on one of the old fashioned faded blue velvet plush sofas.
Xander sat down next to her and said,
"Well he seemed nice."
Spike walked over to the armchair which was opposite the sofa and said,
"What exactly did he mean the others? How many of them are there?"
Louise looked unsure of where to sit until Faith pattered the space on the coach next to her, once Louise was seated she turned her attention back to spike and said,
"To be honest I'm not sure, this is kind of like our HQ was originally, they all just kind of stay here. I know that it belongs to one of Remus' friend from school Sirius, and that a red headed family are staying here with Sirius' god son Harry and a girl whose got a weird French sounding name beginning with H which I can't really remember. Apart from that I'm not sure."
"I'm beginning to think that were seriously going to be outnumbered."
Xander said conspicuously to Spike as Faith straightened out a bump in Louise's hair. The door opened and about half a dozen people of a variety of ages walked into room following a concerned looking Remus.
"Where's Willow?"
Xander spoke up quietly after looking round the group expecting to find her. Remus looked pale for a moment before saying,
"She's not feeling too well at the moment but she said that she'd be down later."
Faith squeezed Xander's arm and said,
"It's nothing to serious is it?"
Remus shook his head and said looking at his friends who were watching him silently before saying,
"Well I guess I need to make some introductions here don't I. Lets go from left to right ok? Well the young lady sitting next to me is Hermione she's seventeen and going to be entering into her seventh year at Hogwarts this autumn as are Harry and Ron who are sitting next to her."
The three of them gave little waves and smiled at the slayer quartet.
"Then on the couch next to them that's Bill, Ron's older brother, Sirius and Arthur, Bill and Ron's father. Molly and Tonks are about down in the kitchen preparing dinner."
There was a loud bang, which sounded like it was coming from the kitchen followed by hurried footsteps, and suddenly a tall thin woman with scarlet hair came crashing through the door. Sirius chuckled and said,
"This is Tonks, Tonks why don't you pull your skirt straight before saying hello to our guests."
The woman looked down herself quickly and seeing nothing wrong with her appearance walked over and slapped Sirius playfully on the head before sitting down on the coach next to him.
Remus cleared his throat and said,
"This is My Niece Faith, and her friends Xander Harris, Louise Martin and Spike."
Every one smiled or waved back, Faith finding special interest in Sirius who hadn't taken his eyes off her since he'd entered the room except to make fun of Tonks. She smiled at him and he smiled back at her before turning to Tonks who was staring at spike. Tonks smiled at Faith before turning to look at Spike and saying,
"I think I know you from somewhere..."
Spike chuckled and said,
"Did you hear that slayer I'm infamous even the wizarding lot have heard bout the regular old big bad."
Faith grinned answering with,
"And here we were thinking that you were a washed up no-vamp, maybe you should go on tour, meet the fans and all that."
Louise giggled and spike turning to her winking before saying,
"You know you missed me bit- slayer all those sleepless nights all alone."
Louise turned bright red and Xander raising an eyebrow at her turned to Spike and said,
"You are aware of council protocol and the age of consent aren't you Blondie Bear."
Spike just laughed and faith glared him before turning to look at Louise and asked
"Sleepless nights Louise?"
Louise who was now brick red with embarrassment looked at Faith and said,
"I don't sleep well, you try sharing a room with Katie and you wouldn't sleep either, so I normally go downstairs and watch TV til dawn, it's not my fault if he's there too he lives there!"
Faith laughed and said,
"Lou I was only joking, somehow you and the blonde wonder just don't go together least not in my mind. And if he ever tried anything I know you could whoop his ass"
Remus coughed slightly smiling at Faith indicating the confused looking group watching the quartet's exchange with confusion and interest. Tonks spoke up again looking at Spike,
"So who are you, spike can't be your real name,"
She laughed, Spike stood up an intense scowl on his face and said,
"I am Spike also known as William the Bloody, Quarter of the scourge of Europe. Childe of Drusilla the Mad, Grandchilde of Angelus the Angel Faced Demon and Great Grandchilde of Darla the Impure sired by the Master himself..."
Hermione interrupted here to ask,
"How did you get the name Spike?"
Spike chuckled before saying
"Dru gave it to me when we were travelling through the old west following the railway builders, so much fun it was in them days pinning a man down to the ground with railroad spikes and torturing him slowly listening to his screams fill the night air, the most beautiful sound in the world. Ah memories."
The wizarding lot stared at Spike with a mixture of fascination and Horror, Faith laughing at their reaction to spike said,
"You know what Blondie Bear, Angel isn't going to be pleased if I tell him you've been bad. Remember last time? Those chains were tied real tight and I was sure he was going to check your implant...."
"Implant?"
Hermione asked quickly, Xander answered honestly but kindly, he'd grown to respect Spike over the last couple of years and knew that his implant was a difficult topic for him said simply,
"Quite a few years ago now, Spike was captured by the military who were perform experiments on the demonic beings, Vampires, demons, werewolves... anyway they placed an implant in Spike's head which means he's unable to harm a human being in any way except vocally and emotionally, which has managed to perfect over the years. The implant isn't the only thing keeping him in check however, a year or so before Sunnydale was destroyed Spike completed the Sherat N'ategeads, it's a ritual that allows demonic beings to regain their souls. So you guys are kind of special your sitting here with the only souled vampire this side of the pacific."
Bill was the one, who asked the question this time,
"This side of the pacific, you mean there's another souled vampire somewhere else?"
Spike chuckled and said,
"Of course there is, there's the poof."
"The Poof?"
Bill asked looking confused.
"Angelus."
Faith answered simply,
"He was cursed with a soul by gypsy's for killing their princess."
Spike who had got bored of this line of questioning changed the subject simply by saying,
"Any way. What kind of name is Tonks?"
Sirius who had was sitting next to her laughed and poking her said,
"Yes Tonks why don't you explain to our guests your name."
Tonks was glaring daggers around the room at her friends, who were laughing before saying,
"Tonks is my last name, my idiot mother for some reason chose to call me Nymphadora, what kind of name is that? I mean she used to call me Nymphy for short, who would do that to a poor defenceless child? Obviously a black despite what the family claims."
The door opened quietly and a solitary figure walked in,
"Willow?"
Xander asked quietly.
An hour later she was standing in the hall dressed in her new cowl neck and a pair of jeans.
"Xander Harris, Louise Martin, Spike Get you assess down here now if you're coming with me! We had to leave about ten minutes ago to be there on time, now we're going to be late."
There was a lot of crashing noises coming from upstairs and suddenly two figures thundered down the stairs towards her,
"Sorry Faith."
Louise puffed out breathlessly. She looked pretty wearing a pea green sleeveless dress; Xander was dressed in his good jeans and a black sweatshirt.
"Sorry."
He said simply putting his arm around her and stroking her back trying to calm her down, he knew that she was nervous about tonight. Hell he was nervous if he was honest. He wanted everything to go well for her, she deserved this, but there was always the Willow factor. He wasn't sure whether he was mad with his old best friend of whether he was just disappointed that she had left when he needed her the most.
"Where the Hell is that dumb-ass vampire?"
"I'm Hurt pet, you know that I prefer to be called: Evil conniving sexy Bastard, or the Big Bad of course."
Spike said leaning against the doorframe of the living room wearing his black jeans, t-shirt and open red silk shirt. She was nervous, he could tell that.
She looked around and saw that they were all ready and said,
"Well let's go then."
The ride over was uneventful; faith was so nervous she just sat there fiddling with the hem of her shirt until Xander had reached over and squeezed her hand reassuringly choosing not to remove it afterwards.
Louise just sat staring out of the windows until they reached Grimmauld place, Spike had been driving and parked the car on the side of the road next to a garage which had been locked up for the night.
"So where we going then?"
He asked climbing out of the drivers seat and pulling his lighter and cigarettes out of his pocket.
"It's just here."
Faith said moving to stand outside numbers 11 and 13,
"So which one is it the Faithanater?"
Xander asked grinning at her, suddenly a door appeared from no where and out of it a man with greying hair appeared and beckoned to them saying,
"Hurry up."
They followed Faith's lead as she ran to where the man was standing, trusting her as she approached the stranger and ran in through the door which had appeared out of thin air. It was only when they were inside and the door was shut that they were able to look around and see hat they were inside an actual house.
The man was standing smiling at them, he put a finger to his lips and beckoned for them to follow him, Xander was about to open him mouth to ask what was going on when Faith placed her hand firmly across his mouth and shook her head.
They walked down the short corridor and walked into a room, which Faith had not been in during her previous visit to house. It turned out to be a medium size sitting room. When the door was firmly shut Faith smiled at the man and turning to her friends said,
"Well guys this is my Uncle Remus,"
Remus smiled and Faith continued saying,
"This is Xander Harris, Spike and Louise Martin."
"Pleased to meet you"
Remus said moving forward and shaking the trio's hands before quickly hugging Faith and saying,
"Well if you and your friends would like to sit down a moment I'll go and see where the others are."
And left the room. Faith looked round the room and sat down on one of the old fashioned faded blue velvet plush sofas.
Xander sat down next to her and said,
"Well he seemed nice."
Spike walked over to the armchair which was opposite the sofa and said,
"What exactly did he mean the others? How many of them are there?"
Louise looked unsure of where to sit until Faith pattered the space on the coach next to her, once Louise was seated she turned her attention back to spike and said,
"To be honest I'm not sure, this is kind of like our HQ was originally, they all just kind of stay here. I know that it belongs to one of Remus' friend from school Sirius, and that a red headed family are staying here with Sirius' god son Harry and a girl whose got a weird French sounding name beginning with H which I can't really remember. Apart from that I'm not sure."
"I'm beginning to think that were seriously going to be outnumbered."
Xander said conspicuously to Spike as Faith straightened out a bump in Louise's hair. The door opened and about half a dozen people of a variety of ages walked into room following a concerned looking Remus.
"Where's Willow?"
Xander spoke up quietly after looking round the group expecting to find her. Remus looked pale for a moment before saying,
"She's not feeling too well at the moment but she said that she'd be down later."
Faith squeezed Xander's arm and said,
"It's nothing to serious is it?"
Remus shook his head and said looking at his friends who were watching him silently before saying,
"Well I guess I need to make some introductions here don't I. Lets go from left to right ok? Well the young lady sitting next to me is Hermione she's seventeen and going to be entering into her seventh year at Hogwarts this autumn as are Harry and Ron who are sitting next to her."
The three of them gave little waves and smiled at the slayer quartet.
"Then on the couch next to them that's Bill, Ron's older brother, Sirius and Arthur, Bill and Ron's father. Molly and Tonks are about down in the kitchen preparing dinner."
There was a loud bang, which sounded like it was coming from the kitchen followed by hurried footsteps, and suddenly a tall thin woman with scarlet hair came crashing through the door. Sirius chuckled and said,
"This is Tonks, Tonks why don't you pull your skirt straight before saying hello to our guests."
The woman looked down herself quickly and seeing nothing wrong with her appearance walked over and slapped Sirius playfully on the head before sitting down on the coach next to him.
Remus cleared his throat and said,
"This is My Niece Faith, and her friends Xander Harris, Louise Martin and Spike."
Every one smiled or waved back, Faith finding special interest in Sirius who hadn't taken his eyes off her since he'd entered the room except to make fun of Tonks. She smiled at him and he smiled back at her before turning to Tonks who was staring at spike. Tonks smiled at Faith before turning to look at Spike and saying,
"I think I know you from somewhere..."
Spike chuckled and said,
"Did you hear that slayer I'm infamous even the wizarding lot have heard bout the regular old big bad."
Faith grinned answering with,
"And here we were thinking that you were a washed up no-vamp, maybe you should go on tour, meet the fans and all that."
Louise giggled and spike turning to her winking before saying,
"You know you missed me bit- slayer all those sleepless nights all alone."
Louise turned bright red and Xander raising an eyebrow at her turned to Spike and said,
"You are aware of council protocol and the age of consent aren't you Blondie Bear."
Spike just laughed and faith glared him before turning to look at Louise and asked
"Sleepless nights Louise?"
Louise who was now brick red with embarrassment looked at Faith and said,
"I don't sleep well, you try sharing a room with Katie and you wouldn't sleep either, so I normally go downstairs and watch TV til dawn, it's not my fault if he's there too he lives there!"
Faith laughed and said,
"Lou I was only joking, somehow you and the blonde wonder just don't go together least not in my mind. And if he ever tried anything I know you could whoop his ass"
Remus coughed slightly smiling at Faith indicating the confused looking group watching the quartet's exchange with confusion and interest. Tonks spoke up again looking at Spike,
"So who are you, spike can't be your real name,"
She laughed, Spike stood up an intense scowl on his face and said,
"I am Spike also known as William the Bloody, Quarter of the scourge of Europe. Childe of Drusilla the Mad, Grandchilde of Angelus the Angel Faced Demon and Great Grandchilde of Darla the Impure sired by the Master himself..."
Hermione interrupted here to ask,
"How did you get the name Spike?"
Spike chuckled before saying
"Dru gave it to me when we were travelling through the old west following the railway builders, so much fun it was in them days pinning a man down to the ground with railroad spikes and torturing him slowly listening to his screams fill the night air, the most beautiful sound in the world. Ah memories."
The wizarding lot stared at Spike with a mixture of fascination and Horror, Faith laughing at their reaction to spike said,
"You know what Blondie Bear, Angel isn't going to be pleased if I tell him you've been bad. Remember last time? Those chains were tied real tight and I was sure he was going to check your implant...."
"Implant?"
Hermione asked quickly, Xander answered honestly but kindly, he'd grown to respect Spike over the last couple of years and knew that his implant was a difficult topic for him said simply,
"Quite a few years ago now, Spike was captured by the military who were perform experiments on the demonic beings, Vampires, demons, werewolves... anyway they placed an implant in Spike's head which means he's unable to harm a human being in any way except vocally and emotionally, which has managed to perfect over the years. The implant isn't the only thing keeping him in check however, a year or so before Sunnydale was destroyed Spike completed the Sherat N'ategeads, it's a ritual that allows demonic beings to regain their souls. So you guys are kind of special your sitting here with the only souled vampire this side of the pacific."
Bill was the one, who asked the question this time,
"This side of the pacific, you mean there's another souled vampire somewhere else?"
Spike chuckled and said,
"Of course there is, there's the poof."
"The Poof?"
Bill asked looking confused.
"Angelus."
Faith answered simply,
"He was cursed with a soul by gypsy's for killing their princess."
Spike who had got bored of this line of questioning changed the subject simply by saying,
"Any way. What kind of name is Tonks?"
Sirius who had was sitting next to her laughed and poking her said,
"Yes Tonks why don't you explain to our guests your name."
Tonks was glaring daggers around the room at her friends, who were laughing before saying,
"Tonks is my last name, my idiot mother for some reason chose to call me Nymphadora, what kind of name is that? I mean she used to call me Nymphy for short, who would do that to a poor defenceless child? Obviously a black despite what the family claims."
The door opened quietly and a solitary figure walked in,
"Willow?"
Xander asked quietly.