Chapter 3

At 3.00pm Willow, Giles, Wesley, Cordy, Fred, Gunn, Buffy, Faith and Robin were all seated at the research table.

"Okay, does anyone have anything they want to tell us before I start the meeting?" Willow asked.

Faith spoke up. "Well, yesterday Robin and I met up with the Defgog's that were supposed to give us the information of Gareth, right?"

"Oh, yeah, I totally forgot. How did that go?"

"Well, fine, until it turned out that we weren't talking about the same Gareth at all. They'd figured we meant this butt-ugly demon who lived in the 16th century. Or so they said and then they excused themselves and practically ran off." Faith finished.

"Right." Robin continued. "And we thought there was something a bit suspicious about that so we followed them."

"And?" Suddenly Willow had forgotten all about Dawn.

"Well, we found them fighting at least a dozen, maybe fifteen vamps."

"That's strange. Buffy, didn't you say that there'd hardly been any vampire activity lately?"

"Well, I've only dusted a couple vamps a night."

"Right, so that's already weird, but wait- there's more to it." Robin continued. "These vamps were like really good fighters. And I mean really really good. The Defgogs, who are prettytalented too, were all beaten in like five seconds. And there were five of them." He paused to let his words sink in.

"Right, we were like what is that? But that wasn't even all. The vamps began fighting themselves, and after two minutes, I tell you two minutes at the most, almost all of them were dust. A couple managed to escape."

"That's truly weird. "Buffy looked thoughtful. "I mean, it's not weird for vamps to kill themselves, but it seems like they first worked together like a group to kill the Def- whatevers and then all of a sudden they go all dusty with each other? Now that's weird even for vamps."

Everyone seemed to agree. Giles cleared his throat.

"There must have been a reason for them to just turn against each other so suddenly. Do you have any idea what could have caused that? Faith?"

"Well, no. But it seemed like two of them were doing most of the killing. Even killed the Defgogs. Maybe they were like, different gangs or something."

"I think it's worth looking into." Giles stated. " Willow, Wesley and myself will be researching tonight. I suggest that the rest of you go out patrolling right after sunset to try and find this group of trained vampires or their nest, if there are any of them left."

"I'm right there with you Giles. It's just that I had a date tonight, and it's my first date in ages! And I really like this guy!" Buffy pleaded.

Giles sighed, but he was happy that Buffy finally had started dating again.

"Fine. It's okay you can go." Buffy jumped up and hugged Giles.

"Thanks. I mean really. Yay!" She jumped up and down, excited.

Giles couldn't help but think how much happier Buffy had been lately. It really pleased him to see her that way.

"So, anything else?" Willow looked around. Nobody interrupted. "Good. I was thinking the other day. Um, it was today actually. And I thought about Dawn. And Spike too, I guess. And I think we should put a little more effort in trying to find them."

Everyone seemed to agree. At least no one objected.

"So, I guess whoever's research turn it is, should look into it. Today it means me, Wesley and Giles."

Buffy thought of her little sister, she really missed her. She sometimes wondered if they'd ever meet again. She wondered if Dawn was even alive. She wondered about Spike too.

"I think that's a good idea." Buffy spoke up.

"Good. It's settled then."

The group parted going back to whatever they'd been doing.

"Morning, luv. Or should I say afternoon." Spike watched Dawn, who was lying in his arms. She stirred and slowly opened her eyes.

"What time is it?"

"Four o'clock, mylady."

"Oh. Must be jet lag."

"Me neither. But the sun's not down yet, and I can think of a thing that'll keep us busy..." His voice was low and brisky.

"Sorry, Spike. I'm hungry. And well, I've got to go to the butcher's for some blood. For you that is. "Dawn stepped out of bed, strolling around their small hotel room completely naked. Spike's hungry eyes followed her form.

She looked inside her bag and sighed. Traveling all the time and sleeping the whole day wasn't exactly a good combination when it came to dry- cleaning. And she had very few outfits to change into, since they were traveling so much, and didn't want to carry around a ton of clothes all the time.

"What's it love?" Dawn liked it when he called her 'love' or 'pet' instead of 'Nibblet' or ''bit'.

"I don't have any clean clothes!"

"There's a dry cleaner's a block away."

"I know, but I can't run a block naked can I?"

"Well no! Everyone would get to see that gorgeus body of yours! that belongs to me and me only!" Though it was meant to be a joke Dawn knew that it wasn't. He'd even claimed her. So she should put a tattoo on her butt saying 'Property of William the Bloody: No Tresspassing!'

"So what should I do?"

"Just borrow some of mine, okay?" He got up, naked too, digging in his bag. He pulled out a pair of black jeans and a deep red shirt. "Here."

"Um, thanks." She got into his jeans, which were really tight around her hips. She knew that Spike had narrow hips, but he'd lost a bit of weight lately too.

She watched his naked body as he comfortably moved around. His muscles had become more well-defined and his body was more angular in a way that she couldn't explain. She guessed that his body had lost all it's fat from training and fighting so much. She quickly put his t-shirt on.

"Um, Spike? Could I borrow your duster too? It's pretty could outside and I'd love to wash my jacket."

He seemed a little reluctant to let her wear his beloved duster but agreed.

"As long as unharmed when I get it back. And here, take some of my clothes to the dry cleaner's too."

"Yeah yeah, okay. Now, what was it? Dry cleaners', grocery store, butcher...I could ask around for where Buffy or someone else of the gang is living too."

"Yeah, pet. We'll go see them tonight if you find out." He walked up to her, pressed his naked body against hers and gave her a long, passionate kiss, not wanting to let her go.

"Umm..Spike? Need to breathe?"

"Right. Well, bye then. See you in a couple hours?"

"Yeah. Bye." She smiled when he managed to steal one last kiss before she was gone.

She really loved everything about her fiancée. The way he moved, so graciously, like a cat. A very wild cat that is.

She absentmindedly fingered the silver ring on her hand. It was beautiful, there was a small blue stone in the middle, surrounded by silver figures that looked antique.

She had a big smile on her face when she stepped out in the sunlight.

"Okay, so we'll go as pairs." Faith was the leader as usual. "I'll go with Robin and I guess Fred and Gunn wanna go as a pair so that means that it's Cordy and Angel."

"Sounds good to me." Said Gunn and smiled at his wife.

"Good. Does every pair have at least one cell phone?" At the various nods and 'yes's Faith received "Ok, we'll split up then. Angel and Cordy go that way, me an' Rob take this way so Fred and Gunn: that way." She pointed.

The pairs split up and started patrolling.

Faith and Robin walked, discussing.

"Um, Robin?" Faith sounded serious, which was very unusual.

"Yeah?"

"There's something I need to tell you." She looked up at him.

"Is it good or bad?"

"Definetly good, I think."

"So, what is it?"

"Well, um, I'm pregnant." There was a slight silence.

"Are you sure?"

"I took the test and and then I went to the doctor to make sure."

Robin's face lit up and he hugged her.

"That's great! I mean, truly great! We've been trying for almost a year now!"

"I know, I still can't believe it!"

"Faith, I love you."

"Me too. I mean I love you, not me, of course." She giggled.

Robin thought about how much Faith had changed since Sunnydale. She'd become much happier and she wasn't as silent about her real feelings as before.

"What the...? Look!" Robin turned around to face where Faith was looking.

"Is that...Dawn?"

AN: Haha, a little cliffhanger there.. but luckily you can already read the next chapter!

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