Disclaimer: see chapter one.
AN/ sorry about the wait…hope you like this. I might not be able to post for awhile, so don't take to much pleasure out of hating me.
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"Alright everyone. Angel, Cordi, Celia, and Wes can stay at our house. Fred and Gunn, you don't mind staying here do you? Cause I will have no more room…" The shook their heads, letting her know they didn't mind. Alright. "We will reconvene here at 8:00pm. Let's get some sleep." Buffy then pulled Giles aside and explained to him about Drusilla. Giles said that he would keep Dawn there with him, since Spike lived with her, and vampires could get in vampire homes. Buffy agreed that would be better and told Dawn. Everyone going over the Summers' resident got into Angel's van, and headed over to sleep for the day. Buffy, Celia, and Spike had her mom's old room, Willow had moved into Buffy's old room, and Wesley would sleep in Dawn's room, leaving Angel and Cordi with the guest bedroom. With everyone settled and asleep, Buffy set the alarm for 7, allowing them an hour to shower, eat, and get to Giles'. Buffy, Spike, and Angel went to sleep with dreams of matchmaking in their head. The witch and the watcher had better watch out. Cause three very stubborn vampires were planning…
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Drusilla squealed and danced around the present that her new lover had brought her. The pretty little blonde was no more than 13 years old, and frightened so badly, she had entered a cationic state. The girl was dressed in a red mid-drift and black hip-hugger designer jeans, and leather knee high boots. Drusilla ran her finger around the girl's waist, drawing blood here and there. At the first drop of blood, the girl was awake, and reverently praying. Drusilla squealed again and began singing off-key about blood, and stars.
"Don't worry pet, mummy will take care of you." Drusilla whispered into the girl's ear. The girl just whimpered. "What's your name luv?"
"V-violet H-ha-rmony Murphy."
"Well, my little flower. How would you like to play forever with me and Miss Edith? Would you like to hear the stars calling your name Violet?" Violet didn't know how to respond to this strange woman before her. She just whimpered. "Good!" and Drusilla morphed into her demon visage. Violet Harmony then knew what was before her. It was a vampire, like the creature that had killed her mother one year ago. The 13-year-old knew that death awaited her, be it her fait to stay dead, or rise again as a monster. As Drusilla sunk her fangs into the girl's jugular, Violet Harmony Murphy knew that she was doomed to rise with the hunger for blood and the desire for violence.
"My dark lady…are you sure that creating a new childe is going to be the best thing right now?" the lover, a rather old demon. A demon that looked like a human, and reveled in strong emotion, what ever that may be. He was rather uneasy, because the girl was radiating an overwhelming calmness in the face of her death. It just wasn't natural.
As Drusilla drew away from Violet's neck, and cut her chest, looking lost in the feeling the virgin blood gave her, the vampiress giggled and stroked her lover's face with her bloody palm. "Of course my demon. She will be helpful in getting the Slayer's little starburst sister. And the cat too…amusing that the Slayer should end as a vampire with a soul like my daddy. And my poor Spiky wrapped up in the middle of it with that nasty chip." Violet had drained the older vampiress to the point she was feeling weak. Drusilla gently laid the child down, then changed her mind and carried Violet to her room, and began changing the new vampire into a formal dress. Drusilla lay down beside her first childe, and waited for her to wake up. "My demon? Come talk to me."
"Yes my dark lady?"
"The SlayerVampire still has her soul, therefore she still cares for her little *powerful* sister. If we take the child away, the slayer will do whatever we want. When I have my Spiky and my Daddy back, we can turn the child and I will have two little girls to teach the proper teatime to. Don't you agree this is a good plan?" the demon Hor'oth was rather surprised at the lucidness of the plan from the crazy vampiress. He just nodded and ran his hand through her hair. Drusilla purred like a cat.
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~+*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*+~ *CRACK*. "Damn alarm clock!" Buffy had thrown the clock against the other wall, and the poor alarm was now shattered. //at least it was just a piece of machinery, and not a human being\\ was the SlayerVampire's thought. To wake Spike up, Buffy leaned over and bit his ear hard enough to draw blood and licked it off. Spike groaned and flipped Buffy onto her back, under him. "Love to my love, but we got guests and hour to get over to Giles' place." Spike sighed and rolled off of his mate, but not before kissing her soundly.
"You can go and wake them up, I will sleep for a few more minutes."
"Oh, no you don't you are helping me wake them up. You get Angel, Cordelia, and Celia. Alright?"
"Alright luv. But you owe me…"
"Um hum." With that, Buffy went to wake Wesley and Willow. She had wanted to talk to the watcher about something quickly. Opening the door after she saw Celia open the guest room, Buffy called out the younger watcher's name. "Get up sleepy head. We have an hour till we need to go."
"Go away!"
"I guess nobody here is a morning person." Buffy said this as she heard a shoe being thrown by either Cordelia or Angel at Celia. "Wesley get up or I will let Cordelia make the coffee, instead of me. I KNOW I am better at making coffee than her so up and at 'em!" when he heard Buffy's threat to let Cordelia do anything in to kitchen, Wes bolted up in bed. He was wearing a white t-shirt, and Buffy could see the waist-band of his boxers just above to blanket. //a boxer man? Hum…and here I was, thinking all English went au natural…eeeww, Giles, scary visual place…'cept for Willow maybe.\\
"I'm up! Just PLEASE don't let Cordi in the kitchen. I love her and everything, but gods I could not stand anymore of her coffee!"
"Be glad she is still asleep Wes."
"Well…yes." The watcher picked up his glasses and put them on. "You wanted to know something Buffy?"
"Yes. Why weren't watchers allowed to tell their slayers that slayers turned keep their souls, and why were all watchers sworn to kill the slayer if that happened?"
"Because if a slayer was turned and stayed sane, the council feared that knowing the truth, the slayer would dislodge their power and train future slayers themselves."
"Oh. Which is what I plan to do anyways. Do you know why Alexandria De'Moon didn't do just that?"
"Because she was in love with her watcher, and had to kill him to keep him from killing her. That was before the council knew that turned slayers kept their souls, so her watcher thought she was just demon. She was so heartbroken she just wrote the council a letter and told them what had happened, and told them if they ever tried to contact her that she would destroy them."
"Then how did Giles get to talk to her?"
"She has a direct pipe line into the council so she knows that you don't work for the council anymore, and neither does either Giles or myself, so I guess she finds it worth her time to help us. I believe Rupert said that she was on her way to the states?" Buffy nodded.
"Meet us down stairs. We will figure out who gets to take a shower first when everyone is awake. Alright?" Buffy walked to Willow's room and knocked. Then she entered and shook the ex-witch out of sleep. "Wills? Time to get up."
"Humm? Giles?" Buffy chuckled lightly and shook her head, even thought Willow couldn't see it.
"No Wills. It's me, Buffy. Come on, we are going over to Giles a little later."
"Ok." Willow turned back over, and then sat up. "Oh! I guess that means I have to get up now?"
"Yup. Just come down stairs, we are going to draw straws to see who gets the shower first."
"K."
At precisely 8 o'clock, and knock on Giles and Xander's door announced the rest of the group's arrival. Both Xander and Giles thought that was a bit strange for Buffy to be on time, but both credited it to the rest of her party. Xander opened the door and smiled as he saw Buffy and Spike (attached at the hip), Wes, Cordelia and Angel (also attached at the hip) and Celia in front of him. He moved aside so they could enter. As soon as Buffy and Spike were all the way in, Dawn flew into their arms. She kissed both of their cheeks.
"So, Giles… When does Alexandria and Tinne get here?" Celia asked the ex-watcher.
"Someone has to pick them up at the airport in L.A. tomorrow morning at about 4 o'clock. She said she couldn't get on a plane and here any sooner. She said that Tinne was looking forward to seeing you again, Celia." The were-leopard nodded and went into the kitchen. After a moment she poked her head out and said, "anyone else want tea or soda?" Xander and Dawn asked for a soda, and everyone else wanted tea for now. Buffy looked at Willow, and motioned for her to follow her upstairs. Willow followed her, so did Angel and Spike. They knew what Buffy was doing.
"So, Willow. Why didn't you tell me you had fallen in love with Giles? When did it happen? Why aren't you dating him?" Spike chuckled and Angel smirked when the saw the shock on Willow's face.
"H-how did you know?"
"I'm vamp girl now remember? I'm a lot more observant now." Spike snorted.
"Fine, I overheard Spike and Angel taking about it this morning. Now. Why, when, why?"
"Because you'd go 'eeww', when I first met him, and his is to damn British to look at someone this much younger than him." Angel snorted this time, Buffy rolled her eyes, and Spike out right laughed.
"Did he never tell you stories about Ripper, Red? I knew Ripper. Scary chap, make a damn good vampire, always one for the ladies, and head over heels in love with you since day one according to Angel over there." Spike said after he had stopped laughing. When Willow looked over at Angel for confirmation, the souled vamp nodded, smiling.
"So what are you going to do about it Willow?" Angel asked.
"I don't know, what do you think I should do?"
Buffy answered her this time. "March down stairs, grab him by the collar, and kiss him, I mean REALLY kiss him." Willow got a wicked smile and went down stairs, walking seductively. Spike smirked and turned to Angel.
"Oh yeah. That bird would make one hell of a vampire."
Giles was sitting down in his favorite chair waiting. Waiting for the three vampires to finish with Willow, waiting for Celia to finish the tea. Waiting for… the watcher looked up in the middle of his musings to see Willow swaying seductively across the room, a determined look in her eyes, and heading straight for…HIM! To the surprise of everyone but the vampires and the key, Willow straddled Giles' lap, grabbed him by the lapels, and REALLY kissed him. Giles was so surprised he didn't realize that he wasn't responding until Willow made a frustrated sound in the back of her throat. Giles then slipped his arms around her waist, and kissed her back with passion and love. He could feel Willow starting to purr under his kiss when they had to break apart for air. As they slowly came back to reality, everyone was clapping. Dawn spoke up over the noise.
"What took ya so long???" Both ex-witch, and ex-watcher blushed.
"Ok. Now that those two have gotten together, we can let them figure out the details. Meanwhile, we have to find out what Drusilla has planned. Celia, could you give us any insight?" Buffy waited until everyone had calmed before she had spoke. Right down to business. Buffy waited for Celia's reply.
"She is going to use your soul against you Buffy. She wants Spike and Angelus back. I think she also wants to turn Dawn. Do you know how powerful a vampire Dawnie could be because of her being the key? If, that is, it was possible to turn her. Dru doesn't know that Angel's soul is permant and it would take an act of the PTB to remove it, nor does she know that Spike's chip is gone and has been for the past six months." At this revelation everyones jaws dropped. Even Spike's.
"I-I didn't know that! I swear!" Buffy and Celia nodded.
"He didn't know that because he simply hasn't thought about attacking a human in about a year." Celia knew that her word would be trusted. Cordelia was mulling over some things and looked up startled.
"Celia, you said in the car just before we got here that Slayer's familiars are never far from their slayers. But why did we never meet you here?" everyone but the A.I crew was surprised that Cordelia could be so observant.
"I wasn't put up for adoption. After spending our first year with Buffy in L.A. I had to go back to Ireland to my 'parents,' because they thought that I was just in an internship in L.A with Buffy. That is what we told Hank and Joyce as well. Only Dawn and our first watcher new different. My parents wouldn't let me leave until I became a woman by their standards. In other words I was married before I could come here. I was out hunting one night when my husband followed me and got killed. My parents and the rest of the town think I came to the states because I was grieving. My husband was stupid jackass. Trust me, no grieving for him. For the lost life perhaps, but not for him personally." Buffy picked up where Celia left off.
"We kept in touch. We always knew what was going on in each other's lives. I didn't tell you all about her because it would bring up some problems. The watcher's council doesn't know about Slayer's familiars, which is why I didn't tell Giles in the beginning. I didn't tell him afterwards because not telling became a habit. For a while after her husband died, Celia was travling with Alexandria and Tinne. She didn't tell me they were undead-slayer and familiar. Just that they were friends that fought evil just like us. I haven't met Alex and Tinne, but Celia wrote so much about them I already feel as if I know them."
"I was stopping by in L.A to spend the night in a hotel and sleep in a real bed after teleporting to Las Vegas and running to L.A when Dru captured me. She has a demon lover, but it isn't that chaos demon she left you for Spike. This guy is an emotion demon. Not necessarily evil, just blindly devoted to whoever they are with. They revel in strong emotion, which is why most pair up with vampires. This guy was older than most emotion demons now-a-days. Maybe a millennium instead of the more common couple of centuries…If something endangers them, they will drop everything and hightail it back to their own deminsion. So all we got to do is give this guy one hell of a scare. They are headed here this weekend. I…"
"She just turned a girl…" Spike and Angel's statement stopped everyone in their tracks. "She's pretty powerful. And utterly devoted to her 'mum'."
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