AN: okay, here goes. I appreciate all the reviews I have gotten, criticizing, encouraging, or anything else I can't really think of right now. I am also sorry for the long delays between posts, school is hectic, and learning about the constitution and stuff like the Great Compromise and the Three-fifths Compromise and James Madison is distracting.
AN: I am not really happy with Spike and Buffy right now, but I started this story soooo…
As for Buffy and Spike actually mating, I'm working out how I want to do that and still satisfy my sadistic and purely psycho muses is a pain in the @$$.
Story time!! (I think)
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"My Demon?" Drusilla walked out of her and Violet's rooms to find her lover cooking in the kitchen. The smell of blood assailed Drusilla's keen smell.
"Your and Violet's dinner is in the corner. I thought that you ladies might want to stay in tonight, sense Violet just woke up?" The demon, Jacques as we will now call him, smiles at the vampiress.
"Thank you Jacques my lovely. We appreciate this favor, but now must ask another from you…" Drusilla walked in a small circle around Jacques, scratching his bare chest, leaving welt marks behind. She stopped in front of him again, and smiled up into his face. "We want the young watcher and his companion. We would do it, but they will be out only in day. You must be sneaky, catch them just when they are starting to feel safe…"
"Why do you want to do this Dru?"
"Because, My Demon, they will panic, start to look for their lost friends. It will distract them…"
"Alright. I will go out tomorrow to start scouting. Tonight, however…" Jacques grabbed Dru by the waist and pulled her to him, and nipped at her neck, like he knew she loved. Jacques turned off the stove and picked Dru up, bringing her to his rooms.
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All the vampires and their chosen were sleeping as dawn broke the sky, lighting the scene as Xander and Wes watched from the back porch, drinking their coffee, chatting idly. Dawn and Celia, partners when the vampires were sleeping, watched through the window.
"What do you think Celia? I always have known that Xander was Bisexual at the very least. Wes, well, he's English so…"
"There is something there. But Wes has denied is heart for long, and Xander will have a hard time admitting his affection after Anya, especially to another man." Giles and Willow, Gunn and Fred had left to pick up Alexandria and Tinne about an hour after everyone else had finally gone to sleep. They were due back any minute, and that was what Xander and Wes were waiting on. As Dawn and Celia were talking, the van pulled up, and Wes opened the door as Xander went to meet the 6 in the van. He poked his head into the van and smiled at everyone. Fred and Gunn hurried inside, and Tinne, a woman as small as Celia got out. Her complexion was milky pearl, her auburn hair flowing past her knees, dressed in all black. Her eyes flashed violet in the sunlight. She moved out of the way, and a blanket-covered form ran for the door. Just as she hit the porch steps, Fred called out her invitation so that she didn't need to stop. She flung the blanket off as Giles and Willow came in, hand in hand.
Alexandria stood, dressed all in white. Her hair matched her familiar's, but Alexandria was rather tanned for a vampire, and her coal gray eyes shone with an odd warmth. Her full lips curled into a smile as she surveyed the room, and listened to everything in the house. She then turned to Giles, eyes glittering, "Your place is to small watcher, for all of these people. Do none of you have anything bigger? If not, I could in a small amount of time."
Buffy had woken up when the other Vampire Slayer had entered the house. She had left Spike's side to greet her. Tinne and Celia were hugging and chatting. "Angel has the mansion. We were discussing moving base there tonight, but both he and Spike were uneasy, as was I, due to the…er…memories…there. It should be big enough for all," Buffy seemed to count in her mind for a sec, "14 of us should fit just fine. Oh! Willow, Giles, I was hoping you two could practice with Dawn today with her…new talents." Buffy said in a rush as she looked at the other Vampire Slayer. She then held out her hand to the darker woman. Alexandria grasped Buffy's forearm in a warriors greeting.
"Call me Alex, sister slayer. My familiar is Tinne. Celia told us a lot about you. I was proud that a slayer had again bucked the council, it seems that they become better slayers when they do." Alex's eyes were twinkling.
"Alex. I am sure you and Tinne are tired after your flight. We have some extra space. I think. Spike and I could always move to the floor." Buffy smiled at the slayer in front of her. She was glad she had met another slayer that wasn't psycho.
"No need. We slept on the flight. I would like to meet everyone, if that is alright?"
"Of course. You know Fred and Gunn, as well as Willow and Giles. The two young men there are Xander, the taller one, and Wesley, the other not-so-stuffy British guy. The girls, well you know Celia, but that is Dawn, my little sister." Alex looked at the girl a little confused.
"Slayers don't have siblings, biologically anyways." Buffy shook her head and grinned.
"Dawn is the Key. Some monks put her with me, but she is still part of the family." Dawn smiled at this, as Buffy continued. "I can get Spike, Angel, and Cordelia up. Spike is my mate, Angel and Cordelia are mates, but Cordelia is half-demon, not Vampire."
"Ahh. Your group is complicated Little Sister. But I see it has served you well. I am glad a slayer has finally realized she does better if she has her own little corner of the world to care for. Doing our job for a whole planet full of people is just to impersonal…don't you agree Elizabeth?"
"Yes. And call me Buffy, please." Buffy smiled as she disappeared up the stairs. A couple of seconds later they heard a loud, shrill whistle and a louder crash. Then two sets of feet ran from one point to another upstairs.
"Buffy! What happened?" Dawn called up, ready to run up the stairs. Buffy's laughter floated down.
"Don't worry Dawn, just stay down there, we will all be out in a minute! Cordelia threw a lamp that time!" Dawn burst into laughter as Alec looked at her strangely.
"Shall I rephrase my bit about the complicated group? I think you all are more like an actually family, with the fighting an all." Alex said with a straight face. She then burst out into giggles. Tinne and Celia came over and looked at the giggling women. Dawn told them what happened through gasps. The familiars started snickering as well – until, that is, two growling vampires and 2 grinning women came down the stairs.
"Is he your mate, Elizabeth? The scrawny one, I mean." Alex knew very well which vampire was which woman's mate, but she wanted to get the rise out of Spike.
"'Ey Now!" Spike hollered as he came down the stairs. When he saw Alex, his jaw dropped to the floor, and one second later, Angel's did the same.
"Great-grandsire?" Angel gasped. Alex winced but nodded her head. Buffy stared at her.
"Everyone assumes that Araulias was Henrich's sire. Nay, Arau was my sire, and I, in turn sired Hinrich. He seemed such a nice lad, and he was dying of cancer. Arau asked me to turn him, he promised me that he would be the only human I was ever asked to taste, by him. The human blood was like acid on my tong, but I loved Arau. The fourth generation of the master line wasn't supposed to turn out like that."
"But…Hold. It." Alex walked over to Buffy and took Buffy's chin in her hand.
"I will explain all. Actual Vampire History is a lot different than even you think, distant Childer of mine. But first we must move into the mansion."
That night, as soon as the sun went down, people went off in their groups to their various homes to pack for an extended stay while Buffy, Celia, Alex, and Tinne went to the mansion to open up and figure out security. Spike, Dawn, Angel, and Cordelia also went to the grocery store, to stock up on human food, as well as the butchers for blood. Buffy and Alex didn't need the animal blood, they just hunted other vampires. One of the advantages of being a Slayer before being turned. It was almost 4 in the morning when everyone got back safe and sound and had the rooms set up. The third floor was purely rooms, and had been shut off when Angel had lived there before, both he and his count-part. There was a room for each team, most of the rooms having 2 bed, although only on or two teams needed the spare. They put Dawn, Celia, and Tinne in one room while the two Vampire Slayers and Spike shared the one right next to it. Everyone was scattered close by, although there wasn't a spare room in between any two occupanied rooms. There were three or four free ones, but… Everyone was exhausted enough to sleep throughout the entire day, although one demon observed them from afar.
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I am so so so so sorry for the long delay in updates… I just couldn't seem to figure out where I wanted to end this chapter. Anyways. Here it is at last! And next…some one on one time with one of our couples…I think.
