Hope you liked the last chappie!
Ahhh… more relaxed then last time for sure! I really hope a lot of people are reading this since I know I read lots of work daily now that it's summer and yes the chapters were partly pre-written so that should help on updating!
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The next night didn't come quick. The day seemed to drag on for more than it usually did and with my chores it could seem like a very long time. When it was time to leave I told my parents that I had volunteered to help the man named Angel with chores once in w while and tonight was one of the nights I was to help him. They were thrilled that I was helping someone that really needed it by giving up my nights once in a while. They shoed me off to my job; even though I wanted to go more than they wanted me to go.
I wanted to go to be with people who were nice to me and wanted me to be around. My parents thought of me as a self-loving idiot who couldn't even get a friend or a job. Now that I got this job they have to change there thoughts about me.
When I arrived I knocked four times. When the door opened it was Spike and Dru.
"Where's Angel?" I questioned the point that he even remembered.
"He's down stairs getting the werewolves under control. He'll be up in a second," Spike answered.
"Come in, please. It's nice to have another person to be around since there isn't that many who would do this job," said Dru.
I entered and it was just how I left them. That's how I liked it too. There was the house that welcomed all and the point that there were three people who enjoyed my company.
When Angel came up he saw that I was just sitting there with a blank expression and that no one else was around.
"Where did Dru and Spike go?" he asked.
"Don't know, they went into the other room and didn't come back," I answered.
"Perfect!" he exclaimed in a stressed out sort of way.
"What?" I asked, not seeing the danger in the situation.
"Don't you see? If they get the hint that we aren't following it will be mayhem until morning. Who knows what the two of them are capable of doing."
"I see. If they get out of hand they could kill us all."
"No, not all of us, they wouldn't think of killing you. They like you as a friend and instead they would sire you."
"Sire me? What the hell is that?"
"That means that they would make you like us. They would make you a vampire."
"What?!?! Why?"
"Because, they wouldn't hurt their friends to the point of no return death but they might make you a friend for eternity. You should stay here. The werewolves are locked up and won't be able to get to you if you don't go down there."
"No way if they could make me a vampire I would feel a whole lot safer with you!"
"No, you'll travel too loudly and they'll smell you and know it's us. You have to stay here."
So I stayed and with out another word Angel left. It was only 15 minutes until I heard someone come in the back door and they were defiantly alone.
"Angel?" I cried out.
"No it's me," answered a familiar and some what off voice. It was Spike.
"What are you doing here? Angel is out there looking for you and Dru."
"I know Aubrea, that's why I came back here. I knew that you would be a lone and I thought you might be frightened."
"I see." There was a look in Spikes eyes that spoke almost as if telling me that he meant me no harm. I believed them, a big mistake.
I sat down in a chair and he went behind the chair and the next thing that I remember was feeling a sharp pain in my neck. Then, there was darkness.
When I awoke I saw Angel and Spike staring at me.
"What happened?" I sputtered out.
"Spike was a little bored and he sired you," angel answered.
"What? Why? How?" I stammered.
"Why not!? I was bored and you willingly had to have wanted to become a vampire or else the process doesn't work. Your also part of our gang, one of us, and we can't leave a member out now can we. And as for how, I bit your neck, drank your blood, and cut my arm and made you drink my blood, its standard procedure mate," answered Spike.
"Spike, we didn't have to sire her, she's young and had a full life to decide what she wanted to do with it. Besides how do we explain this to her parents?" Angel fired the question at him as if spitting out venom of a snake back at the snake that bit him.
"Well we could do what we do every 20 years mate. So we've only been here 15 years, the change never killed us before," answered Spike, his voice was just as cold as Angel's had been.
"Boys, we have to keep each other safe, not kill each other. Angel I think Spike is right, he has made a mess to big to clean up, we have to move," Dru defended, she acted as if she were always the clean up for a fight.
"Fine, tonight is the last night of the full moon and we will not be needed for a while, we leave tomorrow first thing the sun sets and as for tonight the night is only half over and I shall go out and find us a good place at the graveyard to stay tomorrow night after our travels. It may be short distances each night so it will be easier to travel but we must still move swift and silent. I'm sorry Aubrea but you must never see your family again or until a later time. I know how it must be but they can't find out and if you go home you'll be forced into the sun, I see you out there every day," it was clear Angel was in full command.
"Well, get going mate," Spike spit the word out as if it were nasty food, "don't want to be out when the sun comes up to take a peak at the town now do you?" His voice had a killer sound to it.
"No, I don't, for once you had an okay idea, William," Angel said the name with the deepest hate.
"It's Spike," he answered while he drew himself face to face with Angel, he had a look of true terror on his face, the face of a true killer, he had already proven it to us that night.
"What ever you say William, what ever you say," Angel said as he turned around and walked right out the door.
When the door was closed Spike eased up and took a seat where Angel had sat the night that I met him, the night that this whole thing got started.
It was dawn when Angel came back and I was surprised he even came back considering the sun had already come up a little.
"Why are you back so late, we were getting worried?" I said
"What do you mean we? Not all of us were worried. You don't know Angelus but he is known for being the type to make dramatic entrances," said Spike.
"For once, though I hate to admit it, William the bloody was correct. I am known for that but that's not why I'm late. Someone was following and I had to lose them before I could return here," Angel explained.
"Ha, and you said it wasn't dramatic. It wasn't dramatic my hide, you were so dramatic." Spike said.
"Was not," Angel answered in a mocking tone.
"Look, if you want to fight do it when later, I'm sick of it right now!" I yelled, making more of a scene than I wanted to.
They looked at each other and one sneer later they were starting to pack up and get ready for traveling.
Half way through the day there was a knock on the door. Everyone else was downstairs taking care of the basement while I did my assignment of cleaning the kitchen. When no one came up I decided to answer the door. That was a mistake.
It was my parents! I couldn't believe that they had come. When they saw that I had been working they started to look more like the night before when they sent me off to work at Angel's house.
"So you've been doing your work here instead of at home!" my mother yelled, "I can't believe you. You abandoned your chores so that you could work here. You're coming home with your father and me right now!"
I looked back and saw Angel running up the stairs as he yelled, "WAIT!" When he got to the door he explained, "I'm moving soon and I needed the help packing, you have a good strong daughter there. I was going to send her home later tonight well fed and all. I'm sorry if this is an inconvenience but I promise you I will pay you for all the work I took her away from. How much do you want?"
My parents looked completely speechless. "Keep your money Angel," my mother said, "I just thought that Aubrea was trying to get out of her chores for the day is all. I see that she isn't now and you can keep her for as long as you need her help."
"Thank you, if there is any way to repay you," Angel insisted.
"I already said for you to keep your money and I meant it. There is no reason to repay us," my mother said and with that her and my dad turned and walked home.
"Thanks!" I said. That's when I noticed that Angel didn't look to good and right away I noticed he was partially in the sun. As quick as a flash I closed the door and got him to a chair.
"Thanks," he said, "You are a great person. It's to much a shame that your parents didn't see that and still, even though they don't know it, the last time they will probably see there daughter they yell and are mad at her. How do they do that?"
"How else? When you have a heart as cold as my mothers it's hard to actually like someone."
He laughed a sort of painful laugh.
"What's wrong?" I asked in concern.
"I was in the sun for more than a few seconds and that could zap some of my energy for a little while but I'll be okay soon enough," he said.
"Good." And that's how we ended that conversation.
That night came quicker than I thought it would. It was hard to think that I might never see my parents again, before we were scheduled to leave and before the sun had made it completely behind the hills I went to the shady side of the house that faced the woods. I sat in a chair that Angel had decided to leave behind and reflected on what my life had been like in that poor excuse of a town. Angel walked out and saw me, he turned to leave and that's when I noticed he had been there for a while.
"You can stay if you like," I said.
"If it doesn't bother you," he answered.
"No," I reassured him. I sat there and he stood behind the chair for a while. Our silence said everything.
We would both miss this place, no matter how ratty the town looked, it was home. This was the place that I had been raised. I couldn't say the same for Angel. He looked and acted as though he had come from this rich family and these snobby parents that I couldn't blame anyone to want to get away from. There was a strange feeling that he was hiding something from me, though I couldn't tell just what. There was a weird feeling that it was something that I didn't want to know.
The sun set quick and it was time to leave faster than I wanted it to be.
"Everybody still as alive as we're going to get here, right? We have to get a move on here people," announced Spike.
"Would you shut the heck up, someone might hear you," I scolded.
"Yeah in the middle of the night when the only people awake are still half asleep and most people will most likely think that they're still dreaming, yeah, we're defiantly in danger."
"Well, you're the expert but don't come crying to me when someone here's you and stakes you," I answered to his smart remark, confident that would shut him up.
As if he were reading my mind he said, "You wish," in a smart tone of voice.
We grabbed the bags and started to go. Dru and I got the lighter bags while Angel and Spike took the heavy bags.
We walked a very short ways when we walked by my house, or what used to be my house. I could see my parents asleep in bed. They were off in dream land and probably had no idea where I was or if I were even coming back. They probably could care less is what I thought. That's how I left them, my family, my parents, the only ones who had brought me up or cared for me, until then. Then I got the "gang". We were one of a kind and no one could stop us, no matter whom they were, or so I thought.
It was midnight at least when we got the place we were going to stay. It was a crypt. It was very roomy though and did allow the place to only be partially lighted during the day, on the positive side.
"Sorry it's not like the last one but the place can hold four people at least. This is like that one in the outskirts of England, remember Spike?" Angel said in a teasing manner.
"Ah, those were the days, too bad that they don't make crypts like those here," Spike answered, also fooling around. Dru, Angel, and Spike started to laugh so I sat back and watched them and waited for them to settle down before I started to say anything my self. There was a feeling that I may have missed too much to fit in but that all changed as soon as they settled down and we all gathered around to fool around.
They soon got out of the fool around mode and they were down to business. They were talking to each other in tones of voice so low that I could not hear them even if I strained my hardest.
Then they turned on me and I got nervous.
"If you're going to be one of us," said Dru.
"Then you have to learn the tricks of the trade," Angel finished.
"Ok, what are they?" I was prepared.
"First, no more sun and stakes, our worst enemy," started Angel.
"Next, no more posing on all hallows eve," added Spike.
"Never find your self with an angry mob after you, that or the slayer," added Dru.
"Wait, what's a slayer?" I asked.
"She sounds like you William," said Angel and Spike gave him a look. "A slayer is the one chosen girl among the rest. She is dubbed a vampire slayer but she hunts all demons. The slayer has super human strength and other properties that could help her in a fight with a vampire, but she appears to be a normal girl or lady."
"That's about it though," said Dru.
"You forgot the best rule mates, you have to kick back, relax, and have a little fun!" exclaimed Spike.
We all had a great time that night. We laughed and joked, even Angel and Spike got along. There had to have been some mystical forces at work that night, there was just happiness that floated around in the night air. We kept going until one by one we fell asleep until I was the last one up. Then even I fell asleep into the warmth of the partially sun bathed room.
The next night we awoke just as the sun disappeared behind the trees of the forest that had seemingly followed us from Angel's house.
We all awoke with a start and I couldn't tell if we would be moving again or not until I heard a voice outside. The voice turned us into stealth mode and we shut the heck up as soon as we could.
We listened hard to see if we could tell who the voice was coming from. The voice sounded unfamiliar to me but then I saw Dru tense up and I knew that the voice meant danger. It sounded like a male voice but I could barely make out what he was saying, the only thing that I could tell was that he was headed in the direction of our hideout.
I looked to Angel and when he sensed my eyes on him he turned, put his finger to his lips, and motioned for me to also move low and quietly towards him. I did as I was commanded and got low and hushed. On my way over to Angel I saw the outline of the person move by the window. When I saw him I froze and so did he. I sat there for a while until I could tell that he had moved on and then hurried over to Angel, still quiet and low but more quickly this time. I wanted to be by him, to know that no harm would be done to me. When I got to him he took me under one arm and held me there for a long time. When he let go I knew it was safe to move again but I didn't dare, I had already almost been caught once that night and I did not want that to happen again.
"Well, that was more fun in a night than I need. This just means that we have to leave quicker than. How early do you think we could be out of here by? Tomorrow night?" asked Angel.
"Tomorrow night? Isn't that a bit early? We just got here and you want us to leave already? This is madness, I'm not even used to this yet and I don't get to get accustomed to anything now, 'tis total chaos!" I yelled.
"I understand Aubrea but we have to keep moving. Besides the next place has a real house to stay in, or a house to share I mean. And we will also get blood there. That will be better than this and I promise you that," said Angel.
"Until then let's settle down. If you need some reassurance, this is only my second move as a vampire and all of this is still like new to me too," reassured Spike.
I still didn't feel comforted though and so I went into a corner and isolated myself from the others. I must have fallen asleep in that corner for that is all that I remember of that night.
The next night I woke up and I awoke to see that at some point Spike had ended up next to me. He had one arm around me and seemed to have been trying to keep me warm. He was still asleep so to move I had to pick his arm off of my shoulder and I had to keep him in a comfortable position as I got up.
"Did you know that first thing you fell asleep he insisted on trying to keep you comfortable? He really cares for you." I turned around to find that Angel was also awake.
"When did you get up?"
"I rise when the sun falls."
"I'm sorry about how I lunged at you last night but it's all so hard. I don't mean to be mean but it happens out of nature now and I can't stop it."
"I know what it's like. You also might want to go back over by Spike and at least humor the point that he was trying to get you comfortable."
All I could do was smile as a response. I went over to Spike and carefully got back into his arms and I drifted into a light state of sleep, still aware that Angel was watching me and that Spike was now holding me like a teddy bear, with the grip of a child in need of a friend.