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Ch. 7 Sid and Nancy
"Stupid Snyder." Buffy grumbled angrily. "If he knew how many times I saved his butt he wouldn't call me a touble maker."
"Or if he knew how bad you could kick his butt." Xander chimed in from behind her.
Buffy jumped. "Xand, don't do that."
"Sorry."
"It's okay. But I have to put parent teacher night together, and I just know that he's going to fill my mothers head with how terrible I am, and I'll be grounded for the rest of my life."
Buffy put her head in her hands and rested her elbows on the library table. "It's not fair."
"We'll help you out." Reasurred Xander. It'll be awesome."
"Thanks." Buffy smiled at him. "You just have to watch out for Snyder. Sheila and I are supposed to be doing it by ourselves.
-At NIght-
An old car with the windows painted over barrelled into the Welcome to Sunnydale sign.
A bleach blonde, leather clad man stepped out and lit a cigarette. "Home Sweet Home."
-At the Factory-
"The master is dead. Someone must take his place." One of the annointeds minions was saying.
"As long as the slayer's alive whoever takes his place will join him in his grave." Said another.
"Then let her killer wear his mantle."
"Can you do it?" Asked the annointed.
"Yes. This weekend is St. Vigeous. Our power is strongest then. When I kill her, it will be the greatest even since the Crusifixion. I should know, I was there."
"YOU were there?" Came an incredulous voice. "If every vampire who said they were actually at the Crusifixion was actually there it would have been like Woodstock."
The vampire who had been speaking was eyeing the bleach blonde. "I oughta rip your throat out." He growled.
"I was actually at Woodstock." He continued. "Now that was a strange gig. I fed off a flower person and spent the next six hours watching my hand move." He turned around and held his hand up to demonstrate.
The angry vampire charged at the bleach blonde from behind. Without looking, the leather clad Billy Idol lookalike flattened him.
He turned around. "So, who do you kill for fun around here?"
"Who are you?" Asked the annointed.
"Spike. You're that annointed guy. I read about you. You've got slayer prooblems. You know what I've found works well with slayers? Killing them."
"Can you?" Asked the annointed.
"Yeah, I've done a few slayers in my time. I don't like to brag..." His face broke into a huge smile. "Oh, who am I kidding?! I love to brag! There was this one slayer during the boxer rebellion..." He trailed off and his game face slid into it's human guise as he turned around.
"Drusilla." He said, as a dark beauty of a girl slipped forward into the dim light. "You're weak. You shouldn't be up walking around."
"Look at all the people." She said sofly. "Are these nice people?"
"We're getting along." Spike replied, his eyes locked on her.
Drusilla stared at the annointed. "This one has power. I can feel it."
"Yeah, he's the big noise around here." Spike replied.
"Do you like daisies?" Drusilla asked the annointed. "I plant them but they always die." She turned to stare into space. "Spike, I'm cold."
In an instant the blonde had whipped his coat off and put it around her shoulders lovingly.
"I'm a princess." Drusilla declared.
"That's what you are, pet." Spike concurred.
She moved close to him and dragged a nail down his cheek, making a small cut. She licked a bit of blood off, and they moved close as if to kiss.
"Me and Dru are movin' in." Spike said, turning to the small vampire, his cheek pressed to Drusillas'. "Now. I'll take care of your slayer problem; but you have to keep you're flunkies from trying anything behind my back. Deal?"
The annointed nodded his head in agreement.
Dru bowed her head and put her hands up to her temples. "I can't see her Spike. It's dark where she is. Kill her. KIll her for princess?"
"Good as done, kitten." Spike replied soflty. He turned back to the child. "So, is this slayer tough?"
-Buffys room-
"Ow." Buffy mumbled as she tried to comb her hair.
"What's wrong? " Asked her mother.
"I spent my allowance on this new cream rinse, and it's neither creamy nor rinsy." Buffy griped.
"Life is tough, dear."
"Don't I know it. Is that a split end!?!"
"I got the mail. "
"That's good."
"Which included a notice about parent teacher night."
"Good." Buffy said warily.
"Which you were planning on telling me about?"
"Oh, for the last two weeks."
"Uh-huh, so what do you think you're techers will be telling me about?"
"Well I think they'll all agree I bring a pen to class, ready to absorb the knowledge." Buffy said weakly.
"What about your homework and test scores?"
"What can you really tell about a person from test scores?"
"Whether she'll be allowed to go out with her friends ever again."
"Oh, that."
"Honey, lifes about more than tests and homework; but we moved once because of you getting in trouble. I don't want to have to do it again. And I don't want to be dissapointed in you again."
"That's the last thing I want; but I have a lot of pressure on me right now." Buffy replied.
"Wait 'til you get a job." Her mother joked. "Get some sleep." Her mom left, closing the door.
Buffy sighed and got up. She pulled out a drawer in her desk. Inside it was a few crosses, a bottle of holy water, some stakes and a set of brass knuckles. "I have a job."
The next day at school, Buffy Xander and WIllow were making decorations for parent teacher night. Sheila hadn't shown up.
Buffy was asking WIllow if she could help her with her French. "I don't want Mr. DeJean telling my mother I'm an imbecile."
"I thought we were going to the bronze tonight?" Asked Willow. "Cause you thought Angel might be there?"
"And he might meet some other nice girl? Studying comes first!" Said Xander.
"We're still going. We can study there, and I can make my mother proud as long as I don't have to..." She trailed off as Miss Calendar and GIles walked in. "Fight vampires." She finished with a sigh.
Jenny and Giles were talking about Lunar cycles and things, and Jenny was saying how Giles needed to read something written after 1066.
"What's up guys?" Asked WIllow.
"Oh, uh Miss Calendar was reasearching on her computer and she's found that saturday night is St. Vigeous."
"Let me guess, he didn't make baloon animals?" Buffy quipped.
"Er' no. He led a crusade, of vampires. They swept through Edessa, Harran and points east."
"And didn't leave much behind." Added Jenny.
"Alright, if I survive parent teacher night, I'll see what I can do about Saturday." Buffy replied.
They had a brief argument about the subject until Giles spotted Snyder. He and Jenny beat a hasty retreat.
Snyder came over and fixed his beady little eyes on WIllow and Xander. "You wouldn't be helping Buffy in Sheilas' place would you?"
"Oh no." Xander said nervously.
"We're hindering." Added Willow.
"She ditched." Snyder said, with a gleam in his eyes. "I smell an expulsion coming along."
"Actually Sheila's been helping for hours." Said Buffy quickly. "She just went to the art room for more paint."
Sheila came in the door behind Buffy, and Snyder looked up at her.
"Oh, wasn't there anymore teal in the art room?" Buffy asked. "I know how you wanted it to be perfect; but lets just go with what we have."
"Just make everything perfect on Thursday." Snyder grumbled, leaving.
"When he was gone Sheila smiled at Buffy. "Thanks for covering."
"No problem." Said Buffy.
"DId you really burn down a school building once?"
"Well it wasn't just once..." Buffy said with embarassment.
"Cool."
Later at the bronze Willow and Buffy were studying French. Buffy was getting frustrated quickly. Soon Xander dragged them out onto the dance floor.
Unknown to them they were being watched.
Spike was eyeing the slayer. 'Pretty.' He thought. 'To bad I have to kill her, she might have been fun to play with.' He watched for a moment as she danced with her little friends. She was more attractive to him with every move she made.
"Go get something to eat." Spike growled to one of the minions.
He watched her for a few more minuets until he was sure the minion would be feeding. Then he made his way close to Buffy at the bar and spoke loudly, so she would hear. "Where's the phone? I need to call the police. There's this big guy out there trying to bite somebody."
Spike watched in satisfaction as Buffy took off. He followed out into the alley, leaving the bartender to call the police.
Buffy quickly located the minion outside preparing to bite a frightened young girl. She grabbed him and pulled him off of the girl.
He rolled to his feet. "Slayer!"
"Slayee!" Buffy replied.
She quickly began the fight with a roundhouse kick. She beat the crap out of him while yelling at Xander and Willow to get the girl out of there and get her a stake.
Spike watched the slayer fight with appreciation. She was fast and well trained. 'She's better than that Chinese bird.' He thought to himself. 'She was too disciplined. This one's more freestyle.'
'Ohhh, that's rough.' He thought as he watched the other vampire get kicked in the face by an angry downed slayer.
"Spike give me a hand!" The minion called out to him. Spike chose to ignore him. It wasn't his time yet.
He watched as her friends obeyed her and the boy brought her a stake. When he threw it to her she caught it and without missing a beat staked the minion.
Spike stepped from the shadows clapping slowly. He really did appreciate her style. She was good. "Nice work luv."
Buffy and her friends stared at him.
"Who are you?" Asked the slayer.
"You'll find out on Saturday."
She was exhilerated. Spike could tell, and she was so gorgeous like that. Maybe he'd turn her. But no, Dru wouldn't like that at all. He pouted mentally. 'I never get to have any fun.'
"What happens on Saturday?"
"I kill you."
Buffy watched the gorgeous vampire melt into the shadows.
Spike watched the young girl walking with two teenage boys. She was talking about a car or something. He picked one off when she wasn't looking and then the other. She was looking around to find them when Spike appeared in front of her.
"Where did those guys go?" Sheila asked him.
"They got sleepy." He replied. "And you found something a whole lot better."
He started walking away and she followed after him.
Meanwhile in the Library-
Giles and the others were trying to find what they could on Spike.
"Spike? That's what the other vampire called him? It's a little unorthodox isn't it?"
Buffy shrugged.
"Maybe he went under another name in times past." GIles muttered.
"Well whoever he is, we'll nedd all the help we can get on saturday." Said Jenny.
"Couldn't we just hide?" Asked Willow. "Cause if that Spike guy is leading the attack I mean ye hee hee." She shuddered.
"He can't be worse than any other creature you've faced." Said GIles.
"He's worse." Said Angel, starlting them all. "Once he starts something he doesn't stop unitl everything in his way is dead."
"So he's thorough, goal oriented.." Xander put in.
"We were at the bronze before." Said Buffy. "I thought you were going to come."
"You said you weren't sure if you were going." Angel shrugged.
"I was just being cool. You've been dating for what 200 years, you don't know what a girl means when she says maybe she'll show?"
"Um we do have more important matters to discuss.." Giles said.
"Yeah, like keeping Snyder away from my mother on thursday."
"And not dying on Saturday." Added Jenny.
"Angel do you know if this Spike went by another name?" He looked up and Angel was gone.
"Okay that's it, I'm getting him a bell." Xander said as the library doors closed.
Drusilla was scolding one of her dolls when Spike came into her room.
"Luv, are you going to eat something?"
"I'm not hungry." She pouted. "I miss Prauge."
"You nearly died in Prauge, idiot mob. No this place will restore you."
Sheila watched in terror as they talked from her position tied up and gagged, her wrists hanging from a hook on the wall.
Spike promised Dru he would go and make nice with the other vampires as long as she ate. He hauled Sheila away from the wall and gave her to Dru.
"See Miss Edith." Said Drusilla to her doll. "If you hadn't been naughty you could watch with the others." She turned back to Shiela with her game face on, and with a swift motion sank her fangs into the girls neck.
Buffy was fretting over parent teacher night. Parents would begin arriving shortly and she was on her last nerve.
WIllow pointed out they needed punch and Buffy ran off to get it.
Later she was busy doling liquid into cups from a large bowl.
"What kind of punch did you make?" Asked WIllow.
"Um, Lemonade. I made it fresh and everything." Said Buffy.
"How much sugar did you use?" Asked Willow, bringing a cup to her lips to taste it.
"Sugar?"
WIllow grimaced at the taste and set the cup down quickly. "It's very good." She said when Buffy looked up at her.
Buffys' mother came in shortly after that, and Buffy panicked when she saw Snyder coming. Willow helped her out by showing Joyce around the school.
Snyder was lurking around and eventually he caught her mother and led her off to talk.
Buffy watched miserably as Snyder led her mother off to his office. "He didn't look very happy." She said.
"But you did such a good job." Said Willow.
"When they're done talking," Cordielia said.
"What?"
"My guess, tenth high school reunion, you'll still be grounded."
"Hey Cordielia, have some lemonade." Said Willow, smiling knowingly.
In the library Giles had finally found out who Spike was. "He is known as William the bloody. Enjoyed torturing his victims with railroad spikes. It's how he got the nickname." He paused, reading. "Oh."
"What?"
"Running may have been a good idea." Giles replied. "He's fought two slayers in the last century. And he's killed them both."
In the lounge, Joyce and Snyder were returning from his office. Snyder gave Buffy a sly look and she turned to her mother, who was carefully controlling her anger.
"Car. Now."
As Buffy followed her mother out, she turned back to look at Snyder. he was turning off all of the lights. As he reached the last one and flicked it off two vampires suddenly crashed through the window.
More followed and Buffy saw Spike standing in the foreground looking at her.
"What can I say?" He said gleefully. "I couldn't wait."
The vampires went to work as Spike yelled, "Nobody gets out! Especially the girl!"
The doors were all being guarded by Spikes flunkies. Buffy alerted Giles to the situation and he and Jenny locked themselves in the library.
Buffy opened the door to the science room and shouted to snyder and some others, "In here"
They ran in and the power went out.
GIles made Xander go out to get Angel through the stacks.
Buffy, her mother, Snyder and a few others were in the science room.
Snyder decided it was a gang on PCP, and proceeded to try and get out through a window. Buffy hauled him back and told him to stay put.
Buffys' mother tried to stop her. "You can't go out there Buffy. I know you've been accused of getting in fights;but these guys are serious!"
"I know. That's why I'm going up there." She pointed to the ceiling.
"Slaaayyyeer!" Spike callled. "Here kitty kitty!" He proceeded to taunt her until one of his minions told him to listen. He grinned upwards.
"Someone's in the cieling!"
GIles was bout to go in search of Buffy when she crashed through the cieling of the library.
She told him the situation and he assured her that Xander was on his way to get Angel. She made him promise to get her mother out and went back up into the cieling.
In the science room Snyder was getting more and more agitated. He and Joyce got into an argument and he and another man decided to try and get out a window.
Spike and a minion were trying to get into the science room. The door ws solid however, and the minion shrugger at Spike.
"It's really solid."
"Use your head." Spike said, and smashed the minon into the glass door of an emergency case containing an axe.
He got it out and handed it to the minion.
The vampire began smashing at the door and Spike called to another. "You! Come with me."
Insde the science room, Snyder and the other man successfully pulled the slats from the window. The other man went out first and was eaten. Snyder jumped back and Joyce shut the window.
Angel and Xander were heading across school grounds.
"So what's your plan for getting in?" Asked Xander.
Angel grabbed him and Xander saw his game face. "Good plan."
The vampire with the axe was almost through the science room door.
Spike found some metal poles ans began poking them through the cieling. One almost hit Buffy and she started backing up. 'Okay, gotta stay calm.' She thought. Her demon was raging inside her. It wanted out to play, and Buffy wasn't about to let it. 'Shut up!' She screamed mentally.
For a moment it won, and she felt her teeth elongating and her vision was abruptly much clearer; but she angrily fought it back.
She crashed through the floor above the axe wielding vampire and dragged him down with her. She staked him before he could even get up.
Jumping up, she looked through the hole he had made in the door.
"Buffy! Are you okay?" Her mother asked.
"I'm fine mom, Just wait another minuet until I tell you to open the door."
She turned and crept down the hall spotting a vampire standing with his back to her. She turned quickly when she heard soemthig behind her. It was Sheila.
"Where have you been?" Buffy whispered.
"Sorry I'm late. There are these wierd guys outside."
"They're trying to kill us." Replied Buffy.
Sheila picked up an axe. "This should be fun."
Spike was still poking the pole into the cieling, looking for Buffy. He spotted Angel dragging one of Buffys friends.
"Angelus!"
"Spike"
"I'll be damned!" Spike laughed. He dropped the pole and hugged Angel.
"I taught you to always guard your perimeter." He clicked his tongue. "You should always have someone out there."
"I did." Spike said with a smirk. "I'm surrounded by idiots. So what's new?"
"Everything."
"You run into the slayer yet?"
"Yeah, I gave her the tortured puppy act. Keeps her off my back while I feed."
"I knew you were faking it!" Xander said. Angel gave his neck a squeeze to quiet him.
Spike laughed. "People still fall for that?"
"Undead liar guy." Xander squirmed against Angels grip.
Angel exposed Xanders neck. "Want a bite before we kill her?"
Buffy and Sheila were about to round the corner. "Stay behind me." Buffy told her.
Sheila stayed behind Buffy and slowly raised her axe, vamping out. She was about to swing it when Buffy realized what was happening and quickly staked her.
"Mom now!" Shouted Buffy.
Angel and Spike were lowering thier heads to feed from Xander when Spike suddenly lashed out and punched Angel hard.
"You think you can fool me?" He yelled angrily. "You think I don't know? You were my sire, man!"
He grabbed the discarded pole off of the floor. "Come on people, this isn't a spectator sport."
The others vamps attacked, and Spike went looking for Buffy again.
"Fe-fi-fo-fum. I smell the blood of a nice ripe young....girl." He turned around to see Buffy and something stopped him in his tracks. She was so different this slayer. Something was off. He could see it in her face. She was having a tiny war of her own on the inside. His ego was trying to tell him that she was trying not to run away; but he knew that wasn't it.
"Do we really need weapons for this?" She was saying.
"No." He replied softly. "No we don't." He dropped his weapon and continued to stare at her.
"What?" Asked Buffy, wondering why he didn't attack her.
Spike shook himself and prepared to attack her. But he relaxed his fighting stance and slowly walked over to her with his hands raised. "I don't want to fight you."
Buffy kept hers tense, warily watching him. "Why?"
"I don't know." His face was strained. "But I think it's because I want to do this." He roughly grabbed Buffy and kissed her. She was too surprised to do anything but stand there for a moment.
Before she could do anything, Spike stiffened and fell to the ground.
Her mother stood there with the axe she had dropped. "You stay away from my daughter!"
Buffy was in shock staring down at the groaning Spike. Her mother grabbed her hand and pulled her away.
"Did he hurt you?" Joyce asked once they got clear of the building.
"No mom, he didn't." Buffy replied softly. 'Why did he kiss me? He could have snapped my neck; but he didn't."
Spike made his way back to the factory. He got down in front of the annointed.
"You failed!" The child said angrily.
Spike began making an apology; but stopped in the middle of it. "Oh who am I kidding!" He yelled.
He grabbed the annoying kid and threw him in a cage. Then he proceeded to pull it up into the morning sunlight.
He turned around to look at Dru, who was crying. "What luv?" He said softly.
"Miss Edith says you love the little slayer." She sobbed. "What about your princess?"
"Dru, baby. Please, I don't love the slayer. I love you. Only you."
But Drusilla shrank away from him, making a sound of revulsion. She ran away to her room crying.
Spike sighed. He was going to lose his dark princess when she was better. Somehow he wasn't as upset as he thought he would have been. Yes, he'd find her a cure and let her go. Nothing would hold her to him now that he'd had a taste of sunlight.
AN: Okay guys, tell me what you think. I'm not getting him and Buffy together right away, so don't expect that. I was just trying to illustrate the attraction between them a little before he goes back to the doghouse.