Chapter III, This is how it goes

The small boy watched the trees go by through the window of the carriage. He sat down properly on the seat once again and began to adjust his specticals.

"William, stop playing with your specticals!" His mother scolded. "Your going to break them." William put his hands back down and once again sat up on his knees to look out the window. All of a sudden the carriage stoped and William fell onto the floor from the sudden jolt. His mother picked him up as he began to cry and rub his head. "Its ok, Its ok!" William sniffed and whiped away his tears. "There we go. All better."

"I'll go see what going on." His father said and climbed out. The two sat in the carriage a few moments before they both heard a scream. The scream had some from his father. His mother looked at him.

"Stay here!" She said, and hid him under the seat. "No matter what you hear, you stay under there!" William nodded. That was the last time William ever saw either one of his parents alive. He hid under the seat for what seemed like hours, when in fact it was only a few minutes. The door flew open and he saw a strange man climb in. William stayed as silent as he could. The man dug around the carriage for money, jewlery, anything valuable. But there was nothing in the carriage. William jumped as the man scrouched down and looked under the seat.

"Well well, what do we have here?" He asked and yanked William out of the carage. William screamed at the top of his lungs and the man threw him down on the ground before picking him up again and held him against the carriage wall. William closed his eyes and screamed again as the man held up a dagger over his head and brought it down quickly. William tensed expecting to feel a large amount of pain go through him, like the time he had fallen into the fire place and had been stabbed in the leg with one of the hot pokers, only worse. But nothing happened. William opened his eyes and saw that the man had pinned his shirt to the wall. William sighed in relief. "Were is it?" The man asked. William looked blankly down at the bodies of his mother and father and the man shook him to get his attention. "Where is it?"

"What?" He asked. Being only three and a half he didn't know how to talk quite properly yet. The man rolled his eyes.

"The money, you twit... where do your parents keep the money!" William shrugged as best he could without cutting himself on the knife.

"Uh sir..." Said another man. "We got company!" The man holding him looked at him and threw him back into the carage and jammed the door shut so that he couldn't get out. William hid under the seat again and heard the screams of the men who had killed his parents. William saw the carriage door get ripped open and jumped at the man who had opened it. He didn't know who it was, all he knew was that he had saved him.

The man finaly managed to rip the kid off of him and set him down. 'Holy shit does this kid have a grip!' He thought. The boy looked at him and smiled. 'Why isn't this kid scared of me?' He asked himself. 'Oh wait... I'm in human form.' He shook his head.

William watched as the man shook his head and his face began to change. The bones in his forehead began to shift and change and his lips looked a bit puffier. William tilted his head to the side in curiosity and reached a hand up to feel the mans forehead. The man flinched. 'This kids not scared of me' He thought. He smiled. 'Now starts the screaming.' But to his surprise, the kid just looked down at his fangs and ran a finger under one of them. The man shook his head in amazement. 'A child's innocense.' He thought. He shifted back and forth a few times making William laugh.

"Can you teach me how to do that?" He asked. The man looked down at him and smiled.

"Maybe one day." He said.

"My names William, whats yours?" The man smiled down at him.

"Angelus!" He said, and picked him up. William clung to his neck so that he didn't fall back.

"Where are you taking me?" He asked.

"Your going to stay with me tonight. Then in the morning, we'll find you a new family." He said. William looked dissapointed but didn't say anything. William saw they were headed toward a group of people, four men and a woman.

"Who is that?" The woman asked.

"His name's William." The woman sneerd down at him as Angelus placed him on his horse and climbed on behind him.

"Did you really need to bring snack food?" The woman asked. This confused William decided to ignore the comment.

"Darla, I'm not going to eat him." Angelus said. "He's just staying with us for one day and then I'm finding him a new family. His last one was killed by bandits."

"So?" Darla asked.

"Just leave him alone ok!" Darla scoffed.

"Fine," She said, rolling her eyes.

"Don't talk." Angelus whispered in his ear. "If you annoy her, she might do something rash!"

"I don't do things rash hun... I do them in good cause!" Darla said. Needless of what Angelus said, William spent the whole ride talking about this and that, often making Angelus and the minion's laugh. In a way, he remind Angelus of his sister. Angelus, Darla, the minions, and William went into a small abandond barn just before dawn and made sure there was no way any light could get in. Satisfied, Angelus walked up to William and picked him up. He walked over to a corner with him and walked past two of the minion's who were whispering about eating the boy once Angelus was asleep. Angelus placed William down on a hay stack and layed down next to him.

"I don't want you wandering off, ok... If you want anything, you wake me up!" Angelus said. "Ok." William nodded and quickly fell asleep.

Present Day

"I didn't relise at the time that just wondering away from him that night could have ment my death." Spike said. He looked around at all the stunned faces. Giles had put the book down and had pulled up a chair. Willow whiped a tear from her eye.

"That's so sad." She said. "So you didn't kill your parents?" Spike shook his head.

"No, that was Angelus' bit." He said. "Now do you want to hear the rest of the story or not!" Everyone nodded, including Riley who was now iterested in the story as well.

TBC... No words of wisdom for this one... wait... did I just say I had wisdom... wow... that went right over my head... any way... plz R&R