Chapter IV, Standing in the rain

William hugged Angelus good-bye, tears running down his face.

"I don't want you to go!" William cried.

"I know you don't." Angelus said. "But I'll come back, I promis!" He said. He crouched down in front of William and took of the necklace that was around his neck and put it around William's. It had a pendant on it of an Angel. William looked down at it. "There's proof." He said and stood up. He patted William on the head and walked out the door. Angelus had spent an hour trying to find a family that would be willing to be paid to take care of him. And for this family he had to pay a lot. The family was an uper crust family that loved their kids very much, and Angelus dubed them worthy of taking care of his property.

4 Years Later

"William you give that to me right now!" His 'sister' said. "I want that pendant and I always get what I want!" She screamed. "Besides, its to good for the likes of you. Now give it to me!"

"No, Angelus gave it to me!" She laughed.

"Do you honestly think Angelus cares about a worthless little runt like you?" She mocked. "He left you here because he doesn't want you!"

"Thats not true! He couldn't take me with him because Darla wouldn't let him!" She laughed.

"Is that the truth, or is that the best excuse he could give you?" She asked. She walked up to him and grabbed onto the pendent and yanked making the chain break. She pushed William down onto the floor and walked out of the room. William felt hot tears begin to run down his face but quickly whiped them away. He walked back to the kitchen where the cook was waiting for him.

"What took you so long?" She asked him. "Your supposed to be doing your duties." She yelled. He looked down and seemed to shrink into himself.

"I'm sorry mame. But Emily called me."

"But nothing!" The cook said. "You have been nothing but a thorn in my side since you got here!" She yelled and grabbed him by the arm.

"What are you doing?" He asked. The cook looked down at him.

"What I should have done when you first got here." She said. "I should have figured he wasn't coming back." She said as she opened the back door. William looked out into the billowing snow storm outside, eyes emotionless as he was tossed outside in the snow. "And don't bother making any noise, no one will let you in!" She said, and slammed the door on him. William huddled in the corner of the stair case, wrapping his arms around him. His thin cotten shirt did little to nothing to keep him warm and soon he fell asleep.

Angelus walked down the cold street, snow flakes pounding at his face. He pulled his jacket tighter around him. Despite being dead he was still cold. He turned a corner and caught a familiar scent. 'William!' He thought happily. He began to pick up his paise, hoping to see William again. Just as he was comming up to the house, he could see something lying on the stair, covered by a sheet of snow. 'poor dog!' he thought, thinking it was their dog they had left outside. But as he came up to the house, he realized it wasn't. He ran up to William who was shivering to no end, and no doubtedly had frost bite. 'No one teats my property this way and gets away with it.' He thought. Angelus picked him up and William tried to open his eyes, but his eyelashes were frozen shut.

"Angelus?" Angelus looked down at him.

"Yes its me!" He said.

"You came back!" William said.

"Of course I did!" He swore to himself to make the family pay for this.

"Emily said you wouldn't!" Angelus just shook his head. He stood up, William in his arms, and kicked down the door. He carried William up the stairs and knocked the two 'Parents' off of their bed. They woke up with a start and looked at Angelus, and then down at William. Angelus place William down in their bed.

"Stay here, ok!" William nodded and Angelus dragged the two adults down stairs. William lay there for a while, trying to keep warm, but eventually curiosity over powered him and he went down stairs. He was half way down the stairs and saw Angelus standing over Emily's dead body, blood dripping from his mouth. He didn't even remember making a noise, but Angelus looked at him and snarled. "I thought I told you to stay in bed!" He said, and started walking toward him. William's eyes widened in fright and before Angelus knew it, William was running out the door. William got about half way down the block before callapsing in the snow. A few minutes later Angelus ran up to him and Hugged him to him. "William, Its ok." He said. "I would never hurt you!" He said, and picked him back up and took him back into the house. Angelus walked back up to Emily after setting William down on one of the stairs that led to the second floor, and took the pendant off her neck. When Angelus saw it around her neck instead of William's it made him even more furious at the girl and had made her death even more painful. He walked back over to William and put the pendant in his jacket pocket. William reached in and pulled it out to look at it and then placed it back in. Angelus picked him up and began walking to the door. He heard William gasp and looked back. He turned William's face away from the scene in front of him, but the damage had already been done. The sight of the cooks dead sightless eyes staring back at him would be burned into William's innocent mind forever.

Present Day.

"That's harsh." Buffy said. Spike nodded.

"I'll never forget how afraid I was of him when I saw him standing over Emily." He said. "When he started walking towards me, I thought for sure I was going to die for making him angery."

"So what happened after that?" Giles asked. Spike sighed.

"Well.. To tell you the truth... Nothing much happend for a while after that. Angelus found me another family, who treated me a lot better than the last. Angelus had stayed this time for a few days, just to make sure. Then he left again..."

TBC... PLX... Uh...x?... I mean PLZ R&R