A/N: Just a short chapter I started when I had an idea, if you like it you'll get more, if not I'll just leave it at that. One of the firt stories I have wrote, I'm fairly new to fanfiction, but hey, I thought I'd give it a whirl. (And by the way I am english, but I've tried to do American spelling where possible, but in the end it probably will be more trousers than pants, biscuits than cookies etc.)

Disclaimer: Joss and M.E.

Summary: After just moving from Britain a girl with unusual abilities meets the scoobies, and a pre-chip and unsouled Angelus.

Warning: Nothing as of yet, maybe in later chapters

Rating: PG-13

Spilers/Timing: Early season four, however no chip for Spike, Dru has died, and Angelus was never sent to hell, instead taking up Buffy on an offer to take Spike and skip town (obviously they're back, but the scoobies don't know) So hey, I've only gone and completely changed the whole storyline, but oh well, you can live with it.

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Chloe Louise Thomas, there was nothing special about that name, nothing significant, it just blended in with the rest of the world, then again that was the general idea. When living on the hellmouth you didn't really want to be different, didn't want to stand out in a crowd, at least not if you wanted to live. Despite the fact that she lived on the hellmouth, Chloe was generally very clever, she had been up two years in school, would most likely be ahead of all her older classmates in her new classes when she went to school for the first time in America tomorrow, yet she still moved to the hellmouth, out of choice. Still, she had her reasons, not reasons she was willing to share with anyone, but she still had them.

Walking down the street in confidence, despite all the hellmouth issues, Chloe searched for the nearest 24 hour corner shop, in desperate need for a few pints of milk. Even if she had moved to a hellmouth out of choice, Chloe was completely stupid when it came to the 'creatures of the night' she knew they would most likely take the easy prey, so she took a few precautions that hopefully made her slightly more 'off limits' for the undead in the town.

A stake poking out of her back pocket, not really noticable for the average Sunnydale resident, they saw things like that all the time, but a vampire looking for a meal would watch closely at his intended victim and would see the stake straight away and hopefully go and find someone else to snack on. Though anyone who cared to have one conversation with Chloe would see that she was clearly not religious, there probably wasn't anyone alive that could pack so many Brittish swear words into one sentence, she still got away with wearing a cross around her neck, another thing to ward off vampires.

So with that, and keeping her head down, Chloe managed to get in and out of the shop without a hitch, and began walking the short journey home, now armed with her bottle of milk. Unfortunately for her, the hairs on the back of her neck began to stand on edge and Chloe was sure she was being followed, or at least watched, and she had learned enough in the past that it didn't pay to ignore her feelings, even if it turned out to be paranoia in the end.

Casually she slipped her hand into the back pocket of her jeans and pulled out her stake which she then began twirling around in her fingers, much like a cheerleader with a baton, and she hoped that it would put whoever was watching her off, but just to be safe she increased her speed slightly, not enough to be that noticeable, but enough to make sure she got inside the safety of her home quicker. Now that she was walking faster it meant that she was just a couple of minutes from her home, but she still had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach and she began to walk even faster, earning a few inquisitive looks from passers by, but Chloe payed them no attention, her sights were set on one thing, getting home, alive preferably.

By now she guessed that she was only one minute from her house, but the feeling of being watched was getting worse and then all of her suspicions were confirmed when she banged into someone, who had definitely not been in that spot, or near that spot the second before, to have moved in front of her that quick they would have had to have inhuman speed, which was the exact thing Chloe was afraid of.

She looked up wearily and saw that she was face to face with a vampire. A very hot vampire yes, but a vampire all the same, and by the looks of it a particularly evil vampire, if the smirk on his face was anything to go by. This in itself surprised Chloe, vampires were generally confident in themselves yes, but by the time someone had banged into them they usually had their game face on, or at least had some sort of menacing growl coming from their throats, but this vampire had neither, just a particuarly annoying smirk on his face.

"Just wondering, what's a young pretty girl like yourself doing walking all alone on a cold night like tonight?" Chloe couldn't believe that line actually worked on some people, but she guessed it must, he wouldn't still be using it otherwise. Well, it was probably time to give him a little shock, the response she was going to give probably wasn't one he was used to receiving.

"Cut the crap, I know who, well what you are, just because you haven't got any pointy fangs or a bumpy forehead at the moment doesn't hide the fact that you are a vampire" Chloe spoke in an amazingly calm voice, considering the situation she was in, and her accent revealed her brittish roots, and just how recently she must have moved over to Sunnydale from England, that was enough to surprise anyone, who in their right mind would move away from a perfectly nice country to live on top of a hellmouth?

"Well if all that's true, then aren't you being a bit confident? Seeing as you know who I am?" The vampire showed that he too, wasn't American, or at least wasn't born in America as his voice still had a fairly strong Irish accent to it. However Chloe just shrugged, she wasn't all that interested in striking up a long conversation with this vampire, he was already being far too colloquial for her liking, she wasn't used to vampires like this, it was generally just threats about how they were going to torture you to death, or something of the like. He suddenly made Chloe feel even more uneasy, changing the subject suddenly, and going onto an even stranger topic. "What's your name?"

Chloe hesitated, unsure whether she should answer him or not, but seeing as one or the other of them was going to be dead shortly she guessed it probably didn't really matter all that much, so she decided to give him a name, her real name, ok, not her real name, but the name she had been known by everyone else for years now.

"Chloe" She stated shortly, and then as an afterthought she decided to make the most of her current situation and the fact there was still the slightest possibility she might escape she thought she might as well try and find out as much about him as well. "And you are...?"

"You're interested about little old me?" Angelus pretended to blush with mock modesty before his usual smirk came back onto his face and he answered her question with a sneer in his voice "Angelus, Oh and behind you? That's Spike, my childe"

Chloe spun around quickly, and true to his word there was another vampire stood behind her. This surprised her, Chloe was usually very self aware, for a human at least and knew exactly what was going on around her, even if she didn't show it all of the time. She turned back around to Angelus when Spike made no move to talk and saw that he was looking vaguely amused.

"What's so funny?" Angelus's expression changed once more as he appeared to evaluate Chloe with his mind.

"I'm just curious that's all. You know what I am, yet you don't seem to be scared. That must mean that you are either very brave, or completely crazy" Chloe tried to work out in her mind how to reply to him without giving to much away about herself, if he was that curious about her, maybe he wouldn't kill her. Maybe.

"I'm neither. I agree I would have to be crazy not to be afraid of you, I'm just not replacing all the thoughts in my head with fear, that wouldn't really help me out all that much"

"True, but not all that many humans have that much common sense" Chloe tried to work out if he was complementing her, or calling the majority of humans stupid, she couldn't work it out so she didn't bother to grace that comment with a reply. "You know what? You're surprisingly interesting, for a human. You've managed to grab my attention, not many people manage to do that, and to thank you for it, I'm going to let you live. For now at least"

"You're very kind" Chloe relied graciously, sarcastically giving a bashful smile as if she was at a school dance and her date had just complemented her on her dress. She smiled slightly when she realized her earlier predictions of having a chance that she might live, if she held enough of his curiosity, were true.

"I try my best. Now lets walk you home, we wouldn't want you bumping into anyone unfriendly on your way home would we?" Chloe wasn't surprised, if she held the curiosity of this vampire, then obviously he would want to know more about her, including where she lived.

"As long as you don't expect an invite inside" Angelus had been surprised, he had expected her to refuse his offer straight away, not that it would have made any difference, but she'd accepted.

"Not just yet" Chloe turned and headed towards her house, with the two vampires walking next to her in silence. As she continued walking down the street the light breeze that had been around all night suddenly picked up and her hair began blowing all around her face, she tried to push it back lightly, but in the end she ended up tucking it completely behind her ears, still covering up most of her neck, but it had left some of it bared for a while before.

She instantly realised her mistake and began to pick up her pace hoping no one had noticed but when Angelus stopped suddenly she realised she was not having any such luck tonight.

"What is that?" Taking her chances and deciding to play dumb for a while Chloe tried to avoid the question like she had no idea what so ever as to what he was talking about.

"What is what?"

"Oh I think you know what I'm talking about little girl"

"No..." Chloe put on her best innocent expression, the same face she had used when she had been caught stealing from the biscuit jar when she was 5, only difference was that time round it had worked.

Angelus walked slowly towards her, with all of the stealth of the predator he had become over the past centuries and he brushed her hair back away from her neck once more. Chloe didn't struggle against him, she had doubted that she would have been able to get out of this situation, besides she wasn't strong enough to prevent him from having another look if that was what he wanted, and right now it was.

He tilted her head slightly, ending up leaving her neck bared for all to see. He stroked his thumb gently over her delicate neck, making her shudder and the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end, and he stopped moving his thumb when he reached something, a bite mark, or to be more specific, a vampire bite mark.

"This" Chloe was for once at a loss to what to do, and fell back on one of her oldest solutions, 'If in doubt, try to talk your way out of a bad situation"

"You know, I would be slightly worried, if I were you, if you don't know what that is, what with you being a vampire and all" She heard Spike give a small snort of laughter at her response, but she decided to ignore him, as did Angelus.

"Uh, uh, uh" Angelus shook his head slightly to emphasize his point "I didn't mean that and you know it. How did you get it?" There was no way Chloe was going to release this sort of information to anyone unless it was forced out of her, and right now she most definately was not in the mood to share her deepest darkest secrets with some random vampire she had just met on the streets whilst walking home. There were two people, other that herself, who actually knew about the bite mark, and one of them had been the vampire that had given it to her in the first place. No. This secret was staying secret for as long as possible. So once again Chloe went for the cocky approach.

"Well what happened first was the vampire grabbed hold of my neck and then- " she was cut of by Angelus who was now beginning to look extremely irritated but none of his feelings were reflected in his voice, though this time it had changed again and it was a short clipped tone.

"Who gave it to you?" Chloe met his gaze and discreetly crossed her fingers behind her back hoping her next response would cut it. She gave a girly sigh and replied.

"Now that would be telling wouldn't it?"

"I suppose it would" Angelus settled for the fact that he wasn't going to get an answer, at least not tonight, but made a mental note to find out how she received it before, and why she was being so secretive about it. Chloe turned round and walked to her house, which was just a few metres away, she turned back around to the vampires that had followed her.

"My stop" She took out her keys and made her way up to her front door, the vampires didn't make to follow her.

"Be seeing you around, Chloe" Angelus turned around, shortly followed by Spike and Chloe breathed a sigh of relief as she closed the door behind her.

She realised that his curiosity in her had saved her life, she just hoped that his curiosity in her and more specifically, his curiosity in her bite mark, wouldn't get her killed, she had been lucky too many times.