A/N: Ok, I did say I would probably update before the end of the weekend,
but seeing as I had practically the whole chapter written already I've put
it up extra early, I hope you like it, and if you do be sure to let me know
in a review :D I've already got the bases written out for the next two
chapters, but they were written a while ago so I have to go over them, but
chances are I'll have those two up before Monday, but after that my
chapters will be starting from scract and it'll take longer for me to
update, please let me know if you are still interested in this, if not I'll
just leave it as it is.
Disclaimer: Joss and M.E.
Summary: After just moving from Britain a girl with unusual abilities meets the scoobies, and a pre-chip Spike and unsouled Angelus.
Warning: Nothing as of yet, maybe in later chapters
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers/Timing: Season three, may be spoilers for season four, but shouldn't be. -------------------------------------------------
Chloe muttered a basic protection spell as she walked out into the night and towards the nearest cemetary that she had passed on the way to school earlier that day. She hadn't been practicing magic long, only a few months, and therefore she had no real power, but it came in handy when dusting vampires, something she had made a habbit of once her power had started to grow stronger over the past couple of months. From what she had heard there was only one chosen one in the world, one slayer. Even if the Slayer did have supernatural powers she couldn't keep the whole world safe, and there were many hellmouths all over the earth, so by protecting this one she managed to keep the world a little bit safer. Even if she only managed to dust a couple of vampires, assuming they killed one person a night she would still be saving several lives.
Of course she was still in danger all the time she was out, she still had to summon quite a lot of power to create a fireball and if the vampire had the sense to snap her neck before her spell was finished she would be dead. That was why she hadn't bothered to try one yesterday, Angelus was far to clever to get scared by a few words coming out of her mouth, he would have had the sense to stop her before she finished, and anyway her magic might come in useful as a secret weapon against him one day. This was how it had been for the last few months, she would go out at night when her parents were away, which was practically all the time, and she would be potentially risking her life, but in return she was saving many other lives. She liked what she did, it gave her life a purpose, a meaning.
Dazed out of her thoughts when a hand clawed its way out of the earth near to where she was stood Chloe summoned a fireball and dusted the vampire when he was only half way out of the ground, she felt a little sorry for him, afterall he probably hadn't even realised what was going on, but she soon stopped feeling sorry for him when she countered that as soon as he had been aware of what was happening he would have been out killing people.
Chloe walked along a bit further and sat down on a bench in the park, just next to the cemetary. She wondered who had came up with the idea of putting a park right next to the cemetary, parks made perfect hunting grounds for vampires. Sitting here alone on the bench probably wasn't the best of ideas, but she would hopefully manage to attract the attention of a younger vampire looking for an easy kill, rather than a skilled vampire. When she felt a presence nearby she began muttering silently and slowly under her breath, so she didn't grab the vampire's attention, but stopped when she saw who it was.
"Wonderful evening tonight"
"Angelus"
"I saw your trick with the fireball back there, impressive. Why didn't you try and set me on fire yesterday?" Chloe saw no point in lying to him, chances are he would probably already know the truth, and she didn't really fancy getting him angry tonight.
"You'd have been able to snap my neck in the time it took me to form the first word of the spell. Anyway, even if I had managed somehow I wouldn't have been able to dust the pair of you off and I'd end up just a little bit dead"
"Brains as well as looks. I'm starting to like you even more"
"I'm guessing that's meant to be a compliment?"
"Now, now. Manners are everything, you shouldn't really be sarcastic towards a master vampire, it's not really all that good for your health" Angelus sat himself down next to Chloe on the bench and made himself comfortable. It was then Chloe realised what was bugging her, what was missing.
"Where's Spike?" Angelus picked up a few strands of her hair and began playing with them and Chloe resisted the urge to pull away, knowing Angelus he would keep hold of the hair and she would just be effictivley pulling the hair from her own head.
"He's grabbing dinner" Angelus looked at her face to see how she would take the news.
"Oh" a moment later her eyes widened when she realised just exactly what dinner was "Oh!"
"I'd tell you not to worry and that they wouldn't feel a thing, but I don't really want to lie to you" Chloe wondered if that remark was meant to comfort her at the thought of someone dying at the hands of Spike. Chloe saw that once again Angelus was staring at her bite mark and it was annoying her.
"You never seen a bite mark on someone's neck before?" He gave her a smile, but didn't bother to respond to her question. "What are you doing here?"
"You're asking me, a vampire, what I'm doing on a park bench in the middle of the night, rather than looking at yourself, a young teenage girl, sat on a bench in the middle of the night?" Angelus was really beginning to annoy Chloe now, he couldn't even answer a simple question without going all cryptic on her, but she supposed he did have a point.
Just as she was about to make up an excuse and try and get away from him, even though she was aware that it probably wouldn't work, Spike returned from dinner and jumped over the back of the bench and sat down on her other side.
"How are you pet?"
"Fine" She was tempted to ask him how he would feel if he was a human teenager trapped on a bench inbetween to master vampires, but she decided against it in the end, like Angelus said, being sarcastic towards a master vampire isn't all that good for your health.
She remembered that before Spike had came along she had been just about to leave so she started to stand up.
"I was just about to leave and I'm sure you two have lots to catch up on, so you know, I'll just leave the pair of you to it" Unfortuantely for her a strong hand pushed her back down on to the bench, she had been dreading this, and feared that she knew what was coming next.
"I don't think so, not quite yet. Aren't you going to give me something in return for not killing you?" For a moment Chloe contemplated doing a spell, but realised that would probably do her more harm than good. She knew exactly what Angelus wanted and tried to think of something to get herself out of her current situation, but no ideas came to hand.
Chloe turned her head forwards and stared at the tree in front of her briefly before slowly tilting her head towards Spike, leaving her neck visible for Angelus.
"Good girl, but I don't want that side of your neck" Chloe looked at him puzzled for a minute, before she realised. That side of her neck had her other vampire bite on it, obviously he didn't want to bite on top of someone elses mark, he wanted his own mark, clearly on her other side of her neck. Great she thought, just great. Now she had to get up extra early each morning to cover up not one, but two vampire bite marks.
Chloe stood up and she was about to sit down on the other side of Angelus when he pulled her down onto his lap, holding hir firmly when she began to struggle. Chloe soon realised that there was no point in struggling against him and let him move the hair away from the side of her neck as she tilted her head away from him.
A sharp pain hit her as his fangs entered her neck but after that there was only a dull aching. When Angelus finally removed his fangs she was weak and couldn't stand. Still holding her in his hands he carried her home, followed by a silent Spike. After the few minutes it took to get there she was feeling stronger and could stand up on her own without support. Angelus allowed her to walk into the house without issueing him an invite and blew her a kiss before walking away with a muttering Spike behind him.
Chloe was weak again as she collapsed into her bed, not even bothering to take off her clothes or clean her neck. Just incase she forgot to get up earlier in the morning she set her alarm to go half an hour earlier that normal so she would have enough time to clean her neck and cover her bites in the morning.
Once again she had trouble sleeping, not just because of Angelus, but the fact that he had bitten her, it had brought back memories, memories that she would rather she forgot, though had no such luck. Finally she managed to forget her last encounter with a vampire in which she had ended up with her first bite mark and drifted off to sleep, hoping her past would stay covered up.
Disclaimer: Joss and M.E.
Summary: After just moving from Britain a girl with unusual abilities meets the scoobies, and a pre-chip Spike and unsouled Angelus.
Warning: Nothing as of yet, maybe in later chapters
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers/Timing: Season three, may be spoilers for season four, but shouldn't be. -------------------------------------------------
Chloe muttered a basic protection spell as she walked out into the night and towards the nearest cemetary that she had passed on the way to school earlier that day. She hadn't been practicing magic long, only a few months, and therefore she had no real power, but it came in handy when dusting vampires, something she had made a habbit of once her power had started to grow stronger over the past couple of months. From what she had heard there was only one chosen one in the world, one slayer. Even if the Slayer did have supernatural powers she couldn't keep the whole world safe, and there were many hellmouths all over the earth, so by protecting this one she managed to keep the world a little bit safer. Even if she only managed to dust a couple of vampires, assuming they killed one person a night she would still be saving several lives.
Of course she was still in danger all the time she was out, she still had to summon quite a lot of power to create a fireball and if the vampire had the sense to snap her neck before her spell was finished she would be dead. That was why she hadn't bothered to try one yesterday, Angelus was far to clever to get scared by a few words coming out of her mouth, he would have had the sense to stop her before she finished, and anyway her magic might come in useful as a secret weapon against him one day. This was how it had been for the last few months, she would go out at night when her parents were away, which was practically all the time, and she would be potentially risking her life, but in return she was saving many other lives. She liked what she did, it gave her life a purpose, a meaning.
Dazed out of her thoughts when a hand clawed its way out of the earth near to where she was stood Chloe summoned a fireball and dusted the vampire when he was only half way out of the ground, she felt a little sorry for him, afterall he probably hadn't even realised what was going on, but she soon stopped feeling sorry for him when she countered that as soon as he had been aware of what was happening he would have been out killing people.
Chloe walked along a bit further and sat down on a bench in the park, just next to the cemetary. She wondered who had came up with the idea of putting a park right next to the cemetary, parks made perfect hunting grounds for vampires. Sitting here alone on the bench probably wasn't the best of ideas, but she would hopefully manage to attract the attention of a younger vampire looking for an easy kill, rather than a skilled vampire. When she felt a presence nearby she began muttering silently and slowly under her breath, so she didn't grab the vampire's attention, but stopped when she saw who it was.
"Wonderful evening tonight"
"Angelus"
"I saw your trick with the fireball back there, impressive. Why didn't you try and set me on fire yesterday?" Chloe saw no point in lying to him, chances are he would probably already know the truth, and she didn't really fancy getting him angry tonight.
"You'd have been able to snap my neck in the time it took me to form the first word of the spell. Anyway, even if I had managed somehow I wouldn't have been able to dust the pair of you off and I'd end up just a little bit dead"
"Brains as well as looks. I'm starting to like you even more"
"I'm guessing that's meant to be a compliment?"
"Now, now. Manners are everything, you shouldn't really be sarcastic towards a master vampire, it's not really all that good for your health" Angelus sat himself down next to Chloe on the bench and made himself comfortable. It was then Chloe realised what was bugging her, what was missing.
"Where's Spike?" Angelus picked up a few strands of her hair and began playing with them and Chloe resisted the urge to pull away, knowing Angelus he would keep hold of the hair and she would just be effictivley pulling the hair from her own head.
"He's grabbing dinner" Angelus looked at her face to see how she would take the news.
"Oh" a moment later her eyes widened when she realised just exactly what dinner was "Oh!"
"I'd tell you not to worry and that they wouldn't feel a thing, but I don't really want to lie to you" Chloe wondered if that remark was meant to comfort her at the thought of someone dying at the hands of Spike. Chloe saw that once again Angelus was staring at her bite mark and it was annoying her.
"You never seen a bite mark on someone's neck before?" He gave her a smile, but didn't bother to respond to her question. "What are you doing here?"
"You're asking me, a vampire, what I'm doing on a park bench in the middle of the night, rather than looking at yourself, a young teenage girl, sat on a bench in the middle of the night?" Angelus was really beginning to annoy Chloe now, he couldn't even answer a simple question without going all cryptic on her, but she supposed he did have a point.
Just as she was about to make up an excuse and try and get away from him, even though she was aware that it probably wouldn't work, Spike returned from dinner and jumped over the back of the bench and sat down on her other side.
"How are you pet?"
"Fine" She was tempted to ask him how he would feel if he was a human teenager trapped on a bench inbetween to master vampires, but she decided against it in the end, like Angelus said, being sarcastic towards a master vampire isn't all that good for your health.
She remembered that before Spike had came along she had been just about to leave so she started to stand up.
"I was just about to leave and I'm sure you two have lots to catch up on, so you know, I'll just leave the pair of you to it" Unfortuantely for her a strong hand pushed her back down on to the bench, she had been dreading this, and feared that she knew what was coming next.
"I don't think so, not quite yet. Aren't you going to give me something in return for not killing you?" For a moment Chloe contemplated doing a spell, but realised that would probably do her more harm than good. She knew exactly what Angelus wanted and tried to think of something to get herself out of her current situation, but no ideas came to hand.
Chloe turned her head forwards and stared at the tree in front of her briefly before slowly tilting her head towards Spike, leaving her neck visible for Angelus.
"Good girl, but I don't want that side of your neck" Chloe looked at him puzzled for a minute, before she realised. That side of her neck had her other vampire bite on it, obviously he didn't want to bite on top of someone elses mark, he wanted his own mark, clearly on her other side of her neck. Great she thought, just great. Now she had to get up extra early each morning to cover up not one, but two vampire bite marks.
Chloe stood up and she was about to sit down on the other side of Angelus when he pulled her down onto his lap, holding hir firmly when she began to struggle. Chloe soon realised that there was no point in struggling against him and let him move the hair away from the side of her neck as she tilted her head away from him.
A sharp pain hit her as his fangs entered her neck but after that there was only a dull aching. When Angelus finally removed his fangs she was weak and couldn't stand. Still holding her in his hands he carried her home, followed by a silent Spike. After the few minutes it took to get there she was feeling stronger and could stand up on her own without support. Angelus allowed her to walk into the house without issueing him an invite and blew her a kiss before walking away with a muttering Spike behind him.
Chloe was weak again as she collapsed into her bed, not even bothering to take off her clothes or clean her neck. Just incase she forgot to get up earlier in the morning she set her alarm to go half an hour earlier that normal so she would have enough time to clean her neck and cover her bites in the morning.
Once again she had trouble sleeping, not just because of Angelus, but the fact that he had bitten her, it had brought back memories, memories that she would rather she forgot, though had no such luck. Finally she managed to forget her last encounter with a vampire in which she had ended up with her first bite mark and drifted off to sleep, hoping her past would stay covered up.