Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except for the ones that I created like Katy, Michelle, and Morgan.
Author's Note: In between this story and it's official sequel I am writing a story that follows Katy and Maria and their friend's adventures back in the states. I hope that you give it a try, it's called Nyet. And it will be racier than this story but mainly due to Katy's profession of choice and the people that she meets because of it, so in other words it might not be for everyone. Nyet will have very few if any of the characters in this story other than Katy and Maria so it's not necessary to read it to understand the sequel to this story.
CHAPTER 41-THIS IS WHERE THE FUN BEGINS
"Alright everyone let's go over the plan again so that there's no foul-ups," Angel said with a very serious and determined look on his face as he stepped down the final few steps and walked out into the back courtyard.
"Xander, Willow, Dawn, and myself stay here with the new slayers and if anything goes wrong we leave the country tonight, using the information that you gave us our ticket to freedom," Giles replied with a calm but yet also disapproving tone to his voice as he checked his watched and tucked the packet of information securely under his arm.
"Spike and I get the vampire army to follow us, leading them right into The Initiative, and then we let them kill each other off," Buffy added with a nervous look of calm on her face as she slipped her hand into Spike's, noticing Xander's unhappy reaction while Dawn and Willow both could only bite their lower lips to keep from screeching in congratulations.
"While Wesley and I play private eyes and keep the boys and girls of Wolfram and Hart where they are, at least until you give the signal," Faith said with a somewhat unhappy at being asked to do so little in terms of fighting look on her face as she crossed her arms and picked her feet up off of the ground, set them on the bench, and leaned back until she could lay her head back and rest it on Wesley's shoulder.
"Correct, but only until we're ready to bring them into the battle, then it'll be your job to make sure that they stay in the battle," Angel said with a very serious look on his face as Katy walked in with a battle axe in her hands.
"Where do you think you're going with that," Spike asked with a serious tone to his voice as he stepped forward and away from Buffy as he made his way towards Katy.
"To help you guys, you're crazy if you think that I'm just going to stay here like a good little girl and hope and pray that everything goes okay, I'll go crazy if I'm not out there," Katy replied with a very determined scowl on her face as she pulled the battle axe back and away from Spike.
"Your place is here Katy, as one of the few of these new slayers that I trust I need you to keep the others safe," Spike started to say so that everyone could hear before he lowered his voice and leaned in a bit before finishing.
"But," Katy started to growl back with an angry scowl on her face before she switched gears and put on her best seductive pout, hoping to sway Spike's favor, before he cut in.
"That face won't work on me luv, I've seen it to many times before from to many birds, I have a sinking feeling that Wolfram and Hart or The Initiative is going to send someone or something after the mansion, and it'd be better for everyone if there was someone standing guard here that knew what they were doing in a fight," Spike quickly said back with a soft tone to his voice as Katy listened closely and decided that a continued argument was not in her best interest.
"And what if they don't come here, I can't just sit here on my hands while you guys have all of the fun," Katy continued with a slightly less defiant and impatient expression on her face as she tightened her grip on the axe.
"Fun…sorry pet but this stopped being fun a long time ago," Spike replied with an eerily honest look in his eyes as Katy stayed still as he relived her of the axe.
"Just don't die okay," Katy whispered under her breath, low enough so that only Spike and Angel could hear, as she took a solemn step back and her shoulders slumped as she got into line beside Maria and Michelle.
"What makes you think that all of those vampires are going to just follow you blindly," Xander asked with a very pointed look on his face as he turned and looked directly across the backyard at Buffy and Spike.
"Well given our reputations I'd think that they'd be falling all over themselves to do us in, our only problem will be keeping ahead of the storm," Spike replied with a daring grin back at Xander as he stepped back and slipped an arm around Buffy's waist.
"Just see that you do," Giles said with a very grim and serious look on his face as he made it a point to catch Spike's gaze with his own.
"What about us, we didn't come all this way to baby-sit a bunch of," Gwen started to say angrily with a frustrated tone of voice before Angel interrupted her.
"You and Groo will be very busy tonight, take Connor and Morgan with you and keep the police busy, but whatever you do don't get caught," Angel stated with a very serious and calm look on his face as he took a step forward and turned to look at Connor and Morgan who had just walked around the corner.
"Where are we off to," Morgan started to say with an interested look on her face before Katy stepped forward and cut in.
"Wait a minute, I have to stay here and she gets to go, I'm way better than," Katy started to exclaim with a borderline furious look on her face before a stern glare from Spike momentarily silenced her.
"Morgan is going with Connor because he wouldn't leave without her, not in the current state that she's in, constantly terrified that something will happen to him," Willow said softly as she stepped over close to Katy and made it so that only the former dancer could hear.
"Then why doesn't he stay here and let me go," Katy started to argue with an impatient frown on her face before Angel growled low in his throat and Katy quietly bowed her head and stepped back into the shadows, mostly to hide a few tears of fear and frustration.
"Okay people, if all goes well after tonight we can all go home and life will get back to normal," Angel said with his voice raised, as several of the new slayers that Buffy had brought with her mumbled unhappily to each other.
"Well then what are we waiting for, on to glory," Spike glumly said with a very glum look on his face before the plan was put into motion.
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"This has got to be the most boring job that I've ever had, and trust me…I've had a few of the worst," Faith announced with a boring look on her face as she reclined on the edge of the building, letting her right arm and leg dangle off of the edge, while Wesley kept watch on two sentries with a pair of binoculars.
"Want to wager a bit on that," Wesley asked back with a sly grin on his face as verbally sparring with Faith was much more fun than watching two ancient looking guards trying to stay awake outside of a hotel.
"You mean actual money," Faith shot back with a confused tone to her voice as he rolled her head over to the side and looked over at Wesley.
"Yes Faith, actual money," Wesley replied with a sly smirk on his face as he stopped looking through the binoculars and stood up, looking back at Faith as she propped herself up on her elbow, letting her hair fall just right in front of her face and for a moment shift Wesley's thoughts from the job at hand to more enjoyable pursuits.
"Sure, though you'd have to loan me some, working for B doesn't pay very well," Faith replied with a nervous half shrug of her shoulders as she sat all of the way up and looked back down over her shoulder to where the two Wolfram and Hart guards that they were watching were standing.
"Well then you're out of luck, because working for Angel doesn't pay much better, and in all honesty I'm completely broke, all of my money is back in the bank in LA, unless Wolfram and Hart has stolen it or frozen my accounts," Wesley replied with at first a half hearted laugh before he grew serious and sat down beside Faith.
"Well we don't have to bet for money, how about we have it so that whoever wins gets a favor from the loser anytime that they want it," Faith said with a curious and hopeful look on her face as she swung her legs up and off of the ledge before she lightly began to trace a star on the back of Wesley's right hand with the fingernail of her left index finger.
"What kind of favor," Wesley asked with a very curious expression on his face as he looked deeply into Faith's eyes before quickly checking on the guards through the binoculars.
"That depends on the bet, how much you're willing to risk," Faith replied with a very sultry look in her eyes as she picked up her left hand and leaned across Wesley's lap before she set her left hand down on the ledge in between Wesley's legs and looked directly into Wesley's eyes.
"Is that a dare Faith, I should have you know that…we're in business," Wesley started to boldly say back with a proud smile on his face before the front doors of the hotel across the street opened and Lindsey and Lilah stepped out, with the former holding the door for a frail looking Drusilla.
"What, wait a…let me see," Faith started to ask with a surprised and confused look on her face before she grabbed the binoculars and spun to her left as she brought them up to her eyes, forgetting that Wesley still had the strap around his neck.
"Uh Faith…could you, thank you," Wesley started to mumble into the back of Faith's head before she realized why his face was so close to her and she let go of the binoculars with a guilty look in her eyes.
"Looks like they're making their move," Faith finally said with an uncomfortable tone to her voice as she pulled back one side of her coat to pull the knife from its sheath on her belt.
"And well ahead of schedule to, guess we'll have to put them on the time out chair, do you want to do the honors or should I," Wesley said with a slightly joking but yet completely serious tone to his voice as he looked back through the binoculars.
"You stay here while I cause a little mischief, you can cover me with your guns if I get into trouble," Faith said with an energized look on her face as she flashed the blade of her knife against the moonlight.
"When do you not get into trouble Faith," Wesley joked back over his shoulder with a worried edge in his voice before he lowered the binoculars and turned back around to look at Faith.
"Jerk," Faith spat out with an angry scowl on her face as she used the point of the knife to dig a little dirt out from under one of her fingernails.
"Bitch," Wesley shot back with a fake look of anger on his face as he slid one of his guns out of its holster before Faith let the angry look drop from her face and she stepped up to him and pulled him down into a kiss that left the two breathless when it was over.
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"You ready for this pet," Spike asked with a serious look on his face as he looked across the alley towards the slayer that he loved.
"Honestly…no, but when has that ever stopped me before," Buffy slyly said back with an impromptu smirk on her face as she tapped the hilt of her sword with her thumb and continued walking.
"Don't be to hard on yourself slayer, it wasn't your fault that you fell hook line and sinker for The Immortal's lies," Spike said with a bit of a sarcastic tone to his voice as he lowered his head a bit and continued on. Buffy stopped walking almost immediately and spun around to face Spike.
"What…I did not fall," Buffy started to say with a very shocked and defiant expression on her face as she began to take a step forward.
"You did to, you believed every one of his lies and was so happy to be with someone that wasn't a vampire that you didn't even think for a second to check into his background, you took him at face value, if you had done that with Angel and myself we wouldn't be here right now and you know it," Spike interjected with a very serious look on his face as he stopped walking and turned back to Buffy, holding up a hand so that she wouldn't interrupt him until he was finished with what he had to say to her.
"Was it really that bad what he did to," Buffy started to ask with an unhappy frown on her face before Spike surprised her and stepped up closer to her until the two were nose to nose and he was staring her straight in the eye.
"He chained us up in his dungeon and tortured us for a good long time while he had his way with Dru and Darla, and for as long as we were in the area he taunted us with that fact, and when we went to Rome on Wolfram and Hart business he taunted us with the fact that he was dating you, made sure that we knew that the two of you were together and happy to boot, then he did everything in his power to make sure that our quest to get back the head took as long as possible and that we ran into as many of his friends as he could throw at us, even after we got back to LA he continued to taunt us, so sorry if you're having a little trouble hating the son of a bitch but Angel and I are glad that he's gone," Spike said with an eerily serious look in his eyes, one that Buffy had only seen once before when the two were down in the bowels of the Earth under Sunnydale and their hands had burst into flames, when they were clasped together, that left their skin untouched. Buffy immediately opened her mouth to shoot back a retort but couldn't rightly think of anything, leaving her only one out of the situation at that exact moment. A lone tear slid down her cheek before she sniffled and looked as if she were about to cry but steeled herself against that act and kept from doing so. In the back of her mind she hoped and expected the act to work and for Spike to apologize or at least relax his assault on her former boyfriend, though not because she thought that what he was saying was wrong. No matter who she had ever known or been with the words spoken and the deeds done by the vampire standing in front of her and his grandsire had always struck her the hardest and cut the deepest.
"I…I can't, I don't," Buffy softly began to mumble with an overwhelmed look on her face before her resolve failed her and she dropped to her knees and began to sob like Spike had never seen her do before, not even when her mother had died unexpectedly. He had heard of how Dawn had reacted and from the descriptions he could tell that this time she wasn't holding anything back, prompting him to wonder if she wasn't crying every bit as much the unused tears for her mother along with the tears for her mistake of a relationship with The Immortal. Unable to control himself Spike did the only thing that he could think of. Dropping to one knee he took Buffy into his arms and held her tightly.
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"Are you sure this is safe," Nina asked with a worried look on her face as she crept up next to Angel, her werewolf senses picking up many guards far below them on the street below.
"No, but we're to late for a sure anything," Angel mumbled back with a very serious and grim look on his face after he took a peek over the edge of the building.
"So what's the plan boss, I don't really feel like letting them get their hands on me and figuring out that I'm not fully human, I don't think that they'd let me go," Nina asked with a brave look on her face that hid the terrified woman behind it as she swallowed hard and tightened her grip on her axe.
"Don't worry Nina, I won't let them take you, they'll know me on sight and I'll lead them out to the warehouses, your job is to keep me informed over the radio and make sure that they're not trying to cut me off at the pass," Angel replied with a very serious yet also very nervous look on his face as he pulled an earpiece out of one of his pockets and slipped it into his ear. Without thinking Nina pulled him close into a kiss that she meant partially out of desperation and partly out of the fear that she might not see him again. As if to try and reassure her Angel cupped her face with his hands and returned the kiss.
"What if they figure that out and," Nina started to ask with a determined but worried look in her eyes as Angel could feel her shake slightly in the cool night air.
"They won't, they'll be to interested in capturing me to even notice you, just as long as you stay out of sight," Angel interjected with a serious look on his face before he slid his sword out from underneath his cloak and stepped to the edge of the building.
"I love you," Nina said with a very heartfelt tone to her voice as Angel turned back to her and saluted before he calmly stepped back and off of the building, putting his plan into action.
END OF CHAPTER 41