Chapter 10

Here it is chapter 10 and I was really considering giving up on this story lol. But i really want to finish it. I guess I've been busy I have a performance next week that were doing infront of the entire school. I have to do a monologue (Scared reaction) But yes anyways here's chapter 10!

"Well Buffy I'm just so sorry your cute little boyfriend can't be here instead right now."

"No your not."

"Gee am I that transparent? Well don't worry we'll get back soon and I'll be out of your life before you know it."

"And why are you back Angel? Why do you insist on coming back to hurt me."

"I thought you were in danger. I'm sorry my presence brings you pain. God Buffy what's the deal I came to save you, get you home. I don't want to have these conversations again."

"Oh that's right I forgot every time things get rough you bail. Must be a simple way to live." Buffy spoke back harshly not quite yelling but it got the desired effect.

"Nothing about leaving you was easy Buffy. I miss you every minute." He confessed though it was hardly in a soothing tone. 'Why did they always have to fight? He'd gotten back from his walk, they had been talking so calmly about everything that was going on, then Riley got brought up, he got bitter and she got mad. As if he could blame her. He was the one after all who had walked out'.

"Lets just not okay?"

"Fine with me." 'who wants to bring all the pain back to the surface anyways.

"And you were both so close I thought" Erik's smooth voice rang out from the side. Buffy and Angel turned to notice Erik and Christine watching them curiously.

"Christine my dear I believe you've met Buffy, and this is."

"Angel." Angel broke in giving a slight nod at the young woman.

"It's a pleasure I'm sure." She said politely also feeling slightly guilty for calling Buffy a whore. "We didn't mean to interrupt you."

"We didn't?" Erik asked. "Oh but that was my intention."

"It's fine" Buffy told them. "We were just…arguing. Like always."

"We never use to argue" Angel said with a faint smile that Buffy ignored. How did he go from being upset to that?

"But then again Buffy did all the talking so there was little chance." 'Ahh there's the bitter Angel I know'. She thought. But instead of a rude retort she just hit him hard in the arm and listened with pleasure at his tiny ouch that escaped him. Before he settled in to just giving her a glare.

"There seem to be more people down here then I would have thought." A voice called breaking the awkward silence that had fallen over the group.

"Raoul?" Christine gasped looking on in fear as Raoul stood on the other side of the gate in the lake with a large group of other men.

"It's alright Christine I've come to save you. I'll make sure this creature never comes near you again." As he spoke the others were attempting to find their way in. Going as far as to attempt to pull up the heavy gate.

"Raoul what's happening?" Christine asked in fear once again. Raoul spoke calmly obviously sure that he was in control of the situation.

"You weren't in your room Christine it wasn't a question of who had taken you and it didn't take long to get the facts out of little mademoiselle Giry. And these men only needed the incentive of capturing a wanted murderer to agree to help me. Well that and a promise of riches, that is."

"Raoul please you don't understand." She begged. But he was beyond listening.

"What I understand Christine is that he keeps playing these mind games with you. Trying to taint our love and take you from me."

"No your wrong." She was starting to panic the men were making some progress on the gate.

"Sir has no one taught you any manners? It is not polite to break into other peoples homes."

"The way I look at it your not human. Now if you give Christine back to me I might consider letting you live."

Erik began to laugh hauntingly at the boy, though inside he was starting to feel nervous there were to many people here. He couldn't take them all and he had Christine to protect.

"Wow what's going on?" Buffy who had been watching all this with morbid curiosity asked. Something told her that this was Christine's fiancée. And had he said that Erik was a murderer? God did she never meet anyone normal anymore?

"This is foolishness sir." Erik spoke to Raoul and the crowd that were trying desperately to get to him. It wouldn't be long before they found the switch that opened the gate.

Raoul pulled a gun from his long coat. "I'm afraid sir" he said mockingly "that you are the one who is the fool." Erik froze then moved to place Christine behind him protectively just as Angel did the same for Buffy.

"Let Christine go and I will not have to hurt anyone."

"Raoul this is madness stop this. Put the gun away." Christine called from behind Erik.

"I am not the one who is mad Christine. Can't you see that, has it spun his magic on your mind again?"

"There is no magic Raoul. Please your going to hurt someone."

"Angel we have to do something." Buffy whispered to him. Still sheltered behind his back.

"Like what? I can't very well get to them. And even if I could, not without leaving you exposed." That was true. She doubted the crowd by the looks of them would feel much guilt for shooting her.

Erik watched as a few of the men were getting awfully close to his switch. What could he do? "We have to go." He hissed loud enough for just those around him to hear.

"You got a plan?" Angel asked watching the crowd closely as a few more had drawn guns. He could hear a few asking why they weren't just shooting them and Raoul explaining his fear of hitting Christine somehow.

"I might have an idea. Just start moving back, there's a passageway on the other side of the curtain directly behind you. We need to go through it."

"You go first, get Christine to safety and then Buffy I want you through next."

"What about you" Buffy asked worried.

"I'll go last, bullets remember."

"Right ok." Buffy said finally getting back into her slayer control mode. "Everyone start moving."

Raoul noticed their retreating moves. "Get that gate open!" he yelled to the men around him. He watched as Christine was pressed against a curtain along the wall and then she was gone? 'No' he thought. He watched the small blonde go into it too before he regained his senses and aimed his gun at that horrible monster that had taken her. He smiled as he pulled the trigger. At the same time one of his men had found the switch.

"Keep going" Buffy whispered to Christine who was stumbling through the dark passageway the dress she wore not helping the situation any. Even if it was a white silky nightgown. 'God how did the slayers in the old days use to fight?' She briefly wondered. Christine stumbled in front of Buffy and nearly fell before Buffy caught her and brought her back up, encouraging her to go faster. 'I'm not used to having to run away from the bad guys.' She thought to herself. Everything in her was screaming to go back and fight, but her reason over powered her urges. 'Much like it always does' she thought. wow did her thoughts ever wander at the strangest times.

"Stop" a voice hissed from the darkness. Christine immediately stopped in front of her. Buffy was about to tell her to keep moving when a figure pushed past her. 'Erik?'

"In here" he whispered again moving his hand over something Buffy couldn't quite see and watched in wonder as a passage appeared in the wall that hadn't been their before. He ushered them in and closed it behind her.

"Where's Angel?" she asked but Erik only hushed her and she listened to the sound of steps approaching and then moving by and fading in the distance. They stayed silent for a few minutes longer before she asked again.

"I do not know." Erik admitted. "I'm sure he's fine though."

"But you don't know?" She asked slightly louder than she should have. "Let me out I need to go find him."

"No, it's not safe we have to stay here until there gone." He told her.

"Not happening." She told him in a threatening voice. "Open the door before I make you." She took a threatening step towards Erik. Christine was amazed at her lack of fear and even more amazed, as Erik looked slightly intimidated. 'Who exactly is she?'

"Aww honey you care." Buffy turned only to find her self-facing Angel's broad chest. Which was not only broad but also covered in blood.

"How did you?" she asked.

He laughed though rather painfully. "Your not exactly hard to find Buffy. And as for the switch it was easy enough for me to see." He moved in further closing the passage back behind him.

"Your hurt." She took notice. Seeing the faint outline of blood on him almost impossible to see in the dark. She might not have noticed had her eyesight not been so well in the dark. And had the smell of blood not filled the room they were now in.

"Yeah, Damn bullets I really don't like getting shot." He told her as she lead him away from the door and to a wall where she forced him to sit as she attempted to examine it in the dark room.

"Oh no." Christine said. "I should have just gone with Raoul then none of this would be happening and…god what was I thinking."

"He'll be fine." Buffy told her. "As for the rest of us I'm not so sure. How long do you think we can hide out here before they find us?"

So did you notice my lack of dialogue in the chapter? airn't you proud? I know I do alot of dialogue I have a problem I'm trying to cut back really I am. But please Review it'll make me feel so special and continue to make me want to write this.