Chapter Six – Opposites Don't Always Attract
"What!" Buffy cried in outrage. "He can't be a slayer – they're only female!"
"What's a slayer?" Willow asked timidly turning to Spike after she watched Buffy's outburst.
At her side, Spike just snorted with laughter.
"William, I don't really think that this girl should be here," Giles started.
"No Rupes, I really think that Red has every right to be where ever she likes" Spike retorted.
An awkward silence filled the library as its four occupants decided to see who would be the first to speak. Giles was once again cleaning his glasses; Willow fidgeted where she stood nervously and Spike started to tap his foot absently while Buffy slowly sank to the floor from shock.
"Maybe you should go…" Spike began as he looked down at the girl next to him.
"But I want to know what's going on!" she burst out in protest, totally going against her own gut instinct to run. "I only just met you and now I think I just walked into the strangest conspiracy ever. This is like… all googly and everything! I don't want to be the ignorant little nerd anymore"
Spike gaped speechless at the girl. The Willow in his first reality hadn't been like this.
"Umm… sorry pet. How should I start?"
"With the truth"
"Well Red," he started, ignoring Giles' and Buffy's gazes on his back. "A slayer is a warrior, a person with a destiny to fight and kill vampires – and yes vampires as well as all the evil things that go bump in the night are real. Up till now slayers have all been female like the blond over there, but now for some strange reason, that power decided to make a two-way spilt
"That's… well… terrible" Willow murmured, everything that Spike had told her only just begging to set into her head. "So you mean to tell me that you are the first boy out of a predestined line of warrior women?"
"That about sums it up"
"Wow"
The silence was back once again to great them.
"So you won't tell anyone about us will you luv?"
"N-no" Willow gave him reassuring stutter. "I have to go meet my two best friends Xander and Jesse now anyway. S-see you around"
"Sure pet, you might be in my next class after lunch"
Spike smiled after Willow as she turned to scurry out of the library as fast as she could. Red had been an okay woman in his original world, but there was something different about this younger Willow, and it had nothing to do with being vulnerable. She was unique…
"Why him?"
Spike snapped out of his momentary thoughts to find that Buffy was still slumped on the floor, her head in her hands. She must really not like him.
Giles cleared his throat. "Well it appears that my two slayers have already met…"
"It looks that way Rupert" Spike shrugged. "We both weren't watching where we were going this morning and crashed into each other. She insulted me, I insulted her, she punched me and I still left with the last laugh. Does that sum it up?"
"Indeed… Buffy is that really what happened?"
"Yes"
Giles groaned and took his glasses off to rub the bridge of his nose. Wasn't it just his luck to get two slayers that hated each other and they hadn't even known each other from more then a few hours. Two hormonal teenagers with vengeance streaks – that just wasn't what he needed. With a heavy sighed, he headed for his office.
"Oi, Iwouldn't get into the brandy too soon I was you!" Spike laughed teasingly as the watcher disappeared.
"How can you talk to him like that?" Buffy suddenly asked looking up at him. "He is a teacher and an adult after all"
"Well pet, aside from all that, he's my foster father"
"Your foster father? Where are your parents?"
"Why do you care?"
"Its just that I – my father took off on my mother and I that's all"
"Since you were honest, I'll tell you then. My father died when I was four and my mother only almost a month ago"
"That was about the time I killed Lothos, my first master vampire!" Buffy gasped.
"And that would be the time I killed my first master vampire as well – mine was Drusilla" he replied.
"Who's Drusilla?"
"One of a triad. Drusilla was the youngest in what the mythic world calls the Scourge of Europe"
"But that's only one – what about the others?"
Giles returned to the library with her answer.
"They would be Darla and Angelus. They are a part of a clan called the Order of Aurelius"
"And isn't that order that is causing the hell in Sunnydale – no pun intended?" Spike asked, silently keeping his knowledge of the truth hidden.
"I would believe so yes" Giles sighed. "It's rumored that the Master, head of their line is trapped beneath this city, so the both of you will be going patrolling tonight – together"
"No!" Buffy cried, jumping to her feet. "I have plans for tonight!"
"Well what will it be? Socialize or have people die when you have the power to save them?"
For some unknown reason, Spike was actually feeling sorry for the girl that he had once loved.
At that same time, Darla paced around the caves under Sunnydale. So long had her sire been trapped within the Hellmouth and soon he would be free of earthly chains and regain the control that was rightfully his. With Luke out on a resonance mission for her, trying to discover what was making the dark forces on the Hellmouth skittish.
The Harvest must not be stopped. Even the evil had things to worry about, so whatever it took they would make sure that whomever or whatever that was causing the disturbance would put it to rest. Grinning grimly so as to bare his fangs, Darla knew that she night just have to take mattered into her own hands.
"Hey Willow!" Jesse called from across the courtyard. "Over here"
Willow had just managed to dodge Cordelia Chase and her pathetic ditzy Cordettes. Her mind was spinning like crazy as she made her way over to the bench that Xander and Jesse had scored for them. Spike… there was something different about that new boy other then the fact that he was some sort of mythical vampire killer. Right now it was just too much for logical computer-whiz Willow Rosenberg.
"So Will, how was your morning?" Xander asked with a dopey grin across his face.
"Fine," she replied as she set her books down. "What's wrong with you?"
"He was struck up Cupid's Bow this fine morning" Jesse snickered.
Coincidence?
"Huh?"
"He met the new girl and now he's totally fallen for her"
The new girl… one of her best friends was lust struck on the crazy girl that she saw in the library with Spike.
"She wouldn't have been yea high, shoulder length blond hair and green eyes would she?"
"Yeah…" Xander grinned dreamily and leaned back.
"She looks like Cordette material to me"
Xander gasped and sat up strait.
"You can't mean that! You haven't even met her!"
"Oh I've seen enough thank you" she huffed.
"So Will, who was the new guy I saw you with earlier?" Jesse grinned, turning the tables on the redhead.
"What? Willow got a guy?" Xander gapped and then smiled at his friend. "Who, who! Give me the details!"
Willow giggled softly and started to blush. "Well his name is William, but he likes to be called Spike. I met him this morning in my Advanced Literature class. He's from England to so he has this really hot accent!"
"Wow…" Xander said. "Who knew that you find the man of your dreams in a class like that"
Willow reached out and smacked him playfully with mock insult.
"Oh I'm being left behind!" Jesse cried and pretended to be struck down. "My friends are all growing up – I'll never see my seventeenth birthday for sure!"
Together the three friends just laughed not realize how true they would find Jesse to be.
The vampire turned to dust under the powerful stake whiled by Buffy Summers. She smiled savagely as her count of dusted vampires for the night went up.
"Twelve! Beat that!" she cheered out loud.
Turning, she found herself watching Spike taking on three at once, taunting them to come and get him. Sadly for the poor vamps, they all went up in quick secession, each dusting with a scream and a hiss. Spike turned to her and smiled his mocking smile.
"Twenty darling"
Inwardly Buffy growled. For the last two hours Spike had been either ignoring her (which was good) or pissing her off (which was bad). It was a loss – loss deal. Sighing, she ran over to catch up with her reluctant partner, but as she passed, she couldn't help but feel as if there were a pair of eyes following her. Yet when she turned, there was nothing there.
"So is slaying finally over now?" she forced a grin.
"Yes pet, its over" Spike said rolling his eyes. "Go have fun now and just make sure that you don't get eaten by the big bad vamp"
"Same goes for you bleach boy – you are a slayer too and that means you a vampire's main course meal"
"I'm too stringy"
"No just too annoying"
"Well same goes for you too as well luv. You'll really strike them with that wit of yours" Spike grinned before he walked of in the direction of home.
Left all by herself now, Buffy decided it was due time she checked out that club the Bronze that Cordelia had told her about at school. It was time to throw away the stake and have some fun.
From the shadows of a nearby crypt, Angel watched the slayers leave the cemetery. He had watched their fight against those fledglings and saw that the girl – the one that he had been shown in L.A. by Whistler had some real talent.
But it was the boy that made the hair on the back of his neck stand on end. Not only was this boy somehow impossibly a slayer too, he knew things about fighting that even a new slayer shouldn't know. Plus he just gave off this vibe and somehow Angle seemed to recognize it.
Whatever happened, the vampire with a soul was determined to find out what discover who these two slayers really were.
So I finally got that chapter done! So what did you think? Was it good enough for you? So this chapter will be my last until after New Years, so I hope you have the patience to wait. Anyway, tell me what you think and I might start work on the next chapter soon! Later!