A/N I don't own the song that Tara and Giles sing in this fanfic. It's called Secrets by Maroon 5. I thought it was appropriate for this fanfic and I hope you guys like this chapter, I put alot of work in it. I had to take down the song lyrics to avoid account closure.

So please review. That way I'll know if the chapters are good and I can update sooner. At least give me five reviews.

Chapter 15

Watch the Sunrise

"Spike I'm glad you're still here." Tara said as she walked into the warehouse. She was flanked by Kendra and Xander.

"Is that so, luv?" Spike asked with a toothy grin. "And why is that?"

"Because hopefully in a little while, I'll have a present for you." she admitted. "Let's just say that I'll finally be able to get you to see the light."

"Bad Aunt... shoo, shoo, you shouldn't be here yet." Dru whined as she began to sway. "You'll try to make me burn, what will daddy think?"

"What the hell is she talking about Tara?" Xander asked as he looked over at her.

"I don't tink dat we should converse with dem." Kendra said getting their attention. Xander just gave, Tara a "We will talk about this soon" look.

"So you're the other, Slayer?" Spike asked giving her an appraising glance.

"I am she." Kendra stated proudly and yet confused. "But how did you know..."

"How did I know who you are?" Spike finished for her. "Let's just say a little birdy told me."

"Now boys..." he said looking over at the vampires behind him. "Leave the Jamaican Queen and the Angel to me and Dru. Do whatever you want to the whelp and the other's outside." With that said more then fifteen vampires surged in force outside, while the rest of them ran towards Xander.

"Well it seems like round two, don't it Tara?" Spike asked as he walked up to her.

"How do you know my name?" Tara asked. Spike just smiled at her.

"Like I said before, luv." Spike said as he slipped into his vampiric visage. "I have friends in rather low places." he said as he tapped his foot on the floor. With a chuckle at her confused look, he charges her.

Meanwhile outside

The groups eyes widen as they see, almost twenty vampires surge towards them.

"Johnathon, Giles...get everybody back, let me and Angel handle this!" Buffy yelled out as she snap kicks the nearest vampire.

The vampire gets up from the pavement, and Buffy punches him, knocking him back down again. She backs up toward a truck to get around him, but a two more vampires standing in the bed grab her by the jacket and lifts her up. One of them gets her in a full Nelson hold. She pushes him back into a large box. He is stunned and lets go of his hold as he see's that a piece of wood is sticking through his chest. He then crumbles into dust. She snaps her head back and headbutts the other one hard. Then another vampire climbs onto the truck bed also and comes at her.

She punches him, turns and punches the one behind her, turns and punches the other one again, then kicks him in the chest, making him fall and roll over a crate. She blocks a swing from the one behind her, grabs his arm and shoves his head into the crate.

Buffy punches one of the wooden bed retainers and breaks off a piece. She jams it into one of the vampires' chests, and he bursts into ashes. The other grabs her from behind, lifts her up and carries her onto the loading dock. He throws her at a door. She hits it and rolls away, bumping into Angel, who was fighting off two vampires of his own.

Two vampires suddenly jump at them from some cargo netting. One pulls Buffy off of Angel and throws her back. The other begins to fight with Angel. Buffy rolls to her feet. The vampire swings at her, but misses. She grabs him and starts pummeling his gut. Angel flips the other one over onto his back. He gets up, and Angel swings at him three times, but he blocks all of them.

Angel's next punch lands on the vampire's face. Buffy ducks a swing, lifts herself up on the dock railing and kicks her assailant in the chest with both feet, sending him staggering back into the gangplank. She gives chase and grabs him by the back of the shirt and hair. He growls.

Angel ducks a roundhouse kick, grabs the vampire's arm and flips him over onto his back. He runs after another and tackles him to the deck. Taking out a stake, he quickly dust's him. Buffy's attacker shakes free of her and shoves her into a stack of crates. He follows up with a roundhouse kick, but she ducks it and he just hits the crates.

She makes a grab for him, but he punches her in the face. Angel gets ready to punch another vampire but gets distracted when the vampire he was fighting before grabs a stake and tries to run up behind him. Punching the one he was holding in the face, he snaps out his leg and kicks the one behind him. The force of the blow sent him to the ground where he impaled himself, on his own stake.

Buffy's opponent grabs her by the jacket and roars as he swings her around, over the railing and into the water. Angel sees her go flying.

Meanwhile back in the warehouse

Xander ducks under a rainbow kick and follows up with a kick of his own, to the vampires gut. The force of the blow sent the vampire flying back. Seeing two vampires charge him from opposite directions he triggers the wrist stake launchers under his duster sleeves and stakes both at the same time. They dust.

"Man I love these things." he said as he looked at them with a smile. Then he saw two more vampires charging at him. "Damn no rest for the wicked." he muttered to himself as he blocked a punch.

"You're getting better at this, luv." Spike told Tara as he smoothly slid under a high kick from her. "I'm really enjoyin' our little dance."

"Is that what you think this is, Spike?" Tara asked as she blocked his punches. "That we're dancing."

"Well yeah." Spike said with a shrug. "At least you dance better then your friend." he said looking over her shoulder. Following his line of vision she saw Kendra swaying along with Drusilla. She looked as if she were in a trance.

"Damnit!" Tara yelled under her breath. With a kick to Spike in his chest, the force of which sent him sprawling to the floor, Tara took out a small circular disk looking object out of her duster and threw it at Dru.

As Drusilla reached her hand up, ready to slice Kendra's neck, the disk suddenly popped razor sharp spikes out of it's side. As Dru swiped her hand up, the disk hit her arm, effectively cutting it off. Dru's screams filled the warehouse as her arm fell to the floor and dusted.

"Dru!" Spike yelled as he got to his feet, punched Tara in the face, and ran over to her.

"William." she said pitifully as she leaned into his embraced and held her bloody stump. Before he could pick her up, so they could flee, the floor gave out under them. With a scream both of them plunged into the darkness of the murky water.

"No!" Tara yelled as she ran to the hole and looked down. Her plan of giving Spike his soul back was ruined if he turned into dust. Before she could properly look down the hole, the warehouse roof started to cave in.

"Tara come on!" Xander yelled from beside her, with Kendra in his arms. She was still in a daze.

"But..."

"No but's Tara." Xander said as wood and debris started to fall around them. "We're done here so let's go." he said as he ran off. Tara took one more look at the hole and then made a mad dash for the door.

"So you think Spike and Drusilla are dead then?" Giles asked as they got on the outside of the warehouse.

"Yeah... thanks to Tara." Xander replied with a glance towards her. She just had her head down and almost looked as if she were about to cry.

"Tara." Giles said as he walked up to her. "This is a moment of celebration, you have nothing to be sad about. You saved Kendra's life and you got rid of two of the most dangerous vampires in the world."

"But I didn't see them dust." Tara said as she looked up at him.

"Nevertheless, nothing..." he glanced at the now crumbled building. "could have survived that."

(He's right Tara.) Angel whispered in her mind. (You did the right thing and you saved Kendra)

"I guess." Tara replied.

"Good. Now let's go to the Bronze. I believe that we have a performance to do."

"You're going to help me?" Tara asked beaming at him.

"Yes of course." he said with a smile of his own. "As I said before, now is the time for celebration."

"Hey where's Deadboy and Buffy?" Xander asked.

"Buffy was tossed into the water and Angel went to retrieve her. They both were soaked to the bone, so they went to his home to change. He said that he would meet us at the bronze though." Giles explained. "And Xander do put Kendra down, she's been awake for five minutes."

"Oh sorry." Xander said as he put her down.

"It's okay." she said as she smiled back up at him.

"Come on guy's or I'm going to be late." Tara said as she ran for the car.

Angel's apartment

Angel opens the door, and he and Buffy walk in. He turns on the light. Buffy closes the door behind them. He takes off his heavy coat and lays it aside. Buffy is soaked through to her skin without a coat or jacket.

"You're shaking like a leaf." Angel said as he walks up to her.

"Cold." Buffy replied as she started to shiver.

"Let me get you something." He gets some things from his armoire and hands them to her.

"Put these on. Get under the covers, just to warm up." Buffy walks over to his bed and sits down. She looks up at him. He faces away to give her privacy.

"Sorry." Angel said a little embarrassed. Buffy takes off her top shirt and winces and inhales in pain.

"What?" Angel asks as he hears her grimace.

"Oh, um... It's okay. I just have a cut or something."

"Can I... Lemme see." Buffy clutches her shirt to her chest.

"Okay." Buffy says in a whisper. Angel turns around and sits down on the bed behind her. He gently touches her back and looks at the cut.

"It's already closed." Angel says still touching her. "You're fine." Buffy leans back into him and cuddles her face to his. He puts his arms around her.

"Buffy I..." he starts to say but he thinks better of it. She turns around to look at him.

"You what?" Buffy asks.

"I love you." he confesses. "I try not to, but I can't stop."

"Me, me, too." she admits "I can't either." They start to kiss. After a moment Angel breaks off.

"Buffy, maybe we shouldn't, Tara said..."

"Forget about Tara." Buffy said as she caressed his cheek. "Just kiss me."

The Bronze

8:45

"Attention everyone, can I have your attention, please." the manager of the Bronze said to the crowd. "We have some first timer's coming up to the stage. So please give it up for Tara Maclay and her guardian Mister Giles." he said as he stepped away from the micro-phone.

Tara and Giles came out of the backroom, just as the audience, broke into applause.

"I wonder if Tara can sing?" Willow said to Amy.

"Not just Tara, but Mister Giles." Amy said with a horrified look.

"Dey both can sing." Kendra informed them both. "I heard dem practicing and dey are both fairly good."

"Shhhh... guys, I want to hear this." Johnathon said as Tara walked up to the microphone.

"Thanks for the applause everyone. I wrote this song a couple of month's ago. It's called Watch the Sunrise and I wrote it for a friend of mine. He's actually more like a brother to me. He's not here tonight." she said peering out into the crowd. "But believe me he's here in spirit."

(I don't even remember you writing this song.) Angel says to her.

(That's because it was another surprise. I really hope you like this song, because I wrote it for you.)

Tara then nods to Giles who starts to play his guitar. Glancing to her side she nods to Oz and his band Dingoes ate my Baby. As they find their tune, Tara leans into the microphone and starts to sing.

As she finishes the song, everyone in the Bronze, whoops, hollers and claps for them. Then someone in the crowd says that they want to hear another song, so Tara and the band, rack their brains and play another song.

Angel's apartment

A little later

Outside lightning strikes, and Angel wakes with a start and gasps for air as he sits up.

"Ahh!" He then gets up from the bed and hurries off. After getting dressed, he crashes through the door into the rain. He stumbles over some trashcans in an alley and falls to the pavement. He cries out in pain and fear.

"Buffy!" he yells out. Buffy stirs slightly but keeps sleeping in his apartment.

"Buffyyyyy!"

The rain has let up. Angel falls to the pavement and props himself up on his hands.

"Buffy..." he says weaker. He can't hold himself up and collapses to the ground. "Oh, no" he said fearing for what's happenong to him. A hooker standing in a doorway sees him and slowly walks over to him.

"Hey. You okay?" she asks as she bends down to look at him. "You want me to call 911?"

"No." Angel said as he stands to his feet. "The pain is gone."

"You sure?" she asks.

"Yeah." He spins around, game face on, grabs her and violently bites her on the neck to feed. He drops her dead body, tilts his head up and blows out the smoke he's just inhaled through her neck from her lungs.

"I feel just fine." Angelus says with a creul smile. Then he thinks about something.

"Now I just have to see an old friend." with that he runs off into the night.

TBC...

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A/N Tara vs. Angelus is next so review and stay tuned. Also remember I said that Xander was possessed by Batman on halloween so that explains his fighting skills and why he made the wrist stake launchers. Also Johnathon and Giles finish off the rest of the vampires on the dock after Angel and Buffy take a dive. I just didn't want the fight scene to be too long.

TBC...

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