Who Will He Chose?

Chapter 2: Disturbing Feelings

Vanessa blinked her eyes open and looked around the room she was in. It was rather small, dark, and defiantly NOT hers. She groggily sat up and regretted it as a pounding came to her head. She rubbed the side of her head with her palm and looked down at herself. She only had her jean skirt on.

Vanessa eep'd and pulled the covers of the bed she was in around her. Where was she? Vanessa tried to remember back to what had happened the night before. She couldn't. Only bits and pieces.

"There was me at the bronze then following a vamp and then I woke up here…" Vanessa murmured to herself. Her eyes widened. Oh god! She shook her head trying to get the thoughts of what happened out of her head. She glanced around the dark room. For once she was glad she could see better than most people in the dark. Once she figured no one to be in the room she slipped out of the bed and found all her clothes. She then slid into them and went up the ladder that seemed to go to a different level of where ever she was.

Vanessa gasped at the sight before her. There was the vampire she had followed to The Bronze the night before and he didn't have a shirt on! 'Look at that body...Wait! Don't look at it!' Vanessa mentally kicked herself for the disturbing yet pleasant thoughts. She cleared her throat and diverted her eyes from the sitting vampire.

"Mornin', pet. "Spike greeted as he got off the couch and walked over to her. Vanessa instantly froze.

"Um. Good morning." Vanessa nervously said as she swallowed hard and looked up at the vamp standing before her. Spike could sense her nervousness and he wrapped his arms around her and squeezed her to him.

"What's up, Luv?" Spike asked, soo close that Vanessa could feel his cool breath across her shoulder and neck. She slightly shivered.

"Oh. Nothing!" Vanessa lied as she tried to get free of Spike. God he's strong. No wonder, since he has awesome...'Stop doing that Vanessa!' Vanessa cut her thought off.

Spike leaned close to her and whispered in her ear.

"Don't worry, pet. We didn't do…much." Spike whispered as he smirked and licked her ear then pulled away and went back to lying on the couch and watching the telly. Vanessa couldn't believe the nerve of this…this guy! Playing around with her like that. No one plays her.

Vanessa stomped over to the television and stood in front of it with her arms crossed. Spike just looked up at her and raised an eyebrow.

"Now what's up, pet?" Spike asked as he tried to see around Vanessa. Vanessa turned around and turned the TV off then turned back to Spike. Spike growled at her.

"Hey! I was watching that!" Spike whined as he looked for the remote and tried to turn the TV back on.

" What the hell kind of guy watches passions?" Vanessa asked and tilted her head. Spike stopped whining and stood up. Vanessa slightly backed a step back as he came towards her. He stopped a few inches away and pulled her to him like before.

"Now you listen here, pet. You are to obey me under my own house. You don't wanna then leave." Spike said, with venom lacing his voice. Vanessa got the courage to stand up to him and pushed him away using her slayer strength. She then pulled a stake out from her back pocket and put the tip of it where Spike's heart should have been. Spike just stared at her.

"No. YOU listen. I'm the slayer. You're a vamp. The slayer is always in charge." Vanessa hissed as she put her stake back and grabbed her coat that was beside the door on the floor. She then glared at Spike one last time and stormed out the door.

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She smiled at the person in front of her. She leaned over and kissed the guy as he kissed back and they started to make out. The couples friends just rolled their eyes.

"Oh! C'mon guys! We all know you're all lovey dovey and shit but must you in front of us single people!" a guy with long spiked black hair tipped in midnight blue, dark blue eyes, tanned and very fit, said to the two making out. The couple stopped and they guy smirked at his friend.

"Yes, yes we must. Got a prob with it? Cause if so you can leave. We're not stopping you." He said as he licked the girls neck who giggled. He then grabbed her arm and pulled her to where she was standing.

"Come on babe. We don't need an audience for this." He said as he winked at her and smirked at his friends as he yanked his girlfriend into another room and locked the door.

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Buffy started for her walk back home when she saw someone, who looked really pissed off, storm out of Spikes place. Buffy raised an eyebrow and followed the girl. She crouched behind a bush and listened in on the girl as she started to talk to herself.

"God. He's such a pain!"

"I was a lil mean though. Maybe I should go back and apologize."

"No! Never will I talk to that wanker again!"

Buffy got even more confused as she listened to the girl fight with her mind. Was she talking about Spike? She knew Spike? She said wanker. Does that mean she's English? Why was this girl in Spike's place? Did she even want to know? Buffy was completely and totally lost.

"Being a slayer is soo confusing!" the girl yelled in frustration. This caught Buffy out of her day questioning. Did she say slayer? Why'd she say slayer?

Vanessa stopped talking and stormed away as she started to head home. Buffy would have to talk to Giles about this.

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Buffy opened the huge heavy door and walked in as she stood next to the door with her arms crossed and her foot tapping.

"What hap—" Buffy was cut off from her sentence as she saw the image before her. Spike was huddled up in a corner, rocking back and forth. Buffy slowly walked over and knelt in front of him.

"Spike…?" Buffy asked as she put her hand on his shoulder. Spike whacked her hand away and closed his eyes like Buffy wasn't even there. Buffy blinked and examined the vamp. He was shirtless and had a circle cut right where you would stake him to dust him. He had blood all over his knuckles. Buffy shook Spike a lil trying to get his attention. He looked up at her.

"Slay…Slayer? " Spike asked in almost a whisper. She nodded and sat down in front of him.

"What happened, Spike? Who was that girl?" Buffy asked curiously.

"She was a person I met at the Bronze last night."

"Oh god, Spike! You didn't!" Buffy practically yelled in disgust, but it went away quick as she saw Spike shake his head.

"Don't worry, Luv. I didn't do anything with her. I'm your play toy, remember?" Spike said as his cockiness started to come back at the disgusted look the slayer was giving him. Buffy sighed.

"Where's your phone at?" Buffy asked as she stood up and pulled Spike with her.

"You should know, Pet. You've seen it enough." Spike smirked as he motioned toward the small room he called his bedroom located under a trap door. He sat down on the couch and watched as the slayer went down stairs and used the phone when she came back Spike tilted his head as she threw his blanket at him and it landed on his head. Spike picked it off and looked at Buffy quizzically.

"What's this for?"

"It's for you to not turn into a big pile of dust. We're going to the Magic Box." Buffy explained as she started for the door.

"Why the hell do I have to go to one of your Scooby meetings?" Spike asked as he threw the blanket over himself and followed Buffy out the door.

Buffy just stayed silent as she lead the way to the Magic Box.

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Vanessa threw her bag of weapons into the corner and yawned. She walked into the kitchen and started to fix herself some supper but the phone interrupted her. She ugh'd and picked it up.

"Hello. None your business here. How may I not help you?" Vanessa asked into the phone as she froze at the reply.

"Vanessa! I have information for you! It's very important." The person said franticly into the phone. Vanessa knew this would be long so she pulled out a chair from her table and sat down and propped her feet up on the table.

"Shoot. Not like I was doing anything. What's up?"

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"Why did I have to come?" Spike whined for the millionth time from his seat at the table in the Magic Shop. Buffy hit him on the arm.

"Because you know info on this woman. Now who was she? What was her name? Why did she mention 'slayer'?" Buffy insisted as she stared at Spike from her seat beside his. She didn't want to sit beside him, but she was the only one who would hit the vamp and not kill him when he didn't answer the questions.

"Her names Vanessa. She's a slayer from England. I don't know much but she told me her parents died and she was sent here to live. Dunno why she picked Sunnydale of all places. That's all I know, pet." Spike answered as he glared across the table at Xander. He despised him. In his free time at these Scooby meetings he would stare at Xander and everyone else in the room he hated just to scare them. Which didn't work too well. Xander glared right back.

"Maybe she's here to seek out the other slayer and stop the hell mouth." Willow suggested as she shrugged and rested her chin on her girlfriends shoulder.

Buffy couldn't believe it. There was yet another slayer?

"Why is there another slayer? Only the counselor picks people to be slayers after another one has died." Buffy said as she tilted her head and looked at her watcher, Giles. He took his glasses off and cleaned them with a cloth he pulled out from his pocket.

"Either they called her in for backup. Like a dangerous thing is going to happen and they knew that the world would need more help, or…" Giles hesitated before he finished his sentence. "Faith is dead."

Giles finished. No one in the gang really liked Faith at all. She betrayed them more than once and was always hooking up with the guys Buffy turned down, which really got on Buffy's nerves. But Faith was still a slayer. Someone who had helped the world at one point. She was like an evil side of Buffy. Buffy and the gang couldn't care less if she was the evil side or good side, but anybody that was pretty much long lost family to them, they cared about.

Buffy looked down. She couldn't even think of Faith being dead. Faith was strong. She could lead people better than her. She was as strong if not stronger than Buffy herself. She had been a slayer longer. Even though she had turned evil and all she almost always came back around and helped the gang out some then went back to the evil side. Buffy let a sigh escape her mouth. The room was soo quiet after the thought of Faith being dead that you could drop a pencil and it would sound like a gun shot.

"Giles, Xander, Tara, Get with the research in books. Try to find some kind of big evil or something that might give us a clue about anything happening soon. Will, try to find things, anything about this Vanessa's past on the internet. Spike, come." Buffy directed as all her friends instantly got up and started to do as they were told. They were almost glad that they had to do research. Ment getting their minds off of Faith.

Spike sighed and grabbed his blanket as he started to follow the slayer again, like a lost puppy.

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"Here, pet." Spike said as he handed the slayer laying on his couch a coke. He then went over and warmed up a pouch of blood and sat next to the couch, sucking it up through a straw.

Buffy took the drink and popped it open as she sipped it. Buffy looked at the drink. Spike had filled half his fridge up with pops that Dawn liked. Dawn came over to his place a lot these days. Buffy didn't like the idea, but she knew Spike wouldn't hurt her or do anything to her even if he could. He loved her like his little sister who died long ago.

"So, why did you want to come here, pet?" Spike asked to make the silence disappear. Buffy shook her head and was brought out of her thoughts from the voice of Spike. She looked down at the vampire then leaned up and pulled Spike up onto the couch then laid back down with her head on his leg. She almost smirked at the surprised look on his face.

"I just needed to get out of the worry and depression looming around my friends." Buffy answered sadly as she closed her eyes zoning back to her thoughts. Spike just watched her. What was she doing? Did she want to use him again? Is that why she was lying here with him. Probably. Spike diverted his eyes from the slayer and looked up at the ceiling. He really shouldn't let her do that. But he loved her, at least he said he did and felt like it. He knew it was wrong.

"So, what was Vanessa doing running out of your crypt?" Buffy asked with her eyes still closed. She felt Spike tense up at the question.

"I found her at the Bronze last night. We danced then she followed me here. We drunk some then made out some then she conked out and I stuck her in my bed then slept right here." Spike said really fast. He couldn't stand telling the slayer he was with someone else.

Buffy blinked her eyes open then instantly closed them back to hide her feelings. He and Vanessa had made-out? Why would he do that to her? Buffy mentally kicked herself. What was she talking about? Why would he do that to her? God. Its not like im his girlfriend. He can go make out with whoever. Buffy though as she lightly cringed. She hated that she got jealous when she didn't even want to like the person.

Buffy sighed. She had fallen in love with Spike this whole time and she had tried to push the feeling to the back of her mind and heart but it was starting to show again and she didn't know if she would be able to push it back again or if it was too strong for her now.

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I know! I know! They're not in character. But yah know what I say? Screw it! I like the way im making the characters. Please Review and keep checking the story for updates.