" You'll be letting us in, Miss." Angelus said as he switched to game face. Scarlett froze for a moment in shock.
" Demon." Scarlett whispered.
" Miss?" Asked a small boy, he had walked up to her and started to pull on her skirt, he was probably as high as her hips.
" Thomas, g-go to your mother."
" What's wrong miss?" He asked her.
" Nothing, just go to your mother." She said as she pushed him away. She started to pull the door down and Spike caught it.
" Uh uh, now is that a way to treat two fellows in need of shelter from the evil in the world." Spike tisked.
" I'd say not, and after how nice they have been on not eating anybody... Yet." Drusilla said as she put her hand on Scarlett's shoulder. Scarlett jumped at the touch.
" Yes," Darla said, she now stood next to Scarlett and growled, " We would very much hate it if our kin couldn't celebrate with us."
" Kin?" Scarlett asked as she looked at Darla, Darla's vampiric face shone and Scarlett started to back up.
" I'll take that as a yes." Angelus said, he and Spike walked in and looked around the room. It was a big room, maybe 30 feet by 30 feet, with thin marble arcs holding up the ceiling. The walls were painted a pale red, and the ground was made out of mahogany floorboards. There was a door leading to another room, but it was shut. In fact if someone didn't know that it was underground, they'd think it was a regular room but without any windows.
There were three beautiful divan's. Two were against the back wall and the other was along the left side wall. And there was a small chandelier in the middle of the room. In the right front corner there was a children's nursery: a small bookshelf, a bunch of dolls, a small tea set, a little teeter-totter, and some costumes.
There was maybe 8 baby's, 25 kids, and 20 adult women in the large room. Most of the women were holding their child and resting. It was somewhat loud in there, with the children running around with their toys.
" Look at all the little tots." Drusilla said, eyeing the children, she stepped by Spike and wrapped her arms around his neck, she licked his lips and smiled, " I can still smell the slayer."
" Spike, Drusilla." Angelus growled. He was getting sick of seeing Spike with Drusilla when she was 'rightfully his'.
" Have fun." Darla smiled as she walked off left, the damned were going to have a feast.
" What happened next?" Giles asked. He leaned back against the couch.
" A massacre." Spike said solemnly.
Drusilla ripped opened the throat of a small girl, the girl shrieked loudly and stopped screaming a second later, in fact everything about the girl stopped. She dropped he body as a brunette haired boy ran past her. She followed him.
Meanwhile, Angelus was having his share of fun, he didn't eat the children, he was going for the women, he just finished off a red headed women who was a bit sour. He looked around for his next screaming victim as his eyes stopped on Scarlett. She was running towards the entrance, a child in her arms. Within a few steps Angelus had caught up the her.
" What, leaving so soon?" Angelus asked. He grabbed her arm, she tried to pull out of his grasp, but he held on tight. With his other hand, Angelus grabbed the toddler from Scarlett's grasp, she reached for the child.
" I love babies." Angelus smiled, " You know that taste you get when you feel you ate something that tasted so rich and you felt that you could eat it all your life? That's how I feel about babies."
" Mummy." The child gasped, he reached for his mother.
" It's OK Adam," Scarlett whispered, " Mummy'll get you."
" Adam." Angel thought, " What a nice name, Adam Buckingham."
" How do you know my last name?" Scarlett asked, she hissed as Angelus's grip on her arm tightened.
" Mummy." Adam wailed.
" God, can you shut up?" Angelus hollered.
" Don't yell at my son." Scarlett yelled as she kicked Angelus's shin. Angelus didn't even budge.
" Then tell him to pipe down?" Angelus asked, " He's giving me a fing headache." Angelus then looked around, Darla, Drusilla and Spike were standing a few feet from the two and there was nobody left alive except Scarlett and Adam.
" Don't swear in front of him." Scarlett said angrily.
" Willie, be a good little boy and hold the little one." Angelus asked as he handed Spike the baby, Drusilla walked over to Spike and slid her nail across Adam's cheek. A thin line of blood showed up and Adam only whimpered Drusilla licked it up and then kissed Spike.
" Mummy." He whispered.
" Close your eyes Honey." Scarlett said in silent tears.
" So, I guess you got a pretty good life, ey?" Angel asked, he pulled Scarlett over to a couch that two dead women were seated on. He pushed them off and motioned for Scarlett to sit.
" Up until now, everything was as good as gold." Scarlett said not taking her eye's off Adam.
" You would know, huh? You do seem to have a lot of it." Angelus said, looking around the room.
" The money belonged to my husband, I am just an example of rags to riches. And I have no interest in money."
" So it be... Belonged? Is your husband dead?" He asked as cracked his knuckles.
" Yes." Scarlett sighed, " He was killed by mongrels -- thieves. Trying to steal his purse."
" They took more than just his purse." Angelus smiled.
" He's always been thickheaded, he couldn't just give it to them, he had to say no and try to fight."
" He left you and Adam?" Angelus said.
" The funeral was to be held in four days."
" How long ago did he die?" Angelus asked.
" Yesterday." She sniffed, her eyes were watering even more that they were earlier, " Please, do anything to me, just let Adam go, give him a chance."
" Wait let's talk." Angelus said.
" ... Very well." she said dully.
" Hmm. How old are you?"
" Nineteen." She whispered.
" Really?" Angelus asked, " Barley a woman."
" I am a woman." she said as she clenched her teeth.
" And how old is Adam." Angelus asked.
" ... Two." she whispered.
" So." Angelus asked, he stood up and started to walk around the room, he picked up on of the dead women by their shoulder and looked at Scarlett, " Who was she?"
" Adrianna Guildhall." She said, " She was seventeen and was to get married in a month."
" And her in the light blue dress."
" That's Elizabeth Clark, her son is over in the play corner, with the red shirt."
" And who's this little princess?" Angelus asked as he walked to a dead little girl, maybe three years old.
" My cousin." Scarlett said in realization.
" Mummy." Adam cried.
" Don't cry baby, don't let them see fear, close your eyes."
" When are we going to kill them?" Darla asked impatiently. With this, Adam started to cry and try to escape Spike's grasp, he couldn't.
" Oh, were not going to be killing him." Angelus said. Scarlett sighed, " She will."