Previously on A Friend from the Past
"I bet you did," a voice whispered from behind the Master and he turned to face Angel, in his vampire state. "You don't want to do that." He slammed a fist into the Master's chest knocking it down to the ground and it released Kylie. She slammed hard onto the ground and lay there gasping for air. "Spike, get Kylie." Angel then turned his attention back onto the Master. "I grow tired of your actions."
The Master laughed as it got to its feet and looked up at Angel. "I'm not scared of you, Angelus."
"You should be."
"And why should I be, vampire?" the Master asked, as he looked at Angel. "I've fought your kind before and killed your kind. So I'm not afraid of you. So you shouldn't be to confident of yourself."
"I'm not," Angel said, as he looked over at him. "I've been around too long to let that get in my way."
"Oh, touche, even for a vampire."
"Oh, don't even start with him," Spike said, as he came up next to Angel's side and leaned up on his shoulder. "You don't know him, like I do."
The Master actually rolled his eyes as he looked between the vampires. "What is with vampires, you stick together in pairs or what?"
"Actually, it's kinda scary how they tend to," Alexa pointed it out, as she came up to Angel's out side. "They usually fight more often them most."
The Master let out a growl, as it stared at her. "I don't have the patience to talk with you, Alexa. You disappointed me."
A smile crossed Alexa's face. "Well I'm sorry about that. I've disappointed a lot of people in my past. Ask Spike. He should know. He sired me."
"Yeah, she's a big pain the butt," Spike said, as he looked over at the Master. "But we really aren't here to talk about her. We came here to kick your butt." That got the Master to laugh. Spike then looked over at the others. "That wasn't supposed to be taken as a joke."
"Oh, I think it's funny that three half-breeds think that they can take me on," the Master said, as he looked at them. "I've killed plenty of your kind before."
"And what?" Alexa began, as she shifted her weight. "Is that supposed to scare us? We've been around for some time now. We've learned a few tricks of the trade."
"Not enough to save the young Empath."
"So you've said before. You're not a really good bad monster. You're repeating threats."
"Oh, shut up, vampire. I don't have time for you idle comments."
"Ooh, someone has a bad temper," Spike muttered, with a smirk. "Come on. We're just trying to have a decent chat here. Don't need to get all huffy."
"You will not tell me what to do, Vampire."
The others turned to face each other with concern in their eyes. "Be it to them to piss him off," Faith whispered, as Kylie shivered.
"Well, you got to remember it's Spike," Giles added. "He tends to add in his opinion, even when its not needed."
"This could get interesting," Willow whispered, as she watched as the Master growled, as he took a step towards the vampires. "Very interesting. I hope they can handle him."
"Me too," Giles added, as he looked up at them. "Cause if they go down. I don't know if we can fight him."
"So, you're the Master," Alexa said, as she looked at him. "You know, a lot of things have called themselves that. We knew of a vampire even who called himself that. Bastard of a being. Took a hard headed slayer to take him down." Both Angel and Spike smile at the reference to Buffy. "But here you are. Taking on the role of the Master. Brain washing young girls to do your evil bidding. That's low. I'm evil, but even I wouldn't do that."
That got the Master to laugh. "Trust me on this, young one," he snarled. "You're not evil."
"Trust us," both Spike and Angel said at the same time. "She's evil enough."
"Evil enough to take me down. We will see. It takes someone who is both good and evil to take me down."
"Well that's good to know," Alexa muttered, as she looked up at him. "Cause we were really coming up on brick walls on how to kill you and here you just told us."
"But it's not going to be that easy, little one."
"We didn't it would be," Spike said, causing the Master to look over at him and sneer. "Now that wasn't nice."
"Does he ever shut up?" the Master asked, as he looked over at Alexa, as if he expected her to answer him right away.
"Did you expect me to answer?" she asked, as she ran her hands through her hand and turned to look back at the others. "Cause I simply don't know. William is his own person. He's done his own thing since Dru turned him. I haven't know him as long as Angel has."
"You're all horrible. It will be a pleasure to kill you all." Just then a noise came out from behind them and the others turned to see more Demons coming out at them. "Ah, my guest have arrived. I hope you do hope to stay for the party. I do have plans for the young Empath over."
"You stay away from her," Faith snarled as the Demons started to draw Kylie away from them. Faith quickly jumped in front of her and a Demon. "She's not going with you. Get that through the thick skin that's surrounding your head." The Demon just laugh at her and lunged for Kylie. "Kylie, run."
"What about you?" she called out, as she watched at Faith took a blow to the stomach.
"I'll be fine," Faith answered, as she shot the girl a hard look. "It's not me the Master's after."
"Right." Kylie then took off only to be grabbed by a Demon. She let off a scream only to be torn from the Demon's grasp by Alexa. "Lex?" She stared at the vampire in fear. "What?"
"It's okay, you empath," Alexa said, as her face morphed back to her human one. "I'm not going to hurt you."
"What are you going to do?" Kylie asked as she looked around.
"We're going to keep you alive little one for as long as humanly possible. Sound like a good plan."
"Yeah, it does."
"Good." She then turned to have the Master grab her throat and yank her off the ground.
"No," he snarled, and Kylie fell back away in fear. "That doesn't sound like a good plan."
"Well it did to me at the time."
TBC
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