Title: Written In The Stars, Part 4 – Spike Wakes Up.

Author: Xanfan

Rating: R/NC-17 for future chapters

Pairing?

Summary: Response to challenge from Sparky. Xander and Spike become friends after Spike gets the chip, they are both hurt and Dru rescues them and brings them to Angel to heal.

Spoilers: BtVS up through season 4 and Ats 1st season. I may however take some liberties with the exact timeline, so, any season from either show is fair game.

Warnings:

Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.

Original Challenge: Spike has been chipped and taken in by the Scoobies. Just as he and
Xander are beginning to become friends something their both hurt and it's up
to Angel to save and care for them. The twist is its Dru that saves them
and brings them to Daddy.

A/N: I may make take some liberties with timelines from both shows. And Anya was just a onetime thing.

Words in Italics indicate thoughts.

Angel made his way down the elevator, to his apartment, carrying a cooler full of blood, human blood. The blood was from the local blood bank, they often sold the blood they couldn't use. He liked to keep some on hand for bad injuries that wouldn't heal quickly on animal blood. He knew he would need to keep up his and Spike's strength for the days to come.

Inside the apartment, Spike was still asleep, but it was a natural sleep, not the healing, coma-like state he had been in earlier.

Angel watches Spike sleep for a few minutes, before the blond vampire senses the scrutiny and wakes up.

"Peaches, where am I and what am I doing here?" Spike asked.

"You're in my apartment in L.A. and you're here because Drusilla brought you here."

Spike sat up on the bed and took a moment to get his bearings, trying to figure out what had happened. Then it all cam rushing back and he demanded, "Where is Xander?"

Angel hesitated, not sure if he should tell Spike everything, but, he knew it would probably be really bad if he didn't.

"When Dru brought you both here, Xander was in pretty bad shape and he was bleeding internally. We called an ambulance and they took him to the hospital…."

"And, so he's going to be alright, yeah?" Spike asked, desperation in his voice.

"When we got to the hospital, the doctor's weren't sure where the internal bleeding was coming from, they were working on him and his heart stopped beating. It took a few minutes for them to restart it. They performed surgery to find and stop the bleeding. His liver and a kidney had been injured and they were able to fix them…."

"What else aren't you saying?" Spike was pretending that he wasn't fighting back tears.

"Whatever happened to you two, he was hurt very badly. There is some concern about a head injury problem, and I think I heard one of the doctors saying there was also some concern about lack of oxygen to his brain, while his heart was stopped. They aren't making any promises that he'll be okay and get better, or even that he'll live, and that's what worries me the most." Angel finished sadly.

Spike sat there shocked. Xander was his best and only friend. In honesty, he thought of the whelp as family, a brother. Xander was pretty much the only good thing he had going in his un-life, right now. Losing the boy was not a possibility, not to him.

Angel's un-beating heart ached at the look of utter desolation on Spike's face, like his world has just ended. Then, determination crossed his childe's features and Spike stood up and headed for the door.

"Where are you going?" Angel asked.

"I'm going to see the whelp, aren't I, then I'm going to go find whoever, whatever, did this to him and tear them limb from limb." Spike gritted out.

"You mean you don't know who did this to you?"

"No, you mean you don't?"

"How the hell am I supposed to know?" Angel practically shouted in frustration.

"Well, I thought maybe Dru would have told you."

"This is Drusilla we are talking about here."

"Oh, yeah." Spike was slight abashed. 'Didn't she say anything?"

"She said, and I quote, 'Daddy, the stars told me that Spike and the Kitten were in trouble. Miss Edith told me to go get them and bring them here, so that you could take care of them' and that's pretty much it, she told me she thought Xander was hurt on the inside and left."

"Sounds like my Dru." Spike admitted, with amusement.

"Why don't you know who did this, I mean, you were there?" Angel asked

"Cause I was bloody well unconscious for most of it, wasn't I? Only woke up right before Dru came, then she tossed me over her bloomin' shoulder and I conked out. Then I woke up to your duff face. So, no, I don't remember anything."

"Do you happen to remember how you became unconscious in the first place?" Angel struggled to hang on to his temper.

"We were out on patrol, yakking on about something, and something musta come up behind me, 'cause the boys eyes got wide and then everything went black." Spike struggled to recall anything else, but came up blank.

Angel considered this for a moment. Then, he couldn't stop himself from asking, "Spike, are you and Xander, you know, involved?"

Spike smirked at his sire, "Wouldn't you like to know, you tosser."