Chapter 6
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Spike followed Wesley's advice. He roamed the city at night. looking for people to protect. It wasn't hard, he easily found any number of women who were in danger of being drugged and raped by lowlifes. Spike alerted the girls to this, and threatened the men, sometimes physically assaulting the men so they knew not to do this again. There were also a few instances of vampires trying to kill humans, and Spike killed them. It wasn't long before Charles Gunn, as a lawyer of Wolfram and Hart, came to see Spike in his own home.
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Spike: The least you could do is knock, seems only fair since I can't enter your home without an invitation.
Gunn: I hear you've been busy Spike. Protecting humans, killing vampires.
Spike: You object?
Gunn: Not at all. We have similar goals, perhaps we should pool our resources.
Spike: "Similar goals?" Well, whatever helps you sleep at night.
Gunn: What does that mean?
Spike: Newsflash, you're not the good guys, not anymore.
Gunn: We're still helping people, just on a larger scale.
Spike: You're also hurting people on a larger scale.
Gunn: I've been fighting vampires for as long as I can remember, and they just keep coming. Now, the vampires in this town know. They just eat pig's blood, maybe an occasional human who gets off on it, they got no problem with us.
Spike: Seems like they didn't all get the memo.
Gunn: And those who break the rules are fair game.
Spike: How many bad guys have you helped avoid prison?
Gunn: We also put pressure on them to cut back on their evil activities. What can I say, we fight the fights we can win.
Spike: So do I.
Gunn: You think you're the good guy now?
Spike: I don't know, but for now at least I'm willing to give it a try. You play your big games, I'll help people who need it.