Chapter 4- Little Red Riding Hood…
Buffy and Dawn fell back so they were out of earshot, but continued to follow the two.
"Well that was interesting."
"How can one person go through that much and still be sane?" Dawn exclaimed
"Who knew Spike had feelings?" Buffy said quietly.
"I did." Dawn replied.
Buffy looked at her and rolled her eyes.
"Well, it's true I knew. Just because you're blinded by lust doesn't mean other people are."
Buffy smacked her younger sister and the two found a spot where they wouldn't be seen and sat down straining their ears to listen.
Spike and Ginny made their way to the park and sat down on the swings to talk.
"So you still in love with that bloke Henry?"
Ginny gave an exasperated sigh. "His name is Harry and no I'm not."
"Too bad for him then. What else is new at Hoggywarts?"
"Not much. Dumbledore's the best headmaster ever, the dream team continues to ignore me, although I think they'll talk to me a little more now that I almost got killed-,"
"Wait back up dream team?"
"Harry, Ron and Hermione. They pretty much run the school along with Draco Malfoy the slimy ferret."
"Ah yes the Malfoys, I'm closely related to them if you couldn't guess."
"Lucius Malfoy was the one that slipped me the diary."
"That doesn't surprise me their entire family goes way back into the dark arts."
"Do you ever hear from Voldemort here in Sunnydale?" Ginny asked.
"I've heard of him a few times. I didn't really bother myself about it though. We've got enough problems to worry about what with Sunnydale being on the Hellmouth and all."
"I was afraid of that," Ginny said. Ginny launched into a recap of the past five years, not leaving anything out.
About half an hour later, Ginny finished and looked at Spike who was in deep thought.
"So Tom actually did it. What a shame, smarmy git." He looked at Ginny and said, "I want to go back to England with you when you go back. I don't think I really belong here anyways. I'd like to see Tom fail once and for all."
Ginny smiled and started to reply, but before the words could come out of her mouth, she felt someone nearing. Her eyes darted around the park, and she discreetly moved to retrieve her wand from her pocket. Ginny motioned to continue talking and waited until it came closer.
She leaned over and whispered in his ear "Let me handle this one." He nodded and continued talking.
Ginny got up and started to walk away on her own. She got about half a block before a tall dark haired man in a black coat approached her.
"Why hello there, what's a pretty little girl like you doing out here all alone?"
Ginny looked at the man and decided to play the helpless act.
"N-Nothing. I'm j-just on my way home," she stuttered.
"Really? I don't think you should be wandering all alone, there are dangerous people about." He drawled.
"Like you?" she replied.
The man looked at her, calculatingly. "Perhaps."
"What's your name little girl?" the man asked stepping closer to her.
"Little Red Riding Hood," she drawled sarcastically. "And yours?"
"The Big-" he started to reply.
"Oh I know you're not going to say 'The Big Bad Wolf'," Ginny said bursting into laughter. "Please tell me that's not what you were going to say."
The man glared at her and lunged. Ginny saw it coming and quickly dodged out of the way.
"Sorry wolfie, you missed."
The man once again tried to attack, only to be blocked and thrown backwards. Ginny waited for him to get up and fake yawned. "Is that really the best you can do?"
The man smirked and caught Ginny off guard by kicking her legs and knocking her to the ground.
She grunted and stood back up. "Look wolfie, I know we have this special bond but the whole sweeping me off my feet bit just isn't going to work. There are plenty of fish in the sea, you just have to find the right girl." Ginny heard Spike chuckle nearby and looked around for something pointy. Ginny kicked the vampire in the stomach and grabbed a broken tree branch. The vamp lunged once again and this time Ginny stepped out of the way, kicked him to the ground and aimed the pointy branch to his heart. She plunged it into his chest and watched as he turned to dust.
Ginny's eyes widened and she got up brushing herself off.
"That was bloody brilliant! Did you see me!" Ginny said to Spike excitedly.
Just then Buffy and Dawn came out of the shadows with their jaws dropped.
"Oh hello, how long have you been there?" Ginny asked out of breath.
"Long enough, you've definitely got the witty banter down, very clever, even I laughed," Buffy said looking at Spike.
"Ginger was that your first time slaying?" Spike asked.
"Yeah. Well I mean after I found out I was a potential, I read up on it and I've been doing physical self defense since the chamber. Bloody hell I sound like Hermione. Why did I do something wrong?" she asked her face apprehensive.
"No that was really good, even I wasn't that great when I started out. In fact I bet you've got more skill than most of the potentials and they've been training for a few months now." Buffy said.
"Why don't we go back to the house? Little bit looks like she needs a lie down." Spike said nodding at Dawn who was yawning.
The four walked back to the house, and Ginny headed up to Dawn's room where she would be staying.
"I never did get that guy's name" Ginny said just before she gave into sleep.