Disclaimer: Buffy isn't mine but this story is, so read and enjoy!
A/N: Okay if this took a while to put up, I'm sorry. But I hope you enjoy it!3 years later
" Dad!" I called up the stairs. " Dad! Are you there?" Spike was hardly ever there for me. Him and mom, Drusilla were always out at night killing and eating. I haven't been allowed out of our mausoleum yet. Tonight was supposed to be my first night out.
Dad jumped into the opening left by the lid of the coffin. The bottom of the coffin was missing and instead there was a huge whole made into four rooms. There was my room, which had a TV, a bed, a comfy chair, an endless amount of books and other stuff. The dining room, where there was a table, chairs and a fridge containing blood. We also had a living room, with a TV, a couch and two chairs as well as a poker table were my dad and his friends played poker. Then there was mom and dads room. It was pretty cool.
"D- Spike," My parents had asked me not to call them mom and dad, it held too much humanity apparently. " You said I could go out tonight."
" I bloody know!But you see we have to talk about some stuff first. Okay, Cassandra?" Spike asked me very seriously.
" Yeah, Okay.' I sat down on one of the living room chairs so I didn't have to stand for a long chat. Dad copied me.
" Cassandra, you weren't made the way most vampires were. Another vampire sucking its blood and it sucking the vampire makes most vampires. You see other vampires have all been human at some point, you haven't. Vampires all have a sire the vampire who bit them and made them a vampire my sire is Dru. Dru's sire is Angel." Spike paused giving me enough time to process this information I'm not like other vampires? They have to suck a vampire's blood before they are vampires? What? They were humans? This is too much information to process. " There is also someone who is called the Slayer. She kills vampires to protect humans. She will try and kill you."
" Spike, this is weird. Why are you telling me this?" I asked confused. I don't want to die! " Why are you telling me this now?"
" Bloody hell Cassandra, it's true! I am not lying! I wanted to tell you sooner but Dru wanted to wait." Spike answered truthfully. " The Slayer will try and kill you with a stick. The stick goes through your heart and it kills you. You have to avoid it at all costs."
" Fine avoid stick at all costs, I get it. Now can we go?" I asked inpatient. I don't believe any of this crap.
" Okay, but you can't go out in sunlight either. It will boil you to ash." Spike warned her.
I nodded but once he turned I rolled my eyes at him. What a load of bull!
I followed him to the opening and grabbed hold of the side of the coffin and pulled myself up. I crawled onto the side and hopped of. I pulled the lid into place behind me.
My dad was waiting for me at the door of the mausoleum; I had been up here a few times but never outside this building. When he opened the door I saw stars, they were brighter and better than the ones on TV and the moon was much brighter as well but not full.
We walked between the headstones and I swear I saw caution in my dad's footsteps. Is he afraid of being caught? I wonder if he is afraid of that Slayer person.
" Sandra, there are seven cemetery's in Sunnydale. We live in the one closest to the Bronze don't forget that. " Spike growled.
" Whats the Bronze?" I asked.
" It's a nightclub were kid's who look like your age are. That's their hangout," Spike smiled and vamped out for a minute. "It's where blood is fresh."
" They are all three too?" I asked happily, I was three yesterday.
" No they are all fourteen to around twenty-one. You age differently then they do, you age about four or five years per year which would make you about fifteen in their eyes." Dad tried to explain to me but I was confused.
" They are all slow at aging?" I asked him disbelievingly.
"No it's that you are different from them, from all of us. The reason you are here is because your mom, Drusilla, took a glowing potion and it just happened." Dad was scaring me, was he telling me I wasn't real?
' I don't get it. Am I fifteen?" I asked extremely confused.
" No Cassandra, you age differently and you don't, well, breathe." Spike finished with an utterly perplexed face on.
" Can I go to the Bronze dad?' I asked happily trying to get away; I could see the lights from here. " I can find my way. I'll be back by midnight, Bye!" I waved and ran off without waiting for an answer. I mean MIDNIGHT! That's like six and a half hours before sunrise and in only a few hours.
I zigzagged between buildings and streets until I could see the sign that read the Bronze. I smiled and raced in. There was a bodyguard there, waiting so I asked, " Hey, could I go in?" But he just laughed and held out his hand. " What?" I asked confusion showing on my face.
His smile disappeared. " Money, you have to pay to get in." Was he serious? I had to pay? Oh, well I'll sneak in back. I said goodbye and left. I circled the building and found a door. I tried the handle it was locked. I used a little power and the door barged open. I strolled into the dimly lit room. I heard amateur music playing and I turned to the stage and saw a band. They all looked like normal dudes but one caught her eye, he was on the guitar.
He had black fingernails and spiky bleach blonde hair. He was smiling at a red headed girl in the audience. Oh well, lot's more guys in the room. I made my way through the crowd and got closer to the red headed girl; she was with a guy with brown hair and a goofy smile. There was also a blonde but she was scanning the crowd for people.
Then I saw who she was looking at, it was a vampire my dad played poker with sometimes, he was the only one who had seen me, all the others never had. He wasn't looking at the blonde; he was dancing with a girl. The blonde made her way over to them but not all he way. I saw my dad's friend take her hand and go to leave the club. I followed and so, I noticed, did the blonde.
The blonde fell behind because a guy grabbed her hand and tried to dance with her so I made it out first. What I saw shook me to the core. Archie, my dad's friend, had his teeth buried in the girl's neck and blood was trickling down his chin. I screamed I couldn't help it I was scared. I always knew my dad drank blood but I never knew it was like this, I never knew this is the blood I drank, gross!
Archie dropped the girl who was apparently still alive since she ran away. He then turned to face me; once he saw me he unvamped. " What are you doing here Cassandra?"
" First time out… What did you just do?' I asked frightened.
" I ate, you shouldn't be here, understand?" he asked me advancing on me. He grabbed my wrists and held me against the wall. " You shouldn't be here, it's not safe for you."
" I'll be the judge of that," Came a female voice from behind Archie, but then I saw her, And I saw ash. No Archie. It was the blonde." Are you Okay?" She asked me.
This must be the Slayer Spike was talking about. " Um… Yeah, What did you just do?" I was breathing deeply a habit I had when I was scared I didn't need to breathe I just did it.
" I killed someone who was going to hurt you.' She answered perplexed. Everyone else she had saved must have been grateful with no questioning.
" He wasn't going to hurt me." I answered.
" Why do you think that?' The blonde asked curiously.
" Because he wanted me to leave, he told me it wasn't safe here." I said close to tears.
" Why would he tell you that?" The blonde asked mostly to herself. " Vampires kill, not save. Wait, you aren't the girl that he left with! Who are you?"
" Cassandra, he bit her and she ran away." I almost stopped my fake breathing but quickly reminded myself to keep going. " Who are you?"
" Buffy." The blonde answered hastily, " Which way did she go? She might need help."
" That way." I pointed left and Buffy ran off in that direction. Once she was safely out of sight I stopped my breathing so I could think.
I turned and headed back into the Bronze.
I started to look around checking out guys. I felt a gaze on my back and turned slowly to look at a brunette dude with a cute nose. Not bad. He was pretty hot. My eyes traveled up to his eyes. I noticed then that his eyes were an adorable blue-green, the colour of the ocean they show on TV.
He made his way over to me. Once here he just kind of stared and couldn't speak. " Hi." I said brilliantly.
" Hi, I was wondering if you wanted to dance? You know, with me." He stuttered and I just giggled.
" I'd love to." I said and I took his hand. He led me onto the dance floor and pulled me close just as the slow song ended. His face went beet red and he pulled away so we could dance to the now fast beat. We started dancing and I tried hard to remember what I had seen on Much Music.
After about thirty seconds he seemed kind of desperate for conversation so I decided to start it this time, wait I started it last time! Grrr…. But I don't want him to leave. Cassandra, what' your name?"
He smiled " I'm Richard, you can call me Ric." I giggled.
" Better than Dick huh?" I laughed and so did he. " You can call me Sandra."
" Yeah Dick is just weird." Ric smiled and his eyes twinkled. " So, Sandra, how old are you?"
I thought back to what my dad had said. " Just turned fifteen. How about you?"
" Sixteen." He yelled over the now heavy metal.
" Cool." Was all I could think to say or rather scream.
" Wanna get a drink?" He hollered at me.
" I have no money!" I cried so he could hear me. We walked over to a quieter corner.
" How'd you get in?" He asked confused, obviously he had payed.
I shifted my gaze and pointed to the back door.
" Isn't that supposed to be locked?" he asked me.
" I don't know it's my first night here." I answered sheepishly.
" Not a problem, I will pay for you! We shall celebrate!" He laughed and took my hand. I was led to a counter and Ric ordered two ginger ales.
" What are we celebrating?" I asked Ric confused.
" We are celebrating your arrival in Sunnydale and that I shall see you everyday." Ric was insane! I swear he must've just body switched on me.
" What?" I asked perplexed. I apparently know absolutely nothing.
" You're going to Sunnydale High, aren't you?" Ric asked me in a I-Don't-believe-it voice.
" Oh, Yeah right. Of course." I smiled a little unsure of myself. " Listen, Ric, what time is it?"
" Umm." He looked at his watch and reported that it was 1 o'clock.
" Oh, sorry Ric I have to go! I promised my dad I'd be back by now!" I hugged him and thanked him profusely. " Thank you so much! See you later!"
I charged out the Bronze and headed back to the cemetery. I saw the blonde Buffy walking around with a stick and panicked. I started breathing so hard that she turned and noticed me.
" Cassandra?" Buffy asked annoyed. " Why are you here?"
I thought up the quickest excuse I could. " I got lost. I was heading home and I got lost."
" Oh, do you need help?" Buffy asked me sincerely.
'"No, I just remembered the way. Thanks anyway!' I called and sped off in the opposite direction. I stopped once I was out of my cemetery to look back and see if Buffy followed me. She hadn't. I turned back and silently crept around to the opposite side of the cemetery. I crawled in through a hole in the fence.
Once safely back in the mausoleum I removed the lid and crawled into my home. Once I hit the ground the angry face of my dad surprised me. "Where the bloody hell were you? Do you know the Slayer is patrolling out there? She could have killed you!"
I put on my cool face and started explaining. " I lost track of time and ran into Buffy who I met earlier, who killed Archie and I crawled under a fence and um. Yeah."
" Wait a second. Archie's dead?" Spike looked really sad. Archie was probably his best friend.
" Yeah, and I think I'm going to school!" I smiled then I remembered the disgusting sucking incident. " And I think I'm a vegetarian!"
" School? Vegetables?" Spike looked outraged. " What do you think you are? A bloody human? School is during the day! And you can't live on vegetables you need blood."
" What if I can go out in the day and I only have a little blood?" I asked desperately.
" It's bloody impossible for you to out in the sun!" Drusilla came out at Spikes holler.
" Oh, deary me. I think Cassandra could go out in the sun. After all she is different. And if she starts to burn she can come back inside." Drusilla put in.
" Come on-" Spike was cut off with Drusilla's finger pushed against his mouth. He opened his mouth just enough so he could bite it. I was disgusted. He pulled her closer and she scratched at his leather coat. Which he soon threw off.
" Okay guys gross. Get a room." I ran into my room and turned on my music just in time to barely hear the cries of pleasure coming from my mother's mouth. Ew!
A/N: Hey thanks to my reviewers and I'm sorry it took forever for this chapter but I pretty much forgot I had a computer! Lol! Thanks and please review!