Warning: This chapter implies rape, and if you are not comfortable reading about it, you might want to skip this chapter.

Chapter 13:

After their moment of understanding, Buffy tried the chains again and let out an aggravated yell, "These are too tight, and I don't have enough leverage! I had a feeling this guy was evil. What the hell is he planning to do with us?"

Dawn started to answer, only to be cut off, "I can answer that. But, it would take the mystery out, and where is the fun in that?" Wood said strolling in with an evil grin.

Both Buffy and Dawn's eyes quickly caught sight of the object he held in his hand. "I bet you're wondering just what this is aren't ya?" he wondered as he tossed it a few inches into the air and caught it.

"Go to hell." Dawn uttered as she rolled her eyes, seemingly uninterested. Buffy sent a glare in her direction, knowing that pissing off their capturer wouldn't go well in their favor.

Wood chuckled, "Oh no, not me. That spot is reserved for you and that soulless vampire you both care so much about."

"He's not soulless, he has a soul now." Buffy spat.

Wood looked down while nodding his head, "Oh, yeah. That's right. He does doesn't he? But that won't be an issue for much longer."

Buffy and Dawn's eyes grew wide as he held up the unknown object and started muttering words neither Buffy or Dawn recognized. The orb started glowing brightly just before Wood slammed it onto the metal table and smashed it into tiny pieces with a nearby mallet. "Like I said, the soul's no longer an issue."

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"Spike! Spike! Get up. SPIKE!" Angel tried, as he swatted an unconscious Spike in the face. And just as Xander readied to pour a pitcher of ice cold water onto his face, Spike's eyes opened, much to Xander's disappointment.

Spike sat up and looked around, he was lying on the floor in the center of the Summers' living room, with Xander, Willow, Giles, and most annoyingly, Angel, all hunched over and staring at him. "Spike, what happened?" Angel demanded.

Spike thought back, he wasn't sure what was going on, one moment he was fine and the next... "It's gone..." Spike mumbled amazed, a slow smile creeping into his features. He couldn't believe it, he had wished for his soul to disappear since the moment he had gotten the cursed thing back, and now it seems he had finally gotten his wish.

"What's gone? Spike, what happened? You storm out of here and ten minutes later, I find you sprawled out in the grass. What happened?" Angel was starting to get irritated by this point.

Spike's eyes widened as he remembered his reason for leaving the house earlier. "Dawn." He cast a worried glance at the rest of the group, "Is she here?" he asked shakily.

Willow seemed to understand his worry. "No, neither she or Buffy have come back yet. Maybe they are still talking thing out."

Spike shook his head, "No. Robyn took her. I have to find her." he stated as he headed to the door once more.

Willow ran to the door to stop him, "Wait. Are you sure? I mean, why would he take her?" At Spike's low growl, she added, "I'll do a locator spell, it'll be faster."

Spike sighed, knowing that he only had one idea of where to look, and if she wasn't there, that it would only take that much longer to find her.

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"I don't understand why you of all people would choose to side with that disgusting creature. You are supposed to be better than that, you are the slayer, but yet you protect him, and even allow your own sister to degrade herself by sleeping with that filth!" he ranted. "Her," he yelled as he pointed to Dawn, "I can understand, she is nothing but a whore!"

"She is not a whore!" Buffy screamed at him. She knew she probably shouldn't have talked back to him, seeing as he had the upper hand, but she couldn't stand the way he was talking about her sister. That, and the fact that she needed to distract him from Dawn, who was discreetly, and by the looks of it, successfully, slipping out of the knot rope that bound her hands behind her back.

Wood walked over to Dawn and grabbed a fistful of her hair, "Really? And what would you call somebody who allows herself to be fucked and fed off of willingly by a vampire?" he turned his cold eyes back to Dawn, "I'm repulsed even looking at you."

Wood bent down and retrieved a knife that hidden in his boot and smiled when he saw the fear register in her blue eyes. "Maybe I should kill you." he said with a hint of sadistic humor as he slid the knife along her throat and down her sternum.

"Get the hell away from my sister, you son of a bitch!" Buffy screeched. She hated not being able to help her sister and watching helplessly as that psychotic did god knows what to her, but she refused to give up as she again, started pulling wildly and uselessly on the chains that were securing her in place.

Ignoring Buffy's outburst, he continued traveling the knife down her chest and slit her shirt in half, down to the bottom of her bare breasts. "Or maybe, I should show you what a human is supposed to feel like." he commented, eyeing her hungrily.

Dawn was beyond scared at this point, she was absolutely terrified. All she could do was pray that Spike would know she was in trouble and find her before Wood had the chance to kill her...or worse.

Dawn screamed as she was finally free of the rope binding her hands, and kicked him as hard as she could in the groin until he doubled over in pain. Then she started working fiercely on untying the rope from around her body.

Once she was finally able to get out of the chair, Buffy yelled at her to get out of there and find help, and that she would be fine until Dawn came back. Dawn did not like the idea of leaving Buffy alone with a pissed off and out of control psycho, but didn't really see any other options. She had no clue where the keys to the handcuffs were to unlock Buffy, and knew that Wood would quickly overpower her once his pain had stopped.

As Dawn started for the door, Wood grabbed her arm and yanked her around violently as he collided his fist with her face, knocking her to the ground. "You're gonna pay for that, bitch." he yelled as he climbed on top of her.

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"Bloody hell!" Spike shouted in frustration, realizing he had wasted his time with the locator spell. She had turned out to be in the same place that Spike had thought to look first.

"I'm going with you." Angel confirmed once Spike was already out the door.

"So am I." Xander added. Xander loved Dawn like a little sister and what he had learned about the way Wood had treated her, had angered him. Finding out that Spike and Dawn were together came as a complete shock to him, and although he wasn't pleased, he realized that now probably wasn't the best time to voice his opinions on the matter. Now was the time to find her and make sure her and her Buffy were safe.

Spike looked at the two, "Fine. But if he hurt her in any way, I'll kill him, and neither of you better try an' stop me, or I'll kill you too." he promised.

A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update, I have been super busy. Not sure when the next update will be yet, but I promise, there will be another update. Please review.