Chapter 5

Madison woke up to the smell of fresh coffee. As she opened her eyes she saw Spike sat at the end of the leather sofa.

"Hey." Madison said waking up.

"Hi."

"What time is it?" Madison looked around for a clock.

"Oh, about ten."

"What! Shit. I have class."

"Hey, it's okay. Sit." Spike pushed Madison back down.

"What's wrong with you?" she demanded.

"You. You bitch!" Madison had fear in her eyes and saw anger in his. "You can never! And I mean never speak her name again!"

Spike screamed and turned into vamp mode.

"Oh my god. You're a vampire."

Spike growled and Madison ran out of the room leaving all her stuff behind.

Running down the hall back to her dorm Madison ran into Dawn.

"Hey, what's wrong? Shouldn't you be in class?"

"He tried to kill me." Madison said and showed Dawn the scratch on her arm.

"Who did?" Dawn gasped.

"Spike. He's a vampire."

"Yeah. He's a vampire with a soul. What… what happened?" Dawn asked leading Madison to her room.

In Dawn and Andrew's room, Dawn took out the first aid kit and wiped the blood off Madison's arm.

"So, what happened?" Dawn asked.

"I asked him about Buffy."

Dawn dropped Madison's arm.

"You know you shouldn't ask questions about stuff you don't know."

"I'm sorry. She was your sister wasn't she?"

Dawn glared at Madison.

"I'm doing it again aren't I?"

"Yeah."

"Sorry. She sounds like she was great."

"She was. She is"

"All the other slayers think I'm trying to take her place." Madison said with a lone tear in her eye.

"Yeah, that's what I've heard too."

"I'm not, I wouldn't dream of it."

"I know." Dawn said finishing patching Madison up.

"Listen, I don't really feel like going to class today. Any chance I could have the day off?"

"Come with me."

Madison followed Dawn to wherever they were going.

They had stopped off at Madison's dorm first so she could get changed. She was not wearing a white jumper with a black vest top over it, also some tight boot cut jeans and flat dolly shoes. She wore her blonde hair up. She was beautiful just like Buffy was.

When they arrived at their location they were standing outside the private staff area. Madison had never dreamed of going in here. Wolfram and Hart was so big, unlike anything Madison had ever seen before. It had at least 38 floors possibly more.

Dawn entered and Madison followed. They were standing in a big room, it had its own private canteen area and chairs and sofas as far as the eye could see. Everything matched, the tables, chairs even the floor and ceiling. It was magnificent, like being in a dream.

"Hey Dawnie." Willow said peering over her laptop. Sat at the side of her was Kennedy.

She had a sour expression on her face when she saw Madison.

"What's she doing in here?" she snapped at Dawn pointing to Madison as if she was a diseased rat.

"She's with me." Dawn snapped back. "Guys we have a problem."

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Dawn.

"What's wrong now?" Xander asked, he was itching under his eye patch.

"Spike attacked Madison."

Everyone gasped.

"Someone needs to talk to him." Willow said.

"He could do this to someone else." Kennedy said.

"No." Madison said and everyone looked. "I have a plan."

Madison walked out and went to find Spike.

Luckily for Madison, Spike was in the gym when she found him.

She opened the door and he turned round. He didn't look impressed.

"Thought I'd scared you off." Spike grunted hitting the punch bag with all his strength. If he hit it any harder it would come off the ceiling.

"You can't scare me off that easily." Madison shot back.

"What do you want?"

"An apology?"

"Not gona happen. Pet."

"You called Buffy pet. Didn't you?" Madison just said the wrong thing again. However, this time, she knew what she was doing.

"I told you never to say her name."

"Why? Just because she left you." Spike closed his eyes trying to block the young girl out.

"Spike, your taking this out on everyone. Why not take it out on her? She's the one who left you, not everyone else."

"Shut up!" Spike lashed out and hit her. "I told you to shut up."

"It's not going to work Spike." She punched him back.

Before they knew it the pair was in a fight, a battle to the death. Unless Madison could stop him in time.

"Come on Spike, what about Angel? I bet he told you he wasn't going to leave you. But he did." Spike was punching harder and harder now. It was starting to hurt Madison.

"I said shut up." Spike shouted again and again.

"You're scared." Madison ducked one of Spike's kicks. "You're scared because everyone leaves you. Not me, I'm here for you. We all are. Stop fighting it."

Spike fell to the floor in front of Madison. He was crying. She had won.

"I'm really sorry." Spike said to Madison. He felt really guilty for hurting her; she was only 19, still a kid.

"It's okay. My first war bruise, I think I'll wear it with pride."

Spike laughed.

"Yeah, still, I'm sorry."

"Stop apologizing" Madison hit him playfully.

"Okay." Spike held his hands up in mock surrender.

Madison giggled like a little girl, she hadn't laughed this hard over a guy before.

"so, tell me about Buffy."

"She was, amazing. At first I wanted to kill her, but then. Then I fell in love with her. That was after I got a chip, then I got a soul."

"I bet you miss her."

"I do."

"Well, I guess everything happens for a reason and you just after move on."

Madison stood up and put a hand on Spike's shoulder as she walked past him.

"Night."

"Yeah, night."