Told you so: Chapter 1
Fifteen Years Later
"Hope, come inside," Buffy called, setting the last plate of food on the table and looking out the glass doors to the backyard.
"One…minute…mum," Hope panted, swinging a strong hit at Spike's face and sending him back a few steps.
"Hope, now," Buffy replied, seeing Spike jump to his feet and get ready to attack.
"Gotta go," Hope said, running off towards her mum.
Hope jumped over the stairs leading up to the vender and landed in front of the glass doors. She opened the doors and walked inside, Buffy walked as Spike slowly followed her limping. Buffy couldn't help but smile, she was happy that her daughter could kick Spikes butt and for the moment that she wasn't in a romantic relationship with Spike or Angel.
"My daughter too much to handle?" Buffy asked, as Spike limped through the doors.
"No, I let her win," Spike answered.
"Yeah, not by your own choice," Buffy told Spike.
"Spike, give up. I won fair and square," Hope said, seated at the kitchen table in front of her dinner.
"Angel," Buffy called, walking into the kitchen and grabbing two wine glasses from the cupboard and a jug of animal's blood from the fridge.
Pouring blood into the two glasses, Buffy returned the jug to the fridge and returned to the dinning room with the two glasses. Setting the glasses down on the two empty plates opposite Buffy's and Hope's full ones, everyone sat down at their seat.
"Are we going hunting tonight?" Hope asked.
"Yes," Buffy replied, watching her only daughter smile in happiness and look over the table at Spike and Angel.
"Are you coming?" Hope asked.
"Yeah, we are going to show you Spike's old 'home'" Angel answered.
"Really?" Hope asked, smiling brightly as the conversation continued.
The darkness fell further and it became almost pitch black, the four of them grabbed their stakes and for Buffy and Hope a thigh length blade. Locking the house as they left, Angel walked at the back while Spike led the way and Buffy followed right behind him and Hope keeping a step or two behind her mum.
"Mum," Hope whispered, pointing across the graveyard to a lit up tomb.
"I will go first," Buffy told Spike, as he went to walk in front.
Kicking the door of the tomb open, Buffy, Spike, Angel and Hope glanced around the tomb to find eight vampires looking up at them.
"No welcome?" Buffy asked, dodging an attack from one while stabbing another with the stake.
Hope jumped from the floor; she kicked one of the vampires back into the wall and then span round and couched to the floor and tripped the other.
"Kill them, little bit," Spike ordered, stabbing the second of his vampires he was taking care of.
Hope stabbed the one on the floor, then stood and stabbed the other one before glancing back at Spike. Angel and Buffy finished the last two off as they stood back to back and then glanced back at each other as the dust faded away.
"Let's go," Hope insisted, dragging Spike out of the tomb and back into the graveyard.
"We will catch up," Buffy called, Hope released Spike and calmly walked beside him watching carefully for any vampires.
"There," Spike said, pointing to a large tomb sitting under the shade of a huge tree.
"Wow, can we go inside?" Hope asked.
"Go head, but be carefully," Spike told Hope, letting Hope enter the tomb first then following quickly after her.
"I will," Hope replied, walking into the tomb and smiling at the couch, tv and other things that lay around the room.
"Where did you get the couch," Hope asked, running her hand along the top of the dust covered couch and looked back at Spike.
"Spike, watch out," Buffy and Angel yelled from across the graveyard.
Spike turned round, stepping back as an axe threatened to take off his head. Hope tossed Spike her stake and he stabbed it through the vampire, watching it turn to dust in a second.
"Thanks," Spike said, nodding in Hope's direction.
"Didn't know you liked fluffy animals," Hope said, holding up a small pig bunny between her thumb and second finger.
Spike jumped over the couch, grabbed the bunny and throwing it across the room behind the coffin.
"Don't mention the bunny," Spike ordered, turning round to see Angel and Buffy walk into the room.
Buffy walked over to Hope, while Spike went to stand near Angel who was stood at the door.
"What's with the bunny?" Angel whispered.
"It's Buffy's," Spike said quickly.
To Be Continued...Please Comment.