Rescue & Revelation
Part 1
At Wolfram & Hart:
It was eleven in the morning, Gunn was reading papers in the boardroom while waiting for Wesley and Spike to enter for there meeting, he looked at his watch then called Harmony's desk.
"Hello"
"Harmony has Wes or Spike comes in yet?"
"No they haven't Gunn, frankly I'm worried."
"Me too, I wonder what's holding them up."
Looking around, she said, in a quiet voice "They were tailing Angel."
"I know Harmony, call Spike's new place let's hope that they are there and nothing bad has happened."
"OK Gunn. Do you want me to pipe it to the conference room or your office?"
"My office I have papers to go over."
"OK"
A few minutes later, in Gunn's office while he was sitting on a couch going through some files, she rang the phone.
#Spikes Place#
The phone started ringing in both bedrooms the men rolled over groggily looked at the clock on the nightstand in there rooms the phone display read Wolfram & Hart Spike said, to himself "This better be dam good calling at this hour" as he reached for the phone receiver.
At the same time from a different room, Wesley is rolling over wipes his hands a crossed his face and picks up the phone.
Wesley says a little groggy "Hello"
"It's good to hear you're a live Wesley. Where's Spike?" said Harmony.
"Harmony, what the bloody hell do you want, at this ungodly hour?"
Harmony looks at the clock then the phone a little scared then said, "Gunn and I were worried!
You two didn't come in for the meeting, you didn't call."
"Harmony, we had a late night, what is up?" said Spike as he wiped his hand a crossed his face.
Harmony feeling a little better said, "The papers are all wild from the murder that happened last night."
As he flopped back on the bed he said, "Yea we were in the middle of it!"
"OH, any way Gunn wanted to talk with you."
"Sure."
"I'll put you on hold."
"Sure"
She runs to Gunn's office knocks she hears Gunn say "Come in."
"Gunn, there on the line"
"Fine Harmony"
"OK Guys."
"Thanks Harmony, stay."
"Sure."
It was the second time that she had been treat as if she were part of the team and it made her feel good to be part of something again.
"Dam Spike what happened we were worried, you guys were supposes to be here two hours ago!"
"Shit, Gunn move our meeting to six tomorrow.
"No problem, Spike considered it done."
"Let's make it a dinner meeting. Chinese OK?"
"Sounds good… You going to call the Chop Stick"
"Yea"
"Thanks"
Rubbing the sleep from his eyes Spike said, "Gunn, some new developments have come up, I want you and Harmony at my place in and hour."
"OK no problem."
Spike sat up and leaned against the headboard, with the sheet around his waist; at that moment Garmon cradled into Spikes lap and started purring, "Things got real crazy last night, got in late, then we read until dawn."
"OK"
"Harmony you still there"
"AH yea Spike"
"Will you make the calls to the others and let them know the meeting is at six tomorrow."
"Sure Spike it's a better time for them any how.
"What has Angel got himself in too" said, Harmony.
Gunn shrugs "I don't know but it must be something important for Spike and Wesley to be reading until dawn."
"Yea, Lets finish the stuff we have started and go over."
"Yea I'm up for that," then she turned and walked out.
It was forty-five minutes later that Gunn drove up to a black cast-iron gates, along with a white washed Spanish style home that look very ordinary, he pressed the button and the gate opened. He drove on the driveway that ran between manicured landscape with roses and assorted bulbs in full bloom, evergreens and the sent of jasmine greeted him.
Along with servants, quarters you could see the little apartment doors above and garages below, they drove up to the house by way of the front driveway. Gunn walked up, rang the bell when the door opened Wesley was standing there in his rumpled clothing from last night and said, "Gunn back up and go to the garage it will be open."
He drove around the side of the main house, then a door opened, he drove in, it closed, a light came on and Spike was standing there in a wine VanHeusen shirt and Black pair of tailored jeans. "Wow Spike you got new cloths, you look good enough to eat," said, Harmony.
"Yea, Angel and I went shopping a few days ago He said I had to look the part of an executive.
"Yea I would say you do."
Spike smiled "You real do?"
"Yea"
"Well in that case Harmony to work with you strait away."
"Yes sir."
Gunn just watched them thinking, "If I did know they were vampires and old friends I would think they were lovers as he shook his head.
Spike led the way down the hall to the main hall turned right and took first door on the left to his office. When Harmony saw the copier it was a HP office jet Pro l7580 copier/printer Which Angel had ordered for the company year after Buffy came down to Los Angeles. As she looked at it her mind, drifts back to that time and were she was working at that time "I was in the steno pool then."
He said, "What?"
She snapped back to the present change the subject, "Spike you pinched that printer and the computer from work!"
With great dignity he said, "No Harmony I signed for them. Angel asks what I needed here at home and that was some of the stuff I wanted."
She was in barest and thought it best to change the subject. "Where is the stuff you want copied?"
"It's the deep pile on the desk, when you're done with each folder stack them in the brief case."
"I want fifty copies of each folder."
"OK"
After finding out where Gunn was to bring the boxes to he removed his jacket and tie got the boxes and brought them in. Spike had left the room for a while when he returned he had cups of steamy liquid on a tray, "guys Wesley is taking the car and going to his place to clean up, after we finish our drinks, I will be sleeping if you need anything."
"OK Thanks Spike." Later Spike walked out of the room the house was quiet except for the sound of the copier time flies when you're busy.
Spike had slipped down stairs after giving Harmony her task, it was nearly five hours later that the copies where made and stacked on the table in the office with two boxes of file folders, and a three hole punch sitting on the a chair.
Spike, peeked in his office and saw Gunn and Harmony straitening stack of paper, them he slipped off toward the kitchen.
Harmony stopped what she was doing.
"What"
"I thought for a moment I caught Spike's sent."
"How?"
"We each have our own sent like the animals. God I'd die for a cup of blood right now."
"If you weren't already dead," with a nervous look, "Maybe you should see if Spike has a bag in his refrigerator."
"I'm fine I… Spike?"
He came in the room with a tray that had three cups on it "Thought you could use a break."
"You're a god-sent."
He sat the tray on the desk where the stack of files had been. As he and Gunn picked up cups Spike said, "I hope they weren't in too big a mess Harmony."
She got a cup and sipped before answering "Oh I need this."
The Gunn and Spike smiled at her purring over her cup of blood. "Well, how bad was it!"
Harmony stated "Not near as bad as some of the filing job Angel has given me."
"Glad to hear we didn't make too big of a mess for you, said Wesley who was standing at the door with a cup in his hand.
"There is sandwich stuff in the refrigerator help your self's" said Spike.
Spike when did you start eating human food?"
"Not sure, it was a few weeks after the big battle, just one night I got this craving for a rare London broil, first time in over a hundred years, that I wanted anything but blood."
"Spike, I heard this place has a Spa?"
"Yea she does Harmony?"
When were done could I use it?"
"Sure"
"Oh Goodie I brought my suit."
Spike just shook he head at Harmony.
Later that afternoon Spike, Wesley, Gunn were in the pool as Harmony came in from changing into her suit they whistled as if they were schoolboys.
"Why thank you," she said as she lad her robe on one of the lounge chairs the walked over and stepped in to the warm water.
"OH this feels so good."
Spike, Wesley, Gunn got out and slid in to the hot tub as they watched her swimming in the pool.
"Dam if she wasn't a vampire I wouldn't mind getting some of that."
She stop wiped her hair out of her eyes "I Heard that Gunn" then she started laughing at the look on Gunn's face she had gotten out of the pool then dived back in and went back to swimming later she got out and slipped into the hot tub.
The Guys started to laugh as Gunn started to sputter "Well she is nice to look at, Spike you know what I mean…"
"Yea she is nice in a lot of ways."
In the far chair, sunning himself was Garmon. An on a ledge that stretched the length of the upper set of windows were the Butterfly Dragons drinking in the suns light and warmth.
Spike, Wesley, Gunn heard "If she was a cat she would be impeccable."
They looked around and saw that Garmon had move to a chair closer to the cat door in the room. "You are a horny little bastard," said Spike.
"Every one needs a hobby."
While Gunn looked on, "He talks."
The cat said, "Yea so… You talk too!"
"He does at that mate."
"But how?"
"Is he one of the experiments from floor T?"
"That is where I found him but he was born with the ability to speak. I think they were trying to breed him with other cats to get more talking cats."
"Why would they do that?" said, Harmony.
"Spies, is my guess," said, Spike.
"Yea that could be know one thinks cats can talk they would be perfect for that purposes."
"So do you know where he came from?"
"Yea…"
Before Spike could answer the rest of the question Garmon vocally said, "I come from a small farm in Norwich at least it was where I was taken."
Harmony asked "Garmon do you know when you were taken and by who?"
"Yes Harmony I figure it was about four years ago that it happened."
"So he has been in the lab all that time."
"Yea, until I started poking around down in Vault V and hearing all the yelling and racket from floor T. The Tec's were glad to get him off there hand along with his partners in crime and since I was a new boss…"
"Were there more of them?
"No just one talking cat and his two friends the Butterfly Dragons."
"Where are they?"
"If you look to the upper windows you will see them sunning themselves."
She looked and saw the iridescent lumps laying on the ledge with two that looked bigger that the rest. She sat in the hot tub watching the Butterfly Dragons. She had her chin on the side hoping that one would get up but none did.
She got tired of waiting so she got out, drying off and was putting on a robe, when one of them stood up, stretched and jumped off the ledge and landed on her shoulder.
"You are a vampire, like Spike," someone said, she stood very still.
"Yes, I am.
"She likes you.
Harmony looked around and saw the cat looking at her "Yea well… Guys! I could use some Help."
They looked at Harmony, Gunn asks, "What is that on her shoulder?"
"Garmon you and Ana didn't need to scar her."
The cat was sitting on his butt when he answered, "Maybe not but she isn't batting at Ana like Wesley was at Tamon, Bram and Conn now is she."
"No, in fact Harmony is the first person she has landed on."
"Spike who are you talking too?"
Gunn was already out of the spa and drying off, when he heard a voice, in shock and thinking he was hearing things, slowly putting on the same type of terry robe as Harmony had dawned.
"Spike looked at Gunn then at Garmon "He can hear you?"
"Not all humans hear me automatically, but if you wish I will calm his fears."
"He is in my inner circle, yea, yea it could come in handy some time."
"As you wish, Mr. Gunn I am Garmon."
He looked at the cat a said, "No way, I thought you where kidding Spike, did all of you hear the cat speak?"
Harmony nodded then sat down with Ana still on her shoulder; Ana wobbled a little as she did.
She looked at Garmon, he said, "This means she has chosen you."
She knew what they where, "I knew they were in the lab I visit floor T many times and would bring them treats."
"Like what, Harmony."
"I would bring cat food or I would take dinner down for the lab Tec's we would share it with them. Then all the bad stuff happened about two years ago and they disappeared.
"I remember her bringing us treats, you were very sweet to us."
With a little bit of sadness in her voice she said, "Yes, I thought all of you had been moved to a different lab but I'm glad to see you're alright, at that time there were only the three of you."
"Yes there were and now there are many."
He had jumped off the chair and came over to her she scratched his head and said softly to him "Many dragons but only one of you."
He looked at her then said, "It's not the time for me to be with my kind but I have found a mate and we have kittens.
They heard a meow and seven faces looking at them thought the glass patio door.
"Margo Come in it is safe," he said, to the large Main Coon that looked at them thought the glass door, she disappeared and the little ones with her. A few moments later, the cats came in the poolroom though a cat door, Garmon introduced Margo.
Margo these are friends Wesley and Spike you have met, the female is Harmony, the male is Gunn."
"Is it time for the gathering?"
"NO Margo tomorrow, is the gathering."
"OH."
"The Gathering"
"That is what you have been preparing for, it comes about the time the warrior does evil things to man. I was very little when I saw it happen the first time all were worried about one in the clan.
He came from a noble family was cursed to become a monster the thing that would cure him was the blood of a royal. The tiger in lambs wool had to love him for it was her light that would bring him back.
I believe you called it being a real boy.
"Yea"
Any way many loved him and each fell at his feet the line of death was monstrous. There were two dark hair female warriors sister of the sword each was from a distant line related to the warrior, both had feelings for him both would die for him if the needed arose. The warrior roams the countryside always to return to the castle to the falls, he meets one of the dark haired as he is washing the fur and blood off.
He said. "Run for I am cures to be a monster, run save your self."
She said, "I have fallowed you and seen you as you are, in human form and in all your demon forms. I still love you. You will not be rid of me that easily for my love goes beyond death."
He belevie she loved him but on the next moon rise he bit her and in doing so drank her blood. She die as he became sick, he rolled on the ground the next night a light comes to him, when it is gone she is cradling his head as he cried out to her in pure agony.
What he didn't know was that she had die long before and God chose her to complete the task of his transformation.
"Spike what is he talking about?"
He looked at the other guys then at Wesley, Wes said, "You might as well tell him."
"Tell us What!"
"You understand that what I'm about to tell you is top secret and if you say anything about it I will have to kill you."
"Yea, So"
"Wesley and I have been going thought all the old records down in Vault V.
"Yes So."
"After last night everything clicked it came together, insane conclusion Angel might be the one in Garmon's story."
"What makes you think that?"
"Gunn he has been acting strange for weeks. Harmony had fallowed him I had another investigator follow him both lost him in the same area of the Bucket of Blood.
I put a tracker on the cars Angel likes to drive we were able to fallow the car. After we got his normal route plugged in, I plugged in the stats for where the women where found, in the computer in the center was the bar. We checked all the cars and found blood in two that matched the last three victom.
Wesley jumped in at that point, "Last night we almost saw him kill the last victim, he killed her almost in front of us Gunn."
"Wow home boy must really be tripping"
"We thought that would be the high-light of our night, until we walked Detective Appletree to her car," said, Spike
"Who is she?"
Wes stated, "She is a new detective from DC. She works with Riley Finn; there is a mystery about her she knew what Spike was."
"Yea her smile gave me the willies I felt like she walked over my grave with a fuckin long stake. The thought give me the shakes."
"Her smile was full of almost evil."
"What do you mean; I thought she was very nice."
"What did you see Harmony?"
"Soft, sweet werewolf person, what did you see?"
Then Wes and Spike looked at each other then Wes says, "We saw a human but we got this feeling she was more than she seamed."
"I'm going to change" she walked toward the door then stopped turned back "Garmon, how do I get Ana off me so I can change"
"Just ask her to go to the bird perch while you change she does understand American English."
"OH OK."
The guys have watched her turn back to the door with Ana bobbing on her shoulder, then leave the room.
"Garmon will this happen with the rest of the Butterfly Dragons?"
Stretching then rolling on his side with his paws in the air, at the question he looked at him and said, "Yes as the time of the new Vampire King approaches they will choose life companion."
Wes asks "What about you and your kind?"
"I have chosen, I chose to stay with Spike and his mate. "
"Cat I have no mate!"
"That you know of; at the present time but I feel her in the quiet hours of the morning her heart beat is in this house as if she is already living here, her heart beats for two."
"That is strange."
"Yes I know but that is what I see and feel."
"The Clem will be here soon we should get dressed."
"Yea, we better."
"It was an hour later while Gunn and Harmony were preparing to leave to take the master files to the car; Harmony had filled the empty boxes and took the first box out to the car.
Out in the garage she opened the trunk and put them in; she heard a sound coming from a top shelf. She crept over and saw there was two cans of paint laying on their sides in the colors of red and white they were dripping down the leg of the work bench as she got closer she saw two creatures flopping around on the floor covered in paint. "What are you getting…?"
The door was open she yelled for Spike "Spike There is something in you're garage"
"We are in trouble now."
He came out and walked over to her, and saw what she was looking at "I told you two to stay out of the paint. Do you listen No! He pointed at a six-pack of paper towel "Harmony gets that roll of paper towels."
Looking around she found the roll of paper towels as he continues to talk.
"You boys are lucky that paint washes off with soap and water."
"Who are they?"
"Ana's brothers the one that is red is Bran the other one is his partner in crime Conn, when they are clean they are rather striking." Spike got and empty can and using the paper towels picked up the two dragons then head to the laundry room. Put the can on its side as the dragons came tumbling out, he ran warm water in the deep sink then put the plug in the dragons stood under the water as he and Harmony watched their act like it was a waterfall.
Gunn came in "What's up."
"Wow are they what was on basement level T, I heard they drove all but Rosemary off the floor."
"Yea, I saved them, I linked up with Margie and her staff from other floors saved what they could, one thing was the moving of the archives to another place. At that, time there was just the three of them.
"Yes, there was then but the dragons felt safe they mated and you see the results, we all live here with Spike now."
Gunn looked sitting in the door was Garmon.
"I see they got into the paint again.
"Yea I think they do it on purpose.""
Garmon stopped licked a section of his fur then said, "Yes thoughts two have been that way seen they were hatched."
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