Lost. Confusion swallows. Left to fall ever deeper into the darkness.

Been a while. I've been writing and rewriting this chapter over and over again until suddenly I got this excellent idea that-Wait. I should really not spoil it… Right, so anyway I hope it's good and makes sense and whatnot.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series nor do I own the characters from the series, but I do however own a few characters like Sam, Buffy's old watcher.

Chapter 14:

"Rupert, do you really think that that's the case?" Jenny asked her husband who was sifting through a pile of books and paper.

"I really do. Think about it. Do you really think that Angelus wouldn't have done anything to her, that she'd tell us to leave without her, plus the fact that she hasn't yet returned."

"Then why did you leave if you suspected this? I thought you thought she was fine."

"All my books are here and I'd like to find a way to save her if possible before dragging the council into this." Giles sighed. "Perhaps we should do that spell."

"Would it even work? Sunnydale is completely overrun by demons, plus it's not a vengeance spell so my clan would really disapprove." Jenny knew that it would be smart and was, in fact, a good plan, but she still wondered if it would work and if it did, what good it would do.

"It has to work, we have to be sure."

"But Rupert, even if it does work, what good will it do? If Buffy really is a vampire, then isn't it too late to save her?"

"No, it's not too late. It's never too late." Giles had a look of determination on his face. "I have a theory, but I need to consult the previous watcher diaries to be sure. If I'm correct about it, then the longer we wait, the more the chance of getting Buffy back decreases."

Spike was laying on the sofa reading the newest Vamp World newspaper. He sighed after a few moments and threw it to the ground. Angelus had been in his room for quite some time now. The night Buffy brought him back he was barely conscious. She said that there was something wrong with him, like he was poisoned or something. Spike really didn't care. All that meant was the ladies of the house were once again in a state of depression as they waited for him to recover. Dru kept saying that he had sunshine in his noggin, whatever that meant.

"Buffy." Spike looked up at her as she entered the room.

"Hey, Spike. I kind of want to get some fresh air, maybe catch someone for Angelus… Would you mind coming with me?" She asked it like she was sure she'd be rejected and would have to go out all on her own.

"'Course I'll go with you, love. Can't have you wandering the streets alone with those commandos out there."

"Thanks." They headed out. Buffy wearing tight black leather pants and a black tang top and Spike, wearing his usual duster with a red shirt underneath and dark navy blue jeans.

They wandered through the streets for a while, enjoying the night air. Buffy stopped suddenly.

"Spike, what would you do if something bad happened to Drusilla and it was your fault?"

"Buffy, Angelus getting captured was not your fault. If you keep blaming yourself, then you'll just end up-"

"Stop. Can't we pretend for a moment that I'm not talking about Angelus? Just tell me, what would you do?"

"Fine. If something happened to Dru because of me I think that I would-" Spike stopped and looked around as if he heard something. "Do you hear that?"

"No, I don't hear anything. If you don't want to tell me then fine." Buffy said with a grimace and turned to walk away. Spike grabbed her by the arm, trying to get her to stay.

"I'm sorry, I just could have sworn that I heard something." At that moment a huge van skidded to a stop next to them and a few people jumped out with crosses. Spike hissed and jumped back, while Buffy, having crosses not affect her, looked around in confusion and was soon pulled into the van.

She was confused as they zoomed off. "You Ok?" A guy with spiked orange hair asked.

"Yeah, I was fine before as well. Now if you don't mind just bringing back to where I was then we can just go our separate ways and pretend that you didn't just kidnap me."

"Kidnap? No, we were saving you." A black-haired girl next to him said. "Sorry to break it to you, but that guy you were with back there was a vampire."

"Yeah." Buffy said as if she thought they were daft. "Was and still is, now if you don't mind-"

"I think she's under his thrall." The spiky-head said to someone in the front.

"I'm not under anyone's thrall! That's so rude that you'd even say that! Spike's just a friend."

"A friend? He's the living dead. Haven't you seen any of the movies? They kill people!"

"Well duh, what else are they going to eat?" Buffy decided against saying we instead of they because these people obviously had something against vampires.

"Definitely under his thrall. What's your name blondie?" The person driving turned back to look at her and asked. She had dark brown hair and quite a bit of makeup. It was a good look. She really had it going for her.

"Buf-…Um… Elizabeth." She fibbed afraid that they'd recognize her name from somewhere. "But I go by Bethy."

"I'm Faith." The brunette said. "How long have you been seeing that vampire?"

"Seeing?" Buffy asked in disbelief. "You mean like dating? Spike and I do not date. We happen to live together, but that's just because they travel a lot."

"They?"

"Yeah, Spike, Angelu- (cough) Angel and Drusilla."

"And these others, Angel and Drusilla, they're not vampires too are they?"

Buffy gulped, not liking being asked so many questions. "Perhaps." Faith raised an eyebrow, but kept looking at the road.

"I should really go. I mean if I'm out too late then Angel will start to worry." Buffy thought about it for a moment. "He'd probably get mad at Spike. He does that some times. Perhaps I shouldn't have asked Spike to walk with me…" Buffy didn't even notice as spiky-head put a cross to her arm because she was too deep in thought.

"You asked the vampire to go out and walk with you?"

"Well yeah, I would have asked Angel, but he's not feeling too well, hasn't left his room in a few days."

"So you're just living with these vampires and they don't bite you?"

Buffy thought about the question. Angelus did bite her quite a few times, but should she tell them that? Hm… Maybe she shouldn't. Perhaps she should make a run for it. It was going to be sunny eventually and sooner or later if she stayed with these people they'd figure out that she wasn't quite as human as she seemed. Wait, did she seem human to them. What makes someone seem human? She had arms, legs and a head. Looked just as human as they did. Sure there was the problem of sunlight and blood. Wait, was that the thing that differentiated humans from vampires? Possibly..

"Um, Bethy?" Spiky-head asked, waving his hand in front of her face.

"Huh?" She asked. "Oh sorry, I zoned out. What was the question again?"

"Oh, we're here." Faith said.

"Really? Well, it was nice taking this little drive with you, but I really must be going." Buffy got up and started moving to the door, but spiky-head grabbed her arm. What was with that tonight? Everyone wanted to grab her arms to stop her, did they look fat or something?

"Wait, you should at least stay until morning." He said, looking at her with concern displayed in his eyes.

Faith opened the side to the van, standing in Buffy's path to freedom. "Until we find out what those vampires did to you, you aren't going anywhere." Buffy sighed, She'd just sneak out later. The reason why she didn't just fight them was because she was sensing something from Faith. Something that felt familiar and strong.

Buffy grumbled as she was lead into what seemed to be a high school. They entered a library and someone walked out of a little office behind the desk. He was wearing glasses and was looking very intently at a very old book that he was holding. Buffy smiled to herself when she realized how much he reminded her of Giles. She hoped that he was alright.

"Hey Wes, look what we brought back." Faith said, flicking her head towards Buffy. Wes looked up from his book and at her.

"She's not a vampire, is she?"

"Well, crosses don't bother her in the slightest."

"Oh! Oh, oh, oh!" Buffy said, gleefully. "I get it now! You're a slayer and he's your watcher!" They both stared at her with a questioning look in their eyes. "Did I get it wrong? Darn, I was so sure, too."

"No, you're right, but how did you know?" Wes asked.

"She probably heard about us from her vampire friends." Faith said, looking at Buffy like she was some defective toy. "Oz, you should go out and look for any more people in distress." The spiky-head nodded and four of the others in the room left with him.

"Vampire friends? What's this now?" Faith's watcher asked.

"Turns out she lives with some vampires."

"Some? You make it sound like I live with a whole bunch of them. I don't, just three."

"Well, this is very curious, I should look some things up."

"You lost her?!" Spike gasped as he was thrown to the other side of the room.

" 'Didn't bloody mean to." Spike growled.

"Well you did! What were you thinking, just letting people grab her and drive away?" Angelus stood over Spike, obviously feeling better.

"It happened too quickly for me to react, I'm sure she's fine." The younger vampire grumbled.

"Did you forget, Spike, my boy? There's another slayer in this town. It said so in your newspaper." Angelus said, picking Spike up and holding him against the wall by his neck.

"I'm sure Buffy's fine."

"You don't get it, do you? Buffy's a unique case, being around another slayer might bring back memories for her and as far as we know she could come after us. If anything happens to her, I'll hold you responsible for it." With that Angelus let Spike fall to the ground and went out to find Buffy.

He hoped that he could get to her and get those people away from her before they found out what she was or convinced her to fight vampires. He began searching the streets. There were tons of vampires out, which was normal for Sunnydale, although Angelus thought that this other slayer would have decreased their numbers to some extent. As he continued looking he saw the two vampires that had originally taken Buffy and himself to the master. The red-head, Willow looked rather pouty. Perhaps they knew something about the young vampire's whereabouts.

He approached them. "Willow, Xander, have you seen Buffy recently?" He asked.

"The slayer vamp? No." Xander replied.

"Xander, that was no fun." Willow complained.

"Yes, I know. We'll get her back and then we'll teach them to take prey from us." Figuring that they were just talking about some other vampire stealing their evening meal Angelus turned to continue his search.

Buffy sat on a round table waiting for Faith and Wesley to finish talking. She was bored. She began fiddling with a pencil that was next to her and then chucked it at the wall. She hit a little pencil mark that she had been aiming for. "Yes!" She shouted a bit louder than she had meant to. The pencil was stuck in the wall due to the force that she threw it with. She was just as skilled as ever if not more so.

Faith walked out of the little office followed by her watcher after a few moments. "We'd like you to stay with us for a few days." Wesley said.

"Seriously?" Buffy asked. "Cause you know, I have plans. Places to be, things to do…"

Oz entered the library with the black haired girl he had been sitting next to in the van and another girl who looked like she could be attractive if she didn't have such a look of confusion and anger.

"Buffy!" The girl cried, her eyes showing her relief. "Thank goodness, Buffy!" She ran up to Buffy. "You have no idea how happy I am to see you. Gosh, did I just say that?" The last part seemed to be only for herself.

"You know this girl?" Faith asked the newest person.

"Well, yeah. She is the slayer."

"You mean the vampire slayer?"

"No, I mean the broccoli slayer, of course I mean the vampire slayer!"

"Cordelia, did you bump your head or something?"

"No! This is Buffy! Oz, you know her, right?" She asked, looking desperately around the room for someone to know what she was talking about.

"I've never seen her before today." Spiky-head admitted.

"Sorry, Cordeleeny, but I have no clue who you are or what you're talking about." Buffy said with a scowl. This girl was getting majorly annoying.

"Vampires!" Someone from in the front of the school yelled. Faith and Wesley ran into what appeared to be a big cage to grab some weapons. Buffy, thinking that they had found her out thanks to this Cordelia, quickly kicked the door closed, locking them inside it. Oz had ran to the front of the school to help his comrade as soon as she had sounded the alarm and had not seem the slayer and her watcher getting locked up.

"What are you doing?!" Faith yelled at Buffy.

"Escaping." Buffy said, then without a moments hesitation ran out through the back of the school and out into the night. She stumbled through bushes as she headed back to the place that they were staying at. After she arrived she quickly closed the door and looked around. She didn't see anyone in the main room…

"Buffy!" She heard Spike's voice. "Thank goodness you're alright!" He came out of his room and embraced her in a hug.

"Yeah, I gave them the slip. Where's Angelus?" She asked, looking around.

"He uh went out to search for you."

"He did? Again? Ouch." She hoped that the outcome of his search this time would not closely resemble the ones from last time. "I should go out and look for him."

"You sure?" Spike asked, alarmed.

"Yeah, I'll be back soon. If he comes back before me tell him that I'm fine and will be back before dawn so he doesn't go out again. That would just be pointless otherwise."

"Sure. Just look out for yourself."

Buffy smiled at Spike. "I will." With that she went out for the second time that night. This time searching for her sire. She hoped that she'd find him before anything bad happened to him.

End of chapter 14

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