Back inside Spike's apartment, Mana was sleeping when the Brit returned, still clad in only his shirt, her face crinkled in a look of torment. She whimpered pathetically as she tossed, a single tear escaping her closed eyes. He dropped the bags of blood on the floor, rushing at once to her side and gently shaking her, causing her to wake with a start and a blood curdling scream, gasping loudly and clutching at him as she realized where she was, and then she sobbed heavily against his chest for her family, her children and the man she once loved. She was alone now, how her heart ached for her girls... her family.
She sniffed then froze, and sniffed again this time though inhaling the scent on his clothes. A low grumbling growl emanated from her throat as she grasped the front of his sweater and inhaled deeply, narrowing her eyes up at him.
"Where have you been?" she demanded. That scent so familiar and yet at the same time different than the one she once knew so intimately and for so long.
Spike frowned some and shook his head some, "At the firm, you knew that love." he stroked her hair gently, pressing her head back to his chest. "What is it with you women today? accusing me of all sorts of things," he laughed softly. "First my sister and now you," he kissed her deeply and squeezed her a little.
Mana frowned some and clung tightly to him, "You don't have a sister.…"
He smiled lightly and lead her back towards the bedroom, if only to lay her down and curl up with her in his arms. "Not biological no, more of an adopted one, like a stray cat. Better than what she tried ta make me," he laughed. "And she's a wild little thing that Selene is..."
Slowly she trudged into the bedroom with him and collapsed into the bed with a sigh, instinctively rolling into him, her back pressed against the length of his front, her bottom pressed snuggly against his groin, with an inviting little wiggle and a playful giggle.
He grinned some, his hand placed lightly against her thigh, slowly sliding upwards, shucking up his sweater to expose the silken white expanse of her hip. He pressed himself against her backside lightly as his fingers trailed up her stomach to gently cup her breast as his lips moved to her shoulder. He inhaled the scent of her hair and sighed, murmuring softly, "Oh god I love you Mana…"
Suddenly Selene could be seen hovering outside their window with a silver stake in one hand, a baseball bat in the other, her eyes dark brown and wild as she busted through the window, the scent hitting her all at once, "You no good mother fucking English bastard!"
They both jumped out of the bed at the same time, the crashing startling Mana, the sound so like that of the windows in the cabin shattering from the heat of the fire. Her eyes rested on the glint of silver in the moonlight and instinct took over. She was in front of her lover, covering him from the crazed woman before them.
"You no good fanged manwhore!" Selene snarled, shoving the younger woman aside, "You fucking pedophile!"
A menacing growl pierced the air as she lunged at the woman, knocking her to the floor with a hiss. "Touch him and you'll regret it bitch!" She took her by the shoulders and slammed her to the floor, throwing off Spike's attempts to pull her away.
Selene snarled, reaching up slashing the strange girl with her stake, "Get the hell off me you brat before I kill you!" she roared, easily throwing the girl off and into a wall, leaping at Spike driving her fangs hard into his neck, driving the silver stake into his shoulder again where she'd gotten him earlier with the wooden one, "You pedophile I should kill you here and now!"
Spike howled in pain as he thrashed at Selene, pushing at her, trying to dislodge her from his neck, but the ancient one was hanging on tight like a rabid animal all the while swearing at him and accusing him of the most heinous of crimes, "It's scum like you that I feed on every night!" she shrieked kicking him in the balls as she twisted the stake.
With a snarl Mana lunged again at the girl, her fingers laced in Selene's long ebony locks and wrenching her head back viciously as she hissed in her ear. "You stupid cunt I'm OLDER than him!" She jabbed her knee into the girl's spine, as well as landing a savage blow to the kidneys.
Selene let out a harsh shriek, turning around clocking the girl in the face with the baseball bat ripping her head forward so the hair tore out of her scalp causing an ungodly howl. The light of the moon shone over the fourteen year old looking vampire's face as her head was ripped back, her intense blue eyes sparkling with rage as her knee lashed out at the girl's middle.
The ancient one growled rolling just in time to use Spike as a shield against her attacker, smirking hissing to him, "I'll make you regret ever receiving the dark gift!" Her own eyes catching the moon for just the briefest moment before throwing him out the already broken window to the ground below.
Mana crumpled to the floor of the apartment as she watched her lover, her life, go through the window. The sound she released was one of pure despair as she curled into herself. "Why? .Why can't you leave us alone!" She sobbed, her mind seeming to be nearly broken. "Did he send you?" she looked up, her eyes fixating on the woman before her. "Did he find I still lived? I didn't burn with the others... now he has to finish the job?" she sobbed pathetically into her hands.
Panting hard Selene turned to her, "No he tried to stop me. That bastard started shit he knew he shouldn't have and now he's gonna pay for i-it," she started before going paler and doubling over, dumping a large mound of red bile on the floor groaning, "Spike die now…"
The younger woman moaned pitifully, calling out to those she lost, her mortal daughter Kara who lived no more than two years, her lover David, the baby who burned in her arms, sweet little Calli and of course she cried for Selene but she simple couldn't choke out the name, of all of them Selene's death was the hardest...and now Spike was taken from her by this psychopath.
Selene lightly stroked the girl's hair before leaping out the window landing on Spike's leg kicking him, "Get up you piece of shit."
Spike merely lay there, a broken mass on the ground, gasping painfully, grunting at the impact of her kick and the crushing force of her landing. "What is wrong with you woman!" he wailed.
"You were raping a damn child! On top of that damn trick with the smells, reading my diary and making me sick," she snarled grabbing his arm dragging him down the sidewalk. "You have ten minutes to explain why I shouldn't stake your ass to the ground in the park and wait for you to roast."
"Are you mad!? She isn't a child!" He grunted as he tried to push himself up and failed miserably. "I already told you I didn't do anything with smells making you sick or your diary! Christ! You must be mad! The only scent around me is her's!" he nodded towards the window he had recently plummeted from. "I'm sorry if I smell like Mana but it's rather hard not to when she shares my bed!"
At this Selene let out an ungodly snarl, twisting his arm hard, growling in his ear, "She's dead you prick!"
He screamed as he felt his shoulder starting to separate from it's socket, "I'm not exactly a prime example of a living being either!"
"She burned to death in Death Valley!" she screamed, twisting harder listening for the sweet sound of shattering bone.
He shrieked, "I don't know who you're talking about!" he cried his eyes glazing over, but he was able to see his sweet, beautiful, Mana edging around the door way of the building, her face showing her fear plainly, and her eyes fixating on the woman's back.