Flashbacks.

Pre-chapter 1

Spike was mad. How dare Angel act so high and mighty? That bastard was far worse than he was, Angelus was the monster. The younger vampire left Wolfram&Hart after a heated argument with Angel, hell he couldn't remember what it was about but it was bad. Angel was screaming and if it was possible his face turned bright red, normal Spike would be afraid of Angel's head exploding but he didn't care, he was yelling just as loud that poof.

Drinking a bottle, Spike walked down an alley waiting for something to kill, he would have settled for pounding Angel's skull in but the elder vampire would eventually win, plus Spike didn't want to get an ear full from Fred about how he and Angel should be nice since they work together. He liked Fred, Fred was the only one of Angel's gang that was nice to him.

During his self pity walk Spike failed to see the human lurking behind him trailed behind the vampire, hands in his jacket pocket hold a clear crystal. He brought the crystal out and a glamour covered him, instead of a man a large black demon stomped behind him, to large horns curled form the top of his hand and a spiked tail thumped the ground behind him getting the vamp's attention.

Spike turned back around, to see the demon and eminently went into his game face. Normal Spike would be an excellent aversely, if he wasn't completely trash as he was, so with a swing of its tail Spike ended up making a dent in the brick wall behind them. The glamour disappeared as soon as the demon was sure Spike was K..

"Well that was easy. I though you said he was a good fighter?"

"My Spikey is...that awful slayer really did break my toy." Dru pouted walking past the demon and up to her spikey.

"He'll be fine, just remember you're part of the plan." He snapped throwing a light blue crystal at the vampire.

"I will." She sang, picking up her boy.

End of Flashback.

Angle looked down at the scene, if it wasn't for his child's scent hidden underneath the heavy stench of blood. The police were saying it was over kill, that didn't begin to describe, the woman was drained slowly in painfully that was if Spike drank and that was a big 'If'. Angelus drilled it into William's mind to never leave a meal unfinished.

Buffy walked around the crime scene while Angel sat on some roof top. Angel's guys were saying that Spike couldn't have done this and if he did it then there was more to it. But she knew there wasn't Spike lost his soul he was evil now and she had to slay him, it was her job. The woman was over kill, no doubt about it. Spike tore her to piece and he probably enjoyed it, the male whoever was a different story, he was just feed from besides the fractured skull and dislocated shoulder Spike didn't tortured him.

Back at Wolfram&Hart, the others were trying to identified the crystal.

"I found it!" Fred cried, the group rusted over to the Texan trying to look over her shoulder. "The Phobetot Crystal."

"Phobetor was the Greek god of nightmares." Wes stated

"He was said to have the ability to transform into animals, he was the personification of nightmares appearing in dreams as monsters or animals." Giles added.

"So what's this got to do with Spike?" Xander asked.

"This crystal possesses the fears of people and projects them into their dreams. Since Spike was a child it was easy for the crystal to territories him, even if he was sleeping rooms away." Fred explained.

"So why would someone want to give a vampire kid nightmares?" Dawn asked.

"Someone who wanted us to think Spike was losing his mind, so we'd age him back." Gunn concluded. "We have to call Angel."

"I'm on it." Wes volunteered.

"This is bad very very bad." Zachariah cursed passing around the living area of Dru's lair. "They are figuring it out."

"What are we to do?" Dru whimpered. "Spikey hasn't returned."

"Get your priorities straight!" Zachariah snapped his accent getting heavy with annoyance. "I swear if I didn't need you I'd kill you right now."

"My spike, my baby, my dark prince." She chanted holding herself.

"Bloody useless." Zachariah muttered, "We'll just have to speed up are plans." he stated simply, grabbing his phone from his jacket pocket. Pressing speed dilled, Zachariah waited patiently for the other end to pick up. "Yeah it's me...change of plans, said the Wolf. Yes I know about the plan. It's now or never so send the bloody Wolf."

"Can't work with anyone."

Sorry for the delay, but my compute got infected with a virus a little while ago so it deleted everything from my lap top...so the stuff for my book is taking priority over my fan fics. I apologize and I will work to either getting short chapters every other week or longer chapters every once in a while.

P.S Zachariah is being played by Mark Sheppard if you don't know who he his...look him up and watch some of his episodes. Cause the dude is an awesome bad guy.