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Ashley, Amelia-Jane, Sharon, thank you so, so much!! ;)
See? This time I’ve been fast! ;)


Changes And Discoveries (II)

“I know that I would still love you even if one day you turned very evil again, but there’s no need for me to be evil, too. I don’t want to,” Buffy concluded.

“Hey, pet, listen to me, you are not evil and you won’t ever be. You are surrounded by people who love you and who you love. Dawn, Rupert, all your friends. EB was alone and abandoned by everyone since the beginning, so she was already full of hatred and anger, but you are not evil...” Spike reassured her. “And mostly you are not the only one who fed tonight...” he added, immediately after.

Buffy’s eyes went wide.

“Do you mean that...”

“Exactly. EB persuaded me to kill a girl and I almost did, but something stopped me...” he informed her.

“What?” she asked curious.

“That’s the bloody point, I don’t know. Something told me that it wasn’t right. No matter how many times I did it in my darker past, this time I couldn’t kill her, I didn’t want to, so I stopped drinking before it was too late. EB killed her good and proper anyway,” he concluded with a kinda evil smile.

“Oh, Spike, it’s almost as if you had a...” she trailed.

“A remorse. Yeah, pet, I’m afraid so, too. I don’t know what happened to me, but I’m gonna find out...” he declared.

“How?”

“It’s simple, sunshine, as soon as the sun sets, we’ll go to Sunnyhell again and ask Rupert number Two if he knows something, and I’m sure he does...” he explained and she nodded.

Hearing the other two blondes in the other room start making love, they figured out that also ES and EB had talked and cleared things.

“Uhmm, what if we followed their example, my …?” she proposed allusively and Spike didn’t even give her the finish her question, because he smashed her on the bed and crawled upon her, ready to get rid of her clothes as fast as he could with a feral growl.

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SUNNYDALE

They didn’t waste any time and in two days they had already reached their destination, getting into the school again.

“Hi, Rupert, put the bloody crossbow down, because we are the less evil version once again, buddy!” Spike warned him, showing up in the library with his Childe.

“You know what? I’m not surprised at all to see you there. Actually I ... uh ... was expecting you...” the Watcher informed them, crossing his arms.

“Really?” the two vampires exclaimed at unison, with the same amazement.

“To be honest, I don’t think you did, Watcher. Something very odd happened. I’m acting almost as if I had a soul...” Spike trailed.

“And I’m acting as if I had no soul anymore...” Buffy concluded, but Giles stood impassable.

“And you want to know why, don’t you?” he wondered rhetorically, astonishing them once more.

In fact they just confined themselves to nod, without uttering a single word.

“I have done some research after you first visit here and I found out something very interesting about a Master Vampire who turned a Slayer...” he started explaining. “You already know that it takes a willing Slayer, otherwise both the Slayer and the Vampire die during the Siring...” he said, but the two vampires’ eyes went wide.

“What?! Please, don’t tell me that in your world no one has found that out yet...” the Watcher said, even more astonished than his interlocutors.

“Actually, no one knew that. So, my pet, it just means that deep down you really wanted it, drunk or not...” Spike noted, turning to Buffy.

“Yeah, it seems so, it just took a while for me to realize it,” Buffy smiled at him, but Giles cleared his throat to regain their, since he wasn’t done with his speech yet.

“About the soul... it’s not a matter of what the Slayers desire, it’s all about what her Sire desires,” Giles informed them.

Buffy looked amazed at Spike.

“You wished I could keep my soul!”

“Yes, sunshine, I did,” he confirmed, caressing her hair.

“There are just three cases on the Watchers’ Diaries where a Master Vampire turned a Slayer. Well, four, if we count the latest addition by the William the Bloody of this world. Anyway, no one had cared about this so far, because generally every Master Vampire had wanted his Childe to lose their soul...”

“Rupert, let’s cut to the sodding chase!” Spike exhorted him roughly, since he surely wasn’t famous due to his patience.

“.Right. When a Master wishes that his Childe keeps her soul, not only the Slayer keeps it, but gradually the Master in question earns a part of it. It takes a while, sometimes days, sometimes years...” Giles explained.

Spike kept silent for a while, shocked by the news.

“Does it mean that now I have a soul, too?” he asked perplexed.

“You just have a part of her soul. The part that makes you feel guilty and sorry if you try to kill a human being, but that’s not strong enough to make you feel remorseful for what you did in your past or for what the other vampires around do...” the Watcher pointed out.

“That explains why you didn’t want to kill that girl, but also why the fact that EB killed her didn’t bother you, quite the contrary!” Buffy observed and then she reached another conclusion, gasping. “Wait a minute. Does that mean that... I am losing mine?” she got alarmed, bringing her hand to her mouth.

“No, Buffy, don’t worry. You still have enough soul to be good, but the missing part just gives more freedom to your demon. But it can’t overtake you...” Giles assured her.

“That’s why you’re not so squeamish anymore about the idea of drinking human blood, but you don’t want to kill any humans...” Spike figured out.

“Now, listen to me carefully, this is very important. Now you have two half souls that form one, and if you stay together your soul will become stronger and stronger, but if you two split and one of you kills the other... your soul will be lost forever and the survivor will turn into a cold emotionless killer and probably that’s what the First wants from you two. So, pay attention!” Giles warned them.

“Believe me, buddy, our soul couldn’t be safer, because * nothing * can tear us apart!” Spike stated, pulling Buffy to him roughly and kissing her fiercely, making the Watcher feel very awkward.

TBC

Let me warn you, the trouble will begin soon, since our dear vampires have had enough fun already…

Anyway, for a couple of chapters the action will move to (U1), I hope you won’t mind! ;)





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