Chapter 21
Spike picked Tara up as Buffy continued to dress in the clothes he’d picked out for her.
“Shh now my bitty one, daddy’s here and he’s not going to let nasty old Angel have you or mummy. I know he’ll be cruel and calling you my precious, but daddy's not letting you or mummy go anywhere.”
“Spike, what are you talking about? I’m not going to Angel and nor is Tara. I love you honey and even if you do annoy me sometimes, I’d never run back to Angel. You’re my mate not him.”
Buffy’s teasing smile left her face again when she scratched at her mating mark again. Why it was burning now, she couldn’t understand.
“Spike, why is my mating mark burning like hell and what’s up with Tara? Does she need to be changed or something?”
Spike took Tara over to the changing unit and quickly changed her diaper for a clean one. Next he dressed her in a pretty pink dress and jacket “Buffy your mark is bloody burning because my pillock of a grand sire is calling all the higher females in the clan. You, Beatrice, Drusilla and I think Tara too. Though I’m not so sure about Tara yet, could be that she was just wet and I think she needs some blood now too. Please, pass me one of those bids can you?”
Spike had bitten his wrist and offered it to the screaming infant but she was refusing the meal and started screaming even louder.
“Okay, so you’re not hungry. Then the poof is calling you too, the wanker he is. I’ll fuckin’ stake him myself when I get hold of him! Bastard. Kitten, are you finished? We need to go downstairs, I can hear Drusilla having a blue fit too and she is not as strong as you and Beatrice to ignore Angel’s call”
Taking Tara from Spike, Buffy lent up on her tiptoes and kissed Spikes forehead.
“Yep, I’m ready, let’s go and face the music, shall we?” *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Upon hearing their newest task that Angel wanted them to carry out, Wesley was looking at Angel in disbelief.
“You want us to get rid of another body? Angel, couldn’t you just eat bagged stuff while we’re in London? Or we could go to the London offices. I hear they have a supply of volunteers that you can feed from as long as you don’t completely drain them.”
Wesley wasn’t at all comfortable with Angel’s behaviour of late. He needed to get to the new council offices and talk to Giles or maybe phone him. Maybe he would be willing to share information about this situation that could shed some light in Angel’s behaviour and he could help Buffy and her family, because he was starting to think that he was fighting on the wrong side this time. Perhaps he’d get away and do one or the other now, if he did take the dead girl’s body away for disposal.
“Right, I’ll get rid of this one and you and Gunn can go back to the Summer’s house to talk to Buffy and Spike.”
Angel was pissed off. How dare Wesley question him? He’d eat whom he wanted to and if he wanted fresh meat, then he’d have it, no matter what anyone said; My God he was once a quarter of the Scourge of Europe. No one had ever even dared to tell him what to do back in those days.
“Wesley, do as you’re told and get rid of that and stop questioning me if you know what is good for you. Gunn and I will go to see that bitch Buffy and my soddin’ grand childe and when I come back this time, I’ll have my queen and her mother with me, so make sure the plane is ready to leave!”
Pulling on his jacket Angel stormed out of the room with a worried Gunn following behind him.
“Come on, I haven’t got all day!” Angel could be heard shouting as he waited for the lift to arrive.
As soon as his boss was out of earshot, Wesley went over to the phone and dialled the number for the council.
“Could I speak to Rupert Giles please? It’s about a very important matter. My name is Wesley Windham-Pryce and it’s very urgent that I speak to him now, so please hurry.”
Waiting for his call to be transferred, Wesley started to wrap the body on the bed in the sheet and blanket. Maybe he could leave her at a morgue instead of sinking her. Angel wouldn’t know either way.
“Rupert is that you? Thank goodness. I think Angel’s really gone off the rails this time; I need to see you now. Is their some way to get to the house without coming via the normal way, i.e. through a sewer access or something? I can’t let Angel see me. You are asking me why? Because if he does, I’m history, that’s why. Okay I’ll be there in 30 minutes. I need to go to a morgue first and drop off Angel latest meal…Yes you did hear me right, his latest meal…. Bye, see you soon.”
Arranging the body so it looked like she was just sleeping Wesley picked her up and went to get rid of her. He had a meeting with Giles in 25 minutes. Willow was going to lift the barrier for exactly 30 seconds and that would be the only time to gain access through the sewers to the house.
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“Drusilla, shut the fuckin’ hell up!”
Spike shouted at his sire the minute Buffy and he walked through the door. He’d heard her up in his and Buffy’s room but down here, it was an ear spilt scream he had to contend with, well he didn’t want to, so she was going to shut the fuck up.
“Spike, daddy’s calling me and these nasty watchers won’t let me go to him. He needs me, Spike please tell them he needs Miss Edith and me now!”
Drusilla was clawing at Spike’s sides, begging him to let her go to Angel. Knowing that she wouldn’t be able to resist the calling for much longer he grabbed her firmly by the arm.
“Tell you what pet, how about you and me play a game. You like our games don’t you?”
Sucking air through his teeth and looking at her seductively with his scared eyebrow raised into an arch, making him look completely irresistible to both his sire and Buffy his mate.
‘Spike don’t you dare! I’m warning you, you dare screw that ho bag and you’re in big trouble mister!’ Buffy never spoke a word but used the bond to convey her thoughts to her lover.
‘As if I would, you should know better. I just need to get her chained up. She’s a danger to everyone at the moment like this. I love you kitten and no other.’
Buffy nodded then started to speak to Giles, as Spike dragged his sire to the basement. Giles was hovering beside Willow who had different maps laid out in front of her and some herbs.
“What’s going on? Why is Willow doing a locator spell?”
“She’s trying to find Oz. We believe he is needed to help us with our Angel/Angelus problem.”
“What are you on about Angel/Angelus problem? Has Angel lost his soul again?”
Faith chose that moment to come back to the assembled group after finishing her rounds.
“Hey B, thought you knew Angel had lost his soul again. Couldn’t you feel it when he was here? His tingles were way more intense that they normally are. I could feel him before we even got in the street and a couple of the younger ones could too.”
Buffy looked at her sister slayer; sure she could feel Angel, but not that he was soulless again.
“Giles what’s going on? How come Faith could tell Angel was soulless and I couldn’t?”
Giles looked at his Slayers. Both his through choice, Buffy because of his love for her like she was his own daughter and Faith because he’d not assigned her to a new watcher knowing her to be too strong willed to listen to anyone but him and what he would tell her. Although even listening to him was rare, but he had earned her respect in the time they fought against the first evil.
“I’m not sure Buffy, but it could be because Faith hasn’t spent the last 9 months in the constant companionship of a vampire. You are also mated to a member of the Aurelian clan where as she is not. You also have been carrying a half vampire child; it could be anyone of these things.”
Suddenly the hollering of Willow interrupted the talk Giles was having with the two slayers.
“I FOUND HIM, Giles. I found him and he isn’t that far. He is near Stonehenge and not all that far away from there as well. I could try teleporting to him if you want and then back again. I should be an easy teleporting spell considering that Stonehenge is a magical doorway.”
Looking at his watch and contemplating the time the teleporting spell would need, Giles shook his head.
“No, we need to go to the basement sewer entrance and lift the barrier for Wesley and then you can go and get Oz, but it might be better if you took Xander with you in one of the cars. We’ll ask Spike if you can use his as yours is still in the garage. I’m sure he’ll agree this once.”
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Down in the basement Spike was still trying to get Drusilla to put her arms up into the shackles so he could secure her and make sure she didn’t cause any harm to the others.
“Come on pet, be a good girl and I’ll give you a nice treat. You know how good I’m at those nice treats.”
He ran his hand up Drusilla’s thigh, hoping she would think he was going to play their nasty games and summit into letting him chain her up.
“Oh Spike, will you really play our game? Are you sure the sunshine won’t be angry that my dark prince played with his princess?”
Drusilla excitedly gave her wrist to Spike to place in the clamp of the shackle.
“Don’t I need to take my dress off? Although it is a very pretty dress. The little tree gave it to me to wear. It’s not as nice as my own, but pretty.”
Spike took Drusilla’s other wrist and put that too in its bondage.
“No pet, it’s better if you’re dressed today. Tell you what, you stay here for a minute and I’ll be right back.”
Spike needed to get away from Drusilla. Her arousal-hung heavy in the air and it sicken him. He wanted to feel and taste his mate. He’d go find her and they could have a quick cuddle or something.
In the next room along from the den where Spike was chaining Drusilla up, Willow was reciting a small spell to allow Wesley’s entrance from the sewers. As soon as it was lifted there was a knocking and the cover was lifted, but it wasn’t Wesley that came through the drain, it was Clem.
“Buffy my girl, looking good, do you know how long I’ve been down there? About 2 hours. I knocked and tried my cell phone but couldn’t get a signal. Oh my, is that yours and Spike’s baby? Where is Spike? I had some hot wings for him, but the flight took so long and when I was stuck down there I couldn’t hold off my hunger, so I ate them.”
Clem the floppy skinned demon was so excited to see his friend that he almost forgot why he’d even travelled across the sea to pass on the message Willie the snitch had given to him in LA.
“Buffy where is Spike? I’ve got a message from Willie for the both of you about Angel.”
Buffy couldn’t believe it. Clem had crossed the ocean to carry a message to her and Spike personally and from Willie of all people.
“He’s in the next room chaining up his ho-bag sire, come on, I’ll take you to him.”
Just as she walking out into the corridor with Clem behind her, she ran straight into her mate.
“Just the person I was looking for pet. Clem, is that you? What the fuck are you doing here mate?”
“I’ve got a message for you and Buffy about your grand sire from Willie. Angel’s lost his soul again. The werewolf hunter Gib Cain killed his new lover and it seems that it pushed him over the edge, losing his soul in the process. Willie also sent this.”
Clem pulled out a small bag and passed it to Spike. Clem’s stomach started to grumble again and he hoped they had some food in the house.
Spike opened the bag and then saw what it contained. An Orb of Thesulah, which would be needed to give Angel his soul back.
“Red, I got a present for you from Willie the Snitch.”
Spike passed by Buffy, kissing the top of her head in the process and made his way in the direction of the room where he could hear Willow talking.
“Red? Did you hear me? I’ve got a present for you.”
Willow came through the door just as Spike was going to go in the room. Growling he grabbed hold of Wesley who was standing right behind the young witch.
“You little wanker, you better have a good reason for being here or my have to hurt you. Badly.”
Wesley stood his ground and looked deeply into the vampire’s eyes. He could see the concern for his mate and family and new that he made the right decision coming here to help them defeat Angel.
“It won’t do you any good if you hurt me, because I am here to help you and I may know the key to solve your problems.”
TBC….
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