A/N - little of Spike/Other in this chap and take heed of the title, violence abounds in this one
Five - Violence
A week had passed since they kissed, and Buffy hadn’t seen Spike once. She had been a busy vamp though. Knowing that she could defend herself from demons, the first thing Buffy did was find her own place; a nice little basement apartment just off main street. Nothing fancy, but it had a shower room, a kitchen and a bed, that was all she needed. Plus, she had a demon come by and ward it against entry. It worked like the vamp invite rule, only it was for humans. She was safe there if the soldiers did happen to find her, but she doubted they’d be looking in apartments.
The blonde vampire had even scoped out the hospital and worked out a deal with a doctor there. She gets the expired blood for free, and the hospital don’t have the cost of disposing it to deal with.
All in all, life was looking up for her, well, compared to how she was a week ago anyway.
Buffy missed Spike though. She looked for him when she patrolled, but he always managed to evade her.
Tonight was going to be different.. The Watcher had rang her new cell and told her there was going to be a meeting, and that she had to be there.
Meeting meant Slayer. Of course she was going.
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It had been a week since he had kissed her, and Spike hadn’t stopped thinking about Buffy once. They way she smelled, how soft her lips were, the feel of her body pressing into his. How well they seemed to fit against each other.
It was mental, he knew that. He couldn’t… he wouldn’t have another relationship with a vampire.
He may have loved Dru, but she taught him some harsh lessons and he wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice.
Not that he was in love with Buffy.
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Buffy got there first and snagged the comfy seat by the fire.
“I take it you heard something back about our friendly neighbours?”
Wes nodded his head but didn’t look up from the book he was flipping through.
“I’ll go through everything once Spike and the others get here.”
Buffy grumbled about having to wait. She never had been the patient type.
She heard them before they burst through the front door.
Spike spotted her first and straightened, causing Willow to bump into him.
“What is she doing here?”
Buffy frowned. She got that he was upset about the kiss, but why did he sound so annoyed?
“I asked her to be here. If everyone will sit down, I can get on with why I called you all here.”
Spike scowled at her before looking away. Buffy sighed and rested back into the chair, wishing for a stiff drink.
Why the hell were men such pricks?
“I heard back from a source, high up in the US Military. The Initiative is being funded by the American government.”
Buffy rolled her eyes. She hated it when she was right. She had been having flashbacks to that Sub in the 40’s. Trust her to get locked in a sardine can miles beneath the surface of the ocean, with Dru of all people.
She hated governments.
Spike leant back against the wall and crossed his arms.
“And just how in the hell are we supposed to do anything about it then?”
Buffy had some ideas, but they all involved C4 and she doubted her plans would get the go ahead. Maybe it was something she would have to arrange without the others finding out. She doubted her chip would react to just setting a few explosives.
Buffy winced and grabbed her head. Apparently it would react to intend as well as deed.
Spike through her a look, having seen the wince, and Buffy hated the mistrust of his face.
She ignored the rest of what Wes was saying and concentrated on the Slayer. She took deep breaths, taking in his scent. She loved his smell. At night, she would curl up and hold his tee shirt that she had stolen to her nose, breathing him in.
“Buffy?”
Buffy snapped out of it to see Spike looking at her. Again.
“Yeah?”
He looked uncomfortable with everyone staring at him.
“I need you to patrol tomorrow night.”
Buffy noticed that he wasn’t really giving her a choice, but if this was his way of asking for a favour, she wasn’t about to turn him down.
“Sure.”
She didn’t bother mentioning that she had been patrolling every night until sunrise since she found out she could hurt her own kind.
He blinked, he didn’t think it would be that easy.
“Great.”
Spike offered no explanation, and Buffy didn’t ask for one. He was glad for that. He figured if she knew what he was doing, she wouldn’t have been so quick to say yes.
“Well we’re gonna head out.”
Wes looked at the three of them, his head tilted.
“Patrol?”
Spike shook his head no.
“Just gonna relax at the Bronze. I’ll patrol later.”
It was clear by Spike and Xander’s body language that she wasn’t invited. Buffy swallowed and looked away.
Wes told Spike to be careful if he ran into any soldiers and then they were gone, leaving the Watcher alone with the vampire.
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Spike was actually having fun. He had only agreed to go on this date to get his mind off Buffy, but he found that Amy and he had a lot in common.
Willow knew her from her Wicca group and had set them up. At first Spike wasn’t sure it was a good idea. After Dru and then Faith, both one night stands, he just didn’t want all of the baggage that went with dating. One girlfriend goes evil, the other just used him for sex.
But then he had kissed Buffy, or rather, she had kissed him. And he had liked it. A lot.
So, freaked, he agreed to the date. He even had the night off of patrol because he had Buffy doing it for him.
He felt a little guilty over that.
“Do you want to dance?” Amy looked up at him and bit her lip as she asked.
Spike gave her a sexy little smile and stood up, holding his hand out to her, his eyes moving over her curves quickly.
“Sure love.”
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Patrol had been a bust, so Buffy decided to scope out the Bronze, see if there were any vamps hiding in the shadows of the club like usual.
As soon as she stepped inside she knew he was there. That warning her demon gave her when ever there was a predator around was screaming at her. Strangely though, her demon only acknowledged the presence of the Slayer before revelling in it.
She wondered why he had wanted her to patrol just so he could go to the Bronze like usual.
Circling around the bar, Buffy spotted a vamp leading a teenager outside and grinned.
She didn’t particularly care about the human, if she was stupid enough to be lead outside by a vamp, more power to it, but Buffy wanted some violence, and the vampire would provide that for her. Saving the human was just a side effect of having some fun.
She followed them out, and only when they left the club did Buffy’s senses tell her who the teenager was.
“Dawn?”
Rage flashed through Buffy. So much for a faceless human. This vamp had picked one of the very few people Buffy actually cared about.
Dawn was hers, and this vamp was going to discover the penalty of touching a Master Vampires property without permission.
Dawn turned from her date to see Buffy standing in front of the door they had just left through and couldn’t help flinching from the anger she could see on the blonde vampires face. She had never seen her look that mad.
“Hey Buffy.”
Buffy growled as she saw the vampire go into game face and stalked forward.
“You are in so much trouble kid.”
Dawn winced.
“He’s just a guy I know from school, please don’t tell Spike.”
Buffy snorted. If only that was all Dawn had to worry about… teenage boys.
The boy in question growled, causing Dawn to spin around and face him.
“Mathew?”
Buffy reached Dawn’s side and pulled her gently to the side.
“Do you know how long I had to sit listening to her whine in there, I’m so hungry I almost didn’t make it outside.”
Dawn was crying by now but Buffy ignored her so she could deal with the vampire. She did reached out and stroke her hand down Dawn’s back to try and settle her down.
“So you brought her out here to eat?”
Mathew grinned. He could tell the blonde was like him and nodded his head towards Dawn.
“Eat and fuck. I’ll even share her with ya.”
Buffy growled and took a step closer. Her demon wanted rid of Dawn so it could begin its fun. Even it didn’t wish for the teenager to witness what was about to happen.
“Dawn, Spike is in there somewhere, go get him to take you home.”
Dawn wiped her eyes and nodded her head before leaving Buffy to her prey.
The vampire growled and tried to step around Buffy to stop Dawn, but he didn’t anticipate the blonde vampire’s reaction to that.
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Spike turned when he felt someone tap him on the shoulder and scowled when he saw Dawn.
“I thought you told the folks you were staying at Kit’s house.”
Dawn shrugged and wiped her eyes, bringing his attention to her tears.
“Dawn… what happened?”
She looked at the girl he was dancing with before leaning in and whispering in his ear what had happened.
Spike straightened up and told Dawn to stay with Amy before taking off.
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He got outside just as Buffy staked the bloodied vamp.
Buffy grinned as she made her kill, the demon inside cooing. When she saw Spike, the grin dropped to a soft smile.
Maybe now they would be able to talk about their kiss.
“I told Dawn to get you to take her home, not leave her inside and rush out here.” She was pleased he had though, she soaked up his presence as he stood before her.
Her demon was on a high and she doubted anything could bring her down. What she really wanted was to grab the Slayer and pin him to the wall, but figured that wouldn’t be happening just yet. He had his serious face on.
Spike shrugged and walked closer to her, his senses alive. She had saved Dawn’s life tonight. If Buffy hadn’t of been in the club, his little sister would have been drained, or god forbid, turned.
And it would have been his fault. He should have been keeping an eye on what was going on in the club, he was the Slayer for fuck sake. There was no excuse.
His little sister could have been killed, and it was his fault.
That pissed him off, and the only one there he could take his anger out on was Buffy.
He didn’t even feel the rage creeping up on him until it was there, in control and then he was forming a fist.
Buffy didn’t see the punch coming. Her head whipped to the side with the force of his blow, and when she turned back, her demon was on display.
Golden eyes locked onto his.
“What the fuck?”
Spike gave his own imitation of a growl and stalked closer.
Buffy backed away.
“Spike… come on… its me here… Buffy… remember… non human hurting vamp here… I didn’t do anything…”
Spike wasn’t listening. It wasn’t Buffy in front of him, it was the vampire she had been beating on.
The one that had nearly killed Dawn because the Slayer was too busy on a date to notice his little sister was even in the club.
Too busy to notice her leaving with a demon.
Buffy never stood a chance, even she had been able to fight back, his attack was too violent.
She tried talking to him, screaming his name, his title, she even tried begging, but he was seeing in tunnel vision and nothing was getting through.
Buffy’s eyes closed as her demon retreated, resigned to letting this play out. There was nothing she could do to stop him. Already she could feel one eye swelling shut. Her jaw was broken, her cheekbone and three ribs were cracked and her shoulder was dislocated. She wasn’t stupid, she knew he wasn’t seeing her, knew he was in too much of a rage to know what he was doing.
She was a vampire, violence was 90% of her life, and usually she was all for it, but this was something else. At the minute, she wasn’t a vampire getting beat on by the Slayer, she was just a girl, getting beat on by the man she was in love with.
She opened her one good eye, that was swelling itself, and saw that his pupils were almost black with rage and knew he wasn’t about to stop or slow down.
She wondered if he would feel guilty when he snapped out of it, then shook the thought from her mind.
Buffy fully expected to dust before he was done, but she needed to tell him, just once.
Her mouth worked a few times, her body jerking as his kicks landed against her already hurt torso and her head cracked off the wall she had been kicked into.
Finally the words tumbled out but she knew it was too late. His booted foot was heading for her face, and she knew this was it.
Sure enough, her world went black.
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All he knew was the rage. As his hits landed, he was happy to see the vampire being beaten down. One less for the Slayer to worry about.
Dawn’s face kept flashing through his mind and his attack became fiercer, more viscous.
Never again would this vampire hurt his little sister. Hurt anyone. He would make sure of it.
He pulled back and kicked at its face, planning to knock it out before finally staking it.
“… lo…v…e…..y….yo..you….”
His foot connected as her words reached his ears and the haze started to lift.
It took a few seconds, but when his mind cleared and he looked to see Buffy lying broken at his feet, Spike fell to his knees and vomited as he realised what he had done.
He reached a shaking hand out and brushed some hair from Buffy’s face, leaving streaks of blood mixed through with the blonde.
What the hell had he done?
He heard the club door open, and knew Dawn was there. He couldn’t let her see this.
He stood and spun in her direction, noticing Amy, Xander and Willow were there also.
Willow spotted Buffy and covered Dawn’s eyes as best she could.
“I’ll take her home.” She didn’t ask what had happened, figuring that her friend would tell her once she made sure his sister was home safe.
Dawn was protesting the entire way, wanting to find Buffy and thank her for saving her life. She hadn’t seen that it was Buffy lying behind Spike.
Her words were like a knife to her brother.
“Jesus man…. What happened?” Xander looked like he was about to throw up himself at the sight of Buffy.
When his eyes reached her elbow and he saw bone, he did throw up.
Amy took her bag off her shoulders and knelt by Buffy’s side.
“We need to get her to a hospital, she’s loosing too much blood.
Spike shook his head no.
“They can’t do anything for her.”
Amy looked up at him before looking at Buffy.
“Is she dead?”
Spike nodded before meeting her eyes.
“Manner of speaking. Vampire.”
Amy nodded, not know why then they were worried about her. Only that they were. She stood a grabbed her bag.
“Okay then.”
Xander wiped his mouth again and stepped up beside Spike.
“Was it the soldiers? Can‘t image Buffy taking a beating like this if she could’ve fought back.”
Spike felt the bile rise in his throat. She couldn’t fight back, but it hadn’t been the soldiers who had hurt her.
“Lets get her to Wes’ house, and we can see about fixing her.”
Xander looked at his friend, sure he was missing something before nodding.
“I brought the car, its over on main, I’ll run and get it.”
Spike nodded, watching him do just that, trying to keep his gaze off the broken girl lying on the ground. He’d hurt her so bad.
“How do you know this vampire?”
Amy wasn’t stupid. She could see it in his eyes… the guilt. When he didn’t answer, she stepped closer and rested an arm on his.
Spike shrugged her off and took off his duster. He needed to wrap Buffy up in it to avoid getting blood all over Xander’s car.
As he looked at her lying there, he knew he had to fix a few of those breaks so they would heal right.
Taking a deep breath, he did just that, and even though she was unconscious, Buffy still moaned in pain.
By the time Xander stopped in front of them Spike had her safely wrapped in his coat and held in his arms.
“We need to stop at a butchers on the way. She needs blood to heal.”
Xander nodded, he had thought of that already.
“Hopefully when she wakes up she’ll be able to tell us what happened.”
Spike ignored that and was about to climb into the car before he realised he’d left Amy standing there.
“Sorry Pet, wanna come?” He prayed she would say no.
“Could you maybe drop me off at the dorms?”
It was out of their way, but Xander nodded his head.
Spike climbed in the back and rested Buffy’s head on his thigh, his fingers running through her hair.
He dreaded when she woke up. Everyone would know then… what he had done.
He was no better than Xander’s dad… beating on a woman who couldn’t defend herself.
As he looked down on her he swore to himself that he would make it right… somehow.
tbc...
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Author's Chapter Notes:
Sorry about the wait, I had family staying with me and didn't have any time to get things done.