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Chapter 15 –- Goodbye
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As the pair stepped of the plane and into the terminal they couldn’t help but turn a few heads. The woman had crystal like green eyes and long flowing blonde hair that accentuate her golden skin. Her male companion possessed a pair of striking blue eyes, sharp cheekbones and platinum blonde hair that only brought out the blue in his eyes even more. Needless to say they were two very beautiful people who couldn’t help but draw some attention to themselves.
Raz had been waiting for over an hour now for their flight to land after Ciro had gone and enter her meditative state there wasn’t much to do around so he decided to go for a drive and get to the airport a little early. As he waited for the pair he couldn’t help but wonder what the little Slayers’ reaction to him would be. The last time they were together was when Merrick was her Watcher and she was barely 16 at the time. She was now 20 years old and the oldest Slayer to ever to walk, that in itself was an accomplishment.
As soon as he saw them, he knew that he’d have to catch them or he’d loose them in the crowds. The look on the vampires’ face was guarded and cautious…he was protecting his mate. Buffy had never been to England before let alone out of the United States, he was worried for her. Knowing this he decide it best to approach them with a bit more caution, he knew Buffy wouldn’t attack but that didn’t mean her lover wouldn’t.
Spike could feel someone following them, he immediately knew that it was a Nitric Demon and usually that wouldn’t have bothered him but he didn’t want himself and the Slayer getting into a brawl their first night there and this one seemed dead set on making contact.
While Spike was looking for an easy way out to avoid confrontation, Buffy was getting an odd feeling in her lower stomach. It wasn’t a foreign feeling, she knew that she’d felt that way before but she just couldn’t seem to remember when. All of a sudden her mate pulled her to the side and placed a hand over her mouth, as she was about to protest to his actions his eyes locked with hers.
Blue eyes meet green and in that fraction of a second their bond came through and began to sizzle around them. Raz felt the slight influx of energy and jerked his head to the right. That’s when he saw them in a small alcove, eyes locked. He knew then that they were connected; now he’d have to be even more careful in trying to catch their attention. It was a known fact that the vampire was extremely possessive, many a demon could attest to it from his time with Dru but now he was sure that his already possessive nature had intensified because of his time with the Slayer.
Raz was about to gently touch the vampires’ shoulder when he found himself pinned against the wall with a pale yet firm hand on his throat. Not really wanting to provoke the vampire any further he put up his hands to show he meant no harm. The grip on his throat lightened enough for him to rasp out a greeting.
“It’s me, Raz”
“Raz?” the little blonde came out from behind her mate and instantly recognized the demon from her past.
“Hey Lizzy”
A smile broke out onto Buffys’ face with the old endearment. She immediately pulled her mate off of her former friend and pulled him into a hug all the while ignoring the low warning growl in the background.
“Oh my God, I can’t believe you’re here. I mean the last I saw you was back in New York but that was only…”
“…for Spike’s chip I know but I heard you were headed to London and since I was already here, I thought I’d offer you and your mate a place to crash”
The Slayers’ face brightened at the thought of being able to catch up with an old friend. She loved spending her days with Spike but it’d be nice to have some new faces around for a change.
“We’d love to, wouldn’t we Will?”
Before Spike could respond to the idea of staying with Raz or that she called him ‘Will’ out in public Buffy had linked her arm with Raz and they were both headed out of the terminal, leaving Spike with both of their bags. The bleached blonde muttered something under his breath about overbearing Slayers and whipped vampires.
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As soon as they entered the flat Buffy immediately asked to use the phone, Raz just pointed to the door down the hall saying that it was to his study and she’d have all the privacy that she needed in there. She met Spikes’ eyes for half a second before sauntering down the hall. In that second Spike knew all he needed to know…she was going to call the Watcher.
He decided it best to leave her to it since she didn’t ask for his presence but if there was even the slightest hitch in her voice in any part of that conversation he’d be in there so fast her head would spin. Raz couldn’t help but grin at the look on the vampires’ face.
“What are you looking at” the vampire sneered
Raz softened a little and just smiled at the vampire before turning toward the kitchen. Spike just dropped the bags in the hall and followed the Nitric demon into the other room. Spike plopped down onto one of the stool placed near the island as Raz began to rummage through the refrigerator. His search was successful in producing a pint of O-positive and the fixings for a turkey and cheese sandwich.
The two demons sat in somewhat of a tense silence as each of them consumed their meals. Raz knew that it was coming from the moment he and his mate left with him from the airport. It was only a matter of time and he didn’t have to wait too long before…
“So how well do you? I mean…with Buffy…what exactly?” Spike trailed off unsure of what question he wanted to ask first or at all.
Raz looked up from his sandwich with a small smile on his face. He knew that his relationship with the Slayer would probably make the vampire question a few things, so he decided to put his mind at ease.
“You want to know, how well Buffy and I know each other? And what exactly is going on between us?”
“Basically, yeah I mean you’re all chummy with her she is MY mate you know”
“Yes I know and believe my feelings for Buffy are NOT of a romantic nature. You see when Merrick first found her she didn’t have the friends, the support system she did with her second Watcher, Ripper. I, we became very close and we relied on one another. I think of Buffy as more of my…baby sister” He chuckled at his last statement knowing what his ‘baby sister’ have to say to him if she heard him call her that.
“Buffy and I are just friends and I want to take of her, to help take care of her because I know that you just want to do the same thing. We both know that even though she says that she’s moved on…she in reality hasn’t. I mean losing the only real family you have left in such a small amount of time has to be hard.”
Spike sighed heavily at this, when he and the Slayer first left Sunnydale she had nightmares practically every other night. That was before they began to share a bed. He remembered the first time clear as day. Her screams woke him from his slumber, the look on her face nearly ripped him up inside.
“She’s gotten better, the nightmares they hardly ever show up anymore but she started to get into one of her moods during the flight. I swear sometimes I feel like…like its Dru all over again. I mean Buffy isn’t rambling about the stars or anything but sometimes she slips away from me you know…she goes to a place inside her head, somewhere where I can’t even get to, most of the time anyway” Spike looked up to see if he could read his companions’ face. He was surprised to see understanding and concern instead of…well he wasn’t sure what he was expecting to see but it sure as hell wasn’t that.
“Like I was saying she’s better than she was before and when things get…rough for her she talks to me, explains what’s going on in that head of hers buts sometimes I think she doesn’t even know what’s going on in her head”
Raz smiled sadly at the vampire, he knew for a fact that the Slayer would eventually recover but decided against saying anything and instead opted to just sit next to his new friend and continue to listen to the vampire vent everything that he felt he wasn’t able tell his mate.
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At the same time down the hall Buffy dialed the number she knew by heart and waited for a few tense seconds as the phone rang. She wasn’t sure what she was looking to accomplish by calling Sunnydale but she knew that it was just something she had to do. By the third ring someone picked up, in the background she heard the voice of her Watcher and knew that it was he who had answered the phone.
“Hi Giles”
There was a brief period of silence at the other end of the phone besides the soft murmur of voices conversing in the background.
“Hello Buffy”
Buffy could hear the soft murmur of voices in the background die out. She knew then that they all were waiting for her to continue the conversation with her Watcher.
“Hey, I just thought I’d call and…I don’t exactly” she tried a flippant opening but failed miserably and she knew it. At the other end of the phone there was a brief silence before a stuttered response came through.
“Buffy, God it’s good to hear your voice! Where are you? Are you alright? Is Spike with you?” Giles couldn’t believe that after almost 4 months of no word from his Slayer, the girl he thought of as a daughter is now on the phone with him.
“I know, it’s good to hear your voice too. I’m fine and yes Spike is with me, he’s been taking good care of me…we’ve been taking care of each other” the last part was said in a whisper.
“Dear girl, why didn’t you come to me? You know I would never have turned you away” Buffy’s heart broke when she heard the slight tremor in her Watchers’ voice.
“I… I honestly don’t know. Everything was just… slipping…” her breath hitched and she had to swallow the lump forming in her throat to suppress the tears that were threatening to fall.
“Spike was there for me when no one else was and this wasn’t the first time. I needed him and he was there.” She said softly
Giles was silent for a moment as he listened to his Slayers’ words and then her soft breathing at the other end of the phone. He was just so thrilled to know after three months of not knowing that the girl he loved like a daughter was okay.
“Darling, please come home”
Buffy sighed silently at her Watchers’ plea. She knew that she couldn’t go back to Sunnydale, not right then anyway.
“I can’t… “
“Buffy please…”
“One day… but not today”
“Buffy…”
“Goodbye”
Giles tried again to reach his Slayer but all he was greeted with was the low hum of the line that was disconnected.
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End of Chapter 15
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