Family is Blood
Angel looked
into Buffy’s eyes as though he was searching for something. He could see that
she was curious about just what exactly he wanted to find, but he couldn’t tell
her because it wasn’t there. He knew he loved her, he would do just about
anything to protect her but he just didn’t know if he was in love with her.
After all they had gone through together, their relationship, him losing his
soul, her sending him to hell, him coming back, how could it not be there. He
started thinking about it some more but he was in too much pain to do it. Hell
had taken a lot out of him, he had cuts, gashes, bruises and wounds all over
his body; he knew that even with vampire heeling it would take a long time for
them to heal. She took him back to the mansion and helped him into the bed. He
felt awful, worse than what he had when he had the fever. He felt himself drift
into unconsciousness.
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Buffy didn’t
know what to do at first she had thought he was alright, he had been looking at
her weirdly but other than that he seemed fine; then he had looked like he had
had the hell beaten out of him, which she figured was highly plausible
considering where he had just been. Thanks to her. She knew she should be
grateful but she still wanted to know why he was back. She was just starting to
move on with her life and now he was back. She knew that they couldn’t be in a
relationship together anymore, but she was still left wondering where that left
them together-wise. She looked at Angel, she was going to need some help but
she didn’t know if she could go to Giles cos of the whole Jenny thing. She
needed someone who knew how to take care of vampires.
“Angel,” she
said and then realised he was sleeping, so she left him a note.
‘Gone to
get some help, be back soon.’
Buffy headed
off for
“Will, I don’t
know what to do,” Buffy said.
“What’s up
Buff?” Will asked.
“Angel’s
back,” Buffy said and saw the shock register on
“Ok, settle
down Buffy, we’ll find something, he’ll be fine.”
“Thanks Will,
I better quickly check on him,” Buffy said. “I’ll call you after I see him ok?”
“Sounds good,
see you soon,”
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Angel woke up
and read her note. He sighed, he needed blood. Blood was a funny thing, to
humans all it was was something they had inside themselves, but to vampires it
was far more. To vampires blood was life, blood was family and so in some
warped way family was life. Family is what Angel needed, but he didn’t have any
of that here, he had killed Darla, Dru could be anywhere from here to they
skies above, Penn was most likely off somewhere in Europe, wreaking havoc and
Spike, well god only knew where Spike was. Spike was the sanest of his childes;
Spike had always been his favourite. He remembered how Spike had reacted when
Angelus had left them in
He tried to
open his eyes and he felt his eyelids flutter.
“It will be ok
Angel,” Buffy said but he could hear the doubt in her voice.
Angel let out
a groan in response.
“How can I
help?” she asked.
“Spike,” he
moaned.
Buffy wondered
whether he was delirious, he wanted Spike? What for? How could Spike help? And
for that matter where was Spike? She sighed and saw that Angel had drifted off
again. She didn’t know what to do but she decided that maybe Spike could help,
Angel wouldn’t say his name for no reason, but where was he? She had an idea
and set off to Willy’s.
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Spike had felt
his sire’s presence being thrown back into the world and had immediately set
off to good old SD. He wasn’t actually that far away, after Dru had left him he
had hung around in LA, preying on people around nightclubs and such. Their
blood was good, it was pumping around their bodies from all the dancing they
had done and was usually spiked with alcohol. He started driving towards
Sunnydale, knowing full well that he could get there and Angel could stake him,
but when blood calls...
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Buffy arrived
at Willy’s after a few minutes and sat down at a bar stool, she saw Willy spot
her and start walking the other way. “Oi Willy!” She called out.
Willy turned
around and pretended to just notice her, “Slayer, hi.” He said nervously.
“Not in the
mood for pleasantries,” She said. “I need some information.”
“Aint heard a
thing.”
“It’s about
Spike, I need to know where he is.”
“I’m right
here slayer,” Spike said coming up from behind her, “what’s got ya ringing my doorbell?”
He asked raising an eyebrow.
“It’s Angel,
somethings wrong with him,” Buffy said deciding to be straight with him.
Spike looked
worried, “What’s wrong with him, and why are you going to me, why not Watcher?”
“Cos he asked
for you,” Buffy said keeping with the being straight with Spike thing, “He’s
sick, I don’t know what’s wrong, and I don’t think Giles can help.”
‘He asked for
me?’ Spike thought, ‘he must be sick.’
“Take me to
him.” Spike demanded.
“If I do you
have to promise not to hurt him, if you do I wont hesitate to stake you.”
“Starters pet
theres not much point in getting a vampire to promise anything. Second, I could
track him by myself if you don’t take me to him and third, you obviously don’t
know much about vampire lore, cos if ya did then you would know that a vampire
would never hurt their sire, and I know that Angel staked Darla but that’s a
little different cos of the soul.” Spike said.
“Fine. Follow
me – but I swear if you do hurt him I’ll kill you.”
“Already
dead.” Spike retorted and ordered some blood off Willy, figuring Angel would
need it. Spike followed her out the door and off to Angel’s mansion, he had
suspected that would be where Angel was.
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