Rated- PG-13 (rating will get higher as the stories continue.)
Disclaimer- Joss owns the characters, unfortunately for me, however I own the idea for the story!
A/N 1- Takes place 3 years later from the beginning of season 6 right after Flooded. So everything after that episode never happened. And as far as Angel goes anything after season 1 never happened. Summery- Angel loses his soul, Spike's chip stops working and evilness ensues.
"He did what?" Xander yelled. The Scoobies were once again seated at the
table for the second time in two days. "I thought he couldn't do that?" Xander
continued. He sat looking confused.
"Well we're pretty sure he can," Willow
said.
"Well, maybe he was joking around?"
"Then Dawn's eyes wouldn't have
flashed like that," Buffy answered.
"What if Angelus did it?" Anya
asked.
"He would have been out with her or both of them. Face it guys, Spike
has his bite back and it looks like he's taking advantage of it." Buffy sighed.
"He also said to consider our partnership over. So he is 100 back to
evil."
"Who knows how long his chip hasn't been working, how he's been
tricking us. He's just may have been waiting for the right time to strike,"
Willow said.
"Well now what do we do?" Anya asked.
"I don't know." Buffy
looked a Giles
He removed his glasses for cleaning as he started. "Well we
know what we must do. We must return Angel his soul."
"What about Spike? And
Dawn?" Buffy asked.
"I'm sorry to say it, Buffy, but you may have to destroy
them, both of them."
"But it's Dawn!"
"I know, and I don't like it anymore
than you do, but if she's already feeding like you say she is there may not be
anything else we can do. Spike has corrupted her and there is no going back from
that."
"No, I will find another way!"
"Oh, and how will you do
that?"
"You and I have had this argument before and I found another way! I
can do it again just like the last time." She noticed the stares everyone was
giving her. "Without the dying part of course," she added in quietly.
"Fine,"
Giles huffed.
"We have to re-plan this fast," Willow began, changing the
subject.
"I still want to find Angelus first. We don't know what he's up to,
especially now that he has Spike and Dawn on his side. We need to keep our eyes
and ears open for articles or news that are about deaths with neck tram or
anything else that seems unusual."
"I think," everyone looked at Xander who
had been quiet for a while, "No, wait! Hold on.Uh huh, uh huh," he said to
himself nodding his head thinking, "Ok. Yes! I have an idea!" he
finished.
"Well?" Buffy asked becoming impatient.
"Oh, yeah. Ok here it
is. You go down to Spike's crypt and tie the two of them up and bring them and
keep them here!"
"Well I guess I'll go do that now." Buffy looked out the
window and saw she only had a few more hours before sunrise. "I think someone
should go with me." She looked at her group of half asleep and slightly
unwilling comrades. "C'mon guys! I can't hogtie and lug back two vampires," she
said grabbing a lot of rope.
"Can't you just slug them over the head and drag
them back like cave men?" Xander asked. Everyone glared at him in
response.
"I'll go with you," Willow said getting up.
"I guess I will to."
Xander sighed deeply as he followed.
"Thanks you guys."
They reached Spike's crypt and walked inside. They looked around and didn't
see anyone in the above half. "They must be downstairs," Buffy said as she led
the way.
Buffy saw Dawn and Spike in the bed when she had made it to the
bottom. "Oh my god." She stopped in her tracks.
"What? Oh," Willow said
quietly turning her head away.
"Oh this is going to be lots of fun," Xander
remarked sarcastically.
"Well c'mon. We have to hurry. Xander you get Spike
and we'll take care of Dawn." They quietly approached their assigned sides of
the bed as not to wake up the sleeping vampires before them. They weren't
tangled together much, which just made things a little easier.
Xander began
to lift the sheet on Spike's side, "Ahh!" he said dropping the sheet. Spike
stirred but didn't wake up.
"Xander, be quiet. Do you want them to wake up?"
Buffy whispered to him.
"Well if you had just seen what I did you'd scream
to." Xander looked down and saw Dawn's pants on the floor. "You might need
these." He tossed the pants to Willow.
"Look can we just get this over with.
I want to put this out of my mind as soon as possible. Is the rope near by?"
Buffy said trying to carefully dress Dawn without her waking up.
"Here it
is." Xander held it up.
"Good, you keep it. You'll probably need it more."
Buffy looked over to Spike's side of the bed. "Xander have you done
anything?"
"Well I'm not quite sure how to go about doing it."
"What do
you mean? You dress him, how hard is that?"
"Yeah pretend you're playing
Barbie," Willow added helpfully.
"Uh, Will, I never played Barbie."
"Of
course you did. Don't you remember when we were little?"
"Oh, wait yeah,"
Xander said remembering.
"You'd come over to play and always wanted to be the
one with."
"Guys! Can we focus?" Buffy said interrupting.
"Oh,
sorry."
"Yeah, sorry, Buff." Xander went back to the task at hand. He found
Spike's pants about three feet away from the bed and picked them up holding them
away from him. "Uh, guys. You know I can't do this on my own." Xander found
Spike's shirt at the foot of the bed and decided to work on that first, less of
a chance of seeing the nether region of Spike. As he prepared the shirt to be
pulled over Spike's head Spike reacted with a start. The movement on the bed
caused Dawn to slowly come around.
"What the bloody hell?" Buffy quickly
moved to where Xander was and held a stake to Spike's chest. "Whoa, hold on
now!"
"I should stake you right now for what you've done to my sister. But if
I do that then you can't help me find Angelus. Now, get dressed, failure to
cooperate will result with you all dusty."
As Dawn began to register what was
happening Willow continued to dress her. "C'mon, Dawnie, finish getting
dressed."
"What's going on?"
"It's alright pet. Get dressed."
"We're
taken ya home," Willow said calmly.
"Here, Spike, put your pants on." Buffy
threw his pants at him. When he had gotten his pants and shirt on Buffy tied the
rope around his upper body restraining his arms to his sides.
They led the
vampires up and out of the crypt when everyone was situated. As they headed in
the direction of home someone was watching them and was undetected as they left.