Chapter Two

Chapter Two

The motel room was filled with an awfully uncomfortable silence. No one had said a word since Buffy entered the room a little over ten minutes ago. Julian hadn’t moved from his spot either, he kept glancing between Faith and the blonde Slayer. Normally he would’ve sided immediately with Faith and joined in shooting death glares at the blonde Slayer but the nervousness Buffy felt pooled in his mind like crashing waves.

“Can we go some place alone?” Buffy silently asked the brunette then turned to the young man standing less than one feet from him “No offence but you’re kinda causing an overload to my senses at the moment.” She smiled apolitically but Julian just shrugged it off. Faith had experienced the same until she learned how to trust him, then it just went away out of its own.

“Deal with it.” Faith snapped in response. “You wanted to talk so talk.” She shifted on the bed, pulling her covers up with her as leaned against the headboard with her arms crossed while still keeping her glare firmly on the younger Slayer.

“Faith.” Julian said in a soft tone. “She’s here alone, there’s two of us and if necessary we can always have Jim hotwire a car to run her over.” His eyes sparkled for a moment as he shot a wink at the blonde Slayer. Buffy smiled faintly trying to keep her eyes on the brunette and not on the black-haired Adonis standing next to her clad in his boxers alone.

“Fine.” Faith growled lowly. “Let me get dressed.” She threw away the covers and couldn’t help but let out an amused snort when Buffy grew wide-eyed and turned away. “What? You never seen tits before?” She asked with a roll of her eyes and grabbed a pair of jeans from next to the bed to put over her shorts and then pulled a discarded T-shirt from Julian over her head. Standing up she frowned when the jeans she put on just slid right back off her slender legs.

“Your jeans,” She said as stepped out of them “your side.” She picked them up and threw them over the bed. Looking around where she was standing her frown increased when she didn’t find her own jeans. Looking further in the room she groaned inwardly seeing her jeans not far from Buffy’s feet.

“Yo B, mind givin’ me those?” Faith called out. Buffy turned around cautiously then dropped her eyes to where the brunette was pointing. “Wouldn’t wanna get in your personal bubble.” Faith added with a mocking tone to it as Buffy picked up the jeans and threw them over at the brunette.

“Don’t go too far.” Julian said his voice a mix of worry and warning as Faith approached them. Buffy finally seemed to see him clearly now and noticed the lack of wolf teeth markings on his shoulder before following the necklace down and stopping at Julian’s muscular upper-body.

“No need to get your Superman ass out tonight.” Faith smirked oblivious to Buffy’s gaze pulled away from the lead singer. Faith turned to the blonde and gestured for them to get moving. “There’s a bar up the road.” She said, partly to inform the blonde where they were going but more for Julian so he knew where they were, as they left the motel room.

“Shoes?” Buffy questioned noticing the brunette’s lack of footwear. Faith looked down at her bare feet then at Buffy’s sneakers before giving an unconcerned shrug. It wasn’t the first time she went out barefoot.

“You plannin’ on stomping my feet?” She asked raising a single eyebrow at the younger Slayer. Buffy frowned but shook her head in response. “No shoes needed then.” The truth was, she only had one pair of shoes and those were laced combat boots. She wasn’t in the mood to tie her boots through all fourteen holes and it wasn’t the smartest thing to leave them untied in case something nasty showed up so shoeless it was.

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Spike was unconscious on the floor of his cell with an empty blood sack beside him. The electrical charged door dissipated and two lab types entered his cell. They lifted him up and began loading him up on a gurney. As they were starting to strap him to the gurney his eyes snapped open. He grabbed one of the lab coats by the throat and throws him away.

“Sorry, can’t stay.” He says as he jumps of the gurney ‘Got to go see a girl.” He smirked as an orderly came rushing at him. He grabbed the man by the arm and flipped him over the gurney, sending him rolling to the floor. Spike rolled over the gurney and faces the orderly, ready to attack. The man grabbed the bleached vampire and slammed him against the glass wall of another vampire.

“Let me out!” The vampire yelled hastily.

“Bit busy right now.” Spike replied with a loud groan.

“Look, I know where the exit is.” The vampire responded looking to see if others came running “You spring me, you're free. You don't, you're dead.” This got Spike’s attention. He threw off the orderly, sending him into another orderly with a syringe that accidentally stabbed him in the neck with it.

“I can get us out and hand you the Slayer.” Spike turned to see where that came from and saw a naked young woman throwing him an evil smirk. Spike took a second to think about his choices, another vampire or a naked girl.

The orderly who had the syringe looked up alarmed when Spike vamped out. The vampire smiled evilly as he grabbed the orderly and flipped him on the floor. Spike ran over to the orderly sprawled on the gurney. He searched frantically through his pockets and pulls out the security card. Having a new idea he used the card to release the vampire then quickly made his way over to the naked blonde and sprang her out.

“This way!” The vampire yelled. Spike looked back at the blonde who had hastily grabbed a lab coat to cover her naked self and followed the two vampires down a long hallway before turning in another one.

“We need to release the werewolf.” An older man in a lab coat said to an equally older woman in a lab coat.

“Excuse me?” The woman asked a little confused.

“She is of no use to us. Werewolves are not essentially demons and they are citizens of the United States-” They were interrupted by two of their hostiles and said werewolf running down a bordering hallway.

The vampires and werewolf came to a halt when they saw several ops guys coming out of an elevator with guns raised and pointed at them. Spike looked around him then grabbed the vampire by his shoulders.

“New plan.” He snarled. “We split up. You go that way.” He shoved the vampire into the soldier guys and fled the other way with Veruca right behind him.

-:-DWTD-:-

Veruca eyed Spike confused as they entered a crypt where some kind of teeny-bob techno was coming out. He rolled his eyes with a shrug and nodded his head towards a blonde vampire wiggling her behind while trying to hand a frilly unicorn poster.

“Baby, I’m home.” He called out. The blonde turned around and smiled widely before seeing Veruca standing beside him wearing nothing but a lab coat. “This is Veruca, a werewolf.” He said by way of explaining.

“But your man is back.” He walked up to the blonde but got slapped in the face in response. Veruca chuckled amused getting a glare over his shoulder from the bleached vampire.

“Bastard.” Harmony hissed. “You dumped me and staked me and-”

“I know, sugar, but you’re forgetting one other thing I did.” He cut her off smiling sweetly at the vampire. “I missed you.” He wrapped his arms around her waist.

“Then what is she doing here?” Harmony asked nodding towards the werewolf. Veruca smirked smugly at the jealous look Harmony sent her.

“She needs some clothes.” He said purring softly as he nuzzled her neck. Harmony’s anger faded instantly and just waved at the werewolf to take whatever she needed. “Then it’s just us, baby, after we kill the Slayer.” Harmony would’ve started fuming again if it wasn’t for Spike aggressively claiming Harmony’s lips with his while Veruca slipped back out fully dressed with a plan of her own.

-:-DWTD-:-

Veruca walked with a direction in mind as she followed Willow’s scent. She said she would hand Spike the Slayer but she never said the Slayer would be clueless. She wanted to get back at the Slayer for putting her through that but while she was human she couldn’t just do anything. She figured that the only reason the Slayer drove her to the ones who put her in the lab was because of Willow. So all she had to do was follow the redhead’s scent. She finally stopped at an apartment not too far from the campus. Raising her hand she knocked twice and put on her best sheepishly looking face.

“Hello, can I help you?” An older man asked in a British tone when he saw Veruca standing on the other side. She noticed Willow standing up from the couch and saw the expression on the redhead’s face change from fear to shock to pure rage.

“I need to tell you something.” Veruca said making sure she sounded nervous and honest.

-:-DWTD-:-

“So let me get this straight.” Buffy said trying to get the little information she could drag out of the brunette into a sentence. “Julian’s a demon but the amulet keeps him from turning.” Faith gave a small nod taking a swig from her beer “No matter how hurt he gets as a demon, it doesn’t show when he’s human?” Again another nod “How the hell does that work?” She questioned utterly confused.

“The demon side of Jules had a whole other body, it just ain’t Jules anymore.” Faith replied. She could see the blonde itched to ask about her but wasn’t sure how. Julian’s secret was out anyway and as long as Buffy didn’t ask how t kill him or something in that direction Faith answered her questions.

“But if he’s not Julian, then-” Buffy was cut off by Faith shaking her head at whatever Buffy was going to say.

“The demon knows me, I’m the only one able to touch him without ending up dead.” Faith explained “Jules had to fight not to kill the girl werewolf, it’s extremely tiresome for him.” She continued “If I hadn’t been there with those soldiers they would’ve been dead but I couldn’t let Jules live with that guilt.”

“So he knows what he’s doing when he’s all demon-y?” The blonde questioned. She wasn’t learning a lot about Faith but she did learn more about Julian that she could maybe offer to Giles. So far all she heard were good things, nothing that explained the Watcher’s Diaries or the books.

“Yeah, he-” She was cut off by Giles storming in the bar and looking around until he saw the two of them sitting at the other side of the bar where it was fairly quiet.

“Buffy.” He breathed coming over to them. Faith jumped up immediately and got in her fighting stance glaring at the blonde. Buffy followed her action but refrained from standing in her fighting pose. Giles couldn’t be here about Faith.

“You set me up.” She hissed as she flipped their table over with her hands and then took off in a sprint out of the bar, not caring that one of the table feet hit Giles in the face. Buffy followed suit with Giles rubbing his nose as he tried to follow the two Slayers.

“Faith, stop.” Buffy said as she caught up with the brunette back on the way back to Faith’s motel room and put her hand on other Slayer’s shoulder, pulling her to a stop. “Giles is a good guy.” She tried to say but Faith’s eyes turned golden in a second as she grabbed the hand on her shoulder and twisted it. Buffy followed the movement and ended up on her back. She jumped back up and came at Faith with a swift kick to the gut.

The older Slayer took hold of the blonde’s leg and tried to twist it but Buffy went with the motion, kicking Faith in the face with her other foot. Faith immediately let go of Buffy’s leg and took a stumbling step back as Buffy landed smartly on her both feet.

Faith growled animalistic before throwing a set of punches that the younger Slayer blocked. Buffy took hold of one of Faith’s arms and twisted them around the brunette’s back, pulling harder until Faith dropped to her knees hissing.

“Faith, stop.” Buffy said again and grabbed Faith’s other arm before pulling her up to her feet, holding her in place. “Giles isn’t here for you, trust me.” She said trying to keep her hold. “He’s just an old British guy, what can he do?” That seemed to get through to Faith. Buffy watched a little in awe as the golden faded from her eyes and turned back in her chocolate brown.

“Veruca is back.” Giles said as he finally came up to them breathing heavily. “She says Spike is looking for the Slayer.” Buffy let go of Faith in surprise but Faith didn’t move. Veruca never saw Buffy fighting and they weren’t exactly close so how would she know about the Slayer?

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A/N: I took some scenes from Buffyworld.com and changed them just a little. But what I don’t get is that Spike couldn’t hurt humans because of his chip, right? Then why could he hurt the lab guys?
If anyone has an idea for pairings, let me know because I can’t pick between a few pairings… I’d like to get a pairing by the third episode…