Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy, Angel, yadda, yadda. I don't own any of the characters or places except Serina,and Ilsa. Any churches or builings I mention I claim no ownership and I certainly mean no disrespect. The story is thought of by me and me alone. This is my first fanfic so be kind and don't wig out on me any time in the story. And send me feed back I crave it. Enjoy.
The hunt had been a victorious bloodbath for the four vampires retreating to their safe cave in the snowy northern hills of Ireland. Some towns people had been trailing them from the edge of town but could not keep up with the fast agile vampires. They saw the entrance to their home and and rushed towards it growling and struggling for more speed. But it was too late the sun had begun to rise over the hills. The two males reached the cave first resting against the walls.One was a medium build with blonde hair and emerald blue eyes. The other was tall and had dark hair and two piercing eyes that were full of tire.
The small one yelled back" Serina Ilsa run!"
The tall one looked back to see the two females running up the hill. He yelled back in a tired vioce "Ilsa please hurry!"
Ilsa was a short pettiet girl with long blonde hair down to her waist and emerald eyes. Serina was tall with short black hair and hazel eyes. Ilsa had fallen and Serina was triing to help her up and run. Ilsa pushed her away saying,"You go I'll get there, I'm right behind you!"
As Seina got up and ran Ilsa collapsed knowing she would not make it back she yelled to the cave she yelled back."Angelus,I love you brother!"
Then the sun hit the girl and she burst into dust with a furrousious scream. Serina just entered the cave before the sun could hit her and they all looked back in shock. Angelus turnned with pain in his eyes. "How could you leave her!?"He shouted at Serina tears filling his eyes.
"She told me she was right behind me....she knew "we" would never make it." Serina said with a sob. Angelous through himself to the ground his pain turnning to anger. "Every last one of the people in this town is mine, they'll pay!"
That night twenty four women and children were masacrede and the fourteen men left from the last night were drained. Angelous's revenge was enforced with great loss.
Buffy slowly walked up behind a tall figure in the dark. The vampire was waiting for his chance to jump his oncoming meal.....a meal named Xander. The horred monster grinned and pounced out to drain the boy. Xander smiled at him and waved saying,"bu-bye." The creature looked at its chest and saw a stake pierced through his heart.
Then he burst into dust with a howl. "Great job Xander you had that I'm so helpless thing licked." Buffy said coming from the shadows.
"Ya well it came pretty naturally, I was thinking about saying I must be lost is there no one to help me find my way home?" He said while doing the puppy dog look and the lip quiver.
Buffy smiled and said,"Well thats four for the good guys, and it only cost me a friday night. I can't believe that Giles would do this to me, he knows fridays are my night to hang." She said while picking up the stake and dusting it off. "These nights of holy terror are really crimping my style. Why can't there be a mass suicide day for vamps?" She wined.
They began to walk up the street Buffy looking for danger while Xander babbled about the fun everyone else was having while they slayed. Neither noticed the woman standing in the shadows with a grimaceing look on her face. She wanted to jump out and show that little bitch who's boss, but she had bigger fish to fry. "One slayer for my favorite British bloodsuckers comming up." She said looking at the slayer and her annoying little pest.
She had looked up the former Angelous (now Angel) and didn't like what she found. She had destroyed the master, killed more vampires than most other slyers, and she had Angel. A mortal with Angel she thought her anger rising. She had always cared for Ilsa even though she had liked Angel but this was too much to handel. She turnned and walked away realizing that the sun would rise in about seven hours and she had soo much to do before the night was over.
Buffy was in the shower enjoying the peace of her home and listened to the hiss of the water. Then she heard a muffeled ringing sound but thought nothing of it and went back to washing her hair. When she was finished she grbbed her robe and put a towel around her shoulders to catch the water from her hair. She opened the door to a dark hall way and turnned to close the door and turn off the lights. Then she felt a tingel go up her spine and she spun around to walk into her room. Just as she got to her doorway she slammed into someones chest. She gasped and backed against the wall.
"Buffy its just me." a reasuring vioce said from the shadows. Her muscles relaxed and she knew it was Angel.
"So stealth guy strikes again, hu?" she said smiling. She fumbled the wall trying to find the light switch. Angel easily found it and flipped it on.
"Thanks",Buffy said looking into his dark eyes.
He looked down at her saw she was shivering, "come on". He said leading her to her room. "So what do I owe the honor of this visit?" she said walking into her closet shuting the thin shingeled door behind her.
Angel sat down on the bed letting his eyes wonder from the slightly tilted shingels. "I got a message from someone today....an old friend of mine and I thought I should talk to you about it." he said looking at her pictures of her old house in L.A.. "In old friend you mean bloodsucker who doesen't know that your reformed and doesn't really like me that much. Am I right?" she said pulling on a spegetti srap tank top and boxers.
"Well partly",he said looking at the jacket he gave her lovingly folded on her dresser. "She knows I'm reformed and she knows about us and she's not too thrilled about me seeing the slayer."he said as she came out from the huge closet.
"Well don't worry I'll take care of it, I always do." she said sitting next to him and taking his hand. "Buffy she's not an ordinary vampire, she fed on a slayer on the night of her birthday."he said looking at her with his loving and caring eyes."Which means she is very strong and has alot of minions on her side.But she didn't kill the slayer which means she isn't as stronge as she could have been, but she's stronger than you or me."he said pain in his eyes cause he knew she wasn't too thrilled at this news.
She saw how serious he was and a tinge of fear ran through her. "Well I'll talk to Giles tomarrow and see what the scoup is on my fortune and find more on this chick." she said squeezing his hand ,"ok? we'll get through this."
"It's not impossible to beat her but it's not gonna be easy."he said looking into her emerald eyes.
"It never is", She said pulling herself up untill their lips met.
They shared a passionate kiss for what seemed like forever until the front door slammed shut. Buffy's eyes shot open and she pulled back unwillingly and said "She'll kill me if she catches you here at two in the morning!"In the quietest whisper she could.
"Buffy I saw your light on is Willow over?" Her mother shouted from the base of the stairs.
"No mom I just...well its Friday and I didn't feel like going to sleep yet!" She yelled down while opening the window.
"Bye." She said kissing Angel goodnight as he started thruoght the window.
"Buffy promise you won't face her alone."He said sternly.
"Ok I promise"She said kissing him again as he exited. He had a feeling that she wasn't being totally truthfull and was a little worried.
Of course was thinking *That chick comes near me I'll kick her,*"Buffy"her mother said while Buffy shut the window from watching Angel leap off her roof and run down the street.
"Ya mom?"She said closing the curtain. "Buffy I'm going out of town tomarrow to Wisconsin to open the second gallery."she said while taking off her earrings. "I left some money and the name of the hotel where I'll be staying It's room number six seventy nine so just leave a message if I'm not there."she said taking a deep breath."I'm gonna hit the sac so I'll see you tomarrow, I'm leaving at ten and I'll be gone about five days."
"Ok, goodnight." She said as her mother left."night Buffy" her mother replied.
Serina had been watching everything from the kiss to her mother speech. She soon lost interest in the whole scene and left in a fit of jealousy. She didn't understad why Angel would prefer a mortal. "Time to deliver" she said then ran off at cheeta speed towards town.
About two hours later Serina and seven minions apeared in front of an old apartment building. "Go and be quick I just hate to be on the run at sunrise."She said pointing to the ground level entrance. The seven vampires walked towards the building growling and eager to start trouble.
They entered the building and disapeared into the dark halls. Serina waited eagerly to hear some action. She waited and nothing happened and she began to get worried. Then she smiled as she heard a huge crash and an agravated growl escaped into the air. She could hear a violent struggle going on inside. After about ten minutes of howling and screams they emerged from the door way. There was only four of them now and the remaining were all injured in some way. They pulled along a struggling, growling , and yet tiring Angel. Serina smiled, "Well Angelus aren't we energetic?" She said with a triumphant look.
He was in vampire form and gave her a hideous growl telling her to back off. Her face shifted and she grabbed his shirt and said."I'm not in the mood so just stop while your ahead. Unless you want your little slayer friend in a nice big pine box." She said coldly.
Angel stopped and thought of Buffy he had to get out of here he had to keep her away from Serina. Then Serina looked over her shoulder and said "Dear Drusilla I really think your onto something here. Bate the trap and real in the big fish."
"Well you just make sure our little trap works or its your neck." Drusilla said stepping from the shadows.
"Angel its funny isn't it you bate the trap and we real her in. I think its funny so laugh." She said looking up at Angel."Well aren't you difiant? Lets get going I really am sick of waiting."She said turnning and walking away. "We've got a big party in store for you and little "Buffy" tonight."
Buffy was pacing the room dressed with a stake in hand debating whether or not to go hunting. She had a bad feeling that something big had happened and the dream she had was making her frantic. She had dreamt that Angel was in a dark room with fire around it screaming for help. The feeling knawed at her until she couldn't bare it any more. She jumped out her window and dropped to the ground. She hid the stake in her jacket and started off towards Angels apartment.
Drusilla had been leading them to a huge building on the edge of town over a bay which was known as drop off bay cause dead bodies always turned up there.(Which was well known to all vampires and the slayer as the place vamps tossed their leftovers). Angel was triing to find a way to get away from his captors but was having trouble in finding strength to do it with. When they got to the huge double doors Drusilla kicked the doors open with ease. Angel then realized how strong Drusilla had gotten. He saw his chance to make a break for it and took it. When two of the vampires walked up next to Drusilla to go inside he decided he didn't want to stick around. With one fluid motion he swiped one of the vamps on his back and kicked the other inside the huge doors. He didn't hesitate knowing that he couldn't take much more he ran as fast as he could in the direction towards the Library he figured someone would be there.
Buffy was walking along a dark alley and knew by the knawing in her gut that she was not alone. She opened her senses to try to detect what was in the alley and where it was at. She soon found she was right, she felt a hard blow to her right shoulder that knocked her down. But she was up in a second stake in hand and looked up to see who had hit her. She saw two vamps fairly young probobly just rose tonight. She smiled and said,"You know you kids should stay inside until you know more about the local slayer population," She flipped towards one of them and jabbed the stake in his heart.
"We're on the rise," She said looking at the other.
The other was a small female and she realized that she was over her head and began to back up. "No, no thats not playing fair, you wanted to pick a fight so don't go running home to your grave just yet sweety."
With that she delievered a round house kick to her head and stabbed the stake deep into the girls heart. With a hideous scream she disappeared into the breeze. "Well that will teach me to take a short cut." she said retrieving her stake and brushing off her knees.
Xander, Willow, and Giles were at the library and had been looking up information on the rest of Spike and Drusillas minions. Xander had fallen asleep with his face on the key board of Willows computer. "Xander your scrolling down the screen!" Willow said shoving his face off the keys as he babbled awake.
She then deleted the keys u, i, j, k that had been going down the monitor in a repeating pattern. "Well if I fall asleep you yell at me and if I don't sleep you yell at me for babbling.....I'm just so confused." He said sitting back in his chair rubbing his eyes."Xander your not making any sense go to sleep." Willow said pointing to a chair in the fare corner. "Fine I can tell where I'm not wanted." He said walking to the chair and falling in it.
Then Giles walked into the room carring two books and reading them both at the same time. "Ah, I see Xander finaly got some sleep."
"No, Xander did not finaly get some sleep." Xander said in his best british accent.
"Well did you find anything?" Willow said not taking her eyes off the screen.
"Not what we were looking for but I found something that definitly is worth researching on."He said handing her the book. Willow read the page her face getting more pale with every line.
"Whu...well this isn't......I mean Buffy isn't gonna... is she?" She said looking at Giles.
Giles took the book in his hands. "Well I don't think this sounds like her but nothing is impossible."
"What won't Buffy do..I mean do...I mean....You know." Xander said walking towards Giles.
"It says here she will willingly put down her life and the gates of which she holds down will open." He said looking up at the bewildered faces in front of him. Why would Buffy do that she has too many reasons to just......do that." Willow said, her voice was squeeking as her words ran over one another. "I'm sure that there should be something that can get us out of this." Xander said eyes full of worry.
Then Willow waved her hand at his face motioning for him to be quiet. Then they all listened and looked at each other in recognition. Someone was approching through the halls and clumsily stumbling as they went. They went to the side of the doors and Xander grabbed a stake from Giles' office. They waited and then the doors opened. Xander lifted the stake and the person turned to see him comming down with it. Xander's hand was blocked and then he went to the floor.
"Xander its me!" Angel said taking the stake from him distrustfully. Then they all had a flood of questions. "Did you get in a fight?"
"Was Buffy there?"
"What happened?"
Then they looked down at his leg . It had a small gash in it and he looked exausted.
"Angel what happened?"Willow said as she helped him to a chair.
"Drusillas alive." He stated simply as he looked at his leg.
"I was being chased but lost them when I went over a barb wire fence, thats where I got this." He winced as he moved the cut leg. "Angel did you see Buffy tonight is she home?" Giles said in an urgent tone.
"I saw her earier, why did something happen?" He said in a worried voice.
"Well nothing....yet any way." Giles said skimming the book looking for some hints.
"I'll go to her house and check on her." Angel said getting up.
"What about your leg." Willow said looking at the leg. To her surprise it had stopped bleeding and was healing repidly. "I heal fast." He said running out of the library.
"Well lets hit the books." Willow said.
Buffy had just arrived at Angels apartment and saw that the door was kicked in. She pulled out her stake and walked in. "Angel?"She said walking over to where there had been a vicious struggle. Then she looked down and saw that the floor was dusted with ash. Tears filled her eyes and she looked around the room and saw two more areas where a vampire had been killed. What if? She thought to herself. "No Angels strong he wouldn't go down like this. She walked out and saw that someone had been thrown against the wall, probobly to stun the person.
"They didn't want to kill him." She said to herself.
"He put up a fight." she thought to herself. She left the apartment convinced that he was alive. Or maybe just hopiing. She would go home and start up again tomorrow.
"No use in a tired slayer on the job." She said as she turned to go home. But she wasn't alone.
Angel had seen her empty room and began to panic. Where was she? I told her not to... He said silently. But was cut off by a noise outside the window. His senses told him it wasn't her cause the steps were heavey. He slid against the wall as the person came inside. How? he thought as he looked in terror as he saw it was a vampire. He wasn't invited!? Angel was confused but also relieved that he was here and she wasn't. He stepped out into the moonlight room and the vamp saw him. They were both aware that the house was not empty and did not want to deal with authorities. So the tall wiry vamp jumped out of the house and Angel followed. Angels anger fed his fight as he took the intruder down and pressed a stake to his ribs.
"Why and how?!" He said looking down at the frightened vamp.
"I..I'm...I was.. A salesman.... and I..came here..once." He said trying not to agrivate him further.
"What were you doing here?!" He said pressing the stake down harder. "I was supose to bring her to...uh..the...Dru..Drusilla." He said as the stake was drove into his heart and he burst into dust. He started off towards his home knowing thats where she would have gone.
Buffy felt her spine tingle and she turned to see if anyone was following her. She saw no one and continued a little faster this time. As she turned the corner onto her street she knew soneone was there. "Show yourself!" She said as she pulled out her stake. Then she saw a couple of figuers move in the shadows and then triied to count them. As she was doing this someone walked out infront of her. And she looked forward in terror to see Drusilla staring back at her. "You know you should really be careful slayer its a naughty, naughty world out there." She said walking closer.
"Where is he?!" She said her anger rising.
"Who, Angel? Unfortunatly our bait escaped so I decided to do it the old fashioned way."
She said pulling out a small hand gun. She tried to turn and run but she couldn't move she was frozen in place. Just as Drusilla pulled the trigger Buffy felt someone grab her from behind. She then realized that she haden't been too lucky. The bullet had torn into her side and she could feel the blood flowing down her leg. She felt herself get tired and slip into a simiconcious sleep.
Giles heard someone cry his name and got up and ran to the door. He didn't take more two steps and Angel entered his face was pale and full of pain.
In his arms was Buffy she was now awake and had the taste of blood in her mouth and realized that it was her own. Angel lie her on the balcony and looked down at her waist where there was a huge hole in her stomach.
"Oh, god no," Giles said as he took out a hankerchief and applied it to the wound after dropping a hand ful of books. She looked up into Angel's eyes and triied to speak to tell him how much she loved him, but she couldn't move and her head began to throb.
"Don't you leave me!"Angel said lifting her head as tears sprange from his eyes. Then everything stopped and she felt cold and tired and everything turned to darkness.
He craddled her in his arms afraid that if he let go he'd never get a chance to hold her again. Xander was rushing towards the phone in his sleep deprived state saying, "Paramedics...we gotta get Paramedics!" Just then the lights flickered and he stopped, "Giles tell me that happens alot...now please!" he said then picked the phone up and started to dial.
"Xander its 911 in case you forgot." Willow said walking over to him. He put the phone down and turned to Giles and Angel. "We got some problems or Snyder didn't pay the bills, its dead no tone.....That happens alot too right?" He said a panicked look in his eyes.
Angel looked up his tear stained eyes looking up towards the ceiling as he triied to concetrate on what he was hearing. He could hear a shuffling noise and unwillingly got up from Buffy's side as Giles took his place. He walked over to the middle of the room closing his eyes as he concentrated.
"Hey what's he doing?" Xander said suspicously as he saw Angel standing in the middle of the Library. Angel's eyes opened as he looked up and then began to search his surroundings for something to penatrate the ceiling with. He found a pole that had been a flag pole at one time. He twisted it so the sharp side was facing up and gabbed it through the ceiling. He pulled the pole back through and stepped back. Then every one looked astonished as they saw a rather large vampire fall through the ceiling landing with a thud as a thick liquid poured from a gash in his chest. Angel looked down at the intrudore and with a growl walked over and kicked him hard in the ribs. With a grone the vamp stood and faced Angel. Angel looked forward at the pale creature in front of him. He knew he couldn't fail for Buffy's sake, but it wasn't likly he was so PO'ed he wouldn't have much trouble with an army. As the creature charged Angel flipped him over his shoulder and quickly turned ready for the counter attack.
The Vampire showed his fangs and gave a deep growl and circled Angel slowly moving from one side of him and sliding to the other. Willow had gone into Giles' office to get a stake and saw the cross bow hanging on the wall.
"Why not." She said as she picked the bow up and entered the Library again. The vamp was on Angels left and stopped he let out one last growl then pounced. They punched, kicked, and until Angel had him flat on his back. He was having trouble holding the larger vampire down.
"Angel!" Willow shouted from across the room. He got up and Willow tossed him the cross bow. He pointed the cross bow into the monsters ribs and bent down saying, "You picked the worst time to you could possibly pick to come here, a mistake you won't make again."
And with that he pulled the trigger and let the wooden arrow shoot into the screaming vampires heart. Then he burst into dust and his remains covered the floor. By this time Angel and the three bystanders had wondered across the room to where the fight had occured. Angel looked at everyone, "Is every body ok?"
He said setting the cross bow on the table next to some dusty books. "Ya I think so." Xander replied.
"You ok Wil?" He said laying a hand on her shoulder. She was wildly searching the room with wide eyes.
"Wil?" Xander said quietly, "Are you ok?"
Then Angel began to look around too a look of horror crossed his face as he walked over to the balcony. "Where is she!" He said looking at the spot where Buffy had been laid. Giles quickly grabbed Angels arm, "Angel you can smell blood...Do you...know where she is?" He said as his eyes wondered the room franticly.
"I don't know they planned this, the vampire was a decoy!" He said slamming his fist on the railing of the balcony smashing a couple of pieces of wood. He turnned and ran out the door tring to find the sent of blood somewhere. He stopped dead in hid tracks when he caught it and looked down to see some drips of blood....her blood. The others were catching up and yelled to him, "We're spliting up any sign of her?!"Giles asked as he came up to his side. Then Angel snapped his head back, "No stay together...their still here and theres alot of them!" Willow and Xander slowly walked forward. "So Buffy's still here...somewhere?" Willow said hope rising in her voice.
Angel didn't answer he just tried to follow the sent and the others walked behind him waiting for a sign that he knew something...anything.
Then the school intercom clicked on and everyone froze. They heard a thud, thud as someone hit the midrophone then a familiar voice came over the speakers filling the air with its cold chill. "Now listen all you naughty boys and girls its a school night you should really be home sleeping." They knew it was Drusilla before she said anything cause of the chill her presence gave off.