This is a make believe story about make believe characters.

First thanks to Dr.  B for his help with some of the details.  This
story takes place roughly between Season 6 and Season 7 with Joyce and Tara
both being dead.  I'm not a fantastically obsessed fan of Buffy or the
Vampire Chronicles so some liberties have been taken with both.



Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Interview With The Vampire: The Prophecy Part 1
(Mg, Mf, Ffg, reluc, oral, first, anal, rape, viol, vampire) 
by Big Red Dope (bigreddope@hotmail.com)



Lightning lit the dark sky as rain crashed down on Sunnydale.  Buffy and
Dawn stood in the street in front of their house staring, waiting for the
other to make the first move as night storm pounded the area.

"Dawn, please don't make me do this.  Things don't have to end this
way."

"Yes they do Buffy.  You're a Slayer; I'm a vampire.  You kill creatures
like me.  That is what you do."

Fangs were clearly visible in Dawn's mouth and her eyes were glazed over
with evil.  Stake in hand Buffy tried several times to bring herself to
slay her sister, but she couldn't do it.  Anguish and guilt filled her head
as Dawn snarled art her.

"I can't kill her...  I can't kill Dawn," Buffy mumbled dropping the
stake the asphalt falling to her knees.

"Buffy, if you can't kill me then you leave me no choice," Dawn growled
leaping through the air ready to bite.

"Dawn no!" Buffy screamed picking up the stake piercing her sister's
heart.

As Dawn's body disintegrated the stake fell from Buffy's hand and
clanged against the street.  Suddenly the storm disappeared and the sun
quickly rose.  Birds began to chirp and Buffy looked up at sun as she began
to walk.

"Why Dawn?  Why?" She said to herself as a single tear fell from her
eye.

***

"Buffy!  Wake up!" Dawn shouted shaking her sister's shoulders.

"Dawn what is it?" Buffy mumbled wiping the sleep from her eyes.

"You had your dream again.  What's happening in it?  Tell me."

"I don't know, I can't remember my dreams." Buffy was lying and felt
guilty for it, but telling your own sister you were dreaming she was a
vampire and you killed her wasn't an easy thing to do.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine."

"You sure?"

"I'm positive. What time is it?"

"Almost ten.  You got in late.  What happened last night?"

"Nothing really.  There was a bit more vampire activity than usual, but
nothing to worry about.  Are you going to the Korn concert at the Bronze
Sunday night?"

"Yeah, I don't really want to go, but Nicole's boyfriend Chris got stuck
with some family thing so she had the extra ticket."

"If nothing else you two can keep each other company."

"Do you want to go?  I'm sure Nicole can get two more tickets for you
and Willow."

"No thanks.  That's all right.  Willow's into more a lot mellower stuff
and I'll be out and about doing another patrol."

"Suit yourself then.  I know things suck quite a bit at times, but you
should really try to have more fun.  You sure you don't remember anything
about your dreams?  You've been having them a lot lately and Willow and I
are starting to worry."

"I promise I'm fine.  You know me better than that don't you?  You two
would be the first to know if anything was wrong.  Besides, what are you
making for breakfast?  Us Slayers who have to save the world get hungry you
know." Buffy said getting out of bed.

"Breakfast huh?  And what were you expecting?"

"Eggs, bacon, and biscuits will do.  Oh, and a big glass of o.j."

"If you don't mind black crispy food, I'll be more than happy to make
it. Otherwise let me see if Willow's up for playing chef."

"Come on Dawn, you really need to learn to cook."

"I will eventually.  Someday...  Maybe..."

"Forget it, I'll make something myself after I get out of the shower."

"Nah, we'll make something for you.  You've been running yourself ragged
with the late night patrols."

"Don't start worrying about me please?  There are other things to worry
about."

"Ok, ok.  I won't worry."

The two sisters split from Buffy's room.  Buffy stepped into the
bathroom to take a shower while Dawn walked into the kitchen where she
found Willow already starting breakfast.

"You read my mind Willow."

"Actually I can't.  Buffy's been driving herself into the ground and
coming in late.  I worry about her sometimes."

"What're you making?"

"The usual."

"Hey Willow have you noticed anything weird with Buffy?"

"The Hellmouth's been quiet, but the vampires have been acting rather
out of sorts, and Buffy's been a bit more preoccupied with them.  Other
than that I haven't seen anything too strange."

"Do you believe her when she says everything is ok?"

"Yeah, I don't have a reason not to.  Have something on your mind?"

"I don't know, she's been having those dreams you know and she won't
talk about them.  I can't help but think she's hiding something from me."

"Like what?"

"I don't know."

"It's probably nothing.  Set the table while you're here.  I'm almost
done."

As Dawn helped Willow set the table the tv in the living room was on and
tuned to MTV when a newsbreak started.

"I'm Trent Wayne and this is your MTV newsbreak.  After a number of
postponed and cancelled shows the rock band Korn will restart their tour
this Sunday at the Bronze in Sunnydale, California.  It's been nearly a
month since their club tour was interrupted by the sudden and bizarre
deaths of their opening band Kill Switch Red and this past Monday they
officially announced that the tour will go on with Satan's Night Out
filling in as their opener.  That is all the news for now.  Tune in at ten
to the hour every hour for MTV news."

***

When his travels across America finally brought him back to California
Lestat began hearing tales of a town called Sunnydale and of one they
called the Slayer.  The death of two capable vampires sent by Lestat to
investigate the situation confirmed what he had been hearing.  The Slayer
was real and seemingly hell-bent on killing his kind.  Her name was Buffy
Summers and even for someone acting so heinous she was quite fetching.

Lestat found himself locked in his hotel room with the window sealed
blocking out the sunlight.  Buffy was "the Slayer" and killing vampires and
now he had to take action.  He put the photo of Buffy back into a folder
along with the other info he had scrounged up on her.  She'd be a tough
case no doubt because after all most humans cower in fear and beg for their
life when they encounter vampires, but she didn't.  She went after them.

Lestat lifted the corner of the blanket covering the window and saw
darkness.  Outside conditions now were safe and wanting to smell some fresh
air he stepped out into the moonlight.  As Lestat stared up at the moon
Jonathan Davis spotted him as he emerged from the tour bus and walked over.

"Hey Lestat you and the band up for Sunday's show?"

"Ready as can be expected.  It's a bit unsettling to be the band to
replace the one that was killed two weeks ago."

"That's some fucked up shit that happened there.  Nobody knows what the
hell happened, but they're trying to blame it on vampires or something.
Speaking of which, how come you don't ever come out during the day or make
any of the press appearances?  You're not one are you?" Jonathan joked.

"It depends, do you believe in vampires?"

"Not really."

"Good then.  You have nothing to worry about.  My apologies for the
missed appointments.  I'm still getting some things settled with the band.
I know we're the unknown band, but trust me we'll be ready and neither you
nor the audience will be disappointed."

"Good, I'm looking forward to the show."

At first Lestat changed the name of his band from Satan's Night Out to
The Vampire Lestat as a joke to get a rise from the vampire community, but
when the band had become his way to get into Sunnydale and put an end to
Buffy's killing he changed it back.  The show at the Bronze on Sunday was
sold out and through a vampire spy he generously paid before Buffy killed
him, Lestat was able to find out that Buffy had a sister Dawn who would be
there.  A one on one direct attack on Buffy wouldn't do.  Something more
indirect was called for.

***

As the fruit truck came to a stop at a red light in downtown Sunnydale
Claudia hopped out of the back with an apple in hand.  Taking a bite out of
the fruit she started towards a phone booth and flipped through the phone
book until she found the address she was looking for.  She ripped it out
and started down the street.  Early in the morning Sunnydale was as quiet
and barren as every other city and Claudia came across few signs of life.
That was until an unsuspecting pervert pulled up next to her in his car and
was soon on his way to getting more than he bargained for.

"Excuse me miss?  Are you lost?  Can I give you a ride somewhere?"

Claudia stopped and turned to look at the man leaning out of his car
window.  He was middle-aged and scruffy with a very greasy look to him.

"I'm lost.  This is my first time here and I'm trying to find a friend,"
she responded taking advantage of the opportunity.

"Where are your parents at?"

"Far away.  I had to run away from home."

"I'm sure your parents must be worried.  Why don't I give you a ride to
my place and you can call them to let them know you're ok?"

"Thanks, but I must really be getting to my friend's house.  Can you
tell me how to get there?" Claudia played along acting girlish and weak as
she handed the man the address.

"Hmm...  I just moved here a few months ago and I'm not completely
familiar with Sunnydale yet so I don't recognize this street.  If you want
we can go back to my apartment and I can get you directions."

"Really?  Thanks mister!" Claudia smiled broadly as she got into car
with the man.

"It's not a problem at all miss.  You remind me of my daughter when she
was your age.  My name's Sam."

"I'm Claudia.  Thanks for your help.  I get turned around easily
especially in large cities."

"Sunnydale isn't that large," Sam laughed as he plotted his next move.
"If you don't mind me asking Claudia what are you doing alone this late at
night?  It's nearly two in the morning."

"It's alright.  Like I said I ran away from home and with no money I
have to take rides when I can get them."

"Well I hope everything works out for you.  You should be on your way in
half an hour.  I don't live but a few blocks from here."

"I'm sure things will work out," Claudia smiled licking her fangs.

***

Claudia and Sam entered the old man's apartment.  It was filthy and
messy and the once white walls were a yellow dingy color.  There was
nothing that looked it was even remotely new or clean in the apartment.  It
looked like your stereotypical dirty pervert's home.  Claudia grinned as
her suspicions of Sam started to prove true.

"Soda?" Sam offered taking a can of Pepsi out of the fridge.

"Thank you," Claudia accepted popping open the beverage and taking a few
swallows.  Sam walked to a corner where an old dirty looking computer sat
on a table and he turned it on.

"Sit down and make yourself comfortable while I get your directions."

"Uh ok..." Claudia said sitting down on his couch.  She waited several
minutes as Sam typed away at his computer.  A little while later she heard
a printer going.  Then Sam got up from the desk and sat down next to her
with the directions in hand.

"Good ol' Mapquest.  Here you go Miss Claudia," Sam said handing her the
paper.  "I work the late shift and just got off work so I was going to get
some sleep before I ran into you, but if you want I can drive you to your
friend's house?"

"You can?  But I have nothing to pay you with," Claudia pouted.

"Well I'll make you a deal.  Follow me to the other room and we'll work
something out.  Sound good?"

"Sure."

Claudia and Sam got off the couch and walked into another room which
turned out to be his bedroom as she suspected.  She wasn't surprised to see
a video camera sitting on a tripod pointed at the bed.  Claudia kept
playing dumb though to finish luring him in as he slammed the bedroom door
shut.

"What are you doing Sam?"

"You said you have nothing to pay me with, but you do and it's not
money," Sam smiled his rotten showing as he turned on the camera.

Sam took his shirt off dropping it to the floor.  Then he removed his
shoes and his pants soon followed.  Dressed only in his yellowed stained
underwear and socks he stalked Claudia his erection becoming ever so
obvious in his under pants.

"Sam, no!  What are you doing?" Claudia pretended to stammer.

"I did you a favor Claudia and now you owe me!"

"Not like this though!  Please stop!" She begged backing away from the
man.

"Inconsiderate child!" Sam screamed backhanding Claudia's face sending
her to the floor.  "You really do remind me of my daughter Claudia.  Her
name was Tiffany, but she had no respect for adults.  After her mother
passed away I gave and gave and gave to that child, but she refused to
return the love I had given her so she had to be punished.  If only her
mother had taught her to swim." This new psychotic side to Sam was a bit
unexpected but it wasn't anything Claudia couldn't handle.

"I'm sorry Sam!  I didn't mean to show you disrespect," Claudia moaned
inching onto his bed.  "What do you want me to do?"

"That's better Claudia.  Once this is all over we'll both feel better."

"You've got that right," She snarled in her head.  Claudia sat up on the
edge of the bed and Sam placed his yellow underwear covered crotch in front
of her face.

"Now pull down my underwear and play with my balls." Claudia pulled down
the man's dirty underpants and watched as Sam's dick hardened with just her
breath and the air touching it.

"That's a good girl.  Now play with them."

"What do you mean?"

"Take my dick in your hand and rub and lick it especially my nut sack."

"But I've never done it before."

"Do it now you stupid little cunt or I'll fucking kill you."

Claudia's blood boiled and the urge to kill him grew, but she needed him
alive for a bit longer so she could feed.  She was behind on her feeding
cycles and felt the hunger.  She wrapped her tiny hand around Sam's shaft
and began to stroke it back and forth.  Claudia then reached for Sam's
testicles with her free hand and began to softly fondle them.  She teased
his penis circling her tongue around its purple head and let it slither up
and down the shaft.  Claudia heard Sam begin to moan and eagerly flicked
her tongue across his scrotum.  She took turns taking each side of his sack
into her mouth sucking enthusiastically on it.

Sam pulled Claudia's face away far enough to force his cock into her
mouth and down her throat.  His hands then clamped on the back of her head
forcing her to deepthroat him which in turned caused her to gag several
times.  Claudia had pulled tricks like this hundreds of times before, but
her small body never got used to the size of a full-grown penis.  Then as
she expected Sam began to furiously face fuck her.  Claudia couldn't help
it as discomfort crawled over her face.  Sam saw this and seemed to take
pleasure from it thrusting harder and harder into her tiny mouth.

Claudia felt several shots of sperm squirt into her mouth as Sam grunted
and orgasmed.  She swallowed every dropped because she knew that this was
what these types of guys liked.  Sam pulled out of Claudia's mouth and laid
down on the bed next to her.  After several moments of silence Claudia
broke the quiet.

"Are we done?  Can I go now?" She asked with a bit of a tremble in her
voice.

"Hell no!" Sam screamed quickly shooting straight up.  "Take your god
damn clothes off and lay down on the bed."

With the same routine as so many times before Claudia removed her
clothing and dropped them to the floor.  She played coy pretending to cover
herself with her hands.  Sam gave an irritated look and Claudia dropped her
hands to her side.

"Fucking lay down like I said," Sam growled.

Claudia did and waited for the inevitable.  Sam crawled on top of her
body and his head down to her undeveloped chest.  He began to lovingly suck
on Claudia's nipples gently nibbling on them.  She let out a soft moan and
Sam smiled happily as his face worked down her body.  Claudia felt as Sam
placed soft kisses on her chest and abdomen.  His tongue was furiously
mopping up her inner thighs cleansing them with his saliva.

Being trapped in a ten-year-old body Claudia had no pubic hair in
addition to having no breasts, which turned Sam on.  Finally his tongue
began to explore Claudia's tiny cunny.  Sam probed her slit with his tongue
as it slid up and down ever so slightly pushing into her twat.

"Sam?"

"What Claudia?  It better be good."

"Fuck my cunny, fuck it hard."

"What?" Sam asked a bit surprised by the request.

"Fuck my cunny, I owe you for your help."

Without further encouragement Sam quickly got to his knees and spread
Claudia's legs apart.  With one deft thrust he was bursting through her
hymen.  Claudia had lost her virginity several times before, but being a
vampire her body would always return to the way it was when she was changed
and having her cherry popped hurt each time it happened.  Even with her
hands gripping the bedsheets tightly the force from Sam's body forced
Claudia's tiny frame to jolt with each thrust.  Claudia's twat was even
smaller than her mouth, but having the hole between her legs getting
stuffed didn't cause her to gag so this was something she was able to get
used to.

After fifteen minutes of wild amateurish fucking Sam felt his balls
swell and they slapped against Claudia's ass each time he penetrated her.
Then as he pulled out to push back in one more time his dick exploded
again. Sam's second cum shower was bigger than the first.  Claudia laid
there as white drops freckled her chest and stomach.  With one loud grunt
Sam fell to the bed and laid next to Claudia.  As he laid there
recuperating she looked around the room for something heavy.  She saw
nothing of immediate use so she leaned over the bed and made sure the lamp
on the nightstand was unplugged.

"Get dressed Tiffany, before you mother gets home," Sam said sitting up.

"One less crazy man to worry about," Claudia thought to herself.  She
picked up the lamp and slammed it hard into his head.  The cheap lamp broke
into a million pieces knocking Sam out.

"You're right, I did come out better because of this," Claudia mocked
Sam as her teeth sank into his neck and his blood flowed freely.

Claudia smacked and licked her lips when she finished filling up on
Sam's blood.  She looked at the digital clock on the nightstand and it read
two thirty.  She had two and half maybe three hours before sunrise and.
Claudia needed to get to the Summers' home now in order to have time to
foil Lestat's plans.  She quickly redressed and took the tape from Sam's
video camera smashing it on the floor.  With directions in hand Claudia
left Sam's apartment in search of a new ride.

***

As Claudia climbed through Buffy's bedroom window close to three in the
morning she found it to be empty.  A quick check of the rest of the house
found no sign of Buffy or Dawn.

"Shit!" Claudia mumbled to herself.  "Where are they?"

***

There were currently no cults, demons, or ancient deities hellbent on world 
domination or starting up armageddeon so times had become dull. Vampire
activity was up a bit, but it was nothing of much concern and killing them 
had become as regular and uneventfulf as putting on shoes. So to battle the boredom
Dawn decided to spend the first full weekend of summer with her friend Nicole 
which included spending the night. That left Buffy and Willow with the house to 
themselves and they decided to have a weekend long girls' night out.  Buffy found 
herself Friday afternoon at the mall trying on clothes when her cell phone rang and
Giles was on the other end.

"Buffy did you run into anything unusual during any of your recent
patrols?"

"Not really.  There seemed to have been some extra activity on Wednesday
and Thursday, but nothing out of the ordinary.  Why what's up?"

"There was another vampire feeding this morning which isn't anything
new, but somehow this seems different.  The victim had head wounds in
addition to bite marks on the neck and there's fragments of a broken lamp
nearby.  This man isn't particularly strong or in shape so it would seem as
if the vampire might have been quite a bit smaller and weaker too."

"So what're you saying?  Like a vampire kid or something?"

"That's what my gut feeling tells me."

"But aren't the vampires picky in who the choose to convert?"

"Yes they are which is what makes this so unusual.  Unless..."

"Unless what?"

"I've only heard of these, but worst case scenario is that this could
also be a halfling that's in the child stage possibly.  Half-vampire
half-human.  All the strengths and none of the weakness."

"Should I gather the others?"

"Not just yet.  There's no reason to panic; however I would ask you to
keep an eye on your sister.  If there is a kid vampire so to speak then I
can't help but think that someone or something is after her.  The more
sinister vampires are methodical in what they do."

"I'll keep Dawn nearby for now.  Just let me know if you come across
anything else."

"Of course.  Like I said it's nothing to worry about just yet, but keep
an eye out for yourself and Dawn."

As soon as Buffy got off the phone with Giles she called Nicole's house
to check on her sister.

"Hello?"

"Hey Nicole it's Buffy.  Can I talk to Dawn for a moment?"

"Sure, hang on."

"Hello?"

"Hey Dawn I just talked to Giles and there was a vampire feeding last
night."

"So?  That happens all the time here."

"Well I don't have all the details yet, but there were some unusual
circumstances that he thinks are indicative of someone possibly coming
after you."

"Ok, so what do you want me to do?"

"Nothing yet.  It may end up being nothing, but we just thought it'd be
a good idea if you were aware of things and keeping an eye out for the
unusual, whatever that is for Sunnydale.  What are your plans for tonight?"

"Nicole and I were just going to go to a movie then back to her house."

"Ok just call me after movie's over will you?  Willow and I should be
home by them.

"Sure Buffy.  You sure everything's ok?"

"Yes I'm sure.  Go have your fun ok?"

"All right then.  I'll see you later."

Buffy closed her phone and left the dressing room.  After she paid for
her clothes she left the store in search of Willow finding her at the food
court.

"Hey Willow let's run by the house real quick so I can drop this stuff
off.  I'm also going to need some time so I can call Dawn and have her help
me with something over the phone."

"Is everything ok?"

"Yes, everything is fine.  Why does everyone keep asking me that?"

"Alright, sorry I was just checking.  How long are you going to be at
the house?  Do I have time to run by Xander's and drop of something?"

"I won't be that long, but go on ahead."

***

As Willow came to a stop Buffy got out of the car.  She started towards
her house, but then stopped and motioned for Willow to lower the window.

"It might be forty-five minutes or so, so don't rush.."

"Is everything ok?"

"Willow," Buffy said shooting her an annoyed look.

"Yeah, I know I'll be back in a little while."

As Willow pulled away Buffy walked to her front door which she found
unlocked.  She was certain she locked it before she left and pulled out a
stake as she walked inside and closed the door behind her.  Stepping inside
she found all of the curtains to be closed and all the lights off.  It
wasn't pitch black being the middle of the day, but someone wanted to be
hidden and Buffy wanted to know who.  She reached for the light switch, but
was stopped by a voice.

"Leave the lights off and drop the stake."

"No chance.  Who are you?"

"Where's Dawn?"

"Not here.  What do you want?"

"It's not me who wants her, it's him."

"Enough of these games," Buffy said curtly before flipping on the
lights. A look of confusion crossed her face as she looked at the young
girl in blue jeans and a t-shirt.

"Expecting someone else?"

"Perhaps.  Who are you?"

"Where's Dawn?"

"Not here.  Now for the last time who are you?"

"Claudia.  Do you believe vampires are inherently evil?"

"Around here they usually are.  Why?"

"Because I don't want you to kill me."

"You're a vampire?"

"Yes."

"You don't look a day over eleven."

"Ten actually, but I am a vampire.  See?" Claudia showed Buffy her
fangs.

"You leave me no choice.  They don't call me a vampire slayer for
nothing."

"Why didn't you kill Angel or Spike?"

"What business is it of yours?"

"It isn't really, but your history is well documented among the vampire
communities.  Do you really want to kill me?"

"At some point you will become a threat to me and my friends.  Vampires
are soulless and evil."

"I don't mean to be rude, but that's a load of shit. The knowledge of 
vampires your former watcher brought over from England is a mix of 
truths and misconceptions. Giles taught you what he believed to be true,
because that's what the Watcher's Council told him so I can't entirely fault
him there. Your vampire lore is a bit off base. Since you're probably 
wondering first off I got into your house simply by climbing in through your
window. This whole having to be invited in doesn't apply to everyone and 
neither does losing your soul. I've been of my own free will for the last two
hundred years to choose between doing good and evil. Right now I choose
to be in the middle. Leave me alone and I'll leave you alone. Simple enough
for everyone to understand. Oh and drinking dead blood like your white haired 
friend in the kitchen who thinks I don't know he's there is doing will kill some 
vampires."

"The young lass is right."

"Spike!" Buffy jumped at his sudden voice booming from the kitchen.
"What're you doing here?"

"I have some rather interesting news that I wanted to give you, but
she's beat me here it seems.  Who might you be little lady?" Spike said
walking to Claudia patting her on the head as he squat in front of her.

Claudia's hand slapped Spike's cheek and she growled at him.

"Don't patronize me.  I don't take to it well," Claudia warned her fangs
protruding out a bit.

"Just like the dead pedophile found out this morning I'm sure."

"So you're the one responsible."

"Giles has called you about the feasting then I take it?" Spike asked.

"Yeah he did.  He mentioned something about the vampire being smaller
and weaker than the victim."

"And she is.  You see there's a reason vampires are so picky when it
comes to those who they choose to convert.  Claudia is of no real danger to
you.  She's small and weak.  She has the body of a ten-year-old and she
needs to knock out her victims to feed.  Lestat's the one who you should
worry about.  He's the one she's chasing or perhaps working with."

"Don't you ever mention his name and mine in the same sentence again!"
Claudia slapped Spike again and he stood up laughing.

"You see there are two basic rules in the vampire community.  One don't
kill another vampire.  We follow that about as well as humans do with each
other.  Two don't turn somebody who is too young and weak to take care of
themselves.  It's before my time but I know bits and pieces of young
Claudia's history with Lestat and for someone who was to have supposedly
died almost a hundred forty years ago she's doing remarkably well."

"I've been around longer than you have.  I can more than take care of
myself!" Claudia snarled.

"Yes, by turning tricks and beating men senseless so you can feed
without them beating the crap out of you."

"Like your life has been any better William.  You used to take pride and
fancy in a good bludgeoning, but now your Buffy's lapdog."

"I am not her lapdog!"

"Please you're no better than Angel.  At least he didn't need a chip in
his head in order to control his urges."

"I am better than Angel!" Spike screamed slapping Claudia across the
face knocking her to the ground.

"Spike what are you doing?!?  Both of you cut it out!" Buffy shouted
getting between the two vampires.

"I'm sorry Buffy, I know better than to let a brat push my buttons but
she had it coming!"

"You'll always be a poor man's Angel!" Claudia taunted.

"Shut up!" Spike start to push around Buffy to get to Claudia when Buffy
pushed him backwards.

"For the last time both of you stop!" Buffy screamed.  Spike and Claudia
leered at each other grinding their teeth.  There was silence for a few
moments and Buffy spoke.  "Are we cool now?" There was more silence.  "I
said are we cool now?"

Both vampires mumbled an incoherent yes and took seats in chairs on
opposite ends of the living room.  Buffy sat down on a couch between them.

"Just for my own curiosity," Buffy began, "How are you still alive if
you're supposed to be dead?"

"It was me and my caretaker Madeleine that were to die that morning.
Louis changed her just that morning.  Like William said-"

"My name's Spike."

"Whatever.  Like William said there are two rules to follow.  There used
to be anyway.  It seems now days vampires are as out for themselves as
humans are.  Anyway, Louis broke both of them so as punishment the vampires
of the theater in Paris locked Madeleine and I in a small chamber that lead
to the streets above.  The only problem was the top was grated so sunlight
shone through.  Despite having only known me for not even a week Madeleine
protected my like her own daughter.  We both stripped naked and she covered
me with our clothes and laid on top of me.  I was buried underneath a pile
of ash and clothing for days.  Finally I crawled out and it was several
more days before someone from the street heard my cries for help."

"Ok I get that, so why are you here then?"

"Because Lestat's in town and he's out to get you.  Claudia's here to
protect you I suppose and get her revenge for whatever pent up anger she
has towards him."

"Angel, I mean Spike shut up!" Claudia chided

"What's your bloody problem?"

"Both of you shut up now and don't speak until I say so!" Buffy growled.
"Claudia you first.  We've got a new vampire in town.  So what?  We get
them all the time in Sunnydale."

"Lestat's died twice before that I know of so he's not exactly afraid of
death or you."

"So he's just another vampire who wants me dead."

"Yeah would you bloody get on with it already?" Spike complained.  "Ah
nevermind I will.  From what I've heard about him Lestat is a bit of a
glory hound and getting rid of you would only boost his self-worth."

"Except that he's after Dawn, and is more interested in Buffy suffering
than dieing."

"What?" Spike and Buffy asked looking at Claudia.

"Lestat could care less about killing Buffy.  He wants to watch her
suffer.  He'd take more pleasure from it than killing you."

"So where's this Lestat at?  When do I get to slay him?"

"He's staying at a hotel on the outskirts of town." Claudia replied.

"A hotel?  Isn't that a little out in the open for a vampire?"

"Not if you're trying to keep your identity hidden and be in a rock
band. Besides he's got some sort of mystical security surrounding his room
I'm sure," Spike said.

"A rock band?  Why would he be in one those?"

"Did anyone else besides me find it a little odd that Korn, who's
playing at the Bronze in two days, had their opening band somehow get
murdered which was replaced by a band called Satan's Night Out who was once
called-"

"The Vampire Lestat." Claudia said interrupting Spike.

"Good so you're not retarded."

"Shut up Spike.  So he's going to use the concert to get to Dawn to do
who knows what." Claudia said.

"There won't be a concert," Buffy said sternly.  "Dawn went to the
movies with her friend Nicole.  I'll just find out which one and keep an
eye on things.  It's dark now so Spike take Claudia patrolling or
something. And before I forget there's one other thing."

"No!" Spike said emphatically.

"You don't even know what I'm going to say."

"Yes I do and she's a hateful little brat!"

"And you're a sad wannabe-"

"Claudia, Spike shut up both of you.  We don't have time for this and at
least for the time she's here Spike I want-"

"Don't you dare say it," Spike said with a pained look.

"Say what?" Claudia asked.

"At least while Claudia's in town I want her to stay with you Spike."

"No!  Why me?!?"

"Because she's new in town and doesn't have a place to sleep during the
day and I want her to leave here alive."

"Damn it!  No!"

"I'd love to stay at Spike's place," Claudia smirked rubbing it in.

***

Night was in full bloom as Claudia sat on top of the headstone of a
deceased Marvin Tressil.  Spike was nearby standing and waiting with a
stake in his hand.

"So you help Buffy patrol Sunnydale to keep it safe from vampires?"
Claudia asked.

"Sometimes."

"Why?"

"I don't know.  That's what friends do I guess," Spike answered rolling
his eyes.

"What's your problem Spike?"

"What do you mean?"

"You rolled your eyes at me."

"I guess I don't share the same pursuit of inane knowledge like you."

"Are you always this big of a jackass to people?"

"You're not a person you're a vampire."

"Just answer the question."

Spike shrugged his shoulders non-chalantly.

"Lovely.  I'd like to see you without the chip in your head."

"You'd be dead for starters and I've got my soul back thank you. The chip
has been long gone thank you very much."

Claudia hopped off the tombstone and walked towards Spike.  She reached
back and punched him once in the crotch.  Spike immediately grabbed his
groin and fell to the ground in agony.

"God damn it Claudia!  That bloody hurt!" Spike screamed as he rolled
around.

"Stop being such an ass and I won't do it again."

"I'm just kidding that didn't hurt at all," Spike said jumping to his
feet.  "Next time hit a little harder or get a grown up to do it.

"You mean like him?" Claudia asked pointing behind Spike.  He turned
around and saw Marvin Tressil climbing from his grave.

"Nap time's not over yet Marvin," Spike said picking up the stake off
the ground and driving it into his heart.

"Spike!" Claudia shrieked.  Spike quickly turned around and saw a second
vampire holding Claudia above the ground by her neck.

"Lestat sends his regards and told me to give you this warning against
anybody coming after him."

"Spike he's got a stake, help me!" Claudia cried.

"That I do," the vampire said removing one from his boot.  "Yes, Lestat
thought it would wiser to have me kill this little cunt myself rather than
relying on the sun again.  Any last words?"

"Don't be a pussy- uh ah what's your name?  I can't seem to remember it.
You must be a lap dog for somebody."

"My name's Seven damn it and watch your!"

"So where's six and eight?  Or is it five and nine?  What numbering
system are you using?"

"That's it!  The bitch is dead and you're next!"

Seven reached back to stab Claudia but suddenly felt a sharp pain in his
arm as Spike pierced it with the stake.  The vampire dropped Claudia and
the weapon and growled in pain.  Seven pulled the stake out and lunged at
Spike who sidestepped him grabbing him by the back of his shirt and
throwing him into the side of a nearby mausoleum.  The building wall
crumbled as Seven crashed through and he quickly got up screaming and
hollering.

Spike casually walked up to him and threw the first punch.  The two
vampires punched and kicked and swung each other into trees and tombstones
for the better part of ten minutes.  Spike found himself on the defensive
as Seven threw him into a brand new freshly installed marble tombstone that
didn't completely break on impact.  Seven then picked Spike up and threw
him across the cemetery into a large oak tree that shook with the crashing
body.

"God that's not fair!  Everything's supposed to be old in here!" Spike
mumbled hurting as he climbed to his feet.  Seven found a thick tree branch
on the ground and picked it up.

"Now you die Spike!" Seven shouted as Spike looked up in time to see the
vampire ready for his deathblow.  Seven's arm came shooting towards Spike
when he suddenly vanished into thin air.

"Interesting."

"Now we're even," Claudia said smiling clutching the stake that killed
Seven.  "Although technically I killed him."

"But if I didn't save your life then you wouldn't have a kill to boast
about!"

"Even here in the cemetery you two argue."

"What're you doing here Buffy?" Spike asked.

"I found the theater and uneventfully followed Dawn and Nicole back to
Nicole's house and nothing happened.  Dawn said it's been quiet all day.
I'm a little bored right now so I don't mind some patrolling for the time
being."

"I killed my first vampire!" Claudia exclaimed.

"So I heard," Buffy replied.

"Yeah, but I saved her life so the kill's half mine in the very least."

"You don't earn prizes for number of kills as far as I know," Buffy said
smiling at the continued exchange between Spike and Claudia.  "Why don't
you two head to Spike's crypt?  There's little going on and the sun will be
up in a few hours."

"Fine I could use a drink.  This child is driving me crazy," Spike
glared at Claudia

"Oh shove it Spike!" Claudia rebutted.

"Ah it's good to see the two of you acting like life long friends."

***

Nicole's parents slept soundly in their bed as their daughter lay on the
floor and Dawn laid on the couch in the living room watching "The Fast and
The Furious".  Friday had turned into Saturday and both girls were having a
hard time staying up.

"Damn it's late," Nicole said yawning as she looked at the vcr clock
which read one thirty.  "How about we finish this later?"

"Sure, I haven't been getting much sleep lately and I could use some."

When the vcr and tv was off the two girls started up the stairs towards
Nicole's room.  As they reached the top of the stairs the doorbell rang.

"Damn it Chris!"

"What?"

"Chris said he might come over tonight after we got back from the movie.
He knows better than to come over this late.  My parents will be pissed if
they wake up." The two girls then proceeded back down the stairs to the
front door.  Nicole looked through the peephole and saw nothing.  She then
unlocked the door and saw nobody out front.  "Damn it Chris, this isn't the
time to be doing this!" Nicole shouted.

Suddenly something fell off the roof and Nicole and Dawn slowly walked
towards the lump.  Their eyes lit up in horror and they screamed when they
recognized Chris' beaten dead body.  His head had been twisted around one
hundred eighty degrees.  The girls ran back inside the house and slammed
the door shut locking it.

"So which one of you young ladies wants to die first?" Nicole and Dawn
screamed as they turned around and made out a figure in the dark though his
features were indistinguishable.  "Wait a second neither one of you is
going to die tonight."

"Nicole what's going on?" her father shouted as he came running down the
stairs with a pistol in hand.

"There's someone here!" Nicole shouted pointing in the creature's
direction.

"Leave now!"

"I can't leave yet, not without Dawn." Dawn shrieked at the mention of
her name.

"You ain't taking her anywhere!  Get out of here now before I shoot
you!" the father shouted.

"Shoot me then old man." Nicole's father emptied out the gun into the
hidden being, but it just stood there and laughed taking all the shots.

"Oh my god he's a vampire!" Dawn screamed.

"It can't be!" The father screamed.

"But it is," the vampire smiled leaping at the man taking a bite from
his neck and sucking out the blood.

The vampire drained all of the blood from Nicole's father and she
screamed as he fell to the floor lifeless.  The vampire struck Nicole
across the face knocking her to the floor.

"James!  James!  What's going on?" Nicole's mother shouted as she joined
everyone on the bottom floor.

"Dad's dead!  The vampire killed him!" Nicole shouted from her prone
position on the floor.

"Oh my god no!" Mother screamed as she took off back up the stairs for
the cross in her room.  With quick steps the vampire caught the woman
halfway up the stairs.  He quickly grabbed her head by the neck and snapped
it back.  Nicole started screaming again as her mother's body tumbled down
the stairs falling on top of her father.

"Please don't kill me!  Please don't kill me!" Nicole begged as the
vampire slowly walked towards her.

"I'm not going to kill you just yet.  You'll die later.  All I want you
to do is to deliver a message to Buffy.  Tell her Lestat's in town and he's
going to spend some quality time with her sister.  Will you do that for
me?"

"Ye- yes!  Yes!" Nicole stammered.

"Good," Lestat smiled before burying his teeth in Nicole's neck.  She
cried and squirmed as he sucked the blood from her body weakening her more
every second.  With a loud sigh Lestat pulled his face from Nicole's neck
and let her limp body fall to the floor.  "You should be good for one more
day at least.  Buffy will find you before you die and when she does just
give her my message.  Now where did Dawny go?"

"I'm right here Lestat." The vampire turned to see Dawn standing in the
kitchen with a broken pointy broom handle in her hand.

"Isn't this cute?  The slayer's sister pretending to be the slayer."
Lestat slowly began to saunter towards Dawn.

"I'm warning you!  Don't come any closer!" Dawn shouted some fear
obvious in her voice.

"Or else what?" he mocked her standing within inches of her.

"This!"

Dawn jammed the rod down towards Lestat who easily caught it before it
came anywhere near his heart.  He yanked it from Dawn's hand and threw it
to the ground.  With a few quick moves Lestat was behind Dawn with his arms
around her in a choke hold.  She struggled mightily for a few minutes but
eventually succumbed and passed out.  Throwing Dawn of his shoulders Lestat
started back towards the front door stopping momentarily to kick Nicole.

"You still alive?"

"Yeah..." Nicole groaned.

"Good."

***

"So you stay here huh?" Claudia asked as she walked through Spike's
crypt with him.

"Yes."

"It's so big, don't you ever get bored being here by yourself?"

"Occasionally another vamp or two passing through will stay for a bit,
but I'm used to it.  Want some?" Spiked asked after taking a big chug from
the whiskey bottle he had just pulled from an old wooden shelf.

"Sure," Claudia said taking the bottle from him and down some whiskey.
"So you and Buffy are friends I take it?"

"Of sorts, it's complicated."

"How?"

"It just is."

"Have you ever thought about moving into her house?  You could stay in
the basement.  It looks ok down there."

"Claudia?" Spike smirked looking at her.  "Would you please stop asking
about Buffy and I?"

"Sure."

"Thank you very much."

"Can I ask you something?"

"It better not be about Buffy."

"It's about Angel."

"Him neither."

"What happened between you two?"

"Tell me Claudia have you ever lost your soul?"

"No."

"Have you known anyone who has?"

"No."

"Let me tell you something.  It's not a fun thing to lose, nor is it any
when you've got it back.  Sure you have your moments when you've gone evil
and nothing bothers you, but getting that damned soul back makes everything
miserable.  It makes you all moody and depressed like it did Angel whom
you're so fond of speaking about.  He's been gone a few years now so he's
not exactly part of the circle here in Sunnydale."

"Ok fine I won't talk about Angel anymore."

"Good."

"But what you?"

"What about me?  Why must you keep blathering?  It's starting to become
rather annoying."

"Do you regret getting your soul back?"

"It's none of your business.  It's not any more fun than bed hopping
with child molesters." Claudia started to squeeze the whiskey bottle so
hard that it cracked and broke in her hands.  "Ah damn it kid you destroyed
my favorite bottle." Claudia looked at Spike and just stared at him.
"What?"

"I may not have ever lost my soul, but you have no god damn right to be
talking about things you know nothing about!"

"Goodie the little vampire that could has gone mad," Spike smiled.

"You know what Spike, fuck you.  You have no fucking clue what it's like
the spend two hundred years of your life playing off the dark fantasies of
men and in some cases women so you can survive.  Sure you had some
suffering and some things to deal with once you regained your soul, but at
least when you were evil you had fun doing it!"

"Oh sure I had fun killing people for sport because I could, but don't
you dare scream at me about talking about things I know nothing of!  Yeah I
remember having fun causing the shit I did, but my suffering didn't just
come and go when I regained my soul.  I was in my own personal hell for a
long time and it took even longer to get anyone let alone Buffy to trust
me."

"You're still an ass!"

"You're still a hateful little brat!" Spike and Claudia glared at each
other breathing heavily.  Their teeth started to grind.  "Here, let me try
that again." Spike sat on his knees in front of Claudia and smiled.
"You're still a hateful little brat!"

Claudia's hands clenched into fists and the urge to punch Spike was
there festering inside of her.  Yet as she looked at him, at his smirk,
Claudia couldn't bring herself to do it.

"You know what Spike, you win," Claudia conceded.  "You win and you're
right."

"I am?  Oh yes I am.  Why are you giving up so easily?"

"I'm not.  It took me two hundred years, but I'm finally facing reality.
Louis gave me Madeleine because he knew he couldn't just up and leave me on
my own.  There were too many that wanted us dead and I'm little like you've
so eloquently said so many times tonight.  How in the world is anything so
small and so young as I am supposed to survive on it's own?  Humans now
days live until they're eighteen before they even begin to think about
moving out of the house.  Here I am at ten trying to make it by myself."

"Claudia look-"

"No you're right Spike.  I've told Buffy everything I know and you're
going to be around so I'm no longer needed here.  Morning's almost here so
I'll stay in your crypt for the day, but I'll be leaving at next
nightfall."

"I have to hand it to you Claudia you almost had me," Spike said getting
to his feet and sitting on the couch.

"Had you?  What're you talking about?" Claudia replied following him.

"This whole woe is me act you're putting on."

"You think this is an act?  You bastard, you're a bigger asshole than I
thought."

"Yes I do, and please I've been called worse by better.  This little
play you like to put on may work on your unsuspecting victims, but not me."

"Fine, you've called my bluff, big deal."

"Yes well what can I say?  The sun will be up in half an hour and beside
that I'm tired after having to argue with you all night.  I'm going to bed.
You can sleep on the couch."

"Thanks for your hospitality," Claudia sarcastically remarked as she
went into autopilot removing her pants and shoes to change into her
sleeping clothes.  "Where's my bag at?" She asked noticing it was not
around.

"You're bag?  I didn't know you had one.  You must have left it at
Buffy's."

"You didn't get it?"

"Was I supposed to?  I've never been known for my ability as a host."

"Great, so now what I'm supposed to sleep in?"

"You can sleep naked for all I care, just shut up so I can get some
sleep.  I've got a headache from you you know?" Spike replied climbing into
bed wearing only boxer shorts.

"Fine I'll just sleep with you then."

"Claudia no-" Spike began as felt her start to climb in bed and turned
to stop her.  It was odd for them to look at each other.  In front of Spike
with one knee on the bed a nude Claudia sat momentarily as she and him
shared glances.

"Spike you uh look good."

Treats and presents had been few and far between for Claudia and seeing
Spike in only his boxer shorts with the well-cut athletic body he had
stirred some feelings in Claudia that she had never had during her life.
Things were a bit more odd for Spike.  He had what he knew to be a two
hundred plus year old vampire in the buff in front of him trapped in a
ten-year-old body.  He wasn't sure if he was supposed to be turned on
considering her state, but the look readily able to be read in her eyes
didn't help either.

"Can I help you?" Spike asked finally breaking the silence.

"Did I already say you look good?"

"Yes you did and you're not getting into my pants."

"You think I said that because I want to get into your pants?"

"Why else would you say it?  You wouldn't be first girl to do such a
thing although technically you would be a girl." Claudia stood up and
stared at Spike as if to say, 'What the hell is wrong with you?' "What?
You don't think this could possibly work out do you?  You're trapped in the
body of a ten-year-old.  What could you possibly do for me?"

Claudia climbed back onto the bed and crawled her way over to Spike
straddling his stomach.  "Watch me," She said with a wicked smile.

Everything with Claudia Spike convinced himself he didn't want to happen
was starting to.  He did little to struggle as her face edged nearer to his
and they locked lips.  Claudia brought her face back and she smiled as her
hands slid up and down Spike's chest.  She slid off his body and positioned
herself into a sixty-nine position with him.

Spike's boxers slid down his legs and the cool air of the crypt breezed
across his hardening cock pushing the process along.  Claudia grabbed the
base of Spike's dick slowly moving her hand up and down.  Her tongue
quickly found it's way to the shaft following the back and forth movement
of her hand.  The vampire who argued and spit insults back at him turned
Spike on and he wanted her.

Claudia's body cringed and she moaned momentarily losing her focus as
she felt Spike's tongue slither up and down her slit pushing into her hole.
Claudia's fingers then slid down to his balls and her tiny hand began to
massage them as she took him into her mouth.  In a guilt free moment of
lust for the both of them Claudia and Spike decided what the hell and to
make the most of it.  Spike's tongue began to more and more slide into
Claudia's twat.  He pushed his right index finger into her wet cavern and
listened to her moan at the penetration.

As Claudia's head bobbed up and down with Spike between her lips he
began to finger her cunt with a little more energy.  His left thumb
pressured her clit while his tongue pushed across it.  Then as Spike pushed
his finger a bit deeper into Claudia he hit something that scared the shit
out of him.  He quickly pulled his finger out and stopped orally pleasuring
her.

"What's wrong?" Claudia asked stopping a few moments before returning to
her blowjob on Spike.

"How are you still a virgin Claudia?" Spike grunted the pleasure from
her mouth on his member pulsing through his body.  "I thought you did in
the bad people before you killed them."

"I do and I'm not one."

"But I just felt your hymen and while virgins may be good for demon
sacrifices it's just something I don't want to deal with especially with
the non-human types.  Who knows how ugly things can get if they're first
time isn't satisfying."

"I'm not a virgin Spike.  One of my faults as a vampire is my bodies
incessant need to return to it's form before I was changed.  I've lost my
virginity a few hundred times before."

"Oh."

"So is everything alright now?"

"Peachy."

"Good, because now I want to fuck.  It's not often I get to do it under
normal circumstances."

Spike's prick stood up in the air as Claudia stood up on the bed and
turned around.  With her small body facing his Claudia slowly and carefully
lowered herself onto him.  Spike's prick pushed to just over nine inches
and was one of the tighter fits that Claudia had to get her body accustomed
to.  He was in a similar situation too.  Spike had bedded many a female
whether it be human, vampire, or otherwise, but never had he been with
someone so small.  With the size differential as it was it didn't take long
for Spike's dick to push into Claudia's hymen while still adjusting to the
tight fit.

"Damn, I didn't realize the fit would be this tight and that I wouldn't
have far to go to make you into a woman again."

"You could always pretend you're the dirty old man and I'm the sweet
young girl."

"That's not funny."

"Sorry, just bust my cherry already.  I'm rather used to it."

"Your cherry?" Spike grunted as he burst through the membrane of flesh
inside of Claudia.  "I hate that juvenile slang."

"I can't help it.  It's a sign of the times."

"Yeah well not everything from modern time is great."

"Some things are," Claudia grinned as Spike pushed to bottom out in her.

Claudia leaned forward and using the wall behind the bed to hold herself
up she helped push herself down on Spike thrusting her hips into his as she
sat on him.  With every thrust into Claudia's folds Spike's dick pulsed
with sexual energy as he watched the small vampire bounce up and down on
him.

"Jesus Spike your big fat dick feels so fucking good in me," Claudia
moaned as her twat took in Spike's prick in an attempt to suck the life
from it.  To have her folds continually pushed and stretched by a large
member was finally a turn on for Claudia.

"A girl who likes dirty talk.  You don't see too many of those around
anymore."

"I'm not like most girls.  Just fuck me good and hard," Claudia begged.
Her pussy burned and was wetting itself.  Orgasm wasn't far off.

"Good and hard you say?"

"God yes!" She moaned as her body was split by the large dick.  Her
female juices began to flow from her pussy.

"And a female vampire who can come too.  Nice."

"We're not all alike.  God damn it!" Spike began to laugh and Claudia
pouted as she came.  Her vampiric cum covering Spike who was still engorged
in her.  Claudia fell on top of Spike with him still stuck in her as she
calmed down a bit and her body relaxed itself for it's next activity.

"How different are you Claudia?" Spike asked a wicked dirty idea coming
to mind.

"How different do you want me to be?  This is the first I've been able
to have sex without being someone's dirty fantasy."

"Lay down on your stomach."

"Why, what are you going to do?" Claudia asked as she switched places
with Spike and he got behind her.

"Not much," he whispered in her ear.

"I see!" Claudia moaned when she felt his cockhead rub up against her
asshole.  "Don't play games though, just do it and stick it in deep no
matter how I react."

Claudia's first reaction was that of brief pain as Spike pierced her
anus with his member.  Anal sex was something Claudia had done before, but
not often and it had been awhile since the last time she did it.  She could
hear Spike moan and talk dirty as he pushed more and more of himself into
her backside.  Slowly but surely Claudia's asshole stretched to comfort the
large invasive object.

The pleasure Spike took from riding Claudia's ass was ten times that of
fucking her tight little cunt.  His grunts became louder and his thrusts
harder and more wild.  The feeling in her body and between her legs was
something Claudia now didn't quite understand.  The same vaginal and anal
sex she had before was now becoming pleasurable.  The sex now wasn't for
survival of any kind, but rather it was about carnal pleasure.

With Spike's nine inches burying deep into her with every push Claudia's
pussy began to wet again leaving her to yearn for another orgasm.  Her
sphincter began to squeeze tighter and tighter around Spike's member and he
began to near gratification.  Claudia let out a high pitched scream as her
body was rocked for the second time of the morning.  She felt Spike's cold
sticky semen spurt out into her ass when he let out a wicked grunt and his
hands squeezed her body hard.  When he emptied out Spike fell back onto his
bed and Claudia laid where she was.  Heavy breathing was all that was
audible in an otherwise silent crypt.  After several minutes Claudia was
the one to break the ice.

"Perhaps give the situation Buffy shouldn't know what happened here
tonight."

"That doesn't sound like too bad an idea.  I don't quite think she'd be
readily able to let this go despite the fact you're older than you look."

"Spike?"

"Yes?"

"What kind of relationship do you and Buffy really have?"

***

Buffy opened the refrigerator and started to put away some groceries she
had just bought at the store.  As she put the last of it away Buffy began
to worry.  It was almost one thirty and she still hadn't heard from Dawn.

"Hey Willow," she called walking into the living room where Willow as on
the couch watching tv.

"Yeah Buffy?"

"Dawn didn't call by any chance while I was at the store did she?"

"No, why?"

"Well after Claudia and Spike left and before you came back I called
Dawn and asked her to check in with me today and she hasn't yet."

"What time did you tell her to call?"

"I didn't."

"Well maybe she and Nicole are just at the mall and she forgot."

"She didn't forget.  Something's happened."

Buffy picked up the house's cordless phone and dialed Dawn's cell number
first.  When the voicemail activated she then called Nicole's house, but
got the answering machine.  Frantic and starting to panic just a small bit
Buffy ran into the kitchen to find their address book and look up Nicole's
cell number.  Buffy really started to panic when Nicole's voicemail came
on.

"Willow I'll be right back.  I'm not getting an answer from anyone so
I'm going to drive over to Nicole's to check on things."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Nothing yet.  I'm hoping for the best, but I'm not feeling it right
now."

"Be careful Buffy."

"I will, just wait here."

"Ok."

She didn't know why, but Buffy was in a full-fledge panic right as she
raced to Nicole's house running stop signs and red lights.  Parking the
s.u.v.  in the driveway Buffy quickly walked nearly running to the front
door.  She rang the doorbell several times waiting for an answer she never
got.  Buffy reached for the doorknob and stopped when she felt it turn.  It
was unlocked.

"Oh god no," She mumbled to herself as she stepped inside the house.
The bodies of Nicole's parents were laying on top of each other and Nicole
was sprawled out in the middle of the living room.  After finding both
parents to be dead Buffy was surprised she found a faint pulse in Nicole.
She became even more concerned when she found the bite mark on Nicole's
neck.  Buffy pulled out her cell phone and called the house.

"Hello?"

"Willow, it's Buffy.  I'm at Nicole's house.  Her parents are dead, her
blood's been drained by a vampire and she's barely alive."

"What about Dawn?"

"I don't know, she's gone.  Just get over here and get Nicole to a
hospital."

Buffy sat down on the floor as she flipped off her phone.  As the worst
of scenarios came into mind she began to silently weep.

"Buffy...  Is that you?"

"Oh god Nicole your conscious!" Buffy shouted hovering over the girl.

"Am I going to die?  Am I going to turn into one of them?"

"One of them?"

"The vampire...  he bit me."

"Who bit you?"

"He said...  He said his name was Lestat and that....  And that he
wanted me to give you a message."

"What?  What's the message?"

"Tell her Lestat's in town and he's going to spend some quality time
with her sister."

"Dawn, oh god no."

***

Dawn moaned and grimaced as consciousness slowly returned to her body.
She blinked her eyes several times sitting up in bed.

"It's good to see you're finally awake.  I had started to worry that
you'd never wake up."

"Where am I?  Who are you?" She asked as she looked around the room.  It
looked to be a dingy and dirty hotel room.  The window was sealed tight
with a large blanket that blocked out the sun, though the lack of light was
indicative of early dusk.  Except for a lamp that gave the room modest
light it was dark and dreary inside the rundown hotel room.  Dawn quickly
pulled the bed sheet over her body as her hand brush against the side of
her butt as she pushed herself up and felt bare skin.

"You forgot my name already?  We met just last night.  I'm so
disappointed in you.  Anyway why so modest Dawn?  We're all born nude.
That's right you're not a real human are you?  Well you take the form of
one anyway which I'm thankful for.  It'll make forcing Buffy to suffer all
that much easier.  Tell me something though Ms.  Summers what do you think
of your sister being the Slayer, the chosen one?"

"All of you foul demons deserve to die!"

"Ah ah ah.  That's not nice.  Demons and vampires are two completely
different creatures.  The demons I could care less about.  It's Buffy's
slaughter of vampires that bothers me," Lestat replied bemused.

"She only kills the evil ones," Dawn snarled.

"Good, bad, what difference does it make?  She lost her virginity to one
and he turned evil!  Oh, bad vampires must be killed, but bad humans she
won't touch.  They'll just go to jail or suffer some other inane form of
punishment and be back on the streets in six months!  I did some research
on your little family and did you know a rogue Slayer, named Faith, tried
to kill both your sister and her first true love Angel?  Did Buffy try to
kill Faith?  No she didn't!  It's ok if you're a human and you try to kill
me!  I'll just beat you up a bit before sending you away!" Dawn screamed as
Lestat angrily tore the bedsheets from her nude body.  "Buffy likes to kill
members of my extended family.  I can accept that.  A great many of the
vampire are evil and mean, but they simply don't deserve to die.  You
should be thankful that we can be just as petty as humans or else we would
have enslaved this entire planet by now." Lestat shook his head several
times as if trying to clear it.  "My apologies, I'm getting off track here.
World domination is a discussion we can have another time.  Like I said
Buffy wants to take away my family fine.  I'll return the favor, but unlike
her I won't kill you.  At least not completely."

"No!" Dawn moaned as Lestat sank his teeth into her neck.  She fell onto
her back becoming slightly dizzy as her blood pumped into his mouth.
Lestat let out a giggling groan as he drank from Dawn's neck.

He brought his head back after several seconds and smiled like a happy
child before he pressed his blood-covered lips into Dawn's.  Suddenly an
urge and an idea hit Lestat and his tongue pressed into the girl's mouth.
Dawn cringed and groaned as the vampire tongued her.  She was relieved
though weary when Lestat separated his head from hers again.

"I hadn't planned on this, but it's been awhile since I've had a young
nubile teen as yourself.  This'll bother you more that it bothers me."

"Please don't!" Dawn whined as Lestat's lips kissed and pressed down her
body towards her breasts.  "Oh god no!"

"God can't help you know," Lestat coldly said as he began to nibble on
Dawn's nipples.  The perky centers pointed upwards as the vampire's tongue
brushed across them.  Lestat would periodically pull them between his lips
as his teeth bit into them.

"Please stop!" Dawn cried when Lestat's teeth sank deep into her right
breast.  She could feel the blood start to flow from that bite mark as well
as the vampire began to suck heavily.  Pain and emptiness started to grow
within Dawn as her left breast was soon bitten.  A pert teen chest turned
on the good side in Lestat.  He enjoyed the nice things in life, teen girls
being one of them.

"Stop!  Please no more!  I can't take it!  I'll get Buffy to quit!  I
promise!"

Dawn's whining pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears.  Lestat's exploration
of her body with his tongue continued further down until he got to the spot
between her legs.  Dawn bit her lip and started crying as Lestat slipped
his tongue up and down her slit.  She moaned pathetically as he pushed it
in inside.  Dawn was confused and humiliated suffering from a number of
different things, but as disgusting as being molested by a vampire was she
quickly became despondent and full of despair as she felt Lestat's bite
marks on her neck and breasts.  Lestat sank his teeth into both of Dawn's
inner thighs and as he removed his teeth from her blood oozing legs a faint
odor in the air fancied him.

"My my my, what do we have here?" Lestat asked with a devilish smile.
"You're still a virgin my sweet Dawn and with a vampire just like your
sister was.  You're not quite the beastly slut she is I see so tell me, has
she fucked that bitch Spike yet?  Nevermind, it won't matter as I don't
have the time to visit her before I go."

"Lestat, please I'm begging you!" Dawn squealed horrified.

"You don't want this do you?"

"Please god no!"

"TOO BAD!"

Dawn screamed hysterically as she watched Lestat drop his trousers and
she screamed some more when she felt his prick push up against her opening.
Feeling Lestat's cock inside of her made Dawn lose her strength through
depressed humiliation.  He laughed joyously every time he thrust into Dawn
and she just laid there even when her hymen was broken sending a small jolt
of pain through her body.  Dawn turned her head and looked at Lestat.  The
laughing smile on his face contrasted starkly to the catatonic-like state
of shock that was on Dawn's face.

The cool temperatured body of Lestat felt oddly nice to Dawn and more so
his dick as it was pushed in and out of her twat.  At least it would have
had Dawn been in situation to lose her virginity to a vampire similar to
Buffy's.  There were two reactions in the room when Lestat orgasmed and
came inside Dawn.  She was happy that it was finally over with though she
didn't express it in any manner and he was happy now that Dawn was
suffering and soon Buffy would be too.  Lestat climbed off of Dawn pulling
his pants back up and she slowly curled up into a fetal position on the
bed.

"You...  you've had your fun.  Please...  Leave me alone..." Dawn barely
mumbled being in a very weakened state.

"I will after you do one thing."

"What is it?"

"You're feeling weak right now aren't you?  I can hear it in your voice
and see it in your eyes.  You're going to die soon, unless you drink my
blood.  You'll be a vampire but you still be alive.  Sort of." Lestat
sliced his wrist with one of his fingernails and held it in front of Dawn.
She refused and weakly pushed it away.  "You don't want to drink huh?  How
do think Buffy's going to react when her sister dies?  She loves you
despite the fact that you're not a real human or a sister.  She's already
lost her mother to some very unfortunate circumstances and I don't think
she'd like to lose you this way.  Do you?"

"Fuck you Lestat!  Don't you mention our mother again!" Dawn coughed.
Lestat became angered and grabbed Dawn by the throat pinning her to the
bed.

"No you listen you little bitch!  I don't give a shit about your dead
mother or about you and Buffy being happy!  I want to makeBuffy suffer for
her killing and it won't help if you die!  Now fucking drink or I'll dig up
your dead whore mother's body, bring her back to life, then fuck her until
she dies!" Lestat screamed in a fit of rage before slapping Dawn across the
face.

Lestat let go of Dawn's throat and as she started to cough and wheeze he
squeezed several drops of blood from his wrist that landed in her mouth and
trickled down her throat.  Dawn cried and he laughed as her transformation
into a vampire began.  Her vampirical instincts suddenly kicked in and she
grabbed for his wrist and began to hungrily suck on it drawing his blood
into her mouth.  Lestat let her feed just long enough for the change to
finish and as she lay on the bed panting and recovering he got her clothes
from the top of the room's television and threw them at her.

***

Dawn screeched and quickly rolled off the bed and underneath it as the
room's door swung open shooting light into the room.

"Shut the door!  Please shut the door!" She begged.

"Dawn?" A voice called out after the sound of shutting door echoed
through out.

"Buffy?"

"I'm here and so is Willow."

"Please go away!  You shouldn't be near me!"

"Dawn what's going on?  Are you ok?"

"Buffy she kind of freaked out at the sunlight.  This doesn't mean-"
Willow said hesitating.

"No she's not a vampire!" Buffy screamed cutting off Willow.  "Dawn
please come out from underneath the bed."

Buffy and Willow watched as Dawn's head was the first part of her body
to emerge though it was facing in the opposite direction.  Dawn still had
her back to them when she finally crawled out and stood up.

"Let's go home Dawn," Buffy said.

"I can't go outside!  I can't ever be around you again!"

"I don't know what Lestat did to you, but I'll make sure he suffers just
as much as you did.  Let's go home, it's safe outside now."

"Look at me!  Look at me!" Dawn shouted hysterically as she turned to
face Buffy and Willow.  "How can you make him suffer?  He made me into one
of them!  It's all your fault Buffy!  You're the reason he did this to me!"

"Dawn please calm down, it's not Buffy's fault.  She had nothing to do
with this," Willow said trying to calm the frightened girl.

"It is her fault!  If she didn't have to be the Slayer then none of this
would have happened!  Lestat would have never come to Sunnydale and he
would never have bit me and forced me to drink his blood!"

Buffy looked at her sister, speechless, shocked, on the verge of tears
as the upturned forehead and pointy fangs stared back at her.  She leaned
against a wall and slowly slid down it to the floor mumbling as she went.

"I was too late...  I didn't take Lestat seriously enough before he
acted...  This is all my fault..."

Willow was left standing alone when Dawn fell to her knees and started
to cry hysterically.  She walked over to the newly changed vampire and put
her arm around Dawn trying to comfort her.

"It's not the end of the world really.  Maybe you could talk to Spike
and see what he has to say about when he first changed."

"I don't know," Dawn sniffled wiping tears from her eyes.  "I'm sorry
Buffy I know it's not your fault, but I don't want to be a vampire.  I
don't want to."

"It's ok Dawn, you were just letting out some anxiety.  We'll figure out
what to do next later, but right now after night falls you're going back to
the house and I'm going to teach Lestat what it means to mess with family."

***

Claudia and Spike paced back and forth in the Summers' living room as
they waited for Buffy and Willow to return.

"So where are they?  I thought they knew where Dawn was?"

"They do, they must have run into problem."

"You don't think they're dead do you?"

"You really don't know Buffy's all that well do you?  I know she's still
alive.  Something else must have come up."

"Like what?"

"We're fixing to find out," Spike said as the garage door could be heard
opening and closing.  Willow emerged by herself from the garage.  "Where's
Buffy and Dawn?"

"We found Dawn, but..."

"But what?" Claudia asked not liking Willow's hesitation.

"We were too late."

"Oh brother," Spike said concerned.

"Lestat bit Dawn and forced her to drink his blood.  Dawn's a vampire
now." A look of bewilderment crossed Willow's face as she explained things.
"She's very self-conscious and not taking to it well at all."

"Becoming a vampire is hard thing to come to terms with and I'm sure the
way Lestat went about it he didn't make it any easier.  Where's Buffy?"

"She went to the Bronze to go after Lestat."

"Damn it Buffy!  I've got to go after her," Spike said heading towards
the front door to get to his car.

"Where are you going?" Claudia asked.

"Buffy gets pretty riled in the head when it comes to family.  She could
put herself in a lot of danger that way."

"Be careful!" Willow shouted as Spike left the house.

"I will!" He replied shouting back and shutting the door.

"Perhaps I should go talk to her," Claudia volunteered walking towards
the garage.

"Would you please?  You 're both pretty close in age when you became
vampires.  Dawn's a mess right now and she's been crying since we found
her."

"Willow," Claudia said stopping as she walked past her and noticed marks
on Willow's neck.  "What happened to your neck?"

"Uh...  Dawn tried to feed on me on the way here.  I almost hit another
car."

"Oh my."

"It's not her fault.  She's new to this.  She hasn't learned to control
her cravings like you have."

"And it'll be awhile before she does.  I'm just going to talk to her and
get her in the house."

Dawn leaned against the bumper of Buffy's sport utility vehicle looking
into the night sky through the garage door window.  She was worried about
dropping Buffy off alone at the Bronze, but as serious as that might be
Buffy was more than able to take care of herself and Dawn was more consumed
with her future.  Just then she heard the door leading to the house open.

"Willow I'm sorry, please forgive me!" Dawn pleaded as she turned
expecting to see the red head.

"It's just me," Claudia said.  "Spike's left to go help your sister with
Lestat and Willow's inside worried about you."

"I couldn't help myself!  I tried to drink her blood in the car ride
here!" Dawn pouted.

"She's not mad Dawn.  She's being very understanding right now.  She
just wants to know you're alright."

"But I'm not!  I'm a vampire!"

"So am I, so is Spike.  I don't know about him, but I certainly didn't
ask to become a vampire.  It'll take some time getting used to, but slowly
it'll become easier for you to handle."

"Claudia, my craving for blood is so strong it hurts right now.  I'm
doing my best not to go inside and try to feed on Willow again," Dawn
started to fidget and lick her lips.  "Please you've got to tie me to my
bed so I don't try to feed off of Willow again or try to with Buffy when
she gets back."

"Tie you?  Are you sure?"

"Yes do it!  I don't know how much longer I can resist without help.
There's got to be some rope somewhere in here.  Find it and use it to tie
me to the bedposts on my bed."

"Sure, sure if you want."

"Please!  I don't want the same happening to Buffy or Willow."

***

Even with the door to Dawn's bedroom closed her cries could still be
heard by Willow in the living room.  Dawn was hungry, very hungry, and
craved fresh blood, but she feared for the safety of Willow and even Buffy
even though she was the Slayer.  Despite the fact that she wasn't a real
biological sister Buffy still treated and loved Dawn as one and she
appreciated it and returned Buffy's love ten fold.  If Buffy had one
weakness though it was that her emotions were easily and quickly swayed by
the well being of her loved ones which was the reason why Dawn worried for
her sister's safety now that she was a vamp.  She wasn't sure if she'd be
able to resist the urge to try and drink blood from her sister's neck.

Bound to her bed by her own wish tears slowly spilled from Dawn's eyes.
She was happy that she was able to keep that function.  Being able to cry
would at least keep some humanity in Dawn she thought.  Dawn turned her
head and saw Claudia still sitting at her desk where she had been for the
last twenty minutes.  Claudia had kept quiet and stayed with Dawn to give
her some sort of comfort.

"Claudia, how did you manage to get through the first night as a
vampire?" Dawn asked.

"It's not easy to make the change.  Some people have no problem with it
and act like as if nothing's changed.  Some people take awhile accepting
the fact they're vampires and that things are different.  I wouldn't say it
was easy, but my transition was made much easier by the fact that I had
Louis who loved and cared for me."

"Have you ever thought about looking for him?"

"I've thought about it a few times, but it's been nearly a hundred forty
years since I've seen him.  He's gotten on by now I would hope and I've
gotten used to being lonely.  I'm not going to lie to you and say
everything's going to be all right, because it's not.  Willow seems to have
a good understanding about vampires or at the very least she can easily
tolerate them, but a great majority of people out there have no idea what
the world's really like and simply don't understand and/or fear us.
Feeding on blood to survive is a real turnoff to trying to them
understanding.  There are ways now to prepare blood from processed animals
without the dead blood killing you, but if you're looking like me you can't
get into meat packing plants and what not to buy or deal for it.  I have to
resort to being in the company of humanities scum to get a chance to drink
from them."

"If you're lonely then why not go live with a group?"

"My age.  Even if Louis and I hadn't killed Lestat the theater vampires
in Paris would probably still have tried to kill me.  Many look at me like
I'm a disease because I was so young when I changed and think I should be
dead.  I'm the vampire communitie's bastard child.  The loneliness sucks,
but things aren't all bad I guess."

"They're not?  What could possibly be good about being a vampire?"

"The same things that are good about being a human.  For the vampires
who keep their soul they can laugh, fall in love, and do the same things a
human can.  Everyone, humans and vampires alike, want to talk about this
big difference between the two and how different we are when all of that's
crap.  There are two fundamental differences between us and them.  We must
feed on blood to survive and we can't go out in the sunlight, but to get
back to your question here's the thing.  Back when I was still human nobody
had even the slightest thought of inventing the airplane or making a movie
or anything like that.  You take someone from back then and insert them
into now and they'll lose it.  If nothing else I've been able to see how
humans have come along in the last two hundred years and who knows what
they'll come up with next.  Let me ask you this.  You have two choices;
either live as vampire or die.  Where's the good in dieing?"

***

Willow was concerned for Buffy since she had been in such a frenzied
emotional state when she left for the Bronze, but at least Spike
had gone to check on her.  Willow was also concerned for Dawn and
desperately wanted to do something, but she sat quietly on the couch in the
living room not knowing what if anything she could do at all.  Suddenly she
heard several high pitched groans coming from the bedroom and got up to
investigate.

"What's going on?  What's happening to her?" Willow excitedly asked as
she swung open the door to Dawn's room.

"It's nothing..." Dawn moaned.

"The first night as a vampire is usually accompanied by a great craving
to feed.  That's what's happening to her right now," Claudia added.

"Will she be better if she feeds?" Willow asked.

"Maybe.  She could learn to control her cravings tonight, it could take
her two weeks.  It's hard to tell.  It's different for every vampire."

"But she's hungry right?"

"She won't die if she doesn't feed right away, but the hunger is there.
A very strong one too."

Suddenly Dawn pulled hard on the rope binding her to the bed shaking the
entire thing.  She let out a growl and her extracted fangs glistened in the
light.  Dawn's body heaved up and down as she stared hard at Willow.

"She wants to feed on me doesn't she?" Willow asked nervously.

"She can't help it.  The craving's taken over her body.  It'll pass in a
bit," Claudia answered.

"Well...  Buffy's going to kill Lestat and you've been here comforting
her...  I should do something too..."

Willow left Dawn's room and walked to Buffy's room.  There she removed a
knife from Buffy's nightstand and used the blade to slice open her finger.
With blood trickling down her right index finger Willow returned to Dawn's
room and walked to her side.

"Willow, what are you doing?" Claudia asked getting up from the chair as
Dawn continued to writhe and move around trying to escape and get to the
fresh blood.

"Feeding her," Willow replied as she pressed her bloodied finger to
Dawn's mouth

Immediately Dawn latched onto Willow's finger and started to drink.
Willow was hit by a sudden, but temporary moment of light-headedness as she
started to lose blood.  Dawn sucked on Willow's finger for several seconds
more before releasing it and letting out a fulfilling sigh.

"Willow I'm sorry..." Dawn muttered as her vampiric urges still played
through her body.

"It's alright Dawn, I wanted you to," Willow reassured her.  She then
heard a gasp behind her and turned to see Claudia with her teeth ready to
drink.  "Claudia would you like to drink?"

"No, sorry it was a momentary lapse," Claudia said covering her mouth.

"It's alright, you can drink if you want," Willow said offering her
finger as she sat down on the side of Dawn's bed.  Claudia sat down next to
Willow and hesitantly took the finger into her hand looking it over.  "It's
ok Claudia.  You can take my wrist or some place else if you want."

"What about your thigh?"

"Ok..." Willow replied after a moment.  She stood up and dropped her
pants to the floor.  Then with no suggestion or request Willow took her
shirt off too leaving only her panties and bra to remain.

"What about me?  I still need to feed some more," Dawn whinnied from the
bed.

"Let me lay there," Willow said as she undid the ropes.

"Why are you doing this?" Dawn asked.

"Because you need it.  Please feed on me."

After Willow had taken Dawn's place on the bed Claudia began to tie her 
down with the same ropes that had bound the other vampire.

"What are you doing?" Dawn asked.

"I'll tell you later," Claudia replied as she climbed between Willow's legs.

Willow moaned as she felt Claudia's teeth sink into her inner thigh
drawing blood.  Dawn was a little more hesitant, but with the encouragement
from her redheaded friend she went into quench her thirst.  Instead of the
neck or wrists like was common, just in this capacity Dawn decided to
follow Lestat's move.  She pulled down Willow's bra enough to expose her
chest then with a slight hesitation she pierced the skin of Willow's right
breast with her teeth and started to drink.

Quite unexpectedly Willow became turned on as the vampires drank from
her body.  Claudia had switched to her other thigh and as she gluttonously
drank a faint scent filled her noise.  Dawn suddenly found her face being
pushed into Willow's chest by Willow.  The on-hiatus witch moaned with each
flick of the tongue that crossed her body to lick up the red 'wine'.

The scent Claudia smelled was one she hadn't come across in a long time.
Her bodily instincts suddenly forced her head between Willow's legs and her
tongue into her slit.  Willow let off soft gentle moans as Claudia's tongue
worked up and down her slit.  Looking down at what Claudia was doing Dawn
decided to follow her lead.  Dawn broke Willow's hands away from her head
and start to fondle her chest.  She took Willow's nipples between her
fingers tweaking them teasing her by periodically flicking her tongue
across them.  Willow suddenly bucked as Claudia's tongue penetrated her
twat.  She was hot and bothered and trying not to come just yet.

Dawn hearing Willow's moans and seeing the happy albeit drained look on
her face caused her to want more.  Unabashedly she undressed and sat on
Willow's face.  Dawn felt her cunt start to tingle as Willow began to eat
her out.  Claudia then got out from between Willow's legs and slipped two
fingers into the red-haired pussy.  She looked up at Dawn who now had a
happy erotic smile on her face and the two young vampires leaned forward
and kissed.

"Come with me," Claudia whispered as she continued to swim her fingers
between Willow's pussy lips.

"Oh god!" Dawn moaned as she ached and started to wet herself.  "What...
do...  you mean?"

Willow's body cringed and she screamed as she reached orgasm.  Claudia
felt her fingers become covered in Willow's girl cum.  She brought her
sticky fingers to her lips licking the tips of them clean.  Claudia then
placed her fingers in front of Dawn's face.

"Try it," Claudia said.  Dawn looked at her unsure for moment then took
the plunge and sucked Claudia's fingers clean.  The sweet taste of Willow
in her mouth and Willow in her cunt sent Dawn over the edge.  Her body
shook and she moaned as she experienced orgasm for the first time.

"What do you mean come with you?" Dawn panted as Willow started to lick
her puss clean.

"I don't know.  Travel the world, visit places.  There's more out than
just Sunnydale.  Besides what about having time to find yourself and
sort things out?  Buffy will understand.  It's not like you have to leave
forever," Claudia whispered into her ear.

"I don't know," Dawn whispered getting up from the bed and picking up her 
clothes to redress.

"Hey guys can you untie me? I really don't want Buffy to see me like this. 
I think she'll kind of freak if she found out I let you feed on me and I want to 
leave for the hospital before she gets back."

"In a moment," Claudia said before returning her attention to Dawn and 
walking her into the hallway. "What don't you know about?"

"I just can't leave Willow tied to the bed and drained. She needs to get to 
the hospital."

"Willow will be ok. She's got enough left in her to survive for at least three 
days. Buffy will be back tonight so she's in no danger of dieing."

"But I can't just leave them like that."

"Dawn listen to yourself and think about what we just did. We just fed off
of Willow, one of Buffy's best friends. We are vampires, we need blood to
survive."

"But blood's easily obtainable in Sunnydale. Spike buys his, so why can't 
we?"

"Things are not that simple Dawn. Even if Willow's wrong and Buffy is
perfectly ok with us feeding off of her can you honestly say that you'd be
ok staying in Sunnydale and things wouldn't be awkward? Like I said
you don't have to leave forever. I promise you Buffy will understand why
you left."

"Things did get kind of weird the moment I bit Willow and started drinking," 
Dawn conceeded. "I do kind of want to leave."

"Then let's go. Let's leave Sunnydale. I need you to come with me Dawn."

"You do? Why?"

"Daaaaaawn! Please untie me!" Willow shouted from the bedroom.

"For seventy years I had Louis with me, to take care of me to love me. But 
I've been alone ever since I 'died'. Being a vampire is not any easier than 
being a human. We still feel and want like humans do. Being by yourself is a 
hard thing to do. Trust me I know. Even if you stay you're going to feel isolated 
and alone, because things will be diffferent and to be honest I'm tired of 
chasing Lestat and being alone." Claudia took Dawn's hand in hers and looked
deep into her eyes. "I don't want that for you. We're going to need each other."

Dawn had been all set to argue with Claudia about needing each other, about 
only knowing each other for less than a day, but as she mulled over Claudia's
words in her head the touching of their hands sent a new certainty into
Dawn.

"Let me get some stuff from my room and give Willow a message to give to 
Buffy."

"Sure, I'm going to get my things from the living room and I'll meet you outside."

Dawn returned to her bedroom where she packed some clothes and a number of
other things into a duffel bag. 

"Dawn what're you doing? Please untie me," Willow asked.

"Buffy will take you to the hospital when she gets back. I'm leaving Sunnydale
for a little while."

"But you can't! Buffy will worry about you!"

"I know Willow, but this is something I have to do. I'll be back some time, 
I just hope you and Buffy will be able to understand why I have to go."

"Dawn don't go!"

Willow's cries were ignored as Dawn left the room. She found Claudia 
outside sitting on the stoop waiting.

"You ready to go?" Claudia asked standing up.

"Yeah, I think so," Dawn replied unsure of herself. "I'm a little nervous about
this."

"So am I," Claudia said as she and Dawn started down the street. "I've always 
been so caught up in tracking down Lestat, that I haven't had time to deal 
with my emotions or anything. I've always been filled with revenge and 
hatred for him. Being around someone I like hasn't happened to me in a while.
This is going to sound dumb since I'm the one who convinced you to leave,
but where are we going to go?"

"The bus station isn't far from here and if you didn't mind I thought we 
might make a short stop in Los Angeles. An old friend of ours lives there 
and I want to stop for a bit and talk to him."

"Los Angeles? You mean Angel? Won't he call Buffy and tell her where 
we are?"

"He might or he may try to convince me to do it myself, but I'd like to hear 
what he has to say. Besides I don't plan on us being there for more than 
a few days."

***

Frustrated and angry at herself for failing to protect Dawn Buffy drove 
back towards her house with a death grip on the steering wheel of her s.u.v.
The vehicle barely made it above ten miles per hour nearly coming to a
complete stop several times. A wide range of emotions besides anger flowed
through her head causing her to lose focus on the simple task of driving. She
was on the verge of crying until two figures appeared in her headlights.
Buffy slammed on the brakes becoming angrier when she saw Dawn and 
Claudia.

"What're you doing Dawn?" Buffy shouted as she got out of the vehicle.

"I'm leaving Sunnydale for a little while. I have some things I want to sort out. 
Please don't make this hard."

"Dawn you don't have to do this. You don't have to leave Sunnydale."

"Yes I do Buffy. You've done it and now I have to also."

"And you're leaving with Claudia I take it?"

"Yeah I am. I think it would be good for me to have her around."

"Oh really?" Buffy scowled glaring at Claudia and suddenly filling with 
anger for her. "I bet this whole thing was her idea wasn't it? Let's break up
the family!"

"Buffy what's wrong?" Dawn asked shocked by her sister's strange behavior.

"I'm not trying to break anything up. Dawn will come back one day. You
did," Claudia replied trying to calm Buffy down.

"So this was your idea you little bitch!" Buffy screamed pulling a stake from
her boot. "Don't you dare compare what happened with me and Angel to
what you did! Maybe Spike was right, maybe you were working for
Lestat! Give me one good reason why I shouldn't stake your sorry little
ass right now? You even said your being so young violated vampire rules!"

"Buffy please stop! What're you doing?" Dawn panicked. "Please put
the stake away."

"You're friend Claudia here is the reason why you're a god damned vampire. 
She's running away after the damage has been done. Just like Lestat did. I had
no chance to punish him like I should have!"

"Claudia had nothing to do with it! Lestat was the one who bit and forced 
me to drink his blood!"

"Stop Buffy you're not thinking straight. I tried to help you and I failed
which I'm sorry for, but I'm not going to be the butt of your anger."

"You did just like Lestat asked and tricked us into falling into his trap! Why 
don't you stop this!" Buffy quickly threw the stake at Claudia who ducked
just in time from having it impale her head.

"Buffy stop!" Dawn cried hysterically as her sister reached for the stake in her
other boot.

"Look at her Dawn! This is what you've become because of her!" 

Claudia's fangs were bared and she was growling.  Her forehead had also 
turned upward. Buffy reached back and readied to throw the stake at Claudia.
Dawn shouted and stepped in front of Claudia taking the stake in the chest. She
fell limp to the ground and Buffy's face suddenly turned a deathly pale white.

"Oh my god no! Oh god no please!" Buffy's eyes immediately swelled with 
tears as she raced to her sister's side. "Dawn I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to!"

"I know," Dawn coughed turning onto her back and pulling the stake out.
"You just missed my heart so I'll be ok."

After a few minutes Dawn's chest wound fully healed though the area was 
still a bit sore. Buffy remained sitting in the road as Dawn and Claudia picked
up their things and were about to start down the road.

"You ok Buffy?" Dawn asked noting her sister's lack of movement within
the last several minutes.

"I almost killed you," Buffy mumbled with a catotonic look on her face. 
"I'm the Slayer and not only could I not protect you from Lestat I almost 
killed you because of it." Buffy slowly stood up and walked back towards 
the s.u.v. "Claudia I'm sorry. Please take care of Dawn until she decides to
come back if she decides to."

"Dawn will be safe. I swear."

"Buffy I'll come home eventually. I don't know when, but I will."

"Can I give you two a ride somewhere?"

"Thanks, we're just going to the bus station and it's not too much further. 
Besides Willow needs to be taken to the hospital. She insisted that I feed on 
her since I was having such hunger pains," Dawn answered.

"That's Willow for you. Putting everyone and everything in front of her, but 
you two should get going then before the sun rises. I love you Dawn no 
matter what happens. That'll never change." Buffy hugged Dawn then kissed
her on the cheek.

"I love you too Buffy," Dawn replied returning the gesture. "I swear I'll be 
back."

Buffy climbed into the vehicle and waved to Dawn before the two vampires
started down the road towards the station. She started the s.u.v. and turned 
towards home. At the end of the street Buffy came to rest at a stopsign. She
turned around and looked through the back windshield at the two dwindling
figures.

"Hopefully she can take better care of you than I did Dawn," Buffy said to
herself as tears started to well up in her eyes again. "I'm the Slayer and I 
couldn't even protect you!" Buffy pulled some Kleenex from the glove
compartment and spent a few minutes drying her eyes. The used tissues then
found their way to the floorboard and before Buffy returned home to a 
waiting Willow.
