Disclaimer: The characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer are owned by Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and Fox studios. This story is not meant to infringe upon anyone's rights, only to entertain.

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A/N: Death warning is just bad guy vampy death.

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Chapter 10 - Calling

Spike took another sip of his beer as he watched Buffy giggling on the dance floor. She had insisted that they go dancing tonight and not wanting to hear any whining later, he just let it go. He knew he’d take his revenge some time tonight. As the song ended, she smiled sweetly, making her way back to the booth they shared for the evening. A few men that had been dancing around her, decided to follow her, but quickly turned around upon seeing her platinum blond companion. Spike grinned proudly, knowing that they were envious of him. She slid into the seat beside him, happily sipping on her soda. “Wish you would dance. It would be more fun.”

Flashing a grin, Spike wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her closer to him “Need to save my strength, love.”, he said giving her a quick wink.

As a new song started playing, Buffy clapped her hands and pleaded with the vampire, trying to convince Spike to dance with her. “Please? Come on. I bet you’d look all nice and sexy and get all the girls jealous of me!”

“Don’t need to dance to do that.” He said grinning.

Without any success, Buffy stood up only to feel her vision blur and her stomach go into knots. Spike caught her quickly before her knees buckled and she almost crumpled to the floor. She felt his cold hand gently cupping her cheek as his other arm was wrapped protectively around her, cradling her body against his.

“You okay, pet?”

Buffy couldn’t answer, the pain in her belly was making it hard to concentrate on anything else. She took a couple of deep breaths, trying her best to make her eyes focus and the pain to go away. “I’m okay, I think. Feel a little weird… kinda tingly…”

“Enough dancing from you, love. We’re going back.”

“But I’m okay now … just a dizzy spell.”, she said pouting, not really wanting the outing to end.

“That didn’t seem like just a dizzy spell. We can come back tomorrow.”

Pouting still, “You just want to leave so you can do the vampy thing.”

“Buffy!”

Sighing, Buffy let Spike lead the way outside.

As they fell into their silent walk back to the motel they were staying at, Buffy felt another dizzy spell coming along. He tried to steady herself, catching Spike’s arm to keep from falling. Spike gave her an all knowing look but as she was about to retort, she felt the pull on her stomach. Was that her stomach? No it was her abdomen muscles, cramping up in excruciating pain.

“Well, well… if it isn’t Spike.” Buffy heard from behind her.

Turning around, Spike gave a cocky grin as he saw who it was, “Jason …”

“Been a while Spike. Everyone’s been wondering about you. “

“Oh, I’m so bloody touched. What do you want Jason?”

“Angelus wants his plaything back.”

“Well you can tell the Grand Poobah that she doesn’t belong to him. He has no right to her anymore.”

“He said you might say something like that so he told us that we could take her by any means necessary.,” he said as he slipped into vampire guise and four more vampires moved into the light from the shadows.

Spike pulled Buffy up and pushed her behind him as two vampires lunged at them. Spike fended them off with a roundhouse kick. “Watch your back, love.” Spike called out as he punched another vampire in the face. He hoped that Buffy was well enough to fend them off and sure enough, he was wrong. He heard her scream his name and he turned around just in time to see three vampires, pinning her down on the ground. Spike cursed out loud and was heading over to help Buffy out, when Jason blocked his path. The two fought, the latter obviously trying to stall Spike.

Then Spike heard something hit a tree so hard, he heard branches cracking. Glancing quickly to where Buffy was, he saw her standing, pinning one vampire against a tree with her foot. The other two that had held her initially, stood up from where they were on the ground and tried to tackle her. Moving quickly, Buffy ducked and rolled out of the way. She jumped up to hoist herself up on a tree branch. The three vampires looked up and glared at her. Growling at seeing their prey escape them. Smiling to herself, she used one hand to steady her stance on the branch and with the other she broke off one of the smaller branches. She then jumped down, her makeshift stake ready, aimed at the chest of one of her attackers. As the vampire withered to dust, she moved quickly to her feet, landing a backhanded punch on another vampire’s head. She saw her opening and thrust the stake through its dead heart. The other started to run in fear but she followed it, kicking it for good measure before giving it a dusty end.

Both Spike and Jason watched in shock, a devilish grin dancing on Spike’s lips.

“A Slayer …” Jason exclaimed.

“My Slayer,” Spike replied as he reached out to snap the other vampire’s neck then kicked him hard towards a tree, its chest pierced open by a branch.

“Feeling better?” Spike called out as Buffy made her way back to him.

“Much… though I don’t know how I just did that. Something came over me, like deja vu. Like it was something I saw in a dream not too long ago.”

Spike cocked his head, trying to see if he could physically see anything different about her. No one would ever think that someone so petite could be a Slayer.

“Hey Spike, that guy said something about uhm… a Slayer? What did he mean by that?”

Spike ran his fingers nervously through his hair. “If I’m going to be the one to explain that to you love, we’re both going to need a drink and for you, pet, to uhm… get rid of anything that can get me dusted.”

Buffy looked down to see that she was still holding her makeshift stake tightly in her right hand. Letting it go, she rubbed her hands on her jeans.

“Bloody hell”, Spike said to no one in particular as he thought about how this was going to change everything.


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A/N: Well since I've revealed in this chapter that Buffy has now been chosen, just wanted to point out (but I'm sure you guys have already guessed it), that the dreams mentioned in Chapter 10 were actually Slayer dreams. Didn't want to expound too much about the dreams cuz then it would have given too much away. Hope you liked it. Thank you so much for all the wonderful reviews.