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Shame on You by ginar369
 
Chapter 9
 
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Since I have already stolen Drogyn and hopefully given him a better death than Joss did; you won’t be all that surprised that I am playing with the Angel timeline. I’m just borrowing one more character. But I promise to give him back in the same condition I got him in.
 
Dialog taken from “No Place Like Home” by Doug Petrie. Dialog taken from Triangle, written by Jane Espenson
 
Many thanks to my beta No_Promises. The wonderful banner is by 3hours.

“We need to get Buffy. If Kaledena really has Giles, Willow and Xander under her control it’s going to get bad fast. They know everything about her. Plus they know she would never hurt a human. She won’t fight them Spike.” Tara managed to speak between pants.
 
“Yeah, thought of that already. Buffy and Dawn are at the hospital with Joyce. She’s having some more tests done. You two head over to the slayers house pack a bag for the three of them and meet us at Stevenson Hall on campus. Take the Dagon Sphere with you; it’s supposed to make you immune to her. Use my car; I left it at the crypt. It’s only a few blocks from the slayers house. I’ll go get the Bit, the slayer and Joyce and meet you at the college.”
 
“Well that’s a stupid place to hide!” Anya was very upset, her Xander was under the control of some other woman and who knew what she would do to her very muscular boyfriend, Xander was irresistible after all.
 
“Not hiding there, jus’ meeting there gotta place in mind nobody knows about. We can hide there for awhile. Glinda, I’ll have the slayer pack you some stuff while we wait for you. Demon girl, need an invite to your place, don’t know if a long distance invite even works. I’ll try and sneak over later and pick up some stuff for you.  Now go! The longer we stand around the more likely one of her followers will spot us.” With a slight push he sent both women off on their tasks.
 
Before they left Anya told Spike he was invited into her home, hoping that the invitation would be enough to let the vampire enter the apartment. 
 
Running full out Spike made tremendous time getting to Sunnydale Memorial Hospital. Stopping briefly at the reception desk to find out where Joyce was, Spike flew up the stairs to the third floor. Slowing down only marginally Spike entered the waiting room to find all three Summers’ women gathering their belongings. “Change of plans ladies. Grab your stuff we're outta here.”
 
“Spike what’s going on?” Joyce asked as she put her purse on her shoulder.
 
“Spike what happened to you?” Dawn asked noticing the cuts and bruises on his face.
 
“Kaledena. She got her claws into the watcher, the whelp and Red. Got into a fight with her and she tossed me about like a doll.”
 
“We have to do something.” Buffy stated as she started marching towards the door.
 
Spike grabbed her arm slowing her progress down. “We are. Glinda and demon girl are at your house packing a bag for you. They’re meeting us at the college and then we’re gonna go someplace and figure things out.”
 
“We can’t just hide!” Buffy yelled at the vampire.
 
“So you looking forward to slaying your friends now are you?”
 
“What? No!”
 
“Then we hide until we can figure a way to get them out from under her control.”
 
“Buffy.” Joyce’s soft voice had her daughter turning to look at her.
 
“Fine. I don’t like it but I guess we don’t have a choice right now.”
 
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Giles walked over to the training room door. He could feel Kaledena’s temper rise when he saw that the room was empty. Coming back to the main part of the shop he and the other two started looking for the Dagon Sphere. “Blast it! They took it with them.”
 
All three felt Kaledena searching their minds trying to find out where the three that had escaped might have gone. Willow was the first to speak out loud. “They either went to Buffy’s house or our dorm room.”
 
Kaledena’s voice could be heard exiting from Xander’ mouth. “Go I will meet you there. Find them!” 
 
Taraand Anya wasted no time packing the bare necessities from the Summers' house. When they arrived to find the door locked Tara called up a spell to unlock the door and the two women quickly entered. Anya went upstairs to pack clothing and basic hygiene products while Tara went directly into the kitchen to gather food. Finding something big enough to put everything in took the longest, with the search ending in the basement. Spotting a couple of duffel bags Buffy used to hold her workout gear they quickly emptied them and refilled them with the supplies. Tara carefully wrapped the Dagon Sphere in some clothing to protect and placed it in one of the bags.
 
The two girls were making their way to the front door when Anya had a thought. “Should we pack some weapons?”
 
Tarastopped at Anya’s question. She was torn, Kaledena wasn’t a human but all of her disciples were. But they needed to be able to defend themselves. Nodding her head the two made their way upstairs to Buffy’s weapon chest. Gathering what they could carry, they left the house and Tara locked the door. She stopped suddenly as she bumped into Anya’s back. “Anya?”
 
“Tara baby? What are you doing here? You left the shop and didn’t tell me.” Tara could hear Willow speaking and stepped out behind Anya to confront her girl friend.
 
Tararealized that Anya hadn’t stopped because of Willow, Giles and Xander blocking their path. She had stopped because Kaledena stood before her. Anya’s eyes kept darting all around looking for an escape. Kaledena seemed puzzled and was getting angrier by the second when neither girl would succumb to her thrall.
 
“Why does my thrall not work on them?!” The disgraced PTB demanded of her newest followers.
 
Tarawaited, sending a silent prayer to Gaia, for an opportunity for her and Anya to escape. When Kaledena turned to face the others she grabbed Anya’s hand and chanted a spell under her breath. “Kali, Hera, Kronos, Tonic... Air like nectar, thick as onyx... Cassiel by your second star... Hold mine victim as in tar.”
                
While Tara and Anya had been busy packing and standing off with Kaledena at the Summers’ house, Spike broke into Tara’s dorm room. Sending Buffy in to pack a bag for the blond and gather any magic supplies she had there. So when the Wicca and Anya arrived the only one who still needed any clothes was Anya.

Barely stopping as they reached Spike’s car the two tossed the bags in the back seat. Anya slipped into the driver’s seat and with a roar the car slid onto the road. A few minutes later with a screech of brakes the Desoto pulled into the parking lot dangerously close to Joyce’s jeep. The two women emerged from the car shaking, although not for the same reasons. Tara was grateful to be away from Anya’s driving and the ex-demon was still upset after seeing her boyfriend under Kaledena’s control.

Joycequickly took charge. Spike and Buffy had explained to Joyce and Dawn exactly what Kaledena was looking for and why. There had been a few tense moments when Dawn finally understood what it all meant. And it took all three of the adults to calm her down. Joyce was the one who finally got through to the distraught teen. “Dawn, it doesn’t matter where you came from. Don’t you understand? You’re precious, precious to the world and precious to us. Those monks sent you to us, knowing we would keep you safe. Knowing that as soon as we saw you we would love you. You’re ours no matter how you got here.” 

Joycetold Spike and Tara along with Dawn to drive in the Desoto while Buffy and Anya got into the jeep with her. “It’ll be a tight fit but there is an entrance that should be big enough to get both cars in. Follow me and keep close.” With that Spike started the car and set off with Joyce following behind. After taking a rambling route to make sure no one was following them they finally reached their destination.

It was a tight fight but both vehicles managed to pull into the entrance of the cave. Once everyone was out Spike called Buffy over. “Need to seal up this entrance. Nice rock slide should do the trick.”

“How do we get out if you seal it up?”

“There’s another entrance slayer. Comes out about a mile from here, not big enough for a car though.” The two super beings proceeded to pile boulders up in the opening sealing them in.

Spike led the group of women deeper into the cave. It was pitch black and he was the only one who could see so everyone was holding hands allowing Spike to guide them. When he stopped the rest of the group was startled. “Wait here.”

As they waited a light slowly started to reach them in the tunnel. When it was bright enough for them to make their way on their own they entered a large cavern. Spike had been busy lighting torches that hung from the walls. Everyone was shocked when they looked around. They were standing in a richly furnished room; it had a couch, table and chairs. There were 4 corridors branching off from the main room. “There are bedrooms along those three corridors and a loo in this one.”

All five of the women looked at Spike with the same question in their eyes, why would vampires need a bathroom? “Harmony, the daft bint, insisted on a working bathroom. Couldn’t get her to shut up about it. Was easier to put one in then listen to her go on and on about it. I mean I can see a shower or bath but a commode? Do you have any idea how hard it was to run hot water down here?” Spike’s announcement seemed to break some of the tension of the group and everyone started chuckling. “Even insisted on having a mirror installed! Had to run pipes an’ electric from the petrol station near the overpass down here. Enough ‘lectric to run a radio not much more.”

“All right everyone get settled then we need to figure out what to do.” Buffy took command and quickly had everyone place their belongings in the bedrooms. The entire group reassembled in the main chamber of the cave. “They don’t know about this place so we should be safe here for awhile. Dawn you and mom can’t leave. They know that Dawn is the key and mom they would use you to get to Dawn. So you two are stuck here.”

“They showed up at the house when we were packing up your stuff.” Anya’s announcement startled the rest of the group.

“Are you alright?” Joyce went over to both girls looking for injuries.

“We’re fine. But it was weird. Kaledena was trying to put us under her thrall and it didn’t work.” Tara explained.

“Well you had the sphere thing.”

“But Buffy I wasn’t holding it. It’s in one of the bags. And Anya hasn’t ever touched it.”

Joycewas still checking the girls for injuries when she noticed the blood on Tara’s face. “Tara are you cut? There’s blood on your face.”

Lifting her hand to wipe away the blood she noticed it was on her hand too. “That’s not mine. It’s Spike’s, I was cleaning his cuts when Giles, Willow and Xander came into the shop.”

“Okay, everyone hang on a sec. Let’s sit down and figure out what we know.” Buffy took over before things got out of control. “We know Kaledena is a former PTB. She was sent to the Deeper Well and she escaped. She wants to take over the world and the only thing that can stop her is Dawn’s blood.” Looking around Buffy saw everyone nodding in agreement. “Do you think demons might join her? Help her?”

“Nah, the ones sent to the Deeper Well were mostly pure demons an’ outta control PTB. Consider us vamps and such as impure. Been doing some digging since she showed up, heard stories ya’ know. This Kaledena bint hates humans and demons having free will. Wants everyone to worship her. But her thrall doesn’t work on us so she tried to have humans rise up and destroy us. Can’t see a demon siding with her.”

“So maybe that’s it!” The group turned to look at Dawn. “Anya, I know you said you were turned human when Giles broke your amulet, but she couldn’t thrall you so maybe there’s something still there?”

“Yeah and you could summon D’Hoffryn when Willow did that Will Be Done spell. Could any human have summoned him?” Buffy asked the ex-demon.

“Well no the only way to call D’Hoffryn is if you have his talisman or you’re in service to him.” Tears started welling in Anya’s eyes. “Xander’s not going to want to date me any more if I’m still a demon.” Dawn sat next to the distraught girl and gave her a hug trying to comfort her.

Giving the upset girl a chance to calm down Joyce asked a question. “Buffy you said that man told you that Spike was immune. And Tara you got some of Spike’s blood in your mouth. So maybe Spike’s blood carries the immunity?”

“Oh, eeww! I’m so not drinking your blood Spike.” Dawn scrunched up her face at the thought.
 
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