Fic: After Joyce, New York Dolls
Title: New York Dolls, After Joyce part 2
Author: Xeelia
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Spike/Dawn Angel/Buffy
Disclaimer: I own no characters in this story!!
Summery: Now that Dawn and Spike have left Sunnydale, Buffy, and Angel behind what will they do? And how are Buffy, Angel and the Scoobies going to deal?
Spike had no problem getting him and his Bit out of Sunnyhell. He had quite a bit of money stashed away. His first thought had been to go to South America but he knew that since it was his first thought it was exactly what they would expect. So they ended up going to New York City.
Spike knew his way around the city pretty well, having had lived there in the seventies. The first thing Spike did was deposit Dawn at a hotel and head for the New York offices of Wolfram & Hart. He knew that they would fix his head if he offered to do some dirty work for them, he had talked to someone from the LA office in Sunnydale weeks earlier. All he had to do was knock off a couple of midgrade government guys.
Dawn slept while Spike was gone, which was good because when Spike returned he was bouncing off the walls
“Nibblet wake up!! So much to do!!” Spike yelled as he bounced into the room.
“Mmph, Spike I was sleeping! What do we have to do?” Dawn looked over at the clock, it read nine at night. “Hmm guess I should get up I slept like fifteen hours!!”
Spike tossed a bag to Dawn. Inside she found a new outfit.
“Go shower and put that on!! I’m taking you dancin’ pet!”
Dawn shuffled into the bath room, grabbing a pair of undies and a bra and took her shower. After she had dried herself off she got out the new clothes Spike had given her. First she put on the fishnet top, then the black t-shirt with a Hello Kitty outline done in red, the pants were black cargo pants that stopped mid-calf and the belt in the bad was black leather with red rhinestones. Looking in the mirror Dawn thought she looked a bit older and totally cool.
“Bit don’t do your make up I wanna do it!! Now hurry up!!” Spike called from the other room. “Oh! I got you some boots too, not those…”
Before Spike finished what he was saying Dawn walked out of the bathroom. “Not those what? And why are you staring?”
Spike just smirked. “You look just as adorable as I knew you would pet, that’s all. Here the boots are steel toed none of that frilly crap, can’t run in that kind of thing. Now put those on and c’mere so I can do your make up.”
Dawn slipped the boots on, she wondered if he had seen her at the mall with Buffy a few months ago when she had tried to get Buffy to buy these boots for her. They looked like black work boots and had shiny steel covers over the toes as well. Dawn only laced them to the ankle.
Spike smiled. He had known she wanted those boots. He also knew she had wanted the outfit. He had seen her and her sister at the mall many times. He had been following Buffy and ironically it was these mall trips that had started to kill his obsession for her. He had watched silently as Buffy admonished Dawn’s choices in everything. He saw the way Buffy completely disregarded the things Dawn wanted and his heart had ached. Dawn was the first and only person to ever truly like him and been nice to him, she was his friend, and to watch her self esteem being bashed by her sister was physically painful. If he hadn’t had the chip at the time he may very well have killed the Slayer for doing that to his Nibblet.
“OK Bit open your eyes really wide.” Dawn did as he asked and he deftly lined her eyes in kohl and applied deep black mascara. When her eyes were to his approval he smeared dark red lipstick on her full mouth. He smirked at his girl and winked. “All done Bit go look.”
Dawn looked in the mirror and was stunned, she looked like a vamp, which was just funny, but she looked HOT. “Wow.” Was all she could say.
“Come do my eyes will ya luv?” Spike asked.
Dawn applied the Kohl and watched Spike’s cerulean eyes sparkle. “So ya got the chip out, huh?” She asked gazed at him a slight smirk on her face.
“How’d you know pet? I was going to surprise you by man handling the first git who tried to touch you.” Spike slightly frowned.
“Oh come on Spike! I haven’t seen you this bouncy since Parent Teacher night when you tried to kill Buffy for the first time. It was the only time I saw you pre-chip so it just made sense that the reason you were so bouncy was ‘cause the chip was out. You gonna kill me Spike?” Dawn pouted and fluttered her azure eyes.
Spike looked terrified for a second. He gripped each side of Dawn’s face. “It never crossed my mind Pidge, hell it didn’t cross my mind on Parent Teacher night either. You have always had something special about you, I never even want to see you cry baby, couldn’t hurt you like that.”
Dawn wrapped Spike in a tight hug. “So where are we going?” Dawn grinned at her protector.
“It’s an underground club. A bit racy though, hmm, actually probably shouldn’t take you there.” Spike was suddenly unsure.
“Spike, I think I have seen enough at Willy’s and in those movies you weren’t supposed to let me see, I think it will be fun.”
Spike thought back to the movies in question: Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Bound, Devil’s Regects, Requiem for a Dream. Yeah maybe she was right and besides he really wanted to take her to the club.
“Right, good point. But first we are going to get your hair dyed, got to try and change your looks so big sis and her poofy puppy don’t have anything to track with. So Bit what color you want?” Spike grinned.
“Well how about black with blood red streaks, I saw a girl on TV with hers like that and it looked really cool.” Dawn was so excited she was bouncing now.
“Whatever you want baby girl.” Spike grabbed his duster and a black leather half coat he had nicked for Dawn, she didn’t need to know that it’s previous owner was his first meal of the night. He slipped his duster on and threw the other coat to Dawn as they left the room.
Two hours later Dawn walked out of the beautician’s with her long brown hair freshly dyed exactly like she wanted and with the addition of long bangs that rested just above her eyes.
Spike scooped her up and swung her around. “You look fab baby girl!! Gonna tear that club up!!” He took off at a quick pace leading her by the hand.
The doorman at the club took no notice of the fifteen year old as he took the fifty dollar bill Spike passed him. The club was definitely hopping. Men and women in all sorts of combinations were groping each other everywhere. Spike lead her to the bar and ordered a beer for himself.
“You want a girlie drink Bit?” Spike smirked. He had shared his whiskey with her on a few occasions and knew that unlike her sister Bit was able to hold her booze. Even so he thought she might want something sweet and girlie.
“Nah, can I get a whiskey and coke though?”
Spike ordered the drinks then lead Dawn to a corner couch. They sat for a few minutes just drinking their drinks before Spike told Dawn to go dance, he could see how much she wanted to. As she danced her body moved much more gracefully than he would have suspected. She looked like a dark faerie, long hair flowing and innocent joy on her pretty face. He suddenly wondered if she would be so happy if she knew he was here hunting, but pushed the thought out of his head. Unless she asked he wasn’t going to tell her what he was up to, but if she did ask he would tell, he would never outright lie to his Bit, anyone else sure, but never her.
The girl that caught Spike’s eye was in her early twenties, blonde and dressed in hardly more that a scrap of fabric. He slid onto the dance floor and smirked at her. The girl looked over at him and grinned sexily. They danced slowly for a while, Spike’s hands caressing her flesh. “Wanna get outta here sexy.” The girl whispered to him, he could smell not only booze but cum on her breath. Spike nodded and lead her to the back of the club. Once they were far enough back to be unnoticed Spike grabbed the girl and went into game face. He had drained her before she could even scream. “Happy Meals on legs!” He laughed,
As he walked back to where Dawn had been dancing he noticed she was not dancing by herself any more. The guy, a human, looked like a farm fed soldier boy, a bit like Riley really, this annoyed Spike but his annoyance turned to anger when he saw the wannabe Riley “accidently” slide his hand over Dawn’s ass.
“Time to go Pidge.” Spike was next to Dawn now.
“Hey man why don’t you just go fuck off, I found her first.” The farm boy said.
Dawn laughed, almost maniacly. “Seriously? You think I am going to stay here with you? Not the sharpest nail in the box are you?” With that she turned to leave with Spike.
They had gone half way down the block towards another club when the farm boy caught up with them. “Hey you little cock tease!! You can’t just trot off like that! You need to finish what you started little girl!” He tried to grab Dawn’s arm.
In an instant Spike had the man by the throat. “You really, really shouldn’t have done that!” Spike slowly dug his nails into the boy’s thoat. “Bet you treat lots of girls like this don’t ya? Think that if they smile at you that you have the right to fuck ‘em? Don’t think you will be doing that ever again.” With that Spike deftly snapped his neck before draining him.
Dawn just stood there staring. She felt bad for the guy but also somewhere inside her she felt the guy deserved it. Spike was right, of course, if this guy pulled this shit on her he had likely done it in the past to other girls who didn’t have a vampire protector. Watching Spike drain the guy gave her chills but she really didn’t have any guilt about this guy’s death, which kind of bothered her.
Spike was so caught up in the gush of blood he didn’t even remember Dawn was with him at first. As the realization hit he threw the body away from himself and turned to look at her. He was terrified that he would see disgust or hatred on her beautiful innocent face. What he saw was enthrallment and confusion.
“Spike, why don’t I feel bad? I should, I mean he was a creep but still…”
“Don’t rightly know pet, but I can tell you that bloke was evil, can taste it in the blood. No matter what your silly sister thinks Bit there are humans who are worse than any demon. Besides I told you before, nothing is going to hurt you.” As he spoke Spike ran his hand through he newly black hair.
Dawn was still confused but just glad Spike had saved her from this possible threat. She walked up closer to Spike and hugged him tight then looked up to and kissed him on the cheek. “Thanks for being my dark prince charming!” She giggle and bounced down the side walk. “Now, come on!! We still have a few hours to explore!!”
Spike was stunned yet again. Not only was Dawn being extremely accepting, probably deluding herself, but she had said something he had only heard from one other person. Dark Prince Charming, it was an endearment Drusilla had used. As Spike watched Dawn twirl and giggle down the sidewalk he mentally remarked on the similarities between his Bit and Drusilla. Her giggle was like soft bells very much like Dru’s, her blue eyes sparkled in the street lights, pupils dilated, so very much like his Dru. Her eagerness to not go back to the hotel but to explore the city was much as Dru’s had been when they had first arrived here decades before. When Dawn turned to speak to him the words she said stopped him cold.
“Hehe, Spike! You have stars in your pretty blue eyes!!”
Dru always spoke of stars. Something inside him began to ache. Why if this girl was made up of Buffy does she remind him so very much of Drusilla?
“SPIIIIKE! Come on lets go have some fun!!” Dawn smiled big and bright and it was the first time since before her mom got sick that he had seen her really smile like that. As they bounced down the sidewalk Spike decided everything would be OK as long as he could see her smile like that.
***Back in Sunnydale***
“Angel she has been gone for days!! What if he killed her? What if he turned her? Oh god Angel, this can’t be happening!!” Buffy was highly upset, to say the least.
“Buffy, Spike has that chip in his head, he can’t hurt Dawn and I really don’t think he would. He has always taken care of her, even before the chip, you know that. Hell, he hid her from all the minions on Parent Teacher night so that nothing would happen to her. She was upset about moving to LA with Angel, she took off with Spike and sooner or later she will want to come home and he will bring her home.” Willow tried reasoning with her best friend.
“Spike is dangerous and we are doing everything we can to find her Buffy. I promise you Spike will regret this.” Angel turned to Willow. “Why aren’t the locater spells working?”
“Dawn may be wearing something that is blocking them or have a spell on her to block them…” Buffy cut in then.
“Or Dawn could be dead or undead, in which case the spell Willow is using won’t work.” Buffy was in tears yet again when the phone rang.
Angel answered it. “Hello, Summer’s residence.”
“Put my sister on, now.” Dawn’s calm level voice came over the phone.
“Buffy, it’s Dawn.” Angel handed Buffy the phone.
“Dawn!! Where are you? Are you OK? We will come get you!!” Buffy’s voice was full of relief.
“Yeah I am thinking, no on that offer Buff, but I wanted you to know I am ok, oh and go ahead and track this call if you want, we are leaving tonight. Spike won’t let anything happen to me Buffy, please just live your life, you deserve it, and I won’t come back. I love you Buffy.” The click announced Dawn had hung up. Buffy was shocked.
As Buffy hung up the phone Angel spoke up. “I could hear her heart beat through the phone Buffy, she is alive.”
“The call came from New York City.” Willow informed them.
“It doesn’t matter, she said they are leaving where they are tonight. She says she won’t come home. When I find them I am going to dust Spike, period.” The icy anger in Buffy’s voice chilled even Angel’s blood.
It wasn’t long after that Buffy, Angel, and Giles all got reports that seemed to talk about Dawn and/or Spike. At first they were mere sightings but eventually they realized that the areas that there were sightings of Spike there were also bodies, bodies with one thing in common, they had twin punctures on their necks. For Buffy, knowing that her baby sister was not only traumatized by their mother’s death, but also her and Angel’s actions, and in the hands of William the Bloody, unchipped, her quest was that much more important.
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