chapter9

Armageddon Saga II
Chapter Nine: France
By the Lady Sirona ladysirona@LadySirona.com
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They arrived in the dark of the night in Paris and Buffy and the others were sound asleep as Angelus drove through the countryside. Angelus woke them when they reached the house in the countryside outside Paris. They couldn't see anything the darkness was complete.
Buffy looked around; she felt vampires, other than Angelus. "Where are we?" Xander was too groggy to care, and he just stretched. Willow staggered as she got out of the car and Xander steadied her. There was a hint of dawn in the sky.
Angelus went to the trunk and got the bags. "We're in the countryside outside of Paris."
Willow looked at the big house. "This is all yours Angelus?"
Angelus smiled. They were still so easily awed. "Yes I have had it for over a century"
Buffy looked out the window art what looked like a large house disappearing into the darkness. She got out. "You own this? Wow anyone live here?" she was looking around preparing to fight the vampire she felt near that wasn't Angelus. She looked at him he should feel him!
"Yes" A voice came out of the darkness and a man stood by Angelus not noticing Buffy had a stake in her hand. She was ready for the vampire that stepped out of the dark.
"Angelus I am amazed you have come after all these years. Last I heard you were in New York" the voice was soft, cultured and had a french accent.
Angelus didn't even turn to the person speaking. "Hello Marcus. No, last place I was in was England, but I live in Sunnydale California"
"You're living on the Hellmouth? Wow that is stressful. I wouldn't want to live there; all the demons attracted to the Hellmouth, and the Hellmouth Slayer. No thanks, that's not for me."
Angelus smiled. "Yeah well, it does keep you on your toes."
"I bet. Let me help you with the bags." He stared at the companions with Angelus realizing in shock that they were human! He whispered to Angelus "You're keeping pets Angelus? I never thought you would."
Angelus growled. "They are not pets. The blonde is my wife, and will be treated as such. The other two; the boy is my fledgling and the girl is his wife understand me? The women are both with child. Anything harms them and I will redefine hell for whomever. Am I clear?"
Marcus looked at Angelus in shock what the hell was he doing with a pregnant human? "If you say so. Just seems weird for a vampire who never had the patience to deal with human personally, it seems weird to show up with three, two of them pregnant."
Angelus lifted him off the ground and brought him closer to his mouth and hissed in his ear. "I made you Marcus, I can kill you. The child she carries is mine, a small result of the demon lord battle I was in that the Lady Tirla had some of us helping in. Drop it." Angelus looked at him. "How many live here with you?"
Marcus lifted the heavy bags. "Three. Roberto you remember him. His woman Maria, and my woman Michelle.
Angelus thought a moment, this was more vampires than he planned on. "Can I trust them, or do you find a new home?"
"You can trust them. They have all joined the Paris chapter of the Night Watchers and are cold feeders. Your humans know vampire etiquette right? I mean they are not going to invoke a kill strike are they?"
Angelus nodded. "They know, but nothing blatant. They are not perfectly at ease and may startle."
"Well then lets invite them in and meet everybody" Marcus started to walk toward the house with the luggage.
Buffy got out and took up her cane. The cold weather was making her broken bones ache. Xander was helping with the luggage, so she and Willow only had to carry their small carryon bags in the house.
Angelus looked at the others literally staggering form exhaustion. "No later. Elizabeth needs rest."
"She is injured?" Angleus nodded knowing the vampire's eyes could see his movement. Marcus continued. "Was that in the Demon Lord battle? Do they work for the Slayers too, like us?"
Angelus thought about it. That was one way to put it. "Yeah, yeah they do."
They went in and Angelus led them unerringly to the master bedroom which was his and always his. Even when he was gone no one would dare to sleep in his bed. Buffy was exhausted from her energy expenditure at Watcher control and being up all day while being pregnant and she collapsed on the bed. Initially it was just to stretch, but the softness enveloped her and she mumbled appreciatively before drifting off to sleep completely dressed
Xander looked at her she was exhausted. Where do Willow and I sleep?
Angelus opened the door on the right side of the room to another bedroom, also always kept clear. "You can sleep there." He nodded as Willow followed him and they disappeared into the room.
Angelus looked back at his bed. Buffy laid on the bed sprawled in complete abandon. It was obvious she trusted Angelus to keep her safe. There was no way a regular Slayer would fall asleep with 5 vampires in the house otherwise. He smiled. He loved her so.
She slept on her back, her tight hand to her mouth in a fetching cute gesture that pulled at his heart. Her left hand was over her lower abdomen. Even in sleep she sought to protect the miracle of her pregnancy. She wasn't that far along. She had conceived in early June and it was now mid August. He thought quickly and realized she was only half way thought her second month, 6 weeks. The miracle of that still amazed him. She was larger than a usual two and a half-month pregnancy, seeing that she carried twins.
Angelus went over and removed her shoes and then stripped her of her clothes, leaving her in his bed looking so much like the mother image. She woke with his actions and kissed him on the forehead. "Hi I am sorry I feel asleep on you."
Angelus looked at her. "It's OK you rest I'm here." he stroked her face then his hand went to her tummy, stroking. He could feel the life in them. "Our babies, I never thought I could have them…" blood tears filled his eyes and she kissed them away.
She smiled. "I know, especially after your comments during that egg experiment." She snuggled into him. "You're over dressed Angelus, come to bed lets sleep the day away" She stretched and beckoned him with a smile. She shivered "You know, I am not going to finish my senior year." She stroked her tummy. "With these babies making their appearance in March."
Angelus smiled and stripped and came to bed with her, holding her to him. "I love you Buffy. I called you Elizabeth because I didn't want them to know you're the Slayer. Not that they would hurt you but I feel better right now if they don't know. Yes you won't finish the school year, you can home school."
She nodded. "We have to tell Will and Xander to call me Elizabeth. I talked with Willow, I can probably finish my senior year in one semester, and be out in January. I am going to be huge in school but I don't want to be home schooled. I want to go to school." She smiled at him. "But I will wear your ring and be your wife. Did you know your going to get to write my permission slips till I am 18?" She giggled. "Angel, will you take me to the homecoming dance?"
Angelus laughed. "Yes Buffy, you think maybe at some point you can call me Angelus? It is my birth name."
She shivered. "I'll try, but it has some serious connotations for me. Please be patient. I will try." She looked at him "What do you want Angelus? So you want girls, boys, one of each?" She looked at him with big eyes this was their first time they ever got to play with the idea that she was pregnant and she had twins. They were going to be parents!
Angelus thought about it. "I want one of each...but as long as they are healthy and happy, that's all I want. I will take what we get."
She stroked his face and kissed him. "I love you Angelus." She wrapped her mouth around the word. "I love you so much. I can't believe we survived!" she stroked him just reveling in his existence.
Angelus smiled at being called his birth name. "Yes we did though. I love you so much baby" She snuggled against him, his hand on her tummy and drifted off to sleep, safe in his arms
Angelus looked at her. He was one lucky bastard. She carried his twins and she loved him enough to accept Xander as his fledgling. He was amazed for her to even think of doing a poly thing with Xander and Willow. She was so amazing. He wondered how he had ever gotten so lucky. But then he didn't want to look to hard, as not to give it bad luck He enfolded her and went to sleep to the beat of her heart.

Later while she was still sleeping he got out of bed and went in search of his childe. Marcus looked up at Angelus as he walked into the dining room and he stood in honor of his Sire's return to Paris. "Angelus would you like some repast?"
Angelus looked at Marcus and nodded. "That would be most nice Marcus thank you."
Maria came out with a large chalice of warmed blood and offered it to her Sire. "I am pleased to see you Sire. We had no idea you were even on the continent"
Marcus stepped away from the master chair and motioned for Angelus to sit. "Last we heard you were in New York and then no one knew where you went. Heard rumors about the Hellmouth, but she didn't think you would be there... not with he master trapped and the Slayer there.
Angelus smiled. "The masters dead and the Slayer is not a problem. Darla is also dead."
"Really oh my. That makes you the elder of the Master's line does it not?" He licked his lips; this brought them all up in the vampire society. Marcus was pleased to realize. Michelle looked at him in awe. She had heard all kinds of stories of Angelus. But he was even more handsome then she had heard and she hung on his every word. Marcus nodded. "That is good are you here for long Sire?" He swallowed. He had liked being the master of the household. With Angelus here, he was just one of the kids.
Maria came and knelt on the floor at her Sires feet, leaning like a well-trained pet on his leg seeking his touch. It had been over a hundred years since she shared his bed and skill.
Angelus looked at Maria. "Go to your seat Maria. My woman is not very understanding in such things, and she has a bad temper as well." Maria rose and found a chair. She looked at him in shock. *She controls?* She stopped, realizing it was impertinent to think such of her Sire.
Angelus looked at them all. "We will be here until my woman is healed and ready to go home; maybe a week or two. That is all right, isn't it Marcus?"
"Oh yes Sire, it is your house and we are here to serve." He swallowed. "Your woman, you are actually married to a human, a pregnant one at that? I never heard of anything like that. Especially from you…"
Angelus looked at them. "I love her. She has showed me more in the ways of love than anyone has. The boy is my fledgling and will be treated as such with respect."
They all nodded. "As you wish. Marcus nodded and smiled. I am glad to see you for however long and as unusual as your new companions are, we welcome them." Roberto looked at him. He was amazed Angelus had let a human take control of his life. Maria was a bit annoyed to be displaced by a bred bitch, but she had experienced Angelus's anger and had no desire for a refresher course.
Angelus looked at Marcus. "Call the store have them deliver some food. I will talk to Willow and let her make a list of what they want."
Marcus nodded and then realized they had no cool box. "Oh boy, we better get an ice box for the perishables." He looked at the women who nodded. They would set up a pantry for the humans. Marcus sat "OK Angelus, you willing to fill us in on where you been since your accident with the gypsies?"
They talked late into the day
****
Buffy awoke and when she found Angelus missing dressed and went in search for him. She carried her cane but now only used it occasionally. She was healing well and enjoying her newfound freedom to walk and not require crutches or limping from furniture to furniture.
She wandered downstairs awed to be in a house of such age full of antiques. She realized that Angelus had probably bought them when they were new. The thought stunned her. She shivered and found the kitchen and went in search of anything edible. She wasn't finding much snack food and was looking around for just about anything edible, when the door opened. Maria walked into the kitchen...she saw the blonde that held her Sire's heart. "Oh hello"
She looked up and smiled. "Hello I know you usually don't keep human food around but I am starved, do you have anything for me that I can eat?"
"Marcus is going to call the store once Angelus gets a list from you what you want" Maria said quietly. She didn't know Angelus' woman's temper, but if Angelus feared it, it must be incredible indeed!
"Oh damned there is nothing? How far to the store? I am going to pass out if I don't eat something. Is there anything, a café, Mc Donald's?
Maria bit her lip. "There is small store and bakery not far. You should ask Angelus to go with you. It's not safe alone. I can call down they will bring food things to us."
"Oh would you? I would love it. I have no money. As for asking him to go to the store with me I can't. No offense, but its daylight. He doesn't tan well." She smiled and looked at her. She liked her. "How do you know Angelus?"
Maria looked down. " Maria-we sometimes get things from there we have a credit line three...just tell them under Marcus, Marcus is his child. Angelus is my Sire."
"I hope Angelus has ... your Sire… like Spike is his childe. Who else in the house is his childe?" Her voice was colder. Was every damn vampire she met his childe? "Oh.." She looked at her. "You two aren't going to.. I mean you all don't..." she blushed. "What terms do you use for what I want to say?" she bit her lip.
Maria watched her. The girl was obviously flaying in the intricacies of vampire relationships. Expecting monogamy out of Angels. It was enough to make her want to laugh. "You want to bond with him...we are not fledglings. I sought to seek his attention and he told me you don't like it and understand our ways about it. When he says no, I will not seek any more. I have seen and felt his punishments"
Buffy relaxed. "You mean you're not like Xander and your not going to be in the bed and all? OK cool! I can deal! I am not too used to that fledgling thing." She sighed but " I really have no choice."
Willow walked in. Any food before I die of starvation?" She sat down and looked at them "Oh boy what did I miss?"
Buffy nodded at Maria and told Willow that she and Marcus were also Angleus childer, but they aren't' fledglings like Xander, so none of that sex stuff."
Willow was making a list of food to be able to make real food. This isn't too much? she asked Maria...
Maria- No get whatever you like. When she go the list Maria dialed the number and ordered a lot of pastries and told them to deliver and put it on Marcus' tab like always. Maria looked at them. "When you become a vampire, the Sire if displeased with you, can punish you anyway they wish. I don't wish to displease Angelus. There is nothing you can do about it if he wishes to punish one of us...he is grandSire to the other two that me and Marcus made...if one of us displease him…"
She looked at her. "I don't see me becoming a vampire. Sorry no way in hell." Buffy waved her hand as if dismissing the thought. "Lets not talk of punishments OK? His punishments, well he better think twice before he thinks to do that to me!"
Willow smiled and tried to change the subject. Glancing around the kitchen she saw a note on the calendar "patrol" if her french served her. She looked at Maria. "Patrol what do you patrol over here?"
Maria looked at her in confusion. She thought Angelus trained his pets better than this. "Vampires of course."
"You patrol for vamps?" Buffy smiled. "Wait a minute your outcasts like Angelus?"
Willow swallowed. It wouldn't be cool to be in a lair any vampire can walk in.
Buffy looked at Willow. "This sucks. I am not happy about being in a lair. Even if we stay here it won't seal it to vampires. We will have to seal the house... In case any of the asshole contingent deign to come over to a spot of tea. She smiled wickedly. You can do it with what we have available? Then we will invite the ones who live here" Willow nodded
Maria looked at her surprised. "What do you mean?"
Willow looked at her amazed a vampire had no idea what she meant. "Seal the residence against vampires, as if it was a human residence. Then we invite you four in and your safe, no bad guys can enter into house."
Buffy smiled at the look on Maria's face. "Then when you're on patrol, we don't have to worry about your asshole neighbors."
Maria looked at them in fear. "No, no, we can't, not without Angelus say!"
Buffy looked at her. "Yeah we can. Willow, you start as I sprinkle wash with salt water."
Maria was almost frantic. She could not accept their desire to do such a major thing without Angelus's permission. It was unheard of. "No, no we can't. Not with out his say so... he will punish us!"
Buffy stood and looked at her. "You just say you knew nothing. I will tell Angelus that you had no say in it, that it was all my idea." Willow stood and they headed for the front door where their chanting that was sealing the house could be heard in the kitchen. Maria and Michelle tangibly felt the magick the redhead dealt in the kitchen.
Marcus cam into the kitchen to find out what was going on he could feel the magick. "What the hell is that?"
Maria looked at Marcus fear in her eyes. "Angelus's woman and the red head are sealing the house from other vampires. I tried to tell not too, and to talk to Angelus first, but did they listen? No."
"You're kidding me. Angelus doesn't know?" Marcus bit his lip as he thought that this could be ugly.
Maria looked down. "No he doesn't. I really think he is going to be mad"
He whistled in his teeth. "Well it is on her head. He told us to respect and follow her, so it is between them." He prayed it would be.
Maria looked at him doubtful. "I hope your right…"
Later Angelus came down and saw Marcus and them in the kitchen. He felt their nervousness and tension but saw no reason for it. "What's going on here, group?'
Maria stuttered as Marcus looked up. "It seems your woman and the redhead decided they didn't like the fact your house was a lair and are sealing it against vampires...."
Angelus looked at them pleased with the girl's forethought. "Good thinking, we don't want any of the other kind of vampires getting in, especially with them here."
Maria looked at him surprised with his acceptance. "I tried to tell them to ask you first Sire."
Marcus looked at him also surprised. Angelus of old would have rendered a subject limb form limb for such impertinence. "She did it without your permission…"
Angelus laughed. "Elizabeth never asks my permission about anything. She just does." Maria looked at him in shock. Marcus closed his mouth from dropping his mouth in shock.
Buffy and Willow came in and Buffy came over and kissed him and ruffled Angelus's hair. "We just sealed the house so when you all go out and patrol tonight... we're not going to have any uninvited guests." she sat in his lap possessively. She nodded. "I just like to be safe she nuzzled his neck.
Angelus nodded. "Good thinking you two. Well I'm not going on any patrol, they do."
Willow looked at them. "Who do you usually patrol with?"
Marcus looked at Angelus. "I was going to ask you if you would Angelus. We've been shadowing the French pro-Slayer Ann Marie. Erikk is back in town from Germany and she is having a hard time with his minions."
Buffy looked at Angelus. She didn't like the sound of that. "Maybe you should go Angelus, Ann-Marie isn't the strongest pro-Slayer. She couldn't fight her way out of a paper bag in London. Remember she got her ass whipped in the pre-battle training?
Willow was nodding. "Yes sense blind as a rock. You remember her, it was her who broke her leg?" Marcus was astounded that they knew the pro-Slayer.
Angelus looked at them. "Very well, I will go. Yes I remember what I did to her."
Marcus's jaw dropped "What YOU did to her? You broke a pro Slayer's leg?"
Willow shrugged. "He didn't mean to…"
Angelus looked at Marcus then Maria they were stunned. "I got hand picked to help train the Slayers for battle Marcus. No I didn't mean too Willow, but I did brake her leg."
Marcus sighed. "Well she is back on patrol, but that left leg is a weak spot and you know Erikk he'll heat her for lunch."
Angelus looked out the window into the gathering darkness. "Yeah I know."
"Well, we will meet her in the graveyard at dusk and shadow her on patrol." Marcus hoped he wasn't being too forward. Angelus seemed to have calmed over the years.
Angelus-Well I think I will walk along with her
You don't mean that, do you? You know can't walk out in the open with her.. Your not suppose to let the Slayer know you. It's the rules." He looked at Angelus and it dawned on him. "This thing with the Demon Lord, You saw them all?
Angelus" Why not walk with her. She knows me, and it makes helping her so much more easier. Yes Marcus I met every Slayer."
"You even met Slayer Prime?" He said the word hushed like a child whispering of the boogieman in the dark. Maria looked over here shoulder as if she would appear at any moment to render them to dust. "You met Prime and Secunda?"
Angelus smiled at his children. "Oh yeah. Prime is one word: WOW. The other is good." Angelus looked at him and chuckled. "I live in her town dumb ass. Of course I know who Slayer Prime is, even before the Demon Lord thing."
"Wow. I can't believe you met Prime and lived. She is reputed to be the most vicious and incredible Slayer. Did you know she killed Lothos with a pencil?" Buffy was getting a kick out of being the fly on the wall for the vampires fear of her. "You saw her and survived?"
Angelus laughed. "I walk with her on patrol."
Maria sighed. "Wow wait, you shadowed the Slayer Prime? Oh god. Well this should be easy for you then."
The doorbell rang and Xander got it and brought in the groceries. "Food, can we eat?"
Angelus laughed. "Yes my boy, you three eat." Xander stood next to Angelus, his body touching as he dug into the grocery sack. He was leaning into him and enjoyed being stroked by Angelus like a well loved childe. As Angelus stroked Xander the others got the food out. Angelus impulsively kissed him on the bite mark, and he shivered.
Marcus watched Xander enjoy Angelus's touch and contact with a stiff jaw. He looked at Angelus' woman and it was obvious that while she didn't care for it, she tolerated it. Marcus swallowed the jealously that was building. Angelus hadn't been so demonstrative to him when he was his fledging.
Willow was looking through a magazine and smiled ignoring Xander and Angelus. "Well Buffy we can have a girls night tonight? Do our thing while they do this? We can do our nails and stuff."
Buffy nodded. "Yeah we can. Can your computer get on the Internet in France?" Willow shrugged and they walked off with their munchies to see if they could get online
***
The girls were doing their nails. Maria stayed with them while Michelle went with Marcus, Roberto and Angelus to guard the pro-Slayer. They had conditioned and styled Buffy's hair and then Willows. Maria had begged off the make over. They then had done their nails in a manicure and even their toenails! Maria thought she was going to lose her mind from the foolishness of the evening.
Buffy was looking at her nails, which were painted a nice baby pink. They had been talking about highschool dances and baby plans until Maria wanted to scream. Maria looked at them thinking they where a medieval hell she was going threw. Talking about junk that didn't matter. Maria looked at them and wanted to throw up if she could. They acted like medieval ladies who talk was only about grooming and such.
Buffy decided that she like Maria, and if vampire relationships were like marriage, she realized Maria was like a stepchild without the ex-wife. She giggled for no apparent reason and Maria looked at her confused at the giggle but didn't say anything.
Willow looked at her strangely and Buffy explained her view of vampire relationships. "Well Angelus is the Sire, and has several childer. Spike who is an ass, Marcus who seems OK, and Maria, who is sweet. Since we're married, that makes them like my step kids without having to deal with an ex-wife!" Buffy chortled and Willow dissolved into laughter. Buffy continued. "Doesn't that make Roberto and Michelle grand kids? God this could get confusing without a score card." She laughed. Maria looked at them she was insulted by that but didn't say anything.
The commentary of humanization of vampire relationships was interrupted when Michelle burst into the house. She was battered and bleeding, she had been attacked
Buffy looked at her and was instantly on her feet guiding her to a chair. "What happened, where are the guys?" Willow stood and was at her side concerned.
Michelle rested a moment. "We got jumped by Erikk's minions and after we were beaten, they were taken by Erikk's minions. They got the Pro-Slayer, and the guys. I barely got away." Blood tears filled her eyes. She knew they were as good as dead if not dead already."
Hearing the fuss Xander arrived to hear her statement. "Taken, what do you mean taken, there were three of them!"
Michelle looked up her face a mask of tragedy. "There was 20 minions that out numbered us, over powered us. We didn't have a chance."
Buffy was terrified. God she hadn't come all this way to lose Angelus this way! "Where did they take them?" She asked in a cold voice that Willow and Xander recognized it as her Slayer voice.
Michelle answered unaware. "Back to his lair. It's in the West End of the graveyard...we never go near it."
"Well how are we going to get them back? Can you take me there? We're going to need weapons. What have you got?" Buffy was in hyper-battle mode. Her mate had been taken and whatever vampire or demon stupid enough to do that, wouldn't live long enough to rue the day. Gone was the teenager. Before the unsuspecting vampires was the Slayer Prime who was getting a serious dust lust going.
Michelle looked at her confused his woman couldn't mean to tackle Erikk in his lair? "You can't rescue them but I can show you where they are. As for weapons, we have them in the study in the closet.
Maria looked at them. They didn't mean to go after them? That was suicide. "No we can't. Angelus would never forgive us if they got hurt."
Buffy went to the hall closet and then to Maria's horror Buffy smashed the locked door in and riffled through the contents taking what she wanted. She was loading up on stakes and taking a quarterstaff. "Angelus can KISS my ass. No one takes my man and thinks they can get away with it! Spike thought he would do it with Drusilla and I put his ass in a wheelchair for several months. If I had known he survived I would have staked his ass!
Maria and Michelle watched in amazement as the bubble-headed blonde turned into a roaring female out to protect her mate. Xander the usual goofball was seriously loading up on weapons as Willow was on her computer in the dining room. "I got the Watcher files on Erikk... called Erikk the Red. He hails from Ireland and is an old nemesis of Angelus's. He is a nasty critter that likes weak minions of the lower end variety. He fears real childer. His minions are cream puff and probably brain dead stupid. Last registered in the Lafayette cemetery in a mausoleum that opens into the city's catacombs. Weapons of choice is a rapier and a dagger..." Willow drifted off.
Buffy looked at Willow smiling. Didn't sound too bad. "He got any magick worker under his thumb?"
Willow read again and shook her head. "He usually tried to win by gross numbers of 15 to 20 at a time. He hasn't gone one on one with a Slayer since Jolene kicked his ass and collapsed his old lair to rescue her watcher from his kidnapping him. He is a high gradient feeder; he likes to eat closer to dawn with a good hunger. He likes to keep prisoners up to years to torture. There is a good bet their still alive, even Ann Marie."
Buffy smiled a wicked grin. "Good. Then we attack now, kick and then dust his ass... Jesus can anyone drive in France?" Xander shook his head Willow shook her head no.
Maria and Michelle looked at them. They were going to do it. Angelus last orders were to respect Buffy and do as she asked. This was horrible, they were all going to die. "We can drive you…"
She looked at Maria. "Good, you can drive. Let's go time is wasting... your coming. Your job is to free Angelus and the guys and stay out of my way…"
Michelle looked at her. "Who are you?" Maria looked at them they where going to get her whipped of they survived.
"Xander you job is to free Ann Marie and see if she is battle worthy." She looked at Maria. "You want to know who I am? I am Angelus's woman, the mother of his twin children. I am also the Hellmouth Slayer also called Slayer Prime. You can fight me and call the end of the world, but don't ever mess with my man!" Michelle felt a shiver up her spine. The SLAYER! Maria felt sick as she watched Willow called Ann Marie's watcher to tell him to heads up, she could be severely injured and they didn't know the medical care here. Buffy continued. "Come on lets get a roll on I have a need to seriously kill something and Erikk and his crowd just volunteered to be by back to fighting workout!"

They drove in the van to the cemetery across town to be stopped by the chained gate. Buffy got out of the van and walking nonchalantly over to the gate, she just ripped the chain from the gate to allow them to enter. She was beyond giving a shit about laws, rules or propriety. They drove thought the cemetery and then in the West End up to the mausoleum, which had Maria shaking in she shoes. Buffy got out and negligently shot a crossbow over her shoulder and dusted on of the sentinels near the door.
Maria watched her...oh god Angelus would be so pissed if she got hurt
Xander got out in his soldier-boy mode he had ever since that weird Halloween. He scanned the area for any more, and shot another sentinel.
Buffy walked over to the mausoleum door and with Willow and the female vamps backing her and Xander brining up the rear, she kicked the door off the hinges. She held a small hand held crossbow in her right hand and a quarterstaff in her left. The large cross bow was on a belt to her belt for later use and she was hyper aware.
Two large vamps yelled at her in French as they jumped out of the niches. She didn't look at where they came from since they held disgusting dead things she didn't want to look at. Buffy stabbed one with a long stake as she then staked the other with the quarterstaffs' pointed ends. The dust drifted to the floor.
Buffy walked down the walkway peering into the niches just enough to assure nothing was moving. As she passed a deep one, another vampire came out of the niche to meet death decapitated by Willow's sword. Maria and Michelle where looking at each other. What in the hell had they gotten themselves into?
They finally reached and peeked into the major chamber and it was a chamber of horrors. Off to the right was Angelus Roberto and Marcus chained to big eyebolts set into the stone floor. Around them stood the remaining 20 or so vamps. Erik sat on a great throne made of human bones. There were several female vampires, which Buffy immediately dismissed. They were obviously Bethany, sex slaves and of little concern to her except to die when she got around to killing them.
Buffy looked at Willow and Xander. "OK we attack a V formation. Erikk is MINE, leave the bimbos for the clean up. I want total eradication. If they didn't come with us or live with us, it dies unless someone vouches for them. Total eradication but Erikk is mine, I get to dust his ass. Maria and Michelle, you go to the guys and get them loose, or protect them. Willow, Xander, you try for Ann Marie. She is the seminude tied to the chair. Any questions?"
Willow licked her lips and nodded. Xander nodded "roger". Maria and Michelle looked at her. It made their skin crawl to hear a Slayer saying "total eradication" in response to a vampires lair, even an enemies.
Buffy smiled "OK take aim everyone with a cross bow, make it count. We are going to have to hand to hand kill the rest." Michelle and Maria thought this was crazy, doing this. But Buffy aimed, fired and a tall dark haired vampire exploded into dust while his partner next to him joined him from Willows bolt. Xander nailed a short fat vampire and then his near by partner on the refill.
Buffy released the crossbow and dropped it, they are useless in close quarter fighting. She stood up with a blood-curdling scream. "I will show you to take my man you ass hole!" Buffy went down the stairs with Willow and Xander behind her. Maria and Michelle grabbed their swords and followed sure they were going to death with this crazy assed Slayer and their Sires.
Angelus looked stunned as Buffy Xander and Willow Michelle and Maria all came into the catacombs to save them. He knew that Buffy was in a killing frenzy. He looked at Roberto and Marcus who had a stunned looks on their faces. Maria and Michelle came over as the most of the vampires were focused on Buffy and the others. Angelus looked at Michelle and snarled "Get me free so I can help Michelle!"
Roberto and Marcus looked at the girls. "Whose idea was this?" Angelus smiled he knew
Michelle was trying to figure how to get them out of the chains. "Where is the key?"
Angelus groaned. "Erik has it" he looked at the battle as Buffy attacked four vamps with the quarterstaff. She battered one about the head while kicking another in the crotch. Even dead they dropped to that move. She caught another under the chin. Then she proceeded to stake them with the staff keeping her distance. "Use the sword and brake them."
Michelle took her sword "Damn it. She's going to get him before we get the key!" She tried all that happened was the chains chipped the sword. They watched as Xander stabbed one and pushed another into a brazier. The burning vampire made a good light to see the battle with before he exploded into dust.
Buffy was pissed. "Erikk you pig… your ass is mine!" she yelled at him as she wadded through his minions toward him on his throne. Erikk grabbed his rapier and went to meet the woman who was decimating his minions. Roberto looked and watched Buffy move unlike any pet he had ever seen as Buffy spun and round housed a vamp and then staked him as she went by him.
Willow went over by Angelus who was deep in game face and frustrated as hell. She tried to invoke magick to release the chains but it failed. Angelus looked at her "Damn it"
Xander was over by Ann Marie who was doing her imitation of princess Leia from Return of the Jedi. He beheaded a vamp too anxious to get to the pro-Slayer. Roberto was still watching Buffy. Marcus was amazed to watch a vampire's pets kill vampires like they did it all the time!
Buffy stalked toward Erikk and his immediate minions. "You took something that belongs to me and I want it back." She front kicked and then staked another, spun around and caught a vamp in the back of the head and staked him. Marcus then watched Buffy who was just as beautify as she fought as well as she was devastating. Angelus watched Buffy was in full Slayer Prime mode and was not happy. She shouldn't be fighting like this in her condition!
Willow grabbed the sword and made a invocation so it glowed and struck the chains again. Lights flashed and sparked flew but the chains stayed the same. Angelus yelled "Behind you!" and she spun around decapitating a vampire coming up behind her and then immediately went back trying to figure out how to break the chain.
Buffy was in full dust lust. She was a killing machine and vampires were her prey. She smiled at the remaining vampires that milled in fear not knowing what the hell they had in their mist. "OK asshole, who is the next to go before ram this pole up Erikk's ass?"
A big vamp took the challenge and attacked. She blocked him with the staff out in front of her with two hands. He shattered the staff with one massive blow. She stood there with the parts of the staff in each hand. Roberto watched thinking *Oh no its Erikk's killing machine there was no way that pet would get through him.* Marcus watched. Aware that there was no way Angelus's pet was going get through him. She was going to die and he hoped to get out before Angelus went ballistic.
Buffy fell back form him, rolled backwards and was up on her feet, her long quarterstaff rendered into two stakes with handy shards for ends. She stepped into him and kicked him in the solar plexus spun a roundhouse to his face and she followed up with the stake thought his heart. She slapped his face as he stood there stunned before and exploded into dust. Roberto watched and his mouth open. Stunned that she killed him. Marcus watched her but didn't believe it. A vampire would have been hard pressed to kill him never mind a pet!
She smiled a cold predatory smile at Erikk. "Now he was worth a work out! Anymore like him? Bring them on I'm getting warmed up!" Angelus frowned she had no place to be egging him on. Angelus growled he didn't like the attitude she had He would talk to her later about that. Xander walked up behind a vampire watching Buffy fight and stabbed him in the back.
Now Erik stood with 4 enforcers and the 6 women behind him. He knew the women were useless, they were made weak. But the four at one time should do it. He signaled and they attacked in different directions at her.
Buffy looked around as they spread out to surround her. One attacked from the left. She front kicked him; rabbit punched him and then reached down and broke his neck. She dropped him for clean up later. Marcus watched amazed. None he knew ever lived after facing the four of Erikk's killers. She round house kicked the chest of the one attacking from the front and the punched the one from her right in the face. She followed up with rapid-fire punches and kicks that stunned hum and broke his knee.
Angelus watched and hoped she made it. Marcus stared in shock. My god she was going hand to hand with them, all four, and winning! Roberto was just like Marcus as he watched her brake their necks.
She sidestepped and did a high side kick which stopped the one on her right. She rolled up with a full out hand to hand attack on the one behind her. She was devastating them. She caught one in the nose and drove his face up into his brain. It didn't kill him, but he would drool until he healed and she didn't plan to let that happen. Two lay on the ground crippled by her and useless to the fight. She did a cartwheel and came up with a stake and drove it home on the one who tried to catch her.
Angelus was watching. Damn she was pissed now! She stood there with the master vamp, 1 enforcer and several bimbos. She was winded and sweating heavily. Buffy walked toward him a vicious smile on her face. Marcus could not believe his eyes
Erikk brought up a crossbow and fired it, she leaned to the right and pulled the bolt out of the air and grinned with a wicked grin. He just gave her a weapon. "Thank you!" Roberto's eyes popped from his head almost. Erikk looked at her: a vampires worse nightmare. "What do you want who are you?"
"I am Angelus's woman asshole. I want my man and my cadre. You took our children." Marcus looked at her. She was claiming them as children? Erik looked at her. She had to be a vampire but he couldn't believe a vampire fighting like this and not being in game face. He and the remaining enforcer attacked, he with his rapier and the enforcer with his mace.
Roberto was also in shock as being calmed as a child by her. Angelus smiled inside that she would claim his children. She ran and dove for the table and came up with a large elaborate candlestick, which she allowed the vamp with the mace to swing and she wrapped it up, on the candlestick. The spike cut her face and the blood flowed, warm rich sweet smelling HUMAN blood! This was no vampire! Most surprising of all there was NO FEAR in the blood, but a sexual arousal, which was plain to all vampires present to smell. Roberto was more shock at this.
She pulled the enforcer into her and she head butted him and ripped the mace out of his hand by breaking his arm. Marcus knew then to never piss her off. She slammed into his neck and ripped his spin out through his throat and then broke his neck. She walked over toward Erikk after wiping her hand on the flailing vampire's shirt. Willow was watching calmly as was Xander. Maria and Michelle were stunned this was their boogieman, and their fears were no where reality!
Buffy walked toward Erikk as she bent and scooped up a part of her broken quarterstaff. "Damn that belonged to my man. I was supposed to bring all my toys home in good condition and he isn't going to like this. Maybe I should bring your head on it as a boo boo gift?" Angelus was watching still in game face, he had to laugh at her audacity. "Come one little man lets finish this if your vamp enough" Marcus was in shock that she was taunting Erikk. "When I am done with you I'll dust your bimbos for you."
He screamed and attacked her with his rapier forcing her to fall back and dance around. He swung and she pulled her stomach out of the way. It would have worked before she was pregnant, but now she had more stomach and her stomach got cut. Not deep, just a flesh wound, but it encouraged him to further attack. Angelus held his breath hoping.
She rolled out of the way and snapped to her feet from the roll, holding her hand to the cut. Oh gods were the babies all right? She side stepped him and locked up his arm breaking it. "Say good night Gracie." She snarled in his face.
"Who are you?" He asked trying to break her hold.
She smiled "*I* am *THE* SLAYER PRIME!"
Marcus looked at Angelus as he felt waves of tingles over his body at THAT. He watched as she drove the stake into Erikk's heart and he dissolved into dust. She caught the key as it dropped and threw it to Angelus. Roberto felt like he would faint.
She walked over grabbing the women as they cowered behind the throne. She staked her and then moving to the next. They were too afraid and powerless to even fight and so soon she was standing in a lot of dust. She looked over as Xander staked the crippled ones the floor
Angelus undid the chains then released the other two out as well. She went and sat on the chair and leaned forward putting her head between her knees feeling light headed. Her shirt a mass of blood from her face matched by the abdomen cut she held her hand to. Angelus was at her side. "Let me see."
She leaned back lifting her shirt, giving him full access to her bleeding wound. She sighed. "Got sloppy there."
Angelus looked at it and wiped away the blood. "It's healing well thank god. It was shallow." He put his hand to her tummy. He could still feeling the life forces in her. "The babies are fine baby. I feel them, they are fine."
She nodded good lets go home. "I want double, double chocolate ice-cream on the way home, or as close as France gets to it OK?" gone was the Slayer back was his consort and she wanted two things after battle: food and sex.
Angelus laughed. "They have ice cream Buffy, lets go. When we get home, me and you are going to have a talk"
She nodded. As she walked by Marcus and Maria she groaned. "Damnit all that work tonight and I broke a nail, shit!" they stared in shock at her as she looked at her freshly manicured nails done in a light baby pink. Angelus laughed. "God I love her…"
Willow released Ann Marie and they put Xander's shirt on her. "Anyone have a cell phone? We got to call this lair in!"
Angelus looked at her in confusion. "What?"
Maria handed her a cell phone and Willow dialed Ann Marie's Watcher. Willow explained. "This lair has been used by vampires sine the 1800's! The Watchers need it! Imagine the information and resources!"
Buffy waved her hand. "Well whatever. I don't deal with the real-estate." Willow was talking into the phone as they left. Angelus looked at Buffy she shrugged.

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