Nice Enough For A Piggyback Ride
By Calie
Nice Enough for a Piggyback Ride 3/?
Author: Calie
Summary: The Initiative takes interest in Buffy, Spike, and Willow.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Remember each part is like an
episode. Meaning a new plot. Although
part 3 and part 4 are connected. Think of it as those 2 parter episodes we
get in the middle of the season that leave us hanging for a week. Need the
previous part? Go here
Part 3
"What?!?!" Giles yelled.
Buffy winced at the high tone of his voice.
She hadn't meant for it to
happen. It just had. "Giles, I didn't want to tell them, but they saw Riley
and I together," she explained to him. However, it did no good.
Giles took off his glasses and rested his
head on the back of the couch.
"What happened?" he asked, as calmly as possible.
"Riley and were fighting. Well, it turns
out, two of his friends are part of
the Initiative. Riley was keeping more secrets than I thought. But as I was
saying, they came along all macho like in their army gear. Also what is up
with that? You don't see me all in army gear. Sometimes in some pants and a
cute little shirt." Buffy's eyes widened and she held her hand out. "And
sometimes even skirt." Buffy sighed and continued. "Well, they helped us kill
the demon. And before you know it one of those idiots say into there
microphone things 'Sir we have a situation.' A situation! Can you believe it!
I am a situation. I have been doing this for a much longer time then they
have. And I am the situation! Where they chosen!?! Noooooo, I don't think so."
By this time Buffy was standing and pacing
back and forth angrily. It hadn't
upset her till now.
Giles sighed. Of course, she still hadn't
gotten to the point. "What happened
after?"
"Well, the same guy carried out a conversation
quietly, while I sent mean
glances towards him. I hope he felt it too. When he was finished, he said to
Riley........
***** "Riley, we have to take her in," he said as he walked closer.
Riley opened his mouth to give a negative, but Buffy was there before him.
"Take me in?" Buffy scoffed. "Oh, no, I
don't think so. You can just take
your little laser gun and your microphone thingy and shove it-"
"Buffy," Riley said quietly. He turned
to the other two. "Look, Forest, there
is no reason for us to take her in." But of course, he was cut off again.
"Riley, she knows about us. We have no
choice. She knew that someone was
helping you," Forest told him. He would have never have guessed it would have
been her.
"Who is she?" Buffy asked.
"You'll know soon enough," he told her.
Buffy looked at them through narrowed eyes.
"You want to take me in? Go
ahead. Just try it."
"Buffy...." Riley started.
"No. We should give them a chance. I mean,
they can't go back saying that
they refused to take me in. At least this way, they can say I kicked their
asses, and they had no choice." She was getting tired of this whole
initiative. They really needed a whole lesson in the area of The Chosen One.
************
"Then a vamp came along. So since their
was three of them, I knew they could
take care of him and I took off," she said simply.
"So they don't know about you being a slayer?"
Giles asked her. He was a
little relieved. But they still knew Buffy was involved and it wouldn't be
the end of this.
"No, but I expect that I'll be hearing
something soon from them. And most
likely, they'll be watching me with all of their high tech equipment. You
know for such a large watchers organization and only one slayer, you all
don't fund very well," she told him.
~~~~~
"So what do we do now?" Willow asked her
as she laid under her covers in the
darkened room.
"Stay on the look out. You and Xander can
both help me out. There bound to
find out that you know. And that Giles knows and Spike too. Although, I'm not
going to kill myself saving his life, I don't want him in the hands of the
Initiative. I know we can trust, Riley, but I don't know about the other two.
Or any of the other people involved. There was someone Forest reported to
It's a women. Because he said 'she.'" Buffy was going to be on the look out
for them to. She was going to find out everything.
"Buffy, if they find out we are harboring
Spike, they'll come straight for
him," Willow told her. Not only would that put them in danger, but also she
didn't want them getting their hands on Spike.
"I don't like, Spike. We all know that.
But I refuse to let them take him and
kill him. If anyone gets to kill him, it will be me."
Willow smiled in the dark. As many times
as Buffy's says that, she has never
acted on it. The problem is, Buffy and Spike loved to hate each other.
"But taking a vampire and performing tests
on him, or any other demon, is
unnatural." And if they worked against her and tried to stop her they where
going to have a serious problem.
~~~~~~
"Go Fish!" Spike yelled triumphantly.
Willow frowned and pulled another card
from the middle of the table then
smiled. "I got it," she told him and stuck her tongue out at him as she held
up the matching cards.
"I'm still winning though. So you have a 3?" he asked.
"I caught one," Buffy announced as she walked in.
Willow let out a relieved breath. Now she
wouldn't have to give him her 3.
"Caught one what?"
"Army guys. They were spying on me, while
I was patrolling. I gave him a
swift kick in the ass and told him to tell whoever was in charge they have a
problem now," she told them and plopped down on the sofa. She looked confused
at Willow and Spike who where sitting on the floor on either sides of a table
with cards in there hands. "So what game are you two playing this time?"
"Go Fish," Willow told her.
"Speaking of. I think you have my 3, pet." Spike reminded her.
Willow scowled and threw the card at him.
"Next time, I pick the game," she
told him and turned back to Buffy. "So what are you going to do?"
"Although, I could care less about your
cause slayer, I hate the bloody army
brats more. In my opinion, you need to show them who is running this bloody
hellmouth," he spoke up. "Do you have a 6?"
"Go fish," Willow told him haughtily.
"Right, Spike, let me tell you. They have
an army of guys running around with
little masks, things to sense vampires and little laser guns. I show them who
is in charge, how?" she asked him.
"You have a queen?" Willow asked him.
Spike frown and handed the card to her.
"Ha ha," Willow told him and stuck her tongue out.
"Very becoming, pet," Spike responded then
turned to Buffy. "Look, I didn't
say I knew how to do it. But what are you going to do? Let them take over
your little gig?"
"It's not a gig!" Buffy exclaimed. "I am
the ch-" she started to rant and
rave but was cut off by Spike.
"Yeah, the Chosen One, there can be only
one. Look I've heard it to much over
just a century. If your so bloody special, why don't you let them know? They
don't have the superhuman strength. You do. Come on Willow. You're taking
forever to lose."
Willow huffed. "All right, mister
"I'm-a-big-bad-vampire-who-can't-even-kill-people!" Give me your King."
Spike growled and threw the card towards her.
"Oh look!" Willow exclaimed with mock surprise.
"I am all out of cards. I
guess I shall have to pick one from this dear old pile of fishies." Willow
picked up one of the remaining three cards. "Do you have an ace?" Willow
asked sweetly.
Spike slammed the card on the table.
Willow smiled triumphantly and placed the
two matching cards down. "You know
Buffy, Spike is right." She grabbed another card off the table. "You are the
chosen one. You defeated all the badies and demons and masters and closed
hellmouths before they even came to town. You need to let them know whose
town this is. Give me your 10 baby," Willow said and smirked.
"Oh, you don't know what it does to me,
when you call me baby," Spike said
sarcastically and threw the card towards her.
"I know that. But it still doesn't change
the fact that their are only a few
of us and a lot of them," Buffy argued.
Willow grabbed the card off the table and
looked him straight in the eye. "I
think you have my 5, kind sir," she said and smiled sweetly.
Spike stared at her angrily and slid the
card across the table, not taking
his eyes off of her.
Willow reached out to grabbed the card,
but his hand grabbed her and pulled
her forward as he leaned forward. Willow's eyes widened in fear as his eyes
began to glow yellow.
"I am going to win next time," he whispered.
Willow glared at him and pulled way. "Not on your life, dead boy."
~~~~~
"How did I get dragged into this?" Spike asked in almost a whine.
"You were the one that said I needed to
show them who is boss," Buffy
reminded him.
"But that didn't include me coming out
here endangering my life. I can't even
kill the bloody bastards!" he yelled angrily.
"Stop your whining. You know you wanted
to be out here to give them a good
beating anyway," Willow told him.
Spike frowned but didn't respond to her remark. "So what do we do then?"
"We hunt," Buffy told him as she continued to scan the grounds.
"We hunt!" he exclaimed. "Not only do you
have me out here in the open for
these poofs to catch me, but you also have me out here killing my own kind!"
"Well, you're the one that said you needed
a good kill," Buffy told him
angrily. "And will you shut up before you let everyone know we're here! There
going to have that whole damn initiative after us."
Spike grumbled to himself stopped the arguing.
"How do you know they'll show?" Willow
asked. Buffy said she had a plan and
she knew some of them would. Buffy hadn't wanted her to come, but she had
insisted, and Buffy relented after a little pleading.
"Because," Buffy smiled gleefully. "They'll
see Spike and they'll come a
running.'"
Spike stopped and gaped. After he recovered
he growled. "You have me set up
as the bait!"
"I guess he hasn't as dumb as they say,"
Buffy said to Willow. "Look Spike,
we're not going to let them take you. I want to be able to kill you. Not
them."
"Well, that's comforting," he grumbled.
"You think it will work?" Willow asked.
"Yeah. One will see us with a vampire and
that vampire just happens to be the
one that got away from them. So he'll call 'her,' and then they'll come like
good little doggies." At least, that's what was supposed to happen. Once they
got there though she wasn't sure what was going to happen.
~~~~~
"I'm sending reinforcements."
"How many, sir?" the figure behind the bush asked quietly.
"Enough to bring all three of them in.
Use extreme caution. This is not a
matter to be taken lightly," Prof. Walsh told him. "Out." She faced the
others. "Two teams to assist Agent Culver."
The men jogged out, quickly. She turned
to the team still standing there.
"You go too." She was going to be sure she got all three of them in.
Forest turned to look at his friend. When
this got to Riley, he was going to
be very unhappy.
~~~~~~
"Stop."
"You were right, Buffy," Willow said fearfully
as an army of guys surrounded
them.
"Can anyone say overkill?" Buffy asked and scoffed.
"Overkill? Never," Spike answered.
"Team one, take the vampire. Team two, take the humans," Agent Culver ordered.
"So this is where we fight back, right?"
Willow asked as she began to back up
towards Buffy and Spike.
"Yeah, I think so," Buffy said and nodded
as she took a fighting stance and
laid a kick in the closest agents stomach.
"It's about time," Spike said and vamped out.
Willow winced as two agents grabbed her.
This was harder then fighting
vampire. You couldn't kill them or protect yourselves from them. And she
wasn't as advanced in the fighting area as Buffy and Spike. She gritted her
teeth together and concentrated moments later and invisible force pushed the
two agents back and toppling to the ground.
"Oh shit," Willow cursed as more rushed
towards her. She had barely been able
to pull that off. "Buffy!" Willow screamed as they began to pull her off. She
couldn't even concentrate enough to do as she had done before.
"Willow!" Buffy yelled as her eyes laid
on her distancing friend. But she
couldn't help her. "Spike!"
Spike golden eyes flew to Buffy.
"Willow!" Buffy yelled to him.
Spike looked around for Willow and found
her fighting a losing battle with
three agents who were easily taking her towards some unknown destination. He
growled and threw the humans off of him. Spike ran in the direction that
Willow was being taken in, but it was no use. He was bombarded. "Willow!" he
growled out as she continued to scream.
~~~~~~
Willow glared at the men in white lab coats staring at her.
"Miss Rosenberg, how surprising to see you here."
Willow turned at the voice. "Professor
Walsh?" Willow asked confused. She
quickly covered the emotions on her face. No one was who they seemed to be.
That she had learned well.
"Yes, Professor Walsh. Now that I answered
your question, I have a few to ask
you," she said and sat down in a chair in front of Willow.
"Where are my friends?" Willow asked.
"Your friends. Now that leads to an interesting
set of question. A vampire is
your friend?" Prof. Walsh asked and paused. But she got no response.
Willow ignored the questions and ignore
the stares of the white coated men as
she continued to tell herself to be brave. Hopefully Spike and Buffy got
away. They were stronger then her. They would be able to get away. And then
they would be able to rescue her. Hopefully.
~~~~~~
Nice Enough for a Piggyback Ride 4/?
Author: Calie
Summary: Buffy, Spike, and Willow are held
in the Initiatives secret
underground bat cave. So they fight back.
Rating: PG-13
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Part 4
"Where are they?" Willow repeated. Those
were the only three words Willow had
spoken throughout her questioning.
Prof. Walsh paused as the girl repeated
the question. She knew a lot more
than she was giving. She turned to one of the men and nodded.
Willow watched cautiously as the man retreated
out the room. She sat there
quietly while Prof. Walsh continued to sit and take down notes. Moments later
the door opened.
"Buffy!" Willow exclaimed as her friend
was lead into the room with some sort
of handcuffs on.
"Willow!" Buffy yelled. She turned towards
one of the agents holding her and
watched him cautiously as he led her to a chair next to Willow and sat her
down. "Professor Walsh. I guess, I now know who is in charge of this
operation."
"This 'operation' as you call it saves
more lives then you could believe,"
Prof. Walsh responded. The girl had no respect for their cause.
Buffy's eyes widened. Seconds later, her laugh filled the room.
Willow tried to control her own laugh at
Buffy's behavior and Prof. Walsh's
words. But she couldn't contain a little snort.
Once Buffy quieted down, her disposition
changed and she was serious. "You
have saved more lives than I could believe? Give me a break." Buffy sat back
as much as she could with her hands cuffed behind her back. "Where is Spike?"
"Why?" Prof. Walsh asked calmly.
"Because I asked. That's why," Buffy told her.
Prof. Walsh frowned. Neither one where
giving up any information. "Why do you
care where he is?"
"Although it is my job to kill vampires,
I would rather not leave him in your
hands," Buffy told her smoothly.
"Your job? And who are you employed by?" Prof. Walsh asked curiously.
Buffy lost it. She couldn't control the
laughter that escaped her mouth. She
vaguely heard a laugh escape Willow's lips as her own surrounded her. Once
Buffy regained her composure, she turned to Willow. "Is she serious?"
"I think so. I don't think she's heard
the whole "chosen one" speech before,"
Willow told her.
"Ah," Buffy said in understanding. "Well, I don't remember it."
"Me neither," Willow said and shrugged.
"Well, I think it would be in your best
interest to tell us if you want to
get out of here," Prof. Walsh threatened.
Willow would swear to that day that she
could see a vain bulging on Buffy's
forehead. But she didn't have long enough to look.
Buffy grounded her teeth together and yanked
her arms together and a snap of
metal echoed on the walls. She jumped up and grabbed Prof. Walsh by the neck
and slammed her into the wall. "I don't think so," Buffy paid little
attention to the men in white jackets calling for back up. Soon some more
army guys entered. She continued to hold Prof. Walsh against the wall with
one hand while one of them charged her and she laid all her strength in a
hard punch knocking him across the room.
Willow backed up against the wall as yet
another one stalked towards her. She
turned towards Buffy hoping she would help her. "Buffy."
"My hands are full at the moment. Do your
little witchy thing," Buffy told
her as she kicked an oncoming agent.
Willow glared at Buffy announcing her position
to the whole room. But it
wouldn't matter in a few moments anyway. Willow winced as yet again she was
grabbed roughly. "You, you, you rat!" she yelled. Her eyes glowed as a silver
light swam around him and he shrunk to the ground. Willow looked down and the
squeaking animal. "Oops."
"Willow!" Buffy exclaimed as she held another agent off.
Willow bit her lip. "Sorry."
"Am I late?"
"Spike!" Willow exclaimed.
Spike's eyes traveled down the to rat crawling on the floor. "Your work?"
Willow nodded.
Spike nodded sympathetically at the rat.
He looked back up at the oncoming
agents and let his vamp face slide on.
~~~~~
"Riley, hurry up," Forest said and quickened
his pace through the secret
underground.
"Forest, what the hell is going on here?" Riley asked, out of breath.
"Prof. Walsh got them," Forest admitted.
"Who?" Riley asked confused as he caught up with Forest.
"Buffy and her friend. And somehow that
escaped vampire got mixed up into
it," Forest told him.
"Where are they?" Riley asked firmly.
Forest looked at him for a moment, then
led him in the direction where they
were being held.
~~~~~
"What the hell?" Riley asked as they rounded
a corner and yelling could be
heard. He turned to look at Forest, then took off running down the hall. He
ran into the room and found three rats running around the floors, Prof. Walsh
held up against the wall by Buffy while she continued to fight off his fellow
agents, and the vampire knocking an agent away from Willow.
"Stop!!!!!" Riley yelled.
Buffy turned at the sound of the familiar
voice. All movement seemed to halt
except for the running around of little rats.
"What happened?" he asked.
"It seems your friends decided it would
be a wise decision to take us in,"
Spike growled out angrily.
Buffy released Prof. Walsh and stepped
over to where Spike and Willow stood.
"Wasn't exactly wise," Buffy said. Her eyes widened as she felt something on
her foot. "Uh!" she yelled and kicked it lightly across the floor. "Willow?"
"Oh, sorry. Um okay, well. I said rat.
So um don't be rats anymore." Willows
eyes widened happily as the rats enlarged into men laying on the floor. She
smiled happily. "Look! I did it!"
Buffy patted Willow on the back. "Good
job. You can fix Amy when we get
home." Buffy turned to where the other side had congregated. "And we will be
going home. All three of us. "
"I don't think that will be possible. Especially now," Prof. Walsh told them.
Spike growled angrily and was prepared to begin fighting again.
"You, you, you-" Willow began but Buffy's hand quickly covered her mouth.
Buffy shook her head. "Not just yet, Willow."
"Buffy, just tell them," Riley said exasperated.
"What?!?!" Buffy exclaimed.
"If they let you go," Riley said and turned to look at Prof. Walsh.
"If she tells us the whole truth, then
we will let them go," Prof. Walsh
relented.
Buffy eyed them all up. "Fine. But if you
don't, you're going to have a
problem."
"And I'll turn you all into fish," Willow said decidedly.
Buffy turned to Willow giving her an odd
look. She picked up a chair that
laid on the floor and sat down. "I think you should have a seat."
~~~~~
"All right, so who knows it?" Buffy asked.
"What?" Spike asked from his unrealized hovering position over Willow.
"You know. THE speech all about me," she
reminded him. They had after all
just had this conversation.
"Look, I work for the other side. I don't know."
Willow sighed and relented. "I know it.
As long as there have been demons,
there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, a Chosen one, born with
the strength and skill to hunt vampires and other deadly creatures, to find
them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of
their numbers. When one Slayer dies, the next is called and trained by the
Watcher."
Buffy's eyes widened. "I had meant the 'For every generation' one."
Willow frowned. "In every generation there
is a Chosen One. She alone will
stand against the Vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the
slayer."
"Jeez, Will. When did you learn all of this?" Buffy asked amazed.
"And you are the slayer?" Prof. Walsh asked
with a tone that showed she could
careless.
"Yes. This is my job. I hunt and kill vampires
and demons. I was chosen. And
when I die, another will be chosen," Buffy told her.
"And you expect me to believe this?"
"Look, lady whether you believe it or not,
she is, unfortunately a slayer,"
Spike told the stupid women.
"And you help her, even though she should
kill you?" she asked him
unbelievably.
"Because he has no choice," Willow said
angrily. "He can't survive on his own
anymore."
"And you are what?" Prof. Walsh asked.
Willow said up straight. "Wiccan," she told them.
"You're what?" Prof. Walsh asked like it
was the least important thing in the
world.
"She's a bloody witch. Stupid human," he mumbled.
"A witch?" Riley repeated. He didn't know that one.
"Yeah. Broomsticks, pointed hats, and all."
Spike said angrily. "Didn't you
see her twitch her nose and turn your little friends into rats?"
Willow looked up at him.
"Look, I watch TV. There isn't much to
do during the day," he said and
shrugged.
"Look, this is what I do. This is what
I was born to do. This is what my body
is built to do. You can't stop me. You kill me. Then they'll be another. Your
little group of scientific agents and men is white coats capturing demons and
performing tests on them are not going to come along a stop something that
has been going on for centuries," Buffy told her smoothly.
"Nice speech," Spike admitted.
Buffy shrugged. "I try." She stood up from
her chair. "We are leaving now.
You try and stop us we are going to be in the same position we were in
earlier."
Riley stepped towards Buffy before Prof.
Walsh could respond. "Lets go," he
told her softly and led her out.
Buffy gave the women one last glare before walking out.
~~~~~~
"Do you think they'll leave us alone, now?"
Willow asked as they walked
towards Giles' house. Buffy and Riley walked ahead of her and Spike in deep
conversation.
"They better," Spike said certainly.
Willow yawned. As soon as they had stepped
out into the night air, a feeling
of drowsiness set over her. She wasn't going to last much longer.
"Pet, don't fall asleep on the way there.
I'm not in the mood to have to
carry you back," Spike told her.
Willow smiled softly. Of course, he said
it with his usual angry attitude.
But he wasn't angry. Although somewhere in her mind, most likely from the
lack of sleep, she wished she would fall asleep so that he would have to
carry her back.
*********