Joyce felt a sharp momentary pain as Giles sank his fangs into her neck, She 
felt a deep, erotic sensation as he began to drink her blood.  She seemed to 
drown in the euphoria of the moment, it was almost better than sex. She felt the
heady rush of an orgasm rising as he nearly drained her completely, then he 
pulled away.  Giles let Joyce slip to the floor, she was on the point of death,
minutes from the end, that was unless he did something to save her.

An evil smile spread across his face as he sliced open his wrist and let his 
tainted demon blood fall onto her pale lips.  He knelt cupping her head with one
hand and pressing his bloody wrist against her open mouth, it didn't take her 
long to start drinking his blood, she swallowed in large gulps until he felt 
she'd taken enough, then he pulled her head away and got up.  He stood and 
watched as she slipped into unconciousness.  She would rise as one of the undead
upon the next sunset, he just hoped that the slayer would be there to see it.

------

Spike, Oz, Angel and Buffy walked to the spot they had found the Vampires 
earlier from there they discovered a crypt with a concealed tunnel entrance 
under the main tomb, it had been left ajar.

"This does not bode well, they're expecting us." Buffy turned to the others, 
"are you ready to kick some serious demon butt?"

"Lets get this over with." Angel moved towards the opening.

Slowly the four of them moved through the tunnel to the nest of caves below. It 
was dark and musty, Buffy sniffed the air.

"They're not here, but your watcher is." She turned to Angel, he could tell by 
the look on her face that Cordy wasn't alive.  They moved through the caves 
until they found the body of the watcher spread peacefully on the bed, she had 
a white silk evening dress on, there was no blood only a gapping wound in her 
neck.  They had obviously cleaned her up and laid her out for them to find her 
hair was spread out like a fan,  she looked beautiful.  Angel choked back a sob,
he knew she wasn't the same Cordy he knew but he still felt that he'd lost a 
friend.  He bent over her body and gently planted a kiss on her pale forehead, 
then he scooped her up into his arms and turned to the others.

"Let's get her out of here, she deserves more than this."

Angel marched out of the cave and headed back to the surface with Buffy close 
behind. Spike and Oz lingered behind.

"You smell something?" Spike looked at Oz.

"Yeah But I can't put my finger on it."


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The Vampire Xander watched as the slayer emerged from the crypt carrying the 
body of his watcher followed closely by the Vampire tainted with a soul, he 
waited for them to move away across the graveyard then he jumped down from his 
hiding place on top of a large tomb and went into the crypt.  He knew there were
two more of them down there and he was cocky enough to think he could take them 
both on.

Oz heard the vampire coming and pushed Spike to one side.

"HEY....."

"Shhhhhhh, we have company and it ain't Angel," explained Oz.


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Angel and Buffy arrived back at the house on revello Drive, it was still 
shrouded in darkness and the bag of groceries was still split on the porch with 
the pools of blood.  With a heavy heart Angel realised that this was probably 
the last place the woman in his arms had been alive.  He wondered if she had 
been in alot of pain, how scared had she been in her final moments.  He looked 
down at her peaceful face and felt the tears come, they splashed down onto her
pale skin.  Angel's knees buckled beneath him and he found himself sat on the 
floor with Cordy in his arms, he reached up and stroked her hair, whispering his
regrets to her dead ears.  Buffy kneel down beside him, she wiped a lone tear 
from his cheek.

"This isn't going to help us, and I know she wouldn't have blamed you, what she 
would have wanted is for you to get mad and take these bastards down, make them
pay for what they've done to her, stop them before it's too late, cause if we 
don't things are going to get a whole lot worse."

Angel looked into Buffy's green eyes, he knew she was right and he knew he 
couldn't keep losing it like this.  In all their time together he'd never know 
Buffy to break down like this she always seemed so strong and yet he'd been the
slayer for two days and he was a wreck.

"I'm sorry, I know what needs to be done and I'm ready."

Buffy gave him a strange look.

"Honest, I am," he reassured her.

"Well then lets sort this out,"

Together they laid cordy out on the sofa.  They opened the door to leave, Angel 
realised that Spike and Oz were no where to be seen.

"Where the hell have those two got to?"

"We really don't have time to back track,  we need to get on and find the 
vampire lair, leave them a note on the door, they'll catch us up eventually."


				~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Oz held his breath in the dark as the vampire moved nearer, he was about to 
signal to Spike that they should attack when he heard Spike's battle cry as he 
launched himself at the horrified vamp. Spike seemed to fly throught he air and 
land completely on top of Xander, who tossed him away like a piece of paper. 
Stunned, Spike laid on the earthen floor gasping for breath, he watched in 
growing horror as the vampire changed into it's demon guise and started to come
for him. His expression turnedto amazement as he watched Oz perform a drop kick
from behind and take the vampire down.  He continued to watch as Oz grasped the
vamp in a strangle hold,  then he suddenly realised that he should get up and 
help. Between the two of them they managed to pin Xander down.  Spike sat 
astride of the furious vamp whilst Oz tied his wrists.  Pulling a stake from his
jacket pocket Spike ran it down the length of the vampires face and down to his
chest, letting it rest above the heart.

"So ugly you'd better start talking before I start staking,"

"I'm not telling you a thing." Xander growled.

Spike raised the stake them slammed it into the vampires chest intentionally 
missing the heart.  With a smug little smile on his face he twisted the stake 
before pulling it out.

The vampire howled in pain and tried to buck spike off.

"You were saying?" Spike smiled as he raised the stake for another go.

"I can't tell you, you can do what you like to me but I won't tell you."

"Ok then,"

Spike moved down slightly and plunged the stake into the vampire's stomach 
knowing that it would cause him immense pain he twisted the stake upwards 
watching as the vampire squirmed in pain.

"The high school.......they're at the high school....."

"Thanks mate." Spike grinned at staked the vampire.

As the dust swirled around them both Oz and Spike just smiled,  they had to 
catch Angel and let him know.


TBC ....