Vampires Anonymous: Part 2
by Andrea
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Part Two

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Meanwhile back at the school the vampires were starting to arrive. They wandered in slowly, still unsure that they would be welcome. They of course were since they were the reason the meeting was being held in the first place. Buffy ushered them all in, asking how their week had been and if anyone wanted to talk tonight. She wrote down the names of the few that did and handed it off to Xander who was running the meeting tonight.

"Why am I running this meeting? I am one of the few creatures here who IS NOT a bloodthirsty killer?" Xander was looking hopefully at the gang thinking he may have found a way out.

"Uh... Xander, remember the pig?" Xander blushed slightly and stammering something about how he never should have let it slip that he remembered that experience he stomped off to get ready to speak.

"It's 8 O'clock Willow, are you sure you told him you needed the cake tonight?"

Buffy was starting to get slightly panicked, if Spike and Dru didn't have their cake they would probably assume it was some sort of punishment for past sins and get all Angel-like again. She was pretty sure she didn't want anymore Angel-like people in her life, Angel himself was more than enough. Spike and Dru had come so far in the year since they had started this group; Dru was actually making sense some of the time. Not much sense but at least a little more than she had before. She was also, regrettably, obsessed with rescuing stray animals, so much so that Spike had threatened to move out of their house. Incidentally, the Sunnydale real estate market was enjoying a record year as the re-souled vamps moved above ground and the death rate decreased dramatically. Buffy watched the door anxiously as Xander called the meeting to order; praying that Angel made it back before the end of the meeting.

"Hello everyone, I'm Xander, you already know that though, and...well I'm running this meeting tonight, Thomas was supposed to be doing this but sadly, he forgot to close the blinds when he went to sleep the other day...so, I'm sure we'll all miss him." Xander stood there nervously shifting from foot to foot silently cursing Willow for making the boo-boo that got them into this mess in the first place.

"Tonight we have our first one year anniversary of the group and of Spike and Dru's joining. Also Sheila and Bobby are going to speak for the first time." Xander stared at Willow trying to cue her to hand out the groups outline sheets that they had finally typed up so that everyone could have a copy. Willow saw him staring at her and waved, she was to worried about the mess Oz was probably making in her basement to figure out that if Xander was staring at her there probably was a reason. Which there was.

"Uh...Willow, do you have the hand-outs?" Xander was not totally comfortable yet with the fact that these vampires were not supposed to be considered enemies anymore. They were all playing on the home team now. The scooby gang had grown way to big for his liking. He found it odd that Angel was the only one of them he really liked. It could be that falling in love with one of his biggest enemies had caused him to go soft on the other one. Maybe it just was because Angel didn't like Spike and anyone who didn't like Spike was okay in his books. That vamp was entirely too flippant, entirely too sarcastic. In other words honing in on his territory. But no, he wouldn't think that way, everyone was so nice now, all forgiving, even Giles. It was enough to make a cynical mortal scream. Which he did sometimes in the privacy of his own bedroom. Not because he was cynical but because he had liked being part of a small exclusive clique dedicated to eradicating evil. Now who knew who was evil, a guy had to travel three miles outside of town just to find a one vampire who wasn't re-souled. That's what happens when you get a bunch of re-souled vampires desperate to erase their kind. Buffy would barely ever have to hunt anymore except for the fact that there were about ten times the normal amounts of other demons visiting Sunnydale at any one time. Seemed like the hellmouth had to have a constant amount of evil to keep it happy.

Angel slipped quietly into the back of the library thankful for the centuries of practice he had sneaking around. He listened to Xander talk to the group about forgiving yourself for things that you couldn't change and had no control over. Xander of all people, he had been the last person he would have thought would fall for all this crap. Angel felt somewhat betrayed by Xander's turnaround. When he hadn't done anything horrible for over 100 hundred years Xander couldn't stand him and now that he had done horrible stuff to him and their friends Xander was okay with him. They all were okay with him and he couldn't help waiting for the other shoe to drop. No one could possibly understand let alone forgive the things he had done. Buffy kept telling him to accept what they were offering him, accept that they had big enough hearts to let him back into theirs. But even if they could forgive him, who they had known before he had reverted, how come they were so forgiving of Spike, Dru and their gang? They had only known them as monsters, he had known both of them before. He was glad for Dru's sake that they were helping them out. Spike still annoyed him like he had since Dru had first laid eyes on him.

Willow handed him the guidelines then; he glanced at it and couldn't help smirking. They were still such innocents in spite of all their good intentions. They still had no idea of the atrocities these creatures had committed, still had the potential to do again. He couldn't picture Spike not giving in to the demons urgings at some point. They would be so disappointed if that happened. He was so worried for them.


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