Connection Part Two: Chapter Ten
by rockangelz25
Oz looked up. “Come and enjoy,” he said quietly to Willow, gesturing to the people below.

“What’s going on?”

“Romantic tension,” Riley told her.

“With—with them?” Willow raised an eyebrow.

“Yeah.” Cordelia looked brightly at Xander.

“Wait. There’s tension between Buffy and Dead boy?” Xander seemed to lose a bit of his development from L.A.

“Xander,” said Willow reprovingly.

“What’s up?” Riley stood up to face Willow.

“Giles had a plan. He wants us to go back in the Bronze; using our disguises. We could take them all out.”

“Sounds great,” said Oz. “What’s the catch?”

“The catch is that we’ll probably die,” said Xander.

“Maybe we should’ve stayed in L.A.,” said Cordy, upset all over again.

“No. No, we can’t go back. And we shouldn’t have stayed.” Willow had her “resolve face” on.

“I get that, I really do. But—I don’t know. That law firm would’ve been easier to take on than these guys.”

“Think of it as a large nest,” Xander advised her. “The vampires are all hoarding the designer label shoes, and you need to rescue them. You won’t have any problem at all.”

“Ha, ha.” She stood up, walking down the stairs. “Who’s ready for another suicide attempt?”

**

“What’s—Spike, what’re you doing?” Buffy’s eyes were wide in disbelief.

“What’s it look like?” He took the collar off of Faith gently. “Don’t go for that kind of thing, love,” he told her.

“Spike,” started Angel in a very low voice, “What are you doing?”

“Just being polite to the girl.”

“Polite? That what you call it in England?” Faith giggled a little. She didn’t think that the other two would buy it unless they were really that tired.

“No. There’s other things they call it in England, love…. I’ll tell you all about them.” He slid his hand around her neck; watching her face but knowing that it was driving the other two insane.

“Faith?” Buffy gave her a look.

“Chill out, B. Spike just helped save my life. I’m just a little grateful.” She shot a smile over her shoulder at the blonde vamp. “Want me to show you just how grateful?” She directed that at him, knowing that Angel was clenching and unclenching his fists.

“Who’s ready for another suicide attempt?” They all turned to look at Cordelia, who was smiling brightly, now at the bottom of the stairs.

“What’re you talking about?”

“Giles thinks we should all go back to the Bronze and take out the whole place. The sane people think he wants to commit suicide.” Her smile faded a little, because she was one of the sane people.

“Well, when?”

Faith crossed her arms, Spike’s arm around her shoulders.

“Tonight, after sunset. We’ll leave Giles here, but the rest of us are in.”

“Cordy, you guys know that—that this really could be a suicide attempt? This could be dangerous.”

“Oh, please.” She made an exasperated noise at him. “Like you guys were the only ones in trouble during the last few months?”

“Cordy,” said Xander warningly.

“Fine.” Buffy didn’t like the fact that they’d all abandoned her—she liked being reminded of it even less.

“You know what? It’s not fine.” Faith shrugged Spike’s arm off. “Why the hell did you guys leave? More importantly, why were the four of you dumb enough to come back?”

“It’s a long story,” said Willow.

“Evil law firm wanted my hide and Willow’s powers,” shrugged Oz.

“Apparently not that long,” Buffy commented..

“Well, yeah, but there were details—and there were issues.” Willow gave her an apologetic look, but Faith got in the way.

“Well, why don’t you just go into them, then?”

Willow looked around Faith to Buffy, who shrugged. There was no way out of this one, not with Spike so firmly on Faith’s side—and probably Angel too.

“It’s a long story,” she repeated, trying to convince them all that they wouldn’t want to hear it. “And not very exciting,” she added.

“Well, the suspense is killing me, here, Red. So why don’t you just tell us all a little daytime story while we wait for our ambush?” Spike raised one eyebrow at her.

She took a deep breath.

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