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Buffy picks up a stake laying on the table and throws it at Autum. Autum catches it with a very Spike maneuver. Just like the one he’d used against the Slayer in New York. (Lies My Parents Told Me) Autum drops the stake, “Look at the little princess, throwing her sticks at us.” Waving her finger at the Slayer, “Naughty.”
Xander looks at the vamp, exasperated, “God! How many people did Angelous drive insane?!”
“As it happens, I’m not crazy. I just happen to be in a lot of pain.” She steps closer to them. Xander fumbles with a cross behind him. Autum pats up and down her slender frame, “Any of you got a fag?” The looks she receives tell her that they clearly don’t get British people, “No?” She checks her pockets again. Xander is still fumbling with getting the cross off the table without Autum noticing. She nods, pulling a cigarette out of her pocket, “There we go. Now how’s ‘bout a light?” Xander pulls the cross up, shoving it in front of her face. Autum shrug, “An interesting option. Thanks, mate.” She puts her hand around the cross. When her hand goes up in flames, she lights her cigarette over it. “That’s a bit better. I’m afraid I’m a bit hurt that you are all the welcoming committee.”
“Why are you here?” Buffy asks her.
“Do you find yourself in a power position? I don’t think so. Because, pet,” she leans in to Buffy, who’s floating a stake behind Autum’s back “you may be a mlenghe,” The stake flies at her, but she disappears and the stake goes into Buffy’s should. Autum reappears as Buffy pulls the stake out of her shoulder, “But I, my dear little Slayer…”
“Are the thing nightmares dread? The biggest evil in history? Save your breath, I’ve heard it before.”
Autum laughs, this Slayer amuses her, “No, no. Nightmares dread you above all else. I fear no one. EVERYTHING fears me.” She leans into Buffy, making her point.
“So you’re a big bad Vampire, maybe I like that.” Buffy throws a punch at Autum’s face. Autum catches the punch, and laughs.
“Try as you may… you still don’t know the truth of it.” She throws the Slayer at the reception desk. “We’re the same, you and I.”
Buffy gets up off the floor, taunting the vamp, “What’s the same about us? The way we cut our hair? The way we fight?” She tries to kick Autum, but she moves to quickly and Autum grabs her in a choke hold.
“No, dear. The way we live our lives is the same. We’ve both proved that there’s more than one life to live, and more than one reason to live it. Better yet, a reason to die.”
Angel and Spike enter the hotel. Angel shakes his head in dismay, “We tried to track her, but….”
Spike interrupts him, seeing the Slayer in her death grip, “She’s here.”
Autum lets go of her hold on the Slayer, “Now we’re getting down to business.”
“Autum, just don’t…” Angel tries to tell her, but she cuts him off.
“Did you think I came here for you two? No, love. I came for her. And I’m going to take her down with whatever it takes. Even if it means I have to kill you, ducks. Not your little pet, not your sweet dear. I’m on a mission…”
“What? The end of the world?” Spike asks her furiously.
“No, kitten. Good Lord, no… to save it, from people like you. I’m out for blood, kitten. And I will get it.” Suddenly she’s behind him, fangs in his throat. Spike screams as she starts to drain him. She shoves him into Angel, sending them both sprawling. “Try to stop me, sweets. I’ve already begun.”
The power flickers off and on. Autum is nowhere to be seen.
Spike gets up off of Angel, “What the hell did she do that for?”
“I think you made her mad.” Willow pointed out.
Xander gets incredibly disturbed… not that he wasn’t already, “I waved a cross in her face and she didn’t get mad! In fact she used it to light her cigarette when her hand caught on fire! Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but in all my years of doing this, nobody’s ever done that.”
“She had a lot of firsts.” Spike informed him.
“Oh, yeah! Remember the heart on the door, Classic!!” Angel and Spike laughed over the old memories.
“What?” They demanded. “We’re still vampires” a stake flies towards the, hitting a vase.
“And I’m still the Slayer.” Buffy whispers threateningly.
“Point taken.” Angel agrees.
“Hopefully not in the literal sense.” Spike weighs in. They both start laughing again, Xander joins them. Willow pokes him in the stomach.
Xander quickly comes up with something to tell the pissed off Slayer, “I’m not laughing. I mean I was laughing, but… vase broke… funny… delayed reaction.”
“Good.” Buffy growls as she heads up the stairs.
“What’s with her?” Spike wonders.
“Your girlfriend beat her, is nearly invincible, and oh yeah! Possibly has a history with the both of you. What * may * be getting to her even more is that she has no idea what kind.”
“She doesn’t want to know.” Angel whispered.
“Maybe you should just tell her.” Willow suggests.
“Trust me, Red, she doesn’t want to know.” Spike whispers, shaking his head.
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When Autum gets home she goes to her bedroom. She strips off her shirt, then peels of the ruined bandages. She rewraps them, pulling her shirt back down over her head.
“I thought I heard something,” her boyfriend said, entering her room.
“What’re you doing here?”
“What’s with the interrogation?”
“I’ve only asked you one question!”
“I missed you.” He put his arms around her waist, and pulled her into his embrace.
“Sorry, love. Bad day at work.”
“At the club?”
“Some drunk guy started throwing things.”
“What kind of things?”
“Beer bottles, bar stools, Lenny… Well, I don’t think Lenny minded much, he was totally pissed.”
“I’ve got to go… you want me to bring back Chinese?”
“Sounds good.”
“K, see you tonight.”
“Connor? Don’t get in any trouble, k?”
Connor turns and smiles, “Promise.”
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