Not Too Late
by Ahn
Joss and the WB own all the people and places that you know and love. I merely added new playmates and places for them to be with.
Author's note: Look at previous parts to know when this takes place.
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Part Twenty-One
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"Whistler! Whistler!"Spike hissed as he shook the smaller demon's non-responsive body."Wake up! The shit's in the fire now, you little pissant! You hear me? Criminey, I can't beleive this!"
Spike threw the demon's body down on to the ground and snorted in disgust.
Spike's eyes focused on the rapier next to Whistler. He picked it up and looked at it with concentration. Spike picked it up, and heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. A large wolf sprang up and growled at him. Spike growled back and the wolf leaped at him. Spike ducked and the wolf knocked the rapier out of his hand and onto Whistler's body. The wolf and Spike started wrestling on the ground when the wolf suddenly reared up it's huge head and in a flash of brown fur, disappeared into the bushes. To the direction of the fortress.
Spike thought. He turned again behind him at the sound of a cracking twig. Growling, Spike reached into the bushes and pulled out..."Mum?"
"Liam, you can put me down,"Joyce gasped."Now would be nice."
He slowly put her down as if in a daze. Then Spike shook himself and asked her, growling."What the hell are you doing here? You're supposed to be in Sunnyhell!"
Joyce dusted herself and then gave him a dirty look. Then without waring, she smacked upside his head.
"What was that for?"Spike demanded. Joyce looked at him with hands on her hips.
"That was for knocking me out. How dare you!"Joyce said angrily."I think that you should be glad that I don't take my axe to you! Really, Liam! Sometimes you make me so mad..."
"You are mad, Mum"Spike said as he growled down at her."This is a vampire infested forest! This is no place for you, and I cannot protect you here! And you travelled here! Alone! And with a werewolf?!? What are you thinking of? How did you getv here?"
"I know how to use a map, Liam. As for the rest, I untied Oz and then Oz led me here,"she replied evenly.
"YOU USED A WEREWOLF TO LEAD YOU HERE? Like a tame dog? ARE YOU INSANE,MUM?"shouted Spike. Joyce glared at him.
"Hey...what's all the shouting about?"said a groggy voice from the ground. Spike and Joyce looked at Whistler who was holding his head in his hands.
"Whistler! You're awake!"Joyce exclaimed as she knelt beside him."How do you feel?"
"Like a huge demon sat on my head and then used it as a football," Whistler groan. He opened his eyes then looked around and . "Uh, I hate to ask, but where am I and what's going on?"
Spike crossed his arms as he looked down at the demon."We're in the forest outside the vampire fortress. The Watcher and the others were captured by Lilith's demons while you were having your beauty rest. And everything's about to go fubar in about thirty minutes."
"Fubar? What's fubar?"Joyce asked as she looked at him. Spike looked a little embarressed.
"Uh, an impolite term, Mum. You really shouldn't know."
"What do you remember, Whistler?"Joyce asked. Whistler looked at her, then at the rapier he held in his hands.
"Everything. Let's go get the Slayer before it's too late,"Whistler said as he got up. His hand clutched the rapier.
"What's the plan?"Spike asked."How do we get in the fortress?"
Joyce heard some shouts in the distance."I think Oz has lead the way. All we need are the weapons."
"Follow me,"Spike motioned."And be quiet."
* * *
A vampire screamed as the werewolf bounded onto him and started to shred him with its paws.
"Oz!"Willow screamed."Oz!"
"Xander!Xander!"Cordelia screamed as she clawed at the vampire holding her.
Angel used the distraction to fling the vampire that was holding him over his shoulder. He reached over and threw the vampire that was trying to bite Xander over his head. Giles shoved his shoulder against the vampire guard's gut. Hlin suddenly whirled and threw her chained arms around the vampire's neck and proceeded to choke him."We need weapons!"Hlin shouted. A vampire grabbed at her long hair.
Suddenly the vampire looked at his chest and saw a wooden arrow sticking from it. And turned to dust. Hlin looked at see who shot it, and saw the Slayer's Mother, armed with weapons.
"Joyce!"Giles hollered as a vampire attacked him from behind. She threw a garlic and holy water jar at the vampire's head. It exploded on impact and sent the vampire screaming. Joyce quickly gave Giles a crossbow. Giles armed it and shot at the vampire that was attacking Cordelia. Joyce threw another garlic and holy water jar at the vampire attacking Xander. He nodded his thanks as she threw a stake to him.
Drucilla looked at the chaos that was around her, and leapt at Angel, clawing at him. Spike entered the room, throwing off the vampire on his back. Another tackled Spike from behind.
"Where's Buffy?"Joyce called. Giles pointed at the only door that lead to the burning atrium. Joyce saw her daughter doing a fierce macabre dance between the flames. She was slashing and stabbing at nothing between the flames."Buffy..."
Spike threw off the vampire and saw another leap towards Mum and the Watcher. They both fell to thr ground.With a growl, Spike rose, groabbed it by the seat of its pants and threw the vampire away. "No *one* attacks me Mum,"he growled as he helped her up."Where's the Slayer?"
"Over there,"Joyce pointed. Spike saw the Slayer within a ring of fire. Fighting something in the air.
"Only an enemy can save her,"Giles shouted."Lilith cast a spell around her, making her see vampires attacking her. She said that only an enemy can save her to break the spell."
"Is that so?"Spike said. He looked around him and saw more vampires coming into the room. A woman with octopus hair was trying to grab at the werewolf as it attacked the vampires in the room. Angel was still trying to fight off Drucilla. The others fighting on their own. Then he spied Whistler slipping into the room, breathless."Shut the door and bar it, Mum. Whistler's here. And you, Watcher, had better protect her with your life."
Joyce ran to stop more vampires from entering the chamber, Giles following to protect her. Spike took a deep breath and ran headlong towards the circle of fire and then lept into it.
* * *
Buffy staked another vampire and then turned around to strike at another one. She looked at the circle of flame around her. < I may have to...What the... >
Spike rolled onto the stone path of the atrium, snuffing out the flames on his leather coat. He stood gracefully before the Slayer, noting her wild eyes.
"Spike! I don't beleive this! This has to be a part of your plan!"Buffy exclaimed angrily."I won't be a part of your damn ritual!"
Spike looked at her, surprised."You know me,Slayer?"
"What? You want an introduction? And after the nights we shared trying to kill each other!"Buffy said sarcastically.
Spike growled."You're under a spell, Slayer. And I'm here to...Oh God, do I have to say it...rescue you."
"tell me another one!"Buffy shouted as she lunged at Spike. He side stepped her and threw her away.
"Will you listen to me!"Spike growled. Buffy lunged at him again.
* * *
Whistler entered the room and helped Joyce and Giles try to close the door. A vampire lept on to his back, making him lose his hold on the rapier."The Rapier! Get the Rapier!"
Willow looked up from the vampire she helped Cordelia stake and ran towards it."Cordy! Help Giles close the door! Xander help them!"
Willow leapt for it. Her hands met the touch of another vampire.Willow looked up and saw the same female vampire that attacked Whistler outside of Willie's bar. The vampire hissed at her and then she was flung away by a flash of fur. Thrown back, Willow lost her grip on the rapier. It skidded across the room, near the altar.
* * *
Spike thought as he avoided another thrust from the Slayer.
"Come on, Spike! I know that you can fight better than this!"Buffy taunted. Spike growled as he stood up slowly. He looked at her, straight into her green eyes.
"Slayer. Your mother's here. She wants to stop Lilith from destroyng the world. Lilith would kill her first."
"What?"Buffy whispered."Mom's here? My mom's here?"
Spike nodded."And if we don't get out of here, she's going to die."
"Why should I beleive you?"Buffy flung back, still wary.
"Because *I* don't want this world to end. You know that,"Spike said quietly."Remember? Manchester United and Happy meals with legs?"
* * *
"Give me that rapier!"the female vampire called Lilith screamed as she lept to it. Whistler saw her, then tackled her in mid-air. They rolled on the floor.
"You stay away from that rapier,"Whistler gritted out."Lith."
Willow grabbed at the rapier, and held it near the altar, unsure of what to do. The Werewolf Oz rose from the vampire he had mauled and looked at her.
"Oz, Oz.."she whispered. Oz cocked his head towards her, and Willow reached out her hand to him."It's me sweetheart. Me, Willow."
Hlin came slowly near Willow, Oz growled threateningly."Slowly Willow, or else he will attack you."
Suddenly, Oz screamed and fell to the ground, and behind him stood Joyce, with tranquilizer gun in hand. The something knocked it out of her hands. Willow saw it was a tentacle of hair that grabbed at Buffy's mother and threw her to the far wall. The ones that vampires called Lady Lilith stood less than ten feet away from her and was walking towards her.
Suddenly, something, a flash of black and pale blue flew out from the doorway of the atrium and was crouched on top of the altar. When the figure stood, Spike had a triumphant smile on his game face as he gazed at the unconcious Slayer in his arms. He jumped down and stood behind Willow and then looked at Lilith."I got the Slayer. The dance is over and you lose, my Lady Lilith."
"I think not,"Lilith said haughtily."The Slayer only needs to die this night for the Spell of Ragnarok to come to pass. The Dance of Shiva only gathered the energies I needed. I will kill the Slayer."
Lilith's hair began to writhe in the air. Angel stood next to Spike with Giles on the other side. Xander stood next to Willow with Cordelia on his other side. All blocked the path to Buffy."You'll have to go through us first,"Angel said defiantly.
"So be it,"Lilith hissed. Then something hit Lilith on the head, sending her to the ground. When she looked up, she saw a woman with an axe above her. Spike looked above the human's heads and grinned. He mouthed the words that he knew that was going to be said.
"You get the *Hell* away from my daughter,"Joyce said menacingly. Lilith screamed in rage and her hair knocked the axe away from Joyce's hands. Lilith got up and glared at the humans and vampires before her.
"I do not understand this! To kill the vampires, the Slayer must die! She has the power to do this! It was written!"
"I don't care! Kill the other vampires anyway you want, but don't you kill my daughter!"Joyce said defiantly."You'd have to kill me first."
"That can be arranged,"Lilith shot back, and her hair began to madly writhe again.
"Lilith, STOP! Lily wife, Stop!" Lilith froze and slowly turned around. Her eyes peered into the darkness of the chamber.
"Who calls me that?"
Whistler step from the darkness, dragging the vampire he was fighting. He looked at Lilith. So many nights that face haunted him, so many nights he would wonder who she was and at the child she was often with. He never knew who she was, but now he did.
"Lily wife,"he whispered."You're alive."
"Uh, what's going on?"Xander asked."And what did Whistler just call octopus hair woman?"
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