Cassie befriends Spike

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CASSIE BEFRIENDS SPIKE.

The New Sunnydale High school lad had just cut Cassie’s throat, dying she fell to the floor. She looked up and saw Spike, she told him she knew she was about to die. Spike covered the knife wound to her throat and told her that there was a humans death and a vampires death, Spike told Cassie to look at him as he was a vampire, he promised to look after her, to keep her as close to a human as he could.

When Spike did go to Buffy’s house the next day he was unsure how his news would be accepted. As usual Xander was against Spike having made Cassie into a vampire. Willow’s view of Spike showed she accepted what Spike had done but she was not overly impressed. Buffy disliked that Spike had made her a vampire, Dawn glared at Spike for his actions.

“That lad had cut Cassie’s throat, I saw in Cassie all the good I had seen in Darla and I wanted to help Cassie. I promised to help her be as good as I could help her be,” said Spike.

Dawn looked to Spike, she saw how the goodness in him was rising to the fore and of his will to help Cassie, to help her when she rose up a vampire. As she heard Spike talk Buffy turned to face Willow, together they agreed that they were grateful.
Before Spike left them that evening, he asked Buffy to let Cassie remain as is for a day or two so that he could convince her to remain good.

When she did wake up and rise up from the ground Cassie was unsure of her surrounding though she did like the flowers around her. Spike held her close in an effort to console her.

“You will not like what you need to do next as you will need to bite into a person’s blood vein to drink some of his or her blood to enable you have all your motor skills to become better than they were.”

Cassie looked to him, she grimaced and shook her head. Spike told her it was a once only duty of all vampires,

“We vampires never get a toothache, headache or a stomach-ache, you’ll never need glasses. And your vision is umpteen times better than any 20 – 20 vision, you will be faster, see in the dark and be stronger though there will be a few downsides to your new abilities.”

Cassie looked concerned,
“Like what?” she asked.

“It’ll depend on your view of what is, you will lose any inhibition you may have had about kissing a boy, or a girl. That boy who kept asking you to go to the prom with him, you can now ask him why he thought you meant you were not going,” said Spike.

“I will teach you how to control your urges not just your bloodlust but those scaredy cat situations – trips to a haunted house will be fun for you and Halloween can be great fun, it’ll be one of those rare occasions you’ll be the life and soul of any party,”

Spike grinned to Cassie. Cassie asked what life and soul meant to a vampire.

“When a demon bites a human the demon devours the soul and it removes the human’s life though you won’t notice losing your soul the only time you will feel a soul is when it is returned, it can be a right sod to get a soul back. It drove me round the twist for a few weeks, a sort of friend of mine, the vampire Angel he had a soul rammed into his body, it has taken him years to come to terms with the shock.”

Spike smiled to Cassie, affectionately but not with any physical affection for her.

“I will help you do hopefully all so you will be okay.”

Cassie grinned then asked Spike why he was going to be so helpful to her.
Spike acknowledged her grin.

“I’m not too sure, it might be partly because of my feelings for Buffy. It might be because I want to be friends with Dawn, and Willow but then again,”

Spike looked deeply into Cassie’s eyes,

“There is something in your eyes that reminds me of Darla, she was a lovely pers .. .. vampire. If you are even half as nice as her you will be fantastic.”

Spike smiled to himself.

“If you meet Giles you could have great fun with him.”

Cassie shrugged her shoulders, Spike smiled to her,

“Ask Buffy to take you to meet him,” said Spike.

When Buffy did meet Cassie she was overjoyed, (Buffy had completely forgotten that Cassie was a freshly turned vampire). During the day Buffy took Cassie to meet Giles. Remembering what Spike had said to her Cassie decided to have some fun.

Buffy was almost affectionate in her introduction of Giles to Cassie. Cassie laid her head against Giles’ chest much to Giles’ embarrassment, then Cassie puckered her lips and gently kissed Giles on the neck – sweetly smiling to him! She went to look at his record collection. As she did Willow walked in, she looked oddly at Cassie.

“What is it Willow?” asked Giles.

Willow looked at Buffy then at Cassie.

“You do know that Cassie is a vampire, don’t you?” asked Willow.

Giles was stunned, he looked at Cassie.

“Just a minute, you laid your head on my chest, oh my!”

Giles placed three fingers on his neck and felt the skin.

“You kissed my neck, I let you kiss my neck, I, I did like your kiss,” admitted Giles.

Cassie revealed her lumpies (on her face) then she allowed Giles to see her fangs.

“Buffy?” exclaimed Giles.
“Is now the right time to disclose that Spike is my mentor?” asked Cassie.
“BUFFY!” Giles exclaimed aloud.



To Be Continued

 

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Cassie Befriends Spike - 2

Buffy was at a loss, she didn’t know where Cassie had gone to or where to start looking for her, Dawn said she had contacted anyone who might know where she might be. Neither Willow nor Faith had any idea where she was. Dawn contacted Buffy as an after - thought,

“I think you should try asking Spike he should know,” said Buffy.

When confronted Spike told Buffy he had placed Cassie in a grave where she could rest for a couple more days. Faith asked him where Cassie had been buried, she was surprised by Willow’s attitude. Willow said that Spike had asked her specific questions about where fields of herbs or vegetables had been planted. Willow questioned him and Spike responded.

“I wanted to shield her from the fields where cattle or sheep had grazed on,” said Spike.

Faith wondered why he would shield her from the animals.

“I wanted to protect Cassie from gaining the taste of all forms of animal life,” said Spike.

Faith was impressed that he would do that, she thought he wanted Cassie to be the same as Angel. Though Faith quickly realised that Spike would make himself and Cassie be better than Angel’s preference to Pigs blood. Without knowing it, Spike had become the favourite vampire of Buffy, Dawn and Willow. When the day had moved on to be the evening, Willow and Dawn found themselves to be the hosts to Cassie and Spike.

Both Dawn and Willow were greatly impressed to see that Cassie was surviving on vegetables further so when they realised that Spike had taught Cassie. Willow and Dawn agreed to help Spike keep Cassie away from all animal products so she’d be able to visit her mother and father with no worries about what she might do.

Willow caught wind of the notion that they would sneak up on the weirdo once Spike had told Cassie how Xander would be liable to react. Poor Xander was at a loss when he saw Cassie munching on a stick off celery and trying not to smile too much or to give away Spike sneaking up behind Xander.
Cassie thought it hilarious what Spike was about to do, that he made the extravagant motions of sneaking up behind Xander with hands and arms raised as if he was about to attack, what the scientists version of which was to press the ‘big red button’. Xander made such a fuss of them when he realised what was; Cassie had hysterics.

Sat a safe distance away Willow, Dawn and Buffy felt embarrassed as didn’t know who they should side with the most, Xander or Cassie.

“How can you let them get away with that?” asked Xander.

He pointed towards Spike.

“You know what he was going to do,” stated Xander.

Dawn held a hand on her mouth so her opinion wouldn’t be heard. Willow and Buffy went to her rescue though soon they were at a loss as to where Cassie and Spike had gone to. Even Xander was unaware where they had gone and he had been staring at them. Disappointed there were no Norfolk Pines to climb Spike helped Cassie sit on the ridge of a house.

Together they sat and enjoyed Xander’s worried glances about where they might be. Even Dawn was at a loss of where they had gone. It was the time that Spike had looked forward to, so after he taught Cassie the words to the song they skipped over the lawn not very far from Xander. Cassie was happily singing the words to David Bowie’s hit The Laughing Gnome.

“Well I don’t think that is very funny,” said Xander.

Buffy faced Willow, trying not to smile she shook her head, neither of them was brave enough to look at Dawn. They knew they’d both be in hysterics.

“Watch where they are going, they are going to scare Cordelia,” said Xander.

“And we can’t let her open the doorway for Cassie to get to Cordy can we?” asked Buffy

Dawn looked to her sister, pretended to open a door handle and gently slapped her wrist. Turning away Dawn could be heard to giggle. Willow put her arm about Spike’s shoulder, she didn’t know what would be the safest thing to do. Holding Spike close and not being able to see his grin of delirium seemed right about then. Xander was not overly impressed, he felt as though the three of them had let him down to be by himself.

“What was it, why did you not come to my rescue?” asked Xander.

“If it had been just Spike who made fun of you I would,” said Willow.

Dawn skipped to where her sister is standing.

“But it wasn’t it was Cassie and she was my friend until a short time ago,” said Dawn.

Willow hugged Buffy and they stepped towards Dawn.

“I doubt that those three girls will ever join together to make your day a happy day especially where Cordelia is concerned,” said Spike.

Willow faced Xander.

“There is no way I can imagine Cordy singing The Laughing Gnome,” said Willow.


To Be Continued

 

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Cassie Befriends Spike - 3


Not wanting to involve Dawn and not because he had once had feelings that pulled on his heart – strings for her sister but because he did not understand if any tugging of hatred could endanger Dawn. So as soon after Dawn had wandered away from where Willow was located Spike and Cassie presented themselves to her, they wanted Willow to help them.

At her initial sight of Spike in her room Willow was afraid, then she remembered the encounter they’d had before and why she was so scared, Willow knew it was just after Spike had been given the chip. Now Spike wanted to teach Cassie how to be good.

“What is it, why are you..”

Willow saw Cassie was in the room as well.

“Both of you?” asked Willow. Cassie and Spike looked to Willow wanting to appear as friends, “We do not understand how a girl is killing certain young men who go to the new Sunnydale High. We know the girl is dead though neither of us understands how it is her,” said Spike.

Cassie stepped forward to hold Willow’s right hand.

“That is why we have come to see you, we hope that you might give us a reason why or some understanding of how she might be doing those things to them,” said Cassie.

Willow moved Cassie backwards until she sat next to Spike.

“First of all I will need to know if the person is living or dead and if those being attacked are alive or dead as I may need to seek help from the Slayer,” said Willow.

“I told you she might need to,” Spike said to Cassie, “If you need to we will answer any questions she might have,” said Spike. “Though you need to be aware that Buffy was present

at the beginning that led to this girls death.”

They sat on the sofa and watched a humorous animated tape of a dog growing up in New Zealand, so when Buffy did arrive they were all in a good mood.

“Willow said she thought Spike’s problem would cause me to wonder how it could be?” asked Buffy.

Cassie tilted her head to the side as she faced Buffy.

“It isn’t just Spike’s problem, in truth it is mine though it possibly concerns you,” said Cassie. “You need to think back to the time I died, of the group of guys who tried to raise the demon although it was Spike who did the deed and he actually killed me. When did I die and who was it who killed me, those lads or Spike?”

Buffy looked to Willow and shrugged her shoulders.

“It should be said that it was Spike who actually killed Cassie,” said Willow. “Then we also should give the notion that those lads wanted to end Cassie’s life for them to have the demon pay them.” “Should you bring to bear the thought that Spike wanted to keep me alive long enough to make me a vampire,” said Cassie.

“Did he enable you to live long enough so he could give you death?” asked Willow. “Or did a death occur from the hands of those human who worshipped the demon, bearing in mind that a vampire with a soul caused the death to be a pleasant one. That type of death that had never been before,” said Buffy.

Spike laughed at the situation.

“Just as well none of us are Catholic as them father’s priests or nuns would spend hours coming to terms with was she human long enough to be a saint,” stated Buffy.

They found they could all relax, and have a good laugh. Once the laughter had stopped.

“There was another way of looking at what was, although that lad had cut my throat if he had it fact killed me did Spike manage to save me or did he cause my dead being to wait until the demonic element of the vampire demon to hold my death in a form of limbo,” said Cassie.

“I think that the humans had killed Cassie but the demonic essence of the vampire caused Cassie to wait until the demonic element could protect her to be one of them, as in this case it was to be one the same as Spike,” said Buffy. Willow shook her head, “This is going to cause all sorts of problems, just wait until Angel hears of this.”

“We have reasoned when Cassie is said to have died, so can we reason that the humans are to be understood as responsible. That way giving cause for the spirit of Cassie before she was made vampire to want to find revenge on each one of the lads who wanted their infinitive payment from the demon Avilus.”

Buffy knew there was more but she could not fathom where the controlling factors could be, Spike told them that the human Cassie had been forgotten of, that the Cassie that had become a vampire was predisposed by Willow, Buffy and Dawn as one with the like of Spike. It was when Willow accidentally found the unknown answer.

She did what was done before and googled Cassie Newton, she found that Cassie had kept updating her web site. That Cassie had written additives to her poems, Willow wondered at what was written the old poem of,

‘But dirt waits for no woman and coins will buy no time’ had changed to become the wonder of the new you. ‘Dirt that was given in the coffin where the dead body was placed and gave it life though the coins that were to pay the being from deep below failed to find an intended dead one. And here am I now, bringing new life with a dead body. Pleased am I to be an unknown friend to those who have not withered.”

Cassie smiled to Buffy, pleased she could still bring joy to her friends, pleased she still had friends.

“I am looking forward to the cool quiet evenings after the glorious days when I can spend time with you Dawn, when we can still be happy together,” said Cassie.

Dawn grinned to Cassie, “I’d like that, she faced Spike and acknowledged all he had done” said Dawn. Though she had the sight of hooded cloaks of red.


To Be Continued

 

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Cassie Befriends Spike - 4


Cassie sat in Spike’s front room, though she stared at the television screen her mind registered no helpful information. She had measured the pixels per square inch, deciding which colour was most prevalent; Cassie promoted which degree of light and dark to depict a positive readout of a drawing.

Spike asked Cassie if there was a positive behaviour of the codes of the shades of colours. Cassie struggled to understand how a picture could be formed though it was Spike who had her form a manner that would comprehend her to see into the shadows, she questioned Spike’s motive for presenting that notion to her.

“You need to see Willow, ask her how to give yourself a value of yourself to another.”

Although Cassie was unsure what Spike meant she tried to find her eventually she heard of her being with Giles. Cassie approached Willow, going to speak to her while she was in deep conversation with Giles. Giles was still unsure about the presence of a vampire Willow knew she that Cassie could be counted on to be a friend.

“Spike explained to be how he would like you to be, he has hopes for you to be better than he is, better than any other vampire he knows,”

Cassie looked perplexed she did not understand what Spike wanted or why he wanted it for her. Willow told her,

“Spike wants you to never fear another, vampire or human.”

Cassie thought of the benefits but she failed to understand how those beings could ever apply to one person, let alone her. Willow poured some water into a beaker calling,

“To the Gods of the four winds to bless her wishes to give the gift of flight from the stone gorillas. To bring forth the wolf in human size, for to be in her body.”

Cassie felt a tingle pass into then through herself yet she felt them watching her from just above her head. Unaware of the time that had passed until the sun went down below the horizon, it was then that she had been in the sunlight whilst she had been in conversation with Willow.

“What have you done to me?” asked Cassie.
“Only what Spike wished for you, yet not for himself, when the time feels right or when the need arises you can change, just as you once did when you changed to be a vampire,” replied Willow.

Cassie looked to Willow.

“How can I will those changes to be when I am not aware what those changes will make me be?”

“Think of yourself in a garden of tall trees, when being able to see but not be seen would be of benefit. Think of yourself as gliding to the top branches and then you may see you have changed to be a gargoyles.”
“And what use is the other?” asked Cassie.
“That might make you think it has a draw back as when you are a werewolf your clothes will become the fur on your skin ignore that feeling that make you think the fur will disappear when return to skin, the fur will change back to the clothes you last wore.”

Cassie faced Willow, she wanted to know why she would do that for her?

“Spike wanted you to be safe that and I know you like people so hopefully you will work with the slayer whenever she needs help,” said Willow. “When I was threatened she was there for me, as was Spike you and Dawn. So yes if I can return the kindness that was shown to me I will, I want to return the friendship that Dawn offered to me.”

Cassie turned to leave, she found herself confronted by Spike.

“There are a few things you need to be aware of being a gargoyle will cause you no limitations, while you may think of all you heard of what a werewolf can do, when or where. Well all that was said was thought up be a man at Universal Films when the film The Wolf-Man was made so really there are no limitations,” said Willow.

Buffy thought it was the time for a break the following day, she went up to the roof of the school. It occurred to her that she had never had a good look at Sunnydale from a great height, she thought it would make a pleasant change from her usual haunts like the school basement or the graveyard.

“Hello Buffy!”

Buffy turned to see who it was, she was pleasantly surprised to see Cassie landing near her. Buffy saw her landing though didn’t asked her how she had learnt to fly. Cassie told her that Spike had asked Willow to give her the abilities to be a werewolf a vampire and a gargoyle. Buffy was pleased for her.
Word soon spread that the slayer was friends with a creature of the night that could also wander abound the grounds during the daylight hours, and that the creature could fly. So soon was the end of all creatures of the night, the hellmouth had seen its time of fruitful endeavour though. Demons of the highest order rose to see what had caused the end of Hells benefit.

Without realizing what it was, the normal human activity began in earnest. People found they could walk home after work, they could go to visit friends in the evening without any concern of not getting home unhindered. People began to spend time in the towns park even the schools children enjoyed being in the playground. The school sports program began to be continued.

Willow Buffy and Spike saw that life in the town could be good again, even if it meant Buffy would never get another special award for class protector.


THE END


Cassie Newton was told by Spike that she could die by a human's hand or she could die from a vampires bite, what might help her was beings friends with a vampire slayer, one of the most powerful and knowlegable witches around, to have a friend who is a vampire definitely helped and to be given the help of said witch was good.