All In The Blood

by
Raihne

Part Five

The Galf'itish were surrounding him when Xander came awake again. He tried to cringe away but he was strapped tight to one of the benches in the old locker room. "Hey! What's the big idea!"

   One of them grinned, showing off his teeth. "Youko Xander."

   "Youko kit."

   "We will bring the Makai to it's knees. Hiei and Kurama will die and our lord will be the ruler over all of their lands."

   "You guys are really dense if you think Spike won't come for me." He sneered and tugged a bit to test his bonds. They were done well. There was no way he could get out of them.

   "We took care of William the Bloody."

   He froze, "What do you mean?"

   "He won't be helping anyone for a long time."

   "No! You're fucking liars!"

   "Why would we lie about this?"

   "Spike could kick all of your asses on a bad day! Your lying!"

   "He fought well, we fought better."

   "No."

   "He wont be following us."

   "Shut up!"

   "No more. . ."

   "NO! SPIKE!!!"

   The halls of the school echoed with a choked voice screaming.

   "Xander!" Willow sobbed, "Giles what are they doing to him?!"

   "They can't be sure he'll cooperate unless he's completely broken." Hiei answered with no emotion in his voice. "They'll tell him the vampire is dead, kill the child, whatever they need to break his will."

   Spike was at the end of the hall when they caught up to him. He was pressing up against a closed door and gritting his fangs. "They're inside."

   "Then why aren't you?" Buffy accused and pushed by him.

   Giles helped Spike up and looked him over carefully. "Why?"

   "They did a disinvite spell," His voice broke with misery. For the first time since his turning, he felt regret for what he was. " I can't get in until you invite me."

   Giles nodded and watched Kurama smash the door in with extreme anger. "Come in Spike."

   The following slaughter was beyond all human description. Blood filled the old empty pool to spilling over, body parts were ripped off and shreaded in front of shocked eyes, creatures were split in two and bowels spilt in a slippery mess onto the floor, and that was only Spike's doing. The Vampire fought his way to his lover's side and faced the biggest of the demons.

   "You want the Youko? You give us the Makai."

   "I don't own the bloody Makai." Spike growled, "I'm just your average run o' the mill vamp."

   The thing looked confused and Spike used the hesitation to stick a railroad spike through it's eye and push it toward the others while he untied Xander.

   "Spike!"

   "Shh, Xan I'm here."

   "Hurts!"

   "What hurts?"

   "The baby. Oh Gods!" Xander doubled over and choked on a scream as he vomited blood, "The baby's coming. It's too soon!"

   "Spike!" Buffy slammed into the largest demon who was actually getting back up to attack with the Spike still stuck through it's brain.

   "Something's controling them." Kurama's eyes widened. "They're just underlings for a more powerful enemy."

   "Well then how do we kill them?"

   "Destroy them completely." Giles choked as one got hold of his throat.

   Willow slammed a fire extinguisher into it's skull and pulled Giles back but they weren't staying down.  
 
   "Hiei!" Kurama cut several down but there were too many. And they were converging on Xander and Spike again.

   A screech filled the locker room and a flaming dragon reduced every Galf'itish there into ashes. The little fire demon dropped to his knees and growled, "Help him. The baby. . ." Then passed out.

   Kurama began to wrap Hiei's ward around the dragon tatoo smoking on his arm but Tara and Willow took over, "Help Xander. Please."

   Giles had doubled his jacket into a pillow and Spike was soothing the panicked Youko as best he could. Kurama could see the baby coming, way too soon. "Watcher!"

   He watched the young body on the bench breath in harsh panting gasps and felt helpless. He hated feeling helpless. "Yes? What can I do?"

   "We need a glass tank of some kind, something big."

   "There is a fire sheild in the chemistry lab if we caulked it to the base beneath it. . ."

   "So do it!" He wiped away some blood from Xander's thighs and bit his lip. "Slayer, get the blood from the pool and fill the tank the watcher is making."

   "Oh gross." She wrinkled her nose but did it."

   "Xan pet, come on love, your grandaddy is here, he knows what to do."

   "Spike!" He clenched his teeth to hold back another wail and squeezed the pale hand the vampire had offered him.

   "Breath luv!"

   "I AM! Fuck! Spike I am so going to kill you for this! I can't beleive you knocked me up!"

   "Well I did and it's done and everything will be ok." His accent had slipped, not that he cared at the moment, still it made Xander smile.

   "You sound l-like Giles."

   "Oi!"

   "Spike. Is our baby going to be ok?"

   "Of course it is pet. We'll have a beautiful baby. Remember? We'll make beautiful babies together."

   "Uh!Uhghnnnnnnnnn! Shiiiiiiiiiit! Hurts!"

   "Slayer! Watcher!" Kurama glared at them as they brought a tank in and Buffy started filling it, "Get that done!"

   "Working on it!"

   "Shit!"

   "Done!" She stepped aside and the Youko nodded.

   "Fine." He held Xander's legs apart and smiled at him, "Push Xander. It's time."

   "But it's too soon!" He wailed.

   "If you don't give birth to this kid right now You Will Die!"

   Spike turned pleading eyes to Xander, "Xan I love our baby too, it might live through this, but I can't lose you both. Please love, we just found each other remember? No dying."

   "Spike."

   "PUSH XANDER!" Kurama growled and nodded as the boy's body tensed and he pushed. "Good! That's it! Another!"

   "Spike!"

   "I'm right here luv."

   "Again Xander, Push!"

   "ung! Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!"

   A tiny red covered thing slipped into Kurama's hands followed quickly by the after birth. The fox demon slipped both into the blood filled tank and whispered a few words.

   "Xan." Spike smoothed his hair, "Xan it's over, done, you did it."

   "My baby?"

   Kurama walked into his line of view and nodded, "Because of it's orgin, the vampire side can live on blood, I just activated the blood in the tank to feed it. In a couple days we should have a full sized and healthy baby boy for you to hold.

   The wide chocolate eyes stared at the tiny thing it the tank, a perfect little human being. He could see the little heart beating. "A boy?"

   "Yes, it's a boy."

   "Spike." He whispered and the vampire pulled his lover close and watched the little one floating in the middle of the tank.

   "I know love. He's beautiful."

   Kurama scooped Hiei up into his lap and smiled a fang filled grin at the others in the room. "We should probably set up a camp here until the baby can be taken out safely."

   Angel nodded and walked closer to Spike. "Are you ok Childe?"

   "We're daddys. Me an' Xan are daddys." He blinked in awe. "I never thought we. . . he's so tiny."

   "And you already love him don't you."

   "Loved 'im before I saw 'im. Loved him first time I heard 'im move inside my Xan."

   Xander reached up and cupped Spike's head. "Spike."

   "Love you." He kissed his lover softly and smiled.

   "Love you."

   Kurama nodded and cradled his husband close, "Just remember, built for this or not you're not going to be doing any 'loving' for a good while."

   "Hn. Horny foxes."

   "Hiei!"

   The fire demon snorted and then smiled a rare smile at Xander. "He is a strong baby. You match well with that one."

   Spike grinned and cuddled Xander closer. "I think I just got yer grandad's blessing, luv."

   Pale white fingers entwined with strong tanned ones on the glass and they watched their child grow.

The End