(Sorry for the long wait, I was dealing with a lack of computers and so on, but here is the next chapter)

Chapter 8

Spike glanced down at the woman cradled in his arms and shook his head as she clutched his leather duster in her small and feminine hands, pulling herself closer to the oddly cold feel of his body. Clothes or no clothes, he was always cold.

Shaking his head he pulled his eyes away and continued to walk farther down the street until the woman made a small noise, which caught his attention.

"Oh god, put me down. I cant walk into my house like this" she winced and Spike lowered his eyes and he placed her gently on her feet and she fumbled with the ripped garters that were still wrapped around her ankles.

"Sorry luv, I forgot about that or I would have done something earlier" he whispered and caught the faint smell of fear suddenly cut through the distinct feel of the air.

"What happened to the man?" she asked in a tiny voice, wrapping her arms around herself and looking into Spikes eyes defiantly.

Spike smirked and placed his hands into his pockets, looking down at her as she rocked back and forth looking at him strangely.

"I took care of him, there aint nothing you need to worry bout' a'right?" he told her and quickly took note of her trembling body and she looked away as he stripped his prized leather duster off his shoulders and took a step towards her, he wasn't surprised when she took a step back. "Pet, your bloody trembling and all we need is for you to go into shock after what just happened to you, so let me walk you home and we can deal with it then k?" she tilted her head to the side and Spike smiled as he caught a flicker of understanding in her beautiful hazel eyes, but it was only for a moment until she looked around herself and scrunched her nose.

"Where are we?"

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Cassandra sat on the small couch with the remote control resting in her right hand and the telephone settled between her should and left ear, popping her bubble gum every few seconds.

"So I like told her, you have got to be kidding me, there is like no way that he would ever go for her" she told the person on the receiving end of the phone and smiled with satisfaction when she heard the person agree, "well totally, she's a skank anyways and you know what I heard. she used saran wrap" the was a squeal on the other end and Cassandra moved the phone away from her ear for a few moments, the quickly got back into the conversation, "well yeah, I'm waiting for the little brats mom to come home, and my mom was talking to me about how she thinks that Buffy sells herself on the streets or something, but that's just what I heard." Cassandra scrunched her nose and picked a piece of bubble gum from her mouth and twirled it around her finger. "Well yeah, and you know what."

Cassandra jumped off the couch and dropped the phone as she darted toward the door and quickly opened it, stopping dead in her tracks and quickly checked to make sure there wasn't any drool dripping from her mouth when she saw the man at the door.

"Can I like help you?" she asked in her nasal voice but it went unnoticed to her when the man winced and his smile was obviously fake.

"Yes, I'm looking for the lady of the house, and I have to admit, I'm hopeing it might be you because I have never met one so beautiful." He replied, leaning most of his weight on his left leg as he lifted his arm and placed it on the top of the door.

"N-n-no, I-I-I-m not, she's working and probably wont be home for a while, you can come in if y-y-you want t-t-though" she stumbled and mentally slapped herself and her stupidity.

"Thank you but I think I'll come back later, but I thank you for the invite, it could be most useful in the future" the man grinned in a lopsided way that made Cassandra's pulse quicken and drool escape the side of her mouth.

"Y-y-y-your welcome" she stuttered as she watched him wink and walk back down the steps and she kept careful note of how fantastic his ass looked in the tight black leather pants, "DAMN!"

Quickly closing the door, she ran back to the couch and grabbed the phone, where her friend sat patiently waiting on the other line.

"Kassy, you wouldn't be able to guess what just happened to me!" she shrieked and started babbling.

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Glancing to the side of him, Spike couldn't help but smile at how good the woman looked in his duster, like a goddess, but he quickly looked away when he noticed the tears that were running down her cheeks and almost came to late when she collapsed in a heap in his arms, sobbing into his black t- shirt.

"This wasn't suppose to happen, I was running away from shit like this, I didn't want it" she sobbed against him, clutching his arms violently, "please, please, please, please, please" she mumbled and Spike picked her up in his arms again and walked the couple steps to the woman's front door.

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"And then he was like, you are so beautiful, I knew he wanted me" Cassandra told her and she wrapped a piece of her bottle blonde hair around her finger and jumped when there was a loud knocking on the door, "gotta go, call you in a minute" she whispered and hung up, then walked slowly to the door.

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Spike stood in front of the house with a trembling and bleeding woman in his arms, with tears running down her cheeks and it was nearly three in the morning, two more hours before sunrise.

He growled in irritation, he could smell teen arousal and was getting angrier by the minute.

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Pouting her lips and fluffing her hair, Cassandra opened the door and gasped when she saw the owner of the house cradled in a very good-looking mans arms, tears dried into stains that had been running down her cheek for the past 10 minutes.

"Would you bloody well invite me in you stupid bit, she's hurt and bleeding" her mouth dropped open and the thickly British voice and nodded her head before moving out of the way, "no, invite me in with words" he growled and she nodded her head again before telling him to come in.

"What happened?" Cassandra asked, her eyes rested on Buffy as the stranger laid her gently on the couch.

"What does it look like you stupid bint, you was almost raped," he growled and Cassandra took a step back.

"Did you do it?"

That's when Spike growled and lunged for Cassandra's neck.

Well there is more, but hey, you give and I give.. Reviews Reviews Reviews :D