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Dusk light and Dawn light Spring and autumn the heart Strength from weakness Death from Life There is no day without the dawn Without dusk there is no night There is no summer without the spring There is no winter without the fall There is no darkness without the light Balance rules over all" With that said he brought his glass down and met the others with the sound of chiming crystal and a chorus of assent from the other three. There was a sudden soft puff of wind swirling about the table and the scent of autumn leaves overlaid by the freshly turned earth of a field in spring. Spike froze and then glanced around the table before he spoke. "What kind of mojo are you workin here mate?" Magic made him a nervous vampire, especially with Xander sick and so close by. Tomas looked closely at him and gave a slight nod as if coming to a decision. "It’s a coming of age ceremony for our kind. It’s usually performed at a feast held by the family of a boy in changeover. It’s ancient and it’s done as early as possible in the changeover, because it’s a blessing and protection for the child that is coming into adulthood." Then he quit speaking and there was silence while they all looked at Spike; waiting. Spike was suddenly struck with unease, there were things happening around him that these folks knew and he didn’t, and he needed to find out. He looked at each of them in turn and thought carefully about things he knew and the events of the summer. He gazed at his glass, lifted it and swallowed down a hefty portion of the sweet liquor, knowing that he was going to need it. The innocent looking stuff had quite a kick and burned a path all the way to his belly. There it settled comforting warmth. Then he asked his question. "Your kind?" Tomas and Sinjin grinned at one another and then looked at him with sly smile. "Our Kind," they answered together. "What does this have to do with Xander?" "He’s our kind," they answered together again Chapter 8: Companions 6 Back to index Disclaimer: all characters belong to their original creators. I am making no profit from them. All original characters are mine. Any resemblance to persons living or deceased is purely coincidental. No harm is intended to any person real, created, living, deceased, or any financial/corporate entity by the publication of this story. It is a fiction, therefore a product of my imagination only and should not be construed as a reflection on the character, personality, sexual preferences or religious beliefs of any real person or place, living or deceased, actual or created. ********************************************************************************** Spike sat for a moment. He was stunned speechless to tell the truth of it. Their kind; what the hell was that supposed to mean? Thoughts were chasing themselves round and about in his head and he was trying to make sense of them all, but he didn’t seem to be able to catch one and make it fit with the others. This mysterious shite on top of Xander’s illness was just a bit over the top as far as he was concerned. There was just too much happening far too quickly. He pushed back from the table with a violent shove knocking his chair over with a clatter that was explosive in the quietness of the club. He snarled through his fangs as he paced around the table,
fumbling in his pockets for his fags and lighter. He found them and drew them out with trembling hands and managed to get one out of the crumpled pack and light it. He puffed on it furiously as he paced and tried to get things to make sense. Sinjin, Tomas and Rusaka sat watching him with interest as he struggled with his raging emotions. Finally he gained some semblance of control and turned toward the table and hissed the next questions through his fangs. "Just what kind is your kind? Are you some kind of demons?" Rusaka chuckled ", Oh my, no. They’re not demons. They’re human enough, just a different kind of human." "And that’s quite enough said for here and now Rusaka. Xander is vulnerable right now. We need to get him moved to a safer place than this." Sinjin interjected. Spike growled and snarled back ", you’re not moving my boy anywhere til you tell me what the bloody buggering hell is goin on, mate, and maybe not even then." "Spike, you’ve trusted us up until now, have we ever done anything to harm Xander? We love him too." Tomas said quietly. "We need to move to a safer location, where we can speak freely and there’s no danger of being overheard. You’ll need to come with Xander anyway. I promise you; all your questions will be answered. Xander will be well cared for. He’s going to be just fine. You have my word on it. But we do need to get moving as soon as possible." "Never known ya ta hurt the boy; yet. But that don’t mean anything in my experience." Spike drew in another lungful of smoke pushed his unanswered questions to the back of his mind for now, and thought for a moment. What facts did he know for sure? He knew Xander trusted these three people, but then he trusted the Slayer’s bunch and look how they treated him. Xander needed some kind of care and he didn’t know what to do or how to give it. Sinjin and Tomas said they did. They had been good for his boy so far. He’d blossomed under their care during the summer. Spike had seen nor heard any hint of deceit or harm to Xander, of any kind, and he’d watched them like a hawk. His gut said they were trustworthy, and going by the way they had treated him and his boy he abruptly made his decision. He felt his game face recede and he muttered unwillingly. "Alright, I reckon I can trust you with ’im as far as it goes. But the first hint that things aren’t right and I’m taking my boy somewhere else. And I expect answers. If I don’t get em we’re gone, ’n I don’t care who’s in the way or who gets hurt, ya got that straight?" "Yes Spike, we understand perfectly, and we wouldn’t expect anything less from you," Tomas replied. "Now, we have to figure out how to get Xander back to our place. Sinjin, will you go get the car? If you’ll ride your bike back to our place and bring back the car, Rusaka can follow us back on my bike." "Sinjin will you do this, Sinjin will you do that?" Sinjin snarked as he walked out flipping his hair over his shoulder. "How come it’s always me doing the going and getting, huh brother mine?" "Cause you love me, Sinjin," replied a laughing Tomas. "Yeah, yeah, one of these days," could be heard fading out down the hallway and then a thud as the back door slammed shut. Rusaka commented from his seat at the table ", Have a seat Spike and another drink, I think we could all use another one or three, after all that." Spike fidgeted for a second then gave in and picked up his chair from the floor and sat down again with a huff and relaxed. He dropped his cigarette butt into one of the shot glasses on the table, picked up his glass, quaffed the tad left in the glass, and held it out for a refill. Rusaka chuckled and his eyes danced merrily at the vampire as poured another generous measure of liquid comfort for each one. He glanced sideways at Tomas once he had put down the decanter with a thud and taken a healthy swallow of his own. "You know, Gorge and Spike will probably get along like a house on fire," he laughed ", they have the same type of temperament but Gorge is just a bit more settled now." Tomas giggled into his glass and looked at Spike thoughtfully. "You’re right Rusaka, maybe that’s why it was so easy to be around him all summer."
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