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two weeks give or take, a very uncomfortable couple of weeks frankly, and when it’s over our bodies<br />
have been changed to our adult form."<br />
"Alright, fair enough mate. I get that. Now what’s this "us" you’ve been dancing around telling me<br />
about, all night?" Spike glared<br />
"Pommes de Sange, La Familia, Companions. Take your pick of names; they’re really all the same<br />
thing." A new voice answered, coming unexpectedly from the doorway causing everyone to jump in<br />
surprise. Spike flew out of the chair in alarm, game face to the fore, snarling and hissing like an<br />
overgrown cat, his amber eyes on the doorway, and the man standing there.<br />
"Dad, you’re here," Tom<strong>as</strong> yelled <strong>as</strong> he ran across the room and fell into a hug from the tall dark<br />
haired stranger. The stranger hugged him close and pulled back to look at him closely. Sinjin followed<br />
more sedately and <strong>as</strong> soon <strong>as</strong> Tom<strong>as</strong> w<strong>as</strong> rele<strong>as</strong>ed, he w<strong>as</strong> grabbed and subjected to the same<br />
treatment.<br />
"Glad you finally made it here, ancient one, you’re getting slow in your decrepititude," Sinjin te<strong>as</strong>ed,<br />
laughing <strong>as</strong> he w<strong>as</strong> rele<strong>as</strong>ed from a smothering hug.<br />
"You’re not too old to be spanked, boy."<br />
Sinjin just rolled his eyes and grinned, obviously not very worried about the threat.<br />
"Move out of the way, so I can get in G<strong>org</strong>e," a second strange voice complained from somewhere<br />
behind the first stranger. G<strong>org</strong>e moved away from the doorway with a ch<strong>as</strong>tened expression on his<br />
face and three humans that had been waiting behind him filed into the room. "Daddy," Tom<strong>as</strong> yipped<br />
with delight, and the whole hugging, kissing, looking thing went into round two, with the second<br />
stranger that came through the door.<br />
Spike w<strong>as</strong> thoroughly pissed off. He . Had. Had. Enough. "Well, if you lot are finished with the bloody<br />
Addams Family reunion act," he drawled out sarc<strong>as</strong>tically through his fangs. "Do you think I might get<br />
some answers tonight?" His voice had risen with each word until the l<strong>as</strong>t one ended in a snarling shout.<br />
He had been put off, run rings around and interrupted too many times tonight. His limited amount of<br />
patience w<strong>as</strong> spent. Silence fell <strong>as</strong> everyone froze and all eyes turned to him in surprise. He glared at<br />
the newly arrived strangers through yellow demon eyes and snarled again. "Who in the hell are you,<br />
and what are you doing here?"<br />
"I’m so sorry Spike." Tom<strong>as</strong> came across the room and took Spike by the hand and began leading him<br />
over to the group. "Put your fangs away, no one here is any kind of threat, to you or Xander." He<br />
pulled Spike over to the tall dark haired bloke. "Spike this is my Dad, G<strong>org</strong>e, and Xander’s Uncle, and<br />
yes he’s a vamp. Dad this is Spike, Xander’s impatient vamp." Tom<strong>as</strong> grinned.<br />
The two vamps looked each other up and down carefully, G<strong>org</strong>e let his game face come forward, and<br />
the two spent a few moments scenting one another and sizing the other up. Spike w<strong>as</strong> surprised. In the<br />
confusion he hadn’t paid much attention, it hadn’t even registered that the other w<strong>as</strong> a vampire. It said<br />
something about his state of mind that such things had escaped his attention tonight. He hadn’t<br />
survived one hundred and forty years by letting details escape his notice. It shook him to his core. But<br />
now that he w<strong>as</strong> focused, he could feel the power radiating from the other vampire, the kind of power<br />
that only comes from great age.<br />
His attention fixed on the other vampire, nostrils flaring <strong>as</strong> he scented. The scent w<strong>as</strong> familiar to him<br />
<strong>as</strong> his own hand. "No." he growled, denying what his nose w<strong>as</strong> telling him. Spike examined the older<br />
vampire’s game face carefully seeing family in the familiar angles of the brow ridges and planes of his<br />
face. His demon confirmed what his senses were telling his overloaded brain, and acknowledged this<br />
vampire <strong>as</strong> family.<br />
"Arelius?" He exploded finally, incredulously. "There’s no way in fucking hell." G<strong>org</strong>e took a step<br />
toward him, and he backpedaled so f<strong>as</strong>t he stumbled, snarling. "What the bloody hell are you up to,<br />
you b<strong>as</strong>tard? What do you want? Who the fuck are you? Who. The. Fuck. Are. You?" Everyone else in<br />
the room stood frozen in shock.<br />
Spike’s thoughts were spinning out of control again, and he’d finally hit defcon four on the panic<br />
scale. His mind w<strong>as</strong> racing trying to make sense of the impossible. The vampire standing there w<strong>as</strong> <strong>as</strong>
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