Backfire - Spander Files

she knew what he was, what he‘d done?
Xander was tired. “I have to go the sleep.”
Spike stepped away a bit. “We have to get out of here.”
He thought about that for a moment. “You want to run?“
“I want you safe. I’ll fight him when he comes back, but if he gets lucky…“
“Why would you fight him? He was right. The pull will kick in and we won‘t have
a choice.”
"He won‘t want to satisfy the pull. He‘ll want to end it.”
Xander nodded. “We’ll go to Giles. Angel has never been invited there. What time
is it?”
“Mid-morning.”
“I’m not leaving here without you.”
“There’s tunnels to that part of town. I’ve got a heavy blanket. Can run the rest of
the way.”
“Spike…”
“Yeah?”
“This isn’t meals-on-wheels. No hurting my friends.”
Spike rolled his eyes.
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Ten minutes later, Xander was being guided through the pitch blackness of