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Zarrah
Rating: NC-17 for Language/violence and sexual situations in later chapter's.
Disclaimer: Belong to Joss...not me
Summary: *Sequel to Lover's Walk*...Future...Year 2034....Eleven years after Buffy's death, Spike is living in LA helping Angel fight the good fight. How will he react when he comes face to face with ghost's from his past.
A/N...(This is 'NOT' a Buffy/Spike fic..you have been warned!) Also, this 'is' a sequel, so the story will make no sense what so ever if you don't read "Lover's Walk" first.
"You gonna be okay now?" Spike asked Ravyn as he continued to hold her.
Ravyn pulled her head back and looked up at him. "He'll find me." she said sadly.
"No!......he won't" Spike told her. "I won't let him take you. I promise."
Ravyn cast her eyes downward and stepped back away from him. She looked down the beach and crossed her arms over her chest. "He always finds me."
Spike leaned his head sideways and looked at her. "What do you mean...he always finds you?"
Ravyn looked back over at him. "I've managed to get away three times. The last time...."
"The last time what?" Spike asked as she stopped talking.
"The last time I made it all the way back to Sunnydale before he caught me."
Spike's eyes widened. "When?"
Ravyn looked down briefly before looking back up at him. "Just in time to see you and your Slayer getting cozy in the cemetery." she told him softly, her eyes misting up as she did.
Spike closed his eyes and let out a sigh before looking back up at her. She was staring down the beach and he hated himself at that moment knowing he had hurt her...again.
"Ravyn...."
"No need to explain." she said sadly, "Didn't expect you to keep her waiting forever."
Spike didn't know what to say. What could he say? Nothing would ever make what she saw any better.
"I waited for you to come." Ravyn told him quietly, wiping at her tears, "but you never did."
"Ravyn, I didn't know." Spike said, quietly as he walked closer to her.
"Is she here?"
Ravyn watched as Spike's face took on a sadness she had never seen. "No, she's gone. Eleven years now."
"I'm sorry."
Spike smiled weakly at her. "I spent twenty-one years with her....can't really complain."
"Were you happy with her?"
"Yeah...I was."
Ravyn wiped the remainder of her tears away before giving the ocean another look. "Can you take me back to the hotel now?" she asked as she turned and started walking back to the house.
Spike watched her walk away. This hadn't went exactly like he had planned. Sighing lightly, he ran his hands through his hair and followed her.
~*~*~*~
Spike watched as Ravyn sat quietly all the way back to the city, staring out her window, never saying a word. He wanted to talk to her, but didn't know what to say.
Pulling up in front of the hotel, he turned the car off and turned to look at her. "You don't have to stay here. You could have stayed at the beach house."
Ravyn turned to look at him briefly before reaching for the door handle. Spike got out of the car as she did and followed her up to the door.
"Ravyn....I....."
"You don't owe me any explanations Spike." Ravyn said, giving him a little smile. "It was a long time ago." she added before opening the door and walking in.
Everyone turned and looked at her and Spike as they walked in.
"Hey" Dawn said smiling big. "You're here....I mean like awake, here."
Ravyn smiled at her. "Yeah, seems so."
"We're really glad." Dawn said walking over to her. "Here, let me introduce everyone...incase you didn't catch it all before." she said, leading Ravyn over to the lounge are.
"This is Jesse...demon hunter extrodinar...or so he thinks." Dawn said, whispering the last part to her.
Ravyn smiled as Jesse stood and shook her hand.
"Really nice to meet you Ravyn."
"You to."
"Next is Blake.....the bad ass of the group...well, Spike likes to argue that point, but we just ignore him." Dawn said giggling at the face Blake made at her.
"Nice to see ya awake."
"Nice to be awake." Ravyn said smiling at him.
"Hello, I'm Robert Price...but you can call me Rob." Rob said, shaking Ravyn's hand as he did.
Ravyn continued to smile as he shook her hand. "Nice to meet you Rob."
"And this...is Angel." Dawn said, walking Ravyn towards Angel.
"Hey" Angel said, smiling at her.
"Hey" Ravyn said quietly, looking up at him.
Spike looked at Angel as he stood there looking at Ravyn. He didn't like the way he was looking at her. Walking over to where Ravyn and Angel were standing, he stopped beside her and looked at her before he spoke. "I told you about Angel, maybe peaches...or the poof might ring a bell?" he said, grinning.
Ravyn turned her head and looked at Spike. "This is the vampire with a soul?" she asked him.
"Yep, that's him. Mr. Broody himself."
Ravyn turned her head and looked back up at Angel and smiled. "Well, it's nice to actually know who you are."
"Don't believe anything he say's." Angel told her, laughing lightly.
Ravyn smiled back at him. "I rarely do." Turning back to the rest of the group she smiled at everyone. "Well, I'm really tired, think I'm gonna go on up to bed."
"Yeah, sure..goodnight" Angel told her as she started to turn.
"Goodnight" she said over her shoulder as she started for the steps.
Spike watched her turn and leave without giving him another thought. He didn't know what to make of it. And not that he'd tell anyone, but he was a little hurt by it.
As Ravyn reached the top of the steps she turned and looked at him. "Night Spike" she said softly, giving him a little smile.
Spike smiled back at her. "Night Ravyn"
"So the beach worked then?" Dawn asked when Ravyn was out of sight.
"Yeah, wasn't sure if it would, but I figured it was worth a try." Spike said as he stared at the spot Ravyn had been standing.
"Well, I'm glad she better now."
Spike smiled weakly at her. "Yeah..me to. Well, I'm gonna head home." he said as he turned to leave. "See ya tomorrow."
"Okay..goodnight Spike."
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Ravyn shut her bedroom door and walked slowly to the bed. She laid down across it and pulled a pillow close to her. Burring her face in it, she cried, the sound being muffled out. The one thing she had avoided thinking about for more than thirty years, was now like a fresh wound all over again. The images of Spike and Buffy flooded her mind as did all the things Trull told her. Things would never be the same.
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The next evening, Ravyn woke feeling 'alive' for the first time in a very long time. She stood up and headed for the bathroom. After showering and putting on a pair of jeans and a tight shirt Dawn had left her, she exited her room and headed downstairs.
"Hey" Dawn said smiling as Ravyn descended the step.
"Hey Dawn."
"So, how you feel?"
"Good..I guess." she said quietly looking around. "Where's everyone at?"
"They're around here somewhere. You hungry?"
"No...maybe later."
Dawn gave her a little smile. "You really need to try and eat more than once a day. Get your strength back up."
"I know." Ravyn said as she sat down on the sofa pulling at her shirt. "I really need a few more clothes. These shirts are a little small." she said with a grin.
Dawn laughed. "Yeah, well some of us are quite as full figured as others."
"Yeah...seems so." Ravyn said giggling. "I wonder if my money's still in my accounts? You think you could check for me?"
"Yeah....I could do that."
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"Any luck with that thing?" Angel asked Rob as he walked into Rob's office.
"No. I can't find anything on it. Even the text isn't what I thought it was."
Angel sat down on the edge of Rob's desk and picked up the piece they had found in the alley. "I guess we can ask Ravyn...now that she's 'awake'."
Rob looked up from his book and looked at Angel. "You know....Angel, I've been meaning to ask you."
Angel looked over at him. "Ask me what?"
"Well, it's just..you spent alot of time with Ravyn this past week. You haven't..."
Angel cut him off before he could finish. "Look Rob, I know the situation." he said as he stood up. "Keep looking for something on that. You can ask Ravyn when her and Dawn get back." he told him as he quickly left the office.
Rob sat back in his chair and sighed lightly. "Poor fools got it bad." he said to no one shaking his head as he did.
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Dawn and Ravyn returned several hours and many bags later. Laughing a little as they entered the hotel.
"Did you buy everything they had?" Jesse asked as he watched them lug in all the shopping bags.
"Just about...we think?" Dawn said giggling as they started up the steps.
Jesse just grinned at the girls as they went up the stairs and disappeared out of sight. "Women" he mumbled before he turned and left the lobby.
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Spike was sitting on the back porch deck, beer in one hand, a antique carved wooden box on his lap. He was looking at all the pictures and small pieces of jewelry that had been kept safe there for over thirty years.
He held a picture of Ravyn, his favorite one. She was standing on the beach in a white sundress, her hair was shining from the sun reflecting off of it, smiling that bright smile he had missed seeing. She looked beautiful in the sunlight and he wondered if she missed it as much as he did.
He had been sitting there since he had gotten out of bed, looking at all the things he had left of her when he thought she had died. He knew he needed to give them back to her, so he wanted to look at them one last time.
The fact that she was even there at all had caused him more stress than he had ever thought it would. He didn't know what he was thinking. Did he actually think having her back would cause things to be just like they were?
Spike sighed lightly and looked out over the ocean. He didn't even know if he could see her again and not feel guilty about how happy his life had been.
The fact that she had escaped Trull only to get back home and find him and Buffy together, was giving him a dull ache of pain he hadn't felt in a very long time.
(*I waited for you to come.....but you never did*) kept ringing through his ears. The look on her face and the tone of her voice when she whispered that one statement to him, made him wonder how she could have been alive all that time and he 'not' know. How long had she waited for him to come and get her? How long had she lived with the knowledge that he had forgotten about her and moved on with his life with Buffy before she finally shut the world out around her?
Finishing off his beer, Spike put Ravyn's things back in the box and shut the lid. He stood and entered the house before grabbing his jacket and heading out to his Bike. He knew the longer he waited to see her, the harder it would be.
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Ravyn was sitting with Dawn at her desk as Dawn explained to her what exactly it was they did there. She had a hard time believing they did a 'slayers' job and actually got paid for it....well, most of the time.
"So, they've been doing this for how long?" Ravyn asked.
"Close to thirty-seven years now."
"Huh...and people actually pay them?"
Dawn laughed a little. "Well, in theory they do. Angel helps everyone that comes to him for help. Some pay him, other's don't. He just does it whether there's money in it or not."
"So, what's the deal with his soul? Spike mentioned it...well, before all this..you know, but he never said a whole lot about it."
"Well, it was a Gypsy curse. He lost it...the soul that is, once. When he found 'true happiness'"
Ravyn scrunched up her forehead at her. "What do you mean?"
"Well, the curse, having the soul was permanent, unless he found a moment of 'true happiness' which, no one knew he'd loose it if he did."
"So, what's he like without a soul?"
Dawn's face was enough answer for Ravyn.
"That bad?" Ravyn asked her.
"Way bad! Don't ever want to see that. He's one scary vamp when he's soulless."
"So, what was his moment? What made him loose his soul?"
Dawn fidgeted in her seat a little. "Well, it was....um, Buffy. That was Angel's moment of happiness."
Dawn watched as Ravyn rolled her eyes slightly and looked away.
"You know Ravyn, I know you and her didn't get along or anything, but she really wasn't a bad person."
"I'm sure she wasn't" Ravyn said softly.
"Did Spike tell you what happened to her?"
"No...he just said she was gone."
Dawn shook her head a little. "Well, it was a car wreck. I really miss her." Dawn said sadly.
Ravyn looked back over at Dawn. "I'm sure you do. I know what it feels like to loose someone you love." she said sadly.
Dawn tried to smile, but wasn't very successful.
"How did it happen?"
"She was driving home from the Magic Box. A drunk driver hit her. Some twenty year old kid. She died instantly." Dawn told her, wiping at her eyes as she did.
"I'm really sorry Dawn."
Dawn smiled at her. "Thanks."
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Spike parked his motorcycle and grabbed the box he had Ravyn's things in. He had taken his time driving over there, not really sure of how things were going to go. He knew Ravyn had had time to think about things as he had. The big question now....where did they go from here?
Laughter was the first thing Spike heard as he walked into the hotel. Following the noise he was surprised to see everyone sitting around the lounge area, having a good time.
"Having a party without me?" Spike asked as he walked over to 'his' chair.
"Oh, hey Spike" Dawn said, still laughing slightly. "We were just telling Ravyn about some of our more interesting cases."
"Is that right?" he asked as he looked over at Ravyn. She was smiling. Not the big bright one he remembered...but it was the first one he had seen since before the warehouse.
Ravyn looked over at him. She could tell by the look on his face that he had the same questions about them as she did. She had thought long and hard about 'them' last night and knew things couldn't ever be the way they were. Being away from him for thirty plus years gives a person alot of time to analyze things, and as hard as it was to realize the truth...it was best to let him know whether he believed it or not.
"Can I talk to you?" Spike asked her as she continued to look at him.
Ravyn nodded her head and stood up as he did. She followed him out back to the porch and stood by the rail. "So, what did you want to talk about?"
Spike smiled at her. "Well, actually wanted to give you something." he said handing her the box.
Ravyn looked down at the box. She ran her hand across the carvings before looking back up at him. "What is it?"
"It's your things." he said quietly. "Figured you might want them back."
Ravyn opened the lid and was surprised to see pictures of herself. She looked up at Spike. "You kept these?" she asked him.
"Well, yeah, they're all I had left." he told her softly.
Ravyn walked over to the steps and sat down before pulling out the pictures. She started looking through them as Spike walked over and sat beside her.
"I can't believe you still have this stuff." she said smiling over at him. Ravyn thumbed through the pictures and paused when she came to one she had never seen. She looked back up at him, when she realized what it was.
"The scobbies had that made. It's still there." Spike told her smiling.
Ravyn looked back down at the picture of the pink gravestone with her name on it and smiled. "It's a nice gesture...don't know how I feel about seeing my name on a gravestone though..kinda creepy."
"And being dead isn't?" Spike asked her laughing.
Ravyn let out a little giggle. "No, unless you're human I guess."
"Yeah, well the nibblet thought I might want it. It was her idea." Spike told her as she continued to look at the picture. "They put it in the far side of the cemetery, you remember, the 'quiet place' I took you to?"
"Yeah, it was really pretty there."
"Yeah, well it's under that big tree, surrounded by flowers. Well, it was nine years ago. Hard to tell what it looks like now. Haven't been back since I left."
Ravyn sat the pictures aside and picked up the few pieces of jewelry that were in the box. "I still can't believe you kept this stuff." she said, sliding her class ring onto her finger. She smiled as she looked at it. "Kinda sad that my whole life fit into a small box though." she added as the faded envelope with Spike's name on it was found at the bottom of the box. Looking up at him she leaned her head to the side a little. "You kept this to?"
Spike smiled. "Yeah, why wouldn't I? Couldn't throw out the last thing you ever said to me."
Spike's smiled fell away as he remembered his last conversation he had had with her. All the things he had yelled at her. The look on her face as her tears rolled down her cheeks. "You know...about that night, before you went back to the warehouse...."
Ravyn looked up at him and shook her head. "Don't Spike...I know you didn't mean it."
Spike sighed and reached up, moving her hair away from her face. "No,...I didn't. But I still want you to know, that I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you."
"I know." she said quietly as she looked at him. He looked exactly the way she remembered him. Same big blue eyes that made her feel like she was melting. Same smile, same walk....everything she loved about him but pushed away. The memory of him hurt to much to bear.
Looking away quickly she smiled as she replaced the things back in the box and stood. "Think I'll go back inside." she said as she started for the door. "Thanks...for this." she told him, holding the box.
Spike nodded his head at her and watched her walk inside. He was almost saddened as he remembered the way she had just looked at him. No longer did her eyes tell him all the things she felt. He didn't see her love for him shining back at him.
Looking out at the city, Spike sighed lightly before standing. Turning to the door, he walked inside the hotel and found her sitting in the lounge area, holding the box close to her.
"Ravyn." Rob said as he walked over to where she was sitting. "We found this in the alley where you were being attacked. We were wondering if you knew what it was?" he asked as he held out the gold triangle for her to see.
Ravyn took it from his hand and looked at it. "Yeah, I know what it is." she said looking up at him.
Angel walked over to her and sat beside her. "What is it?"
Ravyn looked up at him and saw Spike out of the corner of her eye watching her. Handing the piece to Angel she glanced at Spike before looking back at Angel. "That is the fourth point to 'The Star Of Remeur'."
Angel turned and looked at Spike quickly as he walked over to the sofa where Ravyn and Angel sat.
"You're kiddin right?" Spike asked her.
"Nope...afraid not." Ravyn told him as Spike took the piece from Angel.
"But The Star Of Rameur is only legend." Rob said, more than interested as he also approached the sofa.
"It's no legend. It's real." Ravyn told him.
"Where did you get this?" Angel asked her.
"From Trull"
Angel, Spike and Rob all went wide eyed at her statement.
"Bloody Hell...I guess we know now who 'reds' Master was." Spike said as he sat down on the table.
"Yeah guess so." Angel replied. "Ravyn, does Trull have anymore pieces of this?"
"Yeah, he has three more points. This is the fourth."
"Does he know where the other's are?" Rob asked her.
"What the hell are you guy's talking about?" Blake asked, confused about the whole conversation.
Rob looked up at him. "The Star Of Remeur is a legend. It supposedly makes the wearer invincible. Nothing can kill him." he told the others in the room. "A vampire wearing this medallion would be unstoppable, or so I've heard. Father studied it but was never able to prove it's existence."
"Well, guess ole Wes will be pleased to find out it's real." Blake said smiling. "Give the old man something to brighten up his day."
"Yes, I'm sure it will." Rob said smiling, thinking of how long his Father had researched the piece. "You know, he may still have his notes around. I guess I could go see him and ask."
"Ravyn, does he know where the other pieces are?"
Ravyn looked over at Angel when he spoke. "Yes, the fifth piece is here...in LA. He was planning on getting it the night I escaped. I snatched this before I left."
"How does it work?" Dawn asked, interrupting Angel and Ravyn's conversation.
"The Star Of Rameur..is an amulet. All the pieces fit together. The five triangles make up the outer edges of the star. The center is a large Ruby called 'The Blood Stone'." Ravyn told her.
"And you learned all this how?" Rob asked her, interested in how she had learned so much about the mystical legend.
Ravyn looked over at him and smiled. "I was with him for a long time...I may have been zoning out the things around me, but I could still hear."
"Yes" Rob said smiling at her. "So, where is the blood stone?"
"Brazil"
Everyone sat staring at either Ravyn or the fourth point of the star, questions running rampant through there mind.
"This medallion also makes the wearer a day walker." Ravyn said as
everyone got quiet.
"If Trull gets his hands on all six pieces, no one will be able to stop
him." she said quietly.
Spike looked over at Ravyn and could see her fear for Trull rolling off her in waves. If he was able to get the Star, there would be nothing anyone could do to stop him. "Well, I suggest we make sure he doesn't get his hands on the last three pieces then." he said looking over at Angel. "Better find a safe place for that."
"Yeah" Angel said as he handed the piece back to Rob.
"Ravyn, does he know you have this?" Spike asked her.
"Yes....he knows." she said with a slightly shaky voice. "That's why he won't stop looking for me. He's been looking for this medallion for over twenty years. He's not going to stop now when he's so close."
"He won't find you." Angel told her as he noticed how scared she looked.
Ravyn looked over at Angel, not believing a word he was saying. She knew Trull better than anyone, and what he wanted...he got. Only question was, how long till he found her.
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