SEIZE THE NIGHT (23/25)
Willow sat next to Darla, looking at her sire seriously. "Will this
work?"
Darla got a pensive look on her face as she thought about it. She knew
what Willow was really asking. "We won't die, lovey."
"Will we be able to defeat him?" Willow asked.
"With the slayer on her side?" Darla said. "Easily."
Willow smiled, "Good. He won't expect an alliance with her, will he?
Not
from you."
"No, he won't. That gives us the advantage. He knows my thoughts on
slayers. A silly waste of time. He'll never imagine that I would offer
a
deal to one..OR that she would accept."
"Do you trust her?" Spike asked, coming into the room, Angel behind
him.
Both sat opposite Darla and Willow.
"Strangely, I do. She's not too bright, but her watcher is. He knows
this is the safest way to keep things calm here" Darla said.
"Uh oh....mummy has a crush" Angel taunted, hearing the softening in
his
sire's voice as she mentioned the watcher.
Darla's eyes flashed yellow as she glared at him, "I do not have a crush
on some silly pathetic human that believes a fun evening is sitting
at
home in tweed and reading a stuffy book."
"Haven't given his nightly activities a lot of thought, huh, Gran?"
Spike teased, exchanging a knowing grin with Willow. The two had caught
sight of Darla outside the watcher's apartment two evenings earlier,
a
day after the meeting with the slayer.
"Fuck off" Darla said, anger in her voice. "I am going out. Have to
set
the plan into action. And, there will be no comments about the damn
watcher!"
They watched her leave and then looked at each other. Their laughter
drew Drusilla into the room, who took a seat next to Willow. She smiled,
"She burns for the human."
"We know, princess. It's the most amusing thing I've seen lately." Spike
said.
"Who would have imagined the great powerful Darla getting a silly crush
on a human...a watcher no less" Angel said, shaking his head at the
thought. At least he knew that Giles was a good man. His sire had chosen
an intelligent man that had an edge around him that most watchers did
not. He could see the attraction, for her point of view. His taste
ran
much more cocky and less stoic. Look at Spike for lord's sake.
"I think it's sweet" Willow said, walking over to sit on Angel's lap.
"She seems happy."
"Eh, she will be after we dust the damn master." Spike commented,
running his hand over Willow's leg.
"Not much longer" Dru said. "The stars danced for me. Soon."
"Good...then we can concentrate on getting things in this damn town
straightened out" Angel said, his mouth on Willow's neck.
"Do we hunt tonight?" Willow asked, looking at her lovers.
"Nah...we can stay in. Darla is setting things up for the slayer. Don't
want to interfere" Angel said.
Willow nodded, settling back into his hard chest. She was glad that
Buffy had agreed to Darla's proposition. She would have hated having
to
kill her old friends, though she would have without a moment's
hesitation. She wasn't exactly normal according to Darla and the others,
but she knew she would kill to protect her family. She was, after all,
a
vampire.