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Fighting for Survival	By : AddictedtoBuffy Category: AtS/BtVS Crossovers > Threesomes/Moresomes > Angel(us)/Spike(William)/Xander > Angel(us)/Spike(William)/Xander Views: 13766 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS), nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Title: Fighting For Survival
Author: AddictedtoBuffy
Rating: NC17
Pairing: Angel/Spike/Xander
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel the Series. They are the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy et al. I do not make money from the writing of this, it is purely entertainment. I do not mean any disrespect to the actors who have portrayed these characters. This fic contains explicit Male/Male relationships if you are adverse to this or are under the age of eighteen then please do not read. Thankyou to all the online writers who help keep the Buffyverse alive.
Summary: What if Buffy couldn’t stop the snake demon before it got back to Glory. Starts in the Buffy Season 5 Episode Shadow but then goes AU. Angel is the same as cannon up to this point except that Darla is not visiting Angel in his dreams despite having been brought back by Wolfram and Hart you’ll find out why later. Furthermore, this follows Jenns fic Playing Games found at AdultFanFiction or the Slashaholics Island. You don’t need to have read that to follow this but I do recommend it as it’s a great fic. I moved the timeline back a bit so that by the Season 5 Ep Shadow the boys are a threesome and Spike and Xander are only in Sunnydale to pick up their stuff before moving in with Angel.
Beta: A big thanks goes to Bubbysbub who fought computer problems to get this betaed on time
Feedback: PLEASE I’ll get on my knees and beg for feedback both good and bad
Part: 11/?
Distrubution: Ask and you will receive
Warnings: Strong language and random death and violence for this chapter
Reviews: Pouts, please, please, pretty please. I love to know what people think of my writing, it helps keep me posting
A/N: A big thanks to Jenn for allowing me to use some of her ideas evident in Playing Games and a big thanks to Buffyworld.com for making available transcripts of every episode of both Buffy and Angel.
Chapter Eleven

Kate cautiously walked down some steps in the museum, her gun pointing at the shadows. She could sense something creepy and knew that she wasn’t alone. Kate was rapidly regretting her decision to walk into the building by herself and not wait for back up. A shadow flew across and she aimed her gun at it while continuing down the steps. Though spooked, Kate had been raised a cop, and moving shadows were not enough to make her quit. The shadow flew across above her and she spun around, firing it in the air and knocked Tara to the ground in the process.

“Who are you?” Kate demanded, recovering quickly and pointing her gun straight at Tara.

“I’m a fairy-nymph. I can flitter, I can flutter. You’re pretty, not as pretty as my Willow tree though. Who are you?”

“Great, a crazy. Look you haven’t seen a guy called Angel by any chance have you?” Kate asked without lowering her gun in case this was an elaborate trap.

"Angel? - Right. That's why I'm here - to warn Angel about – something,” Tara points at Kate, “important! - Your hair!"

"You're here to warn Angel about my hair." Kate asked incredulously, becoming more confused by the moment. Who was this strange girl and how did she know Angel?

"It's blonde! Like hers was." Tara looked like she was about to cry as Kate stared at her in astonishment but then there was a whoosh and Tara reached up to her head in pain. "The shroud! He's got to know about the shroud! It will make everybody - it makes everybody - act differently! We have to hurry before it's too late," Tara whispered urgently. The noise came back and Kate could feel the effect on herself straight away, she turned back to the strange girl who seems to be in crazy-land again. "I noticed your hair right away." Kate rubbed a hand over his face and when she looked back at Tara she had disappeared.

*****

Meanwhile Anya was wandering around the Native American exhibit. She caught sight of something in the reflection of one of the big glass cases and peered in for a better look.

"My teeth are so - big! I - am - pleasant." She enunciated slowly. Then she peered at her teeth. “My teeth are numb, see, numb teeth.” She told the nearby dummy tapping her front teeth with her finger to prove her point, she couldn’t feel a thing.

*****

Nearby Willow was lying on the floor laughing. She couldn’t stop laughing, the roof was so hilarious, it was extremely funny and she didn’t notice the shadows sneaking up on her.

“Red?” One of the shadows moved out of the others and took the form of Spike peering down at Willow in astonishment.

“What are you doing here Willow? Are you drunk?” Spike asked incredulously. He could feel a presence that was trying to take over his consciousness but that didn’t explain Willow’s presence.

“Oh Spike! You know why I like you? You’re like a tree, a big strong tree that all the little trees are envious of, or like a log, yes a nice big long log in the forest that’s frogs can hop over. Oh, can you tell you a secret,” Willow was still staring at the roof as she whispered loudly, “I have frog fear, you wanna know why, I once went to the toilet and then I looked down when I went to flush and there was a frog in the bowl. This green frog was staring up at me from in the toilet. I peed on a frog.” She starts to giggle hysterically again and Spike could only shake his head in amusement. He couldn’t leave her there, that much was certain, but it was also certain that she was too far-gone to tell him what was happening. Whatever it was it couldn’t be good. They needed to find the demon and kill it then get everyone away from the effects of this entity. That included Angel and Gunn too; Spike wasn’t going to leave his Sire in a place like this. They needed to get going, Spike looked around for Xander and Cordelia and found them near a grey puppet wearing a Native American costume.

"Oh. Hello, plastic person. You're all by you're lonesome in here.” Xander said when he bumped into the model. “So, I guess you won't be needing this," he whispered taking off a blue necklace that was around its neck. He attempted to put it around his neck but Cordelia took it off him.

“Oh please, like that will go with what you’re wearing when it would look so much better on me.” She tied it around her own neck and gave Xander a dazzling smile.

“Oi, Come on Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry we’ve got a demon to exterminate.” Spike turned back to the girl at his feet. “C’mon Red, up ya get, you’re coming with us.” He hauled her to her feet and ushered the other two effected parties out of the room. He wondered about taking them outside and making them stay there while he came back in to get the others out but he had no idea if the effects of the entity would still be with them. He couldn’t have them running out in front of cars or wandering off so they were probably is safer with him. Unfortunately, they were slowing him down, and keeping the mystical menace at bay was becoming quite a challenge. Spike pushed the three humans out the door and followed them further into the depths of the museum.

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Angel, Gunn, Ugly and Spiny carried the heavy coffin out of the elevator. They had been bickering steadily since Bob had been killed. Angel was starting to feel the effects of the Shroud, he was sure it was the Shroud.

"Fingerprints!" The Ugly looking demon suddenly yelled looking around wildly.

"What are you doing?" Angel shouted at the confused demon, they didn’t have time for this.

"We left fingerprints!" The demon replied in explanation.

"What are you doing?!" Angel repeated again as Ugly dropped his corner of the coffin and Angel struggled to keep the thing from hitting the ground. Ugly snatched up a rag from the bag he was carrying and he began to wipe frantically at the elevator walls.

"They'll find us. They'll take it away!" Ugly yelled out hysterically, he needed the shroud, couldn’t let anyone take it away.

"Forget him. Keep going." Angel yelled over the hysterical demon. They had spent too much time here already. Every second they delayed was another opportunity wasted.

"No fingerprints!" Ugly yelled not even noticing that they were moving on without him. The three of them struggled on. Angel was just waiting for his chance to off the other demon, just round the next corner away from the hysterical demon still trying to rub out imaginary fingerprints and he would pounce.

"I got to put it down." Gunn suddenly called out, struggling with his third of the coffin’s weight.

"Huh?" The Spiny demon asked, coming back from his own little world.

"I got to put it down!" Gunn repeated again, feeling it slip.

"See? Stinking humans, good for nothing!"

"Try to keep going." Angel encouraged Gunn they only needed to get round the next corner then he could deal with the demon and then they could leave. No, they wouldn’t be able to leave, the Shroud would still be affecting everyone, and they needed to do something about that.

"I can't. I can't. My head - it's full of flies!" Gunn dropped his corner before grabbing his head and backing against the wall. "Get away from it. Get away from it!" Angel watched on hopelessly as the Spiny demon attempted to pick up the coffin by himself.

"I don't need any of you." Spiny murmured almost caressing the box. Angel needed to get Gunn up and back to the box or they weren’t going to stop this thing. Angel had found in the past that taunting worked best when there wasn’t much time.

"What's wrong now - son, huh? Getting a little tired? Little backache? A little toothache?” Suddenly Angel felt the evil presence take him over for a second, he fought back as hard as he could but felt disorientated and knew that his eyes were turning yellow again. “What...?" Just then Tara stumbled around the corner of the corridor.

"Angel? Thank God I found you,” Angel turned to look at her, eyes still yellow, “in time. Is it in time?" She asked confused.

“Tara?” Angel asked completely miffed. What was she doing there? Shouldn’t she be lying low with the others in the hotel? She was about to blow his cover.

"Yes! I had a message for you. And the message was...,” she tilted her head on one side trying to remember why they came to the museum in the first place. “The shroud! The shroud, very dangerous. It makes people - bad! Although it's amazing how good I feel!"” Angel grabbed her by her shoulders and pushed her down the corridor.

“Tara, get out!" Angel yelled desperate to get Tara to disappear, if the demons were thinking normally they would have been in deep shit.

"Is that Gunn? What's he doing here? I never thought of him as the museum type. Not that I’ve thought about him much at all seeing as I’ve just met him. Why is his name Gunn?" Tara babbled faster than Angel had heard Willow or Xander babble.

“Tara, TARA,” Angel attempted to get Tara’s attention as she seemed to have drifted off. Kate just then whipped around the corner aiming her gun at them.

"Police! Nobody move!" Angel felt like hitting his head repeatedly against the wall. This was supposed to be a simple job, now look at it. Angel squinted at Kate with his yellow eyes desperately trying to come up with a way to get them all out of this mess alive.

"Wow! - Look at you - rushing in here all by yourself! You're the best cop ever." Angel talked loudly hoping to relieve some of the tension building in the corridor.

"Too many humans." The Spiny demon muttered and Angel watched him out of the corner of his eye knowing that he could explode at any moment.

"Excuse me that is *my* girl." Angel replied stepping closer to Kate hoping that she’d realise the danger she was in and play along. Unfortunately, Kate aimed her gun at Angel instead.

"Stay back."

"Whoo! Okay,” Angel did his best impression of Angelus’ laugh. “You got me. My life of crime is over.” Angel could feel Spiny’s eyes on him as hands in the air he slowly moved closer to Kate. “I'm going down. But first - a little impression.” Angel laughed again stalling for time; he could suddenly feel Spike’s presence. His childe was in the museum. “I'm a cop- with a mission to protect the innocent and rain on everybody's parade and obsessed about my father's death and bother people who are about to steal things!"

"Angel..." Tara spoke trying to rein Angel’s monologue in while attempting to keep her own sanity. Angel spun around and knocked her into the wall, would she stop calling him Angel in front of the demons? He turned back to Kate, a smirk gracing his face.

"Oh - Katie - what are you so afraid of? - Is it this?” He morphed into game face and immediately found that it was easier to think. The Spiny demon had his gun out again and was looking between him and Tara and Kate attempting to find out what was going on.

“Is it the part where I'm gonna kill you? Because I got to tell you I love that in a woman!" Kate suddenly shot at him, but he rushed her, grabbed her, pointing her gun up at the ceiling. He could smell blood behind him, human blood, Gunn’s blood but if he turned around now they would all be killed. Angel sunk his fangs into the side of Kate’s neck moving them around so that she could see the weapon being pointed at them. After drinking only a little Angel removed his fangs and whispered into her ear.

"Stay down or they'll kill you." Angel let her go and she dropped to the floor. Kate looked up at his bloody vamp-face for a moment before letting her eyes slide shut. Angel turned to look around and chuckled as Ugly lowered his gun. Angel glanced at Gunn and saw that he was down, clutching his side while blood poured over his hand and Tara beside him trying to help. The exact thing that Angel had been trying to prevent had happened and now he had two human friends on the ground. He should have just fought the demons at the start. Angel tensed, ready to pounce on Spiny, this had gone on for long enough and was going to end now. He heard a fierce hiss and then a dead weight landed on his back pushing him to the floor.

“What?” he yelled trying to buck off the weight that was trying to pin him to the floor.

“Arrrrrrrhhhhhhh,” Tara screamed as he managed to flip whatever it was off his back and continued the motion to flip onto his feet. He viewed the monster with disdain as Spiny shot at it, one, two, three times. The shots just bounced off its armour-like-skin, but seemed to incense the creature and it tore over to Spiny. Before anyone could blink Spiny was on his back, with the creature leaning over him and spitting something into his mouth. As much as Angel would have liked to just stand there while the two of them fought it out they really didn’t have the time. Kate would have called for backup, of that Angel was certain so he attacked the creature, rolling him off Spiny. The creature pinned him and tried to do whatever he had done to Spiny.

“Angel, catch!” he heard Xander, when did Xander get there? He caught the knife thrown at him, putting such questions to the back of his mind. He stabbed the demon in the neck, the only place not covered in armour, over and over again until he was finally still. He pushed the corpse off of himself and stood, immediately feeling dizzy as the whispering got louder again.

Spike watched Angel struggle against the presence he could feel and his eyes fell on the coffin in the middle of the room with its cracked glass lid. That was where the presence was coming from, Spike was certain. He sauntered over to it and smashed the glass. Spike reached in and pulled a corner of the shroud out, lighting it with his trusty Zippo.

“Alright people, time to go,” Spike helped a non-functioning Angel walk out followed by Xander helping Gunn while Cordelia and Tara somehow carried the cop lady. The whole place looked like a crime scene. ‘Just what we need,’ Spike thought, ‘more complications’.
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