MISTER DARK AND THE ROOMS WITH A VIEW #FanficFriday

The next day, I got up and checked the fridge which was full of blood bags and bottles of bourbon...
"I love this room," I told the gods of hotel rooms if there were such things...
Anya woke up and stretched, "Did I fall asleep?" She asked...
"Obviously, you did, luv..." I answered.
"Yeah, my fridge was full of food too. And when you take something out and close it, it refills itself. Think I will like it here." She got up and looked out the window at the bright and sunny day outside... "Such a lovely day, outside. There's a pizza place and a bunch of stores and a cab and the Statue of Liberty... Spike i think we are in New York..." Anya pointed to the Statue in the window...
"Cant be; we were in Sunnydale, last night..." I looked out the window in amazement.
"Lets call room service, I want some ham and eggs. Oh, I wonder if they have green eggs and ham..." Anya went to the phone as I watched the hustle and bustle of early morning New York below us....

"Yeah, the windows are magic so you can see any view you like outside," said Lorne with a smile, so proud of his Hotel floor... "Just ask nicely and they will show you whatever you want."
"Bollocks." said I.
"No really; it works. Watch this..." Lorne smiles and asks the windows nicely to show him Hollywood and the windows changed the view to Hollywood.
"Wow," says Anya. "Can it show me, Leonardo's bedroom?" Anya chuckled...
"Da Vinci or Dicaprio?" Lorne asked.
"Never mind," said Anya...
"How did you get this Hotel," I asked Lorne.
"Actually, I just won the alternate universe in a poker game from a Mr. Nightshade, nice old man... terrible poker face...."

"Who was the previous owner," asks I...
"Mr. Dark, they call him... strange gentleman, lots of tattoos. Runs a carnival in the fall, I hear... Say who wants breakfast?" Lorne walked toward the phone when a knock came at the door.
Anya opened the door to find a cart of breakfast foods waiting but no one in sight to tip... She rolled the cart inside and smiled. "Breakfast is served, " she said....    

The Madhouse, The Order of Ren, and The Unholy Three

After the club closed, Lorne offered us rooms in his new home down the street. We went there with him and looked around at what was left of Sunny d. The Bronze was surrounded by vamps and none of the other demons would go near the place, and the Magic Box was closed and locked up and advertising a GRAND RE-OPENING coming soon... I wondered for a moment what had happened to the uber demons that killed Anya in the high school but there was no sign of them now...

Lorne had found a nice house over on Elm Street and had claimed it for his own, apparently some demons had tried to throw him and his crew out and been thrashed viciously by them so no one tries to question them anymore....    

Under the stairs was a secret elevator that led to a secret hotel in a private dimension where rooms were available for everyone... how did Lorne set this up, i wondered?

"Well, its a long story,... basically, I won it in a poker game. The elevator here goes to any destination you desire. Won the elevator in one hand from a Mister Nightshade and the alternate universe in another from a Mister Dark. See the button for Madhouse. Goes straight to work. Then there's a button for Home, and one for Chicago, and Cleveland, Los Angeles, Denver, and some other Hell dimensions i do business in, and a button for your floor... 13... See this hotel has all the 13th floors that were not added to skyscrapers... Kind of confusing, but the room service is great." Lorne smiled and everyone tried to comprehend what he was saying....   

"BUT we went down not up," said Anya, always the first to point out what everyone was thinking... 

"Yes... its a magic elevator... you should see my magic carpet." said Lorne with a smile... 

"How do you set the buttons?" I asked out of curiousity. 

"I just think of where I need to go and the panel adds a button. Told you it was confusing." Lorne showed us to our rooms and advised us that the room service is excellent and we should try it." Then he went to his room. number one.   

"You dont sleep in the house?" I asked him. 

"Oh Hell no, its haunted.." Lorne went inside and closed the door and the rest of us found our rooms and turned in.... 

Later that night, Anya came to my door and asked to come in.... 

"Sure thing, luv," I told her and invited her in... She came in looking somewhat shaken and sat down at the dinner table by the fridge.... 

"You know, the fridge has fresh blood packs inside... I love this room... Whats wrong, An?" I asked her. 

"I just had this dream where i remembered... well, the Elysian Fields,... you remember that, Spike?" 

"Wasnt my dream luv.... " I remarked thoughtfully... 

"But you were there, William,... after Sunnydale... you dont recall???..." 

I shook my head having no memories of the place... 

"You and me and some others were abducted by demons from the Elysian Fields and taken to their Hell dimension,... they were going to sacrifice us to the Unholy Trinity... you tried to fight them off but they beat you down..." Anya looked at me to see if i recalled any of that... but i didnt...  "Then this other faction rescued us... the Order of Ren... they killed our abducters and asked us if we would help them overthrow the Three... They gave you some demon power through a spell to make you stronger and then they gave me demon powers sensing that I had once been a vengeance demon..." Anya created a fireball with the flick of her wrist and then flicked it away again... "We attacked the three with the Order and our leader Ren Tsa, but the Three were too strong for us and they banished us from their realm... they sent you away first..." 

"To L.A., yes, its coming back to me now... I was a ghost in L.A... i tell you from one Hell to another with me..." I recalled the attack and the banishment and the abduction now. "Yes, the three wiped my memory before they banished me to Hell,...er, Los Angeles. I remember it clearly now."   

"Yes, then they banished the rest of the Order too. And they sent Ren Tsa to another Hell dimension without his powers so he could not escape... Spike, he called out to me for help, in this dream. We have to find him. He is the one who gave me my powers back and the Order can stop the Three from destroying the world... Some thing big is coming Spike,... I can feel it..." Anya was visibly shaken by her dream and even i could sense something dark and eerie in the air... 

"We'll find him, luv.... We'll find them all..." I hugged Anya and comforted her... being a psy-sensitive i can feel other peoples feelings sometimes and her compassion and fear for her colleagues was strong... 

I knew that I had to find the Order some how, but i was not sure why. 

The Witch, the Demon and the Vampire

WHEN a portal opened in front of me in an alley in Santa Monica, it was a bit surprising, and when a bunch of people from another reality came out it was a curiousity, but when Anyanka walked out onto the street in front of me, it was a pleasant surprise. Anya was happy as could be, when she came out from a large field where she had been since the battle of Sunnydale.

At first she had no memory of her death at the hands of the ugly uber vamps and from her memories I supposed that she had been to the Elysian Fields since Sunnydale, but when a portal opened there to let the inhabitants out and bring them to this world, several of them walked out on to the street and walked around exploring their new surroundings.    
Although I had seen another Anya running about California recently, it became apparent that she was a doppelganger from another reality who was still a vengeance demon. My Anyanka was human when she crossed over, and now with the portal closed behind her, there was no returning to the Fields for any of them.  
I offered to let her stay at my flat and was relieved to hear her accept, and then she asked me if I saw Tara.
"Tara?" I asked.
"You know Tara. The witch. Willow's girl. She was there before me." Anya looked around.
"Did she come out too?" I asked Anya and looked around for her, but she was no where in sight.
"Yeah, you didnt see her?" she asked.
"No, the portal was opened before I got here. Which way did she go?" Being a Malkavian, I am some what of a psy sensitive, but not nearly as good as Dru. I tried to find her psyche, but to no avail.
"There. She went that way, I think," Anya ran down the street about a block and I followed her. No sign of Tara anywhere at first. Then Anya found Lorne and asked him if he knew where Tara was. He hummed a little and pointed us in her direction, then he invited us to visit his new club for the grand opening and gave us cards with the address on them. I slipped the card in my pocket and ran to find Tara.
When I found her, she was in a corner looking for a bullet hole and crying. We took her back to my flat and explained how she had been in another reality where she had no memories of her past life. Anya comforted her as best as she could, but I began to wonder who else had come back from alternate realities and why were portals to other dimensions opening up around the world...
That night, we went to Lorne's new club, the Madhouse, which was only accessible through a magic portal as it was in an alternate reality. I thought the name seemed somehow appropriate looking about at all the demons dancing and drinking and singing karaoke.... We danced the night away and decided to spend more time there in the future...
As the music calmed the savage beasts in the club, I thought for just a moment that I saw a familiar face, Darla, in the crowd dancing, but then she was gone, and I didn't see her again all night.... Lorne needed help at the club and offered us all jobs there. Tara was happy to help out, and Anya was willing to help too, although I could tell from talking to her, that she missed her magic shop...
Lorne offered me a job as a bouncer and promised all the bourbon I could drink as well, and I thought, well, okay,... I mean why not, right?
As Lorne poured our drinks, I asked him, "Whats the name of this dimension you found here." to which he replied....
"Thinking of calling it Sunnydale... Big sign outside...."
"You don't say," I said, but in my head I was thinking small world....
All around us, demons were smiling and laughing and dancing,... and Lorne was responsible. He had tamed the savage beasts. And more importantly, he had brought peace at last to a little place called Sunnydale...
Somehow, this Madhouse of his felt like home.....

THE DARK SLAYER AND I

SHE STOLE MY HEART
WITHOUT TRYING
WHEN I LOOKED INTO HER EYES
NOW WE WALK THE NIGHT TOGETHER
THE DARK SLAYER AND I

NO ONE WILL COME BETWEEN US 

NO ONE SMART WOULD EVEN TRY 

FOR WE ARE TWO OF A KIND 

THE DARK SLAYER AND I   

THO WE GO OUR SEPARATE WAYS 

ONE IS ALWAYS CLOSE BY 

AND WE HAVE EACH OTHERS BACKS NOW 

THE DARK SLAYER AND I 

WE FACE THE DARKNESS TOGETHER 

KNOWING WELL THAT WE MAY DIE   

AND WHATEVER MAY COME WE ARE READY  

THE DARK SLAYER AND I    

FOR THE MISSION

She is the light in my sky 

The moon in my night 

She makes the world go around 

Every time she smiles.

she brings me to life 

when i am near her 

i have to stay awhile.  

her hazel eyes and golden locks 

are always on my mind 

cant live without her in my arms 

she is one of a kind  

i know i'll never be the one 

she thinks about at night 

she always has that thought of him 

he's always in her sights  

she thinks about him all the time 

she loves him. no denying 

but i am there for her anyway 

she stole my heart without trying      

i'll never be the one for her 

she'd never take that position 

our relationship is strictly business 

its not for me. its for the mission.

SCOOBIES NEVER DIE

As i sit in this smoky room on the night that never ends i pass my time watching TV but this bottles my only friend.

remember when we used to walk thru the cemetery out in the dark remember when you lost your keys and you staked a vamp by a willow tree baby

remember when we used to talk about kicking ass and taking names forever together   

scoobies never die 

scoobies never die  

you and me and willow and xan 

and oz when he's not off with the band 

Mona Lisa

Bashing in skulls at a local demon club and taking names. probably should let them answer before i hit them again. but i need this.

need to work off some issues and hit something hard. a spot of violence before dinner and a cuppa tea. feels good to feel something again.

demon begging for mercy. ha. like i would even think about it. need to purge this rage.

another demon grabs me from behind and gets me in a choke hold. flip him over my shoulder and bust his face too.

hitting this monster takes me back. to a simpler time. when men were men and warriors were honorable.

another demon hits me from behind with a chair. it shatters. stings for a bit. but the magic potion made me stronger than ever before.

barely noticed that chair as i kept slugging his friend. stinking slime balls

my hands are numb but not bloody. the potion changed me. i could just beat these scum all day and barely feel it.

why did i think it was a potion. no it was a serum... -pounding in three demons faces in a club as the onlookers cheer me on---

it was a serum given to me in that place. what was it called again... THE SHOP... that was it? doctors in white coats. -brains all over now

-repressed memories fill my head as demon brains fly about the room. the phone rings and i stop hitting them and answer- "Hello Gina." Regina is my secretary at Team Spike Investigations.

"What do you mean where have i been? i just talked to you last week." - Regina explained that we last talked three months ago....

the shop held me captive for three months? now i recall. the torture and experiments. the others imprisoned there. They must be stopped. The Shop must fall.

Somewhere between now and three months ago, i ended up in cage. a cell in a lab beneath Geneva. a lab rat at the Shop. they experimented on me for months....

its all coming back now... slowly. why were these memories lost to me...

there was another... another vamp there... an old one... in a white coat... freed me and compelled me to forget...

what was her name?.... Madonna?... Madusa?... Madeline?... Mona! Mona Lisa was her name. That's it... She was a doctor at the shop.... Very old vamp, posing as one of them... working for them... she gave me serums to make me stronger and overcome the garlic and sedatives... she told me how to get out quietly and compelled me to forget about them... Mona is a doctor there... but if she compelled me to forget and now i remember, then she must be... dead...

I remember leaving the lab through the tunnels underneath and then a portal opened to a club in Santa Monica... The Asylum... Jeanette's place... That must be the way back... I need to know if Mona's alive... and i owe the shop an ass kicking...