Bad Bargain by Gallagher Diana G

Author:Gallagher, Diana G. [Gallagher, Diana G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-07-26T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

And Cordelia thinks she’s having a bad day! The sight of Drusilla’s shocking transformation did not inhibit Buffy’s timing. Her reflexes were as quick and ruthless as her catty observation.

Giles jumped back as Buffy raced forward and kicked, landing a foot squarely on the vamp-bat’s chest. Dru was thrown off stride, but only for a second. When she launched an immediate counterattack, Buffy ducked, struck out with her leg as she came back up, and repelled Dru’s charge.

“Don’t kill her!” Spike tried to insert himself between Buffy and Dru, but the beast batted him aside.

“It’s her or us, Spike!” Buffy planted her feet, poised for the vamp-bat’s next move. “She loses.”

Giles flattened himself against the wall and took off his belt. He wrapped the leather end around his hand twice. If swung with enough force, the buckle end was an effective weapon.

But not against the supersize bat out of hell, Buffy thought. As a hybrid, Drusilla was a lot stronger than a vampire and a lot smarter than a bat. She wasn’t sure how they were going to defeat her.

“So where’s the Beastmaster gotten to, then?” Spike asked, brushing dust off his long coat. His eyes narrowed when he spotted Pragoh under the stairs. “Hey! No hiding. Get out here and cure her!”

Pragoh shook his head. “She bites.”

Spike stopped, then sidestepped, swinging his upper body low as he moved. Drusilla’s fangs grazed dead flesh without breaking the skin on the back of his neck. His brow furrowed as he took several quick steps over to Buffy. He was visibly shaken.

“Too bad she missed.” Buffy smiled, but the brash vampire’s fear gave her pause.

“Is it?” Spike’s surly tone had a serious edge. “If she’d bitten me, you’d have two monster bat people to fend off.”

Drusilla raised her arms, gracefully unfolding her scalloped wings. The fingers on each hand had fused into a single curved claw at the midpoint on the membranes. She stared at Buffy with unblinking golden eyes. A menacing growl sounded deep in her throat.

“Why doesn’t Pragoh do something?” Buffy hissed at Giles.

“Technically, Drusilla isn’t a lesser Hellmouth creature,” Giles said. “Pragoh can’t control her.”

“Then I’ll bloody well have to.” Spike threw up his hands as he moved by them and continued on past the stairs.

“By running away?” Buffy huffed.

“Teeth!” Giles yelled.

Pivoting, Buffy fired off another kick to stop the vampbat’s forward surge. Dru snapped clear before the blow connected, then hooked Buffy’s ankle and pulled her off her feet. Rolling as she hit the floor, Buffy sprang back up in an unbroken fluid motion of Slayer agility. Enraged, Dru prepared to strike again.

Buffy wondered how Angel would react to Drusilla’s hideous transformation. The torment of driving her crazy and killing her family before he changed her into a vampire was almost more than he could bear. At least he was locked out of the school by Giles’s quarantine spell. She missed having Angel by her side in a fight, but she was glad he wasn’t in danger of being bitten or infected.

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