Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Buffy Season4 03 by The Lost Slayer 03 The King of the Dead # Christopher Golden

Author:The Lost Slayer 03 The King of the Dead # Christopher Golden
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-06-30T13:53:44+00:00

For hours they asked questions about Giles’s opera-tions in Sunnydale and beyond, and Spike answered. The Council had spies there, of course, mostly humans posing as vampire worshipers. They had been able to provide a great deal of information about the various nests and lairs that Giles’s minions had established in Sunnydale, and Spike confirmed all of that information. A great deal of what he told them, the Council already knew. But he also revealed that Giles had already turned a sizable percentage of the LAPD, a number of Holly-wood executives, and the mayor of Los Angeles. With that kind of infiltration already in place, L.A. might well be under tacit vampire rule within months, or even weeks. And that was only the beginning.

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A shiver went through Buffy. Giles had the wisdom and the patience to fulfill his ambitions. Unless someone stopped him, he would slowly, inexorably, take over the state of California and then spread his influence from there.

Buffy knew that the federal government had secretly told the Council they would resort to full-scale military assault if necessary. The civilian casualties would be enormous and there was no guarantee that Giles himself would be destroyed. Even worse than that, however, was Buffy’s fear that the government would not act quickly enough, that they would be so afraid of public backlash at massive destruction on American soil that they might hesitate to act.

If Spike’s information was right, if he were telling the truth, the Council had to act quickly. Any other resolu-tion to the situation would be disastrous.

It was after ten o’clock at night when they were through with Spike. He was still pinned to the wall. Buffy stretched, stiff from standing in one place for so long. When she glanced over at her old friends, she found them both watching her expectantly, particularly Xander.

Buffy nodded grimly.

Xander did not smile. Instead he reached for a stake he kept in a sheath clipped to his belt at the small of his back. He brought it out and Spike grimaced when he saw it, as though even now he did not really believe it was over.

Buffy expected to feel something, some emotional conflict or simply melancholy. But for all his charisma, all the times it had seemed he might be an ally, Spike was a vampire. He had slaughtered Buffy’s mother, and Anya, and hundreds, probably thousands of others.

There was only one way the night could end.

“This is for Anya,” Xander said.

He staked Spike through the heart. The vampire’s eyes went wide and he snarled at Xander. “Oh, you rottenbast —” he said. Then he exploded in a puff of cinder and ash.

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