Team - Buffy, Spike, Xander, Alesta vs. Eve/Guards
Spike didn't understand it. One moment he was battling off an opponent, warning Alesta to keep herself out of harms way. The next? He was bolting forward and directly onto the idiot who had dared to strike the girl. His face went from human to vampiric in a matter of seconds, a heavy growl escaping the vampire as he tackled the guard to the ground and furiously sank his teeth into his neck. The only thing that kept Spike from ripping him apart right then and there was the knowledge that he was human. He couldn't kill a human. It was bad.
Plus, Buffy would get cranky.
Wrenching his face away from the man's throat, Spike wrapped his fingers around the collar of his shirt instead and hauled the guard up so that his face was only half a breath away from his own. "Touch my daughter again and you'll be missing more than a chunk out of your neck." Shoving him down, Spike stood, yanking the tasergun from the man's belt as he did so. "Oh, lookie, a new toy." Spike flipped it on and whipped around in time to slam the device into the face of an incoming demon. Smoke curled into the air as he barbecued the monsters face, half wishing that he had chosen to do as much to the man who had attacked Alesta. He really didn't like her being on this mission. Not one bit.
Xander, meanwhile, had missed the little tussle. His attention was on something far, far more important. Eve. He spotted her running through the masses and immediately took off after her. Unlike his future self, he wasn't going to play around with the bitch. He wasn't that stupid. Xander would take much more pleasure in making her hurt.