Title: Tau-Vana
Rated for: T
Genre: Family / Adventure / Romance / Love / Action !
Fandom/Universe: Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Supernatural / Angel
Characters: Angel / Buffy / Faith / Willow / Xander / Giles / Dean / Sam / Bobby / Ellen / Jo / Pastor Jim
Pairings: Dean / OC -Jaden, Faith / OC- Jack, Angel / Buffy
Spoilers/Warning: If you haven't read the S8 comic for Buffy then don't worry about. Otherwise, I'm including some of the 'events' from the BTVS S8 and ATS After the Fall comics.
Disclaimer:Supernatural and all related characters are copyright Eric Kripke, Kripke Enterprises &The CW Network. Buffy The Vampire Slayer and all related characters are copyright of Joss Whedon No infringement intended.
Summary: We are the eyes that see. We are the record of the past, the present and a future that is ever changing.
Status: In-Progress
Author's Note: Posting here finally, only half done with the fic.
Chapter: Prologue
Tau-Vana
Hell.
There's all types of hell but the most common, the most popular is the church hell. Dante wrote about it in The Inferno – angels and demons…
Hell.
There's all sorts of hell dimensions- yes, they're dimensions and I've seen plenty of what comes through to this world. I've got plenty more memories of others and their experiences as well and that's a story for later.
Guess this is where I should introduce myself….
I'm Sebastian Vartan.
My Mom is Phade or Jaden, depending on who's talking. She's a Fury and not like the Greek Myths.
She's … my Mom…
I remember what it was like before all of this happened.
Before we came to the Hyperion and Mom freaked out when she saw Lorne. I mean, after everything they-her family- told her she saw, was all in her head and making her say she'd been lying about them- the scary things that weren't supposed to be real… seeing Lorne completely freaked her out. Because there was the proof she wasn't crazy; a green demon with red eyes and horns, holding a drink in one hand and an ax in the other…
Yeah, good times.
So Mom never mentioned any of it to gramps. Not when he'd pick me up from school cus Mom was working late at one of those temp jobs. Not when Mom picked me up from his house late Sunday nights if I stayed over, not on the few occasions she stuck around for the family bar-b-q, gramps insisted his kids attend at least once a month. Mom never brought it up; never made a fuss…she just let it slide.
It had to be hard for her. There were plenty of comments from my aunts. Abuelo never said anything against it either, just pretended not to hear them. I guess it was easier for him; he's lost his wife, the little sister that looked up to him… and now he's lost my Mom.
More than once.
We thought she died at the HellMouth.
Then she was punished by the Powers That Be and the Od-VaiLumen. Anyway, that's another story too.
You know, she's not that bad. Mom lets a lot of shit slide- gives you plenty of rope to hang yourself with and believe me… its been a little lonely growing up being just Mom and me. There's never been much time with my cousins let alone sleep overs, Mom never let me go. I guess she didn't want me to hear more than I already did. Thing is, she's pretty forgiving, she's not above giving second chances depending on how badly you pissed her off. But with Abuelo and her sisters…they didn't make her angry.
She told me once, sometimes its easier to distance yourself from the people you love or care about, than to say things you know you'll regret.
So she did.
Because whatever they've done and said, my Mom still loves them enough not to hurt them back in the same way.
Or worse. …
Life got easier for us, me and Mom, when she stayed with Angel and worked for him. Easier and scary cus there was no way to hide the demons and vampires and witches and all the other boogey men that came into the Hyperion asking for help. Scared me sometimes too, but Mom was always there so no worry cus we had Angel too.
Angel… vampire with a soul.
Crazy right? But its true and a Champion… he watched out for us, for everyone. He made sure we were all safe, and he tried too. Got that guilty, sufrido look when Mom was hurt trying to save Connor. She looked terrible for a few days after it too and grumpy as all hell. Man, she hated being bruised and sore. She hates feeling useless or thinking she's a burden to anyone. There's that 'suck it up' attitude they all grew up with. It's made her tough, makes her push through her pain…
I used to wish she hadn't found the spell. The one that put her on the path to The Light. But then I think about that night Angel carried her out of the barge and back to our car where she made me hide… I was just a kid, I didn't get why she was doing that, getting in the way of trouble… Mom just couldn't let the past go. She couldn't be still, ignore other people suffering and pretend there wasn't anything evil living alongside us. She couldn't live that way anymore, and… I don't blame her.
Yeah, I still hate she left me behind. I'm pissed the twins got her while I was left here. Not just once, not even twice! I mean after one you'd think Mom would come up with some kind of plan not to get dragged off whenever the higher ups felt like it.
I know what she'd say. Mom would tell me those are the moments and experiences that build you. The you that's strong enough to survive as an adult out in the real world … and for us? That means all sorts of funky monsters.
… I've been thinking of 'looking'. Firsthand knowledge of what my Mom was like as a kid? … but then there's other things… events in her life I maybe don't want to see firsthand. I've got enough of those horror stories thanks to the Tau-Vana before me. But Mom …
She watched her Mom die.
She saw the thing that did it.
And when no one believed her… when they threatened to put her in the loony bin if she kept it up…
They didn't break her, not Mom cus she's tougher than that.
But they really hurt her.
Family's supposed to watch out for each other, protect each other…
But they didn't, not when they were dealing with the loss of their Mother. When they couldn't take the time to help my Mom…
… Family sticks together…