The Balance IV
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I don't own the Buffy and Angel characters, but the other characters and the plot are mine.
Summary: Buffy decides to ask Neil out on a date. Wackiness ensues. Meanwhile, Neil's dark side…Hey! Wait a minute! What's that evil bitch up to anyway!
Special Note: This takes place a month after The Balance III. Things are more or less back to normal after the machine rampage. Normal for Sunnydale, that is.
Thunder rolled across the blood-red barren plain, almost flowing over the two figures present as they walked side by side.
Buffy stopped and looked up at the sky. It was the wackiest sky she had ever seen. It was almost…pulsating. The lightning seemed to be crackling around something there.
"Where am I?" Buffy asked the other person standing beside her. "I feel like I've suddenly walked into a Giger painting."
Neil looked at her and shrugged.
He suddenly grabbed her and they kissed.
Buffy certainly didn't mind, but then the kiss became too rough. The blonde Slayer struggled and finally managed to pull away, only to recoil in horror.
Neil's dark side was standing there in Neil's place, smirking.
"Oh, what's wrong, Elizabeth? No more kisses for Mommy?"
She stepped forward and backhanded Buffy across the face, sending her flying backwards about forty feet to crash in a heap and fall over the edge of a canyon that mysteriously appeared out of nowhere. Buffy caught the edge just in time, preventing her from falling thousands of feet to her death.
Neil's dark side stood over her, smiling down at her, coldly amused by her predicament.
She placed a foot down on one of Buffy's hands, grinding down on it.
"Tell them Demona sends her regards." she sneered.
Suddenly there was a weird noise behind Demona. It sounded like…"eh?" Demona turned and looked behind her only to be sent hurtling over the edge herself. She let out a guttural, demonic, scream of rage and hunger.
Buffy shivered and started pulling herself up as the noise changed to "ep."
It came closer and closer.
Buffy suddenly shot upwards in bed, and then the telephone rang. She picked the receiver up hurriedly.
"Hello?"
"Booty call! Booty call! Call for booty! Call for booty!"
"Huh?"
She heard the unmistakable sound of Athena's and Faith's raucous laughter over the phone.
"Jeez! It's 4:00 in the morning! Don't you two sleep! Are you plastered or what?"
That only made them cackle harder.
Buffy slammed the phone down and grumbled something to herself, then hissed in pain.
Her left cheek was sore, really sore.
Where Demona had struck her in the dream.
"Slayer dream." Buffy whispered. "But they've never been that real before."
Creeped out, she lay back down in bed, staring at the ceiling.
"And what was making that goofy noise?"
Then the phone rang again.
(Insert Buffy Credits Here)