Return of Dark Willow
Summary: Dark Willow never turns back to normal Willow; she just decides not to destroy the world…
The burnett stood on the hill looking down at the man before her. How silly all this seems? Trying to save the world by destroying it?
"Bored now." The woman turned and walked down the hill. "See you again soon." The witch left the man standing alone. This world doesn't need saving, and neither do I. I want to play some more.
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"Have you heard the rumors lately? Some new dark witch has been going around killing anyone with a little bit of magic, she sucks em dry." The demon Merl sat on the edge of his seat talking to the vampire with a soul.
"Do you know where she's been staying?" He asked the demon. "Or her name?"
"No, I hear she's been helping you out though, some say she's an old friend of yours from the Hellmouth. Some light witch gone dark. She doesn't kill anyone who works for the PTB, so rumor is she's one of yours." The demon looked back at Angel waiting for a response.
"Wait she only kills evil?" This was new to the vampire, Buffy only called saying Willow had turned dark and killed two humans. "My other informant told me she works for Wolfram and Heart."
"No, no she's killed a few of their clients; they have a price out on her. If you killed her for them, maybe they'd leave you alone. She killed one of their high high up employers." Merl whispered. "Supposedly she hacked their files and has been going around killing blindly."
"Thanks Merl." The vampire set a stack of bills on the bar. "I'm ganna go have a word with one of my old friends."
Lilah was sitting at her desk, looking into a stack of files that sat on her desk. "Come in." She placed her hand on her head after there was a knock on the door hoping it wasn't her boss coming to yell at her about her progress with the witch.
"Hello Lilah."
"Look Angel I'm really not in the mood. What have some innocent needing saving from the big evil law firm?"
"No, I just came to talk with you about your most recent problem."
"Oh that's right she was your exe's best friend right? She send you to do her work for her? Can't have the good guys goin all evil." Lilah sniggered. Just then there was a loud crash and the room filled with wind.
"Oh Angel! Woopsy I broke the vampire proof glass. You ganna burn?" The light from the sun spilled into the room causing Angel to start sizzling and making it so he couldn't see who was talking to him, but he had a pretty good idea who it was.
"Willow, I know you're in pain, but this isn't you."
"How bout I take back your soul and see if Angelus would like to join me. I always liked him, at least he didn't brood constantly." She smiled. "Oh Buffy, I can't be with you cause my dick just gets so hard for you, I don't wanna accidentally become evil." She laughed. "Tell me Angel ever just let go and whack off?"
"I like how you are pretending to be evil. Have you even killed anyone that isn't evil? Why are you acting like you're some big bad? You didn't even have big enough balls to destroy the world Willow Rosenburg?" This was Lilah.
"Look the only reason I'm targeting your clients is because you have such a good filing system which makes it easy to find powerful beings to suck dry. The PTB's people aren't very good at organization." Willow laughed at the human. "You don't even have enough to bother with. Tell you what, I'll kill you anyway. Think that's evil enough for you? Wait what was your name again? I'm just here for Angel. Saw him on your security cameras and decided to have some fun." Willow shot lightning bolts out of her hands toward the woman, electric pulses rained down on the lawyer causing her to scream loudly. "I wonder how long it takes for someone's heart to stop while their being electrocuted? What do you think Angel?" At that Willow let the lightning stop as the woman fell dead to the floor. "See it always stops once I stop electrocuting them."
"If you like death so much why don't you try and kill me?" Angel didn't even flinch at any of the scene playing out infront of him, though he had moved into the shadow of a fake plant.
"Let's not kid around here Angel. I'm not interested in killing anyone I used to know anymore, I just want power, and you don't have any magical power. I could take your soul, but then that would be boring.
"So what are you doing here? Killing plain old human lawyers isn't your style."
"I'd get out of here if I were you Angel. These lawyers have been bugging me with these little powerless witches trying to kill me. I think these humans need a taste of what their clients are actually like. Kinda poetic don't you think, I sucked all the power from half their clients and now I'm going to use it to kill them all. Think I should kill them one by one? Or just destroy the whole building and kill the survivors?" She smiled at her old acquaintance. "I did it one by one in Italy, and in Paris I kinda just sent the whole building into a hell dimension, thought I'd save the powers some time. Though they have provided me with some tasty snacks, I think I might even go into all the dimensions they exist in and completely destroy them until all that's left are the senior partners. I wonder what their power tastes like." Angel thought this was funny.
"Dark Willow still likes to talk and talk, I remember this one time you went on for an hour about how to properly shut down a computer and all of us just had to sit there and listen while Cordelia messed with her nails and Xander watched her staring at her breasts, and Buffy fell asleep and Giles sat cleaning his glasses. Can't you just go back to being normal computer geek Willow? Do you have to be this destroy the world or destroy the most evil of evils Willow? I know it makes it easier to live, makes it easier to not think about her, but eventually you're going to have to think about her."
"I was planning on not killing you, but if you keep talking I may not be so kind. Any ways I have more work to do, I already sucked the power from anyone who has any in this building, went up to the top and found a nice little sun god up there, she had the most delicious power. Stupid gods who think just because they look like a kid means I won't kill them. Bye Angel." Willow's hand moved and next thing Angel knew he was back in his room at the hotel, wondering how he had gotten their when there was a sudden earth quake.
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Willow decided after having her fill of evil law firms she wanted to go sleep, she hadn't slept since the morning Tara died, but since then she hadn't used up almost all of her power, and she knew that if she didn't sleep she'd end up having a head ache or a nose bleed and that wouldn't look good for her.
She tried to make it seem like the only reason she was targeting evil was because she was addicted to dark magics and to get her fix she took dark magic from powerful magical beings. But really with all the power she had received from Giles, all the good power from the Earth made her addiction stop. She wasn't evil like she had been before, at least not pure evil. No, she just wanted to kill all the evil in the world, and seeing as Wolfram and Heart represented almost all the evil in the world she decided that they would be the best place to start.
Reaching her hand into Giles' chest she felt it, the raw power, it was like all the times she had gotten high from Rack, at least that's what it somewhat felt like only millions of times stronger. Once the initial shock from taking in such pure magical power wore off, and the high with it, she could feel it. She could feel all the evil, all the sadness in the world. It hurt, it hurt horribly. The pain from losing Tara was nothing in comparison, and at that moment all she wanted to do was make it stop, make the pain stop. And so she decided to end the world.
As she lay back on the bed in her small apartment, the bed she hadn't used, in the apartment she didn't even pay for. She felt it, the strain from opening portals into hell dimensions and from killing people one by one. She had tried to do her best, to maximize pain on those people, those people who had allowed so much pain, so much death. She could feel it, a tiny bit of the pain had just lifted.
She began to take in her surroundings, how empty she felt laying there in the king sized bed, completely alone, but she was never really completely alone. She could still hear it, Tara's voice. It often came to her after she would rid the world of one more murderer or one more evil, Tara's voice was like a beacon of hope. Buffy and Angel couldn't understand, they operated with morals, something that held them back from what really needed to be done. Willow had come to hate morals, they sechluded her, made her hate herself. She knew that deep down what she was doing was right, that there was a balance that was needed, that there always needed to be evil so that there could be evil, but Willow was not going to accept that. Willow felt the familiar presence approaching, and her hair slowly went back to being red and her eyes were green again, no sign of her fake mask. She didn't want the ghost to see her like that.
"Willow, what you are doing is right my love." A glowing ghost of Tara laid itself down next to her old lover, wrapping her arms around her. "Those people deserved what they got. You still have morals, you don't kill innocent people, and you don't kill people who work for the Powers that Be. They just can't see it, you are meant to fight this battle alone. All you need is me." A glowing hand came up and cupped Willow's face.
"I know baby, but still, all of this work, all this power, it won't bring you back." She began to cry into the arms of her dead lover.
"Willow, I am not gone, I am watching you from above, I am here with Cordelia. We are both protecting you and Buffy and Angel and Dawn. The Powers that Be needed me to help them, I am a higher being." She whispered into Willow's ear.
"You are? Are you in heaven?" Willow knew this didn't mean that Tara was back, but at least it meant Tara wasn't in hell, that Tara was watching over her. It gave her reason to make sure she didn't mess up, didn't disappoint her.
"Not heaven per say, but it is a higher plain of existence. The Powers say that if you help them, as a reward they will send me back, Willow. Once you completely destroy The Senior Partners of Wolfram and Heart, they say that I can come back to you." Willow leaned out and kissed the smoky cloud in front of her, but her lips met nothing but air. "My sweat Willow, I will come back. I must go now."