Shattered Dreams

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S H A T T E R E D   D R E A M S

BY  H E A V E N   S E N T

Buffy threw open the door to the Magik Shop and stormed inside, Angel hot on her heels. Angel grabbed a hold of her arm and stopped her from going any further. They both looked as if they had been in a battle to the death and barely survived it. Each covered in bruises and abrasions that looked painful and nasty.

"Buffy we're not done talking here."

"Tell me it's not true. Tell me everything I have been told about your little adventures over the past few months isn't true. Tell me I am being jealous and petty and stupid. Tell me I didn't see it with my own two eyes."

Angel just gave her a fierce look.

"Yea I thought so. Angel this is me walking away, that means the conversation is over."

Buffy emphasized her point by forcefully pulling her arm out of Angel's grip. She then turned and started to walk towards the training room.

"Oh no, you are not walking away from me."

Buffy stopped and looked at him incredulously.

If you think I won't go watch me

Watch me prove you wrong today

"Oh that's right Angel, you're the one who does the walking away."

"Oh don't even go there Buffy."

"Fine then you leave."

"No I'm not going anywhere."

Buffy laughed softly to herself and shook her head in disbelief.

"What?"

"Isn't it ironic that whenever I want you to leave you are determined to stay but when I begged you to stay you couldn't leave quick enough. So tell me Angel if I tell you I really want you here will you turn tail and run?"

"You aren't going to get rid of me that easily."

"Drop dead Angel."

"I'm already dead Buffy."

"Argh." Buffy let out a frustrated yell and picked up a stake and threw it in Angel's direction.

Buffy turned and headed for the training room leaving Angel standing there with a stake protruding from his chest. Breathing heavily and in game face, Angel grabbed a hold of the offending stake and pulled. He threw it to the ground and then followed Buffy. Neither one paid much attention to the group seated around the table in the corner. Giles, Anya, Xander, Willow and Dawn all sat in silence, or rather shock.

"Good thing we were closed to the public." Said Willow.

"Yea I don't think Dead boy showing his true colors or Buffy impaling him with a stake would be good for repeat business." Was Xander's thought.

"Should someone check on them?" Dawn asked quietly.

Buffy kicked open the door to the training room and threw her jacket on to the floor. She walked over to the stereo she'd convinced Giles to let her have and put on her music…loud. She figured that after the stake Angel wouldn't dare come in here, if he wasn't a pile of dust. Buffy was singing along with her music as she began to rhythmically pound on her punching board.

Now that you think about it, how do you feel about it?

You've had some time to live with the mistake that you made

Not trying to say I'm perfect, push come to shove I'm worth it There were things you had to deal with but it's all right cause we're still tight

I can't believe you're back again; after all you put me through

Even though I'm still your friend I don't want to be with you

Remember when days were like that

I was loving you and return you loved back

And now your telling me that you missed that

Betcha feel lonely but its like that

Angel raged into the room, his chest bleeding from where the stake had hit him.

"You want me dead Buffy?"

Buffy just ignored him, continuing with her routine.

Angel grabbed a hold of her to get some kind of reaction from her.

"I said do you want me dead Buffy?"

"Like you said Angel, you are dead. Now let me go."

Angel let go his grip on her arms but he stayed right in front of her.

"Angel so help me if you do not get the hell out of my face."

"What Buffy? You gonna throw another stake at me? We need to deal with this."

"You want me to deal with this fine but not here, not now, and not with you."

Buffy picked up her crossbow and headed back out into the store, Once again Angel hot on her heels.

"What are you doing?"

"Anger management."

"Meaning."

"Patrol and you're uninvited." Buffy stopped at the door and turned to look at Angel. "You know ridding MY town of the filth that infests it better known as your brethren. I'd stay off the streets tonight Angel, vampires aren't the only ones out for blood tonight."

Spike who had walked into the shop during Buffy and Angel's explosion was now paying close attention to what was going on. When Buffy left Spike turned to Angel and not being able to resist an opportunity to take a jab at his Grand-sire.

"So Peaches what have you done to Buffy now?"

"Spike if you want to live to see another night don't. Just don't say another word."

Angel then turned to Giles.

"We have a problem."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Buffy headed towards the first cemetery on her route and began to circle through. However Buffy wasn't patrolling she was hunting. She was determined to find any and all vampires and totally decimate them. Especially female vampires, blonde female vampires. Spike watched from the shadows as Buffy moved with precision and deadly accuracy. Anger and hostility radiated off of her in waves and Spike couldn't help but notice that she wasn't just out looking for vamps she was hunting them, stalking them, luring them into thinking she was their prey and then going in for the kill.

Buffy had found one pair of vampires, a male and a female, walking towards her. She noted that the male was a big fella, dark hair and the female was small, petite even and blonde. Buffy saw red and she walked out onto the path in front of them.

Spike watched in fascinated horror as Buffy played the part of the victim. She stumbled in front of the pair of vamps.

"Well, well what do we have here?"

"I'd say it looks like a lost little girl."

"Are you lost little girl?"

Buffy looked meekly up at the vamps, fear radiated off of her as she looked them in the eye of their human visage.

"Can you help me?"

"Yeah honey we can help you." Blondie replied.

"Although it's probably not the help you were looking for."

Buffy looked at the couple in mock horror as they changed, morphing into what they really are. A look of terror marring her beautiful face. She turned to run and as she expected they gave chase. She stumbled and fell to the ground and the Blonde vamp leaped atop of her. She rolled Buffy over so she was looking into her eyes.

"I can smell your fear little one, and it smells delicious."

Buffy let her mouth fall into an evil smirk.

"Tell me…what do you smell now?"

Blondie was confused at the sudden change. She began to panic and looked up at her partner.

Mistake.

Buffy bucked Blondie off of her and jumped to her feet. She began to pummel the vamp. Buffy had passed up every opportunity that she had to stake her opting instead to see how many bones she could break before putting the bitch out of her misery.

When Buffy had broken Blondie completely, as in she was a whimpering, crying bloody mess on the ground she walked over and squatted next to her and asked.

"So tell me what do you smell now?"

"F-fear."

"Whose fear?"

"M-m-mine."

"That's right. Do you know what I smell?"

"N-n-no."

"I smell death. Final death."

Buffy then plunged the stake into Blondie's chest but not directly in the heart, just to the side of it where Buffy knew it would take longer for the vampire to explode into dust. In the bushes Spike winced because he knew it was a torturous and painful way for a vampire to be killed.

Buffy wasn't finished though she still had Blondie's date to deal with.  Buffy stormed over to were he was and what Spike watched Buffy do to him made him retch in the bushes. Spike pealed out of that cemetery as fast as his legs would take him. He knew he would have nightmares that would last a good long while. He had never seen anyone tortured so badly in his life or subsequent unlife and Angelus had been a master at it. What Buffy had just done made Angelus look like a boy scout.

Spike bolted back into the Magik Shop looking deathly pale and shaking.

"Where are Giles and Angel?"

"And we should tell you because…."

"Xander damn it…where are they?"

Spike was now near tears and he was struggling to stay standing on his feet. Willow saw something in his eyes and she could barely find her voice as she ran to Spike's side and hollered for Giles as Spike hit the floor.

Giles and Angel came flying into the room.

"What is it? What's happened?"

"I need to talk to you and Angel, alone. It's about Buffy."

Willow and Xander made to protest, Anya and Dawn looking hurt but Spike was adamant.

"They shouldn't hear this. Please."

After Spike had told Giles and Angel what Buffy had done to the girl vamp they were glad they'd made the kids leave but not as much as when they heard what Buffy had done to the male vampire. Even Angel's demon shivered in fear.

After rending that vamp couple from limb to limb Buffy had finally went home and crawled into her bed. She couldn't hold back the angry tears when she remembered the events of two days ago.

Okay this is the first time I am writing something where Buffy is really pissed off at Angel. It only going to get worse before it gets better. Please be gentle.