The Light and the Shadows – Chapter 1 – The Beginning
Disclaimer
I don't own anything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Silent Witness, it all belongs to the creators but I do own some of the characters put in the story. No copyright intended.
Authors Note
Hiya,
I am so sorry about not updating.
I have just started my GCSE's and I am finding it really hard to update and complete my work!
I have chosen Graphic Design as one of my options I will try my best though and I promise more chapters for my other stories, I Need You, Surprise Alternate Ending and A Moment in Time.
I have decided not to publish this on until it is finished.
Its one of those Fic's which will be long and I have a feeling it will be better if you lot can read it all as one.
This was really tricky to write and it took so long, that's another reason my updating has been terrible
This story is quite similar to Keep to the Shadows which I deleted. I wasn't happy with the plot as I didn't stick to Silent Witness at all and the way I wrote it I couldn't see how the future of the Fic was going to look. The plot is improved and it sticks way more to the amazing Silent Witness Episodes and there will be a lot more action at the school.
I couldn't see any way to continue the plot and by doing it this way, you get lots more Buffy/Angel worry fluff and lots more action. I decided to change the name because I think it is different to Keep to the Shadows.
Hope this is ok xx
I am adding Buffy, Willow, Xander Giles, Jenny and Angel into the story and making Nikki, Harry and Leo just random people.
I really hope you like it. If you don't it then feel free to criticise because I think everyone has a right to air their opinion but please no flames, when I say criticise, I mean in a helpful way, Thanks. Also if I make any spelling mistakes, please tell me and I'll correct them.
Huggins,
Little Glass Heart J x
The vampire exploded into dust as she shoved her stake into its heart. Walking round the pile of dust, that was the remains of the 14th vampire she had slain that night, Buffy twisted her stake in her hand and looked around, nobody else seemed to have woken up yet, so she sat back on a gravestone and lay in wait ready to catch the next unsuspecting vampire, unfortunate enough to encounter her just as it came out of its grave.
Tonight had been unusually active and Buffy had been worried, on a normal night, she would only usually encounter 5 at least.
Her brain felt sluggish as the late nights of the past few day caught up with her.
Something deep blue caught her eye several gravestones in front of her, it seemed to be searching a grave. Sitting up higher Buffy studied it more closely, frowning as she saw how big it was. Its back was to her but it had very pointy spikes and it was taller than any man she had ever seen. Unsure whether she should approach it, Buffy wondered what she should do. It looked as though it could easily be killed but looks can be deceiving as Xander always said about her. She might be small but she could kill anything, as long as she had a trusty stake or sword. Arms suddenly wrapped around her waist and pulled her off the gravestone and onto the grass so she was behind it. Turning quickly in the pair of arms which encircled her waist, she found she was mere inches away from Angel's face, his brown eyes on the Demon.
Smiling at her quickly, he put his finger to his lips, and then pointed over her shoulder to where the spiked blue demon was still at work, hunting the other graves.
"We have to get out of here, if it see's us we're dead"
Grabbing her hand he pulled her to the back of the cemetery were they both managed to get out of the gate without being noticed by the demon.
"Angel, what was that?"
"It was a Gerardo Demon, it's a scavenger, it looks for powerful metals but it also loves to cause trouble. Anything it can meddle in, it will. It will cause chaos at the drop of a hat and if he had seen you, it would have been perfect. Without you Sunnydale would fall. Exactly what it wants"
"We can't just let it wander around, we should kill it"
She made to move back towards the gate but Angel grabbed her hand pulling her back.
"You won't be able to stop it. The Legends about it say it cannot be killed by someone who is of humanity"
"So you can kill it?"
"No, I was human once, and seeing I have a soul, it makes me in some ways more human than any other vampire. Spike could kill it, because he doesn't have a soul. "
Taking her hand once again, he led her down the street away from the cemetery and the demon.
"I'll tell Giles about it tomorrow, he may be able to find a way for me to kill it"
"Good Idea, we don't want to leave it wandering for too long, it might decide to mess with the Hellmouth"
After a few minutes, they reached her doorstep.
"You should go inside, don't leave the house tonight it may not be safe"
Rolling her eyes, Buffy shook her head.
"Fine, I won't, just to keep you happy."
Grinning down at her, he laughed lightly before pulling her towards him into a passionate kiss. It was one of the best kisses they had ever shared. They stayed like that for a minute or two before she had to breathe.
Pulling away gently, Buffy gently caressed his face.
"I love you" She whispered gently.
"Not as much as I do"
His smile was so full of love and warmth; she thought she was going to melt.
Leaning down and kissing her again, this time more tenderly, he smiled, gently caressed her face with his fingers before he turned and walked away into the night, leaving Buffy standing on her doorstep, feeling as though she was going to collapse. Grinning to herself, she walked up the stairs and into her room collapsing onto her bed, she looked at her alarm clock, 1.20 am, probably one of the earliest nights to bed she had ever had since coming to Sunnydale. Pulling off her clothes she pulled on a clean T- shirt and shorts before collapsing onto her bed and falling almost instantly asleep.
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Sunnydale High School Roof
Jason Renfrew sat with his back to the wall.
Tears were rolling down his cheeks as he looked up at the strange creature in front of him. Its cold murky yellow eyes and its deep blue rough skin, it was the stuff of nightmares.
He told them to call him Fernando, at first along with his other friends, he had been terrified of him but it had seemed so kind until it had unveiled it plan. When he had disagreed to it, his friends had abandoned him, calling him a coward.
He had nothing left. His mother and Father were in LA, to busy with business to care about their only son, who they had sent to live with his aunt in Sunnydale at the age of 10 when he had become to much of a distraction to their work lives.
Fernando walked towards him. With his long claws, he slashed Jason's wrists. As the life drained from his eyes Fernando, from the pocket of his tattered jeans pulled out a pocket knife and dipped it in the blood from Jason's wrists. It would look like the perfect suicide, no one would question it. From what he knew, the boy was a depressive, bullied a lot and hated by a lot of people. Nobody would really care.
The boys called him Fernando but that wasn't his real name. He had no name, but many called him by different things. He was known as the destroyer Gerardo Demon or the Chaos bringer.
The Chaos Bringer suited him in his opinion, for tomorrow there would be so much chaos and it would all be down to him. Tomorrow was the day he was going to be free from his curse which he had suffered from for over a thousand years.
Tomorrow was Monday 22nd April 1997 and this was a day he had been planning for a very long time.
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Leaving the library, she had spent the last 10 minutes, giving Giles information on the weird demon that she had seen snooping around the cemetery.
Buffy had spent the last ten minutes explaining to Giles what had happened at the cemetery the night before. After giving him a detailed description of what it looked like and telling him everything Angel told her.
"And Angel said it could not be killed by a human?"
"Yeah, he said he couldn't kill it either, he said his soul made him partly human, he said Spike could kill it though"
Looking at her watch, she realised what time it was and realised she was just over 10 minutes late.
As Buffy ran to her next class she noticed several police officers swarming round the locker room.
It was probably something to do with what had happened last night, nobody knew what but police had been seen on the roof and around the rest of the school.
Shaking her head, Buffy looked at her watch and realised just how late she was going to be, and with a curse she bolted down the corridor to her English lesson. When she had arrived at school there were police and forensics swarming near the roof and the top floor of the building and all people would say was some sort of incident had happened the night before. Sliding through the lab door Buffy quietly made her way to her seat.
"Miss Summers, glad you have decided to join us" Buffy froze at the sound of Miss Edward's voice.
"I'm sorry Miss; I was talking to the librarian about an overdue book"
Miss Edwards frowned "Late again and it will be detention"
"Yes, Sir" Buffy smiled and pulled out her books.
Miss Edwards hadn't been at the school long but she had already grown to dislike her, she was always mean. Maybe it was because she never listened. Her mind too focused on Slayer duties and Angel.
Her mother would usually wake her but she had been away for the last couple of days at an Art Presentation in New York. Yawning, Buffy chewed the end of her pen as they began work on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
She always imagined it was her and Angel. His voice saying the parts of Romeo.
"Buffy, Pay attention!"
Looking up she realised she had been daydreaming about Angel again.
Signing, she shook her head, focusing on the text.
This was going to be a long day.
Sunnydale High School Roof
As Inspector Sage looked at the dead boy in front of him, he felt sadness for such a loss of young life, the boy had only been 16 years old and from what he had heard had promising grades for a good future.
"His name was Jason Renfrew, Inspector, his father is a major Businessman in New York, when I asked students about him they said he was very lonely and he was often bullied by his fellows"
Signing, Inspector Sage turned to Sergeant Daniels.
"I'm guessing its suicide?"
"Yeah, that's what they think anyway" he said nodding in the direction of the forensics.
"They also believe that he would have shot himself if self harming hadn't worked"
"Why, was there a firearm in his possession" Inspector Sage asked sharply.
"They found a small handgun, filled with live ammunition, in the boys' locker 15 minutes ago"
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12.45pm
School Assembly Hall
Buffy and Willow sat side by side in the assembly hall. The whole school had been gathered there ten minutes before. The students had all known something serious had happened, with the police cars swarming around, it was pretty obvious that something bad had happened.
Police officers stood by the stage and teachers stood at the sides of the hall, giving no information on what was happening.
The whole hall went silent as Principal Snyder stood in the centre of the stage, his face solemn as he looked down at the assembled students.
"Earlier this morning, Jason Renfrew was found dead on the School roof. It appears that he committed suicide. If anyone has any information whatsoever, please talk to Inspector Sage or Sergeant Daniels on your way out. Thank You"
Leaving the stage, he swiftly exited the Hall and headed back to his office.
People began to talk again as they walked out, most trying to guess motives for Jason's suicide.
Buffy couldn't believe Jason was dead, he had always suffered at the bullies' hands but when he had made friends with James Weston and Neil Hamilton he had seemed happier.
The bullies had left him alone but still it seemed Jason had felt so upset that he felt the need to take his own life.
Forensic Institute, 1 mile south of Sunnydale
As Calvin Derbyshire of the Forensic lab preformed the post-mortem on Jason Renfrew, he had nearly finished, but first he had to check the stomach as Jason Renfrew may have been under the influence of alcohol when he took his life.
"There is something in his stomach, hold on, got it"
"What is it" Sergeant Daniels asked from the viewing gallery.
"It's a computer memory stick" Calvin frowned
"If there is information on it may have been destroyed by the stomach acid but it's worth a shot at trying it"
Calvin replied as he gently washed the memory stick and drying it before gently placing it in the slot in his laptop. On the screen came information of all of the students of Sunnydale High with lots of letters and numbers but most importantly at the top of the screen it read, 2. 30 pm is when it all begins.
"What do these numbers mean?"
Sergeant Daniels frowned pointing at lists of numbers and letters"
"I'll go see what the Principal thinks, he might understand them"
2.22pm
Principle Snyder's Office
"Do you know what these numbers mean" he said, pointing to numbers beneath the pictures.
Inspector Sage and Sergeant Daniels had immediately driven back to the school, the numbers seemed important.
"Go and find Harry, he may know what is going on."
Inspector Sage walked from the office and headed off to the chemistry labs to talk to Harry Kennedy, a friend of theirs who taught at the school and who had helped in investigations in the past.
The Headmaster of Sunnydale High looked at the page for a moment. Today had been extremely stressful and he knew the school would be partially to blame for this because he had been a victim of bullying.
"Hold on, they look like classroom numbers" he frowned typing them into the computer. For several minutes he worked on his computer, attempting to find any connection between the numbers and Jason Renfrew.
As the headmaster worked Sergeant Daniels watched the security camera images of the school. Frowning slightly as he looked at the live footage, people were running through the corridors.
Principal Snyder broke his silence.
"It's a list of numbers for select students, it's the classroom numbers of were they were"
Sergeant Daniels looked back at the Principal.
"What time is it?"
2.3 pm is when it all begins…
"2.32 pm. Why?"
Sergeant Daniels looked back at the principal and then back at the screen. His eyes widened as a hooded figure with a handgun walked past a security camera in the English Corridor.
Principal Snyder walked up behind him as the gunman vanished from sight again, leaving a few people lying on the floor. Even on the black and white images, you could see the pools of blood.
Pulling out his phone, he called every team he could think of to Sunnydale.
2.32pm
Chemistry Lab
Lessons hadn't started yet, Buffy decided after being late for Miss Edwards earlier this morning, it was unadvisable to be late again. When she and Willow arrived at Class 5 minutes early, many of the students were already in the classroom; most of them usually hung out with friends waiting for lesson to start.
As they entered the room, a loud banging could be heard from outside. Frowning as she, like many of the other students looked towards the door, watching people running past. Walking out into the corridor with Willow behind her, she looked left and right, and for a minute couldn't see anything until Willow gasped and pointed ahead of them. Looking across the courtyard just ahead of her into the corridor opposite, a boy in black with his hood pulled up stood across from them with his side to the window. On his back was a massive sniper rifle and in hand was a handgun. He was shooting toward students in the corridor. He was looking away from them but he could turn around any second. Turning, Buffy shoved Willow ahead of her back into the classroom; she quickly grabbed hold of the door key and turned it in the lock.
"Miss Summers, What an earth do you think you're doing? Unlock the door now!"
Turning Mr Kennedy looked furious.
"Sir, someone is shooting people"
Willow managed to choke out.
She realised how ridiculous she sounded but if he opened the door it could cost all of their lives.
"Willow! Buffy! Stop talking nonsense and unlock that door and return to your seats"
A sudden banging on the door made Buffy and Willow and pretty much half of the class jump out of their skins. Turning quickly Buffy looked through the narrow window. A girl stood on the other side, screaming. Quickly turning the key in the lock, she pulled the girl in. She was Alice Cambrian, in the year below Buffy. Turning the key so the door was locked again, Buffy turned again when she heard Mr Kennedy gasp.
Alice had been shot in the stomach. More banging filled the air and the class began to panic.
"All of you be quiet and get to that wall"
Mr Kennedy didn't yell but his voice could be heard nevertheless. Most of the class darted to the wall while Buffy, Willow and Mr Kennedy helped Alice over into the corner so she could sit up.
Pulling out her mobile, Buffy tried calling Giles but he wasn't picking up. She knew he had left the school after she had spoken to him, to go to the museum to see if he could find anything that could kill the Gerardo Demon. Calling Xander was no use, he had the flu and for the first time Buffy was thankful he did, it meant she had one less person to worry about. She, Willow and Mr Kennedy were crouched by the door, Mr Kennedy on one side she and Willow on the other.
There was only one person left.
"Hello"
His sleepy voice came over the phone and for a moment a pang of guilt came over her as she realised she had disturbed him when he was sleeping.
"Angel, you have to find Giles. Someone is running around the school shooting people."
"They are what!" The disbelief and shock in his tone sounded exactly the same as when willow had first told Mr Kennedy of what they had seen.
"You have to find Giles, it has got to be something to do with that demon, he might be able to help, he told me this morning he was going to the museum, to find something that might be able to kill it"
"I'll try and find him but call the police and stay safe" He sounded pained. With it being the day, there was little he could do, if he kept himself covered in blankets, he would be ok.
"Goodbye, I love you"
"I'll see you soon, I love you too"
Buffy could tell Angel was upset. He hated it when she was in danger.
She didn't need to call the police; Mr Kennedy was on the phone telling them what was going on.
Buffy looked up and was the first to notice the doorknob slowly begin to move, someone was trying to get into the room!