Share Time
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfic
Author's note: I do not own the characters in this story, just the situations involved. All characters are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.
Ch.1 What's yours is mine
Buffy Summers strode through UC Sunnydale with a purpose. She was on a mission as she entered Stevenson Hall. She couldn't understand why her friends turned on her. Giles didn't even check her bag, where she had collected her roommate's still growing toe nails. She'd left Oz and Xander unconscious in her wake. That would teach them to tie her up. She opened the door to her room and went straight to business. "I think we need to talk," she said as she eyed Kathy.
"Absolutely. Let's talk," came the sarcastic reply. Buffy kicked the rug, causing the corner to fold. "Oops, look what I did." Kathy backhanded the slayer, taking Buffy by surprise. "Oops, look what I did," she mocked. The fight was on. The two girls briefly grappled before Buffy clawed at her opponent's face. To her surprise, it peeled right off, revealing an orange face similar to what she'd been seeing in her nightmares lately. "I knew it!" she exclaimed. In her moment of triumph, she forgot she was in a fight.
Kathy tackled her to the ground and pinned her. She firmly grabbed the Slayer's throat. "Quit it," she yelled with all the tone of a spoiled child. Buffy was not amused. "I knew you were one of those demon things!" Buffy yelled in return. Kathy just smirked. "Just stuff it and let me finish my ritual." Buffy immediately had reason to get very worried.
"Ritual?" she questioned. Kathy didn't let her up as she tried to explain. "It's the ritual of Mok'tagar. I had to force you to drink animal blood." Buffy got angrier as she realized what this meant. "So my nightmares were real," she stated. "Look, I'm sorry, ok," Kathy continued. "I fled my dimension to go to college and they sent these guys after me." Buffy struggled, but she was only at half strength. "My kind are recognized for not having a soul." She tried to make it sound like it was no big deal. "So I'm borrowing yours," she said.
"Without even asking," the Slayer replied with annoyance. "When they come looking for me, they'll take the one without a soul." Buffy scoffed. "Well, at least I won't have to see you floss anymore." With that she leaned forward, giving her the leverage she needed to throw Kathy off of her. "And I won't have to live with a slob," Kathy retorted as the fight proceeded to knock down drag out. Buffy tried to hold her own, but Kathy was wiping the floor with her. It had to be because of her diminished soul.
Her opponent countered a punch and threw her through the closet. "It's share time, Buffy," she said in a sing-song voice. Buffy looked for anything she could use as a weapon, and she found the perfect thing. "Fine, we can start with my sweater," she replied as she wrapped it around her opponent's neck. Kathy struggled briefly, then threw her off. Meanwhile in Giles' apartment, Oz and Xander were coming to. "Why couldn't Giles have shackles like any self respecting bachelor?" Xander asked as he stumbled to his feet.
At that moment, Giles and Willow burst in. "I thought you said you had her?" Willow said with an edge of fear in her voice. Xander held up the broken rope in explanation. "We've gotta find her. She's a danger to herself and others right now," Giles said sternly. Willow went for the phone. "I'll call Kathy and tell her to get out of there," she said as she dialed.
The fight was not going well for the Slayer. "All you had to do was write down your calls!" Each word was emphasised by Kathy smacking her opponent with the phone. She had already ripped it out of the wall, so it didn't even ring. As Buffy continued to be tossed around like a rag doll, she bumped into Kathy's desk. She knocked over a jar of pencils and started stomping, infuriating Kathy.
It gave her a momentary advantage as she blocked a few punches and landed a few of her own blows. Kathy took back the advantage by slamming Buffy into the door to their room with enough force to knock one of the numbers on the outside loose. They didn't even hear someone ask them to keep it down as the fight continued. Buffy was thrown halfway through her window. She tried to crawl out the rest of the way, but Kathy would have none of it. She bodily pulled her quarry back into the room and threw her against her own bed.
Buffy was winded, and Kathy pressed the advantage. She roughly grabbed Buffy's face and forced her mouth open. "Open up, let me finish!" she angrily demanded. Buffy couldn't fight back anymore. Kathy had her mouth open and a light went out of Buffy's mouth and into Kathy's. It worked. Kathy could feel Buffy's soul inside her. She pretended to be scared when her father, Taparrich entered the room. he eyed the girls, and focused on the blonde. "Do you have any idea how much trouble you're in?" he demanded in his native language.
Buffy looked at him as if she were a young child. "You're big," she said in a childlike manner. The demon was not amused. "You're coming home," he said in Common tongue. It infuriated him to have to speak it. He opened a vortex in the middle of the room, and payed no attention to Kathy staying as far from it as possible. "Ok," Buffy said as she went through. Kathy had a small feeling of regret. She'd make everything right as soon as she graduated. Until then, she had to come up with a convincing lie to those pesky friends of her's.