Hello everyone! Been a long time since I've posted anything. Got inspired by a couple of fanvids off of youtube so I decided to write my own fic. There will be a soundtrack for this book which I'll post at the very end of the story. Thanks. Comments are appreciated.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. They all belong to Joss Whedon and UPN. All of the other characters though are my creation and therefore, belong to me.
I had not watched him descend into darkness. I didn't know that he had until I had seen him nearly a month after he'd disappeared in the middle of a patrol. For the longest time, we all had given up hope; finding no one who could tell us where he was and getting absolutely no where in our own searching. And then, he was there.
I was glad that I had not seen his mind become tortured and finally break under the strain they had caused him… but I wished I could have been there, to save him from it. To hold him as he has held me so many times and whisper that we were all there with him and that we loved him. But I couldn't.
I knew that I would be driven to kill my friend, someone whom I had known since I was young and inexperienced; someone who I knew I could count on in rough times, because he had always pulled me out of mine. I didn't want to. I couldn't. But if I didn't, the inevitable apocalypse would reign fiery hell on everyone in the world. Even to save the world from death by fire… I couldn't bring myself to do it. And if the world was going to burn, there was no other place I would rather be than with him.
Torn, I stare deeply into him, the tears clinging to the rims of my eyes. He was someone completely different. He wasn't the man that I had grown up with, he wasn't the one whom had saved me so many times. That man was gone. This one was bitter, cold, and tragic. All of the love and tranquility that he had once stood for was replaced by air.
The man who sees everything had been completely blinded from the truth. And there was no spell that could bring him back to us.
"I'm sorry, Xander!" I bawled suddenly, my hand gripped around the sword firmly. I rushed at him to bring it all to an end.