A/N
So Sorry I haven't updated in ages, I could never find the time. I know that is a terrible excuse but it is true. The only thing that I have had time to update often is my hunger games fanfic 'Coming Home' and it is my first SYOC, and the only reason I have been able to update it so often is that it is really short and does not take much time so I could squeeze it in.
Disclaimer – I don't own BtVS, I only own Meg, Ellie and Blake and any other OC's that I throw in here.


Oz came running into the library screaming "Giles come quickly its Cordy"

Oz ran back out of the library, the others followed. When they stopped they found Cordelia lying in a small pool of blood, a bite mark in her neck.

Oz sprinted past where they had frozen, and fell to his knees by her side, pressing his hand to the side of her neck trying to stop the blood. Buffy stood there her eyes frozen wide with horror, she had seen so many horrible things in her job as the slayer, but this happening to her friend just made it worse. Yes she did consider Cordy her friend.

Oz looked up at them watching him and yelled "What are you guys doing watching, someone call 911!" Giles was the first one to shake from his horror and ran off in the direction of the library.

Willow ran to Oz and tried to help, but every time she tried to do something Oz would look at her and make a small growling noise in the back of his throat.

Giles came back with a paramedic at his heels. They immediately got her into an ambulance. "Would anyone like to come in the back with Miss Chase?"

Willow and Buffy both stared at her with confused expressions, Oz was the first to step forward "I will" he practically whispered, the medic nodded and motioned for him to follow her.

Buffy turned to Giles, she looked up at him with a worried expression "will she be ok Giles?" Giles looked in the direction the ambulance went, when he answered "I don't know".

Willow just stared straight ahead with a blank look, her eyes had stopped sparkling, and this worried Buffy.

She had not seemed very good when they had met in the library earlier and no she was getting worse. Buffy did not know what to do, this was not the type of thing she normally dealt with it was more Xander's department.

She stopped her thoughts right there before they got even more painful. "I'm going patrolling" she told no one in particular, before stalking off.

. . . .

Buffy was a little bruised when she got back from patrolling; she had almost gotten beaten by some vamps back in the cemetery. She just guessed that she was too used to people having her back when she was patrolling. She shrugged it off and curled up in her bed, drifting off to sleep.
Xander was walking through a street, a stake in hand. His eyes darting around everywhere, looking for anything that could harm him. Buffy was overjoyed that she could see him and ran up to him, he stopped and backed away from her, his eyes shining with panic and pain.

"Please don't hurt me" he whispered to her, she did not know what he was talking about until she saw, a second her walk up to him.

A sadistic smile on her face, other Buffy pushed Xander to the ground and viciously kicked him in the ribs. Buffy heard them crack. Other Buffy's smile widened and she kicked him again and again.

Buffy ran forward to stop her evil self, but she just ran through her, Getting a clear view of Xander. His face and any other visible skin was bruised and cut, and he had blood coming out of his mouth.

She could also tell that lots of his bones had been broken. Her dream shifted to the library and Xander was still lying on the ground with the other Buffy standing over him. The other Buffy looked over to Buffy and smiled before whispering "You did this to him".

Buffy woke up covered in sweat, she trembled as the dream came back to her. She knew it was just a dream, but she also knew that that her dream self said was true. It was her fault, she had almost killed him, her Xander-shaped friend.

Getting Up she searched her room for something, when she found it she walked back to her bed. Looking at the picture in her hands, she curled up into a ball holding the picture close to her heart. And drifted off to sleep.

The light of the moon fell through her window and illuminated the picture of Buffy, Willow and Xander smiling happily, that was cradled in her arms.


Elle ran down the alley, franticly running from something. She stopped when she came to a dead-end, slowly she turned around. Pulling a stake out of her bag, she holds it steady as she hears the vampire come. A small smile graces her face, as she thinks about what is about to happen to the vamp. With a snarl the vampire launches itself out of the shadows and right at her.


Hope you like this chapter, and for those who are worried that I will break up Willow's and Oz's relationship you don't have to worry, I won't. Oz is just feeling protective of Cordelia, and almost/kind of feels guilty for her getting attacked. Warning: I have sort of realised that this may turn into a story that might not portray Buffy in a good light. I may or may not skip to the future in this fic and work my way back. Please tell me what you think. And of course REVIEW please.
Thanks to James Birdsong, twin who likes to travel, NisseLind for reviewing the previous chapter.