You Have Potential
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan Fiction Story
Chapter 37:
Cordelia pulled Xander outside, still kicking and screaming.
"God I hate that bleach blonde vampire, I wish someone would just stake him already!" Xander yelled through the door. He realized that he was now outside with Cordelia, and sighed looking up into her eyes.
"What has gotten into you lately?" He scoffed.
"Oh please, don't pretend that you know me!" He sat down on the step of the porch feeling sorry for himself. He didn't even notice the girl he was taking his anger out on sit down next to him, until she put a hand on his shoulder. He turned to her with sadness in his eyes.
"I do know you" she smiled looking at him with a big smile on her face. "You're so afraid of not being accepted, that you try too hard. " He shot up.
"Uh excuse me…I do not try too hard, and I do have friends Miss. Thinks She Knows Everything!" She didn't seem to care though, because she was still smiling from ear to ear.
"I just meant that I know you're a good guy, and I get it. People seem to overlook the fact…"
"I don't, I know you too Cordy" His expression and mood softened, and he tilted his head, leaning in slowly. She brushed her hand against his cheek.
"ALEXIS! SOMEONE HELP!" The two were instantly pulled apart, and darted up, rushing back inside to the kitchen when I lay on the ground grabbing my head in pain. I was fighting the urge to scream. All I could hear was the high pitched laughing of Lilith trying to break through the walls of my mind.
When Xander and Cordelia came in Xander looked at Spike.
"What the hell did you do now?"
"You're bloody insane… I didn't do anything to her!" Spike waved his hands in the air in defense to Xanders crazy accusation.
"Then what happened?"
"I think it's Lilith…" Spike stared at me like he'd seen a ghost. Just then I realized I wasn't me anymore. Lilith stood up quickly in my body, and my eyes were as black as pure evil. I heard that evil laugh escape my lips and it sent shivers through my body to listen to. "Correction, it is Lilith" Spike backed up slowly knowing things couldn't get any better. I walked toward Spike with an evil smirk on my face that looked so un-natural it frightened everyone to see. She raised my hand to caress his face, and he just stared into my eyes in disbelief. "Lexie?" she let out another heart wrenching giggle, and threw him hard against the wall, knocking him out. Then she turned to face Xander and Cordelia.
"Stay" she said simply, staring at Cordelia, and she just stared at her in my body, un- moving. Xander pulled her arm to go get Buffy and the others, but she didn't move. Cordelia couldn't move even though she was fighting with her every fiber to do so. Lilith had total control of her.
"Cordy, stay there I'm going to get Buffy!"
"Oh Yea Xander, Where am I going to go!?" he nodded at her obvious sarcasm.
"Right" Within moments he ran out of there to go fetch Buffy, and the others.
As soon as he left Lilith focused her attention on Cordelia.
"Do you really think you're that powerful?" She didn't answer, she couldn't at the moment. "The only reason you even have this power is because you're descended directly from me, just like Alexis…you are evil." She shook her head in disbelief. "That's what you all were created for anyway, to end the world when I am ready." Tears started to flow down Cordelia's cheek. She had never been so terrified of any demon like she was of Lilith. She could read her thoughts, and control her every whim.
Spike was starting to come back to. He saw that Cordelia was trapped, and he saw this as the opportunity he needed. He picked up a large bottle of whiskey sitting on the table. He grabbed it up, and slowly made his way up to Lilith; she was too busy torturing Cordelia to notice.
"I'm so sorry love" he said to me knowing I could still hear him, and smashed to bottle upside my head, causing both me and Lilith to get knocked un-conscious. It instantly broke the connection with Cordelia, and she fell to the floor panting. The two looked up at each other, and nodded.
"Thanks" she said simply.
"Look I actually need you to reverse the mind transmogrification spell, I need to be back in her head" she raised and eye brow at him like he was crazy.
"I think there is enough evil dead inside Alexis's head don't you?" Spike looked up to see Xander had come back, and with Buffy and Giles. They all looked down at my lifeless body on the floor surrounded my broken glass and liquor. Giles removed his glasses and started cleaning them with the sleeve of his shirt.
"God lord, what happened here?" Giles was worried, but we were all worried.
"Lilith took over Alexis, and she came after me, after she knocked Spike unconscious of course. I forgot that she could control me as well" Cordelia's face fell with worry.
"Well yes, you are a seer" Giles sighed, still looking at the mess. "But what happened there?" he pointed at my body.
"Spike knocked her out with a whiskey bottle."
Spike had moved my body to the basement, and chained me up me in case Lilith came to.
Now everyone sat in the living room discussing Spikes solution to the problem.
"You're not even listening!" Spike yelled.
"That's because what you're saying we should do makes no sense!" Xander said trying to be as calm as can be to his least favorite demon.
"Spike" Buffy tried to get to him. "What we don't understand is why do you think bringing that connection back with Alexis, especially now will do any good. She already has no control of anything?"
"You don't get it, any of you! It wasn't like that with me in her head. I can will her to do what I wish if that connection is back, enough to maybe get Lilith out!" Giles looked over at Spike like he was having a revelation.
"Good Lord, I can't believe I'm actually going to say this, but I think Spike is right"
"Great Googly Moogly!" Xander cried out, and everyone just ignored him.
"Giles?" Buffy questioned looking at her watcher in distress.
"It all has to do with that amulet Spike came out of. Alexis's mother and father used great magic's to forge this so that they could protect their daughter and the world against a great evil. Her mother had a vision while she was still alive, and I believe that Spike is meant to be her protector. He is her only hope to rid Lilith before another apocalypse." Everyone turned to look at Cordelia.
"Well, we could give it a try, but putting him back in I need everyone's help, because of Lilith's power over Alexis." Buffy nodded.
"Well be there, and make sure you have everything you need. If were going to do this we have to do it before she wakes."
"Agreed" everyone said at once.
Meanwhile in the basement my body started to float above the cot, still chained to the side of the bed, and still very much un-conscious.