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developments...
CHAPTER FOUR: JUMPIN OUTTA THE SWING
Caden hit him almost immediately back. She punched left, right, left, and double hi-kicked him in the jaw. Angelus staggered back a little ways into a tree on the edge of the small wood. Caden whipped out her stake from her back jean pocket and was about to slam it into his chest when he caught her arm and twisted it behind her back. Xander looked on, not sure of what to do. Caden used her right arm to slam her elbow into Angelus' face twice and she seized the opportunity to slip gracefully and agilely out of his grasp and use all her strength to kick him from behind so that he flew into a tree.
Caden bent to pick up her fallen stake and looked up in time to see Xander, stake in hand, go after Angelus, who was already up. Angelus grabbed the young man by the throat and lifted him a few inches off the ground. Xander struggled against his grasp and Caden groaned. This was perfect.
"Let him go, it's not his fight to fight." It sounded heroic, but wrong coming out of the girl's mouth. Angelus smiled, gameface on.
"Oh, really. You think that's going to work, Slayer baby?" He asked, smiling to show off his fangs that glistened in the moonlight.
"Actually I don't. I'm just hoping to buy enough time for you to fucking kill him already and pretend that it was an accident. Then I can kick your ass." Caden crossed her arms. Xander, face turning blue, looked desperately at her for help. She raised a single thin eyebrow at him, and he struggled more.
Angelus smiled. "You're even more perfect for this than I'd imagined." Caden was not amused.
"Oh come on. Do you really think I'm gonna succumb to that I-know-something-you-don't-know kindergarten crap?" She asked him irritably.
"I don't know," Angelus dropped Xander to the ground, changing back to his normal face. "Kindergarten wasn't around in my time." He took a step towards her. Caden unfolded her arms and did the same.
The two circled around each other, each with their hawkeyes on for any sudden advance from the other.
"Guess that means you didn't learn not to bite." Caden replied, recalling the one thing she learned from kindergarten.
Angelus laughed again. "Guess you'll find out, babe." He looked at her suggestively. Caden stared daggers at him, appalled.
Caden made the first move, a rapidfire triple punch that Angelus expertly blocked. They circled each other again, and now Angelus moved to punch her. Caden ducked, dropped and rolled behind him to leap up and kick him in the back of the head. She moved so quickly that Angelus lost sight of where she was and forgot to block. He spun around to face her, vampface on, to see her gone again. He turned the other way, right into her ready fists.
After the first two punches, Angelus blocked the third, and used all his strength to slam her face with a punch. Caden backed up a step, caught her balance and threw her own. This furious rage of fists and occasional blocks went on for a few minutes, enough time for Xander to have already run away. Caden got a few good hits in, but Angelus overall kicked her ass, bruising her face and causing her some pains.
Angelus grabbed a hold of Caden's arm when he sensed the other mortal's scent completely gone, and twisted it uncomfortably behind her back. He switched faces back, and leaned down to whisper in her ear, his face so close to her own that his lips almost brushed her skin when they moved.
"Well, thank you for that, Slayer. Maybe next time we meet we'll get to be alone and try out some new...skills." He smiled suggestively and Caden moved to get out of his grasp but he pulled her arm tighter and laughed. "Seems like you need to brush up on some of your techniques, Slayer. I'm letting you go again, but the next time, you're not getting outta this with twice as many bruises."
He brushed his cold hand along the line of her jaw, a part of him sorry that he'd bruised such a beautiful face. He inhaled her scent of mint, coffee and a sweet smelling shampoo. And her blood. How sweet it had tasted the other night...
Angelus let go of her arm, and Caden fell down to the ground from the sudden lack of support. What the hell was wrong with her? She was supposed to be a Slayer. Strong. Within her first few days of her title she'd already let her main target taste her blood, beat her up and disappear without a proper dusting.
~*~
"I'm serious, Wes, I don't know what's wrong with me! I'm supposed to be kicking the vampire ass, not getting my ass kicked by the vampire! Watch it, that's cold." Caden complained as Wesley put a bag of ice to her bruised jaw back at his house.
"Why didn't you tell me you'd already run into Angelus? That's irresponsible, Caden."
"You're missing the point here, Wes. I need to get some intensive training pronto before Angelus decides to stop just plain pissing me off and grossing me out with his stupid wicked grin and perverted remarks and just kills me already." Wesley looked at Caden, concerned.
"What kind of remarks?"
"Oh, just stupid 'you will be mine for all eternity, slayer' crap and he keeps raising those goddamn eyebrows of his in an attempt to put reeally screwed up ideas- I'm gonna shut up now."
"He's getting to you? I was afraid of that." Wesley made sure she was holding the ice and went to a shelf of books and picked up an opened one. "This was Mr. Giles' watchers diary. He did not write in it very frequently, but there is some information on Angelus from, er, very recent times. This is the last entry." He handed her the leather book and Caden put the ice down and read the fine script in the diary.
March 4th, 1998
Angelus' tactics and harrasments of my Slayer and those in her life have been growing ever more serious and deadly. The fact that Buffy is still torn between her
love of the souled Angel and the unadulterated hatred of this monstrous beast Angelus does not make our situation any better in trying to take him down. Are we
blindly leading with our emotions and feelings for this creature or are we simply not
enough to defeat him, I wonder. He has killed our own. Killed students at the high school, killed Jenny Calendar, killed civillians. With each battle the Slayer, her friends and I try to fight against him, the only progress made is for him.
The patterns I have noticed that Angelus is using is to harass Buffy by attacking and stalking not o nly herself but her friends, mother, and myself in ways such as
coming into our homes and leaving us drawings, as well as more morbid signs of his presence such as Willow's dead goldfish on a string in an envelope. We seemed to have solved the problem of him making his way into our homes by performing several rituals and spells to keep him out even after he has been invited in.
The fears of us all, however, were increased when, in recent encounters, he seemed to take to the act of an attempted and final killing of Buffy the other night in the graveyard. We have made a call to Kendra, the other Vampire Slayer, to come and assist us in our mission, but I also hope this recently harsh behavior will be an awakening for my Slayer: she must kill Angelus.
Caden put the watchers diary down on the couch next to her. "He died soon after, I assume. They all did."
Wesley nodded.
"Well. How am I gonna kill this fucker?"
CHAPTER FIVE PREVIEW: "What are we doing here?" Caden asked her watcher, looking around in wonder. "You already know," Wesley replied, throwing her a long stick and tying a blindfold over her eyes. "How Karate Kid is this?" "Shut up. They're coming." Caden sensed her watcher leave as she heard his car start up again. "Wait! Where are you going?" He already had left.
CHAPTER FOUR: JUMPIN OUTTA THE SWING
Caden hit him almost immediately back. She punched left, right, left, and double hi-kicked him in the jaw. Angelus staggered back a little ways into a tree on the edge of the small wood. Caden whipped out her stake from her back jean pocket and was about to slam it into his chest when he caught her arm and twisted it behind her back. Xander looked on, not sure of what to do. Caden used her right arm to slam her elbow into Angelus' face twice and she seized the opportunity to slip gracefully and agilely out of his grasp and use all her strength to kick him from behind so that he flew into a tree.
Caden bent to pick up her fallen stake and looked up in time to see Xander, stake in hand, go after Angelus, who was already up. Angelus grabbed the young man by the throat and lifted him a few inches off the ground. Xander struggled against his grasp and Caden groaned. This was perfect.
"Let him go, it's not his fight to fight." It sounded heroic, but wrong coming out of the girl's mouth. Angelus smiled, gameface on.
"Oh, really. You think that's going to work, Slayer baby?" He asked, smiling to show off his fangs that glistened in the moonlight.
"Actually I don't. I'm just hoping to buy enough time for you to fucking kill him already and pretend that it was an accident. Then I can kick your ass." Caden crossed her arms. Xander, face turning blue, looked desperately at her for help. She raised a single thin eyebrow at him, and he struggled more.
Angelus smiled. "You're even more perfect for this than I'd imagined." Caden was not amused.
"Oh come on. Do you really think I'm gonna succumb to that I-know-something-you-don't-know kindergarten crap?" She asked him irritably.
"I don't know," Angelus dropped Xander to the ground, changing back to his normal face. "Kindergarten wasn't around in my time." He took a step towards her. Caden unfolded her arms and did the same.
The two circled around each other, each with their hawkeyes on for any sudden advance from the other.
"Guess that means you didn't learn not to bite." Caden replied, recalling the one thing she learned from kindergarten.
Angelus laughed again. "Guess you'll find out, babe." He looked at her suggestively. Caden stared daggers at him, appalled.
Caden made the first move, a rapidfire triple punch that Angelus expertly blocked. They circled each other again, and now Angelus moved to punch her. Caden ducked, dropped and rolled behind him to leap up and kick him in the back of the head. She moved so quickly that Angelus lost sight of where she was and forgot to block. He spun around to face her, vampface on, to see her gone again. He turned the other way, right into her ready fists.
After the first two punches, Angelus blocked the third, and used all his strength to slam her face with a punch. Caden backed up a step, caught her balance and threw her own. This furious rage of fists and occasional blocks went on for a few minutes, enough time for Xander to have already run away. Caden got a few good hits in, but Angelus overall kicked her ass, bruising her face and causing her some pains.
Angelus grabbed a hold of Caden's arm when he sensed the other mortal's scent completely gone, and twisted it uncomfortably behind her back. He switched faces back, and leaned down to whisper in her ear, his face so close to her own that his lips almost brushed her skin when they moved.
"Well, thank you for that, Slayer. Maybe next time we meet we'll get to be alone and try out some new...skills." He smiled suggestively and Caden moved to get out of his grasp but he pulled her arm tighter and laughed. "Seems like you need to brush up on some of your techniques, Slayer. I'm letting you go again, but the next time, you're not getting outta this with twice as many bruises."
He brushed his cold hand along the line of her jaw, a part of him sorry that he'd bruised such a beautiful face. He inhaled her scent of mint, coffee and a sweet smelling shampoo. And her blood. How sweet it had tasted the other night...
Angelus let go of her arm, and Caden fell down to the ground from the sudden lack of support. What the hell was wrong with her? She was supposed to be a Slayer. Strong. Within her first few days of her title she'd already let her main target taste her blood, beat her up and disappear without a proper dusting.
~*~
"I'm serious, Wes, I don't know what's wrong with me! I'm supposed to be kicking the vampire ass, not getting my ass kicked by the vampire! Watch it, that's cold." Caden complained as Wesley put a bag of ice to her bruised jaw back at his house.
"Why didn't you tell me you'd already run into Angelus? That's irresponsible, Caden."
"You're missing the point here, Wes. I need to get some intensive training pronto before Angelus decides to stop just plain pissing me off and grossing me out with his stupid wicked grin and perverted remarks and just kills me already." Wesley looked at Caden, concerned.
"What kind of remarks?"
"Oh, just stupid 'you will be mine for all eternity, slayer' crap and he keeps raising those goddamn eyebrows of his in an attempt to put reeally screwed up ideas- I'm gonna shut up now."
"He's getting to you? I was afraid of that." Wesley made sure she was holding the ice and went to a shelf of books and picked up an opened one. "This was Mr. Giles' watchers diary. He did not write in it very frequently, but there is some information on Angelus from, er, very recent times. This is the last entry." He handed her the leather book and Caden put the ice down and read the fine script in the diary.
March 4th, 1998
Angelus' tactics and harrasments of my Slayer and those in her life have been growing ever more serious and deadly. The fact that Buffy is still torn between her
love of the souled Angel and the unadulterated hatred of this monstrous beast Angelus does not make our situation any better in trying to take him down. Are we
blindly leading with our emotions and feelings for this creature or are we simply not
enough to defeat him, I wonder. He has killed our own. Killed students at the high school, killed Jenny Calendar, killed civillians. With each battle the Slayer, her friends and I try to fight against him, the only progress made is for him.
The patterns I have noticed that Angelus is using is to harass Buffy by attacking and stalking not o nly herself but her friends, mother, and myself in ways such as
coming into our homes and leaving us drawings, as well as more morbid signs of his presence such as Willow's dead goldfish on a string in an envelope. We seemed to have solved the problem of him making his way into our homes by performing several rituals and spells to keep him out even after he has been invited in.
The fears of us all, however, were increased when, in recent encounters, he seemed to take to the act of an attempted and final killing of Buffy the other night in the graveyard. We have made a call to Kendra, the other Vampire Slayer, to come and assist us in our mission, but I also hope this recently harsh behavior will be an awakening for my Slayer: she must kill Angelus.
Caden put the watchers diary down on the couch next to her. "He died soon after, I assume. They all did."
Wesley nodded.
"Well. How am I gonna kill this fucker?"
CHAPTER FIVE PREVIEW: "What are we doing here?" Caden asked her watcher, looking around in wonder. "You already know," Wesley replied, throwing her a long stick and tying a blindfold over her eyes. "How Karate Kid is this?" "Shut up. They're coming." Caden sensed her watcher leave as she heard his car start up again. "Wait! Where are you going?" He already had left.