Disclaimer: I own no rights to any of these characters. "The Others" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" belong entirely to their creators, but I thank them for allowing me to play with them. The situations I place the characters are my own.
Gist: This is a story about a little family reunion which occurs over March Break in Sunnydale.
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Dedication: To Syl because she keeps encouraging my personal form of evil ;
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Note: (*) indicates thoughts
Family Reunion Part 2 of ?
By C.D. Hackett
"Oh my God! Oh my God!" Marian leapt out of the car and crouched by the body of the girl she'd hit. Her eyes welled up with tears and she grabbed the girl's hand.
(*)Oh, I wish Mark was here now. He'd know what to do, he could help me.(*)
"Buffy! Buffy!"
Willow ran up and collapsed beside Marian, barely noticing her cousin. She was solely focused on her friend. She grasped Buffy's free hand and concentrated.
"Kuan-Yin P'u-Sa," Willow spoke in a language she did not understand to call upon Kuan-Yin, a celestial bodhisattva, a magical woman found in Buddhism who embodies compassion and divine femininity.
"I beseech you to help my friend. She is the Chosen One. She fights evil and demons, sharing a purpose with you. Accept my plea, help my friend who shares kinship of destiny with you."
Willow kept her eyes closed and quoted, "Kuan-Yin, no matter what evils we face, no matter what beasts or demons, no matter what ill fortune or disease, no matter even if we face death, Kuan-Yin destroys them all with her compassionate glance, with her perfected soul. She is infinitely blessed."
She took a deep breath, "I bow to you in prayer for this life that means so much to the world. Let not this light be extinguished too soon. Let your mercy and compassion fill my friend and keep her whole. Let this plea fly on the wings of doves and the answer come from far above. So mote it be."
Marian had closed her eyes and added her silent prayers to Willow's. She tried to remember how it felt when she was in the dark place. And how Mark and Elmer had saved her.
She slumped over the Slayer's unmoving form and was on the Other Side. Marian saw the woman and held out her hand. The blonde looked to the stranger holding out her hand in friendship and then back at the glowing female form to her other side. Both were urging her to take the same action.
Blindness.
Pain.
Confusion.
"Buffy," Willow was delighted, "Don't move."
She shook her cousin gently, "Marian?"
"Willow!" A stake whizzed by Willow's ears and dusted a vamp.
The redhead jumped to her feet and faced the other four vamps. "Bring on the bad, you're all dusted, you just don't know it yet."
One advanced and Willow knocked it down with a roundhouse kick and her trusty pencil magically staked it.
(*)Wow, Spike's lessons are certainly paying off!(*)
She cracked her neck and stared at them. Her hazel green eyes darkening dramatically. Filling with flames of piercing emerald rage. "Who's next?"
The remaining three vamps exchanged fearful glances. This time, they tried to get past her, to the helpless females on the ground behind her. Willow held out her hand and Mr. Pointy flew into it, ready to dust some more vamps.
Marian and Buffy exchanged impressed glances. Buffy wanted to get up, but her legs weren't responding and the other girl, (*)Sheesh, she looks like Will(*), Buffy thought, seemed to be in shock.
"I like pretty girls. Let's do lunch," snarled the largest of the three vampires.
Buffy rolled her eyes, "You call that a quip? You really need staking."
She reached into her jacket and removed a small pistol. Buffy aimed carefully and fired.
A jet of holy water sprayed out and got one of the vampires in the face.
"My eyes!" he shrieked. His final words were, "Uh oh," as Willow dusted him with Mr. Pointy.
"Now, who else wants to play?"
The remaining vampires exchanged glances and fled. They didn't get far.
"'Ello boys," Spike held each one off the ground by their necks, "Playing with my girl, you were. That's not gentlemanly. Especially when she is mine."
Willow sighed loudly, "I love him when he gets all 'Grr' to protect me."
"Here's how it goes, I give you mates a 30 second start, and then, I kill you. Go."
They hit the ground and scrambled to get away.
He looked back at Willow, "What am I saying? Screw that, they die now. See you in a mo, Pet."
Spike's gameface came out to play and his fangs gleamed in the moonlight as he grinned at the woman he loved. He bolted after them, his duster swooping around him omniously like Neo in "The Matrix."
Marian screamed, "What the Hell is going on here?"
To be continued