Disclaimer
I did not create the following characters or places: Dawson, Pacey, The Bronze, Giles, The Ice House, Buffy,
Oh, screw it! I didn't create any of it. (Unless you count the plot!)
Enjoy the story, luv Dramaqueen.
Hellmouth Creek
(BtVS and Dawson's Creek Xover.)
Chapter 2
At lunch the next day everyone in "The Scooby Gang" who hadn't disappeared were gathered in the library. (With the exception of Angel of course, on account of the whole turning to dust in sunlight thang.)
"Again?!" the gang chorused as Xander and Pacey concluded their version of the previous nights events with their apocalypse theory.
"I can see why you came to that conclusion, but I don't want us to give up on the researching just yet." Giles said as he cleaned his glasses.
"What we need to try and figure out why it's only Joey, Willow and Cordelia who have gone missing." Bessie said. (Between them all, they had used TV and radio news broadcasts, newspapers and detective work to discover that there had been no other disappearances in Sunnydale in the last 24-hours.)
"Bessie's right." The now human Oz agreed.
"Thanks. One idea I came up with is that maybe it's to do with them being close to the slayer's." Bessie said, looking from Buffy to Andie.
"But Willow's the only one of the three who's closer to either of them than most of the rest of us." Andie's brother Jack pointed out.
"Exactly, and Willow's also the only one who has her own supernatural talents, so then I thought of another, more ritualistic solution." Bessie continued.
"Virgins?" Giles asked.
"That's right. And this is where you boys come in." Bessie looked towards Xander and Pacey, and Joey's ex Jack.
"Okay, so me and Cordy haven't done anything more than make out. But I don't how far she got before we dated." Xander admitted, embarrassed.
"I didn't go out with Joey long enough for us to do anything, and her and Angel aren't stupid enough to do anything." Jack said, glancing briefly at Angel's ex-girlfriend Jen Lindley. (In my twisted little mind, it was Jen who helped to discover that Angel+sex=Angelus, and now Joey is going out with the re-cursed Angel. -Dramaqueen.)
"Will and I moved our relationship to the next step last week. Sorry Bessie." All eyes turned on Pacey briefly, and there was a short silence.
"What if there are two different demons at work here?" Buffy asked suddenly.
"It's a possibility. What makes you think that." Bessie asked her.
"For each reason you came up with for the disappearances, none of them explained Oz's behavior, and Willow was always the odd one out as to whether they linked her, Cordelia and Joey." Buffy explained.
"You mean, maybe Joey and Cordelia going missing is down to one demon, and Willow going missing and Oz acting strangely is down to another?" Bessie asked.
"Possibly." Buffy replied.
"This does seem to fit the circumstances a lot better than the end-of-the-world-yet-again theory." Giles put in.
"Hay!" Xander complained, though everyone ignored him.
"Witch and werewolf. That does make sense." Oz mused.
"If we are on the right tracks here, there are still three important questions that we need to answer before we can discover which demons are responsible." Giles waited until he was sure he had everyone's attention, then he continued.
"Firstly, why has Willow disappeared and not Oz? Secondly, why have Cordelia and Joey gone missing? And thirdly, out of all the mystical people in Sunnydale, why is it only Oz and Willow who have been effected by whatever is effecting them?"
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"Why didn't anyone tell me all this last night?" Angel demanded once Buffy and Andie had told him about the occurrences of the previous night.
"By the time we realized that you didn't know about it, it was daylight, and we knew it would drive crazy not being able to do anything about it straight away." Andie informed him.
At the end of the meeting that lunch time, Buffy and Andie agreed that they'd go to the mansion during patrol, (which they were going on together for safety in numbers, and because the others were at the library researching,) to inform Angel of what was going on.
"I'm going over to the library. If there's a chance I can help find Joey, I'm taking it." With that, Angel turned and ran out of the mansion.
"Where do we go from here?" Buffy asked Andie.
"The park. Even if we don't find any demons, we might at least be able able to stake a few vamps." Andie replied optimistically.
The two slayers picked up their bags, and started to walk out of the mansion.
But, before they could leave, two figures emerged from within the shadows.
"Long time, no fight." One of the figures said in a familiar English accent.
"Spike and Drusilla. We should have guessed you two would be behind this." Buffy said as the vampires stepped towards her and Andie.
"Behind what?" Spike asked, mock innocently.
"You know what." Andie accused, as her and Buffy pulled stakes out of their bags.
"I think they mean their friend Joey becoming one of us." Drusilla said in a near whisper.
"What!" Andie and Buffy demanded in unison.
"Oh, didn't you know? Little Joey Potter is now little dead Joey Potter." Spike put his arm around Drusilla's waist and the two of them glared at the slayers.
"What have you done to her?!" Buffy asked angrily, her stake aimed right at Spike's heart.
"They didn't do anything to me." Buffy and Andie spun around to see Joey and Angel standing behind them.
"Joey!" Andie smiled as she saw her friend.
"Where did you find her?" Buffy asked Angel, her voice full of relieve.
"In my bed." He said, his features contorting into those of the demon inside him.
"Told you we weren't behind this." Spike said, as to Buffy and Andie's horror, Joey's features also turned into those of a vampire.
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"I'm no werewolf expert, but is he supposed to be asleep?" Angel had gotten to the library right towards the end of one of Oz's five-minute wild periods, and had been surprised to see the wolf fall asleep.
(No, you're not missing something. Angel really is here, and Angelus really was at the mansion. -Dramaqueen.)
"That's the weird behavior thing Buffy and Andie mentioned." Xander explained as he went to get another book from the stacks.
"And he does this throughout the night?" Angel asked, looking towards the cage.
"Yeah. But think of it this way, he's quiet for the most the night." Xander pulled a heavy book from the stacks and took it to the study table.
For a while a silence fell over the library as its occupants looked through old books in an attempt to find out anything that may help them to recover their friends. (They weren't actually that bothered about getting Oz back to normal as they enjoyed the quiet. Besides, it reminded them of Oz throughout the other phases of moon.)
"Anya!" Xander said suddenly, breaking the silence.
"What about her?" Asked Bessie, who had left Alexander with a babysitter so that she could help at the library for a couple of hours.
"She could have something to do with this. She did used to be a demon after all, and it was Cordy who made the wish that lead to her becoming human." Xander smiled proudly as the looks on everyone's faces confirmed that for once he had said something useful.
"I so appreciate you bringing that up. Not." All eyes turned to the double doors, which were swinging shut, and were surprised to see none other than Anya standing there.
"What are you doing here?" Jen asked Anya as the ex-demon walked towards the group.
"I just thought you'd be interested to know where your little witch friend and that bitch that made me have to stay in this hell hole is." Anya put her hand on her hip and stared at the group.
"I take it you mean Willow and Cordelia, and it's a Hellmouth, not a hell hole." Giles knew that he was being pedantic, but he didn't actually care.
"Whatever. Do you want to know were they or not?"
"We do." Pacey said quickly.
"They're at The Bronze, I just saw them there. Oh, and they're vampires."
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Is Anya lying? Is Angel really Angel or Angelus? Do you actually care? Or do you just wanna see if Buffy and Dawson sleep together?
No matter what you want to know, read the next chapter of Hellmouth Creek to find it out. Ciao babes.