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At last I'm back! Sorry about the (major) delay guys. Anyway, I'm sure you won't be surprised to find out that I still haven't made up any of the places or characters in this story. Bye-eeee.
Hellmouth Creek
Chapter 3
"Is this some kind of sick joke?" Xander demanded as what Anya had just said sank in.
"Please tell us that it is." Pacey begged, refusing to let himself believe that Willow was dead.
"It's a sick joke." Anya announced.
The Scooby Gang all stared at Anya, desperately hoping that she had meant what she'd just said.
"Really?" Xander asked hopefully.
"Of course not. I just said it because your little friend told me to." As Anya told them this, all eyes turned on Pacey.
"I didn't know she was gonna take it literally!" Pacey said defensively.
After that the room fell into a silence that was only broken when a few minutes later Oz woke up and howled as if somehow he knew what had happened to his friends.
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"Spike, I'm home!" Spike dropped the corpse he was draining to the floor as he heard the familiar, sexy (as far as he's concerned that is) voice of his lover entering the factory.
"Miss me?" Willow Rosenberg stepped towards Spike and they wrapped their arms around each other before kissing passionately.
"Think we pulled it off earlier?" Willow asked once her and Spike had finally pulled apart.
"Sure we did Red. You were the spitting image of Dru."
"Willow isn't the only one who pretended to be someone else you know!" Cordelia Chase reminded them as she entered the factory.
"Yeah, whatever. You made a great Angelus. Now will you please leave us alone?" Spike gave Cordelia one of his 'get the hell out of here' looks.
"How come Joey didn't have to get all disguised anyway?" Cordy ignored Spike and refused to move until she got an answer.
"Because she didn't. Now bugger off before I tear off a table leg and stick it in your heart! Capiche?" Spike glared at Cordelia who was nervously glancing at the old table a few meters behind Spike and Willow.
"Okay, okay! I'll go hunt." Cordelia turned on her heal and stormed out.
"Now where were we?" Spike asked Willow as they wrapped their arms even tighter around each other, and then resumed their passionate kiss.
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"Thank God you're all here!" Buffy exclaimed as her and Andie ran through the double doors that led to the library.
The two slayers stopped in their tracks as they saw how upset their friends were. Then they saw Angelus.
"What the hell is he doing here?" Andie demanded to know, pulling her stake out of her pocket and aiming it towards Angel's heart.
Angel quickly took the stake from Andie's hand.
"You know what I'm doing here. My girlfriend's missing!" He reminded her.
"The girlfriend you killed you mean!" Buffy said angrily.
"What?!" Angel demanded angrily.
Everyone around the table stared at the slayers, unable to believe what they were hearing as the two girls explained to them the events at the mansion. Once they had, there was a brief silence.
"You say Angelus was at the mansion at about a quarter past seven?" Giles asked as he thought of something.
"Right." Buffy replied without taking her eyes off of Angel.
"Well Angel got here at twenty past. I know because I'd just looked at the clock. And there's no way he would have made it here in five minutes." Jen said, catching on to what Giles had been getting at.
"So whatever it was you saw at the mansion, it wasn't me." Angel put in.
Andie and Buffy looked from each other to Angel and back again, before silently agreeing to go along with the 'wasn't acctually Angelus' theory.
"Well in that case, we need to work out who, or what it was." Buffy said, as she went and sat on Dawson's lap.
"Do you think Joey could acctually of been someone else too?" Bessie asked, trying as hard as she could not to cry.
"I hope so." Angel told her.
"I can handle things here. Why don't you go home and get some sleep?" Giles suggested.
Bessie agreed, saying that the babysitter was costing her enough as it was, without her staying out all night. And besides, if what the slayers had seen at the mansion wasn't the real Joey, then her little sister might come home, or at least call, and Bessie didn't want to miss it.
Once Bessie had left the group went back into research mode.
"It could have been some kind of glamour." Anya announced suddenly.
"Of course!" Giles said, just before Xander could demand to know what Anya was still doing there.
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"At least you got Spike! I'd rather have him as my Sire than Willow 'whatta geek' Rosenberg!" Cordelia whined for about the millionth time.
"Get over it Cordy. OK?" Joey glared at Cordelia for a second before changing the subject.
"I'm still hungry. Why don't we head over to the library and surprise the old gang?"
At this simple suggestion, Cordelia stopped whining and followed Joey in the direction of Sunnydle High.
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"Huh?" Buffy asked once Giles (with Anya's help) had finished explaining about glamours.
"Basically, some of Spike and Dru's cronies could of performed a spell to make them look like Angelus and Joey." Dawson summerised for his girlfriend.
"Well you got the Angelus bit right." Everone turned to whoever had spoken, to discover Joey and Cordelia standing in the library doorway.
"Cordy!" Xander exclaimed, hurrying over to his girlfriend.
But, before he could get to her, Pacey got up and grabbed his friends arm.
"Man, she might not be safe." Pacey warned as Giles passed Xander a cross.
Reluctantly, Xander took it and helled it out in front of him. Immediately, Cordy and Joey stepped back.
Xander dropped the cross in shock and quickly made his way back to the table.
Joey's features morphed into those of the vampire she now was, and she walked over to Angel.
"We can be together now Angelus. All it will take is one night together, and we can spend the rest of eternity driving fear into the hearts of everyone."
"I'm not Angelus! And you're not Joey!" Angel said as he tried to convince himself that the girl in front of him was not the same one that he was in-love with.
"I may be dead but I haven't completely changed. And you know it." Joey stepped towards Angel, who proceeded to get up and step away from her.
As Oz woke up and started howling, Xander picked the cross back up and held it in front of him as he walked over to Cordy.
"Who did this to you? Tell me and I'll go turn them into dust!" Tears were rolling down Xander's cheeks now, but he didn't notice.
"Are you sure? I mean I wouldn't want you to feel guilty about staking your best friend now. And besides, I really don't think Pacey would want you to turn his girlfriend to dust. Even if she has been sleeping with Spike since she was still actually human." Cordelia looked playfully between Xander and Pacey as they (and the others) cottoned on to who she meant.
"Maybe Willow is dead. But there's no-way she would cheat on me." Pacey told Cordelia.
"I thought she already had cheated on you." Joey said without taking her eyes off of Angel.
"Giving into years of sexual tension and making out a couple of times with one of your oldest and closest friends, even though you've been going out with someone else for a couple of months, just does not compare to having sex with one of your deadliest enemies when you've only just slept with the guy you're supposed to love!" Pacey exclaimed angrily.
"I think you'll find that Willow was sleeping with me long before she slept with you." As Spike entered the library, Andie and Buffy came to their senses, realising that they should be attacking and killing those 'un-cursed' vampires in the room, rather than sit there listening to them tourmenting old friends and trying to get back together with their boyfriends.
Andie headed towards Joey, who was still trying to convince Angel that the real him was Angelus, and Buffy moved in the direction of Cordelia and Spike. Remembering that she had a bottle of holy water, Buffy reached into her pocket and was about to pull it out when she stopped dead.
"Hay Buff. Ya miss me? I see you've all met my fiancée." All eyes turned with shock and surprise on to the late Willow Rosenberg.
"What!" Pacey exclaimed in horror as Willow and Spike wrapped their arms around each other and kissed passionatly.
"You know in all my years of being a demon, I never knew of a vampire, or any demon, get engaged to a mortal." Anya said pointlessly.
"She is not mortal. She isn't even Willow." Giles spoke up for the first time since Joey and Cordelia had arrived.
"Giles is right. She's not the same anymore. None of them are." Pacey tried to hide his tears as she looked at the demon residing in his late girlfriend's corpse.
"Come on Pacey, just because I've been seeing and sleeping with Spike ever since he kidnapped me and Xander, it doesn't mean I don't still care about you. It doesn't mean my feelings don't get hurt when you say that I'm not the same person anymore." Willow walked towards Pacey and the others."
"If Spike's engaged to Willow, why was he with Drusilla at the mansion?" Xander asked the question that had been on (pretty much) everyone's minds.
"Because he wasn't." To show what she meant by this, Willow turned her head to one side, flicked it back to face the front, and everyone gasped as they saw that Willow had now taken on Drusilla's appearance.
"She's not the only one who's learnt how to do that!" Cordelia exclaimed as she saw how much focus her Sire was getting. She did the same head movement that Will had done, only her appearance turned into that of Angel. Or, to be more precise, Angelus.
"Told you. Joey and Cordelia are vampires, and what Buffy and Andie saw was down to a glamour." Anya suddenly came out with.
"Well done you." Jen said sarcastically.
"Look, I know this may not be the best of times, but I've got a couple of questions which I really want answered." Jack told the group.
"What are they?" Jen asked him just as Giles was about to do the same.
"Firstly, what's all this got to do with Oz's erratic behaviour?"
"Well the book we got the glamour spell out of did say 'the strong magicks could effect some demons and demon type creatures such as werewolves and windigos.' Or something." Spike quoted.
"Ok. Secondly I want to know why Andie and Buffy have seem to forgotten that they're supposed to be staking these vamps?"
"I can answer that one brother dearest." Andie said, dropping her stake and walking away from Joey.
"Oh let me tell them. Please?" Buffy walked towards Andie and placed her stake on the table when she was near enough.
"We could show them together." Andie suggested.
"Ok. On the count of three." Buffy agreed.
"1…2…3"
To the surprise of everyone but the soulless vampires, Andie's and Buffy's features contorted into those of vampires!
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Yes!!!!! It's finished! I know it's kind of a cop-out ending, but I don't care! It's done, fineto, complete!!!!