"William. Today
is the day." The door slams shut and I vow to fix that one of these
days. But not today.
"We get to eat someone?
Oh, I hope it's that smarmy Xander bloke. Or maybe the
Slayer's lover boy,
Riley Fish, er, Finn."
"Are you quite done,
dear?"
"Wait a minute..."
He stares off into
space as I rest my head on my hand with a look of feigned disgust.
"...done."
"We're getting rid
of Glory." You have to love my flare for plainly stating the issue.
"That's nice, Angel."
"Will you stop that?!
I'm serious. I've just come from a unique conversation with the Watcher.
He came across some ancient texts that I would have given my eyetooth for.
We've found a way to vanquish her for good."
"Ooh. I smell
more brownie points coming." He rubs his hands together, but, I cut
off his joviality.
"Nope. Not really.
This isn't her gig. It's yours. It's ours. This is what
was meant to be from the beginning of time. I was a little off on
the actual details of the prophesy, but the core remains. You, and
Buffy and Liam are the three who can contain her until her neural energy
stores deplete. Then, the darkness in her will be destroyed forever.
It's kind of like a fish out of water. No water, no breathing, no
living."
His distaste of his
sire flares in his eyes for a moment, but then he gathers his emotions.
"Will. This is your moment. You can really do something here...be
someone." I continued to myself, or so I thought. "Not that
you aren't already." When I see the lovely smile in his eyes, I realize
that my voice was a little on the loud side.
"You're cute when you
blush, Danielle." We are in silence for about 30 seconds. "Right,
then. What do I do?"
***************************
Crickets continued
to chirp from the lawn outside.
-Knock, knock-
Glory majestically
rose from the Lazy Boy chair with a smug smile on her face. "Ah,
finally someone to KILL!" She swiftly opened the door, grabbed
the visitor by the collar and started to drag him in. To her surprise,
she tugged and tugged, but the figure in the dark leather coat just would
not budge.
"You stupid bint!
I'm not allowed to come in unless I'm invited. Now. Let. GO!"
She did. "What
kind of girl doesn't invite her boyfriend into her...you're a vampire?!"
Glory went into a complete rage of laughter, tremors racking her body as
she had never heard of something so funny in her existence.
"Yes, the irony is
not lost on me. Slayer. Vampire. Lovers. It's been
discussed ad nauseum. Now, let's get this little bit of business
done, shall we?"
She stopped laughing
for a moment to listen to the vamp.
"She threw me out of
her life, then she uninvited me from her house. I think it's about
time for a little payback. You promise to kill her, and I'll deliver
you to the Key." Spike never was good at going by the script.
He preferred to ad lib. Besides, this scenario just made more sense
than a plea for a dead mother's life. She'd never believe that one.
"My Key?! You
know where my Key is?! Oh, you beautiful little half demon with pointy
teeth." She stepped outside and embraced the vampire, spinning around
and around. "Don't you worry about a thing, sexy one. That
Slayer of yours...consider her dead." She then followed Spike to
her certain doom.
