TITLE: Forsaken-The return 1

TITLE: Forsaken-The return 1

AUTHOR: STEPHEN HOWE

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DISCLAIMER: All characters belong to Joss! He created everything! The Forsaken belong to Sony Movies and I'm only borrowing them. PG-15 to R. Set in season 5.B/X eventually (Is there any other?) Giles is Buffy's watcher Glory is still around as is Dawn, Darla and Dru. DEDICATED to Queen Angel, Edwin, and Dale et al.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     D'Hoffran's LAIR.                                                                                                                                                         He sits upon his throne and gazes, majestically, at Anya. " So Anyanka your mission amongst the mortals is almost at an end. Do you feel any remorse?"                                                                                                                                                                      She stares at the friendship ring Xander had given her before they battled Glory." A little my lord. I convinced them my power was in the necklace and they believed it even when I used my powers to save Xander during the final battle." She looks confused. " Please tell me why it was so important that we become bond mates?"                                                                                                                                                                                                     D'Hoffran grins. " So you could know true love and passion my dear and so he could absorb some of your power to keep him living."                                                                                                                                                                                                                           " If I may be as bold to ask why my lord?"                                                                                                                                                                        " What do you know of the dark lord called Abbadon?"                                                                                                                                                             She shrugged. " Only that he used to visit battle fields and purchased souls from the dying with promises of immortality and power why?"                                                                                                                                                                                 D'Hoffran looks at the stars. " It is almost time for his awakening Anyanka and when he does you will return to my side as the Vengeance demon you rightly are."                                                                                                                                                                " But what of my feelings for him and his for me?"                                                                                                                                                                " ANYANKA! You are a vengeance demon! Not some piddling mortal that falls in love. You must be ready to leave him when he is awakened."                                                                                                                                                                                   " Yes Lord I hear and obey your words...." She mumbles." No matter how dumb they are."                                                                                                                                                          XANDER'S APARTMENT.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Xander is sweating profusely in his sleep. His legs and arms are moving as if fighting off something. Suddenly he's in a desert land dressed in an old style Armour with a white breastplate and Red Cross on the front. Another knight turns to him as they chase the infidel horde across the plains of Antioch. " Tis more fun than shooting fish in a barrel Alexandr`e!"                                                                                                                                                              Suddenly, as they top the rise, another horde is waiting for them and as they turn the only way out is also blocked. The other knight turns and panics. " God I do not want to die today!"                                                                                                                                Xander turns his head up to the heavens. " I told you I would join you soon Michele... Turn and fight them like the Holy Knights you are!" He turns his horse and charges the Infidels line and is followed by the rest.                                                                                                                                                                                                             It was a massacre over two hundred knights lay dead or dying in the fields of Antioch. Xander feels a sharp pain in his chest as he wakens and sees a Turkish arrow embedded deep in his chest as flakes of snow begin to fall. His vision begins to cloud over and he sees a heavenly creature open her arms to him. " Michele? I'll join you forever now my love. Death no longer keeps us apart."                                                                                                                                              One of the other knights screams out. " Who's there? Leave us die in peace you unholy scourge!"  Xander looks over to him and he sees a being dressed in black bend over the group of eight fallen knights. Xander's hand searches for his sword but only finds a shattered hilt. Still he picks it up and staggers towards the monster. He points his sword at it. " Leave them be hell spawn! Return to your master before I cleave your head from your body!"                                                                                                                                                                                                 The being grins his feral eyes never leaving the eight. " Listen to him and you die slowly or the Turk women will come in dawns early light and slit your rich throats. Listen to me and you will live forever!"                                                                                                            Xander shouts at them. " No! We came here to do God's work not the devils! Tell him to leave ... NOW!"                                                                                                                                            The eight, in pain-wracked bodies, hesitate until Xander staggers and falls to the ground. The beast points to him. " Be honest do you wish to join him in death or join me in eternal life? All the women and power you could ever dream of."                                                                                                                                                                                          Jean asks. " What would we have to do for this boon?"                                                                                                                                                          Abbados shrugs then grins. " Swear your souls unto me ... Then seal the bargain with a blood oath and blood offering." He turns his head to Xander's struggling form. " His blood ... Drink it and the deal is done!"                                                                                                           Xander finds he can hardly move to defend himself as his former friends stalk towards him. " I damn thee all! With my last breath I swear revenge upon my soul AGHHH..."                                                                                                                                                 Xander sits bolt upright in his bed bathed in sweat and his heart beating faster than ever before. " Jesus Christ! What the hell kinda dream was that?"                                                                                                                                                                      He throws back the bedclothes and staggers into the bathroom splashing cold water over his face as he tries to remember the dream. He looks at the clock on the wall and decides to try seeing Giles at the shop.                                                                                                             As he turns from the mirror he fails to see a small scar begin to grow on his chest, a scar about the same size as an arrow might leave.                                                                                                                 THE MAGIC BOX.                                                                                                                                                                              Xander, meakly, opens the door with his key and walks in to see Giles sitting at the table reading a book while Willow and Tara prepare the store for the days business." Ugh Giles could I talk to you for a minute?"                                                                                                                                                                                          Giles looks up and is shocked by how pale Xander looks and he ushers him into a chair. " My god Xander what's the matter."                                                                                                                                                                                              Willow and Tara look over from the counter and Willow too is shocked as Xander explains. " I have been having these dreams for the past week."                                                                                                                                                                       Willow blushes. " It's not that dream about Tara and me again is it?" She points to Tara and herself. " Cuz remember were gay." Tara looks at him while she nibbles on a nail and grins. Willow nudges her and glares. " Yeah were gay." She tells him with no conviction.                                                                                                                                                             Xander grins. " No it wasn't that one. I haven't had that one for a while... I wish to god it was!" He then commences to tell them everything his mind recalls of the nightmares.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          SUMMER'S RESIDENSE.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Buffy is napping on her couch after a hard nights slaying when she enters REM sleep and her dreams begin. It starts off as it always does with her in a frilly old-fashioned dress as she plucks flowers from her mother's garden until a dark haired young man creeps up behind her and places his arms around her waist. " You know I heard you before you even entered the garden." She feels his lips on the nape of her neck and she shudders. " Oh Alexandr`e you mustn't! Stop that is."                                                                                                                                                                                         She turns and kisses him the flowers dropping from her arms as she enfolded him in them. As they break the kiss she admonishes him. " You really shouldn't see me Alex you know I cannot have friends, and especially not a lover!" She turns and Buffy's body jolts as she sees the man for the first time. " Xander!" Her lips mouth in wonderment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The dream cuts to nighttime and she's running through a cemetery her dress torn and her top bloody as several Vampires descend onto her. She stops and turns drawing a wooden stake from her skirt and dusts the first Vampire. But the second throws her through the air until she lands in a pool of water. As she struggles up she sees her own reflection and is stunned that she looks like the Buffy of now.                                                                                                                                          The Vampires begin to feed on her and her last words as the Slayer of her generation echoed to the sounds of her blood being drained. " I will wait for you my love until time is no more...."                                                                                                                              Buffy jolts up from the couch shouting Xander's name and scaring the hell out of Dawn.                                                                                                                                                       Dawn yells at her." You keep having these dreams and I wont have to worry about the undead killing me!"                                                                                                                                             Buffy enters the MAGIC BOX frantically looking for Giles. When she sees him she asks. "Giles you have the diaries of every watcher there is right?"                                                                                                                                                                       Giles looks up from his book of Abbados and nods. " Yes Buffy of course I do why?"                                                                                                                                                           She sits across from him and places an errant strand of hair back into place." I need to know everything about a Slayer called Michele D`Tourney."                                                                                                                                                                        Giles nods. " What year?"  Buffy shrugs. " I don't know for sure but she wears a puffy dress that takes like forever to get into (And too damn long to get out of if you're in a hurry!) And the area looks like Europe middle ages." She thinks more. " French! I think she maybe French."                                                                                                                                             Giles gets up and goes into the back room as Willow and Tara sit next to her. " Another prophecy dream? Cuz Xander was just in here. OUCH!" Willow glares at Tara. " What was that for?"                                                                                                                                     Tara asks her. " The name of this girl.. It wouldn't be Michele would it?"                                                                                                                                      Buffy nods. " How did you know?"                                                                                                                                                                                 " Xander has been having these nightmares for over a week and his beloved was called Michele and she died just before he went on the crusades and was killed himself."                                                                                                                                                             " Alexandr`e Lavelle!" She looks at them. " Alexander Lavelle Harris!" She slams her fist on the table. " I should have guessed."                                                                                                                                                                                          Giles enters carrying three books. " It appears she was a Slayer during the wars to free the holy lands." He turns to the last page. " She led a long life. Almost as long as yours ... My god! She had a child!" Giles slumps into the chair. " That's not possible!" He flicked through the books then shut them and got up heading for the door he tells them. " I'm going to call the Council there's been a few things they haven't told us!"                                                                                                                                                   END OF 1.