Destiny Series
Slide pt. 5 of 10
Author: Richess a.k.a. A.N.H. Richards
Feedback: Does Spike have a hot tight little body? Please R & R
Email: richess78@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: All Characters belong to J. Whedon, Mutant Enemy Productions, and/or Fox Production and etc. EXCEPT, Rainne, Raul, and Ryan
Summary: This is set directly after Here Comes The Rainne Again (Katherine and Riley both begin there assaults on Buffy. Rainne begins her own plan and divides the gang from the Slayer) Buffy begins to lose everyone. Rainne and Glory have a chat. Graham and Spike get into a bit of trouble. The gang comes back to find out that some things have been changed forever. Set After Listening to Fear (S.5)
Author's Notes: Thanks to my beta reader Love's Bitch & Michala
Completed: 09/23/01
Sam continued to read the books. Although Kendra had died over two years ago he had a new charge already her name was Allison. Granted she was only five years old, but that what was going to make her special like Kendra. He trained slayers from childhood that was what he did to make them efficient slayers.
He had read the same prophecy book over and over, "The blood of four would make it whole. It would bring forth the destruction in the land of the Sun."
Sam walked toward the basement fridge opened it. The medical, and magical elements remained there, so did three vials of Kendra's blood. He looked at the vial and quickly stored in the portable cooler. He only had three hours before he and boarder the plane headed for Los Angeles.
* * *
Buffy and Joyce waited nervously as Ben walked into the waiting area both women stood up immediately.
"Uhh Ladies have a seat. Mrs Summers, Buffy." Ben gestured. Both women compiled neither daring to speak afraid Ben continued, "Well your sister lost a lot of blood and we have been giving her transfusions. She is sleeping right now but this is a critical stage. She has been through a huge trauma."
"Can we see her?" Joyce asked hopefully.
"Maybe in another hour of or so Mrs. Summers. Doctor Murdock is still in there with her."
Joyce looked toward the room and then at Buffy who gave her mother's hand a reassuring squeeze.
"We do need some information on your daughter though Mrs. Summers we don't have any recent medical records on Dawn."
"I'll tell you all the information." Buffy volunteered looking at the expression of pain on her mothers face.
"Great! I'll need to ask you some quick questions. I'll be back in a few minutes" Ben said seeing that Buffy needed time with Joyce.
Joyce looked wearily at her daughter as she remembered her words hours before her surgery.
She's not mine is she?.....But she feels like my daugther.... And she's precious to the world just like you are to me.
Joyce huddled up beside Buffy not wanting to hear that her daughter might die. Buffy had never seen her mother like this. Ben knew at this critical time in her healing process that Joyce should not be under stress, Buffy knew this too She pulled out her cell phone and called Giles, but all she got was his answering machine at the magic shop and his home.
* * *
Giles was shocked when he got the call from the infamous Watcher Sam Zabuto, it was almost surreal. Sam had become a watcher at the age of eighteen and he was now fifty-eight. Giles dashed to L.A. International Airport to meet the man he had heard about and admired for years.
As soon as he picked up Sam and started the two hour trek back to Sunnydale his cell phone went off. Giles answered to hear the frantic cursing of Buffy over the phone.
"GILES! Where the hell have you been. I've been calling all over this freaking town trying to find you British ass and then your phone was out of range, I thought something happened to you too." Buffy yelled over the phone.
"Buffy what's wrong?" Giles looked over at Sam who was intently listening.
"Some vamp got in my house and bit Dawn. She's in the hospital in critical condition. And I don't know what to do my mom is in meltdown mode. And Willow and Xander aren't here and neither are you."
Giles was extremely concerned by the distress in her voice. "Ok Buffy I'll be there are soon as I can. You be strong for your Mother and Dawn."
"It's not like I have choice right know." With that Buffy hung up the phone.
"Problems, with your Slayer?" Sam's quiet but commanding voice asked.
"Always." Giles answered before he began to explain the situation.
* * *
Spike and Rainne sat on the couch and talked for hours. Catching up on old time until a young male vampire figure entered the room. Rainne rolled her eyes at the interruption. "What is it Raul?"
"We heard over the scanner that someone from 1630 Revello Drive was taken to the hospital in critical condition?" Raul relayed promptly.
"Come on we can met your Slayer there. There is still four more hours till sunrise."
"How do you know where she lives."
"I know everything don't you remember sweetie."
"Yeah I remember." He grabbed his duster and followed her out the door.
* * *
They arrived at the hospital in minutes and found Buffy consoling her mother. Spike immediately rushed toward the two women and Rainne hung back a little she knew which room was Dawn's instantly and crept in there. She looked at the pale girl as tubes pumped blood in to her body. She needed a part of the Key's energy to complete her plan. She quickly sprinkled the fine black dust on the Dawn and chanted the incantation.
"Let this all be done. Let the battle begin for the war that can't be won. Let the Key bring forth his life. I need but just a piece to trigger his release."
Dawn's eyes fluttered as the green energy left her body. Her heart suddenly stopped the blare of the heart monitor seemed like a quite buzz to Rainne she couldn't be distracted. She knew that the Key would be fine. Rainne held the sacred black stone and the energy was absorbed in it. The stone glowed a bright green. Rainne slunk out of the room. She manoeuvred back to where Spike was with Buffy.
A wave of nurses and a doctor ran past the Summers women, who instantly panicked. Joyce got up to see what happening, doctors and nurses scurried around the room and hallway. Buffy reached her mother's side in seconds to watch the doctors get the crash cart.
Buffy and Spike held on to Joyce as Ben rounded the corner. With in minutes Dawn was stabilized but Joyce was crying. She held her head and gasped in pain.
"Mom?"
"I think that maybe your mother should lie down Buffy." Ben suggested taking them into a private waiting room.
Spike looked at through the window of Dawn's room and then turned to see Rainne standing behind him.
"She's going to be fine." Rainne assured him.
"I believe you."
"God you've changed so much. Caring about people. I can tell that you love the Slayer. I can tell that you love her family." Rainne smiled.
"I'm still the big bad." He tried to joke but seeing Dawn lying in the bed helpless made him feel a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. He remembered feeling it when Dru was attacked by the angry mob in Prague.
"Yeah right a fluffy sweetie big bad." She said hugging him.
* * *
Buffy left with Ben and Spike watched Joyce's drained face.
"Joyce what happened how did the vampire get in the house?"
Joyce's face remained drought but she refused to cry, "I don't know. One minute I was talking to Riley and then the next thing I knew I saw it over Dawn and I was so scared." She turned toward Spike and cried in his shoulder.
"So Riley was the only one that came in?
"Yes but..."
"Did you invite Riley in?"
"I-I don't remember?" Joyce looked at Spike confused, then it dawned on her.
Spike already knew the answer.
* * *
After all the commotion with Dawn, Rainne walked down the lemon coloured hallway and felt something vaguely familiar about the young Doctor who appeared around the corner. She shock it off and then went back to getting a soda. Her cell phone rang.
"Hello."
"Rainne it's Raul. Everything is going as planned in L.A. The witches and the boy and the demon are fine. The other Watcher has arrived. He must be carrying it with him."
"Great everything is cool then."
"You got part of the key? Wow." Raul said shocked.
"Yup. I couldn't have gotten any easier. She's in the hospital got bit by a vampire."
"Wow."
"You said that already. Anyways...." Rainne's voice trailed off as a young male Doctor passed her. He smiled at her shyly and then went into a room. "I gotta go." Rainne hung up the phone abruptly and followed the male doctor into the room.
"Fancy meeting you in Sunnydale, Glorificus." The blond spun around to Rainne standing behind her.
"Well if it isn't Maridhia! By the way the name is Glory."
"And the name is Rainne now."
"Well you look good. Mar....Rainne." Glory looked up and down at her.
"You too Glory."
Both girls stared at each other memories of there last battle still fresh in their minds.
Helping to defeat a god was probably one of Rainne's biggest triumphs. She had moved from dimension to dimension trying to protect the key. She had put it in the safety of shaman in Nigeria nearly a thousand years ago. But the Shaman and his tribe were killed off nearly five hundred years ago during the slave trade and it was believe that Catholic priests had taken the hidden treasure inside the box. She had searched most of Europe for it to no avail. Then in the 1700's she had heard that the key had gotten into the hands of some monks in Eastern Europe. But now it was in the body of a young girl. Rainne doubted that the dim-witted God knew where the key was.
"So you must be looking for the key?" Rainne asked already knowing the answer. Glory smiled slightly. "You know I'll destroy it before you can use it."
"You can try." Glory sniped, "So what destiny's are you creating now oh wise one." She rolled her eyes.
"Nothing to concern you Glory." Rainne smiled pleasantly as a middle aged Doctor walked into the room.
"So what brings you to Sunnydale?"
"You know."
"It's about that time huh?"
"Yup."
"Can I kill it. I would love to brain suck him."
"You can try but I'll stop you."
"YOU can try." Glory scoffed at her cockiness.
"Actually I can do. You know that."
"I'm still standing."
"You weren't then." Rainne quipped.
"Couldn't brain suck you freak. That's the only reason why." Glory laughed, "Plus you didn't look so hot yourself. Plus I have learned some new tricks"
"Glory just stay out of my way."
"And you mine Rainne."
The two girls left the room and went in opposite directions.
When Rainne walked back around to the ICU she noticed that Spike was gone and that so was Buffy.
* * *
Buffy sneaked past the nurse leaving the adjacent room as her mom and Spike talked. She walked in quietly looking at her sister. Her skin pale and the large bandage around her neck were the only signs of her ordeal. The once lively fourteen year-old looked like a sleeping beauty. Buffy felt tears spring to her eyes as she stepped closer to Dawn. Then suddenly Buffy jumped back as Dawn's eyes shot open.
"Buffy?" she asked weakly trying to focus on the figure next to her.
"Dawnie, it's me." Buffy smiled through the tears.
"Buffy? I..." Dawn's voice cracked as she began to cry.
"Shhhhhh. It's ok Dawnie." Buffy stroked her sisters hair lovingly.
"No it's... Is mom ok? He didn't hurt did he?"
"No, mom is fine."
"I thought Riley was gonna kill her." Dawn cleared her dry throat.
"What?" Buffy asked in total disbelief. "Dawn you were attacked by a vampire."
"Riley. Riley is a vampire."
Buffy stepped back as if she was burnt by her sister's words, "Riley is a vampire."
"He tried to kill me… and was trying to kill mom. Buffy… I was so scared and he was so strong." Dawn began to cry. Buffy looked down at her sister and watched as her clean bandaged was suddenly seeped in red.
"Dawn you have to stay calm." Buffy grabbed the chair next to bed and held her sisters hand.
"Ok."
"I need for you to tell me everything very slowly ok Dawnie."
"Ok."
* * *
Glory walked into her condo after her brief meeting with Rainne had her in a huff. A human male sat in her living room talking to Dreg and Jinx.
"Who is that?" Glory blared at the human, "Is he food because I am full but I don't mind getting a little over indulgent."
"Actually most beautifious he has a plan . . . to get the key."
"Really?" Glory asked intrigued but sceptically.
Ryan looked at the beautiful blond before him. A god, but he could read her every inch mind. 'So fragmented,' Ryan thought as she stepped closer.
"So spit it out gorgeous." Glory said in a sickly sweet voice.
"I have conditions before I give you this information."
"Conditions? I should brain suck you NOW!" She blared. Glory advanced on Ryan in record time.
"Most magnificent, I think th...!"
"Don't call me that friggin' name!" Glory screamed.
"Sorry most holy. Angelic…" Jinx was knocked unconscious by a thunderous fist. Ryan jumped a bit she had moved so fast he barely saw her hit the demon.
"So what is your plan…. And it better be good." She warned. "What the hell is your name?"
"Ryan. I am a telepath, I can…"
"I know what it means you moron. So what?"
"I can get near the Slayer and find out where the key is."
Glory examined her nails.
"Something you can't do." He added hearing her thought of brain sucking him.
Then bore a look through him at the last part of his sentence, "How did you….?"
"I am a telepath remember and you suck human brains a therefore I can read you because it's in you. Stabilizing you."
Glory looked at him intrigued, "I think having you around will be useful. Do you have a plan?"
"Absolutely."
* * *
Graham was shocked when he saw a light on in Riley's apartment. As he crept inside slowly to find his friend walking out of the bathroom, slapping after shave on his face. Riley stepped over toward his bed to get his shirt, "Hello Graham." Riley turned to see his friend.
"Riley, for Gods sakes Buffy and I have searched this whole godforsaken town looking for you. Hell we even heard some vamp was keeping a human hostage. We thought it was you. Buffy was worried man. So was I. Where have you been?"
"Around. Here and there."
"Well did you forget about coming back to the army."
"Nope. I just got side-tracked."
"Side-tracked?" Graham asked.
"Yes you bloody did!" A voice seething with anger growled. Graham spun around to see Spike slamming Riley's door shattering the glass. He watched as the vampire pulled out a stake.
Graham turned back to Riley to see him grinning, "How is Dawnie? Feeling any better?"
"You son of bitch! You almost killed her." Spike yelled.
"Almost doesn't count." Riley shrugged disappointed, but then again he thought. "To bad I didn't have a little more time with her. I could have had a lot of fun with her." He smiled brightly.
Spike growled and stepped forward. Graham slowly took in the exchange knowing that the vampire couldn't touch Riley.
"She would have made a tasty snack and you know what kind of snack I mean Spike." Riley said barely above a whisper
"You're bloody sick." Spike lunged at Riley who easily dodged the infuriated vampire.
"She's so young and inexperienced..." Riley stumbled backwards from the right hook that Spike gave him.
"You're lucky that I got here before Buffy did, because when she finds out you were the one that nearly killed Bit. She's gonna put you in a world of hurt. The only difference is that I am going to do it for her."
"I'd like to see you try." Riley replied.
"What the hell is going on here?" Graham inquired not believing his own eyes.
"He's a bloody vampire. He nearly killed Dawn last night." Spike spat out.
"No he can't be." Graham said fiercely.
"Graham don't listen to him. He's mad at me; he's in love with Buffy. You know that I would never hurt Dawn. And I am not a vampire."
Graham looked at Spike and then Riley. He looked past both of them to Riley's dresser mirror. "I don't think that's going to wash with me Finn. Number one, 'Chipped Boy Wonder' here just hit and his head didn't explode and two you don't have a reflection."
Riley looked over his shoulder and shrugged. Pulling up his pants underneath the towel and fastened the jeans.
"So what are you going to do about it Graham? Spike?"
"How about I dust you!" Spike tackled Riley sending both vampires to the ground. Spike got the upper hand pretty quickly. He hauled Riley of the floor and threw him into the adjacent wall. The drywall caved in and crumbled from the force. Graham looked in shock as Riley bounced back up and took a swing at Spike. Graham pulled out his tazer gun and flicked on the switch quickly.
Riley loomed over the vampire ready for the kill. But a swift boot to the small of his back sent him crashing to the floor. He turned on his back expecting to see Buffy but it wasn't her. Instead a Buffy-sized girl stood over him looking mockingly in his eyes.
Buffy stood behind her.
She turned to Buffy, "You can handle?"
Buffy nodded her head and launched a full out attack on her ex-boyfriend. After receiving a couple of sharp uppercuts to the face, Buffy dealt a hard right cross which broke Riley's nose instantly a small amount of blood trickled from his nose. The ex-soldier laughed as he saw the look of hatred in her eyes.
"It's all your fault Buffy."
Graham side stepped behind Riley his tazer gun ready.
"My fault?" Buffy spat out.
"Yeah! Your FAULT. You closed yourself off from me and that's why I was leaving. But you see I got myself in a bit of trouble. See I happened to meet a vampire by the name of Katherine. Whom I heard had a dusty ending. Your work?"
"Not mine." Buffy replied venomously. Rainne raised her hand fanning her fingers, which received a growl from the new vampire. Spike, Buffy, Rainne and Graham listened to his speech.
"Well you see I noticed Buffy's little cravings for the undead so I figured why the hell not." Riley shrugged putting on his demon's face.
Rainne burst out laughing, everyone was completely caught off guard.
"Something I said?" Riley growled.
"Information runs rampant in the underground. I know all about what happened to you and why." She smirked.
"Really?" A small glint of discomfort passed Riley's face but was instantly gone after a brief second.
"Yuppers! Really! You killed the vamps sister after you became her willing blood whore." Rainne smiled as Graham continued to make his slow approach towards Riley. Now he was directly behind the vampire. When Riley gave the soldier a vicious roundhouse kick to the jaw, send Graham flying into the adjacent wall knocking him out cold.
Rainne laughed harder as Spike and Buffy took up defensive stances.
Buffy whispered to Spike, "Is she crazy?"
Spike looked over at his old friend from the corner of his eye and raised an unsure eyebrow at Buffy.
"Then she made you I guess her concubine slash torture victim. Then as most vamps do she took a liking to you and turned you. Am I right?" Rainne smirked, Riley's face was answer alone, "Shall I continue, ok then you decided to attack your ex's sister because you know that you can't touch her."
"Actually I could touch her. Tons of vampires have before. Angel, Spike, Dracula . . . God only knows how else?"
"Whatever." Rainne said as her cell phone rang. "Well you guys go and have your little rumble. I have a call to take. " Rainne graciously glided out of the room, "Oh yeah and Buffy kick his ass proper."
"So which one of you is gonna 'dust me'." The Ex-soldier smiled.
"I think that I deserve that honour." Buffy retorted as she backhanded him. When the Slayer took her second swing he caught her forearm and her elbow in his grip. As he pulled her toward him swinging her around Riley got the Slayer off balance letting her own momentum carry her sending her straight into wall. Buffy's head made a resounding thud as it hit the wall and then the floor. Spike tried to catch her but Riley kicked him hard in the stomach. Spike doubled over, but dodged Riley's next blow.
Spike gave the new vampire a punch to the bread basket then kicked him swiftly in the face. Riley flew backward from the force. Spike stomped on his chest and was ecstatic at the sound of ribs cracking. Riley grunted in pain as Spike kicked him again. Riley grabbed a hold of his foot on the third kick catching Spike off balance.
The peroxide blond staggered backward and in on quick motion Riley was off the ground. Riley grabbed Spike and with all of his sheer strength he slammed the elder in to the dresser letting the shards of glass fly. Riley saw the perfect opportunity as he saw the fallen tazer. He grabbed it quickly and charged at Spike who was still reeling from the last blow. The elder vampire looked up in time to feel the sharp jolts of electricity hit him briefly stunning him. Riley dropped the tazer and grabbed Spike by the back of his shirt and threw him threw the glass door. Spike took his last ounce of strength pushed Riley backward. Riley bellowed in laughter at the blond's feeble attempt. Spike pulled out a stake only to have it easily wrestled away from Spike. It clatter echoed. He threw Spike back threw the window inside the apartment where the elder vampire landed in a heap.
Riley stalked inside as Spike got up trying to back away.
* * *
Buffy woke up groggily and shook the cobwebs out of her mind. But she only had minutes to process all the information suddenly in her line of site.
Buffy watched in horror as Riley grabbed a fallen stake and charged at Spike ramming him into the wall. Spike struggled with Riley's grip and Rainne was nowhere to be seen. Buffy looked at the weapons bag that Riley had under his bed and grabbed the first thing that she could find and aimed and pointed it.
Bolts of electricity shot though Riley's body as he feel to the ground. The stake clattered to the ground. Buffy quickly grabbed it and straddled the incapacitated vampire.
"Dawn told me what you said. Just think about it this way. The only thing that you are gonna be on top of is a mantle.
Buffy watched her ex-lover exploded into dust and began to cry. Suddenly she felt strong arms encircle her and lift her up carefully. Buffy turned to see a sad expression on his face. Buffy wondered briefly if there was something more between the two of them and Spike quickly answered that question with a searing kiss. It was the softest and yet the most scarring kiss that she had ever receive. Every inch of her was forever changed. Marred by his caring and his depth. He had come here to exact revenge for Dawn. He had come here to spare her the torture. Buffy pulled away needing air and then she saw it in his large blue eyes. It was love. It was complete and it was for her. Buffy smiled slightly as he brushed the tears off her cheek.
"Buffy I...." Spike began.
For a brief second Spike was happy, then a look of utter shock crossed his face and he just looked into her eyes for the last time.
Buffy before the Slayer could even register what had happened, the man in her arms crumbled into a pile of dust at her feet. She could feel the grainy substance fall through her fingers as it pooled to mound at her feet. Buffy couldn't utter a single gasp as he disappeared. She looked up to see Rainne standing in front of her a stake in her right hand. The Slayer looked at her in confusion. Until a left hook caught the Slayer off guard and knocked her out cold.
* * *
Rainne looked drained as she walked through her Condo's door. The tears had stopped over an hour ago. After making sure that his destiny went as planned this was her biggest challenge. Before it hadn't been this hard, she would just kill them but this time it was personal. It was her William. Her chosen one. She'll never forget the first day that she saw him.
London 1872
The summer day was bright and extremely hot. She walked down the streets of London of course an anomaly but her control of people's mind was expertly fine tuned over six hundred years earlier.
She walked along the edge of the park where most of the young men and women were flirting. But she noticed one young boy in solitude. He looked no more then sixteen and was writing furiously in a note book. She approached him quietly and sat down next to him. He was so enthralled in his writing that it took him a full minute to realize that a woman was sitting next to him.
"I am sorry Miss. Can I help you?" He asked, his blue eyes sparkled in the sun. his glasses perched on his nose. Although outside was hot the young man looked as cool as a cucumber. She sat down next to him and smiled.
"You can help me."
The young man looked intrigued, "Yes?"
"Remember that you are destined to greatness, in heart and even soul. I need you to remember this." She leaned forward as he looked at her intrigued, "You must trust me."
With that she slowly got up and walked off into the busy nearby square to be lost in the crowd. She would see him when his time was near.
* * *
Their first stop on the way back home was Buffy's house. Battered, bruised and no one talking to each other the scoobies were in dead silence the whole ride home. If Angel hadn't taken them to that stupid club Willow and Xander would have been living out there normal lives. But know they both dared each other to sing and then The Host revealed it all. Anya, and Tara pleaded with them to reveal what they had been told.
They pulled along side the Revello Drive and saw one small light in the Summers living room. The parked in the driveway and a walked up the porch Willow rung the door bell but no one answered. She continued to ring and Xander looked through the living room window and saw Buffy huddled on the sofa staring blankly.
"She's there." Xander told them, "Hey Buffy!"
She shook her head out of her daze and got up slowly and answered. Willow gasped as she looked at her friends appearance. Buffy's face was pale, a large black and blue lump looked as painful as it was her eyes red and puffy. She was wrapped in a comforter.
"Oh Willow everything is sooo....." Buffy began to cry and Willow rushed to hug her sobbing friend.
"Buffy? What's wrong?" Xander asked his voice a little bit choked as he saw the pain etched in her face.
"Is it your mom, Buffy?" Tara asked quietly as they all entered the house.
Buffy shock her head and the gang waited patiently as Buffy sat down and pulled her blanket closer to her.
"Buffy where is Joyce?"
"Sleeping." Buffy said sadly.
"Where's Dawn?" Tara asked, she looked at the Willow and then at Xander.
This question only made Buffy begin to cry harder. The gang all looked at each and then at
Buffy, "She's in the hospital. She was a-att-attacked."
"Attacked by what?" Anya asked finally.
"A vampire." Buffy replied softly.
"Was it Spike? I bet it was Spike." Xander grumbled.
"Oh god Spike...." Buffy began to cry again, and now the group was really concerned.
"What exactly happened? Did something happen to Dawn and Spike?" Willow asked getting a little nervous about the answer that she was going to receive.
"Yes." Buffy whispered, "Ohh Willow I needed you so much. So much has happened."
"You can tell us Buffy, we're here for you now."
Buffy took a deep breath and began, "First of all Dawn is fighting for her life in the hospital. Me her big sister The Vampire Slayer couldn't get her slow butt over to her house to save her sister."
"Your house?" Willow asked, "Your sister invited a vampire in. Why would she do that?"
"Nope it wasn't Dawn it was my Mom and now she's feeling guilty and they have her on medication. She sleeping up stairs."
"Why would mom invite some stranger into your house." Anya asked.
"She didn't invite in a stranger. She invited in Riley."
A small gasp escaped Tara's mouth.
"Riley is a vampire?" Xander asked in disbelief.
"He was until I dusted him." Buffy said coldly. The group remained in silenced shock. "I should have tortured him slowly after what he did to her."
"How is she doing?" Xander asked in total disbelief.
"She's doing better then before." Buffy began to cry again. Willow reached out and hugged her best friend.
"And what about Spike?" Xander wanted Buffy to continue.
"He....he..... is dead." Buffy cried into Willow's shoulder.
"What do you mean dead? He is already dead."
"I mean that he's dust. Ashes. He's gone. She killed him." Buffy held on to Willow and then they began to hear the whole story.
To be continued......