Disclaimer: Obviously, I don't own any of the characters, no matter how much I WISH I did. They belong to the idiot Joss and the WB.. Any other characters, I created.
This I Promise You
By Jules
Chapter 9
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b** The next day ** /b
Duncan, Adam, and Richie all agreed to let Cordelia sleep in again this morning, under the guise to Willow and Xander that it was just because it was her birthday.
The three immortals weren't in the mood for a work out, so after Ti-chi, everybody decided to just go into the library and do their own thing.
Duncan sat at the big desk, haggling with someone over the purchase of a building on Main Street in which to sell antiques.
Adam was on his cell phone, yelling at someone in Japanese (which was one of the thousands of languages he spoke.)
Richie and Xander were messing with the new computer system, which made fake scenarios. It was a lot like a computer game, and right then two were arguing whether they should or shouldn't use Uzi's against a hairy creature that was stalking the 'towns people'. Richie, who'd been trained by Duncan, preferred using swords and more traditional methods. Xander, the groups' weapons expert knew that it was best to really make sure they were dead, in other words, kill them a lot. Xander gave up arguing, and just hit the button to do what Ihe/I wanted in the program. Two minutes later the monster was destroyed, and Richie was glaring at a very happy Xander.
Willow was working on her alchemy, practicing a spell on levitation.
She pointed at a staff, and in a firm voice said, "Levit."
The staff floated in the air.
"Meus motus." She ordered, (Imy movement/I) then moving as if she had the staff in her hands, she fought with it.
The staff moving with some un-seeable force, mimicking her.
"Cum meus imperare." (IWith my command/I)
Then Willow shot the staff around the room with just a flick of her finger. Everyone ducked just in the nick of time . . . except for poor Richie, who had his head turned and hadn't believed Xander when he yelled, "DUCK!"
Everyone stood there with their mouths hanging open.
Duncan gapped for a second, then quietly told the guy on the other end, "It's a deal . . . my lawyer will call you in the morning." Then he hung up.
Adam had to keep himself from laughing, and quickly said, "Sayonara!" then hung up.
Xander looked down at his fallen mate and couldn't believe it.
Willow on the other hand shrieked, then let her concentration drop, as did the staff, and everyone was positive it was safe to move now, and ran to his side.
"Oh Richie! My God . . . I am so sorry!" She leaned over his inert form and looked at everyone else, "I wasn't paying attention! I was just so excited that it worked . . ."
"Don't worry." Adam reassured her, "Richie's got a really hard head." He kneeled over the youth and slapped him on both cheeks, "Richie, Richie. Ryan, wake up you dolt!"
Richie's eyes fluttered and he looks up eyes unfocused looking at Adam, "Mommy?"
"Not even close." Duncan informed him, then held up two fingers in front of his face, "How many finger am I showing?"
"Uh . . . six?" he guessed.
"Mac, he wouldn't know that in the first place." Adam cracked.
"Fuck you Adam." Richie growled.
"I knew you'd be ok!" Adam declared, reaching down, grabbing Richie's hand and pulling him up.
Richie was unsteady on his feet.
"Willow, take Richie to the kitchen and get him an ice pack. He'll be fine soon due to our bodies advanced healing capabilities, but he'll be a little dazed for awhile." Duncan told her.
Willow nodded, then helped Richie walk out of the library, apologizing the whole way.
Duncan, Adam, and Xander stood there for a moment until Xander pointed out the good side.
"Well, at least Willow's getting a handle on her magic!"
Adam nodded, and then seriously advised, "Maybe we should turn the other room on the left side of the loft into a first aid center. I'm getting the feeling we're going to need one."
"Good idea. Especially since Willow and Xander here don't have our healing capabilities." Duncan agreed.
"Hey!" Xander protested, "It's not like you don't need to get taped up for a day of two sometimes when you get serious injuries, like broken ribs, deep cuts and things."
"You're right, you're right. We should have done it when we remodeled, but it just slipped out minds."
Xander shrugged, and then went back to the computer. Duncan and Adam realized they had a chance to have a hushed conversation.
"Do you think she did the spell last night?" Duncan asked.
"Yeah, I cam over early this morning. The window had been blown open, and papers were scattered all over the room." Adam informed him.
Duncan raised his eye browns, "What exactly did the spell require?"
"I'm not sure." Adam admitted, "I only read up to the part where we needed the orb, then I stopped because I thought it was impossible . . ."
"I just hope it wasn't too difficult . . ."
~*~
b** Angel's apartment **/b
Angel had thrown on a pair of pants and black shirt, but hadn't bothered to button it.
He could feel the difference, the way Angelus was under near complete control. No longer did the demon whisper in his ear constantly, telling him to kill the innocent, and drain the life from someone one he came in contact with. And the fear that had encompassed him since he found out he could lose his soul had finally lifted.
Angel drank down a pint of heated human blood, and felt the borrowed blood race through his veins. The blood had been very fresh, and the essence of life was still in the blood. He knew his demon visage was showing, but for the first time in nearly 100 years, it didn't bother him. The demon's hold on his soul had nearly completely been relinquished, he had control . . . and it felt great.
The only think weight on his soul now was, what did he do? Was it Cordelia he wanted, or Buffy . . .
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b** One week later ** /b
Buffy was patrolling a remote part of the cemetery when she over heard some voices . . .
I"Where are we supposed to meet Eric?"
"For the thousandth time, the park, near the cliffs. God, what are you, 196? Act your age, for pity sake, I've never met such a stupid 384 year old."
"Shove it Andy . . . why are we meeting so late?"
"He's got another date with the head cheerleader, you know, his bCordelia/b. I wonder what she would say if she saw his real body . . ."
"I don't care. Because of his dating, we haven't been able to kill nearly enough for the sacrifice tomorrow!"
"I know . . .but as the oldest, he's in charge."/I
Buffy couldn't believe her ears, she got a quick look at the demons, then ran in the other direction, straight to the library.
b** One hour later **
** By the cliff **/b
"Eric's really a WHAT?!" Cordelia demanded, having just come back from a date with him in which she'd let him feel her up.
"A Kroglin demon. Extremely strong, with LOTS of tentacles." Buffy notified them, remembering the description Giles had just given her earlier before, "I have to stab it in the black part of his abdomen, or get it in the heart, which is oddly on his far right side. He's skins' really thick, and a stake just ain't gonna cut it. What do we have? There are three of them, we're gonna need a lot."
Willow pulled a hidden bag from Oz's van that the trio had hidden there earlier that night. She opened it and gave Cordelia her knife sash, and put hers on as well. Then she gave Buffy the extra sash they had brought. Willow then handed Xander his special glocks, which he expertly checked. She pulled out Xander's shoulder holsters, and his special vest, which was filled with other ammo.
Willow pulled out two more glocks, she looks at them closely, then handed one to Cordelia. They both shove them in the back of their pants. Finally Willow handed Cordelia her sheathed Dragons-Head Katana.
Giles, Buffy, and Oz are shocked at the actions of the three, and to the extent that they were armed.
Cordelia, Xander, and Willow knew that this was going to be a major shock for the others, but it was no time to hide what they knew how to do.
"Where the hell did you guys gets those, and what do you plan on doing with them?!" Buffy demanded.
"Well, it all depends on the weapon. Everything came from Cordy's, but each one has it's own special cupboard." Xander explained, handing out crossbows to everyone.
"What do you plan on doing with them?"
"Again, it all depends on the weapon Giles, you know that. Crossbows and guns shoot, the knives and stakes are thrown really accurately by those two" he jerked his head at Willow and Cordelia, "and pretty accurately by me. The katana will be swung around or whatever expertly by Cordy, and the rest of my things involve pulling a pin, throwing, then diving for cover." Xander explained as they approach 'Eric' and his 'buddies', who had been joined by ten vampires.
Xander kneeled on the ground and pulled out eight stakes, and handed four to both of his training friends. Before even Buffy can react, the two had stuffed two stakes in their belts, and throw the other two, in synchronization, dusting two vamps each, then they all attacked.
Buffy got to work on one of the demons, while everyone else dusted the rest of the vamps quickly. Then everyone started in on the big uglies.
Everyone was fighting with all they had . . . although truthfully they were all completely worn out, and the only thing that was keeping them going was adrenaline.
Cordelia launched herself at the last demon, stabbing it in the heart. With it's last moments of strength, it picked her up and tossed her over the edge of the cliff.
"Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!" Buffy's scream pierced the night, which had gone completely silent.
"CORDELIA!" Giles yelled, running to the edge and looking down.
Xander, Willow, and Oz just stand there, starring as the wind whipped around their frozen bodies, all in shock.
Everyone then was silent, until Xander and Willow snapped out of it and silently went around checking everyone for injuries, as Duncan had taught them. The worst was a gash on Xander's forehead, which Willow took care of.
"We're going to have to call Duncan or Adam." Willow told Xander in a hushed voice, "Buffy's gonna be so mad at us too."
"We were just keeping a secret, it's what Cordelia wanted, it's what she begged us to do. And if Cordelia Chase begs for something, you know it's got to be important. Queen C would never beg, unless it was life or death."
"But everyone's so sad . . ." Willow finished with the tape.
"Just think of how happy they'll be when they find out she's alive." Xander tried to comfort her.
Oz came up to them and they stop talking about it.
"Are you alright?" Oz asked Willow, cutely concerned.
"Oh I'm alright." Xander answered, "A bit of a headache . . ."
Oz gave him a look and Xander shut up. He turned his attention back to Willow, "Are you?"
"Me? Oh I'm fine, the picture of health. Fit as a fiddle. Thanks for your help."
"Well, I didn't want you to get hurt."
Willow blushed.
Oz looked at her regretfully, "Listen, about your friend . . ."
"Thanks." Xander interrupted him quickly, "I know someone caring wi-would mean a lot to Cordelia." Xander turned to Willow, "I'll go call the guys. Tell Buffy to have everyone meet at the library by 1:30." Then he ran off.
Willow looked around for Buffy, but the slayer was already gone.
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Please, I want replies, I know it sounds pathetic, but I live for feedback, good or bad! I need to know what you think so I know where to go with this.
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This I Promise You
By Jules
Chapter 9
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b** The next day ** /b
Duncan, Adam, and Richie all agreed to let Cordelia sleep in again this morning, under the guise to Willow and Xander that it was just because it was her birthday.
The three immortals weren't in the mood for a work out, so after Ti-chi, everybody decided to just go into the library and do their own thing.
Duncan sat at the big desk, haggling with someone over the purchase of a building on Main Street in which to sell antiques.
Adam was on his cell phone, yelling at someone in Japanese (which was one of the thousands of languages he spoke.)
Richie and Xander were messing with the new computer system, which made fake scenarios. It was a lot like a computer game, and right then two were arguing whether they should or shouldn't use Uzi's against a hairy creature that was stalking the 'towns people'. Richie, who'd been trained by Duncan, preferred using swords and more traditional methods. Xander, the groups' weapons expert knew that it was best to really make sure they were dead, in other words, kill them a lot. Xander gave up arguing, and just hit the button to do what Ihe/I wanted in the program. Two minutes later the monster was destroyed, and Richie was glaring at a very happy Xander.
Willow was working on her alchemy, practicing a spell on levitation.
She pointed at a staff, and in a firm voice said, "Levit."
The staff floated in the air.
"Meus motus." She ordered, (Imy movement/I) then moving as if she had the staff in her hands, she fought with it.
The staff moving with some un-seeable force, mimicking her.
"Cum meus imperare." (IWith my command/I)
Then Willow shot the staff around the room with just a flick of her finger. Everyone ducked just in the nick of time . . . except for poor Richie, who had his head turned and hadn't believed Xander when he yelled, "DUCK!"
Everyone stood there with their mouths hanging open.
Duncan gapped for a second, then quietly told the guy on the other end, "It's a deal . . . my lawyer will call you in the morning." Then he hung up.
Adam had to keep himself from laughing, and quickly said, "Sayonara!" then hung up.
Xander looked down at his fallen mate and couldn't believe it.
Willow on the other hand shrieked, then let her concentration drop, as did the staff, and everyone was positive it was safe to move now, and ran to his side.
"Oh Richie! My God . . . I am so sorry!" She leaned over his inert form and looked at everyone else, "I wasn't paying attention! I was just so excited that it worked . . ."
"Don't worry." Adam reassured her, "Richie's got a really hard head." He kneeled over the youth and slapped him on both cheeks, "Richie, Richie. Ryan, wake up you dolt!"
Richie's eyes fluttered and he looks up eyes unfocused looking at Adam, "Mommy?"
"Not even close." Duncan informed him, then held up two fingers in front of his face, "How many finger am I showing?"
"Uh . . . six?" he guessed.
"Mac, he wouldn't know that in the first place." Adam cracked.
"Fuck you Adam." Richie growled.
"I knew you'd be ok!" Adam declared, reaching down, grabbing Richie's hand and pulling him up.
Richie was unsteady on his feet.
"Willow, take Richie to the kitchen and get him an ice pack. He'll be fine soon due to our bodies advanced healing capabilities, but he'll be a little dazed for awhile." Duncan told her.
Willow nodded, then helped Richie walk out of the library, apologizing the whole way.
Duncan, Adam, and Xander stood there for a moment until Xander pointed out the good side.
"Well, at least Willow's getting a handle on her magic!"
Adam nodded, and then seriously advised, "Maybe we should turn the other room on the left side of the loft into a first aid center. I'm getting the feeling we're going to need one."
"Good idea. Especially since Willow and Xander here don't have our healing capabilities." Duncan agreed.
"Hey!" Xander protested, "It's not like you don't need to get taped up for a day of two sometimes when you get serious injuries, like broken ribs, deep cuts and things."
"You're right, you're right. We should have done it when we remodeled, but it just slipped out minds."
Xander shrugged, and then went back to the computer. Duncan and Adam realized they had a chance to have a hushed conversation.
"Do you think she did the spell last night?" Duncan asked.
"Yeah, I cam over early this morning. The window had been blown open, and papers were scattered all over the room." Adam informed him.
Duncan raised his eye browns, "What exactly did the spell require?"
"I'm not sure." Adam admitted, "I only read up to the part where we needed the orb, then I stopped because I thought it was impossible . . ."
"I just hope it wasn't too difficult . . ."
~*~
b** Angel's apartment **/b
Angel had thrown on a pair of pants and black shirt, but hadn't bothered to button it.
He could feel the difference, the way Angelus was under near complete control. No longer did the demon whisper in his ear constantly, telling him to kill the innocent, and drain the life from someone one he came in contact with. And the fear that had encompassed him since he found out he could lose his soul had finally lifted.
Angel drank down a pint of heated human blood, and felt the borrowed blood race through his veins. The blood had been very fresh, and the essence of life was still in the blood. He knew his demon visage was showing, but for the first time in nearly 100 years, it didn't bother him. The demon's hold on his soul had nearly completely been relinquished, he had control . . . and it felt great.
The only think weight on his soul now was, what did he do? Was it Cordelia he wanted, or Buffy . . .
~*~
b** One week later ** /b
Buffy was patrolling a remote part of the cemetery when she over heard some voices . . .
I"Where are we supposed to meet Eric?"
"For the thousandth time, the park, near the cliffs. God, what are you, 196? Act your age, for pity sake, I've never met such a stupid 384 year old."
"Shove it Andy . . . why are we meeting so late?"
"He's got another date with the head cheerleader, you know, his bCordelia/b. I wonder what she would say if she saw his real body . . ."
"I don't care. Because of his dating, we haven't been able to kill nearly enough for the sacrifice tomorrow!"
"I know . . .but as the oldest, he's in charge."/I
Buffy couldn't believe her ears, she got a quick look at the demons, then ran in the other direction, straight to the library.
b** One hour later **
** By the cliff **/b
"Eric's really a WHAT?!" Cordelia demanded, having just come back from a date with him in which she'd let him feel her up.
"A Kroglin demon. Extremely strong, with LOTS of tentacles." Buffy notified them, remembering the description Giles had just given her earlier before, "I have to stab it in the black part of his abdomen, or get it in the heart, which is oddly on his far right side. He's skins' really thick, and a stake just ain't gonna cut it. What do we have? There are three of them, we're gonna need a lot."
Willow pulled a hidden bag from Oz's van that the trio had hidden there earlier that night. She opened it and gave Cordelia her knife sash, and put hers on as well. Then she gave Buffy the extra sash they had brought. Willow then handed Xander his special glocks, which he expertly checked. She pulled out Xander's shoulder holsters, and his special vest, which was filled with other ammo.
Willow pulled out two more glocks, she looks at them closely, then handed one to Cordelia. They both shove them in the back of their pants. Finally Willow handed Cordelia her sheathed Dragons-Head Katana.
Giles, Buffy, and Oz are shocked at the actions of the three, and to the extent that they were armed.
Cordelia, Xander, and Willow knew that this was going to be a major shock for the others, but it was no time to hide what they knew how to do.
"Where the hell did you guys gets those, and what do you plan on doing with them?!" Buffy demanded.
"Well, it all depends on the weapon. Everything came from Cordy's, but each one has it's own special cupboard." Xander explained, handing out crossbows to everyone.
"What do you plan on doing with them?"
"Again, it all depends on the weapon Giles, you know that. Crossbows and guns shoot, the knives and stakes are thrown really accurately by those two" he jerked his head at Willow and Cordelia, "and pretty accurately by me. The katana will be swung around or whatever expertly by Cordy, and the rest of my things involve pulling a pin, throwing, then diving for cover." Xander explained as they approach 'Eric' and his 'buddies', who had been joined by ten vampires.
Xander kneeled on the ground and pulled out eight stakes, and handed four to both of his training friends. Before even Buffy can react, the two had stuffed two stakes in their belts, and throw the other two, in synchronization, dusting two vamps each, then they all attacked.
Buffy got to work on one of the demons, while everyone else dusted the rest of the vamps quickly. Then everyone started in on the big uglies.
Everyone was fighting with all they had . . . although truthfully they were all completely worn out, and the only thing that was keeping them going was adrenaline.
Cordelia launched herself at the last demon, stabbing it in the heart. With it's last moments of strength, it picked her up and tossed her over the edge of the cliff.
"Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!" Buffy's scream pierced the night, which had gone completely silent.
"CORDELIA!" Giles yelled, running to the edge and looking down.
Xander, Willow, and Oz just stand there, starring as the wind whipped around their frozen bodies, all in shock.
Everyone then was silent, until Xander and Willow snapped out of it and silently went around checking everyone for injuries, as Duncan had taught them. The worst was a gash on Xander's forehead, which Willow took care of.
"We're going to have to call Duncan or Adam." Willow told Xander in a hushed voice, "Buffy's gonna be so mad at us too."
"We were just keeping a secret, it's what Cordelia wanted, it's what she begged us to do. And if Cordelia Chase begs for something, you know it's got to be important. Queen C would never beg, unless it was life or death."
"But everyone's so sad . . ." Willow finished with the tape.
"Just think of how happy they'll be when they find out she's alive." Xander tried to comfort her.
Oz came up to them and they stop talking about it.
"Are you alright?" Oz asked Willow, cutely concerned.
"Oh I'm alright." Xander answered, "A bit of a headache . . ."
Oz gave him a look and Xander shut up. He turned his attention back to Willow, "Are you?"
"Me? Oh I'm fine, the picture of health. Fit as a fiddle. Thanks for your help."
"Well, I didn't want you to get hurt."
Willow blushed.
Oz looked at her regretfully, "Listen, about your friend . . ."
"Thanks." Xander interrupted him quickly, "I know someone caring wi-would mean a lot to Cordelia." Xander turned to Willow, "I'll go call the guys. Tell Buffy to have everyone meet at the library by 1:30." Then he ran off.
Willow looked around for Buffy, but the slayer was already gone.
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Please, I want replies, I know it sounds pathetic, but I live for feedback, good or bad! I need to know what you think so I know where to go with this.
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