"Too Late."
Part five of the "What Am
I?" series.
Rating: PG-13. For this part
of the series anyways.
Spoilers: I don't have the
time or the energy to go through and state exactly what spoilers are contained
in my fics just assume that anything that has aired in the US is fair game.
Disclaimers: Joss owns everything
fun. I only borrow it for a while.
Feedback: Let me know what
you think. (ladyduvessa19@icqmail.com)
The magic shop had been quiet all morning. Buffy and the gang had been researching a new demon that she thought she saw. When Spike got there they had informed him that they were getting nowhere. It wasn't until a girl, who wore a full length black dress, entered the magic shop that anyone actually took notice of one of the customers. There was something about her. Something that made all of them take notice. Spike feared what would happen. He didn't know why she was there. He didn't even know why she was in town. He decided that before she saw him he should go. He headed off to the training room in the back of the magic shop and watched them all from a distance.
"Oh my God. Aurora?" Anya had begun to scream along with the girl who had just walked in the door.
"Anya!" The girl said and ran up to Anya and hugged her.
"You know her?" Xander sounded as shocked to learn of Anya's friend as Spike was.
"Yes she's one of the best friends I had. We kind of lost touch when I became human. You can't sense where you're friends are when you're human like you can as a demon." Anya was beaming.
"You're human now?" Aurora spoke. Her voice still got to him. Even though he was only watching from a distance he could still feel her.
"Yes, I managed to make the boss a little angry and he bound me to this life where I have to live and die a mortal. It's ok though. I have money now. And I'm getting married." Anya showed off her engagement ring to her friend.
"I hope not to someone like that troll that I kept hearing you talk about."
"Oh no. I'm marring a human." She pulled Xander to his feet. "This is Xander."
"Nice to meet you." Aurora took his hand.
"Like wise." Xander shook her hand still a bit shocked.
"You have to come to the wedding. We'll have to rearrange the seating, but I'm sure that won't be a problem. You will be in Sunnydale for a while won't you." Spike could tell this wasn't ok with Xander. Buffy had told him that Xander hated worrying where everyone was going to sit and thought it would all be easier if he didn't have to invite his family.
"Yes I will be around for a while. I'm staying at the hotel down the road. I actually just came in for some candles." Aurora seemed to have somewhere else she needed to be by the sound in her voice.
"Oh we have tons of them…." Anya led her off to the other side of the magic shop and as much as Spike tried to hear what they were saying all he could hear was Xander.
"Anya has a normal friend. Did you just see that? There were no strange horns or anything."
"Yes. I saw." Buffy's voice brought Spike back to reality. His thoughts had been so occupied in the past 24 hours because of Aurora showing up that he had completely forgotten about everything that was going on. He should tell Buffy that he knew who had been taking pictures of her. He should tell her everything, but then he thought that maybe it would be better to figure out why Aurora was here first. He would talk to Anya. Find out everything that happened in the past 50 years.
"She seemed nice." Buffy said as she turned another page in her book.
"She's not some sort of a demon is she?" Xander asked and Spike could tell that he really didn't want to know the answer.
"I don't know what you would call her. She's not like the rest of them really. Probably has something to do with the fact that she used to be a slayer." Anya had returned to the table where they all were sitting.
"She used to be a what??"
Buffy was yelling. It was too late. Buffy was going to find out and he
knew that she wouldn't speak to him again.
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