Title: Twilight Part 8/?
Author: Emily
Rating: PG 13
Category: Dawn/Spike, Buffy/Angel
Summary: Dawn and Spike meet up in an alternate universe and Dawn's in serious need of help.
Spoilers: The Key part of season five I guess. Some B/A stuff from previous seasons but not all. This is an AU fic so most of isn't related to the current storylines etc. And obviously read the other parts first :) They're at ffnet.
Disclaimer: Yeah yeah not mine. Blame Joss etc.
Distribution: Lil' Nibblin, A Little Bit Bad, Spike/Dawn lists, fanfiction.net, SU, anywhere else that wants it take it but take the other parts too and let me know where it's going up.
Feedback: It'd really make my day. Pipergal33@yahoo.co.uk
AN: This part happens at the same time as part 9 which I have yet to post. It's from Buffy's POV 'cause I couldn't write it from Spike or Dawn's since they're not there, lol. I was going to write the Spawn scene first but it turns out this fits in better for timing of certain events.
AN2: Anyanka as I've written her is more Anya like than Anyanka like, I'm aware of that. I love Anya though and it's my alternate universe so deal with it :) Oh and also in *my* verse Doyle is alive and well. And c'mon, I'm having my B/A too.
AN3: Next part FYI is gonna be full of Dawn/Spike...
~ **Twilight **~
Part 8
I make my way through the darkness for about fifteen minutes until I find those caves Spike was talking about. I've never liked caves. Never really been in them before, but not the point. They resemble sewers far too much for my liking and sewers and Buffy and Angel just bring back bad memories. Bad, bad memories. I sigh and get out the piece of paper with the spell words. A candle might have been helpful but there's not one and so I'll do without.
I squint at the paper.
" Anyanka, wreaker of vengeance Hear my plea..."
I'm about to read the next few lines but then there's a quick flash of light and Anyanka appears.
Woah. Big on the veins.
" I hear you." She says grandly.
" Um hi..." I start.
" Been scorned by an ex lover? Oh, a vampire." She rolls her eyes, dropping the voice that's obviously just to impress.
" How do you know?" I demand.
" Honey, you're thinking so much about him I'd be able to hear you from a mile off. Never date a vampire. I dated Dracula back when I was a young thing, waste of time. They'll just break your heart. And with you...he really did." She says frowning and peers at me. " Well, what's your wish?"
" Wish? I don't have a wish. Spike said that you - "
She peers closer at me. " You're the girl he's in love with?"
I pause in my thoughts. In love with? He's in *love* with Dawn? Oh this is just great. Perfect. And she's obviously in love with him too and I left them alone together. Smart move, Buffy.
" No that'd be my sister." I say resignedly.
" Oh. I take it he expects me to come and help fight this Glory? There I was, just a peasant girl and then I get elevated to being a demon, spending forever punishing males - which I have to admit can be fun - and now I'm helping fight a *god*. Can't be fun." Anyanka complains, folding her arms.
I smile a little.
" If you're not the girl, that means you're the Slayer" She says suddenly frowning.
" Yeah. But no slayage here" I say, holding my hands up. " I don't want to slay you."
" Try anything and I'll eviscerate your lover." She threatens.
" I'm not going to try anything! And he's not my lover anymore. He's my ex."
" Who you obviously feel a lot of resentment towards. Why don't you just make a wish already? Otherwise you'll just whine to me about him for hours like they all do. God I hate the ones that whine."
" I don't want to eviscerate Angel - "
" Boils on the penis are always popular" She suggests.
" I don't want to give him - " I blush. Not saying that.
" I'm not making a wish to hurt him." I clarify. God, she's annoying.
" So you're in love with him? And we have Spike in love with your sister. "This is like a Greek tragedy. Or some badly written vampire porn." She ponders.
Make that very annoying.
" My life is not porn." I say, glaring at her.
" See, you're whining." She says. " Why don't you just wish him here if you're so in love with him?"
" I thought it had to be a vengeance wish - and I'm not in love with him."
" Don't be so pathetically in denial. You're in love with him. He's probably in love with you. I don't usually allow ridiculous wishes like that but you annoy me and I don't want to put up with any more whining."
I don't whine. Not at all. And *I* annoy her? Also, I'm not pathetically in denial. I've never been in denial, I think defensively.
" Okay" I say weakly.
" You have to say it." Anyanka says impatiently.
" I wish Angel was here." I tell her. Yeesh if only she'd been around the other thousand times I've wished that.
" Wish granted." She says and waves her hands elaborately.
And Angel's here. Not appearing in the middle of the cave neatly but hurtled against the wall, and he looks like he's just gotten out of the shower. *Ohhh*. He's dressed - but if Anyanka had cast the spell a few minutes earlier...that's really not the point. Focusing on insignificant details here.
" Angel? Are you okay?" I ask anxiously, running over to where he hit the wall.
Angel starts to stand up, rubbing a hand against his neck and he nods, focusing on me.
" Buffy, I've been trying to get in touch with you for weeks. You're okay?"
I frown. "You have?"
" Doyle had a vision that you and Dawn were in danger and we've been researching and trying to find where you are ever since."
I smile suddenly. " It's hidden I think. There's some kind of magical barrier. Doyle, he's your friend that's dating Cordelia right?"
" Right." Angel says. " The magick would explain why we couldn't locate you" He continues and then he looks at me, those dark eyes worried. " You're alright?" He asks again.
I smile and nod. " I'm fine. We got out but Glory's looking for us. Spike helped."
" Spike?"
" Yeah and the best part? He's in love with Dawn." I can't help but roll my eyes. " But I can't be mad at the guy. Without him we'd still be in there." I say sincerely.
Angel nods. " He doesn't have a soul?"
" No but apparently he has a chip which means he can't hurt humans."
" I missed you."
The words catch me by surprise. I didn't expect them from this all business Angel who I'm talking to about saving the world and my sister.
" I...you did?" I ask like a girl who thinks maybe she's in love but she can't find any words. I used to be that girl.
" Could we save the beautiful reunion scene for later?" Anyanka demands from the corner. "I'm bored" She pouts. "And aside from that, we have things to do. I suppose I might as well help now that I'm here."
I smile. " Angel, this is Anyanka. Vengeance demon who we're not slaying."
She nods a little nervously and checks Angel out. Checks Angel out? That sentence sounds so wrong. I glare at her with the stay the hell away from my boyfriend look. He's not my boyfriend, I think and I brush my jealousy off. Just like I try and brush all Angel related feelings off, even though I know they won't go away.
" Just looking." Anyanka says holding her hands up as she notices my look. " I'll leave the touching to you."
Angel's eyes widen some. It's damn cute, I note. " Touching?" I demand. " Who says there's going to be touching?"
She sighs exasperated. " I've seen this all a hundred times before. Of course there's going to be touching. A whole lot of touching, followed by a whole lot of sex."
" And a whole lot of soul losing" I mutter. I bite my lip and try to ignore the bitter memories.
Anyanka looks confused. " Soul losing?"
" If I have a moment of true happiness I lose my soul, become Angelus again." Angel says, looking down a little. Like he feels guilty. Oh but he shouldn't.
" So this true happiness, it happens when you have sex?" She asks curious.
" Only with Buffy" Angel says and a little tingle shoots through me.
" Because you're in love with her." Anyanka says getting it. "This is even more screwed up than I had first thought!" She explains, looking at us like we're children. Which we probably are to her. Then she starts to walk out of the cave. " Come on" She calls when we don't follow.
I slowly follow behind her sneaking a glance at Angel at the exact same time he sneaks a look at me. We look at each other for a couple seconds. It feels like I can't move. I can't help thinking about what Anyanka said - 'in love with her', not 'were' in love with her, no past tense. I try and shrug it all away.
" Buffy... I need to talk to you. After?" Angel asks.
I nod. " Sure" I say, it all coming right back. I've never been able to shrug him off, I accept and then I follow. We follow her just like we're children.
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tbc :)
feedback? Pipergal33@yahoo.co.uk
Author: Emily
Rating: PG 13
Category: Dawn/Spike, Buffy/Angel
Summary: Dawn and Spike meet up in an alternate universe and Dawn's in serious need of help.
Spoilers: The Key part of season five I guess. Some B/A stuff from previous seasons but not all. This is an AU fic so most of isn't related to the current storylines etc. And obviously read the other parts first :) They're at ffnet.
Disclaimer: Yeah yeah not mine. Blame Joss etc.
Distribution: Lil' Nibblin, A Little Bit Bad, Spike/Dawn lists, fanfiction.net, SU, anywhere else that wants it take it but take the other parts too and let me know where it's going up.
Feedback: It'd really make my day. Pipergal33@yahoo.co.uk
AN: This part happens at the same time as part 9 which I have yet to post. It's from Buffy's POV 'cause I couldn't write it from Spike or Dawn's since they're not there, lol. I was going to write the Spawn scene first but it turns out this fits in better for timing of certain events.
AN2: Anyanka as I've written her is more Anya like than Anyanka like, I'm aware of that. I love Anya though and it's my alternate universe so deal with it :) Oh and also in *my* verse Doyle is alive and well. And c'mon, I'm having my B/A too.
AN3: Next part FYI is gonna be full of Dawn/Spike...
~ **Twilight **~
Part 8
I make my way through the darkness for about fifteen minutes until I find those caves Spike was talking about. I've never liked caves. Never really been in them before, but not the point. They resemble sewers far too much for my liking and sewers and Buffy and Angel just bring back bad memories. Bad, bad memories. I sigh and get out the piece of paper with the spell words. A candle might have been helpful but there's not one and so I'll do without.
I squint at the paper.
" Anyanka, wreaker of vengeance Hear my plea..."
I'm about to read the next few lines but then there's a quick flash of light and Anyanka appears.
Woah. Big on the veins.
" I hear you." She says grandly.
" Um hi..." I start.
" Been scorned by an ex lover? Oh, a vampire." She rolls her eyes, dropping the voice that's obviously just to impress.
" How do you know?" I demand.
" Honey, you're thinking so much about him I'd be able to hear you from a mile off. Never date a vampire. I dated Dracula back when I was a young thing, waste of time. They'll just break your heart. And with you...he really did." She says frowning and peers at me. " Well, what's your wish?"
" Wish? I don't have a wish. Spike said that you - "
She peers closer at me. " You're the girl he's in love with?"
I pause in my thoughts. In love with? He's in *love* with Dawn? Oh this is just great. Perfect. And she's obviously in love with him too and I left them alone together. Smart move, Buffy.
" No that'd be my sister." I say resignedly.
" Oh. I take it he expects me to come and help fight this Glory? There I was, just a peasant girl and then I get elevated to being a demon, spending forever punishing males - which I have to admit can be fun - and now I'm helping fight a *god*. Can't be fun." Anyanka complains, folding her arms.
I smile a little.
" If you're not the girl, that means you're the Slayer" She says suddenly frowning.
" Yeah. But no slayage here" I say, holding my hands up. " I don't want to slay you."
" Try anything and I'll eviscerate your lover." She threatens.
" I'm not going to try anything! And he's not my lover anymore. He's my ex."
" Who you obviously feel a lot of resentment towards. Why don't you just make a wish already? Otherwise you'll just whine to me about him for hours like they all do. God I hate the ones that whine."
" I don't want to eviscerate Angel - "
" Boils on the penis are always popular" She suggests.
" I don't want to give him - " I blush. Not saying that.
" I'm not making a wish to hurt him." I clarify. God, she's annoying.
" So you're in love with him? And we have Spike in love with your sister. "This is like a Greek tragedy. Or some badly written vampire porn." She ponders.
Make that very annoying.
" My life is not porn." I say, glaring at her.
" See, you're whining." She says. " Why don't you just wish him here if you're so in love with him?"
" I thought it had to be a vengeance wish - and I'm not in love with him."
" Don't be so pathetically in denial. You're in love with him. He's probably in love with you. I don't usually allow ridiculous wishes like that but you annoy me and I don't want to put up with any more whining."
I don't whine. Not at all. And *I* annoy her? Also, I'm not pathetically in denial. I've never been in denial, I think defensively.
" Okay" I say weakly.
" You have to say it." Anyanka says impatiently.
" I wish Angel was here." I tell her. Yeesh if only she'd been around the other thousand times I've wished that.
" Wish granted." She says and waves her hands elaborately.
And Angel's here. Not appearing in the middle of the cave neatly but hurtled against the wall, and he looks like he's just gotten out of the shower. *Ohhh*. He's dressed - but if Anyanka had cast the spell a few minutes earlier...that's really not the point. Focusing on insignificant details here.
" Angel? Are you okay?" I ask anxiously, running over to where he hit the wall.
Angel starts to stand up, rubbing a hand against his neck and he nods, focusing on me.
" Buffy, I've been trying to get in touch with you for weeks. You're okay?"
I frown. "You have?"
" Doyle had a vision that you and Dawn were in danger and we've been researching and trying to find where you are ever since."
I smile suddenly. " It's hidden I think. There's some kind of magical barrier. Doyle, he's your friend that's dating Cordelia right?"
" Right." Angel says. " The magick would explain why we couldn't locate you" He continues and then he looks at me, those dark eyes worried. " You're alright?" He asks again.
I smile and nod. " I'm fine. We got out but Glory's looking for us. Spike helped."
" Spike?"
" Yeah and the best part? He's in love with Dawn." I can't help but roll my eyes. " But I can't be mad at the guy. Without him we'd still be in there." I say sincerely.
Angel nods. " He doesn't have a soul?"
" No but apparently he has a chip which means he can't hurt humans."
" I missed you."
The words catch me by surprise. I didn't expect them from this all business Angel who I'm talking to about saving the world and my sister.
" I...you did?" I ask like a girl who thinks maybe she's in love but she can't find any words. I used to be that girl.
" Could we save the beautiful reunion scene for later?" Anyanka demands from the corner. "I'm bored" She pouts. "And aside from that, we have things to do. I suppose I might as well help now that I'm here."
I smile. " Angel, this is Anyanka. Vengeance demon who we're not slaying."
She nods a little nervously and checks Angel out. Checks Angel out? That sentence sounds so wrong. I glare at her with the stay the hell away from my boyfriend look. He's not my boyfriend, I think and I brush my jealousy off. Just like I try and brush all Angel related feelings off, even though I know they won't go away.
" Just looking." Anyanka says holding her hands up as she notices my look. " I'll leave the touching to you."
Angel's eyes widen some. It's damn cute, I note. " Touching?" I demand. " Who says there's going to be touching?"
She sighs exasperated. " I've seen this all a hundred times before. Of course there's going to be touching. A whole lot of touching, followed by a whole lot of sex."
" And a whole lot of soul losing" I mutter. I bite my lip and try to ignore the bitter memories.
Anyanka looks confused. " Soul losing?"
" If I have a moment of true happiness I lose my soul, become Angelus again." Angel says, looking down a little. Like he feels guilty. Oh but he shouldn't.
" So this true happiness, it happens when you have sex?" She asks curious.
" Only with Buffy" Angel says and a little tingle shoots through me.
" Because you're in love with her." Anyanka says getting it. "This is even more screwed up than I had first thought!" She explains, looking at us like we're children. Which we probably are to her. Then she starts to walk out of the cave. " Come on" She calls when we don't follow.
I slowly follow behind her sneaking a glance at Angel at the exact same time he sneaks a look at me. We look at each other for a couple seconds. It feels like I can't move. I can't help thinking about what Anyanka said - 'in love with her', not 'were' in love with her, no past tense. I try and shrug it all away.
" Buffy... I need to talk to you. After?" Angel asks.
I nod. " Sure" I say, it all coming right back. I've never been able to shrug him off, I accept and then I follow. We follow her just like we're children.
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tbc :)
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