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disclaimer: I don t own BTVS, this isn t writen for profit. Just for fun.
The only thing thats mine here is the character of Cassie.
NOTE: Chapter six cooming soon.
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The things we leave behind
Chapter five-The body of….
By Slaya
«Yeah, it is pretty.»
She was remembering how they all stod there in front of it. All of them together.
They put white flowers on the green grass that looked so peaceful….
And yet, some strange demon was haunting their soles.
Filled them up with tears of fear.
For her.
What is it like out there for her?
Is she warm?
Is she safe?
Does she know that Dawn s okay?
That we all are….more or less. If someone could ever call us okay.
She got into the memory so much that she failed to realize the vamps, about ten feet from her and Cassie. They were all around the three young girls and they didn t mind anybody else that was watching.
Cassie looked at Red. She didn t know what to do.
To save the girls?
«But am I gonna get out of it alive and well?»
Or to do something else?
Her body and her brain got into a wild argue about that question.
The brain wanted to run away from this as far as possible.
It senced grave danger.
But her body….
That s a different story.
The body wanted to get there and stake them. Her eyes were glaring and she was more and more compelled to save the girls.
Willow just said, «Go on. You can do it. I ll watch your back.»
Cassie didn t see Willow ever doing a spell or something like that. She didn t know how powerful or weak she was. But it didn t matter.
She trusted her. She trusted the look in her eyes while watching the ex slayer s grave.
She put the stake in her arm.
«It feel s weird. To willingly enjoy this. Caus….it s a…..kill. A kill.»-she managed to say in her mind before the vamps spotted her and put on a good fight, a fight that Cassie couldn t follow very fast. Or very well for that matter.
But there was Red. To watch her back.
While the vamps surrounded her, Red put her hand towards one of them and quiet but harsh whispered, «Ignis.»
He burned to the dust.
While the others turned around, Cassie had caught her chance well and put the stake in the nearest one to her. It took her a while to stab it deep enough, but a forcefield was protecting her and Red so there were no timely limitations.
He turned to dust.
This has been a new one to Cassie.
The smell of the rotten corpse floating around in the air. It came into her lungs so deep that she couldn t resist from coughing her insides out.
Red took care for the two vamps that remained.
It all came to an end.
Brief pictures of runing toward the danger instead of runing from it were locked in Cassies memory forever. She turned around. Red smiled at her.
Thoose three girls that they saved…they were…..in one piece.
She saved them. Not alone, but she had a part in it.
She was officially a hero.
A hero.
The girls were gone by now. As they should be in a dark town like Sunnyhell.
«What do you think?»
«I think that I couldn t set one of them on fire even if I had a torch in my hand.», she said gasping for air. Red smiles.
«You do understand that Spike would left you all alone to fight them till your nuckles and everything else got cracked and swollen?»
«Yeah. He looks like that kind of a type.»
«That s why I choose to take you patrolling before he does. You godda get used to a little bit of roughness in your trainings. It can t hurt. Well….yes it can, but it helps. To get hit on the head sometimes. Makes us watch our backs a little better.»
«Yeah.»
A vampiric shadow walked out of the dark and stepped up to them.
Cassie twiches, sencing him before she could see or hear him.
«Gossepin a bit bout me pets?»-his dark voice made a mark on the night where nogthing could be heard but Willow and Cassies voice. After the fight was over, there was only silence that remained.
«Good sencing duck.», he refered to Cassie, «There ll be a good one from you after all.»