Disclaimer: All the characters belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, Fox,
etc... except of course the ones I make up.
Summary: While Dawn is dealing with balancing school, slaying and dating, Buffy and Spike are dealing with their relation. And all together they are dealing with impending apocalypse.
Spoilers: Well, it takes place about a year and a half after "Normal Again", but it's pretty AU. Xander and Anya are married and Tara is alive.
Continuity: It's the sequel to "The Delegation of Aurelius". However, you don't really need to read it to understand this fic. It sort of just picks up where "TDoA" left off.
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APOCALYPSE NOW... AGAIN
Chapter 20: Juliet
Dawn's eyes fluttered open lazily. She rolled her head to the right to see David sleeping peacefully with his arm wrapped around her. She rolled her head back over to the left and she looked out the window which had the blinds pulled back slightly. The it was still dark, but her slayer senses were telling her that the sun was just below the horizon line, and Dawn could hear the soft chirping of a bird outside.
"I feel like Juliet," she mumbled, almost inaudibly.
"What?" Dave responded, startling Dawn.
"Oh sorry, did I wake you?"
He rolled over and put both arms around her. "I don't mind. What did you just say."
Dawn blushed, feeling a bit silly, " I said I feel like Juliet. You know, in that scene where she wakes up she realizes that Romeo needs to go but neither of them really want him to. I feel like that, because I don't want to go. I don't think I ever want to go."
"Is that all you feel?" He asked quietly, nuzzling his nose against her flushed cheek.
Dawn smiled, "I'm not sure. I thought I'd feel different."
"You don't?"
"Not really. Just... just... happier. Quieter. It's like all the little noises in my head just stopped and gave me some peace for a little while. It's just quiet." She rolled over so that now she was facing him as well, and she rested her forehead on his. "Except your breathing. It was nice just listening to you breathe."
Dave nodded and kissed Dawn's lips softly before resting his head back on the pillow. Dawn close her eyes and relaxed into his arms.
"Maybe you should go though, so your sister doesn't worry."
But Dawn was already fast asleep.
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Dawn fumbled around her pocketbook for her keys and pulled them out. She pushed her long, brown hair back from her face and pushed the key in to the lock. She turned the key and it opened the door with a satisfying click. I'm totally going to get away with this, she thought to herself.
When she slowly, and very quietly pushed the door open to be met by Buffy who was walking down the stairs.
"Buffy!"
"Dawn?"
She stood silent in the doorway.
"Did you just get home?"
Think, Dawn, think. "Yeah, sorry. After I went to Dave's for a while I went patrolling, needed to let of some steam. I should have called, I know, but I just needed to get out. Sorry."
Dawn studied her sister, trying to figure out whether or not she believed her. When she merely stood on the second step, unmoving and seeming disbelieving, Dawn made her move.
"Okay, well, I'm kind of wiped, so, I'm just gonna go take a nap."
Dawn made it to the fourth step before Buffy grabbed her arm and whirled her around. "You weren't patrolling were you?"
"What? Of course I was," Dawn lied, rather unconvincingly. This was going so bad.
"Dawn, you don't need to lie, I'm not going to be angry."
"I'm not lying!" She insisted, and she shook of the elder slayer's hold on her and ran to her room, slamming the door behind her. It was mere moments before Buffy entered, without knocking of course, Dawn noticed.
"Were you safe?" She asked bluntly.
"Buffy!"
"Dawn, it's my job to ask these things okay. Were you safe?"
Dawn sighed and looked at her shoes. She looked back up at her sister, "yes," she answered honestly.
Buffy smiled and walked over to Dawn's bed where she sat heavily on it and placed a loving hand on her sister's knee. "Do you want to talk about it?"
"Yes... no... I don't know, Buffy. I- I was going to tell you, really I was. I was just, I was going to let myself get used to the fact."
"He didn't turn evil, did he?"
"Buffy," Dawn stated plainly, rolling her eyes.
"Just checking," Buffy replied with a sly smile, "is there anything else you want to tell me?"
Dawn smiled and looked down. "It was nice," she said, then looked up at Buffy, a blissful smile spread across her face. "It was REALLY nice."
"Good, it's supposed to be."
"You aren't going to tell Spike are you?"
"What? No. Not unless you want me to..."
"NO!"
Buffy laughed, "chill Dawnie, I wasn't planning on telling anyone. Also, can I ask you something else?"
"Do I have a choice."
"Not really."
"Go ahead then."
"Do you love him?"
Dawn didn't hesitate before she smiled and nodded. "I really do."
Buffy smiled back and grabbed her sister into a tight bear hug. They were actually having a nice moment... a really nice moment until that moment was interrupted by a loud scream coming from Buffy's room. They both jumped up and ran to the site of the action.
The action turned out to be a room full of smoke, and Spike cowering behind the bed. The room was flooded with sunlight through the open curtains of the window.
"Oh god, Spike!" Buffy said as she ran down by his side and Dawn ran to the window to close the curtains. "I am so sorry! I completely forgot to close the curtains last night!"
Spike groaned and sat up. "S'okay love, only minimal damage done."
Buffy scrunched up her face. "Turn around, let me see."
"Buffy really, I'm-"
"Oh don't be a baby just let me see it."
Spike sighed, a deep and unneeded breath, as he turned around so that Buffy could look at his back. There was a large burn mark on his upper right shoulder spreading to the middle of his back. Buffy reached out three fingers and touched it lightly and he flinched and made a whimpering sound.
"Oh god, I'm so so sorry."
"I said don't worry about it okay?" He laughed, trying to act tougher than he was. "I've had worse. Like, being pushed of a tower worse."
"I know, but I still feel bad."
"Do you want some ice r something?" Dawn offered.
"Will it make you feel better if I put some ice on it?"
They both nodded emphatically. "Fine," he said, rolling his eyes at them.
Dawn nodded, happy to be helpful and ran downstairs. Buffy stood up and took Spike's hands, pulling him to his feet. She put her hands flat on his chest and snuggled into his body, which was warm from the sun nearly setting him on fire. He wrapped his arms around her and squeezed tightly.
"Are you sure this is what you want?" He asked, "someone who can't even take you into the sun?"
"You used to say that I belonged in the dark."
"I was wrong."
"It doesn't matter."
"But are you then?"
"Am I what?"
"Are you sure that this is the life you want?"
Spike arms released Buffy as she stepped back from him. She took his hands in her own and kissed them.
"I haven't a question in my mind that this exactly what I want. Spike, if you had told me when I was seventeen that this would be my life, I wouldn't believe a second of it. I mean, I'm not talking about the fact that when I was seventeen that you were just some psycho vamp trying to kill me and restore his insano freak of a girlfriend to full health, I mean I'm happy. If you had told me when I was seventeen that I could be the Slayer and still be happy, I wouldn't have believed you in a million years. But as strange as this is, with everything that's going on... I am happy."
Spike leaned in to kiss Buffy when Dawn reentered with a damp towel and an ice pack. She looked a bit embarrassed as opposed to annoyed when she walked in on the moment, so she just put down the objects that she had been carrying and closed the door behind her.
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The picture of the vampire and the slayer's lovemaking faded and slowly turned to black. The sorceress sighed and ran her fingers through the now empty pool.
"How sweet. They'll die soon enough, they might as well enjoy each other while they can."
"You will be set free and hell will reign on earth!" Jrea cried excitedly and dozens of other Fyarl demons cried boisterously of Ayanathla's wonder.
"It'll be such fun watching them burn, watching thw hole wrold burn and only evil shall survive. It'll be quite the party."
Suddenly the pool of water flashed again and Ayanathla watched Buffy and Spike embrace each other, quivering with pleasure.
"I like him," she commented offhandedly. "William the bloody if I'm not mistaken. I'd keep him if I could."
"You're day is soon approaching," Jrea told her, we must prepare.
"Yes, I suppose we should," she sighed, and she waved her hand over the pool of water so erase the image from the surface. She thought it would be nice to give the lovers privacy together in their last few days of life, seeing as how she had never gotten that chance herself.
TBC...
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Okay you guys, just a few more chapters. Thanks to everyone who has stuck with this fic since the beginning! And please, please, please keep reviewing!
Summary: While Dawn is dealing with balancing school, slaying and dating, Buffy and Spike are dealing with their relation. And all together they are dealing with impending apocalypse.
Spoilers: Well, it takes place about a year and a half after "Normal Again", but it's pretty AU. Xander and Anya are married and Tara is alive.
Continuity: It's the sequel to "The Delegation of Aurelius". However, you don't really need to read it to understand this fic. It sort of just picks up where "TDoA" left off.
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APOCALYPSE NOW... AGAIN
Chapter 20: Juliet
Dawn's eyes fluttered open lazily. She rolled her head to the right to see David sleeping peacefully with his arm wrapped around her. She rolled her head back over to the left and she looked out the window which had the blinds pulled back slightly. The it was still dark, but her slayer senses were telling her that the sun was just below the horizon line, and Dawn could hear the soft chirping of a bird outside.
"I feel like Juliet," she mumbled, almost inaudibly.
"What?" Dave responded, startling Dawn.
"Oh sorry, did I wake you?"
He rolled over and put both arms around her. "I don't mind. What did you just say."
Dawn blushed, feeling a bit silly, " I said I feel like Juliet. You know, in that scene where she wakes up she realizes that Romeo needs to go but neither of them really want him to. I feel like that, because I don't want to go. I don't think I ever want to go."
"Is that all you feel?" He asked quietly, nuzzling his nose against her flushed cheek.
Dawn smiled, "I'm not sure. I thought I'd feel different."
"You don't?"
"Not really. Just... just... happier. Quieter. It's like all the little noises in my head just stopped and gave me some peace for a little while. It's just quiet." She rolled over so that now she was facing him as well, and she rested her forehead on his. "Except your breathing. It was nice just listening to you breathe."
Dave nodded and kissed Dawn's lips softly before resting his head back on the pillow. Dawn close her eyes and relaxed into his arms.
"Maybe you should go though, so your sister doesn't worry."
But Dawn was already fast asleep.
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Dawn fumbled around her pocketbook for her keys and pulled them out. She pushed her long, brown hair back from her face and pushed the key in to the lock. She turned the key and it opened the door with a satisfying click. I'm totally going to get away with this, she thought to herself.
When she slowly, and very quietly pushed the door open to be met by Buffy who was walking down the stairs.
"Buffy!"
"Dawn?"
She stood silent in the doorway.
"Did you just get home?"
Think, Dawn, think. "Yeah, sorry. After I went to Dave's for a while I went patrolling, needed to let of some steam. I should have called, I know, but I just needed to get out. Sorry."
Dawn studied her sister, trying to figure out whether or not she believed her. When she merely stood on the second step, unmoving and seeming disbelieving, Dawn made her move.
"Okay, well, I'm kind of wiped, so, I'm just gonna go take a nap."
Dawn made it to the fourth step before Buffy grabbed her arm and whirled her around. "You weren't patrolling were you?"
"What? Of course I was," Dawn lied, rather unconvincingly. This was going so bad.
"Dawn, you don't need to lie, I'm not going to be angry."
"I'm not lying!" She insisted, and she shook of the elder slayer's hold on her and ran to her room, slamming the door behind her. It was mere moments before Buffy entered, without knocking of course, Dawn noticed.
"Were you safe?" She asked bluntly.
"Buffy!"
"Dawn, it's my job to ask these things okay. Were you safe?"
Dawn sighed and looked at her shoes. She looked back up at her sister, "yes," she answered honestly.
Buffy smiled and walked over to Dawn's bed where she sat heavily on it and placed a loving hand on her sister's knee. "Do you want to talk about it?"
"Yes... no... I don't know, Buffy. I- I was going to tell you, really I was. I was just, I was going to let myself get used to the fact."
"He didn't turn evil, did he?"
"Buffy," Dawn stated plainly, rolling her eyes.
"Just checking," Buffy replied with a sly smile, "is there anything else you want to tell me?"
Dawn smiled and looked down. "It was nice," she said, then looked up at Buffy, a blissful smile spread across her face. "It was REALLY nice."
"Good, it's supposed to be."
"You aren't going to tell Spike are you?"
"What? No. Not unless you want me to..."
"NO!"
Buffy laughed, "chill Dawnie, I wasn't planning on telling anyone. Also, can I ask you something else?"
"Do I have a choice."
"Not really."
"Go ahead then."
"Do you love him?"
Dawn didn't hesitate before she smiled and nodded. "I really do."
Buffy smiled back and grabbed her sister into a tight bear hug. They were actually having a nice moment... a really nice moment until that moment was interrupted by a loud scream coming from Buffy's room. They both jumped up and ran to the site of the action.
The action turned out to be a room full of smoke, and Spike cowering behind the bed. The room was flooded with sunlight through the open curtains of the window.
"Oh god, Spike!" Buffy said as she ran down by his side and Dawn ran to the window to close the curtains. "I am so sorry! I completely forgot to close the curtains last night!"
Spike groaned and sat up. "S'okay love, only minimal damage done."
Buffy scrunched up her face. "Turn around, let me see."
"Buffy really, I'm-"
"Oh don't be a baby just let me see it."
Spike sighed, a deep and unneeded breath, as he turned around so that Buffy could look at his back. There was a large burn mark on his upper right shoulder spreading to the middle of his back. Buffy reached out three fingers and touched it lightly and he flinched and made a whimpering sound.
"Oh god, I'm so so sorry."
"I said don't worry about it okay?" He laughed, trying to act tougher than he was. "I've had worse. Like, being pushed of a tower worse."
"I know, but I still feel bad."
"Do you want some ice r something?" Dawn offered.
"Will it make you feel better if I put some ice on it?"
They both nodded emphatically. "Fine," he said, rolling his eyes at them.
Dawn nodded, happy to be helpful and ran downstairs. Buffy stood up and took Spike's hands, pulling him to his feet. She put her hands flat on his chest and snuggled into his body, which was warm from the sun nearly setting him on fire. He wrapped his arms around her and squeezed tightly.
"Are you sure this is what you want?" He asked, "someone who can't even take you into the sun?"
"You used to say that I belonged in the dark."
"I was wrong."
"It doesn't matter."
"But are you then?"
"Am I what?"
"Are you sure that this is the life you want?"
Spike arms released Buffy as she stepped back from him. She took his hands in her own and kissed them.
"I haven't a question in my mind that this exactly what I want. Spike, if you had told me when I was seventeen that this would be my life, I wouldn't believe a second of it. I mean, I'm not talking about the fact that when I was seventeen that you were just some psycho vamp trying to kill me and restore his insano freak of a girlfriend to full health, I mean I'm happy. If you had told me when I was seventeen that I could be the Slayer and still be happy, I wouldn't have believed you in a million years. But as strange as this is, with everything that's going on... I am happy."
Spike leaned in to kiss Buffy when Dawn reentered with a damp towel and an ice pack. She looked a bit embarrassed as opposed to annoyed when she walked in on the moment, so she just put down the objects that she had been carrying and closed the door behind her.
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The picture of the vampire and the slayer's lovemaking faded and slowly turned to black. The sorceress sighed and ran her fingers through the now empty pool.
"How sweet. They'll die soon enough, they might as well enjoy each other while they can."
"You will be set free and hell will reign on earth!" Jrea cried excitedly and dozens of other Fyarl demons cried boisterously of Ayanathla's wonder.
"It'll be such fun watching them burn, watching thw hole wrold burn and only evil shall survive. It'll be quite the party."
Suddenly the pool of water flashed again and Ayanathla watched Buffy and Spike embrace each other, quivering with pleasure.
"I like him," she commented offhandedly. "William the bloody if I'm not mistaken. I'd keep him if I could."
"You're day is soon approaching," Jrea told her, we must prepare.
"Yes, I suppose we should," she sighed, and she waved her hand over the pool of water so erase the image from the surface. She thought it would be nice to give the lovers privacy together in their last few days of life, seeing as how she had never gotten that chance herself.
TBC...
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Okay you guys, just a few more chapters. Thanks to everyone who has stuck with this fic since the beginning! And please, please, please keep reviewing!