Title: Any Day Now
Author: Jozzy
Disclaimer: I own none of these the characters in this story. Mutant Enemy, Joss Whendon, the WB and a whole bunch of people I don't know do.
Spoilers: This is a AU so there won't be any spoilers except for the very first episode (can't remember the name of it at the moment.)
Rating: Probably Pg-13 because of language and a character death
Pairing: Willow/Buffy
Part 6
It was really late now and Buffy knew that her mom would be upset as it was. Glancing up from the sidewalk she had been staring at her entire walk home. Buffy saw the entrance to the Glenn Cemetery. If she walked through the cemetery she would cut down her travel time down considerably. Her house was practically on the other side.
It looks so spooky. God there's a mist hovering over the ground. A damn mist.
The through the entrance gate a landscape covered in gravesites could be seen. The gray stone of the tombstones stood out against a dark seemingly starless night. Indeed a faint mist hovered inches from the ground. Man it looks like something out of a B-movie horror film. Next thing you know sluttish vampirettes with no clothes on will come along to suck my blood. With slight hesitation Buffy glanced around here. This part of Sunnydale was pretty much deserted at night, it had been a long time since Buffy had seen a car or any other signs of life. Stop freaking yourself out Summers. There is nothing here. You left the vamps in L.A. ... Now look at all the time you've wasted, could have been halfway through the place by now. But no you have to dwell on the very dead past. But look at all the graves. Sunnydale isn't big enough for that many graves. Someone would have to drop everyday. Or every night. SHUT UP.
Way to many graves.
Buffy sighed and walked through the cemetery's gate, taking one last look at the outside world before stepping completely through. Glancing around she pulled her jacket tightly around her body. It was a poor substitute for the letter jack that up until four months ago she always donned. A lot of things here were poor substitutes for her life back in L.A. Don't do this now. Wait to get home. Remember no more public breakdowns. Its so hard. I miss my friends, I miss cheerleading, I miss organize dances, I miss sleeping at night. First of all your friends were all bitches. Hell one of them cheated with your boyfriend. Second, if you really missed cheerleading so damn much you could suck up to Cordelia and make the squad. And you do sleep at night. Sometimes. Don't even get me started on planning dances.
Buffy groaned into the night. She hated it when she started thinking about the BEFORE, before she ever found out about slaying and vampires and her destiny. Thinking about it only made her sad, missing the clueless innocence she once lived in. Funny before Merrick no one would have called her innocent about anything. They called her a lot of things but innocent wasn't one of them.
Dammit think of something else...Willow. Willow who had stormed away from her only hours before. Willow who she had thought about almost nonstop over the past few days. She's so beautiful. Not like ordinary beauty, it different than any other beauty. A dark beauty, that's still kind of innocent. She remembered me from her gig. She wanted to meet me. To talk to me. Oh God. What is this. Since when do I stay up all night thinking about girls. This is just what I need. High school really is about finding yourself. Last year I found out that I'm supposed to kill vampires and this year I realize that I'm gay. Damn its enough to make me fear next year.
Buffy was pulled from her thoughts by terrified screaming, coming from a nearby mausoleum. Curiosity and a deep urge within her pulled Buffy towards the mausoleum. She moved to the side of the doorway so that anyone inside would not be able to see her. Looking up at the sky, praying to whomever that she was mistaken about what was going on in there. But she knew those prayers wouldn't be answered. She knew those kinds of screams. Those were screams of someone seeing things no human should no of. Screams of someone slowly dying, having their life drained out of them. The screams of a vampire's victim.
It took Buffy's eyes a minute to adjust to the darkness of the tomb. But once she did she could see three prominent figures. One was a short blonde girl. She was dressed in a short, blue plaid skirt, white blouse and blue cardigan. The naughty school girl. The girl looked human, but Buffy could tell that she was really a vampire. The other two were both male. One was that Jesse guy from the club. The one that followed Cordelia around catering to her every whim, hoping to get her attention. Buffy's first impression of him was weak. He let Cordy walk all over him and didn't seem to mind when she dissed him in front of everyone. This situation definitely was making him seem any stronger in her eyes. Jesse was being held up by a badly dressed fledgling probably some newly turned minion. She looked closer at Jesse and realized.
"You drank off him." It was the vampiress. She was right, Jesse was paler than the last time Buffy had seem him.
"I got hungry." The fledgling sounded scared.
"That one is for the Master. NOT you! We must bring them to the Master untouched. Now we have to go back and get more of them! Kill the boy and lets go." The female glared at her companion before stalking into a corner mumbling to herself.
The vampire swooped down on Jesse's neck and soon the sounds of sucking filled her ears. She turned from the scene feeling bile rising in her throat. I've got to save him. NO! You've got to get home. You're late and your mom is probably worried sick about you. But Jesse... You can't do anything for him. You're a normal teenage girl...how can you fight to scary looking guys with bumpy faces. But I'm the slayer- NO NO NO. There is no such thing as a slayer. Or if there is she in L.A. You are just Buffy Summers. Now Run.
Buffy's legs took off without really getting a direct order from her warring mind. She was soon racing going at speeds that would give most people heart attacks. But she didn't stop. Not when she tripped over a tombstone, chipping it slightly, not when she got to the cemetery gates. Not when she reached her front door. She didn't stop until she was safely under the covers on her bed.
Oh god. I let him die. I could have saved him. Its my job to save him. What happened to ' I'm Buffy Summers normal girl.' What happened to forgetting. I can't forget. If I forget more innocent people like that Jesse guy will die! Everyone dies sometime. But he was just a kid. He probably never even left this little town. Never saw...never seen the world. Done anything. And he never will because I'm a coward. There is nothing cowardly about wanting to live a normal life. Shut up I know what I've got to do now. I am Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
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End Part 6