Author: Jessamyn
Rating: PG
Summary: Harmony's gang blows.
Notes: Fighting is not my forte... please excuse the attempt.
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The problem with being the Leader is that you actually had to think of the guys in your gang. Otherwise they get really cranky...
"Okay guys, listen up." Harmony said, clapping her hands together to get their attentions. She waited for a moment to make sure and then continued "I know everyone is hungry but I want each of you to go in and get one, just one, victim each."
She heard Mort grumble a little and made sure to make eye contact with him as she asked, "Everybody clear?" At their somewhat reluctant approval Harmony smiled. "Okay then, let's eat," she said, opening the door to the Bronze.
As they all slipped inside the dark, pulsating club she added brightly "Oh, and try not to draw too much attention, okay?"
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Berating them on the way back to the hideout Harmony tried her best to sound tough and in command. "How many times have I told you guys. Lure them outside before you start to feed." She heaved a sigh as she remembered the disgraceful way they had behaved tonight. "I thought that that scream would've blow our cover for sure."
"But she bit me!" Brad exclaimed in his defense. "Blunt human teeth really hurt," he whined, coddling the already healed hand.
"You're just lucky that the Slayer wasn't around tonight, mister." she said.
"Harmony! The person I so very much wanted to see..." said the now thoroughly pissed off Slayer sardonically as she strode toward them.
"Buffy! Hi" Harmony waved a little as she stopped right in her tracks. "What's new?" she asked with an attempted smile and a little nervous chuckle. The look the Slayer was giving her made her feel all jittery inside. This was -so- not a good thing!
Pausing as if to think, Buffy said "Hmmn, lets see. New vamp in town. Goes by the name of *my sister*!"
"Oh, so you know about that. Heh. How nice..." Harmony said with a grimace. Yep, she was definitely in for it now. Fading back a little into the group she pushed Brad forward with a shove ordering "Don't just stand there you fools. Kill her!"
Brad was the first to die as the furious Slayer staked him before he even had a chance to follow through with his first punch. She just continued to stride forward through the settling dust with that deliberate pace of hers and her hard eyes boring a hole in Harmony's skull.
Next Cirus and Peaches tried to tag team her, coming up on either side, one going low while the other went high. Buffy exchanged a flurry of blows with each of them, ducking a punch, dodging a kick, and eluding hands that attempted to grasp her and hold her in place. And yet she'd hardly even broken a sweat by the time Peaches was nothing but ash.
Morte finally managed to get a good blow on her while she was distracted delivering Cirus to Death, and she reeled a bit from it. Shaking off the dizziness Buffy blocked the next punch from the large vampire...
That was it for Harmony though, she'd had enough, and as she slipped into the shadows and started running she knew it was for her very unLife.
***
Bursting into the cavern Harmony panted for breath she didn't need but was still human enough to want, interrupting the nice conversation Spike and Dawn were having. She immediately started grabbing things; clothes, shoes, a hairbrush. Anything that crossed her path that she thought they'd need.
"What's wrong?" Dawn asked, getting to her feet and snagging Harmony's arm.
"Yeah, what's all the buzz about?" Spike asked from his seat.
Harmony looked at them like they were crazy not to have known. 'The Slayer's after me!" she exclaimed, then shrugged Dawn's hand off and grabbed a bag to put all the stuff she'd collected in. They didn't have much time.
"Pack a bag. We're leaving." she told Dawn.
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