In previous chapters:
*Apocalypse is coming
*Scooby gang and A.I. work together.
*Buff Picks faith up from jail
*lots of angst
*Buff's been kidnapped.
*More guilt…
And there's the short version of what's happened recently :)
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BUFFY POV.
Ok, the kidnapping deal isn't looking so good after all.
Considering I'm looking at a roomful of lawyers.
"Buffy Summers?"
I look up to a woman taller than me and definitely more professional looking.
"That's me….You wanna tell me why I'm here...or should I just start kicking some ass?"
The woman takes a look at me and smiles appreciatively "Nice to meet you Buffy. I'm Lilah Morgan."
I raise an eyebrow and frown for a minute trying to think of where I've heard that name.
"Hi…so again with the why I'm here?"
"You're here because we need your help, there's something coming and we need someone to fight it."
Ok…lawyers….evil…those two definitely fit in a sentence. But the saving part…who are these people? There's no such thing as good lawyers.
"So…you guys know about the whole….vampires exist and such?"
I thought no one bothered to care but those who fought it.
She nods and smiles innocently "Yes, we…fight them…"
If my Jaw isn't already open and detached from my head….I'll be damned.
"What? You're telling me that you…lawyers...fight these demons?
I shake my head. Am I dreaming?
"That's like me saying that I get paid to slay."
When nobody looks surprised that I'm the slayer I roll my eyes and throw my hands up exasperated.
"You can't surprise anybody anymore….who are you people? What do you want? Because if you're not going to tell me right now, I'm going to leave, I have places to go, things to kill."
Lilah just smirks and motions to someone and they bring Faith in, her hands tied in a glowing rope they obviously made especially for slayer strength, she's gagged and glaring threats at lilah.
"Leave and Faith goes to the other big house…the one with pearly gates."
I can't even come up with a smartass comment.
All I can do is stare….and come up with about 50 escape plans and they all end with me dying somehow…
Damnit…these are the times when I wish I had Kendra's isolation skills.
Although it'd be quite lonely without my friends, at least I wouldn't be risking their lives 24/7.
I guess I can't blame myself for this one though. Faith is a slayer too, this would've happened anyway.
"I'm staying…..talk..."
Lilah, who I've just established as "Whore from hell" nods and smiles, she obviously is used to getting her way.
Great.
I sit down and she lets Faith sit beside me and Faith looks at me as if asking me to just run and get the hell out, that'd she'd find her own way out.
It'd be the first time when I wasn't going to take any chances.
Lilah starts babbling about how I'm a big part of the apocalypse, and how everything will fall into their hands.
And I swear it's all I can do to stay awake.
She's worse than Giles with the whole "This is ancient information so therefore you have to be interested in everything I have to say" thing…
"Look…I know the drill ok lady. Why am I here, ritual, getting angel to lose his soul, stealing my sister, killing my friends? What? Cuz I've been through all the above, want to be a little less boring and unoriginal?"
She looks at me and I'm expecting her to slap me.
But she shocks the hell out of me by smiling, and….complementing me.
"God Davis….She'd be a great lawyer here…maybe we can find a different ritual where she doesn't have to die…go, research, let me know what you find."
I laugh, despite the situation and look at Faith "Is it just me, or do I usually get tortured when I make remarks like that?"
Faith smiles as much as she can with the gag in her mouth and I pull it from her head, and untie her hands, and no one objects because I think they know that I know that there's no chance of us getting out at the moment.
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Faith POV
Thank god that thing's out of my mouth.
"Thanks B."
She smiles and for the first time I notice….
She's not very…..what's the word?
Alive.
Like it's just a slayer in there, nothing else, and the only sign so far that there's any buffyin there is her sense of sarcasm even when she's not in the situation to piss anyone off.
I think that's what I always liked about her best during a fight, or in this case a kidnapping.
She had balls.
She really did. Maybe that's where I got it from.
I swear if it weren't for the fact that they might kill me or buffy or both, I'd take a knife and pin lilah's big ass mouth against that wall over there.
"Faith…you ok?"
I relize Buffy's talking to me and I look at her.
When was she this thin..
I mean she was always small, petitie.
But damn, she could join the Anorexics are us awards show right now.
"You need to eat B.."
I was never one to not share my feelings…
Hence the many killings that got me put in jail. I was in desperate need of anger management classes.
But I've gotten better.
Until Lilah had to open her big annoying mouth, I might even had said that I was a clamer person now.
Stupid Lawyer….
*~*~TBC~*~*
*Apocalypse is coming
*Scooby gang and A.I. work together.
*Buff Picks faith up from jail
*lots of angst
*Buff's been kidnapped.
*More guilt…
And there's the short version of what's happened recently :)
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
BUFFY POV.
Ok, the kidnapping deal isn't looking so good after all.
Considering I'm looking at a roomful of lawyers.
"Buffy Summers?"
I look up to a woman taller than me and definitely more professional looking.
"That's me….You wanna tell me why I'm here...or should I just start kicking some ass?"
The woman takes a look at me and smiles appreciatively "Nice to meet you Buffy. I'm Lilah Morgan."
I raise an eyebrow and frown for a minute trying to think of where I've heard that name.
"Hi…so again with the why I'm here?"
"You're here because we need your help, there's something coming and we need someone to fight it."
Ok…lawyers….evil…those two definitely fit in a sentence. But the saving part…who are these people? There's no such thing as good lawyers.
"So…you guys know about the whole….vampires exist and such?"
I thought no one bothered to care but those who fought it.
She nods and smiles innocently "Yes, we…fight them…"
If my Jaw isn't already open and detached from my head….I'll be damned.
"What? You're telling me that you…lawyers...fight these demons?
I shake my head. Am I dreaming?
"That's like me saying that I get paid to slay."
When nobody looks surprised that I'm the slayer I roll my eyes and throw my hands up exasperated.
"You can't surprise anybody anymore….who are you people? What do you want? Because if you're not going to tell me right now, I'm going to leave, I have places to go, things to kill."
Lilah just smirks and motions to someone and they bring Faith in, her hands tied in a glowing rope they obviously made especially for slayer strength, she's gagged and glaring threats at lilah.
"Leave and Faith goes to the other big house…the one with pearly gates."
I can't even come up with a smartass comment.
All I can do is stare….and come up with about 50 escape plans and they all end with me dying somehow…
Damnit…these are the times when I wish I had Kendra's isolation skills.
Although it'd be quite lonely without my friends, at least I wouldn't be risking their lives 24/7.
I guess I can't blame myself for this one though. Faith is a slayer too, this would've happened anyway.
"I'm staying…..talk..."
Lilah, who I've just established as "Whore from hell" nods and smiles, she obviously is used to getting her way.
Great.
I sit down and she lets Faith sit beside me and Faith looks at me as if asking me to just run and get the hell out, that'd she'd find her own way out.
It'd be the first time when I wasn't going to take any chances.
Lilah starts babbling about how I'm a big part of the apocalypse, and how everything will fall into their hands.
And I swear it's all I can do to stay awake.
She's worse than Giles with the whole "This is ancient information so therefore you have to be interested in everything I have to say" thing…
"Look…I know the drill ok lady. Why am I here, ritual, getting angel to lose his soul, stealing my sister, killing my friends? What? Cuz I've been through all the above, want to be a little less boring and unoriginal?"
She looks at me and I'm expecting her to slap me.
But she shocks the hell out of me by smiling, and….complementing me.
"God Davis….She'd be a great lawyer here…maybe we can find a different ritual where she doesn't have to die…go, research, let me know what you find."
I laugh, despite the situation and look at Faith "Is it just me, or do I usually get tortured when I make remarks like that?"
Faith smiles as much as she can with the gag in her mouth and I pull it from her head, and untie her hands, and no one objects because I think they know that I know that there's no chance of us getting out at the moment.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Faith POV
Thank god that thing's out of my mouth.
"Thanks B."
She smiles and for the first time I notice….
She's not very…..what's the word?
Alive.
Like it's just a slayer in there, nothing else, and the only sign so far that there's any buffyin there is her sense of sarcasm even when she's not in the situation to piss anyone off.
I think that's what I always liked about her best during a fight, or in this case a kidnapping.
She had balls.
She really did. Maybe that's where I got it from.
I swear if it weren't for the fact that they might kill me or buffy or both, I'd take a knife and pin lilah's big ass mouth against that wall over there.
"Faith…you ok?"
I relize Buffy's talking to me and I look at her.
When was she this thin..
I mean she was always small, petitie.
But damn, she could join the Anorexics are us awards show right now.
"You need to eat B.."
I was never one to not share my feelings…
Hence the many killings that got me put in jail. I was in desperate need of anger management classes.
But I've gotten better.
Until Lilah had to open her big annoying mouth, I might even had said that I was a clamer person now.
Stupid Lawyer….
*~*~TBC~*~*