~*~
Drusilla, still drinking from Cordelia, was distracted when a large mass of women charged towards her.
"There she is! Get them!" Some unidentified girl yelled.
Jenny saw and recognized the vampire, "She's mine! Get off!"
The vampire let go of Cordelia, and the young woman crumbled to the ground, holding the wound on her neck with her hand. Drusilla licked her blood- coated lips, her fangs sparkling under the moonlight.
Willow shoved the vampire aside while Jenny jumped on an already weakened Cordelia.
Cordelia noticed how everything was so blurry, and all she saw above her was a cloud of faded out faces. She realized absently that some of the girls were grabbing at her, but her feeble protests did nothing to stop them. Xander ran outside the house and his heart tightened when he saw glimpses of Cordelia being smothered by the girls. Cordelia was pinned down to the ground as Willow raised the ax to strike.
Willow roared, "All you had to do was love me!"
Xander saw this and ran to Cordelia's aid, "No!"
He yanked the ax from his best friend's hands and regretfully shoved her to the ground. Xander put all his attention on Cordelia as he fought to the center of the mob.
"Get out of the way! Move it! Get off her!" Xander commanded.
He roughly pulled the girl that was pinning Cordelia away, and he grasped for the cheerleader's hand. He pulled her up, but her legs were like jello. Xander saw blood seeping through Cordelia's fingers on the hand that was grasping her neck and he grew even more worried. He lifted her up like a husband would carry his wife over the threshold and jogged to the house. Once inside, Xander kicked the door, slamming it in the mob's faces. With his ex-girlfriend still in his arms, Xander began running for a hiding place.
Drusilla pushed the door, utilizing her vampire strength. The door now blown off it's hinges, the girls began to push their way inside.
"I love you," another unknown girl said.
Drusilla smiled before attempting to follow, but was stopped by an invisible barrier. She looked visibly crestfallen.
She heard someone snickering behind her, "Ahh! Sorry, Dru," turning to face the person taunting her, she saw Angelus grinning, "I guess you're not invited."
Drusilla whimpered.
~*~
Running by the front door with a nearly passed out Cordelia in his arms, Xander stood face to face with a knife-wielding Joyce. Cordelia noticed that Xander stopped, and she slowly turned her face at Joyce.
The older woman paid no mind to Cordelia's condition while stating, "It's never gonna work for us, Cordelia. We have to end it."
Cordelia lolled her head back into Xander's chest in response.
Two other girls ran up from behind Buffy's mom, and Xander headed to the basement as quickly as he could.
Once inside, he leaned Coredelia against the wall as he locked the door. Xander looked back at Cordelia, and took in the cheerleader's ashened face. Her hand was held limply at her neck, her blood caked on her fingers. Xander daintily lifted her hand to see two holes. Once there was no pressure on the wound, more blood oozed from the twin punctures.
~*~
Meanwhile, in the boiler room, Oz scanned the flashlight in the area.
"Here, Buffy," Oz called.
Buffy looked at the trap then at pile of rags. She climbed over the pile and headed straight for the trap.
~*~
Giles and Amy stand in the science lab with a beaker filled with brew right on top of a Bunsen burner. Giles checked everything to see if it was all tip top.
Satisfied, he looked at the young witch, "Okay, go on. You first."
~*~
The basement door was being pulled at ferociously, Xander nailed some planks of wood to the door frame. He looked back at Cordelia to check her status. She was sitting on some of the steps, her head lolled to side, and her hand lightly placed over neck.
"Cordelia," Xander said.
"Yeah?" Cordelia mumbled softly.
Xander sighed in relief, "Just checking."
Cordelia murmured, "If we die in here I'm so going to kick your ass." She finished off softly, "I mean it."
The young man held a soft smile at the cheerleader. Bold to the very end, he thought.
His thoughts were interrupted though, by a knife plunged right by his face. He yelped in surprise before leaning down and helping Cordelia down the stairs. He heard glass breaking and someone pleaded, "Oh, please let me touch you!"
~*~
In the science lab, Amy began her chant to reverse the spell.
"Goddess of creatures great and small, I conjure thee to withdraw," Amy's eyes turned pitch black before continuing, "Hecate, I hereby license thee to depart."
Giles sprinkled powder over the beaker and the brew sparked with electricity.
~*~
Oz, still in search of Buffy, pointed the flashlight towards a glowing swirl behind a crate. He squinted his eyes at the crate when the glow dispersed.
"Buffy?" Oz called out hesitantly.
Buffy's head popped up from behind the crate. She was human again.
~*~
Xander carried Cordelia's prone form by the washer and dryer, and he vaguely heard the basement door being yanked open. Willow crawled through the array of haphazardly nailed boards in her way.
Xander looked around frantically and he spotted a lead pipe. He grabbed it in case he needed it as a weapon. With Cordelia by the water heater, he stood protectively over his ex-girlfriend. He looked up at the stairs to see Willow prowling down with a knife-wielding Joyce behind her. More girls were following them. Soon Xander and Cordelia were trapped.
~*~
Back in the silence lab, Giles took a pinch of some herb from a jar, "Um... Diana, goddess of love, be gone." He threw the herb in the beaker to mix with the concoction. It sparkled and the watcher finished the spell, "Hear no more thy siren's song."
~*~
Willow leaded the pack of girls, closing Xander and an unconscious Cordelia in. Xander was not liking the crazed looks in all of them, and he gulped. The girls charged at them, screaming and yelling in fury. They knocked Xander down, and all he could think of doing was protecting Cordelia's prone form. He lied on top of her as the girls screamed in rage at him touching their Cordelia. They began pawing at him, scratching at him with a fury like no other. Xander's jaw clenched when he felt nails jabbed into his skin. He had to hold on, for Cordelia's sake, but he felt like he was being shredded into little pieces.
~*~
Meanwhile, back in the science lab at school, Giles held the pendent over the beaker. He dropped it in the concoction and suddenly a haze of energy fabricated above them. They held on to the lab table to keep from being knocked down from the efficacious power of the spell. The energy conveyed from the windows and began to circumvolute down into the beaker. Once done, the energy vanished as quickly as it was created.
~*~
Back in the basement, the girls just stopped suddenly. They stood, looking around at each other in confusion.
Xander slowly got up and hesitantly glanced at the perplexed mob of women.
"What's going on? Where am I? What's going on?" Some girl asked frantically.
~*~
In the boiler room, Buffy acknowledged that she wasn't alone in the room. The flashlight that was pointed in her direction was clue to that theory. She felt really cold, and gazed down, her eyes went wide at her lack of clothing. The flashlight was gone as she wrapped her arms around her nude form.
"Hi, Oz!" The blonde chirped at the guitarist.
Oz returned, "Hi."
Buffy smiled nervously, "I seem to be having a slight case of nudity here."
"But you're not a rat. So call it an upside," Oz reasoned with a small smile.
The slayer nodded in agreement before responding, "You think maybe you could get me some clothing?"
"Yes, I can. Just, uh," The werewolf paused, "don't go anywhere."
He left, but he heard Buffy's last comment, "Really not an issue."
~*~
Joyce looked around in her basement, confused as to why so many people were there, some she didn't even know.
"What... What did we..." Buffy's mother was at a loss for words.
Xander looked down at Cordelia, and he realized that he should bring the cheerleader to the hospital, "I would love to explain but." Xander hoisted Cordelia back in his arms, "I have to get Cordelia to the hospital."
Drusilla, still drinking from Cordelia, was distracted when a large mass of women charged towards her.
"There she is! Get them!" Some unidentified girl yelled.
Jenny saw and recognized the vampire, "She's mine! Get off!"
The vampire let go of Cordelia, and the young woman crumbled to the ground, holding the wound on her neck with her hand. Drusilla licked her blood- coated lips, her fangs sparkling under the moonlight.
Willow shoved the vampire aside while Jenny jumped on an already weakened Cordelia.
Cordelia noticed how everything was so blurry, and all she saw above her was a cloud of faded out faces. She realized absently that some of the girls were grabbing at her, but her feeble protests did nothing to stop them. Xander ran outside the house and his heart tightened when he saw glimpses of Cordelia being smothered by the girls. Cordelia was pinned down to the ground as Willow raised the ax to strike.
Willow roared, "All you had to do was love me!"
Xander saw this and ran to Cordelia's aid, "No!"
He yanked the ax from his best friend's hands and regretfully shoved her to the ground. Xander put all his attention on Cordelia as he fought to the center of the mob.
"Get out of the way! Move it! Get off her!" Xander commanded.
He roughly pulled the girl that was pinning Cordelia away, and he grasped for the cheerleader's hand. He pulled her up, but her legs were like jello. Xander saw blood seeping through Cordelia's fingers on the hand that was grasping her neck and he grew even more worried. He lifted her up like a husband would carry his wife over the threshold and jogged to the house. Once inside, Xander kicked the door, slamming it in the mob's faces. With his ex-girlfriend still in his arms, Xander began running for a hiding place.
Drusilla pushed the door, utilizing her vampire strength. The door now blown off it's hinges, the girls began to push their way inside.
"I love you," another unknown girl said.
Drusilla smiled before attempting to follow, but was stopped by an invisible barrier. She looked visibly crestfallen.
She heard someone snickering behind her, "Ahh! Sorry, Dru," turning to face the person taunting her, she saw Angelus grinning, "I guess you're not invited."
Drusilla whimpered.
~*~
Running by the front door with a nearly passed out Cordelia in his arms, Xander stood face to face with a knife-wielding Joyce. Cordelia noticed that Xander stopped, and she slowly turned her face at Joyce.
The older woman paid no mind to Cordelia's condition while stating, "It's never gonna work for us, Cordelia. We have to end it."
Cordelia lolled her head back into Xander's chest in response.
Two other girls ran up from behind Buffy's mom, and Xander headed to the basement as quickly as he could.
Once inside, he leaned Coredelia against the wall as he locked the door. Xander looked back at Cordelia, and took in the cheerleader's ashened face. Her hand was held limply at her neck, her blood caked on her fingers. Xander daintily lifted her hand to see two holes. Once there was no pressure on the wound, more blood oozed from the twin punctures.
~*~
Meanwhile, in the boiler room, Oz scanned the flashlight in the area.
"Here, Buffy," Oz called.
Buffy looked at the trap then at pile of rags. She climbed over the pile and headed straight for the trap.
~*~
Giles and Amy stand in the science lab with a beaker filled with brew right on top of a Bunsen burner. Giles checked everything to see if it was all tip top.
Satisfied, he looked at the young witch, "Okay, go on. You first."
~*~
The basement door was being pulled at ferociously, Xander nailed some planks of wood to the door frame. He looked back at Cordelia to check her status. She was sitting on some of the steps, her head lolled to side, and her hand lightly placed over neck.
"Cordelia," Xander said.
"Yeah?" Cordelia mumbled softly.
Xander sighed in relief, "Just checking."
Cordelia murmured, "If we die in here I'm so going to kick your ass." She finished off softly, "I mean it."
The young man held a soft smile at the cheerleader. Bold to the very end, he thought.
His thoughts were interrupted though, by a knife plunged right by his face. He yelped in surprise before leaning down and helping Cordelia down the stairs. He heard glass breaking and someone pleaded, "Oh, please let me touch you!"
~*~
In the science lab, Amy began her chant to reverse the spell.
"Goddess of creatures great and small, I conjure thee to withdraw," Amy's eyes turned pitch black before continuing, "Hecate, I hereby license thee to depart."
Giles sprinkled powder over the beaker and the brew sparked with electricity.
~*~
Oz, still in search of Buffy, pointed the flashlight towards a glowing swirl behind a crate. He squinted his eyes at the crate when the glow dispersed.
"Buffy?" Oz called out hesitantly.
Buffy's head popped up from behind the crate. She was human again.
~*~
Xander carried Cordelia's prone form by the washer and dryer, and he vaguely heard the basement door being yanked open. Willow crawled through the array of haphazardly nailed boards in her way.
Xander looked around frantically and he spotted a lead pipe. He grabbed it in case he needed it as a weapon. With Cordelia by the water heater, he stood protectively over his ex-girlfriend. He looked up at the stairs to see Willow prowling down with a knife-wielding Joyce behind her. More girls were following them. Soon Xander and Cordelia were trapped.
~*~
Back in the silence lab, Giles took a pinch of some herb from a jar, "Um... Diana, goddess of love, be gone." He threw the herb in the beaker to mix with the concoction. It sparkled and the watcher finished the spell, "Hear no more thy siren's song."
~*~
Willow leaded the pack of girls, closing Xander and an unconscious Cordelia in. Xander was not liking the crazed looks in all of them, and he gulped. The girls charged at them, screaming and yelling in fury. They knocked Xander down, and all he could think of doing was protecting Cordelia's prone form. He lied on top of her as the girls screamed in rage at him touching their Cordelia. They began pawing at him, scratching at him with a fury like no other. Xander's jaw clenched when he felt nails jabbed into his skin. He had to hold on, for Cordelia's sake, but he felt like he was being shredded into little pieces.
~*~
Meanwhile, back in the science lab at school, Giles held the pendent over the beaker. He dropped it in the concoction and suddenly a haze of energy fabricated above them. They held on to the lab table to keep from being knocked down from the efficacious power of the spell. The energy conveyed from the windows and began to circumvolute down into the beaker. Once done, the energy vanished as quickly as it was created.
~*~
Back in the basement, the girls just stopped suddenly. They stood, looking around at each other in confusion.
Xander slowly got up and hesitantly glanced at the perplexed mob of women.
"What's going on? Where am I? What's going on?" Some girl asked frantically.
~*~
In the boiler room, Buffy acknowledged that she wasn't alone in the room. The flashlight that was pointed in her direction was clue to that theory. She felt really cold, and gazed down, her eyes went wide at her lack of clothing. The flashlight was gone as she wrapped her arms around her nude form.
"Hi, Oz!" The blonde chirped at the guitarist.
Oz returned, "Hi."
Buffy smiled nervously, "I seem to be having a slight case of nudity here."
"But you're not a rat. So call it an upside," Oz reasoned with a small smile.
The slayer nodded in agreement before responding, "You think maybe you could get me some clothing?"
"Yes, I can. Just, uh," The werewolf paused, "don't go anywhere."
He left, but he heard Buffy's last comment, "Really not an issue."
~*~
Joyce looked around in her basement, confused as to why so many people were there, some she didn't even know.
"What... What did we..." Buffy's mother was at a loss for words.
Xander looked down at Cordelia, and he realized that he should bring the cheerleader to the hospital, "I would love to explain but." Xander hoisted Cordelia back in his arms, "I have to get Cordelia to the hospital."