All flames will be used to heat my freezing house... It is ridicous to have 30 below weather in may. But whatever... Please don't flame me. I used part of the original chapter I wrote for the end and part of a story I threw out (that will be a flash back to 1880) Just warning you. Oh and this chapter is extremely long, so have a snack and drinks ready....
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Giles just stood in disbelief, "I don't believe that Buffy would do something like this. To betray all of us... It has to be a spell or something..."
Xander nodded in agreement, "I agree. The Buffster would never do anything like this. This just isn't her."
"Dru must have her in a trance." Angel said simply. "We have to rescue her from them, who knows what they'll make her do."
Kendra was the one who stayed silent the whole time, she had had a feeling that Buffy wasn't exactly on the side of good. But she had this feeling...
Willow was having a panic attack, "So what are we going to do? We can't leave her there. They'll make her kill."
"We won't." Giles said with authority. "But we need a plan."
"I can help with that. I know Drusilla and Spike the best. They're... They're my childer. I know how outsmart them." Angel replied.
"I'm in too." Xander said.
"Me three." Willow said softly.
Cordy just looked serious. There was something wrong here, it felt like they didn't know something. She better go along just to make sure nothing bad would happen, to Buffy or Xander. "I'll go."
That surprised everyone, but it was Kendra that saw the true purpose between Cordy's decision. "I'ma com'n too." Cordy looked up and she saw a sister in understanding.
Giles smiled, "Good now that everyone is agreed, we should decide on a plan of attack..."
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"I don't want to hurt them Sil." Buffy whispered through her tears. She had awoken crying, waking up Drusilla and Spike. They were now trying to comfort the sobbing girl.
"I don't want to kill them."
"We don't expect you to dearie. Mummie nevers wants her little girl to know about that." Sil said softly to Buffy. She had always thought of the young slayer as her daughter.
"We know they're like your extended family luv. We would never do that to you." Spike spoke through the darkness. "Just like we would never have you kill Joyce."
"So we don't..."
"No luv."
"Even Angel? I know he hurt Sil, but they're are other ways of punishing him."
Spike and Dru raised their eyebrows, "Like what?" Spike asked cynically.
"Making that soul permanent, instead of allowing it to leave if he ever experienced happiness."
"You mean it isn't ..." Dru asked softly, there was a tone of worry in her voice.
Buffy shook her head, "No, it isn't. But we could make it couldn't we Silli? Couldn't we?"
Drusilla looked skeptical, then consulting the spirits, she nodded. "We could do that dearie, we could make the soul permanent."
Spike nodded then, "Right then, here we go."
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"So what do we do with this one boss."
"Leave him to me."
The vampire nodded, he knew to obey the new mistress's commands, so many others had be dusted because they had pissed her off. Then he was gone.
"Tsk tsk, I thought you would know not to get caught by vampires Xander."
"H..how do you know my name?" Xander asked the dark haired woman.
"Lets just say you've had dealings with a very close friend of mine. And now you've tried to betray her."
"Buffy." Xander inhaled sharply, Buffy knew this psycho? Why would she join forces with her. That wasn't Buffy, there had to be something more to this.
The vampire smiled, "Time to teach you a lesson boy, bad boys get punished for betrayal." She raised the whip...
"What are you doing Sil?" Buffy said as she entered the room, then stopped suddenly upon seeing Xander. "Well hello Xander. Long time no see." Her accent was obviously British.
"Buffy you have to fight whatever hold they have over you. We need you to…"
"Hold over me. That's a laugh." Buffy said softly, "Drusilla would never hurt me. She's almost like a mother to me you wanker."
"Buffy it is time to deal with our little problem." Drusilla said in that psycho voice of hers.
"Kay, can I do the honors."
"Sure.." Just then there was the busting of glass and fire everywhere. Giles came through the glass holding a crossbow.
"You won't hurt Xander, Buffy I won't let you."
"What are you going to do Giles, shoot me?" She made a motion in the air and two vampires appeared out of no where. "Too bad Giles. You weren't quick enough."
She turned around, "Then again, neither was Angel, Jenny or Willow."
The lights of the warehouse came on, showing all the others bound and chained. Angel was the one that looked the worse off, since he was unconscious.
Giles looked panicked for a moment, then he became calm again. "Don't worry they don't have Kendra yet."
"Kendra, oh you mean the black Jamaican slayer right. Sorry mate already took care of her. Actually I should probably say me and Buffy took care of her. Along with Cordelia, noisy chit, but I think I like her." A voice came out of the darkness, then he stepped out.
"So you are Spike."
"That's right mate. And I hear you've train my little girl here." Spike said striding down the stairs, "I should thank you, you did a good job. Especially taking over as her father, the one she had was sicking. Never could figure out what Joyce saw in him."
"I figure out a way to alter whatever you did to Buffy." Giles threatened.
Spike just laughed, "Didn't do anything to her mate. I just helped to raise her."
Giles flinched back, "No…"
"Yes my pet. We taught our little girl everything she knows." Dru said with a grin.
"So you're going to kill us."
"Nah." Buffy answered nonchalantly.
Giles looked up with hope, "Buffy…"
"You're going to help us cure Sil." Buffy said softly.
Giles looked appalled at the suggestion. "And why would we do that? They are controlling you Buffy, they will destroy you like that did their families."
Spike looked different from the cockey man that he made himself out to be. "Drusilla and I never killed our families. That was Angelus and Darla."
London 1880
"You know daddy I never realized how ironic life is?" Eight-year-old Eleanor whispered softly while tracing the letters of her father's tombstone, a sad smile on her face was the only sign of her grief.
"How when you think something will last forever, only to turn out to be completely the opposite. One moment you were living the next you weren't." The girl got up and started to pace.
Anger contorted her young and innocent looking face, but inside she felt confused, like there was a part missing from her spirit. She had lost most of her innocence in one stupid day. Innocence to death, innocence to murder, innocence to jail, innocence to rap.. Not going there. Thinking about that would only lead to more tears, right now she needed to be strong.
The only thing she felt she had left was her innocence of blood. She was going to have to be strong and careful if she even wanted to keep that. "Now I have to go get a job. Oh kill joy." On realizing what she had just said, she couldn't but giggle.
"That will be funny to see. I bet everyone will turn me away." But then she became deadly serious as her pacing ceased, "I'll make you proud though Papa. I'll figure something out. If I put my mind to it, I know I will come up with something, to help Rosemary out."
" No I can't, I can't do this alone Daddy. How will I do this? I'm sure Rosemary and me can figure out something, but how can I go on living without you?" Her eyes were brimming with tears. "You are the only family to me Papa. Rosemary… Rosemary is a good person but she doesn't understand me."
Her face contorted again with anger, "Why did you have to go to that bloody party!! Why?! I told you something bad was going to happen and you didn't believe me! I HATE YOU!" The anger drained out of the eight year old. "Daddy why did you leave me." Her should heave in silent sobs of pain and sadness.
Just then Elli heard a strange noise. It sounded like wood being cracked and broken apart. She knew where the noise was coming from, as she stared down on the ground. The thought scared her.
Then she heard something that scared her even more. People, no, not people, the air wasn't right. Vampires, vampires were coming this way.
'Oh bloody hell! This just isn't my day is it? Oh-Kay where can I 'id? Err, the mausoleum,… No that is a crypt silly." She scolded herself. Then hearing the vampires get closer, she started to panic.
'Who cares what is bloody well is, just get moving if you actually want to live to see nine.' Elli quickly ran over to the crypt and ducked inside it.
She left the door open just enough so she could see what was happening outside. The little girl watched as the vampires approached William's grave, just like she knew they would. There was a tall dark man, he looked familiar to Elli. Angelus. The name popped into her head out of thin air. What a mockery this vampire had created, using the name Angel and then killing like Satan himself.
He was the one she had run into last night when she had been trying to catch up with William. He had tried to grab her arm, but she had slipped around him in her effort to catch up with her father. There was a blond woman with her.
'How do you know all this?' Elli asked herself, but she knew there was no answer to her question. She just knew, she had always just known. It is not like anyone ever really believed her, not even her father. Elli continued to watch the vampires, when something dawned on her. She was the only one in the area with a pulse, which had just sped up, and these vampires could hear it pounding away. And they were now coming this way.
'Oh shi… god 'elp me, I'm going to die.' She tried to calm her heart and prayed to whatever deity to spare her life, it must have worked because the vampires were turning away from here and heading back to her father's grave. She listened calmly now to Angelus' reasoning of the disappearing heartbeat now that she was safe.
"Must be someone buried alive finally dying off." Angelus said in his Irish brogue, which the combination of the words and the accent made Elli shudder.
'Monster.' She thought to herself, 'That is all Angelus is…' Elli allowed her thoughts to drift off as she turned her attention to the youngest of the group, a young brunette woman.
She was obviously insane. As she listened the girl babble something about the stars telling of blood and destruction. The woman scared her, but there was something about her. Elli's train of thought was quickly broken by the sound of dirt moving away. Elli watched in horror as her father rose from the grave.
Ellie screamed in her mind, 'I can't stop my own father. I don't have the strength.'
*You won't have to kitten, Papa won't hurt you.* A voice in her head stated pleasantly. Elli froze for a moment before realizing whom it was in her head; if this hadn't happened before, she would be frightened out of her mind. She leaned her head back on the sarcophagus as her face contorted in pain.
'Hi daddy.' She watched Angelus talking to him.
*Hello tiger! Do you know what is up with this poofer? * Elli almost laughed out loud not only at the comment, but at her father's facial expressions. He knew the child was scared to death, of what he wasn't as sure.
He was obviously being impatient (whether it was intentional or not.) and really didn't want to hear what ever the poof was telling him. She watched him for a few moments before answering the question.
'Yes. Name Angelus, he is a vampire.'
Ellie could almost see William smile before he mental answered, *Oh really luv, I didn't know.*
Elli rolled her eyes before replying, 'Sorry I am really sarcastic, it is affect of being locked in a.. never mind.' The look on her Dad's face was not one of happiness, (effectively pissing off Angelus.)
*Being locked where?* His tone was rash and Elli got mad at the fact he wouldn't believe her.
'No where, it doesn't matter. I sorry to get you worried about nothing.' She watched William relax a little, reassured by the lie that his daughter had told.
'And by the way, try keep a stoical face. Angelus is getting suspicious that something is up.' Then watching him carefully she perceived he had done just as she had told him.
'Good' she said to herself, not broadcasting her thoughts as she had been doing before.
She could hear William laughing in her head. *Why are you worried about me?* She didn't have this down as good as she thought she did, William thought to himself.
Elli took a deep breathe before replying, 'I am worrying about you and me both.'
*Why are you worrying about you and me pet.* Concern was in his mental voice even as he continued to make sarcastic comments at Angelus.
Elli watched it all and weeping. She knew she had to tell him but… It would hurt him. 'I worry about because I am afraid Angelus will kill you and if not what will happen.'
Then she squeezed her eyelids shut as she told him finally what worried her the most, 'I worry for myself because I have a feeling I won't live to see morning. I want to live Daddy.'
Then there was silence for a few moments as William realized why her fear was so real. He could feel the demon's hunger and its want. Only killing would sate its intense hunger at this point, and there was a wanting to thieve on her fear. But he felt something else coming from it. A sense of… possession, he, it, the demon thought the girl was his. Both sides cared and loved the girl, even the hungry demon.
*It won't 'urt you tiger, it cares for you too.* William said in a soothing cockney voice which he had been using previously to annoy Angelus.
Elli looked out at the young brunette vampire, 'Who said I was worried about you doing what my lovely imagination is dreaming up? No, Angelus and Darla are the only ones that are causing me to stay put.'
Silence for a moment then William finally asked it. *Why?*
Continuing to watch the scene, 'You know and see the brunette girl vamp, Drusilla?'
*Yes kind of hard not to her being my sire an' all.* Elli just rolled her eyes at the comment and tried hard not to burst out in hysterical laughter, 'Well she's gifted like me. Angelus decided to play with her, make her his…pet.'
Disgust was being strongly sent William's way, and he could tell Elli wasn't done telling him everything yet. *How do you know that.*
'She was talking about the future, and she... the way they treat her Papa." His little girl replied.
Again William paused for a moment before replying, *So what does this have to do with you?*
Elli grimaced at her father's stupidity, 'I don't want to die. I don't want to die!' Then her tears started to flow and she could help but cry out. Angelus heard and started toward the crypt.
*'Bloody 'ell!!!*' Both Elli and William cried out in their heads, neither corrected each other's bad language and pronunciation.
"William my boy, it looks like you are going to get some fresh meat a little earlier then planned." Angelus said as he approached the door of the crypt.,
"Follow me, boy there is much for you to learn."
William managed to say "I am sure there is." Out loud but in his heart he was grieving, Angelus was going to catch his daughter. He just prayed that his sire wouldn't have one of her visions that Elli had spoken of and tell Angelus that Elli was a seer... Then maybe the death would be quick.
*What in the hell am I talking about? I am just going to sit here while they kill my daughter or try to make me kill my daughter? What kind of father does that make me?*
Then a soft reply flowed into his head, it was meek but it held a certainty that William admired. 'I know you wouldn't papa, but Angelus would expect you to killed every last one of us, like he did. You remember the stories Grandfather told us. He's pure evil.'
William, surprised at his daughter's memory, his father had died when she was seven years old.
"William get in here boy and help try to find your first meal." Angelus called from inside the crypt. William braced himself as he entered the crypt, but upon getting inside he found nothing to be there but a few tombs and Angelus. No Elli was to be seen. He watched as Angelus pulled off one of the tombslabs and peered inside.
"Help me boy!"
Angelus bellowed, pissing William off, "I am not your boy!"
Angelus wheeled around, "Now you look here boy, for that is exactly what you are. A fledgling is very easily killed."
Drusilla started to complain that he didn't know anything yet, but Angelus cut her off, "Yes Dru I know, I must make sure he will obey. If he won't, then we will just have to find you a new toy to play with."
Then a sound came from outside the crypt a banging noise that sounded like it was coming from halfway across the cemetery.
"Looks like the prey is on the move." Angelus said smirking, "I like a little exercise before I eat anyway." He quickly exited the crypt followed by Darla and Drusilla.
Drusilla turned around before she got out the door, and asked, "You coming pet?"
William turned toward her and answered, "In a minute luv. I just want to try out something." Drusilla smiled sadly, she knew what it was that he was going to do. "I'm sorry luv." She said in a moment of clarity, then she left.
When it was safe, William turned back toward the coffin that he had opened, "It is safe to come out now Tiger."
There was a rattling sound for a moment and then it stopped. Slowly a hand emerged from the coffin, then a head with brown hair popped up.
William stared at the little girl that he loved. Elli would have looked completely frighten without the look in her eyes, it was one of pain, anger, sorrow, and defiance. Then he knew what had happened. Her eyes held some memories that William had a feeling that she desperately wanted to forget.
She watched as emotions rushed past his face, one of them being murderous rage. That scared her to death, she knew what it meant, she knew what he would do.
"Daddy please don't, please don't. It's wrong daddy, he'll serve his time in prison. He killed somebody, he'll serve I..I'm sure of it. Please daddy please please." She was literarly begging on her knees by this time. She didn't want her father to become a monster. The look on his face wouldn't be swaded.
"The..they're just ignorant. They didn't know. I swear to god. I..it was probably my fault. I..I did something wrong. I..I must have deserved it." That got her a look of anger directed at her.
"You did no such thing, do you understand me. Nothing." She kept her head bowed she refused to look at the face of the man that she hurt.
In a softer tone of voice, William spoke softly, "Ellie, Ellie, Eleanor Lynne look at me. Look me in the eye." She looked up at him, her eyes full of tears.
"This isn't your fault. I never want to hear you say such things again. It's not your fault that those… those miscreants at that party all of this happened. But trust me those bloody bastards will pay for what they did."
Suddenly she understood that the belief that she had been holding on to was false, William could never stay and live in this world. Not anymore. "I love you Papa." She hugged her father fiercely, he hugged her back with the same intensity
As she moved toward the entrance of the crypt, she said softly, "Will, Papa, you better get going, Angelus will come back soon." William tried to protest that she needed him. But she just ran......
"He killed my daughter a day later. Somehow he found who my real family and killed my daughter." Spike said glaring at Angel.
"He killed my sisters, my dear little sisters. Ripped their throats out right in front of me. My parents..." Drusilla began to cry.
The Scooby gang looked them strangly, "You're vampires why should you care?"
"Because we're not mindless, we fought against the evil and won. We won for a families sake." Drusilla whispered softly.
"And don't try to take moral high ground. Buffy was forced to kill unruley slayers because of your council."
"What? That's n..not possible." Willow cried out.
"But it tis. Da council shots anyone unruley or dat stands in their way." Came Kendra's voice softly as she appeared. "Dat is how me mum get killed."
"I'm sorry." Buffy said, "That's what happened to me mum too. She and me papa tried to protect me. But..." She started crying, Drusilla rushed over to the young girl, Spike wasn't far behind her.
"You can't believe them," Angel cried as he regained conciousness. "They lie."
"No that would have been Angelus' job wouldn't Angel?" Cordelia said as she to stepped forward from the darkness. "I heard the stories that were told about you. And I read your crimes.. You desired to be punished."
"Xander you have to listen to me. They're trying to posion our minds." Angel whispered horsely. "She's under their control."
Xander stared at Buffy in Spike and Dru's arms, Buffy caught his glance. "My true name is Ellania, but when I met up with Drusilla and Spike they renamed me Elizabeth, after Drusilla's little sister. Before they came around I was a hit man for a special group inside the watchers council." She looked over at Giles and gave him a sad smile.
"You were right Giles originally. The council is evil, they kill the slayers that disobey them. Destory them so they can have a slayer they can control."
"Buffy how could you kill..." Xander said in shock, Willow looked very frightened, "Those were other slayers, human beings."
"When I was taken from my parents, they made me believe that I wasn't human, trying to desensitize me from feeling guilt. It didn't work, but they were right. I'm not human, not completely. I am a cross between the old race and the new. Human slayer and something older, yet something good, pure. But the council gained control of the half bred race I belong.... made them killers." She sighed.
"It was Spike and Dru who gave me to Joyce, one of their old friends from the sixties. She had lost a child, and was willing to take care of me. But a spell placed on her to make the council believe that I was truely her child, made her believe that she was my birth mother."
"She won't think that any more..." Buffy cried, Giles looked at the painstricken girl. "So I'm begging you, please help us. I can't lose any more of my family. We'll leave after it we promise, you'll never see us again."
Giles looked at the others, they nodded then he swallowed. He knew he was going to regret this. "We'll do it."
She looked at Angel, his head was bowed. "I was the one who hurt her, I help her."
"Good because you the one that is needed to healer. Blood of the sire.." Buffy said softly, Angel nodded softly. Then it began.
A year later
It was over now. They had left America soon after Dru was healed. They could rest in peace. Angel and Dru and Spike were on better speaking terms now. His soul was permanent now, not that they ever told that it wasn't. Only Giles, Spike, Dru, and herself knew that little tidbit. Kendra was the slayer on the Hellmouth now. Elizabeth knew that she was never meant to be the slayer. It was only necessary, for the time being. But she was the greatest slayer ever, that's what they had said after they believed her to be dead.
Willow, Xander, and Cordelia made her promise to write. Giles told her to call him. Ironically in those breif moments Giles and William were able to come to an understanding. It appeared Giles was one who was familar with the lose of family as well. Drusilla liked him and set him up with Joyce once she had awoken. They were now married and were going to come and visit them in New Zealand.
Angel now owned his own detective agency and had promised Cordelia employment after she graduated. Willow had hooked up with the witch that Spike had set her up with, Tara was her name. And Xander had hooked up with a ex-demon, named Anya. (Buffy hadn't even bothered to ask about this one. She had a feeling that she really didn't want to know.
And as for the British/American agency that had taken her when she was a child, lets just say they wouldn't be bothering anybody ever again. It was worth giving up that last bit of innoncence to finish it. No not that one, Dru and Spike would never let her do that. She had really never truely set a gas fire before.
They were all free now, even Angel. And she was finally at home with people who spoke her own language!
"Elizabeth, get your butt down here." Came an upper class english accent from downstairs.
"Our guests are here."
"Hold on William!"
"I told you not to call me that!" Came the voice again.
Buffy laughed as she finished up her memory book. Yeah it was good to be free.
The end.
A/N: If you don't like, deal cuz I think this was better then the last time I tried to end this story!
Less rushed. Smiles. This time I'm serious this is the end. period. Hope you enjoyed the story though.
A. Nightshade.
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Giles just stood in disbelief, "I don't believe that Buffy would do something like this. To betray all of us... It has to be a spell or something..."
Xander nodded in agreement, "I agree. The Buffster would never do anything like this. This just isn't her."
"Dru must have her in a trance." Angel said simply. "We have to rescue her from them, who knows what they'll make her do."
Kendra was the one who stayed silent the whole time, she had had a feeling that Buffy wasn't exactly on the side of good. But she had this feeling...
Willow was having a panic attack, "So what are we going to do? We can't leave her there. They'll make her kill."
"We won't." Giles said with authority. "But we need a plan."
"I can help with that. I know Drusilla and Spike the best. They're... They're my childer. I know how outsmart them." Angel replied.
"I'm in too." Xander said.
"Me three." Willow said softly.
Cordy just looked serious. There was something wrong here, it felt like they didn't know something. She better go along just to make sure nothing bad would happen, to Buffy or Xander. "I'll go."
That surprised everyone, but it was Kendra that saw the true purpose between Cordy's decision. "I'ma com'n too." Cordy looked up and she saw a sister in understanding.
Giles smiled, "Good now that everyone is agreed, we should decide on a plan of attack..."
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"I don't want to hurt them Sil." Buffy whispered through her tears. She had awoken crying, waking up Drusilla and Spike. They were now trying to comfort the sobbing girl.
"I don't want to kill them."
"We don't expect you to dearie. Mummie nevers wants her little girl to know about that." Sil said softly to Buffy. She had always thought of the young slayer as her daughter.
"We know they're like your extended family luv. We would never do that to you." Spike spoke through the darkness. "Just like we would never have you kill Joyce."
"So we don't..."
"No luv."
"Even Angel? I know he hurt Sil, but they're are other ways of punishing him."
Spike and Dru raised their eyebrows, "Like what?" Spike asked cynically.
"Making that soul permanent, instead of allowing it to leave if he ever experienced happiness."
"You mean it isn't ..." Dru asked softly, there was a tone of worry in her voice.
Buffy shook her head, "No, it isn't. But we could make it couldn't we Silli? Couldn't we?"
Drusilla looked skeptical, then consulting the spirits, she nodded. "We could do that dearie, we could make the soul permanent."
Spike nodded then, "Right then, here we go."
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"So what do we do with this one boss."
"Leave him to me."
The vampire nodded, he knew to obey the new mistress's commands, so many others had be dusted because they had pissed her off. Then he was gone.
"Tsk tsk, I thought you would know not to get caught by vampires Xander."
"H..how do you know my name?" Xander asked the dark haired woman.
"Lets just say you've had dealings with a very close friend of mine. And now you've tried to betray her."
"Buffy." Xander inhaled sharply, Buffy knew this psycho? Why would she join forces with her. That wasn't Buffy, there had to be something more to this.
The vampire smiled, "Time to teach you a lesson boy, bad boys get punished for betrayal." She raised the whip...
"What are you doing Sil?" Buffy said as she entered the room, then stopped suddenly upon seeing Xander. "Well hello Xander. Long time no see." Her accent was obviously British.
"Buffy you have to fight whatever hold they have over you. We need you to…"
"Hold over me. That's a laugh." Buffy said softly, "Drusilla would never hurt me. She's almost like a mother to me you wanker."
"Buffy it is time to deal with our little problem." Drusilla said in that psycho voice of hers.
"Kay, can I do the honors."
"Sure.." Just then there was the busting of glass and fire everywhere. Giles came through the glass holding a crossbow.
"You won't hurt Xander, Buffy I won't let you."
"What are you going to do Giles, shoot me?" She made a motion in the air and two vampires appeared out of no where. "Too bad Giles. You weren't quick enough."
She turned around, "Then again, neither was Angel, Jenny or Willow."
The lights of the warehouse came on, showing all the others bound and chained. Angel was the one that looked the worse off, since he was unconscious.
Giles looked panicked for a moment, then he became calm again. "Don't worry they don't have Kendra yet."
"Kendra, oh you mean the black Jamaican slayer right. Sorry mate already took care of her. Actually I should probably say me and Buffy took care of her. Along with Cordelia, noisy chit, but I think I like her." A voice came out of the darkness, then he stepped out.
"So you are Spike."
"That's right mate. And I hear you've train my little girl here." Spike said striding down the stairs, "I should thank you, you did a good job. Especially taking over as her father, the one she had was sicking. Never could figure out what Joyce saw in him."
"I figure out a way to alter whatever you did to Buffy." Giles threatened.
Spike just laughed, "Didn't do anything to her mate. I just helped to raise her."
Giles flinched back, "No…"
"Yes my pet. We taught our little girl everything she knows." Dru said with a grin.
"So you're going to kill us."
"Nah." Buffy answered nonchalantly.
Giles looked up with hope, "Buffy…"
"You're going to help us cure Sil." Buffy said softly.
Giles looked appalled at the suggestion. "And why would we do that? They are controlling you Buffy, they will destroy you like that did their families."
Spike looked different from the cockey man that he made himself out to be. "Drusilla and I never killed our families. That was Angelus and Darla."
London 1880
"You know daddy I never realized how ironic life is?" Eight-year-old Eleanor whispered softly while tracing the letters of her father's tombstone, a sad smile on her face was the only sign of her grief.
"How when you think something will last forever, only to turn out to be completely the opposite. One moment you were living the next you weren't." The girl got up and started to pace.
Anger contorted her young and innocent looking face, but inside she felt confused, like there was a part missing from her spirit. She had lost most of her innocence in one stupid day. Innocence to death, innocence to murder, innocence to jail, innocence to rap.. Not going there. Thinking about that would only lead to more tears, right now she needed to be strong.
The only thing she felt she had left was her innocence of blood. She was going to have to be strong and careful if she even wanted to keep that. "Now I have to go get a job. Oh kill joy." On realizing what she had just said, she couldn't but giggle.
"That will be funny to see. I bet everyone will turn me away." But then she became deadly serious as her pacing ceased, "I'll make you proud though Papa. I'll figure something out. If I put my mind to it, I know I will come up with something, to help Rosemary out."
" No I can't, I can't do this alone Daddy. How will I do this? I'm sure Rosemary and me can figure out something, but how can I go on living without you?" Her eyes were brimming with tears. "You are the only family to me Papa. Rosemary… Rosemary is a good person but she doesn't understand me."
Her face contorted again with anger, "Why did you have to go to that bloody party!! Why?! I told you something bad was going to happen and you didn't believe me! I HATE YOU!" The anger drained out of the eight year old. "Daddy why did you leave me." Her should heave in silent sobs of pain and sadness.
Just then Elli heard a strange noise. It sounded like wood being cracked and broken apart. She knew where the noise was coming from, as she stared down on the ground. The thought scared her.
Then she heard something that scared her even more. People, no, not people, the air wasn't right. Vampires, vampires were coming this way.
'Oh bloody hell! This just isn't my day is it? Oh-Kay where can I 'id? Err, the mausoleum,… No that is a crypt silly." She scolded herself. Then hearing the vampires get closer, she started to panic.
'Who cares what is bloody well is, just get moving if you actually want to live to see nine.' Elli quickly ran over to the crypt and ducked inside it.
She left the door open just enough so she could see what was happening outside. The little girl watched as the vampires approached William's grave, just like she knew they would. There was a tall dark man, he looked familiar to Elli. Angelus. The name popped into her head out of thin air. What a mockery this vampire had created, using the name Angel and then killing like Satan himself.
He was the one she had run into last night when she had been trying to catch up with William. He had tried to grab her arm, but she had slipped around him in her effort to catch up with her father. There was a blond woman with her.
'How do you know all this?' Elli asked herself, but she knew there was no answer to her question. She just knew, she had always just known. It is not like anyone ever really believed her, not even her father. Elli continued to watch the vampires, when something dawned on her. She was the only one in the area with a pulse, which had just sped up, and these vampires could hear it pounding away. And they were now coming this way.
'Oh shi… god 'elp me, I'm going to die.' She tried to calm her heart and prayed to whatever deity to spare her life, it must have worked because the vampires were turning away from here and heading back to her father's grave. She listened calmly now to Angelus' reasoning of the disappearing heartbeat now that she was safe.
"Must be someone buried alive finally dying off." Angelus said in his Irish brogue, which the combination of the words and the accent made Elli shudder.
'Monster.' She thought to herself, 'That is all Angelus is…' Elli allowed her thoughts to drift off as she turned her attention to the youngest of the group, a young brunette woman.
She was obviously insane. As she listened the girl babble something about the stars telling of blood and destruction. The woman scared her, but there was something about her. Elli's train of thought was quickly broken by the sound of dirt moving away. Elli watched in horror as her father rose from the grave.
Ellie screamed in her mind, 'I can't stop my own father. I don't have the strength.'
*You won't have to kitten, Papa won't hurt you.* A voice in her head stated pleasantly. Elli froze for a moment before realizing whom it was in her head; if this hadn't happened before, she would be frightened out of her mind. She leaned her head back on the sarcophagus as her face contorted in pain.
'Hi daddy.' She watched Angelus talking to him.
*Hello tiger! Do you know what is up with this poofer? * Elli almost laughed out loud not only at the comment, but at her father's facial expressions. He knew the child was scared to death, of what he wasn't as sure.
He was obviously being impatient (whether it was intentional or not.) and really didn't want to hear what ever the poof was telling him. She watched him for a few moments before answering the question.
'Yes. Name Angelus, he is a vampire.'
Ellie could almost see William smile before he mental answered, *Oh really luv, I didn't know.*
Elli rolled her eyes before replying, 'Sorry I am really sarcastic, it is affect of being locked in a.. never mind.' The look on her Dad's face was not one of happiness, (effectively pissing off Angelus.)
*Being locked where?* His tone was rash and Elli got mad at the fact he wouldn't believe her.
'No where, it doesn't matter. I sorry to get you worried about nothing.' She watched William relax a little, reassured by the lie that his daughter had told.
'And by the way, try keep a stoical face. Angelus is getting suspicious that something is up.' Then watching him carefully she perceived he had done just as she had told him.
'Good' she said to herself, not broadcasting her thoughts as she had been doing before.
She could hear William laughing in her head. *Why are you worried about me?* She didn't have this down as good as she thought she did, William thought to himself.
Elli took a deep breathe before replying, 'I am worrying about you and me both.'
*Why are you worrying about you and me pet.* Concern was in his mental voice even as he continued to make sarcastic comments at Angelus.
Elli watched it all and weeping. She knew she had to tell him but… It would hurt him. 'I worry about because I am afraid Angelus will kill you and if not what will happen.'
Then she squeezed her eyelids shut as she told him finally what worried her the most, 'I worry for myself because I have a feeling I won't live to see morning. I want to live Daddy.'
Then there was silence for a few moments as William realized why her fear was so real. He could feel the demon's hunger and its want. Only killing would sate its intense hunger at this point, and there was a wanting to thieve on her fear. But he felt something else coming from it. A sense of… possession, he, it, the demon thought the girl was his. Both sides cared and loved the girl, even the hungry demon.
*It won't 'urt you tiger, it cares for you too.* William said in a soothing cockney voice which he had been using previously to annoy Angelus.
Elli looked out at the young brunette vampire, 'Who said I was worried about you doing what my lovely imagination is dreaming up? No, Angelus and Darla are the only ones that are causing me to stay put.'
Silence for a moment then William finally asked it. *Why?*
Continuing to watch the scene, 'You know and see the brunette girl vamp, Drusilla?'
*Yes kind of hard not to her being my sire an' all.* Elli just rolled her eyes at the comment and tried hard not to burst out in hysterical laughter, 'Well she's gifted like me. Angelus decided to play with her, make her his…pet.'
Disgust was being strongly sent William's way, and he could tell Elli wasn't done telling him everything yet. *How do you know that.*
'She was talking about the future, and she... the way they treat her Papa." His little girl replied.
Again William paused for a moment before replying, *So what does this have to do with you?*
Elli grimaced at her father's stupidity, 'I don't want to die. I don't want to die!' Then her tears started to flow and she could help but cry out. Angelus heard and started toward the crypt.
*'Bloody 'ell!!!*' Both Elli and William cried out in their heads, neither corrected each other's bad language and pronunciation.
"William my boy, it looks like you are going to get some fresh meat a little earlier then planned." Angelus said as he approached the door of the crypt.,
"Follow me, boy there is much for you to learn."
William managed to say "I am sure there is." Out loud but in his heart he was grieving, Angelus was going to catch his daughter. He just prayed that his sire wouldn't have one of her visions that Elli had spoken of and tell Angelus that Elli was a seer... Then maybe the death would be quick.
*What in the hell am I talking about? I am just going to sit here while they kill my daughter or try to make me kill my daughter? What kind of father does that make me?*
Then a soft reply flowed into his head, it was meek but it held a certainty that William admired. 'I know you wouldn't papa, but Angelus would expect you to killed every last one of us, like he did. You remember the stories Grandfather told us. He's pure evil.'
William, surprised at his daughter's memory, his father had died when she was seven years old.
"William get in here boy and help try to find your first meal." Angelus called from inside the crypt. William braced himself as he entered the crypt, but upon getting inside he found nothing to be there but a few tombs and Angelus. No Elli was to be seen. He watched as Angelus pulled off one of the tombslabs and peered inside.
"Help me boy!"
Angelus bellowed, pissing William off, "I am not your boy!"
Angelus wheeled around, "Now you look here boy, for that is exactly what you are. A fledgling is very easily killed."
Drusilla started to complain that he didn't know anything yet, but Angelus cut her off, "Yes Dru I know, I must make sure he will obey. If he won't, then we will just have to find you a new toy to play with."
Then a sound came from outside the crypt a banging noise that sounded like it was coming from halfway across the cemetery.
"Looks like the prey is on the move." Angelus said smirking, "I like a little exercise before I eat anyway." He quickly exited the crypt followed by Darla and Drusilla.
Drusilla turned around before she got out the door, and asked, "You coming pet?"
William turned toward her and answered, "In a minute luv. I just want to try out something." Drusilla smiled sadly, she knew what it was that he was going to do. "I'm sorry luv." She said in a moment of clarity, then she left.
When it was safe, William turned back toward the coffin that he had opened, "It is safe to come out now Tiger."
There was a rattling sound for a moment and then it stopped. Slowly a hand emerged from the coffin, then a head with brown hair popped up.
William stared at the little girl that he loved. Elli would have looked completely frighten without the look in her eyes, it was one of pain, anger, sorrow, and defiance. Then he knew what had happened. Her eyes held some memories that William had a feeling that she desperately wanted to forget.
She watched as emotions rushed past his face, one of them being murderous rage. That scared her to death, she knew what it meant, she knew what he would do.
"Daddy please don't, please don't. It's wrong daddy, he'll serve his time in prison. He killed somebody, he'll serve I..I'm sure of it. Please daddy please please." She was literarly begging on her knees by this time. She didn't want her father to become a monster. The look on his face wouldn't be swaded.
"The..they're just ignorant. They didn't know. I swear to god. I..it was probably my fault. I..I did something wrong. I..I must have deserved it." That got her a look of anger directed at her.
"You did no such thing, do you understand me. Nothing." She kept her head bowed she refused to look at the face of the man that she hurt.
In a softer tone of voice, William spoke softly, "Ellie, Ellie, Eleanor Lynne look at me. Look me in the eye." She looked up at him, her eyes full of tears.
"This isn't your fault. I never want to hear you say such things again. It's not your fault that those… those miscreants at that party all of this happened. But trust me those bloody bastards will pay for what they did."
Suddenly she understood that the belief that she had been holding on to was false, William could never stay and live in this world. Not anymore. "I love you Papa." She hugged her father fiercely, he hugged her back with the same intensity
As she moved toward the entrance of the crypt, she said softly, "Will, Papa, you better get going, Angelus will come back soon." William tried to protest that she needed him. But she just ran......
"He killed my daughter a day later. Somehow he found who my real family and killed my daughter." Spike said glaring at Angel.
"He killed my sisters, my dear little sisters. Ripped their throats out right in front of me. My parents..." Drusilla began to cry.
The Scooby gang looked them strangly, "You're vampires why should you care?"
"Because we're not mindless, we fought against the evil and won. We won for a families sake." Drusilla whispered softly.
"And don't try to take moral high ground. Buffy was forced to kill unruley slayers because of your council."
"What? That's n..not possible." Willow cried out.
"But it tis. Da council shots anyone unruley or dat stands in their way." Came Kendra's voice softly as she appeared. "Dat is how me mum get killed."
"I'm sorry." Buffy said, "That's what happened to me mum too. She and me papa tried to protect me. But..." She started crying, Drusilla rushed over to the young girl, Spike wasn't far behind her.
"You can't believe them," Angel cried as he regained conciousness. "They lie."
"No that would have been Angelus' job wouldn't Angel?" Cordelia said as she to stepped forward from the darkness. "I heard the stories that were told about you. And I read your crimes.. You desired to be punished."
"Xander you have to listen to me. They're trying to posion our minds." Angel whispered horsely. "She's under their control."
Xander stared at Buffy in Spike and Dru's arms, Buffy caught his glance. "My true name is Ellania, but when I met up with Drusilla and Spike they renamed me Elizabeth, after Drusilla's little sister. Before they came around I was a hit man for a special group inside the watchers council." She looked over at Giles and gave him a sad smile.
"You were right Giles originally. The council is evil, they kill the slayers that disobey them. Destory them so they can have a slayer they can control."
"Buffy how could you kill..." Xander said in shock, Willow looked very frightened, "Those were other slayers, human beings."
"When I was taken from my parents, they made me believe that I wasn't human, trying to desensitize me from feeling guilt. It didn't work, but they were right. I'm not human, not completely. I am a cross between the old race and the new. Human slayer and something older, yet something good, pure. But the council gained control of the half bred race I belong.... made them killers." She sighed.
"It was Spike and Dru who gave me to Joyce, one of their old friends from the sixties. She had lost a child, and was willing to take care of me. But a spell placed on her to make the council believe that I was truely her child, made her believe that she was my birth mother."
"She won't think that any more..." Buffy cried, Giles looked at the painstricken girl. "So I'm begging you, please help us. I can't lose any more of my family. We'll leave after it we promise, you'll never see us again."
Giles looked at the others, they nodded then he swallowed. He knew he was going to regret this. "We'll do it."
She looked at Angel, his head was bowed. "I was the one who hurt her, I help her."
"Good because you the one that is needed to healer. Blood of the sire.." Buffy said softly, Angel nodded softly. Then it began.
A year later
It was over now. They had left America soon after Dru was healed. They could rest in peace. Angel and Dru and Spike were on better speaking terms now. His soul was permanent now, not that they ever told that it wasn't. Only Giles, Spike, Dru, and herself knew that little tidbit. Kendra was the slayer on the Hellmouth now. Elizabeth knew that she was never meant to be the slayer. It was only necessary, for the time being. But she was the greatest slayer ever, that's what they had said after they believed her to be dead.
Willow, Xander, and Cordelia made her promise to write. Giles told her to call him. Ironically in those breif moments Giles and William were able to come to an understanding. It appeared Giles was one who was familar with the lose of family as well. Drusilla liked him and set him up with Joyce once she had awoken. They were now married and were going to come and visit them in New Zealand.
Angel now owned his own detective agency and had promised Cordelia employment after she graduated. Willow had hooked up with the witch that Spike had set her up with, Tara was her name. And Xander had hooked up with a ex-demon, named Anya. (Buffy hadn't even bothered to ask about this one. She had a feeling that she really didn't want to know.
And as for the British/American agency that had taken her when she was a child, lets just say they wouldn't be bothering anybody ever again. It was worth giving up that last bit of innoncence to finish it. No not that one, Dru and Spike would never let her do that. She had really never truely set a gas fire before.
They were all free now, even Angel. And she was finally at home with people who spoke her own language!
"Elizabeth, get your butt down here." Came an upper class english accent from downstairs.
"Our guests are here."
"Hold on William!"
"I told you not to call me that!" Came the voice again.
Buffy laughed as she finished up her memory book. Yeah it was good to be free.
The end.
A/N: If you don't like, deal cuz I think this was better then the last time I tried to end this story!
Less rushed. Smiles. This time I'm serious this is the end. period. Hope you enjoyed the story though.
A. Nightshade.