NOTE: Ok, set this in season six. Thanks for telling me that, Leanne! And also, bear with the age. It works with the curse…13? Get it? Yeah. Anyway, thanks so much for the reviews! Tell me your thoughts on this installment, too! (Ick, I kind of wrote it worse than it was in my head…)
"A curse? What kind of a curse?" Buffy asked, trying to hold back laughter.
"I know you're trying to laugh. But I'm dead serious."
"Ok…seriously, then."
"Well…there was this Indian guy once, and…well, long story short, I made him mad and he hexed me."
"Ok."
"He said that on my 213th birthday my lover would have to choose whether I lived or died."
"How do you know that's what he said?"
"Rough translation."
"And…uh…what would that person have to do?"
"That 'person', you, I suppose, would have some sort of trial. Was fuzzy. Something about a portal. At the time Angelus had me convinced it was a joke but now I'm kinda nervous."
"Well, that's depressing."
"Yeah, and you know what happened later? He got his soul curse."
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Buffy glanced at the clock next to her bed. It read 9 o'clock. The sun was peeking through her curtains, though not so much to burn Spike who was sleeping soundly beside her. Nothing had happened in the night, at least. The rest of the day was pretty much the same. Everyone doing their own thing, Spike still sleeping. At 6 that night the Scoobies had gotten together in the living room for a game of Clue.
"It's got to be Ms. Peacock." Xander said, giving the rest of the information to crack the case.
"Man, you're right." Said Dawn as her face fell.
"That tramp…she was probably having an affair with him." Anya muttered, upset that she'd lost.
"What's going on here?" Spike said, rubbing his eyes as he came down the stairs.
"Oh, nothing, just some Clue playing." Buffy smiled at him and he smiled back, grateful for letting him find comfort in her that night. "Sorry I didn't wake you up."
"Wait, where did you come from?" Xander asked, realizing he hadn't come from the front door. And he was in the same clothes as the night before.
"What's it to-," He started, then his face twisted in pain. "GAAAAAAAH!" He exclaimed, falling to his knees.
"Spike?" Buffy began to stand up.
"No! Nobody move!" Willow yelled. Suddenly a bright light flashed through the room, enveloping Spike and a whistling sound drowned out his cries.
"What's going on?" Dawn yelled.
"It's some sort of spell…I think it-," She cut off, surprised. Just as suddenly as it had started, the light went away leaving Spike unconscious and a swirly, pink thing a few feet away from him.
"I know what it is…" Buffy said quietly. "It's a portal, and I'm the one that has to go into it." She stood up as everyone watched, then started running towards it.
"Noooooooo!" Xander cried, diving in front of her and unfortunately into the portal. With a slurping sound it closed up, leaving a pile of scattered papers in its place.
"What the hell did he just do?" Buffy said from her place on the floor.
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He landed hard in a dimly lit street. "Ouch…" He said to himself, rubbing his back. He then noticed the road…it was cobbled. He looked up at the building beside him and noticed he was in an alley. "Where am I?" He wandered into the street, looking around wildly. Everything seemed…old fashioned. And it was night, which didn't help much.
"Oh, Violet! You can be so queer at times!" A shrill voice said out of the darkness, followed by giggling.
"No, I believe I saw something. For honest, Jo. For honest." Xander hid in the alley again and watched as two women with frilly, fancy dresses walked by. They look like something out of 'From Hell'. He thought. They stopped suddenly, and he panicked thinking they saw him. He was just about to greet them when he heard a voice from the opposite direction.
"Evening, ladies. Did I frighten you?" The voice sounded familiar, but Xander just couldn't place it.
"Oh, my friend here is frightened easily. Aren't you, Violet?"
"It's alright." The voice said. His footsteps echoed over the stones and stopped where Xander guessed the ladies were standing. "It's just my friend and I. Angelus, come here for a moment, will you?" Ok, this is weird. He thought. "We won't hurt you, friends-," The first voice said.
"No, Spike, we won't." Said Angelus sneeringly.
"Not much, at least." With that said, Xander took off running down the alley. Where was he? And why was he listening Spike and Angel kill two women? Had he gone back in time?
