"You know what? I'm going to take care of you later. There are more
important things to take care of right now. You'd better start running.
Now. You've been warned." Turning his back on Spike as though he could be
no less important or harmful to him. "Come on Dru. There are things I'd
like to see to in this dump of a town."
With childish glee, Drusilla skipped along behind Angelus without barely another thought towards Spike who was left behind them with a stupefied expression on his face.
"Where are we going to Daddy? What trouble shall we stir here?" she asked, hurrying along behind him in her efforts to keep up.
"I have my own agenda to see to here," Angelus murmured thoughtfully. "It's time for you to seek out the Scooby group; the slayer and her friends. Tell me what you're up to. It's essential to find out what they're up to. They're going to notice that Spike is gone."
"Daddy isn't angry at her girl, is she?" Dru asked, pouting in her vamp face.
Angelus stopped in front of her. He lifted a hand to caress her face, which she immediately leaned into like a cat craving attention.
"Not angry, little one. Never that. Now go. Make your daddy proud."
With an exclamation of excitement, Drusilla moved on towards the 'Scooby' meeting. Angelus watched after her for a while, before turning his attention to his own priority.
"You and me, Faith. We're a lot alike," he murmured under his breath, heading towards the Sunnydale hospital's comatose unit.
*
Buffy sighed as she turned into her dorm room at the University. Willow still hadn't come back, but in a way, Buffy was happy about that. It meant that she could sit and dwell without seeming to be self pitying. Which was exactly what she was, but if nobody was actually there to witness it.
After what had seemed like hours patrolling, Buffy hadn't been able to catch sight of either head or hide of her ex lover, Angel, after he had left Giles'. It had been so strange seeing him there again. Enough to stir up a whole lot of old memories, and right now, she didn't know if she could deal with them.
How long was he planning to stay around this time for anyway? Was it just until this latest apocalypse was averted? Certainly sounded like him, with the history that she had with him anyway. One year he'd left to go to hell after an averted apocalypse, and of course the most recent, after the Sunnydale major-snake had been. blown up along with Buffy's second school.
That was kind of getting to be a bit of a habit; both the blowing up of schools and the leaving of her boyfriend. Neither of which did she wish to interfere here with her first here in Uni. Unfortunately, it didn't seem that she was to have a choice in the matter. Instead, it seemed she was fated to sit here, alone, and wait things out.
Now she actually found herself wishing the Willow was back here with her after all. She wondered where she had gotten to at this time of night, and decided that she must have gone back to catch up with Xander after leaving Giles'.
*
The world was a different place. Ever since the Major's ascension, all of Sunnydale had gone to hell, and the rest of the world was quickly falling into suit. Just the way that the Major had planned it with the wiring of the town. And Faith, at his very right hand. Just as she'd always known she would be.
It had just been too bad that the Scooby gang had had to be... disassembled in those early days. Not much left of them at all. Of course, they had kept the other slayer hanging around. For strictly amusement purposes. No matter how many times they showed her inadequacies in front of her face, she still gave a reaction to them. Faith sure as hell wasn't tiring of that any time soon. And what Faith wanted, the Major indulged her in.
Life was wonderful at the moment. What could possibly go wrong in a world firmly under the thumb of her and her own. About time that this dirty town paid, especially after her welcoming committee to this stinking town. They owed her this. And it was definitely time to pay.
The only thing that would make everything complete would be to find that vampire with a soul. Everyone else had been rounded up and accounted for, but for some strange reason, Angel hadn't been seen ever since the end of the ascension. It was like he hadn't heard they were keeping Buffy as their little play puppy. Either that or he didn't care. Obviously they hadn't been as closely in love as they would have had everyone think!
Still, it would be more comfortable to know that the vampire wasn't going to jump out at them and stab them in the back in any given moment. There were just some things that couldn't be helped, like. Sometimes images of what could have been between her and Angel if he hadn't been so damned well hooked up on Buffy flashed through her mind...
Where was she? This wasn't where she'd been only a moment or two ago. What was? Mmmm...
Faith closed her eyes again, this time embracing full feeling of the moment, as Angelus' cool lips moved over hers.
She was his!
Wait a second.
Faith pushed Angelus off of her roughly.
"Where the hell do you get off?" she asked angrily, her slayer strength and rapid healing kicking in straight away.
"Oh, I believe I'll be able to get off with you just fine," Angelus purred contentedly.
Faith threw her legs off the side of the hospital bed and faced him in a fighting stance.
"What are you playing at?" Faith asked suspiciously.
"I was thinking of you, actually," Angelus said, staring at her intently.
"Really. And Buffy?"
"A memory. And not a particularly good one. Got even more against her this time around. Bitch sent me to hell. Didn't seem to matter if I was all soully or not. But you..." Angelus stroked a finger down the side of her cheek, before she turned her head away sharply and glared at him. "Even when I didn't notice you, you went to get me. You wanted this part of me, actively went out to get it. You think I didn't know it? Just because it didn't work the way you had planned, don't think I wasn't jumping around in little my cage behind the soul. I was applauding your efforts, Faith, waiting for my time to play. And now I'm free. And you're awake. So what do you say, Faith? What's say we play this town like a fiddle?"
"Like a fiddle you say?" Faith relaxed her stance a little. "What makes you even believe that I'm going to go in for all of this? Why me?"
"Why you?" Angelus almost smiled at her question. "Because together, you and me Faith, we exhibit Buffy's greatest weaknesses. It's going to be a glorious game we play."
"Hah," Faith scoffed. She paced back and forth in the little room, fairly certain that no one in the area was aware yet of the change in her hospital status. "Ironic, isn't it, that I was in this coma essentially because of you. I wake up and the first thing I see is you. Becoming an integral piece of my life, aren't you?"
"Could be that way," Angelus murmured.
Faith looked over Angelus' shoulder a moment, and her eyes met with the only half lucid gaze of a period style dressed brunette.
"Who's she?" Faith asked, looking her up and down with her lip curled in such a way as to show she was not afraid.
"Ah yes, I don't think the two of you have yet had the pleasure, have you?" Angelus asked sweetly, turning so that he also had Drusilla in his sights.
As he held his hand out to her, Dru made a small purring sound.
"Ahh, that's my girl," Angelus murmured softly.
Faith just raised her eyebrows from where she lay in the hospital bed.
"As nice as this all is, if you two wanna be left alone, I'd be more than happy to oblige!" she stated, already swinging her bare from hospital gowned legs over the side of the bed before she had even finished her sentence.
With his other hand, and reflexes of a vampire, Angelus stayed her movement.
"Not so fast, Faith. I find that I would like to introduce you to another one of my children. You see, Faith, this is Drusilla."
"I like to be the first to meet my daddy's new playmates," Dru spoke in silkily insane tones.
"Right," Faith said, loathe to take her eyes of this new creature. Evidently, she knew that she was going nowhere fast in this situation, she again she turned her attention back to Angelus.
"So, where exactly do I fit into all of this?"
With childish glee, Drusilla skipped along behind Angelus without barely another thought towards Spike who was left behind them with a stupefied expression on his face.
"Where are we going to Daddy? What trouble shall we stir here?" she asked, hurrying along behind him in her efforts to keep up.
"I have my own agenda to see to here," Angelus murmured thoughtfully. "It's time for you to seek out the Scooby group; the slayer and her friends. Tell me what you're up to. It's essential to find out what they're up to. They're going to notice that Spike is gone."
"Daddy isn't angry at her girl, is she?" Dru asked, pouting in her vamp face.
Angelus stopped in front of her. He lifted a hand to caress her face, which she immediately leaned into like a cat craving attention.
"Not angry, little one. Never that. Now go. Make your daddy proud."
With an exclamation of excitement, Drusilla moved on towards the 'Scooby' meeting. Angelus watched after her for a while, before turning his attention to his own priority.
"You and me, Faith. We're a lot alike," he murmured under his breath, heading towards the Sunnydale hospital's comatose unit.
*
Buffy sighed as she turned into her dorm room at the University. Willow still hadn't come back, but in a way, Buffy was happy about that. It meant that she could sit and dwell without seeming to be self pitying. Which was exactly what she was, but if nobody was actually there to witness it.
After what had seemed like hours patrolling, Buffy hadn't been able to catch sight of either head or hide of her ex lover, Angel, after he had left Giles'. It had been so strange seeing him there again. Enough to stir up a whole lot of old memories, and right now, she didn't know if she could deal with them.
How long was he planning to stay around this time for anyway? Was it just until this latest apocalypse was averted? Certainly sounded like him, with the history that she had with him anyway. One year he'd left to go to hell after an averted apocalypse, and of course the most recent, after the Sunnydale major-snake had been. blown up along with Buffy's second school.
That was kind of getting to be a bit of a habit; both the blowing up of schools and the leaving of her boyfriend. Neither of which did she wish to interfere here with her first here in Uni. Unfortunately, it didn't seem that she was to have a choice in the matter. Instead, it seemed she was fated to sit here, alone, and wait things out.
Now she actually found herself wishing the Willow was back here with her after all. She wondered where she had gotten to at this time of night, and decided that she must have gone back to catch up with Xander after leaving Giles'.
*
The world was a different place. Ever since the Major's ascension, all of Sunnydale had gone to hell, and the rest of the world was quickly falling into suit. Just the way that the Major had planned it with the wiring of the town. And Faith, at his very right hand. Just as she'd always known she would be.
It had just been too bad that the Scooby gang had had to be... disassembled in those early days. Not much left of them at all. Of course, they had kept the other slayer hanging around. For strictly amusement purposes. No matter how many times they showed her inadequacies in front of her face, she still gave a reaction to them. Faith sure as hell wasn't tiring of that any time soon. And what Faith wanted, the Major indulged her in.
Life was wonderful at the moment. What could possibly go wrong in a world firmly under the thumb of her and her own. About time that this dirty town paid, especially after her welcoming committee to this stinking town. They owed her this. And it was definitely time to pay.
The only thing that would make everything complete would be to find that vampire with a soul. Everyone else had been rounded up and accounted for, but for some strange reason, Angel hadn't been seen ever since the end of the ascension. It was like he hadn't heard they were keeping Buffy as their little play puppy. Either that or he didn't care. Obviously they hadn't been as closely in love as they would have had everyone think!
Still, it would be more comfortable to know that the vampire wasn't going to jump out at them and stab them in the back in any given moment. There were just some things that couldn't be helped, like. Sometimes images of what could have been between her and Angel if he hadn't been so damned well hooked up on Buffy flashed through her mind...
Where was she? This wasn't where she'd been only a moment or two ago. What was? Mmmm...
Faith closed her eyes again, this time embracing full feeling of the moment, as Angelus' cool lips moved over hers.
She was his!
Wait a second.
Faith pushed Angelus off of her roughly.
"Where the hell do you get off?" she asked angrily, her slayer strength and rapid healing kicking in straight away.
"Oh, I believe I'll be able to get off with you just fine," Angelus purred contentedly.
Faith threw her legs off the side of the hospital bed and faced him in a fighting stance.
"What are you playing at?" Faith asked suspiciously.
"I was thinking of you, actually," Angelus said, staring at her intently.
"Really. And Buffy?"
"A memory. And not a particularly good one. Got even more against her this time around. Bitch sent me to hell. Didn't seem to matter if I was all soully or not. But you..." Angelus stroked a finger down the side of her cheek, before she turned her head away sharply and glared at him. "Even when I didn't notice you, you went to get me. You wanted this part of me, actively went out to get it. You think I didn't know it? Just because it didn't work the way you had planned, don't think I wasn't jumping around in little my cage behind the soul. I was applauding your efforts, Faith, waiting for my time to play. And now I'm free. And you're awake. So what do you say, Faith? What's say we play this town like a fiddle?"
"Like a fiddle you say?" Faith relaxed her stance a little. "What makes you even believe that I'm going to go in for all of this? Why me?"
"Why you?" Angelus almost smiled at her question. "Because together, you and me Faith, we exhibit Buffy's greatest weaknesses. It's going to be a glorious game we play."
"Hah," Faith scoffed. She paced back and forth in the little room, fairly certain that no one in the area was aware yet of the change in her hospital status. "Ironic, isn't it, that I was in this coma essentially because of you. I wake up and the first thing I see is you. Becoming an integral piece of my life, aren't you?"
"Could be that way," Angelus murmured.
Faith looked over Angelus' shoulder a moment, and her eyes met with the only half lucid gaze of a period style dressed brunette.
"Who's she?" Faith asked, looking her up and down with her lip curled in such a way as to show she was not afraid.
"Ah yes, I don't think the two of you have yet had the pleasure, have you?" Angelus asked sweetly, turning so that he also had Drusilla in his sights.
As he held his hand out to her, Dru made a small purring sound.
"Ahh, that's my girl," Angelus murmured softly.
Faith just raised her eyebrows from where she lay in the hospital bed.
"As nice as this all is, if you two wanna be left alone, I'd be more than happy to oblige!" she stated, already swinging her bare from hospital gowned legs over the side of the bed before she had even finished her sentence.
With his other hand, and reflexes of a vampire, Angelus stayed her movement.
"Not so fast, Faith. I find that I would like to introduce you to another one of my children. You see, Faith, this is Drusilla."
"I like to be the first to meet my daddy's new playmates," Dru spoke in silkily insane tones.
"Right," Faith said, loathe to take her eyes of this new creature. Evidently, she knew that she was going nowhere fast in this situation, she again she turned her attention back to Angelus.
"So, where exactly do I fit into all of this?"
