This story came about when I was watching the fourth season of Buffy, and I thought, "Hmmm. That would be interesting." I have hopes of making this a series with Willow, and eventually Anya, dealing with the Soap Opera that is Anita Blakes Universe.
In Buffy: It's AU, Instead of D'Hoffryn showing Willow what her spells did to her friends, he showed her them saying how irrated they were with her poor me attitude. And since she was acting all petty then, she accepted his offer, but made it so that the demons stopped chasing Xander. Because I think its funny, even though I hate the B/S pairing, and also since thier only in this story in passing mention, Buffy and Spike did get married. Giles stayed blind. Nobody knows for sure what happened to Willow though everyone suspects. Later Anya did get dumped at the altar by Xander, and does get her vengence on. Again.
This story takes place in what would be the time around Season seven, but past Glory, none of the other baddies showed up.
In Anita Blake it takes place after the Killing Dance. AU from there. But don't concentrate to much on the how it fits in with the series, because the other parts of this series that I have planned, will take place in the other books, along with going along with this story. If you get to technical with it, your brain will explode.
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon owns the Buffy stuff. Laurrell K. Hamilton owns the Anita stuff.
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Prologue
Arash Ma'har, despite it's almost constant in the darkness, was a nice place. Demons, for the most part are, are neutral creatures. At least when it comes to other demons. It's humans they generally have a problem with.
But since the only humans that come to Arash Ma'har are being offered a chance to be changed into a demon, or are infact getting turned into one, Arash Ma'har stays a pretty peaceful place.
As peaceful a place as it can be when the leader of the demon realm is a vengence demon, and the dominant species there is of the vengence variety.
But it's still a nice enough place to be. The more combatitive demons stay on earth, where they belong, wreaking havoc and causing problems for the Slayer and other fighters for the good. While others only arrive on earth, or it's other realities when summoned. Either by spell, or as is more common, extreme emotion.
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Chapter One
Richard Zeeman leaned over his desk, his forehead dropped into his palms as he contemplated his life. Not that he was thinking of suicide, though it had crossed his mind, but just thinking over the events in his life.
The woman he loved, who loved him, had slept with her other boyfriend. Who was a vampire, and she was only dating to ensure his safety. Or at least that was how it had started out. Then he'd almost died, all three of them, but it had been prevented, something for which at the time he wasn't completely greatful for, but now that school was stating up again and he had something to focus on instead of the pack and Anita, he was starting to enjoy more and more.
The whole being of the living, that is.
Richard looked up startled when he heard the door connecting his room to the classroom next to it open. In the doorway stood a woman he had never seen before. She was short, a little taller than Anita, but thinner. A little more waif like without the wole malnurished look. She had pale skin, red hair, and large green eyes that were crinkled at the corners because she was smiling at him.
"Hi." She said, "I was just coming in to bring in the last few boxes of stuff, when I saw your light on. And I thought to my self, I though self' here's someone else who likes to go and set up their classrooms at 10 o'clock at night. A kindred spirit so to speak. So I figred I'd come by and introduce myself, since we're gonna be neighbors for the next school year." She walked into the room, her shoes tapping on the tiled floor and came to a stop infront of the lab table he was sitting behind and presented him with her hand, "I'm Willow Rosenberg. Your classrooms bigger than mine. Thats not really fair. Just because I'm the newbie, and I'm babbling so I'm going to stop now so you can say your name."
"Richard Zeeman." He replied, regarding the young woman. She looked really young, 23 or 24 at most. That didn't surprise him, he'd strted teaching around the same age, and there were younger teachers.
"Have you been teaching long?" She asked, leaning against the table, her eyes lit with interest. But it didn't seem like the same kind of interest that he usually recieved from women. Richard wasn't a conceited man, but he knew he was good looking, he was used to women getting to know him just because he was handsome. Not really listening to what he was saying, but just looking at him.
And that sounded concieted, but it was the truth. But Willow Rosenberg didn't seem to be watching him like she wanted to jump him. More like she just was a friendly person who liked to know who and what was going on around her.
"A few years." He replied, "You?"
"Well I taught highschool for a little while. This is really my first year of teaching though."
"Thats a weird answer."
"I know. I was still in highschool when I took over for Ms. Calendar. She died, I was the smartest girl in school, and I knew my way around a computer, so I got the job. But I tutored people all my life. Well I say tutor, they say torture, but hey, potatoe, potatoh." She shrugged, "And thats like teaching. But for the work I did with Xander and Percy, whoo boy, I should of been getting paid the national treasury." She smiled again to show she was just joking around, and her smile seemed to be contageous, because he found himself to be smiling for the first time in the two weeks since Anita and he had broken up.
"Hey look at that. A smile. Very much an improvement over Mr. Frowny whom I was first introduced to." That actually pulled a chuckle out of him, although a reluctant one, and she seemed to be proud of herself when she heard it. A few seconds later she excused herself from the room to get back to work in her class.
"This is gonna take a while." She muttered to herself, the quirky smile that she had on her face while talking to Richard dropping, as she regarded her classroom. Snapping her fingers everything she had yet to put up to decorate her room flew into place, silently. And she nodded her improvement, unfortunately snapping her fingers at MR. Zeeman wouldn't make him make a wish.
She was going to have to go all out for this one. She was going to have to befriend him, gain his trust, before he would even confide in her about his recent breakup. Much less make a wish about something for revenge against Miss. Anita Blake. Vampire Executioner extraordinair.
Please. She had guns and a large dollop of good luck.
Willow wished she was still friends with Buffy, and wished that Buffy was in this reality just so she could put "The Executioner" in her place.
Maybe she could talk Faith into doing it. She was in prison, had been for over two years, she was probably ready for a little break from the montony of day to day life in the joint. A trip to another realm would make for some interesting "Wish you were here." stories.
But she was all redemptiony now, trying to become Angel Junior.
Willow let out a sigh.
Being a vengence demon, or Justice Demon, as Halfrek called them, was hard work.
"Especially," Willow thought, sticking her tounge out at the door that connected Richard Zeeman's and her classrooms, "when people make it harder than necessary."
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TBC
This isn't a fluffy romance story, Willows not going to give up her demonhood to stay with Richard in the end. I'm not saying nothing will happen between the two, but it's not going to be a happy ever after deal, because that won't work for the ones I have planned in the future.
So in the end, if people like this, they will meet again.
But I won't know if you like it unless you review.
So do that please.
In Buffy: It's AU, Instead of D'Hoffryn showing Willow what her spells did to her friends, he showed her them saying how irrated they were with her poor me attitude. And since she was acting all petty then, she accepted his offer, but made it so that the demons stopped chasing Xander. Because I think its funny, even though I hate the B/S pairing, and also since thier only in this story in passing mention, Buffy and Spike did get married. Giles stayed blind. Nobody knows for sure what happened to Willow though everyone suspects. Later Anya did get dumped at the altar by Xander, and does get her vengence on. Again.
This story takes place in what would be the time around Season seven, but past Glory, none of the other baddies showed up.
In Anita Blake it takes place after the Killing Dance. AU from there. But don't concentrate to much on the how it fits in with the series, because the other parts of this series that I have planned, will take place in the other books, along with going along with this story. If you get to technical with it, your brain will explode.
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon owns the Buffy stuff. Laurrell K. Hamilton owns the Anita stuff.
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Prologue
Arash Ma'har, despite it's almost constant in the darkness, was a nice place. Demons, for the most part are, are neutral creatures. At least when it comes to other demons. It's humans they generally have a problem with.
But since the only humans that come to Arash Ma'har are being offered a chance to be changed into a demon, or are infact getting turned into one, Arash Ma'har stays a pretty peaceful place.
As peaceful a place as it can be when the leader of the demon realm is a vengence demon, and the dominant species there is of the vengence variety.
But it's still a nice enough place to be. The more combatitive demons stay on earth, where they belong, wreaking havoc and causing problems for the Slayer and other fighters for the good. While others only arrive on earth, or it's other realities when summoned. Either by spell, or as is more common, extreme emotion.
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Chapter One
Richard Zeeman leaned over his desk, his forehead dropped into his palms as he contemplated his life. Not that he was thinking of suicide, though it had crossed his mind, but just thinking over the events in his life.
The woman he loved, who loved him, had slept with her other boyfriend. Who was a vampire, and she was only dating to ensure his safety. Or at least that was how it had started out. Then he'd almost died, all three of them, but it had been prevented, something for which at the time he wasn't completely greatful for, but now that school was stating up again and he had something to focus on instead of the pack and Anita, he was starting to enjoy more and more.
The whole being of the living, that is.
Richard looked up startled when he heard the door connecting his room to the classroom next to it open. In the doorway stood a woman he had never seen before. She was short, a little taller than Anita, but thinner. A little more waif like without the wole malnurished look. She had pale skin, red hair, and large green eyes that were crinkled at the corners because she was smiling at him.
"Hi." She said, "I was just coming in to bring in the last few boxes of stuff, when I saw your light on. And I thought to my self, I though self' here's someone else who likes to go and set up their classrooms at 10 o'clock at night. A kindred spirit so to speak. So I figred I'd come by and introduce myself, since we're gonna be neighbors for the next school year." She walked into the room, her shoes tapping on the tiled floor and came to a stop infront of the lab table he was sitting behind and presented him with her hand, "I'm Willow Rosenberg. Your classrooms bigger than mine. Thats not really fair. Just because I'm the newbie, and I'm babbling so I'm going to stop now so you can say your name."
"Richard Zeeman." He replied, regarding the young woman. She looked really young, 23 or 24 at most. That didn't surprise him, he'd strted teaching around the same age, and there were younger teachers.
"Have you been teaching long?" She asked, leaning against the table, her eyes lit with interest. But it didn't seem like the same kind of interest that he usually recieved from women. Richard wasn't a conceited man, but he knew he was good looking, he was used to women getting to know him just because he was handsome. Not really listening to what he was saying, but just looking at him.
And that sounded concieted, but it was the truth. But Willow Rosenberg didn't seem to be watching him like she wanted to jump him. More like she just was a friendly person who liked to know who and what was going on around her.
"A few years." He replied, "You?"
"Well I taught highschool for a little while. This is really my first year of teaching though."
"Thats a weird answer."
"I know. I was still in highschool when I took over for Ms. Calendar. She died, I was the smartest girl in school, and I knew my way around a computer, so I got the job. But I tutored people all my life. Well I say tutor, they say torture, but hey, potatoe, potatoh." She shrugged, "And thats like teaching. But for the work I did with Xander and Percy, whoo boy, I should of been getting paid the national treasury." She smiled again to show she was just joking around, and her smile seemed to be contageous, because he found himself to be smiling for the first time in the two weeks since Anita and he had broken up.
"Hey look at that. A smile. Very much an improvement over Mr. Frowny whom I was first introduced to." That actually pulled a chuckle out of him, although a reluctant one, and she seemed to be proud of herself when she heard it. A few seconds later she excused herself from the room to get back to work in her class.
"This is gonna take a while." She muttered to herself, the quirky smile that she had on her face while talking to Richard dropping, as she regarded her classroom. Snapping her fingers everything she had yet to put up to decorate her room flew into place, silently. And she nodded her improvement, unfortunately snapping her fingers at MR. Zeeman wouldn't make him make a wish.
She was going to have to go all out for this one. She was going to have to befriend him, gain his trust, before he would even confide in her about his recent breakup. Much less make a wish about something for revenge against Miss. Anita Blake. Vampire Executioner extraordinair.
Please. She had guns and a large dollop of good luck.
Willow wished she was still friends with Buffy, and wished that Buffy was in this reality just so she could put "The Executioner" in her place.
Maybe she could talk Faith into doing it. She was in prison, had been for over two years, she was probably ready for a little break from the montony of day to day life in the joint. A trip to another realm would make for some interesting "Wish you were here." stories.
But she was all redemptiony now, trying to become Angel Junior.
Willow let out a sigh.
Being a vengence demon, or Justice Demon, as Halfrek called them, was hard work.
"Especially," Willow thought, sticking her tounge out at the door that connected Richard Zeeman's and her classrooms, "when people make it harder than necessary."
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TBC
This isn't a fluffy romance story, Willows not going to give up her demonhood to stay with Richard in the end. I'm not saying nothing will happen between the two, but it's not going to be a happy ever after deal, because that won't work for the ones I have planned in the future.
So in the end, if people like this, they will meet again.
But I won't know if you like it unless you review.
So do that please.