Chapter 9
Note: laughs sheepishly. oops, I had accidentally cut off the second half of chapter 8 and I hadn't realized that until I read the review by soulwarrior. Sorrie. notice how there wasn't a 'cont.' at the bottom of chapter 8 like there usually is for every chapter that I have? _ really sorry! Yeah, so I'm making the 2nd half chapter 9.
Oh yeah, one more thing, I donno if I mentioned this. I screwed up on Dawn's age. I meant to say that she was a sophmore in college, not high school. Geez, if she were still a sophomore in high school, she wouldn't have aged at all.
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The vampires snarled and slashed out a few times as they William and the group to huddle closer together. Cordy turned to Wesley and whispered, "We have to get William, Tommy, Aoide and Dawn out of here fast."
Wesley shook his head, "We don't have a chance. Even with Angel, we've never faced this many vamps."
Cordy looked over to William, who was carrying Dawn, with a worried expression. "Geez, he doesn't even know what's going on. He's going to totally freak out."
Lilah stepped out of the group of vampires. "Too bad Angel isn't here, but I can settle for killing some of his team, for now." Then she turned to the vampires. "Dinner is waiting."
Some of the vampires laughed as others licked their lips. "I can't wait to taste that one." One of the vampires called out while pointing to Dawn. Dawn whimpered as she buried her face into William's light gray coat.
Unnoticed by anyone, William and Aoide looked at each other. William mouthed, 'go ahead' to Aoide and she winked back and put up her arms in a fighting pose.
One the vampires called out, "Hey, she's a feisty one, and her blood smells especially sweet." The others agreed and soon the latter of the group moved closer to William and Aoide.
Suddenly, one impatient vampire leaped out at Aoide and instigated the chaotic fight. William quickly gave Dawn to Anya and told her to quickly get away with Dawn, Willow and her son. However, the dense group of vampires left no opening.
Aoide deftly executed two vampires with a sickening snap of their neck. Xander, Cordy and Wesley were trying their best to fend off the vampires with kicks and punches, but to no avail. Cordy glanced over to Aoide and saw that she was fairing very well. She turned to Wesley. "We don't have to worry about William's friend."
Wesley gave Cordy a confused look and glanced at where Aoide was, "Wow, she fights like a." Wesley didn't finish his sentence as his eyes widened. "Oh, she is!"
Cordy nodded in agreement. "But I don't think an amateur can fight this many at once, we're really screwed."
William resorted to kicking and punching, not wanting to give himself away unless necessary. Anya yelled out as she was slashed by one of the vampires' claws, in that second another vampire grabbed ahold of Dawn. Dawn let out a piercing scream as a hungry vampire grabbed onto her injured ankle. Willow ran over and tried hitting the vampires holding Dawn, but to no avail.
William's resolution broke as he swiftly pulled out the sword hidden in his coat and killed the two vampires that had their hands on Dawn. "Leave Platelet alone!" William shouted, not realizing that a slight English accent had slipped out.
Another scream came from Tommy as a vampire readied to bite the five-year old, William disappeared and reappeared behind the attacking vampire and decapitated it in one swift slice. William put down Tommy and whispered to him. "Do as Uncle William says, stay down on the ground. Understood?"
Tommy nodded, too confused to question why William told him to stay down. William took Tommy and ran over to Anya, "Get Dawn and stay as low as you can to the ground!"
Anya nodded and kneeled down, huddling with Dawn, Willow and Tommy.
William killed another vampire as she rushed over to the others. "Aoide, Xander, Wesley, Cordy! DUCK!"
The group's eyes widened, but they did as he said when they saw Aoide pushed Xander down to the ground.
"What's going on?!" Xander cried out as he spat out the gravel that had found its way into his mouth.
"Shut up and stay down unless you want to be mutilated!" Aoide hissed at him.
William spun around and dusted a vampire mid-lunge. Once he was sure that everyone was on the ground, his eyes turned purple. An eerie glow began to form around his body and in that instant all the remaining vampires suddenly became dust, leaving a defenseless Lilah standing there.
Lilah's voice trembled as she backed away, "Who? What are you?"
William remained silent as he plunged his sword into Lilah's heart and gave a sharp twist. ~~~
Angel paced as he looked at the clock, "They're 45 minutes late!"
Gunn sighed as he threw his hands into the air. "Would you please stop pacing, you're making the situation worse. I mean, for all we know, they could be held up in traffic. You know highway 5 is still back up even during 10 at night."
Lorne rushed into the hotel and Angel quickly ran to him, "Have you seen them? Are they okay?"
Lorne shook his head, "I haven't seen them. Anyways I wasn't out looking for them. I've got some bad news about our 'friend' William."
Buffy and Giles quickly stood up walked over to Lorne. Buffy's expression was worse than worry, "Bad news?"
Lorne ran his hand through his hair, "Yeah, I was down at a demon bar and you would have never guessed who I saw there."
Giles stuttered, "W-who?"
"Lucifer."
"Okay, what does Lucifer have to do with William."
"Well, it turns out that William had just beaten the crap out of him not too long ago. Lucifer says that the only people he can think of who can beat him are high level hell gods."
Buffy became tense, "You mean like Glory?"
Lorne remembered Buffy tell him about how they had fought a female hell god and how she ended up dying for a second time. Later he had done some research on her, " No. not like Glory."
Angel let out a sigh of relief.
"It's worse. Glory was considered a low leveled hell god, almost like a minion hell god. I mean, high-leveled hell gods aren't just powerful, they're extremely intelligent and sadistic. For all we know, William might be messing with us right now."
At that moment the bruised and injured group entered the hotel.
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"You!" Buffy hissed as she ran at William, who was carrying Dawn.
Angel followed not too far behind Buffy once he saw Cordy limp in with a huge gash on her head.
Xander recognized Buffy's patented, 'You're dead' look and yelled out to her. "Wait! You don't want to attack him!"
But it was too late, as Buffy's leg shot out at Willam's head, William's eyes turned purple once more. Dawn scream, "Please don't kill them!"
Buffy and Angel cried out as they suddenly became suspended in the air, at least 10 feet from the ground. William silently walked over to a nearby chair and placed Dawn in it. "I'll take care of them."
"You evil, hell, demon!" Buffy screamed at him, "Put me down and fight me like a man!"
William dropped Buffy and Angel and slowly approached them. Dawn cried out as she got out of the chair and crawled over to William, "Please" she began to cry, "Don't hurt them, they didn't mean to attack you. I swear, just don't hurt them!"
William's voice was steady as he looked down at Dawn, "Niblet." He softly said with a slight English accent and with a confused tone. "You're hurt. Please go sit back in the seat."
"I'm fine!" Dawn yelled. "Just don't hurt them."
William's eyes were still violet colored a little distant, like he was looking right through Dawn. He kneeled down and looked at her injured ankle. "Please Spike, don't hurt Buffy."
'Spike if you love her, why did you hurt her like that?'
William's eyes widened at the sudden memory and backed away. "No."
"That's right. Get away from her!" Buffy yelled at William as she began to stand up
'You're an evil, soulless, disgusting thing. I could never love you!'
William stood up and clutched his head, yelling out, "NO!."
Suddenly images flashed of Buffy giving him hateful glares, Dawn giving him disappointed looks, Xander insulting him and a million other images began to push at the frail gates, threatening to spill out.
Anya put a hand on William's shoulder. "William, are you okay?"
William recoiled from her touch. "Leave me alone!"
He quickly began to back away from the group and towards the door, "Just leave me the hell alone!. And you two!" William pointed at Buffy and Angel. "If I ever see either of you again. Dawn won't be there to stop me from killing you. Stay the f**k out of my life! Aoide, we're leaving."
William and Aoide promptly retreated, leaving the group stunned. ~~~
After the injured party was taken care of, the group settled down in one of the larger hotel rooms.
Angel sighed as he paced back and forth. "How did you guys get hurt?"
Xander spoke up, "Gee Deadboy, I thought you'd never ask. We were attacked by about 40 vampires led by a pissed off Lilah."
Giles sputtered, 'H-how on earth did you all fight them? I mean, even in the past, we have never battled that many at a time."
Wesley spoke up, "Well, first of all. The girl who was with William was the next slayer."
Buffy threw her hand up, "Great, another evil slayer!"
Dawn yelled at Buffy, "Why do you think that William is evil!"
Lorne replied, "I overheard from Lucifer that William was a hell god."
Dawn waved her hand, "Hello! It's Lucifer! Why would you trust Lucifer? I mean wouldn't it have crossed your mind that he was lying to you?"
"But he wasn't directly speaking to me! He was telling someone else!"
"Well, he could be trying to attack William! And he knew you were there and he must have thought that if you thought that William was evil, then you'd help him kill William!"
"Woah, slow down kiddo. You're confusing me." Xander said as he rubbed his head.
Lorne shoved his hands into his pockets. "Actually, that may be a possibility."
Buffy yelled out, "But he threatened to kill us!"
Anya put her hand on her hips, "No, not us. Just you and Angel."
"He's going to kill me! And probably corrupt another slayer!"
"Geez sis, paranoid much?"
Willow finally spoke out, "Actually, Aoide is pretty nice, she's not all wild and rebellious, she's actually pretty calm too. She's not arrogant either like Kendra was. I mean, she's sort of like you Buffy, without the hot tempered part."
"Are you saying that I have a bad temper!"
"Well.right now."
"Willow!"
Willow whimpered and shrunk back, "Okay, shutting up now."
Angel yelled out, "Hold it! You haven't told us how you managed to escape from Lilah and the vampires. I know that Aoide is a slayer, but one slayer can't kill that many vampires at once."
Cordy rolled her eyes, "Well, if you had let us finish talking you would have known that Aoide didn't kill the vampires."
Fred looked stunned, "Wow, you guys did?"
"No we didn't even have weapons. William killed them."
Angel furrowed his brow. "Okay I am assuming that between Aoide and all of you, at most you killed about 10 vampires without weapons. How could William have killed the rest."
Wesley coughed, "He had a sword, but that's not how he killed them."
Buffy was at the end of her patience. "Would you all stop being so vague and just tell us how the hell he kill them?!"
"Buff, he just killed them with a thought." Xander quietly replied.
"You mean he blinked and they suddenly went poof?" Buffy sarcastically replied, not wanting to believe what Xander said.
Dawn shook her head, "No, actually his eyes turned purple, like when he made you and Angel levitate."
The group grew silent. After a while Gunn finally said out loud what the group was thinking, "We're in deep sh*t."
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William wheezed as he quickly undid his tie and took off his dress shirt. He rushed into the bathroom and splashed water on his face, 'I don't remember anything, I don't remember anything, I don't remember anything.' he chanted in his head. He squeezed his eyes closed and clung onto the sink as a wave of dizziness and sickness wracked his body. He let out a few dry sobs, 'These feelings, I can't be feeling this. No, go away, go away. I beg you go away.' There was a light knock on William's door. "Are you okay William?" Aoide asked from the other side.
William quickly wiped his face dry on the nearby towel, cleared his throat and yelled back, "Yeah I'm fine. Just tired, you know. those vampires."
Aoide stared at the door, she knew that William was lying. On the way back home, he was hitting 120 mph and he had this horrible haunted look on his face.
She sighed and went back into her room, there was no point in try to force him out of his room. It wasn't like he would say anything once she got him out.
William waited silently, leaning against the wall near the door to his room. When he finally heard Aoide leave, he let out a sigh. She didn't need to get involved in this. No one did. It wasn't like she could help in the final battle. The side he was taking was based off of Spike's knowledge of the world. Sure there were a lot nice things that humans created and indulged in, but it seems that humans were inherently unaccepting, cruel and unforgiving. Perhaps that's why he had subconsciously wanted to talk to Lucifer.
Suddenly another wave of past memories rushed him. William groaned and rubbed the bridge of his nose, he hastily strode into the bathroom and opened the medicine cabinet with trembling hands. He hurriedly popped the cap off and filled a glass cup with water. He took shallow breaths, trying to will away the oncoming memories. In his haste he swallowed about 7 sleeping pills and drown them down with several cups of water.
William clung to the walls as he stumbled to bed. Yes, sleep would make it go away. It was so painful, it felt like something was eating away his insides. For the first time in many years he felt fear seep into him. And soon sleep overcame him like dark waters drowning him in his past.
Cont.
Note: laughs sheepishly. oops, I had accidentally cut off the second half of chapter 8 and I hadn't realized that until I read the review by soulwarrior. Sorrie. notice how there wasn't a 'cont.' at the bottom of chapter 8 like there usually is for every chapter that I have? _ really sorry! Yeah, so I'm making the 2nd half chapter 9.
Oh yeah, one more thing, I donno if I mentioned this. I screwed up on Dawn's age. I meant to say that she was a sophmore in college, not high school. Geez, if she were still a sophomore in high school, she wouldn't have aged at all.
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The vampires snarled and slashed out a few times as they William and the group to huddle closer together. Cordy turned to Wesley and whispered, "We have to get William, Tommy, Aoide and Dawn out of here fast."
Wesley shook his head, "We don't have a chance. Even with Angel, we've never faced this many vamps."
Cordy looked over to William, who was carrying Dawn, with a worried expression. "Geez, he doesn't even know what's going on. He's going to totally freak out."
Lilah stepped out of the group of vampires. "Too bad Angel isn't here, but I can settle for killing some of his team, for now." Then she turned to the vampires. "Dinner is waiting."
Some of the vampires laughed as others licked their lips. "I can't wait to taste that one." One of the vampires called out while pointing to Dawn. Dawn whimpered as she buried her face into William's light gray coat.
Unnoticed by anyone, William and Aoide looked at each other. William mouthed, 'go ahead' to Aoide and she winked back and put up her arms in a fighting pose.
One the vampires called out, "Hey, she's a feisty one, and her blood smells especially sweet." The others agreed and soon the latter of the group moved closer to William and Aoide.
Suddenly, one impatient vampire leaped out at Aoide and instigated the chaotic fight. William quickly gave Dawn to Anya and told her to quickly get away with Dawn, Willow and her son. However, the dense group of vampires left no opening.
Aoide deftly executed two vampires with a sickening snap of their neck. Xander, Cordy and Wesley were trying their best to fend off the vampires with kicks and punches, but to no avail. Cordy glanced over to Aoide and saw that she was fairing very well. She turned to Wesley. "We don't have to worry about William's friend."
Wesley gave Cordy a confused look and glanced at where Aoide was, "Wow, she fights like a." Wesley didn't finish his sentence as his eyes widened. "Oh, she is!"
Cordy nodded in agreement. "But I don't think an amateur can fight this many at once, we're really screwed."
William resorted to kicking and punching, not wanting to give himself away unless necessary. Anya yelled out as she was slashed by one of the vampires' claws, in that second another vampire grabbed ahold of Dawn. Dawn let out a piercing scream as a hungry vampire grabbed onto her injured ankle. Willow ran over and tried hitting the vampires holding Dawn, but to no avail.
William's resolution broke as he swiftly pulled out the sword hidden in his coat and killed the two vampires that had their hands on Dawn. "Leave Platelet alone!" William shouted, not realizing that a slight English accent had slipped out.
Another scream came from Tommy as a vampire readied to bite the five-year old, William disappeared and reappeared behind the attacking vampire and decapitated it in one swift slice. William put down Tommy and whispered to him. "Do as Uncle William says, stay down on the ground. Understood?"
Tommy nodded, too confused to question why William told him to stay down. William took Tommy and ran over to Anya, "Get Dawn and stay as low as you can to the ground!"
Anya nodded and kneeled down, huddling with Dawn, Willow and Tommy.
William killed another vampire as she rushed over to the others. "Aoide, Xander, Wesley, Cordy! DUCK!"
The group's eyes widened, but they did as he said when they saw Aoide pushed Xander down to the ground.
"What's going on?!" Xander cried out as he spat out the gravel that had found its way into his mouth.
"Shut up and stay down unless you want to be mutilated!" Aoide hissed at him.
William spun around and dusted a vampire mid-lunge. Once he was sure that everyone was on the ground, his eyes turned purple. An eerie glow began to form around his body and in that instant all the remaining vampires suddenly became dust, leaving a defenseless Lilah standing there.
Lilah's voice trembled as she backed away, "Who? What are you?"
William remained silent as he plunged his sword into Lilah's heart and gave a sharp twist. ~~~
Angel paced as he looked at the clock, "They're 45 minutes late!"
Gunn sighed as he threw his hands into the air. "Would you please stop pacing, you're making the situation worse. I mean, for all we know, they could be held up in traffic. You know highway 5 is still back up even during 10 at night."
Lorne rushed into the hotel and Angel quickly ran to him, "Have you seen them? Are they okay?"
Lorne shook his head, "I haven't seen them. Anyways I wasn't out looking for them. I've got some bad news about our 'friend' William."
Buffy and Giles quickly stood up walked over to Lorne. Buffy's expression was worse than worry, "Bad news?"
Lorne ran his hand through his hair, "Yeah, I was down at a demon bar and you would have never guessed who I saw there."
Giles stuttered, "W-who?"
"Lucifer."
"Okay, what does Lucifer have to do with William."
"Well, it turns out that William had just beaten the crap out of him not too long ago. Lucifer says that the only people he can think of who can beat him are high level hell gods."
Buffy became tense, "You mean like Glory?"
Lorne remembered Buffy tell him about how they had fought a female hell god and how she ended up dying for a second time. Later he had done some research on her, " No. not like Glory."
Angel let out a sigh of relief.
"It's worse. Glory was considered a low leveled hell god, almost like a minion hell god. I mean, high-leveled hell gods aren't just powerful, they're extremely intelligent and sadistic. For all we know, William might be messing with us right now."
At that moment the bruised and injured group entered the hotel.
~~~
"You!" Buffy hissed as she ran at William, who was carrying Dawn.
Angel followed not too far behind Buffy once he saw Cordy limp in with a huge gash on her head.
Xander recognized Buffy's patented, 'You're dead' look and yelled out to her. "Wait! You don't want to attack him!"
But it was too late, as Buffy's leg shot out at Willam's head, William's eyes turned purple once more. Dawn scream, "Please don't kill them!"
Buffy and Angel cried out as they suddenly became suspended in the air, at least 10 feet from the ground. William silently walked over to a nearby chair and placed Dawn in it. "I'll take care of them."
"You evil, hell, demon!" Buffy screamed at him, "Put me down and fight me like a man!"
William dropped Buffy and Angel and slowly approached them. Dawn cried out as she got out of the chair and crawled over to William, "Please" she began to cry, "Don't hurt them, they didn't mean to attack you. I swear, just don't hurt them!"
William's voice was steady as he looked down at Dawn, "Niblet." He softly said with a slight English accent and with a confused tone. "You're hurt. Please go sit back in the seat."
"I'm fine!" Dawn yelled. "Just don't hurt them."
William's eyes were still violet colored a little distant, like he was looking right through Dawn. He kneeled down and looked at her injured ankle. "Please Spike, don't hurt Buffy."
'Spike if you love her, why did you hurt her like that?'
William's eyes widened at the sudden memory and backed away. "No."
"That's right. Get away from her!" Buffy yelled at William as she began to stand up
'You're an evil, soulless, disgusting thing. I could never love you!'
William stood up and clutched his head, yelling out, "NO!."
Suddenly images flashed of Buffy giving him hateful glares, Dawn giving him disappointed looks, Xander insulting him and a million other images began to push at the frail gates, threatening to spill out.
Anya put a hand on William's shoulder. "William, are you okay?"
William recoiled from her touch. "Leave me alone!"
He quickly began to back away from the group and towards the door, "Just leave me the hell alone!. And you two!" William pointed at Buffy and Angel. "If I ever see either of you again. Dawn won't be there to stop me from killing you. Stay the f**k out of my life! Aoide, we're leaving."
William and Aoide promptly retreated, leaving the group stunned. ~~~
After the injured party was taken care of, the group settled down in one of the larger hotel rooms.
Angel sighed as he paced back and forth. "How did you guys get hurt?"
Xander spoke up, "Gee Deadboy, I thought you'd never ask. We were attacked by about 40 vampires led by a pissed off Lilah."
Giles sputtered, 'H-how on earth did you all fight them? I mean, even in the past, we have never battled that many at a time."
Wesley spoke up, "Well, first of all. The girl who was with William was the next slayer."
Buffy threw her hand up, "Great, another evil slayer!"
Dawn yelled at Buffy, "Why do you think that William is evil!"
Lorne replied, "I overheard from Lucifer that William was a hell god."
Dawn waved her hand, "Hello! It's Lucifer! Why would you trust Lucifer? I mean wouldn't it have crossed your mind that he was lying to you?"
"But he wasn't directly speaking to me! He was telling someone else!"
"Well, he could be trying to attack William! And he knew you were there and he must have thought that if you thought that William was evil, then you'd help him kill William!"
"Woah, slow down kiddo. You're confusing me." Xander said as he rubbed his head.
Lorne shoved his hands into his pockets. "Actually, that may be a possibility."
Buffy yelled out, "But he threatened to kill us!"
Anya put her hand on her hips, "No, not us. Just you and Angel."
"He's going to kill me! And probably corrupt another slayer!"
"Geez sis, paranoid much?"
Willow finally spoke out, "Actually, Aoide is pretty nice, she's not all wild and rebellious, she's actually pretty calm too. She's not arrogant either like Kendra was. I mean, she's sort of like you Buffy, without the hot tempered part."
"Are you saying that I have a bad temper!"
"Well.right now."
"Willow!"
Willow whimpered and shrunk back, "Okay, shutting up now."
Angel yelled out, "Hold it! You haven't told us how you managed to escape from Lilah and the vampires. I know that Aoide is a slayer, but one slayer can't kill that many vampires at once."
Cordy rolled her eyes, "Well, if you had let us finish talking you would have known that Aoide didn't kill the vampires."
Fred looked stunned, "Wow, you guys did?"
"No we didn't even have weapons. William killed them."
Angel furrowed his brow. "Okay I am assuming that between Aoide and all of you, at most you killed about 10 vampires without weapons. How could William have killed the rest."
Wesley coughed, "He had a sword, but that's not how he killed them."
Buffy was at the end of her patience. "Would you all stop being so vague and just tell us how the hell he kill them?!"
"Buff, he just killed them with a thought." Xander quietly replied.
"You mean he blinked and they suddenly went poof?" Buffy sarcastically replied, not wanting to believe what Xander said.
Dawn shook her head, "No, actually his eyes turned purple, like when he made you and Angel levitate."
The group grew silent. After a while Gunn finally said out loud what the group was thinking, "We're in deep sh*t."
~~~
William wheezed as he quickly undid his tie and took off his dress shirt. He rushed into the bathroom and splashed water on his face, 'I don't remember anything, I don't remember anything, I don't remember anything.' he chanted in his head. He squeezed his eyes closed and clung onto the sink as a wave of dizziness and sickness wracked his body. He let out a few dry sobs, 'These feelings, I can't be feeling this. No, go away, go away. I beg you go away.' There was a light knock on William's door. "Are you okay William?" Aoide asked from the other side.
William quickly wiped his face dry on the nearby towel, cleared his throat and yelled back, "Yeah I'm fine. Just tired, you know. those vampires."
Aoide stared at the door, she knew that William was lying. On the way back home, he was hitting 120 mph and he had this horrible haunted look on his face.
She sighed and went back into her room, there was no point in try to force him out of his room. It wasn't like he would say anything once she got him out.
William waited silently, leaning against the wall near the door to his room. When he finally heard Aoide leave, he let out a sigh. She didn't need to get involved in this. No one did. It wasn't like she could help in the final battle. The side he was taking was based off of Spike's knowledge of the world. Sure there were a lot nice things that humans created and indulged in, but it seems that humans were inherently unaccepting, cruel and unforgiving. Perhaps that's why he had subconsciously wanted to talk to Lucifer.
Suddenly another wave of past memories rushed him. William groaned and rubbed the bridge of his nose, he hastily strode into the bathroom and opened the medicine cabinet with trembling hands. He hurriedly popped the cap off and filled a glass cup with water. He took shallow breaths, trying to will away the oncoming memories. In his haste he swallowed about 7 sleeping pills and drown them down with several cups of water.
William clung to the walls as he stumbled to bed. Yes, sleep would make it go away. It was so painful, it felt like something was eating away his insides. For the first time in many years he felt fear seep into him. And soon sleep overcame him like dark waters drowning him in his past.
Cont.