TITLE: Connection
NAME: corrupt-blondie
E-MAIL: queenMISFIT@hotmail.com
RATING PG-13
SUMMARY: All things have to come to an end.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything besides Sally.
ARCHIVING: Anywhere as long as I know where it's being placed.
FEEDBACK: Would make my day.
A/N: This will be my last installment of the Sally series. I know the series title is not creative I was stumped.
~*~
Night had fallen when the couple showered and got dressed. They had to share the shower because of water purposes, but neither were complaining. Cordelia reached out for Buffy's hand as they left the brunette's apartment, which the slayer took with a smile.
They walked the streets of Sunnydale in a comfortable silence, just enjoying each other's company. The stars twinkled merrily in the night sky and the streetlights let off an ember glow on the pavement. At that moment, there were no worries between Cordelia and Buffy. There was no Sally, no vampires, demons or any stress-inducing situation.
For once, it was just about Buffy and Cordelia.
It was a refreshing feeling for both young women.
~*~
Sally glared as she saw the couple stroll down the street without a care in the world. She hated the slayer with a rage that churned in her stomach. Hated her for making the demon feel happy. Sally now regretted making the connection with Cordelia, even if it was for the best of the job. Cordelia never felt true self-loathing until Sally forced those types of feelings on the former cheerleader. Making the connection was the only way for Cordelia to be manipulated the way Sally wanted.
Now though, the slayer was ruining years of hard work. The dedication and patience of ripping pieces of Cordelia away to be forever lost in oblivion. The skill of making a masterpiece that Sally had to literately sweat blood for. Cordelia was the demon's chef d'oeuvre when the brunette was on the brink of her death.
Yes, Cordelia did die or Sally wouldn't have left.
The years of degradation Sally had to go through to get Cordelia to take her life. Where the demon actually almost cared for her prey. It was a horrible sensation that Sally went through. The feelings that led her to almost care about Cordelia and at one point made her regret what she was doing to her prey.
Those were the times Sally felt horribly sick when she felt the human emotions coursing through her body.
Sally sneered at the couple one last time for there audacity of not worrying about what she could do do to them in an instant.
She thought in a snarl, Did they forget about me and what I'm capable of?
~*~
"I'm going to drop you off at Willow's while I patrol okay?" Buffy said.
Cordelia replied, "Yeah."
"I just don't want you to get hurt on patrol and Willow can watch just in case she shows up," the blonde explained as she glanced at Cordelia.
The taller woman detected a serious amount of hatred on the word 'she' and already knew Buffy was talking about. Cordelia placed a light kiss on rhe slayer's lips after saying, "I'll think I'll manage, Buffy."
Cordelia idly wondered if is was a crime to be this deliriously happy while relishing the feel of Buffy's lips on her own.
Buffy smiled, having forgot about Sally for a little as they continued walking.
Their hands never unlaced the whole time until they reached Willow's house.
~*~
"You two are beyond cute," Willow gushed long after Buffy left.
Cordelia looked up from the Time magazine Willow lent her. It was either that or National Geographic which Cordelia knew would put her to sleep. The brunette somewhat reddened at the novice witch's comment.
Willow continued on though, "It took her like forever to let go of you when you guys hugged. Then with the smoochies."
"Have you been drinking coffee, Will?" Cordelia asked suspiciously.
The redhead wrinkled her nose in thought, "No. I had some tea though before you came over."
Cordelia rolled her eyes before returning back to the magazine.
"Hello, Cordelia," a voice laced with venom purred, "I hope you haven't forgotten about me"
The brunette stiffened, hoping that if she didn't look than the raven- haired woman wouldn't be standing over her.
"Aw. You don't like me anymore?" Sally asked in mock pain.
Cordelia laid there rigid, looking only at the magazine that she wasn't reading.
Sally leaned in further, her lips grazing over the ex cheerleader's ear, "I'll make you remember me, Cordelia."
"Earth to Cordelia!" Willow's voice broke through and caught Cordelia's attention, "Was is her?"
Cordelia looked around, her head turning in jerky movements to try an locate Sally, but the demon was no where to be found.
"I know it will be hard for you, Cordy, but could you tell me about her?" Willow asked cautiously.
After the brunette calmed herself down, she tried to focus on Willow, "What do you want to know?"
~*~
Buffy was worried.
Buffy was worried about leaving Cordelia without her protection. Her girlfriend is an easy target for Sally, even if Willow was there.
Sally.
The name spurns some deep-seeded hatred that rages in her stomach.
The same hatred that see feels towards vampires, demons, and anything else she had to fight against nightly.
But this kind animosity boils her blood to the point that a fuse might blow and Buffy would snap in her rage.
Because it's personal.
This demon isn't going after Buffy like many other have done.
This demon was smarter because it was going for that pain instead if the kill.
This demon probably didn't realize that no other thing has lived to tell the tale of having going against The Slayer through the people she cared most about.
Buffy had just found Cordelia. Their relationship was just starting and the blonde wanted to find out where it leads. She wanted it more than anything.
For this reason, and many others, Sally must die.
The blonde slayer sensed a vampire before Buffy grinned with something akin darkness dancing in her hazel eyes.
Oh, Sally will die for what she did to Cordelia.
Buffy will make sure of it.
~*~
"Let me get this straight," Willow said, "you two are connected?"
Cordelia stared at the redhead in surprise. Out of all the things Cordelia had said about Sally. All the dark secrets she has kept for so long. The drugs. The alcohol. All the pain that has constantly been in the former May Queen's life. Willow had to pick that tiny little information out of her whole sordid tale that was her life?
"Yeah," Cordelia replied, "my parents weren't there for Christmas the fifth time in a row and I was lonely. She told me that if I connected with her, that I would never be lonely again. Little did I know."
Willow looked like she was onto something though, "You shared your pain?"
The brunette nodded.
The novice witch asked, "Your memories?"
"I would have nightmares of people being emotionally tortured sometimes," Cordelia admitted softly.
"What about your emotions?" Willow pushed.
Cordelia seemed unsure, "I guess. I never really thought about it."
"You felt negative emotions more so than before you connected, yes?" Willow inquired.
Cordelia nodded again.
Willow looked victorious and the brunette was still left at what she was getting at.
"A connection is both ways Cordelia," Willow stated sagely, "Sally had to have felt your emotions like you have felt hers."
The ex cheerleader looked at Willow in shock at the revelation.
"She must have went crazy when she felt all those emotions," Willow said to herself mostly, "The happiness you shared with Xander and you now share with Buffy. The love you have for Buffy..."
"Your saying that she was repulsed by love and fed off my depression?" Cordelia offered as she caught on.
Willow replied, "All because of that connection."
~*~
After fighting the vampire longer than necessary, Buffy dusted off her leather jacket. He was a good release of pent up anger, Buffy thought with slight glee.
That's when she heard another voice interrupting her thoughts.
"Hello, Buffy," the woman said with a smirk,
The blonde quirked her brow, "Who are you?"
"We have a mutual friend you and I," the woman smiled, her teeth bared in the moonlight. It looked purely devilish and it went well with the long ebony hair and her ghostly white face. She looked she was nearing death's door.
Then it clicked.
"Sally," Buffy snarled, her eyes darkening with bubbling rage coursing through her veins a fiery pace.
The demon chuckled, "You know me then."
Buffy tightened her fists so much her nails were digging into her skin.
Sally noticed this and her smile vanished into expression that could only be described as livid, "You really ruined my plans, Slayer."
"Make other ones then," Buffy seethed through her clenched jaw.
The raven-haired demon smiled a cryptic smirk, like she knew something Buffy didn't, "I don't leave anything unfinished, Slayer. Cordelia will be my masterpiece and when she dies, the victory well be more sweeter because she will have died twice by my hands. How many people can say they got to relive that kind of fun?"
"Did you just appear to gloat?" Buffy asked as she got on the balls of her feet, readying herself for the fight, "Or are you going to fight me?"
The demon cackled, "I thought you'd never ask, Slayer. I've been itching for a kill since you brought Cordelia back from the dead."
Buffy threw the first punch. A right jab to Sally's face followed by and uppercut. The demon wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth as she laughed.
"This is going to be fun," Buffy stated darkly.
Sally punched Buffy in the stomach and kneed the blonde in the face as she doubled over.
"That it will," Sally agreed.
~*~
Willow's eyes widened as Cordelia suddenly fell on her bed after slightly being airborne.
"What's happening?" Willow screamed in panic when she saw Cordelia spit blood from her mouth.
"Sally is getting her ass kicked," Cordelia stated after she flew into the air and crashed into the wall.
~*~
Buffy let out a series of punches. All of them connected and it seemed like either Sally was a horrible fighter, or the demon was holding back.
After a roundhouse kick that sent Sally flying into a nearby tree, Buffy was getting restless in this one-sided fight.
"As much as I love kicking your ass, why are you not fighting back?" Buffy asked as she kicked the raven-haired demon in the stomach hard.
Sally coughed up more blood, but did a sweep kick and knocked Buffy flat on her ass.
"Who says I wasn't?" Sally smiled with her blood filled mouth.
~*~
Cordelia screamed in pain as she felt her fingers popping out of there sockets.
Willow was panicking because she didn't know what to do. There wasn't anything she could do.
~*~
Buffy held her foot firmly in place on Sally's left shoulder and she grasped the demon's left arm. The blonde had already popped four out of five fingers and was about to break the thumb.
"I'm going to make you suffer for what you've done to Cordelia," Buffy growled, "Once your gone, she's going to be happy. She's going to be happy with me because I'm going to love her and make her forget the pain you caused her."
Sally sucked in much needed air before laughing maniacally. Buffy really doesn't how wrong she was.
The slayer didn't allow Sally to laugh for too long though as she ripped Sally's thumb right off.
~*~
The redhead attempted to wrap Cordelia's thumbless hand, but it proved difficult as Cordelia was thrown across the room again. The former May Queen crashed into Willow's computer desk, breaking it with her fall.
"My...ribs," Cordelia gasped as she wrapped her left arm around her chest.
Willow sprinted to her high school nemesis turned somewhat friend and finished up the bandaging quickly.
That's when the novice witch heard the snap and Cordelia screaming in gut- wrenching agony as she saw her bone poke through her skin.
~*~
Sally cradled her broken arm as she head butted Buffy with precision. When Buffy looked back at her with unchecked fury, the demon spit blood on the slayer's face.
Buffy threw a left hook across Sally's cheekbone followed by a sweep quick. When Sally was lying the ground, Buffy quickly grabbed for the demon's ankle, which she quickly broken with ease.
~*~
Cordelia was trying to hold back her tears from the excruciating pain. They burned in her throat, begging for sweet release, but Cordelia stifled it.
"Tell," Cordelia heaved, "Buffy is wasn't," the brunette breathed again, but her mouth quivered, "her fault and," Cordelia took a deep breath before finishing her short but long-winded monologue, "that I love her."
Before Willow could even tell Cordelia that she would follow her wishes, the redhead watched as Cordelia's neck bent at an unnatural angle.
An audible crack was heard in the silence and Willow just sat there numb.
She only saw Cordelia's glassy eyes that were seeing everything yet nothing at all. Like there was this faraway spot the brunette was staring at in peace. Despite the horrible pain she had suffered, Cordelia still manage to look serene before she died.
~*~
Buffy opened the door to Willow's room quickly when she heard Willow's cries. She had felt something was wrong ever since she killed Sally. That demon died laughing.
She saw Willow sitting on her bed, tears cascading freely.
Then she saw her girlfriend.
Her love.
Rested against the wall with a broken neck and the other injuries she had inflicted on Sally.
Buffy didn't understand.
How?
Willow muttered after a sob, "They were connected."
No. It can't be.
Please God no.
THE END
NAME: corrupt-blondie
E-MAIL: queenMISFIT@hotmail.com
RATING PG-13
SUMMARY: All things have to come to an end.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything besides Sally.
ARCHIVING: Anywhere as long as I know where it's being placed.
FEEDBACK: Would make my day.
A/N: This will be my last installment of the Sally series. I know the series title is not creative I was stumped.
~*~
Night had fallen when the couple showered and got dressed. They had to share the shower because of water purposes, but neither were complaining. Cordelia reached out for Buffy's hand as they left the brunette's apartment, which the slayer took with a smile.
They walked the streets of Sunnydale in a comfortable silence, just enjoying each other's company. The stars twinkled merrily in the night sky and the streetlights let off an ember glow on the pavement. At that moment, there were no worries between Cordelia and Buffy. There was no Sally, no vampires, demons or any stress-inducing situation.
For once, it was just about Buffy and Cordelia.
It was a refreshing feeling for both young women.
~*~
Sally glared as she saw the couple stroll down the street without a care in the world. She hated the slayer with a rage that churned in her stomach. Hated her for making the demon feel happy. Sally now regretted making the connection with Cordelia, even if it was for the best of the job. Cordelia never felt true self-loathing until Sally forced those types of feelings on the former cheerleader. Making the connection was the only way for Cordelia to be manipulated the way Sally wanted.
Now though, the slayer was ruining years of hard work. The dedication and patience of ripping pieces of Cordelia away to be forever lost in oblivion. The skill of making a masterpiece that Sally had to literately sweat blood for. Cordelia was the demon's chef d'oeuvre when the brunette was on the brink of her death.
Yes, Cordelia did die or Sally wouldn't have left.
The years of degradation Sally had to go through to get Cordelia to take her life. Where the demon actually almost cared for her prey. It was a horrible sensation that Sally went through. The feelings that led her to almost care about Cordelia and at one point made her regret what she was doing to her prey.
Those were the times Sally felt horribly sick when she felt the human emotions coursing through her body.
Sally sneered at the couple one last time for there audacity of not worrying about what she could do do to them in an instant.
She thought in a snarl, Did they forget about me and what I'm capable of?
~*~
"I'm going to drop you off at Willow's while I patrol okay?" Buffy said.
Cordelia replied, "Yeah."
"I just don't want you to get hurt on patrol and Willow can watch just in case she shows up," the blonde explained as she glanced at Cordelia.
The taller woman detected a serious amount of hatred on the word 'she' and already knew Buffy was talking about. Cordelia placed a light kiss on rhe slayer's lips after saying, "I'll think I'll manage, Buffy."
Cordelia idly wondered if is was a crime to be this deliriously happy while relishing the feel of Buffy's lips on her own.
Buffy smiled, having forgot about Sally for a little as they continued walking.
Their hands never unlaced the whole time until they reached Willow's house.
~*~
"You two are beyond cute," Willow gushed long after Buffy left.
Cordelia looked up from the Time magazine Willow lent her. It was either that or National Geographic which Cordelia knew would put her to sleep. The brunette somewhat reddened at the novice witch's comment.
Willow continued on though, "It took her like forever to let go of you when you guys hugged. Then with the smoochies."
"Have you been drinking coffee, Will?" Cordelia asked suspiciously.
The redhead wrinkled her nose in thought, "No. I had some tea though before you came over."
Cordelia rolled her eyes before returning back to the magazine.
"Hello, Cordelia," a voice laced with venom purred, "I hope you haven't forgotten about me"
The brunette stiffened, hoping that if she didn't look than the raven- haired woman wouldn't be standing over her.
"Aw. You don't like me anymore?" Sally asked in mock pain.
Cordelia laid there rigid, looking only at the magazine that she wasn't reading.
Sally leaned in further, her lips grazing over the ex cheerleader's ear, "I'll make you remember me, Cordelia."
"Earth to Cordelia!" Willow's voice broke through and caught Cordelia's attention, "Was is her?"
Cordelia looked around, her head turning in jerky movements to try an locate Sally, but the demon was no where to be found.
"I know it will be hard for you, Cordy, but could you tell me about her?" Willow asked cautiously.
After the brunette calmed herself down, she tried to focus on Willow, "What do you want to know?"
~*~
Buffy was worried.
Buffy was worried about leaving Cordelia without her protection. Her girlfriend is an easy target for Sally, even if Willow was there.
Sally.
The name spurns some deep-seeded hatred that rages in her stomach.
The same hatred that see feels towards vampires, demons, and anything else she had to fight against nightly.
But this kind animosity boils her blood to the point that a fuse might blow and Buffy would snap in her rage.
Because it's personal.
This demon isn't going after Buffy like many other have done.
This demon was smarter because it was going for that pain instead if the kill.
This demon probably didn't realize that no other thing has lived to tell the tale of having going against The Slayer through the people she cared most about.
Buffy had just found Cordelia. Their relationship was just starting and the blonde wanted to find out where it leads. She wanted it more than anything.
For this reason, and many others, Sally must die.
The blonde slayer sensed a vampire before Buffy grinned with something akin darkness dancing in her hazel eyes.
Oh, Sally will die for what she did to Cordelia.
Buffy will make sure of it.
~*~
"Let me get this straight," Willow said, "you two are connected?"
Cordelia stared at the redhead in surprise. Out of all the things Cordelia had said about Sally. All the dark secrets she has kept for so long. The drugs. The alcohol. All the pain that has constantly been in the former May Queen's life. Willow had to pick that tiny little information out of her whole sordid tale that was her life?
"Yeah," Cordelia replied, "my parents weren't there for Christmas the fifth time in a row and I was lonely. She told me that if I connected with her, that I would never be lonely again. Little did I know."
Willow looked like she was onto something though, "You shared your pain?"
The brunette nodded.
The novice witch asked, "Your memories?"
"I would have nightmares of people being emotionally tortured sometimes," Cordelia admitted softly.
"What about your emotions?" Willow pushed.
Cordelia seemed unsure, "I guess. I never really thought about it."
"You felt negative emotions more so than before you connected, yes?" Willow inquired.
Cordelia nodded again.
Willow looked victorious and the brunette was still left at what she was getting at.
"A connection is both ways Cordelia," Willow stated sagely, "Sally had to have felt your emotions like you have felt hers."
The ex cheerleader looked at Willow in shock at the revelation.
"She must have went crazy when she felt all those emotions," Willow said to herself mostly, "The happiness you shared with Xander and you now share with Buffy. The love you have for Buffy..."
"Your saying that she was repulsed by love and fed off my depression?" Cordelia offered as she caught on.
Willow replied, "All because of that connection."
~*~
After fighting the vampire longer than necessary, Buffy dusted off her leather jacket. He was a good release of pent up anger, Buffy thought with slight glee.
That's when she heard another voice interrupting her thoughts.
"Hello, Buffy," the woman said with a smirk,
The blonde quirked her brow, "Who are you?"
"We have a mutual friend you and I," the woman smiled, her teeth bared in the moonlight. It looked purely devilish and it went well with the long ebony hair and her ghostly white face. She looked she was nearing death's door.
Then it clicked.
"Sally," Buffy snarled, her eyes darkening with bubbling rage coursing through her veins a fiery pace.
The demon chuckled, "You know me then."
Buffy tightened her fists so much her nails were digging into her skin.
Sally noticed this and her smile vanished into expression that could only be described as livid, "You really ruined my plans, Slayer."
"Make other ones then," Buffy seethed through her clenched jaw.
The raven-haired demon smiled a cryptic smirk, like she knew something Buffy didn't, "I don't leave anything unfinished, Slayer. Cordelia will be my masterpiece and when she dies, the victory well be more sweeter because she will have died twice by my hands. How many people can say they got to relive that kind of fun?"
"Did you just appear to gloat?" Buffy asked as she got on the balls of her feet, readying herself for the fight, "Or are you going to fight me?"
The demon cackled, "I thought you'd never ask, Slayer. I've been itching for a kill since you brought Cordelia back from the dead."
Buffy threw the first punch. A right jab to Sally's face followed by and uppercut. The demon wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth as she laughed.
"This is going to be fun," Buffy stated darkly.
Sally punched Buffy in the stomach and kneed the blonde in the face as she doubled over.
"That it will," Sally agreed.
~*~
Willow's eyes widened as Cordelia suddenly fell on her bed after slightly being airborne.
"What's happening?" Willow screamed in panic when she saw Cordelia spit blood from her mouth.
"Sally is getting her ass kicked," Cordelia stated after she flew into the air and crashed into the wall.
~*~
Buffy let out a series of punches. All of them connected and it seemed like either Sally was a horrible fighter, or the demon was holding back.
After a roundhouse kick that sent Sally flying into a nearby tree, Buffy was getting restless in this one-sided fight.
"As much as I love kicking your ass, why are you not fighting back?" Buffy asked as she kicked the raven-haired demon in the stomach hard.
Sally coughed up more blood, but did a sweep kick and knocked Buffy flat on her ass.
"Who says I wasn't?" Sally smiled with her blood filled mouth.
~*~
Cordelia screamed in pain as she felt her fingers popping out of there sockets.
Willow was panicking because she didn't know what to do. There wasn't anything she could do.
~*~
Buffy held her foot firmly in place on Sally's left shoulder and she grasped the demon's left arm. The blonde had already popped four out of five fingers and was about to break the thumb.
"I'm going to make you suffer for what you've done to Cordelia," Buffy growled, "Once your gone, she's going to be happy. She's going to be happy with me because I'm going to love her and make her forget the pain you caused her."
Sally sucked in much needed air before laughing maniacally. Buffy really doesn't how wrong she was.
The slayer didn't allow Sally to laugh for too long though as she ripped Sally's thumb right off.
~*~
The redhead attempted to wrap Cordelia's thumbless hand, but it proved difficult as Cordelia was thrown across the room again. The former May Queen crashed into Willow's computer desk, breaking it with her fall.
"My...ribs," Cordelia gasped as she wrapped her left arm around her chest.
Willow sprinted to her high school nemesis turned somewhat friend and finished up the bandaging quickly.
That's when the novice witch heard the snap and Cordelia screaming in gut- wrenching agony as she saw her bone poke through her skin.
~*~
Sally cradled her broken arm as she head butted Buffy with precision. When Buffy looked back at her with unchecked fury, the demon spit blood on the slayer's face.
Buffy threw a left hook across Sally's cheekbone followed by a sweep quick. When Sally was lying the ground, Buffy quickly grabbed for the demon's ankle, which she quickly broken with ease.
~*~
Cordelia was trying to hold back her tears from the excruciating pain. They burned in her throat, begging for sweet release, but Cordelia stifled it.
"Tell," Cordelia heaved, "Buffy is wasn't," the brunette breathed again, but her mouth quivered, "her fault and," Cordelia took a deep breath before finishing her short but long-winded monologue, "that I love her."
Before Willow could even tell Cordelia that she would follow her wishes, the redhead watched as Cordelia's neck bent at an unnatural angle.
An audible crack was heard in the silence and Willow just sat there numb.
She only saw Cordelia's glassy eyes that were seeing everything yet nothing at all. Like there was this faraway spot the brunette was staring at in peace. Despite the horrible pain she had suffered, Cordelia still manage to look serene before she died.
~*~
Buffy opened the door to Willow's room quickly when she heard Willow's cries. She had felt something was wrong ever since she killed Sally. That demon died laughing.
She saw Willow sitting on her bed, tears cascading freely.
Then she saw her girlfriend.
Her love.
Rested against the wall with a broken neck and the other injuries she had inflicted on Sally.
Buffy didn't understand.
How?
Willow muttered after a sob, "They were connected."
No. It can't be.
Please God no.
THE END