Title: Inevitability (Part 4/?)
Author: Michael Dunbar
E-mail: mutant190583@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: Joss and CO own all of the Buff Verse
Timeline: Set in season 2 sometime after Angel went bad. No other slayers exist either.
Summary: What's inevitable simply is..
Author's notes: Cordelia comes to an end before she's even begun.
Feedback: Tell me what you think please. Bad or good
(The next night)
Maybe I should just stake her and be done with it, end her torment before I even get to see her vampire face. But then, I'd never be truly sure whether she is or has been taken over.
It's stupid, it's daft and it may not be tactically sound but I can't kill her without been sure, without knowing that she's what I dread the most.
The morgue is freezing, but then I don't know what I expected. It's always been this cold, every single time I've visited.
Way too often
Cordelia lays there unmoving, but she will move soon. 10 minutes or less and she'll want to drink my blood and she'll want to turn me.
Although maybe she won't, maybe she'll wake up normal and Cordelia like. Be as bitchy as ever and I can sigh and actually enjoy the insults aimed at me.
I'm in fantasy land, I know that.
She looks more peaceful now than she ever was, laid on the cold metal table. The two red marks can still be clearly seen on the side of her neck where he bit her and I have to hold my dinner down just at the awful thought.
We must have some fast funerals in this town, all the vampires we kill that are climbing from the grave and all.
Cordelia's funeral will have to wait till her mom and dad get back from Spain; they went on a second honeymoon and should be coming back at the weekend.
They'll come home to her death and they'll cry and know that they weren't there for her even though they never really could have been.
I should have been.
For once Buffy didn't argue with me when I said I wanted to kil. free Cordelia. I guess she knows it's something I have to do.
She didn't pull the whole slayer act on me.
I've got a cross, holy water, a stake and a crossbow.
I am prepared
Still I'm shaking like a leaf as I lean against the metal lockers, just waiting.
I didn't go to school today and I don't know if I want to go ever again. It won't be the same without Queen C bitching at every single thing, the way Buffy has her hair or the new girl who looks like a hippy.
Willow won't let me get off with skipping school for too long, she'll use her wiles and believe me she has them in spades.
Cordelia's moving now but it's more like she gasps for a large breath.
Reminds me of Highlander in a way
I know now and I have to help her. Her vampire face is on and it looks so awful. I still can't believe that one of my friends is a vampire and not the kind with a cursed soul.
Not that Angel was ever my friend.
"Hey there Xander.. Have you come to give Cordy a get well kiss?"
She's so confident and very predatory but I guess they are born that way. They are born and instantly know that they are stronger and faster than anything on the planet.
Besides a few demons and the slayer that is.
I guess that's where the confidence comes from.
"No Cordelia. I've come to say goodbye"
Cordelia raises one eyebrow and then spots the crossbow in my hand.
She's running now, as fast as she can and believe you me that's pretty quick for a vampire.
But I am faster.
"Goodbye.."
And I press the trigger on the crossbow and I see the pain in her eyes and the shock on her face. She crumbles before me and all that is left is a very fine dust coating the hard tiled floor.
"I'll miss you"
----------- (A few minutes later)
I'm glad I did what I did, it wouldn't help the world any if every one of us that got turned got let off because they were friends.
It doesn't work that way.
Although I hope there never is any more of us that get turned, I don't know if I could take it. The one thing that I'm not happy about is the fact that the chases won't be able the bury Cordelia because there's now no body to bury.
Everyone should have the right to be buried in full.
The vampires take that away from us.
For once in the past few days I can actually breathe without feeling the need to knock myself unconscious with a heavy object just so I don't have to face the world.
"Hey Xan"
I look up to see Buffy waiting for me by the gate; she's wearing her slayer outfit.
She was waiting for my call just in case I needed any help.
Obviously Cordelia didn't mean anything to Angelus, he just did it to play with us otherwise he'd have had vampires here ready to collect her.
"Hey. It's done" I sigh "I did it"
Buffy loops her arm into mine and leans into me "I'm sorry Xan"
"Yea, me too.. "
"You up for some patrolling with your favourite slayer?"
"I would be, if only she was here"
I get a slap for that one as she drags me down the street.
"Hardy har har. come on, say it Xan. Buffy's my favourite slayer."
"You know" I reply with a smile, the first on my face for a few days "you really should get that ego checked."
Another slap and I hold up my hands defensively.
"Okay. superhero strength remember and you know you're my favourite slayer. "
Buffy smiles
"But if Britney spears was a vampire slayer now that'd be something else entirely"
"Eugghh men" she mutters before dragging me into a graveyard.
"You take me to the nicest places" I reply
All this talk is just tittle tattle. Maybe she is really interested in me now in other than a friend way at least it seems that way.
I don't think that it really matters that much anymore.
Buffy thinks that me been Mr Vampire Killer is over because I killed Cordelia, because I rid the world of another demon when there's thousands out there still hunting and preying on innocents.
I can't do anything about them all but there's one particular demon I'm thinking about at the moment.
In a few days, he'll be mine.
Angelus you son of a bitch, I'm coming for you.
And I've got nothing to lose.
Author: Michael Dunbar
E-mail: mutant190583@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: Joss and CO own all of the Buff Verse
Timeline: Set in season 2 sometime after Angel went bad. No other slayers exist either.
Summary: What's inevitable simply is..
Author's notes: Cordelia comes to an end before she's even begun.
Feedback: Tell me what you think please. Bad or good
(The next night)
Maybe I should just stake her and be done with it, end her torment before I even get to see her vampire face. But then, I'd never be truly sure whether she is or has been taken over.
It's stupid, it's daft and it may not be tactically sound but I can't kill her without been sure, without knowing that she's what I dread the most.
The morgue is freezing, but then I don't know what I expected. It's always been this cold, every single time I've visited.
Way too often
Cordelia lays there unmoving, but she will move soon. 10 minutes or less and she'll want to drink my blood and she'll want to turn me.
Although maybe she won't, maybe she'll wake up normal and Cordelia like. Be as bitchy as ever and I can sigh and actually enjoy the insults aimed at me.
I'm in fantasy land, I know that.
She looks more peaceful now than she ever was, laid on the cold metal table. The two red marks can still be clearly seen on the side of her neck where he bit her and I have to hold my dinner down just at the awful thought.
We must have some fast funerals in this town, all the vampires we kill that are climbing from the grave and all.
Cordelia's funeral will have to wait till her mom and dad get back from Spain; they went on a second honeymoon and should be coming back at the weekend.
They'll come home to her death and they'll cry and know that they weren't there for her even though they never really could have been.
I should have been.
For once Buffy didn't argue with me when I said I wanted to kil. free Cordelia. I guess she knows it's something I have to do.
She didn't pull the whole slayer act on me.
I've got a cross, holy water, a stake and a crossbow.
I am prepared
Still I'm shaking like a leaf as I lean against the metal lockers, just waiting.
I didn't go to school today and I don't know if I want to go ever again. It won't be the same without Queen C bitching at every single thing, the way Buffy has her hair or the new girl who looks like a hippy.
Willow won't let me get off with skipping school for too long, she'll use her wiles and believe me she has them in spades.
Cordelia's moving now but it's more like she gasps for a large breath.
Reminds me of Highlander in a way
I know now and I have to help her. Her vampire face is on and it looks so awful. I still can't believe that one of my friends is a vampire and not the kind with a cursed soul.
Not that Angel was ever my friend.
"Hey there Xander.. Have you come to give Cordy a get well kiss?"
She's so confident and very predatory but I guess they are born that way. They are born and instantly know that they are stronger and faster than anything on the planet.
Besides a few demons and the slayer that is.
I guess that's where the confidence comes from.
"No Cordelia. I've come to say goodbye"
Cordelia raises one eyebrow and then spots the crossbow in my hand.
She's running now, as fast as she can and believe you me that's pretty quick for a vampire.
But I am faster.
"Goodbye.."
And I press the trigger on the crossbow and I see the pain in her eyes and the shock on her face. She crumbles before me and all that is left is a very fine dust coating the hard tiled floor.
"I'll miss you"
----------- (A few minutes later)
I'm glad I did what I did, it wouldn't help the world any if every one of us that got turned got let off because they were friends.
It doesn't work that way.
Although I hope there never is any more of us that get turned, I don't know if I could take it. The one thing that I'm not happy about is the fact that the chases won't be able the bury Cordelia because there's now no body to bury.
Everyone should have the right to be buried in full.
The vampires take that away from us.
For once in the past few days I can actually breathe without feeling the need to knock myself unconscious with a heavy object just so I don't have to face the world.
"Hey Xan"
I look up to see Buffy waiting for me by the gate; she's wearing her slayer outfit.
She was waiting for my call just in case I needed any help.
Obviously Cordelia didn't mean anything to Angelus, he just did it to play with us otherwise he'd have had vampires here ready to collect her.
"Hey. It's done" I sigh "I did it"
Buffy loops her arm into mine and leans into me "I'm sorry Xan"
"Yea, me too.. "
"You up for some patrolling with your favourite slayer?"
"I would be, if only she was here"
I get a slap for that one as she drags me down the street.
"Hardy har har. come on, say it Xan. Buffy's my favourite slayer."
"You know" I reply with a smile, the first on my face for a few days "you really should get that ego checked."
Another slap and I hold up my hands defensively.
"Okay. superhero strength remember and you know you're my favourite slayer. "
Buffy smiles
"But if Britney spears was a vampire slayer now that'd be something else entirely"
"Eugghh men" she mutters before dragging me into a graveyard.
"You take me to the nicest places" I reply
All this talk is just tittle tattle. Maybe she is really interested in me now in other than a friend way at least it seems that way.
I don't think that it really matters that much anymore.
Buffy thinks that me been Mr Vampire Killer is over because I killed Cordelia, because I rid the world of another demon when there's thousands out there still hunting and preying on innocents.
I can't do anything about them all but there's one particular demon I'm thinking about at the moment.
In a few days, he'll be mine.
Angelus you son of a bitch, I'm coming for you.
And I've got nothing to lose.
