Chapter 44: Into the forest
Title: Reunion time.
Author: Nikka
Author notes: Hi everyone, If you need to know about summary, rate and all the rest it's all in chapter 1 I'll just remind you that *English is not my native tongue* so you may find some spelling & grammar mistakes, you're more than welcome to let me know about them but remember you may find them while you read the story. Have fun.
Disclaimer: Angel & Buffy's characters are not my creation (wish they were) they belong to Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. Other characters that are not familiar from the show do belong to me.
Author's remark: My chapters as of ch 12 will no longer be reproof by Sigma due to the fact that I have no internet and I'm asking someone else to post the remaining chapters for me. I want to take this opportunity and thank sigma for all the help. And I hope you will continue reading my story even without the excellent work sigma has done. Thank you again sigma for all your great work.
"What's so funny guys?" They heard Buffy's voice.
"Great." Spike said quietly to himself.
"Buffy is that you, we can't really see with the flashlights aiming at us and all." Cordy said as the three people moved inside the mausoleum and lowered the flashlights. Now Cordy recognized Fred and Gunn.
"Cordelia and... Spike." Buffy looked at him suspiciously. "What are you two doing here and ...Together?
"Uh we're not together, we just bumped into each other." Cordy explained realizing how weird it sounded.
"Still waiting for the why part?" Gunn asked.
"Why?" Cordy played the innocent one.
"Why here Cor?" Fred explained.
"Uh, that why." She nodded not really sure what to respond.
"What are you doing here?" Spike's question gave her a few seconds to come up with a reason for being here.
"We had a lead. It told us the white priestess might be gathering here." Fred explained.
"The white what?" Spike didn't understand.
"Didn't Cordelia tell you?" Buffy asked surprised. "We found some new information, I'll explain later. Now you." She turned to Spike.
"I don't owe you any explanations, you lost that right, last night." He got up and turned his back to her." Buffy was so embarrassed she thought she'd die. Luckily Gunn and Fred had the sense not to say anything.
"Cor?" Gunn thought it would be a good time to change the topic. "Why did you say you were here?"
"She didn't." Buffy said with a smirk.
"I remembered this place from my vision, so I decided to check it out." She replied.
"Great, now that we know everyone's reasons for being here, can we get back to business?" Buffy was losing her patience.
"And what business was that again? If I heard you right you said something about a gathering?" Cordy asked confused.
"Yeah, the guy at the pub said the priestesses are suppose to meet here." Gunn explained.
"That's impossible, the priestesses doesn't exists anymore, no one's really sure if they ever did." Cordy thought the bartender must have gotten the wrong idea. "Besides, it doesn't look like a place priestesses would meet, it's too small and dent."
"Maybe there's a secret entrance or something." Buffy hypnotized.
"No, I know this place extremely well and there's no secrete..."
"Hi, in here." They turned to see where the call came from.
"Fred?" Gunn called out. "Is that you? Where are you?"
"In here." Gunn pointed the flashlight to the wall in front of him, and there, near the floor he saw an opening. It was tunnel and from in popped out Fred's head. It was covered with dust.
"There's a tunnel here and I think there's something in the end of it, I can see a light." She told the others. "Come on let's check it out." She was about to turn back when Gunn stopped her.
"Wait! We don't know what's out there. We should wait and call Angel."
"Why?" Buffy didn't understand.
"We do things differently around here. We don't need angel-face. If yours so into the-vampire-by-my-side-thing, then I'll go along." Spike smiled.
"Fine whatever." Gunn didn't like him one bit. "Let's go." He said and followed Fred down the tunnel. Then Buffy followed by Cordy and finally Spike.
***
It wasn't a long crawl. It was small and dark but not long. When they finally reached the end of it they were all in awe.
"This place is huge." Fred said as she looked around. They were standing in a cavern. It was round and they were torches on the walls. In the middle of the cavern stood a small rounded table, wooden. It had five chairs surrounding it.
"I guess we found the gathering spot." Buffy walked up to the table but as she tired reaching out and touching it she was flown backwards onto the wall.
Spike ran to her. "Are you okay?" He saw her forehead was bleeding.
"Wow what was that?" She asked.
"I guess, some kind of force field preventing anyone from disturbing the gathering." Fred assumed.
"Are you sure you're fine?" Spike helped her to her feet.
"Yeah, thanks." She smiled at him.
"So what now? Do we wait or..." Gunn asked.
"Well we came all this way." Cordy said. "Besides I don't think it's gonna take much longer." She looked on the walls, they were all bare, no painting, no drawings.
"When do you think they'll show up, maybe we should go tell the others." Fred suggested.
"No I think they're coming." Cordy felt a weird vibe, she shivered. "Lean against the wall." She said to everyone. "Quickly." They all did as she said and right then a light stroke in the middle of the room. It filled the entire cavern. They all covered their eyes because the light was blinding.
Finally when the light was gone they looked up. In front of them they saw five women sitting on each of the chairs, they were surrounded by white bright circle of light. They all wear white hoods. They didn't seem to notice the unexpected guests.
"It has begun." One woman said. "He is coming, he is close."
"We must find the book." Another woman said. The gang just stared at them, afraid to move, afraid to speak.
"We cannot, only she can find it." Another woman said.
"We should have found her by now." a woman spoke.
"It is too late. If we have not found her till now." The first woman who spoke said.
"She, and she alone can use it. But she has not come. She has not heard our cry."
"Perhaps she is gone from this world, this life." The fifth woman who has not spoken till now said.
"No, I can still sense her presence, closer than ever."
"Then where is she, she should have come." Suddenly Cordy had the stranger notion those women were talking about her. She felt the unavoidable desire to walk up to them, so she did.
"Cordy what are you doing? Get back here." Gunn said to her. She didn't listen she kept walking.
"Cordelia." Buffy tried also, but she didn't pay any attention to them, she felt drawn to that circle.
She walked up and stepped inside the circle of light.
***
"Hello." One of the women said. "We were expecting you. Please take a seat
"But there's no..." Cordy looked around her and realized she wasn't in the cavern anymore. She was standing in the middle of a forest. Around her she saw dozen of women all wearing white hoods staring back at her and there beside the woman who spoke to her, she saw an extra chair, a chair she didn't notice before. She slowly sat down.
"We are the high council, all five of us. And the rest are what that is left from the great line of the white priestesses.
"And who am I?" Cordy asked fearing the answer.
"Don't you know who you are?" The woman asked.
"I know my name is Cordelia chase, but... What am I?"
"You are the warrior, you are the protector, the one who shell fulfill the prophecy."
"The prophecy? What prophecy?" Cordy didn't understand a thing.
"Long ago we walked the earth, we were considered the greatest power known to man and demon. We were the protectors of the book. Above all, that was our calling." The woman explained. "It was forthtold in our ancient prophecies that one day, long after we would seize to exists on this plane, the dark one will return for the book. And then, a warrior, a woman that is the combination of it all shell defeat it."
"I'm sorry, I'm trying to understand where I feet in but I can't." Cordy was lost.
"You." The woman pointed at her. "You are the one who has it all, you are the perfect combination." One woman tried to explain.
"Me? That can't be? I'm just Cordy, an ex-cheerleader, not a perfect combination.
"Yes you are. According to the prophecy, the warrior woman would be half human-there representing the human species. Part demon- there representing that species. And part priestess- there representing us. That is you."
"Lets say you're right about the human and demon part, But as for the priestess thing, I'm not your descendant."
"No you are not, but a man who loved you and gave you his gift was."
"Doyle, you mean Doyle?" Things started to fall into place.
"We do not know his name, but he was brave, that we do know. And like you he was part human, part demon." The woman explained.
"Then maybe his the warrior?" Cordy asked.
"No. The warrior must be a woman. Only a woman can sustain the power of the book. Only you."
"Wow." Cordy took a big breath. "That's... god I don't what to say."
"You must defeat the dark one, you must take control of the book." The woman said.
"But how? What kind of weapon can I use? Am I suppose to get something from here?" Cordy remembered what she saw in the other Cordelia's mind.
"You need no weapon, you are the weapon."
"Me?" Cordy didn't understand how was she a weapon?
"When the time is near you shell know what you must do. Use the book, hide it forever, and destroy the dark one before he destroys you."
"He was in me, in the past, I saw him." Cordy hoped they would have answers for her.
"He can see the future, he can visit the past. He saw what you are meant to do; he tried to stop it from coming to pass. He failed. Now you must go."
"Wait!" Cordy still didn't know what she was supposed to do. That's it? That's what I have to go on?"
"You have seen what's to come, you have seen and accepted the sacrifice you must give. That is all that there is, that it is all that requires."
"So you know, you saw." Cordy forgot the others could still see and hear her.
"Yes. We know all. You are brave. The love you have will give you strength in the final battle, but it will also give you weakness. It will try to stop you. You mustn't let it. Remember the prophecy; remember what you are meant to do. We all come into the world with a purpose. Some of us spends a lifetime and beyond searching for it. Others find it as they are born. And some, like you, the purpose fids them and not the other way around." The woman raised her hand and touched Cordelia's forehead. "May the powers lead your way!"
The next thing she knew she was back in the mausoleum with everyone else. The opening to the tunnel disappeared and it was already dark outside.
***
Wow that was intense." Gunn summed it up.
"You saw me? You heard me?" Cordy hoped they didn't, she didn't want toile to them more than necessary.
"Yes we did, we heard it all." Buffy said. "Do you care to explain what the hell did those women talk about? What sacrifice? What purpose?"
"I don't know okay? You heard what I heard." Cordy turned and walked out of the mausoleum.
"Cordelia wait!" Buffy called out to her. Cordy stopped outside the mausoleum and turned around. Beside Buffy stood Gunn, Fred and Spike. "It seemed like you knew what they were talking about."
"You didn't even seemed surprised when they talked about the sacrifice you have to make. The said you know, they said you accepted." Fred didn't get it either.
"I guess I was shocked, I mean that was wired." Cordy lied.
"Well, we better go tell the others, they want to know about it." Gunn said as he started walking away. Fred looked at Cordy. Something told her there's more to it, that Cordy isn't telling her everything. But she thought now wasn't the right time so she followed Gunn.
"Aren't you coming?" Cordy asked Buffy, who stood there next to Spike.
"Go ahead. I think I'll patrol, if I'm here and all..." Buffy smiled as Cordy joined the others.
"I'm off then." Spike said and turned around.
"Wait." Buffy reached out and placed her hand on his shoulder. He turned to look at her. "I'm sorry about last night, I didn't mean to kick you out." She tried to apologize, hoping he'll forgive her.
"But you did. Maybe you didn't mean it, but what counts luv is the end result, and last night it was me been kicked out in the middle of the night." He didn't seem mad; actually he was very logical and rational.
"It's just I couldn't let the others see you, I couldn't let them know." She explained.
"And was is that Buffy?" He moved a few inches closer. "What are you so afraid of? Is it your friends reaction or your own feelings?" Spike smiled knowing she couldn't answer it.
"Willow knows." She surprised him; he didn't see that one coming.
"So you told her. Well that's a step in the right dir..."
"She found out on her own. She saw you lighter and put things together." Buffy stopped him half way through.
"Uh." He nodded. "Still that's something, maybe now you'll have the balls to tell Xander?" He looked at her terrified face and knew she was not about to take that step. "Or maybe I was just hoping for too damn much." He was getting angry with her.
"Your pushing, and I'm not ready." She was lost. On one hand she wanted to hold him and never let go, on the other hand she hopped no one will see them while she does that.
"You can't have it both ways Buffy, I told you before. I'm tired of been your wiping-boy. You can't sleep with me at night and ignore me ion the morning. It doesn't work like that." He sighed. "We've been through this before, this is pointless." He turned and started walking.
"What if I tell him, all of them?" She cried out.
"Action baby, not words, actions." He said as he kept on walking, leaving her alone.
***
"Cor can I come in." Fred slightly opened the door and piped inside. She saw Cordy sitting on the bed staring at some photos.
"I don't know why I took them." Cordy waved the photos.
"I guess you just wanted them." Fred said the obvious. Cordy smiled.
"What's up?" Cordy asked. Fred came in and closed the door behind her.
"Can we talk?" She asked hesitantly.
"Sure. What about?" Cordy waved her hand instructing her to come inside and sit on the bed.
"About today." Fred sat in front of her on the bed.
"Today?" Cordy hoped she heard the last of it after Giles and Wesley inquisition.
"I know there's something you're not telling me and I want to know what is it." Fred said all of the sudden.
"Fred I..." Cordy started to say when Fred raised her hand.
"Don't, I know you know. Don't you?" Fred stared at her and that stare scared Cordy, she felt like Fred could read her like an open book.
"Know what?" Cordy asked.
"How it would all end, and I'm not talking about the version you told us, I'm talking about the real end."
"Fred, what I told you is the truth. That's what I saw, that's what's going to happen unless we stop the Dorkanious." Cordy explained.
"No, there's more to it, there's something you're not telling us." Fred stared at Cordy, as she stared back in fear.
"Fred don't do this. Don't look for things that aren't there." Cordy begged her with her eyes to stop asking her, stop forcing her to lie.
"Cordy?" A realization came to her. "The sacrifice... it's you, you're the sacrifice..."
TBC
Hi ppl,
I'm sorry for the delay but as I said updated may take longer.
Thank you for all your supportive and wonderful reviews and thank you for hanging in there, we're nearing the finish line. Now I'm going to do again some PR so bear with me: Hi I hope you all had a chance to check out my new fic and I'd like to take this opportunity to say that it is NOT in any way shape or form a Groo/Cordy fic, no way it is still and always a A/C, B/S fic so if you haven't seen it already check it out, it's called A new beginning and so far I uploaded 3 chapters and #4 is on its way.
Uh, last thing. Due to recent review I got I wanted to make sure you all know this is just a story, nothing real about it and shouldn't be considered as anything else rather than just a story, a fiction of my imagination. No need to be depressed by it or anything like it. Okay? Good.
So as usual enjoy this ch, and let me know what you think.
Thanks Nikka.
Title: Reunion time.
Author: Nikka
Author notes: Hi everyone, If you need to know about summary, rate and all the rest it's all in chapter 1 I'll just remind you that *English is not my native tongue* so you may find some spelling & grammar mistakes, you're more than welcome to let me know about them but remember you may find them while you read the story. Have fun.
Disclaimer: Angel & Buffy's characters are not my creation (wish they were) they belong to Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. Other characters that are not familiar from the show do belong to me.
Author's remark: My chapters as of ch 12 will no longer be reproof by Sigma due to the fact that I have no internet and I'm asking someone else to post the remaining chapters for me. I want to take this opportunity and thank sigma for all the help. And I hope you will continue reading my story even without the excellent work sigma has done. Thank you again sigma for all your great work.
"What's so funny guys?" They heard Buffy's voice.
"Great." Spike said quietly to himself.
"Buffy is that you, we can't really see with the flashlights aiming at us and all." Cordy said as the three people moved inside the mausoleum and lowered the flashlights. Now Cordy recognized Fred and Gunn.
"Cordelia and... Spike." Buffy looked at him suspiciously. "What are you two doing here and ...Together?
"Uh we're not together, we just bumped into each other." Cordy explained realizing how weird it sounded.
"Still waiting for the why part?" Gunn asked.
"Why?" Cordy played the innocent one.
"Why here Cor?" Fred explained.
"Uh, that why." She nodded not really sure what to respond.
"What are you doing here?" Spike's question gave her a few seconds to come up with a reason for being here.
"We had a lead. It told us the white priestess might be gathering here." Fred explained.
"The white what?" Spike didn't understand.
"Didn't Cordelia tell you?" Buffy asked surprised. "We found some new information, I'll explain later. Now you." She turned to Spike.
"I don't owe you any explanations, you lost that right, last night." He got up and turned his back to her." Buffy was so embarrassed she thought she'd die. Luckily Gunn and Fred had the sense not to say anything.
"Cor?" Gunn thought it would be a good time to change the topic. "Why did you say you were here?"
"She didn't." Buffy said with a smirk.
"I remembered this place from my vision, so I decided to check it out." She replied.
"Great, now that we know everyone's reasons for being here, can we get back to business?" Buffy was losing her patience.
"And what business was that again? If I heard you right you said something about a gathering?" Cordy asked confused.
"Yeah, the guy at the pub said the priestesses are suppose to meet here." Gunn explained.
"That's impossible, the priestesses doesn't exists anymore, no one's really sure if they ever did." Cordy thought the bartender must have gotten the wrong idea. "Besides, it doesn't look like a place priestesses would meet, it's too small and dent."
"Maybe there's a secret entrance or something." Buffy hypnotized.
"No, I know this place extremely well and there's no secrete..."
"Hi, in here." They turned to see where the call came from.
"Fred?" Gunn called out. "Is that you? Where are you?"
"In here." Gunn pointed the flashlight to the wall in front of him, and there, near the floor he saw an opening. It was tunnel and from in popped out Fred's head. It was covered with dust.
"There's a tunnel here and I think there's something in the end of it, I can see a light." She told the others. "Come on let's check it out." She was about to turn back when Gunn stopped her.
"Wait! We don't know what's out there. We should wait and call Angel."
"Why?" Buffy didn't understand.
"We do things differently around here. We don't need angel-face. If yours so into the-vampire-by-my-side-thing, then I'll go along." Spike smiled.
"Fine whatever." Gunn didn't like him one bit. "Let's go." He said and followed Fred down the tunnel. Then Buffy followed by Cordy and finally Spike.
***
It wasn't a long crawl. It was small and dark but not long. When they finally reached the end of it they were all in awe.
"This place is huge." Fred said as she looked around. They were standing in a cavern. It was round and they were torches on the walls. In the middle of the cavern stood a small rounded table, wooden. It had five chairs surrounding it.
"I guess we found the gathering spot." Buffy walked up to the table but as she tired reaching out and touching it she was flown backwards onto the wall.
Spike ran to her. "Are you okay?" He saw her forehead was bleeding.
"Wow what was that?" She asked.
"I guess, some kind of force field preventing anyone from disturbing the gathering." Fred assumed.
"Are you sure you're fine?" Spike helped her to her feet.
"Yeah, thanks." She smiled at him.
"So what now? Do we wait or..." Gunn asked.
"Well we came all this way." Cordy said. "Besides I don't think it's gonna take much longer." She looked on the walls, they were all bare, no painting, no drawings.
"When do you think they'll show up, maybe we should go tell the others." Fred suggested.
"No I think they're coming." Cordy felt a weird vibe, she shivered. "Lean against the wall." She said to everyone. "Quickly." They all did as she said and right then a light stroke in the middle of the room. It filled the entire cavern. They all covered their eyes because the light was blinding.
Finally when the light was gone they looked up. In front of them they saw five women sitting on each of the chairs, they were surrounded by white bright circle of light. They all wear white hoods. They didn't seem to notice the unexpected guests.
"It has begun." One woman said. "He is coming, he is close."
"We must find the book." Another woman said. The gang just stared at them, afraid to move, afraid to speak.
"We cannot, only she can find it." Another woman said.
"We should have found her by now." a woman spoke.
"It is too late. If we have not found her till now." The first woman who spoke said.
"She, and she alone can use it. But she has not come. She has not heard our cry."
"Perhaps she is gone from this world, this life." The fifth woman who has not spoken till now said.
"No, I can still sense her presence, closer than ever."
"Then where is she, she should have come." Suddenly Cordy had the stranger notion those women were talking about her. She felt the unavoidable desire to walk up to them, so she did.
"Cordy what are you doing? Get back here." Gunn said to her. She didn't listen she kept walking.
"Cordelia." Buffy tried also, but she didn't pay any attention to them, she felt drawn to that circle.
She walked up and stepped inside the circle of light.
***
"Hello." One of the women said. "We were expecting you. Please take a seat
"But there's no..." Cordy looked around her and realized she wasn't in the cavern anymore. She was standing in the middle of a forest. Around her she saw dozen of women all wearing white hoods staring back at her and there beside the woman who spoke to her, she saw an extra chair, a chair she didn't notice before. She slowly sat down.
"We are the high council, all five of us. And the rest are what that is left from the great line of the white priestesses.
"And who am I?" Cordy asked fearing the answer.
"Don't you know who you are?" The woman asked.
"I know my name is Cordelia chase, but... What am I?"
"You are the warrior, you are the protector, the one who shell fulfill the prophecy."
"The prophecy? What prophecy?" Cordy didn't understand a thing.
"Long ago we walked the earth, we were considered the greatest power known to man and demon. We were the protectors of the book. Above all, that was our calling." The woman explained. "It was forthtold in our ancient prophecies that one day, long after we would seize to exists on this plane, the dark one will return for the book. And then, a warrior, a woman that is the combination of it all shell defeat it."
"I'm sorry, I'm trying to understand where I feet in but I can't." Cordy was lost.
"You." The woman pointed at her. "You are the one who has it all, you are the perfect combination." One woman tried to explain.
"Me? That can't be? I'm just Cordy, an ex-cheerleader, not a perfect combination.
"Yes you are. According to the prophecy, the warrior woman would be half human-there representing the human species. Part demon- there representing that species. And part priestess- there representing us. That is you."
"Lets say you're right about the human and demon part, But as for the priestess thing, I'm not your descendant."
"No you are not, but a man who loved you and gave you his gift was."
"Doyle, you mean Doyle?" Things started to fall into place.
"We do not know his name, but he was brave, that we do know. And like you he was part human, part demon." The woman explained.
"Then maybe his the warrior?" Cordy asked.
"No. The warrior must be a woman. Only a woman can sustain the power of the book. Only you."
"Wow." Cordy took a big breath. "That's... god I don't what to say."
"You must defeat the dark one, you must take control of the book." The woman said.
"But how? What kind of weapon can I use? Am I suppose to get something from here?" Cordy remembered what she saw in the other Cordelia's mind.
"You need no weapon, you are the weapon."
"Me?" Cordy didn't understand how was she a weapon?
"When the time is near you shell know what you must do. Use the book, hide it forever, and destroy the dark one before he destroys you."
"He was in me, in the past, I saw him." Cordy hoped they would have answers for her.
"He can see the future, he can visit the past. He saw what you are meant to do; he tried to stop it from coming to pass. He failed. Now you must go."
"Wait!" Cordy still didn't know what she was supposed to do. That's it? That's what I have to go on?"
"You have seen what's to come, you have seen and accepted the sacrifice you must give. That is all that there is, that it is all that requires."
"So you know, you saw." Cordy forgot the others could still see and hear her.
"Yes. We know all. You are brave. The love you have will give you strength in the final battle, but it will also give you weakness. It will try to stop you. You mustn't let it. Remember the prophecy; remember what you are meant to do. We all come into the world with a purpose. Some of us spends a lifetime and beyond searching for it. Others find it as they are born. And some, like you, the purpose fids them and not the other way around." The woman raised her hand and touched Cordelia's forehead. "May the powers lead your way!"
The next thing she knew she was back in the mausoleum with everyone else. The opening to the tunnel disappeared and it was already dark outside.
***
Wow that was intense." Gunn summed it up.
"You saw me? You heard me?" Cordy hoped they didn't, she didn't want toile to them more than necessary.
"Yes we did, we heard it all." Buffy said. "Do you care to explain what the hell did those women talk about? What sacrifice? What purpose?"
"I don't know okay? You heard what I heard." Cordy turned and walked out of the mausoleum.
"Cordelia wait!" Buffy called out to her. Cordy stopped outside the mausoleum and turned around. Beside Buffy stood Gunn, Fred and Spike. "It seemed like you knew what they were talking about."
"You didn't even seemed surprised when they talked about the sacrifice you have to make. The said you know, they said you accepted." Fred didn't get it either.
"I guess I was shocked, I mean that was wired." Cordy lied.
"Well, we better go tell the others, they want to know about it." Gunn said as he started walking away. Fred looked at Cordy. Something told her there's more to it, that Cordy isn't telling her everything. But she thought now wasn't the right time so she followed Gunn.
"Aren't you coming?" Cordy asked Buffy, who stood there next to Spike.
"Go ahead. I think I'll patrol, if I'm here and all..." Buffy smiled as Cordy joined the others.
"I'm off then." Spike said and turned around.
"Wait." Buffy reached out and placed her hand on his shoulder. He turned to look at her. "I'm sorry about last night, I didn't mean to kick you out." She tried to apologize, hoping he'll forgive her.
"But you did. Maybe you didn't mean it, but what counts luv is the end result, and last night it was me been kicked out in the middle of the night." He didn't seem mad; actually he was very logical and rational.
"It's just I couldn't let the others see you, I couldn't let them know." She explained.
"And was is that Buffy?" He moved a few inches closer. "What are you so afraid of? Is it your friends reaction or your own feelings?" Spike smiled knowing she couldn't answer it.
"Willow knows." She surprised him; he didn't see that one coming.
"So you told her. Well that's a step in the right dir..."
"She found out on her own. She saw you lighter and put things together." Buffy stopped him half way through.
"Uh." He nodded. "Still that's something, maybe now you'll have the balls to tell Xander?" He looked at her terrified face and knew she was not about to take that step. "Or maybe I was just hoping for too damn much." He was getting angry with her.
"Your pushing, and I'm not ready." She was lost. On one hand she wanted to hold him and never let go, on the other hand she hopped no one will see them while she does that.
"You can't have it both ways Buffy, I told you before. I'm tired of been your wiping-boy. You can't sleep with me at night and ignore me ion the morning. It doesn't work like that." He sighed. "We've been through this before, this is pointless." He turned and started walking.
"What if I tell him, all of them?" She cried out.
"Action baby, not words, actions." He said as he kept on walking, leaving her alone.
***
"Cor can I come in." Fred slightly opened the door and piped inside. She saw Cordy sitting on the bed staring at some photos.
"I don't know why I took them." Cordy waved the photos.
"I guess you just wanted them." Fred said the obvious. Cordy smiled.
"What's up?" Cordy asked. Fred came in and closed the door behind her.
"Can we talk?" She asked hesitantly.
"Sure. What about?" Cordy waved her hand instructing her to come inside and sit on the bed.
"About today." Fred sat in front of her on the bed.
"Today?" Cordy hoped she heard the last of it after Giles and Wesley inquisition.
"I know there's something you're not telling me and I want to know what is it." Fred said all of the sudden.
"Fred I..." Cordy started to say when Fred raised her hand.
"Don't, I know you know. Don't you?" Fred stared at her and that stare scared Cordy, she felt like Fred could read her like an open book.
"Know what?" Cordy asked.
"How it would all end, and I'm not talking about the version you told us, I'm talking about the real end."
"Fred, what I told you is the truth. That's what I saw, that's what's going to happen unless we stop the Dorkanious." Cordy explained.
"No, there's more to it, there's something you're not telling us." Fred stared at Cordy, as she stared back in fear.
"Fred don't do this. Don't look for things that aren't there." Cordy begged her with her eyes to stop asking her, stop forcing her to lie.
"Cordy?" A realization came to her. "The sacrifice... it's you, you're the sacrifice..."
TBC
Hi ppl,
I'm sorry for the delay but as I said updated may take longer.
Thank you for all your supportive and wonderful reviews and thank you for hanging in there, we're nearing the finish line. Now I'm going to do again some PR so bear with me: Hi I hope you all had a chance to check out my new fic and I'd like to take this opportunity to say that it is NOT in any way shape or form a Groo/Cordy fic, no way it is still and always a A/C, B/S fic so if you haven't seen it already check it out, it's called A new beginning and so far I uploaded 3 chapters and #4 is on its way.
Uh, last thing. Due to recent review I got I wanted to make sure you all know this is just a story, nothing real about it and shouldn't be considered as anything else rather than just a story, a fiction of my imagination. No need to be depressed by it or anything like it. Okay? Good.
So as usual enjoy this ch, and let me know what you think.
Thanks Nikka.