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Willow was panting as she dusted the last of the vampires. She and Buffy had been patrolling as usual when a large group of vampires had attacked them. Willow's mind had instantly gone into fight mode. She had been very helpful to Buffy dusting around three of the eight vamps who had come at them.
Angelus's training really has come in handy she thought happily to herself. She'd been getting lessons from him every night for the past week and a half. The lessons he had insited on her having had been fairly effective. He taught her basic moves of how to dodge attacks and how to stake an oncoming vamp. Willow was brought out of her thoughts of Angelus and trainging by Buffy's concerned voice echoing throughout the cemetery.
"Willow. Wills?"
"Yea."
"You okay?"
"Yea I'm fine."
"Where'd you learn that." Buffy asked in excitment. It had been amazing. Willow had taken care of herself and helped her out when there was more undead then she could handle. It was great! "Have you been training with Giles?" she asked as she jumped onto a headstone.
Oh can't tell her that. She'll talk to Giles and Giles will talk to her and they'll be talking which will not be of the good.
"Um...a book!"
"A book?" Buffy asked in surprise.
"Um yea. A-a book. That I've been reading. I figured that you know with the high population of the undead and all I should try and learn to protect myself. It's not much. Just some basic fighting skills."
"This is great Will! I mean, you learning to fight. You can help me train!"
Willow smiled as Buffy's eyes widened as she realized the infite possiblities of things they could now do with Willow learning to fight.
"Buffy calm down. Really it's not that big of a deal. I'm n-not even that good." she assured her.
"Not yet." Willow saw Buffy began to form a plan in her mind.
"What do you mean not yet?"
"Your not training with Giles and I yet. But soon you will be! And then we can do all sorts of stuff. This is gonna be sooooo great!"
"Your really really happy about this aren't you Buff?"
"Of course I am. It's great news. I've been so worried about you all since Angelus came back and well..." she trailed off. Willow walked over to her friend and put a hand on her shoulder. Buffy looked up and gave her a half-hearted smile.
"I know." she said simply.
The two girls got up and made thier way home. Willow listened as Buffy continued to ramble. When they finally reached the hackers house the slayer said goodbye to her friend and made her promise that they would talk to Giles first thing tomorrow. Willow agreed and went inside up to her room.
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She pushed open the door and went to sit in her computer chair. She groaned. Tonight had been draining. Fighting vamps was not her idea of a fun-filled evening.
"Tough day at the office sweetie?" asked a silky voice from behind her. She let out a small grunt. She knew who it was. And she was not up for lessons tonight. "Let's get rid of some of that tension shall we." Angelus put his hands on her shoulders and began to lightly massage them.
"Humph." she mumbeled. He was giving her a massage. This was probably not good. But she wasn't doing anything about it. It felt good and she was so tired.
Angelus smiled as he felt her mucels loosen beneath his hands. He was spending way to much time obsessing over this girl. But he didn't care. Drusilla had been begging him for days to leave the girl alone. She was trying to convince him that the 'little tree' had some kind of hold over him. Which she didn't. In no way did she have any hold over him at all.
Yea. Right.
"Feel better?" he purred into her ear. She lifted her head up and turned her chair around to face him.
"No lessons tonight please? I'm tired." she said softly. He smiled down at her.
"Okay precious." he said as he slowly stroked her hair. She got up slowly to walk to her bed. He shook his head. "Let me help you with that." He picked her up and carried her the short distance to her bed. He pulled back the covers and laid her down gently. He tucked her in and kissed her lightly on the cheek.
"Sleep well my dear. Your going to need your rest." he assured her with a leer. She scowled at him as best she could before drifting off to sleep. He took this as his que to leave. Instead, he stayed and watched her sleep for a while and then decided he was hungry. Jumping out of her balcony window he scanned the streets for something to eat.
Puh. Nothing he thought in disguist. Noting that it would be sunrise in a few hours, he told himself that he had to go have some fun before having to be cooped up in that warehouse all day.
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Angelus walked through the cemetery. God I'm bored he thought. He had skipped his Willow lessons tonight. She'd said she was tired and he didn't want to exhast her.
*Growl*
Why should he care so much about her? She was the slayers little friend. Her pet. Net gal and an all around do gooder. He knew from Soulboy's memories that if it weren't for her and the moron that the slayer would be as good as dead. So why was he protecting one little girl?
*Sigh*
Because Drusilla was right. She had some kind of hold over him. He didn't know what it was but he had decided early on in this little game that he would protect her. She was so innocent, and yet had such great power. He had decided that he wanted that power on his side. So he had to protect her. Yea that's it. It was in his own best interest to keep her safe. Not because he had feelings for the little hacker, but because he needed to win her over to his side. Yep. That's it.
He nodded to himself in agreement. He was in denial he knew, but as long as he could keep it up he didn't really care. Angelus was brought out of his thought's of denial for the little red-headed witch when he heard a rustling of leaves behind him.
Dinner time.
He turned around and followed the faint smell of blood. Then he saw her. Yes! He thought happily. It was that annoying blonde that had disturbed him and his Willow….his Willow? Damn. He really needed to stop doing that. He shook his head and stepped out of the bushes. Across the street sat that vapid little girl who tormented his Willow…arrgh! Willow. The girl who tormented *Willow*. Now he could kill her. Hurray!
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She had been sitting on that bench for about 15 minutes. Her boyfriend Tom was supposed to have picked her up 20 minutes ago. She decided to wait for him.
"Nice night eh?"
Harmony looked up to see a man coming out of the shadows. He was tall, and all dressed in black. Harmony recognized him instantly.
"You're the guy that was walking with Willow the other night?" she said coldly.
"Sure am. Mind if I take a seat?" he asked with a smirk as he sat down beside her.
"I'm waiting for someone." she informed him snidely. He let out a deep chuckle.
"I'm sure you are sweetie." he replied with a smirk.
Why is this guy talking to me? Maybe he's tired of Willow she thought. Well, he was pretty cute. And Tom was pretty late. She turned to him with a nice smile and sighed.
"So. Where's the great geek wonder?" "Who?" he asked in cofusment.
"Willow. Duh." Harmony told him with a luagh. Geez. He doesn't even remember her. That's promising.
Angelus suppressed a growl. How dare she insult hi…Willow like that. See he caught himself before he siad it. He did *not* have a problem.
"She's at home asleep. I guess I tired her out already." he said with a chuckle. Harmony scowled. "So my dear, where's this someone your supposed to meet?"
"He's late." "Gee is he really? I can't imagine why ever for." Angelus said.
Missing the sarcasm in his voice Harmony replied, "High-school boys. Their just so immature."
"Oh I don't know about that. High-schooler's seem pretty mature to me." he laughed.
"Some more than others." she said with a wink.
"Is that so?" he asked sitting up and letting a more serious settle onto his features.
"Absolutely." "You know what," he said leaning in, "I think that you are absolutely right."
She smiled and leaned in closer as well.
"I think that my little Willow must be that most adult and mature one out of that entire vapid crowd." he said as he leaned back into his seat. Harmony grunted in disappointment.
"Well your little Willow happens to be a freak." she snorted.
"Do tell do tell. I so wish to be inlightened by your narrow-minded view on my precious."
With lighting speed Angelus was off of the bench and had gathered the blond in his grasp. Tightining his grasp on the girl he slammed her into a nearby tree.
"Or…I could drain you and leave your dead body for the slayer to find. Um yea. I think I'll go with the latter." he said with a smirk. He allowed his face to turn. He felt his fangs slide down. He was just about to sink into the felsh of her neck when an awful sound pierced through the still night air.
"Noooooooooooooooo!"
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Dear God that girl screamed loud. He gave himself a headahce just thinking about it. She hadn't even tasted right. All that make up just left a bad aftertaste. The blood was a far cry from pure and innocent. It held malice, anger, hatered. It was almost like tasting the blood of a vampire. He almost laughed. If anyone was ever stupid enough to turn the little chit then he doubted she'd be any different from the way she was now. Willow would taste better.
Okay. He had to do something to take his mind off of her. And he didn't really care what it was.
"Rough day Grandaddy." Spike asked as he wheeled his way into Angelus' chamber.
"The worst." he replied.
"What'd Slutty do this time?"
"I was just about to finish draining one of her little schoolmates. When out of nowhere she jumps out and pushes me out of the way. Took the girl to the hospital and everything. God it was awful. The girl wasn't even really worth it anyway. Blood tasted…gamey. Her screams were more annoying than anything. I barely had any fun." he pouted.
"There there peaches. Don't get your bloody knickers in a twist. How'd it go with Red."
Angelus starred at his grand-childe wickedly.
"I mean err, the-girl-that-I-know-absolutely-nothing-about-who-you-are-not-obsessed-with-in-any-way-whatsoever."
Angelus let out another growl. His day had begun so good too. He'd seen Willow, and was planning on killing one of her most hated enemies. But noooo. Slayer messed it all up and now he was stuck here all day. Could things possible get any worse?
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(Ring Rinnnnnnng)
Willow opened her eyes slowly and sighed.
"What is it now?"
She picked up the phone that sat on her side-table.
"What?" she growled. Growling? She'd been spending way to much time training with Angelus.
"Willow?"
"Buffy? Oh my gosh what is it is everyone okay what happened?" a million questions flew out at once. Why else would Buffy be calling her at five o'clock in the morning.
"Harmony." Harmony? Since when did she, or any other member of the Scooby gang consider Harmony a problem. She herself had always considered the girl as one of the many demons of the hell mouth.
"What about her?" "She was attacked. By Angelus."
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Dum de dum de dum. Wow. For a pretty short chapter where not a lot actually happened that took a surprising amount of thought. But you see it takes a while for me to get a chapter going. There are so many voices in my head fighting for creative control in there. But hey, I have a plot now! Can you say it's about freakin time.
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Willow was panting as she dusted the last of the vampires. She and Buffy had been patrolling as usual when a large group of vampires had attacked them. Willow's mind had instantly gone into fight mode. She had been very helpful to Buffy dusting around three of the eight vamps who had come at them.
Angelus's training really has come in handy she thought happily to herself. She'd been getting lessons from him every night for the past week and a half. The lessons he had insited on her having had been fairly effective. He taught her basic moves of how to dodge attacks and how to stake an oncoming vamp. Willow was brought out of her thoughts of Angelus and trainging by Buffy's concerned voice echoing throughout the cemetery.
"Willow. Wills?"
"Yea."
"You okay?"
"Yea I'm fine."
"Where'd you learn that." Buffy asked in excitment. It had been amazing. Willow had taken care of herself and helped her out when there was more undead then she could handle. It was great! "Have you been training with Giles?" she asked as she jumped onto a headstone.
Oh can't tell her that. She'll talk to Giles and Giles will talk to her and they'll be talking which will not be of the good.
"Um...a book!"
"A book?" Buffy asked in surprise.
"Um yea. A-a book. That I've been reading. I figured that you know with the high population of the undead and all I should try and learn to protect myself. It's not much. Just some basic fighting skills."
"This is great Will! I mean, you learning to fight. You can help me train!"
Willow smiled as Buffy's eyes widened as she realized the infite possiblities of things they could now do with Willow learning to fight.
"Buffy calm down. Really it's not that big of a deal. I'm n-not even that good." she assured her.
"Not yet." Willow saw Buffy began to form a plan in her mind.
"What do you mean not yet?"
"Your not training with Giles and I yet. But soon you will be! And then we can do all sorts of stuff. This is gonna be sooooo great!"
"Your really really happy about this aren't you Buff?"
"Of course I am. It's great news. I've been so worried about you all since Angelus came back and well..." she trailed off. Willow walked over to her friend and put a hand on her shoulder. Buffy looked up and gave her a half-hearted smile.
"I know." she said simply.
The two girls got up and made thier way home. Willow listened as Buffy continued to ramble. When they finally reached the hackers house the slayer said goodbye to her friend and made her promise that they would talk to Giles first thing tomorrow. Willow agreed and went inside up to her room.
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She pushed open the door and went to sit in her computer chair. She groaned. Tonight had been draining. Fighting vamps was not her idea of a fun-filled evening.
"Tough day at the office sweetie?" asked a silky voice from behind her. She let out a small grunt. She knew who it was. And she was not up for lessons tonight. "Let's get rid of some of that tension shall we." Angelus put his hands on her shoulders and began to lightly massage them.
"Humph." she mumbeled. He was giving her a massage. This was probably not good. But she wasn't doing anything about it. It felt good and she was so tired.
Angelus smiled as he felt her mucels loosen beneath his hands. He was spending way to much time obsessing over this girl. But he didn't care. Drusilla had been begging him for days to leave the girl alone. She was trying to convince him that the 'little tree' had some kind of hold over him. Which she didn't. In no way did she have any hold over him at all.
Yea. Right.
"Feel better?" he purred into her ear. She lifted her head up and turned her chair around to face him.
"No lessons tonight please? I'm tired." she said softly. He smiled down at her.
"Okay precious." he said as he slowly stroked her hair. She got up slowly to walk to her bed. He shook his head. "Let me help you with that." He picked her up and carried her the short distance to her bed. He pulled back the covers and laid her down gently. He tucked her in and kissed her lightly on the cheek.
"Sleep well my dear. Your going to need your rest." he assured her with a leer. She scowled at him as best she could before drifting off to sleep. He took this as his que to leave. Instead, he stayed and watched her sleep for a while and then decided he was hungry. Jumping out of her balcony window he scanned the streets for something to eat.
Puh. Nothing he thought in disguist. Noting that it would be sunrise in a few hours, he told himself that he had to go have some fun before having to be cooped up in that warehouse all day.
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Angelus walked through the cemetery. God I'm bored he thought. He had skipped his Willow lessons tonight. She'd said she was tired and he didn't want to exhast her.
*Growl*
Why should he care so much about her? She was the slayers little friend. Her pet. Net gal and an all around do gooder. He knew from Soulboy's memories that if it weren't for her and the moron that the slayer would be as good as dead. So why was he protecting one little girl?
*Sigh*
Because Drusilla was right. She had some kind of hold over him. He didn't know what it was but he had decided early on in this little game that he would protect her. She was so innocent, and yet had such great power. He had decided that he wanted that power on his side. So he had to protect her. Yea that's it. It was in his own best interest to keep her safe. Not because he had feelings for the little hacker, but because he needed to win her over to his side. Yep. That's it.
He nodded to himself in agreement. He was in denial he knew, but as long as he could keep it up he didn't really care. Angelus was brought out of his thought's of denial for the little red-headed witch when he heard a rustling of leaves behind him.
Dinner time.
He turned around and followed the faint smell of blood. Then he saw her. Yes! He thought happily. It was that annoying blonde that had disturbed him and his Willow….his Willow? Damn. He really needed to stop doing that. He shook his head and stepped out of the bushes. Across the street sat that vapid little girl who tormented his Willow…arrgh! Willow. The girl who tormented *Willow*. Now he could kill her. Hurray!
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She had been sitting on that bench for about 15 minutes. Her boyfriend Tom was supposed to have picked her up 20 minutes ago. She decided to wait for him.
"Nice night eh?"
Harmony looked up to see a man coming out of the shadows. He was tall, and all dressed in black. Harmony recognized him instantly.
"You're the guy that was walking with Willow the other night?" she said coldly.
"Sure am. Mind if I take a seat?" he asked with a smirk as he sat down beside her.
"I'm waiting for someone." she informed him snidely. He let out a deep chuckle.
"I'm sure you are sweetie." he replied with a smirk.
Why is this guy talking to me? Maybe he's tired of Willow she thought. Well, he was pretty cute. And Tom was pretty late. She turned to him with a nice smile and sighed.
"So. Where's the great geek wonder?" "Who?" he asked in cofusment.
"Willow. Duh." Harmony told him with a luagh. Geez. He doesn't even remember her. That's promising.
Angelus suppressed a growl. How dare she insult hi…Willow like that. See he caught himself before he siad it. He did *not* have a problem.
"She's at home asleep. I guess I tired her out already." he said with a chuckle. Harmony scowled. "So my dear, where's this someone your supposed to meet?"
"He's late." "Gee is he really? I can't imagine why ever for." Angelus said.
Missing the sarcasm in his voice Harmony replied, "High-school boys. Their just so immature."
"Oh I don't know about that. High-schooler's seem pretty mature to me." he laughed.
"Some more than others." she said with a wink.
"Is that so?" he asked sitting up and letting a more serious settle onto his features.
"Absolutely." "You know what," he said leaning in, "I think that you are absolutely right."
She smiled and leaned in closer as well.
"I think that my little Willow must be that most adult and mature one out of that entire vapid crowd." he said as he leaned back into his seat. Harmony grunted in disappointment.
"Well your little Willow happens to be a freak." she snorted.
"Do tell do tell. I so wish to be inlightened by your narrow-minded view on my precious."
With lighting speed Angelus was off of the bench and had gathered the blond in his grasp. Tightining his grasp on the girl he slammed her into a nearby tree.
"Or…I could drain you and leave your dead body for the slayer to find. Um yea. I think I'll go with the latter." he said with a smirk. He allowed his face to turn. He felt his fangs slide down. He was just about to sink into the felsh of her neck when an awful sound pierced through the still night air.
"Noooooooooooooooo!"
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Dear God that girl screamed loud. He gave himself a headahce just thinking about it. She hadn't even tasted right. All that make up just left a bad aftertaste. The blood was a far cry from pure and innocent. It held malice, anger, hatered. It was almost like tasting the blood of a vampire. He almost laughed. If anyone was ever stupid enough to turn the little chit then he doubted she'd be any different from the way she was now. Willow would taste better.
Okay. He had to do something to take his mind off of her. And he didn't really care what it was.
"Rough day Grandaddy." Spike asked as he wheeled his way into Angelus' chamber.
"The worst." he replied.
"What'd Slutty do this time?"
"I was just about to finish draining one of her little schoolmates. When out of nowhere she jumps out and pushes me out of the way. Took the girl to the hospital and everything. God it was awful. The girl wasn't even really worth it anyway. Blood tasted…gamey. Her screams were more annoying than anything. I barely had any fun." he pouted.
"There there peaches. Don't get your bloody knickers in a twist. How'd it go with Red."
Angelus starred at his grand-childe wickedly.
"I mean err, the-girl-that-I-know-absolutely-nothing-about-who-you-are-not-obsessed-with-in-any-way-whatsoever."
Angelus let out another growl. His day had begun so good too. He'd seen Willow, and was planning on killing one of her most hated enemies. But noooo. Slayer messed it all up and now he was stuck here all day. Could things possible get any worse?
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(Ring Rinnnnnnng)
Willow opened her eyes slowly and sighed.
"What is it now?"
She picked up the phone that sat on her side-table.
"What?" she growled. Growling? She'd been spending way to much time training with Angelus.
"Willow?"
"Buffy? Oh my gosh what is it is everyone okay what happened?" a million questions flew out at once. Why else would Buffy be calling her at five o'clock in the morning.
"Harmony." Harmony? Since when did she, or any other member of the Scooby gang consider Harmony a problem. She herself had always considered the girl as one of the many demons of the hell mouth.
"What about her?" "She was attacked. By Angelus."
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Dum de dum de dum. Wow. For a pretty short chapter where not a lot actually happened that took a surprising amount of thought. But you see it takes a while for me to get a chapter going. There are so many voices in my head fighting for creative control in there. But hey, I have a plot now! Can you say it's about freakin time.