Title: The Thing That Should Not Be
Authors: Littu and Bunny
Rating: PG-13, we guess. Rating systems are odd.
Disclaimer: We don't ownie. So please don't suie! ^_^; (Included for all Buffy, Angel, Vanessa Carlton's Twilight and Rinse, and Metallica's The Thing That Should Not Be)
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Chapter Title: Battle
A/N: WE ARE SO SORRY THAT WE HAVEN'T UPDATED IN. . . . . almost 2 months. *COUGH* Oops! Volleyball's taken over and then we're starting high school, so there's gotta be this routine that we get into, but we're still alive!
Previously: The Fang Gang came to Sunnydale looking for Connor who was in search of the Key. Angelus was brought back, again, and sired Buffy. Oz and Faith have returned. In the last chapter Cordelia died by the order of Roxinu Girhattiza and Anya got her visions. Angel's soul has come back, reminding him of an artifact that Gwen Raiden brought by. Now, it's reaching the big battle!
Preview: Faith finds out the problem, Dawn and Buffy talk, and two more characters make a return.
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"Holy crap!" muttered Gunn for everyone else. They got to the blown-up Sunnydale High.
A magnificent structure had been built that had many stairs going up. It probably only went as high as fifteen feet, but the entire thing was surrounded by vampires and various sorts of demons. Each set of eyes was intent upon the night around it, searching for intruders. The demons swung battle axes and vampires slid into game faces, prepared for anything. It was getting close to midnight, the chosen hour, when the tide would turn in their favor and evil would rule the world.
"You ready Connor?" asked Fred, patting him on the back. He nodded quietly and went forward without stopping.
Giles looked around and cleaned his glasses. "Looks like they've claimed the area quite well."
"How the bloody hell are we going to get in there?" Olivia asked eyeing the structure. "It's crawling! And how are we going to get close enough to the Slayer? She'll be watching the Key like a hawk."
"Oh. Oh!" exclaimed Willow. "Oh! Vampires get jealous, right?"
"Yeah," said Spike. Angel nodded his head.
"Then Buffy would get jealous."
"Red, where are you going with this?" asked the peroxide vampire.
Xander stepped forward. "Dare I say it? I agree with Spike."
"Angel should 'claim' Faith. It'd make her jealous beyond anything right?" They were all silent. "Right?"
"It should work," said Wes. Willow smiled at her plan. "Everyone get set up. Angel, Faith do you want to do this?"
The two looked at each other, and nodded hesitantly.
Angel slid into game face. "Sorry," he whispered into her ear and then bit her neck.
"It's okay," the Slayer muttered and closed her eyes. When she opened them, she saw Spike looking at them. He seemed, lost. "I'm sorry," she mouthed to him.
Tara took Spike's arm. "It'll be okay."
"How can you say that when Peaches is bloody well, claiming her!" he exclaimed gesturing.
"Hey, I can r-read minds remember? She doesn't want to be with him. Not anymore."
"Then who? Some git in San Francisco?" Tara just smiled knowingly, and moved to where Lorne was.
***
Connor slipped noiselessly through the shadows, his eyes never leaving the massive structure in front of him. "I must be crazy," he thought. "I can't get past all these vampires! They probably already know I'm here and are just waiting to play cat and mouse." But even as he thought of turning back, thoughts of Dawn stormed into his head. He moved closer almost without knowing it. He was drawn to her, he couldn't stop, he wouldn't stop. "Not until she's safe," he thought as he tiptoed past two vampires who were arguing over who would rule the world.
"Roxinu will! He's the one who got the Slayer turned in the first place!" one exclaimed.
"The Slayer's too proud. She'll never work under another vampire," the other argued.
"And what do think she's doing now?" the first retorted.
Connor was inside the building now. He stayed low as he went up the stairs. His feet seemed to know the way as he turned down corridor after corridor till he was sure he was lost. Then he heard voices.
"Do you think you'll feel anything?" asked one voice.
"Right now, all I'm feeling is a cramp in my wrist," said the other one. It was Dawn. He was fairly certain the next one was Buffy.
"Com'on. You're being no fun. You know you really want it. The freedom. Y'know, if you didin't have to bleed to death, I'd say you'd make an awesome vamp."
"Thanks, I guess." Connor picked up a pipe from the hallway and opened the door. He threw it to the back of the large room. Buffy whipped around and went to check it out. He crept over to Dawn.
"What are you doing here?" she whispered.
"Getting you out." He tried her shackles.
"Wretch, so glad you could come!"
***
"If we make it out of here, you're going to want to put ice on that," Dawn said referring to Connor's nose. It was red and quickly growing larger.
"It was a cheap shot," Connor said tugging at the chains that bound him to the wall next to Dawn.
"Hey, who ever said I played fair?" Buffy said arching an eyebrow at the boy.
"No one. You were never fair. Not even as my sister," the girl mumbled.
"Pipe down Little Blob. We already had the sister discussion," the blonde vampire said. She began pacing the floor. She glanced outside, then at her watch. Roxinu would be here to help take Dawn to the ceremony soon.
"You won't be leaving the same tonight," Connor said to his captor.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Buffy said, barely paying attention. The evil coursing through her body was keyed up, as if it knew what would be happening tonight. She thrummed with energy. Her only regret was Angelus wasn't there to share it with her.
"I mean you won't be leaving here a vampire," Connor said.
He had her full attention. "What?"
"You'll be human. They're doing a spell, probably right now."
The vampiress looked at him carefully. "You're lying."
Shrugging, he said, "Well, when you're human, you're gonna end up helping us." Buffy's lip twitched, then she ran down the stairs.
"Why'd you tell her that?" demanded Dawn.
"It gives us chance to try and get out."
***
Buffy flew down the stairs. She saw Lorne and Tara working at the bottom corner. There were white and black candles around them and in the middle was a piece of metal that changed colors slowly with each word they spoke. She was about to rip Tara's head off, when she was tackled down. "There you are, B. Was wondering when you'd show."
Buffy vamped out growling and punched the Slayer off of her. Faith flipped her hair back and Buffy froze. "Oh, yeah, Angel claimed me," she said tauntingly. "You probably can tell though. Did I ever mention when I tried to summon Angelus, we had wild crazy sex? He was a great la-" Her words were promptly cut off from an upper cut to the chest. "There's my girl."
Faith ducked a blow only to receive a sharp kick in the gut. Had she been anything less than a Slayer, she would have been gasping for air. Instead, she returned the kick full force. She hit her mark, but the vampire barely noticed. The fight began in earnest. Faith was giving her all, but her opponent barely seemed to be trying. They both moved like lightning, but it seemed to Faith that the former Slayer was always one step ahead. The vampire nailed two blows every one of hers. 'I can't beat her,' Faith thought dodging a right hook. Though she'd never admit it out loud
"You can't beat me," the blonde said, effortlessly somersaulting through the air over Faith's head to avoid a blow. The Slayer spun to keep Buffy from her back, but was met with a crushing blow to the jaw.
***
Willow let a crossbolt fly into the chest of a vampire, where it exploded. She, Fred, and Olivia were stationed at higher points on the grounds to try and pick off as many vampires as possible. They all also had good views of the fight. She noticed Oz was ripping as many demons apart as he could. She was glad he had learned to control his actions when wolfed out, they needed all the help they could get. The witch turned her attention to Xander. He was flipping around an ax better than she'd ever see him do before. She supposed six years of doing that would make him better. She fired off another bolt, another bull s-eye. 'I guess all these years have made me better too,' she thought.
She noted that Olivia was keeping her eye on Giles to make sure nothing terrible happened to him, and Fred was letting as many bolts as possible go. Willow gazed back down at her friends and saw Spike in a fury, actually ripping off demons heads without a thought. She'd have to talk to him later. That's when she spotted Anya, kneeling on the ground screaming. A vampire nearly snapped her neck, when Willow shot another bolt. The redhead decided to watch over the ex-demon, figuring she was having a vision.
She was right. Anya looked to her left and right quickly, before she saw Angel. "Angel!" She stumbled over to him, coughing as she breathed in dust. Looking up, Anya saw Willow shooting bolts around her. Protecting her. She smiled brightly, before going after the vampire again. "Angel!" He paused in his pursuit of a Kralk demon. "You've gotta save Faith! She's going to die if you don't go to her and I really don't want another friend dead."
"Will you guys be okay here without me?" Angel asked. The fighting was fierce and they were badly outnumbered. A crossbolt flew past their heads and into a nearby vampire.
"We'll be fine, but Faith won't if you keep wasting time," Anya said hurriedly. With that, Angel turned and fought his way out of the battle toward Faith's post by the spell.
***
Faith managed to stop the next boot hit to the head, but missed the one to the knees. She fell down, her side hurting to much to try and get up again. Buffy walked over. "Aw. Poor Faithy fell down!" She came up to her head and gripped the sides of it, when the vampire was thrown across the room. Angel stood there growling. "Oh, come on!"
"You okay?" he asked the Slayer.
"Five by five." She got up shakily, and took out a stake from her pocket. "Watch out, she's jealous and mad," Faith advised, heading towards a hole in the wall, trying to block an escape from the blonde vampire.
"No, Faith, leave. You need to guard the spell. There are enough demons and vampires out there that one or two might slip past the gang," Angel explained to the Slayer.
"No, you can't take her on your own, you'll-" Faith was cut off.
"Beat it, bucko. This is between me and my daddy," Buffy said, gliding closer. Faith looked at Angel. Seeing the determined look on his face, she backed off.
"Fine," she said, and left.
***
Lorne and Tara chanted softly while the Tefi Kthayib changed from yellow, to orange, to black. They had to make it turn green, the color of life. And Buffy was being stubborn, not letting any emotion except jealousy in. They still needed love, fear, sadness, and happiness. It was taking longer than they had anticipated.
Faith watched in amazement. She'd never actually watched Willow do any spells in high school. It was beautiful. Her thoughts were cut off by a growl. They Slayer whipped around to see a huge purplely-blue demon advancing on the two Pyleans. She grabbed a steel pole from the wall and followed it. She beat on it repetitively in anger, before finally shoving the pole through its head.
Then two other demons came in through the hole. She yanked the pole out and swung it towards one of them. It was then that Spike came in, rolling with a demon of his own. "Oh, great!" exclaimed Faith. "You brought these in here! What, you angry at me?" She took the end of the pole and tried to shove it through one of their chests, but it spilt in half.
"Bloody well did not!" Spike snapped his demons neck where it fell loosely. "And, yeah! I am angry at you, you bint."
"Well, first of all, it wasn't my idea!" She struck the black demon with the half-pole again, causing to bleed green. "Second of all, it worked. Third of all, don't call me a bint."
"And you're sodding claimed cause of it!" Spike took over one of her demons, flipping it over.
"You know! I think you're the one who's jealous!" Faith slammed her weapon into it's knee and the swung it around to his head, where green blood splattered. She tossed the weapon over to Spike
"Yeah, and it doesn't help that when I want to bleeding get together, you go off and get claimed!" He shoved it into the demon's chest, and it died.
Faith crossed her arms. "You want to start a relationship?"
"What do you think I've been sayin'?"
"It's not gonna be easy. Especially with my history."
He shrugged. "Fine with me."
"Good." Faith launched to him, kissing him hungrily, which he returned eagerly.
***
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Buffy asked once Faith had gone. "Claiming Faith? After all we've been through. After all we've done, you go and do a stupid thing like that." Angel said nothing but stared warily his Childe. This seemed to annoy the young vampire and she scowled back for a while, not sure of how to continue. Then she smiled, switching gears. "I know you didn't mean it though," she said. "You did it for me. Or really for the old Buffy. But why? You trying to rescue me? From what?" She began circling him.
"Yourself," Angel replied. Buffy giggled.
"Wasn't it fun though? You and me, together," she punched him in the face and smirked. "Come play with me," she punched him again and they both slid into their game faces. "Do I get a head start?" Buffy asked.
"Sure."
She launched herself straight at him, beginning to pummel him down. Angel grabbed her fists and shoved her into the wall. He tried to trip her, but Buffy jumped into the air and spun kicked him in the head.
Angel couldn't control his momentum and tripped. "Oops! Daddy fell down!" When she got close enough, he leaped at her and held her down. "Having fun?" In response to her question, he kissed her roughly, like they had before. When he pulled back, he saw her radiate with happiness. "You've come back?" Angel grabbed a stake from his pocket and held it to her heart. "Are you trying to be kinky again?" the vampiress asked, though she wriggled nervously.
"Actually, I was planning on forgetting everything and just staking you." He drew back his hand and noticed the terror and saddness in her eyes. Angel's arm moved just enough for Buffy to slap him off.
"NOW!" exclaimed Tara before green light filled the room. It swirled around the room but Buffy ignored it. A dark look crossed her face and her yellow eyes glowed with fury. He had tried to kill her, her love, her Sire. She picked up the stake Angel had dropped and using all her strength, shoved the older vampire back.
She straddled him and said, "Now it's time for Daddy to go bye-bye." She raised the stake above her head. As her arm flew down, the green light flooded into her body and she screamed. "NO!" the blonde Slayer screamed. But it was too late, momentum rammed the stake into her lover's chest.
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TBC. . . .
Re-Read above about the "We're really sorry" thing, cuz we are. The next chapter won't take as long to update, we promise!
Authors: Littu and Bunny
Rating: PG-13, we guess. Rating systems are odd.
Disclaimer: We don't ownie. So please don't suie! ^_^; (Included for all Buffy, Angel, Vanessa Carlton's Twilight and Rinse, and Metallica's The Thing That Should Not Be)
Feedback: Duh! Appreciated greatly! We BOTH Accept Flames! BRING IT ON!!!!! (No SERIOUSLY, bring it) It's about to get real good! And even better now! So keep 'em coming! Please? Might we just say, there was a pathetic amount last time. This is about to blow your mind! Even more!
Chapter Title: Battle
A/N: WE ARE SO SORRY THAT WE HAVEN'T UPDATED IN. . . . . almost 2 months. *COUGH* Oops! Volleyball's taken over and then we're starting high school, so there's gotta be this routine that we get into, but we're still alive!
Previously: The Fang Gang came to Sunnydale looking for Connor who was in search of the Key. Angelus was brought back, again, and sired Buffy. Oz and Faith have returned. In the last chapter Cordelia died by the order of Roxinu Girhattiza and Anya got her visions. Angel's soul has come back, reminding him of an artifact that Gwen Raiden brought by. Now, it's reaching the big battle!
Preview: Faith finds out the problem, Dawn and Buffy talk, and two more characters make a return.
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"Holy crap!" muttered Gunn for everyone else. They got to the blown-up Sunnydale High.
A magnificent structure had been built that had many stairs going up. It probably only went as high as fifteen feet, but the entire thing was surrounded by vampires and various sorts of demons. Each set of eyes was intent upon the night around it, searching for intruders. The demons swung battle axes and vampires slid into game faces, prepared for anything. It was getting close to midnight, the chosen hour, when the tide would turn in their favor and evil would rule the world.
"You ready Connor?" asked Fred, patting him on the back. He nodded quietly and went forward without stopping.
Giles looked around and cleaned his glasses. "Looks like they've claimed the area quite well."
"How the bloody hell are we going to get in there?" Olivia asked eyeing the structure. "It's crawling! And how are we going to get close enough to the Slayer? She'll be watching the Key like a hawk."
"Oh. Oh!" exclaimed Willow. "Oh! Vampires get jealous, right?"
"Yeah," said Spike. Angel nodded his head.
"Then Buffy would get jealous."
"Red, where are you going with this?" asked the peroxide vampire.
Xander stepped forward. "Dare I say it? I agree with Spike."
"Angel should 'claim' Faith. It'd make her jealous beyond anything right?" They were all silent. "Right?"
"It should work," said Wes. Willow smiled at her plan. "Everyone get set up. Angel, Faith do you want to do this?"
The two looked at each other, and nodded hesitantly.
Angel slid into game face. "Sorry," he whispered into her ear and then bit her neck.
"It's okay," the Slayer muttered and closed her eyes. When she opened them, she saw Spike looking at them. He seemed, lost. "I'm sorry," she mouthed to him.
Tara took Spike's arm. "It'll be okay."
"How can you say that when Peaches is bloody well, claiming her!" he exclaimed gesturing.
"Hey, I can r-read minds remember? She doesn't want to be with him. Not anymore."
"Then who? Some git in San Francisco?" Tara just smiled knowingly, and moved to where Lorne was.
***
Connor slipped noiselessly through the shadows, his eyes never leaving the massive structure in front of him. "I must be crazy," he thought. "I can't get past all these vampires! They probably already know I'm here and are just waiting to play cat and mouse." But even as he thought of turning back, thoughts of Dawn stormed into his head. He moved closer almost without knowing it. He was drawn to her, he couldn't stop, he wouldn't stop. "Not until she's safe," he thought as he tiptoed past two vampires who were arguing over who would rule the world.
"Roxinu will! He's the one who got the Slayer turned in the first place!" one exclaimed.
"The Slayer's too proud. She'll never work under another vampire," the other argued.
"And what do think she's doing now?" the first retorted.
Connor was inside the building now. He stayed low as he went up the stairs. His feet seemed to know the way as he turned down corridor after corridor till he was sure he was lost. Then he heard voices.
"Do you think you'll feel anything?" asked one voice.
"Right now, all I'm feeling is a cramp in my wrist," said the other one. It was Dawn. He was fairly certain the next one was Buffy.
"Com'on. You're being no fun. You know you really want it. The freedom. Y'know, if you didin't have to bleed to death, I'd say you'd make an awesome vamp."
"Thanks, I guess." Connor picked up a pipe from the hallway and opened the door. He threw it to the back of the large room. Buffy whipped around and went to check it out. He crept over to Dawn.
"What are you doing here?" she whispered.
"Getting you out." He tried her shackles.
"Wretch, so glad you could come!"
***
"If we make it out of here, you're going to want to put ice on that," Dawn said referring to Connor's nose. It was red and quickly growing larger.
"It was a cheap shot," Connor said tugging at the chains that bound him to the wall next to Dawn.
"Hey, who ever said I played fair?" Buffy said arching an eyebrow at the boy.
"No one. You were never fair. Not even as my sister," the girl mumbled.
"Pipe down Little Blob. We already had the sister discussion," the blonde vampire said. She began pacing the floor. She glanced outside, then at her watch. Roxinu would be here to help take Dawn to the ceremony soon.
"You won't be leaving the same tonight," Connor said to his captor.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Buffy said, barely paying attention. The evil coursing through her body was keyed up, as if it knew what would be happening tonight. She thrummed with energy. Her only regret was Angelus wasn't there to share it with her.
"I mean you won't be leaving here a vampire," Connor said.
He had her full attention. "What?"
"You'll be human. They're doing a spell, probably right now."
The vampiress looked at him carefully. "You're lying."
Shrugging, he said, "Well, when you're human, you're gonna end up helping us." Buffy's lip twitched, then she ran down the stairs.
"Why'd you tell her that?" demanded Dawn.
"It gives us chance to try and get out."
***
Buffy flew down the stairs. She saw Lorne and Tara working at the bottom corner. There were white and black candles around them and in the middle was a piece of metal that changed colors slowly with each word they spoke. She was about to rip Tara's head off, when she was tackled down. "There you are, B. Was wondering when you'd show."
Buffy vamped out growling and punched the Slayer off of her. Faith flipped her hair back and Buffy froze. "Oh, yeah, Angel claimed me," she said tauntingly. "You probably can tell though. Did I ever mention when I tried to summon Angelus, we had wild crazy sex? He was a great la-" Her words were promptly cut off from an upper cut to the chest. "There's my girl."
Faith ducked a blow only to receive a sharp kick in the gut. Had she been anything less than a Slayer, she would have been gasping for air. Instead, she returned the kick full force. She hit her mark, but the vampire barely noticed. The fight began in earnest. Faith was giving her all, but her opponent barely seemed to be trying. They both moved like lightning, but it seemed to Faith that the former Slayer was always one step ahead. The vampire nailed two blows every one of hers. 'I can't beat her,' Faith thought dodging a right hook. Though she'd never admit it out loud
"You can't beat me," the blonde said, effortlessly somersaulting through the air over Faith's head to avoid a blow. The Slayer spun to keep Buffy from her back, but was met with a crushing blow to the jaw.
***
Willow let a crossbolt fly into the chest of a vampire, where it exploded. She, Fred, and Olivia were stationed at higher points on the grounds to try and pick off as many vampires as possible. They all also had good views of the fight. She noticed Oz was ripping as many demons apart as he could. She was glad he had learned to control his actions when wolfed out, they needed all the help they could get. The witch turned her attention to Xander. He was flipping around an ax better than she'd ever see him do before. She supposed six years of doing that would make him better. She fired off another bolt, another bull s-eye. 'I guess all these years have made me better too,' she thought.
She noted that Olivia was keeping her eye on Giles to make sure nothing terrible happened to him, and Fred was letting as many bolts as possible go. Willow gazed back down at her friends and saw Spike in a fury, actually ripping off demons heads without a thought. She'd have to talk to him later. That's when she spotted Anya, kneeling on the ground screaming. A vampire nearly snapped her neck, when Willow shot another bolt. The redhead decided to watch over the ex-demon, figuring she was having a vision.
She was right. Anya looked to her left and right quickly, before she saw Angel. "Angel!" She stumbled over to him, coughing as she breathed in dust. Looking up, Anya saw Willow shooting bolts around her. Protecting her. She smiled brightly, before going after the vampire again. "Angel!" He paused in his pursuit of a Kralk demon. "You've gotta save Faith! She's going to die if you don't go to her and I really don't want another friend dead."
"Will you guys be okay here without me?" Angel asked. The fighting was fierce and they were badly outnumbered. A crossbolt flew past their heads and into a nearby vampire.
"We'll be fine, but Faith won't if you keep wasting time," Anya said hurriedly. With that, Angel turned and fought his way out of the battle toward Faith's post by the spell.
***
Faith managed to stop the next boot hit to the head, but missed the one to the knees. She fell down, her side hurting to much to try and get up again. Buffy walked over. "Aw. Poor Faithy fell down!" She came up to her head and gripped the sides of it, when the vampire was thrown across the room. Angel stood there growling. "Oh, come on!"
"You okay?" he asked the Slayer.
"Five by five." She got up shakily, and took out a stake from her pocket. "Watch out, she's jealous and mad," Faith advised, heading towards a hole in the wall, trying to block an escape from the blonde vampire.
"No, Faith, leave. You need to guard the spell. There are enough demons and vampires out there that one or two might slip past the gang," Angel explained to the Slayer.
"No, you can't take her on your own, you'll-" Faith was cut off.
"Beat it, bucko. This is between me and my daddy," Buffy said, gliding closer. Faith looked at Angel. Seeing the determined look on his face, she backed off.
"Fine," she said, and left.
***
Lorne and Tara chanted softly while the Tefi Kthayib changed from yellow, to orange, to black. They had to make it turn green, the color of life. And Buffy was being stubborn, not letting any emotion except jealousy in. They still needed love, fear, sadness, and happiness. It was taking longer than they had anticipated.
Faith watched in amazement. She'd never actually watched Willow do any spells in high school. It was beautiful. Her thoughts were cut off by a growl. They Slayer whipped around to see a huge purplely-blue demon advancing on the two Pyleans. She grabbed a steel pole from the wall and followed it. She beat on it repetitively in anger, before finally shoving the pole through its head.
Then two other demons came in through the hole. She yanked the pole out and swung it towards one of them. It was then that Spike came in, rolling with a demon of his own. "Oh, great!" exclaimed Faith. "You brought these in here! What, you angry at me?" She took the end of the pole and tried to shove it through one of their chests, but it spilt in half.
"Bloody well did not!" Spike snapped his demons neck where it fell loosely. "And, yeah! I am angry at you, you bint."
"Well, first of all, it wasn't my idea!" She struck the black demon with the half-pole again, causing to bleed green. "Second of all, it worked. Third of all, don't call me a bint."
"And you're sodding claimed cause of it!" Spike took over one of her demons, flipping it over.
"You know! I think you're the one who's jealous!" Faith slammed her weapon into it's knee and the swung it around to his head, where green blood splattered. She tossed the weapon over to Spike
"Yeah, and it doesn't help that when I want to bleeding get together, you go off and get claimed!" He shoved it into the demon's chest, and it died.
Faith crossed her arms. "You want to start a relationship?"
"What do you think I've been sayin'?"
"It's not gonna be easy. Especially with my history."
He shrugged. "Fine with me."
"Good." Faith launched to him, kissing him hungrily, which he returned eagerly.
***
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Buffy asked once Faith had gone. "Claiming Faith? After all we've been through. After all we've done, you go and do a stupid thing like that." Angel said nothing but stared warily his Childe. This seemed to annoy the young vampire and she scowled back for a while, not sure of how to continue. Then she smiled, switching gears. "I know you didn't mean it though," she said. "You did it for me. Or really for the old Buffy. But why? You trying to rescue me? From what?" She began circling him.
"Yourself," Angel replied. Buffy giggled.
"Wasn't it fun though? You and me, together," she punched him in the face and smirked. "Come play with me," she punched him again and they both slid into their game faces. "Do I get a head start?" Buffy asked.
"Sure."
She launched herself straight at him, beginning to pummel him down. Angel grabbed her fists and shoved her into the wall. He tried to trip her, but Buffy jumped into the air and spun kicked him in the head.
Angel couldn't control his momentum and tripped. "Oops! Daddy fell down!" When she got close enough, he leaped at her and held her down. "Having fun?" In response to her question, he kissed her roughly, like they had before. When he pulled back, he saw her radiate with happiness. "You've come back?" Angel grabbed a stake from his pocket and held it to her heart. "Are you trying to be kinky again?" the vampiress asked, though she wriggled nervously.
"Actually, I was planning on forgetting everything and just staking you." He drew back his hand and noticed the terror and saddness in her eyes. Angel's arm moved just enough for Buffy to slap him off.
"NOW!" exclaimed Tara before green light filled the room. It swirled around the room but Buffy ignored it. A dark look crossed her face and her yellow eyes glowed with fury. He had tried to kill her, her love, her Sire. She picked up the stake Angel had dropped and using all her strength, shoved the older vampire back.
She straddled him and said, "Now it's time for Daddy to go bye-bye." She raised the stake above her head. As her arm flew down, the green light flooded into her body and she screamed. "NO!" the blonde Slayer screamed. But it was too late, momentum rammed the stake into her lover's chest.
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TBC. . . .
Re-Read above about the "We're really sorry" thing, cuz we are. The next chapter won't take as long to update, we promise!