Chapter 5:
"Get up," the man pointing the gun at their heads commanded in a gruff voice.
Dawn whimpered as the man pulled them up. Amy was terrified inside but she remained clam and stared the man straight in the eye as he ordered them to sit on the small and dirty sofa.
"Can you please let us go?" Amy asked in a steady voice.
"Yeah," Dawn spoke up, "we're sorry, we just needed somewhere to hide. We'll go now," she said as she began to rise.
"Sit down."
"Okay," Dawn answered in a small voice. (Imagine Buffy on episode 5x01 Dracula when Dracula tells Buffy to put the stake down and she agrees)
The man was tall and looked unkempt. He needed to shave and probably hadn't taken a shower or changed his clothes n a long time. His appearance was frightening. He looked like a wild man who would do anything on impulse, including shoot them if they made a wrong move. My and Dawn sat on the sofa afraid to breathe or blink. All three were silent for a while until the man broke the silence.
"What are you doing in here? You know you're trespassing this is private property."
"We're sorry," Amy answered, "like she said we were running and your apartment seemed like the most convenient place to hide. We're very sorry and we'll never bother you again, will you pleas just let us go?" she asked in one breath.
At this the man began to laugh and put the gun down. Amy and Dawn continued to watch him with a confused look on their faces. They weren't sure what to do so they just sat there. Some of the tension was gone because the man had put the gun down but it was automatically replaced because the man had begum to laugh. Maybe he was planning some crude way to kill them in his head. Amy and Dawn continued watching him with the same petrified look on their faces.
The man continued to laugh for another minute or so. This minute felt like an eternity to Amy and Dawn. Dawn was praying that Buffy would come rescue her and Amy. Amy just sat there with all her memories running through her mind. Her childhood, when she met Ben at camp, when they released their first album LP and they found out all hundred of the copies had been sold that night. She remembered when her and Ben found out that their album Fallen had gone Platinum and then Double Platinum. It was more than she had ever expected or dreamed of. All this was going to end that night. She was too young to die; she was only 21 (since she's really 21 I'm going to make her 21 in my story too). After all these memories raced through Amy's mind the man stopped laughing.
"Did you buy all that?" the man asked as he began to laugh again.
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Buffy and Spike walked to the mall together, silently, their pace growing faster with every step. They both continued to look straight ahead their thoughts pondering not only on the missing girls but other things as well.
"Spike?" Buffy called breaking the silence.
"Yea luv?"
"You think they're okay? They've been gone for a long time and who knows what could have happened to them. The bringers might have attacked them or they have been kidnapped or been robbed or maybe they were raped, oh no what if something like that happened?" Buffy answered as she began to panic.
Spike stopped and turned to face Buffy. "Calm down, they're probably fine. Dawn knows how to take care of herself and that Amy girl's probably got something in her 'cause she's a potential or whatever."
Buffy nodded and took a deep breath. She calmed down and she began to walk again. Spike followed and once again there was silence until they reached the mall. Once they got their Buffy took over.
"We have to split up. You go check out the stores on this side of the mal and I'll check out the other side. Ask around and find out if anyone's seen them."
"You don't have to do that pet," Spike answered.
"What do you mean we don't have to that? Of course we do. How else do you expect to do this? We have to-"
"No that's not what I meant," Spike said cutting her off. "I can follow their trail, you know their scent. At least Dawn's scent, don't really know Amy's but I can smell another girls in the same trail. It is pretty fresh, come one."
"That kind of freaky," Buffy answered before she joined him. They kept walking in silence as Spike "sniffed" around. He walked past the alley until he realized he had lost their scent. He stopped and began to "smell" the air around him.
"What? What's wrong? Why did you stop?" Buffy asked.
"Calm down. I just lost their scent. They must have stopped somewhere near that alley over there," he said as he walked over to the alley. "It smells like they went up the fire escape or something. I don't know I lost the track."
"But why would you they go up the fire escape, unless they were running from something. Do you think a vampire attacked them? Oh my God they could be dead. No, that's not possible. Dawn can't be dead."
"It's okay. They're not dead. If they had turned into vampires they wouldn't lose their scent."
"Okay, so where are they?"
"You best bet is to go up the fire escape and try to find you little sis and that girl."
Buffy nodded and jumped up to the fire escape and began to climb up. She was halfway up when she realized Spike wasn't following her."
"You coming Spike?" she called down.
"Nah, I think I'll stick around down here in case an big bad come out lookin' for a fight."
"Are you sure?" Spike nodded and Buffy continued to climb up looking in every window to see if Dawn or Amy were in there. Buffy tried to come up with a reasonable explanation in her head to explain why Dawn and Amy were missing and where they were. Buffy was mostly afraid that something had happened to Dawn. She wasn't very worried about Amy and didn't care too much either.
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Dawn and Amy laughed nervously. They didn't understand what he meant.
"Did you guys buy it?" he asked again as he picked up the gun.
Amy and Dawn tensed up and he laughed again. "It's okay. They guns not real. Watch," he said as he pointed the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Amy flinched when he pulled the trigger but laughed when she noticed that water was squirting out.
"So why were you scaring us like that?" Amy asked.
"Yeah, sorry about that. I'm an actor, well at least I want to be. I need all the practice I can get and I saw this as a good opportunity. I'm really sorry about scaring you like that."
"It's okay," Dawn said laughing nervously.
"You guys can help yourself to anything or if you want you can leave but I'm going to go clean up. I went to an audition and they dressed me up like this."
"We'll stay for a couple minutes if that's okay," Amy answered immediately.
"Okay," the man nodded. "Like I said, help yourself to anything. I'll be out in a couple minutes."
Once he was out of the room Dawn turned to face Amy. "What are you doing?" she hissed. "I don't want to stay here, who knows what'll happen."
"You can leave if you want," Amy said in a cold voice. She would have actually preferred if Dawn left. The girl was beginning to bug her with all ther ranting and raving about Evanescence and things like that.
"Fine, I'll stay," Dawn grumbled. She wasn't about to leave Amy alone. Buffy would kill he if the bringers or someone killed Amy. She sighed and settled down on the couch with a mad look on her face. Amy just ignored her and she waited for the man to return. For some reason she was drawn towards him and she wanted to find out more about him.
Ten minutes later the man came back out. He had transformed. How that he was cleanly shaven and dressed in nice clothes he looked like a whole new person. He was even attractive. Amy gasped as she saw him. He laughed and his bright blue eyes sparkled. Amy was in a trance, she had become engulfed in his beautiful body, looks, and personality.
"I'm Amy Lee," Amy said as she got up and greeted him.
"Hi Amy Lee, I'm Benjamin Wilks." He said shaking her hand." But most of my friends call me Ben."
"So I can I call you Ben?"
"Yea, I guess you can. You said your name was Amy Lee right?" Amy nodded. "You're name sounds familiar I think I've heard it somewhere before."
Amy blushed and giggled. "Well I don't want to brag but have you ever hear dof the band Evanescence?"
"Yes, the name sounds familiar."
" Well I'm the lead signer."
"You are? Wow! So I guess you're famous aren't you?"
"Well I guess," Amy giggled again blushing an even deeper red. Dawn began to feel resentment towards Amy like Buffy did. She was an attention hogger.
"Excuse me," Dawn said clearing her throat.
"Oh," Amy said turning around, "this is uhh Diane, I'm staying at her house."
"My name's Dawn," Dawn huffed, crossing her arms and sitting back down.
"Yeah whatever," Amy said as she turned back around. "So Dave what do you do?" Amy asked. When she realized her mistake she quickly covered it up by saying, "That was a stupid thing to ask. You already told be, you're an actor."
He laughed again, "Actually it's not a stupid thing to ask, I' not only an actor I work with computers too," Ben continued to tell Amy more when Buffy's head appeared in the window.
TBC
Sorry that it's a shorty, at least I think it is but I had to keep you hanging somehow. School's starting next week so I might be only updating once a week on the weekends if soccer doesn't get in the way but don't worry I won't forget about my stories. I' try to update one more time this week or next time I might vive you two chapter. I wan to thank my loyal fans Airblader and basketballchick or something, sorry if I didn't get your user names right but right now I'm not online, I'm not even at home so I can't check, I think one of you is RJ and one of you is Jordan or something like that, (I read the bio's of people who review my story). And no thanks to "X" I'm just using the names of the band and stuff I made up my own character for Amy. And I was right Amy and Dru do look alike and did anyone else see the interview on CNN with Amy? I was flipping through the channels and I saw it and I recorded it! It's really cool they even have clips from the concert I went to in it!!! Well thanks everyone and please review, your reviews are what keep me going.
"Get up," the man pointing the gun at their heads commanded in a gruff voice.
Dawn whimpered as the man pulled them up. Amy was terrified inside but she remained clam and stared the man straight in the eye as he ordered them to sit on the small and dirty sofa.
"Can you please let us go?" Amy asked in a steady voice.
"Yeah," Dawn spoke up, "we're sorry, we just needed somewhere to hide. We'll go now," she said as she began to rise.
"Sit down."
"Okay," Dawn answered in a small voice. (Imagine Buffy on episode 5x01 Dracula when Dracula tells Buffy to put the stake down and she agrees)
The man was tall and looked unkempt. He needed to shave and probably hadn't taken a shower or changed his clothes n a long time. His appearance was frightening. He looked like a wild man who would do anything on impulse, including shoot them if they made a wrong move. My and Dawn sat on the sofa afraid to breathe or blink. All three were silent for a while until the man broke the silence.
"What are you doing in here? You know you're trespassing this is private property."
"We're sorry," Amy answered, "like she said we were running and your apartment seemed like the most convenient place to hide. We're very sorry and we'll never bother you again, will you pleas just let us go?" she asked in one breath.
At this the man began to laugh and put the gun down. Amy and Dawn continued to watch him with a confused look on their faces. They weren't sure what to do so they just sat there. Some of the tension was gone because the man had put the gun down but it was automatically replaced because the man had begum to laugh. Maybe he was planning some crude way to kill them in his head. Amy and Dawn continued watching him with the same petrified look on their faces.
The man continued to laugh for another minute or so. This minute felt like an eternity to Amy and Dawn. Dawn was praying that Buffy would come rescue her and Amy. Amy just sat there with all her memories running through her mind. Her childhood, when she met Ben at camp, when they released their first album LP and they found out all hundred of the copies had been sold that night. She remembered when her and Ben found out that their album Fallen had gone Platinum and then Double Platinum. It was more than she had ever expected or dreamed of. All this was going to end that night. She was too young to die; she was only 21 (since she's really 21 I'm going to make her 21 in my story too). After all these memories raced through Amy's mind the man stopped laughing.
"Did you buy all that?" the man asked as he began to laugh again.
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Buffy and Spike walked to the mall together, silently, their pace growing faster with every step. They both continued to look straight ahead their thoughts pondering not only on the missing girls but other things as well.
"Spike?" Buffy called breaking the silence.
"Yea luv?"
"You think they're okay? They've been gone for a long time and who knows what could have happened to them. The bringers might have attacked them or they have been kidnapped or been robbed or maybe they were raped, oh no what if something like that happened?" Buffy answered as she began to panic.
Spike stopped and turned to face Buffy. "Calm down, they're probably fine. Dawn knows how to take care of herself and that Amy girl's probably got something in her 'cause she's a potential or whatever."
Buffy nodded and took a deep breath. She calmed down and she began to walk again. Spike followed and once again there was silence until they reached the mall. Once they got their Buffy took over.
"We have to split up. You go check out the stores on this side of the mal and I'll check out the other side. Ask around and find out if anyone's seen them."
"You don't have to do that pet," Spike answered.
"What do you mean we don't have to that? Of course we do. How else do you expect to do this? We have to-"
"No that's not what I meant," Spike said cutting her off. "I can follow their trail, you know their scent. At least Dawn's scent, don't really know Amy's but I can smell another girls in the same trail. It is pretty fresh, come one."
"That kind of freaky," Buffy answered before she joined him. They kept walking in silence as Spike "sniffed" around. He walked past the alley until he realized he had lost their scent. He stopped and began to "smell" the air around him.
"What? What's wrong? Why did you stop?" Buffy asked.
"Calm down. I just lost their scent. They must have stopped somewhere near that alley over there," he said as he walked over to the alley. "It smells like they went up the fire escape or something. I don't know I lost the track."
"But why would you they go up the fire escape, unless they were running from something. Do you think a vampire attacked them? Oh my God they could be dead. No, that's not possible. Dawn can't be dead."
"It's okay. They're not dead. If they had turned into vampires they wouldn't lose their scent."
"Okay, so where are they?"
"You best bet is to go up the fire escape and try to find you little sis and that girl."
Buffy nodded and jumped up to the fire escape and began to climb up. She was halfway up when she realized Spike wasn't following her."
"You coming Spike?" she called down.
"Nah, I think I'll stick around down here in case an big bad come out lookin' for a fight."
"Are you sure?" Spike nodded and Buffy continued to climb up looking in every window to see if Dawn or Amy were in there. Buffy tried to come up with a reasonable explanation in her head to explain why Dawn and Amy were missing and where they were. Buffy was mostly afraid that something had happened to Dawn. She wasn't very worried about Amy and didn't care too much either.
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Dawn and Amy laughed nervously. They didn't understand what he meant.
"Did you guys buy it?" he asked again as he picked up the gun.
Amy and Dawn tensed up and he laughed again. "It's okay. They guns not real. Watch," he said as he pointed the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Amy flinched when he pulled the trigger but laughed when she noticed that water was squirting out.
"So why were you scaring us like that?" Amy asked.
"Yeah, sorry about that. I'm an actor, well at least I want to be. I need all the practice I can get and I saw this as a good opportunity. I'm really sorry about scaring you like that."
"It's okay," Dawn said laughing nervously.
"You guys can help yourself to anything or if you want you can leave but I'm going to go clean up. I went to an audition and they dressed me up like this."
"We'll stay for a couple minutes if that's okay," Amy answered immediately.
"Okay," the man nodded. "Like I said, help yourself to anything. I'll be out in a couple minutes."
Once he was out of the room Dawn turned to face Amy. "What are you doing?" she hissed. "I don't want to stay here, who knows what'll happen."
"You can leave if you want," Amy said in a cold voice. She would have actually preferred if Dawn left. The girl was beginning to bug her with all ther ranting and raving about Evanescence and things like that.
"Fine, I'll stay," Dawn grumbled. She wasn't about to leave Amy alone. Buffy would kill he if the bringers or someone killed Amy. She sighed and settled down on the couch with a mad look on her face. Amy just ignored her and she waited for the man to return. For some reason she was drawn towards him and she wanted to find out more about him.
Ten minutes later the man came back out. He had transformed. How that he was cleanly shaven and dressed in nice clothes he looked like a whole new person. He was even attractive. Amy gasped as she saw him. He laughed and his bright blue eyes sparkled. Amy was in a trance, she had become engulfed in his beautiful body, looks, and personality.
"I'm Amy Lee," Amy said as she got up and greeted him.
"Hi Amy Lee, I'm Benjamin Wilks." He said shaking her hand." But most of my friends call me Ben."
"So I can I call you Ben?"
"Yea, I guess you can. You said your name was Amy Lee right?" Amy nodded. "You're name sounds familiar I think I've heard it somewhere before."
Amy blushed and giggled. "Well I don't want to brag but have you ever hear dof the band Evanescence?"
"Yes, the name sounds familiar."
" Well I'm the lead signer."
"You are? Wow! So I guess you're famous aren't you?"
"Well I guess," Amy giggled again blushing an even deeper red. Dawn began to feel resentment towards Amy like Buffy did. She was an attention hogger.
"Excuse me," Dawn said clearing her throat.
"Oh," Amy said turning around, "this is uhh Diane, I'm staying at her house."
"My name's Dawn," Dawn huffed, crossing her arms and sitting back down.
"Yeah whatever," Amy said as she turned back around. "So Dave what do you do?" Amy asked. When she realized her mistake she quickly covered it up by saying, "That was a stupid thing to ask. You already told be, you're an actor."
He laughed again, "Actually it's not a stupid thing to ask, I' not only an actor I work with computers too," Ben continued to tell Amy more when Buffy's head appeared in the window.
TBC
Sorry that it's a shorty, at least I think it is but I had to keep you hanging somehow. School's starting next week so I might be only updating once a week on the weekends if soccer doesn't get in the way but don't worry I won't forget about my stories. I' try to update one more time this week or next time I might vive you two chapter. I wan to thank my loyal fans Airblader and basketballchick or something, sorry if I didn't get your user names right but right now I'm not online, I'm not even at home so I can't check, I think one of you is RJ and one of you is Jordan or something like that, (I read the bio's of people who review my story). And no thanks to "X" I'm just using the names of the band and stuff I made up my own character for Amy. And I was right Amy and Dru do look alike and did anyone else see the interview on CNN with Amy? I was flipping through the channels and I saw it and I recorded it! It's really cool they even have clips from the concert I went to in it!!! Well thanks everyone and please review, your reviews are what keep me going.