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Chapter 15
Elizabeth left the house and started walking towards the home of Lord Angelus McKenna. She arrived fairly quickly. Speed was one of the great advantages of now being an otherworldly creature. She was apprehensive after her change, not knowing how she would adjust. But much to her surprise, she was adjusting quite well. She something to be feared and she liked it. When she arrived she went to the stables. As she half expected, there was Riley Finn.
"Well, well, why does it not surprise me to see him here?" she said in a low voice. He was talking to a woman. Actually it was more like yelling. Apparently the woman had just told him she was with child and that he was the father. He emphatically denied it. Whenever the woman tried to speak and reason with him he stopped her. At one point he slapped her. When she recovered herself from the ground, she turned and ran out of the stables, wiping away blood and tears.
He stood laughing at the woman. Elizabeth looked at him and thought 'what a poor excuse for a man, I don't suppose he will be missed.' She made a rustling sound outside that caught Riley's attention. He turned and walked out of the stables to investigate the noise. As he was nearing the bush she crept up behind him and tapped his shoulder. He turned and took a step back at the sight of her.
"Miss Elizabeth? What are you doing here?" she smiled and approached him slowly.
"I decided not to go to France after all." She got close enough to him to put her hands on his chest, "Is Angelus home?" He nodded, "Riley do you sleep inside the manor house?" Again he nodded, "Will you take me to your room?" she smiled seductively at him and flicked her tongue at his lips. With her tongue she lightly traced his lips. He pushed her back and grabbed her hand, dragging her with him to the Manor.
When they reached the door that lead inside to the servants section, she stopped. He walked inside and turned to look at her. She laughed at him flirtingly and picked up her long blonde hair up with smooth pale hands and then let it cascade down to her shoulders. Slowly she ran her hands down to her breasts, never looking away at him.
"What are you standing there for," he said, his voice full of lust, "come inside." It had been easier than she thought. She followed him to his room. Once inside he locked the door. When he turned to face her she tore into him without a moments hesitation. She held her hand to his mouth to keep his screams from being heard. He tried to struggle but she was far too strong for him. He was dead within minutes. She drained him of every drop of blood he had. When she was finished she wiped her mouth on his shirt.
"At least you were good for something." She picked his body up and opened the door. After quickly making sure no one was in the hall, she took his body outside behind the stables and buried it. She wanted no evidence of foul play on the grounds. Everyone would assume he had run off to shake the responsibility of becoming a father. She went around to the eastern corner of the manor and pushed a large stone aside. From there she would be able to gain access to the tunnels within. As soon as she was inside, she started to make her way through the maze. She immediately headed for the second floor, where all of the bedrooms were located. She went to every bedroom until she finally found the one occupied by Angelus.
Faith and Wesley had been right. He was talking to a small young man about a woman named Amy. Elizabeth pushed out the small stone that allowed her to peer out of a small hole.
"Where is she now?" asked Angelus
"Turkey." Said the man.
"Jonathan, you said she was using teleportation. Shouldn't she be here by now?" he was growing visibly annoyed. Angelus was annoyed quite often. He was so clever though having hidden this side of him from her. She chucked a bit and thought 'It must have been difficult for the wolf to play among the sheep for so long and never bare his teeth.'
"She is moving herself as well as her bodyguards. It is a very difficult and draining experience. She needs time to recover after each spell. But, if my calculations are correct she will arrive in Belgrade by this coming Friday, and then.." Jonathan was sweating. He hated having to give any kind of information to Angelus regarding Amy. He was never satisfied with the answers and wound up taking out on him in some violent form. Angelus signed heavily.
"I don't want to hear her fucking itinerary." He shoved the books on his writing desk, "I just want you to tell me she is HERE! Now get out, I'm tired of looking at you." He threw the wine glass he held in his hands at the wall next to Jonathan as he ran out of the room. Elizabeth was disgusted with the scene.
"What a wanker." She muttered, no longer surprised at her newly acquired love for colorful words. She didn't think she would get anything more and turned to walked back down the stairs towards the exit point. Had she stayed longer she would have heard Angelus call Jonathan back into his room. He had forgotten to ask about another matter.
"Have you been able to contact Rayne?"
"Yes, I managed to get hold of him in London. He should be arriving within a day maybe two. I gave him a description of Miss Rosenberg and instructed she only abducted when she is alone." Angelus laughed.
"Good, very good. Looks like you managed to please me after all Jonathan. Now get out." And Jonathan did so with great pleasure.
Once she was out she ran into the woods to make her way back to Giles' home. As she ran, she quickly realized that she needed to make a radical change in her wardrobe. While she was in the tunnels her dress gotten caught several times on the jagged edges of the unfinished rock walls. She was trying to maneuver herself through bushes and all sorts of different trees and foliage, and then the unthinkable happened. She fell on her face.
"Oomph," she slowly pushed herself up and took several leaves out of her mouth and dusted herself off, "Phfft, ick. Wonderful. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Miss Elizabeth Summers, the world's clumsiest vampire." She continued to brush leaves and dirt off of her dress, "I'll bet Wesley never fell on his face making a get away." She walked through the woods with no further tripping incidents, yet by the time she arrived at the house, her dress was torn to shreds.
When she arrived at the house she went directly back to the library . Much as they did earlier the others looked up from the books and stared at her. Only this time with confusion.
"Hard night of vampage?" asked Xander as he raised his eyebrows.
"I think I need a more stealth inducing wardrobe. It isn't easy getting around in 4 layers of skirt and a corset." Since she was turned she had noticed that her friends never questioned her regarding her hunting. If anything they joked about it. Maybe it was their way of dealing with the fact she was killing human beings for their blood. Or maybe they just thought as she did. That those she killed deserved the justice she had dealt to them. Her senses were attuned to everything and everyone. Wesley was correct when he told Giles that there were many evils in the world. Monsters come in all shapes and sizes.
"I can bring you some of my old clothes that are too small for me. At least you can wear those in the meantime." Xander offered.
"Yes, Jenny can take them in for you if need be, and Willow perhaps you can go into town sometime soon and get Buffy a few more things." Said Giles peering over his glasses. Willow looked at Buffy and smiled.
"That's fine. We're about the same size so I can get you a few outfits. And maybe I can get some for myself." They looked at her. "Well dresses are fine and nice and all, but Buffy is right, they are not very practical for stealthiness."
"And what do you have to be stealthy about?" asked Giles lifting his head fully from his reading.
"I thought maybe I could go out with Buffy some time."
"What? Willow no, its too dangerous. Besides you may not like what you see. Its one thing to know what I have to do, but its another thing all together to see it" Elizabeth couldn't believe what Willow was asking.
"Buffy, I want to be supportive. I want to understand what you are and what you do. I know that there is evil out there. We're all part of something now. I want to help. "
"You are helping. Your doing that locator spell, and you were able to do the mind thing with Angelus." Elizabeth knew that sometimes Willow was unsure of her abilities and needed her confidence built up.
"But I can do more. I know I can. I have power; I know it's inside of me. Buffy there isn't only evil here, it's everywhere. We've been looking through books and making notes and I've been sitting here thinking that this is what I want to do. Fight evil, help people. I mean, I-I think it's worth doing. And I know your doing this partly because of what Angelus did to your parents, but I think you're also doing it because you have to. It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in." Xander and Giles both looked at each other and realized that they felt the same way.
"What she said goes for the both of us as well." Said Xander. Elizabeth now had tears in her eyes.
"I love you all so much." She laughed and there was soon a very wet group hug, "I suppose we are a team then." They all laughed a bit and then went back to their former spots.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. When I did the locator spell, I placed the spear in Turkey." Willow showed Elizabeth the map she had used for the spell, and the mark she had made on Turkey.
"You're right, it is in Turkey. I managed to get into the manor and heard Angelus talking to someone named Jonathan. The witches name is Amy. She's using teleportation to move herself and others. Jonathan said that they would be in Belgrade by this Friday." Giles looked down at the map and made a line to indicate their path.
"Today is Wednesday, and Friday she will be here," Giles indicated the spot where Amy would be next.
"I also heard Jonathan say that Amy needed time to recuperate from each teleportation." Elizabeth added.
"Then if we wait another two days or so, perhaps some sort of pattern will emerge and we can anticipate where she will be by the end of next week. I think we can safely assume they will be somewhere in France, if my guess is correct."
"Xander," Elizabeth looked at Xander, "I need for you to get a message to Wesley and Faith and tell them everything that's going on?"
"I can do that. Oh and I'll also tell them that they may need to intercept Amy in France."
"Yes, very important. We need to get to that spear before it reaches Angelus. I can't leave I need to keep an eye on Angelus. Willow, Giles, I'm thinking that teleportation is a somewhat advanced thing in terms of magic. Which lead me to ask how powerful do you think this Amy is?"
"It does require a certain amount of power. But, power can be borrowed. It doesn't mean she has that power inside of her all of the time." Giles started to pick up some of the books in front of him.
"That's right. It takes a great deal of energy to perform something like that. If she is traveling with other people, its possible that she is using the life energy from the people she is with. That must be why they seem to be traveling every few days." Said Willow as she looked at Giles.
"She as well as her companions need time to, regenerate their energies. I don't doubt this woman's skill, but I gather a more powerful witch would be able to perform teleportation without draining energy from others." Added Giles.
They decided to call it a night. Xander stayed and slept in the guest room, and Willow, Giles and Elizabeth retreated to their own rooms. Xander woke up early and walked out the stables to get his horse. He stopped when he heard Giles call out to him.
"Xander, I wanted to discuss something with you before you left." Giles said as he walked to him. Xander looked worried for a moment, "I know you have been spending quite a bit of time here lately and I thought it may be more comfortable if you just had your things moved here." Xander smiled broadly.
"Well, your house is a more comfortable than where I live now. You don't mind?"
"Don't be ridiculous, I wouldn't ask you if I minded. Xander you know you are welcome in my home. You're like a son to me. I feel as though I practically raised you." Giles put his hand on Xander's shoulder, "And I don't think Willow would mind either." He smiled and turned around to walk to the house.
Xander was elated. He quickly got on his horse and rode back to his office. Once he arrived he wrote a letter to Wesley explaining everything that had been found out and discussed since he and Faith had left, he also said that he would leave further instructions for them in London and to go to the office of a Mr. Parker Abrams Esq. When he finished he took it to the postmaster and said it was important business. He made sure to put it on his stationary thus making it look like legal papers instead of what it actually was.
Giles' offer would make it easier for all of them to work together. Faith and Wesley would still have their room, thus leaving Xander his own as well. Xander had not heard from his parents in over 10 years, and never had a good relationship with them. Where Joyce Summers was like a mother to him, Rupert Giles was like a father. And the fact that he would be closer to Willow didn't hurt either. He had noticed lately that his feelings towards Willow were rapidly moving form wanting her as just a friend to wanting to take her and ravish her. Xander packed all his belongings from the small room he kept behind his office and left for his new home.
Chapter 15
Elizabeth left the house and started walking towards the home of Lord Angelus McKenna. She arrived fairly quickly. Speed was one of the great advantages of now being an otherworldly creature. She was apprehensive after her change, not knowing how she would adjust. But much to her surprise, she was adjusting quite well. She something to be feared and she liked it. When she arrived she went to the stables. As she half expected, there was Riley Finn.
"Well, well, why does it not surprise me to see him here?" she said in a low voice. He was talking to a woman. Actually it was more like yelling. Apparently the woman had just told him she was with child and that he was the father. He emphatically denied it. Whenever the woman tried to speak and reason with him he stopped her. At one point he slapped her. When she recovered herself from the ground, she turned and ran out of the stables, wiping away blood and tears.
He stood laughing at the woman. Elizabeth looked at him and thought 'what a poor excuse for a man, I don't suppose he will be missed.' She made a rustling sound outside that caught Riley's attention. He turned and walked out of the stables to investigate the noise. As he was nearing the bush she crept up behind him and tapped his shoulder. He turned and took a step back at the sight of her.
"Miss Elizabeth? What are you doing here?" she smiled and approached him slowly.
"I decided not to go to France after all." She got close enough to him to put her hands on his chest, "Is Angelus home?" He nodded, "Riley do you sleep inside the manor house?" Again he nodded, "Will you take me to your room?" she smiled seductively at him and flicked her tongue at his lips. With her tongue she lightly traced his lips. He pushed her back and grabbed her hand, dragging her with him to the Manor.
When they reached the door that lead inside to the servants section, she stopped. He walked inside and turned to look at her. She laughed at him flirtingly and picked up her long blonde hair up with smooth pale hands and then let it cascade down to her shoulders. Slowly she ran her hands down to her breasts, never looking away at him.
"What are you standing there for," he said, his voice full of lust, "come inside." It had been easier than she thought. She followed him to his room. Once inside he locked the door. When he turned to face her she tore into him without a moments hesitation. She held her hand to his mouth to keep his screams from being heard. He tried to struggle but she was far too strong for him. He was dead within minutes. She drained him of every drop of blood he had. When she was finished she wiped her mouth on his shirt.
"At least you were good for something." She picked his body up and opened the door. After quickly making sure no one was in the hall, she took his body outside behind the stables and buried it. She wanted no evidence of foul play on the grounds. Everyone would assume he had run off to shake the responsibility of becoming a father. She went around to the eastern corner of the manor and pushed a large stone aside. From there she would be able to gain access to the tunnels within. As soon as she was inside, she started to make her way through the maze. She immediately headed for the second floor, where all of the bedrooms were located. She went to every bedroom until she finally found the one occupied by Angelus.
Faith and Wesley had been right. He was talking to a small young man about a woman named Amy. Elizabeth pushed out the small stone that allowed her to peer out of a small hole.
"Where is she now?" asked Angelus
"Turkey." Said the man.
"Jonathan, you said she was using teleportation. Shouldn't she be here by now?" he was growing visibly annoyed. Angelus was annoyed quite often. He was so clever though having hidden this side of him from her. She chucked a bit and thought 'It must have been difficult for the wolf to play among the sheep for so long and never bare his teeth.'
"She is moving herself as well as her bodyguards. It is a very difficult and draining experience. She needs time to recover after each spell. But, if my calculations are correct she will arrive in Belgrade by this coming Friday, and then.." Jonathan was sweating. He hated having to give any kind of information to Angelus regarding Amy. He was never satisfied with the answers and wound up taking out on him in some violent form. Angelus signed heavily.
"I don't want to hear her fucking itinerary." He shoved the books on his writing desk, "I just want you to tell me she is HERE! Now get out, I'm tired of looking at you." He threw the wine glass he held in his hands at the wall next to Jonathan as he ran out of the room. Elizabeth was disgusted with the scene.
"What a wanker." She muttered, no longer surprised at her newly acquired love for colorful words. She didn't think she would get anything more and turned to walked back down the stairs towards the exit point. Had she stayed longer she would have heard Angelus call Jonathan back into his room. He had forgotten to ask about another matter.
"Have you been able to contact Rayne?"
"Yes, I managed to get hold of him in London. He should be arriving within a day maybe two. I gave him a description of Miss Rosenberg and instructed she only abducted when she is alone." Angelus laughed.
"Good, very good. Looks like you managed to please me after all Jonathan. Now get out." And Jonathan did so with great pleasure.
Once she was out she ran into the woods to make her way back to Giles' home. As she ran, she quickly realized that she needed to make a radical change in her wardrobe. While she was in the tunnels her dress gotten caught several times on the jagged edges of the unfinished rock walls. She was trying to maneuver herself through bushes and all sorts of different trees and foliage, and then the unthinkable happened. She fell on her face.
"Oomph," she slowly pushed herself up and took several leaves out of her mouth and dusted herself off, "Phfft, ick. Wonderful. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Miss Elizabeth Summers, the world's clumsiest vampire." She continued to brush leaves and dirt off of her dress, "I'll bet Wesley never fell on his face making a get away." She walked through the woods with no further tripping incidents, yet by the time she arrived at the house, her dress was torn to shreds.
When she arrived at the house she went directly back to the library . Much as they did earlier the others looked up from the books and stared at her. Only this time with confusion.
"Hard night of vampage?" asked Xander as he raised his eyebrows.
"I think I need a more stealth inducing wardrobe. It isn't easy getting around in 4 layers of skirt and a corset." Since she was turned she had noticed that her friends never questioned her regarding her hunting. If anything they joked about it. Maybe it was their way of dealing with the fact she was killing human beings for their blood. Or maybe they just thought as she did. That those she killed deserved the justice she had dealt to them. Her senses were attuned to everything and everyone. Wesley was correct when he told Giles that there were many evils in the world. Monsters come in all shapes and sizes.
"I can bring you some of my old clothes that are too small for me. At least you can wear those in the meantime." Xander offered.
"Yes, Jenny can take them in for you if need be, and Willow perhaps you can go into town sometime soon and get Buffy a few more things." Said Giles peering over his glasses. Willow looked at Buffy and smiled.
"That's fine. We're about the same size so I can get you a few outfits. And maybe I can get some for myself." They looked at her. "Well dresses are fine and nice and all, but Buffy is right, they are not very practical for stealthiness."
"And what do you have to be stealthy about?" asked Giles lifting his head fully from his reading.
"I thought maybe I could go out with Buffy some time."
"What? Willow no, its too dangerous. Besides you may not like what you see. Its one thing to know what I have to do, but its another thing all together to see it" Elizabeth couldn't believe what Willow was asking.
"Buffy, I want to be supportive. I want to understand what you are and what you do. I know that there is evil out there. We're all part of something now. I want to help. "
"You are helping. Your doing that locator spell, and you were able to do the mind thing with Angelus." Elizabeth knew that sometimes Willow was unsure of her abilities and needed her confidence built up.
"But I can do more. I know I can. I have power; I know it's inside of me. Buffy there isn't only evil here, it's everywhere. We've been looking through books and making notes and I've been sitting here thinking that this is what I want to do. Fight evil, help people. I mean, I-I think it's worth doing. And I know your doing this partly because of what Angelus did to your parents, but I think you're also doing it because you have to. It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in." Xander and Giles both looked at each other and realized that they felt the same way.
"What she said goes for the both of us as well." Said Xander. Elizabeth now had tears in her eyes.
"I love you all so much." She laughed and there was soon a very wet group hug, "I suppose we are a team then." They all laughed a bit and then went back to their former spots.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. When I did the locator spell, I placed the spear in Turkey." Willow showed Elizabeth the map she had used for the spell, and the mark she had made on Turkey.
"You're right, it is in Turkey. I managed to get into the manor and heard Angelus talking to someone named Jonathan. The witches name is Amy. She's using teleportation to move herself and others. Jonathan said that they would be in Belgrade by this Friday." Giles looked down at the map and made a line to indicate their path.
"Today is Wednesday, and Friday she will be here," Giles indicated the spot where Amy would be next.
"I also heard Jonathan say that Amy needed time to recuperate from each teleportation." Elizabeth added.
"Then if we wait another two days or so, perhaps some sort of pattern will emerge and we can anticipate where she will be by the end of next week. I think we can safely assume they will be somewhere in France, if my guess is correct."
"Xander," Elizabeth looked at Xander, "I need for you to get a message to Wesley and Faith and tell them everything that's going on?"
"I can do that. Oh and I'll also tell them that they may need to intercept Amy in France."
"Yes, very important. We need to get to that spear before it reaches Angelus. I can't leave I need to keep an eye on Angelus. Willow, Giles, I'm thinking that teleportation is a somewhat advanced thing in terms of magic. Which lead me to ask how powerful do you think this Amy is?"
"It does require a certain amount of power. But, power can be borrowed. It doesn't mean she has that power inside of her all of the time." Giles started to pick up some of the books in front of him.
"That's right. It takes a great deal of energy to perform something like that. If she is traveling with other people, its possible that she is using the life energy from the people she is with. That must be why they seem to be traveling every few days." Said Willow as she looked at Giles.
"She as well as her companions need time to, regenerate their energies. I don't doubt this woman's skill, but I gather a more powerful witch would be able to perform teleportation without draining energy from others." Added Giles.
They decided to call it a night. Xander stayed and slept in the guest room, and Willow, Giles and Elizabeth retreated to their own rooms. Xander woke up early and walked out the stables to get his horse. He stopped when he heard Giles call out to him.
"Xander, I wanted to discuss something with you before you left." Giles said as he walked to him. Xander looked worried for a moment, "I know you have been spending quite a bit of time here lately and I thought it may be more comfortable if you just had your things moved here." Xander smiled broadly.
"Well, your house is a more comfortable than where I live now. You don't mind?"
"Don't be ridiculous, I wouldn't ask you if I minded. Xander you know you are welcome in my home. You're like a son to me. I feel as though I practically raised you." Giles put his hand on Xander's shoulder, "And I don't think Willow would mind either." He smiled and turned around to walk to the house.
Xander was elated. He quickly got on his horse and rode back to his office. Once he arrived he wrote a letter to Wesley explaining everything that had been found out and discussed since he and Faith had left, he also said that he would leave further instructions for them in London and to go to the office of a Mr. Parker Abrams Esq. When he finished he took it to the postmaster and said it was important business. He made sure to put it on his stationary thus making it look like legal papers instead of what it actually was.
Giles' offer would make it easier for all of them to work together. Faith and Wesley would still have their room, thus leaving Xander his own as well. Xander had not heard from his parents in over 10 years, and never had a good relationship with them. Where Joyce Summers was like a mother to him, Rupert Giles was like a father. And the fact that he would be closer to Willow didn't hurt either. He had noticed lately that his feelings towards Willow were rapidly moving form wanting her as just a friend to wanting to take her and ravish her. Xander packed all his belongings from the small room he kept behind his office and left for his new home.