Another Beginning
Chp.24
Willow's Explanation
Row, Row, Row, your boat all the way back to chapter 1
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After thanking the brothers for the use of the courtyard, and listening to Lorne's protestations of not riding back with the Scooby's. Everyone had gotten back into the vehicles and headed back to the law firm.
Gunn didn't understand what all the fuss was over riding with the Scooby's, the silence in the R.V. was really unbearable. He looked around the bus, noticing that Buffy and Spike were sitting in one of the back seats, the kid sitting on Buffy's lap. If he didn't know any better he'd swear the girl was their child. He nods his head as Spike takes notice of him, and the blonde nods in return. Dawn is on the other side, watching her sister and Spike play with some little plastic animals and keep the kid occupied.
Cassie is sitting on Buffy's lap, watching Spike play with a plastic horse, and trying to whinny. Which sounded more like it was is misery and needed to be shot. Looking up at Buffy, she smiles at the crinkled up nose the woman looked like she'd smelled something awful, like rotten eggs maybe.
"You know Spike, maybe we should just take the poor horse out back and shoot it. Since it sounds like it's dying." Buffy teases, as she crinkles her nose at the god awful sound her mate is making.
"Hey, now! Cassie doesn't seem to be complainin' 'bout the sounds I'm makin'. Are you Munchkin?"
Not wanting to answer that question, Cassie starts asking some of her own. "Why were we at the big castle, where the funny robed men live?"
Spike laughs.
Buffy smacks him. "Spike I think she's serious." She says, giving him the evil eye. "Cassie, sweetie?"
The child looks back up to Buffy's green eyes.
"We went there so that Willow could help Spike with a problem he had." She explains, rubbing some of the girls' hair between her fingers.
"Oh, okay. Why did Willows hair turn all white, and why did she start glowing? What happened to Spike that he needed her help?" Cassie asks in succession, not letting them answer one question, before she starts another. This goes on for a few minutes.
Buffy and Spike look at each other, surprise written in their eyes. Together they answer, those are all really good questions to as Willow, when she wakes up." The child's curiosity seemed to be quelled for the moment and she began to fiddle with the plastic animals again.
As they answer, Buffy notices that they have come back to the hotel, instead of going to the firm. "Looks like Angel changed plans on us." Spike looks at her puzzled. "Weren't we supposed to go back to the offices?" She says pointing over his shoulder.
He turns to look out of the window, "Well, I think I'd rather be here and comfortable in the old hotel, than in the new building, where anything and everything evil could show, Luv." He retorts, still looking out the window.
"Yeah, me too."
Kennedy gently pushes Willow's shoulder to waken her. "Huh, Wha?" The red head asks, groggily, looking up into Kennedy's brown eyes.
"We're at the hotel, Red. Everyone else is already inside." Kennedy whispers, giving her a half cocked smile.
The two make their way inside, and as soon as Willow gets seated the questions start flying at her from every angle.
Looking at the group, she tries to catch a question to answer, and gives up then shouts, "STOP!" The group silences instantly, and looks at her stunned. "How can I answer questions, when I can't even make a single one out? Could you please go one at a time, starting with Buffy?" She asks, resolve face out in full force, as she looks at the slayer she'd spoken of.
Buffy lets go of Spikes hand, walks over to her best friend, sits down beside her, and places her hands between her knees as she looks up at the witch. "What happened out there, Will? Giles said that what did, wasn't supposed too. Did the spell we went for work, or did something go all screwy?" She asks in a concerned voice. Hoping that this isn't bad news a comin'.
Willow inhales deeply, getting her thoughts in order, as Buffy voices her concerns. Looking over to the blonde beside her, she pries on of the hands out from between Buffy's knees, and holds it in her own. She looks directly into the other girls green eyes. "Buffy, the spell worked. I could feel it. There's no need for alarm, I promise. It's just that the magic knew something that I didn't factor into the whole thing. Spike was attached to that amulet, and when I released him there was nothing really keeping him here. The magic took over and decided to attach him something else. When I finished the first spell, the one we went there for, the magic took over and did another one. The second was a sort of binding spell, but not your usual one. That's why my hair turned white. I was tapping into all the power I could."
"So, it bound him to something else? Doesn't that defeat the whole reason for the first spell?" Buffy asks, squeezing the hand that still held hers, tightly.
Willow winces at the force behind the squeeze on her fingers, and knows that Buffy is getting angry. Sighing, she explains the whole thing the best way she can. "It's not a bad thing Buffy, the first spell didn't get negated. Spike can go wherever he pleases, whenever he wants. The second spell kept Spike from disappearing all together from this realm. If it hadn't happened, well lets just say that he wouldn't be standing in this room right now."
"So, Red, what am I bound to now?" Spike asks from behind them, and wondering if he's going to have to be unbound from something once again.
Willow jumps, startled, when Spike speaks, not knowing that he was standing behind her, and listening to everything she'd told Buffy. "Yourself. You're bound to yourself."
Spike raises his scarred eyebrow, and then scowls at the witch. "How's 'at?"
"Well the last spell seemed to bind your human persona with the demon persona. They're now completely bound together, at least that's what it felt like was happening."
"Is that the reason his face was changing from Mr. Fangy to human, so quickly."Xander asks, still trying to get over the whole Michael Jackson video changing of Spikes face. "It was like a bad flashback of that video where Michael Jackson turned into all of those different people. Except it was only two personas, but still."
Everyone looks at the dark man, with varying degrees of puzzlement on their faces.
"What does no one watch MTV?" He asks, shaking his head.
"Anyway." Willow says, "Xander does have a point. I think that is the reason for the whole face changy thing. It seemed to me that the demon and human were fighting for dominance of the body."
"I see. But I thought that the personas were already integrated to some degree. In that case why were they fighting?" Giles asks, in total research mode, because of the situation.
Willow looks across the room at the ex-watcher. "The thing is, Giles. That for over a hundred years demon was mostly in control of the body. When Spike got his soul, the human part was taking over, but when we brought him back the human part was almost completely in control. The demon didn't like that; the human only let him out on occasion. When the spell started to take effect the demon saw its chance to take over again. As the magic went on it made the two parts come into balance. Making the body completely half and half." She concludes, taking a deep and needed breath.
"What exactly does all of this mean? Does it make Spike a vampire or a human?" Angel voices the question that everyone else was afraid of voicing, but was on all of their minds.
Looking over to the broody vampire, standing in a corner of the lobby. "He's both, just a little more balanced. The two parts are fully integrated into one being. They're bound together." She answers his question as truthfully as she can, and bounces on the couch cushion excitedly. "There's some other stuff, too." Everyone looks over to her, questioning her with their eyes.
"And what would this 'stuff' be, Red?"
"Well Spike, for one thing you don't have to bring the demon out to have the powers of it. You probably won't crave blood, but you will still need it to survive, just not as much. You can bring out the demon, be all fangy and golden eyed if you want. It just won't boost your power, because that power is already there. Basically, it'll just be a defense mechanism. Like if you wanna scare people or other not so human beings." She explains, not really getting it across the way she wants, but how else could she explain and get to the point so that everyone could understand what she was saying.
"Does this mean I'm damned near impossible to kill, or does it make me easier to kill?" He asks, grinning like a fool, at the prospect of being near invincible.
"A stake through any vital organ can still kill, the same as a bullet, but if you stay out of situations like that. Yeah you're almost invincible." She says, knowing that isn't what he wanted to hear, but still "You're not armor plated, Spike. No one is completely invincible, not even Super Man."
"Bugger."
Kennedy walks over placing a hand on Willow arm to get her attention, "Did you figure all of that out just by doing the spell?" She asks, excitedly because all of the feedback.
"No. Not exactly" Willow says looking into the dark slayers eyes. "When the magic took over, it was like I just knew the basics of what it was doing. I had to piece everything else together later on."
The red head lifts herself up off of the couch, looks back down at Buffy, and sighs heavily. "I hope that I give you enough information. Are we done now? I'm totally exhausted, and really need my bed." She looks up at everyone else. "If you guys have anymore questions, please ask me tomorrow."
She looks down at Kennedy as she gets up from kneeling beside the sofa, "Ready for sleep?" She asks taking her girlfriends hand and heading to the stairs.
"We'll talk tomorrow, Wills." Buffy finally answers, smiling cheerily at the red head as she turns back to the group, from the first step. "Thanks for all the info, go get some rest." Willow smiles, and heads up the rest of the stairs.
Buffy slowly stands up and glances over to her mate.
Spike notices the glance. Nods his head, "Yeah, I'm bit knackered myself, think I'll head on up." Getting the look in one, "Pet, you ready?" He asks looking over to Buffy's smiling face, with a purely evil look on his own.
Walking around to the back of the couch where Spike is leaning, "Yeah, totally tired girl, here." She yawns exaggeratedly, looking around at all of her friends, she grasps his hand, leading her mate up the stairs, reaching the top one.
"You know they're probably goin'. . ."
"Yes Xander, thank you for pointing that out to us all, now that visual is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the night." They hear the English drawl of the only other Englishman in the building.
They laugh at the conversation, then hear a loud crash as a door slams, and a lingering growl wafts up to them.
"Sounds like Angelus has shown back up, Luv. Wanna go stake him?" Spike says as they close the door of their room behind them. She laughs.
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(One more chapter to go, it'll prolly be a really long one. No promises, but I didn't think that this one would be this long.)
Kari: If Buffy weren't pregnant, Kennedy's ass would be grass. I wanted someone to play kick the Kennedy all the way through Season 7. I just wish someone would have. So did I surprise you any with this chapter? I hope I did.
Misspiggyau: I'm fine. Thanks for asking. How are you? The end is near and I'm sad to see it coming. I've had a total blast writing this, and hearing everyone's thoughts on it. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and enjoy the last.
Darklover: I'm so glad you've enjoyed this; I hope that it was as much as I enjoyed writing it. This chapter and the next pull everything together, and I can't wait to see every body's thoughts on them, I also can't wait to see how my brain pulls all of it together in the end. Yeah I've had the chapters ready for a while, but I always come up with something that I didn't have written down on the original, and it always seems to work with what I'm writing, so why not go with the flow.
Baby-Prue: What's up? Glad to see that you're reading this one too. I hope you enjoyed.
Chp.24
Willow's Explanation
Row, Row, Row, your boat all the way back to chapter 1
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After thanking the brothers for the use of the courtyard, and listening to Lorne's protestations of not riding back with the Scooby's. Everyone had gotten back into the vehicles and headed back to the law firm.
Gunn didn't understand what all the fuss was over riding with the Scooby's, the silence in the R.V. was really unbearable. He looked around the bus, noticing that Buffy and Spike were sitting in one of the back seats, the kid sitting on Buffy's lap. If he didn't know any better he'd swear the girl was their child. He nods his head as Spike takes notice of him, and the blonde nods in return. Dawn is on the other side, watching her sister and Spike play with some little plastic animals and keep the kid occupied.
Cassie is sitting on Buffy's lap, watching Spike play with a plastic horse, and trying to whinny. Which sounded more like it was is misery and needed to be shot. Looking up at Buffy, she smiles at the crinkled up nose the woman looked like she'd smelled something awful, like rotten eggs maybe.
"You know Spike, maybe we should just take the poor horse out back and shoot it. Since it sounds like it's dying." Buffy teases, as she crinkles her nose at the god awful sound her mate is making.
"Hey, now! Cassie doesn't seem to be complainin' 'bout the sounds I'm makin'. Are you Munchkin?"
Not wanting to answer that question, Cassie starts asking some of her own. "Why were we at the big castle, where the funny robed men live?"
Spike laughs.
Buffy smacks him. "Spike I think she's serious." She says, giving him the evil eye. "Cassie, sweetie?"
The child looks back up to Buffy's green eyes.
"We went there so that Willow could help Spike with a problem he had." She explains, rubbing some of the girls' hair between her fingers.
"Oh, okay. Why did Willows hair turn all white, and why did she start glowing? What happened to Spike that he needed her help?" Cassie asks in succession, not letting them answer one question, before she starts another. This goes on for a few minutes.
Buffy and Spike look at each other, surprise written in their eyes. Together they answer, those are all really good questions to as Willow, when she wakes up." The child's curiosity seemed to be quelled for the moment and she began to fiddle with the plastic animals again.
As they answer, Buffy notices that they have come back to the hotel, instead of going to the firm. "Looks like Angel changed plans on us." Spike looks at her puzzled. "Weren't we supposed to go back to the offices?" She says pointing over his shoulder.
He turns to look out of the window, "Well, I think I'd rather be here and comfortable in the old hotel, than in the new building, where anything and everything evil could show, Luv." He retorts, still looking out the window.
"Yeah, me too."
Kennedy gently pushes Willow's shoulder to waken her. "Huh, Wha?" The red head asks, groggily, looking up into Kennedy's brown eyes.
"We're at the hotel, Red. Everyone else is already inside." Kennedy whispers, giving her a half cocked smile.
The two make their way inside, and as soon as Willow gets seated the questions start flying at her from every angle.
Looking at the group, she tries to catch a question to answer, and gives up then shouts, "STOP!" The group silences instantly, and looks at her stunned. "How can I answer questions, when I can't even make a single one out? Could you please go one at a time, starting with Buffy?" She asks, resolve face out in full force, as she looks at the slayer she'd spoken of.
Buffy lets go of Spikes hand, walks over to her best friend, sits down beside her, and places her hands between her knees as she looks up at the witch. "What happened out there, Will? Giles said that what did, wasn't supposed too. Did the spell we went for work, or did something go all screwy?" She asks in a concerned voice. Hoping that this isn't bad news a comin'.
Willow inhales deeply, getting her thoughts in order, as Buffy voices her concerns. Looking over to the blonde beside her, she pries on of the hands out from between Buffy's knees, and holds it in her own. She looks directly into the other girls green eyes. "Buffy, the spell worked. I could feel it. There's no need for alarm, I promise. It's just that the magic knew something that I didn't factor into the whole thing. Spike was attached to that amulet, and when I released him there was nothing really keeping him here. The magic took over and decided to attach him something else. When I finished the first spell, the one we went there for, the magic took over and did another one. The second was a sort of binding spell, but not your usual one. That's why my hair turned white. I was tapping into all the power I could."
"So, it bound him to something else? Doesn't that defeat the whole reason for the first spell?" Buffy asks, squeezing the hand that still held hers, tightly.
Willow winces at the force behind the squeeze on her fingers, and knows that Buffy is getting angry. Sighing, she explains the whole thing the best way she can. "It's not a bad thing Buffy, the first spell didn't get negated. Spike can go wherever he pleases, whenever he wants. The second spell kept Spike from disappearing all together from this realm. If it hadn't happened, well lets just say that he wouldn't be standing in this room right now."
"So, Red, what am I bound to now?" Spike asks from behind them, and wondering if he's going to have to be unbound from something once again.
Willow jumps, startled, when Spike speaks, not knowing that he was standing behind her, and listening to everything she'd told Buffy. "Yourself. You're bound to yourself."
Spike raises his scarred eyebrow, and then scowls at the witch. "How's 'at?"
"Well the last spell seemed to bind your human persona with the demon persona. They're now completely bound together, at least that's what it felt like was happening."
"Is that the reason his face was changing from Mr. Fangy to human, so quickly."Xander asks, still trying to get over the whole Michael Jackson video changing of Spikes face. "It was like a bad flashback of that video where Michael Jackson turned into all of those different people. Except it was only two personas, but still."
Everyone looks at the dark man, with varying degrees of puzzlement on their faces.
"What does no one watch MTV?" He asks, shaking his head.
"Anyway." Willow says, "Xander does have a point. I think that is the reason for the whole face changy thing. It seemed to me that the demon and human were fighting for dominance of the body."
"I see. But I thought that the personas were already integrated to some degree. In that case why were they fighting?" Giles asks, in total research mode, because of the situation.
Willow looks across the room at the ex-watcher. "The thing is, Giles. That for over a hundred years demon was mostly in control of the body. When Spike got his soul, the human part was taking over, but when we brought him back the human part was almost completely in control. The demon didn't like that; the human only let him out on occasion. When the spell started to take effect the demon saw its chance to take over again. As the magic went on it made the two parts come into balance. Making the body completely half and half." She concludes, taking a deep and needed breath.
"What exactly does all of this mean? Does it make Spike a vampire or a human?" Angel voices the question that everyone else was afraid of voicing, but was on all of their minds.
Looking over to the broody vampire, standing in a corner of the lobby. "He's both, just a little more balanced. The two parts are fully integrated into one being. They're bound together." She answers his question as truthfully as she can, and bounces on the couch cushion excitedly. "There's some other stuff, too." Everyone looks over to her, questioning her with their eyes.
"And what would this 'stuff' be, Red?"
"Well Spike, for one thing you don't have to bring the demon out to have the powers of it. You probably won't crave blood, but you will still need it to survive, just not as much. You can bring out the demon, be all fangy and golden eyed if you want. It just won't boost your power, because that power is already there. Basically, it'll just be a defense mechanism. Like if you wanna scare people or other not so human beings." She explains, not really getting it across the way she wants, but how else could she explain and get to the point so that everyone could understand what she was saying.
"Does this mean I'm damned near impossible to kill, or does it make me easier to kill?" He asks, grinning like a fool, at the prospect of being near invincible.
"A stake through any vital organ can still kill, the same as a bullet, but if you stay out of situations like that. Yeah you're almost invincible." She says, knowing that isn't what he wanted to hear, but still "You're not armor plated, Spike. No one is completely invincible, not even Super Man."
"Bugger."
Kennedy walks over placing a hand on Willow arm to get her attention, "Did you figure all of that out just by doing the spell?" She asks, excitedly because all of the feedback.
"No. Not exactly" Willow says looking into the dark slayers eyes. "When the magic took over, it was like I just knew the basics of what it was doing. I had to piece everything else together later on."
The red head lifts herself up off of the couch, looks back down at Buffy, and sighs heavily. "I hope that I give you enough information. Are we done now? I'm totally exhausted, and really need my bed." She looks up at everyone else. "If you guys have anymore questions, please ask me tomorrow."
She looks down at Kennedy as she gets up from kneeling beside the sofa, "Ready for sleep?" She asks taking her girlfriends hand and heading to the stairs.
"We'll talk tomorrow, Wills." Buffy finally answers, smiling cheerily at the red head as she turns back to the group, from the first step. "Thanks for all the info, go get some rest." Willow smiles, and heads up the rest of the stairs.
Buffy slowly stands up and glances over to her mate.
Spike notices the glance. Nods his head, "Yeah, I'm bit knackered myself, think I'll head on up." Getting the look in one, "Pet, you ready?" He asks looking over to Buffy's smiling face, with a purely evil look on his own.
Walking around to the back of the couch where Spike is leaning, "Yeah, totally tired girl, here." She yawns exaggeratedly, looking around at all of her friends, she grasps his hand, leading her mate up the stairs, reaching the top one.
"You know they're probably goin'. . ."
"Yes Xander, thank you for pointing that out to us all, now that visual is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the night." They hear the English drawl of the only other Englishman in the building.
They laugh at the conversation, then hear a loud crash as a door slams, and a lingering growl wafts up to them.
"Sounds like Angelus has shown back up, Luv. Wanna go stake him?" Spike says as they close the door of their room behind them. She laughs.
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(One more chapter to go, it'll prolly be a really long one. No promises, but I didn't think that this one would be this long.)
Kari: If Buffy weren't pregnant, Kennedy's ass would be grass. I wanted someone to play kick the Kennedy all the way through Season 7. I just wish someone would have. So did I surprise you any with this chapter? I hope I did.
Misspiggyau: I'm fine. Thanks for asking. How are you? The end is near and I'm sad to see it coming. I've had a total blast writing this, and hearing everyone's thoughts on it. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and enjoy the last.
Darklover: I'm so glad you've enjoyed this; I hope that it was as much as I enjoyed writing it. This chapter and the next pull everything together, and I can't wait to see every body's thoughts on them, I also can't wait to see how my brain pulls all of it together in the end. Yeah I've had the chapters ready for a while, but I always come up with something that I didn't have written down on the original, and it always seems to work with what I'm writing, so why not go with the flow.
Baby-Prue: What's up? Glad to see that you're reading this one too. I hope you enjoyed.