Author: LCA
Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy.or Angel.or Willow.or Faith.or-well u get the idea.
A/N: thanx to all of my reviewers. MWA! Big kiss!!!! I just have to pull a shameless plug and let you all know that I have a new fic out. Like usual it'll be B/A but it'll take awhile to get there. It's called Brittle as Bone. Check it out. Now to my reviewers:
First of all let me say SORRY for taking sooo long on the updating. Over Christmas I was at my Grandma's in Michigan (why can't Grandma's live in warm places, like California) and then I had to study for finals, and then I had to take the said finals. Curse the education process!!!!!!! Anyway, I know it took a long time and I hope it's worth the wait!
Tariq: I wouldn't say no Gunn or Lorne, but probably no Wes since he really bugs me. I dunno, I might have no fun with them!
Candy: howdy and thanks for reviewing. I think that Buffy is a smart girl, she wakes up in a hospital, everyone that was in her dream is there and they have a logical explanation for everything. I mean she isn't slipping into the dream again like in that episode.
Queen Boadicea: Drussilla is the big bad. She's in Sunnydale. I smell trouble for the fang gang!
Willow120: thanx sooo much for the review! I feel special!!!
Geneva Waters: hey! Thanx for the way kewl review! I sent out chapter 4, u sure u didn't get it? Hmm, anyways, glad u like it and JOIN UP!!!!
CocoaKitty: the next update is here (finally)! sorry it took so long but I went to Michigan to visit my grandma...
Buffy/Friends fan: thanx for reviewing!!! I won't tell how the W/O/T will turn out mainly because I don't even know. Hmm, I should work on that. Lol!
Kathryn Riddle: Thanx so much for that review! It brings a tear to an author's eye to get reviews like that! sniff, sniff anyhow, I already have a beta but thanx for the offer. P.S. I'm a slacker too.
Sailormoonbestbud: Thanx sooo much! I really like this plot to, but I must place credit where credit is due.I guess.this plot is loosely LOOSELY based on a challenge by Geneva Waters. But I came up with most of it. Lol!
ellie C: I wrote more! Now quick read it!!!!
* * * Buffy woke up on something soft. Well, something softer then hospital bed at least. Slowly she opened her eyes fighting back the wave of nausea that came over her every time she tried to move. Everywhere hurt and she needed something for this headache before her brain dripped out her ears. Oh, yeah. That's lovely.
After she laid still long enough for the pain to ease a bit, she was able to sit up and search her surroundings. With a gasp she sat up straighter despite the scream from her muscles. She was in Angel's mansion. Looking around she saw where everything they had done took place. There, that was where she had killed him. And if you lifted that rug you could see the burn mark from him coming back. That was the bed he had laid on when Buffy thought that she would lose him forever to poison. It was all here.
NO! Buffy shook herself out of her thoughts with a grunt. That was a dream, not real, not real. Angel wasn't a vampire; they were going to get married. Everything was going to be happy!
"A little too perfect, hmmm pet?" came a whispered voice in the darkness.
"What? Who's there? What's going on?" Buffy asked in a nearly hysterical voice.
"Don't let it fall and break, love. Don't let it fall and break. Must be careful dear, must be wary. Senses have no sense. Rhymes have no reason when everything is broken."
"Drussilla? Is that you? God, what are you doing now?"
"Shhh, you can't know. She can't know; the evil wants no knowing. Make her stop."
"Where are you? What? Too scared to show your face? After all these years of living you're scared to die!" Buffy started prowling the room, searching in all of the shadows for Drussilla.
"Make her stop! Miss Edith won't hear this! She's a proper lady, no killing her mother. Bad slayer!"
"Drussilla." Buffy reached into one particularly dark shadow and pulled out someone all in black. It was the figure of a woman but she had a hood that covered her face. When Buffy pulled back the hood there was Willow.
"Don't let it fall and break! Oz? Buffy! Don't let it fall and break. Find him, find him, find her. She ran Buffy. Find her!"
"Will, I don't understand.I-"
"Back away from her, Buffy! She's not Willow anymore."
Giles was standing at the front door of the mansion. He had a cross and an orb. Willow hissed and vamped out. Buffy screamed and tried to back away but Willow grabbed her. Then, Jenny Calendar appeared and started speaking in a foreign language. Buffy recognized it as the spell to put the soul back in a vampire and apparently so did Willow. She started thrashing about, trying to get away from the orb and the woman using it so calmly. There was a flash of light Buffy was thrown to the ground.
"Hey there stranger." From up in the blazing light came a familiar voice.
"Angel! Angel, I can't see you. I'm so lost!"
The light was separated by a thousand little black dots that slowly melted together to form a silhouette right in front of her and she felt Angel's presence surround her. She closed her eyes and found comfort.
"Buffy, this reality.you have to fight. Try to stay awake, for us. But.but if you can't, I'll be waiting on the other side. We may fall Buffy, but nothing could ever break us."
Buffy smiled and let the light wash over her. Sighing she let her self fall back to unconsciousness.
On the other side of the dream, Angel was sitting next to his beloved in a cold hospital room. He saw the smile slowly spread across her face and continued whispering to her deep into the night as she sunk into a coma she might never come out of.
And in a cold dungeon, one of the two kidnapped breathed their last.
* * * Moo-ha-ha-ha! Hope that was worth the waiting, and I won't make you waiting as long next time, I promise!
Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy.or Angel.or Willow.or Faith.or-well u get the idea.
A/N: thanx to all of my reviewers. MWA! Big kiss!!!! I just have to pull a shameless plug and let you all know that I have a new fic out. Like usual it'll be B/A but it'll take awhile to get there. It's called Brittle as Bone. Check it out. Now to my reviewers:
First of all let me say SORRY for taking sooo long on the updating. Over Christmas I was at my Grandma's in Michigan (why can't Grandma's live in warm places, like California) and then I had to study for finals, and then I had to take the said finals. Curse the education process!!!!!!! Anyway, I know it took a long time and I hope it's worth the wait!
Tariq: I wouldn't say no Gunn or Lorne, but probably no Wes since he really bugs me. I dunno, I might have no fun with them!
Candy: howdy and thanks for reviewing. I think that Buffy is a smart girl, she wakes up in a hospital, everyone that was in her dream is there and they have a logical explanation for everything. I mean she isn't slipping into the dream again like in that episode.
Queen Boadicea: Drussilla is the big bad. She's in Sunnydale. I smell trouble for the fang gang!
Willow120: thanx sooo much for the review! I feel special!!!
Geneva Waters: hey! Thanx for the way kewl review! I sent out chapter 4, u sure u didn't get it? Hmm, anyways, glad u like it and JOIN UP!!!!
CocoaKitty: the next update is here (finally)! sorry it took so long but I went to Michigan to visit my grandma...
Buffy/Friends fan: thanx for reviewing!!! I won't tell how the W/O/T will turn out mainly because I don't even know. Hmm, I should work on that. Lol!
Kathryn Riddle: Thanx so much for that review! It brings a tear to an author's eye to get reviews like that! sniff, sniff anyhow, I already have a beta but thanx for the offer. P.S. I'm a slacker too.
Sailormoonbestbud: Thanx sooo much! I really like this plot to, but I must place credit where credit is due.I guess.this plot is loosely LOOSELY based on a challenge by Geneva Waters. But I came up with most of it. Lol!
ellie C: I wrote more! Now quick read it!!!!
* * * Buffy woke up on something soft. Well, something softer then hospital bed at least. Slowly she opened her eyes fighting back the wave of nausea that came over her every time she tried to move. Everywhere hurt and she needed something for this headache before her brain dripped out her ears. Oh, yeah. That's lovely.
After she laid still long enough for the pain to ease a bit, she was able to sit up and search her surroundings. With a gasp she sat up straighter despite the scream from her muscles. She was in Angel's mansion. Looking around she saw where everything they had done took place. There, that was where she had killed him. And if you lifted that rug you could see the burn mark from him coming back. That was the bed he had laid on when Buffy thought that she would lose him forever to poison. It was all here.
NO! Buffy shook herself out of her thoughts with a grunt. That was a dream, not real, not real. Angel wasn't a vampire; they were going to get married. Everything was going to be happy!
"A little too perfect, hmmm pet?" came a whispered voice in the darkness.
"What? Who's there? What's going on?" Buffy asked in a nearly hysterical voice.
"Don't let it fall and break, love. Don't let it fall and break. Must be careful dear, must be wary. Senses have no sense. Rhymes have no reason when everything is broken."
"Drussilla? Is that you? God, what are you doing now?"
"Shhh, you can't know. She can't know; the evil wants no knowing. Make her stop."
"Where are you? What? Too scared to show your face? After all these years of living you're scared to die!" Buffy started prowling the room, searching in all of the shadows for Drussilla.
"Make her stop! Miss Edith won't hear this! She's a proper lady, no killing her mother. Bad slayer!"
"Drussilla." Buffy reached into one particularly dark shadow and pulled out someone all in black. It was the figure of a woman but she had a hood that covered her face. When Buffy pulled back the hood there was Willow.
"Don't let it fall and break! Oz? Buffy! Don't let it fall and break. Find him, find him, find her. She ran Buffy. Find her!"
"Will, I don't understand.I-"
"Back away from her, Buffy! She's not Willow anymore."
Giles was standing at the front door of the mansion. He had a cross and an orb. Willow hissed and vamped out. Buffy screamed and tried to back away but Willow grabbed her. Then, Jenny Calendar appeared and started speaking in a foreign language. Buffy recognized it as the spell to put the soul back in a vampire and apparently so did Willow. She started thrashing about, trying to get away from the orb and the woman using it so calmly. There was a flash of light Buffy was thrown to the ground.
"Hey there stranger." From up in the blazing light came a familiar voice.
"Angel! Angel, I can't see you. I'm so lost!"
The light was separated by a thousand little black dots that slowly melted together to form a silhouette right in front of her and she felt Angel's presence surround her. She closed her eyes and found comfort.
"Buffy, this reality.you have to fight. Try to stay awake, for us. But.but if you can't, I'll be waiting on the other side. We may fall Buffy, but nothing could ever break us."
Buffy smiled and let the light wash over her. Sighing she let her self fall back to unconsciousness.
On the other side of the dream, Angel was sitting next to his beloved in a cold hospital room. He saw the smile slowly spread across her face and continued whispering to her deep into the night as she sunk into a coma she might never come out of.
And in a cold dungeon, one of the two kidnapped breathed their last.
* * * Moo-ha-ha-ha! Hope that was worth the waiting, and I won't make you waiting as long next time, I promise!