Chapter 4- The Prophecy
Buffy awoke and reached for Angel. She found an empty bed and wasn't surprised since sunlight was streaming into her window. Or so she thought. She opened her eyes slowly, and her senses began to scream at her that something non-human was in her room. She snapped awake to see an absolutely breath-taking woman staring at her. The light that Buffy had taken for sunlight was actually a blinding light that surrounded the woman.
"Who are you?" Buffy asked warily. Her hand had already slipped to the stake she kept under the pillow. She knew that the stake would proably do nothing to this being, but the feeling of Mr. Pointy in her hand put her back in control of the situation.
"Why, I am the goddess of love. I have many names, Aphrodite, Venus, etc. Anything you'd like to call me really." The goddess twirled her waist length white locks around her fingers as she talked. This mortal girl fascinated her. She knew that Buffy was the slayer, but being the goddess of love didn't usually place her in the ways of slayers. They usually got killed before there was ever a chance for the life-weaver to place a strand for love amongst the slayer's loom. For a mortal, the girl was breath- taking, she could even best some of the lesser goddesses.
"Well I know the name Aphrodite so let's use that. Why are you here?" Buffy felt a little calmer. Surely the goddess of love couldn't do her any harm. not physical anyways.
"I am here to talk about the prophecy. Your lover has not told you about it yet. You were so upset last night that I understand his reasons for letting it slide. However, I felt it was best for me to talk to you about it personally. I doubt that the slayer is going to willfully let this little prophecy slide."
"What prophecy?" Alright dammit. Buffy decided she needed to go back to wary-mode. She had yet to hear of a prophecy that ended in anyway that Buffy liked.
"You are so unique. Slayers never have love weaved into their life-loom. So, when the weaver saw that you had a love weave, she accidently placed two. People should not have two true soul-mate loves unless one has died. It places everything off balance. So, a prophecy was formed to off-set universal chaos. "
Buffy shook her head confused. "But I don't have two soul-mate loves."
Aphrodite sighed. Ah, well. No matter how exquisite and unique this girl was, she was still a mortal. She shouldn't expect the girl to completely understand, she should just be grateful she wasn't denying that any of this was possible.
"Weren't you just pondering over how confused your feeling were last night? You want Angel and Spike remember? You love Spike, as surely as you love Angel. So, see, if I was to let this continue unchecked, it would allow every persons looms to go off balance and chaos would ensue. So you must fufill the prophecy. Angel seems to think that he will find a way to give you a choice, but I am here to tell you that there is no choice. If this continues, the rippling effect will cause suicide rates to spike within five years. Angels depression will feed Cordelia's, her's Wesley's, Wesley's someone elses, who will feed someone else, etc etc until everyone is affected. You are the slayer, sworn to protect the innocent. You cannot let your mortal morals affect the world like this."
Buffy nodded. She knew her duty. But what could this prophecy have to do with her morals? Every other prophecy just usually had her killing someone. She had no morals about killing. So long as it was justified.. Wait..
"Do I have to kill someone who doesn't deserve it? That is the only moral I can think of."
Aphrodite shook her head. "No my darling. No one will die. The prophecy is this, "let the girl, full of power and strength, love the dark and the light. As no one should have two loves, there must be the choice. Let the girl have a night, with both her darkness and her light, and the one who shall father her babe shall be the true love. Let the one who is not the father forget his love, and find love within the girl's equal."
"Darkness and light?" Buffy had a feeling that she perfectly understood the prophecy. But surely she was wrong. There must be some mistake. Vampires and Slayers couldn't have children.
"Surely you have noticed the color differences between your loves. Angel is dark and brooding, Spike is blonde and lighter. And yes, they can have babies, it is just believed to be other wise because no one has ever tried. Vampires rarely sleep with a mortal long enough to get them pregnant. They usually turn them way before that can happen." Aphrodite was gentle. Although she didn't understand why some mortals had such a problem with the act of sharing the fruits of ones body with more then one person as a time, she could see how hard it was for the girl. And she was handling it better then Aphrodite had expected.
"So I have to sleep with Angel and Spike in the same night, and who ever gets me pregnant will be my true-love?"
"Not just the same night darling, at the same time. I believe mortals refer to it as a three-some."
"Oh god. I can't do that! Plus, they could never handle it. They are both too jealous to try something like that. Besides, how would I know which one was the father? It isn't like I can just go get a DNA test." Buffy's cheeks burned at the thought.
Despite her plans to be gentle, Aphrodite had to laugh at the girl's naivity. "Darling, surely you don't believe that they have never done this before? What do you think went on while Angel and Spike shared Dru? In fact, they rarely made love one on one. You will know, because, when you wake up, you will look at one and feel love, look at the other and feel nothing."
Buffy gulped. This was all so over-whelming. And she was NOT going to think about Angel and Spike having a threesome with Dru. That might just cause her to go find the psycho vamp and kill her. "When?," she whispered.
"On the night of the harvest moon. That is three weeks from today. That should be enough time to let the truth settle in. You are more then welcome to try it out before then, they are quite fun. But, you will only become pregnant and fufill the prophecy on the night of the harvest. I wish you luck my darling. I don't know why this is hard for you, but I can see it is. I can only offer my apologies for my weaver. She is slow, and only thought to make your life more fulfilling since Slayer's normally have so little. She did not know what she was doing." Aphrodite walked gracefully over to the mortal and placed a kiss upon her forehead. The girl took comfort from it, and did not know that the kiss had magic to slightly soothe her inhibitions. Aphrodite wanted to make this easier for her. She seemed to have taken a liking to the poor slayer.
With that, the goddess disappeared, leaving Buffy with only her thoughts for comfort. She had no idea what to think. She only knew that she needed to talk to Willow.
Buffy awoke and reached for Angel. She found an empty bed and wasn't surprised since sunlight was streaming into her window. Or so she thought. She opened her eyes slowly, and her senses began to scream at her that something non-human was in her room. She snapped awake to see an absolutely breath-taking woman staring at her. The light that Buffy had taken for sunlight was actually a blinding light that surrounded the woman.
"Who are you?" Buffy asked warily. Her hand had already slipped to the stake she kept under the pillow. She knew that the stake would proably do nothing to this being, but the feeling of Mr. Pointy in her hand put her back in control of the situation.
"Why, I am the goddess of love. I have many names, Aphrodite, Venus, etc. Anything you'd like to call me really." The goddess twirled her waist length white locks around her fingers as she talked. This mortal girl fascinated her. She knew that Buffy was the slayer, but being the goddess of love didn't usually place her in the ways of slayers. They usually got killed before there was ever a chance for the life-weaver to place a strand for love amongst the slayer's loom. For a mortal, the girl was breath- taking, she could even best some of the lesser goddesses.
"Well I know the name Aphrodite so let's use that. Why are you here?" Buffy felt a little calmer. Surely the goddess of love couldn't do her any harm. not physical anyways.
"I am here to talk about the prophecy. Your lover has not told you about it yet. You were so upset last night that I understand his reasons for letting it slide. However, I felt it was best for me to talk to you about it personally. I doubt that the slayer is going to willfully let this little prophecy slide."
"What prophecy?" Alright dammit. Buffy decided she needed to go back to wary-mode. She had yet to hear of a prophecy that ended in anyway that Buffy liked.
"You are so unique. Slayers never have love weaved into their life-loom. So, when the weaver saw that you had a love weave, she accidently placed two. People should not have two true soul-mate loves unless one has died. It places everything off balance. So, a prophecy was formed to off-set universal chaos. "
Buffy shook her head confused. "But I don't have two soul-mate loves."
Aphrodite sighed. Ah, well. No matter how exquisite and unique this girl was, she was still a mortal. She shouldn't expect the girl to completely understand, she should just be grateful she wasn't denying that any of this was possible.
"Weren't you just pondering over how confused your feeling were last night? You want Angel and Spike remember? You love Spike, as surely as you love Angel. So, see, if I was to let this continue unchecked, it would allow every persons looms to go off balance and chaos would ensue. So you must fufill the prophecy. Angel seems to think that he will find a way to give you a choice, but I am here to tell you that there is no choice. If this continues, the rippling effect will cause suicide rates to spike within five years. Angels depression will feed Cordelia's, her's Wesley's, Wesley's someone elses, who will feed someone else, etc etc until everyone is affected. You are the slayer, sworn to protect the innocent. You cannot let your mortal morals affect the world like this."
Buffy nodded. She knew her duty. But what could this prophecy have to do with her morals? Every other prophecy just usually had her killing someone. She had no morals about killing. So long as it was justified.. Wait..
"Do I have to kill someone who doesn't deserve it? That is the only moral I can think of."
Aphrodite shook her head. "No my darling. No one will die. The prophecy is this, "let the girl, full of power and strength, love the dark and the light. As no one should have two loves, there must be the choice. Let the girl have a night, with both her darkness and her light, and the one who shall father her babe shall be the true love. Let the one who is not the father forget his love, and find love within the girl's equal."
"Darkness and light?" Buffy had a feeling that she perfectly understood the prophecy. But surely she was wrong. There must be some mistake. Vampires and Slayers couldn't have children.
"Surely you have noticed the color differences between your loves. Angel is dark and brooding, Spike is blonde and lighter. And yes, they can have babies, it is just believed to be other wise because no one has ever tried. Vampires rarely sleep with a mortal long enough to get them pregnant. They usually turn them way before that can happen." Aphrodite was gentle. Although she didn't understand why some mortals had such a problem with the act of sharing the fruits of ones body with more then one person as a time, she could see how hard it was for the girl. And she was handling it better then Aphrodite had expected.
"So I have to sleep with Angel and Spike in the same night, and who ever gets me pregnant will be my true-love?"
"Not just the same night darling, at the same time. I believe mortals refer to it as a three-some."
"Oh god. I can't do that! Plus, they could never handle it. They are both too jealous to try something like that. Besides, how would I know which one was the father? It isn't like I can just go get a DNA test." Buffy's cheeks burned at the thought.
Despite her plans to be gentle, Aphrodite had to laugh at the girl's naivity. "Darling, surely you don't believe that they have never done this before? What do you think went on while Angel and Spike shared Dru? In fact, they rarely made love one on one. You will know, because, when you wake up, you will look at one and feel love, look at the other and feel nothing."
Buffy gulped. This was all so over-whelming. And she was NOT going to think about Angel and Spike having a threesome with Dru. That might just cause her to go find the psycho vamp and kill her. "When?," she whispered.
"On the night of the harvest moon. That is three weeks from today. That should be enough time to let the truth settle in. You are more then welcome to try it out before then, they are quite fun. But, you will only become pregnant and fufill the prophecy on the night of the harvest. I wish you luck my darling. I don't know why this is hard for you, but I can see it is. I can only offer my apologies for my weaver. She is slow, and only thought to make your life more fulfilling since Slayer's normally have so little. She did not know what she was doing." Aphrodite walked gracefully over to the mortal and placed a kiss upon her forehead. The girl took comfort from it, and did not know that the kiss had magic to slightly soothe her inhibitions. Aphrodite wanted to make this easier for her. She seemed to have taken a liking to the poor slayer.
With that, the goddess disappeared, leaving Buffy with only her thoughts for comfort. She had no idea what to think. She only knew that she needed to talk to Willow.