Tonight and the rest of my life
Chapter 9
Heaven looked around her confusion writen all over her face. She stood on clean white tile in a completly white room with no furnishing and as far as she could tell there was only one door which was more of an arc way. She could hear the faintest tinkle of water coming from the other side of the arc way.
"Heaven, my child." She heard a deep booming voice and from the arc way a man in all white stood.
"Daddy." She said softly.
"You have come too soon for the gods. You musnt stay." Her father was a tall broad shouldered man with thick rich dark hair. "You yearn to be around your own kind. You musnt fight it because you are immortal. You cant die my precious girl, Glorificus is coming. She will burn the world to its core if you choose to stay. It has been foreseen that no power of human kind can stop her, which means your friends will never survive. You know the right choice my child."
She closed her eyes she knew the right choice as well. She gasped as she was pulled out of the state. She was crowded by her friends and the pain all over her body had stopped along with the bleeding.
"Shes alive!" Buffy cried out as the rest of them began talking loudly and hugging.
Heaven let her head rest in the puddle of blood that was slowly dissappearing before their eyes. She knew she had a lot of explaining to do but there was a small chance they would believe her anyways. She saw a glow in the corner of her eye and her brother Orion was knelt over her.
"Orion, it doesnt hurt." She said her speech slurring.
"You where hurt? Get up." Orion pulled her to her feet and she swayed slightly.
"Dont do that you sodding idiot." Spike growled as Orion shook her.
"I just saw dad, big problems." Orion said dragging his sister into the kitchen.
"You have got to be kidding me Orion I just died." Heaven growled as he pushed her in the side of the fridge rather hard.
"Stop complaining." Orion said pacing the kitchen. His blondish hair messy and full of dried blood.
"Whats going on with Sam?" Heaven knew her brother.
"It was his time. I tried Heaven! I TRIED." Orion cried out slamming his fists into the kitchen counter making two large hand prints.
"No... NOT NOW!" Heaven growled slamming her own fists into the wall, she seemed to be full of energy she never knew she possessed.
"Kitty needs somewhere to go. I cant take her in! What kind of a life would that be?" Orion said turning to his sister.
"Kitty? You want to unload Kitty on me??" Heaven cried out and covered her mouth instantly feeling awful.
"I know, I know. But where else would she go? I dont even have a house! I live in hotels and up there." Orion pointed to the ceiling but meant with the gods.
"Fine, stop it. Stop pacing. Okay I'll take her I will." Heaven said covering her mouth.
"Good." Orion said smiling as he dissappeared with a soft glow of gold.
"Damn." Heaven hissed as the glow left her sight not even saying goodbye that was just like her stupid brother.
"Listen man! You cant come round here pushing my girl!" Spike said coming into the kitchen and seeing her alone her alone her nodded.
"Sorry." She said, meaning more then one thing.
"Listen," Spike said pulling her into his arms. "Dont you go scaring me like that okay? Dont do it."
"Spike," Heaven said putting her hands on his face. "I have to tell you something."
"Tell me anything." He said seeing the worry on her face.
"Please dont hate me for lying to you." Heaven said.
"I could never hate you." Spike said leaning his head to touch her forehead.
"Hey Heaven! We have to get back to Dawn, she could get scared. You know how sick mom is." Buffy said interupting the two of them.
Heaven nodded as they rest of them left giving various reasons. Xander had to get to Anya and althought Willow was hiding it she really wanted to get back to Tara. Heaven knew the gist of it all and after they were all gone she felt better, alone with Spike.
"Spike," Heaven said looking down at her bloody clothes she knew she was tormenting him but she needed to say it before she lost the nerve. "I'm not normal Spike."
"Yeah and I am." Spike said lighting up as Heaven paced the kitchen.
She left the kitchen without a word and walked up the stairs with him following her. She could tell by the smell of his cigarette and the fact that he hardly cared if the world heard him stomping all over the place.
"Spike," She said taking off her shirt and throwing it into the dirty clothes hamper. "I have a huge secret."
She turned around to face him. He gasped, she had a huge scar on her stomach that he knew hadnt been there before. It was in the shape of a lightening bolt.
"I'm the child of a God Spike. My dad, his real name is Apollo. My mother is a very powerful wiccan woman and well the hit it off got married had some kids and here I am. Immortal and all powerful but I'm so scared! The gods keep punishing us for our sins and they expect me to hold the weight of the world on my shoulders and I'm scared. Im the last good god left on the earth and Im suppose to watch out for this god forsaken place! " Heaven covered her face letting out a huge sob.
"I'm here. I wont let you be scared." Spike said wrapping her up in his arms.
"They took Sam too! I mean they take all half god or full god men at thirty I should have known. Now Kitty is alone and Orion wont take care of her and I have to do the whole mom thing and I've only been alive for like a twenty years I dont know how to be a mom!" Heaven cried harder with Spike holding on to her shaking body.
"Let it out, love." He kissed her forehead while she cried.
"They brand me to remind me where I'm from! Why did my parents do this? Didnt they think about the cost of their children? Out of seven kids they have well five technically. Now what are they going to do to me? What else could they possibly throw at me?" Heaven rambled on.
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"Seriously? This is so cool, isnt it cool Buffy?" Dawn was going on about how cool it was that Kitty was coming to stay with Heaven.
"Very cool. Do your homework Dawn." Buffy took the side of Heavens arm and guided her to where the group was sitting among the piles of books.
"Whats going on?" Heaven asked looking at the serious faces.
"This." Buffy said holding up a glowing ball.
Heaven's eyes blurred slightly as she looked at the ball. She knew what it was but how was she going to explain it? She wasnt going to, she decided only Spike was going to know for now.
"Looks fun." Heaven said sitting on the table and crossing her legs.
"Yeah, bloody fun." Spike said leaning back further into the shadows to escape the shafts of light that came through the windows.
"It bigger then that. Buffy went after some woman who is more then human." Giles said cleaning his glasses.
"She was too blonde, had to be fake." Buffy covered the fact that the woman was all powerful.
"So how did that job thing go?" Xander asked Heaven.
"I got it." Heaven said smiling widely.
"Course you did. You got a slamming body." Spike scoffed.
"Oh Spikey do you have a problem with my new job?" Heaven said making a kissing face but breaking it to laugh.
"I'm sorry if I'm not to keen of having my girl work in a bar." Spike said sulking, he knew he wasnt going to change her mind.
"Spike, you give me some other idea of a job and I will be glad to consider it but it is impossible to try and find a job here." Heaven said sitting in his lap.
"You guys are gross." A voice she knew made her turn to the open door.
Her brother, stood next to her sister who had a small sheepish smile on her face. She was rather tall for her age unlike Heaven but she had long hair like Heavens but lighter like Orion's. She had a small girly back pack thing on her shoulders and Orion held two massive suit cases.
"Well h0w are you two? Look at you Kitty you are SO big!" Heaven said hugging her little sister who at the age of fourteen didnt want to get all lovey.
"Shes packed everything except for the kitchen sink I tell ya." Orion was talking to Heaven but looking at Spike.
"Well, thats good." Heaven said smiling.
"Did you get the job?" Orion asked her quietly.
"I got it." Heaven said rolling her eyes at him.
"Good. I dont know if I want some of these people around Kit." Orion said narrowing his eyes.
"Buh Bye Orion." Heaven said waving to him.
He took one last look at Kitty, gave Heaven a hug and dissappeared in a glow of soft golden light.
"Hi, I'm Dawn." Dawn said smiling at Kitty who smiled back widely.
"I'm Kitty." Kitty replied.
"Kitty, this is the gang." Heaven said grinning.
"Hey, Kitty." Willow said.
"Hi Kitty Im Tara."
"I'm Buffy, Dawns older sister."
"And this is Xander, Anya and Giles." Heaven said as the three of them smiled and waved at her.
"Is he your boyfriend?" Kitty asked motioning to Spike.
"Yeah, you wanna go to the house and put your stuff in your room?" Heaven asked her sister eyeing Spike.
The door opened with a soft tinkling and Heaven stepped infront of Kitty and Dawn protectively.
"I was going to wait till you came to me but I heard that you were planning on staying put so I came to you." Heaven had never seen Glory in Human form.
"Get out of here Glory this isnt your place." Heaven said stepping foreward.
"Arent you scared Heaven? Daddy cant save you now that your down here." Glory taunted her.
"Daddy?" Kitty breathed the words.
"How long has it been since you've seen the all high and mighty? I heard you had contact with him last night. But what do I know? A lot actually." Glory looked like the vixen she had been in her hell dimension, in all red she looked like she could light a fire under anyone.
"Get out of here." Heaven hissed.
"Do your little friends not know? Not even the best friends? Oh but you told the boyfriend." Glory said looking at Spike. "He sure is a fox, in a Billy Idol way."
"Leave Glory I mean it." Heaven narrowed her eyes.
"What are you going to do Heaven? When you got shot down to this hell you got stuck with the same problems that I did, the whole now I dont have my powers thing." Glory flipped her long curly hair.
"I dont have my powers?" Heaven raised her hand and a big book flew at Glory hitting her in the face.
"I didnt come here to fight! But you provoked me!" Glory charged at Heaven.
"As if!" Heaven cried.
Glory sent a swift punch at Heaven but she grabbed her fist and twisted it hard. Heaven kicked her in the stomach forcing her to fly against the door. She grabbed the handle of the door.
"No matter what you do Heaven you cant fight it! That much power at your finger tips? All gods go evil Heaven. Your next." Glory fled the shop and Heaven turned to see the looks on her friends faces.
She grabbed Kitty's suitcases told her to come on and they left the place just as quickly as Glory had.
Now they all knew her secret.
Chapter 9
Heaven looked around her confusion writen all over her face. She stood on clean white tile in a completly white room with no furnishing and as far as she could tell there was only one door which was more of an arc way. She could hear the faintest tinkle of water coming from the other side of the arc way.
"Heaven, my child." She heard a deep booming voice and from the arc way a man in all white stood.
"Daddy." She said softly.
"You have come too soon for the gods. You musnt stay." Her father was a tall broad shouldered man with thick rich dark hair. "You yearn to be around your own kind. You musnt fight it because you are immortal. You cant die my precious girl, Glorificus is coming. She will burn the world to its core if you choose to stay. It has been foreseen that no power of human kind can stop her, which means your friends will never survive. You know the right choice my child."
She closed her eyes she knew the right choice as well. She gasped as she was pulled out of the state. She was crowded by her friends and the pain all over her body had stopped along with the bleeding.
"Shes alive!" Buffy cried out as the rest of them began talking loudly and hugging.
Heaven let her head rest in the puddle of blood that was slowly dissappearing before their eyes. She knew she had a lot of explaining to do but there was a small chance they would believe her anyways. She saw a glow in the corner of her eye and her brother Orion was knelt over her.
"Orion, it doesnt hurt." She said her speech slurring.
"You where hurt? Get up." Orion pulled her to her feet and she swayed slightly.
"Dont do that you sodding idiot." Spike growled as Orion shook her.
"I just saw dad, big problems." Orion said dragging his sister into the kitchen.
"You have got to be kidding me Orion I just died." Heaven growled as he pushed her in the side of the fridge rather hard.
"Stop complaining." Orion said pacing the kitchen. His blondish hair messy and full of dried blood.
"Whats going on with Sam?" Heaven knew her brother.
"It was his time. I tried Heaven! I TRIED." Orion cried out slamming his fists into the kitchen counter making two large hand prints.
"No... NOT NOW!" Heaven growled slamming her own fists into the wall, she seemed to be full of energy she never knew she possessed.
"Kitty needs somewhere to go. I cant take her in! What kind of a life would that be?" Orion said turning to his sister.
"Kitty? You want to unload Kitty on me??" Heaven cried out and covered her mouth instantly feeling awful.
"I know, I know. But where else would she go? I dont even have a house! I live in hotels and up there." Orion pointed to the ceiling but meant with the gods.
"Fine, stop it. Stop pacing. Okay I'll take her I will." Heaven said covering her mouth.
"Good." Orion said smiling as he dissappeared with a soft glow of gold.
"Damn." Heaven hissed as the glow left her sight not even saying goodbye that was just like her stupid brother.
"Listen man! You cant come round here pushing my girl!" Spike said coming into the kitchen and seeing her alone her alone her nodded.
"Sorry." She said, meaning more then one thing.
"Listen," Spike said pulling her into his arms. "Dont you go scaring me like that okay? Dont do it."
"Spike," Heaven said putting her hands on his face. "I have to tell you something."
"Tell me anything." He said seeing the worry on her face.
"Please dont hate me for lying to you." Heaven said.
"I could never hate you." Spike said leaning his head to touch her forehead.
"Hey Heaven! We have to get back to Dawn, she could get scared. You know how sick mom is." Buffy said interupting the two of them.
Heaven nodded as they rest of them left giving various reasons. Xander had to get to Anya and althought Willow was hiding it she really wanted to get back to Tara. Heaven knew the gist of it all and after they were all gone she felt better, alone with Spike.
"Spike," Heaven said looking down at her bloody clothes she knew she was tormenting him but she needed to say it before she lost the nerve. "I'm not normal Spike."
"Yeah and I am." Spike said lighting up as Heaven paced the kitchen.
She left the kitchen without a word and walked up the stairs with him following her. She could tell by the smell of his cigarette and the fact that he hardly cared if the world heard him stomping all over the place.
"Spike," She said taking off her shirt and throwing it into the dirty clothes hamper. "I have a huge secret."
She turned around to face him. He gasped, she had a huge scar on her stomach that he knew hadnt been there before. It was in the shape of a lightening bolt.
"I'm the child of a God Spike. My dad, his real name is Apollo. My mother is a very powerful wiccan woman and well the hit it off got married had some kids and here I am. Immortal and all powerful but I'm so scared! The gods keep punishing us for our sins and they expect me to hold the weight of the world on my shoulders and I'm scared. Im the last good god left on the earth and Im suppose to watch out for this god forsaken place! " Heaven covered her face letting out a huge sob.
"I'm here. I wont let you be scared." Spike said wrapping her up in his arms.
"They took Sam too! I mean they take all half god or full god men at thirty I should have known. Now Kitty is alone and Orion wont take care of her and I have to do the whole mom thing and I've only been alive for like a twenty years I dont know how to be a mom!" Heaven cried harder with Spike holding on to her shaking body.
"Let it out, love." He kissed her forehead while she cried.
"They brand me to remind me where I'm from! Why did my parents do this? Didnt they think about the cost of their children? Out of seven kids they have well five technically. Now what are they going to do to me? What else could they possibly throw at me?" Heaven rambled on.
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"Seriously? This is so cool, isnt it cool Buffy?" Dawn was going on about how cool it was that Kitty was coming to stay with Heaven.
"Very cool. Do your homework Dawn." Buffy took the side of Heavens arm and guided her to where the group was sitting among the piles of books.
"Whats going on?" Heaven asked looking at the serious faces.
"This." Buffy said holding up a glowing ball.
Heaven's eyes blurred slightly as she looked at the ball. She knew what it was but how was she going to explain it? She wasnt going to, she decided only Spike was going to know for now.
"Looks fun." Heaven said sitting on the table and crossing her legs.
"Yeah, bloody fun." Spike said leaning back further into the shadows to escape the shafts of light that came through the windows.
"It bigger then that. Buffy went after some woman who is more then human." Giles said cleaning his glasses.
"She was too blonde, had to be fake." Buffy covered the fact that the woman was all powerful.
"So how did that job thing go?" Xander asked Heaven.
"I got it." Heaven said smiling widely.
"Course you did. You got a slamming body." Spike scoffed.
"Oh Spikey do you have a problem with my new job?" Heaven said making a kissing face but breaking it to laugh.
"I'm sorry if I'm not to keen of having my girl work in a bar." Spike said sulking, he knew he wasnt going to change her mind.
"Spike, you give me some other idea of a job and I will be glad to consider it but it is impossible to try and find a job here." Heaven said sitting in his lap.
"You guys are gross." A voice she knew made her turn to the open door.
Her brother, stood next to her sister who had a small sheepish smile on her face. She was rather tall for her age unlike Heaven but she had long hair like Heavens but lighter like Orion's. She had a small girly back pack thing on her shoulders and Orion held two massive suit cases.
"Well h0w are you two? Look at you Kitty you are SO big!" Heaven said hugging her little sister who at the age of fourteen didnt want to get all lovey.
"Shes packed everything except for the kitchen sink I tell ya." Orion was talking to Heaven but looking at Spike.
"Well, thats good." Heaven said smiling.
"Did you get the job?" Orion asked her quietly.
"I got it." Heaven said rolling her eyes at him.
"Good. I dont know if I want some of these people around Kit." Orion said narrowing his eyes.
"Buh Bye Orion." Heaven said waving to him.
He took one last look at Kitty, gave Heaven a hug and dissappeared in a glow of soft golden light.
"Hi, I'm Dawn." Dawn said smiling at Kitty who smiled back widely.
"I'm Kitty." Kitty replied.
"Kitty, this is the gang." Heaven said grinning.
"Hey, Kitty." Willow said.
"Hi Kitty Im Tara."
"I'm Buffy, Dawns older sister."
"And this is Xander, Anya and Giles." Heaven said as the three of them smiled and waved at her.
"Is he your boyfriend?" Kitty asked motioning to Spike.
"Yeah, you wanna go to the house and put your stuff in your room?" Heaven asked her sister eyeing Spike.
The door opened with a soft tinkling and Heaven stepped infront of Kitty and Dawn protectively.
"I was going to wait till you came to me but I heard that you were planning on staying put so I came to you." Heaven had never seen Glory in Human form.
"Get out of here Glory this isnt your place." Heaven said stepping foreward.
"Arent you scared Heaven? Daddy cant save you now that your down here." Glory taunted her.
"Daddy?" Kitty breathed the words.
"How long has it been since you've seen the all high and mighty? I heard you had contact with him last night. But what do I know? A lot actually." Glory looked like the vixen she had been in her hell dimension, in all red she looked like she could light a fire under anyone.
"Get out of here." Heaven hissed.
"Do your little friends not know? Not even the best friends? Oh but you told the boyfriend." Glory said looking at Spike. "He sure is a fox, in a Billy Idol way."
"Leave Glory I mean it." Heaven narrowed her eyes.
"What are you going to do Heaven? When you got shot down to this hell you got stuck with the same problems that I did, the whole now I dont have my powers thing." Glory flipped her long curly hair.
"I dont have my powers?" Heaven raised her hand and a big book flew at Glory hitting her in the face.
"I didnt come here to fight! But you provoked me!" Glory charged at Heaven.
"As if!" Heaven cried.
Glory sent a swift punch at Heaven but she grabbed her fist and twisted it hard. Heaven kicked her in the stomach forcing her to fly against the door. She grabbed the handle of the door.
"No matter what you do Heaven you cant fight it! That much power at your finger tips? All gods go evil Heaven. Your next." Glory fled the shop and Heaven turned to see the looks on her friends faces.
She grabbed Kitty's suitcases told her to come on and they left the place just as quickly as Glory had.
Now they all knew her secret.