Tonight and the rest of My life
Chapter 14
Heaven stalked through the graveyard. It was late, she was tired and she hadnt hit one vamp since she had been in there. Although Heaven had been stripped of her god powers and abilities she was still left with about fifty percent of the strength making her nearly as strong as Angel still. So she patrolled on Monday's, Wednesdays and Fridays and the gang would take the other days. Angel regularly took the weekends but lately Giles had been keeping him off of patrolling. It had been nearly four months since the death of Buffy but the gang still grieved and Angel grieved the hardest.
"Come on! I have to go to work in," Heaven looked at her watch. "Half an hour."
Heaven turned to see a large newly sired vamp coming her way. She smiled, he still had dirt on him from coming up out of his own grave. He charged at her and she ducked, he flew over her and did a roll on the floor then came back around and punched her in the stomach. She caught his arm-twisted it behind his back grabbed her stake and stabbed him in the heart through his back.
"You sure are getting good at that." Heaven heard Spike coming up from behind her.
"Well what can a girl do? So, report to Giles or someone, I took out a vamp. Now I have to go to work." Heaven said a little firmer then she had planned.
"Why do you work there? If you need money love I can get you money." Spike said following Heaven out of the graveyard.
"It isn't that. Okay well it is that but me and Xander work together on that part. Its just that I have to show Kitty some kind of good behavior, I mean she needs a role model and I tend to have a problem with her choosing to take Xander as her role model over me. And Angel is more of a role model then I am! Whats wrong with me?" Heaven asked somewhat to Spike and somewhat to herself.
"Nothings wrong with you, pet." Spike said taking her hand in his.
"Yeah sure okay. How many girls do you know that can say their sisters spend their free time slaying vampires?" Heaven asked Spike.
"Well how many girls can say that they live with a Nancy Boy like Xander?" Spike hated the fact that Xander had moved in with Heaven and Kitty to help them out.
"You and Angel need to lay off of Xander. He has done a lot for me and Kitty and I couldn't have done it without him, or Anya for that." Heaven pulled her jacket tighter, she was cold even though it was only September.
"Well bloody hell I'm surprised that kid hasn't tried to cop a feel on you." Spike said annoyance written all over his face.
"Let just not talk about ---" Heaven cut off when she saw the flames leaping out of the building infront of her.
"Bugger." Spike said as Heaven pulled her hand from his.
Heaven raced down the rest of the way until the building came into full view. She nearly fainted, it was her bar. The one she worked at nearly every night till 4 in the morning. She heard screaming from inside the building and peeled her jacket off and raced into the building. Flames leapt from the back of the bar where she could see a young man was trapped, the new kid that was coming in today obviously. She jumped on top of the counter and leaned over pulling the kid from behind the counter and hoisting him up on to the counter. She jumped down and shoved him towards the door. He ran out and Heaven heard a whimper from behind a booth table. Flames were blocking her view to what or who was inside the booth so she pulled the back of it off easily. It revealed a young couple probably just nearly 21. She pulled the man out of the booth and told him to run out but the girl was unconscious probably from the smoke. Heaven pulled her up off of the booth and carried her to the door. She was about to come out of the door when a beam broke down and fell infront of them. Heaven waved her hand and it flew to the other side of the room. Thank god for her witch powers. Spike came through the doorway and Heaven handed him the girl then with one more sweep around the room she slipped out herself.
She had never appreciated the cool clean air of Sunnydale till that moment. She looked around and she saw a newswoman with heavily done over make up and too large for her own head hair running towards her and Spike with a cameraman tailing behind her like a lost puppy. Heaven turned to Spike and shook her head heavily. He nodded and took her hand.
"Thank you so much you saved my life!" The boy from behind the bar was saying to Heaven.
He grabbed her arm and pulled her into an embrace that she was very uncomfortable in. That was when she newswoman caught up with her and the fire department showed up.
"Whats your name? Where do you work? How old are you? What were you doing here at this particular time?" The newswoman was asking her.
"Spike!" Heaven cried she could hardly see her eyes were so teary from the smoke.
"No bloody comment!" Spike growled taking Heavens hand and running down the street with her.
They ran for about three blocks then walked the rest of the way home. Xander, Anya, Angel, Willow, Tara, Kitty, and Dawn were standing in the living room looking at the TV when Heaven and Spike came in.
"Hey! Heaven, Spike, you guys are on TV!" Xander said excitedly.
Heaven watched as Spike pulled the girl through the door and Heaven came out coughing and hacking. Then they watched as the guy hugged Heaven and Spike yelled at the camera.
"Twenty one year old Heaven Leigh Gordon originally from San Francisco California risked her life today to save three innocent people that were trapped in a bar that was burning to the ground." The woman was saying.
"How do they know my name?" Heaven cried out. "And how do they know how old I am and where I'm from?"
"They just do. Magic I swear." Xander said his eyes glued to the TV.
"Your middle name is Leigh? How cute! Heaven - Leigh. Its like Heavenly." Tara said with a big smile.
"The boyfriend has yet to be named, but Heaven herself called him Spike. Ms. Gordon had lived in Sunnydale for three years now and attended the old Sunnydale High." The camerawoman went on.
Heaven put her hand to her mouth. They had put her high school yearbook picture up on the screen.
"Bloody hell. Had I known..." Spike teased her about the picture.
Heaven thought she had seen all there was to be seen but then she saw the worst of it. A security camera that faced right at the door and looked into the door got a perfect shot of Heaven moving the beam with the flick of her hand and a small white light coming from her hand when she did it. She sat down on the coffee table behind her because she was sure she was going to have a heart attack.
"Oh my god." Kitty said covering her mouth and sitting down on the sofa next to Anya.
"We are now at the home of Heaven Gordon and Alexander Harris. You are going to get to see Heaven, and hear what she has to say. Live!" The woman actually was on Heavens front porch.
"Oh, oh I think my brain is exploding." Heaven said falling off of the table.
There was a loud knock on the door and Xander got up and opened the door but not the screen door. The heavily makeuped newswoman was smiling broadly looking around.
"And who are you? How well do you know Ms. Gordon?" The woman asked Xander.
"I'm her room mate. I'm only going to say this once, get off my lawn." Xander slammed the door in her face and turned back to the group with a smile.
The lights were all out in the house and the whole place was in a hush but Heaven hardly felt that way. She sat awake in the kitchen with a hot cup of cocoa. She sat staring out of the kitchen window, she felt sick to her stomach. She had put herself and even Xander for that matter under the watchful eye of the media and she had also exploited her abilities.
She heard the faintest clicking of the front door and got out of her chair and pushed the door open slightly. Xander and Anya were coming into the house with Willow and Tara behind them. No wonder Dawn had stayed the night with Kitty.
Heaven pushed the door open and the foursome stopped. Willow had blood on her face and all four of them had some type of bruise or injury.
"What is going on?" Heaven asked putting her hands on her hips.
"Little nightly walk." Xander said smiling.
"Enough Xander. Honestly." Heaven said her voice rising slightly she didn't want to wake Spike, Kitty or Dawn.
"They were trying to resurrect Buffy." Anya said then covered her mouth with her hands.
"WHAT?" Heaven screamed.
"Shhhh!" Xander said looking up the stairs.
"Don't shush me Xander Harris I will kick your ass." Heaven hissed.
"Don't wake up Kitty and Dawn." Willow said putting her finger over her lips.
"Do you understand the seriousness of your actions?" Heaven wasn't getting quieter.
"Okay Giles." Xander rolled his eyes.
"Your lucky Giles isn't here!" Heaven barked.
"It doesn't even matter. We didn't get to finish, some demons came and wrecked it." Willow said sadly.
"Well, good." Heaven said turning sharply as a rock flew through her window.
The sound of loud engines roared through the streets. Heaven looked out the window to see demons on motor cycles and some off their motorcycles that were terrorizing the people across the street. Thank god no one was at Buffys house. The front door banged open and a biker demon charged into the house. Heaven jumped up kicking the demon in the face then spun around and kicked it in the side of the head again with the side of her foot. She pushed the demon out of her front door and slammed it.
"Holy crap. Get upstairs. Now run!" Heaven growled locking the door and running up the stairs behind the others.
"What do we do?" Willow asked as Heaven ran down the hall and stripped off her pajamas in the closet.
Spike sat upright when he heard a scream from Kitty's room. He jumped out of bed and yanked his pants on while Xander ran down the hall. Heaven pulled her black sweater on completely and buttoned her black leather pants then slipped on her sneakers in record time. She ran down the hall to see Angel, Xander and Spike wrestling with a big demon that must have come through the back.
Heaven shoved the demon down the stairs. It fell with a sickening crack and didn't move after that.
"Xander, Kitty and Dawn downstairs to the cellar. Get them down there safely. Give them big fighting weapons too. Angel, down the right side of the street. Wil, Tara and Anya I need you down there with Dawn and Kitty to protect them. Spike and Xander I need you to go down to the Magic Box and get me these. Wil I need you to be ready when they get back to make a potion. When they get back then you do me a favor and cut off a piece of that freaks skin and bring the whole thing to a boil drop in the skin it will bang really loud." Heaven said handing Xander a piece of paper she had ripped out a book.
Heaven and Angel went out of the front door and Xander and Spike out the back. Willow took the group down into the cellar and locked it.
Heaven saw the damage and nearly cried. She followed Angel down the walk then they split she took one side of the street and he took the other. Heaven punched and froze and made many of them fly. She hadn't realized how far she was till she was pinned in an alley by seven fierce large demonic bikers.
"Uh." She heard a very familiar grunting as one of the demons went down.
"Buffy?"
Chapter 14
Heaven stalked through the graveyard. It was late, she was tired and she hadnt hit one vamp since she had been in there. Although Heaven had been stripped of her god powers and abilities she was still left with about fifty percent of the strength making her nearly as strong as Angel still. So she patrolled on Monday's, Wednesdays and Fridays and the gang would take the other days. Angel regularly took the weekends but lately Giles had been keeping him off of patrolling. It had been nearly four months since the death of Buffy but the gang still grieved and Angel grieved the hardest.
"Come on! I have to go to work in," Heaven looked at her watch. "Half an hour."
Heaven turned to see a large newly sired vamp coming her way. She smiled, he still had dirt on him from coming up out of his own grave. He charged at her and she ducked, he flew over her and did a roll on the floor then came back around and punched her in the stomach. She caught his arm-twisted it behind his back grabbed her stake and stabbed him in the heart through his back.
"You sure are getting good at that." Heaven heard Spike coming up from behind her.
"Well what can a girl do? So, report to Giles or someone, I took out a vamp. Now I have to go to work." Heaven said a little firmer then she had planned.
"Why do you work there? If you need money love I can get you money." Spike said following Heaven out of the graveyard.
"It isn't that. Okay well it is that but me and Xander work together on that part. Its just that I have to show Kitty some kind of good behavior, I mean she needs a role model and I tend to have a problem with her choosing to take Xander as her role model over me. And Angel is more of a role model then I am! Whats wrong with me?" Heaven asked somewhat to Spike and somewhat to herself.
"Nothings wrong with you, pet." Spike said taking her hand in his.
"Yeah sure okay. How many girls do you know that can say their sisters spend their free time slaying vampires?" Heaven asked Spike.
"Well how many girls can say that they live with a Nancy Boy like Xander?" Spike hated the fact that Xander had moved in with Heaven and Kitty to help them out.
"You and Angel need to lay off of Xander. He has done a lot for me and Kitty and I couldn't have done it without him, or Anya for that." Heaven pulled her jacket tighter, she was cold even though it was only September.
"Well bloody hell I'm surprised that kid hasn't tried to cop a feel on you." Spike said annoyance written all over his face.
"Let just not talk about ---" Heaven cut off when she saw the flames leaping out of the building infront of her.
"Bugger." Spike said as Heaven pulled her hand from his.
Heaven raced down the rest of the way until the building came into full view. She nearly fainted, it was her bar. The one she worked at nearly every night till 4 in the morning. She heard screaming from inside the building and peeled her jacket off and raced into the building. Flames leapt from the back of the bar where she could see a young man was trapped, the new kid that was coming in today obviously. She jumped on top of the counter and leaned over pulling the kid from behind the counter and hoisting him up on to the counter. She jumped down and shoved him towards the door. He ran out and Heaven heard a whimper from behind a booth table. Flames were blocking her view to what or who was inside the booth so she pulled the back of it off easily. It revealed a young couple probably just nearly 21. She pulled the man out of the booth and told him to run out but the girl was unconscious probably from the smoke. Heaven pulled her up off of the booth and carried her to the door. She was about to come out of the door when a beam broke down and fell infront of them. Heaven waved her hand and it flew to the other side of the room. Thank god for her witch powers. Spike came through the doorway and Heaven handed him the girl then with one more sweep around the room she slipped out herself.
She had never appreciated the cool clean air of Sunnydale till that moment. She looked around and she saw a newswoman with heavily done over make up and too large for her own head hair running towards her and Spike with a cameraman tailing behind her like a lost puppy. Heaven turned to Spike and shook her head heavily. He nodded and took her hand.
"Thank you so much you saved my life!" The boy from behind the bar was saying to Heaven.
He grabbed her arm and pulled her into an embrace that she was very uncomfortable in. That was when she newswoman caught up with her and the fire department showed up.
"Whats your name? Where do you work? How old are you? What were you doing here at this particular time?" The newswoman was asking her.
"Spike!" Heaven cried she could hardly see her eyes were so teary from the smoke.
"No bloody comment!" Spike growled taking Heavens hand and running down the street with her.
They ran for about three blocks then walked the rest of the way home. Xander, Anya, Angel, Willow, Tara, Kitty, and Dawn were standing in the living room looking at the TV when Heaven and Spike came in.
"Hey! Heaven, Spike, you guys are on TV!" Xander said excitedly.
Heaven watched as Spike pulled the girl through the door and Heaven came out coughing and hacking. Then they watched as the guy hugged Heaven and Spike yelled at the camera.
"Twenty one year old Heaven Leigh Gordon originally from San Francisco California risked her life today to save three innocent people that were trapped in a bar that was burning to the ground." The woman was saying.
"How do they know my name?" Heaven cried out. "And how do they know how old I am and where I'm from?"
"They just do. Magic I swear." Xander said his eyes glued to the TV.
"Your middle name is Leigh? How cute! Heaven - Leigh. Its like Heavenly." Tara said with a big smile.
"The boyfriend has yet to be named, but Heaven herself called him Spike. Ms. Gordon had lived in Sunnydale for three years now and attended the old Sunnydale High." The camerawoman went on.
Heaven put her hand to her mouth. They had put her high school yearbook picture up on the screen.
"Bloody hell. Had I known..." Spike teased her about the picture.
Heaven thought she had seen all there was to be seen but then she saw the worst of it. A security camera that faced right at the door and looked into the door got a perfect shot of Heaven moving the beam with the flick of her hand and a small white light coming from her hand when she did it. She sat down on the coffee table behind her because she was sure she was going to have a heart attack.
"Oh my god." Kitty said covering her mouth and sitting down on the sofa next to Anya.
"We are now at the home of Heaven Gordon and Alexander Harris. You are going to get to see Heaven, and hear what she has to say. Live!" The woman actually was on Heavens front porch.
"Oh, oh I think my brain is exploding." Heaven said falling off of the table.
There was a loud knock on the door and Xander got up and opened the door but not the screen door. The heavily makeuped newswoman was smiling broadly looking around.
"And who are you? How well do you know Ms. Gordon?" The woman asked Xander.
"I'm her room mate. I'm only going to say this once, get off my lawn." Xander slammed the door in her face and turned back to the group with a smile.
The lights were all out in the house and the whole place was in a hush but Heaven hardly felt that way. She sat awake in the kitchen with a hot cup of cocoa. She sat staring out of the kitchen window, she felt sick to her stomach. She had put herself and even Xander for that matter under the watchful eye of the media and she had also exploited her abilities.
She heard the faintest clicking of the front door and got out of her chair and pushed the door open slightly. Xander and Anya were coming into the house with Willow and Tara behind them. No wonder Dawn had stayed the night with Kitty.
Heaven pushed the door open and the foursome stopped. Willow had blood on her face and all four of them had some type of bruise or injury.
"What is going on?" Heaven asked putting her hands on her hips.
"Little nightly walk." Xander said smiling.
"Enough Xander. Honestly." Heaven said her voice rising slightly she didn't want to wake Spike, Kitty or Dawn.
"They were trying to resurrect Buffy." Anya said then covered her mouth with her hands.
"WHAT?" Heaven screamed.
"Shhhh!" Xander said looking up the stairs.
"Don't shush me Xander Harris I will kick your ass." Heaven hissed.
"Don't wake up Kitty and Dawn." Willow said putting her finger over her lips.
"Do you understand the seriousness of your actions?" Heaven wasn't getting quieter.
"Okay Giles." Xander rolled his eyes.
"Your lucky Giles isn't here!" Heaven barked.
"It doesn't even matter. We didn't get to finish, some demons came and wrecked it." Willow said sadly.
"Well, good." Heaven said turning sharply as a rock flew through her window.
The sound of loud engines roared through the streets. Heaven looked out the window to see demons on motor cycles and some off their motorcycles that were terrorizing the people across the street. Thank god no one was at Buffys house. The front door banged open and a biker demon charged into the house. Heaven jumped up kicking the demon in the face then spun around and kicked it in the side of the head again with the side of her foot. She pushed the demon out of her front door and slammed it.
"Holy crap. Get upstairs. Now run!" Heaven growled locking the door and running up the stairs behind the others.
"What do we do?" Willow asked as Heaven ran down the hall and stripped off her pajamas in the closet.
Spike sat upright when he heard a scream from Kitty's room. He jumped out of bed and yanked his pants on while Xander ran down the hall. Heaven pulled her black sweater on completely and buttoned her black leather pants then slipped on her sneakers in record time. She ran down the hall to see Angel, Xander and Spike wrestling with a big demon that must have come through the back.
Heaven shoved the demon down the stairs. It fell with a sickening crack and didn't move after that.
"Xander, Kitty and Dawn downstairs to the cellar. Get them down there safely. Give them big fighting weapons too. Angel, down the right side of the street. Wil, Tara and Anya I need you down there with Dawn and Kitty to protect them. Spike and Xander I need you to go down to the Magic Box and get me these. Wil I need you to be ready when they get back to make a potion. When they get back then you do me a favor and cut off a piece of that freaks skin and bring the whole thing to a boil drop in the skin it will bang really loud." Heaven said handing Xander a piece of paper she had ripped out a book.
Heaven and Angel went out of the front door and Xander and Spike out the back. Willow took the group down into the cellar and locked it.
Heaven saw the damage and nearly cried. She followed Angel down the walk then they split she took one side of the street and he took the other. Heaven punched and froze and made many of them fly. She hadn't realized how far she was till she was pinned in an alley by seven fierce large demonic bikers.
"Uh." She heard a very familiar grunting as one of the demons went down.
"Buffy?"