Tonight and the rest of my life
Chapter 17
Heaven walked in the graveyard holding her stake in her right hand and hitting the end of it against her left hand. She was bored and tired of walking around in the graveyard. She hadn't seen any action all night it was getting old. She began to whistle the Jon Bon Jovi song Living on a Prayer.
"Ohh... were half way there... Ohh living on a prayer." She sang under her breath.
Heavens spider senses tingled. She ducked as a huge piece of concrete flew over her head silently. She turned to see a vampire behind her. He was definitely not a newbie unless he really liked the eighties. He plunged at her and with a smile she side stepped him then let the stake she held in her hand drive into his heart.
She was about to turn to leave when she saw something she hadn't seen in a very long time. Heaven stopped and stared flat out her eyes nearly bulging out of her head. There were four of them, all completely white from head to toe although their hair was missing. The split down the middle of their chins made Heaven positive she knew was they were.
"Heaven..." One of them hissed exposing a long forked tongue.
"Your not here." Heaven turned to run but another one of them cut her off.
She screamed as one of them grabbed her, it unhinged its jaw and the split in its chin became more pronounced when it split open and produced a mass of pointy teeth. She screamed again.
Heaven opened her eyes, she was in the Magic Box with her face in a stuffy old book that smelled like mothballs and old cheese.
"Hey, you okay?" Xander asked putting his hand on her back.
"I'm fine. Where is everyone?" Heaven asked looking around the room.
"They all left. I thought I would wait till you woke up and we could be alone." Xander said staring deep into her eyes.
Xander embraced her and they kissed passionately. Xander pushed all of the books off of the table and they kissed passionately more and more.
Heaven shot out of the dream with a jolt. She sat up in her bed, Spike was sleeping peacefully and the whole house was in a hush. She made a face at her image in the mirror next to the lump in her bed. She smoothed her hair down and pushed the sheets back. She padded down the hallway to the kitchen, she sat at the table and stared out of the window.
"Do you feel it?" She heard behind her.
"I do. What is it?" She said to Angel who was standing behind her.
"I don't know what it is." Angel said sitting at the table next to her. "You do."
They stared out the window into the lawn that was partially illuminated by the yellow street lamp that buzzed with mosquitoes. The sun was coming up minutes later and Angel was leaving the room. She was confused about what she had dreamed. Her dreams came true too often but she was safe until she had a premonition.
She went to the counter and turned the coffee maker on and began to boil water for Giles morning tea. He would be there any minute, they were suppose to go to his new apartment to paint today and Heaven was looking forward to a little normality.
"Good morning." Heaven said as the back door open and Giles came in.
"You are awake early today." Giles said his concern written on his face.
"I had a weird dream." Heaven said thinking her dream over.
"What kind of dream?" Giles said grabbing a teabag from the pitcher near the window.
"Well, scary slash... even scarier." Heaven said pouring the hot water into his cup.
"What happened in your dream?" Giles asked sitting down at the bar infront of her while she began to make breakfast.
"Well, these things I guess you would call them demons came and attacked me. Weirdest thing thought is that I knew them from somewhere. I just don't know where but I knew that it was smart to fear them. They had no hair, so extremely pale, a forked tongue and this weird split in their chins that when they unhinged their jaws to feed I guess it would open up with a lot of teeth." Heaven said getting a chill just thinking about it.
"Strange, I've never heard of them." Giles said sipping his coffee.
"I had a feeling," Heaven cracked two more eggs into her bowl of four already. "They were some strange hybrid of vampires."
"What was the other part?" Giles asked.
"That's the real scary part," Heaven smiled sheepishly. "I dreamt me and Xander..."
"Oh. Say no more." Giles said making a face. "Please."
Heaven smiled as she made scrambled eggs. She knew when she started the bacon that she would be bringing customers. Willow was the first one to come in, she smiled warmly at them. She ran flat into a chair knocking it over. It fell to the ground with a thud. Willow smiled and waved her hand, the chair went back up right in seconds.
"Wil, I don't think you needed magic for that." Heaven said as Willow made her plate.
Willow shook her head and scooped eggs onto her plate. Giles and Heaven exchanged a glance both thinking the same thing. Willow was abusing her magic.
"So!" Heaven said when everyone was awake and around the table. "Who's painting today?"
Everyone except for Anya raised their hands. Heaven smiled and Giles had to laugh.
Heaven dipped her long rolling sponge thing as Buffy waved her hands in the air dancing around in a circle to the CD that Xander had brought. Anya was sitting on Giles new sofa with a book in her hand and every now and then looking at the paint and telling them where they had missed a spot. Heaven rolled the sponge back onto the wall as Buffy began to sing along with the CD. Xander burst out laughing and the two of them began to dance insanely together.
"You two are nuts." Dawn said laughing.
Heaven looked back at the wall but in a moment she had fallen on the ground and she was stiff on the floor in a catatonic state. Images flashed before her eyes. Dawn cried and ran, Buffy screamed and ran as well. Willow was yelling words at demons but nothing was happening. The demons from Heavens dream looked straight at her. They knew she could see things. A kiss between her and Xander flashed infront of her eyes and she gasped for air as she was pulled out of the vision.
"Heaven!" She heard Buffy yelling into her face.
"LOUD." Heaven yelled back sitting up.
"What did you see?" Giles asked her as the others looked at him like he was insane.
"They know, they know I can see them whenever I want. They looked at me. Saw me right there infront of my eyes. They are also either immune to magic or Willow abused hers because she tried to use magic against them and nothing happened." Heaven left out the last part it didn't seem to make any sense with the rest of it all.
"They know you can see?" Giles asked her pulling her to her feet.
"Yeah at least that's what it looked like." Heaven said pushing back her hair.
"Who were they?" Anya asked from the sofa.
"The ones from my dream Giles. Now it's a premonition." Heaven said looking at Giles.
"We need to find out what these things are." Buffy said looking at Heaven.
"I think I need to make a phone call." Heaven said leaving the room and walking outside.
Heaven pulled her cell phone out of her pocket and scrolled down the phone book. Shane, she just prayed he was home.
"Who ya calling?" She heard behind her.
She spun around to face the tall broad shouldered man in black. He had a jagged scar across his face but beside that he was incredibly handsome. She knew his apparel well, his black pants and black shirt covered by the black leather jacket he wore. The two large bumps that stuck out behind his head but still under his jacket were two long machete's the sides that should have bulged under his jacket was where he kept his large machine guns loaded with actual wooden bullets that he drenched in holy water.
She smiled, words went unspoken between the two. They were long time friends and at one point partners in the fight against evil. She knew she had been with him when she encountered these demonic creatures.
"How are you?" He asked.
"I have definitely been better." She said smiling.
"What brings you here?" She asked him.
"You do." He replied a cool look on his face.
"How do you know these things before I do?" Heaven asked stepping off of the curb into the sunlight.
"They came here. Thought it had to do with you so I tracked them." Shane said crossing his arms infront of his chest.
"What are they?" Heaven asked as they walked p the sidewalk leading to Giles new apartment.
"A special breed of vampires from Africa. They travel to certain places for certain purposes, they feed once every month and they have a feast. They travel in packs to extinguish a group of people. Or just a certain person." Shane said as they stood infront of the door to the apartment.
The door opened and Giles stood staring at Shane as if he had seen a ghost. Buffy brushed past him but she stopped in her tracks as well.
"Is that..." Giles cut off still staring.
"I thought he was a myth." Buffy whispered.
"Shane, this is the slayer Buffy and her watcher Giles." Heaven said with a smile.
"Are you really him?" Buffy asked incredulously.
"Am I the day walker?" Shane asked her with a smile.
"Yes, are you?" Giles asked.
"You tell me." He said taking off his sunglasses, his solid white eyeballs told them who he was.
"I can't believe it." Giles said looking at him as he put them back on.
Shane was special. In the fact that he was a vampire that freely walked during the day and not only did he have a soul but he had a will to put away evil. He was sired as a young child, not just a young child but still in the womb. His mother was sired while she was pregnant with him and he was born half human and half vampire. It was a strange combination that was rare in the fact that it was highly dangerous. Because they were humans with all of the strengths of a vampire and few weaknesses. They also had a soul and they had vengeance for the loss of their life before it could even had started.
Buffy and Giles welcomed Shane into Giles home with too much pleasure. He walked into the house examining it from every angle like he had done his entire life.
"How do you know each other?" Buffy asked sitting on the back of the sofa.
"Well," Shane said looking at Heaven. "I met her in San Francisco. I worked for her brother for a while until he closed down shop. I needed a new partner and we kept the havoc down in San Francisco for some time. Then she moved here to aid the slayer, is she doing that?"
"Oh yes she is. We all are." Anya said smiling at him.
"I wanted to extended my condolences about Kit. She was special." Shane said softly.
"Thanks." Heaven said shortly, sore subject.
"So what brings you to Sunnydale?" Xander asked eyeing Heaven.
"Well some extraordinary vampires are after this little area and they have seemed to target you all." Shane said crossing his arms again.
"The ones from your vision?" Giles asked Heaven.
"One in the same." Heaven nodded.
"Heaven, I have things to take care of can we pick this back up at nightfall? There isn't a lot that we can do right now." Shane said opening the door and leaving before anyone could say anything.
"We need to get down to the Magic Box. We have to check out these vampires." Giles said looking back at the group.
"Highly brilliant and well trained. The Beloc Vampires are slaves to the leader of their tribe. When the leader sends a pack on a mission they do not fail or they are killed for penance. Their missions mainly focus around a group of people or one person who must be destroyed or their power will be to great. The work only for the dark." Giles read aloud from a book with the picture of the monsters on the page.
"So that means us?" Anya said from behind the counter.
"Or possibly just Buffy and Heaven. Or one of them." Giles said looking at the two girls who sat next to each other looking at a book.
"It's says here that they can see future events. They are destined to stop things before they even get started." Giles read her furrowed his brow.
"So it can't be something that we know about." Xander said.
The bell above the door jingled. Angel and Spike came in, they hadn't even realized that the sun had gone down. Heavens head was spinning as Spike sat down next to her and looked at the book she was looking at. Angel gave Buffy a kiss and a big smile.
"Giles can I speak to you alone for a second?" Heaven asked Giles.
He nodded probably aware at what she was talking about. They went back into the training room. He shook his head.
"The reason that the... thing came after the vision is because they are going to try to stop it before it happens." Heaven said looking at Giles. "How can we handle this without saying anything?"
"We can't Heaven. There is no way that we can handle this without saying something." Giles said shaking his head.
"Bugger!" She heard Spike yell as a gunshot was fired.
"No!" Heaven yelled running into the store.
Shane stood at the door with one of his guns in his hand and Spike knelt behind the counter at Anya's feet.
"Shane what is wrong with you? Remember ask questions first, shoot later." Heaven said going behind the counter and kneeling down where Spike was.
"Thought it was the other way around." Shane said his grotesque vampire face fading away.
"Shane don't shoot at my boyfriend. Or at Angel, even if they are vampires." Heaven said standing up with Spike behind her.
"Do you always befriend vampires?" Shane said coming down the few steps into the main area.
"I tend to don't I?" Heaven said looking back at Spike who had regained his composer and now he was all puffed up as if he had to look bigger then he was.
"This guy is your boyfriend?" Shane said with a half smile.
"Yes he is. So don't shoot at him, or at Angel. Angel has a soul too." Heaven said nodding to Angel.
"And him? What does he have?" Shane said protectively.
"Me." Heaven answered giving him the eye. "Business, Shane."
"Yeah well these guys are on their way here now and I'm telling you now to get these people out of here." Shane said looking at everyone but Heaven.
"What? What if its after all of us? Then we don't have Heaven?" Willow said standing up.
"It's not after you. It's after Heaven and possibly Buffy. But if you give it Heaven it will leave the rest of you alone." Shane said flatly.
"Give me them? What are you talking about?" Heaven asked her friend.
"Distract them Heaven. Stay here, let them run for their lives. You and I can fight to the death here." Shane said looking at his old partner.
"No way." Angel said standing up so quickly he knocked over his chair. "There is no way I can run from these things when I know that Heaven is here killing herself."
"Me neither. I wont let her stay here to fight alone." Spike said seriously.
"Shes part of us and we wont let her fight alone." Buffy said standing next to Angel.
"Their right. This is one for all, all for one." Xander said looking at Giles.
"The you will all die." Shane said shaking his head. "You can't fight these things, they will kill all of you before you can blink."
"Then why did you come?" Heaven asked him.
"Because I couldn't stand back there in San Francisco when I knew they were here for you." Shane said hotly.
"Well Shane," Tara said walking up to Heaven and putting her arm on her shoulder. "This is a family and you don't walk out on your family. No matter what the circumstances."
"Listen guys. I love you all but maybe Shane is right." Heaven said hating herself for what she was saying.
"This isn't time to be buddy bad ass Heaven." Spike growled.
"This also isn't the time to be stupid, Spike." Heaven said looking around the room.
"I have to stay with you." Buffy said shaking her head.
"No, it they take me they wont come after you. Unless you're here, you have to trust me on this one Buffy. We can't afford to lose you." Heaven said with a firm glare.
"I can't leave you here to die Heaven." Spike said putting his arms firmly on her shoulders.
"You're not leaving me to die. So GO. If you want to stay here and make me worry about you getting killed then you can do that but you just might end up killing me." Heaven knew she was playing the guilt card but it was necessary.
Reluctantly they cleared out of the Magic Box. Shane and Heaven spent their next fifteen minutes before this battle packing up and getting their weapons together. Heaven felt a cool rush as the door to the Magic Box flew open. She smiled to herself.
"Show time."
Chapter 17
Heaven walked in the graveyard holding her stake in her right hand and hitting the end of it against her left hand. She was bored and tired of walking around in the graveyard. She hadn't seen any action all night it was getting old. She began to whistle the Jon Bon Jovi song Living on a Prayer.
"Ohh... were half way there... Ohh living on a prayer." She sang under her breath.
Heavens spider senses tingled. She ducked as a huge piece of concrete flew over her head silently. She turned to see a vampire behind her. He was definitely not a newbie unless he really liked the eighties. He plunged at her and with a smile she side stepped him then let the stake she held in her hand drive into his heart.
She was about to turn to leave when she saw something she hadn't seen in a very long time. Heaven stopped and stared flat out her eyes nearly bulging out of her head. There were four of them, all completely white from head to toe although their hair was missing. The split down the middle of their chins made Heaven positive she knew was they were.
"Heaven..." One of them hissed exposing a long forked tongue.
"Your not here." Heaven turned to run but another one of them cut her off.
She screamed as one of them grabbed her, it unhinged its jaw and the split in its chin became more pronounced when it split open and produced a mass of pointy teeth. She screamed again.
Heaven opened her eyes, she was in the Magic Box with her face in a stuffy old book that smelled like mothballs and old cheese.
"Hey, you okay?" Xander asked putting his hand on her back.
"I'm fine. Where is everyone?" Heaven asked looking around the room.
"They all left. I thought I would wait till you woke up and we could be alone." Xander said staring deep into her eyes.
Xander embraced her and they kissed passionately. Xander pushed all of the books off of the table and they kissed passionately more and more.
Heaven shot out of the dream with a jolt. She sat up in her bed, Spike was sleeping peacefully and the whole house was in a hush. She made a face at her image in the mirror next to the lump in her bed. She smoothed her hair down and pushed the sheets back. She padded down the hallway to the kitchen, she sat at the table and stared out of the window.
"Do you feel it?" She heard behind her.
"I do. What is it?" She said to Angel who was standing behind her.
"I don't know what it is." Angel said sitting at the table next to her. "You do."
They stared out the window into the lawn that was partially illuminated by the yellow street lamp that buzzed with mosquitoes. The sun was coming up minutes later and Angel was leaving the room. She was confused about what she had dreamed. Her dreams came true too often but she was safe until she had a premonition.
She went to the counter and turned the coffee maker on and began to boil water for Giles morning tea. He would be there any minute, they were suppose to go to his new apartment to paint today and Heaven was looking forward to a little normality.
"Good morning." Heaven said as the back door open and Giles came in.
"You are awake early today." Giles said his concern written on his face.
"I had a weird dream." Heaven said thinking her dream over.
"What kind of dream?" Giles said grabbing a teabag from the pitcher near the window.
"Well, scary slash... even scarier." Heaven said pouring the hot water into his cup.
"What happened in your dream?" Giles asked sitting down at the bar infront of her while she began to make breakfast.
"Well, these things I guess you would call them demons came and attacked me. Weirdest thing thought is that I knew them from somewhere. I just don't know where but I knew that it was smart to fear them. They had no hair, so extremely pale, a forked tongue and this weird split in their chins that when they unhinged their jaws to feed I guess it would open up with a lot of teeth." Heaven said getting a chill just thinking about it.
"Strange, I've never heard of them." Giles said sipping his coffee.
"I had a feeling," Heaven cracked two more eggs into her bowl of four already. "They were some strange hybrid of vampires."
"What was the other part?" Giles asked.
"That's the real scary part," Heaven smiled sheepishly. "I dreamt me and Xander..."
"Oh. Say no more." Giles said making a face. "Please."
Heaven smiled as she made scrambled eggs. She knew when she started the bacon that she would be bringing customers. Willow was the first one to come in, she smiled warmly at them. She ran flat into a chair knocking it over. It fell to the ground with a thud. Willow smiled and waved her hand, the chair went back up right in seconds.
"Wil, I don't think you needed magic for that." Heaven said as Willow made her plate.
Willow shook her head and scooped eggs onto her plate. Giles and Heaven exchanged a glance both thinking the same thing. Willow was abusing her magic.
"So!" Heaven said when everyone was awake and around the table. "Who's painting today?"
Everyone except for Anya raised their hands. Heaven smiled and Giles had to laugh.
Heaven dipped her long rolling sponge thing as Buffy waved her hands in the air dancing around in a circle to the CD that Xander had brought. Anya was sitting on Giles new sofa with a book in her hand and every now and then looking at the paint and telling them where they had missed a spot. Heaven rolled the sponge back onto the wall as Buffy began to sing along with the CD. Xander burst out laughing and the two of them began to dance insanely together.
"You two are nuts." Dawn said laughing.
Heaven looked back at the wall but in a moment she had fallen on the ground and she was stiff on the floor in a catatonic state. Images flashed before her eyes. Dawn cried and ran, Buffy screamed and ran as well. Willow was yelling words at demons but nothing was happening. The demons from Heavens dream looked straight at her. They knew she could see things. A kiss between her and Xander flashed infront of her eyes and she gasped for air as she was pulled out of the vision.
"Heaven!" She heard Buffy yelling into her face.
"LOUD." Heaven yelled back sitting up.
"What did you see?" Giles asked her as the others looked at him like he was insane.
"They know, they know I can see them whenever I want. They looked at me. Saw me right there infront of my eyes. They are also either immune to magic or Willow abused hers because she tried to use magic against them and nothing happened." Heaven left out the last part it didn't seem to make any sense with the rest of it all.
"They know you can see?" Giles asked her pulling her to her feet.
"Yeah at least that's what it looked like." Heaven said pushing back her hair.
"Who were they?" Anya asked from the sofa.
"The ones from my dream Giles. Now it's a premonition." Heaven said looking at Giles.
"We need to find out what these things are." Buffy said looking at Heaven.
"I think I need to make a phone call." Heaven said leaving the room and walking outside.
Heaven pulled her cell phone out of her pocket and scrolled down the phone book. Shane, she just prayed he was home.
"Who ya calling?" She heard behind her.
She spun around to face the tall broad shouldered man in black. He had a jagged scar across his face but beside that he was incredibly handsome. She knew his apparel well, his black pants and black shirt covered by the black leather jacket he wore. The two large bumps that stuck out behind his head but still under his jacket were two long machete's the sides that should have bulged under his jacket was where he kept his large machine guns loaded with actual wooden bullets that he drenched in holy water.
She smiled, words went unspoken between the two. They were long time friends and at one point partners in the fight against evil. She knew she had been with him when she encountered these demonic creatures.
"How are you?" He asked.
"I have definitely been better." She said smiling.
"What brings you here?" She asked him.
"You do." He replied a cool look on his face.
"How do you know these things before I do?" Heaven asked stepping off of the curb into the sunlight.
"They came here. Thought it had to do with you so I tracked them." Shane said crossing his arms infront of his chest.
"What are they?" Heaven asked as they walked p the sidewalk leading to Giles new apartment.
"A special breed of vampires from Africa. They travel to certain places for certain purposes, they feed once every month and they have a feast. They travel in packs to extinguish a group of people. Or just a certain person." Shane said as they stood infront of the door to the apartment.
The door opened and Giles stood staring at Shane as if he had seen a ghost. Buffy brushed past him but she stopped in her tracks as well.
"Is that..." Giles cut off still staring.
"I thought he was a myth." Buffy whispered.
"Shane, this is the slayer Buffy and her watcher Giles." Heaven said with a smile.
"Are you really him?" Buffy asked incredulously.
"Am I the day walker?" Shane asked her with a smile.
"Yes, are you?" Giles asked.
"You tell me." He said taking off his sunglasses, his solid white eyeballs told them who he was.
"I can't believe it." Giles said looking at him as he put them back on.
Shane was special. In the fact that he was a vampire that freely walked during the day and not only did he have a soul but he had a will to put away evil. He was sired as a young child, not just a young child but still in the womb. His mother was sired while she was pregnant with him and he was born half human and half vampire. It was a strange combination that was rare in the fact that it was highly dangerous. Because they were humans with all of the strengths of a vampire and few weaknesses. They also had a soul and they had vengeance for the loss of their life before it could even had started.
Buffy and Giles welcomed Shane into Giles home with too much pleasure. He walked into the house examining it from every angle like he had done his entire life.
"How do you know each other?" Buffy asked sitting on the back of the sofa.
"Well," Shane said looking at Heaven. "I met her in San Francisco. I worked for her brother for a while until he closed down shop. I needed a new partner and we kept the havoc down in San Francisco for some time. Then she moved here to aid the slayer, is she doing that?"
"Oh yes she is. We all are." Anya said smiling at him.
"I wanted to extended my condolences about Kit. She was special." Shane said softly.
"Thanks." Heaven said shortly, sore subject.
"So what brings you to Sunnydale?" Xander asked eyeing Heaven.
"Well some extraordinary vampires are after this little area and they have seemed to target you all." Shane said crossing his arms again.
"The ones from your vision?" Giles asked Heaven.
"One in the same." Heaven nodded.
"Heaven, I have things to take care of can we pick this back up at nightfall? There isn't a lot that we can do right now." Shane said opening the door and leaving before anyone could say anything.
"We need to get down to the Magic Box. We have to check out these vampires." Giles said looking back at the group.
"Highly brilliant and well trained. The Beloc Vampires are slaves to the leader of their tribe. When the leader sends a pack on a mission they do not fail or they are killed for penance. Their missions mainly focus around a group of people or one person who must be destroyed or their power will be to great. The work only for the dark." Giles read aloud from a book with the picture of the monsters on the page.
"So that means us?" Anya said from behind the counter.
"Or possibly just Buffy and Heaven. Or one of them." Giles said looking at the two girls who sat next to each other looking at a book.
"It's says here that they can see future events. They are destined to stop things before they even get started." Giles read her furrowed his brow.
"So it can't be something that we know about." Xander said.
The bell above the door jingled. Angel and Spike came in, they hadn't even realized that the sun had gone down. Heavens head was spinning as Spike sat down next to her and looked at the book she was looking at. Angel gave Buffy a kiss and a big smile.
"Giles can I speak to you alone for a second?" Heaven asked Giles.
He nodded probably aware at what she was talking about. They went back into the training room. He shook his head.
"The reason that the... thing came after the vision is because they are going to try to stop it before it happens." Heaven said looking at Giles. "How can we handle this without saying anything?"
"We can't Heaven. There is no way that we can handle this without saying something." Giles said shaking his head.
"Bugger!" She heard Spike yell as a gunshot was fired.
"No!" Heaven yelled running into the store.
Shane stood at the door with one of his guns in his hand and Spike knelt behind the counter at Anya's feet.
"Shane what is wrong with you? Remember ask questions first, shoot later." Heaven said going behind the counter and kneeling down where Spike was.
"Thought it was the other way around." Shane said his grotesque vampire face fading away.
"Shane don't shoot at my boyfriend. Or at Angel, even if they are vampires." Heaven said standing up with Spike behind her.
"Do you always befriend vampires?" Shane said coming down the few steps into the main area.
"I tend to don't I?" Heaven said looking back at Spike who had regained his composer and now he was all puffed up as if he had to look bigger then he was.
"This guy is your boyfriend?" Shane said with a half smile.
"Yes he is. So don't shoot at him, or at Angel. Angel has a soul too." Heaven said nodding to Angel.
"And him? What does he have?" Shane said protectively.
"Me." Heaven answered giving him the eye. "Business, Shane."
"Yeah well these guys are on their way here now and I'm telling you now to get these people out of here." Shane said looking at everyone but Heaven.
"What? What if its after all of us? Then we don't have Heaven?" Willow said standing up.
"It's not after you. It's after Heaven and possibly Buffy. But if you give it Heaven it will leave the rest of you alone." Shane said flatly.
"Give me them? What are you talking about?" Heaven asked her friend.
"Distract them Heaven. Stay here, let them run for their lives. You and I can fight to the death here." Shane said looking at his old partner.
"No way." Angel said standing up so quickly he knocked over his chair. "There is no way I can run from these things when I know that Heaven is here killing herself."
"Me neither. I wont let her stay here to fight alone." Spike said seriously.
"Shes part of us and we wont let her fight alone." Buffy said standing next to Angel.
"Their right. This is one for all, all for one." Xander said looking at Giles.
"The you will all die." Shane said shaking his head. "You can't fight these things, they will kill all of you before you can blink."
"Then why did you come?" Heaven asked him.
"Because I couldn't stand back there in San Francisco when I knew they were here for you." Shane said hotly.
"Well Shane," Tara said walking up to Heaven and putting her arm on her shoulder. "This is a family and you don't walk out on your family. No matter what the circumstances."
"Listen guys. I love you all but maybe Shane is right." Heaven said hating herself for what she was saying.
"This isn't time to be buddy bad ass Heaven." Spike growled.
"This also isn't the time to be stupid, Spike." Heaven said looking around the room.
"I have to stay with you." Buffy said shaking her head.
"No, it they take me they wont come after you. Unless you're here, you have to trust me on this one Buffy. We can't afford to lose you." Heaven said with a firm glare.
"I can't leave you here to die Heaven." Spike said putting his arms firmly on her shoulders.
"You're not leaving me to die. So GO. If you want to stay here and make me worry about you getting killed then you can do that but you just might end up killing me." Heaven knew she was playing the guilt card but it was necessary.
Reluctantly they cleared out of the Magic Box. Shane and Heaven spent their next fifteen minutes before this battle packing up and getting their weapons together. Heaven felt a cool rush as the door to the Magic Box flew open. She smiled to herself.
"Show time."