"The changling is your bloody mum?" I asked Anais, in utter shock. She nodded. "You lied to me?" Again, she nodded. "Bloody Hell." Her mum was passed out on the floor. The kick must have really hurt her.
"I'm sorry, Spike. I just didn't want you to tell Buffy," An whispered.
"What? Did you think she'd be more pissed off if you told her than if you didn't?" I asked her, about ready to scream. Before she had a chance to answer, Anais fell to the floor, eyes shut, not moving. "An? Anais?" I then noticed that her mum was gone, but there was a Peruvian boomslang in her place. Without thinking, I picked up my coffee table and crushed the snake with it. It was severed in half, dying immediately, and it turned back into Anais' mother, still severed. I looked away, sickened, glad An couldn't see this.
I bent over and picked Anais up and, after covering myself up to protect myself from the sun, I ran to the Magic Box, where Buffy and everyone was.
Buffy, Willow and Xander rushed the limp Anais to the hospital, leaving me under Giles' watchful eye. None of the believed me. Not even Dawn. Bloody Hell. I was in for it.
A/N: A Peruvian boomslang is a snake that paralyzes its victims. I read a story by Stephen King where the main character had been bitten by one. This particular snake supposedly went extinct in the 1920's but I don't know if that's for sure or not. Like I said, I got this snake from a Stephen King tale (he's one of my heroes). More on the Peruvian boomslang in the next chappy!