Buffy smiled at Willow as she donned her pyjamas and said "Thanks for letting me stay; I can't handle the questions at the moment from Rod." She laid on the mattress on the ground and yawned and said "Night Wills". Willow looked down at her and said "Night Buff".
He grinned over her menacingly and said "I'll make you scream little girl and no one will ever hear you". She looked up into his face and said "My friends will come and you will be dust and then I will be the one grinning." He laughed and ran a long fingernail down her back leaving a long red trail but she didn't give him the satisfaction of hearing her scream, she only winced. He then took some of her blood on his finger and put it in his mouth making her screw up her face in disgust. He smiled and picked up the whip on the ground and said "Let's see how much you bleed." She felt the pain and whispered "stop" He didn't though instead he whipped again and again until she couldn't hold back a scream…."
Buffy awoke to her own voice and a very worried looking Willow.
Half an hour before
Willow lay staring at the ceiling just watching, The first sound she heard was Buffy make a small whimper. She sat up and saw that Buffy had become twisted in the sheets and was curled in a ball. She heard Buffy say something and strained her ears "Friends will come", Willow tilted her head wondering what that meant. Willow lay back down when after 10 minutes nothing else happened. But she jumped a bit when she heard the whispered word "stop". She was starting to get more than a little worried about whatever it was that Buffy was dreaming, She bolted out of the bed as Buffy screamed and promptly woke up and looked at her with a wild look in her eyes.
Buffy and Willow stared for a couple of seconds before Buffy turned back around and laid down. Buffy jumped right back up again when she heard Willow gasped and she realized that the sheet around her had fallen revealing some of her scared back.
Buffy pulled her shirt of her pyjamas down more and bit her lip and said "Don't suppose you could forget what you just saw?" Willow shook her head and moved to sit on the ground next to Buffy and went to put her hand on her shirt to see more but stopped when she saw Buffy's scared eyes and a hand stopping her. Willow said in a soft voice "I won't hurt you Buffy". Buffy let her hand fall and Willow slowly lifted Buffy's shirt revealing her back covered in lines of scars. Willow took a deep breathe and said in a small voice "Do you have any other scars like this". Buffy bit her lip again and nodded her head slowly and Willow held her breathe and said "Show me".
Buffy lifted her pyjamas shorts a little and Willow saw the round scars on her thighs. Willow looked at Buffy with a pained expression before quite suddenly bursting into tears and wrapping her arms around Buffy's neck.
Buffy wrapped her arms around her not really knowing what to say or what she must be thinking. She had a feeling Willow pretty much knew some of what must have happened in order for her to scar the way she had and not healed with her slayer healing.
She unwrapped herself and said "Just forget what you've seen ok, Willow, you are better off not knowing." Buffy looked up and found her self face to face with resolve Willow and sighed. Willow said "Buffy Anne Summers, you are going to tell me now what happened because, well just because." Buffy sighed and said "fine, but this is the short version only. I was going to go but when I jumped out of the tree vampires grabbed me and then tortured me for 3 months before Rod found me and saved me, happy." Willow was totally in tears and Buffy tried not to let hers fall as she said " Look Willow, forget it, it happened 7 months ago, ok. There is nothing you could have done to help me. You would have been killed." Willow shook her head and said "I could have, how can you just say forget it, this happened to you, and we all were so angry at you for leaving that we didn't even attempt to look for you, oh god we abandoned you when you needed us the most. Xander is going to want to die, and god Giles." Buffy suddenly looked extremely panicked and said "No way, you can not tell anyone, This secret is going to die with you and me, no one will ever know." Willow's eyes widened and she said "But if we told them they wouldn't be angry anymore." Buffy shook her head and said firmly "No. No one!" Willow pouted but then sighed and said "Do you mind if I sleep beside you then?" Buffy smiled for the first time and said "K".