They stood over her body staring at the mess that she was in. She had been in the hospital for 6 months which left them to deduct she had been tortured for 5 months and judging by what she looked like it wasn't hard to see. She had numerous still healing broken bones, the slight tinges of bruises stillriddled her body even after 6 months, scars riddled her arms, legs and back although some were starting to fade. She looked like a lifeless very scary looking doll, so skinny with her straw like and pain riddled face.
When Joyce had seen her she had collapsed in a heap, Willow had held back a scream and settled with bursting into tears, Dawn was pushed out of the room before she saw and Giles stood there in shock right alongside Xander. Faith and Tara who had come to help Willow had stayed out with Dawn feeling like they were intruding since they hadn't ever really met Buffy.
They had been told that there was only a small chance of Buffy waking up, only about a 5 chance to be exact. They were told that physically she could wake up but they believed she had retreated so far into herself that it was mentally near impossible for her to come out of it. This made Willow perk up because she had read about a spell that would allow someone to enter another persons mind. She didn't tell Giles for the fact that he seemed to disapprove of her interest in magic. Instead she politely left the room and grabbed Tara's hand a dragged her an appropriate distance and started telling her the idea in a hushed tone. Tara looked a little worried but she bit her lip and said softly "I suppose we can try." Willow squealed and hugged her tight saying thank you over and over again.
They waited until dark, going with everyone back to the hotel and keeping their secret well secret. They returned when it was night and less likely to be interrupted and Willow sat herself on a chair across from Buffy and started the inner necessary steps to start the spell.
Buffy looked around her and once again was chained to the wall, blood was dripping all around her. Her body felt like she was on fire but still she yelled "They will come, They will". The masked vampire in front of her laughed manically and said "Right and I'm a vampire with a soul". He then displayed the knife and came up close and said "Lets play with your guts again shall we? See how fast you heal again."
The Scene changed
Buffy was laying in the jail cell trying to reach the food. She looked up and said in sad voice "I will die without food." The vampire kicked the food which landed on the ground, she sighed and went for it.
The scene changed
Tears were running down her face while they poked the spikes through her body. She said softly "Just kill me". The figure laughed but stayed silent instead pushing another spike through her calf. She said again softly "Kill me!".
The scene changed
Buffy hung motionless on the wall while they feeded off her blood and pumped blood into her. She didn't move, didn't say a word, just stared blankly at them, not caring.
The scene changed
Buffy looked around her and once again was chained to the wall, blood was dripping all around her. Her body felt like she was on fire but still she yelled "They will come, They will". The masked vampire in front of her laughed manically and said "Right and I'm a vampire with a soul". He then displayed the knife and came up close and said "Lets play with your guts again shall we? See how fast you heal again." She looked up and notice Willow standing staring shocked at the scene in front of her. Another form of her appeared next to her and said " Terrible isn't it"
Willow jumped and stared at the Buffy next to her, looking very much like the Buffy she knew and loved. She said "Buffy this isn't real, it isn't happening anymore." Buffy laughed a dry hollow laugh and said "Right nothappening, what world do you live in? what you see is happening, it is always happening no matter where I physically am". Willow gave her a look and she continued as the scene changed. "Yes I know I am in the hospital, it doesn't matter, he killed me".
Willow shook her head and said "No your alive, this happened in the past, Buffy, the past, please we love you and need you."
Buffy sighed and looked pointingly at the scene in front of them, the one with her not moving and said "You need her, I don't think so, we are one and the same. The buffy you knew is just a shell now." Willow shook her head and grabbed hold of Buffy making her look at her and said " You are Buffy not some tortured person who can't get through, Your Buffy, the one we all love and trust and forgive. You can get through this and live, your not a shell."
She laughed again and the person in the scene turned to Willow and said
"I need to be killed not to live, I need to get what I deserve."
Willow's eyes widened and she said "You need to what now." She turned to other Buffy and said " You deserve to have people who love you for who you are not what you are, you deserve to grow old and have a billion kids who adore you, you deserve to never have to face a vampire again in your life. You deserve the world Buffy, but I can only offer you a bunch of loving people who are waiting for you to wake up. So Buffy please wake up and live. Please." Buffy stared at her with tears in her eyes and said "I don't deserve to live". Willow said "But you do, you're the slayer, a patron for the good, you have done so many good things in your life, in your very short life that you deserve so much more. You saved the lives of countless people that even we don't know the number, and just by doing so you have saved other people through those people, and you don't ask for anything you just do it so if that doesn't make you deserve a great life who does."
Both Buffy were now freely crying but then normal Buffy stopped and said "But everyone hates me Will why would they want me to live?"
Willow rolled her eyes through the tears and said "You are so dense, We love you no matter what you did, we don't care that you ran away. If you can't live for them, live for me, please. The hardest thing in this world is to live, so live for me."
As soon as she said this she found herself flung back into her body and she heard the sounds of someone groaning.
Author note: Yes I stole some lines from the show but that was bloody obvious, so don't sue me. So I know drama filled, did you like it, or was it a bad twist. Any way the end is near. AWWW. If you have never reviewed before or you have and i love you for it please review again because this chapter was really hard to write and i love the criticism or the praise so please review. Begging is so beneath me but i will ! :-).