A/N Thanks for the reviews. There is only going to be like three more chapters after this one. Since dogbercaroll wanted a happy ending I decided to make three endings to the story. Two of them will be sad and one will be happy. I'm going to post my ending first and then I'm going to make another chapter where the ending ends happily. But if I decide to do a sequel to this then I'm going to follow from my ending.
Keep in mind that this is just a filler episode and that this is my version of Bloody Mary.
This part of the fanfic takes place after the events of The Zeppo. Summary of events so far. Buffy never ran away since Angel never died. and she hasn't told her mom about her nightlife. Faith has some forged documents and now she goes to school with the others as a junior like Kendra. Plus she never killed Finch and didn't go over to the dark side. Wesley also becomes her Watcher. Anya still becomes human after the wish but doesn't date Xander, so she leaves town. Sheila had the batmobile shipped to the states. Tara and Willow have been spending alot of time together but they aren't a couple yet. Also Xander and Cordelia are on speaking terms now, because Xander saved her from those zombies during the Zeppo. They tried to rape her so Xander saved her.
Chapter 22
Bloody Mary
Biloxi, Mississippi
1865
A beautiful raven haired girl run's through a darkened forest, with a baby in her arms. Looking behind her she see's that her would be attackers are in hot pursuit, with dogs and torches. Not watching where she is going, she slips on a tree branch and falls flat on her butt. Before she's able to get up her attacker's surround her.
"Did you really think that you would get away, Mary?" an ancient looking woman asked as she walks from behind the mob. "You do your little witchcraft and you steal from me and you think, you could get away?" she asked as she snacthed the baby out of her arms.
"Please no!" Mary shouted as she tried to reach for the baby.
"I'm not going to let you corrupt this child, like Satan has corrupted you." the old woman said as she handed the baby over to one of the other women in the group. "Now stand her up!" she shouted. Suddenly two men came beside Mary and lifted her up by either side of her arms.
Taking a golden handled hand- mirror, which is the object Mary stole, out of Mary's side pack, the old woman put's it down on the ground and sneers at her.
"Mary Elizabeth Chase, you are charged with being a witch, stealing, and working for Satan." the old woman said with a scowl. "How do you plead?"
"All I was doing was making, medicine for my neighbor's sick child." Mary pleaded.
"Ah so you admit to using witchcraft?" the old woman asked, manipulating what Mary was saying.
"No I ...I..."
"I've heard enough!" a big burly man growled as he lifted up a huge knife. Before anyone could stop him, he flicked the knife towards her twice. Cutting her once beautiful face into a bloody mess.
"That's quite enough Mr. Lehane." the old woman said as she saw that he was going to keep up his attack. Even though she secretly enjoyed hurting Mary, because of her beauty, she didn't want to seem too crude in front of the others. "Now prepare a rope. This witch will be hanged at once." she informed the whisky smelling man.
"No please no... my baby..." Mary cried out.
"Will be taken care of." the old woman said with little emotion. "Priest, perform her last rites." the woman ordered as Mary was placed on a horse and a noose put around her neck.
As the priest drones on with his speech, Mary looks at all of them gathered and sneers.
"From this day forth, I curse all of you." she says startling the lynch mob. "Since you took my child away from me and are condemning me to death, I will come back for your children in their nightmares. I'll take them away from all of you." she said looking at all of them in turn. Remembering their faces.
"Is that so...Bloody Mary?" John Lehane asked as he looked at her bloody face.'What an appropriate name for her.' he thought to himself. "Now how are you going to do all of that in hell?" he asked as he slapped the horse on the rear, making it speed off. Mary let out a cry of surprise and then her neck cracked.
As her now dead body swung in the tree, the heavens open up and it starts to rain. As the mob turns and walks off, Mary's bloody and scarred face suddenly appears in the golden hand mirror.
"And that's the story of Bloody Mary." a museum director said to a group of kids and their parents. "Ironically enough, alot of the kids in Biloxi died mysteriously or just vanished, sometime after Mary's death. Some still say that her curse holds true and that if you say her name six times in a mirror that she will appear and take you away." he said with a small chuckle as he saw a few kids get scared. 'Some kids will believe anything.' he thought to himself.
"Now speaking of mirrors..." he said as he took a sheet off of a table, revealing a small beautiful hand mirror. "This is said to be the same mirror that Mary stole from that old woman in my story." he said.
"Why did she steal the mirror in the first place?" Dawn Summers asked from her position on the floor, next to Dierdre. Her mom had an important business meeting in L.A. so she couldn't be her escort for her school field trip. That's why she had asked if Sheila, could do it for her.
"Because she was poor and she needed the money." the museum curator said as he beamed at her. 'I can't believe that these brats are actually listening to me.' he thought to himself.
Then he started droning on about another story and more legends about, Bloody Mary.
"Kids." Sheila called out getting Dee's and Dawn's attention. "I'm going to get a drink of water, I'll be right back." she said as she walked off. Not looking where she was going, she suddenly bumped into somebody.
"I'm sorry." she blurted out.
"No my dear, it was completely my fault." a man said. Then they looked over at each other.
"You!" Sheila said with a growl.
"You!" Mayor Wilkins III said with a growl of his own.
"How is it dat you're still alive?" Sheila asked.
"I could ask the same of you, young lady." Wilkins said with a chuckle. "Or should I say old lady, well I am older then you, so maybe I should still call you young lady." he said pondering the thought.
"I see you still haven't changed." Sheila said reffering to his short attention span.
"And neither have you." he said quickly scanning over her body. Sheila immediately felt violated as he looked her over.
"I'm going to make you pay for what you did to me brother." she stated coldly.
"Your brother?" Wilkins asked confused. "What about..." he trailed off until he thought of who she was talking about. He had killed so many over the years it was hard to keep in track of them all.
"It was only a small setup." Wilkins said thinking back to that day. "I had no idea they were going to beat Jamal to death. I thought that they would only maim him a little." he said rubbing at his chin.
Sheila had a murderous look in her eye and was about to attack him when, someone grabbed her hand. Looking back she saw that it was Dawn.
"Miss Monroe, the field trip is over." Dawn explained to her. "Are you ready to go?"
"Of course, child." Sheila said smiling down at Dawn. "Dis isn't over." she told Wilkins as she walked off with the kids.
"You can count on it." Wilkins said beaming at her retreating form.
"So how was the field trip?" Xander asked as Sheila and the kids walked into the living room.
"It was great." Dawn replied as she sat next to him on the couch. Dierdre sat on the other side of him and took the remote out of his hands and started to flip through the channels. Xander ignored her doing that and looked at Sheila. She had one of the most downcast looks Xander had ever seen on anybody.
"She's been like dat every since she bumped into dat guy at de museum." Dierdre whispered to him as she followed his gaze.
"What guy?" Xander asked. Dierdre just shrugged. Seeing that Sheila was about to go upstairs, Xander stood and followed up behind her.
"Hey Sheila." Xander said as he grabbed her arm. Sheila jumped a little at his touch and then turned to look at him. 'Man i've never seen her like this before.' Xander thought to himself. 'Maybe she needs to get out and have a little fun?'
"Sorry, you just startled me." she said giving him a look.
"Listen um... me and some of the guys were going to go to the bronze tonight." Xander said awkwardly. "Do you want to come?"
"No I just have alot on me mind right now. I...I ... just need some rest." she said as she continued upstairs.
"Sheila talk to me." Xander said stopping her from going upstairs. "I can tell that there's something up and I'm not going to stop bothering you until you talk to me or come dancing with us."
After spending almost a year with Xander, she knew he would do exactly that. With a sigh she looked up into his eyes.
"Alright. I'll go dancing." she said reluctantly as she walked upstairs.
"Good." Xander said to her retreating form. He really hated when something was bothering his girls and he would do anything to make them feel better.
"Tara are you sure, you don't want to come with us?" Kendra asked as she put on her coat.
"We can always get Mr. Giles to watch Dierdre and Dawn."
"I...I'm sure. I...I have some reading to d... do anyway." Tara said shyly.
"Alright, you girls be good for Tar okay." Faith said with a huge grin. She loved playing the big sister role. For the last few month's she's had people in her life that cared about her, little girls that looked up to her, and she's even enrolled back in school.
"Okay." the girls said in unison as they ran off upstairs.
"Alright girls that's party." Xander said as they walked out of the door. After saying their goodbyes to Tara, they were out the door.
"I'm glad they're finally gone." Dawn said as she walked up to her backpack. "Now we can try out this." she said as she took out the golden handled hand mirror from the museum.
"Dawn I can't believe dat you stole it." Dierdre said in disbelief.
"Don't be such a spoilsport." Dawn said as she put the mirror on the floor. "All I want to do is see if this thing really works. Tomorrow I'll just tell Sheila that I left something at the museum and I'll return it before anyone even knows that it's gone. Besides what's the worst that could happen?"
With that last bit of persuasion the two of them picked up the mirror and started their chant.
"Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary..." as they looked into the mirror they saw...
"Nothing." Dawn said incredously. "We did all this for nothing." she said as she put the mirror back on the floor.
"Let's just get some sleep." Dierdre suggested. "Den we can take it back, tomorrow."
"Alright." Dawn said as they turned their backs from the mirror. Which was their mistake. A dark shadow came out of the mirror and surrounded the girls. Before they could do more then turn around or shout, the shadow engulfed them both and pulled them into the mirror. All that was heard was a low voice of a woman laughing.
"Hey g..girls are you hungry?" Tara asked timidly as she knocked on the door. Not getting an answer she opened the door and saw that the room was empty.
"G... Girls." she said as she came into the room. Sensing a strange form of magic, she looked down at a small hand mirror on the floor. As she walked by it she could see a pitch black aura, surrounding it.
"So do you always let your boytoy, dance like that with other girls?" Faith asked as she watched Xander and Sheila dance, she used that term loosely, sexually with each other.
"I trust Xander." Kendra said, even though she glared over at Sheila. She decided not to say anything, because Xander had told her that Sheila was feeling disturbed about something.
"Hey Angel let's dance." Buffy said as the two of them moved out to the dance floor. Xander had called them and asked if they wanted to come out and party. So they met them there.
"I see a cute guy out there." Faith said as she stood up. "I'm going to go dance with him." she said as she moved out onto the dance floor, leaving only Willow and Kendra behind.
"So do... do you want to dance?" Willow asked. Kendra was about to respond, until a man ran up to them.
"Excuse me ladies, but do you know a Sheila Monroe?" he asked.
"Yes, but what seems to be de problem?" Kendra asked.
"She has an emergency phone call. The girl who called said that some girls were missing."
"So you think that they went inside of this mirror?" Giles asked holding up the mirror in question. The whole group went immediately to Sheila's house as soon as they heard about the girls missing. Xander had immediately called Giles and even Wesley and Cordelia, so they could help find the girls.
"Y..yes sir." Tara said answering Giles question. "I...I can sense a ma...magical disturbance from it."
"That's absurd." Wesley said taking the mirror from Giles. "I've never heard of anything like that."
"Let me see dat." Sheila said taking the mirror from Wesley. "Dis is de same mirror from de museum. What on earth is it dong here?"
"Never mind that." Buffy said as she walked up to her. "What was so important about this mirror."
"Dey said dat it belonged to Bloody Mary."
"Isn't she just a myth?" Faith asked.
"I learned a long time ago, that some myths are actually based on reality." Giles told her.
"Are you speaking of Mary I of England?" Wesley asked.
"No." Sheila said remembering what the museum curator had said. "It was a girl that was lynched for being a witch."
"Dis is all very facinating." Kendra said getting very agitated. "Now how is dis going to help save me sister?"
"Maybe... Maybe going through some books are in order." Giles said as he and Wesley went to Sheila's library. She had brought alot of books from Jamaica with her that dealt with the occult.
As they busied themselves going through some books, Kendra sat heavily on the couch.
"Don't worry, we're going to get them back." Buffy said as she sat down beside her an put an arm around her.
"I just hope dat dey are safe." Kendra said as a tear fell from her eye.
"Don't worry sis." Faith said as she put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Like Buffy said we're going to find them." 'At least I hope.' she silently added.
In Bloody Mary's dimension
Dawn and Dierdre are huddled together along with some other kids, up against a dark wall. As they are about to get up a dark figure looms out of the shadows of the room. It's a tall robed figure and it just seemed to float before the children.
"You will be my newest children." the figure said to Dawn and Dee in an almost dreamy-musical like voice. As it removed it's hood the two relaxed a little as they saw that it was a beautiful raven haired woman. Then they screamed when her face became discolored and scarred with maggots falling out of her wounds.
"I think i've got it." Giles said as he emerged out of Sheila's library, Wesley hot on his heels.
"What is it G-man?" Xander asked as he and the rest of them ran up to him.
"Xander how many times have I told you never to call me... oh nevermind." Giles said with a sigh. "Like I said I think I know a way to get the children back."
"Well don't leave us in suspense." Faith said as she glared at him. "How are we going to get them back?"
"This book speaks of a portal called Necromancer's Gateway." Giles said ignoring her tone. "It's a gateway that was used long ago for people who wanted to visit with their dead relatives. I believe if we can alter the spell some, that we can open up a gateway to whatever dimension they are in now." Giles explained.
"Good lord!" Giles bellowed as he kept reading the text.
"What is it now?" Buffy asked.
"It says here that the person who crosses over must be closely bound to or related to the person they are visiting."
"Then what's the problem Giles?" Angel asked. "Buffy and Kendra are related to Dee and Dawn."
"I think what Mr. Giles means is that someone has to be related to Mary, in order to open a portal to her dimension." Wesley explained. "Since the children aren't dead we can't open a dimension to go over to them. We have to go to Mary's."
"Just fucking great!" Faith yelled. "So what are we going to do now?"
"I think I know who's related to Mary." Sheila said looking over strangely at Cordelia.
"What?" Cordy asked. "Do I have something in my teeth?"
"Are you sure?" Cordy asked someone in the phone. "Okay thanks daddy." she said as she hung up the phone.
"So what did he say?" Xander asked as he walked up to Cordelia. They still weren't close from what happened because of what he said to her when he came back to town, but after he saved her life from those zombies, they could at least talk to each other.
"He said that my family was originally from the south." she said not really believing it. "But something happened in our family in the late nineteen hundreds that caused them to move out of the south." she explained.
"That certainly fits with what Sheila told us about Mary." Giles said with a quick clean of his glasses.
"So what do we do now?" Cordelia asked.
With a sigh Giles began to explain.
Giles, Willow, Sheila, and Tara all sat indian style on the floor, making up the sacrd circle which Cordelia sat in the middle of. Neither of them had enough magical powers to open up the gate separately so they joined forces. They were also all aware that they had to give up a little of their life force to successfully open up the gate.
Willow and Tara's hand's touched for a brief moment and they looked up at each other and smiled. It was like a spark went between them. Ignoring that feeling for now, they go back to concentrating.
As Wesley sat near them chanting in latin, the gateway finally opened. It wasn't a portal like they had all thought it would be. It was more like a large door, that had fire coming out of it, with people screaming from the other side. It was more like they were going to hell.
"Wish us luck." Buffy said as she grabbed a sword from Sheila's weapons cabinet. Kendra doing the same.
"Wait guys I'm coming with you." Faith said as she picked up a battle axe.
"Most certainly not." Wesley huffed. "It's enough two Slayers are going. There's no way I'm allowing you to go too. I forbid it."
"Listen up Wussley." Faith snarled. "I never got a handbook on how to be a Slayer like Ken did." she sent an apologizing glance over to Kendra. "But even I know that one of the first rules of a Slayer is to protect the innocent. And the way I see it those two girls are as innocent as they come." she said as tears threatened to fall from her eyes. "I'm not going to leave my sister's, you got that jackass!"
"Quite." was all that he could say.
"I hate to interrupt." Giles said as he walked up to them. "But that gateway won't stay open forever."
"Come on girls, let's go." Buffy said as she jumped into the portal followed by Kendra, then Faith. As Xander tried to walk through himself, a jet of flames shot up and nearly burned his arm off.
"God, I hate this!" Xander yelled as he walked over to Angel.
"I know what you mean." Angel said quitely to him. "I feel so helpless."
"Hey have any of you guys seen, Cordy?" Willow asked as she walked over to them. Then they looked around the room and sure enough she was gone.
Bloody Mary's dimension
Kendra, Faith, and Buffy emerged from out of the gateway looking very different. Their clothes were changed to fashions of dress that they only saw in history books. Their hair was done up differently as well. Two other things they noticed was that it was night time and that they had no weapons.
"Damn." Faith said looking down at herself. "What the hell happened and where are our weapons?"
"Never mind that." Buffy said tearing off some of her dress, so she could move easier. "That's just find our sister's and get the hell out of here." she said. As soon as she said this they all heard a scream. Looking at each other for a second, they all took off at a run towards where they thought they heard the woman from.
As they came to a clearing, they saw a large group of people with torches and pick forks. Then they saw a large man with a knife trying to cut a girl. Then they got a good look at the girls face.
"Cordelia." Kendra said as she ran forward. Before the man could bring the knife down, Kendra punched him in the face and kicked him in the stomach. As he began to dry heave, she karate chopped him on the back of the neck, sending him to the ground unconcious.
"Who are you." an old woman asked. Before Kendra could answer the woman began to change form into a demon.
"She's a Slayer!" Faith shouted as she punched the demon in the face. As Faith punched the demon the people in the group started to fade away.
"You'll pay for this." the demon hissed as it stood to it's feet. "You'll pay with their lives." it said as it vanished.
"Cordelia are you alright?" Buffy asked as she ran up to the trembling girl.
"Yeah I think so." she said coming out of her daze. "Where am I?" she asked taking a look around.
"We'll feel you in later." Buffy said putting an arm around her, to keep her on her feet.
"What did that demon mean by it'll make them pay?" Faith asked. Then they all thought about it for a second.
"The kids." Kendra and Buffy said in unison.
"I know where they are." Cordelia said seeing them in her minds eye. "Their scared and... oh no." she said opening her eyes. "That demon is there with them."
"How do you know all of dis?" Kendra asked.
"Never mind all of that." Buffy said interrupting them. "Just lead the way."
"It's time for me to absorb your life energy." the demon said as it hovered over Dawn and Dierdre with a large axe. "Now which one of you pretties will be first?"
Suddenly the front door to the house explodes off of it's hinges. As the demon looks up it see's Buffy, Kendra and Faith enter the room.
"Holy shit!" Faith yelled as she saw all the kids chained up to the wall begging for help. "Cordy help me with the kids." Faith called out as Cordelia came into the room. As they are unchaining the kids, Buffy and Kendra attack the demon.
Buffy punches at it, but her fist just goes through it, like it was a ghost. It shoots out a tendril and hits her, and she flies back against some furniture. She recovers her balance, turns back around, and looks around in confusion. The mist reappears and Buffy punches at it again. The mist swirls around her and re-forms behind her. She turns and punches again. Still nothing.
Kendra runs up behind it and tries to rainbow kick it. The demon drops it's axe and grabs Kendra by the leg and starts to drain the life force out of her.
Buffy picks up the axe that the demon dropped when it picked up Kendra. The demons face starts to become a little clearer now. The demon stops swirling and confronts Buffy. For the first time we can actually see its mouth move when it talks.
"Your friend has lot's of power."
The demon suddenly becomes fully solid as it sucked the life out of Kendra. It looks like the rotting corpse of a woman, taller than Buffy. Buffy tries to hit it with the axe but the demon grabs the axe handle and drops Kendra. They struggle over it for a moment, then the demon lets go and hits Buffy, making her drop the axe. She turns back and the demon hits her again. Buffy goes down.
Buffy picks up the axe, jumps up from the floor, and swings. As the demon's head leaves it body, it bounces across the floor. A white light goes through the room and the Slayers and all of the children, including Dawn and Dierdre, are in Sheila's living room.
"Buffy!" Dawn yelled as she ran into her arms.
"Dawn what happened." Buffy asked as they pull apart. Dawn looks down sadly and begins to explain herself.
"Honey are you alright?" Xander asked as he helped Kendra to her feet.
"Yeah I feel alot better." she said sleepily as she stood to her feet.
"What on earth are we going to do about all of these children?" Giles asked as he wiped at his glasses.
"Nothing." Tara said as she walked up beside him. As she said this the kids all turned into little balls of light. They swirled around the room for a minute and then they circled around the Slayers.
"Thank you." they said to each of them in turn as a white light shone down on them. As they all started to go up to heaven, one of the balls of light floated over to Cordelia.
"Thank you, Cordelia." a woman's voice said. "The curse is finally over. Now I leave you with this gift." and with that it dissappeared.
"What was that all about?" Wesley asked as he walked over to her.
"I think that was my ancestor." Cordelia said as she turned to look at him.
"What did she mean by her leaving you a gift?" he asked.
"I don't know." she answered him honestly.
"I think it's time for us to go home." Buffy said as she grabbed Dawn roughly around the arm. Dawn just told Buffy and the other's what she had done.
"And don't tink dat you want be punished for dis." Kendra told Dierdre. "Now go up to your room." with that said Dierdre pouted, but did what she was told.
"I can't believe all this happened." Xander said with a shake of his head. "Well at least nothing else bad is going to happen." he said with a grin.
"What's the matter with you Xander?" Buffy asked incredously. "I can't believe you said that."
"Said what?" Xander asked in confusion.
"You said nothing else bad is going to happen." Cordelia told him. "You just totally jinxed us."
"I thought we talked about you saying that before?" Buffy asked.
"I still say nothing bad is going to happen." he said putting a firm note in his voice.
"I tink there is." Sheila said looking sad. "I never told you about what was bothering me today did I?" she asked. Xander shook his head no, so she let out a sigh and started to explain herself.
Flashback
Jamaica
1673
A day before Sheila is lynched.
Sheila is busy cleaning Assistant Governor Wilkins desk as her brother looms around her talking. Even though he's an Assistant Governor everyone could tell that he was the one really in charge. He was alway's polite and pretty decent to everyone, but there was something more to the man. Something almost scary.
"I'm telling you sister, I should leave Jamaica." he was saying as he gathered her hands from dusting and made her look at him. "And I want you to come with me." he said with all seriousness.
"Dat's nonsense." Sheila said while she took her arm back and continued to clean. "I'm perfectly happy here."
"Is dat because of your white lover?" he accused. At her glare he continued. "Yes sister, I know all about you and the governor's son."
"Why are you here, Jamal?" Sheila asked changing the subject. "Shouldn't you be out tending to de crops?"
"Yes I should." he replied as he walked past her. "But I came in here to talk some sense into you and to help meself to some liquor." he said as he opened up the liquor cabinet. Once he did so his eyes went wide at what he saw.
"Oh me God." he said as he backed away from the cabinet.
"What is ..." Sheila's voice trailed off as she saw the cabinet's contents. Voodoo artifact's were seen in the cabinet, along with a small skull, chickens feet, and something that looked demonic all together.
Then the two heard voices.
"Quick hide." Sheila told her brother. Not seeing anywhere else to go he got into the cabinet and closed the door. Sheila ducked low and hid behind the desk.
"I'm telling you David." Mr. Wilkins said as he came into his room carrying a huge box. "With the box of Gavrok, I'll be able to achieve my Ascension." he said as he put it on his desk. He had stolen it before another arch mage could use it. The other Mage had no idea that without the box, there could be no Ascension.
"Yes but according to the Gadlovac calendar, if it is indeed correct, the planets want be aligned correctly again until the year 1999." his aide said coming up behind him. "So even if you could do this Ascension thing, you'll never live that long."
"That's not a problem." Mr. Wilkins said with a chuckle. "I have it on good authority that I will live that long." he said as he pointed at his voodoo cabinet, where he prayed to his pagan gods for life.
"Sheila what are you doing in here?" he asked as he came around his desk and saw her.
"I was just cleaning sir." she replied as she started to scrub at the lower part of his desk.
"Well this desk is spotless." he said smiling down at her. "So could you please leave, so me and my aide can talk in private?" he asked. Before Sheila could respond a bump interrupted her. Looking back confused, Wilkins opens up his cabinet and see's...
"Jamal what are you doing in here?" Wilkins asked.
"Just visiting me sister." Jamal replied sheepishly.
"In my liquor cabinet." he asks with a grin. "You two crazy kids get out of here." Wilkins said with a huge smile. "I have to talk to my aide in private.
"Yes sir." Sheila replied as she took Jamal's hand and dragged him out of the office. Wilkins looks after them with a smile on his face.
"Isn't that just the greatest, David?" Wilkins asked as he looked over at his aide. "A brother and sister so close like that. It makes me wish my little sister was still alive." of course though he had to sacrifice her to his Gods so he could live this long in the first place.
"I see sir." David said with an amused smile. Then Wilkins became all business like as he sat down at his desk.
"I have a friend in central america." Governor Wilkins said as he handed the box of Gavrok over to his aide. "See that he get's this."
"Yes sir." his aide says happily. "But what about the girl and the boy who heard your plans?"
"Leave them to me." Gov. Wilkins says darkly as he sits back heavily in his seat. "My she really did do a good job with my desk." he said running his hand on the wood. "I can see my face in it." he says as he looks at his reflection.
End Flashback
"Oh crap." was all that Xander could say at the end of her story.
"That's all you have to say?" Cordelia asked as she slapped him on the back of the head. "I don't know what this Ascension deal is, but it sounds like you just totally doomed us."
"Me and Mr. Giles will research it in the morning." Wesley said with a yawn. "But by the looks on your faces..." he said looking from Sheila to Xander. "You might know a little about what's going on."
"You might want to sit down for this one." Xander suggested.
TBC...
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The gift that Mary gave cordelia was the gift of sight. Or the gift for her to have visions. Also the reason why Faith was able to go into the gateway and not xander is because her ancestor was the guy that cut up Mary's face. She didn't know that however. I originally planned it for it to be Xander's ancestor that did that to her, as a way of explaining why he and cordelia never liked each other much, but I wanted to focus on other characters besides him in this episode.
Also Mary never put a curse on anyone. She just said that to scare the lynch mob. As soon as she died a demon took her form and condemed her soul. So when they finally killed the demon they set her soul and the kids the demon killed over the years soul free. The demon was still feeding off the souls of the children that's why they were still there. And I just made that stuff up about the mayor at the last minute so don't complain. What he did was lied to the governor so he could get Sheila and her brother killed.
