I kind of didn't manage to do an introduction or anything on the first chapter as I suck with computers, but I've managed to put one on this one, so on with the explaining. Indi is the bi-product of me watching Buffy after Buffy episode and wishing I was there. She is who I would love to be in Buffyworld, only tortured and twisted and stuff. Yeah, I'm cruel to my characters.

Review Replies: Sullen Lily - Thank you for saying it's well written. I don't know how she kept her visions. Maybe the visions were tied into her soul, which she kept. I don't know. I've done my best to make everything work, but I guess I failed. By the way, what's a Mary Sue?

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"I'm surprised you asked me to help you." Xander said as he balanced several candles in his hands. "I mean, why not Willow, or Buffy?"

"Because Buffy's patrolling tonight and my mom doesn't really like Willow." Indi answered.

"She doesn't like Willow?"

"Yeah."

"Why? She's the model student, and she wouldn't say boo to a goose!"

"Xander, did you notice all the crucifixes and Virgin Mary statues that are in this house?"

"Yeah, that's gotta be a bit annoying what with you being a vampire and all."

"It's not that bad. Anyway, my mom is a really devout Christian, and Willow's parents are Jewish."

"Oh. I get it now. So I was the only one free tonight, huh?"

"Yes, but I do not doubt your abilities for a second."

Indi and Xander were in Indi's bedroom, getting ready for the every-vision-I-ever-had spell, as Indi liked to call it. She had drawn a circle on the floor with a black powder that Xander suspected to be crushed beetles, and she was now drawing a pentagram inside it. Xander was placing candles on the points of the pentagram as she went.

When they were done, Indi sat in the centre of her pentagram and crossed her legs.

"When I close my eyes, light all the candles. Start with the one in front of me and then light the one to the left of it." She told Xander.

"Your left or my left?" He interrupted.

"Your left." She sighed. "Then keep lighting the one to the left of the one you've just lit until they're all lit."

"O.K., so I just go round in a clockwise direction." Xander nodded. "What do I do when that's done?"

Indi breathed in deeply and closed her eyes to relax herself.

"Stand back." She said. Then she opened her eyes and began to chant:

'Powers That Be, you show me the future.

A great gift that is my destiny.'

She closed her eyes and nodded for Xander to start lighting the candles. He set about doing so. Indi continued:

'I call upon you to show me

Everything that once was shown.

Lend me the strength and magick

To open the portal and see.'

Xander had finished lighting the candles and stood back as Indi had told him to. He had noticed as she chanted that her voice was changing, as though it was coming from something deep within her. It was enchanting. As he watched her he also saw that she was becoming more tense, as though anticipating a terrible thing, but she was also strengthening. Xander watched with amazement as the power from the candles was gradually sucked into Indi, helping her to fortify herself. The flames began to die down as they lost their power, their eerie glow beginning to disappear. Indi finished her chant and the candles went out completely. Xander peered through the gloom to see Indi brace herself and realised that this was going to hurt her a lot. He was suddenly very scared for her, and then for himself when she opened her eyes again, revealing them to be completely white, like two big cataracts. It wasn't her eyes that scared Xander; it was the fact that they were burning dangerously with a bulging electric blue fire. That was when the light exploded from them and filled the room with its brilliance.

Indi could feel the magickal power from the candles being drawn to her. She was glad, as she'd need that power if she was going to withstand the agony of all those visions at once. She tensed at the thought of the overwhelming pain she was about to experience. Even she couldn't imagine what it would be like, and she really hoped that the vampire in her could heal fast enough for her to survive.

She finished her chant and absorbed the candle's last drop of power. Almost instantly she could feel magick pulsing through her, and her head had begun throbbing, especially behind her eyes.

'Why do I do this to myself?' she thought before a surge of magick caught her unawares and caused her to open her eyes.

The pain in Indi's head was becoming more acute, until she almost passed out. She felt like her eyes were about to explode - an unfortunately familiar feeling for Indi. She couldn't see Xander or her room; all she could see was a blue fire burning before her eyes. Then, it was literally burning, sending a whole new pain crashing into her senses, before every vision ever shown to her burst from her eyes, and all the pain she'd felt worsened a hundred times over.

Pictures flitted around the room, zooming past before Indi could see them properly. She tried to focus but her head felt like it was about to collapse like an egg in a vice, which it probably was. She could feel consciousness slipping away and desperately reached out with her mind for the first image that flitted past. It was the first vision she ever had - her death. Quickly she let it go, it wasn't one she wanted to see again. She knew that she had to find another vision, but she was fading fast. Her body couldn't take the pain, and eventually neither could her mind, so she let go completely and passed out, not sure if she'd wake up again.

Xander looked on as the light from Indi's eyes broke into hundreds of little pictures. They were whizzing around the circle really fast and he wondered how she could see them, if at all. Then one picture stopped just before her face. Xander realised with a chill that the picture was showing Indi having her guts sucked out by a big ugly bug. A wave of sympathy waved over him, and he was so busy feeling sorry for her that he didn't notice all the visions suddenly pile back into her eyes. Also, the power was sucked back into the candles and the flames were lit again. Xander snapped into action when Indi let out a small groan and slumped to the floor, though he managed to catch her in time. He was distressed at how weak and frail she was felt in his arms, but all he could do was gently lay her on her bed and clear up the pentagram and candles on the floor.

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There are more chapters coming, I hope. They're written, I just have to load them up onto the computer. I have to type it all up as it was originally written in a notepad. I wrote it during class. I know, tut tut. By the way, am I right in spelling magick like that? Is it some more traditional way or something?