"That what?"
"I can't explain…"
"Do you trust me?"
"Of course I do!"
"Then tell me what is wrong."
There was a silence. Remus stood in the hall, listening to Sirius and Buffy's conversation. He knew he shouldn't, but it was really hard not to.
"Sirius-"
"Just tell me."
"Its complicated, hard to explain…"
"Buffy?"
"Yes?"
"You trust me. What is so complicated about that?"
"Its not that…its just…"
"Its just what?"
"I'm…Sirius, when Faith died, because she was the Slayer, a Potential somewhere in the world becomes the next Slayer…"
"And? What does that have to do with you?"
"I'm the Slayer."
Remus tripped from where he was standing. Buffy? Now she was the Slayer? Why hadn't she become the Slayer before Faith, like…like the dream?
The door opened and Buffy gasped.
"Remus? What are you doing?"
"Um…er…well you see…"
"Were you listening in on our conversation?"
"Er…mmhmm?"
"Why the…Why? Don't you trust me?"
"Well yes, of course, but Buffy, it was a accident! I didn't mean to!"
"Right. Mmhmm. You didn't mean to listen in on our conversation. God, Remus!" she slammed the door shut.
"Buffy…" Sirius stood on the other side of the room.
"What?" she snapped angrily, running a hand through her long blonde hair out of frustration.
"Its just…are you alright?" he asked, gliding across the room to her. Buffy fell to her knees onto the floor.
"I don't…I don't know…."
"Tell me what's wrong."
So she told him everything. Everything about the dream, about the memories, about herself and Remus, about herself and him…
XzXzX
Remus sat on the bed, hands tangled in his hair. He knew that he shouldn't have been listening in on their conversation…so why did he? He screwed everything up.
Bang.
He jumped up and looked ahead to where the roof of the house had caved in, forming a hole where the shingles had once been. He looked up, wondering what could have caused it.
"Holy shit!"
A dark figure came down through the roof from the night. He stood up and towered over Remus…
He grabbed Remus by the throat and lifted him off the ground slightly…
XzXzX
"Remus? Baby I'm so sorry for reacting like that…" when Buffy made it into the room she froze. The roof was all over the floor…and a black jacket lay in the midst of the mess. "Angelus…"
She immediately changed from her outfit into a white T-shirt…one of her own this time, and a pair of black pants. She grabbed the jacket and put it on.
She ran downstairs into the basement and pulled out an old chest that she yanked open. Inside was a crossbow, some wooden stakes, a couple crosses, some holy water…
She grabbed the crossbow and a couple of stakes and took off in search of Angelus.
XzXzX
"What do you want with me?" spat Remus, his hands chained to the wall behind him.
"What do we want with you? Hey, Willow, did you hear that?"
"Sure did baby. But I want to make him suffer a bit…" A redhead vampire came out of the shadows. She wore all black. Remus took one glance at her and immediately thought Goth.
She approached Remus carefully, an evil smirk across her face. She grabbed his hair and forced his head back. Remus felt a sharp pain in his neck and he cried out.
"Willow! Don't do anything yet." Willow pulled away and Remus whipped his head out of her grasp. As he did this he noticed someone chained to the wall beside him.
"Faith?"
The brunette looked up.
"Wolfy? What the fuck are you doing here? Is B okay?"
"As far as I know…but aren't you…dead?"
"What can I say…Red is a powerful witch…and an evil one at that. But what I still can't figure out is since when can a fucking vampire be a witch too?"
XzXzX
"Buffy? Where are you going?" Buffy looked up. Sirius and Tara stood in the doorway.
"I'm going to save Remus. Tara? Can you do something for me?"
"Yeah."
"I need you to perform a spell to make everyone remember everything."
"But Buffy-"
"Just do it, please."
"Buffy…" Sirius grabbed her. "Don't do this alone…I'll come with you!"
"I'm not going to let you die again, Sirius."
"Please."
"No."
XzXzX
When the door to the dank…dungeon, Remus thought, opened, everyone looked.
"Well sorry to crash the party but I don't think that anyone wants to die today."
"Buffy?" Faith and Remus said together.
"Faith?"
"She's the Slayer!" hissed Willow.
"Willow?" Angelus was closer and in one swift movement had hit Buffy square in the jaw.
Buffy stepped back and dodged another punch. She tried to hit Angelus back, but he grabbed her hand and stopped her. He spun her around and pinned both of her hands behind her back and grabbed her ponytail and yanked her head back. He hovered over her neck…
"I think that that's my jacket you have," he said. Buffy laughed.
"Finders keepers losers weepers."
She turned her body quickly and flipped Angelus over her back. He let go of her hair and fell onto his back onto the cement floor.
Willow reached out and took a scratch at Buffy, leaving three twin scratches across her cheek.
"You know, that really hurt," she said, reaching for her crossbow. She held it out pointing it at Willow.
She hesitated then, she didn't want to kill Willow, her best friend…
She's not your best friend anymore. She's one of the ones your people has always been known to kill… a voice of reason told her, and she could feel herself applying pressure onto the trigger…
Just as the room filled with a sudden glow. The glow died down and Angelus still lied on the floor out cold, but Willow's anger had disappeared.
"What is this?" she screamed.
"What is what?"
"These…these lies…these memories…what are they? Where are they from?"
"They're from the past, Willow. Who you really are…"
"They're lies, Willow," said Angelus, standing up.
"Dammit. Why can't vampires stay out as long as humans?" muttered Buffy.
"Willow, I have them to. They're not real. They don't exist. Never did." Angelus moved across to Buffy. Buffy didn't pull the trigger on the crossbow.
"I know there is some Angel in there. Angel, its me, Buffy…please, just fight him, fight Angelus…"
"Buffy…"
"Fight him…"
She had started pointing the crossbow to the floor…
He lashed out and pulled her back, bearing her neck. Buffy dropped the crossbow. When he spoke Buffy was hurt by the words…
"Angel is no more." There was a sudden pain in her neck and Buffy tried to fight him off, but it was no use. She was getting weaker by the second, and he was already really strong…
"No!" screamed Remus, Faith, and Willow at the same time…Buffy felt herself letting go of the reality she had hold on.