A/N: Hey everyone. I just wanted to say thank you for all your understanding. And I thought the best way to repay your understanding would be to set aside some time to bring you the next chapter. By the way I just got my self a BETA. So hopefully she will be able to motivate me to get writing and motivated to bring this story to you and let it develop to what I know it can be. Thanks again to all of you who have put up with me and my crazy emotional stuff, you guys are the best!
Chapter 30:
Dani had to calm herself down after the battle was over. She still had the adrenaline running through her veins, which in turn kept her powers flowing. She was breathing heavily, trying to calm herself down. As she did calm herself, the pain of her injuries began to over whelm her. The pain was intense and sharp. She gasped and fell to her knees and then cringed in pain. Her whole buddy felt as though she it had been put through a series of battles that had gotten the best of her. The pain was so intense that it was beyond deafening. Even the pumping of her blood through her veins seemed to cause her immense amount of pain.
"Dani!" William screamed as he saw his sister fall to her knees in pain. He ran to her as fast as he could, the closer he got, the stronger the feel of her pain became. He had seen her beat up before. Hell there wasn't one battle that she didn't come home from, that she wasn't bruised or broken. But this time,… this time she was in pain and it was more than she had ever felt before, he could tell just by that look of pain on her face. Dani was the type of girl that would never let anyone know if she was in pain or not. So when she show that she was hurt, she wasn't just hurt she was in agony.
Will skidded to a halt and fell to his knees in front of his sister. "Dani. Come on, Dani. Look at me." he said quietly, trying to bring her out of her shell and let him take some of her pain away. He felt Michael and Andrew fall to their knees as well, and inspect her without causing her anymore pain. But when she didn't respond to his plea, he got far more worried. He turned to Michael. "We have to get her inside. NOW!"
Michael had learned long ago not to doubt his baby brother, especially when it came to their sister. So when William was beyond strict about getting Dani inside, he didn't even hesitate about moving to pick her up. "I sorry, Dani, but this is going to hurt like hell." he whispered in her ear. And for the first time since they were little, HE was the first person she responded to. She squeezed his hand in understanding, like they had done when they were little and William was way to young to even understand that Dani was hurt. She was very good at hiding how much physical pain she was in.
Michael pushed the emotions back and picked up his sister. He set his jaw when she let out a small whimper from the pain. He could feel the rage running through his veins, at anything and everything that had ever caused her pain. Needless to say, most of that rage was directed at the destiny she had that forced her to live this life of constant battle.
As soon as the three brothers reached the entrance to their house they had family flanking both sides of them trying to find out what was wrong with Dani. "Nana!" Andrew screamed beside him. When Michael saw his grandmother, he left no time for his father to ask any questions. " Nana, run a cold bath. We have to numb the pain."
Lauren was off before he even finished his second sentence. She knew Michael would be right behind her with her gorgeous granddaughter in his arms. She would cry later, right now she had to make her granddaughter feel better. She wasted no time in filling the large bath with cold water.
Andrew watched as his older brother removed his sisters clothing, down to her underwear. He was far to worried about his sister to care that some strange teenage guys was now seeing his sisters near naked body. "Why is he removing her clothing?" asked the woman he assumed was his aunt Buffy. "If she went into the bath with her clothing on, her clothes would be to heavy for her body and injure her further. Plus all her clothing is leather, and she would kill us, once she's better, if we ruined her leather. She rather protective of it. Besides her bathing suits are usually smaller than her underwear." he growled the last part. The thought of his sister in a skimpy bathing suit, really pissed him off. He didn't like complete strange men, of all ages, staring at his sister as though she was some piece of meat or something. But that was the 19th century gentleman in him showing through.
Dawn pulled up the stool they left in the bathroom for such occasions as this. She moved the stool to the head of the claw-footed bathtub and sat down. She watched as her oldest son, as gently as possible, picked up her only daughter, and lower her into the cold bath water. Dawn immediately held on to her daughters shoulders, to keep her head above water. Dawn scooped some water in her hand and wiped in over her daughters head. " It's okay my baby girl. Mommy's here, I've got you now. Your going to be okay." Dawn just kept muttering loving things like that into her ear. After a few moments she looked up to her sons. She could tell they felt help less. "William go fix your sisters' room up, change her sheets and all that rot. Don't forget to get her some light clothing that we'll be able to put her in. Andrew, go do some research and see what you can find on what the hell is going on. Michael, go make the guck that we can leave in her room. That should relieve some of the pain as well." she ordered her sons, who wasted no time in doing as she said. Dawn watched as Lauren did an assessment of the injuries that Dani was suffering from. She also noticed that Buffy seemed to come out of her daze and pushed Angel and Connor out of the bathroom. Dawn couldn't help but let a smirk come to her face when Buffy tried to push Spike out of the bathroom, and was met with his vampire guise and a menacing growl that dared her to try and keep him away from his daughter. Needless to say Buffy backed off on that one.
Spike couldn't think straight. His daughter was in so much pain and he could smell small amount of blood coming from her. He couldn't believe that just a while earlier his daughter had been hugging him for the first time in over a century, and now she was injured almost beyond repair. He wanted to get his hands on something and make it pay for hurting his little girl. He slid down the wall and sat on the floor as he watched his wife and his mother attend to his teenage daughter. But a moment later he was gasping for air in surprise. "Daddy." Dani let out a barley audible request, and he could tell by Dawn's eyes that he better get his ass moving quickly. He was beside his daughter in a moment. "Hey platelet, Daddy's here, love." he tried to sound as calm as possible. She opened her eyes slowly and looked at him. "Please don't worry about me Daddy. I'll be fine. Trust me." she gave him a slight smile that turned into a wince and then closed her eyes as she once again let the cold water numb her injuries.