Cordelia's New Obsession 20

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General Mac- another chapter for you, since you asked so nicely

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Three Weeks after Angel's Death

Buffy, Faith, Cordelia and Xander were sitting under a tree having a mock picnic. Buffy had been so busy with Wicca stuff that she hadn't had time for her friends. Well, except for Cordelia. They've been spending a lot of time together, much to the disapproval of Giles. Jenny really didn't have a problem with them spending time; Buffy seemed a lot happier with the other girl around. Since Willow isn't there anymore, but something about their relationship plagued her though. It seemed like Buffy was leaning too heavily on the girl. She made a mental note to talk to the young girl; dependency is never a good thing.

"Homecoming is in a few weeks, are you going to run for homecoming queen?" Faith asked putting down her sandwich.

Buffy shrugged her shoulders, "It might be a possibility, then again it depends on who is running against me." She leaned back under the tree.

"I for one think you should run Buff, I mean you so deserve that title." Xander responded.

"I know, but with this big evil coming up, it might be hard to campaign. I have to be on my best. Not only do I have a warlock hell bent on killing me. I have a vampire who wants to kill me or possibly change me. Depending on what day of the week it is."

Cordelia was thoughtful while listening to Buffy talk. She reflected on the past two weeks. The breaking of Buffy has been coming along nicely, not only did the blonde let her chose her clothes, she let her tell her how to wear her hair, and what to wear. Not only that, but she's been allowing the vampire to awaken her sexual nature, they haven't went all the way yet. That was something she was saving for the night of homecoming. Plus Buffy was getting in touch with her dark side, and it was lovely. No one else noticed that when Buffy got upset, her developing fangs would show.

"What do you think Queen C? I think Buffy should run, better yet, you can run against her." Xander grinned.

Faith threw a Cheeto at her boyfriend. "Why would C want to run against her sweetie?"

"Why does everyone assume that Cordelia and I are dating each other? We are really good friends like you and I are." She tried to explain.

Cordelia rolled her eyes, at the blonde's denial. They have been dating, but Buffy wanted to keep it on the down low.

Faith threw a Cheeto at Buffy, "B you and I don't choose each others clothes, or steal kisses or glances when no one was watching. Or the way you say you mi-."

"Faith, your sandwich is going to get hard if you don't eat it." She told her none too nicely.

The brunette picked up her sandwich and took a bite. This earned a little noise from Xander.

"Have you been to see Willow yet?" Cordelia asked between sips of her 'juice'.

"I have been to see her twice already. She seems to be cognizant, but other times she seems to be out of it. They moved her out of the padded room." Buffy answered.

"That's a good thing right?" Xander asked.

"Well yeah, I would like to think so." Buffy answered. She reached down and grabbed Cordelia's cup and began drinking it.

The vampire tried to protest, but Buffy was already halfway done. Cordelia took the cup out of her grasp. The blondes eyes were glazed over, she couldn't help but smile at her thirst for blood.

Buffy took a sip of her water. Cordelia had been slowly weaning her off of her blood, but she still had the taste for it.

"Dang B, you must have been thirsty." Faith teased.

"What? It was good, unlike anything I've tasted." She smiled.

Xander looked back and forth between Buffy and Cordelia. Something was quite wrong with their relationship. He mentioned something to Faith about it, but she just shrugged it off. He had been very observant about things, and Buffy was starting to change, but he didn't know into what.

Lindsey and Drusilla approached the little group. "Oh look if it isn't the Queen of the Damned and her little lap dog." Faith said in disgust.

Drusilla being a vampire came to a shock to everyone. Especially Jenny and Giles, he nearly had a coronary when he found out. Jenny tried to make the best out of a situation; Drusilla seemed like a very nice girl. She treated Lindsey right, she couldn't complain, besides he was old enough to make his own decisions.

"Hey, don't talk about Lindsey like that. Even though he is getting his fuck on with a creature of the night, he is still my cousin." Buffy got defensive.

"Calm down a little Buffster, no need to get defensive."

"Sorry, it's just I'm real sensitive about him. Back to homecoming, I think I may run." She gave a smile.

"I think you would win hands down." Lindsey smiled at Buffy.

"Yeah, right." She teased.

"Buffy have you figured out the dress you were going to get?" Drusilla asked, even though she knew that her sire had picked out the perfect dress for her.

"Knowing Buffy she would probably let Cordelia pick it out for her." Faith joked.

Everyone laughed, but only two people knew the truth behind that. Lindsey let out a small oh.

"Buffy, mom wants you home. She says it's really important."

Buffy looked at Lindsey like he was crazy. "You chose now to tell me? She is going to be pissed. Did she say what it concerned?" She asked softly.

"Yeah, she found out who the Warlock is that wants to kill you. I would tell you, but it's for her to say. Also, she found out more information about this dark evil rising." He shrugged his shoulders.

Buffy looked at her friends apologetically as she stood up. She really hated things like this; it was like she never had time for her friends anymore. Cordelia stood up with her, ready to follow.

"I think I better do this on my own. Will I see you later on tonight?" The blonde asked her brunette companion.

Cordelia gave her an enigmatic smile, "Of course sweetie, there is nowhere else I would rather be."

Buffy gave her a small kiss on the lips. She was receiving looks of surprise from everyone.

"What? You act like friends don't kiss each other. Do you have a problem with it?" Cordelia asked none too nicely.

Drusilla and Lindsey smiled and exchanged looks. Faith couldn't help but smile, and Xander had a line of drool coming out of his mouth.

"I will see you tonight. Lindsey will you be coming by later?" She asked her cousin.

Lindsey stopped talking to Xander, "Yeah, I need to speak with you about something anyway."

Buffy walked off leaving the group behind. Cordelia watched as the blonde disappeared.

Giles Home

"Aunt Jenny? I'm home." Buffy yelled out into the house.

Jenny came down stairs and greeted the young girl. She looked like a picture of calm, but on the inside she was scared.

"Lindsey said you found out who wants to kill me. Now what is this new evil rising against me? Please don't be cryptic, Angel is always cryptic." She told her aunt.

"Wait a minute; did you say that Angel is cryptic? I'm sorry sweetie, he's dead."

Buffy looked at her aunt, "I know that, but sometimes he comes to me in my dreams. But he's been so damn vague that I don't know what to make out of them." She left out the rest about homecoming and everything else.

This was a new development that Jenny has heard about. Buffy never mentioned anything about dreams, especially ones about Angel. Something was definitely up with her, because she was never this secretive about anything.

"Okay, we will deal with that later. Right now, the Warlock is called Jax. He wants to kill you and take your power. You need to brace yourself for this, its Willows father. Sheila got suspicious and decided to find out what was going on with him. What she found out shocked her and she told me. Buffy he is very dangerous, this is going to take more than a simple vanquishing sweetie, and you are going to have to send him to hell. He is a danger to every Wicca out there, but he is mainly focused on you."

Buffy took the news in stride. It wasn't every day that someone tried to kill her, or tempt her with darkness. Somehow this was a bit different from everything else. Her best friend's dad is trying to kill her, this was not good.

"So what exactly do you want me to do? I mean a simple vanquish won't help, he is a little more powerful than me. The only way I would be able to defeat him is if-" A light went off in her head. Why didn't she think about this before?

Jenny looked at her niece when she heard her go silent. This only happened when Buffy was upset about something or when she had an idea. Her money was on the latter.

"Drusilla! She's a vampire right? She can drain him, and then I can vanquish him. It's pretty cut and dry." The blonde smiled at her aunt.

"Buffy that is just brilliant! Not only are you savvy and resourceful, you are smart too. Mother!" Jenny yelled out into the room.

Amy popped into the living room five minutes later. A middle aged woman popped in with her, someone Buffy had never seen before.

"Buffy dear how are you?" Amy asked her granddaughter.

"I'm fine grandma, just trying to fight the forces of evil, while Faith fights the forces of darkness." She smiled.

Jenny greeted her mother and her grandmother. "Buffy this is your great-grandmother Elizabeth, for whom you were named." She introduced the young girl.

"Hi." She gave a little wave of her hand.

"I have been hearing wonderful things about you my dear. And you are just as lovely as I imagined." The elder woman praised the teen.

Buffy blushed a deep red. Compliments really weren't her thing; to her she is just a regular person. Everyone else thinks she's special, but she's just Buffy.

"So you want to enlist Drusilla's help? I think it's a good idea, but a vampire working with a Wicca is unheard of." Amy admonished.

"Hush now Amy, I think it's a wonderful idea. It's nice to know that she utilizes what's around her." Elizabeth smiled at her great granddaughter.

"That's all we needed you for. There is nothing more, I have to talk to Buffy about something else." Jenny told the two elders.

They disappeared in thin air. Buffy sat back down on the chair and looked back at her aunt.

"What do you need to talk to me about?" She asked her aunt.

Jenny and Giles have been talking about this in great detail. Buffy and Cordelia have been spending entirely too much time together, and it seemed like she was allowing the other girl to insinuate herself in Buffy's life. It was basically unhealthy, and needed to be stopped.

"Buffy, your uncle and I have been talking; we feel that you spend too much time with Cordelia."

"Wait, you think that I'm spending too much time with Cordelia. She is like one of my best friends. You weren't complaining when I was spending a lot of time with Faith and Willow." She tried not to get angry.

"Buffy, Cordelia is different. She is slowly but surely trying to take over your life. You may not see it, but we do. It concerns us a lot, it's like we don't know you anymore." She pleaded.

Buffy stood up and started pacing back and forth. This was done to keep her from out right attacking her aunt. She could feel the pull of magic, itching to come to the forefront.

"No, she is not. I like having her around because she doesn't treat me like the others do. Cordelia doesn't treat me like a child or treats me differently. She treats me like a normal girl, and she doesn't expect anything from me. You, Giles, grandma, the world expect a lot from me. I can't be everything at once; it's hard trying to be a good friend, a loving daughter, dutiful niece, savior of the world. She gives me a little bit of normalcy that I crave. If you can't see that, then you are definitely blind to the fact."

Out of all the time she's known Buffy, the blonde has never been this passionate about anything. Well, maybe ice skating, but the way she was defending the other girl, it was almost like she was in love with her.

"Buffy, it was just a suggestion. Do you love her?"

Buffy looked at her aunt and smiled, "Yeah, I do. The way I feel about her runs deeper than what I feel for Angel. Everyone says I'm just transferring my feelings from Angel to her. That couldn't be further from the truth. I love her with every fiber of my being, and I will not let anyone stand in the way. Not you, Giles, the PTB, or whoever else, just be happy for me. I am that's all that should matter."

Buffy sat back down on the couch and looked at her aunt. It finally felt good to get all of that off of her chest. Hiding it from everyone was getting harder to do, and with her slip up today it was bound to happen.

"I'm sorry sweetheart, but we just worry t'is all. You are very precious to us, not because of what you are, but because of who you are. Believe it or not you are like a daughter to us, one that we would never have. All we want is your happiness, and if she makes you happy then, we won't stand in your way. There is something that you should know about her though; it's something that you are not going to like."

Jenny warned the blonde. Buffy held up her hand to stop her. "Whatever it is, I don't want to hear it. She got up and walked out of the house leaving Jenny behind.

Buffy walked until she found herself in front of Cordelia's house. It was almost like a second home to her. She was about to knock on the door, when it flew open. Drusilla grabbed her by the hand and brought her in.

"Cordelia is upstairs in her room, go on up." She smiled at the blonde.

Buffy gave her a small smile, and a glance at her cousin. He was acting like she wasn't even there. Something was definitely up with him. Buffy walked up the familiar steps leaving the other two downstairs.

"Are you going to tell her my sweet?" The vampire asked him.

Lindsey gave her a smile, "No, I want it to be a surprise." They both started laughing.

Cordelia's Room

"Buffy come on in, I wasn't expecting to see you until later."

The vampire closed the door behind her. No matter how many times she's been in this room, it never ceased to amaze her. Buffy glanced over to the bed where she's been more times than her own.

"Yeah, well Aunt Jenny and I got into a little disagreement. I decided to come here, Faith wouldn't really understand. Besides I think she and Xander are probably getting their naughty on. I swear it seems like that's all they do." She smiled.

Cordelia sauntered over to the bed, where Buffy was sitting. She could feel the emotions coming off of her in waves. It was actually turning her on, but that would come later, right now it was Buffy's well being.

"I'm glad you're here earlier, we need to continue your lessons. I don't plan on letting you go until I think you've learned your place." She gave her a wicked grin.

Buffy's smile faded a little, "My place. What do you mean?" She was getting nervous now.

Cordelia cursed herself for her slip up, "I didn't mean to say place, I meant to say until I've taught you properly." She gave the blonde a reassuring smile.

The blonde let out a small, 'okay'.