Cordelia's New Obsession Book 1 24?
One Week Later
Countdown to Homecoming- 5 days
The fallen slayers funeral was very emotional at best, especially for Buffy. This was the third time she had to bury someone close to her. She was blaming herself for their deaths if it wasn't for her they would still be here. Jenny told her it wasn't her fault and sometimes innocents don't make it out alive. The elder Wicca also told her that Faith had not died in vain, she died fighting for her. Now she wished she could take it back and been the one who died in her place. Faith's mother moved away to Boston, but sends Buffy a letter like twice a month to let her know that she was alright. Now she was trying to keep her life in order. It was hard, but it had to be done, sometimes life happens.
Jenny had been concerned about Buffy; she hadn't been acting like herself since the slayer died. She doesn't eat, sleep, or really do anything; it was like she had completely given up. There was no one for her to talk to Faith was gone, and Cordelia seemed to have disappeared, much to Giles delight. He was oblivious to the young girl's pain; all he was concerned about was the great evil that was coming. Jenny had taken Buffy dress shopping for Homecoming at Ethan's, but Buffy really wasn't in to. Although she picked out a beautiful white spaghetti strap dress, with a split to die for, it showed a lot of leg when you moved, and the back was dangerously low, but not too low. Jenny thought the young Wicca would look good in it.
Buffy came home from school in another bad mood. She hasn't seen or heard from Cordelia since 'Commandant Giles' told her to stay away. She even tried to go by her house, but to no avail, Drusilla always told her the same thing, she's not here, etc. etc. Ever since the vampire disappeared, she has been feeling weak and lethargic, not only that she looked like she was pale. Hopefully no one else noticed this about her, the last thing she needed was to set off alarms. Buffy put those thoughts aside and started concentrating on homecoming. The dance was Saturday and she had to work on her acceptance speech for the coronation. It was times like this that she wished Faith was here for this. She was her biggest supporter behind all things homecoming, or prom, or whatever.
"Buffy, is that you?" Jenny asked from the kitchen.
Buffy walked into the kitchen and saw her aunt baking cookies.
"Yeah, it's me. Please don't ask about school, it's the same as always, no I haven't seen Cordelia, and I've been working on my acceptance speech." She told her almost mechanically.
Jenny looked at the girl sympathetically, her life had now become routine, and the young girl was not liking it one bit.
"Is there anything bothering you? You've been going through mood swings, and you are looking extremely pale. Are you feeling well?" She asked concerned.
"Listen it's nothing to worry about, I'm fine. It must be that bug that's going around school, no big. I'll be upstairs in my room if you need me."
Buffy walked out of the kitchen and up the stairs before Jenny could say anything. Her hands were tied so she did the next logical thing, Jenny called for her mother. Amy popped into the kitchen and smiled at her daughter.
"You yelled?" She asked her daughter.
"Yeah, I did. I'm concerned about Buffy." Jenny told her mother.
Amy let out a long sigh, she wondered how oblivious to Buffy's pain that they were going to be. The poor girl was heart sick, love sick and lonely, she basically has no one.
"It took you now to notice these things. I knew ever since Faith was buried." Amy told her honestly.
Jenny looked at her mother; she still wondered how she knew more about Buffy than she did. The girl was practically living in her house, and there isn't much she can tell about her. She's closed off emotionally, and won't let anyone in. Not only that Lindsey hasn't been around and that's just weird.
"She won't talk to me. I just want to know what's going on with her, she's real closed off. Lindsey hasn't been around as of late, she is like a shell of herself."
"Jennifer, I'm going to tell you something. Our young Buffy is in love, it's hard to believe, but she is. You've taken away her only chance of happiness, what you don't know is that they've created a bond with each other. One that is so strong that they feel it whenever they are apart for a long period of time. She is feeling that pain, it happens when you find your soul mate and then are suddenly yanked apart. Buffy was happiest when she was with Cordelia, and now her happiness is gone. Her best friend is dead, another friend is in an asylum, ex boyfriend is dead, another friend is in another city, the only one she has left is Xander. But with the short leash you keep her on prevents her from seeing him." She told her daughter.
"It wasn't my idea mother, it was Rupert's. I just went along with it because he is my husband. How was I supposed to know what was going on between the two of them. I thought it was a good thing because it seemed like Cordelia was trying to take over her life." She tried to explain.
"You may have seen it one way, but Buffy was just trying to seek approval. All her life she has been the good girl, the one who does whatever she was told, but it was never good enough for Joyce, her father, Rupert, even you. Everyone puts so much on her, that everyone forgets that she is just a girl. A teenage girl who has to fight off this evil that's supposed to come against her. The girl stopped going to see Tara, and she is the most important person for her to be around. I'm going to tell you know, if you don't pull your act together Buffy is going to be a lost cause." She told her daughter.
"My hands are tied, what am I supposed to do? I want Buffy happy, but I don't want that happiness to be with a vampire. I don't care if they are soul mates or not."
Amy let out a loud breath and looked at her daughter. Sometimes she wondered if her emotional side disappeared over time. Rupert probably drilled it in her head that emotions are a weakness or that Buffy needs to concentrate on her calling. Sometimes he wondered if he was emotional as a blueberry scone.
"I'll leave you with this; you keep her away from that vampire anymore. When the time comes she won't have a hard decision to make. I'm going to go talk to my granddaughter."
Amy popped out of the kitchen leaving Jenny behind to think. She wondered what her mother meant by that parting warning. Her mother was always cryptic when it came down to things. She went back to finding something for dinner.
Buffy was in her room doing her homework when her grandmother popped into the room.
"Hello dear." Amy greeted the girl.
Buffy put down her pencil and gave her grandmother a hug. She was the only one who really understood what she was going through. Her grandmother would never pass judgment or chastise her for the way she feels.
"Hi grandma. What brings you by?"
Amy took a seat in the arm chair in the corner. Buffy sat back down on her bed with a soft thud.
"I was just talking to Jenny about some things. I also wanted to see how you're doing; I can feel what you're going through. I know how hard it is to have the one you love taken away from you. Right now you're suffering and I feel your pain." She told her sympathetically.
"I don't know what to do grandma. It feels like I'm dying inside. I miss her so much; I call out to her, my blood screams for her, but nothing. I need her grandma and there is nothing I could do about it. Grandma without her I feel incomplete like a piece of me, I know it's wrong on all levels, but I can't help the way I feel." She started crying.
Amy moved over to the bed and enveloped her into a hug. Buffy continued to cry and cry until all that was left was silent sobs. Amy's heart went out to the girl, she understood completely what she was going through. She's been there before except it was a necromancer that she was in love with. Her parents stood in the way and she never found a love like that again. She was happy with Jenny's father, but not completely happy like she pretended to be.
"Buffy, my sweetheart. It's going to be okay, your heart wants what the heart wants. You can't stop that no matter how hard you tried, and that little spell you did last week didn't work because you were doing it for all the wrong reasons. What did I have to tell you about using magic for personal gain?"
The blonde wiped her eyes and looked up at the older woman. "It will always have consequences that are not of the good." She gave her a smile.
"That's right angel. How has your uncle been?" She had a strange feeling about that man. If anyone could sense strangeness that would be Buffy.
"He has been real distant, it's like he is a pod person. He's been spending all of his time in the study. Get this, he puts me on lock down when Jenny isn't in the house, all of a sudden he's taken a keen interest in me. It's all kind of weird, and I don't think any of this has to do with Cordelia. I get this weird vibe off of him I read his aura and it was not pleasant. I got a sense of evil off him, and not in the good way." She told her aunt honestly.
They continued talking for a good while about how she feels for Cordelia, the strangeness that is her uncle, and the disappearance of Lindsey. After that heart to heart with her grandma Buffy felt a little better and went back to doing her homework.
Cordelia's House
Cordelia was going crazy; there was nothing anyone could do. She could feel Buffy calling out to her, the blood screaming. All she wanted to do was answer her and make the blonde hers over and over again. The time for that was nigh, but the underworld was abuzz with news of a great evil happening over the hellmouth. She could feel the change and the shift in power. Something big was going to happen, and she was going to be there to make sure nothing happens to her future childe.
"Drusilla get in here!" She yelled for her childe/sometimes lover.
"You called? I was busy." She gritted out.
"Has Lindsey mentioned or said anything about Buffy? I've been dying to know how she is doing. I have to stay away from her until Saturday night; Buffy has to be seriously craving me."
"Lindsey hasn't been able to go home as of late. His father is acting all wiggy, it's like he has Buffy on lockdown from the time she comes home from school until she gets up in the morning. What he can see is that Buffy is clearly unhappy and definitely missing you. I say you've got her where you want her. Something about the uncle seems very off, it's like he is darker somehow and I think Buffy is afraid. Did it say what exactly this all consuming evil is?"
"No, it just said that it's someone the golden warrior would know, but not really. Prophesies are vague at best. Especially ones involving her, there is like several that revolve around her." Cordelia stated with a bored tone.
"Listen, this is all well and good, but I need to get back to my man. You need to hurry up and do what you have to do, before something really happens to her."
Drusilla walked out of the vampiress' room. Cordelia sat down on the bed and put her hands in her head. Nothing is going the way she had planned it, if anything it's starting to fall apart, but she was not giving up her plan to turn Buffy. That will happen regardless, she waited years for her and now that she finally had her, she's not giving her up for anything. They are going to have to kill her first before she ever let her go.
Giles House
Buffy, Jenny and Giles were sitting at the table eating. Buffy really haven't had an appetite as of late, but Giles made her eat anyway. The couple kept talking and Buffy sat there and moved her food around her plate. Jenny noticed this and tried to engage Buffy into conversation.
"Buffy, have you worked on your acceptance speech?"
Buffy looked up from her plate, "Yeah, I did. I don't know if I'm going to win or not. Amber has a pretty loyal following as do I, but who knows." She said softly.
Giles hardened at the talk of homecoming. He had forbidden Buffy to go, but she was an insolent little child. He had to keep his dark thoughts away, if he didn't it was going to ruin the element of surprise. He wants to see the look on her face when he will cause her down fall. The 'Golden Girl' wouldn't know what hit her, with the vampire out of the way it was going to be easy.
"I know you're going to win. Don't you think Rupert?" Jenny looked at her husband.
"Oh, yeah she will win hands down." He said as sincerely as he could get.
Jenny could tell that something was wrong with her husband. He has been a lot more distant as of late, and he has some kind of issue with Buffy. Every time she asked him about it, he would brush it off. She tried to do an empathy spell and nothing came about. Buffy was suffering the most of all because she is always on house arrest, and she knows that she misses Lindsey a lot. Something was going on and she was going to get down to the bottom of it.
"Buffy have you been practicing your skills?" Giles had asked the girl.
She looked at her uncle in distaste, "No, I haven't thanks to you. I'm on lock down twenty four-seven!" She threw her fork down and ran upstairs.
Giles was pissed and Jenny was concerned. Something was going on between the two of them. Buffy had never been this disrespectful to him, and he never been so snarky with her. Without saying anything Jenny got up from the table and took her and Buffy's plate to the kitchen.
"Jenny is there something going on with Buffy that I should know about?"
Giles had followed Jenny into the kitchen to help with the dishes. It was something that wouldn't make Jenny think that something was off.
"She doesn't talk to me. Ever since Faith died, she has withdrawn into herself; no one knows what's going on with her. I do know one thing though, she is missing Cordelia."
Giles tried not to let his hatred for the vampire show through, "Well, it's for the best, after all she could be the one who is after our dear Buffy."
Jenny thought about that several times but it didn't add up. If she was part of the evil then she wouldn't have helped Buffy defeat Jax, or helped her through her crisis with Willow, Angel, and Faith. The couple cleaned up the kitchen in silence.
Buffy sat in her room looking out the window; the tears were falling down her face. Life was starting to get unbearable without Cordelia or Faith around. Thanks to Giles her life is going to hell in a hand basket.
Cordelia sat in her room looking out the window thinking about Buffy. She could feel her all around; her scent was all over the room, the house and everything. Here she was supposed to be the almighty big bad, but she was in love with a warrior for good. With her resolve set she was on a new mission to find out who the hell is after her girl.