Time Out
By Penmom
Author's Notes: (1) ENJOY. (2) Feedback would make for a lovely Christmas.
Chapter Three
London
Since the moment he set foot in Britain, the insistent throb in his brain continually worsened. Maybe it was the stress of it all? Maybe it was the sun after all? The feeling was starting to really wear on him. Wear on him to the extent that all of little, unconscious things that he did to control his demon were beginning to review more attention than they had in years - certainly the most effort since the big boom, even since the soul.
Any maybe. Just maybe it was Buffy. Maybe Buffy was causing this disturbance in the Force so to speak. He kind of hoped that she was the cause of it all. If she can bring this on fifteen kilometers out, she can't be as bad off as they said.
He leaned back in his cab and enjoyed the migraine. He could use the tempo of the throbbing to measure the distance to her side.
When the cab turned off the roundabout toward St. Anne's, he actually slipped into game face - just for a moment or two but still…for those moments, the headache let up and in its face, he was a predator. A predator in a way he hadn't been in forever. He could hear everything so clearly --- every beat of the cabbie's heart. He was poised to take the old guy just as a weak ray of sunshine hit him directly in the face.
Roused by a proverbial glass of cold water to the face, Bill Knot climbed up to consciousness and pulled back a very agitated demon.
The car stopped. " 'Ar you go, Sir" the man stated merrily as if he had done something truly spectacular by navigating the roads of London. Little did the guy know that he had truly accomplished a noble feat - he had escaped William the Bloody.
Suite C/St. Anne's Hospice/ London
Her spidy sense is wiggy. She knows the moment he arrives. She can feel it in her bones. Thank God, Giles had left an hour ago. It will be good to do this alone - romantic and tragic. With an audience, it would have been another punch bowl conversation full of pleasantries and not much more.
She smiles at what Mrs. Brown will say when she sees him. Mrs. Brown who swoons at the sight of Giles. She may soon be taking up the empty suite beside of Buffy after she sees Spike.
TBC
12/19/2005