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Scene opens: Angel was delayed and the whole crew has been getting more and more impatient with Buffy. Wanting her to tell them whatever news she's hiding so closely.

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Chapter Four

Count Down to Judgment Day:

T Minus Seven (pt4):

Telling of Judgment:

The team of Angel Investigations had been invited into the house by Dawn, while Joyce went to go get Buffy.

"Buffy everyone's here now. I think it's time we let them know why they've been called." Joyce called through Buffy's locked bedroom door.

Buffy's mind had been racing all day, trying to keep from thinking about the dream that the Powers had sent her.. Now that Angel was here she'd have to remember exactly what happened. (Oh God I don't know if I can do this. Why couldn't we just deal with our 'normal' lives and it could have been over in an instant. But now we have to fight to survive when everyone else is going to die.) She called to her mom. "Ok I'll be down in just a minute." (God give me the strength to do this. Once I tell them everything will be changed.)

Buffy went down the stairs, feeling as if she was on her way to her execution. There was a lot of conversation with all sorts of speculations on exactly what she was going to tell them. (Her Slayer senses had let her pick up on it for most of the afternoon, she thought. (No one had gotten closer than another apocalypse. If only they knew the half of it.)

When Buffy came down the stairs the look on her face told everyone that knew her, that it was extremely bad news. Normally Buffy would simply tell a couple of them what was going on and start working to prevent it. This waiting until everyone had arrived was freaking out her friends.

Joyce came up to her and gave her a cup of cocoa with little marshmallows in it. "Here you go honey."

Buffy had to smile at that. "Thanks mom I appreciate it." (I wonder if we'll ever again have something this clean and simple after it happens.) She thought mournfully.

"I guess your all wondering why I've asked you here." Buffy had tried to force the old California dumb blonde valley girl into her speech. It was obviously not working.

The facetious opening line from Buffy simply demanded a response from the resident smart Alec, Xander thought. As he was wanting to help break the tension and Buffy's line was to good to pass up. "Buffy you better not be a self destructing tape deck offering us a mission should we choose to accept it. You'd mess up the carpet."

Xander's joke had fallen flat as far as Buffy and Joyce were concerned. Willow got a little kick out of it. So Buffy didn't call him on it.

Thoughts were racing through the minds of Buffy's listeners.)

Giles: (Dear Lord what on Earth could it be. We've stopped more than one apocalypse and other than coming back from the dead Buffy has never looked like this.)

Willow: (Goddess there was more life in Buffy's eye's when we found her after digging herself out of her grave. Whatever it is I'll do anything to help her. I owe her and everyone else to much after nearly destroying the world not to give her whatever I can. Even if it's my life. If she need's it, it's hers.)

Xander : (This is gonna be bad.)

Anya: (She better fess up. I'm getting tired of all this sitting around. I could have been working to get the shop open again, instead of sitting around and thinking about boiling Xanders manly body alive.)

Angel: (I can't believe she waited until we got here.)

Cordellia: (Why'd she have to be a drama queen and drag us all the way up here. Hellooo hasn't she ever heard of phones?)

Gunn: (Whatever blondie has to say it better be worth all this. But the vibes I've been getting since we walked in tells me this is going to be big.)

Wesley: (I dare say this had better be important. I was researching the Sulreck summoning ritual. All that I've determined so far is that it will be preformed in about a months time. And that it will wipe out LA if we don't stop it.)

Joyce: (Once she tells them what's happening maybe they can come up with something to stop it.)

Dawn: ( I wish.."sorry mom"… that Buffy or mom would have told me what was going on. Finally I'll get to know what's going on when everyone else will. I'm so tired of being treated like a little kid.) Dawn was trying desperately to keep her triumphant expression off her face. But those who knew her well would be able to read her like an open book. But her secret was safe. Since all eye's were firmly fixed on Buffy.

"I really wis… Uhm cut that. This is really bad and I really really, don't want to have to tell you all of what I have to tell you." Buffy kept fidgeting and it was obvious that she didn't want to be doing this. She was stalling and it was obvious that she was stalling.

"This will be hard enough to tell you all. So please don't interrupt. I only want to go through this one time. I need to get it all off my chest but it wouldn't have been fair to tell any of you without the others before hand. I went to pieces this morning when I woke up and Mom was there and helped pull me back together. I think I'd better start with a bit of background for why this is so important for those who don't know me very well. Or might have forgotten some of my less common abilities." Buffy said as she was nodding to some of Angels associates.

"Slayers can have prophetic dreams. They are more commonly called Slayer Dreams. A Slayer always knows if the dream is important or if it's only a normal nightmare." Giles shifted a little at Buffy's statement.

"The dreams tend to be warnings about impending disaster or apocalypse." The strain that was evident in Buffy's voice was getting steadily worse.

Xander: (Oh man I knew it!)

"This morning I woke up screaming from a Slayer dream. In my dream the lot us were dealing with a huge vampire nest. I don't know exactly where… But that's not the point." Buffy was starting to go pale under her California tan.

Giles: (What is it, that scares her so much. We've dealt with hellgods. Surely this couldn't be something that we can't can handle?)

"What's important is that we were winning. It was still going to be a major fight. But we still had it won. Then there was this blindingly bright light that came from behind me. It blinded all of us. It seemed like it was as bright as the sun. Maybe because it was my dream I could see even though II was blinded to. The light started the vampires burning, even faster than if they had taken a stroll down the beach during a cloudless day." You could here the strain in Buffy's voice kick up another notch.

Anya: (Dead Vamps good. Bright light not so good. I hope…)

"When the vampires started to dust OUR clothes started to catch fire." Buffy had gone beyond pale. To those who knew her at that point she looked as bad as shortly after she'd clawed her way out of her grave. Buffy was obviously cracking under the strain.

Willow: (Goddess no. She's falling apart. Hold on Buffy we're here for you.)

"Seconds after we had started to burn a wave of complete destruction swept over us, destroying everything it touched. Then it was like I was in space looking down at the Earth. I could see massive explosions all across the face of the world." Buffy's voice sounded as if she'd been danmed for all eternity. No one human could have so much regret and sorrow in their voice.

Angel: (What could the Powers want?)

"I was back where we were fighting. It was sometime in the future, everything was in ruins. All that was left of us were some scattered bones and skulls. One of the skulls I was looking at had on a familiar pair of glasses which I was focusing on. Suddenly a gleaming metallic foot came down and crushed the skull." Buffy was visibly straining to get the next few words out.

Joyce: (Hold on sweetie.)

"It was part of a metallic skeleton. Firing some sort of laser rifle. It turned on me and fired." Buffy collapsed with her last words and retreated into a near catatonic state.

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