"Season 5 and up"
Pairings: Kennedy/Buffy
Summary: Season 8
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Chapter 18: What should I do?
Buffy and Kennedy's room
Kennedy was alone in the room with Buffy. Everyone else had already left room to go do something else, they didn't know what it was exactly that they were going to do, and they just wanted to leave Kennedy alone. They all know that Kennedy blames this on herself, and there is nothing that anyone can do to convince her otherwise.
She explained that if she hadn't of gotten into a fight with Buffy than her and Buffy would have left the room together, and she wouldn't be dieing right now. Dawn tried to explain to her that Willow could have gotten them both if she hadn't have walked out. But Kennedy wouldn't have any of that. She believed it was her fault, and from Dawn's experience with Slayers she knew not to argue with them.
The door to the bedroom opened and when Kennedy turned around she saw Cordelia walking over to her. First Cordelia looked down at Buffy a sighed. All the years she has known the slayer she never looked so defeated in her life. Cordelia then looked over at Kennedy. Buffy loved her, there was no question to that, but how much was she willing to lose to win this battle, because not everyone was going to make, that's for sure.
"Help her," Kennedy said. "I know you work for the Powers That Be and I know you can heal her," Kennedy said as she looked at the brunette that was once Buffy's competition. "Please."
It hurt Cordelia to see the younger slayer pleading like this. But what could she really do, if she brought Buffy back she wouldn't be back forever, she would just be back to fight the finally battle. Then she would be taken away again, that was the limit to that power.
"I'm sorry Kennedy but I can't," Cordelia said as she turned and walked out of the bedroom.
Once again Kennedy was alone. "Buffy what should I do?" she asked her lover. The only way to wake her up would be to kill the person that cast the spell and Kennedy knew that Buffy wouldn't want her to kill Willow. "I can't do this without you," she said into the blonde's hair. "Help me."
Main hall
Giles was sitting at the table and as he looked around he saw every potential slayer and watcher with a book in their hands. They all were trying to find another way to revert the spell and wake Buffy up again before she dies in her sleep.
He couldn't take this, he didn't know what Kennedy would do if Buffy didn't pull through this. He doubted that she would want to continue slaying, she would quit for sure. None of the realized it but Buffy and Kennedy's relationship had become the center of the slayer line. Everyone turned to them when they needed something, everyone tried to help them when they were fighting, and everyone tried to save them when they were dieing.
Giles feared that if Buffy didn't make it out of this that Slayer Central would crash down around them.
Xander's office
Xander looked at the book before him, this is the box that told him how to wake Buffy up. To kill the person that cast the spell. Tears were running down his face because he didn't want to lose Buffy but he couldn't kill Willow. Why did his life have to be so complicated?
He looked to his left as saw a pistol sitting there. Why was he always the one that got stuck in the middle? It was never Buffy choosing which one of their best friend gets to life or die. No it was always him and he was getting sick of it.
Warehouse
Willow sat in the front of the room surrounded by everyone that wanted the slayer dead. It was being counted down now, until the time that the stormed Slayer Central. Both she and Faith knew the in and outs of that building like the back of their hands. And with out Buffy around Kennedy would be careless and they would take the house easily.
Yet for some reason her grip on the evil was slipping and bits and bits of humanity were getting in. She was feeling bad that Buffy might no ever wake up again, and that Kennedy probably hadn't left the bed side since she found her in her coma state.
Why did she have to feel this way?
Faith's motel room
Willow had commanded that she go home and get some rest, the only problem being that her home was Slayer Central so she had to go out and but a hotel room. Willow had explained to her what she had done to Buffy and for some reason all she wanted to do was help her sister slayer.
They had slayed side by side for years and now she was just going to be put to sleep by her best friend, for some reason that didn't seem right. Faith always pictured Buffy's death being at the hands of some master demon or a God, which once it was. After all Glory killed her and Glory was a God, or so she was told.
Buffy and Kennedy's room
Kennedy was still sitting at Buffy's bedside; she didn't want to leave her blonde lover. The door opened again and she turned and saw Xander come walking through the door. He looked sad and how could blame him. One of his best friends was dieing and the other one was the cause of it.
He walked over to the bed and set the gun down on the bed. He looked at Kennedy. "Do what you have to just don't tell me about it," he said and then he left.
Kennedy looked at Buffy sleeping, dieing, and then she looked back at the gun. She knew what she had to do. She grabbed the gun and walked out of the bedroom.
AN: next chapter will be on May 26th b/c i have my senior ball next weekend.