"Season 8"
Disclaimer: I don't own it
Pairing: B/K
Summary: Willow dumps Kennedy and she finds comfort in an unlikely source. This is it four more chapters.
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Chapter 19: Finding out how/why
Slayer Central
They had her all hooked up, to all different kinds of machines. Just in case they couldn't reverse the spell they were hoping modern technology would keep her alive. Since that spell was created before everything they have nowadays. They might actually be able to beat this that is if Kennedy fails.
None of them wanted to see Buffy die. As much as they pretended to hate her, the truth is that she is undoubtedly the leader of their group. She has seen things that they could only dream of, faced demons that they believed were only in nightmares…she defeated a God, how many other slayers can say that.
Plus they all still had so much more to learn, and if she died, who would teach them? Who would show them that it's okay t fail, that's it's okay to ask for help? And most importantly not to let the slayer become your identity.
They had all been told stories about Buffy when they were being trained. She was mostly used what a slayer is not supposed to be, because she wet against everything that was the council. That's why she was a hero in many of their eyes.
"Are you okay?" Cordelia turned around to see one of the potential slayers behind her. If she remembered correctly her name was Vi.
"I'm fine," she paused. "It's just that I remembered her beating back darker forces than this," she said. "This is her best friends doing, someone she trusted the most." I think that's why it bothers all of us that where close to her the most," Cordelia said.
"Why?" Vi asked confused.
"Because we thought she would die some heroic death, this is not heroic," Cordelia said as she got up from the chair she was sleeping in a left the room and Buffy alone. Cordelia really hoped Kennedy could go through with what needed to be done.
Warehouse
Kennedy stood outside the warehouse and when she looked in the window what she saw horrified her. Willow was being held done as some back sprit thing went into her body, or at least tried to.
Is that the thing that's made them all go evil? Is that's what made Willow try to kill her best friend? As I look at this why do I feel like not killing her anymore?
Before Kennedy could react to walk she was doing she into the warehouse. Knocked everyone that was around Willow on their butts, she was surprised because they were all human. If their human then how to the detain Faith, Angel and Spike enough to get the sprit into them? She asked herself and that's when she heard it.
The sound of chains. They must chain them up tight enough to where they can't move. Kennedy got outside and found a safe spot to where her and Willow could hide until they stopped looking for them.
"Ken," Willow said weakly.
"I hope you're not too weak you need to perform one more spell," Kennedy said with no sign of sadness in her voice. Kennedy picked Willow up and threw her over her shoulder and headed back towards slayer central where Buffy waited.
Slayer Central
They could tell she was getting weaker by the second because her breathes where coming few and further between. She body temperature was going down way more than it should have. And that's when Cordelia realized that if Kennedy didn't get here soon Buffy would die.
That's when they all heard the doors start to open and when the door to Buffy's room finally opened in walked Kennedy with Willow over her shoulder. Kennedy threw Willow into the chair. "Make her better," Kennedy said.
"I need to be alone with her," Willow said.
Kennedy nodded and the room emptied. Willow was alone with her, yet Kennedy wasn't nervous. Kennedy knew that without that black sprit in her Willow wouldn't do anything to hurt Buffy. That's when Kennedy decided to go to the library. When Buffy was ready she would come and find her.
Library
Kennedy walked into the library and went straight over to the computer and looked up sprits. She found out where the book was located and then went and retrieved it. She took the book and sat at a table and started to look for the one she saw.
After about five minutes she came across the one she saw. It was called the challenger. It got into someone and challenged the good inside versus the bad. If your bad self wins that you revert to the time when you were bad, when you would do things you would rather forget.
If the better half won than you would never have to face the challenger again. Why where they after Willow and the rest of the Scooby Gang?
Buffy's room
Buffy awoke about an hour after Willow had cast the counter spell. When she opened her eyes she saw everyone in the room. Everyone that is but who she wanted to see. "Kennedy?" she asked.
"Right here," Kennedy said as she came walking through the door. "I was catching up on a little reading," Kennedy said and she handed the book to Giles. "This is what we're up against. Right Willow?" Kennedy asked showing a picture.
"Yup that's it," she said.
"Hum, the challenger." He said. "He pits good against evil within someone's body," he said. "I've never heard of this demon before. Nice work Kennedy," Giles said.
"So why are they here?' Kennedy asked.
Giles was silent for a moment as he read on. "Oh dear," he said. Then he looked up at them all. "The end of the world…again." They all rolled their eyes. "This time it's more serious. This sprit gets inside everyone and turns good versus evil, and nine times out of ten the evil side will win," he said. "Basically this sprit turns everyone against each other, but if it's in it's host long enough it kills them from within." Giles said. "Once it kill's it's host it turns into it's less pleasant self," he said showing them a picture.
"He isn't that big," Vi commented on. And that's when Giles start unfolding the pages from the inside, which three people had to hold. "It is that big."