Serrafina: I'm hopeless at keeping track of what has happened in each season, as I don't have the box sets. So for the purposes of this story just consider this the potential AU-ness I previously mentioned. I hope this doesn't ruin the story for you.
As for Graham and Forest's personalities being switched… I REALLY don't like Graham, and Forest got killed so I don't have to care about him.
Thank you for questioning instead of ranting.
Black Shadow Stalker (formerly koradee).
Thanks to Queen Boadicea for her polite and appreciated comment about 'proper grammar and spelling' (I don't have a beta).
Thanks to all my reviewers
Disclaimers: See first chapter.
A/N: I'm not going to re-write the fight scene from the unit's POV (point of view).
A/N 2: Just imagine the scene where Graham injures Forest, preventing him from warning Buffy or preventing the attack (unless it is specifically asked for, in which case I will write it).
A/N 3: This chapter follows on from Buffy's thoughts from chapter 5.
Chapter Nine: Breath of life.
Buffy's vision began to grey at the edges as her audio senses distorted into a low pitched incomprehensible drone. She looked at the face of her demon attacker, who to those without a concussion or blood in their eyes looked like a some-what drunk college student adorned in BDU's, holding a futuristic-looking gun-like weapon (a blaster).
As Buffy lost consciousness and her breathing became shallow to the point of ceasing, a woman watched this via the cameras and heard each of it's (her) gasped breaths decrease in frequency and intensity. And she smiled.
Dr Walsh smiled as she watched her (yes she knew) drunk soldiers killing the Slayer. She was so proud. They were protecting the threat to the family…permanently, and eliminating the thing that was confusing Riley (he was essential to the program), and was tearing him away from his family.
Yes, she had seen it having sex with him after entering his room. That could not be allowed. Thanks to her cameras she knew how entrenched into his life it had become. It could not be allowed. She would not allow her boys to be used in such a way by anyone, let alone by such a thing! No. She would not allow it. She would protect her boys, even if they didn't know they needed it, or were receiving it.
And as she was watching, Buffy fell unconscious and her ribs rose…
…and fell…
and rose…
…and fell…
…
…
…and stilled.
A/N 4: If you have any comments or questions use that little blue box, and I'll respond in the next chapter.
