Title; Forbidden Love; Ch 22
Author; DreamInfinity0
Rating; R, language. Character death. Sad, angst. (Might need a tissue)
Characters; Buffy/Angelus, Willow/Xander, Giles, Spike/Dru
Disclaimer; All characters belongs to Joss Whedon
Author Note; Spoilers for So 2: Becoming part 2, complete remake of becoming with a very different ending. ( please review) Story has been beta
No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does.
So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No.
The big moments are gonna come.
You can't help that.
It's what you do afterwards that counts.
That's when you find out who you are.
You'll see what I mean.
The next day;
Buffy is standing by Kendra's grave with Giles. The grave was marble black with white letters on it. It looked like the ones they placed for soldiers that died in the war. Well, she did deserve it. She was a Hero, a soldier, the protector of the world. She wondered for a moment if this is what her grave would look like when she was gone. Black like the cold dark dirt in the ground, dead and never be able to see anybody she loved again. Would she die peacefully or would she die like all slayers did, painfully until that finally moment of giving up?
She wanted to cry as she looked down at the grave. Kendra was like her, a slayer, and she died because of him. Died because she wasn't strong enough to save her, died because she wasn't strong enough to kill her lover.
"Buffy."
Buffy turned to see Giles stand beside her. He can see the tears on her face. He placed a gently hand on her shoulder. "It's not your fault Buffy. Don't blame yourself for this."
Buffy smirked and looked at him. "That's all I see Giles……..is blame. Every time I see or hear someone getting killed by a vampire, I know it's my fault. I wasn't there….when I couldn't..and…"
"Stop." Giles turned to face her. Her face was red and she looked like she was lost. He hated what she was doing to herself. "Buffy it's not your fault. None of us are blaming you, and you can't be every place at once. It's in possible to save everyone in the world. I beg of you to not to make yourself worry about this. I care about you like…a father would and I hate seeing you like this."
Buffy smiled with tears in her eyes. "Like a father would." She repeated. "You think of me like daughter?"
Giles smiled "Yes….I try not to but I don't have any kids and since I became your watcher, it has made me care about you a lot."
Buffy smiled once again not surprised by this because she felt the same way. "Well I'm glad we think alike…for once. I feel the same way."
Giles smiled as Buffy hugged him. "Where do I go from here Giles? How do you make the pain go away?"
"It…It takes time to heal. But if I had the power I would give you a normal life, but I guess you know that's kind of impossible." Giles said.
Buffy rolled her eyes. "Ya my life is nothing but normal now. Anyway I know what I must do." She waited for a moment and took a deep breath realizing and knowing what she must do, and what she should have done at the beginning. "I wasn't ready then, but i think i'm ready now."
Giles stops her. "Buffy I know how this is hurting you. If we had more time then I would say wait, but I don't think we can wait any longer."
Buffy stared at him again wondering what he met. "What do you mean?"
"The watchers' council called. "They know what Angelus done, and they want him dead, no matter what. I'm sorry Buffy." Giles said.
Buffy held the tears in and tried to adsorb once again what she has to do. Buffy turns away as she wiped a tear from her face. "I don't know if I can, but I will try. I can't let him do this…. I can't…. let him hurt my friends again."
"Buffy I know this is hard, you have to be strong….You have too for us and for the world. But whatever happens, we will be here for you. Your friends, family and I." Giles said.
I know. I waited far too long….But I think I am finally ready. I can't hold on to the past anymore. Angel has gone. Nothing's ever goanna bring him back. At that moment her heart felt like it would shatter but it didn't. She would be strong, she had to be.
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Buffy makes her way back home when her mom is there by the steps waiting for her. Her face is red probably from being scared shitless from Angelus scaring her and pissed that her daughter lied to her.
Buffy walked over to her as mom arms were wrapped around her. "Buffy I was worried. Are you are ok?" Joyce said.
"Buffy smiled and released her arms from her mother." I…I think….I went to see Kendra. I guess you want some type of explaining at what you saw yesterday"
"I'm sorry about your friend." Joyce said. Giles called and told me a few things which I'm still unable to believe that….Vampires are real. I mean... That sort of stuff is from books and"…
"Mom it's.... real." Buffy walks inside the house and sits on the living room couch. She sees her mom come in and start to pace. "I know it's hard to believe but it's true."
"Ok maybe it is real but what about you being a…vampire's slayer…I mean it sounds so."
"Crazy ya I know." Buffy said.
"So Angel is a vampire…your boyfriend." Joyce said in horror that her daughter was dating one of those things.
"Ah he was my boyfriend. He lost his soul….That's why he's all evil and...What's to kill us?" Buffy mumbled.
Joyce is still pacing, trying to take in what she's hearing.
"Mom, maybe it's best if Giles explained more of this to you." Buffy said hoping to get out of the situation she was already in.
"I think something's Giles can't explain." Joyce said.
"Like what things." Buffy said hoping and praying this wasn't going to be another sex talk.
"Like the fact you slept with him. Did you? Was he the first? No, wait. I don't wanna know. I don't think I want to." She said pacing.
Great this was going to be another talk Buffy thought. Buffy looked at her embarrassed. "Ah Yeah, he was the first, I mean the only. He wasn't like this before."
Joyce sighed and got over the fact not to yell at her daughter. She already has been through enough. Her friend Kendra died right in front of her, and she was scared shitless to find out Angel was a vampire. Well, and the fact vampires were actually real. That killed people and suck their blood. This only happens in movies, how could this be real? Then to make things worse her daughter slept with…a vampire. Oh god how could things get so out of whack and crazy. She thought. "Buffy he's older than you, and you knew he was a vampire why…did you"
"I know but he wasn't like this before mom. He was nice and perfect and"…
"Are you in love with him?" Joyce asked hoping she wasn't.
"I was." Buffy said.
Oh god. "Were you careful?"
Buffy looks away knowing well enough she couldn't get pregnant anyway. "Vampires are sterile. I can't get pregnant"…
"Buffy it doesn't matter, it's the fact you lied to me. You don't get to get out of this. You had sex with a boy well…vampire. God that sounds weird." Joyce mumbled.
"I made a mistake." Buffy said sadly.
Joyce sat down beside her before she said something she regrets. She could tell Buffy was holding by a thread. "I really wish... I just thought you would show more judgment." Joyce said. "And that you can tell me anything."
Buffy looks at her mother sternly and looks away so she won't see the tear on her cheek. "I try but…it's hard when you're trying to save the world in all."
"I'm sorry Buffy. I'm just worried about you. I don't want anything happening to you. I care about you a lot. I wish you weren't the one to protect others. Do you know how hard, how…..you could get killed doing this Buffy? I don't want you to do this anymore." Joyce said.
Buffy smiled and wiped the tear off her face. "I wish I could give it up mom, but I can't. I didn't choose to be like this. I wish I wasn't because do you have any idea how lonely it is?? I would love to be upstairs watching TV or gossiping about boys or, god, even studying! But I have to save the world again. It's what I was chosen to do, even if I don't want to be." Buffy said.
Joyce took a deep breath and stared at her daughter. She then realized for the first time her daughter was grown up more than she knew. She was not her little girl any more. She was wiser and filled with life and cared for others so much she would risk their life to safe them.
"I love you and I'm proud of you Buffy. I care about you more than anything in the world Buffy. You're my only daughter and if anything ever happens to you….I wouldn't know what to do?"
Buffy smiles and hugs her mother back. "I feel the same way mom."
"That would be your cue to, uh, roll your eyes and tell me I'm grossing you out."
Buffy laughed for the first time today. "You're not."
Joyce inhales and smiles back at her daughter. "Oh, well...I guess that was the talk."
Buffy smirked "So how'd it go?" They look at each other.
"I don't know. It was my first."Joyce said. Buffy smiled
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"Are you nuts?" Spike replied giving his sire an odd look. He couldn't believe his sire was stupid enough to release an evil demon god from its prison to destroy the slayer. It was one thing to summon a demon god but to summon "Drakon" was another thing. He read about the long forgotten demon and to say the least he was worse than the master. He certainly didn't want to meet anyone worse than his grandsire. He hated that bastard.
"You do know that the world won't be the same anymore if you release Drakon. No more food walking on legs, no thrill for the chase, no more hunting the prey." Spike replied annoyed.
"Of course I do spiky. He gave Spike an evil glare and smirked at his chide"s frustration. "That means we will have all the food we want and won't have to chase them down."
Spike rolled his eyes. "And you call that bloody fun; observably, you're not in the game yet."
Dru giggled happily. "But we can pick our food out of the crop. We can breed humans as cattle. Drakon will make the world better, Spiky" Drusilla rambled as she touched Spike's cheek. "You must know it will be so much better."
"Observably Spike you doesn't remember what the game is anymore. At least Dru knows isn't that right princess." Angelus smirked as he has seen his chide face turned red from the nickname, he called Dru. He knew it would piss him off because Spike always calls Dru that named, and every time he says it just ticks spike more off. At least he was amusing himself this way.
Spike growled softly and stared back at his sire. "Well it would be better if you just killed her already and be done with it."We vampire are not supposed to play with are food for more than a day."
"Well that's what makes it more entertaining Spiky. I need to keep the slayer alive because if I killed her, there would be a new one. Besides she is the only one to awaken Drakon. It needs the blood of someone pure and good. What other human are best suited for this then a slayer." Angelus replied.
"Spike annoyed the urge to argue with him again to know where he is going with this. "So you're saying you're going to bloody capture the slayer again, sacrifice her to the demon god and the rest of the world turns into are little tormented of chaos. You must really get a yen to hurt this girl, haven't you?" Spike asked.
"She made me feel like a human being. That's not the kind of thing you just forgive." Angelus growled. "Besides I won't kill her…… I'll keep her alive for a long, long time before I kill her."
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The next day
Buffy is in the library and stares at Giles through the glass door of Giles's office. She sees him flipping through a book. She notices him cleaning his glasses as he glances at the photo of jenny on his desk. "So you think he will be ok?" Buffy asked Willow.
Willow glanced up and placed the book down she was reading. She then glanced at Giles's office. "I think he will be fine Buffy. It will take time…I think he misses her. He can't think. Just a little more fallout from my love life." Willow said. She then looks over to hear a snore. She rolls her eyes and pokes Xander on the shoulder. "Wake up sleepy head."
Xander wakes up and looks at Willow's goggle. "I'm up...mother." he replied cheerfully rubbing his eyes.
Willow rolled her eyes and stared at him. "Why are you so tired? It's not like we up to all night studying. She replied wishing she didn't just say that.
Xander smirked. "I know…maybe it's the fact we were busy under the sheets all last night."
Willow blushed as Buffy stared at her friend in surprise. "I see you're not so innocent anymore, bad Willow." Buffy joked.
Willow blushed again. "I…no I would never do such a thing. That's a bad, bad thing." Willow stuttered.
Xander laughed. "It's ok Willow it's not like we actually did anything but kiss, and some more kissing and maybe foreplay." Xander's mind began to wonder.
Buffy shook her head. "Ok way too much information there xand."
"Hay can we talk about some else than me?" Willow replied embarrassed. At that same moment Giles came out of his office. Thank goodness.
Buffy looked up and smiled at a little until she seen Giles face was flustered and his eyes were puffy from lack of sleep. Xander stared at him smirking. "Wow Giles you need to get some sleep, you look like the Grinch."
"Yes, I would love that, but I've found something very disturbing in the codex." Giles said. "That's why I had lack of sleep."
"Oh that's why the bags around the eyes. Sorry." Xander said. Giles walked by and sat down on the other side of the table annoyed.
"Yes…I seem to found another prophecy." Giles said not knowing how he's going to tell her the whole thing. The last time she found out, she was going to die, he tied to stop her but that didn't turn out well. So he was just going to tell her the facts and not to mention to her about her someone dying.
"Ok Giles what's the what, and what do I need to do to stop it?" Buffy replied eager to find out and slight scared that it once again might deal with another prophecy.
"It's about a demon god...being released and turning the world completely into chaos… destruction and ruled by demons and vampires forever." Giles said.
"Forever!" Willow replied scared.
"Okay, somebody explain the whole demons and vampires ruling forever. Does that mean we should be worried?" Xander asked.
"Well, the, uh, it is certainly a demon. His name is Drakon and was a god about a hundred centuries ago." Giles said. "He's even older than the master you fought and defiantly should be worried if he gets released."
"Ok defiantly bad and I have no means to see anyone worse than the master coming here." Buffy said worried.
"Well It's not liked it's Armageddon at least." Giles joked. He smirked but he didn't seem to get a smile from them." Sorry lame joke." Giles said.
"Armageddon?" Willow said worried. "Doesn't that mean world ending and…and"…
Xander held her hand and smirked. "Don't worry Willow."The world is not going to end….Right Giles."
"Ah no…we will just be running forever and probably be an endangered species." Giles said.
"Endangered Species." Xander repeated. "That would ruin everything Giles. I want to stay alive and maybe have little Xander's running around someday." Xander looked at Willow's face as she smiled.
"Why not little Willow's running around?" Willow asked. Xander just smirked while Giles wondered how fast the subject changed to the end of the world to willow and Xander having kids.
Buffy smirked at Giles annoyance and looked at Willow and Xander. "Guys are you staying focus. We need to figure out a plan and stop talking about babies." Buffy seen the smirk on their face as an image filled her head of a beautiful baby girl; that had brown eyes like Angel and blond hair like hers.
"Ah Buffy...were listening." Xander said staring back at Willow. "Are you day dreaming again?" Xander asked.
Buffy shook her head. "Ah no." She looked at Giles. "Do we have any ideal who this person is that will bring back Drakon?" Buffy said.
"Well in order to perform this ritual, they need someone pure, someone that is…good." Giles said knowing who they needed.
"Someone pure, someone…..good." Buffy repeated realizing who they needed. "It's me isn't it?"
"Giles glanced his head down and looked back at her. "I think so."
"And did it say who's the one bringing the demon back?" Buffy asked hoping and praying it wasn't who she thought it was.
"Giles looked at her and read the quote from the codex. "The vampire with the face of an Angel, scourge of Europe and member of.... Aurelius, Giles said.
"Angelus." Buffy repeated frustrated.
"Boy that vampire never knows when to quite does he." Xander said angrily.
Buffy looked back at Giles wanting more answers. "How bad is it if the demon gets out? Does it say I'll die again?" she said sadly.
"No." Gilles said lying. The fact was it did state someone would die, but it didn't say who and Giles wasn't planning on telling her. He needed her to think about the mission and to kill Angelus anyway possible. "It just says if the demon is released there is no way to stop it. The demon is a god Buffy, and has strength ten times stronger than any slayer. He cannot get free."
"Oh god what are we going to do." Willow said.
Buffy's eyes glared at her friends and her watcher. "I will fight. I'll kill him before that ever happens. However, just for backup we can try to restore his soul. We got an orb to get his soul back with Willow helping us… just in case for backup."
Willow was taken aback by this. "I don't *wanna* be our only hope! Uh, I crumble under pressure! Let's have another hope.
"You're not is last hope Willow." Xander said quite angrily that Buffy was using her as the last resort to get her boyfriend back. "And besides you're not our last hope." Xander said.
"I'm not." She replied.
"No…Giles could be our last hope." He chuckled.
Giles just smirked at his amusement. "Um, how close are you to f-figuring out the ritual of the curse?"
"I need an hour and... An 'Orb of Thesulah." Willow said.
"I've got a new one." He gets it and hands it to Willow.
"Good, this is going to end tonight. I'm not waiting any longer." Buffy said with a determine look on her face
"What do you mean bufster?" Xander said worried if he would once again have to stop her from doing something foolish.
"I mean I'm taking the fight to him…tonight. I cannot have him release that demon no matter what." Buffy said.
"But Buffy did you heard what Giles said. You might be what he needs to release the demon. If you go and he knows, he'll probably set up a trap." Xander said.
"I know….and I'm planning on it." Buffy said.
"Buffy." Giles looked at her sternly wondering if this is one of her stubborn acts to save everyone else other than herself. Knowing that fact he'll be damn to let her go to the mansion and get captured or worse. Since Angelus is not bonded with the slayer anymore, he was more ruthless now more than ever. "Do you know how serious this is? When Drakon was alive he tortured and created spawns with humans. You cannot go in there without a plan." Giles said.
"Spawns? I thought demons can't have kids?" Buffy said quite disturbed by that fact.
"It was written when Drakon was alive he used humans as slaves, for food and breeding. He might have been the first one to create vampires, which caused this mess. However, afterwards he was killed. They didn't say how he got killed………no one knows what really happened." Giles said. And you are all right, demons are not supposed to breed, but he was a god so maybe there were circumstances that made him to…reproduce." Giles said.
"Eww, ok that's disgusting…and wrong." Buffy said.
"Xander shook his head hoping Buffy pulled this off. He would certainly be no slave to no one, especially not to a damn vampire. He would rather die than be one of them. "I really hope you have a plan here Buffster. This information about this demon is giving me the wedgies."
"Ya and I really don't want to see myself as a vampire." Willow spoke.
Giles looks at his slayer sternly and becomes very worried about her. "Buffy?"
Buffy stared at him. "No…Giles don't lecture me. I'm the slayer and I have to do this. I know you're all worried about me but no one can stop him but me. I'm ready and ….If I have to kill him, I will, I promise. I won't have him destroy the world and my friends. I'm stronger than this...I have to be. " Buffy said but deep inside she was breaking, but she didn't care. She had a job to do, and she was going to get this done no matter what the consequences are.
Although she still hoped and prayed that the spell would work and that he would come back to her but she had a bad feeling things were not going to go as she prayed they would.
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Spike fiddles with the book as he reads the prophecy. "To thee, he is known as the raze. Thou you must aid him to be rise or be killed in the process. Once Drakon has been raised, you will be immortal. No stake can kill you as all other creatures will worship upon your mortal kind for eternity," Spike read through the book, translating as he went. He liked the sound of this, and he did certainly want to be worshiped and a master. If he got his hand on that scroll that Angelus had he would rule the world. The only problem was he didn't like the sound of the demon named Drakon. He seemed like a real mean bastard, and he seemed worse than Angelus; probably had to follow his damn orders too.
Spike looked up to see Angelus come in with a boy in his gasp. Spike rolled his eyes as he stared at the jock. "So you got yourself a new playmate." he snickered.
Angelus growled and transformed sinking his fangs in the boy's neck. The boy screams for a moment and passes out. Angelus almost drains him dry. He drops the boy and stares at Spike. "If you say one insulting thing about me, I'm going to give you a whipping boy." Angelus growled.
Spike smirked and stared back at Angelus wondering how far he should take to piss off his sire. Because, for some reason, he found it funny to always tick him off. "It's not insulting, it's the truth. If I remember correctly, a long time ago when we had too much to drink, you were screwing me. Oh and don't forget you always like to be on top you bloody bastard." Spike mumbled.
Angelus growled. He stalked forward as Spike just sat there calmly. He reached over to grab Spike by the neck when Spike tripped him making him fall to the floor. "How do you like it when someone beats on you? Spike replied standing up and kicking him in the side.
Angelus transformed, grabbed his foot and pulled back making Spike fall on his back. He quickly straddled his chide and grabbed his neck. "You really shouldn't have done that Spiky."
Spike laughs and taunts him more which was a bad mistake. The next thing Spike remembered was his sire had his fangs in his neck.
A few minutes later Angelus released him and stood up as the predator he is. pike looked up. "Bloody poof." His sire almost drained him. He could barely move. He then leaned over to see Dru stood beside him. "Spike…my darling." She replied caressing his cheek. "You've been a really bad boy."
Angelus wiped his cheek and stared down at his chides. "If you would Dru please take Spike to his room to recuperate before I decide to dust him."
Dru whined about to growl at her sire, but she seen the look on his face of anger and decided not to. She didn't want to piss daddy off. She then carefully picked up spike and carried him to his room.
Angelus snickers as Dru carries Spike to his room. He then took the scroll and began to read it in order to make sure he was ready to do this. Other than that fact he could feel the slayer coming. It would only be a matter of time before she was on her knees worshipping him.
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Buffy walked into her home as her mother was there waiting for her when she opened the door. "Mom, Is everything ok?" Buffy asked worried.
"Yes I was just worried about you walking home from school. I was going to come get you but Giles said you already left." Joyce said.
"Ah ya…I have a few things to do." Buffy said. She smiled wondering if this would be the last moment that she would ever see her mother. She might die from this and never get to say the things she needed to say, but she couldn't tell her mother this. Her mother would be so worried.
Joyce looked at her and knew something was up by the look in her eyes. "Buffy what's wrong? You seem sad."
"Ah it's nothing…it's just I have to take care of something." Buffy said walking towards the living room.
Joyce quickly walked towards her and stepped in front of her. "Buffy! Please tell me you're not going after him?" Joyce asked.
Buffy looked down and back at her. "After who?"
"Buffy don't lie to me?"
"Mom please its best if you didn't know." Buffy said walking towards her room.
"Buffy, I want to know now, what you're planning." Joyce asked.
"Buffy looked back at her surprised that she could tell she was lying to her. "I need time to think…but I'll be down…I promise." Buffy said not sure if she was going to keep that promise.
Joyce looked up at her daughter worried. "I'll be waiting."
Buffy stared back at her mother. "I know." She walked up towards her room and shut the door as she was startled to find a familiar man standing by her bed. She was grasping for the stake in her pocket when he turned towards her.
"Whoa slayer, I'm here on peaceful terms." Whistler said holding up his hands.
"What do you want?" Buffy said.
"I'm here to tell you that you're the key, but I think you already figured that out. Your blood is pure and will release the demon Drakon." Whistler said. However, I suggest that you get there and try to kill him. The faster you kill Angelus, the easier it's goanna be on you."
Buffy stared at him hard. "You know what's going to happen to don't you?"
Whistler took a drink of the bottle of beer he had in his hand. "Boy why don't they have good stuff in this town. Taste like crap." Whistler mumbled.
"Hay I asked you a question." Buffy said getting irritated. She turns and grabs her bag and carries it to the door. She then turns back to Whistler.
"I don't know anything slayer. I'm just doing my job to let you know everything is on the line here, kid. You have to be ready for what he's about to throw at you.
"I can deal. She stares back at him sadly wondering if he met someone close to her was going to die again. "I got nothing left to lose." She then leaves walking down the steps.
"Wrong, kid. You got one more thing." Whistler said.
Buffy walks down the steps ignoring the urge to run back up there and strangle whistler neck until he tells her what's going to happen. However, she knew that wasn't going to help much. The only thing he does is irritates her. She walks down the steps and gives her mom a hug.
Joyce is surprised sand wraps her arms around her daughter. "Buffy what's wrong?"
"I'm going to see my friends for a plan and then tomorrow I will face him. I have to…I'm the slayer, and I'm strong enough….I have to end this." Buffy said softly knowing she was going to do it tonight but her mom didn't need to know that.
"Buffy…,please rethink this. How about if something happens and..."
"Mom please, I don't want to talk about it now. My friends are waiting." Buffy said.
Buffy turned around before she left one last time. "Mom, I love you."
Joyce smiled. "I love you to." She then watched her go wondering why she had a bad feeling that something bad was going to happen. But all she could do now was pray that nothing would happen to her precious daughter. She wouldn't know what to do if anything happened to her.
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Buffy walks toward the mansion at a determined pace. She stops as she makes it to the entrance of the cemetery. She sees' Giles pull up in his car.
"Giles! What are you doing here?" Buffy asked. "I thought you were going to be helping Willow."
"Buffy I can't let you do this alone. None of us can't." Giles said.
"Giles this was not the plan." Buffy said crossing her arms.
Well, I couldn't let you go without being prepared." Giles said as he pulled a sword out of a bag.
"A sword?" Buffy replied.
"It was Kendra's. Her watcher said she wanted you to have this." Giles handed her the sword.
Buffy took it and stared at it. At the bottom, it had a script on it. "Belongs to the one and only Slayer." Buffy smiled and held it in her hand proud. "I really appreciate this; too bad I can't thank her." Buffy said as a small tear went down her cheek.
Giles wiped the tear off her cheek. "If anything goes wrong with the spell, I'll be there."
Buffy's eyes went wide then. "No, if I lose then everyone is doomed. Where are Willow and Xander?" She asked.
"Xander and Xander are at the school. They are preparing for the spell, which I hope willow knows what she's doing." Giles said.
"Giles go, help Willow and Xander. If anything happens to me, just go hide anyplace but here and save my mother. Tell her I'm sorry and that I"….
Giles shook his head and stared at her. "Buffy stop, nothing is going to happen to you. You're going to win this. You always do"
"How do you know? You can't predict the future Giles."
"Buffy just trust me. It's a feeling. Just believe in yourself and you should do fine." Giles said.
Buffy turned as she grabbed the bag. She placed one stake in her pocket and one in her boot. She then handed the bag to Giles with the rest of the weapons. She then held the sword in one hand as she stared back at Giles. "Thank you, you have no idea how much you mean to me." Buffy said.
"Giles smiled and watched as she turned to walk away. I know how much….Please be careful." Giles said.
Buffy smiled but before she walked away, she ran and wrapped her arms around her watcher." Protect them for me if"…
"Buffy nothing won't happen." He replied making sure nothing would because he was planning on coming to the mansion after he checked on Willow and Xander.
He watched as she left with the sword in her hand. He turned back to his car and prayed to the lord up above that she would be ok.
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Main hall of the mansion.
Angelus smiles as he has everything set up for the sacrifice. He has five candles placed around the circle his minions made. It had the Star of David in the middle painted with blood from the boy he almost drained. Now all he needs was the sacrifice.
Angelus smiled and walked over towards Spike and Dru's bedroom. He opened the door and smirked as he seen Spike was sitting up draining the second body Dru found for him. "Well I see Dru like to feed you in bed. Maybe she'll get you a puppy." He snickered.
Spike glared angrily at him wishing just this once the slayer would come in and kick his ass. He wanted him dead for what he did today.
Dru smirked and touched Spike's cheek as he growled. "Now boys behave, Mrs. Edith tells me we have company coming over." Dru said.
Angelus smirked and just before he could turn, he heard the door burst over. He felt that tingeing feeling in his stomach telling him that the slayer is here. "Oh goody the show is about to start." Angelus mumbled. Angelus walked in order to see the slayer fight the two minions by his door.
Angelus smirked and was quite surprised as she moved with such force. The first vampire attacks her from behind as she quickly spun around and did a deadly kick to his face. The second vampire punches his fist towards her, but she blocks it and trips him. He then falls as she quickly lands the stake in his chest with deadly force bursting him into ash. She gets up and quickly decapitates a third one coming at her with the sword in her other hand.
Angelus watched her slight amused and quite memorized, by the way, she handles the three vamps. He has never seen her fight with such anger, it made him feel tight and hot inside as he watched the way she moved. In the process, the more he watched her the more he wanted to turn her still. He could see a hidden darkness in her, and if he could unleash it. He would have a beautiful, deadly vampire slayer at his side. He smirked and stood on the left hand side of the pentagram on the floor as she took a step towards him.
Buffy turns and stares at him coldly. "Hello lover."
"I was hoping you came lover." Angelus said as he snapped his finger as ten vamps surrounded the exit beside her. "Boy you never seem to surprise me, maybe that's why I love blonds."
Buffy stared at him angered as she held a stake in one hand and the sword in the other. "Is this all you got lover."
Angelus took a step forward and smirked. "Oh I got more than just that lover."
Buffy then glared at him hard as she tossed one stake backwards as it landed in one of the vamps chests, dusting him. She quickly rolled under three vamps and dusted three in the process. In the corner of her eyes, she has seen Angelus standing there smiling. Her eyes glared and she took the stake from her shoe and tossed it at him. Angelus smirked and caught the stake an inch from his heart. "Baby you're making it very hard for me not to come over there and stake you myself, but I really don't want the wooden type." He winked at her and broke the stake.
Buffy swiftly did a back flip and staked two more vamp as she glared at Angelus. "Sorry lover you won't be staking me or anyone else for a very long time." Buffy punched a few more vamps as she noticed ten more vamps came at her.
Angelus smirked and stood along the side to watch her still. "Are you sure about that lover? Looks like you're in a tough situation." He snickered as the ten vamps stalked closer to her.
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Willow and Xander had the spell already. Willow had the orb as Xander placed five circles around her. Xander waved a few burning herbs and incense over the orb. Willow starts to read the printout of the Rumanian curse.
"Are you sure you want to do this, Willow. It could be dangerous." Xander replied.
"I can do this Xander. If I can do this before Buffy's stakes him then there might be some hope."
"Hope?" Xander repeated. "Jenny didn't have no hope...we shouldn't even be trying to bring him back." Xander mumbled.
Willow stared at her boyfriend as she placed the paper down. "Do you ever think of what Buffy would feel if she loses Angel? She's our friend or have you forgotten?"
"Willow I haven't forgotten it's just he's killed friends of ours, and if he does come back. It will never be the same; I will still hate him for what he did." Xander said.
"Xander? Angelus is the one that killed them not Angel." Willow said. Willow was about to say something else when Giles came in. "Giles?"
"Have you done it?" Giles asked slightly out of breath.
"Ah no, I was just starting. I got occupied." She glared at Xander.
"We don't have much time." Giles said. "She's already there at the mansion."
Willow picked up the paper and began. "What is lost, return. Not dead... nor not of the living. Spirits of the interregnum, I call." Willow takes a deep breath as she starts to feel weak.
"Willow are you ok." Xander asked wanting to be near her, but he can't cross the circle or it will break the spell. Giles looked at Xander and then back at Willow hoping she could pull this off.
Willow shakes her head and begins to chant again. "Gods, bind him. Cast his heart from the... evil... realm"
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Angelus watched her as she tries to fight the five vampires circling her. "Coming on kind of strong, don't you think? You're playing some deep odds here. Do you really think you can take us all on?" Angelus yelled.
"No. I don't." Buffy says as she notices Dru and Spike enter the room. She quickly does a back flip staking two more vampires in the heart.
Spike stares at Dru and then at Angelus. Then he noticed Angelus had the scroll in his hand. He glanced back at the slayer which was fighting like no other slayer he has ever seen before. Damn he really needs to get out of here. If he could get Dru and the scroll out of here in one piece, it would be great. He then glanced back at Dru as she was starting too advanced on Buffy. Spike smiled and took this moment to grab the anvil on the stand next to him. Then he lands it hard on Angelus head. Angelus cries out in pain and collapses to the floor. Drusilla twists her head to look at Spike. He continues to whale on Angelus as hard as he can. "Painful, isn't it?" Spike said kicking him on the side of the head.
Buffy's stares at Spike in surprise. Wow he really must of hate him. She looks at the scroll that fell on the floor. She tried to reach for it but was kicked in the ribs by a vamp. She quickly gets up and starts to take on the next five that comes at her.
Drusilla's jumps on Spike, taking him down to the floor with her. "You really want a punishment don't you?" Dru said.
Spike ignores her and stands up to face her. "I don't want to you hurt you love."
Dru growls. Spike smirks and loves it when she does this. He quickly punches Dru knocking her out. "Sorry love but it doesn't mean I won't."
Spike quickly takes the scroll and puts it in his pocket. He then carefully picks up Dru and a walk away noticing Buffy was still fighting the vamps. He was planning on killing her, but he had other plans. He wanted to get as far away from here before Angelus or the slayer comes after him. After all he had the scroll and if one of them survived which he hoped both won't. Either way since he had the scroll he had a chance to rule now. He would be back for the slayer to make her life a living hell. Spike walks towards his car whistling as he goes.
Buffy stakes her last vampire with determine force. There is dust on the floor all around her. She has a bruised leg and a bruised arm but nothing major. She takes a step forward wanting to rush over to see if Angelus was ok, but she couldn't. He wasn't' the same man she loved before. He was a demon and he needed to be destroyed once and for all.
She takes a step forward in order to stake Angelus, but she sees him move. He gets up not very happy.
Angelus looks around quite pissed that Spike betrayed him. He was going to torture him for hours if he got his hands on him. "That piece of shit." Angelus cursed as he noticed the scroll was gone to.
"I guess it's hard to find good minions to trust. It must be all the vamp bossiness of yours." Buffy smirked.
Angelus growled. "I guess it's just you and me lover."
"Just like old times." Buffy said.
Angelus smirked and took the sword he had laid on the desk. "Well that and the fact you be begging to die after I'm through with you."
"I don't break that easy." Buffy said staring at his golden eyes that reminded her that he was a demon and needed to be…killed. Before she could think anymore about it, his sword thrust towards her. She dodged it and swings around with a thrust of her own which he also parries. They clash over blades several times, and Buffy ducks a wide swing from him.
Angelus smirks and swings the sword to her throat, but she easily ducks and sidesteps out of the way. He swings again but Buffy jumps on a table and does a back flip which she lands behind him. Angelus turns quickly and swings his sword low which slices her left arm. She grabs her arms and stares at the small cut. She then looks back at him.
"Seems like you're off your game lover. Maybe it's the fact you want to lose." Angelus smirks as her eyes start to travel across his body. He laughs and decides to taunt her a little more. He quickly lunges forward, swings the sword and knocks the sword out of her hand.
She quickly jumps forward for her sword when she finds herself pinned to the table. Angelus leaning over as he has her hands pinned above the table. Buffy began to kick his legs off of hers but his legs were between hers. The next thing that really surprised her was he kissed her full on the lips.
Angelus slightly bit the side of her lip and licked the blood away. He then released his lips from her. "Your still hot for me aren't' you slayer. It's kind of funny to know that a slayer cannot kill the scourge of Europe because I have the face of your Angel. It's really tragic……but who am I kidding, I love tragic." He laughs. "It also makes it better when I chain you to the wall. There are all types of things I want to do to you."
Buffy glares at him hard and disgusted that she was once again distracted because of his body, his face that reminded her of so much of him. She shook her head and head butted him as he straggled backwards. She kicks him knocking him on his ass. "Well at least I know I have a hard head."
Angelus sneers and stands up as she already has the sword in her hand. "Your pay for that lover. I might have to think of something really painful when I chain you up."Angelus says.
Buffy hissed. "I don't think you have the balls to do it. The only thing you be getting is a sword to your chest."
Angelus laughs at his spunky slayer. "Stop with the bullshit Buff. You know it and I know it you cannot kill me. You might as well give it up now." He then lunged forward.
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Willow gets weaker as she chants and breathes heavily.
"Return…..I call on"...
"Giles she's getting weaker." Xander replied worried.
"She's doing fine, Xander. Just a few more minutes." Giles said.
Without warning Willow's head snaps back and she looks up with her eyes wide open. Her head snaps back down and her eyes stare into the Orb. She =begins to chant steadily in Rumanian as though possessed.
"I implore you, Lord, do not ignore this request."
"Is this a good thing?" Xander asked.
"Neither dead, nor of the living"...
"This is supposed to happen. It's starting to work." Giles asked.
"Let this Orb be the vessel that will carry his soul to him." Willow chanted
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Buffy falls to the ground as she scrambles back to her feet as Angelus slowly advances on her. She thrusts, and he parries. She spins around and swings at him, and he blocks her. Her sword bounces off of his and falls with the tip onto the low wall of a planting bed. Angelus stomps on the blade before she can raise it again and knocks it from her grip. He spins around and elbows her in the face, knocking her back into a stone table, which collapses and falls with her. She quickly gets up and stares up at him. He backs her in a corner.
"Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends... No hope…….Just me"
Buffy closes her eyes and steels herself for whatever's coming, and what she has to do.
"Take all that away... and what's left?" Angelus taunts. He then thrust the sword towards her heart.
With lightning-fast reflexes, she swings up with both arms and catches the blade between the palms of her hands. She opens her eyes and meets his. "Not you….Me."
She quickly shoves the blade back and hilts the sword into Angelus face. He staggers back and quickly kicks him towards the wall he had her cornered in. She swings it around and thrusts at him, but he manages to parry. They exchange several blows, blocking each other. Buffy spins around and swings her sword down at him from above. He holds up his own to block, but she hits it hard, and he falls to one knee. She swings again, and he blocks. She spins around with a roundhouse kick to his side, and he collapses to the wall. She swings back and rams the sword straight into his heart.
Buffy holds the stake in her hand and stares at him. His eyes open and he laughs at her. "A sword is not going to kill me darling. It doesn't' mean it doesn't hurt like hell. Angelus hisses and tries to pull the sword out of his chest.
Buffy stares at him trying hard to stake him.
"Come one lover you can't do it, I know you can't."
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The floor beneath them was shaking now. Willow eyes were slight dark and her voice was getting louder.
"Giles why are you just standing there. Shouldn't we do something?" Xander asked slight scared at the turned Willow.
"No, we must make sure nothing crosses the circle of candles." Giles asked.
Xander slightly walked over trying not trip over stuff as a small marble rolled towards the circle Willow was in. "Oh no."
Giles seen it but it was too late.
Willow glanced up and chanted even louder. So it shall be! So it shall be! Now...Now!
The Orb glows brightly for a brief moment and goes dark. Then she heard something hit the one of the candles hard. It pushed it a little too far as fell. It landed on the floor catching it on fire. Willow opened her eyes and screamed. Xander quickly jumped forward and yanked her away from the fire.
"Oh my god what happen." Willow said.
"One of the candles fell." Xander said.
Giles quickly got the fire hydrant out and sprayed the floor as the fire died out. "Gosh I think I'm way too old for this stuff." Giles said.
"But how about the spell. Do you think it worked?" Willow replied.
"I don't know, it seemed like it worked." Giles said. "Come on let's find Buffy."
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There is nothing left of you
I can see it in your eyes
Sing the anthem of the angels
And say the last goodbye
I keep holding onto you
But I can't bring you back to life
Angelus quickly pulls the sword out and staggers towards her with the sword in his hand.
Buffy's stares at him as he suddenly lunges at her knocking her down. Buffy gasps in pain as her back hits the ground. Then to make it even worse she feels his fangs in her neck. He starts to drink, Buffy struggles for the other stake in her back pocket. She quickly grabs a hold of it and holds it above his back. Tears falls down her cheek as she lunges the stake down his back right into his heart.
She quickly flips him over as he releases his fangs from her.
She stares down at him as his eyes are surprised that she has actually done it. She actually staked him. Then the oddest thing happens. He gasps out loud and groans in pain. She then sees his eye's glow bright red and then goes back to dark. She watched as a pile of dust ended on his chest. She pushes it off of him and stares at him again confused. His body was still here, she seen him turn to dust, but he was still here. What the hell.
His eyes open up barely and see's her face. Everything starts coming back to him. Oh god what have I done. He starts to cry.
Buffy stares down at him still confused of what's going on.
Buffy? What's going on..., please tell me all that stuff I dreamed wasn't true. That I didn't kill again, that I didn't hurt you?" He looks at her with pleading eyes.
Buffy's stares at him shocked. Could it be, could the spell actually worked? Was her Angel actually back? She caresses the side of his face and stares at his eyes. They are brown the same color she used to remember. "Angel."
"Buffy, Where are we? He stares at her and notices her arm. He grabs a hold of it. "You're hurt."
She looks down at her wound and feels his gentle touch on her arm. She ignores her cut and stares down at him with lovely eyes. "I'm fine. thought I would never see you again." Buffy said.
"Oh, Buffy... God….I miss you, I... I feel like I haven't seen you in months." He said.
"Oh, my God, everything's so muddled. I"...She kisses him full on the lips. She releases him and hugs him laying her chest against his. She then releases him as he starts to groan in pain. She quickly leans up and places her hand on his chest. Her eyes go wide as he begins to cough up blood.
She can feel his heart, it's alive…it's beating …he's human. She then realizes what's wrong with him. She shakes her head hoping and praying that her worst nightmare was coming true. She quickly rolled over Angel on his side. She gasped. The stake was still in his back. It must have lodged itself deeper when she rolled him over. Oh god…he was probably dying. "Angel your alive."
"Buffy." Angel holds her hand as he could tell Buffy's face was a mixed of sadness and worry. "I know Buffy, maybe it was met to happen this way. I remember everything I did. I killed again and maybe this is the way it's supposed to end for me." Angel said. He knew he was dying. He could feel it; it reminded him of when Darla killed him years ago. Painful, nothing then peace.
Buffy shook her head and grabbed one of his shirts lying on the floor. She held it around on his back to stop the bleeding. She was going to take the stake out, but it would only make him die quicker. She moved over towards him and laid his head on her lap. "Please don't' say that. You were met to help me. I love you and I can't live without you….Don't do this to me." Buffy cried.
Angel stares back at her and caress her face. "I love you." She touches his lips with her fingers again and kisses him one last time when she notices. There's nothing beating from his heart now. She shakes him and pounds his chest but it's too late. He's dead like the day they first met. She stares at him as his eyes are closed, his head lying on the side of her leg.
Minutes pass as she starts to realize what she's done. She killed her lover, her soul mate, her everything. She then truly realizes what she has done, what she has lost. She begins to sob; her heart breaks into a million pieces as she cuddles up on the floor next to him and cries until she can't cry any more.
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The perfect words never crossed my mind,
Cause there was nothing' in there but you.
I felt every ounce of me screaming out,
But the sound was trapped deep in me.
All I wanted just sped right past me,
While I was rooted fast to the earth,
I could be stuck here for a thousand years,
Without your arms to drag me out
I never noticed how the world was without you in it. I still see your eyes every time I look up in the sky. All I have ever seen in the world was you and when you came back to me? I felt every ounce of me screaming out. My heart felt like it broke when your heart died in the palm of my hand. I had no voice to bear; it felt like the sound was trapped deep in me. All I wanted to do was die right then. Your cold body against me, it felt so odd to feel your cold body against me when I knew you wouldn't move again. You were dead and I was alive. How could life be so cruel to do this to us?
I remember when Giles burst in the room. My mind was blank, in shock and still morning over my dead lover when Giles found me. I was still too distraught to move, it felt like I was paralyzed into a state of shock. While I had no tears to cry any more. If felt Giles picked me up and sat me down on the couch. His eyes were worried as I stared up at him. He stared at the mark on my neck. He looked back at me and kept asking if I was hurt. I just shook my head no.
My friends were there. They thought I was broken. I wouldn't move wouldn't say anything. After an hour has past, I finally began to tell them what happened. I told them about the spell worked but the only difference was he was human. I told them how I had to stake Angelus because he was draining me. That was the reason why Angel died. He had the stake embedded in his heart. But if I knew I would kill my Angel in the process, I would of gladly died at that moment. I cried again. I wanted to run back and hold Angel again, but Giles was still holding on to me.
The only thing I kept thinking about was once again I was left with nothing. I was back at the beginning of being the slayer. But the fact was I didn't feel like I was a slayer anymore. I wanted it to end. I had found someone to love, and they were gone because of me. Now I was left with no one but the world still needed me. They always needed a hero; always needed someone to save them but no one was saving me from my broken heart.
Either way I still felt the loss of him. Living in this world without him made me desperately want to feel his skin against my. It made me want to see his eyes again and to hear his beautiful voice again and knowing what happen today, nothing will ever be the same. My life where be changed forever.
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The ending I made it first POV. So if just to let others know this wasn't a grammar error. I had written it that way. I also want to mention the character Drakon is a made up character by me. next season remake where be good. I attend to bring this character into the next couple chapters. And of course Spike where be back. Faith will be in it and maybe the mayor.
Hope you loved this chapter as much as I did.
Thanks to blue eye girl and everyone else that reviews my fics. This is not the last chapter
Please review…. I desperately would love some. I noticed the lack of reviews lately so i'm begging for some more reviews or i might end the fic. I don't want to keep writing if i don't have no reviews.