Dawn giggled as Alec's tongue licked its way down her neck and then abruptly started moaning instead. Oh yeah, totally worth the change in venue, though Alec's apartment was rather...plain which bothered her in a way she couldn't put her finger on. Not that she tried really hard with Alec's tongue skillfully licking her like that. She closed her eyes just taking in the sensation when she heard something snap and felt something on her wrists.
Her eyes popped open and immediately took in the silver glinting around her wrists. Handcuffs, she was handcuffed to the bed by two sets of handcuffs.
"I'm...not really into kinky stuff," she said nervously as she found each of her hands in handcuffs tying her hands to the post of the bed. Alec simply smiled down at her in a way that made her feel extremely uncomfortable and now very exposed. She had heard about this kind of stuff but she had never experienced it herself before. She tried to break free from the handcuffs but she didn't have her sister's slayer strength and couldn't bust free from the cuffs. Worse yet was while she was struggling to free herself from the cuffs she found her right leg caught and looked up int time to see Alec tying her leg to the post on the bottom. Dawn tried to kick her leg out of his grasp but his grip was too tight. Instead, she tried to use her left leg to kick him but he dodged the intended blow and finished tying her right leg down. She tried to kick him again only, this time, he caught it and despite her struggling managed to tie that one down as well leaving her tied spread eagled on the bed
No. No, this couldn't be happening. This couldn't be happening. She pulled at her restraints, both the ones on her hands and the ropes on her feet...but nothing would budge. She froze for a moment as Alec drew closer to her and then she just struggled to move as far away from him as she could. However, he just sat close to her, his brown eyes looking down at her intently. His wavy blond hair no longer looked as dreamy as it had just minutes ago.
"Let me-"
"I'm going to force you. I'm not that kind of a monster," Alec interrupted looking down at her in a way that made her uneasy. Although his eyes were only focused on her own and not traveling down her form, she wasn't sure she believed him. She could see the lust in his eyes. He smiled at her less than convinced look.
"My interest in you is not of the carnal nature," he reiterated with a smile that gave her the chills. However, this time, she started to believe that maybe, he might be, actually telling the truth.
Even if he wasn't going to rape her, though, he still had her tied to the bed and that still left quite a few horrible things on the table. She shouldn't have gone off with some guy she had just met that night...but he had just been so charming. She wasn't usually a one-night-stand kind of girl but it was Paris. It was romantic and she had stupidly followed the guy to his place. Now here she was strapped to a bed with a stranger hovering over her for who knew what purpose.
"Then what are you going to do?" she said trying to sound strong and trying to not let the fear show their her voice, she wasn't really sure how successful she was.
"There something I need from you," he said looking intently at her.
"I won't give you anything," she said with as much defiance as she could muster.
"It's alright, I don't need you to give me anything." If that didn't sound rapey she wasn't sure what would, but she still believed he was after something other than just her skin...at least she hoped he was telling the truth. She tried to kick her legs but they were tied down firmly.
"You can't escape,"
"Oh yeah, watch me." This wasn't the first time a monster had kidnapped her before, usually in an attempt to get back at her sister. She had escaped on her own before...then again she didn't usually walk into these kinds of situations by herself. In retrospect that maybe wasn't her smartest decision.
She shivered in disgust as Alec opened the top button of the nice blue shirt she was wearing and she was suddenly revisiting the other idea. Alec unbuttoned the second button and then pulled the two sides of her shirt apart exposing her chest, but leaving her breast covered. Maybe he was going to do it slowly, to make her fear it more? She wasn't sure how because she was already pretty scared. The terror was creeping up her veins and it was only because of all her attempts to fight the fear that it didn't swallow her whole.
"I told you, I'm not interested in your body. It's what's inside that counts," He said mockingly with a smirk on her face. If she was scared before, his words sent a new level of terror through her.
"You know," she whispered barely managing to get the words out. Over the years she had never forgotten about it. But after Glory had disappeared who she was...what she was, had kind of gone on the back burner. Occasionally it resurfaced but mostly it stayed in the depths of her subconscious. because honestly, she didn't really like to think about it even all these years later. Didn't like to think about the fact that she wasn't born like other people were. That her memories until she was 14 weren't real and that her mom wasn't really her mom. All things she didn't like to remember.
"You, have a great power inside of you...and you're not even using any of it., Alec said like that was a great crime. It also sounded like he was disappointed in her.
"You have no idea what you're messing with," she said as she focused on her anger rather her fear so that she could speak again.
"Actually, I rather think I know exactly what I'm dealing with," Alec sounded rather sure and full of himself. He put his hand right over her heart and a few angry tears trailed down her face as she yet again struggled to no avail.
"Now this may ache a little bit...or perhaps quite a lot," he added with a quirk of his head, but other than that it didn't seem like he cared much if it hurt her. "This may not be as physically invasive as what you originally thought of, but the essence is part of you and has been from the beginning. Separating it from your body will likely be painful so I would suggest if you can finding a happy place in your mind if at all possible...The good news is that I think I'm managed to find a way to extract it and for you to survive the procedure. There is also a good chance that without the energy of the key you will draw fewer forces that are attracted that kind of energy to you and your's." She didn't feel reassured, although she had wondered before if her energy drew demons and vampires to her.
She did manage to notice in some corner of her mind that wasn't terrified of what was going to happen that Alec seemed to know a lot about her. Apparently, he had always known of her key status, even before meeting her. This seemed to be a long set-up to culminate in whatever was going down soon. She stole a brief look around the room again and then it suddenly clicked. It was plain… there was no personality in this place... like it had been set up just for this. It made sense she supposed...in a weird twisted way. Alec had obviously been planning this for awhile and knew all about her. Probably had even picked out exactly what to say to lure her unsuspecting ass in there. She, of course, had just fallen for it hook, line, and sinker- like an idiot. Everything about him had probably been made up just for this little con including...
"Your name's not really Alec is it?"
"No, it's just something I've been called, usually prefaced by smart." 'Alec' admitted freely with a smug smile. She was able to piece that together in spite of her racing heart. 'Smart Alec.' Well, he had been fairly witty all night long and that was part of what had drawn her to him. The other being his great looks both of which had probably been intentional to draw her in.
"Is anything about you real?" She asked him and for the first time saw a flicker of something in his eyes, something that wasn't arrogance and amusement or fascination. In another moment, the emotion was gone however and he just stared at her for a long moment.
"That's the question isn't it?" he spoke softly, he shook his head and refocused on the hand on her chest.
"Remember, try to find a place of peace," he said as he closed his eyes. She felt a dull aching pain that seemed to come from everywhere at the same time. But in moments the pain went from a dull aching pain to a sharp splitting one. It was like she was being torn from inside out. Like Warren, only again and again and again. She distantly felt tears swarming their way down her cheek but she felt apart from her body and lost in the sensation of being torn apart.
She somehow managed to fight her way enough to open her eyes and saw a bright green energy gathering around the two of them. Even as she saw it she felt it leaving her and felt the pain of something that was supposed to be part of her, part of who she was being ripped out of her and forced elsewhere. It was the worst feeling she had ever had in her life, worse than when she found out that she wasn't really real at 14.
"Please stop," she begged haggardly as the pain tore through her.
" It's the only way I can protect myself from an even more powerful force." His face looked apologetic, yet he couldn't even manage to say the words. The pain was also distracting leaving her without a lot of sympathies.
"It will be over soon," he spoke again as the green energy and tears continued leaving her.
"Please make it stop," she whimpered then miraculously it did. Well, the sharp pain was gone simply leaving the dull aching pain behind. The green energy twisting around 'Alec' until he was covered in a haze of green which swirled around him. The light cleared gradually, leaving 'Alec' standing there with the same green light in his eyes that stared at nothing, before sharply turning to Dawn. The light faded from his eyes leaving only the brown left. He removed his hand from her chest and stood up.
"You survived," he said plainly. She supposed that was technically true, she was alive but she didn't feel right. It wasn't the dull aching, she felt off somehow, wrong. Broken. Not who she was used to being. It was daunting and painfully uncomfortable feeling. She wanted to curl up into a ball and wish it all away but she was still tied to the bed and still couldn't leave. His made his way around the bed stopping next to her left side .'Alec' reached inside the pocket of his black leather jacket and pulled something out that remained in his hand unexposed to her, but she heard something jiggling that sounded like metal.
She stiffened as he leaned in towards her again, only he simply dropped something on top of her opened shirt. Moments later, he went to the cuffs on her left wrist unlocking it. She looked down at the thing on her chest then looked up right back up as she heard a noise. It turned out to be the door. He was leaving, he was leaving now. She looked back to the thing on her chest which was another key. He was leaving and letting her leave too. Some part of her had been scared that once he was done he would kill her no matter what he said...but he was simply leaving. She reached down with her recently freed hand and took the key in her palm...the key. The key..she used to be The Key. What was she now? She felt alone, and terrified and broken as she laid in bed grasping that key tightly.
She had to get out. She had to leave. Anything else...everything else...that could wait till later. It had to wait till later. She used her left hand to free the right after a bit of struggling to reach the cuff. After that, she simply had to scoot down the bed until she made it far enough so that she could work on untying the knots. The knots were tied tightly but after a few minutes, she managed to unknot them, leaving her now free.
Buffy was enjoying the nightlife. It wasn't too enough that she was just able to go and just enjoy a whole night. That was usually something that pulled her back to headquarters. An errant slayer, a stupid fight over nothing, or a new big bad showing their face off. Though tonight was different it was nearly 4 in the morning and she hadn't been pulled away from the bar.
As her phone started ringing she realized that her thought had probably jinxed it and her nice, normal, fun night was probably about to end. She answered it without looking at the ID ready for whatever was coming her way.
"Hello." For a long moment, she waited for someone to respond only no one did. Confused she looked to see who was calling and make sure that the call hadn't been dropped.
Dawn. Her stomach dropped. Buffy hadn't expected to hear back from her sister tonight. She had left with a guy and she hadn't been expecting to see her sister until at least morning. It had taken a while to become cool older sister Buffy, rather than the substitute parent that she was used to being, but after a lot of talks with her sister she managed.
"Dawn, are you okay?" She asked even as she made her way out of the club so that when Dawn talked she could hear her better. She had made it to the equally noisy hallway when she barely heard her sister say.
"Buffy... I need you to pick me up." She froze at her sister's tone. There was something wrong. She knew her sister enough to know that something was very wrong.
"Dawn, what happened?" She said picking up her pace and leaving the nightclub behind her. She would call the others later and explain where she had gone, whatever was going on with Dawn took preference now. Nothing-nothing was going to stand between her and getting to her sister as soon as she could.
She found Dawn in front of an apartment building. She was sitting on a park bench in front of it holding her knees to her chest in the near darkness of the early hour. Dawn hadn't told her what happened, Buffy was still in the dark about why her sister was upset but she could see in the slight trembling of her sister's body and from when she had spoken on the phone that something was terribly wrong.
Buffy got out of her car in a flash barely stopping long enough to break and put the car in park. Dawn didn't seem to notice her, her focus was simply on her knees. Her heart twinged painfully seeing her sister like this.
"Dawn. I'm here," she spoke softly. Dawn's head jolted up and Buffy could see the tears in her sister's eyes and worked on not crying herself. There was something seriously wrong, she could feel it. She slowly walked to her sister's side and sat down next to her on the park bench.
"Dawn?" She asked her sister who looked back at her knees. "Dawn, tell me what's wrong," she demanded. She couldn't fix it if she didn't know what was wrong.
"He took it," her sister whispered absently. Which unfortunately didn't help her that much. Her mind flashbacked to the man she had left with. Had he stolen from her? What could he have possibly stolen to get her sister to act like this?
"Dawn, tell me what's going on?" she repeated with a little more force. Her sister looked at her again, her eyes full of tears. Buffy was suddenly afraid of what he sister was about to tell her. Afraid that she sister was going to tell her that... because how she was acting...well it seemed to be leading towards something that fit with the behavior... and really everything. But she couldn't believe that and she wouldn't unless Dawn told her otherwise.
"He stole it from me." Buffy tried to not jump to conclusions about what that meant and just asked as calmly as she could manage,
"What did he steal from you?" Tears fell down her sister's face.
"Everything," she closed her eyes but it didn't stop the tears "He stole a big part of me, of what makes me, me. He stole...the key...and I feel so empty without it." Part of Buffy was relieved but the relief was short-lived as she saw how hard Dawn was taking it. The key had been a part of her and someone had ripped it out of her. Someone had hurt her baby sister. That someone was going to pay...but not right now. Right now was about Dawn. She held her sister tightly and told her.
"It's okay Dawn. It'll be ok,"
