Act 2: Healer of the Broken Heart
© 2003 by Chris Regan
Rescue & Revelation 1: Stories of the Past
Getting into Spike's car, they got on the freeway and drove Spike noted Gwen was crying, "What's the matter Gwen?"
She looked down as she took out a white embroidered hanky and wiped her eyes that now looked older, redder, and far away.
"There is a story my great grandmother told me when I was fifteen, it was about two cousins that loved the same girl; Katrina loved one, but the other she deeply cared about they had been lovers after she rejected her old lover he loses his soul. In time, he found a beautiful siren he fallowed her to the ends of the earth. After her death, he walked the earth as a creature of the night lost and alone for many years. Anger consumed him unable to be satisfied with blood, he became abusive to the ones that were close to him. Until a young woman came, he had been hiding in the deep dark caves at the foot of the sea. She fascinated him as he watched her practice on the sand outside his cave. He taught her other moves in the thick forest of her childhood; he loved to watch her fight; falling in love with her had not been his plan and he fought against it for them to be together he knew he would have to kill her and that he did not want to do. His heart would pound the palms of his hands would sweat but in his heart he believed that she was in love with his cousin…"
"Hold it, right there that has already happened!"
"Yes it has, that story is about Fergal, who is much older that you or I. It was from a dream that my great Aunt had when she was a girl.
He looked at her in shock for he had not heard that name for more that a hundred year. "Where did you hear that name?"
She stopped for a moment as she looked for a word. "Spike the tale I found in my great aunt's diaries, I though it was just a story that my great grandmother told me until then."
She sat in silent thinking how she could explain her family to Spike. "Spike my grandfather Fergal was a werewolf that had been bitten by a vampire; he was the first of this new breed. He fell in love with Amy one of two sisters, which where later killed as witches. The sisters insisted he take the children and escaped before the bishop and his horde came for them. He and the children could walk in day light which miss led the hunters.
"Where did he take them?"
"Harmony, he took them to his cousin.
"This cousin who was he?"
"His name was Arthur after the fabled king, Arthur Pen dragon, his full named was Arthur Pen MacMahon.
"What happed to the children?" asked Harmony?
"They grew up had children of their own never knowing that they were not human. Fergal's cousin Arthur was the keeper of the family tree. He was able to keep track of them. He knew your cousin was born but beyond that, he lost the trail, but at that point, he was very old, and died of flu in eighteen hundred and seventy. That was when I became the keeper and I have been fallowing every clue in the archives.
"What happened to Fergal?"
"Gunn he was harassed by the hunter until an English Priest named Father Vorgel sent a letter by messenger to the bishop that said, "Sir Fergal MacMahon, "Killed in the year of our lord 1289, and May, 14 Friday at 12:00 noon. The truth was he and the priest had been friends for a long time the priest was the one that made arrangements with town butcher for a can of blood, left on the back stoop of the church. The butcher never asked why, but he did see a dark figure come and pick it up every night after.
"Spike you seamed to be startled by my grandfather's name?"
"It was a name I thought I'd never hear again. My uncle used that name in his stories. He told me of his forge and Fergal having the touch with animal." Spike smiled to himself, he said, I had the touch too! "With the little dragons I guess, I still do!"
"So Buffy is part demon?"
"No her family are not demons, they are human but there is something different with there blood. Some had the gift to see demons, and other over the centuries were slayers. They always came in twos both girls whether they were cousins or sisters. It is the second time that there were both a slayer and seer in the same person. Gwen had a far away look in her eye "When Dracula bit Buffy it confirmed she was of Seva's bloodline."
"Who is Seva?"
She looked at the speaker "She is the daughter of Beda, who is the younger sister of Cecily.
"Okay, but what does that have to do with Buffy or I."
"Spike Beda loved you!"
"So, she got over it! She married some guy."
"Yes she did marry, but she never got over the loss of you."
"Buffy is very much her granddaughter she is morning your loss deeply."
"Right while she is dancing with the Immortal; and I try to keep Angel from killing all the blondes in LA.
"There is more I think she is pregnant!"
"Probably the immortal's!"
"No she is too far along she will pop with in the next month.
"Then who?"
"You Spike!"
"Yea right Gwen when was the last time you heard of a vampire impregnating a human?"
"There was a case three hundred years ago.
Feeling dump struck Spike tried to change the subject "Buffy would have killed what we saw tonight…that was no vampire."
"No it was a vampire-werewolf hybrid," said Harmony.
"What" Said, Spike?
"A vampire-werewolf hybrid" said Harmony.
"A vampire-werewolf hybrid is when they mate and a child is born.
"What about this other brother of Fergal?"
She looked down, tears rolled down over her cheeks, then she straightened her head as Spike stopped at a red light he glanced at her.
Her eyes held deep crushing pain then she said, "He was found dead, at a church hunters killed him believing he was a werewolf. He fathered four children during his life along with taking in the six that Fergal brought to him." Angel and I are related he is second or third generation in the hybrid line. Sometimes that part never comes out and other times losing one that could have been a lover, then stress on top of that can cause that side to explode, they have no control of it. It just happens his father was mean and cruel to him in life. She had a faraway look in her eyes "It is a wonder that he did not kill his father when he was alive.
He saw Buffy's strength in this woman, for the first time he saw the same eyes that looked at him the same eyes…A car horn blared and he jumped "Dam" he said as he moved through the intersection.
"He fathered a set of twin girls and two boys a cousin helped his wife raised them. What is known is one boy was an equestrian, the other a smith, but tragedy struck the equestrian. The smith took his younger cousin under his wing, but a vampire struck the cousin down, it was said he had no children.
It was Beda that found the young man's lifeless body, in the stable it was her cries that brought Dillon out that night to find her wailing over the body. Afterwards Dillon sold his business and moved to the new world. I found that Dillon his wife, Anna was carrying there fifth child, he agreed to take care of and a state in the new world owned by Cecily father, Cecily was having relations with Dillon's cousin after his death she went to the new world, where her child was born."
"Hold it right there Old woman."
She looked at him then said, "Yes William, Cecily found she was pregnant."
"So it could have been any guy's bastard."
"Yes, but she claimed it was yours."
"Yea, right Gwen, tell me another good one."
"I was there for the birth the baby was a boy and it looked like you."
"Knowing her she left it on the church steps."
Gwen smiled "I think she would have, except Dillon and his wife agreed to take the baby and raise him. Cecily father in his will left his US holdings to the child, and made Dillon the caretaker and guardian of the child. He also left a large plot of four acres to Dillon."
They pulled into the driveway, she smile at him then he saw her long white fangs, for a moment then they were gone. "Shit" Spike said, he put on the brakes so hard and it threw them forward; lying in the headlights in the driveway, with his clothing covered in blood was Angel.
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