6

When I woke up the next morning, I was still grinning. I'd just had one terrific night, of uncommitted, recreational fking! Xander had shoved his big, long, hard, hot dk into my cnt, and kept it there for a good amount of time! Then I'd had one hunk of a vampire guy stick his fangs in me, and then nibble and suck me out, good and rough; or "ruff-ruff-ruff!" They were both better fkrs than Adam had been.

No. I thought, I shouldn't think that way about Adam. When I write to him, I'm obviously not gonna be telling him that. He and I did have a committed, long lasting, true love relationship that would have continued if I hadn't moved away. The night before we left, he and I gave each other a good-bye fk, expressing our true love.

What I'd done at the fang-bang had nothing to do with love. I was having a lot of fun, being a Hellmouth Gal, doing my part in helping keep the Truce, and it was the best time I'd ever had in my life! I was looking forward to the next one!

I got up. It was Sunday morning. Mom and I would be going to Church. While skimpy, sexy garments and even naked boobs were acceptable all over Sunnydale, I was sure that wouldn't be so in any local house of worship. I would attend fully clothed, from neck to knees.

When I sat down at the breakfast table, with a satisfied smile still on my lips, Mom told me, "I'd like you to try to stay away from your cousins Buffy and Dawn. They've been having a definitely bad influence on you."

"Bad influence? Mom. You've told me that when you were in High School, you fkd a few boys yourself, and that was long before you met Dad."

"But I never walked around in public with my breasts naked, and I never got nibbled by a vampire."

"Those things are part of living in Sunnydale Mom."

She sighed. "I understand that, but I don't want you to use 'living on the hellmouth' as an excuse for doing things that you know just aren't right. I still don't want you spending too much time with your cousins."

I wasn't gonna argue. I'd still spend time with them. I just wouldn't tell my mother about it.

So we attended worship at a local Church that morning. I wondered if I'd meet God there, in one of His human forms, where He'd reprimand me for what I'd done at the fang-bang. I didn't see Him. I recognized some of my classmates, who were also fully clothed. One of them was Cordelia. I waved at her. She scowled and looked away from me.

Well, I thought, I did fk her boyfriend. But she was fking another girl's boyfriend, at the same time. I supposed that means that nobody'll be getting away with being totally slutty. At least not get away totally.

The worship service began. I joined in the hymns, the prayers, the collection of tithes and offerings, and the Bible reading. That was the time when I always knew that God was speaking to me. I sat there, waiting for the reprimand.

However, while the Pastor was reading from the Bible and preaching the sermon, my mind was too full of what had happened the night before, for me to pay attention to anything he said.

That afternoon we were back in the apartment. I was in my room when Mom got a phone call.

I was seated at my desk, where I'd turned on my laptop computer, and logged on to the Sunnydale High Students' websites. While I'd thought that Arcadia High's "No Longer a Virgin." website was embarrassing, what I found on Sunnydale's "Fang-Bang's" site was far beyond that.

The one I'd attended on Saturday night was being shown on video, for the whole world to see. There had actually been a hidden camera in Anya's basement, taping all of us naked, drunk and fking, and then getting bit by vampires. The vamps were invisible on the tape, so all it showed was what looked like us living guests, doing sexual stuff with nobody, and getting nibbled and sipped by nobody. I'm not even going to try to describe it. It was all just too weird.

Then I noticed something I'd hardly paid attention to during the fang-bang. On the wall a poster of the Hell Goddess Glory was displayed. It was the same poster I'd seen at the Magic Box, showing her glaring at a serpent. That was the one that had overwhelmed me with nauseating fear. This time, I didn't feel like throwing up.

There was also a moment when Anya came up close to the shelf where the tiny camera had been hidden in plain sight. I clearly saw that she had on a necklace, with a serpent image dangling between her naked boobs.

Okay! I thought, Part of being on the Hellmouth, but…when I see Anya tomorrow morning…"

My mother knocked on my door. "Joan." She sounded distressed. "Will you come out here a minute?"

I quickly turned off my computer, came out of my room and went into the kitchen, where she was seated at the table, actually trembling.

"Mom? What's the matter?"

"I just got a phone call from your Aunt Joyce. She said Dawn didn't get up this morning."

I laughed, 'I'm not surprised."

"Joan! Don't joke! This is serious!"

I repeated, "'Part of being a Sunnydale girl' Mom."

"That's the problem. When she hadn't got up by noontime, your Aunt Joyce went into Dawn's room to wake her up, and she found her dead! Killed by a vampire!"

That ended the joking.

"What! Dead?" I said, "No. That's not possible! She let a vampire guy give her a nibble and take a few sips. She was a little woozy for a few minutes, but by the time we left, she was okay. Same as me."

Mom said, "But your cousin Dawn is now dead and becoming a vampire. Your Aunt Joyce pushed her lips up, and found a pair of fangs growing inside her mouth."

I said, "Well that can't be because of what happened at the fang-bang. Everyone there was very careful, keeping an eye on each other, so there wouldn't be any accidents; either sexual or vampirical."

"Then why did this happen?"

"I have no idea. I'm new here."

Mom and I sat there quietly, thinking things over for a while. I thought over what I'd been reading in the Vampires Handbook.

Then I said, "It might be that after Buffy dropped me off, she and Dawn went to another one, where things got out of hand. I'll talk to Anya tomorrow, and see if she knows what happened."

The following morning, I entered 2nd Period History Class, dressed like many of the other girls, in a short skirt and tight halter-top, with a souvenir bandage on my neck. Dawn was not seated at her desk. Anya was there, but Xander's desk was also unoccupied.

I came over to Anya and said, "Did you hear about Dawn? She's a vampire."

She nodded, looking very distressed. "So is Xander."

"Not him too? What happened? We were all careful."

She shook her head. "I haven't the slightest idea."

During the remainder of the day, everybody was talking about it, trying to figure out why two people, who'd been safely nibbled but hadn't been killed, had later died and were now undead.

At lunchtime, I overheard Cordelia say, "Maybe we should ask the new girl. We don't know anything about her, and she was fucking Xander."

It seemed like everyone in the cafeteria was looking at me.

"Hey!" I said, "I have no idea what's going on either! It's like you just said! I'm new here! I hardly know anything about anything that goes on here!"

I spent the rest of the day feeling like everyone was staring at me. In Study Hall, I carefully read through the entire 48 pages of the Vampires Handbook.

When classes ended, I felt much more relieved than usual, to be going to my locker. I stood there, getting the books I'd need for studying that night, and putting away the ones I wouldn't. That was when the same guy who I'd known back in Arcadia, as God in the form of the hottest hunk of a guy I'd ever met, came over to me.

He said, "Good afternoon Joan."

This time I didn't feel like flirting. "So now you finally show up." I said in a peeved tone.

He told me, "You wanted to attend the fang-bang, and be a totally shameless slut."

"Hey!" I snapped. Then I hesitated. "Yeah." I nodded. "You're right about that."

He went on. "You know that I don't want you doing any of those things, but you did them anyway; so I allowed you to do what you wanted. Now you'll have to deal with the consequences."

"'Consequences'." I sighed. "Everyone at the fang-bang all engaged in safe sex and safe nibble and sip, nothing worse than a lot of scratched necks; but now Dawn and Xander are vampires. I was worried that I might die too, but I didn't."

"You prayed to me while you were being nibbled and sipped. You asked me to keep you from dying, so I did."

"Thank you Lord; but why did Xander and Dawn die?"

"They were overcome by the power of the Hellmouth."

I asked Him, "What's going on?"

"That fang-bang party was not only being held to keep the Truce, it was also a ceremony of human sacrifice, to a pagan deity."

"A pagan human sacrifice?"

"Do you remember what the party's hostess Anya was wearing?"

"Nothing above the waist, and very little below it, when we arrived. Then nothing below it for most of the time we were there, just like the rest of us."

"But she continued wearing a necklace, with a serpent symbol dangling on it between her breasts."

"Right. I saw that on the fang-bang website. But that wasn't where my attention was focused, while the fang-bang was going on."

"Anya was acting as priestess of the Hell Goddess Glory. Glory used the power of the Hellmouth, to increase the deadliness of the vampire bitings, so that a male and a female would die in sacrifice to her. If you hadn't prayed to me, the female sacrifice would have been you."

"Me? Instead of Dawn?"

"Yes. If you hadn't prayed to me, in the midst of your sin, you would be a vampire today."

"Okay." I told Him, "I've learned my lesson. I won't attend any more fang-bangs. I'll stop being a total slut, and I won't get fucked again until my wedding night. I swear by…by You."

"Thank you Joan. I truly appreciate that. There will be general rejoicing in Heaven, if this is a true repentance."

"Thank you Lord, but I'm going to need help with the repenting."

"That's what I'm here for."

"That's good to know."

He told me, "But this isn't over. I have more for you to do."

"I was afraid you were gonna say that."

"Do you remember the reason I told you, why I was bringing you here to Sunnydale?"

"You said it was so I could 'bring Salvation to the Undead'."

"That's right." He told me, "I want you to begin with your cousin Buffy Summers."

That really caught me off guard. "Me? Bring Salvation to Buffy?"

"Along with Xander and Dawn, and all those who are undead in Sunnydale."