Authors Note: Hey guys, Melissa is in a shock coma for the entire chapter will she snap out of it. This chapter is the Avengers and Slayerttes point of view of Melissa condition. Please drop a review and enjoy this chapter.
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Clint shouted, "Melissa!" The gang continues staring at Melissa. "She can't just be brain-dead." Steve said to everyone, Bruce passed around. "I mean ... she's still Melissa," Dawn asked everyone, Willow gets up, "Somewhere in there, right?" Dawn continued on to ask. Steve said, "Dawn, come on, we're not gonna get Layla and Wesley back by sitting' around here." Loki said to everyone, "You're not gonna get Layla and Wesley back any way you slice it, Rogers, it's for Melissa to decide." Rogers said back to Loki, "Good, panic. That oughta help." Willow asked everyone, "We should move her. U-unless we shouldn't. Should we?" Jane said, "Couldn't that make it worse? I think I read that somewhere." Darcy said to her, "I am so large with not knowing." Bruce said to everyone, "It's impossible to know for sure. Losing Layla and Wesley, after all that Melissa's been through ... I think it's pushed her too far into some sort of catatonia." Thor snapped and said "You don't need a diploma to see that." He moved forward to Melissa and continued on to say, "Snap her out of it." Thor grabs Melissa by the shoulders and shakes her. "Melissa!"
Tony walked in and saw Melissa. "What's going on?" he asked everyone, "We think she might be out of it, Amora took Layla and Wesley." Dawn told him, Tony walked over to Melissa and knelt in front of her, "Oi, rise and shine, love!" he said softly to her, the others look sceptical. "Thor…" Jane said to him, "Come on, people. Girl's endowed with Slayer strength. It's hardly the time to get dainty. Melissa!" Thor shakes her harder. Bruce said to Thor, "We tried that!" Thor slaps Melissa across the face, hard. No reaction. Darcy said to everyone, "We didn't try that." Tony pulls Thor away. Tony angrily said to Thor, "Are you insane? We could be dealing with neurological damage here. You want to kill her?" Thor looked down at Melissa how was still staring in to space. "We have to do something. I can't just sit here watching." Tony punches Thor in the face. They begin to grapple each other; Willow turns to them with a stern expression. "Separate." Willow said out load which separated Tony and Thor from each other. They both stare at Willow in surprise. She gives them a determined glare. The others stare too. Willow glaring at them all and said, "Melissa's out. Glory and Amora have Layla and Wesley. Sometime real soon, she's gonna use Layla to tear down the barrier between every dimension there is. So if you two wanna fight, do it after the world ends, okay?" Tony glares at Thor. Thor goes over to Jane and Darcy, who are leaning against the bar counter. Willow very quietly and with authority, "All right. First Xander and Steve will take Clint to a hospital. Bruce you are looking after Dawn, Darcy, Jane and Erik you're the only one strong enough to keep them safe. And Thor, Tony and Loki, you find Glory and Amora. Try anything stupid, like payback, and I will get Very Cranky." Willow looks around at them and continues on to say, "Everyone clear?"
Jane cautiously raises her hand. Jane asked Willow, "What will you do?" Willow said to them all and Jane, "I'll help Melissa. And I am going to re-in-soul Angel." Jane and Darcy nodded, "Okay then." Darcy said to her. Tony piped up and asked, "Uh ... Will?" Willow looks at him. He continued on to ask, "How will you get Melissa back?" Willow looked at him, "It's a memory journey, and I will have to walk it with her. I'll find out why she has gone into this state. Tony I'll get her back." Willow said to him. "Wait if Layla is the Key, why did they take Wesley." Loki asked everyone, "That's a good point." Clint said back to Loki, "Why did they take Wesley he is no value to Glory." Steve said to everyone, "Angelus, they're gonna give Wesley to him. Angelus must need to feed maybe for Amora's spell to hold." Dawn said with her arms flooded across her chest.
"That makes a point." Xander said to her, Willow asked Tony, "Tony, can you help me take Melissa to her room I'll perform the spell there." Tony nodded and helped up Melissa and took her to her room. He sat Melissa on the chair in her room, before he left he kissed her forehead. "I'll be back soon sweet cakes." Tony moved a strained of Melissa's hair from her face and asked Willow, "Are you sure you know what you're doing Will?" Willow is taking candles out of a small leather bag and putting them on the table. "I think so…" she paused and continued on to say, "I don't know. It's ... not exactly well-explored territory, but ... I got to try." "A spell like this could be really dangerous for Melissa and you." Tony said to her. Tony reaches over to give Willow a punch on the arm. Tony said softly, "Good luck." Willow looked at Tony and said to him, "Thanks." Tony opens the door, goes through it, and closes it. It's dark. Willow puts a candle on the small table beside the bed, and lights the candle. She goes around the bed to the other side. Willow puts two more candles on another small table and lights them. As she turns away, we see Melissa sitting in a chair against the wall, still catatonic. Willow sits on the corner of the bed, facing Melissa. Willow closed her eyes as she opened them she was in a clean, brightly-lit room. She blinks in confusion, and looks around.
Meanwhile at the hospital, Xander and Steve took Clint to the hospital. "Should we call Nat?" Xander asked Steve. "Ya I'll go and call her." Steve walked over to the phone to ring Nat. Clint walked out, with a big cast on his arm. "Do you reckon Willow has got Melissa back yet?" Clint asked Xander, "I dunno but I hope so." Xander said to Clint as they both walked over to Steve. Tony, Thor and Loki head off to find Wesley and Layla. "Do you know where you are going Loki?" Tony asked him, "I sense her magic she is close. 39th and 2nd street." Loki told Tony, Thor picked up his hammer and began to spin it and took off. "That is what I hate about Thor." Tony said to Loki. Loki just smirked, "Come one we better catch up before he ruins everything." Loki said to Tony. Tony grabbed Loki by the back and took off to catch up with Thor. Tony see's Thor on the roof and they land on the roof. "Next time wait. Dumb ass." Tony said to him, "Loki is Lady Layla in there?" Thor asked him, Loki used his magic to see if she was in there and he told them. "Ya she's in there and Wesley is alive."
Bruce and Dawn were in his lab, Darcy, Jane and Erik were in the own lab. Dawn was quite, she had her head down looking at the ground. "Dawn, are you…" Dawn cut Bruce off and said quietly, "Don't Bruce OK Just Don't." Bruce walked over to her and hugged her, "I'm sorry about Buffy." Bruce said to her softly, she pushed him away, "Bruce don't not now please." Dawn said to him, trying to holding back the tears. But they began to roll down her cheeks; he wiped away the tears of Dawn's face, he said to her softly, "Dawn calm down, come here." Dawn walked back in to his arms and buried her head in to his chest and let the emotion pour out of her. He held her tight not letting go; she looked up at him and kissed his chin. Bruce gently kissed Dawn's forehead and slowly let go of her. "You ok now?" he asked her softly, she nodded and smiled.
"Melissa?" Willow said to me, "Hey Will." Melissa said back to her looking at faith's tombstone which was in her room. Melissa walked out of her room into Layla's room, who was gasping for air. "Melissa what are you doing?" Willow asked her, "You have no idea what it's like on the other side. Nothing in control, nothing makes sense." Melissa told Willow, she sat on the bed and picked up the pillow on Layla's bed. She put the pillow over Layla's face and pushed down suffocating her. "Oh my god what are you doing?" "Like I said Will, this pain and hate, and nothing you do means anything." She pushed down harder and Layla began to slowly fade away, "Come on stop, you never killed Layla." Willow said you her with sorry in her heart. "This is what I do will. It's what I am. Death is my gift." Melissa told Willow. Willow and
Melissa where in transported into Tony's lab. "What are you doing?" Willow asked the other Melissa, "This is where I knew I we were gonna lose." Melissa said to her, she continued on to say, "Nothing special about it. And then it hit me." Willow asked her, "What hit you?" The other Melissa said, "I can't beat Glory. Glory's going to win." Willow turned to Melissa and said, "You can't know that." The other Melissa turned to Willow, "I didn't just know it. I felt it. Glory will beat me. And in that second of knowing it, Will... I wanted it to happen." Willow looked at her and asked, "Why?" "I wanted it over. This is ... all of this ... it's too much for me. I just wanted it over. If Glory wins ... then Layla dies. And I would grieve. People would feel sorry for me. But it would be over. And I imagined what a relief it would be. I killed Layla." Willow frowns, looks at the other Melissa, "Is that what you think?" Willow asked her, "My thinking it made it happens. Some part of me wanted it. And in the moment Glory and Amora took Layla and Wesley..." she continued on to say, "I know I could have done something better. But I didn't. I was off by some fraction of a second. And this is why...I killed my sister." Willow frowns, looks from one Melissa to the other.
Nat dropped out of the sky next to Loki, "SHIELD dropped me off. This bitch is going down." Nat said to them, "There are loads of Hydra agents in here you're gonna need my help." Nat picked the lock and opened the door and they walked in. They slowly walked down the stairs and out on to level 23. Nat walks throw the door and she slides pass a Hydra agent and pulls out two stun grades which shocked the Hydra agent. "Should we help?" Thor asked Loki and Tony, "Nope she's doing ok." Tony said to Thor, Loki chuckled to himself. She hopes over a crate and drop kicks other Hydra agent in the face as he comes out of a door way. She stops another on down the she slides through his legs taking one of them out. She uses the hydra agent on the floor a platform to headsissor another hydra agent down to the ground. She ran down the hall the other followed her slowly. "You guys took your time." Nat whispered to them all. She pulled put two flash grades and tossed them down the hall. They went off and blinded the hydra agents, Nat swiped the legs out of one of the agents and stepped up and kicked the other one in the face. She blocked the punch coming from other agents, kicked him in the knee then punched him in the mouth.
She wrapped a wire around one off the agents' neck. Nat dodged another two agents, she grabbed one of the agents arm and kicked him in the gut, which brought the agent with the wire wrapped around his neck down to the ground as well. She turned around and saw one of the agents trying to get back up, she runs at him and brings him back down to ground with a tilt the world headsissor. She instantly blocked her attackers attack. She grabbed his arm and twisting it, which brought him down to his knees in pain. She pulled his arm back and elbowed him in the face, and then roundhouse kicked him in the back of the head. She got up and sprayed the last agent in the eyes with pepper spray. Nat turned back around and saw that Loki was really impressed. "Come on let's find this kid and Wes and get out of here." Nat said to them.
Willow said, "I think Thor was right back. Snap out of it!" Melissa looks at Willow in surprise. "What?" Melissa asked Willow, Willow said to her, "All this ... it has a name. It's called guilt. It's a feeling, and it's important." She took a breath and continued on to say, "But it's not more than that, Melissa. You've carried the weight of the world on your shoulders since high school. And I, I know you didn't ask for this, but ... you do it every day. And so, you wanted out for one second. So what?" Melissa said pensively back at Willow, "I got Dawn killed." Willow said to her, "Hello! Your sister, not dead yet! But she will be if you stay locked inside here and never come back to us." "But what if I can't?" Melissa asked Willow, she said to her, "Then I guess you're right. And you did kill your sister." "Wait! Where are you going?" Melissa asked Willow, Willow turns back and said to her, "Where you're needed. Are you coming?" Melissa walked towards Willow. Melissa snapped back to reality in the chair in her bedroom. Suddenly with a start she comes to, sits up straighter, and looks around, breathing heavily. Longer shot of her and Willow sitting there. Willow stares at Melissa. Melissa turns to face Willow again. Suddenly she bursts into tears. Willow gets up off the bed and kneels beside Melissa's chair, puts her arms around Melissa and holds her as she cries.
'You'll give the people an idea to strive towards.' 'They'll race behind you, they will stumble they will fall.' 'But in time they will join you in the sun. In time you will help them accomplish wonders'