Author's Notes:
So this is the last chapter! I know the ending is kind of crap, but that's because I got an idea for a new fanfiction I want to write. Just so you know, I'll be using this OC a lot. The rest of it, however, belongs to Joss, and I hope you enjoyed reading and thanks so much and I will stop rambling now. On with the show!
Soulful
"So you heard the song?" Angel asked as the two of them were driving back to the vampire nest.
K nodded. "She sang it to me."
"And you remember it?"
"When it's sung like that, it's not easy to forget."
"And you know how to sing it?"
"Exactly how," K assured him. "It's going to work. Trust me, I can feel it."
Angel didn't question her any more as he pulled into the parking lot and ran out back into the building.
The battle still raged on the ground floor. Slayers were on the dust-covered floor. K didn't even want to think if they were dead or not. The beast had not gotten far with the army holding it back, but it still lashed out is wrath as it got angrier and hungrier.
"I'm trusting you're going to do this right," Angel said before diving himself back into the rumble.
K cleared her throat, and looked straight at the demon, unblinking. "Oh, come to me my sweet," she started to sing. "Oh, rest, and be at peace. For we are here and here we sing, and now the new, we must bring."
The demon froze. The Slayers were startled by its unmoving state and froze as well.
"Here, now hear this song and be at peace. Let us hold you, let us keep you, let us take your blood, your essence, your soul."
The room was completely silent except for K's voice. All eyes were on her.
"Now rest, darkness, rest. Sleep for eternity and never rise again. Lie in the dirt, lie in the dust. Your life means nothing as we Be, and take our word, and sleep. Rest as we rise, oh, rest as we rise. Lovers will kill you if you dare speak, so sleep, foul beast, sleep."
The demon began to shriek as its hands went up to its head.
"And now, as I sing, you will be no more, for I am light, I am pure. Fall as we rise, oh, fall as we rise."
Wind rushed from nowhere and everyone ducked so they wouldn't be swept away.
"Die as we rise, oh, die as we rise."
The wind stopped. The demon was gone.
The two armies glanced at each other for a brief moment before the battle became red hot again. The Slayers had to finish off the vampires.
Willow was able to escape as she approached K.
"It's gone," K told her. "But I don't have my power back."
"That was amazing, K, I—"
"No time for all that. We can discuss it later, but right now, we've just got to get Spike's soul back into him."
"Right. Of course. I brought some magic ingredients with me just in case, so I should be able to get his soul back… but I don't have the right things for your Slayer powers."
K shook her head. "That doesn't matter, I don't care about that now. I just need Spike's soul. Let's go somewhere else, somewhere safer, and we can do the spell."
They went outside into the night, away from the raging battle, and set up the spell in the shadows of the building. Willow had done this spell so many times, she felt like she could do it in her sleep. She did the spell like it was nothing at all.
"So that's it, then?" K asked. "Spike should have his soul back?"
"I'm fairly certain. And once we get back to the Slayer HQ, I'll be able to get the ingredients to help you get your powers back."
"Thanks, Will, but it's not that important right now." K pulled out the key that was in her pocket. "I need to help Spike. Can you and the rest of the army take care of the rest of the vampires?"
"Definitely. We've dropped the numbers significantly, and now that the demon is gone, it should be easy. Just like going on patrol. You go help Spike, we'll take care of it."
They both rushed back into the building, Willow going back into the battle, and K beginning to rush up the floors.
"Oh, God, how many floors were in this building again?" K asked herself as she went onto the third floor. She could barely remember. All she was focused on was Spike.
"There are six," said a voice.
K turned around.
Charlie laughed. "So that's where the key went."
K swallowed a nervous lump in her throat. Shit, she thought. I don't have any Slayer powers to kill this guy. But…
"If you come any closer, I will kill you," K threatened, trying to sound intimidating.
Charlie just laughed again. "I know for a fact that you don't have your Slayer powers back. And you're such a small and cute little girl." The next second, he was right next to K, his hand gripping the collar of her shirt. "Maybe I should just keep you to myself instead of letting Spike have you."
"Go ahead and kill me if you must," K said through gritted teeth. "But you've lost. And soon you're going to die. And Spike will be okay and free, and that's all I need to die at peace. So if it's completely necessary, go ahead and do it."
He laughed again and his face transformed into his true visage. He leaned in and placed his mouth on her neck, piercing her skin with his sharp teeth.
K closed her eyes. She just wanted to scream at the pain, but held it in with one breath. She could begin to feel the blood leave her body when it suddenly… stopped. She fell to the ground in a worn out heap. Charlie was simply the dust floating in the air with one of the wooden arrows from the crossbow falling to the ground.
K's eyes were almost closing. She had lost so much blood. But she forced herself to look up. "B-Buffy?"
"Yeah," Buffy said, putting her crossbow down. "Are you okay?"
"I think so," K said. She slowly got up, using a nearby chair for help. She almost toppled over again once she was up, though, but she kept her balance nicely. "You killed him."
Buffy nodded. "We finished downstairs so I came up just in case there were any left. He was the last of 'em."
"Th-thank you," K stammered.
"Are you okay? Can you walk without falling over?"
K chuckled. "Yeah, I think so…"
"If you're good, you'd better go up and get Spike. The rest of us are out in the parking lot. We'll wait for you."
"Thank you, Buffy," K repeated. "I mean, really… Thank you."
She just nodded again, and then left her as she went back downstairs.
K took a moment to really appreciate Buffy, and then remembered she had a job to do. She ran upstairs to Spike, still locked in chains.
"Oh, Spike," K said.
"K…" he said softly. "I'm…"
"Yes?" K asked. "Are you okay?"
"I'm… so sorry."
She kissed him full on the lips and then several times on his cheeks and forehead. "Oh my God, Spike," she said between kisses. "You're back. You're okay."
"I am so sorry," Spike said again.
"Don't be sorry," K said, holding his face carefully in her small hand. "That wasn't you, that wasn't the Spike who loves me. But you're back, and…" Tears began to stream down her face. "And I'm so happy that you're back. Oh, God, Spike, I love you so much."
"Well, I think you're okay."
"Wh-what?"
"And I even like you. And I love you. And I more than love you." Spike smiled.
K laughed and coughed and hiccupped at the same time. She kissed him again. "Oh. God. Right, I almost forgot." She put the key in his handcuffs and freed him.
Together, the two of them walked outside, met with the Slayer army, and went to the back of the hotel.
"I think we can call this mission a success," Willow said.
"Right," Buffy said. "We did good. Um, thanks, and I guess that's it. We should start heading back to HQ now."
As the army of Slayers began to get into vans and driving off, the original 9 who came to the hotel went to their rooms and gathered their things and weapons.
In room 717, K and Spike packed their things.
"You… are bloody fantastic, you know that?"
K smiled as she zipped up her bag. "I'm just a normal girl. Literally, I don't even have Slayer powers now."
"Bugger that! You and normal? Those words can't even go into the same idea together. Bloody impossible, that is. You're extraordinary, and you're beautiful, and I love you."
"C'mon," K said. "Let's go down to the van."
K started to walk out the hotel room door, when Spike stopped her by grabbing her hand. She looked at him; he shook his head.
"No," he said softly. "Let's run away together."