Hello you beautiful Popsicles (please tell me you all watch dailygrace?! What you don't?! For shame! Go to youtube right now and watch! I also suggest hannah hart and mamrie hart). So i'm terrible sorry this has taken so long, I believe its the longest wait yet, but RL has hit me head on! Plus we got a puppy last week and I have been exhausted looking after it. I swear a baby would be easier at this point. So this is the big reveal I hope you all enjoy, I'm not to happy with this chapter honestly, a bit of writers block hit me. Enough rambling on with it! ;)
P.S. If you aren't already doing so you need to start reading "Serendipitous Freedom" by garden-nomes. It's hilarious and amazing. Plus the smut *waves a fan onto my face* Get your cigarettes ready because you're going to need it! So read this chapter and then head on over there, drop a review and be amazed by all of the sexy Naomily. Plus Naomi as a painter can never not be a beautiful thing... every one remember Coin Laundry?! :)
P.S.S. Also I'm finally using that brilliant idea that someone gave me about good ole KFF and a high heel ;)
Skins/ buffy isnt mine but if it was I would totally make Spike and Cook hook up. Wouldn't that be and amazing ship?!
Chapter 16
Naomi's POV
"Hey! Emily, what's taking you so long? I thought you only popped out for a bit?" I talk into the phone, wrapping my other arm around Effy's shoulders and leaning back into the booth.
"Em, are you there? Did you butt dial me? Emily?"
"What the-" I hear Emily say, though she sounds distant, like the phone isn't right up to here ear.
"Shut up girl, you're coming with me." My blood turns to ice as I hear the voice of the man, a voice that sounds familiar but I just can't put my finger on it.
"Ems, Emily, whats going on?! Are you okay, where are you?!" I practically scream into the phone, desperate for her to give me an answer. Effy and the gang must notice my distress because the conversation has ceased. Effy quietly asks me what's going on, I don't answer though because I'm to busy listening to the sounds coming from the phone.
"Where are you taking me?!" Good girl Emily, make him tell you so I can find you.
"To see the boss. I hope you like graveyards little girl because your going to be in one for a long time." A moment of silence passes and I hear Emily whimper softly, obviously afraid. When I find this guy I am going to make him suffer. I feel a sneer come onto my face and my free hand grips the edge of the table, bending the corner.
"Big mistake." I hear the phone drop onto the ground and listen to the echo that briefly comes through the speaker, right before it goes silent. Must be an alleyway, sounded like pavement and there was a slight echo. The one right outside the club!
I stand up up quickly from the table and yell for Effy and Cook to follow me, not bothering to look behind me because I know they are going to be there. I rush through the club, pushing bodies on the dance floor out of my way without any care at how hard I was pushing them. Dipping, weaving, pushing I continue to make my way to the front door of the club, knowing that Effy and Cook would do anything to keep up with, I start to run. I see the door and burst through it, almost knocking over a few people and running by them without a second glance. I turn the corner to the alley and sprint towards something on the ground that was reflecting light. I hear the footsteps of Effy and Cook shortly behind me. I bend down to see the object closer, I quickly realize that it's Emily's phone and I feel my heart drop. She was right outside and I could do nothing to protect her. I could feel the rage building up inside of me, whoever was responsible for this would pay.
"They took them... I'll fucking kill them!" I scream into the alleyway, throwing Emily's phone against the wall.
"What's going on Naomi?" I look at Effy and for the first time in a long time I see that she's afraid.
"Someone took Emily and Katie, I got a call from Emily and I heard her talking to the guy that took her. He said he was taking her to a graveyard. But which one?!" I throw my hands into the air, realizing for the first time how difficult it could be to find her in a city this large.
"Naomikins, I think you're forgetting that we know a pretty powerful witch. Can't Eff just do some hocus pocus and we can find em?!"
"You bloody brilliant James Cook!" I grab the few pieces of Emily's phone that were still on the ground, knowing that Effy would need a personal item of hers in order to track her and whats more personal nowadays than a cell phone?!
Luckily, Giles had all of the supplies that we would need in the library and even more luckily for us, Giles was still at the library doing a bit of late night research. It's always good to bring an extra pair of experienced hands along, especially when you don't know what you'll find when you get there. We quickly do the location spell and find that Emily, and hopefully Katie, are at a graveyard not far away, in fact it's a graveyard that I routinely patrol. I grab a crossbow, some stakes, my trusty ax and we quickly head into Giles' car, enough weapons to kill an army in tow.
We quickly make our way to the graveyard, all of us practically jumping out of the car and through the gates.
"Now the hard part. Where could she be?" Giles asks while loading his crossbow.
"There's only one place that I can think of. Follow me." I knew of a place that I had accidentally come across during one patrol, it was a simple family tomb but unlike most graveyards this was there was only the one tomb, if they were keeping them someplace it had to be there. I break out into a quick trot, not wanting to exhaust myself before the real challenge began but also wanting to get there as quick as possible. After a few minutes of running I see the back of the tomb, having taken us this way so that we could sneak up upon whoever was inside. Another good thing about this tomb was the window in the back, which is something I've only seen here. Why would the dead need a window anyways?! I can see that there is a faint glow coming from within the tomb, what looks to be candlelight. This looks promising. I signal for everyone to hold as I crouch down and edge my way towards the window. I lift my head to it, just enough to see inside, and right away I see the beautiful shade of crimson that I've been hoping to see once more. The sight of Emily was enough to drive all thoughts out of my brain, the only thing that mattered to me was charging in there and kicking ass. I hear Giles and Effy yell at me but I ignore them, only concentrating on getting Emily out of here and safe. Without thinking I kick the front door in and lift my crossbow ready to shoot at anything that looks threatening.
"Naomi!" Emily and Katie scream at me but before I was able to reach them I felt a blow to my head. I hit the ground hard, losing my crossbow in the process. I hear the rest of gang run into the tomb, fighting the rest of the people that came out of nowhere. I quickly push myself off the the floor, throwing my entire body weight into a round house kick to the assailants head. I take the ax from the sling on my back and whip it around, cleanly chopping his head off and turning him into ash.
"They're fangers!" I scream to the rest of the group, letting them know that they can use the stakes, though even if they weren't vampires I've rarely met a demon that doesn't die from a stake to the heart.
I turn and see a vampire chasing after Katie, who is running out of the tomb in fear. I quickly chase after them. By the time I get outside the vamp had her cornered against a tree. I quickly take a stake out of my pants and throw it at him, nailing him in the heart from behind.
"What the fuck is going on?!" Katie screams at me.
I see something come flying at me from the corner of my vision, I hear Emily yell at me to duck and it's a good thing that I do. I look over to the tree and see that a cross bolt firmly planted into the bark, a second later and I would have been dead. I turn to the vamp who tried to shoot me and nail him with a firm right hook. He rolls and tries to roundhouse kick me. Funny thing about the roundhouse, it takes time to execute, enough time for me to put a stake through his heart, which is what I do.
"Maybe not the best time to talk about it Katiekins."
I look around and see that the rest of the group has also taken the fight outside and even though we are kicking ass, there is a lot of vamps left still. I pick up the crossbow and let a few bolt fly, killing a few of the vamps that were causing us trouble. I see what looks to be the leader of the group and quickly decide on a course of action. I need him alive. I run in the direction of him, ducking and dodging random blows from other vampires, staking a few on the way. Right before I reach what I think is the head vamp, I feel a blow to my back. I flip with the momentum of my fall, shooting behind me with my crossbow knowing that I will hit the vamp in the heart. I land on my feet and crouch down low in front of the head vamp and in one quick motion slice off both of his legs with my ax. He falls to the floor, blood shooting all over me, and I grab him by the collar.
"Who are you working for?! Give me a name!" He laughs at me, not willing to give up his boss. I take my ax and cut off his right arm.
"WHO?!" I scream at him. Before he could respond again, I see a ball of fire shoot at me. I dive out of the way just in time to see the vamp go up in flames, turning to dust. I look to where the fireball came from and see a dark figure with a hood up and a gas mask. Oh my god... he's real. I feel myself freeze on the spot, unable to get my body to respond to my will. All this time I thought that he wasn't real, just a recurring nightmare. I feel Giles grab me and shake me.
"Naomi, not now. We need you, snap out of it!" I feel myself come back to reality and I remember why I'm here in the first place. Emily. Someone wanted to hurt MY Emily. I see red, I get tunnel vision and the only thing that I can think about doing is causing the most pain in the shortest amount of time. Total and utter carnage is the only way to describe the next few minutes. Everything that has fangs turns to dust before my hands. I slash, shoot, cut, stake everything in my path, the idea of Emily hurt driving me onwards. I turn on a vamp and decide to use him as a punching bag before I kill him. I plant a heavy fist into the side of his head when I hear a muffled and familiar voice moan. It's just enough for me to stop my assault on him and lower my murderous rage for a bit.
"Blondie, is that anyway to treat an old friend?!"
"Spike?! What the hell are you doing here?!" He turns at stakes a vamp that was trying to get the jump on me.
"Saving your ass aren't I? What it is with you slayers, always needing my help?" He smirks at me and we go back to back, finishing off any other vamps that we see, that is until I hear Katie scream and two vamps talking. We both run to the sound of the scream.
"Which one do we grab?"
"Who knows?! Just pick one, I don't see why it matters anyways."
"The boss said he needs one of them for a particular reason." One of the vamps says to the other.
"Just grab one, they both look the same, we can say it's the one he needs." They nod to each other.
"Who are you love?" The vamp says to Katie.
"Who am I?! I'm Katie Fucking Fitch! Who the fuck are you?!" As she scream this at the vamp she kicks him in the chest, sending her heel straight into his heart and he turns to dust.
"I knew these wooden heals would come in handy one day. And you though they were tacky." Katie says to Emily, who has her mouth wide open, both of them forgetting that there is another vamp. I take out my ax one last time and chop his head off, his shock at seeing his buddy killed by a high heal no doubt helping. I run over to Emily, grabbing her into my arms and giving her a hug.
"Are you okay?" I lean back, looking into her eyes.
"You're covered in blood." Emily says, almost zombie like while pulling herself out of my arms. I look down at me and notice that she is right, the blood from the vamp having splattered a lot of my clothing.
"Don't worry, it's not mine." I say to her.
"What the fuck is going on Naomi?!" She says, wrapping her arms around herself.
"Em, I-" I reach for her but she takes a step back. By this time the rest of the group has made it's way over to us.
"It seems that I have a bit of explaining to do."
"You fucking think?!" Katie practically screams at me.
"Better take this back to the school I think. There might be more of them." Giles says, I nod in agreement.
"Why the fuck is the librarian here?!"
This is going to be a long night.
By the time we get to the library I want nothing more than to have this night be over. We all sit around the table, none of us really knowing were to start. I sit across from Emily and Katie, Effy sits to my right. Giles, Spike and Cook leaning against the railing. The tension in the room could be cut with a knife.
"So is someone going to explain what the fuck just happened?!" Leave it to Katie to break the ice.
I take a deep breath, gearing myself for the task ahead.
"You have to understand that this isn't something that I've chose to do, this is something that was forced upon. And it's not something that I share so bare with me for a bit yeah?" I try to get Emily to look at me but every time she came near me she would look away quickly, avoiding my gaze.
"Naoms, just tell them." I nod to Effy solemnly.
"Basically... I'm a vampire slayer."
"You're having a laugh." Emily says, looking at me for the first time since the incident in the graveyard.
"I'm serious. I'm the slayer. I'm super strong and fast, and it is my destiny to keep the demons and vampires from bringing about the apocalypse." Silence followed, Katie looked at me like a deer in the headlights.
"So your a vampire slayer... then who the hell is the librarian?!"
"Giles is my watcher, it's his job to train me and prepare me for what I might face as the slayer."
"Why do you call yourself the slayer? Are you the only one?"
"Technically there is only supposed to be one. One girl to every generation who is destined to fight the forces of evil, but things have been a bit... complicated. Right now, counting Naomi, there is three slayers." Giles answers for me.
"Right..." Emily says uncertainly. "So who the hell is that then?!" Emily points to Spike.
"That's just Spike." I wave my hand around dismissing him.
"Just Spike?! Bloody hell. I don't know what it is with you blonde slayers but you are insufferable. Save the bloody world by sacrificing myself to close the hellmouth and this is the thank I get!? A punch to the face and maybe if I'm lucky some cold pigs blood!"
"Why would you need pigs blood?" Katie asks innocently.
"Because I'm a bloody vampire sweet cheeks." Emily and Katie jump up from their chairs and back away into the railing, fear written across their faces.
"Woah guys! No, he's good! He's a good vampire." I desperately try to get them to calm down.
"Good?! You just told us it's your job to kill vampires and there is a vampire and your not killing him! What the fuck Naomi?!"
"Listen to me, he has a soul now. He won't hurt you, it would torment him for the rest of his life. I trust him with my life, I promise you he's totally safe."
"Yeah well your word isn't worth much now is it." Emily shoots at me, anger in her eyes. Spike lets out a loud laugh.
"I like her. Fancy a bit of fun there lass?" If looks could kill Spike would be dead.
"Alright then, point taken." He looks to Katie. "What about you love?"
"If you go anywhere near her I'll rip your balls off with a hot iron myself." Effy says calmly without even looking up at Spike.
"Is everyone here a bloody muff muncher?! Willow would be in her glory." Spike throws his hands up in the air. He starts to walk away and out of the library before turning around, "I'll be back tomorrow, I got a book from Willow for you. Says it might help with your little dream problem." He walks through the doors and down the hallway, only the sound of his boots hitting the ground. I look over to Emily, Please just look at me, look at me, look at me.
"Right, I think we should call it a night. We'll meet back here on Monday after school, give you girls some time to process all of this. I know it probably doesn't need saying but you cannot tell anyone about this. There are people who would use this information to hurt Naomi." Giles walks through the doors and like Spike all that we hear is his footsteps fading away. Cook soon follows suit, giving me a quick kiss on the head before walking out as well, leaving just Emily, Effy, Katie and I in the library.
"Eff, I need to talk to you." Katie gets up and walks out into the hallway, Effy closely behind her, leaving only Emily and I in the library.
"What did he mean, there are people who would hurt you?"
I scoff. "Emily, this isn't the kind of job were every one is in the 'I love the slayer' fan club. I have enemies, very powerful and very dangerous enemies, who are royally pissed off that I keep ruining their evil plans to destroy the world. I'll never have to worry about a gray hair at least. We don't usually live past twenty." I cross my arms over my chest, trying to keep my feelings in check.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"It's not really something you just drop on the first date is it? And besides I told you that I needed to tell you something, I told you it was big. But I promise I was going to tell you. It's not something that I want broadcasted to everyone that I know. It's bad enough that the gang knows! Try explaining something like this to Pandora it's not-"
"Wait a minute, hold on. The entire group knows this?! The whole group knows and none of you thought it would be something that you should mention to us?! What the fuck Naomi! You've all been playing us for months! How many times have they lied for you! How many times have you lied to me?!" A look of realization comes across her features.
"Oh my god. All those bruises and cuts, all of the errands that you did for your mother. That first time at Goldz, I fucking knew you lied to me! And where did you go that night that you left me in my bed Naomi?! Where the fuck did you go?!" Her voice progressively getting louder and angrier as she goes on.
"I couldn't tell you! I couldn't be sure if I could trust you!" I yelled back at her, feeling the need to defend myself and my actions. It wasn't the best move but when someone comes at me I feel the need to attack back. Stupid, stupid, stupid. You should have hit her it would have hurt less. Emily looked like I had kicked her in the gut, her eyes went wide and I could see tears threatening to fall. Katie and Effy make and entrance back into the library, pausing at the doorway seeing that they were interrupting something.
"You didn't know if you could trust me..." Emily lets out a manic laugh. "Well you won't have to worry about that anymore. Come on Katie, we're leaving." She shoots me one last hurt look and walks towards her sister.
"Emily, please... that's not what I- I didn't mean that!" I pleaded with her. She keeps her back to me but turn her head slightly so I could still hear her.
"You know I never had a girlfriend. I never thought I could trust someone with my heart... until I met you and I decided to take that chance. My brain said one thing but my heart said another, and I was so stupid. You were like a drug, I was high off of you. I guess this is the come down." With that she walks away, Katie shooting an apologetic look at Effy.
I felt like my heart was breaking, like someone had poured acid straight into my veins. The world kept spinning but I stayed still. A black hole sucking up everything bright and good in it's path. Maybe this was my real destiny... to be alone.
Alright so know she knows. I'm sorry to end it like that but I really just couldn't write anymore and I made you all wait for so long as it is. I promise it will get better! This is just a bump, whats a good Naomily story without a bit of angst. Let me know what you all think.
Also I will be going back to school this Saturday for my last year at university sor the updates will probably slow down a bit. But if they take to long just yell at me and it'll give me the push to update!
Reviews? Thoughts? Favorite tv show? Anyone else obsessed with Orange is the New Black?! ;)