"Rustic Chivalry…"
Summary: William and his son are plagued by a curse from the recent past…The very recent past…Using a rather ironic tool…
Disclaimer: Would Joss want his name associated with this? I think not...But anyway all BTVS characters remain the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and all other owner/creators of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series...Though his brother Mort gets nothing...
Archived at the Normalverse page of the Buffy Rebecca verse...
Part IV…
Now it's true…William reflected. That in my Spikean demonic days I might well have relished being in this sort of a position…
"Ahhhh!" Buffy cried. Jerking violently to try and toss the vampire currently on her back…
…No doubt Harris would insist "on her back…as always" Will noted, clinging tight as Harmony attempted to distract Buffy, dodging round her front…
…Off and into the hallway wall.
"Buffy! I want you to calm…"
Whoa…He found himself crashing to the ground but still held tight. Harmony staring at the rolling ball of Slayer and vampire.
"Buffy!" she tried. "You're gonna hurt yourself and the guy who fried for you! As your resouled classmate…!"
Wham…Buffy had given up on the rolling attempt and now slammed herself and her passenger against the hallway wall…
"Hey!" Harmony cried. "Watch it! There could be wood in that wall!"
"I think that's her…" Will began, cut off as Buffy slammed backwards again…
"Ven…" Buffy's harsh scream of triumph was in turn cut off as Harm jumped her in front. Taking face and sinking fangs…William barely holding on to the Slayer as she howled in pain, quivering. Finally managing to toss Harmony off…
Harmony, face bloodied with Slayer's blood, struggling to rise quickly as Buffy staggered, Will still managing to hang on…
"Buffy, I'm sorry…But..." Harmony began.
Buffy staring at her, blood running down her stylish Italian blouse. Eyes returning to white, though irises still black as the pupils…
"You…You…"
"It's all right…" Harmony spread hands in a peaceful gesture. "I'm souled. I won't turn you. I just…"
Will carefully released his grip as Buffy kept her focus on the female vampire…
Will…Harm hissed. Nodding for him to come over to her…
He however frowning now…
"What?"
"You bit her…?" his face angry. Buffy turning back now…
"What else could I do? She was gonna croak you in a sec…" Harmony glared back.
"William?" Buffy stared at him over her shoulder. Weaving a little where she stood… "I don't feel very…" she collapsed. He came to stand over her as she writhed a bit on the hallway floor. Moaning…
"Look what you did…!" he looked up at Harmony who blinked, then glared again…Hey?!
"I just saved your Unlife, jerk." she snapped. "God, always the way. I do the doormat for you, story of my Unlife, and you treat me like…"
"You bit her…" he replied, accusing. "Look at her!"
"She'll be fine. Moron…You think I don't know how much to take safely…?"
"In her condition, how would you know?!"
"Sorry I didn't let her kill you!" Harmony stamped a foot. Then calmed…
More important matters than the usual abuse of one Kendall. At least for Harmony Kendall, noble resouled champion of good…And lover of babies, if currently deprived by a cruel fate of having one of her own.
Though, sure, Lyri is having her Fred side do all she can to research the options…Lets not get in the dumps…Positive attitude. I'm resouled, I'm one of the good guys, I'm currently more or less immortal and kinda nice on the eyes, Mom and Dad, however uncertainly, bought the 'revived in coffin, rehabbed over the last years with miracles of modern medicine' story.
And our beloved baby Will in danger…
"Will, we've gotta get after them…!" she looked down the hall.
"We will, we will…Help me with her, c'mon." he indicated the fallen, bloodied Slayer. Now more or less fully unconscious…
They gingerly lifted her together, Harmony taking the arms, Will the legs…She twisted feebly in their grip but made no further effort.
"She'll be ok." Harmony insisted as they carried her into Will's apartment, he indicating they should lay her on the sofa. "Maybe we should get a trash bag or some plastic for the blood?" she eyed his annoyed face…Fine… "Will, I only took enough to calm her down. It takes the edge off…Like the old doctors with their bloodletting thing…" They set her down.
"What?" Will stared at her. "You read that in some eighteenth century medical manual about bleeding…?"
She eyed him…
"Pardon me…" he bowed slightly. "In some modern demonic journal about diabolic medicine?"
"Thanks for not confusing me with Drusilla…" she noted, brittily.
"….William…William…" Buffy moaned softly.
"Sweetheart, I'm here…" he bent over. Harmony eyeing him…
God…She smiled at him wanly…
Lucky for my recently acquired soul that the love of my life is named Cordelia. Or I might be dangerously tempted to take just a little more. And too much…
"…ven…detta…" Buffy gasped.
"Certainly, if you want, dear…" he nodded, holding her limp hand in his.
"Just name the victim…"
"He said…" she whispered, looking at him.
"Will…" Harmony tried to cut in. Oh-oh…
"…Said what, darling?"
"Will…I think…" Harm tried.
"…you…must die!..." Buffy, eyes darkening again. She grabbed Will by the throat and hurled him back against the wall to her left. Rising suddenly as if pulled to her feet by strings…
"I tried to tell you!" Harm cried to him as he staggered to his feet. "Her eyes were going again. Maybe I should try and take a little mo..."
Whoa…
Buffy had whirled to face her. Eyes black again and nostrils flaring. "You…"
"You can thank me for saving your boyfriend later." Harmony replied.
Buffy stopped, blinking…
Boy…?
"Boyfriend?" she whispered, staring at Harmony.
"I've made no claims on you, Buf…" Will interjected from where he was cautiously moving in again. Harmony glaring at the moron who seemed bent on Undying in his beloved's grip… Not the time to weaken those emotional bonds, you idiot!
"Oh, please. No wonder she's furious with you, loverboy…?" Harmony looked over to William. "You don't wanna hurt the one guy who keeps on coming, do you, Slayer?"
"Not to mention passes on beautiful and gainfully employed fellow vampires, even when you abandoned him for dead and he'd earned infinite brownie points by dying for you and the world, sorta/"
Buffy, wobbling on her feet, stared…
Hmmn…Harm thought.
Well, may as well give it a whirl…
"Be in my eyes, Slayer."
Will rolling his…Oh, please…
Buffy frowning now. Hey…
"Save…" she paused, seeming to search for words. "Save for…Tourists…" she said.
Harm eyeing Will. Well, some progress…
"William…?" Buffy looked over at him again…
"Yeah…" he smiled at her puzzled, angry yet, face…
"Guys?...Harmony?" Angel's booming call. "Spike, what's up with…Buffy…?" the newly arrived Angel stared at the scene…
"You…" Buffy stared at him as he looked at her darkening face.
"Buffy?" Angel blinked.
Oh, Lord…Will sighed.
Right…Bloody imitation Christ here to save the day…