Chapter 14 The Vampire Slayer
A/N: You guys are going to love this chapter. But, but there is one thing that must be done before reading this. If you have not, repeat, if you have not read Darkest Night by Nikon the Vampire then it will be very helpful if you did. If you have then enjoy this chapter and once you have read Darkest Night you'll still love this chapter. Enjoy.
Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
'Til there are no rich no more
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money, No none for me
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
Oh yeah!
World pollution, there's no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black and white, rich or poor
Senators stop the war
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
I'd Love to Change the World by Jetta
Three Months Ago
Victoria looked outside the window of the warehouse while her brother Rick filled up a coffin. She knew something was coming as her steely blue eyes pierced the night. Her dark blonde hair streamed down to her shoulders. The idea of a big evil had been nagging her slayer mind for a while now. A long time coming.
She looked at her brother who was frantically reading books and papers. It felt like Rick was taking too long to pack and they were in a time crunch. They had to get out and now. As Victoria stood there looking at the door waiting for something terrible to come through she felt someone pulling her hand. Victoria then looked to her brother as he pulled her along.
"What are you doing?" She asked as he quickly walked her to the coffin.
"Get in," Rick insisted and Victoria looked to her brother.
"What?" She exclaimed very confused.
"Vicky," Rick started as he got closer. "You need to hurry, there's not much time. These books have to get to Angel and Buffy." Rick started.
"We're going together." Victoria was convinced of that but Rick continued to stare at her. "We are right?" He continued to stare at his twin sister that he's been fighting with side by side for two thousand years. He shook his head slowly and Victoria started to feel her eyes getting hot with tears. "But, we've finally found each other." She's been without her brother for a hundred years and they've just been reunited for a year now.
"I know", Rick said holding her sister tight. "But one of us has to hold them off and the other has to get to Sunnydale." Rick informed her and she stood there. "This will protect you from daylight as you travel." Rick then showed her the coffin as the books were pushed against the sides so Victoria could laydown comfortably in it. She turned and faced him shaking her head no. "Vicky, there's bigger things than you me right now. If this world is going to survive you need to go." Victoria still stood there not wanting to leave him. "I'll be ok, and Angel will keep you safe he knows how to keep a little sister safe."
"You're only older by six minutes." Victoria reminded him and he smiled a little and she just leaned in for a hug knowing no matter how this ends she'll never see Rick again. "I'll see you again someday." She pulled away and now she had tears in her eyes. It's been her and Rick for so long she's almost forgotten everything else before they were slayers and then vampires. Rick then started to help her into the coffin as she started to lay down in it. They were back in Rome so the travel to Sunnydale California was going to be a long one. Rick looked into the coffin seeing his sister laying there knowing this will be the last time he sees her.
"Say hey to Dawn for me." He was trying to be light hearted in this and Victoria forced a smile. He held out his hand and she grabbed it, one last time they held hands. "We can do this, Angel can do this." He assured Victoria and she nodded. She had to believe it or they were all going to die.
Rick closed the coffin and nailed it shut. He pulled out a cell phone and typed in a message. The back door of the warehouse opened and two vampires came out. "Put this on the next ship", Rick ordered. "MOVE!"
The vampires grunted as they moved the Coffin. They closed the door behind them. Rick walked towards the window and looked outside. He saw movement. A lot of movement. He smiled and walked towards the center of the room. He pulled out a Katana and stared at the front door. The door banged. It banged hard. The male slayer vampire gripped his sword hard. The door broke down and a large 15 foot demon troll appeared. Behind him, several demons in robes.
"Bringing the big guns huh", Rick stated as he twirled his sword.
The coffin was so dark. Victoria was in tears and crying. She could hear it. Her slayer vampire hearing was in tune to the battle far away. Her brother was outnumbered at least 20 to 1. He was giving the battle of his life. Then, he was gone. She could always feel her brother even when they were apart for a hundred years but now, there was nothing. There's was an empty space in her now. It felt like time was now in a stand still as she laid in her coffin and she wondered if she was going to be in this place forever. Maybe she was just laying in her own grave.
But that's not what scared her, what was scaring her right now is Rick was gone. Her brother was gone, after two thousands years together he was gone. When this coffin opens up he won't be there. The only thing she had right now that was going through her head was her brother, them growing up together, being called at the same time as slayers, dying together as slayers, being vampires together. And now she was alone. Her other half was gone. Rick always told her that he was there when her heart first beat and he will be there to the last beat. Even if their hearts stopped beating years ago. They were no longer "we" but "I". Victoria laid in the coffin not knowing what was happening or going to happen but the mission remained the same, get to Sunnydale and to get to her second slayer brother.
Present Day Sunnydale
Morning tends to start early around the mansion it was no different even with the First gaining strength. Buffy along with the help of Dawn and Giles were trying to put together a breakfast to feed everyone that was now staying at the mansion. More potentials were coming that much was for sure. The ones here have now seen the power of the slayer and can see that Angel can protect them. But Buffy also stated that they needed to protect themselves as well. They cannot be damsels in distress because no one is coming to save them.
While Buffy was stirring a huge bowl of eggs she was humming. It's an old tune as well and Giles recognized it as he prepared his tea. Dawn wouldn't know it though, most people wouldn't unless you fought in World War I. Buffy was a bystander in that war. She was actually on her way to the USA right at the start of the war. She arrived in New York City in 1919 and the war ended in 1918. She was traveling at the time when the war started on July 28 1914. She had been en-souled for sixteen years. She was trapped in France when it happened so she saw a lot of death and destruction. In fact one city in France that was devastated was Arras France. The way it looked at the end of the war is a complete one-eight degrees on what it looks like now.
Buffy was stuck in France the entire time and it delayed her trip to America by five years. She came to the States for one reason, erase the past although that past did find her. But during the war as there were many funerals one song was played a number of soldiers' funerals. The song is known as Lay Me Down, a Scottish man sung it for his wife but the words describe that of a soldier. The people around the mansion were soldiers. They didn't wear uniforms, fly planes or fight with guns. They were different soldiers fighting a completely different war that nearly all the world didn't know even existed. While the tune she hummed was haunting it was something that she always wanted until she found her family.
Giles only knows the song in passing and sometimes he forgets just what Buffy was able to live through. She saw how Britain was a world powerhouse and it's demise. She wasn't in the USA but she did witness the birth of a nation. She's seen the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire, witness the Nazi war, WWI and WWII, Vietnam. She was alive during the first mission to the moon. She's seen the taking down of the Berlin Wall and in fact she won't say it but she cried during the Kennedy Assassination, both of the Kennedys. She's seen the building up of cities, dirt paths to paved roads, horse drawn carriages to motor vehicles. Maybe everyone here forgets that from time to time. But the tune she hummed was both a beautiful and haunting tune if one knows it.
Buffy stopped stirring the eggs and then poured them into the pan to start cooking them. Giles snapped out the daze he was in and started to look around. War was on their doorstep and they should be scared not making breakfast. But something about doing the mundane keeps you sane. It's the one thing you can control.
Angel headed down to the basement to let the girls know that it was time to eat but as he went down there he heard some arguments.
"We aren't strong like him, how can we fight?" Rona asked and then they all looked up seeing Angel standing there.
"Yes you are." Angel jumped into the conversion. "No, you may not have my powers but think about this. You have potential, you were born with something. I know this because I've felt something all my life before I was called." Angel continued on. "You guys have instincts no one else does, you have this gut feeling no one else does."
"Then can you teach us?" Kennedy stepped forwards and asked. Angel wasn't sure if he could. He thought about it and nodded and the girls smiled a little bit. He has taught Dawn and look at her now. It's the one thing he can do to help them keep themselves safe and at least have a chance.
"Come on," He ushered them up the stairs to eat.
The girls were all in the basement now. The school day was over and Angel had them in the training room along with Dawn, Buffy and Spike. Dawn was off to the corner knowing the lesson. Angel had Buffy and Spike standing before the girls.
"What do you feel?" He asked them and they looked around at each other. "You should have the urge to run."
"Then what's the point?" Rona asked.
"Because it's ok to run." Angel answered and that wasn't an answer they all expected and they seemed confused. "It's not about jumping into the fight and sometimes you have to have to run in order to regain focus." Angel looked to hi class. "And I'm going to be honest you're going to die anyways because we're mortals. The only two that could live forever are these two." Angel took to Spike and Buffy. "Even then they have some limitations. But being slayer doesn't give you a right to live. A slayer dies in order to save those around them."
This was a very different way to look at this. These girls probably have this divine view of the slayer but really what Angel just said is true. They are here to die, it's the end result. "I've died twice already. I know Dawn will die, I'm not very accepting about it but I know it will happen at some point. Being the slayer even a potential doesn't give you a right to live but an honor to die. You put others before you." Buffy liked that idea of a slayer.
"Now, we have issues and we need to figure them out and fast." Angel was going to get down to the point of the lesion and then show some basic fight moves for them. "The First is in remission right now. It seemed it put a lot of effort into the uber vampire and since I killed it, it needs to rethink a few things. Also I don't think it'll be pulling on Spike's strings for a bit." Spike looked a little relieved. "But the downside is that the First is regrouping and that's never good."
"So, what's next?" Kennedy asked.
"We need to up our game as well and be ready for the unexpected. The First has connections, unlimited resources and we need to be ready for whatever it might through at us." Angel went on.
"And when it throws whatever it is then what?" Kennedy asked.
"We throw something heavier back." Buffy answered and Dawn smiled.
"You guys are tired and scared I know because I was too, still am." Angel went on. "But you're here for a reason. You know how many people wonder why they are here? Some go their whole lives wondering and never find out. But I know somewhere in you, you know who you are, why you're here. Just think," Angel wanted them to really understand who they are. "You have greater purpose than most, a greater calling and you are here now accepting that. Whether you live or die just know what you want to die for and know you might saved more than just one life. You are here because you are the chosen ones. Act like it."
Angel was at school now in his little office. He was writing down the grades for the day and most of the time it's A's. As long as the kids dress out they get a B, if they participate they get an A. Gym is very hard to fail. As he was writing down the grades the door opened and Amanda poked her head in and Angel looked up.
"Coach, can I come in?" She asked and Angel nodded. "Do, do people think you're weird?" She asked and he wasn't sure where this was going. Angel had to think about it. His work outside of school is weird but unless you knew that Angel was a typical guy. "I mean, I've seen strange stuff and you happen be there, everyone likes you. And then there's me," She paused for a moment. "Like the day you called me to fight you."
"I'll be honest, we're all a little weird." Angel wanted to help her out. "What's wrong?" And that meant Amanda could sit down and talk.
"People pick on you when we're weird but what if a guy does it like all the time?" Amanda asked and Angel started to pick up on it.
"You mean, he likes you?" Angel wanted to be sure where this was going and she nodded.
"If you like someone why pick on them?" Amanda asked.
"Because they are just as insecure as you are." Angel answered and that made sense. Angel then thought about Buffy. "Mortal enemies just might like each other but they pick on each other, it's how they relate." Buffy played hard to get with him but then again he did the same.
"So, we are weird." Amanda summed it up.
"Is everything ok?" Angel asked as he picked up something from her. Amanda adverted her eyes a little and sighed.
"I feel…trapped…" She answered and Angel listened. "I feel…you have that feeling in you that you know something that you might not want to know? And know something is coming and you should run but…"
"You don't." Angel finished and she nodded. Angel leaned back in his chair thinking. "Amanda," She looked up at him. "I want you to do something for me." She nodded and he hoped it was going to scare her. "Everyday from now on unless I say so, go straight home from school. Don't go out after dark and stay visible." Amanda looked confused but then again she felt like he was reassuring her. "Do you know the mansion outside of town?" And she nodded. "If something is after you or you feel something is wrong, go there ok?" She nodded to him in full understanding.
Angel walked through the mansion doors and looked around as Dawn followed him in. As soon as she met up with him after school he was like on this straight forwards get out of school deal. Just as she was following him Buffy came racing in.
"We have something." Both Angel and Buffy said at the same time.
"Well then," Dawn jumped in looking at Angel and Buffy.
Buffy led Angel into the study as there was a huge coffin sitting in the room. The A-Team stood around it as it has yet to be opened.
"Wonder what's inside?" Doyle asked.
"Maybe it's a sick joke." Cordelia added wondering what could be inside. Angel then looked up to Giles and the Watcher was confused and the same idea was running through everyone's mind, what if there was a dead potential slayer in there.
"We need to open it." Andrew stated as he stood there. "I mean it's the only way to tell."
"As stupid as that it the boy is right." Spike walked in with a crowbar. "I'll do the honors." Then with the hook side of the bar he jammed it in where the lid of the coffin met with the body. Spike then started to push down on the bar and the coffin began to open. Spike jumped and the lid of the coffin flew open and woman sat up finally seeing light. Dawn's eyes widen seeing the woman.
"Victoria!" She seemed completely shocked and the woman looked to her.
"You got big Dawn." Victoria replied but everyone else was lost. "Is Angel here?" She asked and then spotted the slayer. Her vampire instincts kicked in and she knew he was the slayer.
"Ok, who the hell are you?" Buffy asked and then she turned the legendary Elizabeth.
"You've met my brother, Rick," Victoria answered and Buffy's eyes widen and she was about to attack Victoria but Dawn stopped her. This still has yet to answer everyone else's questions though. "I'm not going to hurt anyone!" Victoria stood up in the coffin.
"Yeah, because when your brother took my soul that didn't hurt anyone." Buffy was rhetoric back at her.
"I'm really lost," Angel more or less mutter.
"I could never hurt my own slayer line." Victoria looked around and then to Angel. Dawn looked to her brother as well as he stood there.
"You're a vampire," Angel stated and the potentials took a step back along with the A-Team.
"Wasn't always one, I was slayer like you same with Rick." Victoria stated, oh what a story this was going to be.
Rome 5 B.C.
The Roman battlefield looked like a wasteland of corpses. Bodies of Roman and Barbarian soldiers covered the countryside. The green hills were stained with the blood of men in battle. None had an idea of what caused so much death until it was too late. Death had reached the battlefield not in sword or spear form but in fang form.
A group of ten vampires feasted on top of the hill. They were savage and uncivilized. They saw the battle. They saw the bloodshed. And they feasted on everything that moved. They fed on the dead not caring whether they breathed or not. Their fangs pierced the dead flesh. They sucked the warm corpses dry.
A dark cool breeze was the only sound a human could hear. But vampire senses were more alert. They felt the presence. Then they heard the calm beating of two human hearts. They all stood up and looked upon the bottom of the hill. They saw two humans. In the dark night, their facial factions were unrecognizable. But they could tell. They were a man and a woman, young and vibrant.
Ricardous smiled as he saw his ten opponents. He than looked at his twin sister Victoria with a fierce determination on her face. The girl twirled her stake in her hand. She smiled back at her twin brother.
"The one with less kills does the chores tomorrow." Victoria said as she sprinted up hill. Ricardous was having none of that. He pulled his sword out and ran after her.
The vampires saw the fresh meat running up the hill. They all screamed a battle cry and started running down. The siblings moved with blunt force. Their weapons found their mark quickly. Soon, the small group of vampires were nothing but dust.
"Did you keep count?" Ricardous asked his sister.
Victoria just smiled and stretched. All of the sudden she gasped. Rick's eyes widened in horror seeing an arrow sticking out of his sister's shoulder. He turned his attention towards the origin and his face fell. Twenty vampires were at the bottom of the hill. They were led by the master vampire Ambrosianus.
"You are hard to catch up to." The master vampire said. "It feels liked I have been hunting you for an eternity."
Victoria pulled the arrow from her shoulder and nodded to Ricardous signaling she was ok. Ricardous nodded back and turned towards their enemy.
"Want to finish this once and for all?" Ricardous asked.
Ambrosianus smiled as his yellow eyes filled with hate and determination.
"It ends tonight!" The gang of vampires started running up the hill just as Victoria stood up. Ricardous swung his sword and started decapitating, but the numbers game was soon a factor. Sure enough, the sibling slayers were kneeled on that battlefield. Their hands tied behind their back.
Ambrosianus walked right up behind Victoria's back.
"You two," The master vampire said as her caressed Victoria's cheek. Her brown wavy hair moved in accordance to the wind's command "You are full of pride. You think just because you are slayers, you are better than vampires?"
"Leave her alone!" Ricardous said. Ambrosianus smiled and evil smile.
"If she were a vampire…" The vampire said. "Would you kill her?" The evil demon then bit into the female slayer's neck.
"Noo!" Rick exclaimed. He felt part of himself start to die. He felt Victoria's life abandon her body. He than saw Ambrosianus slit his wrist and start feeding the dead female slayer. Tears were streaming down Ricardous cheeks.
Hours seemed like minutes as all waited. Then Victoria opened her eyes. Hew yellow evil eyes looked around.
"You bastard!" Rick said to Ambrosianus.
Ambrosianus smiled as he helped Victoria to her feet.
"I am hungry, Victoria said.
Ricardous could not take it anymore. In a feat of strength fueled by anger he stood up throwing his vampire captors away as if they were rag dolls. He moved as lightning towards his sister's boot, where a hidden stake always remained. He pulled out the weapon and encrusted the wood into Ambrosianus's heart. The master vampire's smile faded as he turned to ash. Ricardous moved across the pack like the wind. The stake made it into it's mark. But soon the adrenaline faded and seven remaining vampires pinned him tight. His face was covered in ash as they took his stake and handed it to Victoria. Victoria looked at what was once his brother and smiled.
"You said you would protect me always." She said.
"Yes," Ricardous said sadly.
"You said we would be legend." Victoria said.
"Yes." Ricardous answered.
"You said vampires would fear us." Victoria said.
"Yes." Ricardous said.
Victoria smiled and looked at his brother in the eye.
"We have eternity for that." She said evilly. She than staked the vampires holding his brother. Her moves were faster than he had ever seen her. Soon Ricardous whole body was covered in ash. His vampire sister then looked at him in the eyes. "We battle together." She said.
"We die together." Ricardous concluded. Victoria smiled as she sunk her fangs into his brother's neck.
Victoria finished her story to the A-Team as some sat at the table in the study and a few others stood around the room. Angel was sitting directly in front of Victoria listening.
"That's all we've done since, killed what should be killed, hunt the monster that we never wanted to become." Victoria paused for a minute looking around at everyone. "I lost contact with Rick and he came here to Sunnydale. He found me again."
"You both have souls." Angel stated and she nodded.
"So, what that's three vampires now with souls?" Xander asked.
"I had it before it was cool." Buffy reminded them and Victoria and Spike looked at her and she shrugged. "Well, I did," She muttered a little.
"A lot of history that you all read was by myself and Rick, lures, myths all that." Victoria seemed to be getting anxious though. "It started a few months ago, a shift and then increase of the supernatural."
"Yeah, the Hell Mouth is more…mouthy…" Willow added in and Victoria nodded.
"Rick and I packed all the books that might help in someway, decoders stuff like that." She continued on.
"Where's Rick?" Dawn asked and Victoria looked to her but didn't have to verbally answer. Victoria took a moment to regain herself but Angel saw a small tear trying to form. He wondered how much Dawn cried when he died. Victoria straightened herself up and looked up to Angel.
"Big brothers always try to be the hero." She added and Angel had to give her the faintness smile because it was true. "Rick was the first male slayer. It happens not often like two thousands years often and it only happens with twins." Angel sat there thinking that he had a twin sister at one point. That was a theory among the Council as well. "He died to make sure I got the books to you and try to build up some front because what's happening is big."
Angel was quiet as he was thinking. He wasn't so much thinking he was not the only male slayer but the fact that a very old vampire that was once a slayer is telling him that the end is bigger than he could probably fathom, that her twin brother fought and died to get her here to him. He then looked to Dawn and he knows the feeling of putting your life down to save your little sister. He then looked to Victoria seeing that part of her was empty.
"Ok," Giles started and Victoria looked over to the Watcher. "So, you know what is happening?" He asked.
"Somewhat but it's an unpredictable future because of the vagueness in the words. I know once the Seven Seals are broken then there's no stopping it and based on what's going on," Victoria looked around. "One has been broken, war." It wasn't the war of the underworld there was actually talk of nations at war. "Only an extremely powerful demon can open those seals."
"Ok, so we're all caught up for the most part. We know that." Buffy seemed a little frustrated because they keep repeating themselves. "We're working on the seals but in the mean time we have potential slayers coming to town." Victoria then looked confused.
"Why bring them here?" She asked.
"It's where they were told to go." Cordelia answered.
"Where it's the most dangerous place?" Victoria asked.
"See, it all makes sense, the enemy would want us to send them somewhere else. So, we actually have them fooled." Doyle jumped into the conversion but Victoria didn't look convinced at all. "Angel can handle it, he killed the Chaka-Khan," Victoria's face then went to even more confused.
"Turok-Han," Giles corrected Doyle and then Victoria's face went to understanding then to worry.
"A Turok-Han was here?" She asked and Angel nodded. "Wow, you are the real deal." Buffy then saw how Victoria started to swoon over Angel just a little.
"Ok," Buffy walked over to the table. "Seals bad, potential slayers coming here, anything else you know?" Buffy asked the…other vampire with a soul.
"You need to find the demon, it has to be a very powerful one and," Victoria looked to Buffy. "You still don't know." Buffy's eyes widen in confusion and she shook her head no.
"Who the demon is? No. Do you? Because we can use a break." Buffy started to get annoyed.
"I don't know the demon but you still don't know about you?" Victoria continued to look to Buffy. "Why do you think the First tried to kill you once before?"
"Because my boyfriend is the slayer?" Buffy answered and Victoria was also getting frustrated.
"No Buffy," She sighed. "You were supposed to be the demon opening the seals." Then the whole room went silent. "You were Elizabeth, the vampire, the best. The Master had nothing over you. The First wanted you, you were supposed to be it's right hand." Buffy stood there in shock. "But because your boyfriend is the slayer, it couldn't have two strong people against it." Buffy stood there in silence looking around. "You chose your side. And thank god you chose this side."
"Ok," Giles had to bring some focus back. "Right now we are trying to protect what's left of the slayer line." For Giles seeing a two thousand year old slayer before him put it in perspective of just how ancient the line is. "The First is killing them off so when this does happen,"
"No slayer, we're gone." Victoria finished.
"Exactly, now," Giles went on. "Seal one is broken and we know it's a powerful demon and I hope,"
"The books I have name some powerful demons?" Victoria both asked and finished. "Got one." So that can help them. She then turned to Angel. "You need to protect our sisters and you need to find them all."
"It would be nice to just locate them." Xander added and then Willow perked up.
"We can, I can do a spell, a slayer locator spell." She smiled. "We can start looking for some here in town and as they get closer we can find them faster."
"Ok, what are you waiting for?" Victoria asked.
Willow was in the study with Dawn and Andrew while everyone was scattered around the mansion. Victoria was browsing the weapons and meeting the potentials that have arrived. Willow laid out her ingredients on the table.
"Where's my snake's skin?" She asked and Andrew held up the skin.
"At your service Miss Rosenberg," Andrew put more emphasis on the S's to sound snake like. However, Dawn and Willow didn't look too impressed. He handed over the skin to her and Dawn smiled a little.
"So, you, Rick and Victoria met already?" Willow asked Dawn and she nodded.
"He said he needed slayer blood to find Victoria," Dawn then picked up her glass of water to take a sip.
"But…Angel was dead." Willow was trying to remember and Dawn nodded.
"Yes, but remember Angel and I share the same blood so it worked." Dawn went on as Willow listened. "When he bit me though I saw…I saw a lot. Saw different girls, I saw Angel,"
"It's not like a family blood line, but it is a line." Willow added and Dawn nodded.
"So, how long will it take for the spell to work?" Dawn asked.
"We'll know right away." Willow answered. "It'll illuminate the potential with a glowing aura and this map will help find her." Willow continued on as they looked at the map of Sunnydale. "We'll know when they're coming and the ones already here we will see." Willow then took out a match to begin. "Light the aura of the new," She then lit the snakeskin on fire dropping it into a small basin. "Skin of a snake to indicate the fresh reborn, tumble weed and rosebush thorn." She tossed more pieces into the basin while Dawn and Andrew continued to watch. "An egg to mean the life that will soon come," She dropped it in. "Take this oh spirits, my spell is done."
"God, it stinks in here," Xander walked into the room.
"The spell will lead us to the in coming potentials." Willow stated although it smelt bad.
"Or to some pour soul who ate too much Taco Bell." Xander protested. Just then a glowing light appeared and Willow smiled.
"It's like a light bug." Andrew smiled but everyone else gave him a strange look. "Look," The light started to move. But then everyone saw the direction it was heading and Dawn wanted to duck from it but it was too late. It flew to her and she started to glow for a moment.
"Oh, Angel isn't going to like this." Xander sounded worried not excited.
"Angel!" Andrew yelled and it only took a split second for Angel run to the study. He ran in and the rest of the people at the mansion heard the call. "Look!" Andrew pointed as Dawn still had a small glow. "She's a potential." Angel walked closer to his sister as Victoria got closer with a small smile.
"It makes sense though." Giles broke the silence but when Angel turned to him, the acting slayer wasn't convinced at all. "Your blood Angel, you and her share the exact same blood. It's logic."
"And makes more sense why Rick was able to find me." Victoria added on. "You're a potential and he used slayer blood." Then both Giles and Victoria looked to each other and then to Angel.
"She's the twin." Giles stated and Angel looked even more lost while Buffy's eyes widen and everyone else's jaws dropped. "You two might have not been born at the same time but," Giles started to pace in excitement. "Like twins you share the same blood and she was made out of you, you share everything the same. This is…this is…"
"Crazy?" Doyle asked because it was.
"Angel, you lost your twin but she in some way by the monks she was returned to you." Giles' smile was bigger and then Angel turned back to Dawn as she still had the glow.
"But, you have to die," Dawn looked to Angel and the somewhat happy and exciting moment started to fade and the realization of what it takes to be a slayer set in. "If…if I become the slayer…you have to die." Dawn then felt hot tears stinging her eyes. "You can't die again, you can't, I don't want you to die again," Angel rushed over to her and embraced her in a tight hug. Dawn just started to sob in his arms. The thought of him disappearing was something she has felt once and she couldn't do it again. Victoria stood there seeing the moment and in that moment she realized how much she was missing her brother.
Angel then eased Dawn into a chair and like always even if the memories were fake he got down to be eye to eye with her. Dawn wiped some tears from her eyes.
"Hey," Angel tried to refocus her. "Kiwi," Angel got her attention. "I'm not going to die." Angel declared. "I'm not leaving you again ok." Dawn nodded a little. "I know this is scary ok,"
"It's like being plucked from an ordinary life handed a destiny," Andrew started back up.
"Say Skywalker and I'll shoot you with my crossbow and feed you to Spike." Angel warned Andrew giving him a death glare and Spike perked up a little. Angel then turned his attention back to Dawn. "You've always been strong ok," Dawn nodded a little again. "And yes this does make sense. You've always been apart of something larger and it just got bigger."
"Were you scared when you were called?" Dawn asked and Angel nodded.
"But you know that feeling Dawn, the feeling you could change this world. You have the potential do it, you always have and…I'm proud." Angel was always proud of her and Dawn smiled a little.
"Why would you be proud?" Anya broke the somewhat touching moment and everyone looked to the ex-demon. "If she becomes the slayer her life will be short and brutal."
"Anya please, shut up." Angel demanded.
"Yeah, but if she doesn't then she'll live unfulfilled because she didn't fill the potential." Willow joined.
"Both of you guys shut up." Angel just wanted to share this moment with his sister because it binds together even more.
"It's not even like that," Buffy ignored Angel. "She's a part of this huge power now regardless if she becomes one or not."
"Like a sorority." Cordelia added and Victoria was amused because what she was looking at was humanity's last hope.
"Yes!" Andrew called out like he understands it. "It's like well almost like this metaphor for womanhood." Angel closed his eyes trying to find his sane place. "The sort of flowering that happens to a girl realizing she's part of a fertile heritage going back to Eve," Xander just covered his face rubbing it with his hands while Giles looked embarrassed. Then Angel stood up having enough.
"Everyone, shut-the-hell-up-or-I'll-shoot-you-all." Angel was done. Buffy was about to say something but Angel glared at her meaning not now. Then Victoria slowly rose her hand up asking permission to speak while the other potential slayers did their best not to laugh at the both serious and yet funny moment. Angel then looked to Victoria and acknowledged her gestured but the vibe he gave meant she had ten seconds.
"We've found one more potential, we need to find the rest." Victoria got everyone back on track. "How does the spell work? Does it jump around?" Willow then looked confused. It should light up the next potential.
"We'll find out but listen, Dawn is still Dawn." Angel reminded them much like before when they all discovered she was the key.
"Now she's a chosen one." Anya added and Angel took in a deep breath.
"Ok, yes, Dawn is a potential slayer ok, yes if I die she could take my place," Angel was just getting it out there.
"She'll take over the family business then." Victoria added.
"Or throne," Anya tossed.
"Whatever," Angel didn't care what they called it. "She knows the kind of life it is but I plan on not dying anytime soon, so all the potential slayers right here and wherever the rest are, are staying potential slayers. I will train them, I will prep them for war, but no one is going to die." Angel finished and everyone stood there in silence understanding what Angel was saying.
Angel was in the bathroom finishing his night routine while Buffy was sitting in bed looking at a book Victoria brought. It was one that she didn't realized ever existed and she wanted to not read it but from what she was reading it could help. Angel came out of the bathroom and saw Buffy's more or less confused and worried looked. She then looked up at him.
"Is the book good?" Angel asked.
"This goes up to Corinthians 14…" Buffy said and Angel didn't follow. She then looked up to Angel seeing he was confused. "There is no 14 Acts of Corinthians."
"I'm not…following Buffy," Angel walked closer and she looked back him and closed the book showing him the title.
"It's Latin, it's means scriptures of the damn," Buffy went on. "The bible is holy scriptures, this is…a bible from Hell." Buffy sounded upset.
"They have bibles in Hell?" Angel asked and Buffy just sat there with a blank look. "Hey," He then sat on the bed as she stared at the book. She then looked back to Angel.
"They have their version of the end in here and…" Buffy sighed. "I was always taught the end was going to be by God's hand and in the end after the pain it's ok, everything starts over. But in this," Buffy looked back to the book. "The end is about embracing Hell." This did make Buffy unsteady because all the way up until she became a vampire she was a devout Catholic. And now being here in Sunnydale and meeting Father Michael she was regaining her faith in God. But then again ever since Michael revealed he's part of the PTB and now this book, her faith was shaking again.
"I was…I was supposed to be the one opening these Seals," That was what was weighing on her mind even more. "Elizabeth was supposed to be the right hand. What if,"
"Buffy," Angel got closer to her. "It's not going to happen ok. You're never going to be her again ever." Angel then looked to the book and held it. "This and the other book won't determine our fate ok." Angel assured her reminding that they were not going to let destiny rule them. "But if you ask me…fire is fire either way." Buffy's eyes were glassy meaning she wanted cry knowing what she could have been and maybe even what she could still be. "We need to sleep, a lot has happened."
"I'm to tired to sleep Angel, I don't want to." Buffy only met that if she did she might see Hell again. Angel crawled closer to her almost pinning her to the headboard.
"I can make you sleep." He declared with some confidence and Buffy smiled at him and that's what he wanted to see.
"When I came back from being Elizabeth over the summer you died…" Buffy reached out and put her hand on his cheek. "I…I thought I failed you but I did learn something. You're her weakness too. Maybe in some strange way Elizabeth wouldn't end the world because of you." That was interesting theory though. Maybe it was possible.
"Well, we're never going to find out so, let's get some sleep." Angel suggested and Buffy nodded. He leaned in for a kiss and of course she accepted.
Dawn laid wide awake with so many questions running through her mind. She was a potential slayer. She could be the next slayer and since she's related to Angel it's like she's royalty, she'll inherited the crown. But that was a lot of weight to carry and she's seen what it has done to Angel over the years. It has made him stronger, it has made him fall apart, it has made him into a completely different person. Of course Dawn can fight these days and now thinking about it she felt something in her. She was the key once and maybe she still is. But there was that small part of her deep down that felt some kind of call and passion she just didn't know what it was until Angel started to train her. And in the training and fighting evil it was like it fulfilled something in her. Now she knows what it is.
Dawn made her way downstairs to the living room. The potentials were asleep in the training room at the moment. But when Dawn made it into the living room she found Victoria sitting in front of the fire. She could also hear what sounded like sobbing.
"Victoria?" Dawn asked and the vampire turned around seeing who was there and quickly wiped the tears away trying gain her composure as Dawn walked closer to her.
"Yeah, yeah I'm ok," Victoria straighten herself up as she sat on the floor. Dawn took a seat next to her as the fire was slowly dying.
"Rick is really gone?" Dawn asked and the vampire looked to her. Victoria nodded in reply and then turned back to the fire.
"No matter how far apart we were, I could always feel him. And then it stopped, like part of me shut down." Victoria explained and Dawn knew the feeling. When Angel died she felt like a part of her just disappeared. It had to be even harder for Victoria because she has spent two thousand years with her brother and then just like that he was gone. The two just sat there in silence hearing the cracking of the burning wood.
"I'm sorry," Dawn said in a low voice.
"The mission was to get me to Sunnydale and to you guys. Mission completed." Victoria sounded distance.
"That's it?" Dawn asked looking to her. "So now what?"
"I leave tomorrow night." Victoria answered truthful. Dawn however gave a disapproving look. "Dawn, I'm giving you and your brother all the information I can in hopes you save the world. It's not much but it's something." Victoria looked back to the fire. "When you live for as long as I have with your best friend and then…to have nothing you realize something." She continued on still looking into the fire. "I don't care if the world burns or not. I don't care because there's nothing to care about."
Dawn sat there in a little bit of anger hearing this. "You, Angel and Buffy have something to care about. But I don't." She then looked to Dawn. "I'm going to leave and…" She paused because she had no idea what to do. "Angel and Buffy have changed the world and you are about to as well. I thought Rick and I could. But I don't know what to do and…I'm two thousands past my time."
"So you're giving up?" Dawn asked because that is what it sounded like. "We don't just…give up Victoria. Angel died…twice actually. And Buffy could have given up, she could have taken the ring off and burned." Dawn can't stand quitters. "But she didn't, she still fought. I could have given up to and I didn't. This whole group had so many chances to just not care but neither of them did." Dawn turned away for a moment letting Victoria take that in. "Everyone one of us here has lost someone but we didn't give up."
"I'm not like you or Angel or Buffy or the group." Victoria looked back at Dawn. "This is a family I can feel it. If one of you dies you still have someone else. I don't have that. My only family I had is gone. And I can't just join yours." She then turned back way for a moment.
"But don't just give up. Rick might be gone but he's still watching." Dawn had to convince her. "Be brave." Then Victoria's head snapped back up to Dawn hearing those words. Victoria has said those words to Dawn before. "Live ok, maybe not for you but for him." Dawn then stood up to leave Victoria in her own thoughts.
The day started normally but it was nighttime that everyone was waiting for. It was time to patrol and possibly find another potential. The group parked about a block from the cemetery where they were going to do a sweep and Victoria decided to join in to see what the group does. Andrew was with them but with a camera. As they got out of the car Dawn noticed something, a girl walking.
"Amanda?" Angel asked and it was Amanda as she stopped and stood in her tracks. Angel walked over to her and the group semi-followed him. "What…" But before he could finish he saw a cut on her head.
"It's nothing," Amanda quickly jumped in. Angel looked around as the town was dark. "I know, I should be home I just. Well I had to stay after school for choir practice. Then I realized I was a little behind on my lab."
"Me too," Dawn added. "Oh crap it's due tomorrow." She muttered Angel heard the tone and looked to Dawn and she try to advert her eyes from him knowing she was in trouble. She's supposed to finish homework and school work before saving the world.
"Well, I finished," Amanda continued on.
"Am I screwed then?" Dawn asked.
"You can copy mine if you need to." Amanda assured Dawn and Dawn nodded however Angel didn't approve. "I mean,"
"No one is copying any ones work." Angel told them.
"Oh, right you're a teacher there." Dawn realized she was not in trouble for not finishing an assignment but for actually saying she was going to cheat in front of her brother who happens to teach at the school. "Anyways, what happened?" Dawn adverted the subject while the group along with Victoria had a smirk realizing that this was a little funny.
"Well, by the time I left it was dark and…" Amanda paused. "Maybe it was burglar or something but he chased me out." Amanda finished. "It's face though was…" She paused again looking around the group. "It wasn't real right?" Angel just stared at Amanda but couldn't say much but he knew what she had come up against. "Well, I managed to dodge it and trapped it in the classroom and it's still there."
"Looks like Chem class is canceled." Xander added. But Amanda and Angel just still looked at each other. Angel then turned to the group meaning they had somewhere else to be. Angel ushered Amanda to follow him and as she got closer to him he checked the cut on her head. It wasn't bad though.
The group got to the school and Angel took out his keys to get in. Before Giles would be the one to do it so this was strange sometimes. Amanda knew Angel could do something about this. People say he's different but when strange things happen it's like he shows up and stops it. Angel turned on a flashlight along with some of the others in the group. The school was always creepy at night.
"So…are vampires real?" Amanda just eased into that one while everyone looked at her. "Monsters are real right? It's not some story our parents make up?" Everyone looked around at each other. "This whole town is weird just…no one talks about it."
"People try to rationalize what they can't explain." Giles started as Amanda looked around to the group. The potential slayers were with them as well to watch a hunt happen. Just then Spike lit up a cigarette and Angel turned to the vampire and took out the cigarette and tossed it to the ground.
"No smoking on campus." Angel said and then faced down the hall and continued to walk.
"No smoking on campus." Spike mocked Angel in a high-pitched annoyed voice and then followed the slayer. Giles hung back with Amanda and then the two started to walk and he was going to explain what Amanda saw. Seven years ago he would try to shield what Amanda saw but these days with the world about to end it didn't matter.
"Yes, vampires are real and yes some live in Sunnydale," Giles started. Victoria heard the conversion as the group walked together. They headed to the stairs and went up. They weren't in the main building thought but the science building. This building was smaller though. They went to the second floor and looked down the hallway. Something looked out of place so the vampire might be out cold still.
Amanda showed Angel what classroom she locked the vampire in. Angel handed his flashlight to Buffy while he took out a stake and Amanda's eyes widen. This was really happening. Angel kicked the door down and went in but the classroom was empty as he looked around.
"He was here." Amanda stated and Angel believed her but it meant one thing, the vampire got out. Was it still in the school though? Angel started to back away slowly because he felt something. Whether it was one vampire or more they are still strong and Angel wasn't armed just a stake. Just as he got to the door the vampire jumped down. Angel kicked the vampire back and shut the door. The potential slayers screamed and the A-Team entered the school with no weapons. Buffy smashed the case to a fire extinguisher and then tossed it to Angel just in time as the vampire came out of the classroom.
Angel slammed the fire extinguisher at the vampire's face and then up it's chin. Angel then threw the stake at the vampire to it's chest and the vampire was dust. Victoria smiled a little seeing Angel's quick reflexes and Angel and Buffy being a team.
"Sometimes you can't think, you just react." Angel faced the group. "Sometimes you won't have someone behind you. But if you do, act like a team. Strength in numbers wins. That's one thing the Council never did believe in and that's why a single slayer dies faster." The potentials looked at each other. "You're sisters and when the end happens you're all each other will have." Victoria then looked to the potentials to her uncalled sisters. "It doesn't matter if you're called or not," Angel then looked to Dawn. "When you enter a fight, know what to use. You won't always be armed so make use of what it is around you."
The fire extinguisher can't kill a vampire but the potentials saw what damage it did. Angel used an object to subdue the attacker. "You make the fight not the demon. You make and draw the line and you always redraw the line. You make the enemy work, you stay two steps ahead and you make them cross your line." Angel went on. The girls realize why Angel didn't bring much, he wanted to show them that you may enter into a fight with nothing but your wits and your mind. It means all the weapons you could carry might mean nothing without your wits and your mind.
Just then shadows appeared and everyone turned around and saw Bringers down the hall. They were here for the potentials. The group weeded themselves out of the potentials and Amanda started to hang back but she bumped into Angel.
"You fight them with your sisters." Angel stated and Amanda faced the girls as Dawn was among them. "You're a team, fight like one." Angel stated. Of course if things got out of control he will step in but it was time for the future generation to stand on their own.
"How do you know I'm one of them?" Amanda asked.
"You're glowing that's why." Angel answered and Amanda looked down seeing it. Dawn smiled a little bit as another potential was found. Amanda looked to Angel and realized why he picked her to fight in gym class a while ago. He too could sense it, it's blood, it's a bloodline going back thousands of years. He was apart of it. The potentials stood together as Victoria watched. She was seeing a full generation of possible slayers about to unit together. "You guys have something they don't…power…use it." The girls then formed a line and Dawn took out a stake and twirled it. Amanda then saw a wooden flagpole and grabbed it and broke it and kept a piece and hand it down. Kennedy, Rona, Vi and Amber all had pieces.
Amanda sat with the rest of the potentials at the mansion as they talked about what had happened. They fought just like a team and killed all five Bringers. It didn't go as smooth as if Angel and Buffy were to fight them and it was messy but the end result was what was important. Angel watched from a distance as the five girls talked and now Amanda was one of them. Angel then heard some footsteps and saw Victoria there.
"You sure you aren't staying?" Angel asked her.
"Seeing what just happened you got this one." Victoria answered. "We still need a second front though, just in case."
"When you get to LA, just tell them I sent you." Angel stated and she nodded. Then the two went to share a hug. It was like she needed to hug a brother and Angel was one. They were brother and sister in the slayer line, they came from the same first slayer, the primitive. Of course for Victoria it wasn't like hugging Rick where you feel that bond but there was something. They parted and Victoria had to hurry if she wanted to get to LA before sunrise.
Buffy then came in to help see Victoria off as well. Victoria then walked over to Buffy and they stood before one another.
"I know who brought you back." Victoria just jumped in and Buffy looked over to Angel and he wanted to know so he joined up with Buffy. "It was…two people actually and you both know them." Angel and Buffy looked to each other. "One of them didn't come back, you take a soul out you still have to replace it. He was the first that called you Buffy, gave you the path you're on now." Buffy's eyes widen.
"Whistler?" Buffy barely got out and Victoria nodded.
"He was there watching the fight." Victoria started.
'"So that's it? That's everything you have?" She asked. "I'm not impressed not at all." She sounded a little disappointed in him. "What would have Buffy have said seeing you like this? No weapons, no friends, no hope. So take it all away and what do you have?" She asked him as he closed his eyes taking a deep breath. Elizabeth rammed the sword to his face and Angel closed his hands over the blade just centimeters before it pierced him. Angel eyes flashed open to his enemy.
"Me," He shoved the sword back into her face then kicked her with both feet in her knees and jumped up and kicked her back again. Angel rolled to the ground and grabbed the sword and the blades met again. They went back inside as Acathla was awakening again. Angel had one last surge of energy knowing this was it. Elizabeth went to stab him and Angel grabbed her wrist and bending it to the point of almost breaking it and she lost it.
Angel then kicked her down and she was on her knees and held up his sword waiting for Acathla to open so he could send her to Hell. Just as he went to deliver the final blow Elizabeth gasped and Angel saw something in her eyes, a flash of light. Elizabeth sunk all the way to the floor and he heard her sobbing, trying to regain herself. Elizabeth grabbed her stomach and slowly looked up and around.
"Angel?" He heard her voice as she looked up at him with tears. It wasn't Elizabeth's voice anymore it was Buffy's. "What, what's happening?" She asked him as she slowly got up looking lost. "Oh my god, you're hurt," She reached out to the gash on his arm and he let up his defenses.
She then reached out and hugged him and he felt it he was holding Buffy again. He embraced her trying to understand what was happening. "Oh god," She sobbed. "It feels like I haven't seen you for weeks." She quickly kissed his cheek and hugged him again.
Angel felt his heart sinking, he was going weak at the knees and dropped the sword and wrapped both arms around her. He pulled her in as close as possible not wanting to let go ever. He then picked her up feeling weightless and happy she was back. He had Buffy, he had his vampire again.
She sobbed in his shoulder as he squeezed her just a little bit more. Buffy didn't let go of him, she was safe in his arms and missed his warmth. She quickly kissed his shoulder and kept holding him. Angel was going to pull away to kiss her but then looked up to Acathla and the vortex was opening. No this couldn't be happening, no he just got her back this was wrong. Buffy then pulled away hearing something.
"What's happening?" She asked and he placed a finger over her lips. Angel fought the tears.
"It's ok," He assured her but it wasn't ok. He had her again but only for a moment a bittersweet moment to say good-bye. Now he wished he was killing Elizabeth but to seal this demon it needed her blood but she wasn't Elizabeth anymore. "It's all ok." He lied but she believed him and nodded Angel cupped her cheek looking into her eyes. He missed her and he just leaned in for a kiss.
He needed to kiss her so badly. Buffy kissed him and what was lost in the last two months they were both trying to make up for in the kiss. Angel let the tears fall knowing what had to be done and his heart burned because of it. Angel pulled away and he looked to Buffy. "I love you Buffy." He whispered and she smiled a little. He missed that smile as she placed both hands on his cheeks and he didn't want to do this.
"I love you Angel," She then touched his lips with her thumb and he cupped her cheek.
"Close your eyes." He said and she did and stood there as if she was waiting for another kiss. Angel looked to her with tears and reached out and picked up the sword. He looked at her again and didn't want to do this. The vortex was getting bigger and in any moment it would swallow the world.
Angel leaned in for a soft kiss, one last kiss. He pulled away and then Buffy's eyes opened and she looked down seeing a sword in the chest. She looked back up at Angel in tears and he stepped back. The vortex then started to pull her in as Angel backed up from it. She held out her hand reaching for him and he wanted to reach back. Maybe the world deserved to go to hell.
"Angel?" She asked wondering why and the vortex took her and in an instant it closed and there was nothing. Angel stood there for a moment not breathing, time slowed down. He then took in a deep breath and fell to his knees looking to the emptiness.
"Buffy," He choked on her name.
Whistler wanted to see the battle and watch Buffy save the world and he saw just that. But seeing the slayer fall to his knees, seeing him cry something struck in the half demon. Yes Buffy saved the world with not knowing she did but her soul, the good soul she it was now damned for all eternity.'
"Whistler felt there was more to you Buffy, that you hadn't met your fait yet." Victoria went on to explain the story.
'Whistler sat in a pentagram waiting as he began to chant something. He was half demon so getting to Hell was easier. The slayer was home from LA and Buffy was needed again as the shift in the earth was felt. But Whistler knew if he goes to Hell he might not come back. Whistler chanted and felt himself falling.
Whistler opened his eyes and looked around at the fires. He had to work fast before he was discovered. He hoped to land close to Buffy was and that his research paid off. Whistler started to run as fast as he could to find Buffy and he smiled when he found her. He stood before the bloody vampire as she laid still after another day of torment. Whistler picked her up and started to run.
"Hey!" A voice roared and Whistler saw a demon but ignored it and kept running to the portal he came from. He made it and looked up ready to return to earth and started to float. Just then the demon with the white face grabbed Whistler and he looked up. The weight of both of them will pull them back in.
Just then a hand reached out and Whistler saw it. He saw the face of the man and knew what the man was. The man could only take one and Whistler looked back at the demon. The half demon had to make the choice, save Buffy for Angel and hope that what ever happens they can fight it or save himself. He then handed Buffy up to the man and he grabbed Buffy's limp arm and they disappeared. Whistler was now on the floor of the hot ground made of ash.
"Whistler, welcome." The demon greeted him. "Oh, you're going to love it here." The demon chuckled.
"You won't win." Whistler threaten the demon as he was being dragged away.'
Victoria finished but Angel and Buffy were still confused, who was the man? And also how does she know all this?
"I'm a demon and I managed to get to Beljoxe's Eye, an all seeing demon eye. Did it before I shipped out here. It told me who brought you back and then it told me to get to Sunnydale. So here I am." Victoria finished. "The man who pulled you was Michael. He finished the job knowing Whistler wouldn't be able to do it alone. He was sent by the Powers That Be to finish it." Things were starting to make sense why Michael was so invested in Buffy. He saved her and wanted to make sure she did her job. "We all want to change the world and what will happen to us. I can't do it, not by myself and you guys can't either. But I think we're all doing it slowly and that's why the First is afraid…strength in numbers." She finished.
Buffy wiped a small tear away thinking about Whistler. He saved her again and she has yet to thank him. Maybe if they stop the end that will be the thank you she needs. "Good luck and I hope to see you guys soon…not to soon." Victoria then headed out as Buffy looked to the potential slayers. It wasn't Angel who always believed in her. She then turned to Angel and he was smiling a huge smile.
"What?" She asked him not understanding. Was he happy to know who saved her? He then started to laugh and maybe now he was just losing it. "What?" She asked again.
"You have that glow too." Angel answered and Buffy's eyes widen again and looked down. She was glowing and then it went away. She then looked back up to Angel in shock. Angel's smile went away as he stared at her. A prophecy said she would become human once she fulfilled her destiny. And now seeing her standing there knowing she was potential slayer, she deserved to be human now more than ever.
"I'm too old though." Buffy protested. One she was two hundred but also she was turned at twenty so she was too old anyways.
"It doesn't matter, it's still in you and there have been times a slayer is twenty one when they are called." Angel reminded her and Buffy still looked shocked. She was a potential. She then looked back up to Angel as he just stared at her. He always saw her as special but now with the power she held, she was even more special. Angel just reached out and hugged her. Buffy just rested her head against his chest still in shock and the tears started to fall. She was just now wrapping her head around everything that has happened and what will soon happen.
Buffy and Dawn are potential slayers how do you like that? Not only that but we finally learn who pulled Buffy out of Hell after what four years of wondering. And then of course I brought back the finale of season 2 so we had to relive that horrible memory. Hoped you all liked this chapter. There won't be a chapter review for this chapter this time around but I have a sneak peek of the next chapter. Again thank you for reading, following and commenting. You guys are awesome.
Chapter 15 Chips and Dip
Angel stirred awake and he felt as if he had been drugged but the knock on the door was waking him. Angel slowly sat up in the dark hearing the knocking and he reached over to the nightstand and opened the drawer and took out a knife. Buffy was still asleep and sometimes he thinks she could sleep through a truck going through a nitroglycerine plant. Angel got up and opened the door only to find Andrew there. The slayer let out an annoyed yet relieved sigh.
"What the hell?" Angel asked and he quickly glanced to the clock across his room by the bed and it was two in the morning. "It's way to early what?" Angel was groggy and being at the beach all day made him extra tired.
"It's Spike," Andrew answered. "He's acting funny like," The boy couldn't think of the word. "It's like he's having a seizure." That was enough for Angel to shut the door behind him and follow Andrew to the basement. "It happened while you guys were away and I thought it was just you know a fluke."
"And you didn't think to mention it to anyone?" Angel snapped at Andrew and the young man didn't say anything as Angel walked ahead of him and made it to the basement. Spike was laying on the cot holding his head like he had a massive headache. Also Angel saw a little bit of blood on the pillow.
"Bloody hell," Spike sounded frustrated more than anything.
"What's wrong?" Angel asked as he reached for a lonely chair and sat down. Spike managed to slowly prop himself up.
"I don't know," Spike was confused. "I…it feels like I can't control my movements."
"The First?" Angel thought quickly but Spike shook his head no.
"This is different…it's…" Spike then thought about it further. "It's the chip…I think it's failing." Angel thought about it as well and it might be true.
"Why would it fail?" Andrew asked as he continued to stand there.
"It's a piece of technology, it's not supposed to last this long kind of like you Peaches." Spike added in and Angel couldn't argue that. "Might want to start hitting the books."
"What good is that going to do?" Angel asked and Spike looked up to him. "It's hardware, books aren't going to have it at least not the books we read." Spike nodded understanding what he meant.
"Who you gonna call?" Spike asked but then there was a moment of silence. "God, that phrase is never going to be useable again."
"Just sit tight." Angel wanted to help Spike because he can see that Spike is trying to be good, he can feel something in him. It's not easy and Spike might fail but right now Angel needed to help another soul from damnation.