Galway, Ireland, three years after Kathy's resurrection.
Three years of torture.
That's long it took as Kathy lay on a wooden table, her hands and feet shackled to the sides and the end respectively. Three years of torture, beatings, and being made to bury every single body in her village that her brother had killed in the first year, just a few months after she was resurrected. Kathy was now fifteen, and the mysterious woman had returned to the family home of Aiden Connolly after leaving Kathy alone with the perpetually enraged man who beat her furiously before using spells that the woman had taught him to heal her wounds that left numerous scars. She was also emotionally and psychologically tortured by the sounds of people screaming as they tried to escape from Angelus, she heard the sounds of grunts and whimpers as people died... she heard the screams of children and women as they fell.
All thanks to the magic that the woman would bring three times a month, magic that collected the last dying moments of many other villages whose residents were murdered by Liam. In the meantime, Aiden would keep on telling Kathy that that she was abandoned by her brother. Kathy didn't believe that for one moment, at least not for the first year. But after beatings every day, there was only so much that she could take as she gave in to the horror of it… the horror that Liam had murdered an entire village, all of her friends, cousins, their parents… everyone was dead.
"He's not coming back for you," said Aiden as he looked at Kathy screaming Liam's name one last time. He then continued to beat her again while repeating the same things, that her brother wasn't coming for her, that he abandoned her. That he would never come back for her.
Over time, Kathy's resolve broke down; she now knew she was being punished for Liam's sins. This was happening to her for what her brother did, what he continued to do. She was being punished for someone else's crimes. Kathy knew that she didn't what to think ill of her own brother, but that feeling was being beat out of her.
Now, as she lay silently shackled to the table, she hated Liam for everything he did; and everything that had yet to happen. The morning itself, she was told by Aiden that there was going to be a ritual... that she was going to be given the ultimate punishment before she was set free to kill her brother.
"I have made peace with the fact that my soul will be going to hell," said Aiden as he looked down at the silent Kathy who was just looking up at the ceiling. Kathy had given in to the various punishments a couple of years ago… she expected to be beaten, and she just took the beatings. She hated Liam now, she hated him for everything he did… and everything he kept on doing with those who were called the Whirlwind. She saw Aiden looking down at her from the corner of her eyes, but all she kept on doing was just staring at the ceiling while Aiden talked, his lips now whispering into the left ear of the fifteen-year-old girl, "but you… oh, you will kill, and maim, and destroy. You will kill your hell brother, and you will kill innocents… it is a cost of war after all. As long as Liam is destroyed, I do not care what happens to anyone else. You will be a weapon of hate, created by hate. Then when you die… you will meet your brother, and your family in hell for bringing that monster into this world, Katherine."
Kathy just remained looking up at the ceiling when Aiden got up from his kneeling position to answer a knock at the door. Once the door was opened, Kathy shifted her head and looked to her left without any expression on her face as the mysterious woman, the one who said that she was Aiden's niece walked inside and glared at Kathy, and then she looked at the man… the old man who suddenly looked so tired and lost as the mysterious woman's facial features eased at seeing her uncle.
"I can stay with you, uncle," Kathy overheard the mysterious woman saying, "I can stay with you and hold her back so that the both of us could escape."
"You go, my dear," said Aiden as Kathy saw him caress the mysterious woman's cheeks, "I miss your aunt and your cousins, they are waiting for me. Well, at least, I hope that God would allow me to see them for just a moment before my soul is taken to hell."
"I will pray for you, Uncle," said the woman as Kathy saw her kiss the older man's cheeks before handing Aiden a red coloured sack and four scrolls, "everything you need is here. I have collected all the ingredients for the ritual in the bag… and food will be coming to the weapon very soon."
"Good," said Aiden as Kathy looked up at the ceiling again when the woman said goodbye once final time with a hug, and then she left the small house they were in. Kathy heard the sound of a horse-drawn carriage then moving away from the house a few minutes later while Aiden placed the sack on the ground and spread the red cloth on the floor.
Kathy couldn't see what was happening, but she felt goose-bumps on her arms when she heard Aiden unfurl one of the scrolls and start chanting in a strange language. She then heard the chanting stop as Aiden moved around the table in a circle while laying down candles, and then lighting them. He then lay candles on the table on either side of Kathy's head, and then on either side of her hips, and finally on either side of her feet. She then left her head and saw read one of the scrolls with a smile on his face before putting it back down on the floor. She saw him reach down and pick up two candles after he lit them while chanting in another language he hadn't heard off before. Kathy then saw Aiden stand over her with the candles, one was a lit black candle in one hand, and a lit purple coloured candle in the other hand. She saw that he held out the candles to his front as he continued chanting in that unknown language.
"Ah," said Kathy as she arched her back and her face grimaced in pain when she felt what seemed to be invisible needles being thrust into her body. She closed her eyes and screamed out loud as Aiden held out the candles and placed them over Kathy's body while his chanting increased in volume until he was shouting while he was looking up with his eyes closed. All the while Kathy screamed in pain, more pain than she had ever experienced, as winds started to buffet her. She felt as if the wind was ripping her skin off her body. Kathy opened her eyes slightly despite the immense pain that her body was going through as she felt her clothes flapping in the wind just as the chanting Aiden, whose eyes were still closed and looking up in the heavens, walked to his left until he was standing over Kathy's head. She watched him with eyes wide open as terror filled her body, she tilted her head to look behind her to see Aiden now standing over her with the candles over her head. Suddenly she felt invisible hands grab the sides of her head as she screamed while the howling of the wind grew. She felt the invisible hands keep her head in place as she looked up and saw Aiden tilt the two candlesticks down.
She saw the drops of wax falling from the top of the candles before it hit her forehead. The young woman then gave a bloodcurdling scream as she felt the heat, followed by a feeling of something evil taking over her body. She heard her own scream, as well as screams from inside her mind… she could feel her very soul quake as nails started to scratch her skin and teeth started to bite down into her. Kathy's body was writhing as she continued to scream, the pain being worse than the torture she had endured for three years. With her eyes closed and feeling the indescribable pain as she tried to break her way out of her shackles, she suddenly arched her back as she gave a howl just as she felt five fingers cutting her skin. She opened her eyes despite the pain and saw blood as she tried to look down at herself. What she saw made her scream again as ten scratches appeared by unseen hands while Aiden continued chanting and walking down to her torso. Kathy looked back at the scratches and then pulled her head back and screamed even more when the invisible fingers dug deeper as more blood flowed from her wounds. She felt the sharp nails making the scratches into her body cut the top button of her shirt revealing her solar plexus. The next thing she knew, Kathy found herself giving off a scream that would have broken glass, as the wax from the candles was dropped into the scratches that appeared on her chest, just over her solar plexus.
"I will kill you!" screamed Kathy as she looked at Aiden who was now moving to her feet. Kathy could feel a growing bloodlust within her, she could feel a growing strength, she could hear the man's calm heartbeat, his calm breathing, and she wanted to end him, "I will rip your throat out and eat you… you want hell?! I will send you there!"
After the candle wax fell on Kathy's feet, she screamed again; Aiden stepped back and looked at the yellow eyes that flashed at him, as well as the fangs that appeared for just a second before they retracted just before she pulled her head back and screamed out loud in pain again. He then threw the lit candles onto the scrolls that were on the ground. He watched the scrolls catch fire before he heard a loud snap. He walked slowly backwards towards a wall as he watched Kathy break the chains that were holding down her feet, and then the chain holding her left arm, and then the right arm before she let out a scream again before she rolled off the table and fell onto the floor. He saw her crawling away while screaming in pain when she suddenly stopped.
The man stood against the wall, the flickering flames that destroyed the scrolls were being reflected off the walls that surrounded them... and off his face. He watched as Kathy slowly got to her feet while her back was to him. He could see that she was panting before she looked at him over her shoulder. Aiden saw the yellow eyes that looked back at him as she turned around, he could now see the fangs that were biting into her lower lip, he could see that the cuts on her chest were already healing as she flexed her hands, and then her fingers were outstretched at her sides as her nails lengthened and seemed to become much sharper. Aiden saw Kathy look at her hands, and then at her nails, and then back up at him before a wide smile appeared on her face.
"You're so willing to die?" said Kathy as she crouched down, "then die!"
Kathy leaped towards Aiden who closed his eyes and thought about his wife and his family. He screamed as Kathy pushed her fingers into his chest before biting into his neck. He felt his life leaving him as Kathy drank his blood before he heard his wife's voice calling for him.
Once his heart had stopped beating, Kathy used her new strength and threw his body against a wall and then looked around at the piles of ash that used to be the scrolls. She then took on her human face as she looked at her bloody clothes, and then she looked at her bloodied hands. She wanted to scream, there was a part of her that wanted to scream as she looked at the blood… Aiden's blood. But there was the other part of her that knew Liam was the cause of her pain, and that was the part that would constantly win out over the centuries. There was a part that wanted to stop when she walked out of the door in her bloody dress under the stars of night; but the other part, the souls of the demons that were already infecting her wanted to go on.. they wanted to destroy. It was an hour of walking down the trail to her village that she encountered a horse-drawn carriage.
Now instinct took over as Kathy stood in the middle of the trail, the horseman controlling the two horses stopped upon seeing her. Kathy could see his eyes wide open in shock as he jumped down from the place he was sitting and rushed to Kathy asking if she was alright. Kathy tilted her head curiously as she watched the old man running towards her asking if everything was alright, that he and his passenger were told that this was a shortcut to the village t hat they were heading to for a wedding. Kathy looked ta the man as he got closer, the hunger in her was growing again. She walked towards the man and grabbed him by the neck as soon as he was close enough. Kathy looked at the man who was looking back at her with shock evident in his eyes before he witnessed Kathy's eyes become yellow, and her fangs extend. He couldn't scream for help due to the hand wrapped tightly around his neck; he could scream at all after Kathy bit into him and started to drink his blood while looking at the two horses who were just looking on calmly. Kathy then let the man's body drop once she had her fill before she walked to the two horses. She looked at them with her eyes and fangs extended, but they never feared her… which was the same with other animals that she would encounter over the centuries; humans didn't have an early warning system, she could kill at her leisure. Walking past the horses, Kathy walked to the side of the carriage and smirked while she changed back to her human façade. She was finally going to silence the part of her that kept on bugging her to stop, she wanted the part of her human soul that still loved Liam to stop, and the only way to stop was to feed her hate, and kill.
Kathy opened the door to the carriage and smiled at the four occupants looked at her in shock; a man, a woman, and two daughters... one of whom was about Kathy's age. Kathy saw that they were all in fancy dress as she smiled at the man and the woman who were about to stand and say something. It was here that Kathy discovered her powers of hypnosis.
"Do not speak," said Kathy as the four of them who were looking at her just stopped what they were doing. Surprised, Kathy then asked the man and the woman to take a seat; which they did. She tested her new ability by having the people do ridiculous things before she had enough. She looked at the girl who was her age and told her to remove her clothes. Once the girl removed her clothes, Kathy took off her bloody clothes and threw them into a ditch at the side of the trail they were on. As she gathered the new clothes that the girl had placed on the grass, Kathy looked at the girl and wanted to test the extent of her powers.
"Both of you kneel," said Kathy as she looked at the two parents who went down on their knees. Kathy walked behind them until she was in between them, and then kneeled behind the parents while putting her arms on their shoulders. She then told the older sister to twist the neck of the younger sister. Kathy then looked at the faces of the two parents as tears fell down their faces while Kathy could only laugh, "you can still feel. Oh, this is fantastic, something I never expected; I wonder what else am I able to do."
It was then that they heard a cracking sound as Kathy smiled at the sight of the young girl's body falling onto the ground.
"The both of you watch," said Kathy as she got up and walked up to the older daughter and bite into her. Kathy turned the girl's body until her back was to her parents and Kathy was looking at the crying parents. Once the older girl was killed, Kathy went on to sucking the blood of the father, and then the mother while she extended her nails and then plunged her hand into the woman's chest.
She wanted to test her powers.
After the body of the mother dropped to the ground, Kathy then licked the blood off her fingers, and then whatever was pooled in the palm of her hands, and flowing down her arms before she used the mother's clothes to wipe the rest of the blood away. She the gathered up the new clothes and headed to the nearby river while she was whistling a tune, she wanted to bathe before she went searching for Liam.
That would be the last time she would be in that village. She would follow Liam, or as he was known at that time, Angelus, for centuries. She would watch him and the others, biding her time.
BPRI Subbasement, Kathy's Cell, 1030 hours.
"You've killed so many, Kathy and you've been watching me for all this time," said Angel as he sat across from his sister who was locked up in a chair. He had heard the story of how she became the thing sitting in front of him; he was the only one who could interview her since asking any other human, or demon, would be dangerous. The BPRI didn't want to take the risk, even with the Anti-Ori weapon preventing Kathy from using her abilities and the tranquilizers in her system nullifying her strength. Angel just looked at his sister's face before he stood up and reached for her hand.
"Don't touch me," hissed Kathy as she looked up at Angel.
Deciding not to listen to the vampire hybrid, Angel places his hand gently on top of Kathy's and squeezed. It was just then, for an instant, he saw the same Kathy he had known… the little girl who loved her older brother more than anything else. But just as quickly as that look appeared, it was gone just as fast; it was replaced by rage.
"Why didn't you come to me?" asked Angel as he looked down at Kathy.
"Because I want you to suffer," said Kathy, "I hate you, Liam, I wanted to see you suffer but you were enjoying yourself… so I watched. Then I lost you after you killed that gypsy girl… the last I saw you was during what they call the Boxer Rebellion in China, then I heard that you arrived at the new world and I…let's just saw I used my feminine wiles to follow you here."
"How many innocents did you kill?" asked Angel frowning as Kathy gave him a cold smile that made his regret asking that question.
"Almost as many as you," said Kathy as she leaned forward, "except I wasn't as flashy as you. In fact, you should thank me."
"Why?" asked Angel.
"Remember Daniel Holtz?" asked Kathy as she smiled as Angel locked his jaw as he recalled the vampire hunter, "you killed his whole family; so beautiful the way you did it."
"Stop," said Angel.
"Now come, Liam," said a smiling Kathy, "that was your greatest feat, other than Drusilla, I mean…. That loonie was just annoying,"
"What did you do?" asked Angel, "Kathy what did you do to Holtz?"
"Patience," said Kathy as she enjoyed the look on Angels face as he imagined the horrors his sister had committed all because of him, "you raped and killed his wife, killed his baby, and then killed and turned his daughter. It was so poetic really, you made him kill his own daughter. But when he wanted to increase his attacks on you… when he wanted to increase his resources in coming after you? I couldn't let that happen. You were mine, Liam. You should have seen his face when half of his men killed each other just because I told them to while the other half ate themselves, I mean literally ate themselves, to death. As for Holtz, you should have seen his face when I told him who I was, and that I hated you more than he ever could. You should have seen his face when he just stood by and I plunged my hand into his chest and squeezed his heart. It was so funny, Liam."
"Oh, Kathy," said Angel as he shook his head in disbelief, "what have I done?"
"It is so easy to pretend with these humans; pull them into whatever fantasy they want, and then kill them. How do you think I made my way here?" asked the young woman, "you know how many men, and some women, want the company of a young woman on the long journey to the new world? I have to tell you, I never realized gaining a year every few years would be a boon. It was easy to trick those people on the ship… as well as trick others for food. The best blood is when…"
"Stop it," said Angel as Kathy pouted before she started to laugh.
"The vicious, Angelus," said Kathy as her laughter stopped and she glared at Angel, "so to recap, I lost you after the Boxer Rebellion. Later I found you were in the New World and I came here too. I searched for you everywhere, and them I heard the rumours. I came to Sunnydale and here you are… you have a life now. What better time to have my vengeance. You took away everything I had… you took away my family, so now that you have people you protect… people you love… I will take them away from you. And then I kill you."
"You are my blood, Kathy," said Angel as he put his hands on Kathy's cheeks, "I can help you, we can help you. You can still have your redemption. Please."
"I want to see your ashes fall to the ground, Liam," said Kathy, "and then… then the world will bleed rivers of blood."
"Kathy," said Angel, "you still have a human soul. We can help you, you were brainwashed with Aiden, you were tortured…. We saw the marks and broken bones. We can help you. There's a chip that we could put into your brain that would stop you from killing humans. You'd kill demons only and…"
"If that were the case," said Kathy, "then you would have done it already. Which leads me to believe that you can't put it in my head, not yet anyway."
Angel knew that Kathy was right; the request was made with the NID committee and they were supposed to be getting back to him in an hour. But Angel didn't want Kathy to know that, so he lied.
"I'm giving you a choice, Kathy," said Angel, "please, take the offer. It's either that, or you'll be put somewhere where I'll never see you again."
"That will not happen," said Kathy, "I'll kill you, Liam. I'll kill everyone here."
"Angel," said Cordelia's voice over the radio that was lying on the same table as the Anti-Ori device, "our guests are nearly here. You coming?"
"Your lady love calls, Liam," said Kathy as Angel looked at the radio, and then at Kathy, "go to her, hug her; do whatever you want because she dies today."
"You'll be staying here, Kathy," said Angel who was certain that there was no way to break the magically enchanted locks that held Kathy in place, "please, just listen to me. You're my sister, and I love you. But I need you here… I need you with me so that I can help you."
Angel then leaned forward and kissed Kathy on her forehead while holding on gently to the back of her head. He then looked into Kathy's eyes before telling her once again that he loved her, and that he'll be right back. He then straightened up while looking at the rage in his sister's eyes before he turned, and walked towards the door.
"Everyone you love will die, Liam," said Kathy as Angel stopped while looking over his shoulder, "I won't stop. You saw what I did to the people here in Sunnydale, you saw what happened to your Potential Slayer, and you know what you have to do. You have to kill me.. or you have to let the Slayers kill me because that's the only way I'll die. I know you… you won't ever harm me because of your soul, but I can harm you. Everyone will die, and you can't do a thing."
"I'll see you soon, Kathy," Angel said softly before he reached for the door, opened it, and then walked out while one of the guards reached to close the door. Kathy watched the guard look back at her while she bit her bottom lip. She then licked her lips while looking at the guard who then slowly closed the door, leaving her alone in the room once again.
Kathy looked down at the locks that held down her hands and feet and then slowly started to grit her teeth while she used all of her strength to pry the locks loose. After her first try, she settled back and relaxed as she smiled; the buzzing at the back of her skull as still ongoing… leaving her unable to use her abilities. But she could feel her strength returning; unknown to the doctor who administered the tranquilizer with Angel by his side, Kathy heard him say that the tranquilizer would need to be administered every five hours. However, Kathy knew she was unique, and what the others didn't know was that her body would get rid of the tranquilizer in her system much sooner after the doctor injected her multiple times.
'I experimented on myself,' thought Kathy to herself as she trying to pry open the locks holding her hands down by trying to lift her arms, 'first was the experiment with the sunlight, then it was with poisons, and tranquilizers. I can't die…. Poison didn't work. And the effects of tranquilizers were shortened once I was given the same compounds a second time; the doctor I forced to experiment on me was surprised… but he tasted so good, though.'
BPRI Rooftop, 1045 hours.
Angle had just arrived at the rooftop doorway where he stood in the shade, not wanting to step into the harsh sunlight outside, with Buffy and Kennedy who were dressed simply in T-shirts and jeans ready for their trip to the plains of Nairobi; then there was Major Davis and Cordelia who were waiting with an excited Fred and Wesley. The two of them were eager to talk to both Willow and Faith and were eagerly awaiting their arrival just as they felt a gust of wind out of nowhere from the doorway, followed by the sound of a light thud. It was when a cylindrical object appeared out of nowhere did Fred and Wesley rush past Major Davis and Cordelia, who sighed and followed them out into the sunlight, towards the rear ramp that was slowly opening down until it hit the floor.
"Oh wow," said Fred as she entered the Jumper to see Willow and Faith get off from the seats, the front console going dark once Willow had let go of the controls, "a cloaking device, are you kidding me? An honest to goodness cloaking device?"
"Hi Fred," said Faith as the excited scientist hugged the Slayer tightly while Willow waved at Wesley.
"Oh my," said Wesley as he looked around the vessel, and then at Willow again.
"Cool, huh?" asked Willow as she grinned at Wesley before Fred shot questions at the redhead about the ship just as Buffy and Kennedy walked into the craft, the newest Slayer just shaking her head at the questions their resident scientist was asking Willow. Buffy just patted Kennedy's shoulder and told her to take it easy, that they were doing something that was going to be important for the Slayers and their future.
Willow and Kennedy just looked at each other with expressionless looks while Faith showed an excited Fred the cockpit. The redhead then looked at Buffy before the both of them hugged, with Willow asking if Xander had gotten back yet.
"He's asleep," said Buffy, "he had a long mission."
"Right," said Willow as she stepped back as Cordelia ran inside with a smoking Angel who was covering his body with his black leather jacket. Willow hugged her high school friend, and then she hugged Angel while telling him that she and Faith heard about his sister during their briefing.
"Sorry about what happened to her," said Faith as she looked at Angel.
"I still think we can get through to her," said Angel.
"I doubt that very much," said Kennedy.
"Willow," said Angel as he ignored Kennedy, "we found that Kathy has the Ancient gene."
"What?" asked Willow surprised, as was Faith.
"I need you to tell us everything you can," said Angel, "please… like how your gene activated? And what she could possibly do. Please?"
"Yea, sure."
BPRI Subbasement, 1050 hours.
While Willow and the others were talking on the roof before they were due to leave, Dr. Chase was going through some records when he noticed movement on one of the screens to his left. HE turned and saw, with his eyes wide in surprise, Kathy breaking through the locks around her arms before she broke the locks around her feet. He then saw her look up at the camera as he gulped, just before she threw a piece of the lock that held her tight towards the camera. The screen now just showing static, he ran out of his office without his lab coat on around his shoulders. One he reached the hallway, he ran towards the two guards that were on either side of the door while shouting that Kathy was free.
Meanwhile back on the roof, Major Davis was telling Willow and Faith that the SGC had sent over one of the Anti-Prior devices to prevent Kathy from using her hypnosis ability.
"That's why I felt a bit wonky," said Willow as Faith nodded her head before confirming that Willow, while on the approach to land on the roof, told her that her head felt like it was being split open... the same feeling she got after spending numerous moments with the Anti-Prior device until she was used to its effects, "I can use my powers with it activated since I've gotten used to it and…. What the?"
"What?" asked Angel as he noticed the look of surprise on Willow's face.
"Will?" asked Buffy.
"I don't have a headache anymore," said Willow as she looked at Angel whose eyes widened, "the device… it's deactivated."
"Kathy," said Angel as he ran back through the roof door.
It was just then that the central security room in the BPRI contacted Angel, and Cordelia through their radio before an alarm went off inside the BPRI building. Cordelia knew that Angel was going to go directly to Kathy, and she was aware of what Kathy was capable of so she ordered an evacuation of all non-essential personnel. She ordered over the radio while on the roof that non-lethal rounds be used in case Kathy took control of people and made them kill themselves, or kill each other. They had just gotten a case of Intars, so she ordered the senior Potentials to arm themselves… that all they had to do was point and shoot the non-lethal weapons.
"Willow, Faith," said Cordelia before she looked at Major Davis as if asking permission to use them in this situation.
"They're yours, Miss Chase," said the Major as he nodded his head.
At that exact moment in time, Dr. Chase saw the guards hurriedly reach for the door handle, while the alarms were ringing all around him, after his warning that Kathy freed herself when the door was suddenly pulled hard into the room. The two guards were in surprise as they watched the dust settle when they were suddenly pushed onto the floor by an unseen force. As soon as the doctor reached the fallen guards who were already trying to get up, he saw Kathy with her yellow eyes, fangs, and sharp nails walking out of the room and looking at the three of them.
"Doc, get…" said one of the guards as he was about to take out his weapon when Kathy leaped in front of the man and stabbed her fingers into his face. She then saw the other guard raise the weapon he had previously dropped after he was pushed away telekinetically by the young woman. She smiled as the other guard ordered the doctor to run while he took aim at Kathy and then fired his weapon. He looked on as the doctor ran past him while Kathy used the body of his friend as a shield before throwing the dead body towards him. Kathy then snarled before she rushed forward while the guard was trying to reload, making it effortless to cut his head off. She then looked and smiled at the doctor who was screaming for help as he ran down the hallway past the empty infirmary. He was almost at the elevator at the end of the hallway when he felt someone shove him towards the closed elevator doors. He hit the metal doors hard before he fell, and the next thing he knew was that Kathy had bit into him and was draining him dry.
Kathy dropped the dead body of Dr. Chase onto the floor and screamed for Angel. She then heard the elevator reaching the floor she was on and she smiled when she recognized the scent in the elevator. She wiped the blood around her mouth with the back of her hand just as she stepped back and the door opened to reveal a stunned Angel who felt himself get pulled out of the elevator by an unseen force, and then he was slammed to the ceiling of the hallway. Kathy laughed as she used her telekinesis to slam him back down on the floor, and then to the ceiling again, and back on the floor hard. She giggled when she swung her arms behind her while she was walking past the groaning Angel who was trying to get off the floor just as he flew the length of the entire hallway, and he was slammed into the wall of the room she was locked up in. Once Kathy was inside the elevator, she turned around and looked at the heap that was the body of Angel as he tried to get up after having been slammed against the wall.
"I told you I am unique, Liam!" shouted Kathy, "you're the one who got me in here, and now they all die."
Kathy got off on the main floor where she saw everyone in the process of evacuating. She smiled as some of the NID security recognized her as the threat and approached her with weapons high just as Cordelia's voice shouted over the radio's once again ordering everyone to use non-lethal weapons.
"Good choice," said Kathy as he looked at the NID people in front of her and smile, "take those guns, put them into your mouths and kill yourselves."
Kathy walked past them as one of the newest Potentials, who was helping the others evacuate, saw what was happening from her vantage point. She was about to run towards the security personnel to tell them to stop putting their weapons into their mouths just as she was grabbed by Harmony who was helping with the evacuation. She told the Potential to get out; to help continue getting everyone out of there.
"Go!" shouted Harmony just as they heard six popping sounds. The tow of them turned and the Potential Slayer screamed as she witnessed red mist getting sprayed into the air as the guards fell onto the floor. IN the meantime, Kathy leaped towards them while Harmony put on her 'vamp' face and connected a punch onto Kathy's face with all her strength.
"Run!" shouted Harmony towards the Potential before she ran towards Kathy who was getting up off the floor. Harmony could hear the panicked voice of the Potential talk into her radio that Kathy was at the main level lobby, and that help was needed. She saw Kathy and Harmony go at it just before she ran with the other evacuees out of the main building and towards the dorms where Major Davis had already called Dr. Lee and his team to get ready the shield to cover what they can of the dorms.
Back in the BPRI's main building, Harmony was beating Kathy, who was on the floor, mercilessly while shouting that this was the best job she could find since she was a vampire; Harmony said that the benefits were good and, at least, Angel trusted her.
"I'm not gonna….," said Harmony just as she was about to push her fist down into Kathy's face once again. However, she found that she couldn't move her arm.
"You trust Liam?" asked Kathy, the bruises on her face and the cut on her cheek vanishing before Harmony's eyes, in outrage as she telekinetically pushed Harmony off her. Kathy then got up and back-fisted the blonde vampire who was thrown against a wall. She then extended her nails and kicked out at Harmony, hitting her torso and her abdomen. Harmony was about to fall on the floor when Kathy gritted her teeth, rushed forward, and held Harmony against the wall with her hand wrapped around the normal vampire's neck while shouting, "he betrayed me. I was his sister and he betrayed me!"
Kathy then screamed in rage as she stabbed Harmony multiple times with her sharp nails. Soon, Harmony was looking at Kathy with eyes wide open in shock as she felt the blood just flowing out of multiple holes in her body. Kathy was about to stab Harmony one more time just as she was hit by a ball of red energy.
"What the…," said Kathy as another ball of energy hit her, followed by another one and another one as she was pushed back. She lost her grip on Harmony who then fell into a pool of her own blood. Kathy could feel the impacts of the red energy balls on her body that was pushing her back as she looked from under the cover of her arms that were covering her face from being hit. She saw six young women firing energy weapons at her; however, they were simply causing pain… they weren't killing her. She felt her body stinging after each hit as she watched three other young women running up from behind the six who were shooting at her. Kathy watched them drag an unconscious Harmony away before Kathy looked at the young women shooting at her and screamed. She leaped into the air and over the line of six Potentials who continued to shoot at her even as she jumped over them. Once she landed, Kathy leaped towards the six again with her fangs out, and nails extended. The six continued to hit her but nothing stopped her, except for an invisible force that slammed her against a wall in mid-air.
"Everyone out!" shouted Cordelia from a second-floor walkway that looked down at the lobby as she aimed one out of two Zats, that were always stored in a Puddle Jumper for emergency situations, at Kathy along with Major Davis who was aiming the other Zat at Kathy from the same second-floor walkway.
The Potentials then ran past Willow, Buffy, Faith, and Kennedy who were already surrounding Kathy who was slowly getting off the floor.
"Kathy," said Buffy, "surrender, it's over."
"Kill them," said Kathy through gritted teeth as she looked at Buffy who just frowned and took a step towards Kathy.
"Not gonna work this time," said Buffy as she pointed at her head while she recalled Willow's plan to prevent anyone from being taken over by Kathy again, "telepathic shield."
However, what they didn't tell Kathy was what Willow was mentally telling the three Slayers, that the downside was that Willow was getting a massive headache from Kathy issuing her commands to Faith and the others. It felt as if the vampire's hypnosis, combined with the telepathic powers granted to Kathy by the Ancient gene, was slamming against her telepathic shields.
Willow: "We need to end this now."
"Kill them," repeated Kathy as she looked at Buffy, and then at Kennedy, Faith and then finally at Willow, "Kill them all!"
"Stop," said Faith as she approached the vampire and punched her face hard, making Kathy fall back on the floor before she then quickly got up and swiped at the dark haired Slayer with her nails. Faith did a back flip while Kennedy then kicked out at Kathy, catching her chest with her foot and knocking the vampire back while Buffy ran around the group and then spun and struck a back-fist at the back of Kathy's head. Kathy stumbled forward before she turned and looked at Buffy who just hit her and growled.
"Slayers," she said as she looked at the others.
"The three and only," said Buffy, "get it… not 'one and only' since there's three of us and…"
"B," said Faith shaking her head.
"You have a choice," said Willow doing everything she could to keep back the pain in her mind as the elevator at the far end of the lobby opened, the same elevator that Kathy had ridden up earlier. Out limped Angel while holding onto one side of his body. He looked at the dead bodies, and then at Kathy who was surrounded by Buffy and the others. Willow looked at Angel as Faith went to help him, and then she looked at Kathy again while telling her that she could accept their help, or she could be imprisoned until they decided what to do with her.
"And that includes killing you for what you did," said Kennedy.
Kathy looked at the Slayers and then at the redhead, and then at her injured brother. She then looked up at Cordelia, she looked at her actual target. She knew that she could jump to the walkway by using her telekinesis to boost her jump. She wanted to turn Cordelia into a vampire like herself as her ultimate vengeance before she could try and escape, and then return at another time to finish the Slayers and the Potentials off one by one.
"No," said Kathy as she jumped high into the air. She heard Angel scream 'no' when he saw that she was heading for Cordelia. Kathy bared her fangs as she used her telekinesis to give her additional height. Kathy was over the walkway's railing when she suddenly stopped in mid-air. Confused, Kathy looked around… and then she heard an electronic sound and looked forward at Cordelia who was holding up a strange weapon. The last thing Kathy saw before she was knocked out was a blue stream of energy flying towards her, and then hitting her body.
Willow was the one who lowered the young woman back to the main floor gently as Faith brought Angel to his sister. He kneeled down and caressed Kathy's cheeks before he reached under, and then cradled her upper body in his arms.
"I'm so sorry, Kathy," said Angel as he looked at Kathy's sleeping face before looking at Buffy, Kennedy, and Faith, "I can't kill her."
"Hate to say this," said Kennedy as she crossed her arms over her chest before nodding at Willow, "if she wasn't here, then we'd all be goners. Kathy could have taken us all out, she could have used her freaking mind powers to get us to kill each other; Angel, she's too dangerous."
"Thanks for the compliment," said Willow sarcastically before she looked at Angel while Buffy was crouching down next to him with her hand on his shoulder.
"Kennedy's right, Angel," said Buffy, "she's too dangerous."
"I have a crazy idea," said Willow as she looked at Buffy and Angel who looked back at her, just then a door opened at the far end of the lobby with Major Davis and Cordelia rushing out of the emergency stairwell and towards Buffy and the group. The redhead looked at the Major who was getting closer before she asked, "what's the situation with the Antarctic Outpost, Major?"
TBC.