ILLYRIAN
Druish Pervonian Wizard
All characters are from the Buffy and Angel TV serials and are copyright protected. For those who have not seen all of Angel and Buffy there are a few spoilers, parts of season 2 Buffy, season 4 Buffy, season 5 Buffy, season 5 Angel. Also to my fan-fic The New Angel Investigations parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 The Beginnings of the Armed Forces
This fan-fic is probably suitable for general readers.
Timeline? When Buffy became Anne the waitress..
BUFFY'S OTHER
"Hello, what do you want?" asked Anne. "A cup of coffee and some-one to talk to," he replied. "Sorry, the boss doesn't like it if we get friendly to the customers." He looked at her, she felt his eyes searching her mind. "It isn't as if you have many friends here, or why you chose not to use your first name." Starting to feel uncomfortable with what he said she looked at his order "I will go and get your coffee."
"What should I say to make you want to speak to me? your other name? why you are here or what caused you to be here?" She looked at him.
"What do you know about me?" "Everything, what brought you to here, why you came to this part of town, why you came to this town." Anne felt insecure again, "I will get the coffee." Yet she was compelled to hear more.
Handing him the coffee she sat down opposite him, "You know why I came here? I'd like to know that why myself," said Anne.
"You once lived on the opposite end of town, yet you wanted to be some where new, where no-one knows who you are, or were. Yet you have a need to be close, just in case you want to go back."
Remembering what it really was that made her come here. "You are the first you know, and you will be the last." Leaning across the table she stared into his eyes, "So who are you?" asked Anne.
"You can call me Jeff."
"Is Jeff your real name?" asked Anne. "No, but then what you see is not the real me. As you do not want it known who you are, or what you are." "What I am? you know what I am?" asked Anne, "Tell me." Jeff leaned forward, "You have chosen to use your middle name as you do not want to be known as Buffy." He leaned forward further and whispered in her ear. "You are a vampire slayer. As you choose to be known by another name so do I, as you choose to keep what you are secret from others, so do I."
Her boss called to her. "Anne! when I said do what you want, I meant your shift is over." Anne faced Jeff, "I suppose you want to talk some more?" "Where are you staying?" "With friends," he replied.
"And they are all boys I suppose, you want me to meet them? live near here do they?" asked Anne. Jeff smiled, "None of them are boys, when you are ready to meet them you can and no, we do not live near here."
Walking along the wet road Anne tried to understand why Jeff had picked her to speak to, several times she glanced at him. "I am sorry, I live here," said Anne. "So?" "So I cannot invite you in, guests are not allowed. Let me get changed, I'll be back in a bit. When I do though, I want you to tell me who you really are," said Anne.
Anne went up the stairs to her room, grabbed a bite to eat, got changed then made her way down the stairs, opening the door she grabbed Jeff by the arm then took him forcibly into an alley. "Right then, tell me who you are, now." "Okay, that is why I allowed you to bring me here." "I suppose you could have stopped me," said Anne. "Normally no, you should have more power than me. A lot of your power is in your friends, that was by your choice, you wanted to help them so much you have given them some of your power."
"What now?" asked Anne. "Now we go back out the alley turn left and three houses down I go and ask for permission to reveal myself to you," said Jeff. "What if I choose not to? what if I turn right at the end of the alley and go back to my room?" asked Anne. "Oh dear, then I will be in trouble," he replied. "Yes, big trouble." Anne looked around. "You do not know the half of it, I was sent to you, to give you a choice." Anne studied him, then she noticed the three girls around her. She turned to face Jeff but he was now a girl.
"The only ones that know you are here are friends. They know you, some of them remember you even though you do not remember them. That is because you won't meet them for just over seven years. Should I have told her that Hope?" "Telling that to a human, that may alter her future, not hers or ours," said Hope. "I am human," said Anne.
"No, you are not, you are a vampire slayer, a chosen one. Who do you think chose you? a human?" asked Hope. "You have the spirit of a demon, do you think a human could accept the spirit, then control it."
"The least we could do is tell her the truth Hope." "Look Saffron if we tell, oh crap, this is all your fault!"
"That is alright Hope, the chances are her presence here will have been noted," said Saffron. "By who?" asked Anne. "By me!"
"Willow!" exclaimed Anne. "Sorry, I am not Willow, I look like this so that you will recognise me, as I look like this where you are from."
Indicating the girls around her. "These here know you from their past, yet to you this is your future." "This is my future? will I live this again?" asked Anne.
"No, as what you are about to say is your future, what is happening now is your present. You forcing Jeff into the alley is your past."
"So I will know all of these girls, just not yet?. While I am here can I know their names?" asked Anne. "We all know you as Buffy."
Saffron looks at her, "Am I allowed to say what she is?"
"Tell her, tell her everything," said Hope. "Buffy, I am Saffron, this is Hope, Anne and behind you is Dana." "Are they vampire slayers?" asked Buffy.
"They are all of The Armed Forces of Bouicandeni, as are you. Saffron Hope and Anne are demon hunters, Dana is a vampire slayer. Buffy looked to her. "You replaced me? when?" Dana looked at her, she was confused, dropping to her knees "Please forgive me, I could never replace one as high as you, you are the.. .."
"Stop!, not yet Dana! you may go to far, she is here to know that there is a future for her. If she goes back." "If I go back?" asked Buffy.
"If it will help, can we take Buffy with us, she will not know what we are to face, and if what she is, is said, it can always be removed from her memory when she is taken back," said Hope.
"When I am taken back?" "Yes to just before you meet Jeff, on the next table are a young couple that you could meet." "When I go back, will it affect your plan?" asked Buffy. "Yes and no, you will have the knowledge that you have a future but not what it is."
"So where is it that you are going?" asked Buffy. "The town is called West Habsworth, not to far from our new home, in Totnes, South Devon, it is Maidenscombe Manor," said Hope. "That is across the sea, that will take quite a while to get there." "No, we are there now," replied Hope. "When we first met we were in your time now you are in our time, in our dimension. One of the eight dimensions." "But I was always told there could be a thousand dimensions," said Buffy.
"Could be," said Hope, "But no-one that said that has been to them all, I have. Many of those dimensions are just another universe. If you were to run ten thousand miles apart from a few little hills you would think you are running on flat ground, yet the world is round. So take your perception, if you go to the end of the universe it will start again and then again. Even though you continue a straight and flat path you will come here, you will have gone full circle." "In each dimension that is how it is, so a lot of universes but just a few dimensions."
"When the evil is beaten in one dimension the next dimension and that one combine, and so the battle will begin again. We are waiting until the battle against evil is won in your dimension as this is the last dimension."
"Then the places? Heaven and Hell?" asked Buffy. "They are present in all dimensions," said Anne. "Ok, so now we are going to meet others that are in the Armed Forces." "Sort of," said Saffron.
"One of the reasons why you left Sunnydale was because of what you did to Angel, you sent him to hell. It is important that Angel returns.
Know this, to you this is your future, to us it is the past. Unknown to you at that time a hell-goddess named Illyria asked a childhood friend of hers to help Angel. It was because of that friend that I knew of Illyria, you will soon know her as a vampire slayer, her name is Faith. Faith and her husband are in our time both Generals of The Armed Forces of Byzantium."
"How can a vampire slayer be a general?" asked Buffy. "Because of my plan." "In your time she is a General, yet soon she will be a vampire slayer and when her time is finished she will be a general again. She and her husband control all the Armed Forces of Byzantium apart from one group who are the Armed Forces of Bouicandeni, the special forces of Byzantium."
"This Bouicandeni does it have its own special forces?" asked Buffy. "Yes, they are the guards of the Goddesses. Invisible until needed then they are visible hence the name the Union Fighting Force. They are also the Elite," said Hope.
"That is not right, those letters spell Buffe, that is to close to my name," said Buffy. They all smiled, "That is her rank it is tattooed on her forehead, but you cannot meet her, but you could see her, in a mirror," said Saffron.
"Hope, tell her now, she is nearly ready to return." "Good, Buffy that General of The Elite has been and will be here, you are the General of the Elite. Every-one you will see here knows you as the General of the Elite."
"Is there any-one else I know?" asked Buffy. "There are, several. When Spike was a human, he was destined, because the evil got him another of him was put here, as a vampire. He is our friend, his name here is Pitts," said Hope.
"Faith once went into hell to rescue her husband, as she was born a demon she reverted back to gain entry to hell and she was allowed in, Angel was rescued. Faith's husband is Angel. When they were married Angel was the General, that was in the year five hundred and fifty four AD," said Saffron," There is another, you knew her when yo were a General and you will know her again, she will be Willow's friend Tara, we know her as the Goddess T'ara, even though you know her as Willow she is the Goddess Turee. There are others here but we will try to restrict them access to you," said Hope.
Anne walked the corridor formed by the tables in the cafe, she stopped by the young man at the table, she allowed a half smile to adorn her lips then she continued to the next table. Looking to the young couple
she started as she remembered the name West Habsworth, even though she couldn't remember where from.
This fan-fic is probably suitable for general readers.
Timeline? When Buffy became Anne the waitress..
BUFFY'S OTHER
"Hello, what do you want?" asked Anne. "A cup of coffee and some-one to talk to," he replied. "Sorry, the boss doesn't like it if we get friendly to the customers." He looked at her, she felt his eyes searching her mind. "It isn't as if you have many friends here, or why you chose not to use your first name." Starting to feel uncomfortable with what he said she looked at his order "I will go and get your coffee."
"What should I say to make you want to speak to me? your other name? why you are here or what caused you to be here?" She looked at him.
"What do you know about me?" "Everything, what brought you to here, why you came to this part of town, why you came to this town." Anne felt insecure again, "I will get the coffee." Yet she was compelled to hear more.
Handing him the coffee she sat down opposite him, "You know why I came here? I'd like to know that why myself," said Anne.
"You once lived on the opposite end of town, yet you wanted to be some where new, where no-one knows who you are, or were. Yet you have a need to be close, just in case you want to go back."
Remembering what it really was that made her come here. "You are the first you know, and you will be the last." Leaning across the table she stared into his eyes, "So who are you?" asked Anne.
"You can call me Jeff."
"Is Jeff your real name?" asked Anne. "No, but then what you see is not the real me. As you do not want it known who you are, or what you are." "What I am? you know what I am?" asked Anne, "Tell me." Jeff leaned forward, "You have chosen to use your middle name as you do not want to be known as Buffy." He leaned forward further and whispered in her ear. "You are a vampire slayer. As you choose to be known by another name so do I, as you choose to keep what you are secret from others, so do I."
Her boss called to her. "Anne! when I said do what you want, I meant your shift is over." Anne faced Jeff, "I suppose you want to talk some more?" "Where are you staying?" "With friends," he replied.
"And they are all boys I suppose, you want me to meet them? live near here do they?" asked Anne. Jeff smiled, "None of them are boys, when you are ready to meet them you can and no, we do not live near here."
Walking along the wet road Anne tried to understand why Jeff had picked her to speak to, several times she glanced at him. "I am sorry, I live here," said Anne. "So?" "So I cannot invite you in, guests are not allowed. Let me get changed, I'll be back in a bit. When I do though, I want you to tell me who you really are," said Anne.
Anne went up the stairs to her room, grabbed a bite to eat, got changed then made her way down the stairs, opening the door she grabbed Jeff by the arm then took him forcibly into an alley. "Right then, tell me who you are, now." "Okay, that is why I allowed you to bring me here." "I suppose you could have stopped me," said Anne. "Normally no, you should have more power than me. A lot of your power is in your friends, that was by your choice, you wanted to help them so much you have given them some of your power."
"What now?" asked Anne. "Now we go back out the alley turn left and three houses down I go and ask for permission to reveal myself to you," said Jeff. "What if I choose not to? what if I turn right at the end of the alley and go back to my room?" asked Anne. "Oh dear, then I will be in trouble," he replied. "Yes, big trouble." Anne looked around. "You do not know the half of it, I was sent to you, to give you a choice." Anne studied him, then she noticed the three girls around her. She turned to face Jeff but he was now a girl.
"The only ones that know you are here are friends. They know you, some of them remember you even though you do not remember them. That is because you won't meet them for just over seven years. Should I have told her that Hope?" "Telling that to a human, that may alter her future, not hers or ours," said Hope. "I am human," said Anne.
"No, you are not, you are a vampire slayer, a chosen one. Who do you think chose you? a human?" asked Hope. "You have the spirit of a demon, do you think a human could accept the spirit, then control it."
"The least we could do is tell her the truth Hope." "Look Saffron if we tell, oh crap, this is all your fault!"
"That is alright Hope, the chances are her presence here will have been noted," said Saffron. "By who?" asked Anne. "By me!"
"Willow!" exclaimed Anne. "Sorry, I am not Willow, I look like this so that you will recognise me, as I look like this where you are from."
Indicating the girls around her. "These here know you from their past, yet to you this is your future." "This is my future? will I live this again?" asked Anne.
"No, as what you are about to say is your future, what is happening now is your present. You forcing Jeff into the alley is your past."
"So I will know all of these girls, just not yet?. While I am here can I know their names?" asked Anne. "We all know you as Buffy."
Saffron looks at her, "Am I allowed to say what she is?"
"Tell her, tell her everything," said Hope. "Buffy, I am Saffron, this is Hope, Anne and behind you is Dana." "Are they vampire slayers?" asked Buffy.
"They are all of The Armed Forces of Bouicandeni, as are you. Saffron Hope and Anne are demon hunters, Dana is a vampire slayer. Buffy looked to her. "You replaced me? when?" Dana looked at her, she was confused, dropping to her knees "Please forgive me, I could never replace one as high as you, you are the.. .."
"Stop!, not yet Dana! you may go to far, she is here to know that there is a future for her. If she goes back." "If I go back?" asked Buffy.
"If it will help, can we take Buffy with us, she will not know what we are to face, and if what she is, is said, it can always be removed from her memory when she is taken back," said Hope.
"When I am taken back?" "Yes to just before you meet Jeff, on the next table are a young couple that you could meet." "When I go back, will it affect your plan?" asked Buffy. "Yes and no, you will have the knowledge that you have a future but not what it is."
"So where is it that you are going?" asked Buffy. "The town is called West Habsworth, not to far from our new home, in Totnes, South Devon, it is Maidenscombe Manor," said Hope. "That is across the sea, that will take quite a while to get there." "No, we are there now," replied Hope. "When we first met we were in your time now you are in our time, in our dimension. One of the eight dimensions." "But I was always told there could be a thousand dimensions," said Buffy.
"Could be," said Hope, "But no-one that said that has been to them all, I have. Many of those dimensions are just another universe. If you were to run ten thousand miles apart from a few little hills you would think you are running on flat ground, yet the world is round. So take your perception, if you go to the end of the universe it will start again and then again. Even though you continue a straight and flat path you will come here, you will have gone full circle." "In each dimension that is how it is, so a lot of universes but just a few dimensions."
"When the evil is beaten in one dimension the next dimension and that one combine, and so the battle will begin again. We are waiting until the battle against evil is won in your dimension as this is the last dimension."
"Then the places? Heaven and Hell?" asked Buffy. "They are present in all dimensions," said Anne. "Ok, so now we are going to meet others that are in the Armed Forces." "Sort of," said Saffron.
"One of the reasons why you left Sunnydale was because of what you did to Angel, you sent him to hell. It is important that Angel returns.
Know this, to you this is your future, to us it is the past. Unknown to you at that time a hell-goddess named Illyria asked a childhood friend of hers to help Angel. It was because of that friend that I knew of Illyria, you will soon know her as a vampire slayer, her name is Faith. Faith and her husband are in our time both Generals of The Armed Forces of Byzantium."
"How can a vampire slayer be a general?" asked Buffy. "Because of my plan." "In your time she is a General, yet soon she will be a vampire slayer and when her time is finished she will be a general again. She and her husband control all the Armed Forces of Byzantium apart from one group who are the Armed Forces of Bouicandeni, the special forces of Byzantium."
"This Bouicandeni does it have its own special forces?" asked Buffy. "Yes, they are the guards of the Goddesses. Invisible until needed then they are visible hence the name the Union Fighting Force. They are also the Elite," said Hope.
"That is not right, those letters spell Buffe, that is to close to my name," said Buffy. They all smiled, "That is her rank it is tattooed on her forehead, but you cannot meet her, but you could see her, in a mirror," said Saffron.
"Hope, tell her now, she is nearly ready to return." "Good, Buffy that General of The Elite has been and will be here, you are the General of the Elite. Every-one you will see here knows you as the General of the Elite."
"Is there any-one else I know?" asked Buffy. "There are, several. When Spike was a human, he was destined, because the evil got him another of him was put here, as a vampire. He is our friend, his name here is Pitts," said Hope.
"Faith once went into hell to rescue her husband, as she was born a demon she reverted back to gain entry to hell and she was allowed in, Angel was rescued. Faith's husband is Angel. When they were married Angel was the General, that was in the year five hundred and fifty four AD," said Saffron," There is another, you knew her when yo were a General and you will know her again, she will be Willow's friend Tara, we know her as the Goddess T'ara, even though you know her as Willow she is the Goddess Turee. There are others here but we will try to restrict them access to you," said Hope.
Anne walked the corridor formed by the tables in the cafe, she stopped by the young man at the table, she allowed a half smile to adorn her lips then she continued to the next table. Looking to the young couple
she started as she remembered the name West Habsworth, even though she couldn't remember where from.