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Alright, boys and girls, here's another delayed chapter of the TYL series. Again, if you haven't read the other parts you should probably find them and read them or this probably won't make any sense at all. Hope you all enjoy, this is a very action packed, fast paced chapter:
Twenty Years Later (Part 6):
The Set up
Watcher's Council, London England
"When did we become the B-team?" Vi asks while sitting down at the other end of Andrew Well's desk. Both are researching several different books on vampire nesting and migration habits, toiling away to figure out a way to stop the current rise of vampirism on the west coast. Andrew looks up from his book, he is actually hiding the newest issues of "Astonishing X-Men" in it, he smiles at her with a coy expression, she smiles back. "I didn't use to do research."
"But vastly aging one, you are the one who told Kennedy you wanted to retire. And me, I guess I've kind of have always been a member of the B-Team. I mean I've always been a watcher, so research is my thing." I tries to go back to his comic, but he notices the look in his untold lovers eyes. "What's wrong my dear?"
Vi doesn't say something for a moment, she doesn't KNOW what to say. The things she is thinking aren't very nice and she knows she is not in the right for thinking of it. But why should she hold anything back from Andrew, her unofficial life partner? They've been together since he became an official watcher, although no one really ever knew for sure. And it was tough for her to keep his mouth shut about it too, he immediately called Clem and Willy, but after he got the gist that she wanted to keep the relationship between them and not the whole Watcher's council he kept his mouth shut. He is actually very loyal to her, not a puppy dog loyal, but he stays by her. So why is she holding back on him? "It's just Buffy."
"What about the slayer of the VAMPYRES?" Andrew gives her an even wider smile which still makes her glow. He's been saying this since he first joined Buffy's little band during the battle on the Sunnydale Hellmouth. She just thinks about how much she is in love with him and decides that no, she can't hold anything back from him.
"I hate to sound like Kennedy, but the minute that she came back things changed didn't they?" Vi cringes as she says this.
"You mean how she automatically took the forefront as the leader again?" Andrew rubs his forehead for a moment.
"Yeah, shouldn't we hate her? She walked out on the cause and now that she's back, it's all about her again. It wouldn't be that easy for me and I know it wasn't that easy for you or Faith to get back on good terms with the gang." Again, she feels so out of character saying this stuff, she remembers when she began this that she used to be just a fly on the wall, how things have changed in twenty years?
"I thought that too at first, but then I thought about it, Giles was killed. Rupert was like a father to her, I don't think she really cares about what we think about her. The only thing on her mind right now is to find his sire, she doesn't care about the L.A situation, she thinks she needs to be the one to make things right." Andrew isn't smiling anymore because she knows that deep down inside he agrees with her.
Vi thinks for a moment and then answers him. "But he was like a father to us too, especially to you. And we stuck with him longer than she did, we've been a tight band for twenty years now."
Andrew chuckles a little bit. "But now it feels like your back to being a supporting character again. Because this has always been about THE slayer, which Buffy is and your not, you are just an offshoot, a spinoff of her power. But you have to understand, being the chronicler of the slayer mythos, it began with Buffy, Giles, Willow and Alex, in everyone's mind it's going to always be about that those four, and Dawn."
Vi slams her fist down on the desk and pouts at him, he knows that she's not mad at him, just frustrated with the situation. "But this didn't begin with Buffy, it began with the primitive and a bunch of greedy old men, it should be about us now." She pauses for a moment and then realize what she is saying. "My god, I sound like Kennedy."
"Yeah, you do and look at her." Andrew rubs his fingers to his chin for a second then looks back at his non girlfriend girlfriend. "She has never been able to love because of that attitude and I hope that isn't you, I don't know if I would be able to stand that truth, especially in these times."
Vi knows what he is saying, he wants to be reminded that she is his "one", something she isn't reluctant to say to his face anymore. "Andrew, you know how I feel about you now, after all these years, you still need to be reminded?" She then realizes after all these years that he suffers from that trademark low self esteem. "I love you Andrew Wells, you were the only one here who didn't make me feel like a supporting character, you make me feel like the star of your big movie."
Andrew leans over towards her face, getting ready to plant a kiss on her but then thinks back to when they first met. He was tied up in the Summer's household, with garland and holy wrapped around him as well (because Xander thought it would be festive due to the Xmas season) and even then he sort of knew who she would become. Sure, at the time he thought he was gay, but he's glad that it didn't happen that way. "Vi, you will always be THE slayer to me."
As she leans in closer, a thought pops into her head. "We are nearing the end aren't we?"
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know, it feels like we finally gotten to the end of days." And the feeling inside eats her up, it has been since Giles death and even more since Buffy returned. "It feels like everything is coming together so perfectly for the "¦"¦"
Andrew finishes her sentence. "The final chapter?"
She bends over even more and kisses her man on the lips and then pulls away. "Yeah, your story is coming to an end."
Andrew grabs her by the neck and pulls her towards him and they have another smooch, they pull away and look at eachother. "Yeah, I have that feeling too. And we know it's for real this time don't we? Not another fake out, the end is near."
"No, the end is here." She is now laying on the Watcher's council book keeper's desk and she feels him reach for something in his pocket as they embrace once more.
"In that case "¦." He says as she hears something click in the palm of his hand, she looks down and sees a huge diamond ring sitting in it's case. She lights up as he gently pulls her away then gets down on one knee. " I feel like such a dope for saying this with the way things are going. I've been contemplating this for so many years now, but only now do I feel comfortable saying this. I mean asking this."
On the desk, she has a wide smile on her face and doesn't let him finish his sentence. "Yes."
Andrew doesn't pay attention at all and continues his monologue to his girlfriend. " I know that I'm a nerd and former evil genius and well a murderer, but I was hoping that you could look past all of that "¦"¦"
"Yes, I will marry you."
Again, he is so focused on his speech that he doesn't hear her answer again. "So what I'm asking is "¦.."
Vi puts her hand over his mouth and looks at this adorable man in the eyes with great affection. "Andrew, I said yes. I will marry you."
Now Andrew is smiling as well as Vi sits him down on the chair and begins to embrace him. He is shocked at her answer, he can't believe what he is hearing, not in a million years did he think that she would answer yes. "Really?"
She kisses him on the lips again just to confirm for him and now they are fully making out on his chair when they should be researching right now. They continue for a good five minutes, letting the astonishment of the moment over come them, they don't care who's watching, they are about to get it on. But that moment is ruined once the lights all over the building go out.
They finish their embrace and look at eachother both shocked at the lights going out on them. Andrew feels a big sense of a buzz kill at this moment and just stares at his fiancée. "What was that?"
Then a flaming arrow flies through the window of the Watcher's council, making the glass shatter around them. He quickly pulls her behind him and the chair for shelter, he's not going to let anything take her away from him. He knows that she is fully capable of taking of her self, but she feels safe letting him be the MAN now, not just safe comfortable. As the arrow hits the wall the wall suddenly erupts in flames and the door to office smashes open. Both are expecting the enemy, but they are staring at the slayer master general, Kennedy who has a grin on her face, she knows that she caught them at a bad time. "Come on guys, let's get the **** out of here."
Vi and Andrew run towards her and the exit out of the room that is now catching on fire. Once they make it to Kennedy, Vi gives her an a very worried look. "Kennedy, what's going on?"
Kennedy now has a stone cold reaction on her face. "We have a situation on our hands, a bad one." Kennedy leads them out of the office and into the halls of the Watcher's council that is filled with panicked council members and slayers.
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The Hyperion Hotel, L.A, CA
"Are you still five by five Faith?" Wesley asks as he sticks the wooden stake into her shoulder blade, she wonders in horrible pain when this is going to end. He been going at this for six straight hours, and the smile hasn't left his face. Of course, he has taken breaks to taunt and verbally torture her, but mostly it's been burning her and sticking blunt objects into her flesh. She is still trying to get over the loss of Wood during all of this, and to make things worse, him nor the little runt who has been running around has answered any of her questions. She still doesn't know how Wesley has become this way and who this mysterious child is and of course what happened to Angel. He pulls the stake out once more and looks at her with a menacing smile underneath his point forehead. "Does this earn you redemption Faith?"
She looks at him and is interrupted by the little boy behind her. "Redemption isn't always all it's cracked up to be."
Wesley looks at the little boy very bemused and then snaps at the kid. "Shut up, William. Be a good little boy or I'll have to take you to the wood shed again."
She hears the boy run off behind her as she sits wrapped up on her chair, bleeding heavily. Although, she keeps going and forth between passing out and being wide awake, even for a slayer this punishment is incredibly grueling. She looks at him with blood dripping down from her forehead and finally asks a question she knows he'll answer. "So why don't you just kill, you pansy."
Wesley leans over Faith's battered body with an evil grin. "I believe the correct term for me is that of a nancy. But of course, you were never good with terminology. And I would love to kill you right here, right now. But unfortunately my orders were not to kill, well, I was ordered not to torture you either, but I just couldn't resist." He licks the blood off her forehead and begins pacing around her, then slams the stake into her knee cap. "No, Faith, it's sad, but you are needed, along with the little runt over there. If I had my way, he would have been dead the day he was conceived."
With the stake stuck in her knee, she begins to tear up but never takes her eyes off of Wesley, she has no idea what he is going to do next. " What do you need me for Wesley, what is the point of all of this?"
Wesley grabs the stake and yanks it out of the knee cap causing her even more pain. "We are not playing that game Faith, you know I'm not going to tell you. You will find out when you need to find out."
The phone at the clerks desk begins to ring, once Wesley hears it, he ignores it for a few seconds. He looks at Faith with his gleefully evil face. She hears the little boy scatter to the phone, but Wesley gestures for him to stop. The boys footsteps stop once Wesley is done commanding him, she thinks she hears him light up a cigarette. Then her suspicions are confirmed once she smells the reek of the smoke, she begins to try to get out of her restraints but still nothing.
Wesley leans over to her once more with that crazy joker-like face of his and touches her cheek. "I hate when my fun is interrupted, but sadly I must answer that. But don't worry your little head, father Wesley will be right back." He struts over to the phone, dropping down most of his arsenal for the time being, again she tries to get out of her restraints, but alas, she is still paralyzed, although it is wearing off. She watches Wesley answer the phone and listens into his conversation.
"Yeah, I have her here." He pauses for a few seconds then answers back. "Well, she is a little messy right now, but she is still in one piece." He looks back over at his victim and smiles. "Well, kind of." He listens more to the voice at the other end of the line and smiles a very evil grin again. "Okay, we are on our way."
He hangs up the phone and walks over to Faith and begins to untie her restraints. She has one question she hasn't asked yet, so she decides it's about time to ask him, if he did of course he would gloat. "So Wesley, tell me, you killed Angel didn't you?"
Wesley looks at her with great contempt. "Oh, I only wish Faith, but unfortunately, no, I didn't kill him. Was I culprit who helped? Yes I was, but I wasn't the one who ended that half breeds sad existence." He fully unties and she immediately goes to attack him, but yet she is still paralyzed, he pulls her up and begins dragging her towards the door. "Don't try to struggle or I might have to make a pit stop and shoot your knee caps out completely."
"Go to hell." Faith says and spits in Wesley face.
Wesley wipes the spittle off his face and begins to chuckle at her sad attempt. "Sorry, we are already there. The rest of the world will be joining us soon."
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The Rayne Estate, Black Pool, England
They've waiting for what seems hours for their host to show up, Buffy has gone through several cups of tea already and can't drink anymore. She looks over at Alex, who has a very stiff look on his face, next to him is Dawn who looks at her watch and yawns a little bit. And sitting beside Buffy, is the young slayer, Reese, who just looks plain bored to death, she tries to put her head back on but Dawn just slaps her hand each time. Buffy thinks back to how much things have changed over the years, Dawn and Reese reminds her of herself and Dawn from way back when. Buffy really hates being right now, she hates seeing this man, she always hated Ethan and now she is sitting in his living room waiting to interrogate him for what? What could he really know? He hasn't been helpful before, how can he be now? Alex sees the look on her face and kneels over to her.
His face lights up underneath the eye patch. "You sure you can do this, Buff? You could go back to the council if "¦."
She smiles politely at him and puts her hand on his shoulder, showing once more that she is the leader again. "I can handle this, I mean it's just Ethan, we've beat him several times."
Dawn decides to add her two cents in. "Yeah, but that's before he inherited an ass load of cash and hired a very powerful witch as his right hand man. He also has an army of demons who do his dirty work for him."
Buffy looks at her, shocked again. "Wow, you really did your homework."
Dawn looks at her with a sarcastic glare. "I'm a watcher, that's what I do."
Buffy knows that she has no right to pull rank right now. "Sorry, I forgot, your watcher girl now."
Alex slams his hand down on the coffee table. "I swear, if I find out he had anything to do with this, I'm going to make sure he pays."
Reese finally pays attention and looks at the head of the Watcher's Council. "By doing what? You're too old to fight and from what I've heard, you were never too good of a fighter in the first place."
Dawn reaches over and slaps her as Alex smiles at her a little bit. "You better watch it or I'll demote you to potential."
Reese looks at him confused. "A what?"
"A potential, my dear." A voice from the hallway says, they look towards it and see a very senile man being wheeled out towards them. Buffy has a cold shiver come over her as she sees Ethan Rayne for the first time in twenty years, he is much more wrinkled and now in a wheel chair, but it's the same old Ethan. And behind him is a blonde woman in her middle ages, this is apparently Ethan's protégé, but she knows her better as Amy The Rat. Ethan continues his speech looking directly at Buffy. "You should've been one, but someone went and ruined all of that for us. Everyone say thank you to Miss Summers."
Buffy looks at Ethan with great contempt and anger, she knows already that he had something to do with Gile's death. "Ethan, long time no beat the crap out of."
Ethan continues to stare at his arch rivals adopted daughter from beneath oxygen tank that he now breathes from. "It's also a pleasure to see you again too, Buffy. How's immortality treating you?"
Alex looks at Buffy very confused. "What?"
Buffy looks at her older brother (but she doesn't quite see him as a brother anymore does she?) and touches his hand. "It's nothing Alex, he is just trying to taunt me."
"That I am, my dear slayer, but that's what I'm good at." Ethan replies.
Alex walks over to him and slams his fist onto the wheel chair. "We are not here to play games Ethan. We want answers and we want them now."
Amy immediately puts up a barrier spell as Buffy is impressed at how aggressive Xander Harris has become. Again, she can't help but think how attractive he has become in his older state, she can't believe she is even thinking that. Amy has a huge grin as Alex is flung across the room and onto the wall, she is about to perform another spell but Ethan gestures for her to stop as everyone gets off their seats ready to attack. "Hold back my dear, little Xander Harris poses no threat, he is just another imposter to the throne. And to answer you Mr. Harris, if you want answers to your questions, you have to play my games."
Reese pulls a knife out of her pocket and lunges to towards the barriers, but Dawn holds her back. "No Reese, you better not, you don't know what your dealing with."
Ethan looks over at Dawn and nods. "Wise advice from a wise woman, much smarter than your sister, I always liked you Dawn, even when you didn't even exist. How's your husband doing? I hear he is on an adventure of his own."
Dawn rolls her lip up and looks at Ethan. "What are you talking about?"
"You guys don't really know anything do you?" Ethan laughs a little as he rolls closer to them in his wheel chair.
Buffy helps Alex to his feet as a strained look appears on his face. "Get to the point Ethan or I'll sick Reese on you."
Reese is in a ready stance. "Good, let's end this quickly."
Ethan brushes off the petty threats and looks back at Buffy and Alex. "That's not much of a threat now is it? Even Buffy couldn't stop me."
"Because I let you get away, not this time Ethan, you are going to answer our questions." Buffy stays stern next to Alex.
"The questions you are going to ask aren't the right questions."
Buffy looks at him with very little restraint, the old man doesn't look scared. "Then what are the questions we should be asking?"
"You're here to ask me about who killed Giles, am I correct?"
Dawn answers for her party. "Yes."
"But my dear Dawn, what you don't realize that both of the Councils problems are closely connected."
Alex stands next to Buffy ready to attack with her, she holds him back. "What are you talking about?"
"Always so daft, Xander, you have a major issue in L.A, but you are looking for answers about who killed Giles at the same time. I'm surprised The Key hasn't figured all of this out yet, she is the smartest out of all of you. Have you ever read the prophecies of Tylos?"
Reese looks at him confused. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"Nothing really young slayer, I just figured both your generations should read more often." Ethan raises the hand around him to display the glow of Amy's barrier. "What I'm saying is that you guys should play connect the dots more often."
"Cram it Ethan, we want answers about Giles, you called us telling him you knew who did it." Alex says getting very fed up with this runaround.
"That I did, I was right there when he died and he was sired."
Buffy goes right into his face looking at him past the barrier spell. "So who did it Ethan?"
"My god Buffy, you should already know the answer, but it's sad to hear that you don't. Oh well, more fun for me I guess."
Buffy continues to stare at her father's rival. "In your words Ethan, what happened?"
"What happened? Well, a few weeks ago, good old Ripper gets a call from me, you see he was doing some research on something very very crucial and I had information on it for him. Being the smart man that he was, he wanted to meet at a neutral area in case it was trap, so we met at an old where house down in the docks. We had a nice conversation, I gave him the information he needed then he was on his way."
Buffy looks at him, she is not aware of the shadows creeping up behind them, none of them are. "Then what happened Ethan?"
As he begins to speak, Reese is the first to notice them at every corner of the room, then the three also see them. "The same thing that is happening to you now, I set him up, fortunately, he had back up just around the corner. That's something you don't have." As they make their appearance known, Buffy immediately recognizes two of the bumpy faces that now surround them, Harmony and Drusilla. The four get ready for a fight once they start gathering ever closer. Ethan begins to speak again as Buffy heads towards the obvious leader, Drusilla and gets her with a round house kick. "I loved every minute of it, too. The look of desperation on his face when he knew he was going to die and then finally when he gave in and started drinking the blood out of his soon to be sire. Never thought Ripper could be so desperate not to die that he himself would become a vampire. It was brilliant."
As Drusilla kicks Buffy to the floor, she looks down at her old nemesis. "The one and only slayer of thiefs is back. You stole my Bloody's heart and turned it into a soul. I don't like you very much." Buffy gives her a leg sweep and quickly back on her feet.
Buffy pulls her back up and stares at her. "Well, your not big on my list either Drusilla. But it's kind of hard when I stole both of your men."
Ethan watches on as Reese goes after Harmony with Xander immediately taking point and pulling out his crossbow and starts dusting wherever he can. Dawn finds herself swarmed by at least five of the hench vampires. Buffy and Drusilla are actually equaled out during this point of the battle as Reese has her stake ready to get rid of Harmony, but is tackled by one of the henchmen. Harmony looks down at her with a big grin on her face. "Ha, you can never stake me, haven't you freaks learned anything at all, I am the greatest mastermind of them all. Dorks."
Alex looks around him to see that Buffy is still up and fighting, Ethan standing watching the mayhem that he set up, Reese is already knocked out and Dawn is being pulled down the hallway. He tries to put things together and realizes that Dawn would need the most aide right now, because she's the only being dragged off. He tries to take as many as them out as he can, but is quickly intercepted by Harmony. "Harmony, long time no see, another round of rabid hair pulling, right?"
"Grow up Xander, I've matured much more since then." She kicks him the jewels and he is down on his knees. As Harmony goes in for the kill, he manages to yell out to the only member of their party left standing.
"Buffy, their going after Dawn." That's all Xander cat get out before he gets knocked out by one of Harmony's hard right punches.
Buffy notices this and pushes Drusilla away, but Dru is quick and back on her feet in no time. Buffy reaches for the vamps who are pulling Dawn out of the room, she is surprised that Dawn isn't screaming, she is just fighting for her life. Buffy manages to pull a few off her sister, but Dru is quickly back on her and throws her to the ground. "If I have to lose my sister again, I swear I'll kill you and whoever else is involved in all of this."
"I'm sorry, but the stars all point to a key with the face of a girl. We must have her for our little experiment." Buffy pulls Dru off, but is overwhelmed by the rest of the hench men that surround her and with that she loses her sister again. As she fades into darkness, she thinks about how her age is finally catching up with her, twenty years ago she would've been able to beat these odds, but now, it is all gone. Her sister is gone, and this time maybe for good.
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Watcher's Council, London England
"Alright, don't panic, but we are surrounded." Kennedy fills in the little army who hasn't been caught in the flames from an hour ago. Fortunately, they were able to put out most of the fire, but they are still in a dire situation. Andrew is surprised that Vi is in his arms, she never does that in front of anyone, she's always been private about their relationship.
He looks at Kennedy still very confused and very scared, but still very thrilled at the same time, he finally has his fiancée in his arms. "Surrounded by what?"
Kennedy answers polishing her scythe getting ready for battle. "Vampires, about twelve dozen, this was a planned attack. We've been set up."
One of the younger slayers in what is known as their shelter raises her hand and Kennedy gives her a gesture to ask her question. "What are we going to do?"
Kennedy smiles with a lot of confidence. "We are going to do what we were born to do, we are going to fight them until they are dust."
Andrew looks around and notices that the fire might've taken out a few of their ranks, twenty at best, but most of them are accounted for, he thinks that maybe they have a chance. He counts fifty slayers and fifteen watchers, not a bad chance, but still he plans on keeping Vi close to him, something isn't right about all of this. He looks at Vi and kisses on her cheek looking down at the ring she is wearing on her finger, she looks worried. "It's going to be okay."
She puts her hand on his cheek and smiles. "I know, as long as you're here, everything is going to be okay." A warm feeling arises in his stomach as she says this, he hasn't felt this way since they first kissed all of those years ago.
They give their attention back to Kennedy who is about to open the hatch and lead her army into an impromptu battle. "Alright, we are going to go out by seniority, me first of course, then Vi, Andrew do you have your crossbow ready?"
Andrew pulls it out of his jacket and taps it twice. "Yeah, I'm ready."
Kennedy nods in appreciation. "Good, your watching both of our back." She looks to the army behind the three of them. "You guys follow in behind us and be prepared to fight." She looks at them one more time always ready for a fight. "Good now lets' get going."
She opens the hatch then looks over at Vi and Andrew motioning them to follow her, they follow and then the others are behind them. Kennedy pulls a sword from her holster and hand it to Vi. Vi looks at her with great appreciation and is now standing by her side. "Thank you, these vamps are dust."
Kennedy doesn't look over Vi and just moves down the hallway towards the big doors leading outside where a horde of blood thirsty vamps are awaiting them to come out and fight. "Hope you still know how to use it. That's a nice rock you got on your finger, congratulations."
Both Andrew and Vi are shocked that that actually came out of Kennedy's mouth, she is never happy for anybody. Andrew looks at her with a very pleading look. "Just promise us you'll get us through this."
"Trust me, I'm THE slayer." Kennedy smirks right before she gets to the double doors with army behind her. Andrew and Vi both take a breath at the same time, right before Kennedy opens up the double doors. Once the doors are open, Andrew can see what looks like a crowd for a sold out "Dingoes Ate My Babies" concert, but these aren't concert goers, they are vampires. These are vampires that they are about to try to take out and now that horrible feeling enters Andrew's body, he hasn't felt this way since him and Anya were waiting for the Uber vamps to attack. He has a horrible feeling about this one, he embraces Vi's hand once more, she looks back at him with a beautiful smile and lets go. He then stares directly at the sea of vampires that are ready to pounce on them.
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The Rayne Estate, Blackpool England
"Buff, wake up." Alex says as Buffy begins to come to, she even feels him slap her across the face. "Buffy, you gotta wake up. They took Dawn, we gotta go get her."
She opens her eyes and stares at the cute older man, behind him is Reese who is slowly getting back to her feet. "I'm awake, Xander." Alex helps her up and she looks around at the massacre that surrounds them, a lot of dust, Amy's body is in pieces in the corner and Ethan's wheel chair is knocked over. She looks around again and notices Ethan's body laying across from his wheel chair, she can still hear him breathing. "So, it looks like Ethan was double crossed as well."
Reese begins to hold Buffy up. "Very poetic, but that's not what we should worry about right now. They kidnapped my watcher, I swear if anything happens to her "¦.."
Alex puts his hand on her shoulder to calm her down. "I know, I know, but I don't think they did anything to her. At least not yet anyways, but we are probably running out of time."
Buffy pulls Reese off her and begins to limp towards where Ethan's body lays. "You stupid son of a bitch."
"Buffy, calm down, we'll get her back." Alex tries to put his arm on her shoulder too, but she quickly pulls him off.
"Not now, this bastard set up my father and now my sister, I'm going to make him pay." Alex has never seen Buffy like this, what has this time away done to her? The better question is what has coming back done to her? He sees the vengeance in her eyes and it almost makes him cringe. He slowly follows her as she turns over the half dead Rayne and stares into his old fearful eyes. "Where is she?"
Ethan coughs up blood. "Figure it out for yourself, put the pieces together."
Buffy slams her fist into the fragile face of Ethan, bending his nose into his face. "Not good enough, I want real answers."
"It will devour you." And those are his last words as Buffy puts her hand over his mouth and slowly suffocates him until he dies. Alex and Reese watch in shock as they see something they have never seen before. Alex has no words to say as Buffy stands back up and looks at them with her furious eyes, he never thought Buffy had it in her to do THAT. Slayers don't kill.
She looks at him with no remorse. "From now on, we don't play games. I will get my sister back. No one ****S with my family."
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"Alright, on my count." Kennedy commands as they stand facing the sea of vampires, she holds her scythe out towards them. He gives Vi one more lg look that she sends back to him, but still that horrible feeling arises in him again. Now he holds his crossbow up ready for action.
"One" Kennedy takes a step forward and Andrew thinks it's very weird that the vampires haven't attacked yet. His head is all buzzed now, from here on out, this feels like a really bad dream sequence.
"Two" Kennedy yells, but instead of taking one step forward she begins to turn towards Vi with her Scythe still in hand. Andrew finally figures out what this horrible feeling is, but for some reason he can't move. He knows the look on Kennedy's face, he's seen it before, it's the face Warren had whenever he talked about double crossing Jonothan or killing Buffy, it's the look he had on his face when he killed Jonothan.
"Three" Kennedy swings the scythe as Andrew drops his crossbow and tries to get in the way and save his love. But all he catches is Vi's headless body, soon her head drops next to her knees, he begins to actually cry as he quickly looks away. He then looks back to the body, still with the ring around the finger, he clamps the body close to him as he looks up at the vengeful face of Kennedy.
She looks down at him with Vi's blood now on the blade of the scythe and just smiles as the vampires stand behind her, following her. "God, I've been wanting to do this for years. Now I know how Faith felt during her first kill, it feels incredible, I can feel the power flowing through me. Can you feel it Andy?" He can't say anything at all, this is all happening way to fast, all he can do is watch Kennedy lead the vampires towards their kill. All he can do is hold Vi's dead body close to him and cry.
Twenty Years Later (Part 6):
The Set up
Watcher's Council, London England
"When did we become the B-team?" Vi asks while sitting down at the other end of Andrew Well's desk. Both are researching several different books on vampire nesting and migration habits, toiling away to figure out a way to stop the current rise of vampirism on the west coast. Andrew looks up from his book, he is actually hiding the newest issues of "Astonishing X-Men" in it, he smiles at her with a coy expression, she smiles back. "I didn't use to do research."
"But vastly aging one, you are the one who told Kennedy you wanted to retire. And me, I guess I've kind of have always been a member of the B-Team. I mean I've always been a watcher, so research is my thing." I tries to go back to his comic, but he notices the look in his untold lovers eyes. "What's wrong my dear?"
Vi doesn't say something for a moment, she doesn't KNOW what to say. The things she is thinking aren't very nice and she knows she is not in the right for thinking of it. But why should she hold anything back from Andrew, her unofficial life partner? They've been together since he became an official watcher, although no one really ever knew for sure. And it was tough for her to keep his mouth shut about it too, he immediately called Clem and Willy, but after he got the gist that she wanted to keep the relationship between them and not the whole Watcher's council he kept his mouth shut. He is actually very loyal to her, not a puppy dog loyal, but he stays by her. So why is she holding back on him? "It's just Buffy."
"What about the slayer of the VAMPYRES?" Andrew gives her an even wider smile which still makes her glow. He's been saying this since he first joined Buffy's little band during the battle on the Sunnydale Hellmouth. She just thinks about how much she is in love with him and decides that no, she can't hold anything back from him.
"I hate to sound like Kennedy, but the minute that she came back things changed didn't they?" Vi cringes as she says this.
"You mean how she automatically took the forefront as the leader again?" Andrew rubs his forehead for a moment.
"Yeah, shouldn't we hate her? She walked out on the cause and now that she's back, it's all about her again. It wouldn't be that easy for me and I know it wasn't that easy for you or Faith to get back on good terms with the gang." Again, she feels so out of character saying this stuff, she remembers when she began this that she used to be just a fly on the wall, how things have changed in twenty years?
"I thought that too at first, but then I thought about it, Giles was killed. Rupert was like a father to her, I don't think she really cares about what we think about her. The only thing on her mind right now is to find his sire, she doesn't care about the L.A situation, she thinks she needs to be the one to make things right." Andrew isn't smiling anymore because she knows that deep down inside he agrees with her.
Vi thinks for a moment and then answers him. "But he was like a father to us too, especially to you. And we stuck with him longer than she did, we've been a tight band for twenty years now."
Andrew chuckles a little bit. "But now it feels like your back to being a supporting character again. Because this has always been about THE slayer, which Buffy is and your not, you are just an offshoot, a spinoff of her power. But you have to understand, being the chronicler of the slayer mythos, it began with Buffy, Giles, Willow and Alex, in everyone's mind it's going to always be about that those four, and Dawn."
Vi slams her fist down on the desk and pouts at him, he knows that she's not mad at him, just frustrated with the situation. "But this didn't begin with Buffy, it began with the primitive and a bunch of greedy old men, it should be about us now." She pauses for a moment and then realize what she is saying. "My god, I sound like Kennedy."
"Yeah, you do and look at her." Andrew rubs his fingers to his chin for a second then looks back at his non girlfriend girlfriend. "She has never been able to love because of that attitude and I hope that isn't you, I don't know if I would be able to stand that truth, especially in these times."
Vi knows what he is saying, he wants to be reminded that she is his "one", something she isn't reluctant to say to his face anymore. "Andrew, you know how I feel about you now, after all these years, you still need to be reminded?" She then realizes after all these years that he suffers from that trademark low self esteem. "I love you Andrew Wells, you were the only one here who didn't make me feel like a supporting character, you make me feel like the star of your big movie."
Andrew leans over towards her face, getting ready to plant a kiss on her but then thinks back to when they first met. He was tied up in the Summer's household, with garland and holy wrapped around him as well (because Xander thought it would be festive due to the Xmas season) and even then he sort of knew who she would become. Sure, at the time he thought he was gay, but he's glad that it didn't happen that way. "Vi, you will always be THE slayer to me."
As she leans in closer, a thought pops into her head. "We are nearing the end aren't we?"
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know, it feels like we finally gotten to the end of days." And the feeling inside eats her up, it has been since Giles death and even more since Buffy returned. "It feels like everything is coming together so perfectly for the "¦"¦"
Andrew finishes her sentence. "The final chapter?"
She bends over even more and kisses her man on the lips and then pulls away. "Yeah, your story is coming to an end."
Andrew grabs her by the neck and pulls her towards him and they have another smooch, they pull away and look at eachother. "Yeah, I have that feeling too. And we know it's for real this time don't we? Not another fake out, the end is near."
"No, the end is here." She is now laying on the Watcher's council book keeper's desk and she feels him reach for something in his pocket as they embrace once more.
"In that case "¦." He says as she hears something click in the palm of his hand, she looks down and sees a huge diamond ring sitting in it's case. She lights up as he gently pulls her away then gets down on one knee. " I feel like such a dope for saying this with the way things are going. I've been contemplating this for so many years now, but only now do I feel comfortable saying this. I mean asking this."
On the desk, she has a wide smile on her face and doesn't let him finish his sentence. "Yes."
Andrew doesn't pay attention at all and continues his monologue to his girlfriend. " I know that I'm a nerd and former evil genius and well a murderer, but I was hoping that you could look past all of that "¦"¦"
"Yes, I will marry you."
Again, he is so focused on his speech that he doesn't hear her answer again. "So what I'm asking is "¦.."
Vi puts her hand over his mouth and looks at this adorable man in the eyes with great affection. "Andrew, I said yes. I will marry you."
Now Andrew is smiling as well as Vi sits him down on the chair and begins to embrace him. He is shocked at her answer, he can't believe what he is hearing, not in a million years did he think that she would answer yes. "Really?"
She kisses him on the lips again just to confirm for him and now they are fully making out on his chair when they should be researching right now. They continue for a good five minutes, letting the astonishment of the moment over come them, they don't care who's watching, they are about to get it on. But that moment is ruined once the lights all over the building go out.
They finish their embrace and look at eachother both shocked at the lights going out on them. Andrew feels a big sense of a buzz kill at this moment and just stares at his fiancée. "What was that?"
Then a flaming arrow flies through the window of the Watcher's council, making the glass shatter around them. He quickly pulls her behind him and the chair for shelter, he's not going to let anything take her away from him. He knows that she is fully capable of taking of her self, but she feels safe letting him be the MAN now, not just safe comfortable. As the arrow hits the wall the wall suddenly erupts in flames and the door to office smashes open. Both are expecting the enemy, but they are staring at the slayer master general, Kennedy who has a grin on her face, she knows that she caught them at a bad time. "Come on guys, let's get the **** out of here."
Vi and Andrew run towards her and the exit out of the room that is now catching on fire. Once they make it to Kennedy, Vi gives her an a very worried look. "Kennedy, what's going on?"
Kennedy now has a stone cold reaction on her face. "We have a situation on our hands, a bad one." Kennedy leads them out of the office and into the halls of the Watcher's council that is filled with panicked council members and slayers.
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The Hyperion Hotel, L.A, CA
"Are you still five by five Faith?" Wesley asks as he sticks the wooden stake into her shoulder blade, she wonders in horrible pain when this is going to end. He been going at this for six straight hours, and the smile hasn't left his face. Of course, he has taken breaks to taunt and verbally torture her, but mostly it's been burning her and sticking blunt objects into her flesh. She is still trying to get over the loss of Wood during all of this, and to make things worse, him nor the little runt who has been running around has answered any of her questions. She still doesn't know how Wesley has become this way and who this mysterious child is and of course what happened to Angel. He pulls the stake out once more and looks at her with a menacing smile underneath his point forehead. "Does this earn you redemption Faith?"
She looks at him and is interrupted by the little boy behind her. "Redemption isn't always all it's cracked up to be."
Wesley looks at the little boy very bemused and then snaps at the kid. "Shut up, William. Be a good little boy or I'll have to take you to the wood shed again."
She hears the boy run off behind her as she sits wrapped up on her chair, bleeding heavily. Although, she keeps going and forth between passing out and being wide awake, even for a slayer this punishment is incredibly grueling. She looks at him with blood dripping down from her forehead and finally asks a question she knows he'll answer. "So why don't you just kill, you pansy."
Wesley leans over Faith's battered body with an evil grin. "I believe the correct term for me is that of a nancy. But of course, you were never good with terminology. And I would love to kill you right here, right now. But unfortunately my orders were not to kill, well, I was ordered not to torture you either, but I just couldn't resist." He licks the blood off her forehead and begins pacing around her, then slams the stake into her knee cap. "No, Faith, it's sad, but you are needed, along with the little runt over there. If I had my way, he would have been dead the day he was conceived."
With the stake stuck in her knee, she begins to tear up but never takes her eyes off of Wesley, she has no idea what he is going to do next. " What do you need me for Wesley, what is the point of all of this?"
Wesley grabs the stake and yanks it out of the knee cap causing her even more pain. "We are not playing that game Faith, you know I'm not going to tell you. You will find out when you need to find out."
The phone at the clerks desk begins to ring, once Wesley hears it, he ignores it for a few seconds. He looks at Faith with his gleefully evil face. She hears the little boy scatter to the phone, but Wesley gestures for him to stop. The boys footsteps stop once Wesley is done commanding him, she thinks she hears him light up a cigarette. Then her suspicions are confirmed once she smells the reek of the smoke, she begins to try to get out of her restraints but still nothing.
Wesley leans over to her once more with that crazy joker-like face of his and touches her cheek. "I hate when my fun is interrupted, but sadly I must answer that. But don't worry your little head, father Wesley will be right back." He struts over to the phone, dropping down most of his arsenal for the time being, again she tries to get out of her restraints, but alas, she is still paralyzed, although it is wearing off. She watches Wesley answer the phone and listens into his conversation.
"Yeah, I have her here." He pauses for a few seconds then answers back. "Well, she is a little messy right now, but she is still in one piece." He looks back over at his victim and smiles. "Well, kind of." He listens more to the voice at the other end of the line and smiles a very evil grin again. "Okay, we are on our way."
He hangs up the phone and walks over to Faith and begins to untie her restraints. She has one question she hasn't asked yet, so she decides it's about time to ask him, if he did of course he would gloat. "So Wesley, tell me, you killed Angel didn't you?"
Wesley looks at her with great contempt. "Oh, I only wish Faith, but unfortunately, no, I didn't kill him. Was I culprit who helped? Yes I was, but I wasn't the one who ended that half breeds sad existence." He fully unties and she immediately goes to attack him, but yet she is still paralyzed, he pulls her up and begins dragging her towards the door. "Don't try to struggle or I might have to make a pit stop and shoot your knee caps out completely."
"Go to hell." Faith says and spits in Wesley face.
Wesley wipes the spittle off his face and begins to chuckle at her sad attempt. "Sorry, we are already there. The rest of the world will be joining us soon."
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The Rayne Estate, Black Pool, England
They've waiting for what seems hours for their host to show up, Buffy has gone through several cups of tea already and can't drink anymore. She looks over at Alex, who has a very stiff look on his face, next to him is Dawn who looks at her watch and yawns a little bit. And sitting beside Buffy, is the young slayer, Reese, who just looks plain bored to death, she tries to put her head back on but Dawn just slaps her hand each time. Buffy thinks back to how much things have changed over the years, Dawn and Reese reminds her of herself and Dawn from way back when. Buffy really hates being right now, she hates seeing this man, she always hated Ethan and now she is sitting in his living room waiting to interrogate him for what? What could he really know? He hasn't been helpful before, how can he be now? Alex sees the look on her face and kneels over to her.
His face lights up underneath the eye patch. "You sure you can do this, Buff? You could go back to the council if "¦."
She smiles politely at him and puts her hand on his shoulder, showing once more that she is the leader again. "I can handle this, I mean it's just Ethan, we've beat him several times."
Dawn decides to add her two cents in. "Yeah, but that's before he inherited an ass load of cash and hired a very powerful witch as his right hand man. He also has an army of demons who do his dirty work for him."
Buffy looks at her, shocked again. "Wow, you really did your homework."
Dawn looks at her with a sarcastic glare. "I'm a watcher, that's what I do."
Buffy knows that she has no right to pull rank right now. "Sorry, I forgot, your watcher girl now."
Alex slams his hand down on the coffee table. "I swear, if I find out he had anything to do with this, I'm going to make sure he pays."
Reese finally pays attention and looks at the head of the Watcher's Council. "By doing what? You're too old to fight and from what I've heard, you were never too good of a fighter in the first place."
Dawn reaches over and slaps her as Alex smiles at her a little bit. "You better watch it or I'll demote you to potential."
Reese looks at him confused. "A what?"
"A potential, my dear." A voice from the hallway says, they look towards it and see a very senile man being wheeled out towards them. Buffy has a cold shiver come over her as she sees Ethan Rayne for the first time in twenty years, he is much more wrinkled and now in a wheel chair, but it's the same old Ethan. And behind him is a blonde woman in her middle ages, this is apparently Ethan's protégé, but she knows her better as Amy The Rat. Ethan continues his speech looking directly at Buffy. "You should've been one, but someone went and ruined all of that for us. Everyone say thank you to Miss Summers."
Buffy looks at Ethan with great contempt and anger, she knows already that he had something to do with Gile's death. "Ethan, long time no beat the crap out of."
Ethan continues to stare at his arch rivals adopted daughter from beneath oxygen tank that he now breathes from. "It's also a pleasure to see you again too, Buffy. How's immortality treating you?"
Alex looks at Buffy very confused. "What?"
Buffy looks at her older brother (but she doesn't quite see him as a brother anymore does she?) and touches his hand. "It's nothing Alex, he is just trying to taunt me."
"That I am, my dear slayer, but that's what I'm good at." Ethan replies.
Alex walks over to him and slams his fist onto the wheel chair. "We are not here to play games Ethan. We want answers and we want them now."
Amy immediately puts up a barrier spell as Buffy is impressed at how aggressive Xander Harris has become. Again, she can't help but think how attractive he has become in his older state, she can't believe she is even thinking that. Amy has a huge grin as Alex is flung across the room and onto the wall, she is about to perform another spell but Ethan gestures for her to stop as everyone gets off their seats ready to attack. "Hold back my dear, little Xander Harris poses no threat, he is just another imposter to the throne. And to answer you Mr. Harris, if you want answers to your questions, you have to play my games."
Reese pulls a knife out of her pocket and lunges to towards the barriers, but Dawn holds her back. "No Reese, you better not, you don't know what your dealing with."
Ethan looks over at Dawn and nods. "Wise advice from a wise woman, much smarter than your sister, I always liked you Dawn, even when you didn't even exist. How's your husband doing? I hear he is on an adventure of his own."
Dawn rolls her lip up and looks at Ethan. "What are you talking about?"
"You guys don't really know anything do you?" Ethan laughs a little as he rolls closer to them in his wheel chair.
Buffy helps Alex to his feet as a strained look appears on his face. "Get to the point Ethan or I'll sick Reese on you."
Reese is in a ready stance. "Good, let's end this quickly."
Ethan brushes off the petty threats and looks back at Buffy and Alex. "That's not much of a threat now is it? Even Buffy couldn't stop me."
"Because I let you get away, not this time Ethan, you are going to answer our questions." Buffy stays stern next to Alex.
"The questions you are going to ask aren't the right questions."
Buffy looks at him with very little restraint, the old man doesn't look scared. "Then what are the questions we should be asking?"
"You're here to ask me about who killed Giles, am I correct?"
Dawn answers for her party. "Yes."
"But my dear Dawn, what you don't realize that both of the Councils problems are closely connected."
Alex stands next to Buffy ready to attack with her, she holds him back. "What are you talking about?"
"Always so daft, Xander, you have a major issue in L.A, but you are looking for answers about who killed Giles at the same time. I'm surprised The Key hasn't figured all of this out yet, she is the smartest out of all of you. Have you ever read the prophecies of Tylos?"
Reese looks at him confused. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"Nothing really young slayer, I just figured both your generations should read more often." Ethan raises the hand around him to display the glow of Amy's barrier. "What I'm saying is that you guys should play connect the dots more often."
"Cram it Ethan, we want answers about Giles, you called us telling him you knew who did it." Alex says getting very fed up with this runaround.
"That I did, I was right there when he died and he was sired."
Buffy goes right into his face looking at him past the barrier spell. "So who did it Ethan?"
"My god Buffy, you should already know the answer, but it's sad to hear that you don't. Oh well, more fun for me I guess."
Buffy continues to stare at her father's rival. "In your words Ethan, what happened?"
"What happened? Well, a few weeks ago, good old Ripper gets a call from me, you see he was doing some research on something very very crucial and I had information on it for him. Being the smart man that he was, he wanted to meet at a neutral area in case it was trap, so we met at an old where house down in the docks. We had a nice conversation, I gave him the information he needed then he was on his way."
Buffy looks at him, she is not aware of the shadows creeping up behind them, none of them are. "Then what happened Ethan?"
As he begins to speak, Reese is the first to notice them at every corner of the room, then the three also see them. "The same thing that is happening to you now, I set him up, fortunately, he had back up just around the corner. That's something you don't have." As they make their appearance known, Buffy immediately recognizes two of the bumpy faces that now surround them, Harmony and Drusilla. The four get ready for a fight once they start gathering ever closer. Ethan begins to speak again as Buffy heads towards the obvious leader, Drusilla and gets her with a round house kick. "I loved every minute of it, too. The look of desperation on his face when he knew he was going to die and then finally when he gave in and started drinking the blood out of his soon to be sire. Never thought Ripper could be so desperate not to die that he himself would become a vampire. It was brilliant."
As Drusilla kicks Buffy to the floor, she looks down at her old nemesis. "The one and only slayer of thiefs is back. You stole my Bloody's heart and turned it into a soul. I don't like you very much." Buffy gives her a leg sweep and quickly back on her feet.
Buffy pulls her back up and stares at her. "Well, your not big on my list either Drusilla. But it's kind of hard when I stole both of your men."
Ethan watches on as Reese goes after Harmony with Xander immediately taking point and pulling out his crossbow and starts dusting wherever he can. Dawn finds herself swarmed by at least five of the hench vampires. Buffy and Drusilla are actually equaled out during this point of the battle as Reese has her stake ready to get rid of Harmony, but is tackled by one of the henchmen. Harmony looks down at her with a big grin on her face. "Ha, you can never stake me, haven't you freaks learned anything at all, I am the greatest mastermind of them all. Dorks."
Alex looks around him to see that Buffy is still up and fighting, Ethan standing watching the mayhem that he set up, Reese is already knocked out and Dawn is being pulled down the hallway. He tries to put things together and realizes that Dawn would need the most aide right now, because she's the only being dragged off. He tries to take as many as them out as he can, but is quickly intercepted by Harmony. "Harmony, long time no see, another round of rabid hair pulling, right?"
"Grow up Xander, I've matured much more since then." She kicks him the jewels and he is down on his knees. As Harmony goes in for the kill, he manages to yell out to the only member of their party left standing.
"Buffy, their going after Dawn." That's all Xander cat get out before he gets knocked out by one of Harmony's hard right punches.
Buffy notices this and pushes Drusilla away, but Dru is quick and back on her feet in no time. Buffy reaches for the vamps who are pulling Dawn out of the room, she is surprised that Dawn isn't screaming, she is just fighting for her life. Buffy manages to pull a few off her sister, but Dru is quickly back on her and throws her to the ground. "If I have to lose my sister again, I swear I'll kill you and whoever else is involved in all of this."
"I'm sorry, but the stars all point to a key with the face of a girl. We must have her for our little experiment." Buffy pulls Dru off, but is overwhelmed by the rest of the hench men that surround her and with that she loses her sister again. As she fades into darkness, she thinks about how her age is finally catching up with her, twenty years ago she would've been able to beat these odds, but now, it is all gone. Her sister is gone, and this time maybe for good.
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Watcher's Council, London England
"Alright, don't panic, but we are surrounded." Kennedy fills in the little army who hasn't been caught in the flames from an hour ago. Fortunately, they were able to put out most of the fire, but they are still in a dire situation. Andrew is surprised that Vi is in his arms, she never does that in front of anyone, she's always been private about their relationship.
He looks at Kennedy still very confused and very scared, but still very thrilled at the same time, he finally has his fiancée in his arms. "Surrounded by what?"
Kennedy answers polishing her scythe getting ready for battle. "Vampires, about twelve dozen, this was a planned attack. We've been set up."
One of the younger slayers in what is known as their shelter raises her hand and Kennedy gives her a gesture to ask her question. "What are we going to do?"
Kennedy smiles with a lot of confidence. "We are going to do what we were born to do, we are going to fight them until they are dust."
Andrew looks around and notices that the fire might've taken out a few of their ranks, twenty at best, but most of them are accounted for, he thinks that maybe they have a chance. He counts fifty slayers and fifteen watchers, not a bad chance, but still he plans on keeping Vi close to him, something isn't right about all of this. He looks at Vi and kisses on her cheek looking down at the ring she is wearing on her finger, she looks worried. "It's going to be okay."
She puts her hand on his cheek and smiles. "I know, as long as you're here, everything is going to be okay." A warm feeling arises in his stomach as she says this, he hasn't felt this way since they first kissed all of those years ago.
They give their attention back to Kennedy who is about to open the hatch and lead her army into an impromptu battle. "Alright, we are going to go out by seniority, me first of course, then Vi, Andrew do you have your crossbow ready?"
Andrew pulls it out of his jacket and taps it twice. "Yeah, I'm ready."
Kennedy nods in appreciation. "Good, your watching both of our back." She looks to the army behind the three of them. "You guys follow in behind us and be prepared to fight." She looks at them one more time always ready for a fight. "Good now lets' get going."
She opens the hatch then looks over at Vi and Andrew motioning them to follow her, they follow and then the others are behind them. Kennedy pulls a sword from her holster and hand it to Vi. Vi looks at her with great appreciation and is now standing by her side. "Thank you, these vamps are dust."
Kennedy doesn't look over Vi and just moves down the hallway towards the big doors leading outside where a horde of blood thirsty vamps are awaiting them to come out and fight. "Hope you still know how to use it. That's a nice rock you got on your finger, congratulations."
Both Andrew and Vi are shocked that that actually came out of Kennedy's mouth, she is never happy for anybody. Andrew looks at her with a very pleading look. "Just promise us you'll get us through this."
"Trust me, I'm THE slayer." Kennedy smirks right before she gets to the double doors with army behind her. Andrew and Vi both take a breath at the same time, right before Kennedy opens up the double doors. Once the doors are open, Andrew can see what looks like a crowd for a sold out "Dingoes Ate My Babies" concert, but these aren't concert goers, they are vampires. These are vampires that they are about to try to take out and now that horrible feeling enters Andrew's body, he hasn't felt this way since him and Anya were waiting for the Uber vamps to attack. He has a horrible feeling about this one, he embraces Vi's hand once more, she looks back at him with a beautiful smile and lets go. He then stares directly at the sea of vampires that are ready to pounce on them.
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The Rayne Estate, Blackpool England
"Buff, wake up." Alex says as Buffy begins to come to, she even feels him slap her across the face. "Buffy, you gotta wake up. They took Dawn, we gotta go get her."
She opens her eyes and stares at the cute older man, behind him is Reese who is slowly getting back to her feet. "I'm awake, Xander." Alex helps her up and she looks around at the massacre that surrounds them, a lot of dust, Amy's body is in pieces in the corner and Ethan's wheel chair is knocked over. She looks around again and notices Ethan's body laying across from his wheel chair, she can still hear him breathing. "So, it looks like Ethan was double crossed as well."
Reese begins to hold Buffy up. "Very poetic, but that's not what we should worry about right now. They kidnapped my watcher, I swear if anything happens to her "¦.."
Alex puts his hand on her shoulder to calm her down. "I know, I know, but I don't think they did anything to her. At least not yet anyways, but we are probably running out of time."
Buffy pulls Reese off her and begins to limp towards where Ethan's body lays. "You stupid son of a bitch."
"Buffy, calm down, we'll get her back." Alex tries to put his arm on her shoulder too, but she quickly pulls him off.
"Not now, this bastard set up my father and now my sister, I'm going to make him pay." Alex has never seen Buffy like this, what has this time away done to her? The better question is what has coming back done to her? He sees the vengeance in her eyes and it almost makes him cringe. He slowly follows her as she turns over the half dead Rayne and stares into his old fearful eyes. "Where is she?"
Ethan coughs up blood. "Figure it out for yourself, put the pieces together."
Buffy slams her fist into the fragile face of Ethan, bending his nose into his face. "Not good enough, I want real answers."
"It will devour you." And those are his last words as Buffy puts her hand over his mouth and slowly suffocates him until he dies. Alex and Reese watch in shock as they see something they have never seen before. Alex has no words to say as Buffy stands back up and looks at them with her furious eyes, he never thought Buffy had it in her to do THAT. Slayers don't kill.
She looks at him with no remorse. "From now on, we don't play games. I will get my sister back. No one ****S with my family."
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"Alright, on my count." Kennedy commands as they stand facing the sea of vampires, she holds her scythe out towards them. He gives Vi one more lg look that she sends back to him, but still that horrible feeling arises in him again. Now he holds his crossbow up ready for action.
"One" Kennedy takes a step forward and Andrew thinks it's very weird that the vampires haven't attacked yet. His head is all buzzed now, from here on out, this feels like a really bad dream sequence.
"Two" Kennedy yells, but instead of taking one step forward she begins to turn towards Vi with her Scythe still in hand. Andrew finally figures out what this horrible feeling is, but for some reason he can't move. He knows the look on Kennedy's face, he's seen it before, it's the face Warren had whenever he talked about double crossing Jonothan or killing Buffy, it's the look he had on his face when he killed Jonothan.
"Three" Kennedy swings the scythe as Andrew drops his crossbow and tries to get in the way and save his love. But all he catches is Vi's headless body, soon her head drops next to her knees, he begins to actually cry as he quickly looks away. He then looks back to the body, still with the ring around the finger, he clamps the body close to him as he looks up at the vengeful face of Kennedy.
She looks down at him with Vi's blood now on the blade of the scythe and just smiles as the vampires stand behind her, following her. "God, I've been wanting to do this for years. Now I know how Faith felt during her first kill, it feels incredible, I can feel the power flowing through me. Can you feel it Andy?" He can't say anything at all, this is all happening way to fast, all he can do is watch Kennedy lead the vampires towards their kill. All he can do is hold Vi's dead body close to him and cry.