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 Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:07 pm
Atticus blinked a few times, his sight a bit blurry for a moment. Was Andrew's voice echoing?
"So...Big Tough Guy Angel was a vampire one time?" Atticus snorted...something he never did when he chuckled or laughed. "...and he was calling ME inhuman."
This was a strange feeling. He couldn't think straight, and everything Andrew said only confused him more.
"You? Evil? I doubt it..."
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:10 pm
Phoenix sighed and hopped up, then was swiftly grabbed by another vamp. She rammed her head back into it's nose, hearing a satisfying crunch, then turned around and staked him, kicking out simultaneously at the one who came from behind her.
When he tripped over that girl's inert form, Phoenix sighed again.
"Some slayer she was, loser."
She hopped to Buffy's side, and they fought for another minute or so. Phoenix was feeling a huge high, and the pain began to fade as she danced the dance of the Slayer inthe zone, dusting 3 vamps in quick succession.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:35 pm
Dawn sighed and nodded, she did as she was told and walked home feeling like she was once again a young school kid in trouble. The way Buffy said she wanted to have a chat with her was a tad annoying but she guessed it was coz of the spell she had performed the night before. She wouldn't dabble around in magic again that was for sure. Dawn arrived home and let herself in, she made a cup of coffee and sat at the kitchen table feeling depressed and worried.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:10 am
Xoey found herself sputtering awake as something large landed on her chest, and the need for consciousness to actively re-enable breathing overtook the urge to drift away. Before she knew it the pressure was gone, but vision was hazily returning. Where was she again? Crap. Nest of vampires. Retarded redheads. Large pipes.
Xoey put a hand to the back of her head where she had been hit and drew it back to her face, examining at it. Drenched in warm blood. s**t. Her body started to panic, desperately wanting to run home and patch herself up, but her mind was furious. How dare anyone make her bleed?
The Slayer jumped to her feet, saber in hand. She let our her own battlecry, which was less of a cry and more of an unintelligible screeching noise, as she got into her favorite style of fighting - crazy berserking b***h. She swung the sword in a half arc, dusting 4 vamps at once, and brought it backwards on her side, quickly changing the position of her hand on it, to stab another in the heart. She twisted and withdrew, the heart coming with the sword. She brought the blade up towards her chin, impaling the heart with the wooden cross around her neck.
She spun the saber, now free of the heart but a tad dusty, above her head and brought it down onto the head of a bloodsucker in front of her whie simultaneously elbowing one approaching behind her. The sword wrenched the head from its perch and spun around to deliver the same fate to the vampire behind her. At this point she stopped issuing her battlecry.
She started to be shaky in her movements, the freely flowing headwound getting to her, but continued her assault. She beheaded two vamps in one swing, then stabbed the pipe-wielding baddie in the hand. He dropped his weapon but took the blade with him. Xoey ripped the cross from her neck and quickly staked him before he could get a chance to remove the weapon from his hand. Two others met his fate.
The girl got her blade off the floor and stumbled over to Phoenix, left hand dragging the weapon and right hand holding her head. "I hate you," she said simply before collapsing again, worn out and quite probably with a concussion.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:35 am
Andrew tried to listen to Atticus. It was hard. He was all echo-y. And blurry. When did he get so blurry? Andrew looked at his hand. Woah, he was blurry too. Maybe the whole world had turned blurry and he was the only one who had memory of the world un-blurry, and... thinking too hard hurt his brain. Despite the blurry, he clearly heard the phrase "You? Evil? I doubt it..."
"I was really evil!" he whined, a bit too noisy for a typical restaraunt, especially when one was talking about past evils. "I summoned demons and killed a girl this one time. Oh, and I killed my minion Jonathan." He made a hand gesture, about to talk about his heroic conversion to the side of good and a few things he wasn't completely sure were true but were definitely cool, and accidentally knocked over his half-empty smoothie. Oops.
He laughed a little and smiled at Atticus. Atticus was so pretty, Andrew mused to himself. In a dark and brooding kind of way. Plus, he was strong, and a natural leader. He reminded the blonde of Warren. He suddenly felt compelled to lean over the table and catch the demon hunter in a kiss, which he promptly did. He tasted kind of musty.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:35 am
"I'm sssorry. I just don't sssee you bein' evil..." Atticus shook his head a little bit, trying to clear his head. That was funny...when did he start feeling so woozy? And why was he slurring his words?
He watched as there were suddenly two Andrews sitting there, looking slightly sick himself. And then, unexpectedly, Andrew leaned over. Atticus was too disoriented to know what the hell he was doing, let alone ask, until it was too late.
His eyes went wide when Andrew laid a kiss on his lips. His expression was somewhat like this: "O_O" He wanted to shout something at the little gay guy, now knowing for sure he HAD to be gay...but instead all he could get out in this disoriented state was...
"Nnneverrr. Doo. Ttthatt. Agaiiin." And right after he said it, he keeled over off of his stool and hit the ground hard.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:05 am
CONNOR HAD DRIVEN TO WHERE PHOENIX SAID TO GO, AND PARKED. HIS CELL PHONE RANG BEFORE HE GOT OUT OF THE CAR, AND IT WAS HIS NEW BOSS ON THE OTHER LINE, TELLING HIM HE WAS NEEDED AT WORK IMMEDIATELY.
SHE'LL HAVE TO BE OK, HE THOUGHT, CUZ I GOTTA GET TO MY JOB.
HE NEEDED IT. NOT FOR THE MONEY. BUT FOR THE CONNECTIONS.
HE HAD A PRETTY DAMN GOOD FEELING THAT THIS GUY WAS NOT ON THE SIDE OF THE GOOD. AND HE'D OVERHEARD A CONVERSATION AT WORK YESTERDAY WHICH MADE HIM BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING BIG WAS GOING DOWN IN CLEVELAND - AND HIS BOSS HAD HIS FINGERS ALL UP IN IT.
HE PULLED AWAY FROM THE CURB AND HEADED TO WORK, NOTICING WILLOW'S CAR IN HIS REARVIEW MIRROR. GOOD.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:12 am
Andrew laughed at Atticus when he fell down, not really hearing what the other had said. "What are you doing there?" he asked the other, leaning over to look at his face. He found himself tumbling over along with him, though not as hard.
The world was getting blurrier, but he thought he saw a pair of breasts approaching. Virginia? v****a? Oh, right. Victoria. He started to say hullo to Victoria when he felt something distinctly net-like around him. What? Finally, the world fuzzed out completely.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:33 am
Buffy simply stood and stared at the little one as she rose up and took care of business.
She killed them all.
Every last one.
Buffy was stupefied. And oddly proud.
Then the girl passed out, and Buffy tried to break her fall, managing to catch her just before her poor head cracked on the ground.
I wonder if that hatred was for Phoenix or the vamps, Buffy pondered, as she lifted the girl and glanced over her shoulder at Phoenix, jerking her head in a "come on" gesture.
They left the dust-filled room, coughing, and trudged down the pipe line, rounding the corner. Another vamp came around at the same time, and Buffy adjusted the small girl in a manner that would free her right hand to stake the b*****d quickly.
The 3 Slayers passed through the dust and gingerly made their way through the system, looking for an alternate route out, considering they weren't going to be able to go back the way they came, not with an inert slayer on their hands.
"Phoenix, scout ahead, see if you find another way out."
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:43 am
Phoenix nodded and jogged ahead, thinking, that girl just sucks.
And get a load of Buffy's awww how good she is face.
b***h, I hate her too.
She was thinking so hard as she ran into the utter darkness that she slammed headfirst into a concrete barrier, her foreheard splitting open on what might have been a hinge.
Boom, she was down, but not out, like the baby.
She pushed herself up off the floor, nearly falling, feeling all sorts of woozy, and ran her hands against the wall. After forever, she located a handle, and pulled it up, opening a door into a dimly lit food storage room.
"Buffy, found it," she stage whispered, not sure if others were going to be in that room.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:47 am
Willow finished taking care of her shirt, and grabbed an entire roll of paper towels so she wouldn't get her seat in the car wet.
She walked out of the bathroom and into the cafe, ordered a slice of shepherd's pie, and sat down to eat, watching the building across the street.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:50 am
Buffy followed Phoenix until they came upon a short flight of wooden steps. She handed the girl over to Phoenix with a grin, saying, "Don't drop her, I'm gonna see what's the what." And with that she climbed the staircase, opening the white painted door at the top, and disappeared.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:52 am
Phoenix just barely resisted the urge to accidentally smack Xoey's head against the sharp corner of the wall. She glared at Buffy's back and adjusted the smaller girl so that she was holding her like a sack of potatoes, getting a small amount of satisfaction that the girl's head was near Phoenix's rock hard bottom.
She giggled.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:55 am
They were back in that little diner place, Buffy realized as she topped the stairs and ended up in a small hallway right next to the bathrooms. Ok, this is good. If Willow's still here, she can give us a ride home.
She turned around and went back down the stairs, catching Phoenix laughing to herself, and thinking she knew why she was doing so.
"Oh my god, just give her to me, and let's find Willow and get the hell out of here."
She picked up the little Slayer and carried her like a baby, following Phoenix up and out and into the main dining area, where they saw Willow eating some disgusting looking ground beef thing....
"Willow, we need a ride."
Without waiting, she walked outside, shouldering open the door, and going right to the little Mini-Cooper that Willow so adored.
So not my taste.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:00 am
Willow looked up at Buffy, who was carrying THAT girl, and at Phoenix, who was glaring at THAT girl.
"Uh, ok."
She tossed ten dollars on the table, took one last bite and one last sip of water, and followed them all out, where they made short work of getting the girl into the backseat.
Buffy went in the back with her, cradling the girl's head on her lap.
Willow whispered to Phoenix, "What the heck?" to which Phoenix just shrugged.
They all got in, headed back to the mansion in silence, and finally got everyone in the house.
"Bring her into the den. We can lay her on the desk and check her out."
Willow had no idea what was wrong with the girl, but was fiercely glad she'd brought those paper towels that Buffy had laid underneath THAT girl's head.
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