I've slowed things down a bit in this part. Think of it as the calm before the storm :fear:

Or perhaps the fan waiting for the s**t to hit :shifty: :lmao:

I still want your feedback, so let me know if you enjoy it.


Bad Tidings Part 6.



Just before sunrise, they found her. Huddled in foetal ball, some half mile from the school. She was dazed, weak, and she’d been bitten.

The call had gone out to the main building and Buffy and Willow were heading off in the direction of Kennedy. Xander was helping Dawn get the infirmary ready for use. “So, why d’ya think he left her alive?” Dawn looked at Xander as he set out bandages and gauze for use when Kennedy was brought in.

“I have no idea Dawnie, maybe she put up too much of a fight? Maybe he thought he’d killed her. We’ll know, when Kennedy is strong enough to tell us.” They could hear the commotion from downstairs, “I think they’re back.” Xander rushed to the door and opened it to allow the patient and her entourage entrance to the small, but well stocked sickbay.

Buffy entered first, still on guard, still edgy. Willow followed sweat on her brow as she concentrated on something. Dawn wondered what she was doing, until she saw Kennedy floating in through the open door. Willow had levitated her all the way back, powerful though she was; it was still taxing her powers and taking all of her concentration. Kennedy floated to the bed that had been prepared for her and gently she floated on to it. Willow at last gave out a gasp and staggered backwards, Xander, her forever friend was at her back to catch her. He helped her to one of the large chairs in one of the corners of the room. Dawn decided to put her 6-month course in first aid into practice and began ministering to Kennedy’s wounds. She prioritised the bites on her neck first of all, the blood was still flowing freely from the wound, using some gauze strips and antiseptic she began to clean the bite. Kennedy winced at the stinging touch of the antiseptic lotion, then, as though realising what was happening, she relaxed again.

“Willow, when you feel up to it, do you think you and Giles can cast the de-invitation spell? I don’t want him back in here. We’ll get him, but it’ll be on our terms.” Willow, whose eyes had never left the prone form of her lover now looked at Buffy and nodded.

“Give me a couple of minutes, and I’ll get right on it.” Willow smiled; it was a shallow smile, a smile tinged with relief.

“Oh no you won’t.” Xander tried his masterful voice on Willow. “You’re taking some serious time out after that levitation trick. You had 6 slayers with you; you think one of them couldn’t have carried her back here? They are all kinda strong you know?” Xander was only half serious, but he was looking at Willow’s pale complexion and was genuinely concerned.

Willow’s wan smile opened up to reveal a genuine teethy smirk, “And then who would have protected us if it had been a trap?”

“Me.” A voice from the doorway made everyone jump. Buffy2 stood there, well, skulked there at least. “I followed all the way. No sense of evil, long gone I think.”

“Once I’ve completed the de-invitation spell, we need to get you using full sentences.” Willow, looked at both Buffy’s. Her smirk widened to a full smile.

“Willow?” The weak voice came from the bed. Willow was on her feet and at the bedside before Xander could even react.

“I’m here sweetie, don’t worry. I’m right here.” Willow took Kennedy’s hand as though to prove her words to the slayer.

“I fought him, every step of the way.” Kennedy gasped, “I punched, kicked, even scratched him. How girly is that eh? Then he stopped, and he bit me. It was a weird feeling, like my life flowing out of me, you know?” Across the small room, both Buffy’s nodded. “He must have thought I was dead. He just dropped me right there. Said something about teaching her a lesson. Did he mean me? Or you.” Kennedy’s voice grew weaker as she began to lose consciousness. “Buffy?” She whispered, Buffy drew nearer to hear what Kennedy was saying. “Find him for me. Kick his ass.” Was all she said as she finally lost the fight against sleep.

“We will.” Was all Buffy said, as she laid a hand on Kennedy’s arm as if to seal the agreement.

“We might need to call a Doctor in the morning.” Dawn said to Willow, “She’s lost a lot of blood, she might need a transfusion or something.” Willow nodded in agreement.

“Right, onto the spell to keep him out.” Willow strode to the door. “If she wakes up, let me know, OK? I’ll be in the library with Giles.” It was Dawns turn to nod silently.

Two hours later, the spell had been cast, Buffy and Willow had walked around the house, burning the required herbs and Willow making the appropriate chants as they walked.

The two friends now sat in the library with Giles and Spike. “So any ideas how long he’s been Angelus? I’m fairly sure he was Angel in London, did anything happen on the flight?” Buffy looked at Giles and Spike.

“Well apart from the most appalling nightmare, no.” Giles replied

“I had a nightmare too.” Buffy replied. She looked at Spike, “you too?”

“Spike nodded. “Yeah, a flashback to an event I’d rather have forgotten.”

“That’s how it works. It’s not got much power right now, it’s drained after jumping dimensions, and so it influences people to become its servants. It makes them relive their greatest painful memories, with ever so subtle changes, just to make it more painful.” The group turned and saw Anya standing in the doorway. “I’d guess that one of Angel’s most painful memories involved Angelus, and that was his doorway back.”

“Mine involved him too.” Giles said in a hushed whisper. “I had just discovered Jenny.” He faltered slightly as he recalled the events of the nightmare. “But this time, Angelus was still there, playing with her, her corpse as though it were a toy. Mocking and laughing all the time. I was powerless, I couldn’t move, I could only watch.” Giles stopped recounting the dream and closed his eyes, as though talking about it had brought the images back again, the pain was etched on his face.

“Mine too.” Buffy replied, in part to break the painful silence of the room, and partly to divert her watcher from his obvious pain. “It was just as I was killing Angel. I stuck the sword in him, and he laughed. He pulled on the sword and it slid into him even further. The portal had closed, but he was still there, laughing, and he spoke to me, he said ‘gotta do better than that.’ Then I woke up.

Knowing how painful that event had been the first time around, Willow changed the subject. “OK, so it struck first. It took out Angel, and hit us with Angelus. Now we need to deal with the situation.”

“Right Will. I’ll double the patrols tonight. If he does decide to come back, we’ll have to be ready for him.” Buffy seemed to shift slightly, gone was the morose girl who had sat there moments ago, now she was THE slayer again. She knew what needed to be done, and she knew how to do it.

“I’ll try and get a hold of an orb of Thesala. We could re-ensoul him?” Willow hadn’t really intended it to end up as a question, but it hung in the air as Buffy considered it.

“OK, Willow, you do that, but if he attacks before you’re ready, we’ll take him down the old fashioned way.”

“Buffy?” Giles asked, “Are you sure you would be able to do it? Kill him I mean?”

“If he’s stupid enough to leave me no choice, then I will.”


To be continued.

:o Buffy 2 is a little tougher n'est pas :lol:

like the way you wrote the levitation, even I was touched and I don't like Kennedy.

You might even get me to like her :lol:

Oooopsie :shifty: :shifty: :innocent: :lmao:

:lmao: go on, mess with my mind :lol:

Well you are doing a good job writing about their relationship so far :unsure: :fear:

But what would a relationship be without some, erm, complications? :shifty: :shifty:

Very good, Jamie :thumbsup:. Please don't kill Angel(us), Kennedy or Spike on the other hand :whistling:

I may have problems keeping to your request. Especially since two of them are technically dead already :whistling: :D

Have read all of the parts now. They are excellent :thumbsup: Got all the characters perfect, I'm really impressed :)

Well done, Jamie.

this is excellent :lol:

good w**k :thumbsup:

can't wait for the next part