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Title: Where is the death
Author: Littlewicca
Rating: pg-13 (for now)
Disclaimer: I do not own any of Buffy characters, but I do own the story line, not the flash backs or anything that happened in Joss Whedon show.
Summary: After the battle with the first, the scoobies gang had no home, no town, no money, they started a new life in LA, a life with hard work for everyone, but which would give fruits. Also, Sunnydale’s hellmouth had been destroyed but there were others around the world. Well hell can be anywhere, you will see.
Spoilers: This is after the end of the show so if you hadn’t seen every season may be you should watch them first.
Sorry if there is any word wrong in the writing
Chapter three
Willow woke up and she thought she had slept only a few minutes and it was true, she wasn’t relaxed, all the place was making her worry and nervous, and not only that, she couldn’t sleep well because she was having nightmares about Tara, she used to have dreams where they were together and nice, but not now, she sat up on the bed and thought about Xander. He had also lost his love, probably he was feeling the same.
“I should talk to him, I had been not a good friend” Willow thought to her self with tears in the eyes. She got up and went out of the room.
In the other room, Xander was in the floor and Tara was trying to help him to stand up but he couldn’t believe it. Finally he took Tara’s hand, it was solid and warm, it wasn’t a ghost.
“What? How? Did Willow?” said Xander, he couldn’t find the right words to
ask and also he had to much to ask.
Tara moved her hand to Xander`s shoulder “No, please calm down, I will explain with time, but not now, you must leave this place and take Willow back to the campus, you must tell Buffy that something big is coming, you cant stay on LA either, you must leave as soon as possible.”
“What is going on, she is powerful, you should see how she… oh my god she will be so happy to see you, come on lets go see her, she is…”
“Shhh, she is coming, please don’t tell her Im here, it will be worst, I will try to explain you soon, but not yet, I need to go, just do what I said, some evil forces are destroying the portal between death and life and they fear Willow, they can harm her and they will try to”
Xander was going to reply when they heard a nock on the door
“Xander are you awake?” asked Willow at the other side of the door
Tara shook her head pleading with Xander not to say anything, he whispered “Why cant she know you are here?”
“It would complicate things, just trust me” she hugged him and ran to the window she seemed the same Tara, she was alive, but Xander thought, she seems also stronger and secure.
“Xander?”
“Coming” he hurried and opened the door to see a red-haired woman in her pajamas, she was so cute, he couldn’t help but hugging her, he was scared now “What happened Will are you ok?
“I just, I’m sorry for the way I had been acting lately, I know you are in pain too and I should be a better friend”
“I understand you Will, and you are a good friend” He was wondering how to tell her they needed to come back without telling her the truth, but he thought it would be better to try at the morning.
She looked into his eyes teary “Can I sleep here?” she was so beautiful and a good person she didn’t deserve to be so sad and heartbroken, Xander felt guilty for not telling her Tara was alive, that would make her happy, but for now the best thing was her safety.
“Yes we can have a pajama party” he giggled
“That would be nice” Said the red-haired girl smiling “I promise I will not abuse you on bed”
“You are a wild witch, Im scared” they laughed and went to bed, Xander thought at least in that way they would be together until the morning and then he would need to say something to go back to the campus.
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In LA the things got complicated, Buffy and the others were just having a break when they saw bad news on the TV. Many people was having fights on the streets and the police couldn’t do anything, before something made the camera go off they could see what seemed vampires and other creatures. Buffy stood up in front of the TV
“We need to go out, Faith prepare team one, I’m going with team two”
“Alright B, sounds fun” said Faith getting ready, she left to find her team, they were just five of the slayers, they were some of the girls that fought against the first and the supervampires, Shannon and Vi, with three more that they meet after they went to LA, Rachel, Emily and Sam. They were good and strong slayers and they got to have a friendship or kind of, with Faith.
Buffy was with Rona and Chao-ahn two of the other slayers who were alive after Sunnydale, they had also Anne and Erika, and others sometimes but now Buffy just called them, the slayers had beepers in case of emergency so when Buffy went outside Faith was waiting for one of the girls the others were already there, and her slayers were arriving. All of them were talking about the news and were a bit nervous specially those who didn’t fight against the first.
When Faith team was ready Buffy told them they should go to the town and protect people tell them to stay home and try to see what was going on. They left when Andrew and Dawn arrived.
“What are you doing here?” Said Buffy annoyed and upset
“We want to help” Said Dawn seriously
“Well you will, staying home and watching over the other girls”
“Well... see that is not actually true, I mean... the girls can take care of themselves and the council is here also” said Andrew with his hand on the other arms as he uses to do when he is nervous.
Buffy shock her head, and was going to reply when she noticed all the girls were there, they weren’t too much but they could watch over Dawn and the nerd boy, besides if they needed information they could help.
“Ok you can go, but be careful and stay out of the way if we have to fight” then she talked to the group “Let’s go girls”
“And boy” said Andrew in a whisper, Dawn at his side laughed
Buffy opened the truck. Once the group was inside she turned it on and said “Be glad I learned how to drive”
“Well I would be if you would have really learned it” Said Dawn a bit scared. The slayers looked to each other worried, but there was no time to argue the blonde started driving, not great but ok.
Buffy drove a few minutes and stopped, there was something on the way, it was like an energy ball, it was rounding someone. Buffy went out of the truck to get closer, a woman was standing on the street, looking to the other side.
“Are you alright?” asked the slayer not being sure of what she was seeing.
The woman turned to watch Buffy, she was like a demon, she had only white in the eyes and her hair was flying because of the energy ball, it was a black energy, what made Buffy think it wasn’t good at all.
She got closer, the demon looked familiar “Hi Buffy”
“Anya?” Said Buffy surprised, Anya was looking at her with an evil look
She replied “Call me Anyanka” and moved her hand towards Buffy making her fly a few steps back on the floor. “This is not a good place for you and your little slayers Buffy, the dead are awake and not all of them are good, be intelligent and leave” She laughed. The energy ball went smaller, and then she disappeared with it.
Dawn went to help Buffy to stand up. “What happened?”
“The dead are awake…” said a shocked Buffy “Did you see her?”
“Who, I just saw that black energy and then it made you fly away, who was she?”
“Anya, or Anyanka” Said Buffy
“It can’t be Buffy you must had seen wrong” Dawn shock her head.
“She told me, she was Anyanka, she said the dead are awake”
“Lets go back home, we must talk to Giles”
Dawn drove this time, Buffy was still shocked and thoughtful.
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Out of the town Xander was awake with Willow in his arm, she fell asleep fast but he couldn’t sleep, he was thinking about Tara and her words. Suddenly Xander´s cellphone rang and woke up Willow also.
“Hello? Buff? What is wrong?”
“You need to come back as soon as possible, we need you and Willow here”
“Is everyone ok? What happened?” Said Xander scared, Willow was looking at him worried.
“We are ok for now, I will explain when you arrive I cant now, are you coming?”
“Right now, if something happens let me know, bye”
“Yes, be careful” Said the blonde as goodbye.
Willow was already getting up and trying to understand “What happened?”
“We need to go Will, Buffy didn’t explain, but she said they are ok” He thought things were getting worst, but at least now he had an excuse to take Willow back at the campus. What was happening? He didn’t know, but it seemed really bad.
“Let me go for my clothes at the other room” She ran to the door
“Ok I will wait for you in the car, hurry up” He took his things and went out with Willow and went down the stairs. The barman was cleaning some tables and when Xander went appeared he starred at him.
“Hum good morning, we are leaving, here have this” he gave the man some money “Thanks for everything”
“Thanks to you, be welcome whenever you wish”
After a while Willow was at the car with Xander, and they left. They arrived at the campus a few hours later, but it took less of what they thought, Xander drove really fast.
Buffy, Giles and Dawn were at the kitchen waiting, when the guys arrived. Buffy hugged Xander.
“Please tell us what is going on” Said Willow
Buffy looked at Giles, they talked in the night about if they should talk to Xander about Anya or just avoid that part, even if the best was telling the true, they needed to know more before they hurt Xander, though they decided not to say all what was going on.
“Last night things got really bad here, we needed to use the teams to get things better, we started driving, but we had to stop because something was on the way. It was a an energy ball a big one, there was a woman inside it, and she just said dead are awake and not all of them are good, and she told me to be intelligent and leave, well to leave town I guess because after that she just disappeared”
Willow nodded “I knew something was going to happen, but I didn’t know so soon”
Xander was looking at Buffy’s eyes, he wanted to talk to Buffy about the truth, Willow couldn’t know but Buffy needed to, there wasn’t other way to protect Willow. His friend noticed something weird on Xander look and she hoped he wasn’t suspecting there was something missing on the story.
“What do we do?” Asked Dawn crossing her arms and waiting for a plan, but there wasn’t one, at least not yet.
“I need to lay down for a while” Said Willow, her friends were surprised that she didn’t ask anything else, but she was feeling stressed and sad, she didn’t know what it meant “Dead are alive” but it was weird.
“You should do that” Said Xander, it was his chance to tell Buffy what was going, actually he did, after Willow left he told Buffy he needed to talk to her, and they went for a walk, things were getting every time worst and they had no clue of what to do. Buffy was thinking to herself
“Tara and Anya were alive? Well then Anyanka was right, dead were awake, but why and how?”
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Far from the earth, the evil woman and the strange man were having a good time.
“We have him, now she cant stop us, not you or me, not anyone” She was walking around while the man was drinking some wine.
“That means we cant kill them either, not the witch and not the slayers”
The woman hit the table and took the glass of wine “Ben… Ben don’t be stupid, we can harm them really bad, so bad that they will wish to be dead, and then I will laugh, and I will bring death to take the slayer to hell”
“Don’t get mad sister, I am with you now and you know that, Buffy said she wouldn’t kill an innocent but her watcher did try to kill me, I need revenge too remember?”
“Yes I remember, so now stop worrying, Glory has the death as hostage, and soon we will come back once more to the earth, hey cant kill you again.”
To be continued...
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