FIC: Flying Without Wings (3/?) Repost

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Title: Flying Without Wings (3/?) repost
Author: Red Demon
Email: reddemon33@xxxxxxxxx
Disclaimer: Buffy and Company belong to Joss, Mutant Enemy, 20th
Century Fox and theWB.
Pairing: Buffy/WillowRating: PG
Distribution: If you have a story of mine then your welcome to this
otherwise ask me and I'll say yes..
Feedback: Always wanted. Always welcome.
Summary: Set in an alternate reality. Buffy is injured before
becoming the slayer causinga certain redhead to be called instead.

PART THREE

Everybody's looking for that something
One thing that makes it all complete
You find it in the strangest places
Places you never knew it could be
Some find it in the face of their children
Some find it in their lovers eyes
Who can't deny the joy it brings
When you've found that special thing
You're flying without wings
Some find it sharing every morning
Some in the solitary lives
You find it in the works of others
A simple line can make you laugh or cry
You find it in the deepest friendship
The kind you cherish all your life
And when you know how much that means
When you've found that special thing
You're flying without wings
So impossible as they may seem
You've got to fight for every dream
'Cos who's to know
Which one you let go
Would make you complete
~ Westlife, Flying Without Wings ~

Willow walked next to Buffy her hand resting lightly on the back of
Buffy's chair. It was as close to holding her hand as possible.

"I love that you get cold when it's seventy-one degrees out, I love
that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich, I love that
you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're lookin' at me
like I'm nuts, I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still
smell your perfume on my clothes and I love that you are the last
person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not
because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came
here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of
your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as
soon as possible.

"Buffy paused, trying to read the expression on Willow's face.
"Are you saying what Ithink you're saying?"

"Oh no, of course not. It was just my turn for a quote, right? So
that was me taking my turn." Willow let her hand fall to her side
when Buffy started moving again. She silently cursed herself for not
being brave enough to tell Buffy how she felt.

"Oh." Buffy fought to keep the disappointment out of hervoice. She
promised herself that she wouldn't get her hopes up when Willow had
asked her out.

After almost threeweekends of lunches, `walks' in the park and near
kisses she thought that their friendship was starting to become more
than just friendship. "I. . . Idon't know."

"When Harry Met Sally. Your turn." If Buffy was going tolet it
drop then Willow wasn'tgoing to argue."I see dead people."

"What! Where?" Willow dropped into a fighting stance infront of
Buffy a stake appearing in her hands. She scanned the area seeing
and sensing nothing out of the ordinary.

"What are you doing Will? Is that a stake?"

"It's not a stake. It's a, um, a toothpick."

"What do you think I am, Stupid?" Buffy started around Willow hot
tears streaming down her face.

"Buffy wait!" Willow grabbed Buffy's wheels. "I can explain."

"Let go of my wheelchair!"

"Okay. You give me no choice."

"Willow!" Buffy screamed as she was pulled out of her chair and over
Willow's shoulder.

Willow ignored Buffy's finger nails digging into her back andtook
off for the library. Their screaming was bound to attract something
evil.

<<<<>>>>

"A Vampire Slayer?" Buffy looked at the librarian skeptically and
then at Willow sitting beside her. She crossed her arms.

"Y-yes. I-Into each generation a slayer is born, one girl in allthe
world, a Chosen One, one born with the strength and the skill to hunt
vampires, to stop their evil. . ."

Giles trailed off when Faith banged through the library doors and up
to Buffy. "Here ya go B. One handy dandy wheelchair ready for
use." Faith jumped out of the chair. It head been fun to use on the
way to the library but she was glad that she could just get out of
itat anytime.

"I-I need to go." Buffy pulled herself into the chair.

"Let me go with you?" Willow pleaded. Buffy hadn't said a word to
her since she sat her in the chair over an hour ago.

Buffy turned at the doorway. "I don't pretend to understand what or
who you are but you should have come clean with me instead of
pretending to be my friend. I really wanted to get to know you."

She let the doors bang behind her.

<<<<>>>>

The air was freezing as Buffy fought for breath. Blurry images
played before her eyes. There was a terrible buzzing and bleeping.
She felt incredible numbness as her eyes cleared enough that she
could see the tangled mess of metal. Human shaped images darted
around her but she couldn't focus. They were saying something but
she couldn'thear.

The scene shifted and she was in the computer room. She saw Willow
lean down to get her dropped book. And when they touched, darkness
engulfed her.

<<<<>>>>

END PART THREE