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And another short one. Feedback would make my day (hint, hint!) Have a nice one, Lil’Witch ~*~ Chapter Two ~*~ Giles was driving into town. He tapped his fingers against the steering wheel in an obvious sign of frustration and impatience. He had to get to Buffy’s mother and as far as he knew she would still be at work in her gallery. He was too slow, he knewit. If Buffy was really on her way to her mother… Somehow Giles didn’t think that was the case though. “Why should she head all
over Sunnydale to get to her mother first when ~*~ “So what do we do now?” Xander asked. They were again sitting in front of Buffy’s cage. “Giles is heading to the gallery to bring Buffy’s mum to safety, but that won’t solve our problem. We need to get to-“ “Billy!” “I know “Billy is standingright behind you.” Xander whirled around to come face to face with the little boy who was standing on the table behind him. “Eek,” was all he said as he quickly took a couple of steps backwards. “Afraid.” “Are you hurt? I heard you were at the hospital sleeping very deeply.” She’d reached the table and took one of Billy’s hands. At her urging the young boy sat down on the table and Willow sat down next to him. “I was, but then the
book-man came and took me away. He’s carrying me here; to save me from
the Ugly-man.” ‘Book-man?’ “Huh? I’m not sure I understand, Billy. You are right here. How can somebody else be carrying you?” “This is not my body. Just my mind.” “Astral projection? This is fascinating!” “Willow! You soundlike Giles! How do we get Billy back into his body?” Xander spoke up. As usual he had little patience for the scurrile fascination his friends had with all the magical hokey-pokey big words. “All we have to dois wake Billy up,” a new voice said and all presently conscious turned towards the door. ~*~ “Giles!” All three teenagers said asthe librarian made his way into the room carefully. He was holding Billy’s body in his arms. “What happened?” Xander asked as he helped Giles make the boy comfortable in one of the bigger chairs. “I barely avoided a confrontation between an enormously hideous creature and Billy. He was trying to kill the kid, I just took him and ran. I’m afraid he’s followed me, though.” “Okay, here’s what
we do. Xander, Cordelia I
want you to take point at the end of each corridor. Alert us as soon as yousee
this ‘Ugly-man’. Then run. Giles, you and I have to find a way to
get Billy back into his body. Billy, I need you to help me and Giles.
Everything will be alright.” The group of people all stared at Still in shock about this new
side of Both Xander
and Cordelia quickly were out of earshot and “I am not exactly sure, but I think Billy somehow brought them with him out of the coma. The same way he was able to pull his consciousness out of his body our worst nightmares have crossed to the waking world. I think it is safe to assume that once one is returned everything else should return to normalcy as well.” “Okay. Billy? Do you
have any idea how you managed to walk around while, technically, you’re
lying in a bed?” The young boy only shrugged and “The only thing I know is that I was really afraid.” “Fear… Fear is a pretty powerful emotion. All the things that have been happening in the last few days were connected to fear and facing the things we were afraid of… That’s it! Giles!” “Uh? Yes?” The brit had watched Willow pace and had tried to follow her thoughts but on the finish line he had finally lost her. “It’s easy, Giles. Billy has to face his fear and then it’ll all stop.” The second Giles understood two things happened. Cordelia burst through thedoors to the library and yelled “He’s here!” just as fully game-faced Buffy rose behind Willow and through the bars reached for the other girl’s neck. ~*~ Tbc… |