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Please do not archive this story until it tells me where it?s going. Author: Ivy Gort Buffy/Willow Relationship Spoilers: Centered in Second Season, some season 7 spoilers. Disclaimer: I do not own these characters; I?m just abusing themfor pleasure. Summary: After being beaten by a nearly invincible Spike, Buffy discovers more about her Slayer aspect and where it really did come from. Dedication: Mad Hamlet is no longer on the list so I think its safe to say this, he is my hero. Nothing I will ever write will be close to his brilliance, but I?m going to keep trying and maybe, someday, I?ll make it. Finding The Slayer Part Two They were in a desert, driven out their beautiful forest by the blood eaters. Her people, now her charges, were stretched out over the barren landscape. The elders thought the relentless sun would give them some safety from the monsters. And it did, the blood eaters were left behind. But, they hadn?t known of the other kind, the ones that stalked them both day and night. Never letting them rest, always searching for a weakness. The new kind of monsters were strong, far stronger than her, she had only been able to fend them off so far because she was quicker and wise in the use of weapons. Still, the monsters had been able to wound her and the lack of rest was wearing her down. She dreaded the next attack, fore if she fell in battle the next girl would have to fight, and she had neither skill nor experience to fight these monsters. Her only hope was the vision her wife had the second moon after leaving their homes. In it, her wife said a land to the north would have caves and cliffs near springs. The people could live in the caves, where they could defend themselves. The Slayer craved sleep, but she couldn?t close her eyes until they found the caves from her lover?s vision. They would be safe there; the people could carve stone houses, plant crops on the table top hills. If only she could sleep, she knew refreshed she could keep them alive. Shestumbled in the soft sand and her legs didn?t have the strength to keep her from falling and once on the ground she couldn?t lift her head away from the grit of the sand filling her mouth ?. Then she heard the sound she had dreaded, the screams from her people as the monsters attacked and there was nothing she could do to stop it?except to die. The next girl wasn?t wise in weapons, but she would at least be able to fight., the next girl mightbe able to save some of her people. She pulled her knife, intending to plunge it deeply into her chest, when a hand grabbed her wrist and she looked intothe deep eyes of her wife. ?We?ll here, they aren?t attacking, they can?t?.? ?Willow?? Buffy asked as she woke again. Her sight cloudy and was still unfocused. Half-way between dream and consciousness, her throat dry and she thought she could still taste sand in her mouth. ?No, Buffy.? Giles? voice, not that of her wife?s. The dreamscape was beginning to fade into the back of her mind. She wanted to go back to sleep, she was so tired. ?Buffy! Stay awake, we need to make some decisions.? Giles demanded when her eyes started to drift shut again. ?Buffy, the council wants to take you to England to heal, and protect you.? She heard him, but she was just so very, very, tired?. ?Your father is wrong to want do this to you!? Her wife shouted at her from across the table. ?You are recovering, slowly for you, I know, but you were so wounded and worn down from protecting us on our journey.? The Slayer sighed; she was conflicted about the elders? plans. The Slayer?s power was a gift directly from the creator and they wanted to tamper with it. Still it only took her a moment to remember how she had almost failed her people. ?More power can only help me protect you all. That is what I am, that is what my life is for, and nothing else.? The slayer told her wife, resolute. ?That?s what they tell you, the elders will not let me join their meetings on the matter.? Her wife stated calmly. And the Slayer had to concede the elder?s silence on the ritual worried her. ?I am the strongest magic worker our people haveseen, and yet, those old men will not let me in on this secret of their?s? Why?? Her wife asked, pulling herself up to her full height. ?Please don?t go, or, if you insist, take me with you.? The slayer was almost swayed, but she heard a baby cry out for itsdinner and remembered her helplessness on the day they found their new home. ?My father would never hurt me.? She declared, and it was true, she trusted her father. Her mind made up she left her wife?s cave and walked along the path to the elder?s. As soon as she walked through the entrance she knew this was a mistake, that once again, her lovewas right?. ?No!? Buffy screamed coming awake again. Now that she knew what to look for, she could feel it inside her. Coiling around her soul, darkening it with its corruption. ?Get it out!? Buffy screamed again, ignoring the sounds of running feet, the blaring of some monitor, as she began to claw at her stomach trying to grab what couldn?t be seen, but was only now felt. The panicked teenager looked downat the tubes connected to her body and started to pull them out hoping that the darkness she hadn?t known was there would flow out through the holes. Buffy felt rather than saw the people dash into the room, as hands grabbed at her trying to hold her down. She was so weak, from fighting the desert monsters and the elders had the help of magic weakening her further?. ?Damn it what was she doing out of restraints?? She heard the male voice speak in slight southern accent, as the hands began to over power her, forcing her to lie back in the bed. ?She?d been fine the last few days.? The nurse to her right answered. Buffy could see both the brightly lit modern Sunnydale hospital room overlaid with the elders in the dirty musty cave and she couldn?t tell which was real?. Until her love ran into the hospital room, no, not her love, Willow. ?Willow,? she screamed and could taste the tears streaming down her face as she tried to reach out to her best friend. ?Where?s that sedation?? The doctor yelled as he too, joinedthe nurses in trying hold the injured girl still. ?It?s on board. It?s the first thing I did.? The nurse whowas keeping her from reaching for Willow answered. But none of it made sense as her muscles began to lose their strength. As she relaxed, melting down into the mattress, the nurses loosened their hold, and Willow was ableto come forward. ?Wills, please don?t let them do it.? The slayer begged her love. No, not her love and she didn?tknow what she was begging for as the drug coursed through her confusing her. It was clouding her mind covering everything with a dark blanket. The only thing Buffy knew, as she could feel consciousness slipping away was ?please don?t leave me, Will.? The whispered words ?I won?t,? reached her ears as blacknesssmothered her.
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