Kirayoshi
> ** Original Subject: [buffywantswillow] FF Tell me I was dreaming Part
one
> ** Original Sender: "Christeen Demons" <Shyfox30@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ** Original Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 15:18:31 -0400
> ** Original Message follows...
>
> Kirayoshi...Part nine of NKA is on the way, I swear...I'm working on
> it...just I couldn't get this out of my head and I had to work on it
> first.:-) Just to get the guard dogs off my back...you understand.:-)
>
> Discalaimer: They belong to Joss...the King of the Buffyverse.:-) I
only
> borrowed them.:-)
>
> Feedback: You bet...I live off the stuff.:-)
>
> Subtext: This is a story about two women in love...you know the way I
> operate by now.BG
>
> Tell me I was dreaming
> by
> Shyfox
>
> When I woke up this morning.
> Wiped the sleep from my eyes.
> I found a new day dawning.
> And suddenly I realized...your gone.
>
> Tell me I was dreaming,
> That you didn't leave me here to cry.
> You didn't say you don't love me anymore.
> It was just my imagination telling lies.
> Tell me that you didn't say goodbye.
>
> I'm in a state of confusion.
> I hope things aren't as they seem.
> If this is really happening.
> Just let me go back to dream...your home.
>
> Tell me I was dreaming,
> That you didn't leave me here to cry.
> You didn't say you don't love me anymore.
> It was just my imagination telling lies.
> Tell me that you didn't say goodbye.
> Travis Tritt
>
>
> Fate is a funny taskmaster, and for most people a cruel one. They find
> themselves facing cruel jokes brought on by fate's hand and wondering
what
> the hell happened...I mean think about it...how many of you have ever
been
> watching a good movie...or reading a really good novel, gotten into the
> story...identified with the characters...only to have something
> really terrible happen halfway through the plot and shake your head
> saying... "That wasn't supposed to happen."
>
> Fate is funny that way.
>
> It gives unselfishly...yet it can also take away.
>
> One of the best days of your life can quickly turn into your worst
> nightmare.
>
> Willow Rosenberg-Summers knew this lesson well. She had faced it many
times
> before in her young life. But somehow she had never thought that she
would
> come to be at this place, in this moment in time, and find herself
screaming
> into a cold cruel world... "This wasn't supposed to happen! It isn't
> fair!"
>
> Life isn't fair. Sometimes things happen for a reason. Sometimes
things
> happen for no reason at all. We don't get to pick and choose. We just
have
> to live with it...as best we can.
>
> *****
>
> (Two minutes before all Hell broke loose)
>
> "Anybody else feeling really shitty about letting her go up there
alone?"
> Xander asked, raising his hand as he looked back and forth between Oz
and
> Giles. None of them could tell what was happening up on the roof,
although
> they spent an awfully long time looking up. But the longer they waited
down
> here, the more nervous they became.
>
> "I think we should help Willow." Oz agreed, nodding his head
emphatically.
>
> "Well, Buffy did say we should stay here." Giles protested, although
Xander
> could tell his heart really wasn't in it. "We could prove to be an
> unnecessary distraction." The argument was weak at best and Giles knew
it.
> "Oh Bloody Hell, you're right. I'm as anxious to know what's going on
as
> you are." Giles said, starting to walk toward the entrance of the
building.
>
> "Giles." Xander said, gesturing toward the fire escape that Buffy had
> climbed earlier.
>
> "Well, I'm not climbing up the bloody fire escape, come on." The
watcher
> figured he would never be able to climb up all the way on the ricketly
> looking metal staircase. He'd rather take his chances from inside the
> decrepit looking building. "Faith has probably already seen Buffy come
over
> that route she might be looking for more heads to pop up." He entered
the
> building with Xander and Oz following behind him, shaking their heads.
>
> *****
>
> "Who knew there would be so many stairs in this place?" Giles asked,
> sounding out of breath as the three men raced from floor to floor. I'm
> getting too old for this. The retired watcher thought to himself
ruefully,
> trying to ignore the nagging pain in his side as he fought to keep pace
with
> the younger men.
>
> Then all thought became irrelevant as the bone chilling sound of a woman
> screaming reached their ears.
>
> "Will." Oz said, his face turning still and white for a half of a
second,
> his head cocked to the side as he listened to the screams, before
increasing
> his speed, kicking in some form of stamina that he drew from a secret
place
> deep inside of him.
>
> "I didn't know he could do that." Xander muttered to himself as he
tried to
> keep up with the man taking the lead.
>
> They broke out onto the roof, coming to a stand still as they tried to
> adjust their eyes to the sudden darkness of the rooftop. Oz however was
> scanning the rooftop intently, his eyes shining with an inner glow which
was
> giving Xander the creeps. "I didn't know you could do that." Xander
> muttered again, getting hushed by an anxious wolf-man for his trouble.
>
> They could all hear the screams and could pretty much tell where they
were
> coming from, but they couldn't see any sign of Buffy or Faith and that
was
> worrying them. "Do you see them?" Giles asked, whispering to Xander
and
> Oz.
>
> "No...but I see Willow...I'm gonna go untie her." Xander whispered
back,
> darting out further onto the roof and heading over to where Willow was
tied
> to her chair.
>
> The lack of seeing any sign of Buffy and Faith was still bothering Giles
and
> Oz and they continued to peer anxiously through the dim haze of the
> flickering florescent light. Then they noticed the direction in which
> Willow was looking and decided to follow her gaze, right off the edge of
the
> building. "Dear God." Giles murmured, feeling his stomach
> twist as he hoped that what he was suspecting wasn't true.
>
> The two men made their way over to the edge, hearing Xander talking to
> Willow as they did so.
>
> "Hey take it easy, Willow. We're here. We'll get you out. Ouch!
Those
> nails are sharp! Calm down!" But Willow wouldn't calm down...she
wouldn't
> even stop fighting, and as Giles and Oz looked over the edge, they
> understood the reason why as they caught sight of the extremely still
body
(one body? Where's Faith?)
> lying in an awkward position far below them.
>
> "Do you think she's..." Oz started to ask, but was interrupted by an
ill
> looking Watcher.
>
> "Go call an ambulance. Hurry!" Oz was loping over the pavement before
> Giles had even finished the sentence, feeling like the hounds of hell
were
> at his heels.
>
> "There...see I told you I'd get you untied.." Xander said, a smug tone
to
> his voice as he released the rest of Willow's bonds. Giles half turned,
> seeing the wild look that covered the red head's face.
>
> "Xander...don't..." Giles warned, but it was too late...Willow had
already
> broken loose from Xander's hold and was running pell mell for the edge.
> Giles caught hold of her, holding the struggling woman tight in his
harms,
> feeling her shake with sobs against him.
>
> *****
>
> Oz ran to the nearest apartment and started pounding heavily on the
door.
> "What the Fuck! Who is it?" Came a rough voice from within. The door
was
> opened by a middle aged balding fat guy, wearing nothing but a rat
chewed
> stained white t-shirt and a faded pair of green work pants that had seen
> better days.
>
> "What the Fuck do you want?" The guy asked from between the stogie he
had
> crammed between his teeth. Oz wasn't the slightest bit intimidated.
>
> "I need to use your phone...it's an emergency." Oz said, trying to
remain
> calm.
>
> The fat guy snorted, the stale smell of the cigar going into Oz's face.
> "Like Hell." He said, starting to close the door. Oz's foot stopped
the
> door's movement.
>
> The fat guy looked back at Oz surprise and anger twisting his fat,
flabby
> cheeks. "What the Fu--" He started to say, but was unable to finish as
Oz
> cut in.
>
> "As I was saying...I need to use your phone..." The voice started to
deepen
> into a low growl as his eyes lit up. "NOW!" The tone left no room for
> argument as the fat man felt himself being pushed out of the way, and
the
> insolent kid was moving inside his apartment.
>
> *****
>
> "Is she?" Willow could barely get the question out from between stiff
lips.
> She was merely centimeters away from her wife, watching Giles
carefully as
> he searched desperately for a pulse.
>
> "She's alive." The answer came with a sigh of relief, as the watcher
looked
> down on the damaged body of his precious Slayer. Barely. He thought to
> himself...not knowing how much longer she would stay that way. But not
> wanting to stress Willow any further he kept the observation to himself.
He
> did wish the ambulance would make an appearance soon. Otherwise,
Slayer
> healing abilities or not, she wasn't going to make it.
>
> *****
>
> "BP seventy over forty; Pulse rate 100; breathing is thready and
> shallow...let's get her moving." Willow watched in a complete state of
> shock as they loaded her wife onto a stretcher getting ready to load her
> into the nearby ambulance. She kept thinking that if she'd just pinch
> herself a little harder, that if she closed her eyes and pretended that
it
> wasn't happening, she would wake up in bed, feeling Buffy's arms wrapped
> tightly around her, and hear her murmuring gentle words in her ear to
calm
> her after having this bad dream. But it wasn't a bad dream...this was
> really happening...and she felt herself coming apart at the seams as she
> watched the paramedics pick up the stretcher and load it
> into the ambulance.
>
> "I'm going with you." Her voice cracked as she got the words out, but
at
> least she had managed to say them...she wasn't sure she'd be able to say
> anything through the huge lump that was lodged in her throat like a
> permanent fixture. The attendents spared her a quick look before nodding
> their heads.
>
> "Are you sure..." Giles said, put a restraining hand on the red head's
> shoulder. Giles would be following behind the ambulance anyway, and
wasn't
> sure Willow should put the greater stress of riding in the ambulance on
her
> shoulders.
>
> "I'm going." Willow didn't even look back as she climbed up into the
> ambulance behind the attendants. Giles watched with a certain amount of
> helplessness as the paramedic closed the doors behind her.
>
> 'Dear God...please don't let her die.' Giles offered a solemn prayer to
> whatever higher power was listening, before he headed hurriedly to his
car
>
> *****
>
> "Hang in there, Class Protector. You can't leave us to face the
darkness
> alone." One of the attendents whispered to Buffy, and Willow was amazed
to
> discover she hadn't even recognized one of her former classmates. Not
too
> surprising considering the state of shock she was in, but still...
>
> "How are you holding up?" Jonathan asked, sparing Willow a sympathetic
> look, before turning his eyes back on his patient.
>
> "I've been better." Willow admitted, fresh tears staining her cheeks.
"Can
> you hurry?"
>
> "We're going to try." Jonathan said, as the sirens flared to life, and
the
> ambulance pulled out of the dark alley it was parked in, intent on
making
> it's destination as fast as humanly possible.
>
> to be continued...
>
>
>
>
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