ff:Guided by Voice, 0/?

["carol clarke" <zenabuff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have rewritten and fixed this story. Hope you like the better and improved 
version.

Title: Guided by Voices
Rating R or PG13 (Other parts NC-17)
Disclaimer: All BTVS characters belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.
Summary: Someone comes to the door of 1630 Revello drive looking for the 
slayers help and starting a prophecy that may lead to the end of days. 
Again.
Pairing: Buffy / Other (female) Tara/ Willow.
Timeline: Middle of 4th season.
Thanks: To AnneBar for the help and guidance. Cheryl Hill who just Rocks.
Guided by Voices
Prolog

Joyce Summers took the last drink from her coffee, rinsed the cup out and 
started to head out the door. She opened the front door and froze. Curled up 
against the front door was a teenage girl.

The girl jumped suddenly before she stood up to face Joyce. Her clothes were 
torn and covered in blood. Her jet-black hair was also covered in blood, as 
well. The bite wounds on her neck were still open and bleeding slightly. It 
looked as if part of her throat was torn away and now healing.

?Don?t invite her in.? Screamed in Joyce?s head. ?What do you want?? Joyce 
said rudely pulling up her defenses and staying well inside the door.

?Ms. Summers, I need to talk to the slayer, ?ah?. Buffy. ? ah... I think she 
is the slayer?. oh ?Ah? I keep forgetting stuff and there is this voice and 
it wants me to kill people. And I need the slayer?s help.? The girl spat 
out, as she stumbled to the door like a drunk toward Joyce.

Joyce pulled away from the door and ran to the phone. The slayer?s mother 
called her daughter?s room only to get the answering machine.

The girl opened the screen door and tried to enter, only to be stopped by 
the mysterious power that kept Vampires from entering a house. The girl kept 
trying to go through the door not understanding what was happening. Feeling 
her way around the field as magic sparked across the force field. Finally 
she began throwing her whole body against the doors invisible shield.

?Mrs. Summers, please I need the slayer, my mom told me she was here.? The 
girl screamed holding her head; she was clearly in a lot of pain, while her 
body pushed against the force at the door. Suddenly the field just 
disappeared. Then to Joyce?s horror the girl fell through the door hitting 
the floor hard.

Joyce picked up a lamp and broke it over the girl?s head. Then she grabbed 
an umbrella and beat the vampire, until she was sure the girl was 
unconscious.

Joyce ran to the phone and tried Buffy at the dorm again with no luck. Giles 
was in England for a friend's wedding. Xander was at work. Anya, well she 
would just rather die than call her. That left Tara, where Willow hopefully 
was. It wasn?t hard to see the two witches were in love. Even Shelia 
Rosenberg had noticed. Shelia noticing anything her daughter did was call 
for a national holiday.

Joyce dialed the number and to her relief Willow answered the phone.

?Willow I need Buffy, I have a vampire knocked out on the floor. All I know 
is she wanted to speak to the slayer.? Joyce said holding back the fear in 
her voice and the umbrella in her hand raised as a weapon at the ready.

Calmly Willow gave Joyce instructions step by step. Joyce quickly retrieved 
some rope from the basement and started to tie up the unconscious vampire. 
Willow was now on her cell phone and continuing to talk Joyce through each 
step.

Joyce had just got the girls hands tied tightly behind her back when the 
girl woke up screaming bloody murder. The creature realized her hands were 
tied and began fighting her way up until she was standing with her hands 
still tied behind her back. Still staggering as she tired to walk. The neck 
wound started bleeding again as she continued to scream and struggle. Just 
as suddenly she took of running and dove out the front door. Joyce watched 
as the girl run down the sunny California Street.

A minute after the vampire ran out of sight. Buffy, Tara, Willow and Riley 
pulled up in Riley?s car.

?Well I at least know where Buffy spent the night.? Joyce said to herself as 
she began to stand up from her spot on the floor where the vampire had 
knocked her down. ?Well, this one is at least living and breathing ? The 
worried mother added to herself.

The Scooby gang came running in ready for battle. There was blood covering 
the foyer and the front porch. Mostly Buffy grabbed and hugged her mother. 
Joyce quickly gave them a play by play of what had happened to her that 
morning. As she spoke Riley examined the crime scene and found items he 
guessed belong to the still bleeding vampire. Handing the bags over to 
Willow and Tara, Riley moved into the yard to continue his examination while 
Buffy listened to her mother carefully. The witches went through the 
vampires' backpack and duffel bag that Riley found on the porch, as they too 
listened to Joyce speak.

?So it dusted itself in the sun when it ran outside?? Buffy asked when Joyce 
was finished. .

?No, she just ran away.? Joyce said puzzled by her daughter?s question.

?But there was smoke right, it was daylight outside?? Buffy asked her 
mother.

?Buffy there was no smoke and she just ran away.? Joyce answered.

?And you are sure she was a vampire?? Buffy asked

?She had glowing eyes and fangs. Plus her neck was open from a vampire bite. 
It looked like it was nearly ripped out.? Joyce said with a shudder.

Buffy then walked out on to the porch letting her eyes follow the blood 
trail. The creature, whatever it was, was definitely bleeding badly. Which 
was odd, vampires don?t normally bleed much after they are undead. It had 
also been in direct sunlight. The blood trail lead straight across the road. 
No way a newborn would be able to stand that kind of direct light and 
survive. Plus her spider senses were tingling in the wrong way. They were 
telling her to help this creature. Practically screaming in her head to help 
the girl.

?Nikki.? Buffy whispered to herself.

Even without the spider senses Buffy knew she had to help this girl. Her 
dreams had been screaming in her mind for weeks. She knew exactly who this 
girl was, even if the words didn?t make sense yet. Buffy didn?t really need 
to see the girl she already knew her life story. She had been waiting for 
her through lifetimes. She had seen the girl in her dreams many times, in so 
many forms. So many lifetimes waiting for her to come back to her, and now 
she was here. And now she had to wait for events to happen, for time to fall 
into its natural coarse. Now the slayer had to deal with facts.

Buffy went back into the house. ?Willow, give me a summary of the stuff in 
the bag.? Once again forgetting Tara.

Willow looked at Tara with a ?you go first" look. The witch hated it when 
Buffy left Tara out.

?Ah, the, ah, duffel bag, ah was packed in a hurry, clothes just tossed in, 
and a couple of towels, sandals, topped with CD?s stuffed in the open 
places. A kind of get out of town quick kind of bag.? Tara summed up.

?Thanks Tara? Buffy said before turning to Willow.

?Lots of pens and highlighters, markers, notebooks, CD player, paperbacks. 
Science Fiction and Mystery mostly. But that isn?t the important part? 
Willow said as an evil smile pasted over her face.

?This is the important part,? Willow said holding up a piece of paper. 
?There was a large note in the back pack, right on top that says and I 
quote, Buffy Summers, The Chosen One, Slayer, Usha, little one, she is the 
only one on Earth who can help you now. Go to her?Then it gives the address 
of your mom?s house.? Willow said handing Buffy the neatly printed note.

Buffy looked at the note. She had seen it in her dreams. ?I have to find 
her, we are going to need to help her until she is stronger. Then we are 
going to need her help against, with ?..ah?.something, I can?t explain it.? 
Buffy said vaguely as the words she needed to surface didn?t come. She had 
no way of explaining this to anyone not even herself. It was just there 
inside her without words. It was like listening to a hundred voices inside 
her head whispering in soft low tone just outside of her hearing range.

The others just stared at her. Saving vampires and vague statements from 
Buffy never meant good news.

?Slayer dreams. Just trust me. Can you guys help mom get the blood up, while 
I go find her.?
Buffy didn?t even look at her friends and family, she just left the house 
and followed the blood trail.

It didn?t take long, before she trailed the girl to the park. She was 
sitting in the sun on the park bench crying; her hands still tied behind her 
back. The slayer just looked at her, for a few minutes, retracing all the 
others times, places, and dreams she and the girl shared. It was all there 
in her mind coming to her through those soft spoken voices in her head.

?Back to the real world. Facts, Buffy, for now deal with facts? the slayer 
told herself shaking the voices. She carefully moved toward the girl. In her 
current state the newborn vampire wouldn?t have much control over the demon. 
Buffy guessed the girl would be getting hungry. Softly the slayer said, 
?Nikki, I?m sorry about this morning.? The slayer already knew the girl 
without ever having met her. Buffy moved slowly to her and carefully turned 
the girl around and started to untie her hands.

?Do I know you?? The blood covered teen asked as she studied the slayer. If 
there was something like, love at first sight, she was now experiencing it. 
Even though the voice was screaming in her brain, telling her how to stop 
the hunger pain, one look in the slayer?s eyes and all she saw was love. 
Deep love. And her soul calmed and quieted, her fear lessened. All because 
of the hazel eyes staring back at her.

Buffy closed her eyes. She had to break the eye contact. She had to get 
herself under control. So she closed her eyes and listen not to the distant 
voices singing to her but to her own brain. The slayer part of her brain was 
sending massages like, new born in confused state, sexually aroused newborn, 
attack quickly in the creature?s confused state and go straight for the 
heart. The Romantic part of her brain was saying, good dancer, nice eyes, 
glad she noticed me. The logical part was saying, just get her inside before 
she gets too hungry. The human part of her decided to skip the rest of the 
voices in her brain and just talk to the girl.

? I?m Buffy, I am going to help you.? The blond said before tossing the 
rope into a trash can. Then she added. ? I am the slayer.?

The girl looked at Buffy still afaird and a little horny, but she did try 
and stand. Nikki was extremely weak. Buffy pulled the girl the rest of the 
way up and wrapped her arm around her for support. It took awhile for the 
new born vampire hybrid to make it to the house at 1630 Revello Drive. Buffy 
invited the girl in, and started helping her up the stairs on her front 
porch. Nikki was too weak to help much, and passed out cold in Buffy?s arms 
at the foot of the porch.

Riley picked the girl up and carried her up the stairs and into the house.

?Riley, would you take her upstairs and put her in the bathtub, please.? 
Buffy asked once again going into leader mode.

Riley took her straight upstairs and into the bathroom and then laid the 
girl down in the tub. ?Thanks, Riley can you take Willow to the butchers for 
some blood. She knows who to ask for.? Years of Angel, and now Spike, had 
made the team experts in blood purchase.

?Tara, would you help me clean her up.? Buffy asked wanting to get the witch 
alone so she could scan the girl. Tara had amazing powers when it came to 
sensing people.

The Scooby?s were used to following orders. The team went to work, keeping 
their questions to themselves until later.

Tara and Buffy cut away the girls clothes. Then bathed her, washing away the 
last of the blood from her hair. Her wounds were healing rapidly. Joyce 
brought up her bag of clothes.

Both Joyce and Tara were startled by the way Buffy was gently touching the 
girl?s face like a lover. The gang all knew something was up, but all of 
them knew better than to ask any questions now, that would come later. All 
the gang knew not to ask, Joyce on the other hand was not an official scooby 
member and had never received the dealing with Buffy in Slayer mode 
handbook.

?Honey, would you like to tell me what is going on?? Joyce had been patient 
enough. She knew there was something important her daughter needed to tell 
her.

?Just a prophecy, Mom, ?just a very old prophecy.? Buffy said while looking 
through the girl?s clothes for a nice outfit. Buffy still had excellent 
fashion sense. Plus she didn?t really have an answer for her mother, not 
yet. Well not one she would believe. Not one with words.

As Buffy played with the girls clothes, Tara let her mind reach out and 
touch the girl. ?Oh my.? The witch said loudly after she made contact. 
?Buffy do you know what she is?? Tara asked in a whisper still in awe at 
what she felt.

?What do you sense, Tara, do you sense she is evil?? Buffy asked staring 
Tara down wanting an honest answer. She had intended to get Tara to scan 
her, and apparently Tara had done it without being asked.

The blond witch breathed in and cleared her mind. Then she opened up to the 
power of nature. She wanted to make sure what she felt was the truth. She 
opened herself up and let her inner sight loose. ?Not really evil, just 
powerful. Powerful like you. The two of you are?..? Tara?s eyes snapped 
open. She couldn?t believe what she felt. It was just amazing.

?I know Tara, I think I have always known. I just hope Riley will 
understand.? Buffy said pulling a shirt over the unconscious girl.

?I? ah..I don?t think Riley will understand ah .. she?s ah and you're ah.? 
Tara said before she realized Joyce was still standing there.

?Buffy Anne Summers, what are you to talking about, and don?t say a prophecy 
and think that explains it.? Joyce said sternly, all of her anger present in 
her face. She some how felt the changing tides swirling around her. And just 
like her daughter she had no words to express what she felt. Just the little 
voices in her head that told her something important had just happened.

?Mom I know this is all weird, but it happened for a reason. I?ll try and 
explain it all to you when everyone is here so I don?t have to explain it 
twice. But right now I need to get her chained up in the basement.?

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