Re: Fic: Forever In Mind (1/?)

["Melinda" <msantoyo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow Annelise!
Liked the begining, can't wait to see how it all plays out & Buffy's
reaction to Willow almost dying.
Melinda
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From: <annelise@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:06 AM
Subject: Fic: Forever In Mind (1/?)


>
> Forever In Mind, Part One.
> Comments/Flames/Etc. to: annelise@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Humid June
> Always makes me feel blue.
> I dreamed I was a vase of salt in the rain;
> Every day, I'm more diluted.
>
> --
>
> "Dale Approach, this is TransPac 242. We have an emergency."
> "Go ahead, 242."
> "Requesting priority clearance for an emergency landing."
> "Acknowledge request for priority clearance. Say the nature of your
> emergency?"
> "We're losing cabin pressure and have minor fire damage to the
> passenger cabin. Believe to be the result of an explosion in cargo."
> Pause. "242, What is the condition of your flight deck?"
> "Flight deck is operational. FDAU still shows nominal. Dropping to
> 12,000 feet."
> Another pause. "Copy that, 242. Fire crews are rolling. Advise of
> casualties?"
> "Flight crew are in good condition, but must inform we have at least
> one death. Request ambulances."
> "Copy that. Medical teams are now on way. Will contact FSDO and
> clear approach."
>
> *
>
> Amidst the chaos of TransPacific 242's passenger cabin, Willow
> Rosenberg seemed to be the only one unconcerned by the events
> unfolding around her. With her eyes closed, she appeared to the
> casual observer as if she were asleep. She seemed relaxed, almost
> serene. From the outside.
> Inside, she was a bubbling wreck. However, years of training in
> magical arts and focused telepathy gave her the discipline needed to
> overcome her fear. She reached out with her thoughts to the
> Parapsychic Research Institute in Sunnydale, and touched the mind of
> a woman she'd once loved, and even now deeply respected.
>
> Tara!
> Willow? What's wrong?
> There's been an explosion on board the plane! And another! Fire....
> We're dropping! Oh Tara... Tell Buffy...
> Willow!
>
> In a meeting room inside PRI, Tara dropped the marker pen she'd
> been holding and seemed to go as white as the board she'd been
> writing on.
> "Tara? What's wrong?" Anya, an ex-demon who'd taken up the magical
> arts herself when the man she'd loved was killed in a horrific car
> crash, gave her fiancee an inquisitive look.
> "Willow's plane! There's been an explosion. She thinks its going to
> crash."
> "Oh my god." Anya closed her eyes and sent her awareness out to the
> plane. "She's right. It's dropping far too fast to be in the pilot's
> control." Anya had specialised her training towards the kinetic
> forms, and was able to move quite large objects with her mind. Tara
> still hadn't anywhere near the raw kinetic strength of Anya, whereas
> Anya hadn't an ounce of telepathy, or empathy.
> Tara put her hand on Anya's shoulder and used the tactile link
> to 'see' the plane through Anya's mind. "Is there anything we can do,
> love?"
> Anya shook her head. "Not a damn thing. It masses far too much for
> me to even slow it down. What the hell?" Like a feather in a
> hurricane, Anya's kinetic touch with the plane's superstructure was
> brushed away by an even more powerful force. "Jesus Christ! That hurt"
> "Anya? What's going on?" Not being near the fulcrum of her kinetic
> touch, Tara hadn't felt the mental equivalent of severe friction burn
> that had assaulted her fiancee's mind. All she'd felt was her link
> with the plane winking out.
> "No idea." Anya gasped, massaging her forehead with her fingers. "I
> guess she must have crashed." Anya shrugged.
>
> Tara! How did you? No matter. Thanks!
> Willow? What's going on?
> That wasn't you? Tara, someone caught the plane!
> I'm not following...
>
> "Anya, Willow's okay..."
>
> Tara, the plane's floating 10 feet off the floor!
> What?!
>
> "What's going on, love?" Anya, unable to 'hear' the conversation,
> stood puzzled.
>
> The plane just dropped to the floor, Tara. There's a few people hurt
> in that last drop, but we're mostly okay... You'd better call an
> Incident Team... And Buffy! This is going to be big news! There's
> ambulances and fire trucks everywhere! There's no way we can use
> a 'natural phenomena' story to cover this up!
>
> "Give me a moment..."
>
> I'm... Just glad you're safe, Will.
> Hey, thanks Tara! You'd better find out who that kinetic is... Wow,
> has she got some power!
> Female? Human? You're sure?
> That's how it felt.
> Okay. Take care, girlfriend.
>
> "Anya, we need to find out how much a plane weighs and quickly. The
> press will be here soon."
> Anya crossed her arms. "You keep forgetting I'm not 'pathic. What's
> going on?"
> "Someone stopped that aeroplane from hitting the ground. Someone
> kinetic!"
>
> *
>
> Megumi Takahashi lay semi-dressed on her bed, dozing lightly.
> Twelve years old and described by her teachers as shy, or self-
> effacing, she was still finding it difficult to come to grips with
> her newfound powers.
> To Megumi Takahashi, ostracised by her Japanese peers for her
> mostly-Western appearance, lacking the epicanthic folds around her
> eyes that marked her as an outcast, as gaijin, and a little too
> different to be wholly accepted by the Western girls at her school,
> she knew better than to chance her few remaining friends by admitting
> to anyone that she was a witch, and that she had *power*.
> But here, alone in the dark, lying on her bed in the warm, she was
> free to explore the Art. At first she was tentative, he spells clumsy
> and amateurish. But soon she moved beyond glamours and light chants
> into the Darkness. Levitation, teleportation, telepathy,
> telekinesis... Yes, she was learning. And she was lonely, and reviled.
>
> Tara!
> Willow? What's wrong?
> There's been an explosion on the plane! Another! Fire.... We're
> dropping! Oh Tara... Tell Buffy...
> Willow!
>
> Megumi's eyes snapped open. She'd heard more than a few telepathic
> conversations between Willow and Tara. Because the pair were strong
> telepaths, their thoughts acted like a beacon to Megumi whose range
> was becoming increasingly more powerful. They had become, in some
> strange way, almost like sisters to her. Their friendly banter, and
> sometimes heated arguments, often made her smile. Growing up in a
> small village, the folk tales of werewolves and vampires took on new
> meaning once she'd found out from her eavesdropping *they actually
> existed*. Being an only child, and having a single parent who was
> forever working, she'd missed out on the joys of family discourse. So
> many times she wished she could have joined in with the two wiccas,
> and now, one of her 'friends' was in trouble.
> Without knowing quite how, she reached... and gasped as her will
> enfolded 350 tons of aircraft as it hurtled groundwards. Blood
> dripped from her clenched fists as untrimmed fingernails scored into
> the flesh of her palms, and her back arched as if she were using her
> own physical strength to keep the plane off the floor. She could feel
> the heat from the plane's engines as if she had some sort of physical
> contact, and the screams of a red-headed woman thousands of miles
> away became her own. Had she done enough? The strain of holding the
> aircraft off the ground was too much... Just a moment longer... Could
> she?
>
> Tara, the plane's floating 10 feet off the floor!
> What?!
>
> Yes... Enough. Unable to withstand the strain of holding nearly
> three quarters of a million pounds of burning metal aloft, she let
> go. Had she remained conscious for even a few moments more, she would
> have heard her mother enter the room, drawn by her daughters screams
> as she returned home, and seen her mother's dazed reaction at
> witnessing her daughter floating cruciform above her bed, blood
> pouring from the wounds in her hands.
>
> *
>
> End Part 1.
>
>
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