Fic: Finding The Slayer (5/?) B/W PG

Title: Finding the Slayer

Author: Ivy Gort

Email: ivygort@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Pairing: Buffy and Willow

Previous Parts: http://www.fanfiction.net/~ivygort

Spoilers: Placed in Season Two, plot points from Season Seven

Rating: PG

Summary: Buffy is injured by Spike and starts have strange dreams.

Disclimer: I don't own these character.

Feedback: Please!

Note: Ann Marie is the Great BETA Goddess. Without her this story wouldn't have been written and posted.

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Part Five

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"You can't let them take her!" Willow shouted, and when Mrs. Summers backed up slightly she took a breath so that she could calm her racing pulse. "She was better last night, I mean this morning ?." Willow stopped in mid-sentence as both Giles and Mr. Travers entered the room behind Buffy's mother. She turned away from the concerned look Giles was giving her and the cold, smug, calculated one the councilman had on his face.

"Willow, honey," She heard Mrs. Summers start walking towards her, the heels on her shoes clicking on the sterile tile of the floor. "The nurses and doctors have reported no change in Buffy's condition?." Willow turned around at the lie. She swallowed her tears because she knew that she looked like a petulant child about to lose her best friend. She knew her only chance to save Buffy was to appeal to Joyce as an adult; otherwise she would be completely dismissed. Joyce Summers loved her daughter; there was no doubt of that in Willow's mind.

Willow glanced at the cold face of the councilman and things began to click together. Buffy was a problem for them because she was so strong; they thought she would be killed off in a few months atop the Hellmouth, and she was, but she came back.

"You don't know why Buffy came back ? you want to use her to see if you could raise and army of ?." She blurted out.

"Willow!" Giles roared, cutting off her words. She was shocked into silence by the sudden transformation from tweed-covered librarian to the angry man before her. His hands balled in apparent fury.

"Giles she was better, she was awake, her legs moved!" For the first time in her life she didn't back down. It was just too important that Buffy stay here, with her. The Slayer had to stay in Sunnydale and it wasn?t only because Willow needed her more than she could say at this point.

Mrs. Summers walked around both men and took Willow into her arms. The hug was long and calming for both women.

"I know you want to believe that dear, so do I." The older woman began holding the crying young girl close to her. "But the nurses' reports and doctor all think ?."

At the word nurse Willow pushed out of Buffy's mother's arms and turned to the two men.

"Nurse Robbie ? Ah Roberta Swinson came in here at about 3:00 and talked to her, she saw her legs move." Willow told the men, triumphant. "Just check with her."

Buffy?s mother touched Willow on the shoulder and sadly shook her head. ?I spoke to Robbie myself before she went off shift ?? Mrs. Summers said, and if it was possible even more dread filled Willow. Her stomach started to hurt because she knew before the words came out what she was going to say. ?Robbie said that besides cleaning out her I.V. line around two, both you girls were quiet.?

The words crushed Willow.

?Yes, well, I?m sorry your friend is going away but you will be able to visit her next summer.? The awful Councilman said in his smarmy false way. It meant that there was no way in Hell Willow would ever see Buffy again in this life. They would hide her away or turn her into their tool through magic or drugs.

She had lost. The Witch was lost again.

Travers took Joyce?s hand and turned her around, away from Willow. Giving the young hacker a knowing smirk in the process. ?The air ambulance has already landed and they will be here in moments. Even though she is unconscious,? Travers emphasized the word unconscious and Willow could see Mrs. Summers eyes become unfocused for just a second. He continued, ?Would you like a few minutes alone ?.?

But Willow didn't know what she could do. What she did know was that once Buffy left Sunnydale General all hope was lost. An idea formed in her mind, it took root, if she only had enough time. She had to delay them until she could get Xander and Cordy here?

?Please let there be enough time.? Willow thought, grabbing her bookbag with her beloved laptop inside and storming out of the room like the 16 year old girl she was?she hoped that they would think she had given up.

?I need someplace quiet with an outside phone line?. DSL would be so much better.? She thought as she raced down the hallways looking into rooms and through doorways. She didn?t know why she wasn?t stopped by a nurse or security but it didn?t matter. Finally on the fourth floor she hit pay dirt, the doctor's conference center. Along with a T-1 fiber-optic line, each little desk in the room had a port and Willow never left home without her line.

Now if she could just get everything done before they kidnapped Buffy. She felt that she had at the most 10 minutes, of which it took three to find the right computer connection. She sat down, pulled the computer out and went to work.

?Goddess, let this work. ? She prayed while her computer booted up and then she was doing what she did best?she only hoped that it was in time and it worked?.

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Buffy struggled to open her eyes or move. She had been conscious for several minutes as her mother and Willow argued about the Council taking her to England. The Slayer was panicking because she could hear everything, she could feel the emotions swirling around her and she was trapped.

A prisoner within her own body.

?Mrs. Summers you are doing the correct thing.? She heard the smug English voice that was vaguely familiar. And her mother started to cry even harder.

?I don?t know, Willow seemed so sure that she was getting better, maybe we should ?.? Her mother started telling the man but then stopped in mid-sentence.

?No, Mrs. Summers this is the only way, this is what you want for your daughter.? The smug man said again and this time Buffy could feel the magic he was using to override her mom?s will.

A warm hand lifted hers and she knew that it was Giles? from the touch. Buffy concentrated everything she had in just squeezing her fingers, wrapping them around his, knowing that he would help her ?. He was her father in every way except biology.

And just when she thought her finger had twitched something cold and foreign started to seep through his hand into her. Buffy felt her fingers go numb, then it traveled up her arm, down her sides and through her legs. Everywhere the darkness went all feeling went with it. Until she thought she would go mad because all she had left all alone in her head and it felt like lump of clay on top of a dead body. She was a Slayer, she was used to being able to touch, sense, things beyond what was a normal person?s perception and now that was gone.

She fought, she raged, but the darkness continued to invade her body, blacking out everything.

?Oh you?re here.? She heard her mother say. She listened as something was brought close to the bed.

?Buffy, honey, I know you can?t hear me but I want you to know that I love you and I?m doing this to help you find a better life.? Her mother said, right next to her ear.

?I?m afraid it?s time Joyce.? Giles, that was Giles ?.

?Why didn?t he help me? What?s going on? Are the dreams real?? The Slayer thought frantically.

There was a sense of movement.

?Mr. Giles that was close. The drug administered this morning should have been enough to last.? Mr. Smug said as Buffy listened. 'Willow? Where are you? Please don't let them take me again!'

?I know, as it was she was able to move a few moments ago. I think we will have to administer a stronger dose.? Giles answered and Buffy wished that she could see him. That she could move to ask him why? 'Why Giles you are my father! Why are you betraying me?'

?Yes, I agree. Rogers, do so now. I don't want anything to stop us.? She heard Mr. Smug order someone. Heard someone move closer. She could smell his cologne as he leaned over her.

"It's done." Mr. Cologne guy said by her ear.

Then a few seconds later.

Footsteps running down the hall towards them ... Willow and Xander? The people stopping the forward movement.

"I?m Detective Jenkins of the Sunnydale Police Department. I?m afraid that I?m going to have to ask you to stop and return Miss Summers to her room.? Buffy nearly shouted for joy. It had to be Willow. She should have known that the Hacker would never give up on her.

?Look I don?t care who you are but we have the permission of the mother to take ?.? Mr. Smug started to order the police officer. Buffy could feel the magic....

"Sir we've the found the suspect crying in the Miss Summer's room." Another officer ... breaking the hold of the magic on the Detective.

?A Joyce Summers?? The Detective asked slowly. ?Look a child matching this girl?s description was reported missing 15 years ago in Swansboro, North Carolina. As you can tell by this computer enhancement ?..? Buffy began to fade out.

?Hurry Willow, hurry!? Buffy thought as she began to fade out. 'Please I don't want to lose you ....'

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Willow watched as the police made Travers and the other Councilmen take Buffy back to her room. She knew that her ploy would only buy her a few hours at the most. But in the meantime it would give her time to call Xander and Cordy and figure out what in the world was wrong with Giles. ?Cause she?d seen and heard them, he was helping those evil men kidnap her mate ?. ?Mate??

"No, friend. Buffy is just my .... friend.'

TBC