Fic: Wishes and Dreams

["veronicasymthe" <veronica_uk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Wishes and Dreams
Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer does not belong to me.

A/N: this is through the series.  I have not seen the comics.

I need a BETA. Please email me if you can do it.  Veronica_uk@xxxxxxxxxxx

Summary: A year after Chosen Buffy and Willow are finally lovers. 
Buffy starts having nightmares.

Prologue

Buffy struggled against the chains holding her on the concrete alter.
 The cavern was nearly pitch black, the darkness so thick she could
barely make out the robed figures of the vampires gathered around her.

She had no idea how much time had passed since she was captured. 
Every time she had woken the vampires had forced more of s sweet
smelling drug down her throat and almost before she'd finished
drinking it, sleep took her away.  Buffy didn't know if it had been
hours, days, or weeks, since that snowy night in Cleveland.  She did
remember that she fought five newbie vampires until she felt a pinch
in her thigh.  When she glanced down there was a dart in her leg, then
nothing until she woke-up chained to the alter.  Just the vagueness
the drug caused.

Things were not looking good for her.  First since she was awake that
meant it was time for whatever the vamps had planned and secondly, if
a rescue was coming then the scoobs would have been there by now.

At some unseen command all the vampires lit candles.  The vampires
around the edge of the cavern put torches into the sconces on the
walls until it was almost as bright day.  For the first time Buffy
could see that there were literally hundreds of vampires in frumpy
brown robes surrounding her.  All of them standing perfectly still in
the cold air and it was suddenly cold, despite all the candles and the
torches.  

The silence was more frightening than if they had been shouting.  She
pulled on the chains holding her nude form on the frigid rock of the
alter.  Movement to her left caught her attention as the vampires
parted to allow a single form passage through them.  There were so
many of them and they were so fluid that it looked like the seas were
parting.

The lone figure floated down to her and Buffy was filled with a terror
like she'd never felt before.  Never had she been so helpless, never
had her body been so exposed.  The power and evil radiated off the
figure as it came closer?

Its face was covered with the same oversized brown robe as the other
vampires.  Buffy's heart was hammering so hard she thought she was
about to have a heart attack, her breath was coming in ragged grasps,
and the sense of evil was overwhelming her.  Each step the figure took
towards the helpless slayer filled her with dread.  Something worse
than her nightmares was about to happen to her and there was nothing
she could do to stop it.  She pushed and pulled on the chains that
held her, the skin on her wrists long since scraped raw, Buffy could
both smell and feel the rid lets of blood running down her arms.

The lone figure stood before her and slowly reached up to pull the
hood off her face?.

Willow.

Willow shouted, "Buffy," the redhead was holding her, the Slayer could
smell the strawberry scented shampoo.  "Buffy, wake-up!" the witch
urged, and the blonde struggled to throw-off the cold of the dream
world for the warmth of her lover's arms.
"Huh," Buffy was able to force out of cold, numbed lips.  Grasping for
air as the weight of evil pressing down on her chest was replaced with
the weight of Willow tightly holding her.  

"That's it baby, come back to me," Willow begged, and Buffy could
taste the saltiness of Willow's tears as she kissed her awake.  The
witch's hands roamed the blonde's body in desperation to stop
withdrawal she knew was coming, that Buffy couldn't help, while she
fought the aftermath of the dream.

Buffy pushed Willow away and nearly jumped out the warm bed.  The
frigid temperature of the room seemed right to the Slayer as the
memories of the nightmare threatened to jerk her back into the dream.
 Bile rose up in her throat and she barely had time to find a trashcan
before the sickness hit her as wave after wave crashed through her. 
When she was finally able to stop, she weakly collapsed on the
hardwood of her bedroom's floor. 

"Buffy," Willow said warning her that the redhead was about to touch
her.  

"No!" Buffy shouted, weakly crawling away from Willow.  The image of
the monster in her dream, the helplessness from her dream world was
too much for her.  "Don't touch me, please, just don't touch me!" she
cried.  The first sob felt like it broke her by the second on she
couldn't breathe, again.  "Make it stop!  Please, just make it stop!"
 Buffy begged Willow or the world--just anyone--she didn't know or care.  

Buffy vaguely heard Willow's whispered phone conversation with Giles
and knew that he would be there in minutes.  That he would be able to
fix it this time, because if he didn't she would?.

TBC


------------------------------------

Willow: "It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in."
Buffy:  "I kinda love you."
                      --'Choices'

Community email addresses:
      Post message: buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      Subscribe:    buffywantswillow-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      Unsubscribe:  buffywantswillow-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      List owner:   buffywantswillow-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Shortcut URL to this page:
      http://groups.yahoo.com/group/buffywantswillow

Official archive for the list:
      http://www.ikoly.com/fanfic

Other links to Buffy/Willow fics:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/buffywantswillow/links Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/buffywantswillow/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/buffywantswillow/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    mailto:buffywantswillow-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    mailto:buffywantswillow-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    buffywantswillow-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/