Hell on Earth: The last slayer: Chapter 12: The history of the future pt 2
by Timan
over the next three years the world radically changed. Now that the vampires were no longer restricted to night they forced most of the world’s population out of the major cities leaving them under vampire control. Angelus treated this mass evacuation as his own twisted version of hide and seek. There was one family in particular Angelus paid close attention to the Riley family, in particular their oldest son Connor.
The Riley family sped as quickly as they could down the open freeway. Usually the family would be laughing and joking amongst themselves but due to the disasters that have been occurring around the world they remained awkwardly silent. Sporadically Connor looked out the back window.
“I think we’re clear.” Connor said seriously.
“I don’t understand,” Connor’s mother said nervously, “what are those things? Why are they doing this?”
“And what’s wrong with their faces?” commented Connor’s father.
“We just need to keep moving.” Connor replied seriously
From in front of the car there was a bright flash of light. Connor’s father slammed on the brakes and skidded to a halt. Angelus smiled at the family as Willow cooled down from the translocation spell.
“Son!” Angelus yelled as he walked up to the car, “I am very disappointed in you running away from me with your fake family. You are grounded mister!”
Connor glared at the vampire as he motioned his family to stay down. Slowly he stepped out of the car.
“You’re not my father,” Connor replied, “My father has a soul.”
“A lot of people make that mistake.” Angelus replied.
“How did you find us?” Connor asked as he attempted to lead the vampire pair away from the car.
“You know, it’s a funny thing, I don’t know why a law firm has access to a military satellite but apparently Wolfram and heart controls all of them.”
“That’s the place you used to work for.”
“It’s the dental plan that sold it for me.” Angelus joked
Willow looks Connor up and down. She approaches the boy and smiles sweetly
“He has your eyes,” she cooed happily, “can I gouge them out and use them as earrings?”
“No Willow I like them where they are,” Angelus replied, “besides how is he supposed to see when I turn him?”
“What makes you think I’m going to let you anywhere near me or my family?” Connor replied
“Funny, I didn’t hear your sister complain when I turned her.” Angelus replied
“You’re a monster.”
“So what does that make you?”
“Better then you.”
Connor rushed in. Angelus dodged the first punch but connected with the seconded. He flew back into the car then retaliated with a knee to Connor’s stomach. Connor stumbled back as Angelus rushed in with an uppercut. As Angelus attempted to stomp on Connor’s stomach he rolled out of the way. He quickly spun around knocking Angelus off his feet. Connor flipped back up onto his and kicked Angelus in the ribs. Before he had time to continue Angelus grabbed him by the arm and yanked him down. As he did so he kicked Connor in the head. As Connor lost his footing Angelus got back up off the ground and punched him across the jaw. This was quickly followed by another punch. Angelus leans Connor against the hood of the family car.
“Don’t worry son. We’ll take good care of your family.”
Connor looked through the windshield of the family car. Willow hugged Connor’s parent tight. She smiled at the boy and waved happily. Slowly Connor turned back to Angelus. He reached down deep inside of himself and became the destroyer he was in Quartoth. He forced Angelus off him and stormed up to the vampire. Off in the distance the sound of motorcycle could be heard roaring towards them. As the bikes got closer he carefully looked at the female riders. Angelus furrowed his eyebrows and gritted his teeth.
“Slayers!” he yelled to Willow
The bikes cruised. As the lead bike approached the rider pulled a front wheel wheelie spinning the bike around knocking Angelus in the face. As Angelus climbed up off the ground the slayers got off their bikes and approached. The lead biker took of her helmet and struck Angelus across the head with it.
“You wouldn’t be disturbing these nice people now would you vamp?” Rona
“Just a little family discussion Slayer.” Angelus replied
“Well I’m thinking that the talking stops and you leave before a bust a hole in your head so wide that not even an unkillable vamp like yourself could heal it.” Rona replied
“Ladies please. Does everything have to end in violence?”
“It does when you start feeding on my turf!” Rona yelled back.
Angelus rolled his eyes and sighed sarcastically.
“Fine we’ll do it your way.” He replied as he took a swing at Rona.
The other two slayers tried to intervene but where thrown backwards as willow walked up behind them and grabbed then by the collar. She walked up to Rona and blasted her with an energy ball. While the lead slayer was knocked dramatically down the freeway Connor collected himself and got back onto his feet. He stormed up to Angelus and kicked him square in the back. Willow saw this and headed towards Connor. She was knocked off her feet by one of the other slayers. By this time Rona was back in the game and charging towards Angelus. She tried to knock him down with a flying kick to the head but Angelus caught her mid flight and threw her into the car. As he was about to attack he was struck in the arm by one of the other slayers firing her grappling hook. Yanking back quickly Angelus was pulled off his feet.
“Get the bolts!” Rona yelled as she climbed back onto her feet.
One of the slayers ran back to the bikes and unclasped a spear gun type weapon from two of them. She threw one to Rona and held the other one tightly. Angelus struggled against the cable but it was two strong for him. Rona stormed up and placed her foot on Angelus stomach. Aiming the weapon she fired and a four foot long steel rod shot out. It pierces the vampire’s chest and embedded deep into the ground. From the other end four separate bolts extended securing Angelus completely. Willow witnesses this with anger she paced up to Rona but was blindsided by Connor. After a few more precise hits willows fate was exactly the same as Angelus’
“Make sure they’re good and tight. Don’t want any screw up ya hear?” Rona ordered.
She turned to Connor and looked at him curiously
“Looks like you got some strength on you pal.” She said seriously, “you sure you’re not a vamp?”
“Nah I just work out a lot. I’m Connor, that’s my mom and dad in the car.”
“Rona.” She replied as she stuck out her hand
Connor shook her hand strongly. As he did so Rona poured a small bottle of water on his arm. Connor recoiled in surprise
“Hey.” He said
“Just had to make sure.” She replied, “C’mon you can follow us back.”
“Back where?” Connor asked
Rona smiled and patted him friendly on the shoulder.
“Home.” She replied
Rona took the Riley’s back to a heavily guarded and fortified building. This was one of the staging ground set up by the Californian generation S slayers to help defend against the vampires. It was quite lucky that they ended up in that old warehouse because it was run by someone very close to the new council . . .
“Dawn” Marcy Winters called out from the doorway to Dawn’s office.
“Yeah?” dawn replied going through some survey maps.
“Rona’s back from patrol.”
“Any contacts?” dawn replied not looking up from her work.
“A couple but they dealt with them. They say they found something else.”
“What?”
“Rona says they found this guy and he has superpowers.”
Dawn looked up at Marcy. She leaned back in her chair.
“What kind of powers?” Dawn asked
“Speed, strength. You know the usual.”
“Vamp?” Dawn asked seriously
“Rona said she did the test and he was clean. This guys something different.”
“Where is he now?”
Marcy checked her note on the clipboard,
“Connor and his family are going through security.”
Dawn’s eyes opened wide. She leaned forward.
“Did you say Connor?” Dawn asked in surprise
“Yeah, why, ring any bells?”
“One.”
Dawn stood up from her seat. This took a bit of effort and seemed to get harder every week. Marcy rushed over and helped Dawn up.
“You sure you don’t want me to send him up here? I don’t think you should be walking around to much in your condition.” Marcy
“I’m fine Marcy. Just get me to the security room.” Dawn replied impatiently.
Angelus lay impatiently on the road. Despite his best efforts he was not able to remove the steel bolt that was holding him to the ground. After a few more efforts he gives in.
“I am really beginning to hate slayers.” He yelled out to no body.
“I understand the frustration sir.” Judson Fox said as he walked into view.
“I’m sure you do.” Angelus replied, “Can you do something about this?”
Judson reached down and clasped the bolt tightly. With one giant pull he wrenched the bolt from the ground and out of Angelus. Angelus sat up quickly as the hole left by the bolt healed instantly.
“This game’s no fun anymore,” Willow pouted as Judson set her free, “Slayers fight back to much. Now you’re son’s getting in the way.”
“I liked it much better when there was just only one Slayer.” Angelus replied.
Willow thought for a moment as she dusted herself off.
“If I had the scythe I could fix this mess.” Willow complained
“We’ve been over this Will. We don’t know where Buffy put it.”
“That’s not entirely true sir. That’s why I’m here. A group of our shamans sensed a strong magical essence coming from inside the new watchers council building.” Judson replied
Angelus laughed to himself
“My god. They are as stupid as they look.” Angelus replied
Willow rushed up to Angelus excitedly
“Are we going on a plane ride?” she asked
Angelus thought about this. It was going to take a lot more then the two of them to get through the security of the new building of the council of watchers. He would have to stretch their resources. He smiled to himself
“Hey Will? How would you like to go on a plane ride on your own?” Angelus asked
Willow pouted and hugged Angelus’
“You’re not coming with me?” she asked sweetly
“Sorry. This needs to be a one-woman show. Judson?”
“Already taken care off,” Judson replied confidently, “I’ll make sure miss Willow makes her flight on time.”
“Perfect”
“What are you going to do?” Willow asked
“I’m going to run interference “ he smirked
“Are you sure it’s Connor?” Buffy asked at the end of the line.
“Yeah, went down myself, he looks almost exactly like Angel.” Dawn replied
“Has the same powers to from what I heard from Willow.” Buffy replied
“What do you want me to do with him?” Dawn asked
“Keep him there for the moment I’ll see if I can get a team together to go and get him,” Buffy replied seriously, “be careful Dawn if he’s there Angelus is not far behind.”
“Always am.” Dawn replied
“Good, I’ll call you later on this week. I love you Dawn.”
“Love you to,” Dawn replied, “hey, ah, before you go. I need to talk to you about something.”
“Can it wait? I have to call Faith about the vamp nest they found in Madrid.”
“It’s important.” dawn replied
“Alright what’s up?”
Dawn heard the sound of someone knocking on Buffy's door.
“Damn! Can you hold on one second?” Buffy said quickly
There was a muffled conversation. Even though she couldn’t hear it clearly she could tell that her sister was angry.
“Sorry Dawn I have to deal with this. I’ll call you later right?”
“Okay. See you.” Dawn replied as she heard the click of the phone line.
Dawn hung up the receiver and sighed. She stroked her stomach lightly. Dawn giggled to herself softly as it started kicking again. The baby was definitely getting more active.
Things weren’t exactly going smoothly for the new council either. They were loosing slayers on a weekly basis and it was taking longer and longer to find the newly activated after they die. Buffy tried to keep the moral up but it was tough since she was losing hope herself.
Buffy sat at her desk. She had only recently relocated from Rome to the new watchers council building in Sussex England. Giles felt that she would be of more use there then in Rome since most of the city now is a ghost town. She Lent the receiver of the phone on her shoulder as she filtered through a lot of the reports from the slayers in various Countries.
“Good, I’ll call you later on this week. I love you Dawn.” Buffy said calmly
“Love you to,” Dawn replied at the other end of the line, “hey, ah, before you go. I need to talk to you about something.”
“Can it wait? I have to call Faith about the vamp nest they found in Madrid.”
“It’s important.” dawn replied
“Alright what’s up?”
There was a knock at her door. Buffy looked at it annoyed.
“Damn! Can you hold on one second?” Buffy said quickly, “Who is it?”
“It’s me” Xander called out from the other side of the door. Buffy covered the mouthpiece with her hand and called Xander in.
“What is it? I’m on with Dawn.”
“I’m sorry Buff I told her you were busy.” Xander said apologetically
“Told who?”
“Kennedy she wants to see you.”
“Damn it.” Buffy said.
Buffy uncovered the phone.
“Sorry Dawn I have to deal with this. I’ll call you later alright?”
“Okay. See you.” Dawn replied as Buffy hung up
“Xander. Tell Kennedy I’ll try and see her next week.”
“Love to Buff but she threatened to break my arm if she could see you now. And since I don’t have slayer strength . . . “
Buffy rubbed her head stressfully.
“Alright send her in.” Buffy said
Xander walked out cautiously. Moments later an extremely angry Kennedy stormed into Buffy’s room.
“I want to know what you are doing to find Willow!” she demanded
“You already know that answer Kennedy. Our resources are stretched out as far as they can go.” Buffy replied
“Not good enough.”
Buffy looked into Kennedy’s eyes. The amount of hurt this slayer was carrying around was overpowering. That’s why Buffy took her off active slayer duty. Buffy sighed and moved away from her desk. She walked around and placed a caring hand on Kennedy’s
“I’m sorry about this. I miss Will to, so much. I just wish we knew what happened in that monastery.”
“We don’t know if she’s dead.”
Buffy dropped her head. She always hated this part of being the senior slayer.
“It’s been three years Kennedy. I’m trying to keep up hope but we have to be reasonable.”
Kennedy folded her arms.
“You be reasonable. I’ll going to go find my girlfriend. I’ll need ten slayers.”
“Can’t spare them.” Buffy replied returning to her desk
“Can’t or won’t?”
Buffy glared at Kennedy. Her patience was quickly running thin.
“Do I even have to answer that?”
Buffy returned to her work. Kennedy just stared in disbelief.
“If this was Dawn or Angel you’d have every slayer in the world looking for them.” Kennedy snapped
Buffy slammed down the pages. She looked at Kennedy with a fiery anger.
“Get out!” Buffy yelled
Tension was running high in every slayer camp. Fight after fight they all felt that the score’s barely breaking even. What they never expected is that Angelus decided to turn up the heat.
“You guys will be okay here until Buffy’s team picks you up.” Dawn said
“Thanks.” Connor replied as the doctors finished bandaging him up.
Dawn smiles at Connor
“Just watch out for my sister. She can get a bit crabby sometimes.”
“Dawn,” Marcy called from the doorway
Dawn turned to face Marcy.
“What?”
“I think we might have a problem.”
Dawn and Marcy moved into the radio room. The operator fiddled with the CB equipment that is stored.
“We got a call from one of the Slayer teams out on patrol. They said they saw something big heading this way.”
“What kind of big?” Dawn asked
“I don’t know we haven’t been able to reach them since. This has bad written all over it.”
“We have to get ready,” Dawn, ordered, “they could be here at any . . . “
There was a loud crash followed by a series of explosion that came from the direction of the motor pool. Dawn and Marcy rushed out to survey the damage. There was a huge gaping hole in the front of the warehouse and sitting in the middle of the motor pool was a huge armored personal carrier.
“ . . . Moment.” dawn finished in shock
The rear door opened on the APC and a group of about thirty vampires ran out and started to attack. Rona had already scrambled into action sending all available slayers onto the floor. Outside Angelus looked at the destruction.
“I don’t remember U.S. army supplies being on the Wolfram and heart manifest.” He commented to Judson.
“We acquired a contractor in a very hostile take over.” Judson replied
“I’ll bet.”
Angelus walks casually away from Judson and into the battle. From the infirmary Connor heard the explosion and wandered out to see what was happening. He arrived just in time to see Angelus walk into the warehouse.
“Dad.” He said angrily to himself as he leaped down over the railing.
As he made his way to Angelus Connor made short work out of any vamp that approached. Just before he was going get his revenge he heard a scream coming from the upper landing. He turned to see five vampires descending on Dawn and Marcy. He changed his mode of thinking and went after the Women. Connor ran to the wall at to speed then jumped. He caught the railing and flipped up onto the walkway. Moving quickly he knocked all five vamps out of the way and leads Dawn and Marcy away from the danger.
“She did what?” Buffy growled at Xander
“I said Kennedy took two of the Slayer and left.” Xander replied nervously
“Oh I am going to kill that girl.” Buffy yelled as she stormed for the front door.
Buffy almost ripped open the front door to the council. After it was open both Buffy and Xander stopped dead in their tracks. Willow stood shivering under her blanket at the door.
“Willow?” Buffy exclaimed.
She didn’t reply. Willow lost her footing and began to fall. Xander moved in and caught her.
“Oh my god Buffy, she’s really cold.”
Buffy looked suspiciously at Willow. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a vile of holy water. Slowly she sprinkled it on her arm. There was no reaction.
“Quick get her inside.” Buffy ordered.
They lay Willow down in the medical room. She was shivering profusely and both Xander and Buffy were worried.
“What happened Will?” Buffy asked
“Angelus caught me at the temple.” She replied weakly, “He’s been torturing me. Trying to find out where the scythe is.”
“Why does he want the scythe?” Xander asked
“I don’t know,” Willow replied, “Something about it being used to return the vampires back to normal.”
Buffy and Xander looked at each other. This might just be the break they were looking for.
“I’ll go talk to Giles. Stay here with her.”
“Got it chief.” Xander replied.
Buffy rushed out of the room leaving the two old friends alone. Willow looked up to Xander
“Is the scythe safe?” Willow asked
“You know it is Will,” Xander replied, “We made sure that the vault under the training room was tamper proof and magic proof.”
Willow smiled.
“Thanks that’s all I wanted to know.”
Willow grabbed him roughly by the throat. She got to her feet and threw Xander across the room. Willow stormed out of the room and down the Hallways following the map Judson gave her. It was lucky the shielding spell she used on her arms lasted long enough for her to get inside. Willow entered the training room and stood over the center. She felt the air for a moment then closed her eyes. Swiftly pushing the air she sent out a magical pulse that shattered the defenses of the surrounding area. Willow then held her hand out in front of her and began to chant. Slowly a small ball of sunlight began to grow. It had taken a little while but she managed to perfect the sun spell to the point of making it a perfect cutting tool. The ball descended quickly and began to cut through the floor. Once it had finished it job Willow jumped into the vault.
Connor moved quickly through the corridors of the warehouse closely followed by Dawn and Marcy. They have managed to elude Angelus so far but it was only a matter of time until they were discovered.
“Where is the back exit?” Connor asked horridly
“Should be around the next corner.” Dawn replied
Connor tried to pick up the pace but in Dawn condition she had trouble keeping up. All three of them rounded the corner to discover Angelus waiting by the back exit.
“Hello son.” Angelus said confidently
The three of them stopped. Angelus stood confidently surrounded by ten vampires. He walked up to his child.
“Now how did I know you would try to slip away?” Angelus asked
Connor moved himself between the women and his father. He readied himself for a fight.
“I though I taught you better then that,” Angelus continued, “you didn’t think for one second that I would know about the back entrance? Shame on you, Now I’m going to have to kill you, that nice lady behind you and . . . is that Dawny?”
Dawn tried to move herself into a better defensive position and search for anything she could use as a weapon. Angelus looked her up and down with a smug expression.
“It is Dawny!” Angelus replied in mock excitement, “and look. Some one has a bun in the oven.”
Angelus walked up to Dawn. Connor quickly moved in front of her. Angelus rolled his eyes.
“Oh fine be like that.” He said as he gestured his vamps to attack.
As much as Connor tried he couldn’t fight all ten vamps and protect the women at the same time. Pretty soon all three are knocked out.
Giles looked up from his book confused.
“I’m sorry Buffy I don’t see how the scythe could possibly revert the vampires back to their normal state,” he said thoughtfully.
“There has to be something Giles. Why would they torture Willow for so long?”
“I think the question we should be asking why did they let her go.”
Xander rushed in quickly. He panted heavily as he tried to catch his breath.
“Xander? What’s the matter?” Giles asked
Xander looks up to the slayer and the watcher with a sorrowful expression.
“Have I ever told you guys how stupid I am?” he said
“What do you mean?” Buffy asked
“Well, before Willow tossed me across the room like a beach ball, I kinda told her where the scythe is.”
Buffy opens her eyes wide in shock. She rushes past Xander and heads for the medical room.
It was empty.
She rushed straight for the vault. As it opened she saw the aftermath of Willows entrance. At the far end of the room there was an empty stand where the scythe used to be. Buffy rushed through the halls back to where Giles and Xander were.
“It’s gone, the scythe is gone.”
“I’m sorry Buffy.” Xander said.
Buffy motioned him to stop talking.
“We’ll deal with this first then I’ll kick your ass,” Buffy replied seriously, “We have to find her now. Giles I need you to get everybody on this . . . Giles?”
Giles stood anxiously holding the receiver of the phone. He handed it to Buffy.
“It’s for you. It’s Angelus.”
Buffy took the phone cautiously and placed it to her ear.
“Hello?”
“Buffy,” Angelus said back, “long time no talk to.”
Dawn’s head was spinning. She wasn’t sure how long she was out. As everything came into focus she saw, to her horror, Angelus holding her stomach and listening to it. A large jolt fear ran through her body. She tried to move but Angelus was holding her down.
“Wow,” he said to her, “If you listen hard enough you can hear it’s little heartbeat.”
He looked up at Dawns scared expression and smiled. He leaned heavily on her abdomen and smiled brightly.
“So do you know what you’re having? I mean, I know it’s a baby, but, is it a boy or a girl?” Angelus asked happily
Dawn kept her eyes squarely on Angelus. With her right arms she scrambled around for anything she could use as a weapon.
“Me personally, I hope it’s a girl. Boys can be so much trouble. Isn’t that right Connor?”
Angelus looked over to his unconscious son. As he did so dawn’s hand landed on the end of a large pole. She grabbed it firmly and swung hard. Angelus blocked the attack.
“Now is that any example for your child?” he asked as he dragged her to her feet.
“Angelus.” One of the vampires called out from the table near them. He held the receiver of the phone.
Angelus Dragged Dawn with him and threw her roughly into a seat next to him.
“Hello?” Buffy asked at the end of the line
“Buffy,” Angelus said back, “long time no talk to.”
“What do you want Angelus?” Buffy asked impatiently
“Oh nothing. Just wanted to ring you and tell you I’m having a great time at your sisters warehouse.”
The line went silent for a moment. Angelus was reveling in the tense feelings he was getting from the slayer.
“What did you do to her?” buff replied angrily
“Me, Nothing, somebody else did all the fun stuff.”
“If you hurt her Angelus I will hunt you down and slice you up myself!” Buffy replied angrily
“Whoa easy there slayer. I just called up for a friendly chat. Besides I don’t think it would be a good idea to do anything. Not in her condition.”
“What condition?”
“You mean you don’t know? What kind of sister are you?”
“The one who is going to deep fry you if you don’t let her go right now.”
At that moment there was a loud crash from behind Angelus. Connor sprung up and knocked out the two vampires that stood guard. Connor then rushed up and knocked Angelus across the room.
The line went dead. Buffy sat on the table on the verge of crying.
“Buffy?” Giles asks attentively
“Angelus has Dawn.”
“Oh god.” Xander exclaimed
“I need to do something.” Buffy exclaimed.
“Buffy, what can we do we’re on the other side of the world,” Giles replied, “even if we do managed to get an aircraft, it would still be twenty to twenty-four hours before we could get close to the warehouse.”
Buffy slammed her hand down in frustration. She had to do something but what? There was only one name that came to mind. Quickly Buffy went for the phone.
“Who are you calling?” Giles asked
Buffy flashed them a look and they knew instantly
“I though you didn’t trust him after he . . .” Xander started
“I don’t have much of a choice.” Buffy replied
“Hello?” a male voice answered at the other end of the line
“It’s me,” Buffy replied, “I need your help.”
Connor moved swiftly. He helped dawn along as much as he could but he could tell that she was getting tired. They scrambled out the front and tried to make their way down the road. As they did a large group of vampires surrounded them. They both skidded to a halt. Connor held dawn protectively as the group slowly blocked every exit.
“I am so disappointed in you Connor I never though you would be this predictable.”
“Learnt it from you dad.” Connor replied
“Funny,” Angelus replied, “lets see if you stay that way when I remove your lungs.”
The vampires charged. Connor knocked them back efficiently while kicking away a third. Two more rushed up and Dawn struck them across the temple with the steel bar Connor handed to her before they left the warehouse. A third rushed in and knocked Dawn roughly to the ground knocking her unconscious. Hearing this Connor swung around and pushed two of the vampires trying to feed on her. Angelus watched the fight closely. His son’s skills had decreased since he had a normal life.
From off in the distance he heard the sound an approaching helicopter looking to where the sound was coming from he saw a U.S. military chopper fly over the roof of the warehouse. Suddenly two of the vamps drop to the ground after being struck by a tazer blast. Soon others followed until all the vampires in the area were cleared. The chopper hovered over Connor and dawn as Special Forces troops dropped to the ground. They held their tazer rifle on Angelus and the other vamps as the copper landed.
The C.O. exited the aircraft and moved quickly up to the pair.
“Is she alright?” he asked.
“I think so,” Connor replied, “Who are you?”
“Captain Riley Finn, a friend called said you needed help. Come on let’s go”
Both men helped Dawn onto the helicopter and it sped away as quickly as it could. From behind Angelus Judson walked out.
“So the plan worked?” he asked
“Like clockwork,” Angelus replied, “is Willow back yet?”
“She waiting for you at the agreed position.”
“Good”
Captain Finn, watched over the young mother to be carefully. She had a few bumps and scrapes but all in all she seemed to be okay. Dawn slowly opened her eyes and looked at the soldier.
“Riley?” she asked softly
“Hey kid,” Riley replied
“I’m not a kid,” Dawn said, “What happened?”
“I got a call from you sister. She told me that you might be getting yourself into trouble again.”
Dawn smiled
“No more then usual.”
Dawn tried to sit up on the stretcher but Riley stopped her
“Hey take it easy,” he said with concern, “you’re fighting for two remember?”
Dawn lay back down. Something didn’t feel right and that worried her the most. Riley sensed this.
“So have you though of names yet?” he asked to lighten the mood
Dawn looked at him curiously.
“For the baby, have you though of names yet?”
Dawn smiled again. She knew what he was trying to do.
“Well, if it’s a boy I’m going to call him Alex. If it’s a girl I was thinking about Rebecca.” She replied
“Rebecca’s nice”
“You don’t like Rebecca?”
“Rebecca good, maybe you could shorten it to make it sound cooler like beck or becka or, I don’t know, Becky.”
“Becky,” dawn pondered, “I like it.”
Riled pulled the blanket over Dawn.
“You should get some rest now. I called a friend of mine in the British S.A.S. they’re giving Buffy and everyone else a lift in the next medical shipment so you should see them by tomorrow night.”
Dawn and Connor were flown to the tent city set up in the middle of the desert out side of Los Angeles. This was an evacuation point set up by the U.S. army to help house the people who became homeless after the vampires attacked Most of the officers who run the city where saviors of a government program called ‘The Initiative’. That next evening Buffy arrived at the camp to find out what happen at the staging ground.
Buffy burst into the medical tent with purpose. She rushed up to one of the soldiers.
“Where is she?” Buffy asked anxiously
“Ma’am?” the soldier asked
“Dawn Summers where is she?”
“I’ll take this from here soldier,” Riley said as he walked into the tent, “Hello Buffy I heard you arrive.”
“Cut the small talk Riley where is my sister?” Buffy snapped
“She fines Buffy the doctors are taking good care of her.”
“I want to see her now!” Buffy demanded.
“I think she’s resting at the moment.
“I don’t care what you think. You are going to take me to her.”
Dr. Branch opened the flap to the patient section and walked up to the both of them.
“Can you two keep you’re voices down we have patients trying to rest.” He said.
“Dr. Branch this is Buffy Summers. Dawns sister.”
The doctor nodded in acknowledgment. Buffy looked anxiously at him
“How is she?”
“She fine, a few scraps nothing serious, she should fine in a couple of days.”
Buffy breathed a sigh of relief. This was a weight of her mind. Ever since she heard Angelus’ voice she feared the worst.
“I like to keep her here for close observation.”
“Why?” Buffy asked curiously, “you just said she’s fine.”
“Yes I did. We have some concerns about the baby.”
Buffys heart skipped a beat. She examined the doctor to see if he was joking in any way.
“Its heartbeat has become irregular and there is a strong possibility of a miscarriage . . .”
“What baby?” Buffy finally asked
“Your sisters. She didn’t tell you she was pregnant?”
Buffy slowly went into shock. Riley caught her just as she was about to fall. Riley helped her to the nearest seat. Once he was sure that Buffy was steady he returned to the doctor.
“Make sure that Dawn has the best of care.” He said softly.
He returned to Buffys side. This was the first time he had seen Buffy this affected
“Are you going to be okay?” he asked her
Buffy look up at Riley and wiped away the tears.
“I need to get some air,” she said as she attempted to stand
Riley helped her out of the tent. Outside Giles and Xander waited anxiously for news of Dawn. Buffys expression didn’t fill them with confidence.
“What happened? How’s Dawn?” Xander asked hurriedly
“She’s fine,” Riley, replied, “they’re just going to make sure her baby’s okay.”
Xander and Giles expression nearly rivaled Buffy’s
“Her what?” Xander asked
“So she didn’t tell any of you about this.” Riley commented
“She tried,” Buffy said softly, “things kept coming up. I never made the time for her.”
“When did this happen? And with who?” Xander asked
“Right now I think we have to be there for Dawn,” Giles said in a fatherly tone, “she will tell us in her own time.”
Buffy got back on to her feet. The initial shock was passing and a positive thought entered her mind.
“I’m going to be an aunt.” She smiled to herself
Suddenly Buffy began to glow. She double over in pain and collapsed to the ground. Riley tried to pick her up but was hit with static shock. As quickly as it came the glowing stopped. Again Buffy got back onto her feet.
“What was that?” Xander asked
Buffy shook her head slowly
“I don’t know,” she replied, “But something’s really wrong.”
Buffy looked around and noticed a large barrel standing near the tent. She went over and tried to lift it.
She couldn’t
Buffy tried again but had the same result. She turned to a very concerned Giles
“I don’t have any powers.” She said worriedly
“The scythe,” Giles said softly
“Willow,” continued Xander, “if she could use it to make the slayers could she do the opposite?”
“I don’t see why not,” Giles, replied, “a counter spell could work as easily on the scythe as the original did.”
“Wait. If this happened to me then what about the other slayers?” Buffy asked
Giles though about this for a moment he opened his eyes wide in shock
“Oh my lord.” He exclaimed
Willow slumped onto the ground exhausted. She didn’t know what drained her more creating generation S or shutting it down. She looked up at a very pleased Angelus
“Done,” she said tiredly
Angelus picked up the scythe and cradled it in his hands.
“Well this is going to be fun.” He joked
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