The Darkness Trilogy - With You: Chapter One
by Killer
Buffy smiled to herself as she entered her first class of the day that happened to be her favorite mainly because of Riley.
Professor Walsh was sitting straight in her chair waiting for her students to arrive so she could start her lecture, Riley stood next to the Professor and smiled at Buffy as she walked in.
“Hey!” Willow grabbed Buffy’s arm and beamed at the slayer, the redhead wore and trendy blue top and matching jeans.
“Hey Will, didn’t hear you come in last night,” Buffy said still looking at Riley, “working late at the Science lab again?”
“Um yeah, how was your patrol last night?” Willow asked quickly changing the subject and leading Buffy to two empty seats.
Buffy shrugged and sat down, “Boring as usual. I’m almost certain that the vamps are avoiding me,” Buffy paused and then added quickly, “Not that I care or anything.”
Once all the students had appeared, some of them still wearing their P.G’s and a comb completely stuck in their hair, the lecture began.
Buffy lasted about five minutes before falling into a deep sleep but not before asking Willow to promise to wake her if she was drooling, talking in her sleep or snoring, which she did a lot of.

Buffy landed hard on the cold hard surface beneath the hellmouth, the slayer had been falling for years or so that is how long it felt like. Her hair was a complete mess and dirt polluted Buffy’s once young face, she had aged inside and out. Only an hour or so ago Buffy had worked out the key to stop the endless falling in darkness, the slayer had silently celebrated before putting her plan into action. It had seemed that anything was better than being alone till the end of time but now Buffy wasn’t so sure as a demon pulled her by the hair down rocks and stone steps. The slayer couldn’t ask where she was going as she had forgotten how to speak surprisingly shortly after she dived. While Buffy had been falling she hadn’t felt the need for food nor water but it was now obvious just how much she needed those things.
After about thirty minutes the demon stopped pulling Buffy’s hair and picked her up, the demon carried the young women to a huge alter and laid her down next to it.
“You will wash now,” the demon commanded, “it will be your last before you are taken to the workhouse”. The demon looked at Buffy before nodding and walking to the side of the cave wall.
The slayer looked down into the water and saw her aged face. She concluded that she was at least twenty-eight, Buffy then dipped her fingers into the water and splashed it onto her face still looking deeply into the water. This is what had become of the slayer.

Buffy snapped her eyes open, looked around and then yawned. Professor Walsh was just ending the class. Perfect timing.
Willow started to put her textbook into her bag when she caught Buffy looking at her, “What?”
Buffy sighed and then srugged, “Do you think I’ll ever be able to sit through an entire lecture?”
“Wouldn’t count on it,” Willow joked, “but I’ll fill you in later. It wasn’t really that challenging”
“Says the brainybox,”It was now Buffy’s turn to joke, “I’m going over to Giles’s after my next class. Want to come?”
“Sure”

Buffy looked into the water and saw drops falling into it, she then realized it was her crying.
“Help” She whispered.

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