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A girl with black hair and hazel eyes walked though the Bronze. She spotted Xander, alone, and walked up to him. She smiled and said, "Hi. Im Kathy. Whats your name?"
Xander blinked. His brain seemed to be getting foggier by the second. Through the fog, he said, "Xander."
Kathy frowned and his brain cleared a little. Then she smiled again and asked if he would show her Sunnydales most famous spots. His brain had fogged up again and he agreed. Walking in a secluded spot, Kathy fell behind . Xander stopped and heard a voice whisper, "Kary giveth and Kary taketh away. Lamia you become with the Kiss of Death on your cheek." Xander realized his brain was cleared. Turning, Kathy had changed. Her canines were long and her eyes were dark. "Im sorry," she said, "but Im in desperate need of a partner. My name is actually Kary. And youre dinner." Kary leaped on him and sank her fangs deep into his neck. Pulling away at the last minute, before he died, she wiped her mouth. Dark blood sprang up on her lips and she kissed him on the cheek, then placed her fangs in the middle of the blood-stained kiss. It left a mark of a kiss with two spots in the middle. The mark immediately disappeared and Kary took him to his house, knocked a few times, then vanished.
Two days later, after school, Buffy and Willow waited for Xander. He walked toward them and Buffy was able to get a look at a dark spot on his neck when he twisted his head away from them.
"Whoa, what happened to you?" Buffy said when she saw that they were puncture marks. " Did a vampire come after you or anything?"
"Ow. No. Does it seem brighter than usual, or is just me?" Xander squinted and turned away from a window that was at the opposite end of the hall.
"No. Are coming down with something?" Willow asked. Xander shrugged and smiled a little at them. Willow felt a little strange when he was looking at her neck hungrily. Buffy realized that the holes and the marks were vanishing slowly.
The next day, Buffy was walking in the library when she felt a vampires presence. She turned around just in time to see a glimpse of Xander flying into her. She landed hard with Xander on top of her. He had fangs and was leaning toward her neck. Just as his fangs skimmed her throat, he pulled back and shook his head. Buffy took that opening and kicked him off her. Xander landed hard in a bookcase. Just as Buffy was coming to him with a stake in her hand from her backpack, Xander spoke up.
"Buffy, I dont want to hurt you. Its just Wait! I remember who did this do me." He was in the sun and was only squinting, not burning away like most vampires. "It was a girl. I wont hurt you, but find a girl with black hair and hazel eyes. She might know a cure."
Buffy shook her head, and pulled Xander into Giles office. He was in there, and Buffy asked if there are different kinds of vampires.
"I think so. One is called the lamia. They eat, drink, breathe, and can..."
"Tolerate sunlight better than regular vampires?"
"Yes. How did you know?"
"Lets just say I was meeting one a few seconds ago," Buffy said with a look at Xander.
"Tell him, Buffy. Tell him how I almost ripped out your throat," he whispered. Only Buffy had heard him, but Giles made the connection.
"Dont tell me that hes..."
"Im afraid so. Is there a cure?"
"Well, possibly. If we can find the person who did this to him, we can possibly reverse the process."
"How?"
"I dont know."
Buffy was going to say something when she was knocked on the floor again, this time on her stomach, with Xander bending toward her neck, again. She realized that he had been putting off feeding until he was starving for blood. Her elbow lashed back and hit him, and he went flying into a storage closet. Buffy quickly closed and locked the door, and not a moment too soon. A second after she had the lock in place, the pounding began. Buffy looked at Giles and said, "He said a girl with black hair and hazel eyes did this. Between my ability to track vampires and his description, we might be able to find her."
Finding her was easier said than done. They had to wait until it was dark to ensure that she would be out. Then, there were a lot of girls with black hair and hazel eyes. She once got a feeling that one was the vampire, but there were at least three girls who fit the description in the direction that her feeling was telling her. They went back to the school, defeated. In the library, they didnt let Xander out, but talked about what to do.
When Buffy and Giles had come back, Kary had just slipped into the closet and closed the door. "Poor boy, had you fed yet?" she said mockingly. Her eyes glittered with hopefulness. When he shook his head, she sighed. She knew her blood would change any lamia into mortal. She wanted to be mortal again. "You have to feed. If you dont, youll die in horrible pain," she said matter-of -factly. Xander noticed she wanted something.
"Your bloods the cure, isnt it?" Xander hissed. He had gotten up and was moving toward her when she hit him and he flew out of the closet.
Buffy looked up with the sound of a crash and saw Xander at the opposite end of the room. A girl walked out and whispered something to him. Then she straightened up and said, "My blood may be the cure, but dont I deserve the chance to be mortal?" She picked him up and shook him while saying, "Dont I deserve to be mortal again?" She was seething with anger. Buffy was about to do something to get her blood when she turned to her.
"Kary, please. Give me some blood and leave us alone," Xander pleaded. When it was obvious she wouldnt, Xander sank his fangs into her arm. Kary stared in horror as he took a pint of her blood. Then he slide to the floor and closed his eyes. Almost instantly his fangs vanished and it seemed that he was becoming mortal.
"Now you did it. I wanted to be mortal, but no, you had to keep him starving so that I couldnt have the chance! Now my only chance is you!" She walked over to Buffy. Buffy kicked her and she went down. A quick fight went on, and at the end, Kary was on the floor, with a stake though her heart.
Buffy walked over to Xander and shook his shoulder. He opened his eyes and said, "Does anyone have an aspirin?" She smiled and told him that Kary was gone and he should be human again. A voice from the floor made them stop.
"I guess this is a better way." Buffy turned and saw her smiling. "If I cant be mortal, might as well be dead." She looked at Buffy and smiled again, then died. All she left was a body that looked like a leather sack of bones.
The End
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