Summary: This is a new series about Riley. It starts half way through Happy Ever After. There are a few spoilers for Happy Ever After in this chapter and future chapters. Buffy and her gang are not in the beginning of this series but a few members will be joining later on. In this chapter: Sam and Riley face marital difficulties. Riley battles a Demon Anya created. Sam is getting destressed. She is attacked, and hospitalized.
Main Cast:
Riley - Marc Blucas,
Sam - Keira Knightley,
Jim - Billy Brown,
Jackson - Hamish Davis,
Guest Starring:
Anyanka - Emma Caulfield,
Zakynvlor - Johnny Depp,
Other
Disclaimer: I own none of the Buffyverse characters as the all belong to Joss Whedon.
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"Don't you walk away from me!" Sam cried, watching her lover storm out of the expensive modern house.
"Why don't you just shut your mouth! You know that this is my job, and it always will be! It was meant to be your job too, but you thought we should play happy families. Well guess what Samantha it's not going to happen..... EVER!" And Riley jogged to the end of the garden, and leaped into the helicopter.
Sam watched as Riley slowly disappeared off into the horizon. She couldn't deal with this. The whole worrying whether he was coming home at night. Worrying if they were going to reach there first anniversaire, or if he'd be dead. That's why she gave it up. She was fed up of being tired and miserable. She had wanted to just go home after a nice relaxing office job and watch the box. So she'd swapped her actice lifestyle for a nice cosy, relaxing life. She thought Riley would do the same, but he was made for fighting and she couldn't stop that. That's why they had argued, just like the day before, and the day before and so on. Because she tried to change him. She'd tried to tame him, to turn him into something he wasn't. But he wasn't having it.
Sam wondered where he had gone. She sniffled a little as she turned on the cold tap. She filled a large beer glass full, and gulped it back. It reminded her of her past....... when she'd drink like that all the time. Fast as can be. It rushing down her throat, like a waterfall crashing through her lungs. She used to need to drink so much in her job.
Sam waited in the darkness for Agent Finn. She flipped the television screen on, and looked through the various cheap, american channels. One channel had repeats of some tacky American Sitcom. She settled on this, too tired to keep flipping. She hated that feeling. Being tired after not doing anything. But it was constant now. She needed Riley home.
*
"Hey Jim! So why don't you fill me in on what's going on. I was planning on a night in with the wife, before you lot turned up!" Riley chuckled as he wobbled along the helicopter towards Agent Mark.
"Big demon heading for Manhattan, and it looks like it wants to kill," Agent Mark, or rather Jim, sighed.
"Manhattan eh? I haven't been there for a long time. Not since I was first pulled into this game..... Oi! Jackson, what's our possision?" Riley called out to the pilot of the Helicopter.
"Excuse me? It's Agent Jackson for you!" Jackson joshed from the front of the machine, " We are just heading over what used to be Sunnydale."
Riley peered down into the darkness, squinted trying to see the remains of what used to be his home town.
"Put the lamp on Jackie!" Riley begged.
"Will do!" He answered.
Suddenly, a massive beam of light exploded from the front of the helicopter, and all was lit in the large crater. He saw the massive dip in the ground, that spread out for a good 3 miles circular. He still didn't know if Buffy was alive. He'd asked around, wondering what happened. All anyone knew was : "Something to do with the First, it's gone now though". He'd asked different initiative groups, whether they knew of a slayer called Buffy Summers. Not one knew where she was. She had vanished off the face of the earth, and it seemed more and more likely every day that she was dead. He still hasn't got over Buffy. She was his true love, and always will be. But he has to move on, even if it means pretending. He knew that Buffy had never really loved him. She always clinged onto Angel. The when he returned that time, she was with Spike. That had shocked him so much. To see her with Spike. The man she had said she'd hated for years, she was now having a steamy affair with. For the next couple of weeks after that, his elationship with Sam had been put on hold. He couldn't bare to look at her, knowing that he was using her. But it passed, as soon as he realised she was thinking of asking for a split. He needed someone to be with, even if it wasn't Buffy.
"Guys, we are coming up to Manhattan now. The Demon's going haywire, so you'll have to ready for this. Pair up into groups of two, and get in line to be lowered down. Once the Demon is caught, heavily tranquelised and tied up, you can page us to come pick you up. Any urgent emergencies, you can page aswell. Every one sorted - good good!" Everyone nodded as the Seargeant briefed the team.
"Jim, you coming with me?" Riley called.
"Go on then, we can stop for a pint on the way!" Jim giggled as he zipped up his kaki jacket.
"Finn and Mark, you r going down first seeing as you ready." Riley and Jim, strapped themselves to the thick wire, and they decended down into the darkness below.
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Where is he? It's 3 o Clock in the morning! What could be keeping him so long? Surely they have caught the Demon by now! What if he's............. what if he's not coming back. What if his life has been taken? What if he's left me? What if..... what if....?
I have to call someone. The Initiative base. They are bound to know what's going on. I have to find the number. Where's the phone book, c'mon where the hell is it?!!!!!
Sam searched the living room. She tossed a pile of papers out of her way, ripping through the house looking for the number. She scurried into the Kitchen, and flipped through another pile of dusty papers. She frowned as she saw a couple of unpaid bills, but quickly started searching for the phone book again. She went to the chest of drawers in the hall, and shuffled through the junk. She slammed her fist down onto the wood in desperation, but went back to searching yet again. She ran upstairs and went into the study. She looked through another pile of rubbish, and searched the bookshelves. She bust Rileys locked desk open, in case he had stored it there. She couldn't help but feel stupid. Riley had often been out a long time, but this time.... this time something was wrong and she could sense it. But what she didn't know, it isn't Riley in danger.
Sam had had enough. She couldn't cope with this any longer. She had to know where Riley was. SHe knew there was only one way to find out, and that meant traveling to the base of the Initiative. Riley and Sam now lived in Virginia. The initiative base, was positioned on the border of Maryland. Riley usually did the trip in around 3 hours every day, but that was with a car. Sam wished now more than ever she could drive. BUt, alas, she couldn't so she started thinking of a way to get there.
The Inititive Base for the North-East of the US, was hidden away under a large public library. You'd have to take a lift from toilet, enter your security code, swipe your card, and then you'd be taken down into the mystery of the Initiative. When Sam had used to work there, she'd often get caught by a security officer or a member of staff as she'd bust her way through a camoflaged door in the wall. She had no idea what she would do this time. She could probably get into the lift but what then? SHe had no card, and she doubted her old security code worked. Anyway she knew how she would get there. The same way she went when she ran from her home when she was younger.
Hitch-Hiking.
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"SHHH! JIm, if we wanna catch this beasty we have to be quiet! C'mon it's heading towards a largre building according to my radar!" Riley whispered, sliding along an alleyway.
"Hey! There's no hope of finding this demon with this kind of info! There's loads of large buildings here. It's Manhattan!" Jim bounced back sarcastically.
"Well this one is a large building with small buildings surrounding it! And it's 800 yds North from here," Riley kept on gliding through the night.
"Is there any other Agents nearer, so we know how quick to go?"
"Look on your own gadgetithingy."
"I left it in the chopper duffus!" Jim retaliated.
"Urghh! Nope we are the nearest - so let's get a move on!" They both started to sprint away, Riley setting up his gun on the way.
Something lurked in the shadows above Riley and JIm. It scratched at it's teeth, and stared menacingly on towards the two Agents.
"Hey Finn, I just had a message through from Searg!" Jim whispered to Riley.
"HUH! I thought you'd forgotten your gadgetithingy?" Riley chuckled.
"Ye well I lied, we have a name, a weakness and a gory pic of this beasty!"
"And........?" Riley shrugged his arms.
"It's name is Zakynvlor!" Jim answered, giving himself a transylvaenian accent.
"Oh, that's kinda creepy, what's it's weakness?"
"Every man's weakness - The Crown Jules!"
"Ok........., I have never known a Demon that can be killed by kicking it in the goolies! Must be a Manhattan thing. Let's see the pic -" Riley took the gadget off Jim, and stared at the picture. They didn't stop running, to look at the pic.
It was a large, horned Demon. Wings and spikes sprouted from it's gruesome legs. It's hads were webbed, with large dagger-sharp naild piercing from the sides.
"Stop!" Riley whispered, "The Demon is near. It says that we are standing next to it. Something's not right."
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Sam held her hand high in the darkness, sa roaring trucks whizzed down the motorway.
"STOP! Please! I'm begging you!" she cried out, the rain drenching her from head to foot.
BUt no one stopped. The traffic just kept on passing by, not giving a glance over at Sam. She wiped her fringe from her eyes, and burst into tears. It was a mix of tiredness, desperation, and alcohol that made her think of the worst. If she had been thinking traight, he'd probably have gone to bed, and found out where he was in the morning.
A massive lorry pulled up to Sam's side. A hooded man winded down the window. Sam wiped her tears and looked at the man. SHe couldn't see his face proeperly, and his hands were covered in blood. She gasped for a second but then he spoke.
"Hi, do you wanna lift. 'Cos it's rainin' heavy out there and you certainly look wet. And that's not just your clothes. Your whole expression looks wet!" the man spoke roughly, and offered his hand to Sam.
She stared on, wondering what to do. He seemed nice enough, but appearnces can be deceiving.
"I'm not awaiting around for the apocalypse darling, if your coming get in!" He started to get impatient.
I can look after myself. If he tries to hurt me, I can just kick his butt. I really need to get to the Initiative, and it looks like this is my only chance.
She grasped onto his hand, and he pulled her and into the truck. It was dark. She couldn't see in the back due to a long piece of cloth that draped down. The most vile smell hung in the air. She looked at all the empty beer cans that were spread out across the grimy dashboard. But before she could say somethin, or leave the truck, he'd already slammed his foot on the accerator, and they were zooming down the midnight road.
"So luv, where you off?" The man asked, tilting his head towards Sam.
"Ummm - the uh - public library on the border between Maryland and Virginia," Sam answered her voice quiet and shy.
"Well I'm going to Delaware myself so I'll be passing through. So why do you need to go there at such a late time at night? Your not a hooker are you? Did a client go back on his part of the bargain of taking you home? You better not be a hooker, I don't like hookers!" The man leaned in on Sam, his heavy alcohol breath covering her body.
"PARDON!?! I have never been so insutled in my life! How dare you call me a hooker!" Sam turned away from the man, her blood boiling.
"Don't you speek to me like that! You are getting on my bad side quick!" he bellowed, "Silly little mare."
"What did you say! Your a fat, ugly oaf of a man, and you think you have right to call me a hooker and a mare!" Sam spat as she raved.
"You litlle bitch!" He screamed, pulling over into the hard shoulder.
"What the hell are you doing?" Sam shrieked.
"Im gonna teach you a lesson, just like I teach all filthy women lessons!"
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"Well no offence Finn, but I think your machine is buggered!" Jim looked around for any Demons.
"Well that's not my problem, I'm gonna page Searge and find out what the hell's going on" Riley loked bewildered.
"Ok you do that, I'm just gonna keep a look out for any beasty - hey you, what you doin' in a corner?" JIm called out across the alley.
"Jim? What's wrong?" RIley turned to Jim.
"There's a lady in the shadows!" JIm stepped back confused.
"Hey - what's wrong?" Rile called over to the young girl.
She stepped out from the shadows. She was dressed in a long, white robe. Her hair tumbled delicately in golden locks from her head. Her skin was pale and beautiful.
"Your machine isn't buggered Riley, you were just tracking the wrong "beasty"!" she spoke softly.
"How do you know his name? And the only thing we see is you? Are you the beasty?" Jim blabebred away.
"Shut up Jim - Anya? Is that you? Anya?" Riley looked closer into the darkness.
"Do you two know eachother?" Jim flipped from Riley to the girl and back to Riley.
"No Riley - not Anya, Anyanka" she whispered and started to drift away through the deserted streets, "Zakynvlor! It is time!" And Anyanka vanished.
"Isn't Zakynvlor our demon?" JIm wondered.
"Yeah - but how did she know him? That was Anya for christ sake!?!"
"Didn't you listen to the gal? It's Anyanka! God, anyway, is Zak on the tracker yet?"
"What???...... Oh yes, the tracker, ok..... that's strange, he's kinda -" BUt before Riley could finish, Jim shrieked in shock.
"He's behind us...." Riley shrugged as he saw Zakynvlor battle away with JIm.
Riley took his aim with the gun and fired. The tranquelizer dart bounced of the rock hard skin. Riley sounded the alarm on his pager to tell the rest of the team he'd found Zakynvlor. Then he raced to JIm's side, and started making with the punches.
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"Okay, you need to calm down. I'm sorry for what I said it was mean. But I didn't like being called a prostitite. You don't go around calling women prostitutes!" Sam felt rage beginning again but she kept it all down. She'd realised that if she wanted to be alive tommorrow, she'd have to be nice.
"In my eyes, all women are prostitutes!" the man slapped Sam across the face.
"AWW! You arse-hole! What is your problem!" Sam flinched with the pain.
"My problem is that girls are dirty!" The man grasped Sam by her hair, and he dragged her into the back of the truck.
"Get off of me! GET OFF!" Sam tried to pull away, but the man kept her in his grasp. He shut the truck door, and flicked a switch.
At first Sam didn't notcie her surroundings. SHe was too in shock. All she noticed was the smell was stronger here. Then she started realising what she was standing in. She saw a pool of blood beneath her feet. She kept on looking and then she saw the body. A poor girl lay grey and stone on the floor. Her arms were detatched. Blood still slowly trickled from the wounds. Her ears had been removed, and her lips were sliced open. She saw the girls half naked body, bruised and bleeding. SHe looked at the soreness around the groin and realised what the man had done to that girl. She'd been raped.
"And you call girls the dirty onea?!?!" Sam turned terrified to face the man.
"All girls are dirty!" muttered in Sam's face.
"Yeah I know, you said. BUt we don't go round and rape people. We don't go round and murder people!"
"Shut your mouth Bitch!" The man slapped Sam across the face. SHe fell to her knees, crying for help.
"Ple-ease - please don't hurt me, just let me go! I don't want to die! Please!" Sam sobbed away but the man wasn't listening.
He undid his belt, and his trousers fell to the ground. He pulled his pants down, and Sam cried even more. He pushed himself onto her, licking her delicate body. He pinned her to the ground, and ripped her clothes from her body. Sam shivered in the cold, her body exposed.
Help! Please someone help. He's hurting me. He's raping me. I can't push him off. He's too strong. I need someone to help me. I need someone here now. I can hear people drive past. BUt they can't hear me. MAybe if i keep wriggling, maybe he won't succeed. BUt he's licking me. It''s horrible and disgusting and I need my Riley. God I need my Riley.
"Get off-" then he knocked her unconsious.
*
Riley sliced at Zakynvlor with an axe. It cut into the horrible rubbery flesh. Green guts oozed from the cuts, and splashed over Riley and Jim. They could kill it right here and right now. BUt that wasn't part of the task.. They had to send it to sleep. Which was proving more difficult.
"Finn, I'll go get the gun, you keep him back!" Jim raced off towards the gun.
Jim picked it up, and shot violently at the beast. Once again the dart just bounced off, without leaving a scratch.
"Jim, get here now! He's gonna kill me otherwise!" Riley bellowed.
"Coming!" JIm ran back to the fight and slammed the gun over Zakynvlor's head.
"Give me the gun a sec Jim, I got an idea of how we can get this juice inside him!" Riley took the gun and axe and stepped back a few paces.
The demon roared in agony as it rose up. It bare it's teeth, slimy saliva pouring from it's mouth. Riley smashed on of the tranqueliser darts, the liquid splashing out. But Riley was quick. He placed the edge of the axe under neath the pouring liquid. Riley ran back to the fight, now with an axe ready to put some beasty to sleep.
"Here we go!" And Riley swung the axe down onto the demon, slicing through the skin. The liquid seeped into the Demons wound.
BUt the fight wasn't over yet. The tranqueliser wouldn't work for another minuit or two, so the two Agents had to keep on stoppping the Demon from getting away. They heard the rest of the troops run through the city towards them. And then, the Demon groaned. It sighed a little, gave a little growl, and collapsed onto the cold pavement.
Everyone else gathered round relieved that it was all over.
"You lot took your time getting here!" JIm called out, making everyone laugh.
The sun started to rise in the distance, slow and beautiul. A helicopter whizzed overhead, and they all waved up at the Seargeant. The cage came down, and the locked Zakynvlor in tight before he was lifted away towards the horizon. Another helicopter arrived shortly after where they all one by one were lifted inside, and it flew away back home.
*
Riley opened his front door, and walked inside. He took off his coat and hung it up on the wall.
"Sam! I'm home!"
Silence.
"Sam?" Riley wandered into the living room where he saw the papers tossed all over the floor.
He walked into the kitchen and looked at the mess spread out over the floor.
"Jesus - " Riley whispered to himself.
The the phone rang. He raced to pick up the reciever.
"SAM!" Riley screamed into the handset, panicking.
"Umm, no, is this Riley Finn?"
"Yes it is" he sighed hoping so hard for it to have been his wife.
"This is Richmond - Virginia Hospital calling. It's about your wife, Samantha Finn" With thos words Rileys heart sank, and a single tear dropped from his eye. She might not have been his greatest love, but she was certainly a very special person for him.
Riley walked into his wife's room, and sat by her side. He placed a vase of flowers on the chest of drawers next to her, and kissed her on her bruised forhead.
"Hey, sweetie, it's me Riley," he whispered into her ear.
Sam's eyes flickered open, red and bloodshot.
"Hi....... I'm so glad your here....... I need you here" she tried to smile, but her cheeks were too bruised to move.
"Shhhh, we have time for all that later" Riley stroked her hair, and smiled.
"But Riley - I'm scared......"
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HI this is the first episode of Agent Finn Under Cover and I'll be putting the next up soon. I hope you liked it, please review!
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