FF:Chapter One: Guided by Voices

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Title: Guided by Voices 
Chapter One: Story Telling 
Rating NC-17
Disclaimer: All BTVS characters belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.
Summary: "Someone comes to the door of 1630 Revello drive looking for the
slayers help and starting a prophecy that may lead to the end of days.
Again. 
Pairing: Buffy / Other (female) Tara/ Willow. 
Thanks: To AnneBar for the help and guidance.

Guided by Voices
Story Telling

The gang was all there sitting at the dinning room table. Boxes of pizza
were open around the table. Joyce looked at her daughter impatient for a an
explanation for why she now had a vampire in the basement chained to the
stair case.

"Her name is Usha Nicole Jacarr." Buffy said breaking the silence. "Here
Will, you can do the research thing later." Buffy handed Willow a note with
the girl's name. 

" Her parents live in town, her mother reads fortunes. Mostly she just makes
stuff up, but she is a real seer. I think Nikki is 17 years old. At least
that is how old she was when she died two nights ago. She also is a member,
along with her parents, of a gypsy clan that was cursed." Buffy then did a
quick check of the room to make sure everyone was on the same page before
she continued. It was a dangerous time for the all of them.

"Nikki rose as a vampire with a soul. She is still a kid, and she hasn't
killed anyone other then her sire. She killed her sire just as she was
dying. It was part of the curse and a prophecy all in one."

Giles with is seriously worried face on, asked, "Where did you read this?"

"I never said I read it, Giles, It came to me in my dreams. It always comes
to us in our dreams. The journals must talk about it. I know it has happened
before." Buffy said with her eyes still closed reliving the dreams.

"What has happened for before?" Riley asked only he was looking at Giles. 

"I don't know if Buffy is right yet, Buffy please finish telling us what you
know about the vampire."

"The prophecy says she has to come to me for help. To the slayer. The
first few months she will have trouble controlling the demon inside. I have
to take care of her, help her. She and I have a shared fate. I have seen it
in my dreams." Buffy said all of this distantly. Reliving her visions of the
present and future. They were merging into on and the same. 

"Giles, tell them the truth, I will live only as long as she does, From the
minute she rose, are fates became a single thread wrapped together." 

"Giles is that true." Willow asked.

"I don't know, I ...I ..I have to check my books and...and the dreams could
just be past images. There are so many." Giles was cut off by Tara.

"Yes it is true." The blond witch stated, "Giles tell them the truth." 

"But I don't know" Giles said embarrassed. Even now all his soul screamed to
stop being a watcher, but the one time librarian could not give up the
principles of the watchers. 

"Tara what do you know about it?" Riley asked

"It's a gypsy folk story mostly. Only " Tara stopped for a moment trying to
find the best way to explain.

"It's kinda of long story. Way back when, and I really do not know how long
ago, there was a slayer. Only she was different from the slayers before her.
I really don't know what the different part was, everybody who tells the
story different. Sometimes she is a he, other times she is evil. It all
depends."

"Ok, so that is not important. Slayers, in those days worked with witches.
It was long before the counsel started burning them at the stake. Anyway the
witch was married to a rich king who let the slayer use his army. And the
warriors of light started winning. Then the slayer does this whole Romeo and
Juliet thing with the witch and kings daughter or son. Sorry, my family all
have different versions."

"Anyway, the slayer and the witches daughter or son fall in love, which is a
big no no. They believed and even still believe the slayer gets her power
from her virginity."

"Well, that leaves Buffy out." Xander said before being stared down by angry
faces.

"OK, so the kingdom falls because the slayer wasn't a virgin, which was the
moral of the story. Only it doesn't end there. Both of them get killed, and
the mother, the witch curses them for eternity. They will keep repeating
their lives, always opposing each other. One a slayer the other a vampire,
always finding each other and killing each other. When one dies so does the
other, making sure they are both reborn at the same time. The curse will end
if the end of days comes. There is also a part about the vampire killing
it's sire with it's last breath and regaining its soul. There are a bunch
of other trials they both have to do to break the curse. "

"Alright, so the girl is part of a fairy tale. What are we supposed to do
about it." Riley asked.

The conversation got them nowhere after that, so the scooby gang did what
always came after research, the made a plan for keeping the vampire and they
got to work .


Riley commandeered, ok stole, building material, a metal cage, cot, sheets
and blankets, tools. Everything they needed to build a cage / bedroom for
the girl in the basement. 

The hardest part turned out to be, getting Nikki out from under the stairs.
She was terrified of people, afraid she might hurt someone. Afraid of the
demon voice in her head. 

They put the cage in the unfinished part of the basement. Anchoring it to
the walls and floor. Next they put in dry wall to cover up most of the cage.
It even had a hidden gate inside the door that could be closed at the bottom
of the stair. Riley added a toilet, shower and sink to the basement in a
second cage that could be reached inside the first cage. 

The women decorated the room, rugs for the floor, throw pillow, a dresser,
spots for chains and manacles, small refrigerator for blood. All the
pleasantries of home. 

Nikki for her part hid as much as possible. Hiding under the stairs or under
the bed. She was so shy and quiet, the team began to take her for granted.
They forgot to lock the cage or chain her up.

That lasted the first week. It was end of school finals time and the team
was booked. It was Willow's turn to hit the butcher shop. She was late by
about an hour. When she walked into the Summers home, she found everything
in the refrigerator on the floor. The teen was tearing every item open and
tasting it before throwing it across the room. Glowing blue eyes met the
redhead.

"Hungry witch, Hungry." The vampire growled, her fangs visible now, though
her face was still human. The girl leaped across the room without even
standing up first. The next thing Willow knew, the creature was licking her
neck. 

"Hungry?" This time the sound was more that of a child. Closing her eyes
Nikki forced her eyes to human form. Opening them she saw the bag of blood
Willow had dropped when she was tackled. The girl grabbed the bag and ran
for the basement. Willow locked the basement door behind the vampire and ran
for the phone. She was going to need help getting up the mess before Mrs.
Summers got home. 

In mid conference with Giles, Willow heard a scream from the basement. 

Across town at the college, Riley meet Buffy outside of her history class.
He was just about to ask how things went when Buffy screamed and fell to the
ground. He was more shocked when blood dripped from her back. Looking under
her sweeter for the source he found what could only be described a whip
mark. While he was looking he saw a second mark form across his lovers back.

This time Buffy held back the scream. "Riley get me to my moms house, as
fast as you can."
Buffy then stood up and started running, fall on the ground when the force
of another strike hit her. Riley helped her to the car. Buffy apologized
abut getting blood on his upholstery. Somehow, it wasn't even close to the
top things on his mind. 

They rushed into the house, Willow was in the kitchen trying to drown out
the sound of the screams from the basement by cleaning up.

"Will, where is Nikki?" 

"I locked her in the basement, I didn't think Giles would get you on the
phone this soon."

"No time Will, get the first aid kit."

Buffy unlocked the basement door before running down followed by two
confused friends. Nikki was face down on the floor a few feet from the
bottom of the stairs. Buffy pulled up her shirt and began to count out loud.
"1, 2, 3, 4-5, 6, 7, Seven so far, three more to go, Will help me get her
shirt off."

Not knowing why, Will pulled the shirt off while Buffy carefully held the
girl up. The vampire screamed and Willow watched a lash mark form on the
girl's back. Then she noticed Buffy and the blood covering her white
sweater. 

"Buffy" Willow yelled, scared for her friend.

"It is ok, Will, only two more to go." Buffy then ran to the bathroom for a
towel to catch the blood

The last two came quick and together. Even Buffy was crying from the pain.
Willow got Buffy's sweater off of her and after a few minutes of arguing the
witch got Buffy to lay down on the bed while Riley put Nikki inside the cage
and chained her to the cage wall. Once Willow gave her the butcher's blood
she was happy and didn't seem to care about being topless. 

"Don't bother fixing them they will be mostly healed by tonight." Buffy said
before reaching into a dresser drawer for one of Nikki's tee shirts. 

"Ok, then can you tell me what the hell just happened." Riley asked with his
back to Buffy while she put on the shirt.

"We were punished." Buffy said.

"Why?" Willow asked before wondering if she should have added How.

"I don't know, what did Nikki do to you before it happened?"

"She just knocked me down to get the bag and ran to the basement." The witch
answered.

" She was up stairs?" Riley asked.

"What, you thought I did the mess in the kitchen?" Willow said with sarcasm
in her voice then added, "She was hungry, hence the mess in the kitchen. She
knocked me down to get the bag then ran downstairs, I don't think she meant
any harm." 

"Willow, she doesn't mean to hurt anyone, it's the demon and she doesn't
really know how to control it. She isn't like Angel. Her soul never left her
body, and it will take time to control the demon, that's why we keep her
chained up." Buffy said to her friend, knowing most of this Willow already
knew. The slayer really was just telling herself this, more then her
friends. It was so hard to know things when you didn't have solid facts to
justify what you knew. 

"God I want to know how Tara does it." Then Buffy realized she said that out
loud.

"What?" Willow asked kind of angry.

"How Tara, knows things without facts, like when she knew Faith was in my
body. It's nothing and I am babbling and it is not what I need to know."
Buffy said 

"Are you sure you're ok?" Willow asked touching Buffy's shoulder lightly. 

"What did she do to you, Willow? I really need to know."

"It was nothing, really she just was hungry."

"Will, tell me."

"She licked me, ok." Riley looked right at her waist.

"Riley, she doesn't mean Tara, get your mind out of the gutter soldier boy."
Buffy said.

Both Riley and Willow blushed.

"I like, licked her neck, Buffy. I was hungry. It tasted good." The formally
silent teen said. 

"So which one of you am I talking to?" Buffy said as she sat down on the
floor next to the chained girl.

"Both" the girl whispered.

"So you are starting to merge already." Buffy said the last part as a
statement then added. "Can I talk to the demon for a minute?"

"NO!" the girl shouted, "she'll hurt you." The girl then whispered.

"Just for a minute, you can stay there too, just let her answer, ok " Buffy
said in her kindest tone. She knew it was the girl she was talking with now.

"Well the Bitch wants me now, you ready for a role in the hay yet, or are
you going to tell me your still a virgin?" The demon voice roared for the
teen. 

"What your not going to be patient for me Morgania? So did you enjoy the
whipping?" Buffy answered in the same tone she used just before dusting a
vampire.

"And I bet you are telling all your little friends, Moria, how awful it was,
please I remember how much you loved to spanked. Please baby just spank me
so I can come." The demon didn't finish. Buffy had her pinned to the cage
wall by the neck.

"One more word and I snap your neck in half." Buffy said between clenched
teeth. 

"You kill me, kill her." The demon reasoned

"She will be reborn just like you, and me. Maybe it would be better if I
just let her die now before she does lose her innocence. Before the two of
you merge." Buffy said out loud.

"And kill yourself, your friends, I don't think so. If you were going to
kill us, we would already be on my way to the next soul. The circle of
life." The demon spit back.

The room was quiet for a long moment. Then Buffy dropped the demon to the
floor and sat down on the bed.

"So this is your latest Boy Toy. You always did go for the brooding soldier
types. Dumb, brave, handsome and will hung."

"Just let her rant, get it out of her system." Buffy said before flopping
across the Bed. Followed by a cringe from the pain it caused across her
back.

"I almost forgot the little redhead, a little witch, Soldier boy you knew
Moria always swings both ways. The girl always has some little groupie girl
she uses. Loves to let them eat her pussy. I bet she would let you watch."

Buffy had closed her eyes on the bed when she heard the sound of Riley
slugging the girl. The slayer was holding him back before he could hit her a
second time.

"Riley, You shouldn't hurt her. That is what the demon wants. Come on tell
me you can't tell that was the demon talking, the weird voice isn't a clue."
Riley a little ashamed of himself backed out of the cage.

"Nikki, are you ok?" Buffy said examining the girl's jaw where Riley punched
her. 

"I am hungry again and blood, I smell it on you." Her eyes were glowing blue
again. 

"I know and I am sorry, Why don't you go to sleep for a little while and let
the demon free. I will check the chains and lock you up in the cage. I
won't let you hurt anyone." Buffy said 

"Hungry" The girl answered.

"I am sorry, I don't want you too strong yet until you have better control,
so you are going to have to be a little hungry, ok" Buffy was very sweet to
the girl as she reached for more chains under the bed.

Once the three of them had her chained on the bed with her CD's and player
where she could it reach and work it. They started to leave when the slayer
stopped Riley and Willow with an arm to each of them.

"Morgania, just to set the record, Moria loved to have a good playful spank,
and she loved to sleep her way through the ranks of the kings men. She was a
16 year old slayer who thought she was going to die and didn't want to miss
anything. Just a kid. And Moria liked girls too. They call it Bisexuality
these days. 
But Morg, That was Moria, I am Buffy not Moria. My father never beat me as a
way of training me to be a slayer, and I haven't been 16 in a long time."

"Slayer, you almost convinced me." The demon laughed

"Wasn't trying to, Morg, but I will play the game with you. They will find
out sooner or later." Buffy turned to her friends, hoping they would stay
her friends. I have Moria's soul, I probably like girl and boy equally. Only
I never really sleep around that much to find out. Angel was my first,
Parker was a mistake and the second, Riley is the only other person I have
ever slept with. I was tempted with Willow only she was so crazy about
Xander at the time, I just didn't want to lose my best friend. I still get
jealous of Tara." Buffy and Willow shared a friendly smile. 

Then Buffy frowned. " I was also tempted with Faith. Thank God I didn't. And
that Morgania is what you have to work with"

"And the kid, you forgot about the kid."

Buffy was in a "now or never spot. The truth would hold back the demon's
control. The kid would need to come clean just as Buffy had just done. If
not the demon would have one more weapon to use against all of them. 

"Nikki, tell the truth ok, tell Morgania what she is trying to use as a
weapon, please tell her about your...ah" Buffy really didn't know how to ask
the girl to pour out her private life. "Sexual side." Buffy finished. 

"I want blood." The girl stated.

"Sorry" Buffy said after she realized it was really the girl speaking. "Tell
her, Brighid, tell her Usha, If it is out in the open she can't use it
against us." Buffy pleaded. 

"I think I am gay, only ..... I ah ....ah " the girl stammered finding a
spot on the ceiling fascinating. Riley and Willow were looking at each
other and back at the girl.

"I didn't think vampires could blush." Willow whispered to Riley.

"Nikki, how about I help, all you have to do is say yes or no, ok"

"I'll try" The vampire whispered.

"You kissed a girl before." 

"Yes and a boy.

"But you like girls better right?"

"yes" The vampire was staring everywhere but at Buffy.

"gay?" Buffy was losing patience.

"Yes"

"Ever slept with anyone?"

"Not .. ah, ah" Finally the blushing vampire leaned up and whispered into
Buffy's ears.

"I don't think that counts as all the way, but it is close." Buffy said.
"Look, it's ok, just don't let Morg bug you about it. Make her tell you some
of the things she did in human form.

After locking the girl up and finding Xander and Giles cleaning up the
kitchen, Willow pulled the blond to the side.

"Groping beneath the cloths" Buffy said before Willow could ask. 






"Hey! No body messes with my Willow." Xander

"And the weird award goes to...." -Buffy