FIC: Immortal Pair ch21

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title: Immortal Pair 
author: Hhdouglas 
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summary: crossover with Angel and Highlander but characters from Xena 
are mentioned 
spoilers: too many episodes from different shows to name all the 
episodes 
disclaimers: Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy own the rights to both 
Buffy and Angel characters and storylines.I do not presently know the 
name,names,or company of those who own the rights to Highlander and 
its characters and storylines.Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert own the rights 
to Xena and its characters and storylines.I am not stealing from them 
i am only using the characters and storylines in a fanfic story.It is 
not to be posted or distributed anywhere without my knowledge and the 
complete authorization of the owners of those shows. 
warning: this chapter is rated pg13 
age warnings: for those 16 and above who have an open 
mind 


Cassandra said Ms.Summers before you order any swords i suggest you 
come bring some pictures of them for me to look at.Joyce said why and 
Cassandra said i will be able to tell by looking at them whether or 
not they are good enough swords for Immortals to use and if they will 
be able to fight with the swords.Amy said i dont understand swords 
are swords.Giles said yes swords are swords Amy but some swords are a 
lot heavier than others and Willow and Buffy will need swords that 
they will be able to hold and fight with.Joyce thanked Cassandra for 
suggesting that and she said she would bring the pictures to her 
house as soon as she got some.Willow said Cassandra why do i keep 
getting this same sensation in my head whenever i approach Buffy or 
you.Cassandra said that feeling is what lets us know that other 
immortals are nearby so anytime you feel that sensation keep an eye 
out for anyone you dont know or looks out of place.Buffy said how 
long do you think it will take you to find some teachers for me and 
Willow.Cassandra said i have no idea but i will do my best to find 
you some teachers as quickly as i can.Joyce said well i think that we 
all learned what we wanted to and Giles said yes we have.Cassandra 
got up and she said would one of you please take me back to my 
house.Oz stood up and said he would but Willow looked at Giles and 
she said Giles do you have any objection of letting Cassandra look at 
your collection of books since she is already here.Cassandra turned 
and looked at Willow and then looked at Giles.Giles said i see no 
reason why she cant look as long as she will return the favor by 
showing me around her collection.Cassandra grinned and she said how 
soon do you want to see my collection.Giles said as soon as possible 
but of course it must be at a time of your convience.Cassandra's grin 
got even wider and she said then we have a deal.Giles said please 
follow me and then he started walking out of the conference room and 
Cassandra followed 
him. 

Inside the bedroom that Anya and Xander shared which was at the far 
side of the house away from most of the bedrooms that the others used 
Anya was talking to Xander trying to get him to see sense and then 
she decided to try what Cordelia had tried with her and 
succeeded.Anya said Xander do you love me or are we just orgasism 
friends.Xander whirled around to face Anya and he said you know i 
love you Anya as he walked up to her.Anya said i love you too Xander 
just like Willow and Buffy love each other.Xander pulled back and he 
said no they dont they just think they do but with a little 
counseling they will both get over it.Anya said Xander i am over 1100 
years old i have seen people who were in love and Buffy and Willow 
are definitely in love with each other.Xander said then that kind of 
love is wrong its evil and perverted.Anya slapped Xander across the 
face and she said there is nothing wrong,evil,or perverted about true 
love and that is what Buffy and Willow have for each other.Anya said 
Xander a while back you asked me to read the bible so i could 
understand your religious beliefs and if there is one thing that is 
above all else that i learned from it,it is that love is good.Xander 
said only love between a man and a woman is good not love between two 
men or two women.Anya said when did you become God the last time i 
checked you were still a man and only God has the right to say that 
what kind of love is right or wrong but as far as i am concerned 
there is only one type of love and thats the love for everybody 
although it can be felt in different ways.Xander said what do you 
mean.Anya said people love their parents,children,other 
relatives,friends,pets,and their mates or 
boyfriends,girlfriends,husbands or wives as you call it each in a 
different way but its still love.Xander said i still cant understand 
how Buffy and Willow can love each other in the past they have always 
dated guys.Anya said i dont know why it happened nor can i explain 
why it happened it just did and now we all have to live with it 
because Willow and Buffy cant change how they feel about each 
other.Anya said Xander you have been Willow's friend as far back as 
you can remeber and you became Buffy's friend back in high school so 
you have all gone through a lot together and i am not only asking you 
but begging you as well to not throw all that away because you dont 
agree with their love.Xander said i dont know if i can do as you 
ask.Anya said Xander are you willing to lose the last of your 
childhood friends and Buffy's friendship because you arent even 
willing to look at it from their standpoint.Anya said if you lose 
your friendship with them it will not only hurt you but them as well 
because they both consider you as a brother and they will need all 
the support the slayerettes can give them.Xander looked at Anya and 
said what do you mean.Anya said do you think it will be easy for them 
to openly be a couple in a world full of prejudice and hate mongers 
and dont forget the dangers that Buffy faces because she is the 
slayer and that they both face because they are immortal.Xander 
looked at Anya and he said i never thought of it like that and Anya 
said well you should and then she said i am going back to the 
conference room join me after you have thought about what i 
said. 

After Giles and Cassandra had headed for the spare bedroom that 
he,Buffy,Oz,and Xander had converted into a second library Buffy and 
the others started to dispurse through out the house.Buffy looked at 
her watch and she said its about ten o'clock so Angel and the others 
should be back at the office by now so i had better call them and let 
them know what was said and decided.Joyce who was right behind her 
and Willow said thats a good idea and by the way remeber to get Gunn 
to contact Wesley about the books.Willow said before we send the 
books to them we should have Cassandra take a look at the items that 
also belonged to Mayor Wilkins and were in the hidden room with the 
books.Buffy said your right Willow and you had better go mention it 
to Giles while Cassandra is still 
here. 

Willow headed toward the spare bedroom that Giles and Cassandra 
were in and she knocked on the door when she reached it.A few moments 
later Giles walked up to the other side of the door and he said who 
is it.Willow said Giles its me and i just wanted to suggest that we 
ask Cassandra to look over the items that were in the hidden room 
along with the books Mayor Wilkins had.Giles said good thinking 
Willow and i will ask her to look at them after we are finished in 
here. 

Meanwhile down in the kitchen Buffy was trying to reach Cordelia 
because she had failed to reach anyone at the detective agency or at 
the number they had for Angel's apartment which was below the 
detective agency.After Corelia's answering machine picked up Buffy 
hung up the phone and then dialed the number for Angel's cellular 
phone.The phone was answered a few seconds after it started ringing 
and Angel said hello Angel here.Buffy said hey Angel its me.Angel 
said how did the meeting go and Buffy said it went really well and we 
got a lot of things out in the open for everyone to understand.The 
next second Buffy heard the sound of car horn being honked and she 
said hey Angel where are you you guys should have reached Los Angeles 
several hours ago.Angel said we did but now we are on our way back to 
Sunnydale.Buffy said why are you coming back to Sunnydale and then 
she said did Cordelia have another vision.Cordelia who had heard what 
Buffy asked pulled the phone away from Angel and put it up to her 
head.Cordelia said no i didnt have another vision thank god and we 
are on our way back to the estate.Buffy said why are you guys coming 
back.Cordelia said well when we got back to Los Angeles Angel decided 
that we should go see the Oracles about you and Willow being 
Immortals.Buffy said let me guess they are sending you back here for 
some reason.Cordelia said good guess Buffy and your absolutely right 
it seems that the oracles are highly interested in you and Willow 
because they gave us two long cases one for each of you and a scroll 
for the last priestess of some long dead religion which i have no 
idea how we are to deliver.Buffy said how far away from sunnydale are 
you and Cordelia said we just drove past the bronze so we should 
reach the estate in about fifteen minutes.Buffy said we will have 
someone meet you at the gate and let you through and then she hung up 
the 
phone. 

When Buffy walked out of the kitchen she walked over to the entercom 
and pressed the button before saying hey i am going to need someone 
for backup in twenty-five minutes.A few seconds later via the 
entercom Giles said why are you going to need backup Buffy i told you 
didnt have to patrol tonight.Buffy pressed the entercom button and 
she said Angel and the others are on their way back and they are due 
in less than twenty-five minutes.Giles said did they say why they 
were coming back and Buffy said yes they have some stuff for me and 
Willow that the Oracles gave them to bring us and a scroll for the 
last priestess of some long dead religion.That got Cassandra's 
attention and she walked away from the shelf of books she had been 
looking at and over to Giles.Cassandra told Giles to ask Buffy if she 
knew the name of the priestess or the religion and he did.Buffy said 
negative and thats all the information they could give me.Giles said 
Oz accompany Buffy and Oz said he would.Buffy said Oz meet me at the 
garage in ten minutes we will take the 
motorcycles. 

Ten minutes later Oz met Buffy in the garage and he climbed onto 
the motorcycle behind her because he didnt like driving 
motorcycles.They had been waiting outside the gate for eight minutes 
when Angel's car drove up and they headed for the estate after 
getting the gate open.Buffy let Oz off in front of the house and then 
she rode over to the garage and parked the motorcycle in it.Buffy ran 
back over to the house and once inside she saw 
Angel,Cordelia,Gunn,Oz,and Joyce all walking up the stairs.Buffy ran 
to the staircase but then started walking up it after getting a glare 
and a wagging finger pointed at her from her 
mother. 

They all went to the conference room and Joyce walked over to the 
entercom pannel and let everybody else in the house know that Angel 
and the others had arrived.Giles said that he and Cassandra would be 
right there and a minute later everybody but Giles and Cassandra was 
sitting at the table waiting for them to 
arrive. 

As Giles and Casandra were approaching the conference room Cassandra 
sensed the presence of a vampire nearby and she called out to 
Giles.Giles looked at Cassandra and he said yes.Cassandra said i 
sense that there is a vampire somewhere inside the house.Giles said 
yes there is and then he said you are sensing Angel but dont worry he 
is a good vampire.Cassandra said there is no such thing as as good 
demonic vampire.Giles said Cassandra listen to me Angel has his soul 
and he is good he has stood up beside me and the others facing 
numerous dangerous threats without fearing for his own life or unlife 
whichever way you see it.Cassandra said how did a demonic vampire 
retain his soul after being turned the soul should have departed when 
the demon entered the body.Giles said Angel was originally cursed by 
some of the Romany gypsies after he attacked one of their own but 
then he lost the soul because a happiness clause in the curse which 
he met.Cassandra said and you still say that he is good.Giles said 
yes because Willow recursed him with his soul but she left out the 
happiness clause and added a clause which made it permanent just to 
be on the safe side.Cassandra said and where did Willow find this 
spell she used to return his soul to him.Giles said a member of the 
Romany gypsy clan dropped a computer hard disc that the curse was on 
one night when she was attacked and killed by Angel which willow 
found. 

When Giles and Cassandra walked into the conference room Cassandra 
used her mystic senses to examine Angel and she saw that everything 
that Giles had told her was true much to her surprise.After Giles and 
Cassandra were seated Giles asked Angel what the Oracles had told him 
and the others.Angel said the oracles gave us those two boxes which 
we were to bring to Buffy and Willow and this scroll is for someone 
they only referred to as the last priestess of a long dead 
religion.Giles said did they tell you what the name of the religion 
is and Gunn said they called it dre'nah i believe.Cassandra said 
actually its dreg'nah but the g is silent.Giles said how are we 
supposed to find the last priestess of that religion it died out over 
twenty five hundred years ago.Joyce said Cassandra what do you know 
about this religion you were alive back then werent you.Cassandra 
said i know all there is to know about dreg'nah and then she looked 
around the table at everyone and he said it is the religion of my 
people and i am its last 
priestess. 

Everybody was shocked and there was silence for a few minutes until 
Angel said i think this is for you and he held out a scroll.The 
scroll was passed down the table until it was given to 
Cassandra.Cassandra broke the seal on the scroll which was marked 
with a symbol of her religion and then she started unrolling 
it.Cassandra read the scroll twice to herself before looking up at 
any of the others.Cassandra looked at Angel and she said where did 
you get this scroll from.Angel said it was given to me by the oracles 
who aid me in my attempt at redemption.Willow said what does the 
scroll say Cassandra.Cassandra looked down at the scroll and she 
started reading.The scroll said ONE FORT NIGHT BEFORE THE SOLSTICE 
EVE BUT AFTER THE RISING OF THE IMMORTAL PAIR THE LAST PRIESTESS OF 
DREG'NAH CAN USE AN ANCIENT DREG'NAH CERIMONY TO BRING THREE 
IMMORTALS BACK INTO THE WORLD.ALL THREE OF THE IMMORTALS ARE TRUSTED 
BY THE LAST PRIESTESS OF DREG'NAH BUT ONLY TWO OF THE THREE SHALL BE 
TEACHERS.THE THIRD THE YOUNGEST OF THE THREE WAS STRUCK DOWN BEFORE 
HIS TIME DUE TO INTERFERENCE IN THE GAME BY A DEMONIC FORCE AND IT 
TIS THE JUDGEMENT OF THE POWERS THAT BE THAT HE BE RETURNED TO THE 
WORLD.THE THIRD SHALL STAND GUARD OVER THE IMMORTAL PAIR AS THEY ARE 
TRAINED.Cassandra stopped reading and she said thats almost 
everything except for the information on the Dreg'nah cerimony that i 
will have to perform.Giles said Cassandra will you perform the 
cerimony and Cassandra said yes i will because it is the will of the 
powers that be.Cordelia said hey lets see whats in the boxes that the 
oracles told us to give to Buffy and Willow.Giles said yes take a 
look whats in the boxes.Angel and Gunn picked up the boxes off the 
floor and laid them on the table.Cordelia was reaching to open one of 
the boxes when Buffy said hey whatever is in them is for me and 
Willow so we should be the ones who open them up.Angel said Buffy is 
right and he started sliding the box on his side of the table down 
toward Buffy and Gunn pushed the other box down to Willow.Buffy's box 
got to her first and she opened it up revealing three swords.Joyce 
got up from her seat and she walked over to where Buffy was 
seated.Joyce said those swords are a type of katana if i am 
right.After looking at them Cassandra said they are indeed and then 
she said Willow what did you get.Willow opened her box and she saw 
three swords laying in the bottom of the box but there was also an 
armored gauntlet in the box.