Blackness
by bad shot
In the Shadows
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A/N: In here Kendra came then died sometime season 3. Then Faith came, but didn't go evil. Also Willow never went all evil because Tara didn't die. Faith found the trio's house, and gave them over to the police. Also Giles took Dawn, and became the parent so she could stay in Sunnydale. He did leave, but only because he was going to the council. After looking until season 4 they just thought Buffy had died. This is starting around the 'Dirty Girls' episode.
Chapter 2
5 years later
"Hey Willow," Dawn said as Willow walked into the house.
Willow sat down next to her on the couch and said, "Hey," right back.
Faith then walked into the room, "Hey were are all the potentials?" she asked.
Willow looked at Dawn, and she in turn pointed to the backyard, "Apparently in the backyard," looking out the window she added, "Eating lunch."
Faith looked out the window, and pouted a little, "I never thought it would happen, but I am jealous of them. Maybe we should join them."
Willow, and Dawn gave her a smile, and they all walked out into the backyard to eat with the potentials. Willow's smile changed remembering the potential they had found yesterday, and the message she had given Faith.
Buffy was curled into a ball not moving at all. For five years she had been in this place.
Not aging at all still looking like she was 17. The whispers never let her get any sleep. Every time she had got close they had increased in intensity.
If you could look into her eyes you would see nothing. She couldn't feel here, and she always felt hungry though she would never die from it.
Her mind tried to remember things, but it just didn't seem to work, and she couldn't even pull up fuzzy images of her life, "Who am I," she asked the air.
Then out of nowhere a voice came out, "You have been bought. You are free from here," it said. All of a sudden Buffy felt herself lifted up. A burst of wind blasted her face, and a bright light blinded her.
Then her body hit the ground falling out of the air fifteen feet above the ground in the graveyard. She curled up again her body suddenly being assaulted with hunger pangs, and light from the sun that was blinding her.
She crawled towards a refuge hiding from the sun in the shadows of a crypt. She pulled her hands up, and covered her ears from the sound of cars, and people talking. She was pulled from it by strong hands pulling her up from under her shoulders. She was thrown over its shoulder.
Before she blacked out she heard a voice with a southern accent say, "Well know I have something of theirs that I don't care what happens to."
Willow's head jolted up, and away from the sandwich in her hand, and she cocked her head as if listening to some sound the others couldn't hear.
"Will?" Tara asked quietly.
Her voice seemed to pull Willow out of it, "Oh. Sorry I just felt something. No big though with the First hear it is bound to happen some times might want to tell Giles though."
Tara nodded, and they went back to eating their sandwiches.
"Hey Giles I wanted to talk to you quick before we go," Willow said catching Giles as he was about to go out.
Giles turned around, and looked at his watch, "Okay, but make it quick."
"I just thought I felt something earlier today."
"Do you think it could be something bad?" Giles asked.
Willow shook her head, "No. It felt somewhat familiar though, but I can't remember it."
Giles gave her a smile, "Well we may find out soon enough. Lets go."
"Okay. Set up a perimeter. Guard the door. I don't want anything getting in behind us. My team goes in first, we check the place out. You guys are our safety-net. If this place is a trap, we give the signal, you guys come in, guns a-blazing," Faith said giving out orders.
"So, what's the signal?" Xander asked.
"I'm thinking lots and lots of yelling," Faith said shrugging her shoulders.
"Got it," Xander said giving her a smile.
"Shall we?" Faith said walking up to the door to the basement, and wrenching it open.
"What is this place?" Molly asks looking around the dank interior.
"Looks like an old vineyard," Faith said eyeing the barrels.
"An evil vineyard, huh?" Kennedy says.
"Like Falcon Crest," Spike states.
All of a sudden the bringers jump out of the shadows, and attack them.
After a minute of fighting the bringers jump back into the shadows.
Faith's head whips around in time to see a man dressed in priests garments step out of the shadows, "SO. What you got?" Faith asks.
Caleb smiles, and doesn't answer her question, "So you're the other slayer? The darker one. The one who loves the fight. It is a pleasure to finally meet you. By the way the names Caleb"
Faith looks confused, "The other slayer? It's not like there is another one."
He just laughs, and looks at her, "What about this one?" he asked going over into the shadows, and kicking someone in the ribs until it rolled into the light on its stomach.
The thing moaned, and curled up into a ball muttering something about cold, and rolling back into the shadows.
Faith felt a lump in her throat. Spike was way back looking at the bringers making sure they didn't make a move, and saw none of it.
Caleb punched Faith in the nose, and picked her up throwing her into a barrel, and bursting it open.
Spike vamps out and attacks Caleb. Caleb pushes him down with ease. Spike tries to get up, but Caleb head-butts him, then throws him across the room into a huge wine storage tank that busts when Spike hits it. Wine pours out of the tank and washes Spike across the floor. Kennedy and the other potentials get into gear and join the fight.
"Let's go!" Kennedy yells to the others.
The Bringers come back out of the shadows to fight the potentials as well. Kennedy storms Caleb but has to engage a Bringer instead. Caleb punches Kennedy, knocking her into a stack of wine barrels.
"Kennedy!" Rona yells worriedly about Kennedy.
Rona runs toward Kennedy, but Caleb cuts her off. She swings the spiked baseball bat at Caleb, but he catches it and looks her in the eyes.
"Miss, I do believe you have your own problems you should be worrying about,"
Caleb breaks Rona's arm with ease, sending her reeling back in agony. Caleb chuckles and bends to pick up a knife from the floor. He tosses the knife to a nearby Bringer, who swings it back ready to plunge it into Rona's body. An arrow pierces the Bringer's forearm as he rears back. They turn to look, and see Xander standing there with a bow. Willow, and Tara are there beside him. The Bringer leaves Rona and fights with Xander.
"Oh, good. There's more of you," Caleb says.
Faith charges at Caleb finally getting back up.
Faith attacks Caleb with her other knife, but he grabs her arm, twists it, and crosses it with her other arm in a fashion such that she can't move, but is looking right at him. He squeezes her hands until she's forced to drop the knife. Faith grunts at him and knees him in the crotch, causing Caleb to let go of her just enough that she can escape his grasp. She backhands him across the face. Caleb grabs Faith's arm and twists it painfully behind her back, causing her to double over. She falls to her knees as he twists and pulls her arm and walks around to the front of her.
He throws her back into a barrel again. A potential with long black hair swings at Caleb, but he grabs her sword, then her face. Caleb snaps the potential's neck and drops her to the ground.
"No...!" Molly yells.
"Yes," Caleb says walking over to Molly.
Xander leaves Faith after making sure she was okay. Caleb walks menacingly toward Molly, who backs up slowly, frozen with fear. She raises her arm back to stab him, but he grabs her wrist, then her neck. Another potential fights a Bringer. A Bringer throws Amanda against a wall and attacks her. Faith stands just as Caleb squeezes Molly's neck, lifting her off the floor. Faith tries to go to her, but Bringers keep attacking her, slowing her down.
"What can I say? I work in mysterious ways," he stabs Molly, lets go of her neck, dropping her to the ground, "Also some fairly straightforward ones."
Enraged at seeing what he did to Molly, Faith rushes Caleb. She fights him more evenly this time, avoiding his punches, and landing a few of her own. She punches him so hard, Caleb is sent flying across the room, bit he comes back, and punches her again in the stomach five times. By the end she is coughing up blood.
Spike punches Caleb back, and he hits a barrel.
"We're all leaving," Spike says to Faith pulling her up, and over he shoulder. Spike pulls Faith away from the fight. Xander goes to Kennedy's side.
"Are you OK? Let's go. Come on," Xander says after Kennedy nods. Xander helps Kennedy to her feet. Spike escorts Rona while pulling Faith out of the building. Faith was punching his back feebly, and was trying to say something.
"Let's go! Come on!" Xander yells. Caleb grabs Xander and turns him around so he's facing Caleb.
"You're the one who sees everything, aren't you? Well, let's see what we can't do about that," Caleb plunges his thumb into Xander's left eye, gouging it out. Xander screams in agony. Spike charges Caleb, knocking Xander away from Caleb. Xander, bleeding from his eye, stumbles back, falling to the ground in front of wine barrels.
Spike lifts Xander to his feet, and carries him out, supporting his weight. Caleb sits up but doesn't pursue them as they walk out. He stands and smiles while watching them leave, "Well it looks like they forgot the package," Caleb says looking back at Buffy who was covered in the blood of potentials, and bringers alike.
"Cold. So cold. Covered in it must get out. Everything so cold, and s-small," Buffy says scratching at her arms, and hitting her head against the wall.
Caleb stops her quickly though, "Oh come on we can't have you hurting yourself. That's my job," he says punching her in the mouth several times before moving away, and hanging a rope from the ceiling.
He dragged her over, and pulled her feet up, and tied them to the rope effectively hanging her a foot off the floor. She wines like a dog, and wiggles around a bit trying to get loose.
"Dirty girls. That's all you are too. Just another dirty girl," he says.
"Hey Faith," Willow says coming into the slayers room.
Faith turns over only letting out a groan of pain, "Red I need to tell you something.
"Sure hit me Faith," Willow said curious to what she would have to say.
"He did have something of ours, and we left her there," Faith said before going back to sleep because of the drugs being pumped into her.
"Wait. What? Faith? Faith!" Willow yelled. Not seeing her stir Willow decided to wait by her bed, and talk to her when she woke up.
A/N: There hope you like. Any questions or anything just tell me okay.