Reminding the Fallen
by zenithar
Chapter 12
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Everything up to the episode Empty Places has happened, just a few changes from the last season. One: Wood and Caleb did not show up. Two: So obviously much changeings to endings of series. Also the weapon that Buffy got is changed to an actual scythe.
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Author's Note: Big thanks to Rebelrsr for betaing and letting me bounce ideas off them. ' ' indicates Buffy's demon. ( ) indicates human thoughts.
Willow was holding the slayer's hand when she tried to stifle a yawn. Smiling at her Buffy let go of her hand and stood up. "Come on Wills, let's get into bed."
Smirking at Buffy, Willow played on her words, "I thought we were going to go slow?"
Slapping Willow's arm playfully, "You know what I mean." Both of them were smiling as Buffy took Willow's hand again and lead them through the now vacant living room, and up the stairs. Upon reaching the door to Willow's room they stopped.
"Well I guess this is where I sleep, but you already know that," Willow said uncomfortably.
Neither really knew what to do so Buffy asked, "Would a good night kiss be moving too quickly?"
"N-no not at all. It'd be moving at the right move, I mean pace." Willow stumbled out.
Looking into the witches eyes Buffy moved her face closer, till their lips were mere millimeters apart. Feeling the warm breath on her lips the slayer vampire was reminded again that she was not alive. "Are you sure you want this?"
"Yes Buffy, there's nothing I want more."
The two kissed in what was meant to be a light touch of lips yet it grew quickly into something that had a burning passion behind it. Both had their arms around one another when they finally broke apart to let Willow to regain her breath. Leaning their foreheads together Willow was breathing heavily and Buffy was simply looking at her with slightly glazed eyes. "Wow... I wasn't sure about this before but now.... just wow," Buffy said.
"Yeah, wow. New feelings: cold skin and no breath. Some of your vamp things are actually pretty cool," Willow said a little breathlessly.
"I guess a few are... umm... Will if we want things to go slow I think it might be best if we let go now."
"Oh... oh, yeah." Breaking apart the two still looked longingly at one another. Backing into her room Willow smiled at Buffy saying, "'Night slayer."
Smirking as the door shut Buffy made her way to her room and let herself fall onto the bed. 'Wow you've got it bad blondie' her demon mocked.
(At least I have someone. Unlike certain demons,) Buffy retorted.
'Hey. I am you so I also have the redhead. You should really let us have a taste of her.'
Growling out loud the vampire sat up. "We will never bite her and you know it!"
'Geeze calm down growly, I wasn't talking about tasting her like that,' her demon replied, throwing a few images at Buffy.
The slayer's eyes opened wide at the unexpected assault of ideas. Licking her lips slightly she got up from the bed and headed to the door. (Ok, so some of your ideas are... better than others. But that does not mean we'll do them.) Going down the stairs into the living room Buffy opened the blinds and looked out into the night.
'Yeah, I still think the best thing we did was eat Kennedy.' The demon tormented Buffy with scenes of biting Kennedy and letting her hit the floor.
Actually vamping out, the slayer vampire growled at her internal demon. (Shut up!! I never did that; it was all you!)
'Believe what you want, it really makes no difference. It's not as though you can do anything to me,' her demon said uncaringly.
"I can't, can I?" the slayer said threateningly. Spotting a cross laying on the coffee table Buffy moved over to it and picked it up hoping to cause her demon some amount of pain.
'Wait! What are you doing that'll hurt like...' the demon stopped in mid sentence when nothing seemed to happen even after holding the cross for a full minute.
Confusion written on her vampiric features Buffy said, "What the hell, these things always work on vamps."
Laughing slightly at the slayer the demon suggested an idea, 'Maybe it's another one of those post slayer perks. 'Looks like we can handle blessed objects.'
Letting her face revert back the slayer threw the cross back down and sat in one of the chairs dejectedly. Buffy felt Spike's presence well before the smell of his smoke hit her sensitive nose. "What do you want, Spike?"
"Nothin', luv. Just thought you might want someone to talk to," Spike said nonchalantly as he sat down across from Buffy on the couch. "Looks like you're having a bit of trouble is all." Watching her look away he knew he was onto something, "Come on Buffy, there's nothing you can't tell me now. We're the same."
Glairing at him, Buffy snarled, "No, Spike we're still nothing alike. I may be a vampire now but that doesn't get rid of the fact I'm still a slayer as well. You have no idea what this is doing to me."
Seeing how distraught she was, Spike had an idea why she suddenly was being mopey again. "It's the voice isn't it?"
"What? What voice?"
"Your demon. Remember, I've got a soul now, too. It keeps throwing things in your face doesn't it?" He looked down at his knees. "Mine does almost constantly I've found out, though, that things are better when you talk about 'em."
Looking at her feet, the slayer stayed silent for a few minutes. "There's not much to say. She keeps bringing Kennedy up and that's about it."
Becoming furious with Buffy's demon, Spike heatedly began, "That wasn't your fault Buffy. It has no-"
Cutting the other vampire off, she stated, "Don't worry, Spike, Willow's already forgiven me so I guess I can forgive myself, too. But that still doesn't keep her from reminding me of Ken."
Nodding his head Spike pulled out a new cigarette, "I understand. But there's something that's still bothering you and I think I can guess what it is." When the slayer vampire raised an eyebrow, the bleached blond continued, "Ken's death reminds you of all the lives you took when you had the scythe doesn't it?" Seeing her eyes widen he knew he hit the mark. "You've forgiven yourself for Ken's murder but you haven't for the others, have you?"
Glancing down at her hands, Buffy answered, "No, I guess I haven't. But that was my own choice; I don't have the excuse of being a vampire for those murders."
"True, but you're still not alone. Faith and Willow are right there with you in that boat." Leaning back in thought Spike spoke again, "In fact it's a lot like Red's spot. She went and killed when she was high on magic and you did the same when you were with the scythe. Neither of you were really in your right state of mind."
Looking back up at Spike quizzically, Buffy asked, "When did you get so caring and understanding?"
Shrugging the older vampire answered, "Having a soul changes your point of view." Sensing the sun was going to rise soon Spike stood up. "I think it's about time we went to sleep."
Buffy also sensed that sunrise was near and moved to the stairs and turned to look at Spike, who was near the basement doorway. "I guess being back won't be so bad this time." With that both moved to their rooms and made sure no sun would reach them and drifted off to sleep.
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Faith woke up to find the elder slayer's sister in her arms. The next thing she noticed was her arms had moved during the night and one was wrapped tightly around the brunette's waist while the other was cupping her right breast. Smiling at their position, the dark slayer gently removed her arms from Dawn and slipped out of bed. Looking around the room she checked the clock. It read noon. Shrugging, she picked up a clean pair of red-leather pants and a white tank-top and made her way to the shower.
Once done Faith went downstairs and had just started getting cereal out when a sleepy Dawn came shuffling into the kitchen wearing only a robe. Noticing her girlfriend's state, the dark slayer moved to bring the girl into a crushing kiss. Caught by surprise Dawn didn't immediately respond, yet when she did it was with equal fervor. "Wake now, D?"
Smiling at Faith Dawn just held the slayer close to her. "I would have been earlier had someone given me a wakeup call like that. So, what are we having for breakfast?"
"We? I am having a bowl of cereal. I don't know about you."
Slapping Faith's arm playfully, Dawn scolded her, "Hey, you know the older girlfriend has to pamper the younger one."
"Oh, so I'm supposed to pamper you?" Faith looked at her with a mirthful look.
"Hehe... Faith I know that look... You never know who might walk in here..." Dawn said warningly.
"Chill. B wont be up anytime soon, and so what if someone else catches us doin' somethin'." Faith gently pressed Dawn's back against the fridge and her front against her own and began kissing her deeply.
Breaking away slightly, Dawn tried to reason with the rogue slayer again, "But... Buffy might hear us."
"Then I'll just have to make sure to keep your mouth covered." Looking into Dawn's lust filled gazed Faith put her plan into action. Covering Dawn's mouth with her own she let her hands roam down the brunnette's back to rest on her butt. Moaning into the kiss Dawn lifted her legs wrapped them around the slayer's waist.
Hearing a low growl behind Faith the two stopped moving completely. Opening her eyes Faith saw Dawn was more than a little scared. Giving her a small peck on the lips Faith pulled away from the fridge and whispered for her to set her feet on the ground. Once the young brunnette was firmly on the ground Faith turned around but kept Dawn behind her. Buffy stood before her in a full leather ensemble, black pants with a deep red t-shirt under her ankle length duster. "What were you doing with my sister?" Buffy asked calmly.
"Nothin' she didn't want B." Faith's arrogant attitude was in full force.
"Somehow I doubt Dawn would want your tongue down her throat."
"Hey, she was givin just as well as she was gettin."
'You know she's going to just dump her. Like she does with all her sexcapades,' Buffy's demon taunted.
Glowering at Faith the slayer vampire let her left hand shoot out, taking Faith full in the gut. She doubled over and fell to her knees. Dawn immediately moved to her girlfriend's side and looked up, throwing daggers at the vampire with her eyes, "What the hell was that for, Buffy?" She also noticed her sister's eyes almost looked like they were gold, yet Buffy wasn't showing any other forms of her vampirism.
"Dawn, get away from her," Buffy ordered her sister. "She's just going to drop you like she does everyone else she screws."
Bringing her eyes back to her girlfriend, who was beginning to regain the ability to breathe, Dawn retorted, "No, Buffy, she won't. We've been going steady for a while now."
"Really?" Buffy asked sounding a little uncertain.
"Yeah, B. I'd never do anything to hurt Dawn," Faith stated as she stood up from the floor with Dawn hanging onto her tightly.
'You know she never takes relationships seriously, and your sister's too naive to get that.'
(I don't know.... Look at them. I've never seen Faith let anyone really touch her, much less hang on her.) Buffy argued. (Who knows, maybe Dawn did do a little growing up while I was gone.)
'While you were dead you mean. Just don't come whining to me when Faith dumps her ass and breaks little sis' heart,' the slayer's demon thought callously.
Eyeing Faith suspiciously Buffy warned her, "You do something that I interpret as hurting her and you'll find out first hand what a slayer vampire can do."
"You're letting us off?" Dawn asked disbelievingly.
'This is a bad idea...'
Shaking her head slightly to clear it, Buffy answered, "Yes. It's just a surprise is all. I mean I never would have guessed you'd go for girls, much less Faith."
Dawn noticed that Buffy's eyes were back to their usual amber color and that she was dressed like she was about to go out. "Are you planning on going out?"
Slightly confused by the sudden change in topic Buffy simply nodded.
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