Willow's Rescue
by willow
Chapter 4
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Chapter 4...
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Buffy and Willow were in the kichen doing the washing up... well, not washing up, more like soap sud fight.
Laughter filled the kitchen, probably for the first time ever. It suprised her how doing such a simple "activity" with Buffy could make her feel so good inside.
Over dinner, they had decided that there were enough rooms for the scoobies to stay at the Rodriguez household, this lifted Willow's spirits considerably.
When they finished, Willow handed Buffy a towel out of the airing cupboard and grabbed one for herself, wiping her face of the suds. The two were still laughing, but Buffy stopped when Willow brought her towel down from her face.
Seeing Buffy's jaw drop, Willow stopped laughing and asked: "What?"
She brought a shaking hand up to Willow's face and stroked her left cheek gently and the witch suddenly realised the suds and towel had removed all the make-up.
"It was the demon!" Willow said, a little too quick.
"Why were you covering it up?"
"Because... it's ugly... and I wanted to look nice for you guys."
Buffy knew she was lying, but didn't want to push. It was late, and she decided to wait until morning to talk to Wills.
She smiled and said her goodnight to Willlow before hugging her tight and kissing the top of her head.
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Willow headed to the room she shared with her wife. She'd hoped she was still in the bathroom so the witch could at least try and fake sleep. She wasn't.
As soon as Willow stepped through the door Kennedy shut it and wrapped her hands around her throat.
She whispered fiercely into Willow's ear, "Sound proof the room, NOW."
Willow whispered a few words in Latin and a light glow surround the room then slowly faded. "It's done."
Kennedy smirked, "Good" she threw Willow into the wall, leaving a dent.
She started to scream at the witch crumpled on the floor, "HOW COULD YOU LET THEM STAY? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? YOU STUPID LITTLE BITCH! WHAT IF THEY START TO SUSPECT SOMETHING?"
Willow tried to argue her side, though she knew it would do no good, "Kenn, I just..." *SMACK* "please, baby, I..." *SMACK* "I thought..." *SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK*
Willow blacked out, and as she did, the spell that sound proofed the room was broken.
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Kennedy chucked a glass of water over Willow's face, waking her up, dazed and confused.
"You're pathetic, you know that?"
Willow felt sick, she never understood why Kennedy was so cruel. This woman was meant to be in love with her, yet treated her lower than dirt.
She curled into a defensive ball and burried her face in her knees so the slayer couldn't see her cry.
She soon found herself being dragged by her hair, once again over to her bed.
"Strip."
Willow did as she was told.
She felt dirty being naked in front of her wife. She knew this wasn't how propper relationships worked. But she couldn't leave her, no one else would have her...at least, that's what Kennedy had drilled into her.
She had the leather belt out, again. It was safe to say that was Kennedy's favourite. First, she left two red marks across Willow's stomach, then one on each leg which made Willow cry out in pain.
The smack against her face was the one that made Willow break down. Tears streamed down her face and she begged Kennedy to stop.
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Faith woke out of a deep slumber to hear Willow's desperate cries, muffled by the wall, "Please, baby, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I won't do it again, just please stop, Kenn, it hurts so bad."
Faith felt rage building up in the bottom of her stomach. She leaped out of bed and stormed into the next room to find Kennedy standing over a naked Willow with the belt. She looked over at Willow's beaten, bruised and near emaciated body. The amount of marks was shocking. Faith was now blind with rage and Kennedy was being held up against the wall in a second.
"Give me one reason why I shouldn't knock your lights out, permenantly, right here and now."
"What's going on?" Buffy was standing in the doorway. She'd heard the commotion coming from Willow's room and alarm bell's were immediately raised. She found Faith near killing Kennedy against the back wall and a naked Willow trying to cover her body up with the sheets on the bed. But it was too late, Faith had already seen it all, the bruises and scars certainly didn't go unnoticed by Buffy either. She stood with her mouth open and tears in her eyes.
"Oh my God. Willow"
Willow looked away, ashamed that Buffy had seen her this way.
Buffy made her way over to the bed and wrapped her strong arms around the shaking girl.
"Faith," Faith looked back at the blonde, "ease off a little." Faith then looked to Willow and knew that showing Will her violent side right now would probably scare her. She took her hands from around Kennedy's neck but still held on tightly to one of her arms.
"Lock her in the en-suite." Faith did as the blonde slayer said, then returned to the bedroom.
Buffy started to rock the witch back and forth and gave her a small kiss on the forehead. The small brunette just clung to Buffy's PJ top and sobbed.
She waited a few minutes before she asked, "Did she do all of this to you?"
Willow shook her head violently, fear evident in her eyes, "N-No, the worst p-part's from d-demons"
"It's OK, Will. You can tell us. You don't have to be scared anymore. You don't have to protect her."
Willow looked into the brown eyes of the beautiful slayer and knew that she would never lie to her.
She nodded slowly before burrying her face into Buffy's neck and letting the stray tears fall. Buffy simply rocked the girl back and forth until she fell asleep.
"Uh...B?"
"Yeah?"
"What are we gonna do with the newest rogue slayer?"
Buffy stared straight ahead and thought about all the terrible things she wanted to do to Kennedy, but she couldn't, it would make her just as low as the abuser of the poor woman in her arms right now, "Don't ask me now, I might say something I'd regret," she turned her head to look at Faith, "we'll decide in the morning, until then, keep her in those shackles in the basement." Faith nodded and went to the en-suite to get Kennedy and drag her downstairs kicking and screaming all the way. The sound of Kennedy's shouting voice made Willow wake up with a start, sweat beads already forming on her head.
"Shhh, it's ok Wills"
"What's going on?" her voice sounded tired and weak.
"Kennedy's being chained up," Buffy simply stated no emotion present on her face. Willow looked at her confused and Buffy smiled softly, "I'll explain in the morning, get some sleep, OK?" Willow nodded, sleepily and it didn't take long for the witch to drift back to sleep in the slayers arms.
Buffy sighed, deeply, "I love you, Will" she confessed to the sleeping girl.
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