From: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com (Buffyfic-digest) To: buffyfic-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: Buffyfic-digest V2 #67 Reply-To: buffyfic@xmission.com Sender: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk Buffyfic-digest Sunday, March 22 1998 Volume 02 : Number 067 In this issue: BUFFYFIC: Discuss: Death of a Slayer (1/1) BUFFYFIC: Our Hearts Will Go On BUFFYFIC: Our Hearts Will Go On 3/6 BUFFYFIC: Our Hearts Will Go On 2/6 See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the buffyfic or buffyfic-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 98 09:28:41 PST From: "Sapphire" Subject: BUFFYFIC: Discuss: Death of a Slayer (1/1) This was an interesting alternative universe story. It could have been longer, and you could have had alot of fun exploring the idea a bit more, but I enjoyed it as a short as well. Good work :) Hope that writer's block is gone now! Sapphire: sapphire@chaos.taylored.com X-Over Crossover list admin: X-Over: XF Crossover archive http://www.busprod.com/aclaybor Taking the Challenge: BtVS Challenge Archive ; SPCDD; LOMIG ; G-Woman #3 Keeper of Willow's momentary obsession with sore thumbs, Willow's whimper of sadness for her dead fish and her fake frog fit in = KBD - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 11:14:07 -0800 (PST) From: michele v Subject: BUFFYFIC: Our Hearts Will Go On Ok, I decided to re-send out "Our Hearts Will Go On" Parts 1-5 again because a lot of people were asking for Parts 1-4 so I just decided to send out the whole thing again, including the new part (part 6) - -Michele _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 11:15:35 -0800 (PST) From: michele v Subject: BUFFYFIC: Our Hearts Will Go On 3/6 TITLE: Our Hearts Will Go On 3/6 AUTHOR: Michele V. EMAIL ADDRESS: glynisgrl33@yahoo.com FEEDBACK: Definitely, especially since this is my first fic- but since it is, please don't be too harsh SPOILERS: All episodes through "What's My Line 1 & 2" RATING: PG SUMMARY: A Buffy/Angel story that takes place after "What's My Line 1& 2," with some added Willow/Oz and Xander/Cordelia/ Also, Buffy and the gang find out about the return of the Master- in some form. DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters except for "The Elgradora" All of the other characters belong to Joss Whedon and the WB. No copywrite infringement intended. NOTE: I wrote this after "What's My Line 2" therefor without knowing that something similar would *sort of* happen in "Surprise" ********** PART 3 THE BRONZE Buffy, Xander, and Willow sat at a table talking. After a while, Xander stood up and asked Buffy and Willow if they wanted to dance. "Ok, sure" Willow answered. "Buffy?" Xander asked. "You know what, you guys go ahead. I'm-not really up to dancing right now," Buffy told them. "Are you sure Buffy?" Willow asked her. Buffy nodded. "Yeah. I'm sure." Xander and Willow started to walk out onto the dance floor. Xander turned back around to Buffy. "Hey, Buff. If this is about the thing with Angel, I wouldn't worry. I'm sure it can't be that bad," Xander said trying to cheer her up. Buffy nodded and smiled as best she could. She sat there alone at the table as her two friends danced on to each song that was played. Buffy kept watching the entrance, hoping that Angel would walk through it. Finally, Buffy spotted Angel walk in just as another, slower song came on. Angel looked around a bit, then finally noticed her. He started walking towards her table. Buffy had to smile at the sight of him. He looked just gorgeous. Like an angel. He finally reached here table. "Hey," he said softly. "Hi," Buffy said with a slight smile cross her face. Angel stood there, staring into Subject: BUFFYFIC: Our Hearts Will Go On 2/6 TITLE: Our Hearts Will Go On 2/6 AUTHOR: Michele V EMAIL ADDRESS: glynisgrl33@yahoo.com FEEDBACK: Definitely, especially since this is my first fic- but since it is, please don't be too harsh. SPOILERS: all episodes through What's My Line 1 & 2 RATING: PG SUMMARY: A Buffy/Angel story that takes place after "What's My Line 1 & 2", with some added Willow/Oz and Xander Cordelia. Also, Buffy and the gang find out about the return of the Master- in some form. DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters except for "The Elgradora" All of the other characters belong to Joss Whedon and the WB. No copywrite infringement intended. NOTE: I wrote this after "What's My Line 2," therefor without knowing that something similar would *sort of* happen in *Surprise* ********** PART 2 Buffy sat on top of a grave stone, staring down at the stake in her hands- and daydreaming about Angel. She snapped herself out of it when she sensed something behind her. "Sorry- I never did like or fall for those 'sneaking up behind me so that I won't notice you're there and you can kill me,' games," Buffy said as she spun around, raising her stake. No one was there. "Ok..I was never one for hide and seek either. Now show yourself." She looked all around and still saw no one. Then she felt a cool breeze behind her. "Who's there?!?" she yelled turning around again. But again, she saw nothing. Then she heard it. A faint whisper. "I'm coming, Buffy.....I'm coming soon," the ghostly woman's voice whispered. The breeze went away. Buffy knew what it was-it had to have been her- the spirit of the Master, warning her. "No!" she yelled at the top of her lungs, as she sprang up in Angel's bed. Breathing heavily, she looked around and noticed where she was. Angel immediately came to her side, wrapping his strong arms around her, and hugging her close to him. "Hey- it was just a dream. Everything's alright- you just had a bad dream," he whispered in her ear while rocking her slowly. She pulled away and ran her fingers through her hair in distress. "Hey-Are you alright?..you ok?" he asked her softly while putting a gentle hand on her shoulder. "Yeah, I uh, had this nightmare," she told him. Angel sat there staring at her, waiting for her to continue. "It was about this thing Giles told me about earlier today...I was- supposed to ask you about it but I guess I got a little distracted and forgot," she explained. A look of concern appeared on Angel's face. "What is it?" he asked her. "The Master- he's supposed to come back six months after he was killed , on the sixth day, at the 6th hour- and go after the person killed him..which, unfortunately would be me. Only it won't be the actual Master, it'll be its spirit and it'll be female. The spirit of the Master is always of the opposite sex," Buffy explained. "And this is what your dream was about?" he asked her. Buffy nodded. "Yeah, I was um, in the graveyard hunting vampires and I felt someone behind me-I thought it was a vampire- but when I turned around no one was there. Then I felt this breeze behind me and I turned around again but still didn't see anything but heard her voice, whispering to me," she explained. "What did she say to you?" "She told me that she's coming...soon. I figured it out with Giles and the Master's spirit is supposed to be coming in just three weeks." "And, you think that the voice you heard in the dream was the Master's spirit?" Angel asked her "It was- I know it was. In the dream, I could feel the Master's power, I could feel his presence-just like I could in the dreams I had about him killing me. It had to have been the spirit," Buffy told him. Angel sighed and looked down. "I take it- you know something about this thing." Angel looked back up at her. He nodded slightly. Buffy waited in silence for him to begin telling her about it. "It's known as The Elgradora," he finally started. "In other words, meaning?" Buffy asked, confused. " The Spirit of the Master" "Couldn't they just call it "Spirit of the Master," Angel went on. "It comes in spirit form of the opposite sex- to kill the person who was responsible for killing *it*" he continued. "So um, how exactly does it kill?" Buffy asked unsure of whether she really wanted to know. "It goes inside your body, without you knowing, and kills you internally. Once you're dead, the spirit takes over your body and uses your body as *it's* body until it's old body reforms over yours. Then, slowly but surely, it is restored back to its full strength, and begins to destroy all that it can. It also, assembles a team of all the vampires that are existing to help it in destroying everything and everyone before it is restored to its full strength." "If you can stop it from going inside you, or kill it somehow, then all the other bad stuff won't happen, right?" "Yes,but, since you're the Slayer, you'll still have to deal with the vampires. Every vampire in the world will be here- terrorizing Sunnydale." "Angel?" "Yeah?" "You can stop with the explanation now. It's really creeping me out," she told him with a look of fright on her face. "Sorry. I didn't mean to frighten you...I thought you needed to know." "I do but..I guess I just don't want to..unless there's ways of stopping it. Is there?" Angel looked down once again. "Angel?" He couldn't look at her. "There's no way...is there?" He finally looked up. "I don't know of any. I- read about it years ago but I can't remember anything about how it's been stopped in the past." "You mean you can't kill it, you can- only stop it?" "You can't kill it because it's already dead," he reminded her with a slight grin. "Oh...yeah...But you can make it go away maybe, right?" "Maybe..but there's no telling how. The only way to find out is to get a hold of the book that I read about it in." "So, I'm guessing that you don't still have a copy of it on your bookshelf, huh?" Angel shook his head. "I don't. I wish I could remember the name of the book but-," he stared. "Don't worry about now. We don't have to know it right now. I mean we have three weeks until it comes. I'm- sure we'll find out something else before then." He looked up at her, a sad look on his face. "Angel? What's wrong?" Is there something you're not telling me here?" she asked him, concerned. He looked away. *I don't have three weeks* he said to himself. He looked at the clock and noticed that it was 3:30 in the morning."You better get back to sleep, you have school tomorrow," he reminded Buffy, avoiding her question. Buffy sighed. "Oh..yeah..school. Well, at least tommorow's Thursday and the weekend's almost here," she said then laid back down on the bed. Angel got up and pulled the covers back up over her and kissed her forehead. "Sweet dreams," he whispered softly. "Hey, aren't you gonna sleep here next to me. You seemed to have evacuated the bed before- Why?" "Well I couldn't sleep, really. I- don't- normally go to sleep at that time. I'm usually up the whole night," he told her with a smile. "Oh, yeah. I kinda forgot about the vampire thing." Angel smiled down at her. "I will, though, if it'll help you sleep better," he said, climbing into bed next to her. She turned around to face him and smiled. He smiled back. Then she closed her eyes and fell asleep again. When Buffy woke up it was dark outside again. *Must've over slept big time* she thought. *Oh no, that means I missed school. Well I'll worry about that later. I better go save the world now* she thought as she got dressed. She put her jacket on, grabbed a stake and headed out the door. This time, she decided to hit Sunnydale Park. Buffy seated herself on a swing, stake in her hand, just waiting for a vampire to show. Time passed, and there was still no vampires in sight. Buffy sighed. She actually beginning to feel a little bored. All of a sudden, a gust of wind came, blowing the empty swing next to her so that it swung back and forth-as if someone was on it. Then she heard it again- The ghostly woman's voice, whispering to her. "I'm coming,Buffy....I'm coming soon...And when I do...you will die," the voice whispered to her. Then the gust of wind disappeared as did the voice and the swing next to her stopped swinging. "No!!! Please!!! No!!!" Buffy screamed as loud as she could. She turned to her side with a jerk, and opened her eyes. She was still in Angel's bed. Angel was awake next to her and slipped his arms around her, pulling her closer to him. "Guess you had another bad dream, huh?" he asked her. Buffy nodded. "Was it about The Elgradora?" "Yes..this time, I was hunting in the park and this huge gust of wind came, causing the swing next to me to swing back and forth- I think she was sitting on it or something- but she warned me again-said she was coming soon-but this time, she said I would die...I'm scared, Angel. Last time I had a dream like this, it really did happen. I mean, I died once, I don't wanna do it again," Buffy told him, frightened. Angel hugged her even closer to him. "Don't worry-We'll get through this. You're not gonna die-I won't let it happen...We'll just have to find a way to stop it-somehow...I'll- call some people I know to find out if they know where I can get a copy of that book I told you about." Buffy smiled at him. Then she looked at the clock. Her eyes widened. "Oh my god. It's already 6:30-I have to get ready for school. Angel, you don't by any chance have a shower do you?" Angel smiled. "Yeah, right through that door," he said pointing to a door in the room. "Ok, thanks...I'll- be out in a few minutes." She gave him a quick kiss on the mouth and then made a dash to the shower. Buffy came out twenty minutes later, all dressed and ready for school. She caught sight of Angel in front of the fridge, feeding on a bag of blood. "Hi. I'm finished," Buffy greeted him. Angel was startled and very much embarrassed. Although he knew that she saw him, he hid the blood bag behind his back with one hand, and wiped any blood around his mouth with the other. "I was just, uh-" Angel began nervously. "Eating your breakfast?" Buffy suggested. Angel just stared at her. "It's- nothing to get all up-tight about. You know, a lot of people do it." Angel sighed. "They don't eat what I eat though." "Well- different people have different taste buds- eat different things. That's the way it goes," Buffy said grinning. She was trying her best to make him more comfortable about the situation. Angel managed a smile. He stuck the blood packet back into the refrigerator and walked over to her. His eyes traveled up and down the length of her body. Buffy blushed a little. "You look beautiful," Angel said softly. He leaned in and kissed her. Buffy wrapped her arms arms around his neck, running her fingers through his air, as the kiss deepened. Buffy pulled away finally. "I better go to school. It's getting late," she told him. Angel nodded inn agreement. "I wish you could stay. It's so lonely without you," he admitted. "I know...believe me, I know. Sometimes- I find myself not being able to wait until it's dark out, so that I could be with you again," she told him. The two stared at each other in silence for awhile. "You better go," Angel finally spoke, a look of sadness across his face. "I should...but I just have to get something out first," she told him. "Ok..what is it?" Angel asked. "Well, it's kinda about what I was just saying. The days seem to go by so slowly-all I can do is count the hours until I'll see you- and then it's the night-and I see you-but it goes by so fast. It's like,that's all I wait for all day, and it's over as soon as it starts...I just wish our time together wasn't so limited.," she told him. She paused for a second and then continued on. "And then- there's the fear the I have-of- one of us going away...You-getting hurt by some other vampire and dying-or you- being exposed to sunlight and dying-or me-having to move again for whatever reason...And it scares me so much..For me to ever be without you, Angel...it's the scariest thing in the world." Buffy looked up at him to see his reaction. His head was down, and from what Buffy saw, it looked like he may have even been crying. "Angel?" she called him softly. Angel didn't look up. He couldn't. He couldn't let her know the reason why tears were streaming down his face. Not yet. Not then. He promised himself he'd tell her that night though. Buffy called his name again. When he didn't answer or look up, she walked over to him. She placed a hand under his chin and lifted his head to see his face. She realized that she was right- he was crying. Buffy never thought that she'd ever see Angel,"Mr. Cryptic Man,"-himself- actually crying. But there he was with tear stains down his cheeks. Buffy gently ran the back of her hand over his left cheek, wiping away the wetness. She did the same with the other. Angel still didn't make eye contact with her. His eyes were focussed off to the side. "Look at me Angel...Please," Buffy pleaded with him softly. He couldn't resist to that. He finally looked at her. When Angel's watery eyes stared in to Buffy's, her eyes began to get watery. "What's wrong, Angel?..Tell, me...Please." Buffy paused for a second. "Look, I know something's wrong. You've been acting weird ever since I came here last night. I saw it in you're eyes-And I see it now-You're hiding something...I wanna know what," she pleaded with him. Angel just stared at her. She begged him with her eyes-with the look on her face. "Please, Angel," she asked again. Tears began rolling down her beautiful face. When Angel saw this, his own tears began to fall again. Buffy continued to stare at him, waiting for him to tell her. Angel just shook his head. "I can't...I can't Buffy...Not right now." Buffy was understanding towards this. "Ok...Will you tell me later then?" Buffy asked, hopeful he'd say yes. Angel nodded. "I will," he promised. "I will." Buffy stared at him for a few more seconds then decided that she really had to go. "Well, I uh- have to go now. I guess I'll see you tonight," Angel nodded. Buffy grabbed her back-pack and jacket and walked to the door. "Bye, Angel," she said as she went out the door. "Bye, Buffy," Angel said, but she was already gone. SUNNYDALE HIGH SCHOOL Buffy walked into the school library to find her two best friends sitting at a table talking with Giles. Giles looked up and noticed Buffy. "Buffy-you're late to school-We weren't sure you were coming today," Giles said as Buffy walked over to the table and took a seat. "Well, here I am," Buffy said, trying to sound as enthusiastic as she could. Willow looked closely at Buffy. She looked very upset. "Are you ok, Buffy?" Willow asked, concerned. "Yeah- It's just- I was talking to Angel and he was acting kind of strange," she told her friend. "Well, maybe that's because he *is* strange. I mean he's a vampire with a soul-that's just about as strange as you can get," Xander said trying to lighten the mood. Buffy didn't seem amused. "How do you mean-strange? You don't think he's changed over to a normal vampire, do you" Giles stepped in. "No, It's just- he was crying and I asked him what was wrong and he said he couldn't tell me-then," Buffy explained. "Angel-crying!?!?" Xander asked with a laugh. Buffy, Giles, and Willow looked at him, annoyed. "Sorry," Xander apologized."Guess I just couldn't picture deadboy crying." "I don't know, maybe it's nothing-but I've just never seen him so upset," Buffy told them."And this thing that he's not telling me-I don't understand-Why couldn't he tell me? Why does he have to wait until tonight?" "I wish I could help you, Buffy, but I'm afraid there's nothing you can do but wait until tonight" Giles said, trying to comfort her. "I guess," Buffy agreed. "But- in the mean time, were you able to find out from Angel, anything about the coming of the Master's spirit?" Giles asked changing the subject. "Wait a minute. The Master is going to grace us Sunydalers with the presence of his spirit? How come I wasn't informed of this?" Xander asked. "Sorry-I didn't want to scare you guys until I knew for sure what this thing was," Buffy told him. "Well you know now right? So it's time to do some sharing and scaring," Xander said. Buffy looked at Giles for approval. "We *do* have to know, Buffy. And if Xander and Willow are going to be involved then they should be aware of this too," Giles told her. Buffy agreed and explained everything she knew and found out from Angel to Giles and her two friends. "Were you able to find out any method of-preventing this from coming forth-somehow?" Giles asked after Buffy was finished explaining. "I was just about to ask the same thing...with less words," Xander said. "Angel once read something about it in a book but he couldn't remember.what it said. He's working on it,though. He said he's gonna try calling some people to get information on it," Buffy told them. "Does that mean we don't have to do any work?" Xander asked with hope. "For now, no. But- if he's unable to find anything soon, we will...You may go to class now," Giles told them. "Ok, thanks Giles. See ya," Buffy said as she walked out of the library with her two friends. Xander and Willow also said bye to him. "So, what do you two ladies want to do tonight?" Xander asked as they headed to their next class. "Buffy, aren't you doing something with Angel tonight..So he can tell you that thing?" Willow asked her friend. "Well we didn't exactly make plans do go anyplace or do anything but we could go someplace where he'd know that I might be," Buffy suggested. "Like, say, the Bronze?" Xander nodded. "The Bronze it is!" "Yeah, and maybe Oz will be there," Willow said hopefully. Buffy smiled. "By the way, how did it go last night with Oz?" she asked her friend. "Oh, it went...We talked," Willow told her. "Details?" Buffy asked wanting to hear more. "Well, I watched him play and then he came over to my table, asked me if I wanted a cappucino, I said yes, and he bought me one." Willow began. "Then we talked about this new computer that's coming out soon and told silly jokes about people or things that happened at school. Then he had to go so he said goodbye and left. Is that enough details for you?" Buffy smiled. "Aren't you gonna asked me how my night with Cordelia went?" Xander asked. "Uh, that I don't really need to know," Buffy told him. *bell rings* "Well we missed first period class, I better get to class early before I'm late for second," Willow said to her friends. "We have the same class so guess I'll be going with you," Xander told his friend. "We'll see you at lunch Buffy," Willow told her friend. "Actually, you won't. I have to go meet with Giles at the library during lunch. He says I need to start training more to prepare for all those vampires that'll be coming here soon," Buffy told them. "We'll see you after school then," Xander said. "And after school. I have to train after school now too," Buffy told them. "Ok then we'll see you at the Bronze tonight," Willow said. "Yeah..tonight," Buffy answered. She walked to her next class in a daze-thinking about that night. Thinking about what it could be that Angel had to tell her. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - - ------------------------------ End of Buffyfic-digest V2 #67 ***************************** To subscribe to buffyfic or buffyfic-digest, send the command subscribe buffyfic-digest or subscribe buffyfic to majordomo@xmission.com. You will need to go through a confirmation process, and the listowners have to manually approve your subscription request, so it may take some time. 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