Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine, except Cassandra All others are property of Mutant Enemy, Inc. If any one wishes to use ethier of these stories than fell free just give me credit.
Buffy stand in the graveyard slowly looking around. All semms to be quite for the time being. She turns her head slowly glacing over her shoulder. A vampire suddenly pops out of it’s grave. She turns around to face it.
She frowns and says “Dont you ever get tired of dying? This will make it what, your second death? Why even come back for more?” Buffy slugs the vampire. He lets out a little groan as they continue to fight. He kicks her hard and she falls to the ground. They continue to fight a hard and gruling match. The vampire leans over and is about to try and bite Buffy when he burts into ashes. A confused look croses Buffy’s face. Her eyes fixate on a young girl. She look a couple of years older than her self. She has Dark aburn hair that is contrasting to her olive skin. Her deep voilet eyes seem to baer into Buffy.
“ Who are you and what in the hell do you think you are doing?” Buffy asks.
“ I am Cassandra. I am saving your butt. That is what I was called here for after all.”
“Stop talking crazy girl. First off my butt was never in danger and what are you talking about? Who called you here?”
“You were just about to join the undead. If you dont think that is danger than you are certainly more screwed up in the head than I though. I was sent to help you by the Watcher Society. Who else did you think? Now take my to your watcher and I will educate you there.”
Buffy laughs, “You educate me.”
Giles, Xander, Willow, Buffy and Cassandra sit around in the Libary.
“Mr Giles I prosume. My name is Cassandra. I was sent here by the watcher society. But prehaps you already know that.”
“Uh, uh yes. I-I was notif-ied this very morn. They they said that you would tell me what was happening.”
“A great evil has come to Sunnydale and I was send to help, as only a slayer can.”
“Again with the two Slayer. And you claimed that Kendra was the only other one,” Xander said mockingly pointing a finger at Buffy.
“Then you do not know that Kendra is dead?” Cassandra said in a monotone voice.
“No, no-no we didn’t,” Giles said with the smile whiped of his face. “Where are you from, Cassandra?”
“Coloray, perhaps you have heard of it,” Cassandra said with a basare look in her eye.
“Of course. I read about it in the internet, the whole town was killed by some strange dissease. What killed them,” Willow asked cureously.
“Vampires.”
“Oh”
“Now this is more than I care to tell,” Cassandra stated. “If you have any more questions contact the Watcher Society and they might be able to tell you mor-” Cassandra turned sencing a vampire in their presence. “A vampire.”
Just then Angel waltzed in. Cassandra swiftly lept out of her chair, with a stake in hand and ran for angel.
“No, Cassandra no,” Buffy yelled.
“Oh, I guess you are Angel. If you dont mind we need to talk. I asmume you have been informed,” Cassandra said without lossin a beat.
“Will you stop acting crazy.” Buffy turns to Willow and says “Now that girl certianly has some issues.”
“Yes I was informed. Lets step outside,” Angel sayed.
“Does this seem werid to anyone else or is it me?” Xander asks.
Out side in the graveyard Angel and Cassandra slowly walk.
“The Society contacted me and said that I was to meet you. What is this all about?”
I will tell you but this must stay between us no one else should know. Espailly Buffy. Do you understand?”
“I will tell no one.”
“No one here know the truth they only know a slight version of it. I once had a twin sister and we were the Slayers. I was the younger one and didn’t worry about my resonabilites. We had a hudge amount of vampires in Coloray and couldn’t spare ethier of us when propallems arrived in L.A. So Buffy was called and told a Slayer had died and it was her turn to figh the evils. And she did. Now do you know about the books of Duca?”
“Yes they are the most powerful evil of all. There are three books and each book is broken in section of three. They are held by the Slayer.”
“Yes, they were all once held in Coloray. One was in aa vault, anouther was always on the move and the last was my responsiblity. But the vampire legions decided to get them they joined forces and hundreds of vampires stormed Coloray without warring,” Cassandra sayed lowering her voice so Angel could barely hear it with his heightend sences. “The vampires attained two of the books-”
Angel cut her off with a sharp gasp. “No!”
“But it’s true. Issabella, my twin sister thought that I should desices my self so it appeared that I was not her twin. I took the real book and she recieved a fake from our watcher. She was to fight the vampires and pretend to save the book. I concealed my self and hide. Before dawn I saw two vampiress walking with the fake book. My sister was dead.” A tear made it’s way down Cassandra’s face. “And so was the rest of the town. I left at sunrise. Knowing the vampires would soon find out I killed them as they slept. About a hundred excaped my reign of killing.” Cassandra loweres her voice even more so that Angel has to strain to hear her. “The socity sepated the three patrs of the remaing book. The first part went to fort knox. The second never touches the ground. And I have the remaing thrird on me at all time. So now you know why I am hear and why I need you help.”
“I’m not sure I understand. I know you past but why are you hear?” Angel asked in a normal voice.
“Lower you voice. I have been trained to use all my sences. They are equal to your, vampire ones. The legions have gathered here thinking that Buffy has the book. She must not know this or she will instantly have a death warrent on her head. They are not looking for me because the assume that my sister and I were one, therefor they think I am dead.”
“Wont the vampiress reconize you,” he asked.
“No, I have changed everything I can. My hair my eyes and the watcher socity have spent the last year traing me how to move differntly.” Cassandra noted the suprise on Angel’s face. “Yes it has been a year. The vampiress have taken that long to reconven now you and I must fight the legions.”
The next night Cassandra walks into the bronze and scans the room. She doen’t see anything unsuall. She relaxes and orders a drink. Slowly Xander approches her. His eyebrows knit together.
“Can I ask you a question?” Xander asks.
“You just did but I guess you can ask me anouther.”
“It’s just you look so old. How old are you?”
“Twenty.”
“Wow you are young. You just act so mature I wouldn’t have guessed.”
“I had to grow up pretty fast.”
“Why are you so cold?”
“I’m not cold I just dont want to get close to you. You see I was the only one who made it out of Coloray alive and I fear that I will be the only one who makes it out of Sunndyale alive. So I dont want to be close to the victoms,” Cassandra said slowly rising. She turned and walked away.
She bumped into a beautiful man.
“Sorry.” was all that she could mutter.
“No it was my fault, love.” He said in a beautiful english accent.
“You have a beautiful voice,”She muttered.
“Not nearly as bloddy beautiful as you.”
Cassandra blushed at all the attention. “So what is your name?” After the words lefter mouth she longed to call the back. How could she do this she couldn’t get attached to anyone.
“Spike, and you love?”
“Cassandra,” she said breathlessly.
Cassandra sat upon the bed in Willow’s room where she had decide to stay. Her mind realed with the nights events. Slowly she began to sort her thoughs. I really like Spike. Though something seems odd. I cant seem to place what. No I cant get attached. I got attached last time and look at what good it did me. Slowly she shook her head in atempt to clear her thoughs. She was starting to feel again. She had n’t felt this way for the longest time nor had she wanted to feel this was. A frown made it’s way across her beautiful olive tone face.
Willow enter the room and noted the frown and intence consentration that Cassandra was all but vibrating with. “What’s wrong.” willow asked in a gental tone.
“I am starting to get attached again,” she said. Noting Willow’s perplexed expression she expanded. “After Coloray I was taught not to get attached to people. Because you dont want the past to repeat it’s self. I use my anguish to fight. It is my only way of copping.”
“It must have been hard for you. I have done some reading on the soul survers of mass terminations, and it leads me to-,” she stared.
“No reading could ever prepare you for the reality of the event,”Cassandra interupted.
For oerhaps the first time in her life, Willow realized this was a time when knowlage couldn’t help.
“Have you ever heard of a guy name Spike?” Willow opened her mouth to respond but Cassandra cut her off. “What an unsuall name. He seems lik a nice guy the first one that I have ever been able to trust in a long long time,” She said smiling contently.
Cassandra did not see the deep wrinkles in Willow’s forehead. perhaps it was for the best.
Willow was deeply woried. Of all the men why does she have to Spike. He only has half a soul. He is perhaps the worst person to trust. He is so hard to judge. You never know weather he has his soul or if he doesn’t. Anouther Dr. Jeckle Mr. Hyde case seniro.
Willow frantically paced the room. Cassandra was in the shower and she only had a short time to make a decinon and carry it out. What was she going to do. Suddenly she knew what she did. She reached for the doorknob to leave when she realized how late it was. She couldn’t sneak out her parents were downstairs. She quickly crossed the room and opened the window. Without hesitation she jumped from her two story window.
Willow tried to pry open the window but it was stuck. Of all my luck, she thought. Then she saw a big rock next to her. She reached down and thrusted it with all her might at the window. It made a stacifing crack. She pushed away the broken glass with her shoe. She climbed through the little window. A peice of glass wedged into her back. She let out a startled cry. There goes the elment of suprise, she thought as suddenly all eyes were on her.
Cassandra hummed as she got out of the shower. She glaced around the room searching for Willow. Now where did that girl go. She seems awful high strung. What is her problem. She has seemed kind of freaked all night. Ever sence I mentioned Spike. No I am just being silly what connection could there be there. What am I thinking. But still, there is something werid going on here. Cassandra walked amlesly around the room. She sat down at the vanity. Cassandra picked up a brush and started to run it through her hair. You know what I should do. I should have Willow pull up a file on Spike tommorw morning. She seeems to be the hacker type. Yes that’s how I will find out more.
“I dont have to be invited. I guess you cant say the same,” Willow barked back at him. What am I doing I dont want to insulte him. Please, please change back,please. Although she mentally pleaded with him it had no effect.
“I dont like my meals to bite back. After all that’s all you are darling, a meal. Stop squirming you woulnt get away.”
Oh, my gosh he is my only hope. What was I thinking. Oh, wait I wasn’t thinking. That has been my problem all along got to think.
Spike leared at her “I alway liked the prefeed game.”
That’s it I have to want to die. She slowly moved her her head, so she showed her slender neck. “Let’s go. This is afterall why I came here.”
“She wants to be changed,” one of the vamipers sneered.
“So that’s why you are here, my pet.”
“No I dont want to be changed I just want to die.”
“She seems to be nice trained well, and I just told her about the various vampires who roomed this town.”
“Oh.”
“What did you think?” Angel asks.
“Honestly?”
“Of course,”Angel said.
“Oh, I dont know. I guess I thought that she told you something as a secret. I know I am just being silly you wouldn’t keep anything from me I should know that by now,” Buffy said. Buffy snuggled closer to him and didn’t notice the look on his face.
How can I keep this from her? I want so to tell her. I should we have never kept secrets from each other before. But what about what Cassandra said. No, I cant tell her. I certainly wouldn’t want Buffy dead. I should tell Cassandra about the vampires of sunnydale though. I’ll do that tommorrow.
Willow walked forward with her neck still bend. “Come on feed. You must be very hungrey. You dont want to sit around talking do you. If you want we could go some where more private,” Willow said acenting the word talk.
Spike seemed to cautch the hidden meaning. “Yes, private would be good.” He turned to his legions. “Leave us. go out and feed and return in two hours time.”
They all departed swiftly.
“Now what do you want to talk about. And didn’t you realize the danger of coming here?”
“Yes I realized that. But I have to talk to you,” Willow said.
“What is so important that you had to risk your life to come here.”
“Cassandra.”
This simple statment seemed to hit Spike as if it was a rock.
“I dont know what you are talking about.”
“Yeah and I supose that there is anouther Spike that looks like you rooming arount. Come on I dont want you to hurt Cassandra. She has already had too much pain for a life time.”
“Now what are you talking about. She is in her twenties what kind of pain could she have seen?”
“Have you heard of the town of Coloray?” Noticing the flicker of reconition Willow proceeded. “She was the only surviver. Is that enough pain for you.”
“So I finally find somone of worth only to find out that she bares as much pain as I. Now get out of here before they come back.”
Now where has she been. Oh, well she is back now. I guess now is a good time as any to ask her. “Willow, can you do me a hudge favor?”
“Abslutly”
“Could you pull up Spike’s file, for me?”
“Uh-”
“You do know how don’t you?”
“Yeah. I guess I could do it. What exactly do you want to know?”
“Everything there is to know. His age, birthday, does he have a record? Has he been married? Basically the works. So can you do it for me?”
“I dont know.” Noting the questioning look on Cassandra’s face she said. “I guess I could do it.”
“Good.”
Willow glanced nevously around the room. I’ve got to stall there is no way I can do this. He doesn’t even have a file. So how am I supposed to hack into his’. I will have to hack in and make a file. That will take a fare amount of time though. How will I ever do this.
“I can do it. It will take awhile though.”
“Why will it take a while?” she questioned Willow looking spectical.
“I have never hacked into the government before,” she lied. “I’ll need to crack the code and cross refrence anyone with the first name of Spike. Get it? Do you know his last name perhaps?”
“No. I could ask him tho-” Cassandra started.
“No. You cant do that.” Willow interupted. If she goes to see him, she might not be lucky enough to get him when he has his soul.
“Why in world not?” Cassandra asked raising one eyebrow.
“Wh-What would your excuse be. You just cant tell him that you are wanting for me to hack in to the goverment mainframe, now would you?”
“I guess you are right. Besides I am in no rush,” stated Cassandra.
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Spike threw Willow across the room. “ What in the world do you thing you are doing here? You weren’t invited,” Spike taunted.
Buffy slowy walked out of the Bronze with Angel. They were holding hands. Slowly Buffy’s head turned looking up at Angel. “What do you think of that other so-called slayer?” Buffy asked. “And what did she talk to you about when you guys talked alone?”
Spike looked at Willow with a look of astonishment. She acctually wanted death. There is one girl who I can be afraid of, easily. She looks familar. Oh mygosh she is one of the Slayer’s friends. Maybe I can use her. He reached his hand up to his head and used it to massage his temples. No I will not let him and his little soul to come back. Suddenly Spike flinched. To bad Spike, you dont have a choice. Now why would Willow want to die?
Willow climbed back into her window. Cassandra seemed to sence this and sturred in her sleep. Willow tip toed her way across the floor. Unfochantly for her she steped on a loose board. It let out a loud creak. Cassandra bolted up out of sleep and looked strait at Willow.
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