Bring Me to Life





Same disclaimers as always









Twenty-One

















Phyllis stared wide-eyed at the petite blonde before her. She gulped, fear taking over.



The blonde slowly stalked up to her, glaring.



The brunette backed away nervously. Something about the woman in front of her was making her very uncomfortable, and it wasn’t just that the girl was one of Rosenberg’s friends, it was her aura, it literally radiated physical power.



Phyllis gave the girl what she hoped came across as a friendly smile. “Hey, come on, let’s talk about this, kay?”







Who does this girl think she is? Buffy glared at the woman before her. The small brunette who had just tried to murder her best friend was now trying to weasel her way out of it.



Buffy punched her.







***





“You punched her.” Tara eyed the Slayer.



Buffy nodded. “Yeah….Wasn’t I supposed too.”



The blonde witch blushed. “I kinda wanted to beat her up. For…”She gasped, “For hurting Willow.”



“I understand.” Buffy smiled. “And speaking of Willow…” She looked questioningly at Tara, wondering if the other woman had any information that she didn’t. Even if Tara knew anything, Buffy was sure that it wasn’t that much more than what she knew.



“We all need to have a talk.” She noticed Buffy’s look. “She never mentioned anything like this to me.” She sounded disappointed.



“I’m sure she meant to tell you.”



Tara smiled warmly at the blonde. “Let’s go.” Buffy nodded and the two began to leave the Slayer’s bedroom. Tara turned to Buffy. “Did you at least hit her hard?” Buffy grinned.





***



All the Scoobies plus Dani sat in what they all supposed was a living room. Tara had naturally taken her place by Willow’s side on the couch. Buffy sat by Giles and Xander by Anya. Dawn was seated between Buffy and Dani.



“What was that?” Anya stared at the nervous redhead. “I mean, she shot you? And you’re fine?”



Xander ‘cleared’ his throat. “I’ve been wondering something Wills, how is it that you’re still alive? Not that I’m not happy that you are.”

The sorceress looked around nervously. “Well…I’m…kinda immortal…”



Anya grinned. “That was kinda obvious after you magically took the bullet out after being shot in the head.”



Giles looked at Willow with excitement. “Immortal.” The Watcher in him was already at work. “The only creatures ever known to be immortal are Vampires.”



Dani laughed. “I’m more immortal than those Vampires ever were!” Everyone looked at her. “Oops.”



Everybody was quiet for a moment until Dawn spoke. “How? How are you immortal?”



Willow stood up, obviously done with the subject. “I think that’s enough for now. We’ll finish this later.”



Tara scowled at her lover. Why won’t she trust me? “Why don’t we finish this now?”



The redhead simply replied, “Our guest is waking up.”





***





Phyllis woke up with one hell of a headache. My nose…feels really big…and it hurts. She wasn’t all that surprised to find her nose broken.



She sat up, finding herself on a bed in an infirmary. At least they don’t seem to want to kill me just yet.



She sighed, lying back done. She thought of the strange blonde girl that had confronted her.



Why is it the cute ones that always want to kill me?

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"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it." The Princess Bride



*****



BeastBoy: She thinks I'm funny.



Raven:Statistically, I suppose, somebody has to.

Edited by: DarkChild at: 10/23/04 7:12 am

Hi there Darlchild

It's so cool read a new upload. It's really nice, like always. I'm curious about that Philis chik and why Willow keps avoiding the subject about her inmortality. Auch, poor thing, all years passing by and she can't rest, all guys around her passing away sooner or later, all alone. Lucks she got Dani.



Awww, I want moore

Hey everyone!!! I plan to have the next chapter up by friday. I've got a four day weekend, yay!!!



Saturday and Sunday I get to go to Anime USA!!! I can't wait. Happiness!!!!!

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"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it." The Princess Bride



*****



BeastBoy: She thinks I'm funny.



Raven:Statistically, I suppose, somebody has to.

Bring Me to Life













Same disclaimers as always















Twenty-One















Phyllis stared in fear as the blonde stalked up, anger clearly written on her face. Oh Goddess! Now she’s gonna kill me.



The blonde glared at her, then suddenly Phyllis’s check was burning. Her hand went straight to her throbbing cheek.



She did a double-take. Tara Maclay?! She had seen it before, that this woman was Rosenberg’s lover.



Nothing made sense. Looking into Maclay’s eyes she saw something…different there from the woman that had appeared in her dream. That woman had seemed…colder. This Maclay had a warmth to her.



“Why?” Maclay glared at her.



Phyllis, embarrassed, looked down, her honey hair falling over her eyes. “I…I…I’m sorry. I thought…”



“You thought what?”



Nervous blue eyes darted from face to face. “I…thought she was a threat.” Seeing that this wasn’t enough, she added, “I had a dream.”



Something in Maclay’s look softened. “Stay here.”







***







“Should we believe her?” Xander looked from face to face.



“She’s probably a bunny in disguise.”



Tara sighed. “She said she had a dream.”



Dawn scowled. “We all heard her. Personally, I think she’s lying. We should just…”



“You guys don’t think it’s possible that her dreams are…Slayer-like?” Buffy looked at Giles.



“Well,” Giles put his glasses back onto his face, “I guess it could be possible that this girl could have some kind of precognition.”



Out of the corner of his eye, Xander noticed Willow look around nervously.



***



She knew that they were all talking about her. She couldn’t really, hear them, but she knew.



Did they believe her? Her dreams had always shown a glimpse of the future. Her visions too.



Phyllis sighed. She had no idea whether or not they’d believe her.



She had no idea what she’d do if she didn’t.



Or worse, what if they did?







She wandered through the valley. The cold, damp grass tickled her bare feet. She knelt down. Below her sat three snow globes. She picked up the one in the middle. Inside she saw the city as it was, people scurrying about. In the center stood a figure. She couldn’t make out the face.



She placed the globe back onto the floor. She picked up the one on the right. Inside, its town was completely orderly. Nothing was out of place; it all reminded her of one of those so called ‘perfect societies’. She couldn’t make out the center figure’s face.



She picked up the one on the left. Everything inside was pure chaos. Monsters ran loose and people ran about looting and killing one another.



The figure in the center had Rosenberg’s face.













Phyllis woke up.



She hoped that her dreams had been a mistake.

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"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it." The Princess Bride



*****



BeastBoy: She thinks I'm funny.



Raven:Statistically, I suppose, somebody has to.

Edited by: DarkChild at: 10/25/04 5:17 pm

Yay! A new chap

Un? Why is Willow so nervous about? hope there's nothing to do with Phils dreams. Now. This is all so confusing.

Still liking the fic. Keep it up Darkchild you're good

Ok glad you updated....so thats all with the goodness....and willow knows something....now what is it...tell us tell us.

I'm dancing like a monkey!!! - GIR

MONKEYS - Ian: MacHall

Phyllis' dream info is definitely intriguing. So her dream Tara was different...does that mean it was something using Tara's face, or was it some possible future Tara? The snow globes gave me that impression too--that maybe ALL of the figures were Willow, but they are three possible outcomes of decisions that will be made. Maybe it's only the chaos-world Tara that contacted Phyllis? Or maybe Phyllis is just nuts...or I am. Very cool story, though, and I can't wait for more updatey goodness!



-Cameron

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What should I be but just what I am? - Edna St.Vincent Millay

cool updates...so now weve got some sorta premonition chick in the mix....nice....cant wait for more! im curious as to why willow was so nervous.



~mel

'The Cat in the Hat' is fine, just not during sex.--Alyson Hannigan

I'm back!!! I have been going on like zero hours of sleep these past few days. I went to Anime USA on Saturday and Sunday. It was AWESOME!!!!



I went, on Saturday, dressed as a goth, elf, biker chick person.



The next day, my friends and I edited my outfit so that I was dressed as Squall from FF8. (it was fun being in drag)



I had so much fun. And since there's no school till Tuesday, I have time to work on my stories.

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"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it." The Princess Bride



*****



BeastBoy: She thinks I'm funny.



Raven:Statistically, I suppose, somebody has to.

Bring Me to Life















Same disclaimers as always















Twenty-Three













Tara noticed how eager Willow seemed to want to get away from them, from her. She knows something. She doesn’t trust me. She sighed.



She saw Dani quickly follow Willow out.



“It’ll be alright.” The blonde felt a hand gently touch her shoulder. She looked over and smiled at Buffy. “She’ll tell you.”



“Thanks.”







***







Willow groaned. “I think I’m in trouble.”



“Why?” Willow eyed the younger girl. “Oh…Phyllis.”



“She knows…something.”



“Anyone who can see the future is bound to. How much do you think?” Dani looked at her grandmother curiously.



“She knows enough to listen to someone when they tell her to kill me.” She sighed. “There are too many people who want me dead.”



“And only so many who could actually do it.”



“I…”



“You’re worried that Tara will find out.” Willow nodded meekly.



“I know I should tell her everything….but…” The redhead sighed, “I know that she’ll forgive me….”



“So what’s the problem?”



“It’s how she’ll see me. I don’t want her to look at me and think…” Her eyes wandered down to the scar-tattoo on her chest. “I don’t want her to see me differently.”



“I…”



***





She cried out, praying that someone would come to her rescue. Her flesh burned. She couldn’t bare to look at herself, it hurt too much.



The burns and the…thing…on her chest…they…she wanted to cry each time he poured the poison onto the wound.



She stiffened, knowing that he was coming back.



Where were her friends?!



Why weren’t they coming?!



She felt truly damned.





***





Willow woke up, feeling those horrible memories washing over her. She whimpered.



She looked over at her slumbering lover. No, she thought, she wouldn’t tell Tara until she had to. And she prayed that she never did.

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"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it." The Princess Bride



*****



BeastBoy: She thinks I'm funny.



Raven:Statistically, I suppose, somebody has to.

Ow, That is so short chapter.Great upload. What the heck had happened to Willow. Why is she so ashamed of. And Tara and the scobbies still out of the light. Questions questions.

And about Philis, why they want to kill Willow. That is so confusing.

Hope you upload again soon love the fic

I think Willow is scared not ashamed it sounds as if whoever is coming back freaks her out. I love this whole story arch can't wait for more.

ok...time to give poor tara a clue so that we all have a clue as well...whats up with the thing on willows chest(other then her boobs obviously! and i dont think shed be hiding THEM from tara!)?? cant wait for more and possible clarification...just because im about as lost as tara! lol



~mel

'The Cat in the Hat' is fine, just not during sex.--Alyson Hannigan

Bring Me to Life















Same disclaimers as always















Twenty-Four



















Buffy stared at the smaller woman. “You’d better watch out. I don’t appreciate it when someone tried to kill my friends.”



Phyllis looked down in embarrassment. “I’m sorry.” She had a quiet, mouse-like voice. “I…just…I thought…”



“You thought you were helping people.” The brunette nodded. “Look, we’re not gonna hurt you…not unless you try anything else. Kay?” Again the smaller woman nodded. “Anyway, do really want to pick a fight with a Slayer?”



Phyllis looked at her with a questioning look on her face. “What’s a Slayer?”



“You know about witches and demons and you claim to be a seer, and you don’t know what a Slayer is?”



Phyllis blushed. “I don’t think I’ve ever heard of them.”



“Giles loves this part.” She grinned, and for a moment wondered why she was being so nice to the other girl. “In every generation a chosen one is born. She alone will yada yada yada…” Phyllis stared at her. “Oh!” Buffy blushed. “I eh…I guess I kinda got used ta doing that. Sorry. Anyway, the Slayer is there to fight all the demons and stuff. We’ve got extra strength and healing.”



“Oookay.” Does Rosenberg have any normal friends? “You’re a Slayer.”



Buffy nodded. “We also get some ‘prophetic dreams’ and crap, so, I could kinda understand what you’re going through, seeing the future and all.”



“Did you ever stop your visions from happening?”



Buffy felt her whole face light up into a smile. “All the time!”



“I’ve never been able to stop mine.”



The Slayer felt…something…as the smaller woman folded into herself. What’s this? It didn’t make sense. She wanted to go to the brunette and make her sadness go away. Weird.



“Don’t worry, we stop evil prophesies from happening all the time.”



Phyllis smiled. “I kinda like you.” She leaned over and gave Buffy a quick kiss on the nose.







***







William groaned. “We can keep this from them forever, now can we?”



Angel sighed. “I know you want to tell them. So do I. But this is Willow’s thing. It happened to her. It’s hers to tell.”



“It’ll happen again you ponce! They’ll be in danger. You think we should really keep them all out of the loop?”



“No, I don’t. But Willow chose not to tell them. We’ll respect her wishes.”



“For how long? Until…it…comes back and we have no choice?!” William flung his beer into the trash. “Personally, I don’t see how we’ve kept it this long.”



Angel sighed. “Neither do I.”







***



“Tara! Wait up!” The witch stopped as the green haired girl caught up to her. “Hey!”



“Hey.” Tara smiled at the older (?) girl.



“Uh…” She blushed. “I know this mush be awkward for you.”



“What is it Dani?”



“I want to apologize.”



“For what?”



Her eyes darted around nervously. “For helping to keep secrets from all you guys. I shouldn’t, I mean, I’ve know all of them for…a long time. Dawn was my AUNT for crying out loud, and here I am DATING her!”



“It must be hard for you. Knowing all this.”



Dani nodded. “I…I get tired, y’know.” She sighed. “Living forever…I can’t age or anything. The only way I can die is if I get my head cut off.”



“Ouch.”



“Yeah.”



“How…How’d it happen? You don’t have to tell me.”



“It’s okay.” She sighed. “It was my twentieth birthday. Some friends and I went to this new seafood place in town. We got our meals and ate and all that. Then the waiter brought us this ‘special’ meat to try. We did. They all…they died…turned into…monsters…I…didn’t.” She held back a sob. Tara took her into a hug. “The restaurant was owned by a group of assassins. They’d fed us mermaid meat. It’s supposed to make you immortal, though it’ll normally just kill you. I was…I thought it then, lucky.”



“Is there a cure?”



“I don’t think so. I know that things’ll never work out between me and Dawn. I wish they could though.”



“We’ll find a way.”







***



“Hello.” Phyllis looked up in surprise as Tara entered the room. “How are you?”



Phyllis shrunk under the woman’s gaze. “Okay.”



Tara sighed. “We believe you.”



“Huh?”



“I think that you did have some vision. But you must have misinterpreted it or something. My Willow isn’t a danger.”



She turned to leave.



“Wait.”



Tara stopped.



Phyllis took a deep breath. “I…I can show you…what I saw.”



Tara immediately came to the brunette’s side. “Show me.”

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"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it." The Princess Bride



*****



BeastBoy: She thinks I'm funny.



Raven:Statistically, I suppose, somebody has to.

oooh, just found this, intriguing.

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There can be no rainbow without rain, you cannot know true happiness until you know sadness first.

hmm....veeeerrryyy interesting...cant wait for more!



~mel

'The Cat in the Hat' is fine, just not during sex.--Alyson Hannigan

oh oh. That could mean trouble. Hope Tara don't freak out seeing a very black bad Willow. You have me histeric to read more. Like always. Keep it up

Bring Me to Life















Same disclaimers as always



*Soon, soon all shall be revealed. Mwahahahaaa!!!



Help! I’ve got this crazy obsession with the musical Wicked! I wanna see it!!! (Weeps) Heck, I’m listening to the music right now!*















Twenty-Four



















“Hey Wills!”



The redhead turned at the sound of her name. “Hey Dawnie!” She gave the younger girl a big smile. She giggled to herself. “It feels so good to call you that again.” She grinned.



Dawn smiled. “Yeah, well, soon I’ll be too old to be called that.”



“Awe, you’ll always be my Dawnie.” Willow enveloped the girl in a hug.



The brunette blushed. “Willow!”



“Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Gotta make up for all those years I couldn’t hug you!” She smirked.



“And embarrass.”



“Yeah, that too.”



Dawn blushed. “I was…I mean…have you heard about…erm…Dani and me?”



Willow grinned. “Congrats!”



“You’re okay with it?”



“Why wouldn’t I be?”



“Cause she’s your GRANDDAUGHTER?” Dawn stared at Willow incredulously.



“Dawn. I’m five hundred years old. Believe me, I’ve seen much stranger things. I saw much stranger things before I was five hundred.”



“Oh.”



The redhead smiled. “So don’t worry about it.”







***







“Xander! Xander!!!” Xander groaned as he felt Anya throw himself onto his back. “Ooff!”



“Hey Ahn.”



“Xander! Guess what!!!” She looked at him, eyes shining.



“I’ve got no idea Ahn.”

“I’m officially in charge of Willow’s money!”



“That’s good?” He smiled at her.



“Yes honey, that’s very good. Willow has a lot of money. She’s like…a millionaire. No! She’s got more! She’s like Bill Gates plus TEN!”



Xander stared at her. “Wow.”







***







“Hey.”



Buffy jumped at the sound of Phyllis’s voice. “Err…hey?” Her eyes quickly darted to the door.



“Please stay?” Phyllis looked at her with pleading eyes.



“I…I don’t think I should.” Buffy turned away.



“Please!”



Buffy eyed the smaller woman, turned and left, leaving Phyllis in the empty confines of her prison.







***







Tara sighed as she made her way to Willow’s room. After…that…she didn’t know what to think. Was Willow…? She didn’t know.



But she knew that something needed to be done.



She just didn’t know what.







***







Dawn grinned, scooping another spoonful of ice cream into her mouth. “This schtuff ith gweat!” And another scoop went in.



The redhead smiled. “I know! Of course, the guy who came up with the recipe is like three hundred, so…he’s had a ton of time to perfect it.”



Dawn laughed.



“I…” Willow stared.



“Willow?” Dawn looked questioningly at the sorceress. “Are you okay? Willow? Willow?”



The corner of Willow’s lip curled up. “Hello.”



Black eyes stared into Dawn’s own.



Willow didn’t look so nice anymore.

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"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it." The Princess Bride



*****



BeastBoy: She thinks I'm funny.



Raven:Statistically, I suppose, somebody has to.

What the...?!!!!!

eep

I'm a little lost now. All was going too well in time and suddenly out of the blue Willow turns dark?



aargghh! I hope you upload soon cuz I'm more fond of the story everytime



Awsome. Congrats Darkchild!

I love, love, love this story!!!



Well done you!!!



More soon please



Jules

Bring Me to Life

















Same disclaimers as always















Twenty-Four



















Dawn laughed.



“I…” Willow stared.



“Willow?” Dawn looked questioningly at the sorceress. “Are you okay? Willow? Willow?”



The corner of Willow’s lip curled up. “Hello.”



Black eyes stared into Dawn’s own.



The teen glanced around nervously. “Willow?” Her voice was filled with fear. The last time Willow’s eyes had been like that…Dawn didn’t even want to think about Willow’s addiction to magick. Please! Please don’t let her be addicted! The brunette quickly backed away. Willow moved with her.



“Where do you think you’re going?” The redhead’s voice came out harsh and cold. A shiver ran through Dawn’s spine.



“Willow…please…”



The immortal stared at her, her expression unreadable.



“Please?” Dawn repeated.



Willow’s expression slowly softened and her eyes clouded over, then slowly returned to normal.



Willow looked at Dawn, confusion written on her face. “What’s wrong Dawnie? Dawn?”



“You…you’re eyes…they were black.” Dawn took a breath, “You’re not on the magick again? Are you?”

The redhead stared at Dawn. “I….I have to go. She fled.





***







“Tara…”



The blonde turned around and smiled, seeing Dawn behind her. “Hey Dawnie.” She frowned, seeing the look on the younger girl’s face. “What’s wrong?”



The teen looked away. “It’s Willow.”



Tara’s eyes widened in fear. “What’s wrong?! Is she okay?!”



“I don’t know. I…Her eyes got all black. Like when she was…addicted to the magick. You don’t think…”



“She wouldn’t.”



“You said it yourself: she’s hiding something!”



Tara started to say…something, but stopped. Dawn was right. “Have you talked to Dani? Maybe she can help?”



“Whatever it is, I’m sure she’s in on it. She. Knows.”



“Oh.”



The two stood there in silence. Tara slowly looked at Dawn. “Phyllis…showed me something. About Willow.”







***







“Hey Grams!” Dani grinned as Willow burst into the room. The redhead collapsed on the bed.



“It happened again.”



“It It?”



Willow weakly nodded. “I can’t stop it. I can’t.” Dani came over. Willow collapsed into her arms, sobbing.

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"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it." The Princess Bride



*****



BeastBoy: She thinks I'm funny.



Raven:Statistically, I suppose, somebody has to.

Woot! Update! Cool update!



heh, seriously, me likey muchly...more!!!

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There can be no rainbow without rain, you cannot know true happiness until you know sadness first.

wow i kinda figured something like it was a problem i actually thought it was more like willow had two personalities and they just interchanged and she couldn't help it but this is interesting can't wait to see more

great update but too short!

yay a update a update. I'm soooo happy.

THe fic is great awsome, more and more every time. What secrets are been keeped. I want more. That was too short. Please continue soon

Excellent. As always



Jules

Hey everyone! How're you all doing?



Sorry that I haven't updated in a while. I'v been having some problems with the story.



First off, I've got like 10 fics and 10 originals that I'm working on. (I've got a REALLY overative imagination) and I'm trying to work on all of them.



Also, Bring Me to Life has somehow managed to borrow some things from the novel I'm trying to write.



That gives me a problem, so...I'm trying to fix it. And since the coming parts of the fic are too close to my 'novel', I have to find a way to rework the later parts.



I promise you all that I will finish this.

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"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it." The Princess Bride



*****



BeastBoy: She thinks I'm funny.



Raven:Statistically, I suppose, somebody has to.

Completely ok that you haven't updated totally understandable when your life sounds kinda hectic

Will patiently wait for more



Silent

Edited by: Warduke at: 12/19/04 12:51 pm

Hey everyone!!! s Happy New Year!!!



My birthday's next week!! I'm so happy!!!!



....and so are finals.



Anyway, I finally finished An Empire of Broken Toys, and I've decided that I'll have two fics plus an original (Freak Show)here. So, for the next fic I add...I've got three ideas:



-An amazon story (it's not gonna be like Hellbore and Tar'iah (that's the name...right? Sorry if I got it wrong)



-A Sci-Fi one



-A sort of AU



I'll let you all let me know which one you want.



And I WILL finish BMtL, I promise, I'm just having some trouble with it at the moment (read an above post of mine)



talk to you all soon!

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"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it." The Princess Bride



*****



BeastBoy: She thinks I'm funny.



Raven:Statistically, I suppose, somebody has to.

more waiting?

Aww

It's ok though, I understand all this stuff too much.

hope to read your work soon either way.



Abouit a new fic...I vote for AU (I like all the ideas, but we'll go step by step. Wouldn't we? )

Take care