Slayer, Interrupted

CHAPTER 16- MIND GAMES

Buffy fell asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow. The poor thing was exhausted, but feeling much better after a proper meal and a bath.

Darla sat on the bed next to her and watched her sleep. Angelus was still gone and Darla couldn't wait for him to come back. She was so horny, and watching that blonde beauty sleeping wasn't helping. She left some of Buffy's blood on her lips on purpose, so she could taste it every now and then.

Angelus was smiling, looking like he just killed all the Slayers in the world, when he got back.

“You look happy, lover.”-Darla said and smiled to Angelus, whose gaze was on Buffy’s peaceful, sleeping face.

“Dru had some interesting things to tell me about our new pet. You’re not gonna believe them!”-Angelus grinned and also sat next to Buffy, gently running his fingers over her face.

“Do tell me… I’m curious…”-Darla whispered and unconsciously licked her lips again.

“I know why she gave up when she saw me. Apparently, in her dimension we were lovers! I had a soul! Can you believe it?! I don’t remember the last time I laughed so hard! Do me a favor. Cut my hair and I’ll tie you up for a chair and wake her up.”

“Cut your hair? I like your hair.”-Darla asked, confused, and gently ran her fingers through Angelus’ long and a bit wavy and tangled hair. It was reaching to his shoulders, and he liked it, but Buffy’s Angel unfortunately had short hair…

“Just do it, Darla. You’ll be happy later, trust me.”

Angelus sat on a chair and let Darla cut his hair. They both longingly looked at the hair on the floor.

“Too bad I don’t have a reflection, I wanna see myself.”

“You look really handsome, Angelus… “

“Call me Angel.”

Darla cleaned up the hair and screamed when Angelus started tying her up to a chair, so it would seem like a fight.

Buffy woke up and almost jumped off the bed. “What’s going on?!”-she asked and wished she could break the chains on her wrists.

“Buffy… you have to be quiet, I’ll get you out of here.”-Angelus said, hoping the way he looked at her was the way her Angel used to do it.

“Angel?”-Buffy asked, her voice breaking. She felt tears in her eyes and just stared at him.

“Yes. Did you think I wouldn’t find you?”-Angelus said and smiled.

He got close to her and hugged her tightly. She was still too shocked and confused to hug him back, but tears ran down her cheeks, and Angelus could hear her heart beats; they were ringing loudly in his ears.

“Angel… oh my god…”-Buffy whispered through tears.

“Don’t touch her!”-Darla yelled when Angelus kissed her lips passionately, and was so surprised when she kissed him back with all she had.

He removed the chains from her wrists and Darla stared at him, wondering what the hell he was up to. He wasn’t supposed to unchain Buffy, what if she wasn’t even buying his act?!

“What the hell are you doing!?”-Darla yelled again and said:

“Sorry, Darla, you and I have been over for years. You should be glad you’re not dust.”

“Where’s Angelus?”-Buffy asked, she didn’t want anyone to stop Angel now that she had a way out.

“Taken care of. Don’t worry about anything.”-Angelus said, kissed her slowly again and led her out.

“Angel… How do we get out of here? We need to get Faith… I can’t leave her here!”

“Buffy… don’t worry about anything. You’re weak…”

She let Angel lead her through some tunnels that looked like mazes to her. She still couldn’t believe that she was leaving that place…

Angelus thought about Faith, he remembered Darla had talked about that Slayer that worked with demons and he couldn’t really understand why Buffy wanted to help her.  

“Have you talked to my mom or anyone from Sunnydale? How long have I been gone there?”-Buffy asked, feeling so thrilled and looking hopeful, Angelus almost felt sorry for her. That soulful version of him must have been her white knight when she trusted him so completely…

He didn’t know how to answer her questions so he said just: “We’ll talk about everything later, Buff.”

Buffy looked at him confused, and stopped walking. “What did you call me?”

“Buff…y.”-Angelus said, wondering why she looked so suspicious suddenly. “What’s wrong, why are you looking at me like that?”

“It’s just… nothing. I’m just tired.”-Buffy said, but decided to keep her eyes and ears open. She was just so thrilled when she thought she might be going home, she thought she may have been too trusty.

They continued walking and it felt like that walk would last forever, Buffy was so tired, but trying her best to keep going. She had no idea where they were heading, but she started looking around, getting a bit scared now that they got to one of the streets that were full of demons and vampires, who were ogling them curiously.

Darla started being impatient; she just wanted to know where Angelus took Buffy and what he was planning on doing. She wished she could have gone with them. Her hands weren’t tied too tightly and she managed to untie herself after a while.

“Angel… I need to rest. Just for ten minutes, I can’t even walk anymore.”-Buffy said, breathlessly.

“Rest, my love. I’ll carry you home.”-Angelus said and they sat on a wall. She placed her head on his shoulder and her eyes started closing. When her breathing got even, Angelus hit her head with a stone, caught her in his arms and ran back home.

He almost knocked Darla over when he ran into her suddenly. “What are you doing?!”-they yelled at each other at the same time.

“Taking her back home. She’ll be devastated when she wakes up chained up. God I love mind games. She asked me to help Faith, why would she wanna help her if she was the one that teamed up with demons?”

“I think she cares about her.”

“Does she? I’ll have to get hold of her too then…”

After about fifteen minutes, Angelus chained Buffy back up and shook her hard to wake her up.

“Angel? God, my head… What happened?”-Buffy asked, and tried to catch her pounding head, when she realized her wrists were chained up to the bed post.

“I thought you were smarter…Buff.”

“Angel…us… No…”-Buffy felt like someone just stabbed her heart with a poisonous arrow.

“You were so cute, all hopeful… and the way you kissed me… You really love him, don’t you?”-Angelus smirked and kissed her hard. This time she didn’t kiss him back, she tried to move her head and break the chains.

“Please, don’t do this to me…”-Buffy cried, she didn’t think she could stand those mind games again. She would have rather gone to the arena to fight more demons, until they finally killed her and let her rest in peace.

All of her hopes about going home were smashed violently and Buffy felt like she’d lose her mind. Seeing Angel again, and then finding out it was just a game broke something inside her. It broke the only part of her that was still strong and willing to fight.

She didn’t think she’d survive that place now that this monster with her lover’s face had her in his grip. His laughter and smirks were killing her…

Faith managed to get one of the horses, and jumped on it even though there was no saddle.

“C’mon, dude, run!”-Faith yelled and pulled horse’s mane hard.

The horse ran fast and Faith held on to it as tightly as she could.

“Take me to B., buddy.”-Faith whispered and hoped with all her heart that she would manage to take Buffy back. Of course, she wouldn’t take her back to Thowk; she just wanted to disappear with her until those brainiacs from Sunnydale managed to get through to them.