Nusac

Chapter 33

Faith’s POV

My shoulder crashes into the door halting my mad dash in its tracks. Okay so now I’m here. Now what? I crack the door open and push my head though the gap only having to retract it seconds later to avoid a bolt of energy from hitting me between the eyes. The door pulls firmly shut just before the said bolt of energy hits the wood making it shake on its hinges. I think I may have to take a trip to a door store later.

Pike comes down the thin hallway at full sped with Buffy not far behind. How he got here before B is beyond me. She should have those super powers working for her. This is really not the time to let my mind wander. He comes to a sliding halt in front of me. “Does it look bad?” He manages to squeeze out around his pants.

“Didn’t get to see much of it.” I answer pulling my amulet out from under my shirt. “Take this.” I hand it over to him and grasp the door handle.

“What are you going to do?” If he could get any more panic behind his voice I would seriously worry.

I take a deep breath trying to steady myself as I hear another bolt of something hit off the far wall. ”If I can touch her it might calm her down.” I don’t wait for him to protest further before I push down the handle and open the door. “Don’t follow me.” I order just before I tuck my head against my chest and roll into the room. I’m still attached to my limbs, I’d like to keep it that way. I’ve seen this woman do a lot of damage with very little effort.

My back hits the side of the bed and I get my first real good look at the room. The bedside table is hovering about an inch from the floor, as is everything on the bedside table. Nam must be really pissed.

My head pokes over the top of the bed spread to look at the rest of the room. Before I can take in anything else my gaze lands on Nam. Her eyes are a brilliant white, I can see what looks like electrical sparks running between her thumb and little finger on each hand. This situation just rose from ‘not good’ right up to ‘fucking dangerous.’ I have no idea what could have set her off like this.

Willow is busy not helping by cowering in a corner from Nam’s superior magic. Then again I don’t know if I can make that statement. I can officially say that Nam has checked out and someone else is in the driving seat.

I throw my palm into a curl pushing a ball of fire into it. Nice to know my own magic still works in this world. “Here goes nothing.” I whisper to myself.

I jump to my feet by the side of the bed and pull my arm back to throw. “Nam!” I have to yell over the buzzing magic in the room. Her gaze shifts to mine and I hurl my ball of flame at her.

She’s safe calm down. She’s much better at this than me. There was never even a slight thought in the back of my mind that it would ever hit her. She swots it in mid air and it immediately extinguishes. Why did I throw it when I knew it was never going to hurt her? Well it does two things. One; it gets her focused on me, Two; generating magic is a lot easier then extinguishing it. So it’s slowly wearing her down.

A ball of energy forms in her palm. Time to hit the deck. I dive to the floor narrowly avoiding the ball. As you can probably guess I can’t just tap it and it goes away like she can. I had to learn to duck. I push my torso up off the ground and hear Red shout over the raging winds in the room. “What are you doing?” Why do people keep questioning me?

“I’m helping!” I reply throwing another ball of fire at my girlfriend. Never thought I would ever think that sentence. Strangely more to do with the having a girlfriend thing, than the throwing balls of fire thing.

I see Nam’s arm pull back into another throw. There is no way I’m going to dodge that.

I use my shoulders to throw my arms out palms flat facing away from me. A large blue force field erupts from my palms and spreads to the walls on either side of me. Her ball of energy bounces off my barrier and pushes me backwards with its force. The soles of my feet slide a good few inches backwards across the carpet.

I grunt as I let go of the force field that took way too much out of me. I look up and see Nam is still as angry as before and with a gentle grunt I switch from fire to pure energy, yeah takes more effort from me to make an energy ball rather than a fire ball but it also takes a lot more effort to stop it, I might be pretty tired by now but I can still reason pretty good.

I pull everything I can into this ball, I usually don’t make the balls much bigger than a baseball but I’m going for some serious shit here so I don’t stop until the thing is about the size of a basketball, the pure weight of the thing makes my arm ache, so I grab it with the other hand to steady myself before putting all I have into throwing it as hard and fast as I can.

Big puff of green shit later and it’s gone, and there is still one pissed white witch in front of me. So time to switch tactics.

I dodge some more energy balls from Namine whilst at the same time trying to think about sex with Namine, and I know it seems like I’m the sort of girl who would be turned on by kinky evil type stuff… but this just isn’t working for me. However I do manage to charge long enough to be able to put up another decent barrier for a few minutes.

The barrier is as close to Namine as I can make it. It extends all the way across the room cutting her off from me, Red and more importantly the door. “Listen Red you think you might be able to take over this barrier in a few for me?”

She just blinks at me in astonishment.

“Hello, Earth to Red!” I say waving my left hand in front of her face.

“I… I guess I could…” She replies getting up off the floor where she was crouched a second before.

“Good girl.” She stands just looking at the damned barrier. I don’t know a whole lot of defensive magic. This force field right here is about all I do know. So that is my plan, stick with the barrier and everything will be fine… I think…

“Now wait here.” I walk to the door and open it, finding Buffy and Pike standing with weapons at the ready. “Come on in guys, but I think you should leave the weapons out there.” I say pointing to the large axe B is holding.

Pike walks into the room watching Namine out of the corner of his eye, whilst B runs right up to Willow. Not overly sure what she thinks she can do to help her but what ever floats your boat.

“You’re it.” I say poking Pike in the shoulder.

“Hey, wait you’re so not gonna do what I think…” I give Pike a cheesy grin and a wink.

“Go Red!” I shout letting the barrier drop, it only goes away for a second making B dodge a large energy ball before it is back up.

”Hey Nam” Pike says giving her a wave and a nervous smile. ”Erm…” Pike searches me out with his eyes. “What the hell am I doing?” He asks me. I shake my head at him.

“Piss her off Pike!” I shout. Yeah sheepish doesn’t even start to describe the look on Pike’s face right about now.

“Fuck you Slayer, you want to piss her off then you go ahead!” Pike shouts backing away from the barrier even more than he already was.

I give Pike a look which would probably translate into, ‘either you piss her off now or I will rip you limb from limb later’.

“Fine!” Pike shouts. ”Hey Nam! Faith told me the other day that she fakes it!”

I clench my fist promising myself I will pound on him later for using me to piss her off.

”She said that she is so glad to be back on Earth with civilised people and proper food.”

I try to blank out what Pike is saying but I can’t seem to. I crawl along the floor on my belly, Namine is so busy trying to get through the barrier with fire balls to stop Pike saying all that shit that she has totally forgot I am even in the room, in fact I don’t think she knows B and Red are in here either. From now on Pike is never ‘it’.

”She never wants to go back, she wants to stay here… Alone!” Pike put a big point on that alone part, I am so gonna pay for what he is saying later. I look up at Nam’s face just in time to see two black streaks jolt through her hair in a zigzag pattern. Almost like two bolts of lightening running alone either side of her head.

I get to the barrier and signal to Red, she opens a small section near the floor so that I can crawl through.

”She said she wanted a guy.” For fuck sake Pike do you not know when to stop? If she breaks down that force field before I can get to her you’re more than dead.

I make it through the barrier and manage to get up and literally tackle her to the ground before she has even spotted me. I grab her hand in mine, press my cheek to hers, I splay my other hand out on her back trying to touch as much of her skin that I can without either of us being naked. Pushing any emotion apart from anger into myself so it filters out of my skin into her. Her head snaps back, her eyes turn back to blue and her hair returns to dirty blonde before she passes out.

Most of the magic evaporates into the air and everything goes quiet. I both hear and feel the barrier drop around us.

I let myself rest where I am for a couple of seconds until I hear Nam’s even breathing. Then I push myself so I’m sitting on my legs. “Well…” I’m panting… when did that happen? “That was exiting.” From the looks I’m getting from everyone else in the room I don’t think ‘exiting’ was the exact word they would have used.