Kathy's Revenge

Chapter 47
Faiths POV

Mmm food, I have been eating none stop since last night when I finally woke up after a week of practical paralysis. I didn’t feel hungry at the time but as soon as I woke up, fucking hell I don’t think I have ever craved so many foods at the same time.

“I think we need to go to the market again.” Xander says rummaging through the fridge.

“Woops?” I offer with a smirk.

“You guys ready for the meeting?” Willow asks poking her head around the door.

Both me and Xander get up and walk into the living room where all the other scoobies are waiting, Giles starts the meeting by coughing and putting his glasses back on. Everyone is silent.

Minutes go by and I am the first to speak. “So… What’s the plan?”

I am met by silence.

“So you have been doing none stop research for weeks and you got fuck all?” I ask looking around. Silence again. “Right, new plan… we find the bitch who keeps fucking with my head and then we kick her ass and send her to hell… any questions?”

“This is the problem, even if we do find her then what? She’s human…” Buffy says trailing off.

“Well you imprisoned her once B, cant you just do that again?” I ask.

“Well that clearly didn’t work last time…” Again B trails off.

“I mean we would be looking over our shoulders constantly… right?” Xander adds.

Everyone nods slowly.

“Come on guys, brain storm… you guys get started and I’ll go get the white board and marker pens!” Everyone seems to shoot Xander a look for the last comment. “Come on, someone has to offer comic relief.” He replies to our gazes.

Willow looks round at me “Any new memory from that night that might help us?”

“Sorry Red most of it’s just a blur. I did bang my head pretty hard.” I say this while rubbing where the bump was a few days ago. “Would have been nice to lose all my memories. They couldn’t come back and bite me in the ass then.”

“It might be an idea to go into Faiths mind and see who it was.” Willow adds to the conversation.

“Great.” I say laced with sarcasm. “All I need is more people messing about in there. Besides remember what happened last time. Gable isn’t the worst thing that could come out of here.” I put a finger to my skull indicating my brain.

“Kakistos for a start.” B adds.

“When you saw him he was like a pussy cat compared to his former self girlfriend.” I say standing and beginning to pace. “I’ve lived through and seen so many things I’m not willing to put anyone here in a position to see them.”

“Well maybe...” Willow’s voice is barely above a whisper. Everyone’s eyes are on her. “There’s this spell.” She begins to study her shoes at the disapproving glance from Giles. “It’s not exactly in your mind its more of a psychic connection. It allows people to connect to your brain waves and see them. It forces the person seeing your brain waves to commit the image to paper. All you would have to do is pull forward the image of this Kathy.”

“Not the worse plan we have had right?” Xander offers.

“Thing is the person you are connecting to needs to be able to draw in the first place, I mean I wouldn’t be able to do it unless you want a stick person… but that isn’t exactly what we’re looking for here.” Willow adds again with her head down, why is she so damn cute when she does that?

I look around the room. Everyone else seems to be doing the same, shaking their heads in a way I am assuming means “no I can’t draw.”

“Buffy can draw!” Dawn practically shouts in excitement. “I’ve seen sketches and stuff she did and they’re pretty good.”

Buffy then goes bright red. I mean were talking lobster colour. “They’re not that good. I just do it for amusement.”

“Seems to be the best we’ve got.” I say. “Besides she’s got a grudge against you so you should be able to recognise her anyway.”

She nods slowly and Xander tries to relive the pressure on the slayer “So we have a plan then?”

“Looks like.” Buffy says not looking too happy.

“Right I’ll get what you need.” Willow says disappearing up to our bedroom.

A few hours later B and me are ushered into the basement. Willow starts by laying out some big blue candles in a circle in the centre of the room.

“Right, I can’t be here when you do this so listen carefully okay?” Willow says giving us her ‘mom’ face.

“I’m listening.” I say probably too defensively.

“Okay so Buffy needs to light this incense over here.” She says pointing. “And Faith you light the other one over there.” Again with the pointing. “Then Buffy you light this candle here, I put that piece of paper under it so you know which one then Faith lights the one next to it on the right, then Buffy the next one, light them all going in a clockwise direction.” She hands both B and me a lighter each. “Once you have lit all the candles you get into the middle, Buffy face west and Faith facing east.” I give her a look. “East is where your incense is Faith.” I nod and offer her a small smile. “Like I said you sit down and then Buffy reads this incantation.” Buffy is given a slip of paper. “And Faith reads this one after.” I get my own little slip of paper. “Each of you read three times then after the third time Buffy burns her paper in the first candle she lit, and then Faith burns hers in the first candle she lit. Once you have done all that Buffy holds Faiths right hand with her left. And then you concentrate and Kathy’s face should come to you Buffy so then with your free hand you will draw it… you probably wont be aware you are doing it until you are finished and the connection will break on its own.”

“And you’re leaving this really complicated spell down to me and Faith?” B asks Willow with a smirk.

“I made cue cards.” Willow says handing them to me.

“And you couldn’t have just gave us these and left us to do it?” I ask.

She smirks at me and then walks up the stairs out of the basement.

“You Ready?” I ask walking over to my incense.

“I think so.” B says clicking the lighter to produce a little yellow flame.

We go about all the ritual checking cue cards as we go, I mean if we got this wrong I think Willow would kill us in some sort of weird and sadistic way. Finally we get to the actual sitting down part.

“Can ego adveho in vestri caput capitis commodo?” Buffy says to me.

“EGO invite vos in meus mens.” I say back. We do this the designated three times then Buffy puts her paper to the flame in the candle, the flame goes purple, I mean bright purple not just a bit… she didn’t tell us about that one. I throw B a confused look and she shrugs her shoulders at me. I then burn mine and get my own light show, Bright red flame, cool.

I hold out my right hand and B takes it, as soon as she touches me I go into a sort of trance, like I’m on a whole lot of weed, I cant concentrate on anything and am just staring at nothing. B seems to be in the same sort of thing as far as I can see, which isn’t very well by the way. We sit holding hands for what seems like an eternity but at the same time it is over in a flash.

I jerk awake and look at B who looks at me and then we both look at the drawing that is in the space in between us.

“Holy shit…” Is all I hear B say before she runs up the stairs, I follow after blowing out all the candles… yeah, yeah I know… Willows got me all tamed and stuff, but it could cause a fire… okay, I am such a nerd.

“Hey guys!” B shouts as she enters the kitchen. They all file into the kitchen, I am the last one in but I still catch what she says. “We need to find Amy.” With that she turns the picture around, Xander’s and Giles’ eyes go wide.