Kathy's Revenge

Chapter 48
Buffy’s POV

I pass around my picture to the others. “We need to find Amy.” I say.

“But how are we going to find her?” Xander asks still studying the portrait. “I mean we can’t do a locator spell or anything. What are we going to search for? Witches? My, that would really help.” I love his sarcastic face.

“Wait a sec.” Will says before leaving the room. No idea where she is going. Whatever we decide we are going to need her help.

Giles takes the picture from Xander and puts his own two cents in. “Willow could get on the idiot box and look her up.”

I shake my head at him. “Idiot box is the TV Giles. And she isn’t going to have website saying in big flashing letters ‘here I am. Come get me mom.”

More or less everyone else is steadily getting more and more confused as the conversation goes on.

“She could hack into it looking for her driving licence or something.” He says trying to backtrack. He takes his glasses off and begins to clean them again.

Willow returns to the room and tries to butt in but is interrupted by Xander. “We could post a missing persons. She can come to us then.”

Willow tries once again to get a word in and is cut off by Giles. “That would take too long Xander. She could be dead by then.”

“I might have something!” Willow shouts. The room falls very quickly into silence. Angry Willow is not a nice thing to come across in any situation. She clears her throat and continues. “I have her cell number.” She waves her own cell phone around to drive the point home.

“Or that could work.” Xander says after a few more moments of silence.

“Go on then Will call her.” I say to the redhead.

“But.” She looks down at the phone in her hand and then back at me. “She hates me.” She then thrusts the phone in my direction “You phone her Buffy.”

“But she turned me into a rat.” I say. What am I supposed to say exactly?

“She didn’t put a hex on you to turn you into the person you killed.” Willow says still with the phone held in my direction.

“Excuse me?” Faith says. Far to much explanation for right now, her question falls on deaf ears.

I search my mind for a reason not to phone her. Errr can’t find one. I look around the room and look at Xander.

”No way. Not a chance. Far too embarrassed over the love spell that went wonky.” He says visibly trying to push himself further back into his seat.

“What?” Faith again. Xander can tell her later.

I throw my hands up in the air. “Fine.” I take the phone from Willow’s hand and take it into the kitchen. Can’t stand to be in the same room as people when I’m on the phone.

Not that that stops them from following me. I sit on one of the breakfast stools and dial the number clicking on speakerphone by the request of Xander.

It rings exactly four times before it is answered.

“Hi, Amy?” I ask

“Yeah?”

I take a breath, pick the phone up from the counter and hold it in my hand about half a foot from my face and pace around the room.

“This is Buffy, from high school…” I say hoping the fake smile I am putting on is showing in my voice… not the fake part, just the smile part.

“Hey Buffy… erm what’s up? How you been?” She asks, to my surprise she isn’t showing any animosity in her voice.

“Oh you know, the usual, vampires, demons… saving the world.”

“Oh yeah, I saw the whole Sunny Dale thing, big hole and all that.” She says.

I laugh slightly. “Yeah, we stopped the world from ending so it was all good… How about you?” I ask making yet another round of the kitchen.

“I’ve been okay, stopped doing so much magic… gone kinda good now actually.”

“Cool, that’s good then.” Okay so now the awkwardness is showing.

“So I take it everyone survived the whole apocalypse thing?”

“Most did… so what you doing with yourself now?” I ask.

“I’m working part time at a clothes store… I’m actually doing my masters at the minute… living in LA with my gorgeous boyfriend.” She says and I can tell she is smiling.

“That’s cool, how long you been with him?” I ask.

“I met him a few months after I last saw you guys… how about you how is your love life going?”

“I am actually with Spike now.” I say.

“Spike?”

“Yeah… was a vampire, leather jacket, black clothes, bleach blonde hair slicked back.” I describe.

“Oh yeah I remember… what do you mean used to?” She asks. Wow explanations… this could take a while.

“Well he did this thing that helped close the hell mouth and so then he died from it but the Powers That Be didn’t want him to go to hell but he couldn’t go to heaven either because of him being a vampire so they decided just to send him back as a human… still has all his memories and still has super strength sort of thing too… so that’s all good.”

“How is Willow doing?” She asks quietly.

“She’s fine… still gay…” What else can I say?

“Is she still mad at me? She should be cause I was a bitch but… oh I don’t know.” She sighs at the end of the sentence.

“Anyway…” I say trying to change the subject. “…The reason I’m calling… wow this is weird.”

“What is it?” She asks getting impatient.

“Your mom… she is… she’s back and she has been coming after me trying to get revenge and stuff… we haven’t stopped her yet… she has been trying to mess with one of our friends but she has backed off a bit now… we don’t know if she will come for you, I think she will and we need you to come stay with us for a while until we stop her…”

“How the hell?” Is all the response I get.

“Apparently she wasn’t dead, she was imprisoned and well she got out or something and now she is after me big time… like I said I think she might come for you so it’s best for us to stick together because she has got really powerful!” I explain.

“Where are you guys?” She asks.

“Cleveland.”

“Well I got like three weeks until I have to get back to college so I guess I could come at least until then…”

“Really?” I say with a lot of surprise in my voice. “I thought it would be harder to persuade you than that.”

“You may think I was all bad ass and evil before but I really don’t want to die and you guys are pretty good at not getting people killed...”

I laugh. “Alright we can get you on a flight tonight if you can get ready that quick.”

“Can James come? My boyfriend… I kinda don’t like being away from him for a long time you know?” Asks timidly.

“Yeah sure he can, just get ready as fast as you can okay? I will call you when we have a flight booked for you.”

“Okay, and thanks Buffy… I know I was a bitch and a lot of people would just take the chance of her killing me if I had done what I did to you guys.” She really does sound genuine.

“Don’t worry Amy, I’ll call you later okay? Bye.”

“Bye.”

I hang up the phone and let out a huge sigh.

“That went well.” Xander says leaning over the island in the middle of the kitchen.