Slayer, Interrupted

CHAPTER 7

CORDY’S VISION

Joyce and the Scoobies didn't think Sunnydale was normal and cute... If anything, things just kept getting worse... It kept getting harder and harder to fight the demons without Buffy, and to make things even 'better', Spike and Dru returned to Sunnydale...

Willow and Tara kept trying to come up with a spell to find and save Buffy, but they'd had no luck so far...

Willow couldn't even sleep, she just wanted her best friend back, and she thought it was up to her to save her, because she was a witch after all...

Giles and Joyce were broken, too, especially Joyce, who had no idea how to help them find Buffy. She had no idea about any supernatural things and she felt utterly useless.

Xander and Anya didn't feel any more helpful, they tried their best, but it seemed like nothing was ever enough..

Giles knew people who knew a lot about the occult things, and different dimensions, but they still didn't know how to help him. He even contacted the Council, but the research was fruitless.

As Buffy had once said, there was no fruit for Buffy..                    

LOS ANGELES

Cordelia screamed her lungs out when another painful vision hit her. Angel was there with her, and he jumped to help her when she fell on the floor.

She looked even more terrified than usually and Angel got worried, an Apocalypse came to mind...

"Cordy, are you ok?? What did you see?"-Angel asked and she just shook her head. It seemed that she was too terrified to even speak. He had never seen her react to a vision like that before and he was sure nothing good would come out of it.

"Buffy..."-Cordy whispered and Angel jumped, as if he'd been struck by a taser or something.

Naturally, he thought the worst... he imagined Buffy lying dead in a puddle of her own blood, alone and... No! He had to focus! Buffy was fine!

"Cordy, tell me what's wrong!! What did you see?! Is Buffy ok?!"

"No... Angel... She's... she's not in this world anymore."

Angel had to sit down when he heard Cordy say those words. Even though he didn't have to breathe, he felt like someone just sucked all the oxygen away from the room.

"What... no, it can't be... Buffy can't be dead..."-Angel whispered, tears forming in his deep brown eyes.

"No... she's not dead... she seems to be in, like, a different world... or a dimension, I don't know how to call it... I've seen her get tortured, Angel... It looked bad... And... and Faith was there... and Darla and An-Angelus."-she almost choked on the last word; it was really hard to say that sentence.

"No... Cordy, I gotta get her out of there..."

"I don't know where she is, Angel... I wish I did... That place is hell. She's so hurt... I didn't even think anyone could hurt Buffy that bad."-Cordy said, and she looked really shaken up.

Buffy hadn't been her best friend, but Cordy liked her more than she wanted to admit. She did have a tendency to save the world...

"I gotta save her, Cordy... She can't die there... Is Faith also hurt?"

"No, actually... she looked ok to me."-Cordy said, confused for a moment, but then she said: "Well, she was always good at making friends among the demons."

Angel felt like he'd just been hit with that 'Killer of the dead' poison again. Buffy was in serious danger and he had no idea how to help her...

He decided to go back to Sunnydale.

"I'm not coming back until she's safe..."-Angel said and ran off.

"Good luck..."-Cordy said, watching after him...