Lust

Prophecy’s bitch

Faith sat there after Buffy left, looking at the spot where she last saw the slayer. Buffy had recognized Eve that caught her off guard. And the fact that she knew that she loved Eve with all her heart startled her even more.

“Maybe it was the dagger,” she said to herself, her voice filling the empty room. She shook her head, trying to clear her thoughts as she looked over her shoulder at the books on the desk. She was not looking forward to sifting through all of the books by herself. “Maybe…” she thought as she stood up walking towards the kitchen. She stopped in her tracks, her senses going haywire. She spun around, a dagger appearing in her hand, throwing it towards the fireplace. She straightened herself as the dagger floated out of the wall.

“Tsk tsk tsk Amdis you are getting rusty in your old age” a woman’s voice came from the fireplace as the dagger flew back at her.

“‘Tay” Faith said catching the dagger. A beautiful woman appeared next to the dagger. Her black hair shined in the firelight, her skin as pale as Faith’s. Her blue eyes twinkled in amusement and she cast a brilliant smile. Faith used to be enthralled by her when she first met her. Her face contorted in disdain as she looked at the cut in her robes.

“You could have missed the shirt you know,” she moaned, waving her hand, the slice disappearing. “And stop calling me ’Tay. I have a name you know,” she said putting her hands on her hips. Faith smiled at her.

“I never miss” she bantered, “Good to see you Hecate,” she said walking to her. Hecate smiled, grasping Faith’s forearm in greeting. The two women laughed as Faith motioned for Hecate to take a seat.

“God you’ve been gone for so long, you don’t call, you don’t write, you don’t chant?” she whined as she sat down on the couch, Faith sitting across from her in a leather armchair.

“Well for me I have been gone for a billion years, so it has been longer for me than it is for you,” Faith said, waving two wine goblets on the table. Hecate leaned forward, taking the goblet off the table. She whispered something then took a sip.

“Mmmm, you remember” she said as she felt the white wine slip down her throat. Faith smiled at her friend’s enthusiasm towards the wine.

“How could I forget?” she said, sipping her wine. She leaned back, slowing stirring the wine as she looked across at her friend. Hecate stared down into her cup as she felt the waves of emotion coming off Faith.

“Amdis, when I heard what Lucifer I threw a fit. He did not have it easy for hundreds of years. And I sent all the people I could out to different dimensions to find you. At that time Lucifer’s powers were still superior and I couldn’t replicate the portal,” she said into her goblet. Faith waited for her to continue.

“A lot has happened over the years, many prophecies coming true and changing. But the war is just starting and” she said, pausing as she looked up at Amdis. “Ronwe paid me a visit yesterday. Lucifer is gathering his forces and quickly. I have until tomorrow to decide whom I am going to side with. I know we never really got along at first but we became friends. And you have always looked after my children” she said. She smiled as she remembered when a rogue demon ripped through Earth, killing any witch it found. Amdis had stepped in without her asking for help.

*Flashback*

Mara stood over the paralyzed witch as she stared in horror at the demon before her. “Hecate will pay for her treachery,” he snarled at her as he raised the dagger over his head.

“Please noo” cried the girl as she tried to move away from him.

“AHHHHH” he screamed, slamming the dagger towards her. She screamed, bringing her hands up in a feeble attempt to stop the attack. When it did not come, she opened her eyes to see a strange woman with golden eyes snarling at Mara.

“Big no no” she growled twisting the dagger away from him, grabbing his shirt as she threw him into a wall. The young witch watched as the woman stalked over to the demon as it tried to get up.

“Mara Mara Mara, when will you ever learn? Stick to what you are good at. You know like me!” she grunted as she picked him up again, throwing him into the opposite wall off the alleyway. He stood up shakily, blood dripping from his lips.

“Hecate will learn to never trick me. I will damn her children to hell for her actions” he growled, charging after her. Amdis rolled her eyes as she pulled a sword from her back sheath. She spun around, looking the witch in the eye as Mara ran right into the sword. Amdis stood up, looking at Mara who was staring at her, surprised.

“You won’t die you moron. Nevertheless, I am sure Lucifer will not mind speaking with you about your deeds. And next time I find you killing people you weren’t meant to damn, I will kill you” Amdis said, looking up as two of Lucifer’s guards appeared. “Take him to see Lucifer and only Lucifer, if I found out you didn’t I will torture you until you beg for death,” she growled, motioning for them to leave. They nodded, picking Mara up from the ground. Amdis pulled the sword out of his stomach and wiped it clean on his shirt. They left as she turned to the witch who looked at her in shock.

“There is no worries young one. You are safe. Go and do whatever it is that you witches do,” she grunted, waving the young woman off.

“May Hecate bless you?” she whispered as she ran away from the alley.

Amdis watched her disappear around the corner. Hecate appeared next to her, smiling softly.

“Always knew you had a soft spot for women,” she whispered in Amdis’s ear. Amdis looked over her shoulder.

“He was out of line,” she said bluntly, disappearing from the alleyway. Hecate smiled knowingly as she walked into the wall.

*End*

Faith closed her eyes as the last remnants of the memory faded from her mind. “You have a good heart Amdis,” Hecate said softly, taking another sip of the wine. Faith chuckled sarcastically, shaking her head. They sat in silence as Faith stared into the fire. Hecate watched her carefully, as the flames caused Faith’s eyes to dance in the warm glow. Hecate looked over the woman in front of her. “What did they do to you?” she thought sadly, as she watched Faith’s demon soul clash with her human soul. She was startled out of her thoughts as Faith addressed her.

“Are you okay?” Faith asked her. She had not read her thoughts, to busy with her dueling souls. Her demon was raging at her kind deeds. She had sent Mara to Lucifer just before he closed her off in that hell dimension. She had started doing more good than evil at that time, after… Faith shook her head, not wanting to think about what happened, realizing that Hecate was answering her.

“Yea I’m fine just thinking” Hecate smiled. Faith smiled back, unable to resist the temptation to tease her.

“I was wondering why I smelled smoke” she laughed, ducking under a pillow that Hecate threw at her. They two women laughed at each other, forgetting about their lives for just a moment. Faith grew more serious as the laughter died down.

“If you are going to be my ally than we have to decide on some things,” she said, finishing her wine, looking at the goblet as it disappeared from her hands.

“Name it.”

Faith smiled again, resisting another chance to tease the queen of witches. “You can’t call me Amdis in front of anyone. The only other person who knows my real name is the slayer but I do not think she if going to say anything. I can’t have someone overhearing my real name and it lead back to Ronwe,” she said causing Hecate to scrunch her nose.

“What do you mean Ronwe? He’s an idiot, why would you be worried about him?” she asked.

“He’s the brain of the outfit. Lucifer knows nothing about what he is doing; he has spent too many years listening to Ronwe that he has forgotten to be himself. So to figure out what that piece of crap is up to I decided to visit his library and make a few copies” Faith smiled, motioning to the bookshelves. Hecate’s eyes glittered in amusement.

“So what are you going to do now?” she asked as she leaned forward.

Faith sighed, taking in an unnecessary breath. “I need to get through these books. I recognize many of them from E’s library but there is a couple that was not. I need to figure out what that jackass knows,” she growled, clenching her fist. Hecate’s eyes saddened briefly, as she noticed Faith’s slip with Eve’s nickname. Her thoughts started to wander back to when she met her but she pulled herself back, knowing Faith would read her memory.

Faith’s fury blinded her to Hecate’s tormented eyes as she tried to calm down. She needed Buffy…

“What the hell was that!” she thought as she shook Buffy’s image out of her head. Hecate stood up, stretching her hands towards the ceiling.

“Leaving so soon?” Faith smiled as Hecate folded her arms over her head.

“I have some errands to run, people to see, demons that have secrets to spill. You know the usual. I have to start setting up a base for you. This is going to become a full blown out war and just because you are a Noble does not mean you can take on hell’s army all by your lonesome. You may be hot baby but sometimes you don’t use that brain of yours” Hecate smiled, winking at her as she blew her a kiss. Faith raised her eyebrow as she watched Hecate disappear.

“That woman will be the end of me,” she muttered, looking into the crackling fire.


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Buffy quietly walked into the house, although it was the middle of the day. She was afraid she was going to disturb someone. She smiled as she shook the silly thought of disturbing someone out of her head. She hung up her jacket and took a deep breath to call out to someone when she was side tackled.

“WHERE WERE YOU? YOU HAD XANDER AND WILLOW WORRIED TO DEATH AND GILES ALMOST WIPED HIS GLASSES AWAY! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?” yelled the figure that was wrapped around her waist.

“Daw… Dawn… Dawnie!” Buffy yelled, prying her sister off her body. Dawn crawled off her, sitting on her calves as she looked at her sister who sat up on her elbows. “Nice to see you” Buffy said, smiling at her sister’s scrunched face.

“Where the hell where you” she asked. Buffy sighed as she stumbled to her feet, pulling Dawn up with her.

“I’ll explain it to you when I explain everything else to the rest of the gang,” she said looking around, her brow furrowing. “By the way where is everyone?”

“Kennedy is asleep, Helena is in the living room and Giles, Willow and Xander went out for food,” She said nonchalantly as the floor above them started to tremble. Buffy looked down at her sister knowingly as a guilty smile plastered itself over her face.

“Um did I forget to mention that the semester is over and the rest of the New York gang is here with me?” she chuckled nervously as Andrew came flying down the stairs, closely followed by a horde of slayers.

“SAVE ME PLEASE” he screamed, hiding behind Buffy. Buffy started to giggle as the girls all tried stopping at the same time, successfully pulling a three stooges moment as fifteen girls fell over each other just as Willow, Giles and Xander walked through the doors.

“Now now ladies you shouldn’t all fall over me, each one of you can have me” Xander smiled, clasping his hands together. “OW” he yelped, grabbing his head. Willow lowered her hand to her side, shaking her head at him. She looked over at Buffy.

“Where were you? I sent Kennedy out for you and she couldn’t find you”. She walked past the group, two big brown bags in her arms. A sleep Kennedy came around the corner followed by Helena.

“What the fuck is going on?” Kennedy growled, running her hand through her dark tousled locks.

“Kennedy no cursing” Willow said as she motioned for her to grab Xander’s bags and follow her into the kitchen. Kennedy grumbled as she grabbed both the bags and followed her lover out of the room. Giles coughed, trying to hide his blush as he followed the two girls into the kitchen.

Buffy looked around at her weird family and shook her head. “I’ll explain it to everyone tonight,” she said, turning towards the kitchen, stopping to look back at them. “And girls, leave poor Andrew alone” she chuckled as Andrew looked at the glares he was receiving, shivering in fear. Buffy walked out of the room, pausing as Andrew’s shrieks filled the house.

Buffy found Willow and Kennedy putting the groceries away as Giles sat at the counter wiping his glasses. Buffy smiled at him as he looked over at her.

“Ah Buffy glad you came in here. Willow and I were hoping to talk to you about the texts that are being sent by the coven,” he said motioning for her to sit down as Willow finished putting the groceries away.

“The Coven only has books dating at 50 B.C. Since this demon is older than that the only thing we can hope for is that she slipped up at some point and her name or description was recorded somewhere,” Willow said as Kennedy sat down and put her head on the table.

“Sorry Ken” Buffy smiled sheepishly, receiving a grunt in return. Willow rubbed her girlfriends head before turning back to Giles, motioning for him to continue.

“Yes… well from what I can gather already there seems to be something huge coming. It could explain why these ancients are coming out of their solitude now,” he said pulling a piece of paper from his pocket.

“Another prophecy?” Buffy asked shaking her head. “When have these things ever been accurate Giles? They always predict another apocalypse, and then we come stop it. So the prophecy thing really isn’t all that accurate to fall back on.” Giles smiled at her egotism, the frowned as he looked down at the paper.

“The book this prophecy comes from is the oldest book known and all the prophecies it contains have come true. From the plague to even events today. But this prophecy has been billions of years in the making.” He said looking into his slayers eyes.

“What does it say?” Buffy asked, her voice getting harder.

“Roughly, well what I could gather from words based in Latin, frankly neither the coven nor I have ever seen this language. It was truly fascinating,” he said before Willow took the piece of paper from his hand. He looked sheepishly down, mumbling his apology.

“They will come together, the old and young, and will fight in a war that will rip the skies and crumble the grounds. Spirits from the past will awaken and the Earth will overflow with the blood of the weak and strong. If the chosen two fail…”


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“The world’s will collide bringing the destruction of the human race. The reign of demons will renew as the fallen prince bows down to the knowledge of the new age. But if they succeed, the rule of the demons will end but only one of the chosen will be standing” Faith finished reading, the Atlantean words flowing from her mouth as she looked up from the huge book, the fear and anger in her eyes as she closed the book, running her hand over the title. “Finis de dies diei” she mumbled standing up, knocking over the chair as she grabbed her trench coat. It swirled at her feet as she disappeared from the room.
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A/N: graduation is coming up and I am trying to get ready. Sorry it is short as well. I am trying to make the conversations smoother.
Roughly in Latin. Finis de dies diei- means end of days