Time Machine
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BtVS AU/AR › General
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
1
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1,260
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Bad Feelings
AN: I don't own them yadda, yadda, yadda...
POV: Monique
Bad feelings
. They were dead. I could feel it. There was no life left in their bodies. I watched as the coroners came in and placed each of their bodies into a shiny black bag. There had been 4 of them; two little girls, a baby boy and their mother all killed in one night. There was no sign of forced entry and the police couldn’t explain it to the now widowed man who was crying on the porch. My heart went out to him from my place in the tall oak next to their house. I knew what it was like to lose everyone that you once loved.
. My mind took me back to that night that I had lost them all. My mother, father, brother and sister. All of them, gone in one night. I had heard them screaming in my dreams. Waking up in a cold sweat, I wandered through Aya’s house looking for them. By the time morning came, I knew that I was now alone. I could no longer feel them as I once could, their life forces, their auras; it was all gone. They said that I was lucky, but I really couldn’t see how. What is life without those that you love nearby? I had been spared the same fate as my family, but I was doomed to walk the road of mortality alone.
. It had been a long time since I moved away from that little town in California. Valley of the Sun, that’s what they had called it. My memories from there were no longer pleasant. I shook my head to clear the thoughts of years ago as I turned to focus on the scene in front of me. The widow was now becoming hysterical, so I reached out with my mind until I felt his. Turmoil, denial and guilt flooded my mind as I tapped into his. Sleep and rest. The day has been long and tiresome. It was not your fault, and you couldn’t have done anything to save them, I could feel his muscles relax, if only slightly as he let the police officer that he had been shaking go. I retreated from his mind and hopped down from the branch that I had been watching from. I slinked away into the shadows as Spike had taught me and made my way back to the house.
. I walked in to see Auntie Willow and Uncle Xander glaring at me with the you-are-so-in-trouble-and-where-have-you-been look.
. “Hi, Auntie Wills, Uncle Xan…Did you wait up for me?” I asked as if nothing was wrong.
. They both gawked at my audaciousness but Willow found her voice first, “We have been worried sick about you. We may be much older than you but we still know what lurks out there, in the darkness.”
. Xander added, “We’ve been fighting vampires and other demons all our lives. They are dangerous, Mon. You can’t be out there alone all by yourself. Even for an experienced witch and potential like you.”
. “We don’t mean to nag,” said Willow, “but it’s just that this family has been touched by so much loss when it comes to life on a Hellmouth and we don’t want to lose you too.”
. They looked at me with love as they shut off the hallway light. They both donned me with kisses on the forehead and went up to their rooms as I was left in the dark. I sighed knowing that I should really stop with the late night outings. I made my way up to the room that I shared with Joanna, the girl that had been my best friend since we started college 6 years ago. She was my connection to this family; the one that I had finally accepted as my own. I opened the door quietly and tiptoed towards my bed on the far side of the room. I took off my clothes and lied slowly down on the bed in my underwear.
. “You know you shouldn’t worry them,” said a tiny whisper from the other bed, “It’s not good for them to be worrying about us as well as their own children, Monique.”
. “I know, Joanna,” I replied looking over at the Joanna shaped lump under the covers, “I don’t mean to. I’ve just been restless; I feel …something, I don’t know what but I can’t stay here in the house and just deal with it.”
. “Well, just try and if you must take Spike, Aunt Will and Uncle Xan wouldn’t be as worried if they knew you had him with you,” she replied rolling over onto her side settling herself back down to sleep.
. I stared at the ceiling as Joanna fell back asleep, thinking about what I saw tonight. It was vampires; I could feel it>The>There was a new threat in town. It was all I could think about as I slowly drifted off into sleep.
POV: Monique
. They were dead. I could feel it. There was no life left in their bodies. I watched as the coroners came in and placed each of their bodies into a shiny black bag. There had been 4 of them; two little girls, a baby boy and their mother all killed in one night. There was no sign of forced entry and the police couldn’t explain it to the now widowed man who was crying on the porch. My heart went out to him from my place in the tall oak next to their house. I knew what it was like to lose everyone that you once loved.
. My mind took me back to that night that I had lost them all. My mother, father, brother and sister. All of them, gone in one night. I had heard them screaming in my dreams. Waking up in a cold sweat, I wandered through Aya’s house looking for them. By the time morning came, I knew that I was now alone. I could no longer feel them as I once could, their life forces, their auras; it was all gone. They said that I was lucky, but I really couldn’t see how. What is life without those that you love nearby? I had been spared the same fate as my family, but I was doomed to walk the road of mortality alone.
. It had been a long time since I moved away from that little town in California. Valley of the Sun, that’s what they had called it. My memories from there were no longer pleasant. I shook my head to clear the thoughts of years ago as I turned to focus on the scene in front of me. The widow was now becoming hysterical, so I reached out with my mind until I felt his. Turmoil, denial and guilt flooded my mind as I tapped into his. Sleep and rest. The day has been long and tiresome. It was not your fault, and you couldn’t have done anything to save them, I could feel his muscles relax, if only slightly as he let the police officer that he had been shaking go. I retreated from his mind and hopped down from the branch that I had been watching from. I slinked away into the shadows as Spike had taught me and made my way back to the house.
. I walked in to see Auntie Willow and Uncle Xander glaring at me with the you-are-so-in-trouble-and-where-have-you-been look.
. “Hi, Auntie Wills, Uncle Xan…Did you wait up for me?” I asked as if nothing was wrong.
. They both gawked at my audaciousness but Willow found her voice first, “We have been worried sick about you. We may be much older than you but we still know what lurks out there, in the darkness.”
. Xander added, “We’ve been fighting vampires and other demons all our lives. They are dangerous, Mon. You can’t be out there alone all by yourself. Even for an experienced witch and potential like you.”
. “We don’t mean to nag,” said Willow, “but it’s just that this family has been touched by so much loss when it comes to life on a Hellmouth and we don’t want to lose you too.”
. They looked at me with love as they shut off the hallway light. They both donned me with kisses on the forehead and went up to their rooms as I was left in the dark. I sighed knowing that I should really stop with the late night outings. I made my way up to the room that I shared with Joanna, the girl that had been my best friend since we started college 6 years ago. She was my connection to this family; the one that I had finally accepted as my own. I opened the door quietly and tiptoed towards my bed on the far side of the room. I took off my clothes and lied slowly down on the bed in my underwear.
. “You know you shouldn’t worry them,” said a tiny whisper from the other bed, “It’s not good for them to be worrying about us as well as their own children, Monique.”
. “I know, Joanna,” I replied looking over at the Joanna shaped lump under the covers, “I don’t mean to. I’ve just been restless; I feel …something, I don’t know what but I can’t stay here in the house and just deal with it.”
. “Well, just try and if you must take Spike, Aunt Will and Uncle Xan wouldn’t be as worried if they knew you had him with you,” she replied rolling over onto her side settling herself back down to sleep.
. I stared at the ceiling as Joanna fell back asleep, thinking about what I saw tonight. It was vampires; I could feel it>The>There was a new threat in town. It was all I could think about as I slowly drifted off into sleep.