The First Series
First 6b The Return
By : Lady Sirona lsirona@pacbell.net,
Rated NC17 [Buffy/Angel] M/F consensual sex, oral and anal sex, blood
play, BDSM, roleplay
Spoilers: Up to Bad Eggs then the universe splits off from there
The Return
Part C
main compoundThey arrived at the Gypsies main compound which was like a small town surrounding a central square. There was a main house where the leaders of the clan lived and this was where they were taken. Giles walked in the house following Karl and Jenny. He distinctly felt like he was on display to the gypsies who gathered to see the Watcher of Angelus and the American.
Jenny whispered at Giles. "Relax England"Giles whispered back. "When am I ever relaxed?" She chuckled.
An older woman came up and hugged Jenny. She was heavier set than Jenny but the likeness was obvious. Giles stepped back as the family greeted her. She held a position of respect in the tribe as Watcher of Angelus and it was easy to see she was well loved. It must have been hard for her to be so far from the clan.
~ Janna I am so glad you are back. And who is this man you brought with you?~ She looked at Giles as if he was a prime race horse. ~ Janna, you have a man?~
Jenny smiled at her mother and pulled Giles up to be introduced. ~ Mother this is Rupert Giles, my other half…~ Giles shifted uncomfortably. He knew the implication of the woman bringing the man home to such a family. What alarmed him more was he found he liked the idea and planned to make the most of it.
He mother looked at him shocked. ~Other half? You married without telling us?~
~No mother. I did not marry, he is my companion, my other half to life... we are life partners though, he came to help.~ She prayed that Giles would go along. They would be chaperoned if the family knew they were just dating.
M -look s sad... ~Oh I was hoping~ She knew that the task of Watcher of Angelus was a dangerous and lonely position and she had prayed her daughter would find a companion who accepted her calling..
Karl snorted. ~Enough talk of companions. We need to discuss how to save the tribe from the pack. Such niceties can await another day!~
[ All communication in the compound is in Romanian no more ~ used ]
Karl recapped what happened to them. "The vampires attacked some of our young people at a local dance at the other compound. The young men killed three of the vampires, and apparently one of them was a favorite of the pack. The pack then vowed to exterminate the tribe after they first torture us. Since then they have taken several of our people. One they sent back to us drained... in pieces.".
Giles went cold. This sounded worse than he thought. The pack on a rampage was one thing; an enraged, vindictive, revenge seeking pack was another. "Who was the vampire that was killed that angered them so much?"
Karl looked at him like he was fool to focus on that, it was meaningless. What was important was the Tribe was dying. "We don't know.. a small young blond girl."
Giles sat down on the offered chair. "Oh dear god." He looked up at Karl. "Was she young looking, about 14. Long blonde hair, about 5 feet tall?" He winced when Karl nodded his assent. "What I feared. It was Angelique, an old vampire from 1600, she stayed with the pack since the time of Angelus. She was the one that mellowed him and kept him in line as well as anyone could. She was a cold hunter. She wasn't a human killer. She probably went on the hunt to keep the younger ones in line. Keep them from being lost in blood lust. A human killing her must have been a fluke."
Jenny bit her lip. Contacting and appealing to Angelique had been their plan. "Rupert, should I tell Buffy? This changes all our plans. she'll need to know or else it could go very wrong."
Giles nodded. "Yes, update Buffy. The pack will be mean and twisted without her calming influence. I was hoping we could approach her to call the pack off. We are going to have to go for total extermination now."
Karl stared at Giles. He talked of speaking to vampires like he talked to neighbors. "You know this much of the vampires? Just who are you?"
Giles figured the best plan was being truthful. "I am The Watcher to the Vampire Slayer. That is who Jenny is calling and updating; the girl you saw at the airport. I hoped we would not have to call them in. But if Angelique is dead we have lost any chance to negotiate and we will have to go for extermination. They will be beyond rational thought."
Karl stared in shock. "The Slayer...!" She was not just a myth, the tribe knew of her since their own had once served as the slayer.
At the hotel
The ringing phone work an irritated Angelus. "Better be good. Yes... sorry, you woke me up."
Jenny was taken aback by the rough voice in angel but then she had never wok him during the day. "Ohh sorry, we have a big problem we found out why the pack is attacking.. the tribe killed a favorite of the pack..."Angel stopped cold. There was only one vampire that would enrage the pack by their death. Only one who was a 'favorite'. "Don't tell.. please. Not Angelique..."
Jenny was taken aback at the pain in Angel's voice. "yes, I'm sorry Angel..."
"Shit." He hung up the phone and threw it down on the bed as he erupted out of the bed and paced around the room as Buffy watched bleary eyed from the bed. He was ranting in Gaelic he paced like a caged tiger his eyes yellow, the ridges prominent on his brow. "The fucking gypsies killed Angelique. That is what is wrong... shit... no wonder the pack is exterminating them... Who the hell did Angelique hurt? She was a cold hunter!" He stopped and looked at Buffy the pain of losing an old friend plain in his face.
Buffy shut her eyes to the pain. "Oh god I'm sorry Angelus, they couldn't couldn't have known!"
"The vampire the tribe killed was Angelique, the old one. She was a cold hunter. She was kind, and sweet and they fucking killed her! Hell she is the one who always stopped the bloodlust battles, slowed the young ones. She tempered even me! Hell, if they did it when I ran the pack. I would have done the same thing Antonia is doing, but a lot swifter. You want me to protect the tribe NOW?" He demanded.
Buffy was slightly fearful of Angelus this close to his rage. "Angelus please... they couldn't have known, they would have seen the vamps attacking and reacted." She approached him gently not wanting to startle him. She put a hand on his chest and looked up into his feral yellow eyes. "Angelus.... come on please.... I'm sorry, but we need you. I need you. We can't afford for you to back out now. Please."
Angel threw himself on the bed and rolled over hiding his face in his arms. Buffy went to his side and stoked his back. He suddenly rolled back and burrowed into her hiding his face. She could feel his anger and his rage thought the link amazed he felt such passion over this. Underneath the anger was his loss. In his own way Angelus had loved Angelique."Angelus, I'm so sorry, I really am. Is there anything I an do?" she reached out and shared his pain. He held her to him tightly as she kissed the top of his head. Her heart was breaking to see him this way. "Stay here tonight Angelus... you don't have to do this, I will do it alone. I will let Dom go. It's my task to fight them not yours." She sat sill stroking his head lightly.
"It isn't fair... what have you done to me Buffy?" he asked her.
"I made you change Angelus. I made you choose between me and them Angelus.. I can't stand see you like this… "
"No that's not what I mean. It was so simple... I lived, I existed... I didn't hurt like this! No... Buffy the pack is not your usual vampires... I will not let you face them alone..." she felt the protectiveness of her override the anger at the gypsies.
"But you said yourself you'll be protecting people that killed someone you love." She was trying to give him an out to end the horrible pain in him that ate at the edges of her heart through the bond.
"God it hurts. I am not doing it for them... I am doing it for you!" he lay there a mass of contradictory emotions ranging from rage and hate to protectiveness and love. "It's unfair.." he said in a small voice lost in the emotional maelstrom. Tears forming in her eyes. "Hold me?" he asked in a small voice, a broken hearted plea.
Buffy started crying slightly for him. For his loss. "Always Angelus, always." She tightened her holds on him laying her head against his hair. She realized that with the blending of Angel with Angelus, Angelus was growing emotionally and is now experiencing emotions beyond anger and rage that he has no idea how to deal with...
main compound
Karl looked at Jenny as she walked back in from the room with the phone. "Will your Slayer help us?"
Jenny nodded. "I think that killing her may have been a very, very big mistake. Rupert, he swore hung up, I'm hoping Buffy can calm him down."
Giles sighed and took his glasses off to polish them. "He didn't take it well either? I don't know, the killing of Angelique will necessitate going to our back up plan. I don't like it, but the back up plan stays, he'll do it, just to keep Buffy alive.."
Karl was concerned with the way he spoke. "What is your back up plan?"
Giles sighed. "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer is not here alone. She is here with her vampire consort."
Karl was stunned. "VAMPIRE CONSORT?"
"Yes my Slayers consort is an ensouled Vampire. She is in love with the vampire, and he with her. He has been endlessly helpful in keeping her alive as well as the rest of us." Giles spoke mater of factly and his tone allowed no argument.
Jenny's mother stared at him and her eyes got wide, the reality was dawning. "Her consort is Angelus?" Karl stood his face red and he was almost beyond speech as he sputtered.
Jenny nodded. "Angel, as Angelus is called now, came to help us even after what we did to him. He'll still help you, even after the death of his friend just to keep Buffy alive."
Karl was all but frothing at the mouth. "You mean to tell me you brought that bastard demon Angelus with you? You brought that monster to our soil!" his wife was feebly trying to soothe her raging husband who was beyond calming.
Giles looked the man in the eyes. "Yes. Yes I did. We need him, there was no other option. He is part of the team. He's proven himself to me many a time and Buffy would not be alive if he wasn't around…"
"And most our family would be!" Karl snarled
"It was 100 years ago father. If he doesn't help tonight the rest will die! You have no choice in this father, if he doesn't help we will die and so will The Slayer. Angel loves Buffy and will die before harming her, he'll kill his old friends for her. He killed his Sire Darla for her..
Giles stood and slammed his hands down on the old oak table. He addressed the stunned group in cold Ripper tones. "That is quite enough. I brought the Vampire Slayer and her bonded Consort to your place to save you from the vampires that are out to exterminate your tribe. You want the Slayer, you will take her husband. You will treat him with respect and with courtesy; or you can take us back to the airport now and deal with the vampires on your own. Chose now and stop fucking around with old grudges! That injury from Angelus was done over a hundred years ago and the last injury done was done to Angelus from your tribe... his 'punishment' has lasted longer than the people he killed were supposed to live. He is capable to put his grudge aside to come save the lives of the ones living now, can you say the same? What will it be?"
There was silence. Karl just stared in shock and the others stood waiting for what the headman would decide. Jenny whispered in his ear. "I'm impressed." Jenny looked at her father. "Rupert is right father, shall we go, or stay?"
Karl swallowed. He had to weigh the living's needs against the dead's memories. There was no competition. "Stay."
Jenny's mother retreated into being courteous. "Your both tired. I will show you your room."
Giles was surprised it was to one room, and decided to push the envelope on what he needed. "I will need on for Buffy and Angel also." Jenny Mother nodded as she lead them to a spare room with one big bed. It was a subtle statement of their acceptance of their relationship.
Giles was explaining to a frustrated Karl who followed them. He looked ready to have a heart attack. "We will have to bring them here. We need to plan and can't do it apart. Jenny, call them and tell them to get in here. Yes I know Angel is gong to hate this."
Jenny nodded. "All right, I will ring them and tell them to come. We will send the covered truck for Angel."
the hotel...
Buffy was laying on the bed holding Angelus who had drifted back to sleep when the phone rang. She answered it this time. "Hello?"Giles spoke gently to his Slayer. "We need you two to come to the compound now. I am aware Angel is probably upset about Angelique, I didn't foresee that. But we need to plan and we need to be ready to move at dusk. The Gypsies know about him now and with Angelique gone, my original plan is gone also. We will have to go for the second plan: extermination. I do not see any other option. We are sending the covered van for you and Angel."
Buffy sighed. She knew he was awake and with his vampiric hearing was following the conversation. It could be good he wasn't screaming right now. "All right, but Giles, they were very close. He's not going to like it. He's doing this for me now, not them. so make sure they don't say anything to him. The tension will be thick enough here to cut with a sword."
"Neither does the headman Karl. Take a moment to think about it. Angelus massacred in their tribe, here Angelus was a real bogeyman to these people and now I am making them call him guest?"
Buffy just sighed. Well be ready when the truck gets here Giles." She hung up. "Angelus, honey, you listened to the hole thing?"
Angelus rolls over and look s at Buffy. "I got good hearing. So we get to go to the Gypsy compound eh? we better get ready... and I'll get into my travel crate." He snarled with the thought.
She looked at him "Why are you doing that? They are sending a covered truck for us."
"Yeah and how do you think I am going to get *to* the van? they will have to carry me into the van and out of the van into the house." He knew he could have done it with wrapping himself in a heavy blanket, which they didn't have. The hotel wouldn't appreciate them taking one of theirs. They had to move the casket, and he was being perverse and wanted to make their skins crawl when he arrived.
Angelus got up and started to dress as Buffy also dressed and finished re-packing her bags. He dressed in the classic leather pants, velveteen shirt with requisite leather jacket before he laid himself out in the casket.
Buffy watched him. "I'm sorry Angelus, this is almost as hard for me as you."
Angelus chuckled. "Don't sweat it. You think after 245 years, I'd be used to it." He closed the lid with a slam as she looked over at the casket flinching, hurt and angry with him for his rudeness. She could feel the self loathing in him for the situation.
It was about 20 minutes later after she checked out, Jenny knocked on the door with 6 strong virile young men from the compound. Buffy nodded and motioned them in. Two immediately grabbed the bags leaving the remaining four to carry the casket containing Angelus. They went to it with raw terror on their faces as they picked it up. They held it as if it was full of nitroglycerin. If it had been it wouldn't have been carried any more gently.
Buffy felt wicked. "You guys drop that and you'll be in trouble."
Jenny sighed. "Don't bother. They don't speak English. Don't worry, they know it." She told Buffy as they slide the casket into the covered truck. They helped Buffy into the truck which she didn't need. They spread themselves around the casket. The only place to really sit except the floor was on the casket, so while the gypsies tried to avoid touching the casket Buffy and Jenny sat on it like a bench.
Jenny tried to update Buffy. "Giles told my father that Angelus was your husband."
Buffy shrugged. "Well we're bonded so I guess that's close enough..
"We will leave him in the casket, cause we can't guarantee he won't be hit by sun in transit otherwise. How do we tell him? I don' want to open it up and tell him…"
Angelus's voice was heard from inside the casket. "Don't bother I heard..." The men nearly leaped from the moving truck with sound of his voice.
Buffy chuckled. "That good hearing again huh?" She was rewarded with a thump from the casket from the inside. "You OK with being my husband then?" she asked him teasingly, lying on the casket as she drummed her fingers on it. She was rewarded with a thump.