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Overt Religiosity	By : MarianTheBlackadder Category: -Buffy the Vampire Slayer > Het - Male/Female Views: 11791 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Kidnapped
          "You couldn't have been more gentle with the extremely pregnant girl?" Giles asked as he carried the young woman up the stairs with Buffy and William following him.
           "Knocking her out was the most gentle thing we could do, Giles. She was struggling and kicking and started to scream. We didn't have much time to waste she had bringers for escorts whenever she's away from the Vineyard. They can hear just fine." Xander said following them as well.
            Giles took her into Dawn's room and laid her down on the bed. He took her pulse and felt her cheek. "Despite the sharp blow to her face, she seems to be doing alright. Although I can't tell if she has a fever or is being cooked alive by this ridiculous outfit."
             "Willow, grab a nightgown from my room. We'll get this stiff off her and hopefully bring her temperature down." Buffy said. The witch nodded and disappeared from the room as the slayer took off her hat and gloves tossing them aside and moved to the other side of the bed and began to help Giles. Together they started to peel the layers from her body.
             "I'm just gonna . . . um . . . go get some ice. . ." Xander said nervously backing towards the door embarrassed, "For the bruise on her face." He tripped on his own feet before hurrying from the room.
             "Any chance I could exhibit a bit more courageous chivalry as that and leave you to this?" Giles asked.
              "I need your help, it's the only way we can keep being gentle. I don't want to hurt her anymore then we already have." Buffy's voice was low, obviously unhappy that they had to be so harsh.
              "Got one." Willow said as she ran back into the room carrying a cream colored linen nightgown. "It's the only non-lacy, non satin-y one you had." She explained putting it down on the bed before assisting them. "And it has long sleeves in case she's as modest as she seems to be and won't get embarrassed."
               "Here, this buttons up the back, roll her on her side." Giles said as he and Buffy helped turn her over carefully. Willow quickly unbuttoned the dress finding a heavy slip underneath.
               "How does she not sweat and dehydrate constantly?" Willow asked. The three sat Annabelle up and pulled off the dress, slip and undergarments before laying her back down finally reaching skin. Giles halted their efforts a moment when something caught his eye.
               "Wait, wait." He said seeing a branded mark on her lower back. "Look. It's Caleb's mark. Larger then the ring he wears and uses to brand his victims with."
                "But this one is almost two inches big. He must have used an actual brand on her." Buffy said, "Couldn't he have given her a wedding ring like normal people do?" She leaned a little closer, "What are these markings around it?"
                "I don't know. I've never seen anything like them before. Willow?" Giles asked for her opinion.
                The witch took a closer look, "I'm not familiar with them either. You think they have something to do with the first?"
                "Lets research them later and get her covered before she wakes up and starts freaking out again." Buffy suggested. Giles and Willow agreed and removed the last of her clothing and pulled the nightgown on her and laid her down covering her with a blanket.
                Giles picked up the rather large pile of cloth they'd just removed from the young woman. "Amazing. All of this must weigh a good 60 or 70 pounds. More then an actual nun would wear for any occasion much less day to day wear."
                "As much as Caleb believes the female form is a disgusting sin, he might not want to see her body around the house." Willow suggested.
                "No," Buffy said starring at Annabelle. "Look at her." Reaching up she pulled the scar from Annabelle's head revealing more of her face and her smooth soft hair. "She's beautiful. He doesn't want anyone to see and realize how pretty she is. Not even her."
                "Of course." Giles paced slightly diving into thought, "Vanity is one of the cardinal sins, not to mention the lust and temptation it tends to inspire in men. Maybe it's his way of protecting himself from those feelings." Willow and Buffy just starred at Giles for even considering that Caleb had anything remotely Godly on his mind. "Or," Giles said readjusting his theory, "He's just an insanely jealous and sadistic bastard which is more likely at this point."
                 Buffy looked at the sleeping girl, "Lets let her sleep for now. We'll take turns keeping watch."
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                "She's not a mute." Giles said standing with Buffy at the end of the girls bed. Annabelle just sat quietly her back against the wall starring wide eyed at the two people who had been questioning her. "I examined her before she woke, there is no reason she can't talk."
                "Caleb has had her for two years, Giles. Who knows how much influence he had on her upbringing before then. It's not that she can't talk, it's that she won't talk." The Slayer said looking back at the girl. "She won't talk without his permission." They looked at her again before Buffy walked over and sat down beside her, only to have Annabelle move away from her a little bit. "It must be terrible." She began, "To live in fear constantly. Night and day afraid of doing something wrong, something he wouldn't like and have him punish you for it. I imagine it must be like being in a nightmare you can't wake up from."
                 Giles watched as Buffy tried to speak to the young woman. Annabelle listened and understood what she was saying, but it was almost as if there was a permanent lock on her jaw.
                  "You're safe here Annabelle. We aren't going to hurt you and your safe here. We'll keep you safe there's nothing to be scared of. You know Caleb is a bad man, you know that he's murdered countless people. Tortured girls, girls like you and killed them. You have to know what he's done, what he is doing is wrong." Buffy said. "If you tell us what you know, we can make him stop. But we need your help."
                  It didn't seem that she was getting through to her and Giles decided to take a turn. He walked closer and kneeled beside the bed looking at the girl. "You're going to be a mother very soon. There's a good chance that you will have a daughter, a little girl." Annabelle looked at him, "What makes you think that Caleb will treat her better then he's treated any of the others. Treated you."
                   Annabelle just starred at him a moment, as it seemed it was something that she herself was very worried about and he'd only shined light on it. "It's a boy." She whispered in a ghost like voice. "It wanted a boy. It helped to make sure that it would be a boy."
                   "It?" Giles asked.
                   "The first?" Buffy added.
                   Annabelle nodded looking at them. "Caleb said . . . women are meant for this. The only way to redeem ourselves for the fall of mankind. To submit to our husbands and do as they are told." She shook her head a little, "Sometimes when I haven't disobeyed him, he would be angry and punish me anyway. But he hasn't done that since . . . since the baby." She said placing her hands on her abdomen. "I think it's what he's always wanted from me."
                   Giles looked down hearing the desperation in her voice, wanting to be a good girl and be what she was supposed to be as a wife. As strange as the situation was, she was a regular victim of domestic abuse.
                   "Annabelle, how long have you know Caleb?" Buffy asked.
                   "Since I was little." She said softly, "He was a preacher in our parish."
                   "Do you know when he got on a first name basis with the first?" Buffy said.
                   "After we were married." Annabelle's eyes turned downward and her voice became even quieter. "It came to him in a dream. Then when he was awake. Until . . . I saw it to."
                   "It's so out of character from what we know about Caleb that he's married." Giles said, "Can you tell us what the marks on your back mean?"
                   Annabelle's eyes went wide as she pulled the blanket up over her, "You saw me?" She said a tremor in her voice.
                   "Not . . . in your entirety." Giles said quickly.
                   "You had a fever," Buffy added trying to calm the girl down. "We had to bring your temperature down and so we changed you into that nightgown." Rather then comforting her it seemed that it only upset her more. "Uh . . ." Buffy looked at Giles for help.
                    "Do you have any idea what you've done!?" Annabelle said in a terrified voice, "What he'll do to me!!"

To Be Continued . . . .
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