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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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Waiting
         "This is so stupid." Kennedy said, "We're just sitting here watching each other. They're watching us and we're watching them. What are we waiting for? People keep dying every time someone leaves the house for anything. We keep killing the Bringers but more keep coming like there's an inexhaustible supply coming out of the woodwork. Let's do something already!" She exclaimed.
           "What would you suggest?" Giles asked, "All that happens so far is that we get a lead, go after them we lose girls and kill a bunch of Bringers. We haven't found Caleb again, and the First shows itself on occasion to drive us in one direction or another and scare the hell out of everyone."
            "They're waiting for something." Buffy said.
           "Picking us off one by one is more like it." Faith said, "Lets face it, the First has oodles of time and Caleb is laying low. There's no mistaking what the plan is now."
           "It's Annabelle," Willow said, "They're positioning her to be the next Slayer.
            "That can't be the case," Xander said, "We met her. She stayed with us almost a week. She doesn't have a Slayer's temperament . . . she was going to have a baby."
            "My mother had a kid and she was a Slayer." Principle Wood said.
            "Am I the only person who thinks this is ludicrous? Xander looked around the room for any kind of support. It seemed there was a silent thought floating around the room and it was making Xander panic. "She's not a Vampire, she's not a demon, we've all agreed a number of times that she's a victim . . . how can we even being imagining this as an option?"
            "It's just a logical and obvious train of thought Xander, it doesn't mean anyone is going to act on it." Giles said.
            Some of the group familiar with her past looked towards Faith. She instantly held up her hands, "Don't look at me, I'm reformed remember?" She said, "No more humans or innocents , just like the giant leech over here." She said and smacked Spike in the shoulder.
            He gave her a look before moving the conversation along. "So obviously we can't go after the weakest link in the chain of evil, what are our alternatives?"
            "What if we go for the Vineyard again? It seems to be their base of operations." Someone suggested.
           "Because we receive our worst causalities and permanent injuries and mutilations there. " Giles said, "If the main players keep under the radar we're going to have to find a way to draw them out into the open."
            "If we can separate Annabelle from Caleb, it would get her out from under his and the First's influence for at least a while. Try to explain things, reason with her." Buffy said, "She didn't seem to know a whole lot about what was going on."
             "It might not be that simple. Victims of domestic abuse have a certain mind set they develop from the constant violence they're subjected to and unable to get away from. The notion that whats happened to them is their fault. That if they just stay and endure the abuse, one day they'll be be worthy, good enough. That their abuser is just trying to improve them . . . make them better. Annabelle wants to gain Caleb's approval. She won't betray him now, regardless of what he's done to her." Giles explained.
            They were all silent for a moment before Willow asked, "Could she be in love with him?" Even though she knows what he's done? The way he's treated her?"
            "That is the unfortunate tragedy of this situations." Giles replied. Which means if she was to receive the power of the Slayers, it would be Caleb's. She'd give it over to him without thought or hesitation."
Back Fired
           "I thought the First already had it's form, how can this happen again? Already?" Spike said as he and Faith walked through the graveyard.
            "You know as much fun as it is, and I suppose for you, you've forgotten altogether since it hasn't been a problem since you got a pair of fangs . . . sex does tend to result in rugrats. Why do people forget that." Faith replied.
           "That means Caleb's still shaggin' her. Seems like his hatred of women isn't as pure as he wants everyone to believe. Otherwise he'd do what normal demented Priests do with this sort of twisted mind set and toss other blokes." Spike said hopping over a tombstone.
           "My first thought when we met up with that whack job was that he needed to get laid. My mistake, seems now he's getting to much he doesn't have to work for." Faith said shaking her head.
           "At least when I was evil, I killed them after a bit. Didn't keep it goin' for two years. They didn't have to live with it. That sort of mind Fuck was Angel's specialty." Spike said.
           "You ever torture anyone as bad as Angel tortured Dru? Cause she's been lurking around for something like 200 plus years." Faith and Spike were the only ones that could talk to each other about their sorted past without wingeing or getting on a moral soap box about it.
           "No. Angel was the only one of us that had a taste for it. Not even Darla went so far." He replied.
           "What I'm wondering about is this Belle chick, is that he sort of keeps her in this little box. Kinda putting her up on a pedestal where he worships here . . .then he tears her down and flings her in the mud and muck. I don't get it, I don't get why she puts up with that shit."
            "Birds are always a mystery. This one's surprising but hardly unexpected. She's a beautiful thing alright, but her brain has been stirred and shaken and poured over ice." Spike paused and looked at Faith.
            Meanwhile at the Vineyard Caleb stood with the first in the basement, "Did you know about this? Did you plan it?" Caleb asked the creature that was lurking in the shadows.
           "Did you?" It asked him, "You were the one pounding away in her for hours at a time every night these past few weeks. You forget what creates little humans?"
           Caleb looked over, "Is this part of a plan you haven't let me in on?"
           "It stepped out of the shadows with it's arms crossed and a smirk on it's face. "I think we'll have a girl this time. The three of us." It walked around him,m "Don't look so upset, I'll take this one too."
           "What have you done with the boy?" Caleb asked.
           "It needs time to grow and mature into something useful. There's hardly anything that can be done with an infant. I'm taking good care of him don't worry. He's quite safe." The First said, "This little development of yours isn't a bad thing. It's always smart to have a back-up waiting in the wings." The first said continuing to circle around Caleb.
           "All this sittin' around waiting . . . we should just go in and take them all out now." Caleb said impatiently.
            "Patience. Time is good. Makes us grow stronger and more powerful. The Slayers are no match for you, not as long as we continue to merge regularly. We'll be unstoppable and they will be growing weaker by the day. Hope your wife doesn't mind." It said with a wink. Caleb rolled his eyes slightly, "They become weaker by the day. More paranoid, more frustrated, like little rats in a cage. Gnawing on each other."
            "What about my Belle?" She's up to over a dozen languages and don't hear herself speakin' a damn one. She's been havin' nightmares that ain't hers." Caleb said.
           "She sleeps with a nightmare." The First commented. Caleb just looked at the creature, "You know as well as I do as they Slayers die, the more information is stored into the ones that are left. They are down to 14 now, and two Slayers. It won't be long now. They're cornered with no where to run."
A Moment in Time
           Caleb starred at Annabelle that stood opposite him in the living quarters of the Vineyard.
           "You still look beautiful." Caleb said with half a smile before it faded. "Even if you never looked at me like that before."
           "Are you going to kill me?" She asked in a soft voice.
           "You haven't given me a reason yet." Caleb replied his hands clasped behind his back.
           Tears escaped from her eyes as they slid down her face, "The other girls didn't either." She said softly, "What's happening to me?"
            "Because unlike that group of bitches and whores and what they've been made to believe, you really are the chosen one." He said walking towards her. "Soon you're going to have a power unlike anythin' you've ever dreamed. You'll be like me darlin'. Be powerful like me." Reaching up he cupped her face in his hand.
           More tears slipped from her eyes, "I don't want to fight you . . . it'll make me fight you, Caleb." Her lip quivered, "I can feel it."
           "No, its trying to make you think that, but nothing it tells you could ever be more important then I am to you." He said looking into her eyes, "Isn't that right sweetheart?"
          Reaching up she wrapped her hands over his, holding it against her face never having felt fear like this before.
         Caleb smiled looking into her eyes, "That's my Belle." He said, "There's nothin' to be scared of, honey. As long as you do as I say, you'll have nothin' to worry about.." She nodded a little, strying to hold on.

To be Continued . . . .
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