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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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        Annabelle sat starring at the form before her, "Why do you look so scared, Annabelle? Haven't you missed me?"
        "You're the beast, not my sister." She said softly.
         "The beast?" It said half smiling, "I think I like that title better then 'The First' that the Slayers call me by. Has more flare."
         "Why are you here?" Annabelle asked.
         "I wanted to speak with you. You've done so much for me, I think it was time we talked." It said, "You're alone tonight, Caleb's away . . . we can spend some time together." Annabelle just stared at it. It sighed, "Fine." It said changing it's form into someone Annabelle hadn't met before they met their demise. "I don't think it really matters what skin I wear. You don't like me, do you."
          "My husband works for you." She stated.
          "By extension you work for me." It responded. Annabelle's eyes turned away, "I would imagine that your dislike of me stems from your Slayer blood, but this began before Caleb started to whittle down the potentials numbers."
           "Do you always take female form?" Annabelle asked.
           "Oh your heart wasn't in that. Trying to make it sound like jealousy, but you know better than that, you know that no other woman has a chance with Caleb." The creature said, "I take female form to keep him focused on his mission. I wouldn't want him to forget his objective. So many things going on it would be easy to lose track."
            "And practices his teachings, . . . your teaching on me." Annabelle said, "Even though he's wanted to stop for sometime."
            The First began to laugh, "Just because thats what you want and believe it doesn't make it true. You would think you knew something of your own husband after all this time." It said with a smile, "Don't be foolish Annabelle. Caleb is never going to change. He's going to keep hurting you. It's who he is. His heart was full of evil long before we crossed paths."
            "I know what you're doing." Annabelle said cutting off it's words not wanting to hear it talk anymore, "But I won't do it. You promised him the world and all the people within it in exchange for all the killings, all the deeds, everything you have told him to do." Annabelle starred into it's eyes feeling shiver down her spine. "Just because I'm absorbing power from all directions doesn't mean I'm going to turn on my husband."
            "You're not looking at the whole picture, Annabelle." It said, "I'm giving you a chance to be free, be strong on you're own. You won't need him anymore."
            "I will always need him." She said in a stern tone.
           "You are such an innocent and loyal soul, Annabelle." It raised it's voice, "Don't you think so Caleb?"" It called out.
            "I told you she was." Caleb said stepping from the next room having been in the darkness watching and listening. "She's stronger now then she ever was." He said walking around the room and stopping behind Annabelle resting his hands on her shoulders squeezing a bit.
            "You were testing me?" Annabelle asked her eyes a little wide and in shock.
             "We had to be sure darlin', there's only 5 potentials left, and 2 Slayers. It won't be too much longer now." Caleb smiled and kneeled down next to Annabelle taking her hand in his. He was so much more gentle with her now when she was pregnant like he had been with their first child. The First just smiled before it disappeared in a flash.
            "Caleb." Annabelle said softly, "He was . . . it was trying to turn me against you. Didn't you hear it?"
            "No, it was making sure you were as loyal now as you were before. As I said you would be." He said looking into her eyes.
             Annabelle fell silent starring back into his eyes. Caleb saw something there he hadn't seen before that was a bit disturbing in itself, "We can't keep this one either, can we." She said in a low voice.
            He half laughed, "Do you really want to?" He said, "Belle, what are we gonna do with a kid? We got no time for rasin' youngin's."
            "Then why have another?" She asked turning towards him. "What does it do with them, Caleb?" He furrowed his brow slightly seeing the growing emotion that was becoming more frantic by the second. "I know you care about them like I do. You're so careful with me, so you won't hurt them, won't hurt us when I"m with child." She was speaking faster and faster now, as she was headed straight into a breakdown from all the stress and rapid progression of the power gathering inside of her.
           Caleb had never seen her like this before and wasn't entirely certain how to take it, "Belle, you stop this now. Ya hear me?" He said taking her by the shoulders.
           "They're part of us Caleb, part of me and you. It just takes them away from us, pushes their souls out to make room for itself. We'll never get to see them, to meet the people they would become." Her whole body was starting to tremble now and Caleb couldn't hold her still as she began to struggle and fight him. She started to thrash around so much there was a chance she was going to hurt herself and they couldn't afford that right now. With one sharp blow he knocked her across the face just enough to render unconscious. He had to be mindful of how hard he hit her, with all his strength it would be simple enough to snap her neck like a matchstick without meaning to.
            She fell but he caught her picking her up from the floor. This hadn't happened before, she was always so calm and in control of herself at all times. She'd never showed such extreme emotion even after she'd been mercilessly tortured. He carried her up to the bedroom and lay her down sitting next to her. He starred at her for a while wondering if they had been mistaken about this.
Broken
             "It was to much to fast. That's all. Relax Caleb." It said walking around him. "She just needs some rest."
            "She was stark ravin' mad, she was losing her mind. We can't let this keep goin' on, she's not strong enough." Caleb said starring at Annabelle's motionless form.
            "Calm down," It said "No part of this side of you is attractive." It stopped standing next to him, "Send the Bringers to the hospital to pick up a few things."
            Caleb glanced at the First before looking back at Annabelle, then he turned and left the room to do as it had told him.
Unintentional Spies
              At the hospital the Bringers weren't the only ones sent to collect medical supplies. Andrew and Anya had gone from the Summer's house and the Slayer's base of operations having run out of everything even bandages to treat their wounded. They were messing about playing games when they heard the Bringer's enter the hospital.
              Neither of them were fighters and both dove for cover realizing they were cut off from any exit without drawing attention to themselves.
              "What are they doing?" Andrew said to Anya a bit loudly.
              "SHHHH!" Anya said covering his mouth with her hand, "Quiet you idiot!" She said giving him a severe look. Then she turned her attention back to the Bringers. "They're getting medical equipment, medication . . . .alot of it." She narrowed her eyes a little confused, "Like they're going to open up their own medical clinic and go into business for themselves."
              "I thought they were just kill or be killed. They didn't seem to be . . . nursing their wounds back to health." Andrew whispered keeping his voice down this time before he got suffocated again.
             "They don't." Anya said. They kept watching for a while until they saw a chance to slip by them, then hurried out of the hospital to get back to the others.
Stasis
          "Well now, how long to we plan on keepin' her like this?" Caleb asked.
          "How long until we're sure she won't hurt herself?" The First asked him back. "She needs rest, Caleb. Be Patient and don't look so concerned. I haven't led you astray before. She'll be looked after and out of the way. You have work to do. In a few days she'll be more adjusted, well rested, and ready to face her place in our new world. By then you should have only Slayers left to deal with. If that."
           For the first time in their association, it seemed like Caleb was actually resisting it's orders. Yet after a few moments he turned away to go back to work leaving Annabelle to be looked after by the First and the Bringers.
          The creature looked back at Annabelle walking closer to her. A convergence of the powers of good and evil, the two strongest the two largest players was happening in one body. Until this moment they had been confident that Annabelle would come down on their side when all the new power settled inside of her and she became the new being she was meant to be. But this unexpected pregnancy could be a wrench in the works. It was causing her material instincts to overpower any other struggle going on inside of her. The motherly instinct to protect it's child.
           It would have to watch this very closely. With a flash it was gone to go and rattle the cages of the Slayers and Potentials that were left to keep them uneasy . . . and tired.

To be continued. . . .
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