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Jillian K
Disclaimer: BTVS is property of Joss Whedon and Mutant enemy. This fic is intended for entertainment purposes only so no money is being made of it. As if anybody would pay.
Summary: In a different Sunnydale in where the demon threat has been neutralized the slayer protects a vampire from the Initiative labs.
He had just told me that my boyfriend’s purpose was to destroy what was left of him. In humans this is known as a soul. In vampires it is unknown.
“I have to admit that there wasn’t much left to break. I was obedient because I feared what would happen if I wasn’t. Walsh’s ‘conditioning’ had been pretty successful but very deep inside of me I was still rebelling, I was still fighting their control over me. Somehow Finn knew this and he was determined to get at that last bit of my will”
“How could he?”
“By obliterating my personality, my sense of self. His ‘studies’ were meant to play with my head, with my nerves. He kept me in a constant state of stress and recorded my every reaction. I held up pretty well until he went into sleep deprivation. For fourteen years, sleep had been my only escape. In my dreams I was free and by my lady’s side once again. Finn made it so that I didn’t even have that and I just couldn’t take it”
He averted his eyes from me. My own eyes moistened and I gestured for him to go on.
“I reacted with all the rage, all the anger I had bottled inside ever since my capture. I went into vamp mode and did not revert from it. Every time anyone came near the cell door I would throw myself at it and almost succeeded in breaking it. The guards came in to restrain me but I managed to bite a couple of them before they decided to give it up. They stopped feeding me but it didn’t matter, I was too far-gone to care much”
As I listened I could hear the past desperation seep into his words but I couldn’t stop him. I had to know. He went on.
“ Eventually, Finn decided that he no longer needed me. I never knew if he had to convince Walsh but I heard from a passing guard that he had scheduled my extermination for the following day. When they came to take me, I was ready for them and took most of them out. I made my way to where the other vamps were. I knew that my only chance at escaping out of the complex was too create a diversion and releasing a handful of lab-vamps would do it”
I remembered the other vampires I had managed to track down the day that Maggie Walsh had first asked for my help. I had wondered about the conditions that made one of them stake herself when she knew that I was going to take her back. I no longer wondered.
“Somehow I managed to make my way out of the lab and into the streets of Sunnydale. I knew that it would be impossible to get past the Initiative border patrols so I decided to try blending in. I thought I was making a go at it until the night you found me”
He paused to take my hand in his. The light pressure made my senses tingle.
“When you found me I thought that all was lost. I knew who you were and I was ready to accept death by your hands but when you indicated that I was going to be taken back…” his voice fractured and he whispered his next words “…but then you didn’t and instead you let me into your home. Buffy that was everything. You are everything and I want you to know that”
He didn’t say anything else. He didn’t need to. Everything was clear.
The vampire that had opened my eyes was stood before me. In his gaze I saw the years of torment revisited on him and I responded to that. I took him into my arms and he transformed from a notoriously evil vampire into simply William.
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