That was all they did. Stare. Here they were in a strange place and some complete stranger had just popped up from underneath them? If it wasn't for the fact that they were in Sunnydale they would've thought they were going crazy. Where was this place and who was this man? The man ran his hand through his hair and then ruffled it. He blinked once and realised what he had gone under the floor for.
“One moment,” he said before going back underneath
Banging and clashing of metal could be heard throughout the room. Dawn looked scared. Buffy and Spike just looked at each other. In one swift moment this stranger had come back up with a weird looking pen thing and he waved it about.
“Knew I'd find it somewhere...”
“And what exactly is 'IT'?” Dawn asked pointing her finger at the object.
The man smiled like a Cheshire cat, threw it in the air and caught it.
“Sonic screwdriver, neat little thing (whispers) I invented it you know,”
The teen smiled slightly and her elder sister rolled her eyes.
“Cool...what-”
“Dawn! Don't even go there, okay? We've been sucked into something that looks like a kiddies play room by some weird Martian and you're asking about his toy?” she exclaimed
“What? Martian? Do I look green? And toy? This is...ok it may not be state of the art but it can do pretty much anything I'll have you know,”
Spike snorted and looked around the room. The man carried on.
“And where you are right now, this isn't some kiddies play room as you called it, this is a time travelling spaceship called the Tardis, aren't you?” he spoke to the ship and stroked it lovingly.
This action deeply concerned Buffy and Dawn, Spike however just looked at him and went walking around the Tardis. Firstly they were sucked up by some weird light, then some weird Martian came out from the floor and now he was trying to say he wasn't who he was.
“Are you insane?!? Stroking and talking to something that isn't even alive?”
“She is alive,”
“IT's a machine and what sort of name is Tardis?”
“Time And Relative Dimensions In Space,” he said in a matter of factly way
Dawn laughed and laughed and laughed until she was red in the face. Suddenly turning to a serious expression when she realised everyone was looking at her.
“Oh my god, we've been abducted...”
The slayer glared at Dawn. As Buffy attempted to get her sister to stop laughing, the man pulled out a pair of thick rimmed, black glasses, fiddled with something on the computer, causing a flap on it to open. He reached into the compartment and pulled out a notepad like object and began scanning them one by one. His look becoming even more quizzical as he went on. It was Spike's turn and the vampire grew more and more impatient as he went on.
“I don't get it, nothing, absolutely nothing, no particles, atoms, nothing, zip, zero, zilch...then why were you sucked up?” he questioned, looking at Spike strangely.
“I don't know but you got us here, you're going to get us out whoever the hell you are,” Buffy ordered
The man seemingly ignored her and walked back towards the vampire with yet another frown on his face. Now her temper was wearing thin.
“Don't just ignore me when...”
His frown turned into a smile and he looked like a child who had found their lost toy.
“You have got to be kidding me!”
Spike turned to him and watched the man smile even more and then did something really embarrassing.
“Well I never...it's Willy! Oooh (pinches Spike's cheeks and flicks his ear) little Willy Harkness,”
Spike glared at him and the girls fought to keep the giggles in.
“Get your soddin' hands off me you twit! And don't call me THAT” he growled
He gave Spike an offended look.
“What are you?...wait don't tell me...vampire! Yes! When did that happen?” he narrowed his eyes
Spike continued to glare. Nostrils flared, fist clenched.
“I don't even know you,”
“None of us do,” Buffy corrected
“You don't remember me?”
Agitated huff.
“Course I don't!”
The man nodded.
“Friend of your mother's...timelord, lord of time, I'm the doctor, please don't tell me you've forgotten me?”
Spike's blue eyes roamed the doctor as if he was trying to work something out.
“Doctor who? And of what?” Dawn enquired
“Just the doctor and of nothing, just a name I picked out like Rambo or Superman...what happened to her by the way?”
The vampire stepped up to the doctor and snorted.
“That was a long time ago and she died like people do,”
Another nod. Doctor ruffled Spike's hair. Another growl.
“Why did you go and spoil your hair like that?”
This was just a step too far.
“Do I have to make it perfectly clear? Get your timelord, martiany hands off my hair before I turn you into a Yorkshire pudding!”
Buffy turned to Dawn and mouthed 'Yorkshire pudding?'.
He threw his hands up in defeat but still carried on with his rant. How innocent and lovely Spike was as a child. Tip of the iceberg. When he asked him what happened after he left all he got in respond was 'I don't remember much and it's none of your business'.
The arguing continued and they swapped English insults and the girls had no idea what they were saying. Jibberish was all it sounded like. One look. That one look told Buffy that he was up to something. One movement and he gave the Tardis a hard kick. The doctor looked gob smacked. How could he do that?
“What are you doing!” he squeaked
“Teaching you a bloody lesson is what,”
The doctor stepped toe to toe with Spike.
“And what do you hope to achieve with that?”
Spike chuckled.
“And your hair? HA! Don't get me started on that!” he exclaimed
The Doctor ran his hand through his hair and scrunched his nose up.
“My hair? There's nothing wrong with it,”
“It bigger than peaches and his hair is big,”
He raised a brow and grabbed the vampire's precious leather coat. Who did this guy think he was? So what if he can travel in time. The platinum blonde growled and pulled his hair causing him to scream. Anger written across his face. The Doctor turned his face to the slayer and smiled.
“Easy to wind up isn't he?” he conversed
As if touching his hair and then his coat wasn't enough now he was flirting with Buffy?
“OI! Eyes off my slayer you poof,”
Now it was Buffy's turn to do the glaring.
“I am not your anything,” she corrected
“Oh yes you are and you know it,”
Before Dawn knew it they were all fighting like cat and dog and they were meant to be the adults? Yeah the biggest bunch of immature kids she had ever seen. They made Xander look mature and that was saying something.
The teen crossed her arms as the arguing continued. She tried to drown out the noise but it was no good so she decided to take a better look around the Tardis. It was so beautiful really it got her thinking that maybe just maybe it really was alive.
Running her fingers round the rim of the computer she traced the shape of it and stop at a bunch of brightly coloured buttons. Temptation won and all of a sudden a loud bang bounced off the walls. Dawn jumped but at least one good thing came out of it. They stopped arguing. All looking at her. Dawn gave Doctor a sheepish look.
“Sorry...I didn't do any damage, did I?” she apologised, rushing back to her sister's side
Spike looked hacked off and Buffy scowled at the vampire while the timelord went and checked everything else was working.
“Luckily,”
The slayer turned her attention back to him.
“Can you take us back or not?” she pushed
He nodded in the positive and sighs of relief could be heard.
“Place and year,”
“Huh?”
“He wants to know what year we came from and what place,”
Roll of the eyes.
“Oh that's 2001 and Sunnydale,” Dawn chirped
Turn of a dial and the name was typed in. they were off. Flying through time and space.
A whooshing noise sounded as the Tardis landed in a back alley. Creak. The door was held open by the doctor as they all stepped out and when they did they couldn't believe what they saw. Surely it wasn't that small? Dawn gasped in amazement. Spike seemed less amused and Buffy just stared. The teen looked like she had ants in her pants and then she ran the whole way round the little blue box. The doctor smiled and opened the door again.
“Go on, go look,”
She ran back inside and the ran back out a few moments later, stunned to silence.
“Oh my god! That has got to be impossible! How did you get it to do that?” she questioned eager to know everything she could about this machine.
While he went into a detailed description the slayer noticed something disturbing. There was a burnt out trash can and she went to have a look at the street and noticed something else.
Half of the shop were completely trashed. This wasn't right. On seeing her do this, Spike decided to see what she was up to, frowning as he looked. Avoiding eye contact, they spoke quietly.
“Something isn't right here,”
“Definitely not, we should check it out...maybe this is to do with Glory,” Buffy offered
What happened here? Did Glory ruin this town and kill the closest people to her? Fear and worry ran through her mind as the scenarios played.
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1663 Revello drive. The living room had changed a bit. The odd sofa, chair, table had been removed and it made it look bigger.
The sound of running water could be heard as it gushed into the bath. The dining room hadn't changed except for the computer stuff, which was obviously Willow's. Up the stairs and the water had now stopped.
Ever since the tragic events Willow and her girlfriend Tara had moved in the Summers residence. Because they were the only adults there it was only fit that they took the biggest room. Joyce's room.
At first it was strange being there but after a while they got use to it. Pictures of the Summers girls still mounted on the wall of the hallway. Happier times.
The bathroom was still, like the dead had just come and swept away all the life left in the room. The water began to overflow over the side of the bath and what was there was sickening.
Buffy's still body just floating in the water. What drove her to something like this? It wasn't like she didn't have anyone to talk to because she did. All of a sudden her eyes flicked open. Wide and looking up out of the water.
TBC...
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05/18/17 04:16 am
pj! I remember wishing one of your stories would be finished seriously about a decade ago. Amazing. I just tried an old password I used to use and amazingly got in too. Memories!
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03/20/17 01:20 am
10 yrs later, i finally rem my username and password. Pari, you rock. Hope you are well.
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08/31/16 03:45 pm
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08/31/16 03:43 pm
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