SUMMARY: Buffy commits murder. Accidentally, of course.
"Oh, there they are," Willow said as we headed to the psychology section.
"I don't see the right book though."
"Oh, there it is," I pointed to the top shelf. "I'll reach it." And
just as I reached up to get the books, I could sense it.
Evil. Demon. Close.
I glanced downwards as I stood on my tiptoes and sure enough, there he
was. A corn demon.
Sure, he was disguised as a human, but he was one of the most deadly
demons ever.
Taking a deep breath, I pushed my hand into the books and knocked all
four of them on the head of the corn demon.
"Buffy!" Willow said.
"Oh no!" I knelt at his side immediately. Of course, he had no pulse.
"Are you okay?" I asked him.
Willow knelt beside me and gently touched his arm. Blood began gushing
from his head and he wasn't moving. The blood seemed sort of glittery to me,
a trademark of the corn demons, but I said nothing. Willow wasn't educated in
them, and she wouldn't understand.
"Buffy," Willow looked at me glumly. "He's dead."
"What?" I pretended to be upset. "No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
*****
Naturally, Riley's death was an *accident* so I wasn't charged with
anything, though all the shelves in the bookstore are now no taller than four
feet.
Life went on for us. Now that we were without our phantom corn demon,
Professor Walsh seemed to have disappeared and our psych class was canceled.
I never said a word, but I knew the truth.
Riley *was* Professor Walsh. Corn demons are shape shifters, and it
easily could become whatever it wanted to be.
Ugh. I shiver just thinking about it. Thank *GOD* I realized that my
dreams were prophetic and that Riley was after me. Ugh. And ugh. And ugh.
I think I'll drop out of school and go visit Angel in LA. I hear there's
a policewoman there who needs a nice kick in the head. Or a bullet through
the heart.
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SPOILER: The Freshman
DISTRIBUTION: My site, of course, Crystal and Butterfly if they
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RATING: TV-14
DISCLAIMER: Xander is mine and everyone else belongs to Joss. Okay, Joss
may've given our dear Xand life, but he lives at my house and is my love
slave. He eats when I tell him to eat, sleeps when I tell him to sleep, and
he even kissed my toes the other day. It's great having him around
AUTHOR'S NOTES: If you've seen The Freshman, which was our sucky excuse for
a season opener this year, you'll remember how Buffy dropped the book on
Riley's head. What you don't know is that it didn't really end up the way
they showed us. It was filed away forever due to the censors but I've got
the true story right here. =)