Chapter Six

Girl Talk

The next morning Buffy was sitting in the kitchen with Willow drinking her coffee and eating a muffin as Willow explained to her about this dimension and what was expected of her.

She had been granted a one-month reprieve and she was going to use it to the fullest advantage.  It was funny, as she sat there totally not listening to Willow, today things didn’t really seem so bad.

Okay so slayers were breed to be a vampire’s whore and food but still with the right vampire that could be quite pleasant. And it seemed that her right vampire was here and accessible to her.  That made her smile and look at this world in a whole different light.  Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to live in this world, a world filled with nothing but mind numbing pleasure.  At least here she could have what she always wanted…Angel. 

In this world there was no fear of a curse, there was no one to scold and yell at her for wanting him in her life.  In this world all her most precious and sacred dreams could come true. Here she felt light hearted and free almost like she did before she was called.

Her brow furrowed as she remembered his reaction last night. Things really don’t change that much when dimension hoping, he was as stubborn here as he was there.

Still trying to deny what he felt in his heart, what he knew too be true…that she was his and he was hers.  Well she wasn’t in a land of denial, she never had been. She had always known that she belonged to him even before he marked her as such. She smiled into her coffee as she thought of how much fun it would be to toy and tease him until he finally came around.  Which he would, there was no doubt in her mind.

“Buffy are you listening to me?”

“Ah…oh yeah ah ah.”  Willow in no way believed her because she had seen the far away look in the slayers eyes, a clear indication that she was not paying attention.

“Buffy you must listen to me.  You have only one month to get used to our ways and you’re not listening to a word I say.”

Buffy just scoffed at Willow’s panic “Ah phooey!  I don’t have to be a rocket scientist Will.  I get it I’m here to be a sex machine to some vamp so I can have little vamps that will rule the world. No problem.” 

Her flippant attitude this morning so different from the defiant one that she showed last night was baffling Willow.  But then she smiled, she could think of only one reason that would make the Slayer see things more optimistically and that was Angelus and his little visit last night.

She had known the second she met Buffy that there could only be one vampire that suited her spunk and power. And that vampire was Angelus, and she was pretty sure that The Master and Giles felt the same way. Which made her happy because she had witnessed the love between the two in the other dimension, she knew that it was unlike any other love in the world and it had saddened her to see them split up.

Throughout her time spent watching Buffy she had grown to love her and she wanted her to be happy. She knew all that she had sacrificed in her own world and she felt that maybe this was her time to be happy.

“So is it safe to say that you are not as unhappy with me as you were yesterday?” Willow grinned at her.

Buffy shrugged it was against her nature to give in too easily “Yeah I guess so.”

“Good I’m glad.  So anyway, you’ll have one month to get accustomed to them.”

“To who?”

Willow rolled her eyes and whined “The Master Vampires?”

“Oh...okayyy…geez, well how many are there?”  Not that she really cared, there was only one master vampire for her but if she had to play along then she might as well at least sound interested.

Willow smiled at her; she liked her spunk “Actually there aren’t as many as you would think.  And some of them are women, like Drusilla and Darla. But they are in Prague so you don’t have to worry about them.”

“Hold it…Darla? As in skanky bitch Sire to my Angel…Darla?”  Buffy asked

Willow giggled “Ah yeah that would be her.” She had always thought the same thing about Darla but never had anyone that she could confess it too.

Buffy shook her head “Damn why can’t they just die in every dimension when killed in another one…you know like a ripple effect.”

“I know what you mean.”  She lowered her voice afraid that someone would over hear her “She is a little…loose. I mean even for a vampire.”

Buffy raised her eyebrows at Willow “Loose? Not really the word I would have said but okay.”  She eyed Willow who seemed like a little kid in a candy store.  For the first time since she had gotten here she took a long look at the White Wicca and saw the loneliness that she lived with everyday.

“It must be hard being a human woman stuck between two races?”  She took a chance to see if she would open up to her, because really in any dimension she would love Willow like a sister and she wanted to be here for her.

Willow’s eyes bulged for only a second with the quick change of subjects and then they glazed over and she tried to seem nonchalant “Oh well you know it’s not that bad really.  I mean I have Giles to talk too.”

“Yeah, but what about friends, a confidant…a lover?”  Buffy was curious as to Willow’s sexual status in this dimension.

Willow’s pale face got even paler and Buffy knew that the next words that came out of her mouth would be a lie. “Oh I have friends to talk too…and umm I don’t have a lover.”  She quickly looked away and started to clean up the table.

Buffy wasn’t fooled “Yeah right and I’m in love with Spike? Who is it?” she casually asked. 

“Wh…what?” 

Buffy gently grabbed Willow’s frantic hands and made her sit down “Willow it’s okay you can tell me I won’t judge you.”

Willow looked into the kind green eyes and sensed her sincerity. She was very shy and it was difficult for her to talk about these things but for some reason she felt as if she had known Buffy her whole live and she felt safe in talking to her.  “He’s a vampire.”

He?  A Vampire?  That was not the answer she was expecting “Really, who?”  Buffy felt like she was going to explode with either laughter or astonishment.  But she kept her features and her mind clear of those thoughts, knowing the sensitive nature of the Wicca.

Willow blushed “Oz.”

Ah of course.  She hadn’t seen him at the feast last night but it made perfect sense.  “Well that’s great Willow so he digs you, you dig him, there’s the whole mutual diggyness thing going on so where’s the problem?”

Sadness filled her eyes as she tried to explain the situation to Buffy. “The problem is that I am neither slayer nor vampire.  And Oz, is a Master Vampire.”

Humfp like that explained anything. Buffy still didn’t see any problem “So?”

“So…that’s not possible! Vampires are forbidden to fornicate with humans, I told you that!”

“Ohhhh fornicate, big word.  I’m shaking in my boots with the forbiddance of it all.”

“Buffy this is serious!”  She whined

“Well I’m serious too Willow.  Frankly I don’t see the problem. It’s obvious to me that you two are already lovers and no one has said anything yet, so again I say what’s the problem?”

“The problem is that no one knows.”

Buffy shook her head “Can’t be Wills vamps can smell sex a mile away with a stuffed up nose. There’s no way that you two are…fornicating…and no one smells it.”

Willow blushed, “Well there is if I take a magic potion?”

“Ohhhh I see, so you two are sinfully exploring the forbidden fruit and no one knows. What would happen if they found out?”

“Oz could be stripped of his title and be reduced to a slave minion to another Master Vampire and me; well I’m not really sure what would happen to me.  But it’s not me I’m worried about its Oz.  It would be a degrading position to put him in and I don’t want to see that happen.”

Buffy understood, a Master Vampire reduced to slave status and under the thumb of someone that used to be his peer, was a situation that most definitely would not farewell for him.

But she seemed to have a new aspect on life, seeing the glass half full as opposed to half empty and she wanted to share her newfound wisdom. “Well maybe not all Master Vamps would treat him so badly and maybe that wouldn’t even happen.”

“No it would happen and it wouldn’t matter who it was, they all hold some contempt toward humans. They see them as week in mind and body, not good enough to shine their shoes. And if they knew that a master vamp was willingly sleeping with one…I don’t know what their reaction would be.”

Buffy nibbled on her muffin, “You know I think you’re exaggerating.  I mean I’m human, so what that I have slayer powers and all that crap.  You are the White Wicca aren’t you?  You are a pretty powerful person yourself.  And if you are already juicing it up with a master vamp and still alive to talk about it then I say again…so what.”

Willow wasn’t too sure about her line of thinking but she did have a point.

Buffy drank down her coffee “So tell me, who are the other Master Vamps that I can expect knocking at my door.”

“Oh umm...well really besides Angelus and Oz there are only two others…Spike and…”

“No let me guess…Riley?”

“Yeah how did you know?”

“Well they both seemed pretty sure of themselves last night.  But I got the feeling that they’re not as old or powerful as Angelus, in my world Angelus was Spike’s grandsire.”

“Close, here Angelus is actually Spike’s Sire.  Drusilla is dumb as a post…she wouldn’t know the first thing about siring a vamp.  Now Riley he was also sired by skank…I mean Darla.”

Buffy smiled, ah interesting “So Angelus and Riley are sort of like brothers?”

“Yeah I guess you could look at it like that.”

Buffy started to laugh as she thought of all the fun she was going to have at Angelus’ expense.

She had spent a considerable amount of time last night thinking about her situation after he left.  She had decided that she was going to take advantage of being in this dimension and she was going to finally have what she wants. And she wanted him.  The fact that he was too stubborn and pigheaded to see that she was his didn’t matter. She would do everything she could to turn him around.

So she laughed because this new information would work in her favor. If she wanted him to buck up to his feelings, what better way then to appeal to his possessive nature?

“What’s so funny?” Willow asked she wanted to laugh too.

“Oh nothing, I’m going to go take a shower.”  She got up and headed toward the stairs.

“Okay when your done I’ll take you down to the Watchers Council where you can meet some other slayers.”

“Yeah okay whatever.” She giggled all the way up to the bathroom.