Paper Doll |BTVS| Book One ✔️

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Walking into the living room I jump on the couch and cross my legs getting comfortable as Buffy looks wide-eyed with fear, Willow watches through the window as someone quickly come in through the door.

"Cordelia!" Willow calls to the girl whose looks like a cat "Wait a... What's going on?" Cordelia stutters as she looks at us confused "Okay, your name is Cordelia, you're not a cat, you're in high school, and we're your friends. Well, sort of" Willow tells her quickly.

Cordelia looks at Willow like she's gone crazy "That's nice Willow and you went mental when?" Willow looks at Cordelia confused "You know us?" Cordelia nods slowly "Yeah. Lucky me. What's with the name game?" Cordelia asks looking around at us with a scrunched up face.

Willow sighs heavily but with relief "A lot's going on" Cordelia snorts and nods "No kidding. I was just attacked by Jo-Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy. Look at my costume! Do you really think that Partytown's gonna give me my deposit back? Not likely" Cordelia rants as she looks down at her torn costume.

Xander takes his shirt off and puts it around her shoulders "Here" Cordelia looks at Xander with a small smile "Thanks" Willow just shakes her head and sighs "Okay. You guys stay here while I get some help. If something tries to get in, just fight it off"

Nodding I stood and licked my teeth and looked at Cordelia "You'd better hurry... I'm getting hungry" Cordelia looked at me confused as I smiled deviously at her "Well, i-it's not our place to fight. Uh, surely some men will protect us" Buffy stutters to Willow as she sits in the corner.

"What's that riff?" Cordelia asks Willow as Buffy begins to shake again "I-it's like amnesia, okay? They don't know who they are. Just sit tight" Cordelia scoffs at Willow "Who died and made her the boss?" Willow walks through the wall behind Cordelia, Her and Buffy stares in wide-eyed amazement.

Xander brings a chair over from the dining room "You! Check upstairs. Make sure everything's locked up" Xander calls to Cordelia as he positions the chair to help hold the table he's placed against the window.

"Surely there's somewhere we can go... a safe haven?" Buffy asks Xander who turns to her with his hands out and gun on his shoulder "Lady said stay put" Buffy looks perplexed and offended "You would take orders from a woman? A-are you feeble in some way?".

Xander sighs "Ma'am, in the Army we have a saying: sit down and shut the..." Xander stops and picks up a picture off the floor "Whoa!" he says and I look over his shoulder and see it's a picture of the four of us.

Xander looks at me and jumps when he realizes how close I am to his neck he smiles at me but step away giving me a nod "She must be right. We must have some kind of amnesia" Xander says aloud making Buffy gasp at him and pulls her arms to herself "I don't know what that is, but I'm certain I don't have it. I bathe quite often!".

"How do you explain this?" Xander says showing Buffy the picture but she didn't look she just continued to ramble "I don't! I was brought up a proper lady. I-I wasn't meant to understand things. I'm just meant to look pretty, and then someone nice will marry me... possibly a Baron".

I looked down at Buffy with a look of disgust "Now that's just sad" I mutter she was living her life for other people and she didn't seem very happy either. "This ain't no tea party, princess. Sooner or later you're gonna have to fight!" I told Buffy who looked at me incredulously.

"Fight these low creatures? I'd sooner die" Buffy said snottily as she crossed her arms in front of her, I stepped closer to her with a dangerous look "Then you'll die" I whisper to her as he eyes widened in fear.

"Oh, good! You guys are alright. It's total chaos out there" A tall dark head man says looking at us in relief "Who are you?" We all ask in unison as the man looks at us "It's me Angel...Okay, somebody wanna fill me in?" he asks us in a monotone voice with a brooding face.