Paper Doll |BTVS| Book One ✔️

Becoming, Part 1

Word count: 4672 (Only part 1)

Warnings: Death of a character, Attack and Abduction.

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Angelus walks through the cemetery carefully and quietly while watching Buffy fight a pair of vampires nearby. He sees her kick one and then the other, and then continues on to a better vantage point. One of the vampires rushes Buffy, and she flips him over onto his back "Nice try".

The other one comes at her again with a swing she ducks it and punches him in the face, in the gut and again in the face. He falls to the ground, dazed. The first one comes at her again with a kick, but she blocks it with her arm, backhand punches him in the face, jabs him in the gut and grabs his arm, twisting it up high and forcing him to his knees in pain.

Angelus looks on from behind a tree and smiles the second vampire gets back up and rushes her. Without letting go of the first one she cleanly jams her stake into the other one's chest, and he crumbles to ashes.

Angelus can't help but snicker, Buffy turns her attention back to the one she's holding and punches him in the face, making him roll away "I want you to get a message to Angel for me. Tell him I'm done waiting. I'm taking the fight to him" Angelus smiles as he listens.

"You got that? Need me to write it down for you?" The vampire gets up and charges her. She grabs him and pulls him around and down to the ground, and immediately plunges her stake home. He bursts into ashes "Alright, I'll tell him myself"

She gets up and walks over behind a gravestone, where she reaches down to help Xander up "I'm good. Don't worry about me" Xander groans as he rubs his neck "You know, you don't have to patrol with me" Buffy tells him with a smile but he just waves her off.

I had that guy under control until he resorted to fisticuffs" Xander says as he indicates the pile of ash and cranes his neck "Oh! What is that, um... five vampires in three nights?" Buffy nods and looks around "Yep. But no Angel".

"Are you, uh, really that anxious to come up against him?" Xander questions Buffy who looks at her friend seriously "I want it over with, all walking around on eggshells, the mind games with Nikki".

Xander nods in understanding "I hear that" they both stood in silence for a while before Buffy exhales "Oh, we better go. I haven't even started studying for finals yet" Xander groans too as he joins her walking out the cemetery "Oh, yeah, finals! Why didn't you let me die?".

Buffy smiles at him and nudges his shoulder "Ah, look on the bright side. It'll all be over soon" They leave the cemetery under the watchful eyes of Angelus "Yes, my love. It will" he smirks and turns to leave the other way, thinking about his plan.

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Sitting in the cafeteria with the gang we watch as Xander tells a dramatic tale using two fish sticks, one with a toothpick stuck in the middle "Tell Angel I'm gonna kill him! No, wait. I'm gonna kill you!" He starts to repeatedly stab the toothpick into the other fish stick.

"Die! Die! Die!" Xander makes an anguished face and lets the fish stick fall "Aah!" he makes a thudding noise and then smiles at us "Is that it?" Cordelia questions as Willow, Oz, Buffy and I sat on the opposite side of the table wondering about Xander's mentality "scene".

"That's exactly how it happened" Buffy agreed jokingly "Well, I thought it was riveting. Uh, I was a little unclear about some of the themes" Oz chimes in with that monotone humor of his.

"The theme is Angel's too much of a coward to take me on face-to-face" Buffy explains to Oz as Xander carries on playing with the fish sticks "And the other theme was 'Buy American', but it, uh, got kind of buried".