Forgotten Conscience - Chapter 11: Chapter 11
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Buffy's POV
I throw him into the chair. Cordelia goes behind the chair and starts wrapping chains around his wrists.
"Well maybe I should do this for a living. I did a great job on Faith earlier and I can just see how good this is going."
Geez, you'd think after facing death a few 100 times she'd get a little less self-absorbed.
"Just make sure he's secure. I'd hate to have to kill him before we get what we need from him."
"Whatever."
She pulls tightly on the chains and locks them.
"Ow!"
So he has a voice, that'll make it easier to communicate.
I bend down to look him in the eyes.
"Hey..."
He looks at me.
"You got a name?"
Cordelia gets up and leaves the room. He looks away.
Okay fine, be difficult.
I punch him in the face. He pulls at his chains but they are locked tight.
It's a good to know Cordelia's learning something. Lord knows it didn't look like she learned anything useful in school. Maybe I need to be a little more direct.
"What's your name?"
"Why?"
"What do you mean 'why'?"
"I mean what does it matter what my name is? It's not gonna matter in a couple of hours anyway."
"Why's that? Are your buddies coming back for round 2? They didn't fair too well in round one and I don't think fewer of them is gonna make their chances better."
"You think that's the last of them? I hate to burst your little Scooby bubble but there are more of us than you think."
"I saw your reserves on the way in, I wouldn't call 40 vampires a cult just yet."
Scooby bubble, how does he know we call ourselves that?
"That's not even the worst of us, you two have no chance. The prophecy will be..."
Prophecy, what prophecy?
"What prophecy? What do you mean you two?"
He clams up and just stops talking.
You two, could he mean me and Angel? There's a prophecy about me and Angel?
"What prophecy?"
"Two into one..."
What?
"What is two into one?"
"Are you sure you wanna know?"
"Why wouldn't I want to know?"
"What if you knowing screws up the prophecy and it don't come true?"
"So it's a good prophecy?"
"I didn't say that."
"Yes you did, you said 'what if knowing about it screws it up for me and'..."
"I didn't say anything about screwing it up being good for YOU."
"But it is about me?"
"I didn't say that."
This guy is really starting to bug me. Maybe I should hit him again? No, if I hit him any harder I may take his head off and then we'd never get any answers out of him. Okay, brainstorm time, of course it'd go better with more brains.
"Don't plan on going anywhere."
I walk out of the room into the next one. Cordy and Wesley are in the main room sitting and waiting.
"Where's Angel?"
"He's in with Faith."
My thoughts drift to that vision thing I had earlier with Faith beating up Angel.
It's a good thing she's tied up in there.
"Look, guys. Something is going down."
"Gee, ya think? Did the hordes of swarming vampires all gunning for our throats give it away?"
God damn it.
"Cordelia shut the hell up."
"I have to agree with Buffy. These were clearly not a bunch of guys out for a good time. These vampires were obviously organized. The two in the front seemed to be the ones in charge."
They didn't look like friends.
"They didn't seem to like each other."
"That's probably why one of them is sitting in the other room chained to a chair."
"What did he say?"
"Nothing specific, I managed to weasel a little out of him. He kept mentioning something about a prophecy."
"A prophecy? What kind of prophecy?"
"He wouldn't tell me. He kept talking in circles like he was trying to push me. There's only one thing he really said."
"What's that?"
"Two into one..."
I throw him into the chair. Cordelia goes behind the chair and starts wrapping chains around his wrists.
"Well maybe I should do this for a living. I did a great job on Faith earlier and I can just see how good this is going."
Geez, you'd think after facing death a few 100 times she'd get a little less self-absorbed.
"Just make sure he's secure. I'd hate to have to kill him before we get what we need from him."
"Whatever."
She pulls tightly on the chains and locks them.
"Ow!"
So he has a voice, that'll make it easier to communicate.
I bend down to look him in the eyes.
"Hey..."
He looks at me.
"You got a name?"
Cordelia gets up and leaves the room. He looks away.
Okay fine, be difficult.
I punch him in the face. He pulls at his chains but they are locked tight.
It's a good to know Cordelia's learning something. Lord knows it didn't look like she learned anything useful in school. Maybe I need to be a little more direct.
"What's your name?"
"Why?"
"What do you mean 'why'?"
"I mean what does it matter what my name is? It's not gonna matter in a couple of hours anyway."
"Why's that? Are your buddies coming back for round 2? They didn't fair too well in round one and I don't think fewer of them is gonna make their chances better."
"You think that's the last of them? I hate to burst your little Scooby bubble but there are more of us than you think."
"I saw your reserves on the way in, I wouldn't call 40 vampires a cult just yet."
Scooby bubble, how does he know we call ourselves that?
"That's not even the worst of us, you two have no chance. The prophecy will be..."
Prophecy, what prophecy?
"What prophecy? What do you mean you two?"
He clams up and just stops talking.
You two, could he mean me and Angel? There's a prophecy about me and Angel?
"What prophecy?"
"Two into one..."
What?
"What is two into one?"
"Are you sure you wanna know?"
"Why wouldn't I want to know?"
"What if you knowing screws up the prophecy and it don't come true?"
"So it's a good prophecy?"
"I didn't say that."
"Yes you did, you said 'what if knowing about it screws it up for me and'..."
"I didn't say anything about screwing it up being good for YOU."
"But it is about me?"
"I didn't say that."
This guy is really starting to bug me. Maybe I should hit him again? No, if I hit him any harder I may take his head off and then we'd never get any answers out of him. Okay, brainstorm time, of course it'd go better with more brains.
"Don't plan on going anywhere."
I walk out of the room into the next one. Cordy and Wesley are in the main room sitting and waiting.
"Where's Angel?"
"He's in with Faith."
My thoughts drift to that vision thing I had earlier with Faith beating up Angel.
It's a good thing she's tied up in there.
"Look, guys. Something is going down."
"Gee, ya think? Did the hordes of swarming vampires all gunning for our throats give it away?"
God damn it.
"Cordelia shut the hell up."
"I have to agree with Buffy. These were clearly not a bunch of guys out for a good time. These vampires were obviously organized. The two in the front seemed to be the ones in charge."
They didn't look like friends.
"They didn't seem to like each other."
"That's probably why one of them is sitting in the other room chained to a chair."
"What did he say?"
"Nothing specific, I managed to weasel a little out of him. He kept mentioning something about a prophecy."
"A prophecy? What kind of prophecy?"
"He wouldn't tell me. He kept talking in circles like he was trying to push me. There's only one thing he really said."
"What's that?"
"Two into one..."
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