Chương 56: Unstoppable Epilogue
A/N: Just a reminder, this is the final chapter of Unstoppable but not the final update of The Chronicles of Vali Masters. Stay tuned tomorrow for the first chapter of A Tale of Blood and Monsters.
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Together we watched as despite my absence, the world did continue to turn. And something interesting happened almost immediately, as a few hours after Faith and Buffy's visit to my hotel room, followed by my subsequent banishing, the two of them went on a patrol that ended in the death of a human, that poor skittish assistant to the Mayor I'd met a few months back.
Faith killed him in a moment of blood lust and the fear and horror from Buffy was almost delicious, along with the muted horror Faith tried desperately to hide. I was more than a little disappointed though, that their time with me was so quickly trumped by this moment, a moment I hadn't really planned for, but one that shouldn't disrupt any of my long term schemes anyways.
Over the next few days, Faith tried to ignore things while Buffy drowned in guilt over being witness and accessory to a murder. Sadly, this drove her out of the lifestyle she'd been beginning to embrace with Faith, and into the waiting arms of her friends and Watcher. In the end, her and Giles reconciled when Faith tried to pin the murder on Buffy, and Giles let Buffy know privately that he didn't believe Faith one bit.
And really that was disappointing. I'd gone through a lot of work to drive a significant wedge between those two, driving Buffy into Faith's camp. But alas, when one works with volatile ingredients like Slayers, one doesn't always get the exact concoction they're looking for.
In short order, Wesley caught wind of what had happened despite Giles and Buffy's resolve to keep it secret from the Council. Faith ended up being grabbed by a group similar to the one that came for me, but clearly less experienced and less magical in nature. Much to their loss, as she quickly managed to escape them and almost succeeded in leaving Sunnydale behind altogether.
Buffy stopped her from going though, and after an ambush by some vampires sent by the Mayor, managed to get Faith to give it another shot. I was almost sneering in disgust at this point, as it seemed not only had Buffy rejoined the Council's status quo, she was now bringing Faith under its sway as well. Luckily my fears were unfounded, as shortly after that Faith made her way to the Mayor himself and wrung a job out of him. I couldn't have been more proud.
The next interesting tidbit involved Willow managing to summon the vampire version of herself from the mirror world I'd dealt with a while back. Not going to lie, I was a bit disappointed to have missed the chance to explore two drastically different Willows at once, especially at the moments that vamp Willow kept coming onto normal Willow.
That ended rather boringly though, with some vampires dusted, one random human dead, and vamp Willow sent back to her own world to die like the rest had. Alas, such opportunity wasted.
With that diversion out of the way, things began to get more interesting now that the 'gang' knew their true enemy was the Mayor. I seemed to be all but forgotten by the majority of the group at this point, though there were nights when Faith called my name while pleasuring herself that left me with a sly smirk. The rarer nights where Buffy did the same made me openly chuckle.
Things quickly came to a head though as the Mayor aimed Faith at Angel like a weapon. When she failed to seduce him, the Mayor turned to more drastic measures and had a mysterious creature remove Angel's soul, to turn him back into Angelus. Seemed a bit fake to me, and I found my concerns justified when a captured Buffy revealed that it was all a trap to force Faith to reveal her true allegiances.
Still, my favorite moment comes after the dust settles. Buffy and Angel meet and talk, and at the end, Angel asks her if she's still his girl. The hesitation, the flicker of indecisiveness in her before she nods instead of replying verbally shows that my influence on her is not totally gone.
Of course, my influence on both Slayers will never be totally gone, as they each find out separately a few weeks later. They're both pregnant with child, my children to be exact. When they find out, they both set out to hide it as best they can, going so far as to change their fashion as the bumps grow. Neither wants it revealed to the Father figures in their lives it seems, as both go to great lengths to keep the knowledge from Giles and the Mayor.
I watch on in interest as things continue towards the Mayor's ultimate goal, graduation day. Prom comes first and Buffy chooses a dress that both hides her growing midsection and flatters her quite nicely. She also gets a lovely little award from the senior class that has me chuckling. Such a nice moment, even for a heartless evil bastard like me.
Things finally come to a head however, when Faith shoots Angel in the back with an arrow coated in poison. My interest only grows when it turns out that the only cure to the poison is to drain a Slayer dry of her blood. Both of my eyebrows rise as Buffy resolves to hunt Faith down and sacrifice her, so that Angel may live.
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Faith sprung off the bed as the door to her apartment was broken down, inwardly cursing at herself as her eyes glanced around for both weapons and exits. She was more angry at her own current state of attire than anything, believing herself to be secure here, she was dressed in only a tank top and sweat pants, exposing the growing swell of her midsection, the telltale signs of the baby she'd soon be the mother of.
In to the apartment walked Buffy, looking more angry and frankly more hot than ever before. Were her breasts slightly bigger? Faith tore her eyes away from said breasts to look into her friend turned enemies eyes and smirk, "You know, it's considered polite to knock."
Buffy's eyes don't meet hers though, her gaze had drifted downwards instead, and the anger and resolve are quickly draining from her face, "Y-you're pregnant…"
Faith rolls her eyes and takes a moment to mentally flip off fate. Of course it would be Buffy who'd be the first to find out, "Yeah, I'm pregnant." Crossing her arms over her chest a bit defensively, she scoffed, "Gonna judge me for that too? I figure killing your boyfriend would rank higher than me getting preggers out of wedlock B."
This brings Buffy's eyes up to hers, as she frowns once more, her anger back at least partially, "He's not dead. He's not going to die."
Faith blinks at that, because she could have sworn the Mayor said the poison had no cure, "Well damn, that's a letdown. Why not?"
Buffy's lips curl just a bit at the corners, as if she wants to smirk savagely, but at the same time wants to do nothing less, "There's a cure. Your blood. Poetic in a way I guess."
Faith feels her eyes widen a bit at that, because it sounds a lot like Buffy is threatening her life, which means she's threatening her baby and that just makes Faith angry in ways she didn't know she could, "So, come for me then? You have to know you won't take me alive."
Buffy's eyes dart down to the bump once more, but she swallows thickly before grimacing and shaking her head, "Not a problem."
Faith can't help but laugh at that, Buffy is finally stooping to her level, and it'd be so fantastic if Faith wasn't her first target. Bringing her fists up and falling into a stance, she smirked in Buffy's direction, "Then let's see what you got B."
And after only a moment more of hesitation, the fight was joined as Buffy struck out at Faith. It was a whirlwind of Slayer strength and speed, Buffy had the advantage of experience, skill, and knowledge. Honestly, in a purely subjective situation even Faith would agree that Buffy should win hands down against a pregnant woman, even a Slayer like Faith.
But that didn't change the fact that Buffy's heart clearly wasn't in this, that Faith was able to fight back easily. Buffy avoided any strikes to Faith's midsection, and spent an inordinate amount of her defense protecting her own, to the point that even in her bloodlust Faith grew suspicious. Before she could confirm anything though, Buffy pulled out the knife Faith had lost a while back, the one the Mayor himself had given her.
The fight was rejoined and Buffy clearly had the upper hand now, though Faith did her best to counter the weapon that the older Slayer wielded with precision. Until in a heart stopping moment Buffy came within a breath of ending the fight by slamming Faith's own blade into her gut. She stopped though, an inch away from piercing flesh, as if she couldn't believe what she was about to do.
Before Faith could do anything, Buffy was stumbling back, knife clattering from numb fingers as her other hand covered her mouth and tears sprung into her eyes as she fell to her knees. She couldn't do it, she couldn't kill her. Or perhaps it was the child growing within her that did it. Honestly, at this point Faith wasn't sure what to do.
It wasn't every day that someone very nearly ended your life, only to stay their hand and break out into tears. If it was anyone else, anyone Faith didn't have a connection to like she did to Buffy, she'd probably have already killed them in this moment. Instead, she found herself standing there awkwardly, wondering what the hell was supposed to happen now.
Buffy's voice startled her out of her thoughts, "I-it's his, isn't it?"
Faith scowled at that, because yes, but still she didn't have to make it sound so condemning. Still… "Yes, it's his."
Nodding, Buffy unzips her jacket and lifts the hem of her own shirt, showing off her own modest bump and confirming Faith's earlier suspicions. Still, suspecting and seeing are two different things and Faith finds herself gawking for a moment before asking rather stupidly, "Uh… his too?"
Buffy just nods again before letting her shirt fall back down, "I can't… I won't kill a child. Which means I can't kill you. You get your way. Angel dies."
Faith grimaces a bit, because really, she's happy to have won that particular exchange, having been enraged with Angel ever since the debacle where he tricked her into thinking his soul was gone. But she finds that her bond with Buffy has become something so much more in just a few moments, and it kinda sucks now that she's hurting B so much in getting her revenge on Angel.
Buffy looks almost listless as she stands up and zips her jacket back up. She looks at Faith with dead eyes but passion in her voice, "Stay away from graduation Faith, make whatever excuses you have to. The Mayor will ascend, and will consume, and do you really think he'll be able to stop himself from eating you and your baby whole, if he senses Vali's power? We're going to stop him, he's going to die. So stay away and just… go. You've got something more important than all of this now."
Faith blinks at that before scowling, "So do you B. If I'm in danger from the Mayor, so are you." She can't help herself as the next words come out, the idea jumping to mind and sounding so appealing to her inner most thoughts, "W-why… why don't we just go? Leave Sunnydale behind together. Let the Mayor have it."
Buffy shook her head, but the sad smile on her face showed that she knew where Faith was coming from, even if the idea sounded insane, "Can't. Sunnydale is my home now. My friends and family are here. This is where I want my child to grow up. And for that to happen, the Mayor goes down. To secure the future of the town, the future of my child, and the future of all the children who come after."
Faith can't help smile back, snorting derisively and shaking her head, "Always gotta be the big damn hero, eh B?"
Something flashes across Buffy's face and she half shrugs even as she turns to go, only looking back one more time, "Remember what I said Faith. Time for you to move on."
And then she leaves, leaving Faith with a trashed apartment, a rapidly healing body, and a decision to make.
Buffy's already made hers.
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Buffy can only watch in shock as Angel drinks deeply of her, and heals before her eyes. She doesn't feel weaker, she doesn't feel drained, and she certainly doesn't feel like she's dying, as his own eyes widen and he pulls away abruptly, "Oh god Buffy, what have you do-… you uh… you seem fine."
Buffy just smiles and leaps forward, putting her arms around his neck, happy that he's okay, "I am fine. Guess that you needed a lot less of my blood than I thought. Feel a bit silly about all that worrying now."
Angel rubs her back soothingly but shakes his head, "Buffy, I just drank enough blood to fill two humans… you should be dead twice over right now. What's going on?"
In response Buffy pulls away abruptly, eyes wide as she takes that in. Her gaze drops for a moment before she blinks and just shrugs it away, "Doesn't matter. You're saved and I'm fine. So we're good. We've got an ascension to stop."
And that was the end of that, as Angel was successfully put back on task and they prepared their plans to stop the Mayor from finishing his work.
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Of course they won, Buffy managing to kill the Mayor turned Demon in a giant explosion that leveled the school. Faith chose to stay away, leaving Sunnydale for Los Angeles the next morning without a word to the Mayor. Might have been a bit presumptuous of her, as he'd probably have gone looking for her if he'd succeeded, but in the end it just showed how confident she was that he'd go down just like any other baddie Buffy had dealt with in her tenure as a Slayer.
Time moved on, and both of my children were born without complications. I was a bit disappointed to be honest, as it would have been funny if either of the Slayer's died in childbirth, only to awaken as newly turned Hybrids. Alas, their constitution was in no way compromised and they were Slayers after all. Dying in childbirth just wasn't in the cards.
Not that it mattered, as my plans moved forward and from the shadows emerged the fledging organization I'd built up before my forcible departure.
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There was a knock on the door so Faith put down the spoon she'd been using to feed her son and smiled at him, promising to be right back even if he couldn't really understand her fully yet, being only a year old at this point.
Opening the door, she was greeted by a beautiful red head in the latest fashion. Frankly, she was so out of place in a dump like this that it was laughable. Faith eyed her up and down even as she spoke, "Hello there. You are Faith Lehane, yes? Mother of Christian Lehane? I have a wonderful opportunity to discuss that concerns you and your son. May I come in?"
Faith blinked at that, immediately put on guard by the probing along with the sense she was getting from the woman, "I am, and no you can't. What's this about?"
The woman smiles slightly at that, "Ah, I see. Well then, I belong to a group called the Disciples. Though we are relatively new, our influence, wealth, and power are growing at an impressive rate, to the point that we are quickly eclipsing some of our peers, while remaining in the shadows of others. Your son is very special, and we wish to… stake our claim now."
Faith's face hardens, her eyes glinting at that, "Stake your claim… how exactly?"
In return the smile only widens on the woman's face, "Of course, as the Mother you are privy to that information. As I said, we are the Disciples. As disciples, we require a Master, do we not? That is where your son comes in. As Vali's child, he is the only one fit to lead us. Of course, there is also Buffy's daughter. Thus, there will be two to lead us. The Master and the Mistress."
Faith froze up as soon as she heard Vali's name. This was so not good. And then the woman who was probably less of a woman and more of a monster mentioned Buffy and Faith couldn't help laughing, "Even if I did agree to this, Buffy never would. You'd take her daughter from her over her cold dead body."
Annoyingly enough, she got an agreeing nod to that, "Indeed, Ms. Summers was not agreeable when we approached her a week ago. That has been dealt with. It was hoped that given you had more positive interactions with our maker, you would react more positively to his plans."
Faith can't help but blink at that, "Wait what? This was his plan? You aren't just pulling this out of your ass? He always planned to knock B and me up and then have his toadies rally around our kids as some sort of leaders?"
A shake of the head and a chuckle was the response to that, "No Ms. Lehane. Vali's plans go far beyond this. This was just a contingency left from him, if we found he did leave behind offspring when he departed from this world."
Grimacing, Faith considers the fact that Buffy is probably dead, and only barely resists the urge to slam the door in this creature's face. Instead, she voices her next concern, "Whatever you've done to Buffy's daughter, whatever you want to do with me and my kid… the Council won't let you get away with it."
This gets another chuckle, and that just makes Faith angry, until the woman speaks, and then she's just filled with dread, "The Council has been dealt with. Our original task once we were set up, was to hunt down and eliminate the Watcher's Council. It is all but subsumed, remnants of what it once was and scattered to the four winds like dust. Vali understood the threat they posed to us and his children. What is left of the Council is now ours, all of their power and knowledge is under our control."
Faith couldn't help flinching slightly, looking over her shoulder for a moment to look at Christian in his high chair. He'd managed to get the bowl of peas turned over and was now munching them down one by one off of the table in front of him. Turning back to the woman she squared her shoulders, "And if I refuse whatever it is you want to do with my child?"
The smile she gets in response feels oh so sinister, "I will be forced to call Child Protective Services on you. They will come and if you do not let them inside, the police will be called in. Eventually you will be overwhelmed, and your child will fall into our loving hands. You will no longer be able to negotiate with us from a position of strength."
Faith ran that scenario through her head and found herself not liking it very much at all. Stepping to the side, she jerked her head, "Come in."
As the woman smirked in triumph and stepped over the barrier, Faith brought the stake she always had near the door at the ready from behind her back and drove it towards the woman's heart, hoping against hope that she wasn't as invincible as Vali had been.
She didn't get to find that out though, as with blinding speed, the stake was caught and pulled forcefully from her hand, the smile gone from the woman's face even as she lashed out and Faith went down choking from a collapsed windpipe. The sound of a crying baby filled the room as he saw his mother in distress, but Faith could do nothing to reassure him as she was lifted up by her hair and blood was poured down her throat from a vial.
She could do nothing but choke on it, inadvertently swallowing some. The last thing she heard before she felt the woman wrench her neck sideways was her baby's cries.
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Waking up was… an interesting experience, considering that Faith had been pretty sure she was definitely dead. Then the events of her last moments came back to her and she realized she was probably still dead, though she wasn't feeling very demony. Brow furrowed, she moved to get up off the floor when a hand holding a glass of blood was suddenly thrust right in front of her.
Pupils dilating in desire, Faith found she couldn't control herself as she latched onto the glass and drained the blood within. A moment later she was screaming as her fangs asserted themselves and her eyes shifted color for a brief moment. After that, she felt… normal if not better, everything was enhanced as she got to her feet, staring at the woman who'd killed her and turned her into a… whatever this was.
A burst of speed brought her over to the woman, who she grabbed by the throat and quickly slammed into a nearby wall, snarling into her killer's face, "Where is my son?"
The choking from her captive seemed counterproductive to her finding her baby, so she eased up a little bit to allow for speech. It came out raspy, but clear, "A-apologies my lady, but I put the young Master down for a nap while you transitioned. He was quite distraught at your passing."
Eyes flashing towards her son's room, Faith found that she was telling the truth, even with walls in the way she could almost… sense Christian, not to mention actually being able to hear his steady quiet breathing, and smell his scent mixed with both hers and the woman she was currently holding by the throat."
Growling angrily, she released said throat and stepped back, speaking in a biting tone, "Explain. Now."
Rubbing her throat, the stranger nodded, "Yes my lady. Now that you are eternal, you are recognized officially by the Disciples as a Mother. There is an emphasis there beyond what you expect. Until the young master and mistress are of age and ready to lead, you and Lady Summers hold sway and influence with the Disciples. Your children will stay with you, and we will do your bidding, to a limited degree."
There's a grimace and then she continues, "I do apologize for the subterfuge, but I had to do what was necessary to gain an invite inside. Vali's orders were to be vague and obtuse until you were one of us."
Faith snorted, because yeah she could see him being that big of an asshole, "So Buffy… you already turned her?"
She receives a nod and can't help her vicious grin, "And how many of you has she killed so far in return?"
The number is much lower than she figures, and that's a bit disappointing, "Only two my lady. Once Lady Summers realized that we were not going away, and being honest when we promised to give her power over us, she deigned to make use of us instead."
Faith narrows her eyes, "How so?"
A shrug is her response, "There are currently ten disciples in Sunnydale, making sure that it remains clean of all demonic influence. No vampires escape our sight, no demons gain a foothold in our world through the Hellmouth. We intend to keep it that way, and that is what Lady Summers wishes of us. I am yours to command as well Lady Lehane. If you wish to take my life, you may. Another will take my place though, and you and your son will be watched over and protected."
Faith looked thoughtful for a moment, "And how exactly does one of our kind die?"
There's a slight grimace, and Faith can't help but think Buffy probably asked the same thing after being turned, "Removal of our heart or our head ends our life. Vali's gifts are much, but not enough to completely remove us from death as he is."
Faith nods, mulling over everything she's learned. Looking down at her hands, she clenches and unclenches them several times. She can feel the strength coursing through her, she knows she's more powerful than the woman before her, possibly more powerful than most vampires and demons now. It's an interesting, almost heady feeling, this power. She can kind of understand why Vali thought this was a fitting last gift.
Sighing a bit at the irony of her being the reasonable one while Buffy was the rampaging killer, she shakes her head, "Fine. You get to live. Especially since you look like the type to have a nice place, and me and Christian are going to be moving into it and making it our own. You can be the maid."
All she gets in response is an accepting nod, causing her to snort and speak again, "Well then, I guess we'll be spending a lot of time together. Didn't catch your name…"
She gets a smile at that, "I grew to detest my birth name long ago, so when Vali uplifted me, I asked him to give me a new one. He gave me one that he said belonged to one of his most devout followers, who's hair was as fiery as mine."
She paused for a moment before speaking with obvious relish, "You may call me Ravia my Lady."
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I smirk, "See? That was fun right? A satisfying conclusion to a boring universe. Not so boring anymore, is it?!"
"Satisfying conclusion? Are you kidding me? That was the biggest cliffhanger ever. I'm going to be watching what becomes of your children and the Disciples for several centuries!"
"Exactly! And now, even though you've got that to entertain you, you can send me on to the next place with no problems. I was no longer necessary in that universe. "
"I suppose you're right. You've completely ruined them, I hope you know. That world is doomed, though how, I have no idea, as I don't really want to peek ahead. But it's totally doomed somehow."
I just shrug, "Meh, not my problem. I had my fun, and set up both my children and their mothers with a support system once I was gone. Did my fatherly duties I think. On to the next great adventure!"
"Fine fine… you're getting a bit uppity you know. Just because it turned out alright doesn't mean you're out of the doghouse yet.
Now if I was stupid, I'd probably roll my eyes here, and tempt fate by saying, "What's the worst that could happen?"
But I've grown in my millennia of existence by now, and I know when to stop poking the SROB! So I don't! Smiling, I mentally pat myself on the back, only for a dry voice to speak up.
"You know I can read your every thought right?"
Well. Shit.
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