I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away…

[sexytarawitch]

Darkness…that’s all I saw…it was dark and the only thing I could feel was scared. I hated feeling scared, that made me helpless and it let him get to me. I couldn’t let him get to me

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[petmyevilhand]

Went upstairs and talked to Darla and Dru for a little while. Turned out they were holding the slayer downstairs to piss off Angel. Darla wanted her alive for now but besides that? It looked like it was anything goes the way Drusilla went on and on about how Faith tasted like cakes or something.

Tara on the other hand, was off limits from now on. At least until she did that spell she was supposed to do. Darla was still working out the details on that one, but apparently the witch needed to be at full strength in order to do it. To take Angel's soul away. I was willing to do just about anything it took to stop that from happening. Of course I wasn't sure what it was exactly that I would do about it. Until then? There was always a tasty treat waiting in the basement. The sun had come up and there was nothing better to do as Darla and Dru were in the bath...together. Well, I was more then aware of what Darla had been her first time as human.

Stopping in front of the cage I smiled when I saw Tara with her arms wrapped around Faith who was wimpering like a little baby. A slight chuckle escaped my lips as I glowered down at the two of them.

"You've only been away from your girlfriend for a day and you're already moving on? Tara tsk tsk." I chided her gently, the charming smile still firmly glued onto my face.

I could smell blood and it was making me so hungry.

[sexytarawitch]

It wasn't the woman, Faith's worst nightmare, it was mine. "Lindsey." I muttered, slightly glad that it was him because inspite of all this I knew how to handle him to a point, I don't know anything about Darla or the other woman.

Swallowing hard I let Faith play with my fingers, closing my eyes and trying to ignore as she played with the one that Lindsey broke last night. "W-what...what do you want?"

I watched him look at us with those eyes of his and I just looked him over and tried to figure out what he was going to do next. But if I knew anything about Lindsey so far is that I didn't know what he'd do next.

There was only one thing that I could figure out from his attitude was that he was annoyed, very. I wasn't sure by what. In the short time I've been...here with him, I've noticed that his entire body tenses up when he gets annoyed and something upstairs annoyed him.

Figuring it out was the tricky part.

Swallowing I looked at him. "W-what do you want? Please, just...let us go or...or leave..."

[neverbeenfree]

Could hear the laughing, but this laughing didn't scare me much cause it wasn't the dark lady. Her laugh was like fingernails on a chalkboard and it made me want to scream. This laugh sounded nice, but I could hear the hint of cruetly beneath it. Tara was scared, she was all tense and hard pressed against me as I played with her fingers. One was broken, pull the broken one until it broke some more and then it wouldn't seem so broken before. It was helping, whatever doesnt' kill you makes you stronger. Mom used to say that to me alot.

I screamed when I felt the jolt, electricity pouring through me with the sharp click from the man on the other side of the bars. Had to make sure the slayer didnt' hurt him, had to shock me. Fallin' away from Tara I laid on the cold concrete floor.

"I already told you what I want, Tara." I heard the slow Southern drawl even though he tried to hide it. Pretending to be something he wasn't and I remembered that. Knew what it was like to pretend. So I didnt' cry when I heard the door to the cell open. Didn't cry even though I heard Tara tryin' to talk to him. Didn't cry when cold fingers clasped around my arm. "...from you. Now I'm a little curious what slayer blood tastes like. Don't worry, babe. I won't forget about you." He smirked at her before startin' to pull me towards him and I couldn't move. He hit me with electricity, synapses effecting and I forgot what I was supposed to be doin'.

No more fighting, now we sleep.

[sexytarawitch]

I was clenching my jaw so hard I was giving myself a headache, but I couldn't scream from Faith moving my broken finger around, she was quiet and a bit sedate and with Lindsey around that was best. He had moved over towards us and before I knew it he shocked Faith, causing me to let go for fear of my own safety.

With wide eyes I watched as he picked her up like she was a rag doll, his face shifting. No, I can't let him do that. "No, s-stop." I swallowed hard and my mind started to wonder what I was going to do and how I was going to stop him, I didn't know how. "Y-you can't...l-leave her...leave her alone Lindsey." C'mon Tara, where's your guts? I don't have any. "S-she's...she's already been bitten, she's too weak..."

Now I was sure I was talking insane, I didn't make any logical sense, but to me it did and maybe to him it would too. "Lindsey, p-please...I-I'll...leave her alone...F-forget about her..." Think, Tara, think. "I-I...I can give you...I can give you what you want..." My eyes went wide and I moved towards them, grabbing Faith hard and pulling her to me. "Not, blood. B-but...but I know what you do want..."

[petmyevilhand]

I rolled my eyes, Faith still dangling limply from the grasp I had on her arm as Tara stuttered and stammered trying to make me, what? Change my mind? She lived on the hellmouth, surely she should know that us vampires? We had an affinity for drinking blood.

"Give me what I want?" An amused smirk made it's way across my face as Tara pulled the slayer back down on her lap and cradled her protectively away from me. That was so...adorable, and it fed the urge to rip them both into pieces and bathe in their blood. Darla would have my hide for that, but how much did I care right now?

"Little girl, I highly doubt you can even grasp exactly what it is that I want. Are you offering to take her place?" I grinned sadistically down at her as she continued to hold onto the semi-conscious slayer. "As endearing as that is, I doubt witch blood tastes anything like slayer blood. So you might want to think about playing nice and giving your little friend up. She'll come back to play, dont' you worry."

[sexytarawitch]

I held Faith and saw her eyes roll back before she laid limply in my arms. Still keeping an eye on Lindsey I checked Faith over and laid her against the wall before finding a way to my feet.

He looked down at me and I realized just how much bigger then me he was. Puling all my nerve together I crossed my arms and glared at him. "I'm not letting you bite from me again."

My eyes darted around the room and I looked everything over, trying to find some way out for Faith and I but Lindsey was standing in front of our only way out.

I stood between them and did my best to keep my stance. "I s-said..." I swallowed hard and willed my stutter to go away. "I said I would give you what you wanted, and I'm not t-talking about blood...I'm talking about magick..."

Yeah, I could tell him all at once what I was getting at but this was buying my time...I hoped.

[petmyevilhand]

Instantly my hand snapped out and locked around Tara's throat, pressing her back into the bars behind her. The slayer was still passed out on the floor and I knew it would be a little while before she gained full feeling. At least I knew I wouldn't have to worry about dealing with her for a few minutes, just the little witch who liked to talk back. That was the fun thing about Tara though, she never talked back. She just quietly accepted the way things were but here she was, sticking up for this girl. This girl she probably had never even met. Then again they had both spent some time in Sunnydale. Maybe they did know eachother. It was just hard to picture a girl like Faith and a girl like Tara being friends or well, anything else. But stranger things had happened, just look at me and Darla.

"Listen here, darlin'." I smirked at her, tightening my fingers around her throat. "You don't call the shots around here. You're just another lamb to slaughter, and the only reason you're even still alive is because my girl upstairs has big plans for you. But the truth is? I don't even like her plans. So I'd be mighty careful about how you sass me or else I'm liable to just snap your neck right now." Her pale eyes grew wide as saucers as she gasped and I knew I had her attention for at least now.

Smashing her backwards, her head hit the bars before she slumped to the ground. Still conscious but stunned. I wondered how many times I could slam her head into things before she got a little retarded. That might be a fun experiment. Darla would probably stake me, but it would be fun until then.

"And Faithy here? She means even less, the only reason she's even here is because she's important to someone Darla wants to hurt. I'm thinking it will hurt a whole lot more if Faith just shows up dead. So I'd keep that tongue in check if I were you, if you want to protect yourself and your friend you'll cooperate, although I have to admit. It might be more fun for me if you don't."

[_poutylips_]

I blinked up at him, my head spinning in every direction as I tried to sit up and fix the situation at hand. I had to keep him away from Faith, if not for her own good then for both of ours, the sooner she got better the sooner we could find a way to get out of here. But that was a small false hope and I knew it.

"L-lindsey." I gasped, rubbing my throat and sitting up, looking up at him, I watched as he knelt in front of me, that smirk of his in place. "Darla's not your girl." I murmured, closing my eyes tightly and waiting for the slap, when it didn't come I opened my eyes and looked at him. "I-If you snap my neck, I can't...I can't help you." I whimpered, shifting and looking up at him. "You d-don't want..." I winced and swallowed hard. "You don't want her doing that spell...I-if I don't...sh-she'd get someone else..." After she killed me. "I can...I can stop that f-from happening..."

I started to stand and I held onto the bars for support, willing my head to stop spinning even if it was just for a second. "I can keep h-him from losing his soul..." I stood up a bit straighter. "For good."

The fact of that actually happening I didn't know but it was worth a shot, and since he was the one handling me so far it's better to make a deal with the devil you know then the devil you don't.

[petmyevilhand]

I narrowed my eyes at her as she began making a deal with the devil. She could make it possible for Angel's soul to never leave his body. To bind it to him forever. Did she know what a dangerously stupid proposition that was? How much Darla would smear her intestines all over this cage if Tara even thought about doing such a thing? Clearly, she didn't know and I wasn't going to be the one to tell her. In reality, Tara was Darla's problem, I just found her...entertaining?

"I don't want him to be soulled or soulless." I admitted to her, standing up easily and regarding her with an impassive expression. "I just don't want him to be...at all. Can you kill him from here?" I asked her, finally the familiar charming smile breaking out over my face. "I highly doubt that you could, or else I'm sure I would already be dust in the wind."

Shoving Tara back against the bars quickly I wrapped a hand around Faith's arm and jerked her up to my level, holding her possessively in front of my chest. Really, my interest in the slayer was steadily waning but Tara's protective instincts were...amusing. Besides, it was more entertaining than what was going on upstairs. More of Darla holding Drusilla's head under the water in the bathtub. Not that a little girl on girl action wasn't appealing on it's own, but Dru was fucking insane. I was going to stay as far away from that one as possible.

Besides, I detested the idea of anyone else touching my Darla. She wasn't mine, she'd never be mine. She'd always belong to him.

"Tell me." I asked Tara, still holding Faith's limp form tightly to my chest. "What other tricks do you have up that sleeve of yours?"