Sometimes you don't have to be in the big battle to suffer. I wasn't. I stood away from the final end and watched from the corner of my eye.

Coward.

Yeah, I may be a coward but I am alive. And the ones that I had to hide away from life, well they aren't so who's the bigger fool?

I couldn't save my best friend. No Izzy wasn't among the dead. ( Read more... )

Blood covered my hands ( Read more... )

“Kill them all.”

( Vignettes )

Genesis had been waiting. Waiting this whole time and praying. She knew that Giles would get there. It would only be a matter of time. He promised that he would come and find her. They loved each other. Nothing was going to break that bond, and she'd do whatever she had to to make sure that didn't happen. But first she just needed to stay alive ( Read more... )

He'd managed to wipe clean most of Ethan's blood from his hands, but the imagery wasn't lost on Rupert. He'd brought this about; his inaction to stop Cain at the beginning when the plot was revealed, the inability to lead his friends into battle when they practically demanded it of him. There was so much blood on his hands over the years: Jenny, ( Read more... )

I should be tired. Every muscle in my body should be screaming for the rest I was sure that they needed. After all, I had been careless and abusing the past few days. To the extent that I couldn't let go of the care for anytime long enough to really sleep. Faith and I had talked most of the flight over from England, me curled up on the sofa of the ( Read more... )

Despite Rupert’s better judgment, he’d decided to pace the hotel floors, hoping for any sign of where Genesis was being held. Hoping it could have been that easy ( Read more... )

I thought that we must have made for the most motley of crews as the group of us moved through the main lobby and casino level of the Luxor. Then, I noticed a large gaggle of midwestern tourists taking pictures with a garishly interpreted Cleopatra and Marc Antony. This was, after all, Las Vegas-- a city that had been built on the use of the ( Read more... )

The cacophonous sound filled my head as we entered, but I was assured by Wesley that it was merely the 'Casino' and nothing more. "No," I whispered to him, walking closely to Willow as I had promised her I would do, "that is not it ( Read more... )

Kennedy Foster was late. Jason Cain had an agenda, and it had to be executed down to the last second. Rupert Giles was somewhere in the hotel, he was sure of it. Attempting to spoil his latest step to ascension. And so he sent his weapon, his slayer, for a brief reconnaissance. But strictly told not to engage. She’d already stepped too far in her ( Read more... )