Cursed Love
Chapter Five
“Hey…”
When Buffy heard the familiar voice she looked right up. Immediately she also realized the state she was in. She was crouched unwillingly to look up amidst now lifeless statues. She got up right away and hugged her.
“Did you see?” She asked hoping she hadn’t gone insane.
“See what B?” Faith said more than happy comforting her lover who seemed scared. “What happened to you?” Faith said a little distraught by the older slayer’s ghastly appearance.
“These statues were all alive…they were all covered in blood…” Buffy said hugging tighter after every word. “They were telling me to kill you.”
“Come on B now you got to stop dreaming about killing me.” Faith laughed a little hoping her girl would get distracted.
“No, Faith something about this town is not right. First we both have the same nightmare, and then Kennedy is killed right in front of our eyes. Then Willow completely disappears and when I come here all these statues are …”
“Hey …baby…” Faith said grabbing Buffy’s face with both her hand and giving her a deep kiss to stop her from repeating. “Look…I give you that the town is creepy right now. But we do creepy remember. We are slayers.”
“Yes…we fight vampires and demons but this…” Buffy was saying as slipped one hand out of Faith’s protective hold and she pushed the statues nearest to them. “These…these that can’t be killed…why are they talking to me.”
“I don’t know.” Faith replied honestly. “But I do know one thing.” Faith pulled Buffy’s both hand to her lips and kissed them.
“I know you love me.”
Just as she finished her sentence her face turned. It darkened along with her eyes that quickly filling with disbelief and pain.
“B!”
She exclaimed as both the slayers looked down at Buffy’s hand which was holding a dragger as blood spilled out Faith’s gut. Buffy was still trying to make sense what had just happened when Faith dropped on her knees then immediately fell on her back.
“KILL HER….KILL HER….”
Buffy looked up and the statues were now gone. The cave had dissipated as she was looking up at the sky that was blue, the mountains that were white and the hills that were green. And all around her were smartly dressed dead statues now alive cheering her on to kill her lover.
“NO.” Buffy screamed at the crowd.
“You will kill her.” A woman came out from within the crowd. Buffy recognized her immediately from her dream; the woman with the golden hair that had later turned into her. “Your love is forbidden. It cannot be.”
“No, it is not forbidden; why would it be?” Buffy asked.
“She is right.”
Buffy knew this voice. It was a voice of her best friend.
“The Chosen Two cannot be lovers. It is forbidden.” Willow confirmed once again as she appeared from within the crowd just like the blonde had.
“But Willow…”
“Can’t you see…it has already killed Kennedy? She will die if you continue this. You don’t get it; the price for you to stay together is too high.”
“Then I’ll leave her. I don’t have to kill her.”
“It is too late for that now.” Another voice said coming out of the crowd. This time it was the other dark haired woman from her dream. She walked out and immediately held the blonde’s hand as they smiled at each other looking directly into each other’s eyes. “I killed her.” The blonde said as the gut of the dark beauty started to bleed.
Before Buffy could react the crowd was mumbling the same thing over and over.
“I killed her…I killed him…I killed her….I killed him.”
Buffy’s eyes quickly scanned crowd that now stood in pairs with one that was bleeding and the other had a dragger.
“Buffy you need to do this.” Willow said walking a couple of steps closer.
“Willow you are telling me to kill Faith. I love her.”
“But are you willing to loose it all for love.” Willow asked.
“Yes.” Buffy replied without hesitation.
Willow smiled staring at someone past the slayer. Buffy hesitated for a second but then she turned to look behind.
“Dawny.” She said recognizing her sister.
“Buffy…Willow…What am I doing here? I was just preparing for class and then …” Her words froze as she glared past her sister.
Buffy turned right back around to see what shocked her sister. And then she saw, the Dark Willow.
“You said you were willing to sacrifice anyone right?” The Dark Willow smirked raising her hand that magically raised the slayer’s sister from the distant. “Now why should I be loosing all the time for your cause? You are the slayer and I loose Tara. Your love is forbidden and I loose Kennedy…. It’s time the Chosen One knows the pain of loosing too.”
The pair from her dream grinned as they watched Willow apply more pressure on the little sister.
“Save your love or your sister slayer.” The golden haired beauty that uncannily resembled her self laughed as she spoke.
“I choose this.” Buffy said throwing the dragger right at Willow’s heart.
The dark hair and the dark eyes immediately disappeared as her red headed best friend fell to the ground. Willow looked down at the chest then at her friend. “Buffy…” Was the last word she said as she fell to the ground with her face down.
The older slayer rushed to her friend crying. “Willow I am sorry…I am sorry…”
“Buffy…what is happening?” Dawn was right beside her sister with tears in her eyes too. “Is this some kind of a nightmare?” She asked hoping she was right.
“I don’t know Dawny. I hope so.”
“No, it’s not.” Faith who had now found strength to get up said pulling Buffy up. “It is this town…we have to get out of here.”
“When they said your love…they meant you?” Dawn asked looking directly at Faith.
“Yes, Dawny I love her.” Buffy confirmed.
“Sunshine you got a problem?” Faith asked seeing that Dawn had a shocked look on her face.
“Yes, I got a problem. It is forbidden. You killed Willow for HER? Buffy this cannot happen.” Dawny said immediately getting up and taking few steps away from the couple.
“Yes…tell her little sister.” The golden haired bitch was talking now. “Tell her to kill her lover.”
Dawn walked right up to her sister and grabbed the dragger instead. “If you can’t do it, I’ll do it.”
“Dawny no…please listen to me.” Buffy was struggling with the dragger when she felt the dragger pierce through, and she looked up to eyes of her little sister that was closing shut. “DAWNY….DAWNY….” Buffy couldn’t believe what had just happened.
“What did you do?” A shaken voice of Giles came as the man rushed to hold Dawn’s body before it fell. Angel appeared from nowhere too as he rushed along with the English man.
“This must be a fucking nightmare…even though it doesn’t feel like one.” Faith said watching the events unfold.
“No…this is a curse…” The dark headed woman from dream spoke up. “The more you resist the more people from your life you loose. And believe me when I tell you… their death is as real as it can be…. just like it was for my love.” She said looking at her lover. “I know how hard it was for you to see them die…so don’t for a second think that I don’t know that you love me…I know you love me…even if you did kill me.” She said with loving caress as tears ran down her lover’s cheeks.
“No I won’t.” Buffy said once again.
“Buffy you have to. The curse is too strong.” Angel said as he approached the two women and Buffy pushed Faith behind her protectively.
“If a powerful witch like Willow couldn’t survive the curse you think we can?” Giles provided the objectivity of the situation. “You’ll be killing everyone you know and love to keep her alive. Now you have had to make this decision before and you have always chosen to sacrifice your own love. What is so different now? Kill her.”
“I won’t kill you if you don’t interfere.” Buffy warned.
“If we don’t interfere we will be trapped in the curse. You would have to kill us too.” Angel said once again approaching.
Buffy quickly pulled out her stake and kept it in attack position, but Angel didn’t stop. As soon as Angel was a step away Buffy pulled back her hand to put a momentum for the plunge, but her hand was stopped.
“No…B… kill me.” Faith said from behind. She took the stake out and put the dragger back in Buffy’s hand. “I know you love me…kill me baby…I can’t watch you kill any more people you love.” Faith said as she held Buffy’s hand with full strength so that she couldn’t let go of the dragger.
“Exactly the way I felt….” The dark haired woman hearing Faith’s words.
Buffy’s hand wasn’t the one that was pushing. Instead it was Faith’s hand that was pulling the dragger to herself and Buffy was just allowing it. Buffy moved and kissed Faith as she felt the dragger resist on her skin for a moment. She hardened the kiss knowing that the next moment would be the end of her lover. And then she stopped. She couldn’t do it. Buffy pulled the dragger out.
“Don’t kill her.” Willow voice said but not from the ground.
Buffy searched for the voice and saw a silhouette walk closer and closer from far. As soon as she was near the crowd, Willow let go of the dark robe that was hiding the witch. The first thing Buffy noticed after seeing a double of her friend was that her heart was bleeding in the exact same place where she had hit her.
“They are right about one thing, who ever dies in the curse will die in reality. So, Kennedy, Dawn and I are already dead. But you can reverse it, if you break the curse.” Willow said as she approached her friend. “Look you are in a different plane. The plane of the curse. I am using magic to come here…the only reason I can walk and talk is because of dark magic. The curse completes the moment you kill Faith and then you turn into statue like every one of them and Faith along with everyone you killed disappear.”
“But how do I break the curse?” Buffy asked.
“I don’t know Buffy but the only way is to break the curse.” Willow said offering no solution.
Buffy looked around and looked at the couple from her dream. She knew if there was an out it was through them.
“You cursed the town?” Buffy asked looking at the golden haired woman.
“Love can be curse at time. I know…I lived through it.” She simply said as she stared into her own lover’s eyes. She pulled her dragger back and put it right through the dark headed woman’s gut. “I know you love me…” She said as she fell to the ground. “Did you hear that? She knows I love her…but do I? I killed her….” She stood still just watching the blood flow out of her lover’s body unwilling to move or cry or react just like a statue.
Just then the crowd froze to a statue too.
Willow and Buffy watched it and they both knew how to break the curse. Buffy looked at her best friend and the witch just nodded her head as Buffy picked up her dragger and walked towards Faith.
“I am sorry Faith…” She said just before she plunged the dragger in.
The mountains were white and the hills were green. The sky was blue and the river was sparkling. The sun was at its noon and everything was as bright as the smile on the faces of the two young women who sat almost conjoined to each other by the bank.
“So…” The brunette finally spoke breaking their spellbinding romantic moment. “You think Red’s protection spell on the town against forbidden love worked?”
“I think so…she is good at those whole spell and mojo things you know.”
“Then how come we can still be here?”
“Because our love is not forbidden anymore. This town accelerates true love and also accelerates any obstacle it faces, so any forbiddance that anyone in our lives had about our love was all gone when I broke the curse and freed us all.” Buffy said grinning at the fact that she had once again saved the day.
“So, how did you know that you had to kill yourself?”
“When I heard the blonde ask if she knew that she loved her. I knew the reason why she froze was because she is still wondering if she loved her. That is the actual curse, for the lover’s to think over and over if they actually loved the one they were killing, anytime they stop the dragger and kill themselves, they’ll be out of the curse too.”
“You really think that …the actual couple was two women?” Faith asked wondering if that was just a co-incident.
“No…It was just about love. We see what we want love to be. We saw not just two women but also a blonde and a brunette almost our look a like because when we think love we see one another. I am sure Jack and Dina saw spitting images of them. It wasn’t about gender…it was about love.”
“Very profound B…now care to finish what we started.”
“What…?” Buffy asked.
Faith simply stooped down and scooped some water on her palm as both their glittered in anticipation….
THE END