Title: Falling 1/1

Rating: R (not for any reason other than the fact that it takes place during

The Gift)

Pairings: none, but if I decide to continue this there will be. Not sure

what I'm going to do yet. Please bear with me and forgive me for not

putting any pairings.

Author: Meredith

Disclaimer: Joss yes, me no

Summary: Buffy's Point Of View after jumping into the gate

Author's Note: Very short, one possibility of what really happened to Buffy.

Short, Angsty

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Falling, it seems like I fell for hours. It was actually only seconds that

passed before I entered the gateway. The energy surrounded me and pulsed

through me. It hurt! God it hurt so bad, I just wanted it to be over.

I could see them all down below, thinking we had won because he killed Ben,

and Dawn was above, watching me. She cried so hard, watching me. Nobody

watched that thing, that black-eyed demon that hurt my little sister.

Nobody paid any attention to Doc. Oh God I wish they had.

I thought I killed him, threw him from the tower and got rid of one more

demon. But Spike said they killed him once before, so if he could survive

that death, then he could survive this one as well. Tricky bastard, he

clung to the side of the tower, waiting and watching. I didn't know how

strong he was. But that wouldn't have mattered anyway.

I was in the gate, and I prayed for it to end. I saw so much flashing in

front of me. World after world after world. They were endless. They were all

hell. This is what Glory wanted? I just don't get it, and I suppose I

never will.

Then he jumped in with me. The energy didn't seem to hurt him. He hung in

the air in front of me and started to talk. The bastard though himself

clever. He was.

"You brought her down, all of you together. You will all pay for that." He

reached out to touch my face, and as he made contact, the energy around us

surged through us both. He eyes turned human! They were green, like mine.

Then his whole body began to change. It wasn't just my eyes he stole, it

was my hair, and my nose, my lips and my hands. Everything! He stole me!

"They're going to think you are dead. They're going to bury a body.

They're going to be so crushed, so heartbroken."

MY VOICE! I tried to scream, tried to warn them, but he pulled me to the

side and took my place. Then the real fall began.

The gate started to close as that thing in my body willed it shut. So it's

not just blood that will close the gate, the creature that opens it controls

it.

I saw 'it' fall to the ground in a dead pile, lying there. I saw them

look. I saw Willow cry, I saw Spike crumble. I tried to scream to them!

PLEASE! PLEASE! I'M HERE! PLEASE!

They didn't hear me. I was moving away from them so fast, and when I

landed, I wished it was me that had died back there, instead of that

creature that stole my body.

So now I stand here in hell, hiding from the demons that rule this land and

praying for a way to get home. I am lost.

Help me.

The End.