(LA Night)A Mid-Patrol Night's Dream

[Jessy Jackson]

"Rory!" I screamed as Rory hurtled past me and landed with a sickening crunch on the floor. "You bastard!" I yelled over my shoulder at Killian. I knelt down beside Rory. How dare Killian do that to my guy.

Hang on. That wasn't right. I like Spike, not Rory. Rory, not Spike. What the hell?

[rachelle]

I moved away from Killian and hurried behind the bar, where Jessy was with Rory.

"Is he alright?" I asked, with genuine concern. She whipped around and glared at me. Before she could speak, I cut her off. "It's ok, I'm not in love with you boy. I just came to see if he was alright, is all."

She nodded, and looked back tenderly at Rory. "He's unconscious. Thanks to Killian." She spat.

"And I'm sure he's sorry 'bout that. Hell, we've all been acting a lil' crazy lately."

[killian]

So Maya had been lying. Rachelle didn't love me. Otherwise why would she have broken off the kiss? Deciding to push it to the back of my mind and not think about it anymore, I followed Rachelle to Jessy and Rory, thankful that Rachelle was not jumping all over Rory.

"I am sorry, Jess." I apologised. The apology was half genuine, I was sorry for knockin' the bloke out, but i wasn't sorry for punching the guy in the first place. "I didn't realise i hit so damn hard."

[Joshua]

<Whoa there Bucko! Hold everything!> I heard in my mind as I stared and computed what Maya had just told me, and what I had felt through our mutual connection.

Suddenly, everything around me came to a screeching halt. Time froze. But I didn't do it.

And as near as I can tell, neither did anybody else in, or outside of the room.

Then, there was a coalescing of light right beside Mai, kind of like that orbing thing Ate demonstrated once and Paige did during that whole fiasco when the Charmed Ones from another reality visited. Only they were gold lights instead of white or blue.

"Hi there," the figure said as it finally coalesced, appearing as my female astral form. I tried to scream, or move, or ask what the hell was going on, but besides for my awareness, I was as frozen as everybody else.

"Don't bother. This isn't time stop," the woman...me?... told me. "This is the space of time between heartbeats. Who or what I am is not important right now. What is, is what brought me forth. Maya accepted your feelings for her, and reciprocated."

Finally, I came out of whatever the hell funk I had been in, and snapped out of my stunned stupor. Or tried to, but the woman in front of me reacted before I could snap completely out of it.

"So . . . WAKE THE HECK UP ASSSHOWL!!!" Then she punched me.

In the real world, just as Killian was going Irish on everybody, *something*, don't ask me what, hit me and knocked me against the far wall, out of Nicki's embrace, and in fact almost through into the alley. Fortunately I have a harder head than that.

"Ohh... Ow. What hit me?" I groaned as I picked myself up out of the debris from my collision with the wall.

"I don't know," Mai said as she and Nicki ran up to me. "It kind of looked like a gold cloud or something that came out of nowhere and disappeared just as fast. Next thing we know, you're flying through the air like an insane Spiderman."

"Gee thanks," I sarcastically commented. Then I felt my forehead, feeling something wet, I held it up close. It wasn't red, so good news it wasn't blood, but it wasn't clear, so not water or alcohol either.

Some of it got in my eye, trickling down from my head, burned for a little bit, like any irritant in my eye, but when I looked up at the others, nothing happened.

"What the...?" I started to ask, but was interrupted as two pigmy demons suddenly repelled down from the rafters and started shooting water guns full of the same stuff on my forehead down into everybody's faces.

Without thought, I dragged Mai and Nicki with me and then jumped backwards, actually breaking through the wall this time.

[TPot]

I looked at the girl across the table from me and tried to remember where I had seen her before, I couldn't think of anything except shes Beautiful and she looked like a female version of me, she seemed to recognise me because as I sat down she said, "Hi TPot," I looked across at the pigmy things with water guns and a second later they were black and crispy and dead, "Mice.....Cats?" The girl asked me.

"What?" I asked,

She said it again, "Mice taste nice and cats eat rats?" Then I remembered something, "Just keep your paws off bats." I said.

She closed her eyes for a few seconds and then said, "Follow me," as she got up from the table and headed for the door, I followed straight into a portal which closed as soon as I had steped through, through all of this noone noticed me.

[Aredhel]

((holy crap, I'm gone for TWO DAYS and this happens? You people are NIUTS!! ok... well, since the spell is wearing off....))

Nothing made sense anymore. Everything I knew, everything I held dear, it all went straight out the proverbial window. I was with Zeroc, that was all that mattered now. He was perfect, devine - ok, maybe not devine, seeing as he was undead, but close enough - everything I wanted. I loved him.

[Zeroc... good. No! Bad! bad bad bad! What? What the hell are you talking about 'Del?! Good! Very very good! No! Bad! Collossally bad!]

I pulled back from the kiss, holding my head in my hands, trying to block out the thoughts.

"SHUT UP!" I screamed, actually in pain. "Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!"

I couldn't make it stop. The thoughts kept running around in my head. It was wrong, but I wanted him. Oh God I wanted him. But they wouldn't stop, those annoying voices plaugued me. I grabbed Zeroc roughly and slammed my lips down on his, trying to just forget it. I loved him.

I didn't love him. I pulled back, holding my head again.

"What the hell is happening to me?!" I demanded between clenched teeth. I was actually starting to cry, for the first time in a millennia. "What's going on?"

[I love him! No I don't! Yes I do! No, no! I don't love Zeroc! He's -- perfect. Everything I love. No he's not! Yes he is! No! Yes! No! Yes! No! Yes! No! Yes! No! Yes! No! Yes! No yes no yes no yes noyesnoyesnoyesnoyesnoyesnoyes]

"MAKE IT STOP!"

[Azoth (Kyler)]

'No, this isn't right!!!!!! But I love her!!!! I don't love!!!!!!! Aredhel, she's beautiful!!!!!' I couldn't help it!!! It had consumed me!!!!

"I Will make it stop!" I said, giving her a kiss, 'No, this is not right!'

I could no longer control my actions, even though I could half control my thoughts... she seemed like she could only half control her thoughts, but not her actions, but she was doing better than me!!

Was it because we were undead? Was that why it affected us so badly?

'I am so lucky we don't need to breathe!! No wait, why am I thinking this?' I thought...

We continued kissing until we pulled away from each other... then kissed again, this was so wierd, and hard to control!!!!!

[Joshua]

(((Hey, Jessy is the one that came up with the "love potion demons", I just brought them inside. And the reason the potion doesn't work on me anymore is because there are now 'two' mes inhabiting my body. Like Doc being possessed or vice versa with the Soul Sabre. They block each other from being affected by mind spells.)))

"Why did you do that?" Mai asked as we lay on the alley floor, me on the bottom, them both, uncomfortably, on top of me.

"Because two demons had just dropped from the ceiling and were squirting this potion stuff, which I think is what made everybody cookoo, and made Nicki fall in love with me and everybody else with everybody else in there. My guess is the bigger the dose, the longer the effects." I answered.

"Uh huh, and why aren't you affected anymore?" Mai asked.

"Remember the Slayer Spirit? That changed my astral form to female? I think she just possessed me all over again . . . because you finally admitted your true feelings for me. And as such, every Slayer under the same spell, is equally immune... I think. Don't wanna test that right now."

"Oh, but, but, you said you wanted to make me your girlfriend," Nicki almost blubbered. Thank goodness that could be attributed to the spell.

"Uh, we'll talk about that later, I promise," I hastily told her, "But for right now . . . could you two get off of me? This is really starting to -- OOFFF! -- hurt..."

"Sorry," Mai said after having driven her elbow into my gut to get off of me, sounding not at all "sorry".

[Aredhel]

I couldn't get enough of him. Zeroc was right there and I simply could not get enough. It wasn't logical, it wasn't right. But it was all I wanted, all I needed. I loved him.

[No. I. Don't!]

I kissed him again, ignoring the thought. I couldn't understand it, so I stopped trying. I just couldn't fight it. Love and lust molded into one in my body. He was the one for me, the only one. I loved him more than I could bear to think about.

[No. I. Don't!]

I pulled back again, holding my head so firmly I thought it would burst. The thoughts wouldn't stop. But they were wrong, all wrong. I loved him. I knew I did. I kissed him again.

I just couldn't get enough.

[Azoth (Kyler)]

This was strange, in my head, something was telling me that this wasn't right, but something else was teling me that I had to, ignore reputation, something in my head thought, forget about how long it has been since you've last loved! I said, she's your's now, don't let go!!!!!!

We continued, now without a doubt in our minds...

'Nothing will take her away from me, SHE'S MINE!!!' I thought as we continued to kiss, turning more passionate, one after the other, 'There are no disturbances, nothing, no-one to take her away from me!'

The thoughts of her had completely consumed my mind, blocking out the logical ones telling me that this wasn't right, I didn't care if it was or wasn't, she was here, I loved her, and we were completey alone! No-one else was around, and the advantage of us both being undead is that we would never get tired, we would never require sleep, we didn't need to breathe...


(((By the way, if you don't already know, I have skin right now)))

[Joshua]

"What was that?" I asked, finally standing beside the two women, after hearing a strange sound not too far down the alley from us.

"I don't know, it sounded like . . ." Mai stopped when the sound repeated itself.

"Like that," I finished for her, the three of us slowly stepping closer to the source of the sounds.

They weren't exactly hiding, so there was no peaking around corners needed for all three of us to see Aredhel and ZeroC making out together between a dumpster and the alley wall.

"Ewww," all three of us pantomimed. (said together)

"Ugh, undead orgy, gross," I commented.

"That has to be one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen," Nicki agreed.

Then Aredhel managed to pull off ZeroC's shirt.

With a mutual cry of disgust, not going to describe it, Nicki corrected herself, "No, I was wrong, THAT is the most disgusting AND disturbing thing I have ever seen to date!!"

"DEL!!" Mai screamed, probably telepathically too, because my head was ringing afterwards.

[Azoth (Kyler)]

(((Joshua, we arn't in an ally way... we're in a crypt in the graveyard (couldn't be bothered making a thread in 'The Graveyard') so you wouldn't have found us in an ally way, you'd have to go for a walk to the graveyard first...)))

(((And no-one reads your super-long posts, so shorten them...)))

((( Hint: read the posts before you add things, ok.)))

[Joshua]

(((But it was so funny! ;D )))

[Maya]

Great, i thought, a little bitterly. My love for joshua broke the spell on me, but he had to be snapped out of it by the slayer spirit. How nice. No, i thought, thats not fair- joshua doesnt have the same sort of mind power as me, of course i could fight it easier. Now we just needed to get everyone else back to their senses...
"Nicki." I said, "Do you remember Tucker?"
"Tucker?" SHe replied, "Little dork... not very interesting... Joshua is much nicer..."
I slapped her- maybe it was harsh, but i needed her to focus.
"No, Nicks, dont think about Josh- you do NOT love him, its just the spell."
Nicki frowned,
"No... i really do..." She said. I rolled my eyes, and called out mentally in the direction i knew Tuckers apartment to be in,
[TUCKER! If you still care about Nicki, get your ass over to the spot, NOW!]

((seeing as he doesnt seem to be here...))

[killian]

It seemed that most people had gotten out of the spell, so we turned our attention to the demons who had done this to us. I wanted to hurt these demons for messing with us and creating this mess. I wanted to hurt the demons really bad.