Slayer.
I knew why I recognized the girl.
She was a Slayer.
And a very close friend.
Why couldn't I remember anything?
The demon fired his gun into the air.
The bikes began to move.
I screamed. "No!"
The demons turned to me.
The main demon looked at me. "Another one for the fire, boys. Tear her up."
I backed away in fear.
••••••
A demon on a motorcycle came from behind me, swinging a chain over his head.
I ran away around the demons, looking behind me toward the demon, coming to a stop when I reached the girl and one of the chains chaining her to another motorcycle.
The demon rode closer.
I ducked aside, making him run through the chain binding the girl to the bike.
The girl grabbed the other chain on her other arm with both hands, breaking free. She looked at me. "Come on!"
We both ran away into an alley, around the corner to see four people, three girls, one man.
"Watch it!" the man told us.
"It's us," the girl told them. They all looked at me in shock. I looked between them fearfully, turning to look behind me when I heard the motorcycles driving closer, running away. "Zoey!"
"Zoey!" another girl told me.
"Zoey!" the man told me.
They followed me into another alley.
"Where is she?" another girl asked.
I crouched in a corner between a wall and some random junk.
The redheaded girl and the blonde girl walked closer.
"Zoey?" the redheaded girl asked. "Zoey, are you..." The man and the other two girls walked closer. "This is Buffy. I'm Willow."
I looked up, all around, very nervous.
"What's wrong with her?" one girl asked.
"Nothing," Buffy told them. "She's--she's--she's in shock. She saved my life."
"Her hands are bleeding," the last girl told them. "Her fingers."
I looked at my hands, which were covered with blood.
"Oh, she's filthy," a girl told them.
The man shook his head in dismay. "Oh, no."
"What?" Willow asked.
The man sighed. "No. How could we... so stupid."
"Xander!" Willow told him.
"Our spell," Xander told them. "Our resurrection spell worked like a magic charm. We bought you back to life, Zoey. Right where we left her."
Willow and Buffy looked shocked.
"Oh, God," Buffy told them.
"In her coffin," Xander told them.
Willow turned to the last girl.
The last girl hugged her. "She had to... dig out of her own grave."
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Dance With the Dead (BTVS, Book Six)
FanfictionZoey Francis is back from the dead, and she's keeping something from her friends that no one outside of Spike knows. She has to get used to being alive, being a Slayer, being a daughter, and being a Slayer again. Zoey always takes care of her siste...
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