Ch.43

Willow argued that Buffy did it to stop Twilight and Faith told her Twilight was still out there likely waiting for magic to return so it could. Willow asked what my issue was then if I had so much power because I could destroy Twilight with ease even without the infinity stones. Faith told her about my big near death when the seed was destroyed because the magic in me rebelled and nearly destroyed me to be free to replace the seed like nothing happened.

I grabbed a bubble bath and some magical bourbon I had remaining to take the edge off. Listening to them gossip like old women really put things into perspective. I grimaced at the memories of what happened six months ago after the big magic loss. I'd gotten my tattoos only for my body to nearly go nuclear against my will.

I'd had to subdue and entirely assimilate the magic as my own inside my body. If not for the enchanted Uru I'd be a pile of dried bloody paste somewhere in a crater. I'd had to take in the last seed's power to seal off the rest and keep it all from killing me. After I shook off my thoughts, Faith and Willow came in asking if there was room in the near Hogwarts prefect sized bath.

I shrugged and they joined me before things got heated inside the bath as well. Days passed and days turned into weeks while weeks turned into a month very quickly. Willow finally asked one night while Faith hadn't joined us in the hot tub because she was eating tacos and watching some MMA match on satellite. "Faith said there were two seeds of wonder in each prison world, do you know where the other one is here?"

I sighed and set my champagne down before grabbing her and sliding her atop me, kissing her neck while she blushed as I entered her below. "Is that really what you want to know about?"

I moved in her as she began to pant before moaning yes. She stopped me and slid all the way down, sitting with me buried in her. She looked at my eyes that glowed and sighed. "Tell me and we can continue until you're satisfied. Don't and I'm gone. I can't stay any longer without helping the world. You don't know what it's like out there for witches and magicals."

I frowned and leaned in, telling her my price in her ear. I gripped her ass and told her I'd tell her exactly how to return magic to the world and even control it, but only as long as she agreed to my price. She looked into my eyes knowing I was serious now. I grunted. "Your actions will bring demons into this world once more and the rules of magic will no doubt change. Since you want to bargain so much, you know my price. The question is, are you willing to pay it?"

She nodded slowly and I growled. "If you go back or get rid of it-"

She shook her head and we moved together as I poured magic into her body with seed and not the kind she needs to bring back magic to the world. We had a long night and Faith got dragged into the middle of it when she came to bed looking for a good time. She was like a drowned cat the next morning when she learned the cost she and Willow had paid for that night.

I rolled my face so she didn't break her hand when she punched me. I hadn't been gentle and neither of them were exactly walking fine, mostly due to the fact that they'd both gotten all three holes stuffed. I'd needed something major while using that kind of magic and they paid the price in more ways than one. She punched me because I offered to reverse her condition which surprised the fuck out of me.

Oh, she was irked she was in such a condition to start with, but they'd both been long before now, since our first night together in a three way. I'd noted the change two weeks ago and my condition to Willow was that she raise the child and be a mother to it, regardless of whom she's with. Willow learned how to help the seed in the deeper well grow into it's full form before moving it to the old seed's spot and using the Slayer handbook to control the new laws of magic.

Willow was already gone, promising to return. Faith was sour because I hadn't told her sooner, bitter because she wasn't mother material and I certainly wasn't father material anymore. I was crazed half the time, high on magic or drunk with no regards to where I was or whom I was with. My slayer side made me just as shitty parent material as my animal side which didn't give a fuck about anything.

All in all my human mind was outnumbered and even when I was a father I was a bad one. I'd warned Willow and she knew she'd be raising it with Buffy and the scoobies, already preparing to revive Giles and fix things before sealing the handbook away in a ring and give it to Tara so she wasn't tempted. A few days later I felt the magic in the world return and the power necessary to revive Giles fully being used.

A few things happened and after that I felt Twilight trying to return. I opened a portal into the new reality known as Twilight and destroyed it entirely. The beastly creature that it was pretending to be was siphoned off as raw energy and stored away. I stood in the screaming void and opened a portal, returning to the reality I'd just left.

With Twilight dead, life simply went on. Atlantis was sunken again and the Ten Rings were making things clear to the rest of the demon population including D'Hoffryn and the rest that earth was no longer their playground. I gave Spike and his alien bugs a copy of the ship they'd destroyed fleeing from twilight. He wore the gem of Amara and was currently one of a few vampires in the world remaining.

Many demons were gone and most of the magical artifacts were collected by me over the last seven months. Sadly time was wonky so I'd been gone five years in the screaming void before I'd returned to reality. Faith and Willow had given birth, Willow and Tara were back together raising their kid and Faith and Buffy were raising hers. They'd retired and Kennedy was leading the slayer organization with Rona helping random slayers keep the hellmouths under control.

When I came into the living room of Buffy, Dawn and Faith's penthouse now, they asked where I'd been and I grunted, telling them of my fight with Twilight to ensure my brats and lovers were safe. Faith introduced me to Robin Oz Lehane before telling me how long I'd been gone. I sweat dropped telling them time there must've been a hell of a lot faster or it was the screaming void left behind by the destruction of a reality.

Seeing Dawn had green haired highlights, Faith told me she'd mastered her magics thanks to Willow teaching her. I congratulated Dawn and she shrugged saying it wasn't hard. Once she started she was a natural apparently. Things were awkward for a bit when I grabbed a shower and both Buffy and Faith joined me.

Buffy said Spike found himself in Drusilla's arms so Angel ended up with Nina, a werewolf girl. I didn't say no when she asked to join with Faith and once they were sleeping, I sat in the living room and caught up on all I'd missed. Dawn came out in a night gown telling me I'd missed her giant days and her time without memories because of the new magic. She sat down and told me how she met a demon and told him she'd slept with his friend to get him to back off because she didn't think she was ready only to spend most of the magic free and new magic time stuck as a giant.

I told her I knew about the giant part and she nodded. "Faith said you stuck around to keep me alive. Heck, if it wasn't for the magic ring you left behind I'd still be memory-less or gone. Faith gave it to us and Willow figured out how to extract the old form of magic from it and use it to restore me."

I shrugged. "It was just an extra storage ring for magic, nothing more."

She shrugged and asked if she could thank me. We ended up in her bed and she lost her long held onto virginity once and for all. Being twenty five it was a long time coming after all. We didn't stop there because her power as a goddess apparently made her very durable and fast healing.

She was a lot more lewd than I'd ever thought possible and the things we did…she was in no way a virgin at all anymore. It's like she'd been sex starved and now I was the best possible release for her frustrations. Time passed as our trust came to light and Buffy wasn't happy, but Dawn was an adult now and she'd waited far longer than Buffy had for sex so Buffy lost that argument.

Buffy also knew I'd never be exclusive nor tied to her alone again like I'd let myself be before. In the end it was awkward, but they never shared the same bed so she let it go. Weeks turned into months again and soon more than three decades had passed. Buffy was fine thanks to an immortality ring I'd made using the daylight rings and my understanding of chi as well as the ten rings and magic.

Dawn was immortal and Faith had her rings so soon we'd seen our children grow up and I do mean children. There were no more condoms used throughout the three decades all three of us were getting bouncy. Even Willow and Tara's son Alexander had grown up with our kids. Dawn had three, a pair of twins and a little girl called Rosalie from her favorite book series I wish I'd never heard of.

Faith had one more son named Oz Jr. Lehane and Buffy had two daughters, Grace and Joyce. Willow and Tara had their moment and Tara ended up with a daughter named Cassie while Willow was currently pregnant with another son, Michael. Yeah, things weren't perfect, life was messy in fact, but we got by and the world survived. Willow had restored the scythe Buffy broke and with both the slayers and Ten Rings as well as the watchers council, evil lost it's foothold in our dimension.

Kennedy and Rona had led a team of slayers by the thousands and took the fight to all the small dimensions. Many slayers returned old and had human slaves set free with them. Time was wonky and different out there so it varied on how much progress they made. The First was gone for now having been dispersed entirely.

There were no mist vampires and no zompires because of my cleaning house. Even Dracula was destroyed for good and the magic council guarded the seed all the time now. It was made up of watchers, sorcerers from the Ten Rings, Slayers, magical folks like gnomes, fairies and other creatures as well as D'Hoffryn and the demons willing to protect our reality because I'd made it clear that while destroying the seed would erase magic, taking it would erase the entire reality which is why I let it be myself.

The Powers That Be no longer had a say in our reality as all their ties and that of any old one's had been severed entirely. Life goes on and eventually things change because life was all about changes. A demonic race that feeds on magic had been disturbed by the slayers out there and it cost the world.

I hadn't known it immediately, having been off on a jaunt with my side lover and immortal witch Hailey Marshal at the time. I'd cured her of her werewolf curse, taught her magic and had a daughter and son with her. She knew where she stood with me so when Buffy, Faith, Dawn and Willow portaled in to us going at it, I growled and bottomed out, causing Hailey to gasp in shock and pleasure.

I finished while they told me about the coming threat and their plans to use me as bait to pull them into the screaming void and destroy them. Hailey slid from underneath me causing a mess and asked if it was necessary. I gave them the last inter dimensional ship and told them that if it didn't work, to load up as many as they can and have Spike do the same before fleeing this reality for one not infested by such creatures.

Many cities had apparently already been wiped out and this was their Hail Mary so I'd agreed to do it. I dressed Hailey and told them to make Shute she and the kids were on the ships. Faith said Atlantis had finished their reality drives as well so they'd hold another two million maximum. I went out and faced the creatures, cursing when I saw the Stephen King Langelier monsters.

I groaned and erased the enochian on myself, breaking the seals and lighting up like a freaking buffer. Hundreds of thousands of them followed me into the screaming void and more gathered from the same reality, breaking through it while hungering for more magic. I used my claws, Thor's weapons, the Slayer scythe, I used everything I had and while a few died here and there, more freaking multiplied while feeding on the magic I threw their way.

They didn't fear the void and while they couldn't kill me they did their damndest to suck me drag of magic. Seeing no way out I had a very bad idea and re-entered reality while hiding my presence and telling the rest to flee in the ships, telling them my insane idea. They hauled ass seeing I was serious and even the demons loaded up. I gave Willow the seed of wonder and told them to wait as I summoned the creatures once more from eating the fabric of the reality to swarming me.

At the last moment I told Willow to go and as soon as they winked out of existence to another reality, the entire universe collapsed with enough force to fucking hurt me badly! I was left bleeding in the screaming void while the creatures were wiped out in the collapse. I managed to open a portal and fall through before I lost consciousness.