Eventually. Crossover with Buffy and Roswell. During third season of Buffy, no specific ep, so AU-ish. Roswell, first season, but again, no specific ep. One night, Buffy almost does not make it to be activated as a Slayer, but one young guy fights against fate. Story dedicated to a music video I saw of the two. Max and Buffy.
In the summer of 1996, Buffy is still living in Los Angeles, and she takes a trip to Roswell, New Mexico with couple of girlfriends. They stopped at a gas station just at the outer limits of Roswell. It's dark and the girls enter the station to get some chips and gum.
"Oh my gosh, like my hands are so numb," says one of the girls, Kimberly who has been drving this whole time.
"So, who's like buying this time?" asks another, Anna.
"Not me," says Buffy. "Paid last time and I left my purse in the car."
"It's like your turn to pay, Jessica," says Anna.
"Alright," says Jessica. "But don't pig out." The girls go on a frenzy and get all of the potato chips flavor they had in the store. Jessica rolls her eyes. She then pays the guy and the girls start to rip apart the bags as they head out to the car.
A jeep is parked next to their car and they wink at the cute guy pumping the gas into his car. The guy finishes, then heads over to the side of the station.
"Buffy, come on," says Jessica, the oldest of the group.
"I'm coming," says Buffy as she is checking out the postcards. She buys one that is 75 cents and pulls out some change she has in her sweater. Then she sticks the postcard in her sweater. "Um, do you have bathroom?"
"Out back, on the side of the building," replies the owner.
"Thanks." Buffy exits the station. "I gotta pee. Be back in a second." As Buffy is walking by the side of the building, she accidentally bumps into the young guy of the jeep.
"Sorry," they both say. Buffy continues to make her way to the bathroom and the guy watches her for a second. She is wearing a very short, pink skirt with a long pair of red boots and white tank top with a red sweater on top. The young guy then heads inside the station. The girls smile at him as he re-enters the station.
In the bathroom, Buffy looks at herself in the mirror and brushes her hair with her hands. She adjusts her outfit and throws away a piece of gum she has in her mouth. Then she heads out of the bathroom, when suddenly someone grabs her from behind and pulls a knife on her.
"Give me your money," says the man with bad breath.
"I don't have any," replies Buffy in a scared voice. "Please don't hurt me."
"You don't have any. Well, that's a problem." The guy then stabs Buffy in the gut and tosses her against the wall. He leaves her and walks slowly away towards his truck that is a couple feet away from the station.
Buffy grabs her wound and begins to panic. Her voice seems to have left her from how scared she is.
The young man exits the station, but the girls don't pay any attention to him. They are now looking at another guy with a nice car that just came in. As he heads over to his jeep, he sees the man walking to the truck and sees him put away a knife. He turns around to look at the group of girls and only sees three. There is one missing.
He decides to calmly head down the side of the building to the bathroom. There he sees her lying on the ground. He runs over to her side and sees that she is unconscious. The young guy looks around and thentakes offher sweater and pulls her bloody shirt up. He puts his hand over her wound and by some miracle, her wound begins to heal. Buffy starts to come to and sees the young guy take off his jacket. He pulls her shirt down and zips up her sweater, then puts on his jacket over her and covers her.
"Who are you?" says Buffy in a low voice.
The young guy doesn't answer and just stares into her intense, green eyes for a while. He then stands up and walks away slowly. As he gets to his jeep, the girls begin to realize that Buffy is taking way too long. Jessica decides to go look for her and quickly gets worried when she sees her on the floor.
"Buffy!" says Jessica. The other girls hear her cry and follow her. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm okay," replies Buffy. In the background of where her friends are standing, Buffy could see the guy that some how saved her drive off. Buffy pulls the jacket close to her.
"Where did you get that jacket?" asks Kimberly.
"I was wearing it," says Buffy trying to fool them, which she always did.
"Oh, okay." The girls head back to the car and continue their ride.
They arrive at their hotel and Buffy quickly heads into the bathroom with her bags and everything. She takes off the jacket that the guy gave her, then looks at herself in the mirror. There is blood all over her on her sweater, even though it is red, you can tell it is blood. She pulls off her red sweater and sees her soaked tank top. Now it's pink.
Buffy makes sure that the door is locked and when she pulls off her tank top, she sees no wound, but she does see a silver hand print where the wound would have been.
About three years later, Buffy is the Slayer, lives in Sunnydale, California and is best friends with Xander and Willow. It is their senior year and they are looking forward to all the senior fun activities. Buffy is in a trance of some kind and she is thinking of that night in Roswell where death almost claimed her for the first time.
"Buffy?" says Willow. She waves her hand over her face to get her out of her own little world.
"What?" says Buffy.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, just thinking."
"Thinking of what?" asks Xander, curious.
"Oh, just this one time I went on vacation with my girlfriends. It was before high school and we stopped at this gas station. We were just entering Roswell."
"Hey, isn't that the place where they said aliens crash landed there a long time ago?"
"I guess."
"Aliens, now that's something new."
"Anyway, I was mugged. I didn't have my Slayer abilities then and a man stabbed me because I didn't have any money with me. Then out of nowhere comes this guy and I felt this surge go through my body. Before I knew it, my friends were helping me up, but he was gone and I was okay."
"Wow."
"I've never told this to anybody."
"Not even your mom?" says Willow.
"Nope, I knew she'd freak."
"Why are you thinking about it now?" asks Xander.
"I don't know. I guess I'm always thinking about it. Death is all around me and I almost died that night, again."
"Well, it's a good thing he was there to save you or we wouldn't have met, and Willow and I would be dead."
"Nah, I'd come back from the dead and save you guys." The three laugh at where their strange conversation is going. "Well, we better go." Buffy looks straight toward the front steps of the school and sees a familiar guy. She pushes Xander aside and starts to walk over to him. The guy sees her as well and approaches her.
"I thought I'd never see you again," says Buffy surprise to see the young guy who had saved her life three years ago. "Who are you?"
"Max. Max Evans," says Max. "Can we talk in private?"
Xander and Willow see Buffy talking to a guy they don't know. They are surprised that Buffy doesn't come over and introduce the guy to them. Xander is not happy about it.
"Who is that?" asks Xander.
"I don't know," says Willow. "I guess Buffy knows him."
"Duh, Wills." Xander glares at the guy.
"Are you jealous?"
"No. I just don't like the guy."
"Oh, well, that's being jealous." Willow pats Xander on the shoulder, then turns to head inside. Xander grabs his bag and follows her in.
