Supernatural

What if Jesse never died during season one of Buffy and accompanied Xander on his roadtrip. While on the road they embark on the journey of a life time.

A/N If you have any questions on what was different in the seasons before this with the inclusion of Jesse just ask. This fic is also rated T for now, but as the story develops it might change to M. Also this story is loosely based off the tv show Supernatural on the WB.

Prologue

"And why are you collecting guns again?" Xander asked Jesse as they finally pulled out of Oxnard and off onto the open road in his classic blue 57' Chevy. They had just spent two hours at an auction house, just for him to buy a certain gun that he wanted.

"Come on man." Jesse replied with a grin as he spun the revolving chamber on his silver 1898 revolver. He was glad to finally be on this trip with his best bud, because they planned it every since they were little kids and he had saved alot of money from odd jobs. But to finally be out there on the open road was exciting, because when Buffy came into their lives he didn't really think that they would have survived long enough to make the trip. "Everybody needs a hobby."

"Somehow, the image of you with guns doesn't sound like much of a hobby."

"Ha ha." Jesse mock chided. "This thing isn't even loaded, so what are you worrying about?"

"I wasn't really worrying about that." Xander admitted as he lowered the top on the convertible down. Letting out a deep sigh, he let the whipping wind blow through his hair and the warm californian sun beam down on his face before he spoke again. "I was just thinking about what you said to me earlier."

Jesse stopped spinning the revolving chamber on the gun and stared over at his best bud for a second. He noted how, for the first time he had known him, how serious Xander seemed and he put a smile on his face.

"So you agree with me then?"

"I never said that. I just said I was thinking about what you said."

"Come on Xander, what's the point of going back to Sunnydale?" Jesse asked, more then a little agitated. "We've graduated now and Buffy has made it clear time and time again that she doesn't need us."

"But she has needed us." Xander argued, not noticing that the sun had faded away only to be replaced by dark clouds and a low rumbling in the distance. "Remember the zombies during the time the sisterhood of Jhe was here or during graduation when we defeated the mayor. Who else could've done those things?"

"Somebody would've been there man. Somehow fate always has somebody there to stop those kinds of things from happening."

"Who says that somebody wasn't supposed to be us?" Xander asked as he turned to look at him. "What would've happened to Sunnydale or maybe even the whole world if we weren't there to stop those things?"

"I'm just tired of...I'm tired of being the man on the sidelines. The man that the spotlight doesn't shine on." Jesse admitted as he ran a frustrated hand through his shaggy spiked hair. "And come on man I know you feel the same way? I know that you felt like just leaving Sunnydale behind and starting a new life somewhere else."

Xander looked at him hard, caught. He had felt that way many times. Partly because of his parents abuse over the years and then when his friends tried to push the both of them out of the "good fight". Before he could come up with a convincing lie to tell him, the heavens opened up and it started raining in heavy sheets, drenching them both.

"Ahh man!" Xander yelled out as he struggled to let up the top of the car. At the same time Jesse rolled up his window. Once Xander had finished, he took his eyes off the road and reached in the back seat for a towel to dry himself off with.

"Xander watch out!" Jesse yelled out.

Whipping back around Xander took the wheel and nearly swerved off the road trying to avoid whatever Jesse had seen. Getting control back over the car, he stopped it with a screeching halt in the middle of the road. Breathing heavily, he glanced over at Jesse with a questioning look.

"You almost hit someone." and looking in his rear view mirror, Xander sure enough saw someone with a jacket draped over their head walking slowly on the side of the road. "Come on man, let's go back and pick them up."

Xander shot him an increduous look, thinking about all of the things he had heard about picking up hitch hikers, but looking back in his rear view mirror he noted that it was a girl wearing a long sequenced white dress. Forever the white knight, he shifted the car in reverse and pulled up beside her.

"Hey you need a ride?" Jesse asked as he rolled down the window. To his surprise the girl didn't look up at him, but just kept walking, even as Xander kept a sturdy pace beside her. Looking the girl over again, but still not seeing her face Jesse saw that she had long flowing black hair and that she had a red Shadow Valley High football jacket draped over her head.

'Shadow Valley High?' Jesse thought to himself. He had seen their football team in action and knew exactly the area where she lived. "Hey we're actually not that far from Woodbridge. We could give you a ride?"

"Really?" she asked as she finally stopped and looked up at them. Jesse was about to tell Xander to drive off when he saw the girls face because she had a striking resemblance to the rouge slayer Faith. Calming down after noticing that it wasn't her, he looked deep into her piercing brown eyes and saw a sadness to them. Upon taking an even closer look he saw that she had been crying recently because of her red eyes and tear stained angelic face.

"Yeah, we'll give you a ride." Jesse told her nervously, before turning to Xander. "Right Xand?" after nodding his head, Jesse got out of the car and got in the back seat letting her in the front.

"So what's your name?" Jesse immediately asked as Xander put the car in drive and started to pull off.

"My...my name is Jaime." the mystery girl told them both as she dropped her jacket to the floor and started to shiver. Seeing that she was dripping wet and shivering Xander cut on the car's heater. Sending him a grateful smile, she rubbed her hands on her arms to keep warm.

"Well Jaime, my name is Jesse and this is my best bud Xander." Jesse properly introduced everyone. "So do you mind telling us why you were walking by yourself in the middle of the road?"

Xander was about to shoot him a look for being so blunt, but honestly he wanted to know the answer to that himself.

"Me and my boyfriend Josh had an argument and he made me get out of the car and told me to walk home." Looking at her out of the corner of his eye Xander saw how calm she seemed when she said that and it unnerved him.

He knew that she was telling them the truth, but he idly wondered how much abuse she put up with from her boyfriend that made her talk about it as if it were nothing.

"And he didn't even come back for you when it started raining?" Jesse asked getting worked up. "God what a jerk!"

"That's not even the half of it." Jaime stated bitterly with a sad smile. And for the next half an hour she went on to tell them a little about her life and that she had just come from a formal dance in L.A. and he had dogged her out and dumped her in front of his friends.

He still promised to take her home, but after getting a certain distance from the party he had made her get out in the middle of the street. After that the group sat in silence, only with Jaime occasionally giving Xander directions.

"Take a left down this dirt road and stop." she suddenly told Xander. As they saw a cememtery coming into view Xander immediately felt a cold chill whip in the air. One that chilled him to the core of his soul.

"I'll gladly take you home." Xander informed her as he stopped in front of the dark and gloomy looking cemetery. Jaime was beautiful and nice and all but there was just something strange about her. Something strange that Xander couldn't put his finger on. "Really it isn't a problem."

"That's alright, I don't live far from here." she told them as she opened her door. "Thank the both of you for the ride and for the talk." she said as she leaned over and kissed Xander on the cheek before grabbing her jacket and getting out of the car.

Glad that it had stopped raining and that her jacket was dry, she gave both of them a friendly smile and a wave before walking into the darkness of the cemetery.

"Okay man, that was wierd." Jesse said as he got back in the front seat.

"Tell me about it." Xander replied as he put his hand on the cheek where she had kissed him. Her lips were so cold, as if someone dead had kissed him. He knew that she wasn't a vampire because she was walking in the daylight...'I'm just being paranoid.' he thought to himself. 'Jaime's a nice sweet girl and she was just cold.'

"Do you think we should follow her?" Jesse suddenly asked, snapping Xander out of his reverie. "You know, to make sure no vampires snack on her."

Before Xander could answer, Jesse's foot brushed up against something, making a jingling noise. Looking down he saw that it was a small silver heart necklace on the floor.

"Jaime must've dropped this." Jesse figured as he picked it up and opened his door. "I'll be right back, I should be able to still catch up with her."

Taking off into the night in chase of Jaime, he saw a hint of a white dress going over a hill.

"Hey Jaime, wait up!" Jesse yelled out as he picked up his speed to catch up with her. "You dropped this." he knew that she had heard him, because she turned around and smiled at him, before walking behind a tree.

As Jesse finally made it up the hill and looked around he found that his new friend was gone. He was about to call her name when his gaze fell upon a grave marker beside the tree. He immediately froze in place, because as the moonlight shone on it, in an almost heavenly glow, he saw that it had the name Jaime Mercer on it. The same name as his friend. He was about to dismiss it as being a coincidence until he saw two more things.

One, there was a picture of Jaime on the grave marker and two her red Shadow Valley High jacket was neatly folded on top of it. With nerveless fingers, Jesse picked up the jacket and ran back towards the car. He had to let Xander know what he had found.

A/N As this story develops more, there will be some crossovers with a few horror movies.

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