"HOPE"

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Joss, Mutant Enemy, WB, UPN, and all the others involved with Buffy do...

I don't...at all....don't sue!! lol I'm only

14 anyway, you won't get anything...

Author's note: This is my first story ever on fanfiction and im not really sure

where to go from here. Sorry the chapter is so short, i just wanted to see if

it was even remotely good enough to continue.

And I know the title is named hope, but...well I'm not sure if the story is

really gonna be about the girl named hope in this story,

as much as it is meaning actual hope in something....

I would absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE for you to R&R it would totally and completely

make my day. And just so ya know, I like suggestions,advice, and help with this more

than I do you saying you like it (not that that would hurt of course :D :D :D still

very appreciated.)

I'm really new to this,so honestly, i could use all the help that i could get. I'm 14

so be nice :-p I mean I know there will be grammatical,punctual,formatting,etc. errors. But I

tried to fix as many as I could. Okay den, well here it is! No flames PLEASE but

advice and such is LOVED. Thanks!!!!!

*Munkie*

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She walked across the floor and through the sheet. Walls covered in grunge, rotten food

from past meals, possibly months ago, dark shadows, and muck covered furniture, is

what Buffy found as she made her way across the room. Screams could be heard from a

close distance but weren't any different from ones she had heard millions of times before.

"Your mom didn't really stress the whole 'house-keeping' thing when you

were...all soul-filled and bright eyed huh?"

The dingy vampire turned around and headed for Buffy, leaving his, so far, unharmed prey

forgotten, throwing her to the floor, now concentrating on the slayer in front of him.

"You know, not so much a turn on for girls, the whole 'muck and grime' feel, but hey, who

am I to judge?"

Seeing her weapons, and humored face in the whole matter, he ran away, not looking

back.

"Wow, havn't seen one of those in a while. They normally fight a little at least."

Buffy looked at the girl still frightened laying up against the wall on the floor.

"W"Wow, fun for me tonight! I'm tellin' ya!" said Buffy sarcastically.

Buffy walked out of some of the shadows, so she could see the girl. She knelt down to see

hohow she was.

"You okay? He hadn't hurt you had he?" Buffy sighed, looking in the

direction the vamp had ran. "Alright then, lets get you home. Could you tell me where

you live? I mean i could guess, It'd be fun, but....your mom would be worried by then, and

we don't want that."

The small girl, no more that 9 years old looked up at her and smiled sweetly, "I don't have a mother."

Buffy's eye's widened. "Oh....I-...I'm..I'm so sorry, I didn't reali-"

"No, It's alright. Lots of people have done that. I live with my foster Daddy about a block from here."

Buffy helped the girl up and dusted her off. "Well okay then. Let's get a move on. Don't want him to be worried...

Oh, and please could you not tell them about what happened...I...it's just...that you kn--"

"Yeah, no problem. So, what's your name?" She asked as they walked down the sidwalk towards her home.

"Buffy," she answered.

The girl chuckled a little bit, "I like your name, mine's Hope," she stated as she smiled at Buffy.

"Well, we're here, okay well I'll see you around Buffy. Thanks lot's for what you did for me."

"No problem. You sure your gonna be OK?" Hope nodded and smiled back up at her.

"Alright. See ya Hope." Hope waved and walked up to her door, greeted by her foster father's

hugs.

Buffy smiled and walked off into the fog, walking pointedly down certain roads,

finishing up the patrolling for the night.

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Well, there it is.... tell me what you think PLEASE and i would absolutely adore

if you gave me some advice and suggestions on this...I'd be SO happy....

it would COMPLETELY make my day.

No ones ever really helped me with writing before...ever...lol.

So I'd be soooo happy if you did.

THANKSSSSS!

*Munkie*