Necropolis Chapter 1: Prologue, a buffy: the vampire slayer fanfic

This work takes alot from the Buffy season eight comics, along with the Angel and Faith series. Buffy season nine is largely ignored because this writer is not a fan. If you haven't read the comics, you can still read this ( and please do) you just need to know a few things.

1. Angel got possessed by an evil entity called Twilight ( insert giggles here)
2. This lead to him and Buffy having sex, alot, like an entire issue full of it. Not a joke. They did it in space.
3. Twilight Angel killed Giles
4. Faith and Angel went on a quest to bring Giles back...
5. They succeeded , with the Help of Giles's hilarious( and eternally young) Aunts but...
6. Giles returned in the body of his teenage self.
7. Harmony got a reality show in which she outed the existence of vampires and slayers to the general public.
8. Early in season 9 Buffy had a pregnancy scare.
9. Dracula made several reapperances, helping Buffy and still being all up on Xander
10. Dawn and Xander hooked up. As in dating.
11. Faith denies it, but Giles's aunts were convinced that her and Giles had a fling.
(Anything else can be found here wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_Season_Eight
and here wiki/Angel_%26_Faith)This work takes alot from the Buffy season eight comics, along with the Angel and Faith series. Buffy season nine is largely ignored because this writer is not a fan. If you haven't read the comics, you can still read this ( and please do) you just need to know a few things.

London, England 2034

"To Giles." Aiden said, clinking his glass against Liam's. "To Anne." he countered, raising the glass to his lips. There was a pause as he felt the slow burn in his throat. "God, I hate London." Aiden's eyes shifted over. "That's not surprising I mean, considering. " Liam said nothing for several minutes, and when he did, it was so soft that, if it weren't for his enhanced hearing, Aiden wouldn't have caught. "She would have loved this place. Hole in the wall, questionable clientele...it would be right up her ally."

He stared morosely at his empty glass and signaled the bartender for another. "You know I always thought that when one of us died, the other one would know it, you know. You hear all these stories about twins and how they are so in tune and considering our parents you would think that we would've- you know, when we were little if one of us so much as got a scratch the other would bruise? I couldn't stub my toe without her knowing it and yet she could just go and...fuck." He downed another shot. "I knew she was hurting , I knew-knew she wanted to do something but if I thought for one minute she was going to go after them on her own I would have never, never left her here."

The conversation wasn't a new one. In the early days after the death of his sister, Liam had ranted angrily by day at the sister who had left them, who had willfully put herself in harms way, who had stupidly gotten killed. The nights were a different story, one in which he begged for some sort of absolution, the knowledge that there was nothing he could have done differently , nothing that would have kept her alive. Nights like this made Aiden think that there was a part of Liam that still held himself accountable for his sister's death.

He wasn't.

"I know." Aiden laid a hand on the other man's shoulder. "None of us knew." "I should have. " With his shoulder's hunched and his eyes turning the shade of amber that betrayed his vampire heritage, Liam, Aiden thought, never looked more like his father.

Aiden hated it.

Angel had lived centuries to earn the haunted look that marred his handsome features. Liam was barely twenty-four. Aiden reached up a hand to stroke his cheek. "C'mon, if we're lucky maybe we'll find an unregistered Syn Demon running around,they're fairly common around here and I know they're your brunette nodded wordlessly and stood up, leaving a wad of cash on the counter.
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"As we approach the twenty- fifth anniversary of The Great Revelation, we mourn the passing of one who was at the frontlines. Rupert Giles , the watcher of the Last traditionally called Slayer, Buffy Summers, died in his home yesterday at the age of-"
AJ flipped off the television and absentmindedly rolled the stem of her wine glass between her fingers. The mixture of blood and wine would be seen as disgusting to those of the human variety but, she hadn't been human in a very long time. "Are you certain they were the ones who did it?" Dracula's voice broke through her reverie. "I mean, he wasn't exactly in the safest line of work." His tone patronizing, "and watchers aren't particularly high on the list of targets for-" "They would have considered him an enabler." Drusillia interrupted. "His Slayer was the first one to get involved with a campire, and Buffy was the indirect cause of our existe being discovered in the first place. Buffy's dead, her daugher's dead, and Angel and her son are too far undergroundfor them to touch. With the twenty -five year mark of the 'Great Revelation' coming up in wouldn't surprise me in the least if they killed him as some form of sick anniversary marker."

"Or to draw out the real target." Spike raised his head. "Look, all I'm saying is...Rupert was important to all the members of Buffy's little Scooby Gang, and their families. I guarantee you that if foul play is so much as hinted at Angel, his son , and anyone who is left of the old gang will be making their way here, all at once, just in time to commemorate the event." There was a pause. "It is... elegant, " Drusillia agreed, "Gives them a chance to off every big player off their list in one swoop, especially considering-" "That you three are already here?" AJ finished, the conversation finally turning to the part she'd been waiting for. "Each of you were connected to Buffy, it stands to reason that you're on their hit list. Some of you, " she eyed Spike wearily "more than others."

"We still don't have proof that his death was anything more than typical demon violence , and you're all talking as though there is a conspiracy-" AJ slid a file across to stop Dracula's retort. "Rupert Giles's autopsy report. " She said flatly. "we got it this morning, if you'll turn to page three, I think you find that his death wasn't some vicious attack. Thus was cleaned, mehtodical, and they left their calling card."

Dracula's expression didn't change, but his tone. "Where did you get this?" AJ shared a guilty look with Spike. "It was..." "Faith," Spike answered, "She brought it by here this morning." Dracula's eyes raised in surprise. "The other slayer I didn't realize the two of you still kept in touch." " We hadn't a while but-" "Then why come to you with this?" "Because, she knew we'd do what ever it took to avenge him." AJ interrupted. "Angel might be good at tracking down the bad guys but, when it comes to humans, guy wouldn't even kill the guy who took out his own wife. She knows the rest of us aren't quite as ...forgiving."Her eyes flicked to the report. "Still having doubts as to who killed him?" Dracula shook his head. "The Brotherhood's resurfaced." AJ nodded. "So the question now is, what are we going to do about it?"