Authors note: I do not own Buffy or any of the characters, I just like to play with them for awhile. Also this has not been checked over by anyone else so let me know if you find mistakes and I will look to fix them. This is my fist piece of fanfic and I have no real time to do much so expect any updates to happen in the distant future expect for parts of the story that are already prewritten, sorry that is just the way it is. Any and all reviews would be most appreciated though.
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In a town called Sunnydale in southern California somewhere close to LA a school called UC Sunnydale is located there. Some would think this is a normal campus with normal students, but they would be mistaken. Sunnydale is no ordinary town and UC Sunnydale is by far no ordinary university. For one thing there are many strange occurrences there, a high missing persons rate, not to talk about the skyrocket worthy death rate that seems to surround the very city of Sunnydale.
One would think that Sunnydale being a college town there would be many clubs and other places to party into the wee hours of the morning. But alas only on club seems to be in operation, The Bronze, and even it closes from time to time due to remodeling. For some reason they tend to remodel a lot and are not able to keep insurance companies for very long. At least they have live bands, however even that is strange; never do the two top bands play around a full moon.
Then again some think Sunnydale is synonymous with strange. Some like to remember the high school as an excellent example, the last two principles were eaten and the high school itself was blown up on graduation day and that is just the start of the weird rumors what went on there.
Some think the last class to graduate was responsible for the explosion, something about having had the lowest death rate in the history of the school up until then, so they wanted to go out with a bang. However, nobody ever got the full story from the class, just some weird story about a giant snake that ate the principle and who knows what they were doing with all those weapons. It is hard to believe that they all had flamethrowers, battle axes, crossbows, and a ton of stakes. The police really doubted they were going to do a reenactment as part of the graduation program.
But then again there were always weird attacks by the people who were malformed in the face at night and strange animals. And that is not counting the several possession accounts; they really start to add up after a couple of years. Of course, mass killing wasn't totally devoid, take the cafeteria lady; there was definite evidence that she was going to kill the student body with rat poison. She was stopped of course, however that is where another twist in this little story comes in, a young blonde suspected trouble maker seems to be the one that subdued her after the cafeteria lady tried to kill the blonde's friend.
This really shouldn't stick out as ordinary but to get the correct perspective the reader must realize that in almost every strange incident that has happened in Sunnydale for the last couple of years, that blonde, with her friends and for some reason the school librarian was always present.
Some would take this to mean that she really was a trouble maker and definitely had a hand in the events that took place, but the student body had other ideas. At her homecoming Dance they made her a special award and gave it to her naming her the class protector.
Apparently she was credited with saving people from hyena people, wolf like creatures, that gang with the deformed facial features multiple times, the cafeteria lady, the substitute biology teacher and countless others. Her teachers never seem to remember her but that may be due to the numerous sightings of her outside class, most of which occurred in the school library.
All of these strange accounts might seem abnormal to the average person, but to the citizens of Sunnydale all of this is normal, even to the point that everyone budgets would seem to include a fund for incidentals, like damage from random fights, vandalism, and spending a night or two in the hospital form animal attacks.
This brings us to Sunnydale General Hospital, apparently the facilitator to Sunnydale's numerous cemeteries but we will get to that in a moment. The hospital which seems to be either full of people with these really common bite marks on their necks or seemingly empty from the numerous missing people from the morgue, there has even been thought to be a collation between the people missing and those that have shown up dead as a result of blood loss and with those very puncture wounds.
It seems at one point or another everyone in the town has had a little visit to that hospital, even our blonde friend. She also seemed to suffer from those rather common puncture wounds, but she recovered quickly almost too quickly thought the doctors. However, her visit did not happen without the hint of trouble, a doctor was questioned about the methods he was using while doing testing on children, Another of her visits was noted by a nurse when she came to visit a small boy who was a coma patient who just happened to wake up during her visit.
This girl tends to pop up everywhere when one starts digging into the weird happenings of SunnyD, as some citizens call it. Which brings to attention another place of interest, the local cemetery, or should it be said cemeteries. For another quirky little thing about Sunnydale, it has a large number of cemeteries, speculated to be at least ten of them in the city limits. And guess who is spotted taking a midnight, or later, stroll through the numerous cemeteries every single night, that's right our little friend the blonde.
Perhaps we should take a closer look at this particular blonde to get a better idea of what goes on in the little town of Sunnydale. The name heard most often in reference to this blonde is Buffy, some shorten it to Buff or B, however some call her by a very strange nickname, the slayer.
We have tried to figure out where the nickname came from, but one thing is for certain when asked about the slayer in particular bars, people seem to shrink away in fear, oddly it's the paler skinned citizens that have that reaction.
From the information that has been gathered on Buffy, the supposed trouble maker, had in fact given her principle a multitude of evidence since to begin with, she was in fact kicked out of her old high school due to supposedly burning down the gym. She was in fact kicked out of Sunnydale High due to being a suspect in a murder that happened in the library of all places. Her records show that that had not been the first suspicion of murder either, taking care of her mothers boyfriend after a supposed attack was added, however there was some doubt about whether or not he really died.
These suspicious activities start to add up after awhile, from the fighting to the late night strolls through the local graveyards, it makes one wonder whether or not there is more to Sunnydale than meets the eye. Well for now reader it is not for us to know but keep watch for the next issue, when we take an even closer look in what appear to be a closer look into the strange life of this particular blonde teenager."
Buffy continues to reread the article in a shocked state. Her thoughts keep racing, how did this happen, Willy is so dead, how did the reporter not see one vampire in their true form while they were here and when the heck did I start doing Willow babble in my thoughts.
"You know they are getting close to your secret B. What happens when they figure it out?" murmurs Faith.
"I will do what I always do when someone gets too close, bluff my way out of it. Why do you care so much anyway?" replied back Buffy.
"It's not only your life that's affected with all this, it's you, me, and all your Scooby pals," stated Faith. "They will be in shock to say the least."
"Why the heck would they be shocked, don't they know me, by now they definitely should. I think Willow would understand over all of them though," Buffy says over her shoulder as she starts to walk away.
"You should at least really tell them first, before they find out by themselves, that would really hurt Xander," Faith yells at Buffy's retreating form.
Suddenly, Buffy sits up in her bed. She looks around frantically and realizes she is in her dorm room. Seeing that Willow's bed is empty and glancing at her clock she figures she must have slept late and Willow is already at class.
"I really have to stop dreaming about Faith, they are way worse then slayer dreams. Okay so I have been asleep so no way could that article have really happened at least, cool wake up late I woke up late but are already counting the positives," Buffy murmurs to herself.
Getting out of bed, she starts getting ready for the day. Looking at clock again she realizes she has to really hurry or she will be late for her psychology class.
As Buffy walked to class she thought about the various dreams she had shared with Faith since Faith went into the coma. At first the conversations were very abstract then they became more personal. They had talked about what had happened and why. Some personal feelings had come out and they were slowly working through those. Finally they had come to an understanding, but Buffy didn't know whether or not that Faith will remember anything when or if she wakes up.
The latest dream was slightly puzzling though, obviously the article didn't really happen so what could her friends find out about that they didn't already know. Maybe it ahs something to do with the dreams her and the dark slayer have been sharing.
After calls, Buffy and Willow headed over to Giles to see if there had been any new words about those mysterious commandos that keep popping up. Willow seemed like she was slightly more together then the night before, at least in the sense that she wasn't breaking down and crying every couple of minutes.
Buffy knew Will had a long way to go and she hoped the hacker would come to her before she did anything rash. Looking back at her own experiences, getting drunk, she had definite hope that Willow didn't follow her example in coping, especially the time that Buffy ran away a couple of years ago.
"Well that was a complete was of time," complained Anya as they group left Giles place.
"Hey c'mon Anya, meetings are very important, besides we really need to know what's up with those commando guys," replied Xander. "Unfortunately we know nothing and therefore had a meeting that stated we know nothing, but I got a doughnut so all is good in the world."
"Xander has a doughnut so all is good, yeah that was the only reason we had the meeting so Xander could be feed," says Buffy as her and Willow part from Xander and Anya to head back to their dorm room.
Willow stays out of the conversation, her thoughts are too occupied by a certain werewolf to deal with the importance of any meetings, especially ones that she had barely paid attention to, to begin with. The thoughts of why Oz left her keep circling in her mind, not wanting to leave her alone. She just didn't understand how he could have left her if he really loved her.
As they near their dorm, Buffy tries to get Willow's attention but she seemed to be in her own world. Oh well I will leave her be, thought the slayer, it's a good thing I don't have to go on patrol tonight since the vamp action ahs been toned down somewhat lately.
"Hey Will, do you want to do anything tonight?" Buffy asks as they enter their room. "I have no slayage requirement so I'm all with the freeness."
"No that's okay, I have some homework I want to get done," replied the hacker quietly as she glanced at the pile of books on her desk. "I really should have done it last night but with everything else that did happen it didn't happen."
"Okay I guess I can do some homework for once," Buffy said as she digs through her own school bag. "Hey maybe the low population of vamps will help in a higher population of good grades for me." As she looks closer at her assignments the slayer mumbles, "Or maybe not."
As they went to sleep that night both were preoccupied with thoughts of people they were unlikely to see soon, Willow's mind was still circulating that tired line and Buffy was concentrated on what could she be hiding from her friends that she wasn't aware of.
"B, ya know don't you that your great life right now will fall though like it always does right?" questions Faith as she peer at Buffy.
They are walking through a graveyard but there doesn't seem to be much action for either of them at that moment. Buffy looks very focused on thinking about something.
"Faith what don't they know about?" says Buffy, clearly avoiding the original question.
Sighing, Faith turns around and looks at Buffy. "They don't know about our feelings do they?" asks Faith in an attempt for Buffy to see things more clearly.
"Well of course they don't know about what exactly went on between us last year, I mean how can they? Everyone still thinks I am hung up on Angel," Buffy replies. "However, I am fairly sure Will thinks there was more going on then met the eye, but still."
"They don't know about these dreams, do they?" Faith questions her. "They have no clue what goes on in your mind, most likely there are some ideas that would definitely shock them. Well Xander might get off on some of it but still it will definitely come out as a shock to them."
Buffy looks hard at Faith, "You think you know everything huh?" she questions smiling the entire time.
"Well you do have to admit I had a lot of time to observe you guys with you all not inviting me places and stuff and now what do I do, sit around and think all day. I have to say though, B, these dreams with you are better then the ones I have with the mayor. Definitely got a better view looking at you."