"Buffy, we came as fast as we could!" The collective Slayers, and slayerettes, looked up and over at the man sliding down the rope from the hellicopter dropping him off. Several others were lading not too far away, kicking up dust and creating a mess. The army... specifically, the no-longer-existing Initiative. Riley and his wife ran over to help support Buffy and the injured from the battle. "What was the explosion?"
"No big. Just closin' the hellmouth." She smiled up at him, as his wife, a little dizzy from the bloodloss. That stab-wound was taking a lot out of her, even with Slayer healing.
"Um... Buffy..." Willow's worried voice rang out, and she and the soldiers looked over at the giant crater. In its depths, at the very center, a large black hole resided, from which there looked to be... things... crawling out.
"Fuck! It didn't work!" Faith signalled the Slayers still able to fight forward. Riley was surprised at her presence, but to his credit, only yelled back the order for his troops to give them support.
"Or... we didn't..." Buffy groaned, struggling to stand and push him away. He let her, barely, but now wasn't the time for weakness. She grabbed a sword from their supplies, and joined the clumsy advance down into the crater's belly.
TBC throws in the BtVS theme music
Welcome all, to yet another BtVS fanfic. "In Love and War..." starts EXACTLY post-Chosen. Minor differences being that Anya didn't die, Wood did, and they'd attempted to call the army in for reinforcements. Cause hey, Riley's still hunting demons with his hottie wife, there've gotta be others that can help in his troops, right?
Well, they got there a little late, but at least these folks were able to help them turn the tide of the first advance from the hellmouth.
The first official chapter is on its way, set a bit in the future, so stay tuned. As well, this is F/F, big surprise (that's pretty much all I write). So if you don't like that, and were fool enough to not only ignore the warning inits summary, click on it, and start reading, you might as well back out now before you get offended.
Also, for those of you readers going: But Joss has those season 8 comics out now!
Well, hey, it's AU. I said it's AU. So get over it, hey?