In this story my character Cora is Buffy's sister. I'll be following the TV series by episode. Not word by word, and the plotlines might be a bit different to fit my character in, I also might make a few storylines up. If you don't like then please don't read. Other than that, I hope you enjoy, and comment!
My name is Cora Summers. I'm 15 years old, and a freshman this year. I have an older sister, Buffy, who is 16, and my mom, Joyce. My parents are divorced. Anyways, Buffy, me, and my mom, just moved to Sunnydale California from Los Angeles, mainly because my sister burnt down the gym at her old high school. Mom thought it was because she was involved in the wrong crowd, but I knew the truth, Buffy is a vampire slayer. She only burnt down the gym because it was full of vampires, although, she could've thought of a better way to deal with it.
This morning is our first day of school. I woke up first. Buffy's room was right next to mine. I knocked on it. "Hey Buffy… Wake up." I said with a yawn. She didn't answer. "Buffy!" I called a bit louder and opened the door. She was tossing and turning. I went over and shook her. "Argh!" She screamed and jolted up. I was taken aback.
"Watch it!" I told her impatiently. "It's time for school." She groaned.
"Ugh, I don't want to go to school." She moaned. I rolled my eyes.
"Neither do I." I told her. She glared.
"You're not the one that burnt down the gym." She muttered. I raised an eyebrow.
"That's true, but you did… People will be just as cautious around me as they will around you… Since we're sisters." I stated.
"As if I'd let you hang out with me." She smirked. I frowned.
"Why?" I asked her. She bit her lip.
"I was kidding." She murmured. With that she got up and we went downstairs to eat. I just had toast, then mom drove us to school.
"Well here we are girls." She said stopping in front of the building. "Think positive." She told Buffy. "Just don't get caught up in the wrong group again, and everything will be just fine…" She said. Then she looked at both of us. "And look out for each other." She added. I nodded. Buffy rolled her eyes.
"No problem mom, I'll look after my baby sister." She said in a fake tone. I glared at her. Mom just sighed.
"I'll see you two after school." She said. I gave her a hug and kiss goodbye. So did Buffy.
Then we got out. We walked into the crowded school. "Where do we go?" I asked her confused.
"The office." She said. I rolled my eyes.
"Where is the office?" I asked. She turned to face me.
"I don't know. I'm new here too." She said sarcastically. I looked around. Then I saw a door that said "Office" on it.
"I found it." I said gesturing for her to follow. We walked into the office. "How may I help you two girls?" The secretary asked peering over her glasses at us.
I opened my mouth to talk, but Buffy elbowed me.
"Uhm, hi. I'm Buffy Summers and this is my sister Cora." She said. "We're new here." She told her. The secretary nodded.
"Ah, right… The principal is waiting for you." She said. We smiled and thanked her. Then we walked into the principal's office.
"Sit down girls." The principal said. "I am Principal Flutie." He introduced himself, sounding quite proud. As we sat down we introduced ourselves.
"Well I wanted to inform you, Buffy, Cora, that no matter what happened at whatever school you attended previously, it doesn't matter to us, you start with a clean slate, and we do not judge whatso-" He stopped, he was looking through the papers. "YOU BURNT DOWN YOUR GYMNASIUM!?" He said all of a sudden. I jumped.
"Actually, that was her." I said, nodding to Buffy. She glared at me.
"Principal Flutie…" Buffy began. He stopped her.
"Everyone is free to call me Bob." He said.
She started over, "Bob…" She began again.
"But they don't." He said. She bit her lip, getting annoyed.
"You don't understand, that gym was full of vampi-" I elbowed her. She cleared her throat, "Asbestos." She said quickly. He raised an eyebrow and looked at me. I shrugged.
"No clue." I mouthed to him. He shook his head.
"Right, well, as I was saying… This… Doesn't matter, you have a clean slate… Now let's try to keep it that way, shall we?" He asked. I nodded, as did Buffy.
"Great, now here are your schedules." He handed each of us a sheet of paper. We have 7 class periods a day.
My first hour was Math, 2nd, English, 3rd, History, 4th, Science, Lunch, 5th, PE, 6th Art, and 7th, shop. I had PE, Art, and Science with Buffy.
"Thank you Mr. Flutie." I said and stood up. Buffy did the same, and then we went out of the office, as we were heading out Buffy ran into some girl, and dropped everything out of her bag.
"Watch it." The girl said and kept walking. I glared.
"Snob." I muttered, we leant down to pick up the stuff.
Then out of nowhere a boy appeared, he was kind of cute, "Let me help you with that." He said to buffy. She smiled at him, "Thanks." She said. He smiled.
"I'm Xander." He told her. She smiled.
"Oh, uh, I'm Buffy Summers." She said shaking his head, "And this is my sister, Cora." She said gesturing to me. I nodded at him and smiled.
"Nice to meet you." I said. He smiled at both of us.
"You too." Xander blushed.
"So what brings you here?" He said turning his attention back to Buffy. He face palmed, "School… Duh." He answered his own question. "Sorry." He muttered, embarrassed. She laughed and said it was okay.
"Uh, Buffy… I'm gonna head to class." I told her. She nodded and waved me on. "Okay then. Good luck to you too." I said walking away.
Then her and Xander kept on talking. As I was walking, I walked into a girl, she was really popular and very pretty.
"Sorry." I said and went to walk around her.
She held out her arm, "You're new aren't you? Well, let me tell you, there are some rules here at Sunnydale. What I say goes. I'm Cordelia Chase, pretty much the ruler of this school." She said superiorly. Then she shoved me, "Go hang out with that loser over there." She said, pointing to a girl with long red hair, the girl looked rather dorky. I didn't care though. "You should fit right in with her." She said in a fake sweet tone. I glared. "Fine…" I muttered and walked away towards the red head.
"Uhm… hey." I said to her shyly. She looked up from the book she was reading, we were in the hallway, apparently classes hadn't started yet.
"Oh, hi." She said nervously.
"I'm Cora." I introduced myself, "Cora Summers. I'm new." I said. She smiled. "Oh, that's cool." She said. We talked a little bit longer, I found out she was in Buffy's grade. I was happy, it seemed I had made a friend. She picked up her books. "I'm gonna head to class…" She said, it turned out we were both in the same math class. I was in sophomore math since I'm really good at math. "Wanna walk with me?" She asked kindly. I nodded and smiled.
"Sure." We headed off, she then stopped, "Gonna get a drink first." She told me and went to the water fountain. I stood there waiting. Just then Buffy and that girl named Cordelia walked over.
"Uhm, did I say you could drink that?" Cordelia asked. "Sorry." She turned to Buffy. "This school is full of losers. That one is new." She pointed to me, "And this one… This one needs to move." She said shoving Willow and knocking her books out of her hands. Buffy gasped and looked at me and Willow. I raised an eyebrow.
I wanted her to say something or to at least stand up for me. She didn't though, she just stood there. People laughed at me and Willow. "Let's go…" I muttered to Willow. With one last glare I turned and walked off with Willow.
"That one girl, the one next to Cordelia. That's my sister, Buffy." I told her. Willow raised her eyebrows.
"Really? You look nothing alike." She said. I had brown hair and I just wear t-shirts and jeans, no makeup. Buffy has pretty blonde hair; she wears makeup, and has really cute clothes. I laughed and shrugged.
"That never was my style." I told Willow as we went into the math classroom. Our teacher was boring, I didn't pay much attention to the lesson, all I know is we had 15 problems to work out and have turned in by tomorrow morning. The rest of the day went by slowly, I ignored Buffy in science class and sat by Willow, that Xander guy was also in there, he turned out to be a close friend of Willow's, but he went ahead and sat with Buffy. Then came lunch, Willow and I went through the line together. I grabbed a tray with pizza and a salad on it, she got a cheeseburger and fries. Then we each grabbed a juice and headed outside. We sat down and started eating. Suddenly Xander and another guy appeared.
"Oh." She said. "This is Xander and Jesse." She said introducing us. I smiled at them, and explained I already met Xander. Jesse grins.
"How do you like it here?" He asked, attempting to flirt. I shrugged, "It's okay I guess." I said. Xander elbowed Jesse.
"Keep it cool, man." He advised. They looked like they were buddies. Then Buffy came over. I glared and turned away from her.
"Uhm… Hi, guys… Can I sit here?" She asked. I said no, but the others looked at me strangely, and then I reluctantly agreed.
"Listen…" She began to say to Willow and me, "I'm sorry about what happened with Cordelia… She was just really nice…" She said, "To me at least." She added.
Willow said Cordelia's been torturing here since they were in 2nd grade. I told Buffy about what Cordelia said to me. Then Xander and Jesse all put in that she isn't nice to hang around. Although Jesse has an extreme crush on her. Then, speak of the devil, Cordelia walks on over. "Are these losers bothering you?" She asked Buffy.
"Uhm… No." Buffy said shaking her head, "And they're not losers, and that one loser… The new one." She said pointing to me, "Happens to be my sister." She said, so now she was standing up for me.
Cordelia rolled her eyes, "Yeah, whatever…" She said and changed the subject. "So, PE was canceled next hour she told us.
"Why?" Jesse asked.
"There's an extreme dead guy in one of the lockers." She explained.
"Eww." I said shuddering. The other all agreed, and then suddenly they all started talking at once.
The Buffy interrupted, "Where there marks on the body?" She asked. I raised an eyebrow.
"Buffy?" I asked her nervously. She ignored me.
Cordelia looked at Buffy strangely. "Uh, I don't know. I didn't ask." She said. She then added, "Look, either you hang out with me, or them." She said. Buffy nodded.
"Alright then… Them." She said. Cordelia glared.
"Maybe I was wrong about you, maybe you're a loser too." She said and walked away. I smiled at Buffy and the others started thanking her.
She brushed off our thank you's and grabbed my arm. "Let's go!" She said and pulled me. "Uh, Buffy." I started to say but she tugged.
"I'll see you guys later." I said to Xander, Jesse, and Willow. Then we left.
"Where are we going?" I asked her.
"To the locker room!" She said excitedly.
"What? Why?!" I asked.
"To look at the body." She said as if I should've known.
"Ugh… Why is it that my sister had to be the chosen one?" I muttered putting air quotes around chosen one. She turned around and looked at me.
"Stop whining." She ordered. "Let's go." She said and we went into the locker room. It was blocked off, but no one was watching, so we snuck in.
"There's the body!" She said walking over to it. I followed her. She pulled the cover off of the body. I cringed. I hate the sight of dead people. She looked around on the body, turns out that a vampire bit him. Or at least that's what Buffy thinks.
"Just as I thought." She muttered to me. She quickly explained that she had been in the library earlier and the creepy librarian had showed her a book entitled Vampyr. I nodded.
"Uh… okay?" I asked.
"That's a bit odd don't you think?" She asked me impatiently. I shrugged.
"Don't you use your brain?" She asked angrily. I glared.
"Yeah, but I'm not the chosen one." I said. "It's your problem not mine." I told her. Of course I didn't mean it, I would always be there for my sister. I was just getting tired of her always being mean to me, she seriously just treats me like a punching back.
"Mom said to look out for each other." She said quietly. I nodded.
"I know…" I muttered.
"Then let's try to get along, at least for mom." She said. I bit my lip and then nervously agreed.
"Alright, let's go." We went back to the library. Buffy did all the talking. The man that was the creepy librarian introduced himself as Rupert Giles, he told us to call him Giles.
"I am your watcher…" He explained to Buffy hastily, and told her that he was there to guide her and help her on her journey. Then Buffy had an outburst.
"I refuse to be The Slayer!" She said angrily. "I lost all my friends and got kicked out of my old school because of this stupid slayer thing." She said furiously.
Giles was unsure what to say.
"You don't really have a choice." He said nervously. She glared.
"Well can't it be someone else?" She pointed at me, "Why not her?" she asked. Giles shrugged.
"I don't know! Fate called you! Not your sister." He said sternly. Buffy rolled her eyes and put her hands behind her head, she was really stressed, I could tell.
Just then Xander appeared from behind a bookshelf. He looked pretty freaked out and tried to comprehend the fact that Buffy was a slayer.
"You can't tell anyone." Buffy said immediately. He put his hands up in defense of himself.
"I won't… I won't…" He said assuring her.
"So what do we do?" He asked then.
"We?" She said confused. "What do you mean we? It's not "we" it's I." She said matter-of-factly. I rolled my eyes.
"Buffy you can't really expect to do this on your own?" I asked her. She glared.
"Every other slayer has, so can I." She said bitterly.
"Maybe every other slayer didn't have someone who cared enough to help." I said hesitantly.
She looked at me, she knew she had been really mean to me in the past years, she would punch me, kick me, make fun of me, everything, but despite all of that I know she cares about me. "Thanks Cora." She said.
"You…" She said turning to Xander, "I can't put youin danger, it wouldn't be fair." She stated. "I think you should just go…" She said. He looked sad, and then reluctantly left.
"Now, if you'd excuse me, I'm going to go try and live a normal teenage life." She said to Giles. She walked out of the library without waiting for me. I looked at Giles apologetically.
"Sorry… she's in a mood." I said and then quickly went after her. The rest of the day went by and then it was the end, Buffy and I walked home.
"Let's go to the Bronze tonight…" Buffy stated as we got home and went into her room.
"The what?" I asked confused.
"It's like a club for teens, in town." She explained. "I can drive us." She said.
"Um, okay, sure…" I said. Then our mom walked in.
"How was school today girls?" She asked us. I smiled.
"Great." I said.
"Awesome." Buffy said. Mom smiled at us.
"That's good to hear." She said, then Buffy told her our plans.
"Oh, okay then, well, be back by midnight." She said smiling. "Have fun." She said and walked out. I went next door to my room and finished my math homework then Buffy barged in.
"Ever heard of knocking?" I asked her annoyed. She glared at me.
"Yeah yeah. It's time to go." She said, it was 7:00 PM. I nodded.
"Alright." We stopped by McDonald's on our way there. We both got a McChicken with French fries and a coke. I ate quickly.
"Pig." She teased me.
"I'm hungry." I said in defense of myself. She rolled her eyes. We parked at the Bronze in the parking lot and were about to go in when someone jumped down from the top of the building. Buffy pushed me aside and got ready to fight.
She kicked him and sent him flying backwards. She got out her stake, just in case.
"Woah, woah, woah." He said. "Chill." He said. "I'm here to warn you." He said, getting up, rubbing his back, he had been knocked against a metal dumpster.
"Warn me what?" Buffy hissed, still not letting her defenses down.
"About the hellmouth." He said seriously.
"The what?" Buffy asked, circling him.
"The hellmouth. There is one, right here, underneath Sunnydale. They barriers between our worlds are weak. Demons, vampires, and other creatures from hell are able to come into our world as much as they like." He explained. "That's what a hellmouth is. This one is about to open, it's almost time for the harvest, soon there will be a hoard of vampires here to feed. They'll take over, unless you help stop it." He said urgently.
"Why… why me?" She said looking up at the sky as if talking to God. "Fine, what can I do to stop it?" She said after a moment. He sighed and looked around.
"Take this." He said, giving her a large cross pendant. She took it and put it up.
"Thanks for your advise." She muttered to him. He smirked at her, and with that he disappeared.
"This place is so weird…" Buffy said to me.
"You're telling me, we came here to get away from this slayer stuff, but it seems to follow you." I said, she rolled her eyes.
"No kidding." She said. We went into the Bronze. "Hey, look, it's Willow." I said. I started to walk over to her.
"Hey Willow." I said smiling. She smiled back.
"Hey Cora, Hey Buffy." Buffy smiled at her too.
"Why are you sitting here alone?" Buffy asked, I shot her a glance that she promptly ignored.
"I don't know… guess I just don't have many friends." She shrugged.
"Well, you should seize this moment to go make some. Aside from us. Find yourself a guy, dance. You could be dead tomorrow." She said. I elbowed her.
"Buffy." I hissed. She elbowed me back harder; I decided not to push her buttons.
"Thanks, Buffy." Willow said nervously, about Buffy's advice. Then Buffy looked up, she nudged me to look up too. I saw she was staring at Giles.
"I'll be right back." She said to us.
"You don't have to come back." Willow said seriously. Buffy raised an eyebrow.
"I'll be back." She repeated, and went up to talk to Giles. I couldn't tell what they were saying, 5 minutes later, a guy came over and asked Willow to dance. She promptly accepted and grinned at me. I sighed.
I sat down and just looked around. Then another 5 minutes later Buffy came up, she grabbed my arm sharply.
"We have to go." She hissed at me.
"Why?" I asked.
"That guy, Willow left with. He's a vampire! Why'd you let her go with him?" She asked me furiously. I opened my eyes in horror.
"I-I didn't know, Buffy!" I said fearfully, afraid she was gonna snap out on me.
She rolled her eyes. "Well come on!" She said and pulled me, once again to the door.
As we exited a girl scared us, Buffy pulled out her stake and pinned the girl to the wall by her neck, it turned out to be Cordelia. Buffy gasped and put her down.
"Uh… I can explain!" Buffy said in shock. "Later!" She said, and we both ran.
"She may act evil, but I don't think she's a vampire." I muttered to Buffy. Buffy laughed.
"You've got that right." She said. I then said.
"She's going to tell everyone, you know that right? Our reputations are already going to be ruined." I said sadly.
"For once I wish I wasn't the kid everyone was calling weird or making fun of." I said. She bit her lip.
"I know how you feel." She said. I glared.
"Do you now? You were like Miss Popular at your other school. Everyone worshiped you. You were like Cordelia Chase back in Los Angeles." I spat out. It was her turn to glare.
"Okay, I didn't know what it felt like then, but I do now. I'm sorry." She said. She sounded sincere, so I decided to just drop the subject. She was going to change it anyways.
"Where would a vampire take a girl anyways?" She asked, talking more to herself then me.
"Uh… I don't know." I shrugged.
"The graveyard!" She said suddenly like a light bulb had lit up above her head.
"That's a good place for a romantic date." I said sarcastically. I didn't really like this being Buffy's sidekick thing. On our way to the graveyard we saw Xander.
"Well if it isn't the vampire slaying chick." He said teasingly.
"Hey, heard you almost slayed Cordelia. Pretty awesome." He said grinning.
Buffy rolled her eyes. "We need your help." She said excitedly.
"Why?" Xander said spitefully. "Thought you didn't want me to get "hurt"." He said putting air quotes around the word hurt. She sighed heavily.
"That was before the vampire kidnapped Willow." Buffy said.
Xander gasped. "W-what?" He stuttered.
"Someone let her leave with a vampire guy." Buffy said and shot a look at me. Xander turned to me and looked really pissed off.
"I didn't know!" I said in defense of myself.
"Yeah yeah." Buffy said, once again. "Are you gonna help us or not?" She said to Xander.
"I'm in." He said. Buffy filled him in on how we were going to the graveyard. Once we got there we looked around. When we get there it looked pretty dead, but it wasn't. It turned out that there was this Master, like, vampire master, that ruled the underworld or something like that. I don't know, all of this reminded me of star wars for some reason.
"The crypt." Buffy said excitedly and lead us to it.
"What?" I hissed. "Uhm, how about I stay outside and, uh, keep watch!" I said, hoping I wouldn't have to go in there. I don't like being so close to dead people.
"Nice try." Buffy said, "You're coming." She grabbed me by my shirt and led me in. When we got in there, we weren't alone. Willow was in there with the vampire who she had met at the crypt, he and another vampire, this one was a girl, were hovering over her, she looked terrified, she was whimpering.
Then, I looked to the side, and there was Jesse, lying there semi-conscious. He had been bitten.
"Well well well, more snacks." Said the female vampire turning around to face us. The male one turned around as well.
"Now now, Darla." He said soothingly, "First we shall introduce ourselves, it's only right before we, have someone for dinner." He said, chuckling at his own feeble joke.
"I am Luke." He said. "This is my good friend, Darla. And you, you are our dinner." He said to all of us at once, we were all scared by now.
"Get Jesse out!" Buffy ordered Willow and Xander. They didn't waste time arguing and did as they were told.
"We'll take care of these guys." She said.
"We?" I asked her. She elbowed me and glared.
"Here's your chance to do something right." She said and gave me one of her stakes, apparently she always has an extra one.
I decided to go for the girl one, she was trying to go after Willow, Xander and Jesse.
"Not so fast!" I said, running up to her I kicked her in the face. She went flying back into a tombstone.
"Nice kick… But if you wanna play rough, I'll show you rough." She said, punching me first in the stomach, then in the face. I was temporarily affected, but decided to shrug it off. I punched her in the face. This pissed her off. I grabbed her arm and tried to stake her in the heart, only to have her smack the wooden stake out of my hand, out of my reach.
"Heh." I laughed nervously. "Just my luck." I muttered. I realized Willow, Jesse, and Xander were trying to avoid like 2 other vampires, but I could only take on one at a time.
She grabbed me by my neck and threw me, hard back into a tree.
"Argh…" I grunted as I fell to the ground. I staggered and got up, trying to go back after her, she kicked me down again.
"It's time you go to bed!" She said, and dragged me by my hair to a newly dug grave, someone was going to be buried tomorrow, she threw me down in there. I was knocked unconscious.
"Sleep tight." I heard her say. As I was in my comatose state, things were vague, I couldn't remember anything. I just hoped that Buffy was having more luck then me.
