Hello guess who's back!! I did say I would redo this story and I am. I added about 400 words to fill it out better and I tried to fix as many mistakes as possible. There are most likely a few mistakes left but I'm not perfect. The trip to Orlando was bleh. The only time I had fun was when i went to Medieval Times. I won't even tell you what happend on the first day. That was a mess. I think with the changes I'm making this story will progress better than the first time. Oh and for those of you reading New Beginning I'm working on it as fast as I can. Right now I'm more settled since things have slightly cooled down.
Thanks for not burning down my door for more updates.
Disclaimer: If i owned this I would not be here. BtVS would be mostly lesbian pairings. Angel would still be there because he's hot, just not after Buffy.
New Chapter 1
'BEEP…BEEP…BEEP…BE-' the annoying beeping sound that had awoken a sleeping person in bed, died a violent death. Smashed to pieces by a deceivingly small hand that held a lot of power. The person in bed groaned. Sheets were strewed hazardly around a small body connected to the hand that gave the alarm clock its end. A tousled blond head poke out from under them squinting a the bright light shining through the window.
"Buffy! You better be up and ready for school!" yelled a voice from downstairs. Buffy Summers wanted to do nothing more than to roll over, go back to sleep. Off to the land blissfulness and no vampires but facing the wrath of her mom wasn't an option right now. Cursing under her breath she got up and headed for the shower. It had been a long night. The slayer spent most of the night in a long meeting with her Watcher.
All in truth she was happy to have moved to Sunnydale. After what happened in LA leaving that part of her life behind was a great feeling. Even after finding out from Giles that this place was literally the mouth of hell. Doing the usual morning routine, Buffy started rummaging through her drawers to find something to throw on.
After deciding on a pair of hip hugging jeans a t-shirt that said 'Mornings are always against me.' she walked down stairs to see her mom and little sister eating breakfast. Well more like Mom drinking coffee and Dawn shoveling pancakes in her mouth as fast a she can. "Glad you decided to join the land of the living." Dawn said.
Buffy glared, as she started to fill up her plate with a large stack of pancakes. "At least I know your supposed to eat pancakes not inhale them." Joyce gave the youngest Summers girl a look that said slow down before standing up, "Alright girls I need to head over to the gallery. Dawn you better hurry up or your walking on your first day of school." Dawn squealed and quickly, despite her mother's protests, stuffed the last of her pancakes in her mouth grabbed her book bag and was out the door. Joyce chuckled at her youngest daughters antics. "Do you want a ride Buffy?"
She shook her head. "No its fine. I'll walk. I need the exercise to burn off this breakfast." Joyce snorted at this. "With the way you burn calories you could do that standing still." Buffy stuck her toung at her mother who only laughed and said goodbye. Finishing her stack of pancakes she glanced at the clock. "Shit!" she had 20 min to get to school, get her class schedule, and find her first class. Putting her empty plate in the sink Buffy ran up the stairs 3 at a time. Buffy grabbed a new binder, the keys to the house and left back out her room. She decided to forgo running down the stairs and jump them all landing safely. Walking out the front door she locked it and broke out into a run once she hit the sidewalk.
Slowing down once the school came into sight Buffy sighed in relief, she wasn't going to be late. Walking something warm prickled her senses. Across the street were three people walking. A tall lanky looking young man in a hideous Hawaiian shirt. He was making faces to two girls walking beside him. One had fiery red hair was cute in the girl next door kind of way. She reminded her of the girl from some movie. Something about pie.
The second girl Buffy couldn't see except for the dark blond hair that occasionally swished into view. She dismissed the feeling and made her way inside the school building. Finding the office was easy. On the way there she got a few double takes seeing as just about everyone knew each other since birth. Damn small towns.
The old lady behind the counter gave her a warm smile before saying, "New student?" "Gee ya think?" Buffy swallowed down a smart remark and politely said woman, whose name tag said Ms. Flowers, took a moment to find her class schedule along with a list of books she would need for class. Looking at the classes she had she groaned. "Ugh why math? I hate math" making her way to first period Buffy ran into a girl. "Watch where you going los-"
Buffy inwardly winced. The girl she had nearly ran over was what an exactly copy of her during her cheerleading days. "You must be a new student!" Buffy nearly rolled her eyes. "Wow what a bright one we have here. So glad I changed." Buffy just nodded. "Well I'm Cordelia Chase." she said her name like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "And if you want to be somebody in this school you have to know me. Because if you don't you just a nobody."
"What a hard choice." So the cheerleader started to prattle on about the school and who were datable and what not. The blond sort of tuned her out after the first couple of minutes. "… and that's all you need to know for now um…" "all this time talking and she didn't even know my name sad" "Buffy, Buffy Summers." Cordelia frowned at her name. "What kind of name is that." in her head the blond debated on whether or not to throw the brunette out a window. Right now she was leaning towards out a window.
"My full name is Elizabeth. When I was younger I had a hard time saying that so I came up with Buffy so it stuck and it hasn't changed since." Cordelia thought about this before nodding in acceptance."It suits you and your pretty enough so it wont ruin you." Ok first chance she got Cordelia was going out a window. She spent the first couple of periods talking to talking to the cheerleader. Well mostly Cordy talking and Buffy pretending to listen.
By the time lunch hit, Buffy had come up with over 200 ways to kill Cordelia using silverware alone. Finally coming up with an excuse to leave the slayer left to go the library to pick up books, this worked especially because Cordelia mentioned that she would never willingly set foot in the library. Buffy has never felt so relieved since she left LA. The library was where her favorite Watcher was. "GILES!" there was a thump followed by a muted "Bloody Hell" and a frowning older gentle man came out from behind a book case. "There's no need to yell Buffy." the British accent imbedded deeply in his voice. "And this is a library keep you voice down please." the hazel eyed girl looked sheepish. "Opps. Sorry." He shook his head. "Anyway is Faith coming soon?"
Buffy missed her sister slayer. Faith is a year younger than her and like the other sister she didn't want but got anyway. Her attitude was brash and in your face but the loud mouth New Yorker grew on you after a while. Dawn idolized Faith. Joyce thinks Dawn might have a crush on the dark haired slayer. "She'll becoming in about three days had to tie up some lose ends." Buffy nodded showing she understood.
"What are you doing in here I thought we talked about pretending not to know each other. I recall you saying it was weird for you to know the school librarian?" He lifted an eyebrow an the blond blushed. Buffy sat down at a near by table and propped her feet up, pretending not to notice Giles scowl. "I need a book for English."
He nodded knowing what class she was talking about he walked towards his office to hunt for the extra book in a mess of boxes. The door to the library opened and the three from this morning walked in. Now that she had a clear view of the blond Buffy was stunned.
She was beautiful.
Long hair contrasted perfectly with pale skin, framing her soft features. Soft lips caught her gaze next. Followed by a cute nose. Warm, shy, slivery blue eyes stared at her. Those blue pools of warmth felt like they could see into her soul. When she noticed that Buffy was staring a blush covered cheeks making the beautiful blond all the more gorgeous. The girl turned away from the intense gaze and Buffy's eyes flashed gold for a second then back to hazel.
A growl sounded deep within the slayers mind. As it got louder one word surfaced. "MINE…"
Tara MaClay sighed and waited for her best friends to show up. Apparently there was this new girl that had been hanging out with Cordelia all day. "Great just what we need. Another person to torture us with." she thought bitterly. Tara was a shy person and had a bad stutter and unless with friends was always quiet. She cursed her low self esteem.
She had only caught a glimpse of the new girl and saw that she was really short. Not that Tara was tall but this girl had to be atleast no more than 5ft tall. And bright blond hair. She had no right to judge a person before she met them, but if she was hanging out with Queen Bitch then she was most likely no good.
Some guys passed her talking about a late party tonight. Tara frowned. You would think that the people would realize by now that it wasn't safe to go out at night with all the "mysterious" deaths and disappearances in Sunnydale. The death toll was high for such a small town.
Tara already knew from her mother that this was the mouth of hell. This place attracted all sorts of creatures of the night. Thanks to her being a witch she wasn't entirely vulnerable if ever caught at night. No matter how many unexplainable deaths that happened here people still went out at night making her wonder about the sanity of this town more and more. Almost as if a veil of ignorance was hanging over head leading people into dangerous situations.
"Tara! Tara!" the blond was shook out of her thoughts by the enthusiastic voice of Willow Rosenburg. She had discovered long ago that Willow held a lot of power in her. Luckily Tara's mom found this out and decided to train them both. They made a great witchy team. Xander stumbled after the red head. Xander ended up catching them floating a table together and had to explain a lot to him.
And though he was upset that they had kept this secret from him he completely cool with it all. Even going as far as saying that they beat Xena as top super powered chicks he loved. "Tara lets go to the library I heard the new librarian had some new books imported in." Tara laughed and Xander groaned. Nothing got Willow more excited than books of an older quality, unless you mention computers. The new librarian was British and he had lots of old tomes on display. Tara just assumed he came from some British library or as Willow likes to say The British Library.
They headed to the library, Xander more reluctantly. When the three made it there no one was in sight except a small blond with her feet propped up on the table.
Hazel eyes caught blue. Tara nearly gasped out loud. Power…no ancient power radiated off this girl. And her aura literally screamed strength. The girl was stunning to say the least. Her skin was lightly tanned. Hair was a light blond that framed a faced with no blemishes. Cute nose and a soft looking lips. Those eyes is what got her. Those eyes made her feel warm and safe.
Suddenly realizing that she was ogling the new girl Tara turned and blushed brightly. "Great as soon as you meet the new girl you strip her with your eyes. Smooth move MaClay." Xander seeing the girl practically drooled and walked up to her. He had no problem stripping her with his eyes. "Hello I'm Harris, Alexander Harris but the ladies call me Xander." Willow snorted and the blushing blond let out a small giggle.
"I'm Buffy Summers." was the soft, but commanding voice. Willow stuck out her hand. "Willow Rosenburg nice to meet you." something flickered in Buffy's eyes for a moment but as quickly as it came it was gone. "Nice to meet you to." Buffy turned her intense gaze to the last of the three. "Your name is…" she questioned softly. "T-Tara Ma-MaClay" Buffy tilted her head in thought.
Then she gave her a breathtaking smile nearly making Tara's heart stop. "Nice to meet you Tara MaClay." They stared into each other eyes. Before Xander broke the silence. "So you're the new girl hanging with Cordelia." Buffy grimaced at the cheerleaders name. They were all confused as to why the blond was alone. "I came to get my English book for my next class."
"Oh then it might be a good idea not to hang out with us if you want to be friends with Cordelia." Buffy lifted a delicate eyebrow in question and the red head went on. "Well Cordelia is popular an we're not. You don't want to ruin you reputation by being seen with us. We are what you would call social outcasts. And Cordelia picks us as her main target of torture and…" Xander clamped a hand over her mouth. Buffy was impressed with how much the red head was letting out in one breath.
Willow blushed and Xander spoke for her. "She has the tendency to babble a lot and really fast." the blond laughed. "Personally I would rather hang out with you guys. Cordelia is not worth the headache and I don't want to go through another her again." she shrugged as if its not a big deal. Surprising all three of them. "Another her?" She stood up and turned around as Giles walked out of his office.
"Took you long enough." Giles glared. "Buffy for once in your life show me a little respect." Buffy grinned. "Maybe once in a blue moon too bad that's not tonight." He shook his head at his Slayers antics before her notice they were not alone. "Ah Ms. Rosenburg, Ms. MaClay, and Mr. Harris nice to see you again come to check out the new display of books I ordered."
They nodded, well Willow did, wondering how the new student got Mr. Giles to call her by her first name and what was their relationship. Xander put his arm around both girls. "Willow is the bookworm Mr. Giles me and Tare are here to make sure she doesn't end up late for class" The three didn't notice Buffy trying to burn off Xander's arm off Tara with her eyes, but Giles did.
"Giles I have to go." Buffy was trying to control the jealousy that welled over the boy who was too close to Tara. She had to get out of there fast lest she cause him serious harm. "Mom said she wants you over for dinner tonight no excuses." and with that she was out the door. Giles felt worried at the sudden leave by his charge. He'd have to ask later when they were alone. "What were talking about again?"
Buffy had to use every ounce of control to walk out of that library right then. It scared her because her control was better than most slayers. And miles better than Faith. "Buffy!" "Shit!" Cordelia seemed to have found her again. "Where were you. You just pulled a disappearing act." Buffy sighed. "I ran into some friends in the library maybe you know them Willow, Xander, and Tara." she said it sickly sweet.
Cordelia sneered at the trio's names. "Those fashion rejects. Listen you better stay away from them if you know what's good for you." She flicked her hair to the side and smiled smugly. "They're freaks. A red headed geek know it all, a guy with no fashion sense and seriously needs to wash his hair and some freak blond who can't even speak without stuttering-"
"Shut up! Tara is not a freak! God if I have to hear another word out your mouth I just might have to kill myself!" Xander, Willow, and Tara turned the corner just in time to hear it.
"They held my interest in the last 15min than you have the entire day. Jeez talk about self-centered can you talk about somebody except yourself for 5mins. Its no wonder people hate you and you have no real friends." "God that felt wonderful!"
Cordelia's mouth dropped before going back to its usual sneer. "I should have known you were a freak lover." And with that she walked away, lifted high in the air, "What an ass." Buffy mumbled. The rest of the school stared with a variation of shocked, awe, and admiration for the new girl that stood up to the queen. She turned around to see Willow, Xander, and, Tara standing there.
"Um hello again." she waved, and that had done it all of them burst out laughing at such a hilarious situation. This kind of thing happened once in a life time. The three couldn't stop laughing at the disbelief on Cordelia's face. Willow was almost in tears she was laughing so hard. Tara had a warm, real, and innocent laugh that made Buffy's heart flutter.
"God she's beautiful." her inner slayer who usually stayed dormant to awoke once again. "Mate… near… want mate." Buffy's laugh cut off abruptly. This wasn't supposed to happen so soon. Surely she had a few years. "Want mate!" Thinking quickly she had to answer her inner self. If not the inner slayer could take over and do something that neither she or Tara was ready for. "Alright I get it you want Tara but she doesn't even know what we are. Hell we don't even know if she likes girls!" "Me…want…mate now."
Buffy sighed knowing that her other half was not going to give up till Tara MaClay was their's. "I need to talk to Giles about this first." this day was starting to give her a headache. Tara walked up to Buffy making the shorter blonds' heart skip. "Um t-thank you f-for st-standing up for u-us. N-no one has e-ever d-done that b-before."
By the end of the statement she was blushing bright red. Buffy just waved it off a slight pink tinged her cheeks, but it was barely noticeable. "Like I said earlier she was starting to annoy me and she can't talk about someone without knowing them." Buffy winced. In LA she had been just like Cordelia.
That was before she had been called and when everything revolved around that perfect world of hers. Here she wanted to start a fresh. What better place than Sunnydale. There was a plus that she might have a chance of getting a girlfriend here.
The slayer had known long ago that she never like boys, but being head cheerleader she had no choice but to date guys and bury all feeling for the same sex. Unless she want to be the laughing stock of the entire school. Being called was the best thing yet. Her social status on the ladder not only dropped but all of her fake friends left her and she didn't have to hide anymore. Things got even better when Faith came along.
"Hey Buffy would you like to hang out with us." Willow's an Tara's eyes widen and Xander looked hopeful. After all this is the first girl to come near him and start a conversation with insults. "Um sure I guess where do you want to hang out?" they were ecstatic. Someone new to get along with.
"So Buffy what class do you have next." Buffy groaned. "I got English next. Well at least it not math." Xander nodded in understanding. Willow pouted. "Math is not so bad." "It is when your not good and it looks like rocket science." was the dry reply that every laughing except Willow who only pouted.
"You must be one of those smart girls huh." Xander nodded enthusiastically. "It doesn't get much smarter than Willow when it comes to all things math science and computers." the red head was now doing a great imitation of a tomato. "Great Summers when they find out you're an idiot they're gonna run in the other direction as quickly as they can."
Tara shook her head. "No we wouldn't do that." Buffy beamed, Tara blushed. "So where should we hang out you guys know this place better than me." she asked. "Well we could hang out at Willow's house her parents aren't home right now." The girls shot him a look.
"Ok only if it's alright with Willow and Tara." she looked at them in earnest. She did the ultimate puppy face that made everyone who saw it want to give in to her every demand. "Ok ok. Just don't give me that look again." Buffy grinned.
"But before we do anything my mom is going to want to meet all of you. Come to dinner tonight!" it was agreed and they went off to their next classes. It turns out that the Tara and Buffy both had English together. Today was ending better than both had hoped for so far. Wonder how dinner will turn out. TBC...
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