Set after Buffy is resurrected in Season 6. Not sure when in Vampire Diaries yet, I suppose I figure that out on the way.
I would love to own anything to do with either of these amazing programmes but alas, I do not.
"And who is that?" I hear someone say from across the bar. I look up to find someone staring at me. My senses told me Vampire, but it was still daytime. Coming back from the dead must have thrown it off. I stare right back until he turns away and continues drinking. "New girl, says her name is Anne." Great! People were walking about me already. I carried on wiping down tables and put it out of my mind. Although that was seemingly difficult seeing as I could hear every word. Stupid Slayer senses.
After two more hours my shift had ended and I was heading home. All I could think about on the walk in the dark back to the crummy little apartment I had rented was when I had done this a few years earlier. I had run away from all my troubles only to realise that trouble would find me wherever I was.
I was about half way home when I had the feeling I was being followed. I was in no mood for games so I stopped walking and just stood there. "If you know what's good for you, you'll come out and tell me why you're following me."
About twenty metres away a figure emerged from the shadows. It was the creepy guy from the bar. He walked towards me with a smirk on his face. His rather handsome face actually. "Why would you assume I was following you?" he said slowly.
"Happens more often than you might think" I replied, looking directly at this guy. "Especially if you're me" I tacked on the end quietly.
To my dismay though the man seemed to of heard me. "And who might you be then?" I narrowed my eyes at the stranger and took a step towards him. My spidey sense was definitely going off. "It's none of your business pal. If you did know who I was I assure you that you wouldn't be standing within three feet of me."
"Good thing I don't know you then isn't it" he said and incredulously he took a step towards me. We were only about a metre apart. "Now if you knew who I was, you wouldn't be within ten miles of me little one." He smiled sadistically and cruelly but it didn't faze me. He wasn't very menacing when you had seen all of what I had in my life as the Slayer. I closed the gap between us and he raised his eyebrows at me in surprise.
"I may not know who you are, but I know what you are. You don't scare or intimidate me" I said never breaking eye contact with the stranger. The man barked out a laugh and looked back down at me. "Which means you're either awfully brave, or just plain stupid" he whispered closely in my ear.
"Well unlucky for you, I'm neither. Now get out my face!" I gritted out and as I said it I shoved the guy away sending him reeling back to land on the concrete with a thud. The man looked livid. He was up and pining me to the wall so quickly I had hardy seen him at all.
"You've made an awfully big mistake tonight love, and for that, I take your life." The man lifted me slightly so my feet were no longer touching the floor. He gave me another cruel grin and his fangs appeared. It was a face that told me I was supposed to dread what came next. I made no attempt to move as his face hovered ever closer to mine, lulling him into thinking I had surrendered but just as he came within biting distance of my neck I jamb my elbow up into his face, knocking him back.
The shock of my attack had made him let go of my throat when I hit him. Now it was my turn. I mirrored his moves and grabbed him by the throat, forcing him into the air. "I'm not in the killing mood much tonight. You wouldn't believe the week I've had. So consider yourself lucky my friend. You live to see another day. If I catch you following me again I will kill you, make no mistake about that."
I drop the vampire and he falls to his knees. I walk off without looking back but before I round the corner he says something. "What are you?" he says, wheezing from the pavement. I don't turn around, I just call over my shoulder instead. "I'm just a waitress." I hear the man laugh quietly to himself as I finally round the corner and head home.