You Have Potential
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan Fiction Story
Authors Note: This is my first time writing a story about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so give me feed back. I am a huge fan of spike so if you are not this may not be the story to read. Also this story is told through the eyes of one of the potential slayers post season ending. I do not own anything about BTVS or any of its characters so just enjoy the story and please give me your feed back!
Chapter 1:
I still have nightmares about the big fight. The fight that defined who I am, and potentially one day meant to become. I walk through the busy streets of New York city, living with the destiny that lay ahead of me. Every time I close my eyes I see it all over and over again. All the pain, the suffering and death. Death was what I was meant to be what I was. I waited for death. Only in death could I truly become what I am, and I have to battle with death, and fear I every day of my life. Every day I keep going with borrowed power and strength. It was only meant to be temporary, to stop the world from ending and defeat The First evil. For some reason I still held onto the full strength. I never really had any one around to question why, nor did I want to. It was like I lived two lives. Part of me was a 22 year old girl who lived in New York City, in a two story walk up apartment, and struggled to be a successful musician, playing in local clubs. But the other part of me, part of my personality, was Alexis Gray the potential Vampire slayer.
I was one of the potential slayers brought to The Hell Mouth in Sunnydale, California a few years ago. Buffy Summers is the Vampire slayer and we were to be sent to her to keep us safe. That was the original plan, but Buffy had other ideas for us. She needed us, so she trained us to be warriors in battle to fight by here side. I was a shy girl, so for me this all felt like a dream, for any one but me. Everything I know now is from the slayer, and her friends.
When I was just five years old my parents had told me that I was special, and I was meant for great things. They never told me specifically what things, and how I was special. They never lived long enough to tell me. They dies tragically in car accident, and I was sent to live with my god father in London, England; Wade Giles. Wade did his best to raise me under the rule of spiritual energy, and being the best person that I could be. Then everything was taken away from when I turned 17, when these strange men came and killed my god father. They had strange markings on their face, and no eyes. They were there to kill me as well, but before Wade could die he instructed me to come to Sunnydale where a girl named Buffy would protect me. It wasn't until I arrived there that I learned who I was, and where I came from. I learned that my god father was not just my god father but my watcher, and I was a potential slayer. We were sent there to be protected from The First evil, and its eye less lackeys who called themselves the Bringers. I had never known how much strength and power the slayer held until Willow had cast the spell on the slayer's scythe that Buffy pulled from the stone, to give all of us potentials full slayer power. We had lost some friends ,and made some sacrifices along the way to our victory, but a handful of us, including Buffy made it out alive to save the world. After the seal was destroyed ,and The First defeated all of our borrowed power was supposed to return to the Slayer, but for reason mine did not.
After Sunnydale was no more the rest of us went on our own ways. I had always loved to sing, so I made it my mission to find any opportunity I can. However still having slayer powers I occasionally ran into a demon here and a vampire there, that I would take on and slay.
I walked up to the stage in my little black dress, and heels, and I sang out on stage at the Bowery Ball room.
Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song
Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they can tempt us
Where their lies
And I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In Fields where the yellow grass grows knee high
So wont you try to come
Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountain top
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you
And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is your you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me
I left the stage and noticed it was getting dark, and I needed to make it home. I walked my usual route home. I found all of the years I have been in New York that there was always something going on. IN my way of my apartment building were about 3 police cars and a fire truck, and lots of people. I knew it would be impossible to get home that way so I took a detour down a dark dank alley behind the building. The alley seemed quiet and deserted ,but somehow I knew better. I stopped dead in my tracks, and sighed. Here we go again. I stared around for a minute until I heard a voice.
" Looking for some one little girl?" out from the shadows came a tall, muscular biker looking man. He wore torn black pants and a white tee shirt and blue bandana.
" Oh damn, and here I thought my night was going to be dull!" I smirked at the man who was not a man at all. He came charging at me full force as he transformed into his Vampire form.
" Little girl I'm going to rock your world!" He laughed, but I dodged him, and ended up behind him. We both through a couple of punches, but I was able to dodge most of his.
" First of all" I reached into my coat pocket and pulled out my stake. " I am not a little girl" I lunged toward him, but he jumped on the dumpster behind me. I smirked and then cart wheeled out of the way , tipping the dumpster over.
" You're the slayer?" he looked at me surprised that I could fight so well. Apparently he had never met the slayer, but knew she existed. This time I was able to pin him against the wall and firmly plant my stake against his heart.
" Second of all I'd never let you rock my world!" I smirked as I pushed the stake through his chest as he went up in dust. Then Mumbled to the dust around me. " And I'm not the slayer , just a potential" I was about to walk away when I saw some thing that fell off of the Vampire. It looked like a shiny black necklace, or an ancient amulet. I seemed to get a familiar feeling from this trinket from my dusted friend. I didn't have time to investigate it so I put it in my pocket and made my way home.
Authors Note: I hope you liked the chapter and keep reading there is more to come . Also that some was called Come Away With Me By Norah Jones!