Buffy/Angel/TimeCop/Supernatural (Possibly even more) crossover. I do not own nor do I have a claim to anything from the crossover shows that are in this story
Buffy… The TimeCop?
Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 10:00 A.M. in Washington D.C., the crew at the Time Enforcement Commission agency (TEC) was preparing for their newly designed equipment. They had shut down the old equipment and had disconnected a few components, but before they were able to start hauling the old equipment away, Capt. Eugene Matuzek stepped in and commanded, "Stop and restore the equipment to its previous condition." Everyone gave him a stunned look. "Logan; Easter; Hemmings, meet me in the briefing in ten minutes." The three just gave each other a curious and confused look.
"What's going on now?" was the question that Capt. Matuzek heard when he turned to leave the room.
Ten minutes later, as the three who were summoned to the briefing room had stepped in, they glanced at the three people, a blonde-haired woman, a brown-haired woman and a brown-haired man, who were seated at the table before taking their seats. All three were in their early thirties.
Capt. Matuzek was at the head of the table next to the laptop and projector and before he was able to begin the briefing, Jack faced him while asking, "Is there a problem, Captain."
"A major situation has developed. Before I say anymore let me introduced everyone to each other." Capt. Matuzek pointed to each one as he said his or her name. "Officer Jack Logan; Logan is our leading Time Enforcement Officer. Claire Hemmings; Hemmings is a scientist and our computer expert. Dr. Dale Easter; Dr. Easter is our historian. Buffy Summers, Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris…"
"What do you three do?" Jack interrupted with.
Buffy spoke first with, "Willow and I are co-owners of the Mystic Willow Bookstore. From the name you're probably could figure out to what kind of books we sell. Xander is foreman for a Ryan's Construction."
"Your three's credentials makes perfect sense as to why we are sitting in a briefing room together," Jack sarcastically said.
"Their chosen professions are not why they're here," Capt. Matuzek quickly said. "What they do once the sun sets is what makes them important."
"Which is?" Jack questioned.
"They are the trainers; the advisors and the researchers for Tabitha Foxworthy," Capt. Matuzek.
"Who is Tabitha Foxworthy?" Claire questioned.
"She is the current vampire slayer," Buffy said.
"I'm sorry, I think my mind might have wandered a bit because I could have sworn that you said that she was a vampire slayer," Jack commented.
Buffy looked Jack in the eyes while saying, "I did."
Jack looked at Buffy as if she had lost her mind before turning towards his CO while saying, "Sir…"
"Before you say anything else, I have a surveillance tape that you need to watch," Capt. Matuzek interrupted with. He then pressed a button to play an AVI file from his computer. It was projected on to a screen. "This surveillance was taken about seven hours ago."
Twelve and a half hours earlier, Dr. Julius Briers awaken inside of a sealed coffin in the cargo section of a plane that was making a landing at the major airport in Washington D.C. The coffin was first loaded in New Sunnydale, California. Julius attempted to bust lose from his coffin, but when he heard footsteps, he stopped. He remained quiet for the thirty minutes that it took for the coffin to come to a rest at the mortuary. The mortician opened the coffin to prepare the body and before he had time to realize the situation, Julius had grabbed him and sunk his fangs into his neck.
The mortician was Julius' first meal since he was turned and he relished in the moment. Once he got his fill, he threw the drained corpse to the side and left the mortuary. A grinned came across his face when he recognized the sites. He then made his way cross town by foot. Three hours later, he broke into a secured warehouse of where the newly designed time traveling device was being temporarily stored. Eight guards were guarding the device while waiting for a truck to haul it away at dawn and within minutes all eight of them had met their fate. The security camera captured the slaughter of film.
Present time, when Claire saw Julian stepping into view of the camera just before the slaughter, she blurted out, "That man looks like Dr. Briers."
"He is Dr. Briers," Capt. Matuzek confirmed.
"That can't be him," Jack quickly said. "Dr. Briers was attacked and killed two nights ago in New Sunnydale, California."
"Just watch," Capt Matuzek said. Within minutes the slaughter began. Buffy closely watched their reactions to the event. Claire gasped just before covering her mouth. After showing all eight deaths, Capt. Matuzek stopped the video. "Dr, Briers was bitten by a vampire two nights ago and now he's a vampire in possession of a time machine."
Jack sarcastically said with a smirk, "Great; I was getting bored with the run of the mill time fugitive anyway. Chasing after vampires will living things up… so to speak."
"You or Claire won't be going after any vampires; however, you will be training the one or ones who will be," Capt. Matuzek said.
"You want me to train Tabitha Foxworthy?" Jack questioned.
"You won't be training Tabitha," Buffy said. "She's only sixteen and I seriously doubt that her mother will allow her to leave New Sunnydale."
"Then who will I be training?" Jack asked.
Buffy gestured to herself, Willow and Xander before saying, "Us three along with three or four others."
Jack slightly chuckled while mocking, "You? No offence lady, but you don't look like anyone to be going after vampires."
Buffy gave him a smug grin before saying, "More than fifteen years ago the life expectancy of a slayer was less than four years after being chosen; no slayer had ever live more than four years. I became a slayer just before my sixteenth birthday and as you can see, I'm still living. However, as a slayer I'm retired. I'll assist in battles where I can, but my role now is more of a trainer and an advisor to the current slayer. Willow and Xander help with research."
"If you or Tabitha are not the ones to go after Dr. Briers then who is?" Jack questioned.
"That part is still open, but I do have a list of potential candidates and each candidate was once a potential slayer," Buffy said. "We three will be accompanying the one we choose though."
Claire caught the meaning to Buffy's words and questioned, "Your candidates were once potential slayers, but they're not anymore?"
"That's correct," Buffy began. "A teenage girl is the only person who can become a slayer and that only occurs from the immediate death of a previous slayer. Any potential slayer who reaches the age of twenty without being called upon will never be called upon as the slayer."
"Wait," Jack blurted out. "If a slayer has to die before another one can be called upon, then how are you not the current slayer?"
"During one of my early battles, I was legally dead for a couple of minutes," Buffy said. "I was revived, but not before another slayer was called upon."
"So since that day, there have always been two active slayers?" Jack questioned. Buffy nodded with a grinned. "Interesting."
"Actually, there are three slayers, Buff," Willow pointed out. "Faith is still alive."
"Who's Faith?" Claire questioned.
"There were two slayers called up in a short time after my brief death," Buffy said. "Faith was the second one. She turned bad and then good again. She turned herself in and went to prison for her crimes. While in prison, she had herself killed and then revived so the next slayer could be called upon. She's out of prison now and works with Angel."
"Faith is working for an actual angel or is angel her name?" Jack questioned.
"Angel is his name," Buffy corrected.
"Trust me; he's no angel," Xander finally spoke.
"Xander," Buffy said in a tone to warn him not to continue.
"Is there something going on?" Capt. Matuzek questioned.
"Nothing relevant to us," Buffy claimed.
"This is my operation and I'll decide what is relevant," Capt. Matuzek said. "What are you not telling me?"
Buffy hesitated before letting out a sigh. She then said, "Angel is a vampire with a soul."
"He's a vampire with a soul?" Jack mocked in disbelief.
"He fights demons and other vampires as the same as any slayer," Buffy continued to say.
"But watch out if Angelus takes over," Xander added.
"Xander," Buffy again warned him not to continue.
"Who is Angelus?" Capt. Matuzek inquired.
Buffy took a breath before saying, "Okay, here's the four-one-one on Angel. Angelus is Angel without a soul and once upon a time Angelus was a slayer's worst nightmare. Then one day a gypsy cursed him with a soul and now as Angel he is forever tormented by his own guilt of his past killing spree. The only way to end the curse is a moment of pure pleasure. During the past fifteen years, Angel has become Angelus again around three times, but each time we were able to restore the curse. As I said though, he's not relevant to us."
"The last thing we need is Dr. Briers discovering the truth about Angel or should I say, Angelus," Capt. Matuzek said. "Ms. Summers…"
"It's Buffy; not Ms. Summers," she corrected.
"Okay, Buffy," Capt. Matuzek. "I want to know Angel's exact whereabouts, so we can put an agent watching him so he won't become Angelus again and join forces with Dr. Briers."
"Good luck with that," Willow commented. Capt. Matuzek gave her a curious look. "Angel is not one to be tracked or to be tracked for long. You can try, but the best has already failed."
"I must agree with Willow," Xander said. "The only way anyone can track Angel is if Angel wants to be tracked."
"As I said; Angelus was a slayer's worst nightmare," Buffy added. "And if you want to keep a watch on Angel to make sure he stays Angel, you must have someone gain his trust and join his group."
"If that's what I have to do, then that is what we'll do," Capt. Matuzek said. "Buffy, sometime after this briefing, write up a quick summary on the best way to gain Angel's trust."
"Gaining his trust won't be easy, but if you give me a pencil and paper, I'll give you tips on that now," Buffy said.
As Capt. Matuzek was providing Buffy with the pencil and paper Claire questioned, "So how do we deal with this situation?"
"Well, Dr. Briers knows that we'll go after him if he went into the past, so what I foresee him doing is turning others into vampires and sending them into the past," Capt. Matuzek said. Buffy was listening as she was writing. "Dr. Easter, your job won't change any, but unfortunately we won't know if the time disruption will be from a time fugitive or from a vampire sent by Dr. Briers. Therefore, Jack, you and Buffy will be sent into the past together to determine the threat. If it a time fugitive then Buffy will return and the appropriate back-up will be sent and if it's a vampire then Jack will return and Buffy's group will be sent. Right now though, Dr. Briers and that time device he took are off our radar and I estimate that we'll have less than a week before he's up and running with his time device."
"Captain, that time device Dr. Briers took was supposed to have been ours and it's the most advance piece of machinery ever created…" Dr. Easter was able to get out.
"Dr. Easter, I know that Dr. Briers has the advantage over us," Capt. Matuzek said. "He will be able to pinpoint a specific time more accurately than us, but that just means that we must improve on our own calculation so we don't overshoot the time period by weeks as we did while going after time fugitives. Buffy you have twenty-four hours to assemble your team.
Buffy paused at what she was writing and said, "That doesn't give me much time."
"I realize that, but time is not on our side on this… which I know is ironic since we control a time machine at this facility; however, going back in time to when the other time machine gets stolen is a time violation." Capt. Matuzek said. "To help speed up things for you, Buffy, Logan can accompany you to wherever on Earth you need to go to assemble your team. Logan, you are authorized to use the jet. The pilot is already preparing it for your use as we speak. I believe I had covered everything that needs to be done. Does anyone have any questions?"
"I have one," Jack said. "Buffy, this probably none of my business, but what prompt you to come to this facility?"
Buffy was finishing up at what she was writing while saying, "We were after Dr. Briers since his name showed up in the newspaper along with describing of how he died. We didn't know that his body was going to be moved to the airport or we would have moved sooner. We trailed behind the movements of the coffin the entire night by at least thirty minutes. Once we got to Washington D.C. and learned that he was awake, we turned on our police scanner. When we heard about the eight deaths we went to check it out. After we reached the scene we turned on our listening device and learned about this facility. And the rest you know."
"Does anyone else have anymore questions?" Capt. Matuzek asked as Buffy pushed the paper back towards him. He glanced at the paper and noticed that there was an address to Angel's detective agency written at the top of the paper. When everyone said that they were good, Capt. Matuzek continued to say, "Well, before I end this briefing, everyone should know that I'm setting up Buffy and her group in that vacant office on the sixth floor and we can share the weight room, the gym, the locker room and the showers. Buffy, we have more than enough cots too if you need sleeping arrangements."
"We appreciate it," Buffy said.
"Okay; if there's nothing else, then everyone is dismissed," Capt. Matuzek said.
As everyone was standing Buffy said, "Xander; Willow, since I have only twenty-four hours to recruit our group, I want to leave immediately." Jack was closely listening to what was being said. "Unless you two have objections to remain here, I would like you two to get organized here."
"No objections," Willow and Xander said as they were leaving the briefing room.
"Buffy, I'm good to go now if you're ready," Jack said.
"I'm ready," Buffy responded.
"Follow me," Jack said. Buffy went with Jack as, Claire and Dale escorted Willow and Xander to their office.
Minutes later, Buffy and Jack were boarding the plane. The pilot had finished preflight minutes ago and was lounging around. When he saw the two boarding, he stood up and questioned, "So Jack, where are we off to?"
Jack turned towards Buffy to answer. Buffy gave Jack a confused look for a brief moment before blurting out, "Oh, ah, all the candidates are located between the Midwest and the West Coast region." She quickly got out her list from her purse. "The closest candidate from here is located in St. Louis."
"That sounds like a good place to start," Jack said. "James, take us to St. Louis."
"You got it," James said as he closed the door to the plane.
"Oh and James, this is Buffy," Jack said.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Buffy," James said.
"It's nice to meet you, James" Buffy said.
James nodded with a grin before turning towards the pilot's seat. Buffy and Jack went and sat down.
While putting on their seat belts, Jack said, "Before watching that surveillance tape I thought vampires were fiction."
Buffy grinned before saying, "Before coming here I thought time traveling was fiction."
Jack grinned before saying, "The trip to St. Louis is going to be somewhat long. To past the time, I would love to hear as to how you became the slayer."
Buffy grinned before saying, "I was fifteen and a cheerleader. My only worries at the time were not screwing up my moves. Little did I know that there was a man… a watcher appointed by the watcher council, stalking me…"
Buffy talked in great detail as to how she became the slayer during the entire trip to St. Louis. Jack listened intensely and when the plane landed Buffy was only midway through her story. She stopped talking about it before exiting the plane and waited until she was in the passenger seat and Jack behind the wheel of their rental car before she continued. They were two-thirds two where they were going before Buffy concluded the story of how she became the slayer.
"Wow, I thought I had interesting stories," Jack said.
"Tell me one."
Jack glanced at the GPS before saying, "According to the map, we're getting close to where we're going. My story isn't as long as yours, but I still don't have time to tell it before we reach our destination. And speaking of that, who are we going to see there."
Buffy gazed at her list before saying, "Our first candidate is Wendy Cathleen Kolmar. She just turned twenty-one last week. She was expelled several times before dropping out of high school at the age of seventeen."
"How do you know that Wendy Kolmar was once a potential slayer?"
Buffy gave him a dubious grinned before saying, "Willow and I have our sources,"
"You're not going to tell me, are you?"
"I can, but you might not believe me."
"After learning about vampires and Buffy the vampire slayer, I'll pretty much believe anything at this point."
Buffy grinned before saying, "Willow practices witchcraft. After almost falling into the dark side of the craft she stays away from anything powerful, but she still dabbles with the light magic. Luckily for us, finding potential slayers fall into the category of light magic."
"So Willow used her witchcraft to find the people on your list?"
"You got it. And the list I have was made up five years ago to protect potential slayers when a novice vampire summoned a demon to kill those slayers. Fortunately for us, only one potential slayer was killed before we were able to kill the demon and the vampire. We didn't even have to leave New Sunnydale to do it."
"That reminds me. About ten years ago, I read an article in the paper about how the city of the original Sunnydale was literally wiped off the map by a strange phenomenon. Do you know what happen?" Buffy just gave him a dubious smile. He gave her a strange look before saying, "Don't tell me that you had something to do with that."
"I had everything to do with that actually and believe it or not that would have been on a global scale if I wasn't able to stop that demon."
"I get the feeling that my stories are boring compared to yours." Buffy just grinned.
Minutes later, Jack parked the rental car on Tamm Ave. between Lloyd Ave. and Wade Ave. As he and Buffy were stepping out of the car, Jack noticed the street names around him. His thoughts wandered and when Buffy saw the dreamlike expression on his face, she asked, "Jack, are you okay?" Jack snapped out of his thoughts and gave Buffy an inquisitive look. "Are you okay?"
"Oh, yeah; I'm fine. During my college freshman year, I dated a woman who grew up in this neighborhood. This part of St. Louis is called Dogtown."
Buffy gave him a curious look before saying, "How did that name get started."
"I think Mindy told me the night that we met, but to be honest, I wasn't really listening to the explanation. My mind was on other things."
Buffy shook her head while saying, "I'm not going to ask."
Jack smiled and before he could respond, Buffy took off towards the house. Once they stepped up to the door, Buffy knocked. After waiting several seconds Buffy was about to knock again, but before she had a chance to, a woman in her early forties answered the door.
The woman glanced at Buffy first and then Jack. As she rest her stare on Buffy, she asked, "May I help you?"
"Hi, I'm Buffy Summers and this is Jack Logan. Does Wendy Kolmar lives here?"
"Do you have a warrant?" the woman asked.
Buffy gave her a confused look while mocking, "Warrant?" Jack was about to say something when Buffy continued. "No-no; we're not cops. We do need to talk with her if we can. Does she live here?"
"She does, but she not here."
"Do you know where we can find her?" Jack asked.
"She's working; she works on the Hill."
"She works on what hill?" Buffy questioned.
The woman sarcastically said, "The Hill… Dego Hill."
"We are not from around here," Jack said.
"That's becoming clear," the woman said.
"Can you tell me the place where Wendy works?" Jack asked. The woman just gave him a skeptical stare. "Our attentions towards her are honorable. I can even give you a list of names and numbers so you can check up on me."
The woman took a breath before saying, "She's working at Rigazzi's." She then told them the address to the place and the direction to get there.
"Thank you, Ms…" Buffy said before realizing that she didn't know her name.
"Kurtz," the woman supplied the name. "And it's Mrs."
"Bye, Mrs. Kurtz," Buffy said.
Mrs. Kurtz just nodded before backing up and shutting the door.
As Buffy and Jack were walking back towards the car, Jack said, "Most likely, she's calling Wendy about us this very minute."
"I'm not an amateur at this. Wendy will be expecting us along with… oh, I'm going to say four people. The four will be sitting spread out around her. One may be in hearing distance while the other three will only be able to watch us."
"That's if she doesn't duck out before we get there."
"Well, that's a possibility also." Seconds later, Jack and Buffy got back into the car. Buffy entered the Rigazzi's address into the GPS as Jack drove off. "I'm hungry, so once we get there, I'm ordering something to eat."
"I was just thinking the same thing."
Rigazzi's was moderately crowed. When Jack and Buffy stepped in they gazed the room. A young waitress in her early twenties with the name plate of Cat stepped up to them and asked, "A table for two?"
"Yes, two," they both said.
Once the waitress led them to a table, Jack and Buffy each took a seat. The waitress handed them each a menu while asking, "What can I get you two to drink?" They both told her the type of soda that they wanted. "I'll be back in a minute."
"Your nametag reads Cat," Buffy said before the waitress had a chance to step away.
"I know what my nametag reads. What about it?"
"Is that short for Cathleen?"
"It can be, but not necessarily."
"Is it short for Cathleen this time?"
"What is your interest with my name?"
"Besides dining, we are interested in talking with Wendy Cathleen Kolmar. Are you her?"
"You two must be Buffy Summer and Jack Logan," she said as she gazed off in a direction.
Buffy quickly glanced in the direction that she had looked. She didn't see anyone who stood out. She faced the waitress again before saying, "We are. You're Wendy aren't you?"
Jack saw a tell in the waitress' face. Before the waitress responded, Jack said, "She's not Wendy. She is wearing her nametag though." He looked the waitress in the eyes. "Isn't that right?"
"Okay, I'm not Cat. My name's Megan. Cat doesn't want to speak to you though."
Buffy gazed the room. When she spotted a woman who could have been twenty-one while serving drinks behind the bar, she stood up and walked towards her.
Jack saw Megan shrugging her shoulders towards the woman behind the bar. The woman sighed and shook her head. Jack slightly grinned when he realized that Buffy had correctly guessed as to who Wendy (Cat) was.
As Buffy was taking a seat at the bar, Cat questioned, "Buffy Summers, now that you found me, what do you want with me?"
Buffy was attempting to locate who might be listening in as she described in a low volume about what a slayer would feel or dream before being called upon. As Buffy talked, she could tell that her words were hitting home. She then quickly said, "I can tell in your face that you know exactly what I'm talking about."
"I thought I was the only one to have those feelings and dreams."
"Wendy…"
"It's Cat," she corrected.
"Okay; Cat. Cat, if we can go somewhere private, I can tell you why you felt those feelings and dreamt those dreams."
Cat hesitated for a second before nodding and saying, "Okay. My break isn't for another thirty minutes. Can you wait that long?"
Buffy grinned before saying, "I can. In fact I have plans to eat as well. Can you recommend a dish?"
"Sure." Cat then listed four commonly ordered dishes.
A minute later, Buffy was retaking her seat next to Jack, while two men in their early twenties stepped in. Buffy glanced at the two men and did a double-take to what one of them was wearing as a necklace.
When Jack noticed the concerning stare that Buffy was giving the man, he asked, "Is there a problem?"
"One of the two who just walked in is wearing a protective talisman."
"What is it supposed to protect against?"
"To most demons to a small degree, but mainly it's to ward off possessor demons." Jack gave Buffy a skeptical look just before Buffy stood up. "I need to find something out."
"Where are you going?"
"Those two don't appear to me as demon hunters, but demon hunters will sometimes wear that type of talisman. And even though hunters are clumsy while fighting demons with their awkward and barely effective style, they are good trackers."
"You want to recruit a hunter?" Jack quickly questioned.
"I wouldn't mind having two hunters in my group if at all possible." Before Jack could respond, Buffy walked away.
The two men had just sat down and when they saw Buffy approaching, the one without the talisman said, "Beers and…"
"I'm not the waitress," Buffy interrupted with as she took a seat at the table. From where Buffy was sitting, Jack was able to read her lips.
The two men were staring at Buffy in a curious manner as the man continued to say, "Is there something we can help you with?"
Buffy ignored the man and as she turned towards t the one wearing the talisman, she said, "Someone very close to you had died from a kind of death that could only be explained through a demonic explanation." Both men gave Buffy a look as if she was a mental case. "Okay, from the expressions of your faces, I see that that's not the case."
"I'm sorry, Lady, but I think you have us confuse with two other guys," the man with the talisman said.
"I think you're right," Buffy confirmed. "Before I go though where did you get a necklace like that? I mean, I would love to get one. I would even pay good money for one just like it."
The man took hold of the talisman before saying, "Oh, ah, a guy who my mom knows… or knew had given this to me. I was about six… I had been sick for at least a year when he gave it to me. I think he gave it to me just to make me feel better. Anyway, miraculously my health improved after getting this. This may sound a little superstitious, but I don't take it off. I'm scared if I do, I would get sick again."
Buffy grinned before saying, "I'm a bit superstitious myself. Anyway, you said that your mom knew the guy who gave you the necklace. Your mom doesn't talk to him anymore?"
"Honestly, I don't know. The guy… John I think is his name. John would travel a lot and would only visit my mom while he was in St. Louis."
"I would really like to get a necklace like that, so if I give you my name and cell phone number, could you pass it on to your mom to pass on to John? And of course I know that John won't get that message if your mom and John no longer talks."
The man slightly shrugged before saying, "Sure."
"Great," Buffy said as she stood up. "I'll get a piece of paper from the barmaid and I'll be back with my number."
"That's super," the man said. Buffy turned and walk away.
Buffy went and got a piece of paper and a pen. Once she wrote out her number, she returned to the two men's table and handed the paper to the man. The man just politely grinned and nodded as he put the paper in his pocket.
Megan was at the table when Buffy returned. She sat down and gave Megan her food order. As Megan was leaving, Jack said, "I was able to read your lips from here." Buffy just grinned. "What was that, that you were telling him about someone close to him dying through a demonic explanation?"
"Demon hunters have one thing in common. Someone very close to them was killed by a demon."
"Why do you think that?"
"Hypothetically let's say that I walked up to you last night and told you who I was along with being a slayer. What would your honest reaction be?"
"To be honest, when you told me about how you train the current slayer, my first thoughts was that, you were ready for the rubber room."
"And you're not alone. For someone to believe in a demon or a vampire, that person must witness it first hand. Normally a witness to a demon will just grab a talisman or an incantation to ward off the demon. Only a person out for revenge would go after a demon and most people who begin the hunt have no clue to which demon that they are even after. To get the right demon they decide to go after all of them. It only takes a few kills for demon hunting to become a way of life. And I know that first hand."
"What you say make since. You also think that a hunter gave that talisman to that guy."
"I do think that. As I said, I wouldn't mind having hunters on our team, so I do hope that whoever gave him the talisman will call me," Buffy then whispered, "To change the subject, I would like to know about how you became a timecop."
Jack grinned before he began his story. He was still in the middle of his story when the food came. He waited until Megan was gone before continuing. He talked for another few more minutes and paused when he saw Cat approaching. Buffy turned to look and when Cat stepped up, Cat said, "I'm able to take my break now."
Buffy stood up while saying, "We can talk outside." Cat nodded before Buffy turned towards Jack. "I'll be back in a few minutes."
"I'll be here."
Buffy and Cat remained quiet as they walked towards the exit. After stepping outside, Cat asked, "So, Buffy, why do I dream those dreams."
"Those dreams were to prepare you in case you need to be called upon."
Cat gave Buffy a puzzled look before asking, "Called upon for what?"
"Do you believe in demons and vampires?" Cat's expression changed from a puzzling expression to an expression as if she was looking at an escape mental patient. "And from that look you're giving me, I'm going to say no; however, demons and vampires are real. You started dreaming about demons and vampires at the age of fifteen and those dreams were preparing you to become the slayer."
Cat gestured towards the door while saying in tone fearful to upset her, "I'm going back in now."
Before Cat had a chance to take a step, Buffy blurted out, "You didn't get the nickname 'Cat' because of your middle name." Buffy's words had grabbed Cat's attention. "At first I thought you did, but you didn't, did you? Your nickname came from your catlike reflexes and your clandestine movements. Although you don't show muscle tone, you are twice as strong if not more as a normal man. Your reflexes, clandestine movements and strength are all characteristics of a vampire slayer. I know this because about fifteen years ago, I was chosen. Between ten and fifteen years ago, I was the slayer."
"I'm going to pretend for one minute that you're not a crazy woman." Buffy just grinned. "Are you here to tell me that I'm the next… the next vampire slayer?"
"You're not the slayer and since you are over the age of twenty, you'll never become the slayer."
"Then why are you here?"
"Well although that you won't become the actual slayer, I can still use your slayer talents. I'm going after a certain vampire and where I have to go to get him the chosen slayer can't follow."
"You want me to help you go after that vampire?"
"I am assembling a team and you are a potential team member."
"And if I don't join your team?"
"I have a list of names of eight women who were once potential slayers. And like you they are twenty years old or older. You are the first of the eight who I approached with this and I'm hoping to recruit three… perhaps even four women from my list."
"While still pretending that you aren't crazy, where exactly are you going in order to stop this vampire?"
"Well, this journey will start in Washington D.C. and I can't really tell you more than that until we are in Washington D.C. Will you join me?"
"I do like a challenge and although going after a vampire sounds like a challenge, I'm going to pass."
Buffy slightly sighed before saying, "In case you would change your mind after I leave, I would like to give you an address in Washington D.C. of where I will be."
"You will be wasting your time, but sure. You can give me an address."
Buffy and Cat went back into the restaurant. After reaching the bar, Cat handed Buffy a piece of paper and pencil. Buffy wrote out the address to the TEC facility and once Buffy gave Cat the address, she and Jack left the restaurant.
After getting back into car, Jack asked, "So where do we go from here."
Buffy pulled out the list and glanced at it before saying, "Dallas, Texas is where we need to go."
Before starting the car, Jack pulled out his cell phone and said, "I'll let James know to prepare the plane."
Buffy gazed over the list as Jack made his call. When Jack was done a minute later, Buffy said, "The name of the one who is in Dallas is Nichole White." Jack started the car. "She's twenty-two. Her school record reads much like Cat's record does, except for that she did graduate high school. I don't have a home address for her, but I do have an address to a gym. Hopefully we'll find her there once we get to Dallas."
As Jack drove away he said, "So tell me another one of your stories."
Buffy grinned before saying, "Since you deal with time travel, you might be interested to know that my friends and I were caught in a time loop… in fact twice." Jack gave her a curious look. "The second time loop was cause by three menacing college science nerds who was testing their luck with me. The first one I have no clue as to what caused the time loop, but saving a fireman's life is what ended it. I call that story 'the Fireman' and for some strange reason, my sister Dawn was the only one who knew that we were in a time loop. If I knew the full story on that, I would tell you that one."
"Why don't you tell me what you do know," Jack said.
Buffy grinned and said, "Okay here's what I know…"