The Soul of the Weary
This is not a Buffy or a Charmed fanfiction, per se, as much as it's… based?... on these shows. I'm going to bring some characters in later, but it's all new ones at the moment. You'll see, hopefully. I barely have a plotline at the moment, so this may just be, like, more of a moment to moment fanfic, where I end it when it seems fitting, or I may think of a plotline. Either way, whatever. If you don't like where it's going, or just don't like it, don't read it.
Disclaimer: I'm only going to say this once, so PLEASE listen! I don't own Buffy or Charmed. They belong to their respective creators! I'm making absolutely nothing off of this; it's just for fun!
Now that the boring part is out of the way, on to the story! You can thank my beautiful muse, Britaenny, for this story. I had this story going in a COMPLETELY different direction, then, at about 2 AM yesterday, she changed my mind.
It was all her idea!
Brit, you're the muse…
I can't type though, can I?
You are right now, Brit.
Oh. flees
And on that note, please, read and review!
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"Yeah, like that'll ever happen," Dani (short for Danielle) said to her two best friends, Bethany and Maria, as they walked into her house. "Mark will never ask me out. I'm just not… I don't know, I guess I'm just not his type. Besides, he's transferring to some super-exclusive boarding school that you have to be invited to." She paused, closed her eyes, and listened for any noises, and, upon hearing only silence, smiled. "It's okay, guys. It's only us for the moment." Bethany, who liked to be called Beth, and Maria visibly relaxed.
"Well," Beth sighed, "that's good. I always hate for us to be in the same place when there are other people around. It makes our job so much harder!" Maria and Dani nodded. They had a secret; one that no one would believe, even if they saw it with their own eyes. They were Charmed Ones. In fact, the few people they had told it to had brushed them off, thinking they were playing a game. After all, no one would expect a TV show to be real. Hell, they hadn't believed it, until both Beth and Maria had almost died from being possessed.
Dani reminisced about everything they had learned over the past year. There were many differences between them and the TV show. Namely, not all demons came corporeal. Whitelighters wouldn't show up corporeal unless you asked specifically. Dani couldn't see demons/whitelighters/darklighters/warlocks/etc. if they were corporeal. They also couldn't possess her. She wasn't sure why, but no spells affected her, and energy balls and such didn't affect her either. Their only explanation of it was the fact that, not only was she Charmed, but she was also Wiccan, and had been since before they had found out about the whole "power of three" thing. For her to see or talk to any demon, or their whitelighter David, they had to be possessing either Beth or Maria. She was able to make up for this, though, with her finesse as a spell writer. They couldn't seem to be together at all, whether in a chat room, or on the phone, without an attack on one of them.
Dani shook her head, attempting to clear it. She noticed that her friends had already made it into the kitchen/living room area. Quickening her pace, she walked over to the fridge and opened it, pulling water out for the three of them. Beth and Maria had settled on the couch, chatting animatedly about their boyfriends. Tossing them their water bottles, Dani collapsed sideways into the armchair. While laughing about Dani's crush on Mark, a change came over Maria, and her eyes looked… it was hard to describe their change. Their normal gleam had disappeared, and been replaced by a sinister look. Recognizing this look, Dani and Beth quickly started exchanging insults with this demon, giving Dani enough time to construct a spell to vanquish it. After the demon was gone, Maria gasped, and went into her post-possession faint, during which time David came, and hung out with them until she had her strength back. This was a pretty routine occurrence ever since she had almost been killed while she was weakened from a possession. The only reason she wasn't dead was due to Dani's magical strength and Beth's quick thinking.
Dani slumped back into the armchair, and her kitten Cherry hopped into her lap. Just another day in the insane lives of the Charmed ones, she thought wearily.
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That evening, Dani's mother opened the front door to a rather handsome man asking for Dani. Her mother looked warily at the man and said, "I'm sorry, why would you like to see her?"
The man smiled warmly and responded with a slight British accent, "Don't worry, I'm not here for any odd reason. Your daughter entered a scholarship competition for my school. My name's Robert Adams. I stopped by to see if I could interview her, and find out if she was a candidate for our school."
Visibly relaxed, Dani's mother smiled at Robert. "Of course, come in! Dani didn't say anything about a scholarship competition! She must have wanted it to be a surprise!" She led Robert into the house, and closed the door. As he walked through the house, Robert could have sworn he heard someone's voice, but he wasn't sure.
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Dani sat on the end of her bed, dragging a pen through her auburn hair while she worked on a song she was writing. Balancing her guitar in her lap, she started tapping her headphones, which were connected to her amp, with her hand. Satisfied with her new beat, she picked her guitar up and started playing. She had dropped the pen by this point, and was belting the words out as she played…
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So I walk this road again
Until I see your face once more
I can't understand this pain
I keep picking myself off the floor
And though I try to fight these battles
Please don't blame me if I fall
I tried my hardest but
I'm so weary
Oh so weary of this fight
I'm so weary…
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Dani's head snapped up as a pillow hit her head. She slipped her headphones from her head. "Shut the hell up, Dani! Someone's here to see you about some scholarship or something." Dani's older sister Rachel turned and walked back out of the room, leaving Dani staring at her back. She sighed and stood up, placing her guitar on its stand as she walked out of the room. Completely confused, she kept singing her new song under her breath as she made her way down the stairs, dancing as she went.
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Dani walked into the living room and saw her mother and a man sitting there. She gave the man an appraising look. He appeared to be in his late 20's or early 30's, tall, with slightly long black hair. She smiled and introduced herself. He turned her mother and asked to speak with Dani in private ("To make sure we have honest answers to our interview questions," he explained). With a proud smile that didn't quite reach her eyes, her mother hurridly left the room
Robert turned to her. Smiling a secretive smile, he made certain that her mother was gone, and said, "You know as well as I do that you never entered a scholarship competition."
Dani's guard was up. Widening her eyes slightly, and taking a step back, she started trying to figure out if he was a demon, or a warlock, or just some random person. Robert smile grew wider. "Very good! That wariness will serve you well in the future. Let's get right to the point, shall we?" Even more shocked that he noticed her reaction, she nodded. "I'll start the way I'm supposed to. 'In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the-'"
"'-demons and the forces of darkness.' Yadda, yadda, yadda," she broke in, "What's with all this random Buffy crap?"
"I would think that you would see this better than anyone, Danielle. After all, you are a Charmed One." Dani assumed she looked completely shocked, because she certainly felt like it. Robert looked at her reassuringly. "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone, though I believe you should tell your mother. Especially because you forgot the last line, 'She is the Slayer.' And, you also know as well as I do, I wouldn't know about your whole Charmed deal if-"
Dani interrupted again. "-if I wasn't the new slayer. Oh, shit." She dropped her head into hands.
"Don't worry, you can do this. After all, you did manage to be a Charmed one easy enough…"
Dani face adopted a slightly panicked look, "I'm sorry, but I'm spell-resistant, not 'death-resistant'!" She started hyperventilating.
"Calm down! Breathe!" Robert grabbed her arms, attempting to steady her. Dani shook his hands off with a quick toss of her shoulders, sinking to the floor.
"I… I can't do this! I'm not a-a slayer! I'm a teenage girl! I sing! I play guitar, I dance! I don't slay! Granted, I am, like, a fricking Charmed one, but that's only when I'm with my friends! Are you sure I'm the slayer? Are you sure it's not Maria or Beth?" Dani drew her knees to her chest, hugging them close to her; as if trying to keep warm.
Robert sank down to her level, attempting to look her in the eye. "Yes, I am sure it's you. Do you know why I'm sure there's no mistake? Because you're the only one of the three of you who could handle it." She eyed him warily. "Yes, you can handle it," he told her, reading her expression. "Whoever's in charge of destiny and stuff thought you were, and I trust them."
"Yeah? Well, I don't. I' don't get it… I'm not a slayer… I can't be… Can I?" Dani looked completely exhausted
Robert sat with her as she stared into space. He touched her shoulder gently, attempting to bring her out of a trance. She jumped backwards, skittering away from him.
"Danielle, calm down, it's okay… Anyway, if you haven't figured it out because I'm here, the council told me I'm to be your Watcher."
"Yeah, that's all well and good and crap, but there's the whole no-scholarship-to-a-school-so-no-way-to-meet-you-with-an-overprotective-mother problem."
"No, we actually have a school for you to go to."
Dani seemed shocked. "What?"
"Yes, it's the Delaine School of Witchcraft. We wanted you, Beth, and Maria anyway, since you're the Charmed ones, but now that you're a Slayer, we're definitely having you come."
"You mean, like in Harry Potter?" Dani's eyes lit up.
"You should know better than that, Dani. Harry Potter isn't real…" He trailed off after seeing the look of laughter on Dani's face.
"Actually… it is real… Harry had a crush on Maria for a while…" Dani grinned at him.
"Oh. Well. No, it's not like Harry Potter. Perhaps we should change the name… It would be more aptly named as the Delaine School of Wicca. It focuses on Wicca, and the kind of stuff that was on Buffy."
"Okay, then. That does sound kind of cool… What about-"
"Yes, we're inviting Beth and Maria also. I'm going to their houses tomorrow to approach their families."
"You can ask them tonight if you want… We're having a sleepover tonight, and since I'm the oldest, I'm picking Beth up on the way to Maria's house… I can give you a ride over on the way… Besides, I'd rather a Watcher, like, be there the whole time, since being alone normally results in us almost dying by knives and stuff… We don't sleep anyway…"
"Does this mean that you're accepting being a Slayer?"
"I don't exactly have a choice, now, do I?"
"Well… no. But I thought I'd make it seem like you did." Robert wasn't entirely sure whether the glare she sent him was real or not. He decided to ignore it, and smirked back. "Either way, I'd be extremely grateful for the offer for the ride. I just need to run out to my car to get some brochures and stuff."
Dani looked confused. "Why do you need brochures? You didn't need brochures with my mother…"
"You I could get away with saying you entered a scholarship. Your mother would be happy you got a scholarship. Beth and Maria, I feel that I need to have visual aids."
Dani half-smiled toward him. As she walked away to get her guitar and notebook, Robert heard her mutter under her breath. "Yeah, but she just wants me out of the house…"
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Well, there you go! I did write that song in there, it's a full song, and once I work the kinks out of the music itself, I will be singing/posting it on my website. Also, as of right now, this won't have more than a passing mention of Harry Potter. I hope. Anyway, I hope you don't think this sucks too bad!