Author's Notes:

This story was not meant to be well written. It's kinda like when an artist doodles, and their drawing isn't meant to be a masterpiece, it was just sort of done. That's what this is. Also, I'll be using this OC a lot in future fanfics, this is just an intro to her. Also, I created none of these characters (except for K). Joss is a genius, everyone go worship him. That is all.

New Slayers

With thousands of Slayers all around the globe, Buffy has finally gotten used to being a general of her army. With their HQ hidden away, dozens of new Slayers come in every day to start their training, and to find a place in the army. Only a handful of slayers stay at HQ. This is mainly the Scooby gang, and around 20 other Slayers. Buffy doesn't really pay too much attention to the other Slayers seeing as, even to her own surprise, there is no Big Bad out there right now. The Slayer army has found their place in the world, keeping it safe. Now that Twilight has revealed his identity, Angel is now staying with the Scoobies at the Slayer HQ. Just recently, Spike has arrived, and Buffy is sitting down with him in the lobby, talking to him for the first time since they left Sunnydale after his death.

"So that's how you came back," Buffy said after Spike finished his story about his adventures at Wolfram and Hart. "Angel, you knew this whole time and didn't tell me?"

"I wanted to die a hero, Buffy," Spike said. "I never planned to come back."

"Why are you here, then?" Willow asked. "Not that I'm not glad to see you, it's just, you never planned to come back and yet here you are."

"Something just called me here," Spike told her. "I thought there was some impending doom or big evil around these parts, but then I found your little hang out, and thought you were in trouble or something."

Buffy frowned and shook her head. "No trouble. But I'm glad you're here."

Angel cleared his throat.

Buffy and Angel were officially a couple now. They had decided that nothing was standing in their way at this point, and that they would be together forever, completely in love. That was, of course, until Spike arrived.

Xander and Dawn came from upstairs, giggling and flirting until they saw Spike, when they suddenly fell silent.

"Aw, so the pirate and the little-bit are together now, are they?" Spike teased. "There's a lot I need to catch up on."

"Buffy!" called Satsu, running into the lobby from outside the HQ. There was a point in time where Satsu was in love with Buffy. It was believed by many who stayed at HQ that this was the reason that Buffy decided to keep her around HQ.

"Yes, what is it, Satsu?"

"The new Slayers have come in. There's around ten of them."

"Good. Send them in and I will assign them a regime."

"There's just one problem," Satsu said, a bit nervous.

"What?"

"They're all almost dying."

Everyone gasped.

"What do you mean?" Buffy asked.

"Well, I was driving them here, and we got attacked by a huge group of vampires, and most of them were bitten. I was able to not get injured, but the rest of them aren't in good shape. We need to get them to the infirmary. Right now."

"I'll come with," Spike said, standing up. "I want to see how General Buffy runs this place."

Buffy rolled her eyes, but proceeded to the infirmary. Angel kept a close eye on Spike.

There were ten beds lined up, each one with a bloody girl fast asleep in them.

"This batch needs some serious training," said Satsu. "There were around 20 vamps, we should've been able to take them easy."

"Twenty?" Willow repeated. "These vamp nests are getting huge!"

"Yeah. Anyway, none of them did any killing except for this one," Satsu said, pointing to the smallest girl in the batch. "She's a fighter, that one. And there's something different about her. Whatever it is, I like her. The only reason she's down is because she was trying to protect the others. She's almost as good of a slayer as I am."

Spike walked to the side of the girl's bed. "She can't be more than five feet, this one."

"She's not," Satsu said. "She's tiny, but she's got some passion in her."

The girl was small. Her skin was a bit dark, and her black hair barely reached her shoulders. She looked so innocent, despite all the blood, while she was asleep.

"I say we keep her at HQ," Satsu said, "and send the rest off to the training camp. That is, if that's okay with you, Buffy."

"Well, you're the one who's seen these girls in action. With you making that decision means less work for me. I agree. Except for the fact we don't have any more rooms here at HQ."

"I'll figure it out," Satsu said, winking.

Angel noticed something weird with Spike. Ever since he had walked into the infirmary, he had not looked at anyone else except for that small Slayer.

"I'm going to stay here," Angel said. "Just to make sure the girls are all right."

"Okay," Buffy said, giving him a light kiss. "I think I'm going to take a nap. It's been a while since I've been able to."

"You do that, Buffy."

"Well, I think Kennedy is waiting in our room. I'll be off, too," Willow said, leaving Spike, Angel, and Satsu alone with the slayers.

"That one is special," Satsu said, looking at the girl instead of the vampires. "I'm not really sure what it is about her. But she's so innocent, yet really hot at the same time. Like, when she was fighting those vamps, I could sense her passion. But yeah, she's really hot."

"She's pretty cute," Angel said.

"She's beautiful," Spike whispered.

The girl began to open her eyes, she blinked twice, and then looked up. "I… where am I?"

"Hey, K, I knew you'd be the first to get up," Satsu said, smirking. "You're the toughest one in this batch."

She sat up and rubbed the back of her head. "I failed you, Satsu. Look at all these injured girls."

"You were the best Slayer out there, the only one protecting us. You're at HQ, by the way, in the hospital. The one next to you is Spike, and this one is Angel."

"Spike… and Angel… it's very nice to meet you."

"Yeah. What d'you call yourself?"

"Well, my name is Kavitha, my friends just call me K."

"Just K?"

"Just K. Like the letter."

"How mysterious," Angel said.

"Oh, no, I'm not trying to be mysterious or anything," K said. "Just trying to make other people's lives easier."

"Well, I should go," Angel said, standing up. "Satsu, come and help me inform the training camp that they will be receiving nine new Slayers tomorrow."

"Right," Satsu nodded and left the hospital with Angel.

"So nine of us are going into training? I wonder which one of us is staying," K said, mostly to herself.

"You're the one that's staying, Pet," Spike informed her. "Heard you're the toughest in this crowd."

"Well, I'm glad that I'll get to hang around HQ, but… might I ask who you are? I mean, you're obviously not a Slayer."

Spike chuckled. "Can't hide anything from you," he said, just before he told K his story. About becoming a vampire, falling in love with Buffy, and fighting for a soul.

"That's a beautiful story," K said. "Mine isn't nearly as poetic. I was a girl, I was a weirdo, now I'm a Slayer, and I'm here."

"Weirdo?" Spike repeated. "I don't think you're weird."

"Maybe not weird, but I'm still sorta…"

"Different," Spike finished for her.

"Yeah. I guess that's the nice way of putting it."

They both laughed together. Spike sat down next to her bed. The two of them continued to talk, completely innocently and casually, as if they had known each other for centuries, just conversing back and forth.

Out of nowhere, K leaned forward and lightly kissed Spike on his lips. He did not object, yet she pulled away just as quickly as she had moved forward.

"Oh, God," she gasped. "Spike, I am so sorry. I didn't mean to—"

"No, don't apologize. I—"

"Spike?" said a voice from just outside the hospital door. It opened slightly and Satsu poked her head in. "You're still in here?"

"Yeah."

"Buffy's organizing a Scooby meeting and I thought you could join us. And K if she's feeling up to it."

"Oh, I'm more than up to it," K said, standing on her own two feet. "I am a Slayer, after all, and I heal very quickly."

"Come on, then."

The three of them went out to the lobby and sat down around a table. Buffy was at the head of the table, going around to Dawn with Xander, Giles, and Satsu, Willow, Kennedy, and Spike at the other end of the table, circling around to Angel, and K sitting next to Buffy.

"Our new Slayer is joining us right now?" Buffy asked.

"Y-yes, ma'am," K said a bit nervously. "Um, my friends call me K so I guess any of you guys here can call me that. Satsu told me that I'm going to be staying at HQ with you guys."

"Where do you proposes she sleeps, Satsu?" Buffy asked. Yet Satsu, Willow, and Kennedy seemed to be giggling about something in their own circle. Spike looked like he was listening in on the conversation. He was not amused.

"Oh. She's going to sleep in my room. I'll deal with the rest, don't worry," Satsu told Buffy promptly before going back into her circle with the other girls and Spike.

"So you think she's gay?" Satsu asked Kennedy. "She is rather attractive. It's weird, how someone so… almost innocent can be called hot. I feel almost ashamed for calling her hot."

"She is pretty adorable," Willow said.

"I am definitely getting not-straight vibes from her," Kennedy said.

"She's got a pretty good gay-dar," Willow teased.

"I'm telling you, she's not bloody gay," Spike spat.

"Don't ruin this for me, Spike!" Satsu said. "I can't have Buffy, so now you're trying to take K away from me, too?"

"Welcome to my world, love," Spike told her.

"Spike, are you saying you're in love with K?" Willow asked.

"It's not love," Spike said. "I'll always love Buffy. It's just something… different."

"Or it would be if she were straight," Satsu said.

"She bloody kissed me!"

"No way!" Satsu gasped. "Well, there goes my chance. Kennedy, I thought you said she was gay?"

"I didn't say that. I just said she wasn't straight. She could be bi. Actually, now that I think about it, emotionally, I think she's straight. But I think physically, she prefers women."

"Her gay-dar doesn't lie," Willow teased Kennedy again.

"So she'll love Spike, but she'll want to fuck me?" Satsu asked. "Hey, I'm down with that."

Spike simply sighed, and didn't speak after that. Honestly, he didn't know how he felt about her. He loved Buffy, he knew that for sure. And there was no sexual attraction between him and K. Then what was that feeling he got when she kissed him? It made his blood race more than ever before, it felt like the roots of his hair were tickling his brain. It felt almost like when he kissed Buffy, except a million times more passionate and more real. It was real. Spike almost forgot what life was like before he met K. Now, he was real. But this wasn't love… what was it?

"Kennedy, Satsu, did you two get that?" Buffy said from across the table.

"Huh? Oh, yeah, we got it," Satsu lied. "Do you know what she just said?" she whispered to Kennedy.

She shook her head. None of them were paying attention.

"Good," Buffy said. "We'll end this, then."

She left, and the people around the table scattered to their places.

K walked up to the girls and Spike. "She said you two need to patrol tonight," she told them. "I could kinda tell you weren't paying attention."

Satsu frowned. "Tonight I've gotta patrol? Ugh, this sucks. D'you want to come with?"

"I would, but I've sorta had enough of vamps for one night. Er… I mean, evil vamps," she added quickly realizing Spike was still amongst them.

"Well, we'll see you around," Kennedy said, practically dragging Satsu outside to patrol.

"Maybe I can show you around HQ," Willow told K.

"That would be really great," K said. "Thanks, Willow."

Angel came and sat next to Willow. "Hey, new Slayer," he said.

"Hello, Angel," K said sweetly.

"Angel, would you like to help me give K the grand tour?" Willow asked.

"Sure, why not?"

"That's good. I can imagine how it feels being the new person in a place like this. All the bonds we have are so close, I can only imagine how difficult it would be to try to break into that."

"Not at all. I feel Satsu and I are very good friends," K said with a smile. "And I've gotten to know Spike. But a tour with you and Angel should help me feel right at home."

"Excellent. Spike, would you care to join us? Considering you're sort of new to the building, too."

"Spike," Buffy said, approaching the group. "I need to talk to you. We haven't gotten much of a chance to say anything to each other since you arrived. I just wanted to get some things straightened out."

"Sure thing," Spike said, standing up and walking away with Buffy.

"Well, that tour isn't going to take itself!" Willow said, enthusiastically dragging K by the arm to show her around the building.

Angel and Willow took K around the building, showing her the main base of operations for the Slayers. They also got to know her a bit more. Her history, her view on life. They came to the conclusion that she was very different from anyone they had ever met before.

"And these are the rooms," Willow said, pointing down the hallway. The one at the end is mine and Kennedy's, and the one next to it is Satsu's. So you'll be staying there with her."

"I remember you said Spike was new to HQ, too… where is he sleeping?" K asked.

"You don't have to worry about Spike," Angel said.

"But I am worried about him."

"We'll make him sleep outside like a dog or something," Angel said, attempting to joke.

"We're still working on our Spike situation," Willow said. "Anyway, we should go back to the lobby."

When they went down, it was completely empty except for Buffy and Spike, still talking, the mood dark and serious.

"You're still down here?" Angel said, moving swiftly towards Buffy before putting his arms around her. "Let's go to bed."

"Just remember what I told you," Buffy reminded Spike before allowing Angel to take her away.

"K, I'll be in my room. The door is open for you to come in. Kennedy is out patrolling, so I'll be lonely. And so is Satsu, so if you want to room with me tonight, that's totally fine."

"Thanks, Willow," K said. "I think I'll do that. I'll come up in about five minutes."

Willow smiled sweetly, and left the lobby.

"Where are you sleeping, Spike?" K asked.

"Oh, just out here. In the lobby. They haven't got a room for me, so I'm like a second layer of security in here."

"I see," K said.

"You must be tired, what with the vamp slaying and all. You should probably head up there with Willow."

"Oh, I slept enough in the hospital. Not very tired right now."

"Yeah? Well, then how was your tour of the building?"

"Fine. Just fine. And, um, how was your talk with Buffy?"

A moment of silence lingered in the air between them.

"Great," Spike finally said. "Just great."

"You don't sound like it was too great."

"We just caught up. I told her about how I was a ghost and then recorporialized at Wolfram and Hart. She told me about leading the Slyer Army. It was just fine."

"You still love her," K said. It wasn't a question.

"What the bloody hell does 'love' mean, anyway?" Spike said.

"Does she still love you?" K asked.

"I don't know," Spike said. "She told me that she had never lied to me. She said every word she uttered was true, right up to my death. So I guess she meant it when she told me she loved me."

"That is great."

"No, it's not. She's with Angel now. She might love me, but not in the same way. I'll never be with Buffy."

"You love her so much. I guess me saying, 'life goes on, and so should you,' isn't going to do much to you, is it?"

Spike chuckled. "There's something about you."

"What? Did I say something wrong?"

"No, it's just—"

"Oh, I've got an idea!" K interrupted. She ran and jumped onto the table where Buffy held the meetings and begun to spin around. "Come on, Spike!"

Spike approached the table with caution as it shook while K continued to move on it. "What are you doing?"

"Dancing, of course! Come join me, there's just enough room for the two of us." She held Spike's arms and aided him in getting up on the table. He put his left hand on her waist, and his right hand in her other hand as she put her other hand around his neck. K began to hum a little tune as the two of them swayed back and forth, moving around on the table.

"Why are we doing this?" Spike asked.

"What? You've never danced on a table before? You, my friend, have not lived until today. I'm glad you decided to do this with me."

Spike smiled a genuine smile for the first time in God knows how long. "I'm glad I decided to do this, too."

K smiled up at him before spinning around and falling into Spike's arms.

"Whew. That's what I call a finale," she chuckled, standing up straight again and jumping off the table.

Spike followed. "I can't even begin to figure you out."

"Stop trying to figure life out, and just live it. I'm off to bed. Goodnight, William."

"Goodnight, Kavitha."