OPENING TEASER
Phoebe Halliwell gave a sign of relief as she typed the last sentence to "Downer of Heartbreak Grove's" letter. She picked up her purse and got up from behind her desk at the Bay Mirror. She went over to the mirror to check herself. This was her first date with Coop. She wore a pretty white top, just a little off the shoulders with four inch heels and high waisted jeans. Her brunette hair was pulled back in a swoop, with a white flower just above her right ear.
There is nothing to be nervous about, she thought to herself. Nothing can go wrong.
She left out of her office, dodging Elise before she could distract her and ask her a million questions about the article, and into the elevator. She descended into the employee parking lot, and began to dig into her purse, looking for her car keys. Just as she'd reached them at the very bottom, there was loud scream and the sound of someone being thrown on top of a car.
Phoebe was startled and ran toward the sound. She made a right turn and found a woman fighting a defenseless looking guy. The woman had dark hair, maybe a couple of years younger than she was, with an odd tattoo on her right arm. The dark haired woman kicked the guy in the face and he flew ten feet into the wall.
"Hey!" yelled Phoebe, running over to the woman. "What the hell are you doing?"
The woman missed Phoebe's entire line and grabbed her by her shoulders and through her with amazing strength onto the top of a Lincoln.
"That's it!" said Phoebe, kicking the woman in the face, knocking her backward. She flipped off the hood and took a fighting stance against the woman.
"You think you can take me?" said the woman.
"Try me and see," said Phoebe.
The woman swung at Phoebe who blocked it with her left arm and she punched the woman in the face. She did a roundhouse kick and missed, tripping slightly. The woman back handed her and jumped into the air and kicked Phoebe in the face, spinning her to the ground. She grabbed Phoebe by the arm.
"You shouldn't have gotten in," said the woman. "This was known of your business."
"I make things my business," said Phoebe, grabbing the woman's hair and pulling with all her strength, flipping her to the ground.
"Who the hell are you?"
"I'm a witch," said Phoebe. "What kind of demon are you?"
"Not a demon," said the woman. "But you might wanna take a look at the buddy your trying to save."
But just then, the man tackled Phoebe to the ground and pinned her.
"What are you doing? I just saved your ass!" said Phoebe.
The man's face morphed into a hideous demonic face with fangs.
"Psych," said the demon.
Phoebe headbutted the demon and he fell back off her.
"You should learn the diff between the good guys and the bad guys," said the woman, dusting herself off and getting to her feet. She punched the demon in the face. "For example, this---" she nodded toward the demon "---is the bad guy." She did a double kick and the demon hit the roof of a car. She picked the demon up by the scuff of his collar and hurled him through the air into the front window of Elise's new 09 Charger, smashing it.
"Which are you?" said Phoebe.
"I straddle the fence every now and then, depends," said the woman. She elbowed the demon in the face.
"I'm guessing you do this alot," said Phoebe, putting her hands on her hips. "Fight demons and normal people."
"Comes with the job," said the woman, pulling out a sharp pointed wooden object from her sleeve. She stabbed the demon through the chest and he erupted into dust and ash. "Not really people though. Not lately anyway."
"Whoa," said Phoebe, with a grin. "No messy clean up."
"Well, I gotta book," said the woman, beginning to walk away.
"Hey, wait," called Phoebe. The woman turned around. "Who are you?"
"I'm Faith," introduced the woman, "the Vampire Slayer."