Slayer of Smallville

Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon, while Smallville belongs to Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and whoever I forgot to mention. I do not own these characters.

Sequel to Potential in Smallville, so I would suggest reading that first.

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"Blah" means speech

'Halb' means thoughts

Slightly Better Than You

Cemetery (September 27, 2004, Monday)

It was one in the morning in the town of Smallville, and though teenagers liked to stay out late, they were all inside their beds, angry about the start of another school week. So one would question as to why one teenager was still outside, especially walking around in a cemetery.

Chloe Sullivan, Smallville's current vampire slayer, was upset. The day she was supposed to go back to her high school and have a semi normal year, she had to patrol. She thought having Willow as her Watcher, her mentor, would be a good thing, but Willow knew when to crack her whip.

"After what we both felt when we entered the town, it's best for you to start patrolling immediately," were Willow's words.

"No one is even here, they're all sleeping like us normal people do," Chloe said to herself.

"I think we both know that slayers aren't like normal people," a voice called out from behind Chloe. She turned, only to be kicked in the solar plexus and was sent flying into the wall of the mausoleum.

Chloe rose from the ground and looked for her attacker. This vampire was fast and stronger than any other she faced, not that she face that many in her lifetime. She didn't know how that happened, but she needed to stop him.

The vampire appeared above her, from the roof of the mausoleum, but Chloe was ready. She sidestepped his attack and kicked him in the side of his ribs. He fell but quickly rose to block Chloe's next attack. The two stayed in the same position, arms locked, trying to break free.

"Who are you?" Chloe asked through gritted teeth. Her legs were ready to give out on her any moment.

"I'm just your slightly better than average vampire," he smirked. "And the vampire whose gonna beat his very first slayer and bathe in her blood."

"Right," Chloe said as she forced the vampire back, giving her the chance she needed to deliver a roundhouse kick.

Her foot connected with the vampire's head and he tumbled to the ground. Chloe had her stake ready and with the quickness of the slayer, had it pinned above the vampire's dead heart.

"How are you slightly better?" Chloe asked repeating his words.

"You really think I'm going to tell you?" the vampire laughed even when Chloe pushed the stake closer into his chest. "More just like me are waiting in the dark and they'll come for you. After you're gone, this whole town will be ours."

Chloe, seeing she got all the information she could, pushed the stake home and the vampire was dusted.

"Great, stronger vampires means more patrolling," Chloe sighed as she walked from the cemetery.

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Willow's Hotel Room (Same Day, Morning)

"I'm gonna be late!" Chloe yelled as she threw clothes around the room.

"And here I thought seniors enjoyed walking in late," Willow laughed.

"Normally, I wouldn't mind, but this is my first day back," Chloe said as she gave up hope on finding an outfit. She decided to throw on the same clothes she wore when she patrolled, blue jeans and a red halter top.

"That's a little revealing," Willow mentioned.

"They'll get over it!" Chloe yelled as she ran from the hotel room.

After speeding down several roads in Willow's ruby red sports car, Chloe barely made it to school. After getting several looks at the car she arrived in, Chloe hastily clicked the alarm.

'No one is stealing the company car,' Chloe said to herself.

She vaulted up the steps to the school and found herself with enough time to find her friends before classes started. She had a hunch as to where they would be, so she walked to the Torch, her old home away from home. On the way, many students who bugged her about when the first issue of the school newspaper was going to come out greeted her. She guessed Clark was a little behind on certain things.

"I'm gone for like, a week, and this is what happens?" Chloe feigned shock as she entered the room to find Clark, Lana, and her cousin, Lois.

"Chloe!" Lois yelled as she ran and gave her a bear hug. "We've been waiting for you!"

"I know, I was running a little late this morning and Willow was just standing around making jokes at my expense."

"Willow came with you?" Lana asked.

"I finished with most of my school work, but I still have some things to do, so Willow came to help me," Chloe said as she gave Lois and Lana a look.

"How many teachers does the school have to just lend them out?" Clark asked suspiciously.

"Willow is more like my mentor, so yea, she was able to leave the school and come here."

"Stop digging Smallville," Lois said annoyed. "You don't see Chloe over here asking about your girlfriend."

Clark immediately started to blush as Chloe sputtered, trying to find the right words. She never got the chance to speak as a girl, about the same height as Chloe walked into the room and attached herself to Clark.

"There you are, baby," the mystery girl said as she kissed Clark on the cheek. "I've been looking everywhere for you."

The girl turned to Chloe with a smile, "Who's this?"

"Denise, this is Chloe, Chloe, this is Denise," Clark finally spoke.

Chloe studied the girl in front of her. Behind the blinding white smile, Chloe felt something. She seemed to be your average brunette, but there was an unmistakable power within her.

"So, this is the Chloe Sullivan that I hear so much about?" Denise asked a hint of jealousy in her voice.

"That's me," Chloe said a little too perky.

"We're gonna let you two lovebirds do whatever it is you do," Lois said as Lana and herself each took one of Chloe's arms in theirs and walked from the room.

"How come no one informed me about this Denise person?" Chloe asked walking down the hall.

"It wasn't important," Lana waved her hand, dismissing Denise.

"And, we didn't want you doing some background check and red flagging her to the government or something," Lois added.

"So anyway, why were you really late?" Lana asked as they stopped in front of their homeroom.

"I was patrolling and this vampire refused to die because he said he was slightly better than the average vampire," Chloe shrugged.

"Well, did he die?" Lois asked. She was still a little uncomfortable about her cousin having to fight things that weren't supposed to exist.

"Yup, I staked him, but he warned me about their being more just like him in Smallville. They want to take over the town, but I won't let that happen," Chloe reassured her friends at the looks they were giving her.

"You better not," Lois said, as the first bell rang, "I don't wanna die knowing I'm still technically a senior in high school."

After her first class, Chloe's day progressed in an eerily normal way. Though she avoided Clark and Denise, everyone else she saw was happy to see her and she them. She was caught up on everything that happened while she was away.

The meteor infected people seemed to be making another appearance, though the vampires of the town were probably waging a war against them.

The only problem during the school day was that Chloe could sense some of the students who happened to be infected by the meteor rocks. She was a friend to some of these people, and she didn't know how to handle the situation. But she knew she couldn't just wait around for one of them to finally snap and start using their powers for evil.

When the bell rang, telling all that school was over, Chloe and her friends made their way outside.

"Who'd you steal the car from?" Lois asked as she noticed Chloe's car.

"It's Willow's thank you very much, she just doesn't know I have it."

"Chloe!" Clark yelled from the school. He ran over to the three women, Denise at his heels.

"Better late than never," Lois quipped.

"I was wondering if you wanted to come over." Clark asked. "We could catch up."

Chloe smiled at Clark, but it quickly faded at the look on Denise's face. As much as she wanted to steal Clark for the night and make Denise jealous, she couldn't. She promised herself that she would move on from him and that's what she planned on doing.

"Actually, I have more classes, just with Willow tonight," Chloe said softly. She really wanted to send Denise flying when she started smiling again. Instead she bid her farewells and got in her car and sped off from the school.

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Later that night, Chloe was surprised to hear a knocking on Willow's hotel room door. She was in the middle of a magic lesson when it happened.

"What are you guys doing here?" Chloe asked as she saw Lois and Lana standing in the doorway.

"Well, we figured you were probably doing something slayer related and we wanted to see what!" Lana said as she made her way inside the room.

Willow greeted the two and welcomed them to sit in on the lesson. They sat on the leather couch, keeping space open in the middle for Chloe.

Since she knew she couldn't kick them out, Chloe got back to performing her spell. She had made Willow keep her promise about learning to do elemental magic and now, she was working on fire again. She knew how to cause big explosions and even create a fireball, but that was it.

She was working on a mapping spell. When she did the spell the result should have been a map of fire on her palm. It wouldn't hurt her, if she did it right.

Chloe cleared her mind, or at least attempted to. If it were just Willow, or even, her three slayer best friends, Alicia, Bianca, and Dana, then she could easily do this. But with her normal best friend and cousin, the pressure was a little intense for her.

She gathered her magic and was thankful that she didn't need to borrow magic from a god or goddess. She just needed to draw the power from the Earth. She thought hard about what she wanted and how she wanted it to happen.

Chloe opened her eyes and smiled. In her right hand were several lines of fire.

"What did you do?" Lois asked eyes wide. She had seen some pretty weird things when she came to Smallville, but this took the cake.

"It's your standard fire spell," Willow giggled. "Just added a few things to make it more useful."

"With this map, I can track demons and vampires whenever they decide to run away from me," Chloe said as she admired the fire.

"Is this safe?" Lana asked.

"It's better than using blood or something," Willow answered. "I think we're done for the night if you wanna patrol."

Chloe groaned at the thought of patrolling. She had hoped to go home and sleep soundly in her comfortable bed.

"You don't have to go alone," Willow said noticing Chloe's mood. "And before you ask if that's safe, let me remind you that Xander and I helped Buffy. Knowing that your friends are there is great incentive to stay alive."

"That is the first rule of slaying," Chloe muttered. "So, ready to patrol with me?"

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End Slightly Better Than You

A re-post, which is a long time coming. I actually have all but the last chapter finished, I discovered when I found this story on my flashdrive.