Chapter One
In a place deep down I let my love for you free me. I let it be the key to my chains. I Let your love for me fly me off into the sweet blue skies...I stopped and lifted my pen off my page I won't admit it but I'm depressed. I learned to love, I learned to slay, I lost my love, I lost the will to slay. It was painful. I detach myself from that world now. The world of love and the world of slaying are two things I try to keep from my mind but try as I do I never succeed. If I'm not thinking about one I'm thinking about the other.
My name is Kat Leman. I am fourteen years old. I am the slayer. Well I am one slayer. The other slayer is Buffy Summers my watcher told me. I am off to stay with her and her watcher. I'll be there soon. I don't really want to because I no longer want to slay. That's why my watcher sent me to her. To help me learn.
The bus slowed and came to a stop. I put my note pad back into my bag and got off the bus and out into the early morning twilight of Sunny Dale Bus Depot. I didn't expect anyone to be waiting for me but there they were. A surly looking girl –probably from being woken so early- I knew as the Slayer and with her a gray haired-obviously- British man polishing his glasses, that would be Giles (Buffy's watcher).
I put on a light-hearted smiled and strode over to the pair. They looked at me for a second. Buffy was about three years older then me and seemed as is she had been expecting someone about her age. Giles, even though he knew how old I was seemed to have been expecting a taller slayer (I am only four foot eleven). Giles smiled and held out his hand. I took it and shook it. Buffy just looked surprised.
"Hi." I said to the both, "I'm Kat."
"I'm Buffy." The older slayer said smiling briefly then turn to her watcher, "So can I go home now Giles? You made me patrol last night and then woke me up at four a.m. and..." she dragged out the word "It's a school day. I need to shower and load up on caffeine." I laughed slightly and she winked at me. "You're the school librarian, Giles. You know that us kiddies are meant to have our seven hours sleep." Giles looked startled for a moment (obviously he had trouble waking up in the morning as well) then rubbed his glasses again.
"Fine home"
"Come on" Buffy said to me in triumph, "Your staying at my place. Just you me and my mum."
We walked back to Buffy's and were greeted by her mum. I was believed to be a daughter of a friend's of Giles from England. England being where I had some from anyway. Joyce was nice and made sure Buffy and I had been fed before walking out the door. The older woman stood in the doorway and waved to us, a worried expression cast upon her face.
"Buffy" She called quietly, "Be careful and be home for dinner." I wondered what the 'be careful' part was for and Buffy turned for an explanation.
"The school was over run by a gang of vamps not long ago. Parent, teacher night." She looked lost in memory for and minute until a old white van pulled up by the curve and she smiled.
"Oz's van," she told me going to hop in, "My friend, Willow. Her boyfriend." I sighed. Love was one thing I knew only to well the losses of. Buffy pulled open the van door and quickly introduced me to Willow and Oz. Oz keeps to himself mostly but I think Willow I could become friends with. Well least the people were nice. Right?
Okay, what do people think? Should I continue the story or just give up hope. BTW: The actual story part of this chapter is 666 words long. Freaky, much?