Title: Futures Hope : Enter Hope
Author: Little Firecracker
Disclaimer: The buffyverse and its character's do not belong to me, however Hope does.
A/N: this story is only my second and is my first buffy piece so review's good or bad will be greatly appreciated.
A/N: the first story takes place around two weeks after the season seven final, Sunnydale was not destroyed and Spike did not crispy fry, Buffy ripped the amulate off him in time. The First and its army of uber vamps were still destroyed.The potentials turned slayers have all returned to their homes and will continue to slay vamps and demons there. No Faith/Wood either.
Cast:
Sarah Michelle Geller : Buffy Summers
Michelle Trachtenburg : Dawn Summers
Eliza Dushku : Faith Lehane
Jessica Biel : Hope
Iyari Limon : Kennedy Johntson
James Marsters : Spike
Alyson Hannigan : Willow Rosenburg
Nicholas Brendon : Xander Harris
Two weeks had passed since the battle against The First and it's army of uber vamps, and during those two weeks all of the potentials turned slayers had returned to their homes to be with their families.There they would carry out their sacred duty and report to one of the Scoobies over the phone every fortnight or call if any emergencies should arise. As for the slayers whos families had been killed by the bringers Giles had used some of his contacts from his time as a watcher to set up jobs and motel rooms in various town and cities across the country for them, having Willow tap into the councils funds via her computer had helped too.
Buffy Summers took a sip of coffee from the mug in her hand, wearing a pair of gray sweat pants and a white vest top she stood alone in the kitchen of the house that she shared with her sister Dawn and her best friend Willow. A house which for the past few months had been home to at least thirty to fourty potential slayers not to mention an ensouled vampire, a one eyed carpenter, an ex watcher, a former vengence demon, a rogue slayer and one big nerd. Sunlight poured in through the window in front of her she stood there just staring out of it, she was still in some ways trying to process the events of the of the past few weeks.
It wasn't until now that she had realised just how empty the house was, Giles was away helping some of the newly called slayers settle into there new roles and trying to find any surviving members of the watchers council. Xander had moved back into his appartment just last week offering Andrew the spare room which he accepted. So now it was just her, Dawn, Willow, Faith, and Spike. She suddenly noticed how quiet it was, no alarms going off, no potential slayers chattering away, no demons breaking down the door, no First Evil popping in uninvited just silence, a small smile crept on to her face.
Walking into the kitchen this is how Dawn found her sister "morning Buffy" she said cheerfully as she walked over to the refrigerator
and took out a carten of milk, she turned back to her sister who still stood there in silence
"Hello" Dawn said waveing her free hand infront of her sisters face "Buffy you in th..." she didn't get to finish her sentence
"Do you hear that?" Buffy asked her sister who looked officially confused now.
"Silence" she said smiling at dawn.
Shairing the moment they were both pulled from their thoughts by the sound of Faith's voice coming from the living room
"Andrew if you dont stop following me with that stupid camara I swear to God I'll shove it somewhere!"
"Of corse these things can only last for so long" buffy said shaking her head in defeat she left the kitchen heading towards the living room.
Entering the living room she found Faith sat in the small arm chair opposite the couch reading, one of the watchers diarys Giles had left lying around. Noticing Buffy entering the room faith placed the book on the coffee table infont of her.
"Hey" Buffy said taking a seat on the couch
"Mornin' " Faith said in yawning.
"Looking for something?" Buffy asked indicating the book on the table.
"Just trying to catch up, figured I'd missed a lot. Tales of mad scientists and Hell Gods. " Faith said with a shrug.
Suddenly Kennedy walked into the room and sat on the couch next to Buffy,
"You up for patrol again tonight?" she asked Buffy who nodded in reply
"Are you kidding me I was house bound for a week while Giles was in town, I was lucky he let me sit in while you two were sparring, you think after all these years of being a watcher he'd remember how quickly slayers heal." she told them
"How is your stomach by the way?" Faith asked looking very apologetic as she had clipped Buffy in the side while they were sparring two days ago.
"Its fine really." Buffy told her
"So think we might see any action tonight, cause we've been out there almost every night since the apocalypse and not one vamp."
Kennedy said sounding a little fed up.
"We just destroyed the First's plans of hell on earth, it makes scense they're in hiding," Faith told them
"Yeah I get that but Spike's had his ears to the ground and he hasn't been able to find anything out." said Kennedy
"Well who knows tonight might be our lucky night." Buffy said trying to sound positive.