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Chapter 1

Buffy Summers was The Slayer, the only girl in the world blessed with the power to fight the vampires and demons of the world, or well at least she used to be. Now she was just Buffy Summers, she would always be The Slayer, the best, the one to go to, but now she had a life outside of demons and darkness.

For the first time in a long time she felt like her life was finally getting back on track away from slaying. It had been three years since she and her army of slayers had closed down the Sunnydale Hellmouth and since then her life had changed drastically. It took her a while to organise the new slayer organisation. Not only did her and the Scoobies need to track down all the newly activated slayers, they had to find any remaining watchers, train both the new slayers and watchers and send teams of slayers across the world to continue the mission.

With the revelation of all these new slayers, Buffy thought this would increase her slayer responsibilities, however the opposite happened. She was still head of the organisation, with help from the Scooby gang, and whenever some apocalyptic threat was on the horizon they were there front and centre, but now with all these new slayers across the world, she found out she could finally start to think about herself.

While she was still The Slayer, she found she now had more time to focus on herself for a change instead of the rest of the world. This allowed her to go back to college and get her degree in psychology. Deciding to move back to Los Angeles, she found a job once again as a high school councillor. The pay was enough to support her and it gave her time to focus on her personal life, she finally had one.

The school week was finally over, she spent the day dealing with breakups and makeups, kids unsure of their future and if they were living up to their parents expectation. Simply put it was never a dull day in a school full of dramatic, hormonal and temperamental teenagers and she was happy to finally be able to go home.

She lived by herself in an apartment block 15 minutes away from her school, which was great for her. Given her profession where she wasn't making the big bucks, Buffy's apartment was surprisingly spacious, and cheap, it was rent controlled thank god. With 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and a joined living and dining area, she couldn't believe how lucky she was when she found it. Not wanting to logic her way out of it, she took it as soon as she could.

As she entered her apartment, Buffy couldn't help but think about her friends. They were all as close as ever which she was happy about. Willow, still one of the worlds most powerful Wicca's lived close by, and was now running her own magic shop and learning centre, teaching up and coming witches proper control of their powers, while also making a profit selling anything related to magic, she loved it. Meanwhile, Xander, true to form was sticking with construction. Stick to what you're good at and what Xander was good at was construction, why stop a good thing? Giles was still a watcher and left in charge of the daily operations of the Slayer organisation. All in all everybody seemed to have their lives in order.

As Buffy was contemplating not only her life but also the life of her friends, she was pulled out of her daze by the ringing of her phone. Picking up the phone, she was not surprised to hear who was on the other side of the line.

"Hey big sis!"

A smile swept across her face as she heard the voice of her baby sister "Dawnie! What's up?"

"Nothing much, just missed my big sister"

Sensing that was not everything Dawn wanted Buffy said "Sure, that's all, what's the plan for your summer vacation? The school years nearly over"

"Well actually that's what I wanted to talk to you about. See I was meant to head to New York for the Summer with some friends, and to do my internship with the Met, and you know live the big city life, but those plans fell through"

Buffy was now pacing back and forth in her living room, listening to Dawn's explanation of why she decided not to go through with her internship when she heard knocking on her door.

"Dawnie, put a hold on what you were just gonna say someone's at the…"

As she opened the door, her baby sister flinging her arms around her throat in a tight hug greeted her.

"What are you doing here?"

"Surprising you, duh!"

"What about New York?"

"New Yorks a no go. Michelle decided to spend summer break with her parents, Holly has a new boyfriend who in her words 'cannot last a whole summer without her' and Sam decided she'd rather take on summer classes so she can graduate early. I didn't want to spend the summer in the big city by myself so I thought I'd come here and see my big sis who I basically haven't seen all year!"

"Wow second choice thanks" Buffy said deadpanned.

"That's not what I meant, I really did miss you, and I thought we could hang out all summer. I mean you get summer vacation off too. We could hang out, go out, shop, go to the beach, would just be like old times"

Dawn didn't want to tell her that there was another reason, for her coming back to LA for the summer. A dark haired, blue eyed someone, but that could wait for later. For now she was happy too see her big sister, who she missed like crazy.

"Well what do you think?"

The more Buffy thought about it, the more she liked the idea of having her sister stay with her for the summer. It would be nice to have someone to come home to. Her sister was away at Brown for most of the year, and with both of their busy schedules they barely had any time to spend more than a few days together.

With a smile across her face Buffy said "Sounds amazing, I've really missed you too. You can stay in the spare room, and we can head out for dinner tonight just me and you"

A smile spread across Dawn's face as she came inside with her bags. This was going to be a summer she would never forget she could just feel it.

Later on that night the Summer's sisters were out on the town, after a somewhat late dinner, they decided they weren't ready to go home just yet and decided to go out dancing. The Spot, as the place was called was no Bronze, but it was new so they thought they would give it a try. Your typical club, it was filled with strobe lights, laser lights and everything in between. The music was good to dance to so they both spent most of their night on the dance floor. Looking the way they did in their little black dresses, the Summer's girls were bound to attract some male attention, but they weren't having any of that tonight. Tonight was just a night between two sisters catching up and having fun. After a few hours on the dance floor they both decided it was time to leave the club.

Buffy not ready to have the night finish just yet, decided a late night snack was in order. She knew of this little café a few blocks away that served all night breakfast and decided to treat Dawn. Walking down the street past an alleyway Buffy's slayer sense started to go haywire.

"Dawn"

"What?" judging by the look on her sister's face, Dawn knew something big and most likely dangerous was near by. "Your, spider sense is tingling isn't it?"

"Yeah, a slayers job is never done, we can't even have one night demon free"

"Hey don't worry about it, wouldn't be like old times unless something with fangs decided to come out and play" Dawn tried to joke.

Buffy laughed "Yeah, stay close ok"

Dawn nodded and slowly began to follow her sister into the alleyway. Not seeing anything Dawn said hopefully "Maybe its not here? Maybe it decided to be a nice demon and not kill us"

"Shhh" Buffy knew it was around here somewhere, she could feel it. Looking around for a possible weapon all she saw was a 2 by 4 and a steel poll, deciding on the later she picked up the poll and began to twirl it around waiting for the demon to make its move. Sensing the demon was about to attack she pushed Dawn away seconds before the demon skewered her with what looked like a makeshift spear made of what Buffy assumed was human bone.

"Ew gross, you know dogs are meant to eat bones not play with them"

"Slayer" the demon hissed

"You got that right" with that she began a series of punches and kicks to get the demon off balance. But he was fast and kept dodging her attacks, this didn't worry her, she wasn't the longest surviving slayer for nothing. When she got a better look at the demon, to say she was disgusted would be an understatement. She had seen a lot of things in her long line of duty as the slayer, but there was always something more ugly or disgusting than the last. The demon looked like a human turned inside out, with a pulsating brain, instead of eyes there were two empty eye sockets with what she thought were maggots coming out, and his stomach looked like there was something trying to claw its way out. 'Probably his last victim' Buffy thought to herself.

As the battle drew on, Buffy knew she had to finish this soon. After a sequence of punches, kicks and flips, she managed to kill the demon by stabbing the demon straight through the stomach with the steel pole. Proud of her work, she walked over to Dawn pulling her up.

"Hey you ok?" she asked.

"Me? I'm good, I totally knew he was behind me you know, just wanted to keep you on your toes"

"Right I'm sure getting stabbed was high on your list for things to do this summer" Buffy said as they slowly walked away from the demon. It started to rain slightly so they began to walk a little bit faster

"Hey I need saving, and you save me, its what we do" Dawn said. What neither of them realised was the demon slowly get up and throw its spear towards Dawn before he screeched and collapsed finally dead.

Turning around Buffy would have been to late to stop the spear from hitting its target, if it was for time stopping. Literally. Looking around Buffy and Dawn became confused as they noticed the spear just floating mid air, centimetres away from Dawn's shoulder. Noticing that wasn't all that stopped both Buffy and Dawn looked around noticing the rain drops floating in the air.

"Cool" Dawn said as she began slowly tapping the rain drops one by one.

Buffy was now in full slayer mode, time didn't just stop. Picking up the spear, she walked over to the demon and imbedded it in its head, just to make sure it was dead before starting to investigate.

"Buffy how cool is this"

"Dawn, this is not cool time has stopped, either we're trapped in some bizarro world or something bad is happening"

Buffy tried to find any clue to figure out why time had stopped. There was nothing. Looking around she noticed that the air around them became thicker; the raindrops began to start falling again, only this time in slow motion. Walking over to Dawn, they both looked to the sky as storm clouds began to form. Next thing they knew a huge wave of energy began to form.

"Buffy, what's happening?" Dawn was starting to freak out. Demons, vampires, magic she could handle. But portals, in her experience were never something the like to be associated with.

"I don't know stay close"

The next thing they knew thunder struck the energy formation. The resulting blast threw both sisters into the brick wall.

Getting up, what they weren't expecting was seeing a boy, no older than 16, turn around half naked burned and bruised.

"Oh, shit!" was all he said before collapsing on the ground.

I know not a lot happened in this chapter, but i thought that you would need to know whats been happening to the Scooby's since the fall of the Hellmouth. I only talked about the core four and Dawn, but you will be getting info on everyone else as the story takes place.

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