Title Series: The Necronomicon Reopens
Rating: R
Chapter Title: I Thought I Knew You
Author: White Werewolf
Category: Faith/Xander and Jenny/Ash
E-Mail: whitewerewolf81@yahoo.com
Spoilers: "Who Are You?"
Distribution: Ask and you shall receive.
Summary: Xander helps Faith redeem while at her uncle Ash's place in Nevada. Trouble awaits.
Disclaimer: Buffy: The Vampire Slayer is owned by Whedon, Fox, UPN. Raimi, Tapert, and Renaissance Pictures own Evil Dead. The game's owned by THQ.
Feedback: Definitely. Help me become a better writer
Author's Note: I agree that the game wasn't the best. The only factor I'm using from it is Jenny. Ash deserves some happiness. Also, he moved to Hawthorne, Nevada and still works at a local S-Mart.
I want to thank everyone for sending me so much feedback. This really means a lot to me. There are too many people to list though. I will list you at the end though, and that's a promise.
Extra Special Thanks: Mims, Ozmandayus, King Xander, Phaedra, DBrbntKnght, Tenhawk
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The Next Day
Ash took his chainsaw off the mantle and examined it. Holding it brought back all the bad memories. Cutting off his hand at the wrist when it went bad. The numerous times he dismembered deadites with its powerful sharp edge. He stared at the end of it where he had it hollowed out to fit his handless limb.
At times, Ash still got the sense that there were more deadites around, but it was a force of habit. He still felt guilty about killing his girlfriend, Linda. One thing good in his life though, was finding and falling in love with Jenny.
Ash looked at the coffee table next to the couch. On it was a photograph of himself and Faith, his niece. It was taken years ago when she was fifteen years old. That was the last time he saw her, and it hurt him that they had lost contact over the years. Now, he had a chance to see her again at the age of twenty. It has been five years, and that was too long.
The former chosen one sat himself down on the couch with his chainsaw still in his hands. He placed the chainsaw beside him and grabbed the remote control for the television. Ash flipped on the television and started to surf the channels for anything to watch.
Glancing at the clock above the television, he knew that Faith and her friend, Xander, would be here soon. Faith had called from the highway, and said that she would be here in about ten more minutes, and that was five minutes ago. With that realization, Ash jumped to his feet and turned off the television.
He started looking around the house to make sure that it was well presentable. The gauntlet-handed man forgot that he and Jenny had cleaned the house last night. Ash was just anxious. He wanted to know what was troubling his niece. After looking around, he remembered that he had cleaned up last night and breathed easier.
Just then, there was a knock on the front door. Ash took a deep breath walked to the front door and using his normal hand, opened it to reveal Faith. He was surprised how big she looked. Before he could speak, Faith did.
Faith said very quietly, "Hi Uncle Ash."
Ash pulled her into a hug and then looked at her face seeing pain in her eyes. "Hi kiddo." He then let her walk inside the house, but before he closed the door, he saw Xander taking bags out of the car. Then he looked at Faith. "I assume that's Xander taking the bags out of the car."
Faith stopped in the middle of the room and then looked back at her uncle. She didn't see the gauntlet he had for a hand. "Yeah. I've got to talk to you, and it would be easier if he was here."
Ash nodded and looked down at his metal hand. Then he looked at his niece again. "I've got to talk to you too, Faith. I think it might be hard to believe."
Faith looked around the room to place everything into memory. She knew that telling him that she was a slayer and that she has been in a coma for the last eight months or so would be difficult. Not to mention that she had killed someone. The rogue slayer had a lot to tell her uncle and she needed Xander's support. "Where's Jenny?"
At that moment, Xander knocked at the now opened door waiting for their attention. "Excuse me, Mr. Williams?"
Ash looked at the boy standing at the door with bags leaning against his feet. "So you must be Xander, kid." He walked over to him and, not thinking, outstretched his metal hand and offered a handshake. "Just call me Ash. Mr. Williams feels so wrong."
Xander looked at Ash's metal hand and wondered if he should bring that up. Then he figured that it might be inappropriate. He shook his hand and said, "Ok, Ash. I'm a friend of your niece."
Ash looked at the bags and replied, "Let me help you with those bags, kid." He picked up the bags. "Come on in, Xander. Jenny should be here soon, and then we need to talk."
Xander just did that. He walked over to Faith and stood next to her for support. Buffy's former white knight looked around the room as Faith had, to place it in to his memory. "Thanks, Ash for doing this us."
Ash looked at this Xander character and it appeared that he wasn't that bad of a person. He knew that Faith cared about him, and wondered if a relationship could happen. The thought made him happy. When he looked into Faith's eyes earlier he could see the pain and thought that Xander might be able to help take that pain away. "Not a problem, kid. Any friend of Faith's is a friend of mine."
Nobody at that point knew what to say, for they needed Jenny to be here to make conversion. Lucky for them, there was another knock on the door.
Ash walked over to the door and opened it to reveal his girlfriend, Jenny. "Hey, Ash."
Ash quickly kissed her on the lips and then directed her to the others in the house. "Hi, Jenny. Allow me to introduce you to my niece, Faith, and her friend, Xander Harris."
"It's nice to meet you, Faith and Xander. Ash told me that you're staying with him, may I ask why?"
Ash shot her a look but simply responded calmly, "That's the question of the hour. Let's make ourselves comfortable." Then he looked at the couch and saw his chainsaw. He immediately went over to the couch's side, picked up the chainsaw and placed it by the chair next to the couch. "I'll sit here with Jenny. Faith and Xander, take a seat on the couch."
With that said, the four of them made their way to Ash's designated sitting arrangement.
There was an awkward silence that filled the room; no one knew what to say. Faith looked at Xander for support while Ash looked at Jenny for support as well.
As Faith looked at Xander, she took a deep breath. He placed a hand on her shoulder and gave it a squeeze. Then she looked at Ash. "This isn't easy for me to say. I've been through so much torture for the past two years. It all started when I was called to be the slayer."
Ash's eyes widened at the sound of 'slayer.' "Faith, what do you mean, slayer?"
Faith just slumped back into the couch and looked at the floor. She didn't want to face her uncle. All of a sudden, she felt a warm hand on her arm. Faith looked at the source and saw Xander giving her a comforting smile. That gave her strength to go on. She looked back at Ash. "I've been chosen to kill vampires by the Watchers' Council, Uncle Ash. In Sunnydale, there's what's called the Hellmouth."
A confused look was on Jenny's face while Ash believed in she was saying. Fighting deadites all those times, taught him to believe in the supernatural. Then he looked at pain in Faith's eyes. "What's the other problem, Faith? I know that look and there's something else."
Faith was halfway done with her confession. But before she could tell him anymore, she wondered why her uncle took it in so easily. "Not that I'm relieved that you aren't spazing out about me being the slayer, but why?"
Ash brought his metal hand from around Jenny's shoulder and showed it to Faith and Xander. "You're probably wondering why my hand is metal."
Xander nodded. "I noticed earlier, but I didn't want to bring it up."
Ash sighed and looked at Jenny for support. She nodded in acknowledgment. "Here's the story. A couple years ago my former girlfriend, Linda, and me went up to a cabin for a weekend." He looked into Faith's eyes for understanding, which he found. "Anyways, something evil was in those woods as soon as the words from the Necronomicon were said from the book it started to manifest itself."
"Necronomicon, Ash? What's that?"
Ash looked at Xander and replied, "It's an ancient Sumerian book bound in human flesh and inked in blood. Anyways, at the cabin a man, Raymond Nolby, read from the book on a tape recorder. I played it not knowing what would happen, and evil things started to happen. It soon got to Linda, and took over her body. Sadly, the only way to kill it was to kill her and dismember the body."
The former chosen one looked over his arm to the chair he was sitting on. He lifted the chainsaw into view, placing it on Jenny's lap. "I used this chainsaw to dismember her. It was the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life." He paused as the memory reappeared in his mind. It still hurt! Then he looked at his Jenny and a smile appeared on his face. "Later that night, the evil corrupted my hand, and I had to cut it off at the wrist. Then in order to defeat Henrietta, Nolby's wife, I retooled this chainsaw into an attachment for my arm."
Faith just looked at her uncle in shock as he continued his story. She just listened as he told her and Xander about his adventure in 1300 AD Medieval Europe where he had to kill his deadite double. That was also the time where he took a gauntlet from a suit of armor and attached it to his handless limb. "Then I drank the potion the wise man gave me and said the magic works, bringing me back to the present."
Xander just looked at him a little in disbelief. Not because of the deadites, but because of his track record of remembering the correct words. He remembered that Ash also said that there were three Necronomicons in Medieval Europe, and when he found the right book, he said the wrong words. This permitted the army of dead awaken. "Did you say the right words this time when you came back?"
Ash swayed his head in a 'no' fashion and responded, "I said them correctly for the most part, but that didn't stop the deadites from coming back. But I did stop them from coming back when I went back to the cabin with Jenny that time."
Jenny quickly kissed Ash on the cheek and then looked back at Faith and Xander. "Is there anything else that we need to know about you besides the slayer part or that vampires are real?"
Faith knew the next part would be the hardest. She had to tell them about killing a man. But after hearing what he Uncle had been through, made her believe that maybe it would be easier for her. "There is one more thing, Uncle Ash." Then she looked down at the floor.
Ash rose from the chair, allowing Jenny to sit down. He walked over to where Faith sat and placed his normal hand on her right knee. "What is it, Faith? If I survived all my deadite encounters and that damn book, I can believe that vampires are real. I'll believe in whatever you have to say."
Fiath breathed a little easier knowing that what he said would be true. "There's a lot more, Uncle Ash." She paused and took a deep breath, and blurted out. "I murdered Deputy Mayor Finch, then blamed it on Buffy Summers, another slayer. I teamed up with the mayor who apparently was a true demon. Then we tried to bring forward the Ascension. However, we were stopped by Buffy. And I've been in a coma for the last eight months or so.
As for the mayor, Buffy and her friends stopped him. I even tried to kill Xander, but Buffy's boyfriend, Angel, stopped me." Then she looked at Xander. "I'm glad he stopped me, Uncle Ash. Xander here has been helping me get my life back on track, but he didn't reach me until yesterday. Of course this happened after my body-switching episode with Buffy, which is a whole other story. The mayor told me that there was basically no more future for me, and then gave me the device to switch bodies.
After I got back into my body, I planned to head for Los Angeles to kill, Angel who, by the way, is a vampire. I thought this would be revenge on Buffy Summers. I really hated her for what she did and that she always tries to make me like her. And I would have gone to LA, but Xander stopped me. He told me that he cared about me. He asked me if I knew anyone else that cared about me, and then I thought about you, Uncle Ash."
Ash had a hard time believing that Faith actually killed someone, but then he remembered Linda, and that wasn't a happy experience. He hated how he felt and could understand what Faith was going through. Ash immediately pulled her into a hug. "It's okay, Faith. You can stay here." Then he looked at Xander. "So what's the Xander Harris story?"
Before Xander could tell Ash about his Scooby problems, Jenny got up and walked over to Ash and yelled, "How could you be okay with this Ashley J. Williams?! Faith killed someone and worked with a demon!"
Faith couldn't breath. Here she was trying to confess to her uncle and start over. Now, Jenny was yelling at her. She needed to get out of here. Faith got up from her seat and looked at Xander then she headed for the door. "I come here to start over, and Jenny wants to turn me in. I'm leaving! This was a mistake!" Then she ran out of the house.
Xander's efforts to get Faith to come around were showing progress and now this—Jenny's outburst. He looked from Ash to Jenny. "I'm going after Faith! You two talk it out." With that, Xander ran out of the house in pursuit of the rogue slayer.
***Walker Lake***
The Master walked over to sit underneath the shade. He didn't want anyone to know that he was there. He took the Necronomicon in his hands and opened it up. The Master started to skim through it looking for the correct passage when he heard a noise. He immediately hugged the book to his chest to protect it.
The Master looked around him and saw David approaching.
David walked over cautiously not to bring to much attention to himself. When he was a foot away from him he said, "Master, it appears that Faith has come to Hawthorne as you foretold."
The Master nodded in acknowledgement but pondered something. "Did Faith bring anyone with her? I remember that she was quite the looker back in Boston."
David looked up at The Master's eyes. "She brought someone named, Xander, Master. But she is at her uncle's place."
The Master knew that Faith and her uncle could be trouble. However, he didn't know what this Xander character was capable of. "I want you, David, to check out this Xander character. Make sure he isn't a threat to us. I can not be defeated once I bring the deadites to Hawthorne."
David responded, "Is everything in the Necronomicon to your liking, Master?"
The Master took the book from his chest and opened it up. He quickly flipped through the book making sure everything was in its correct location. The Master wanted to make sure nothing was torn out of place. "In this book, David. I can awaken the dead or use it on injured people to place them under control. Once we defeat Faith and her uncle, we will use the deadites and open the Hellmouth."
"Master, why do we need to open the Hellmouth?"
The Master was disgusted with David's response. He wouldn't expect anything less from him though. "If we combine the power of the Hellmouth and the Necronomicon we can bring about global destruction."
David walked over to the tree and leaned up against it. All of a sudden something dawned on him. "Isn't there another slayer, Master?"
The Master knew exactly who David was talking about. "You mean Buffy Summers?" David nodded. "The thing is David. Buffy may have been a slayer longer than Faith, but Faith is the more dangerous of the two. Faith has proven herself to be unstable. Now, she has contacted her uncle. Ash has had experience with deadites before. Together, they would be quite hard to beat. Defeat Faith and Ash first, and then we will meet with Buffy."
David simply replied, "That's a good plan, Master."
TBC
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Sorry this chapter is shorter, but I needed it to be this length.
Next Chapter: Xander catches up with Faith. Ash talks to Jenny. The four get back together. More Master secrets revealed. Don't miss it!
I hope you liked this chapter.
Rating: R
Chapter Title: I Thought I Knew You
Author: White Werewolf
Category: Faith/Xander and Jenny/Ash
E-Mail: whitewerewolf81@yahoo.com
Spoilers: "Who Are You?"
Distribution: Ask and you shall receive.
Summary: Xander helps Faith redeem while at her uncle Ash's place in Nevada. Trouble awaits.
Disclaimer: Buffy: The Vampire Slayer is owned by Whedon, Fox, UPN. Raimi, Tapert, and Renaissance Pictures own Evil Dead. The game's owned by THQ.
Feedback: Definitely. Help me become a better writer
Author's Note: I agree that the game wasn't the best. The only factor I'm using from it is Jenny. Ash deserves some happiness. Also, he moved to Hawthorne, Nevada and still works at a local S-Mart.
I want to thank everyone for sending me so much feedback. This really means a lot to me. There are too many people to list though. I will list you at the end though, and that's a promise.
Extra Special Thanks: Mims, Ozmandayus, King Xander, Phaedra, DBrbntKnght, Tenhawk
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The Next Day
Ash took his chainsaw off the mantle and examined it. Holding it brought back all the bad memories. Cutting off his hand at the wrist when it went bad. The numerous times he dismembered deadites with its powerful sharp edge. He stared at the end of it where he had it hollowed out to fit his handless limb.
At times, Ash still got the sense that there were more deadites around, but it was a force of habit. He still felt guilty about killing his girlfriend, Linda. One thing good in his life though, was finding and falling in love with Jenny.
Ash looked at the coffee table next to the couch. On it was a photograph of himself and Faith, his niece. It was taken years ago when she was fifteen years old. That was the last time he saw her, and it hurt him that they had lost contact over the years. Now, he had a chance to see her again at the age of twenty. It has been five years, and that was too long.
The former chosen one sat himself down on the couch with his chainsaw still in his hands. He placed the chainsaw beside him and grabbed the remote control for the television. Ash flipped on the television and started to surf the channels for anything to watch.
Glancing at the clock above the television, he knew that Faith and her friend, Xander, would be here soon. Faith had called from the highway, and said that she would be here in about ten more minutes, and that was five minutes ago. With that realization, Ash jumped to his feet and turned off the television.
He started looking around the house to make sure that it was well presentable. The gauntlet-handed man forgot that he and Jenny had cleaned the house last night. Ash was just anxious. He wanted to know what was troubling his niece. After looking around, he remembered that he had cleaned up last night and breathed easier.
Just then, there was a knock on the front door. Ash took a deep breath walked to the front door and using his normal hand, opened it to reveal Faith. He was surprised how big she looked. Before he could speak, Faith did.
Faith said very quietly, "Hi Uncle Ash."
Ash pulled her into a hug and then looked at her face seeing pain in her eyes. "Hi kiddo." He then let her walk inside the house, but before he closed the door, he saw Xander taking bags out of the car. Then he looked at Faith. "I assume that's Xander taking the bags out of the car."
Faith stopped in the middle of the room and then looked back at her uncle. She didn't see the gauntlet he had for a hand. "Yeah. I've got to talk to you, and it would be easier if he was here."
Ash nodded and looked down at his metal hand. Then he looked at his niece again. "I've got to talk to you too, Faith. I think it might be hard to believe."
Faith looked around the room to place everything into memory. She knew that telling him that she was a slayer and that she has been in a coma for the last eight months or so would be difficult. Not to mention that she had killed someone. The rogue slayer had a lot to tell her uncle and she needed Xander's support. "Where's Jenny?"
At that moment, Xander knocked at the now opened door waiting for their attention. "Excuse me, Mr. Williams?"
Ash looked at the boy standing at the door with bags leaning against his feet. "So you must be Xander, kid." He walked over to him and, not thinking, outstretched his metal hand and offered a handshake. "Just call me Ash. Mr. Williams feels so wrong."
Xander looked at Ash's metal hand and wondered if he should bring that up. Then he figured that it might be inappropriate. He shook his hand and said, "Ok, Ash. I'm a friend of your niece."
Ash looked at the bags and replied, "Let me help you with those bags, kid." He picked up the bags. "Come on in, Xander. Jenny should be here soon, and then we need to talk."
Xander just did that. He walked over to Faith and stood next to her for support. Buffy's former white knight looked around the room as Faith had, to place it in to his memory. "Thanks, Ash for doing this us."
Ash looked at this Xander character and it appeared that he wasn't that bad of a person. He knew that Faith cared about him, and wondered if a relationship could happen. The thought made him happy. When he looked into Faith's eyes earlier he could see the pain and thought that Xander might be able to help take that pain away. "Not a problem, kid. Any friend of Faith's is a friend of mine."
Nobody at that point knew what to say, for they needed Jenny to be here to make conversion. Lucky for them, there was another knock on the door.
Ash walked over to the door and opened it to reveal his girlfriend, Jenny. "Hey, Ash."
Ash quickly kissed her on the lips and then directed her to the others in the house. "Hi, Jenny. Allow me to introduce you to my niece, Faith, and her friend, Xander Harris."
"It's nice to meet you, Faith and Xander. Ash told me that you're staying with him, may I ask why?"
Ash shot her a look but simply responded calmly, "That's the question of the hour. Let's make ourselves comfortable." Then he looked at the couch and saw his chainsaw. He immediately went over to the couch's side, picked up the chainsaw and placed it by the chair next to the couch. "I'll sit here with Jenny. Faith and Xander, take a seat on the couch."
With that said, the four of them made their way to Ash's designated sitting arrangement.
There was an awkward silence that filled the room; no one knew what to say. Faith looked at Xander for support while Ash looked at Jenny for support as well.
As Faith looked at Xander, she took a deep breath. He placed a hand on her shoulder and gave it a squeeze. Then she looked at Ash. "This isn't easy for me to say. I've been through so much torture for the past two years. It all started when I was called to be the slayer."
Ash's eyes widened at the sound of 'slayer.' "Faith, what do you mean, slayer?"
Faith just slumped back into the couch and looked at the floor. She didn't want to face her uncle. All of a sudden, she felt a warm hand on her arm. Faith looked at the source and saw Xander giving her a comforting smile. That gave her strength to go on. She looked back at Ash. "I've been chosen to kill vampires by the Watchers' Council, Uncle Ash. In Sunnydale, there's what's called the Hellmouth."
A confused look was on Jenny's face while Ash believed in she was saying. Fighting deadites all those times, taught him to believe in the supernatural. Then he looked at pain in Faith's eyes. "What's the other problem, Faith? I know that look and there's something else."
Faith was halfway done with her confession. But before she could tell him anymore, she wondered why her uncle took it in so easily. "Not that I'm relieved that you aren't spazing out about me being the slayer, but why?"
Ash brought his metal hand from around Jenny's shoulder and showed it to Faith and Xander. "You're probably wondering why my hand is metal."
Xander nodded. "I noticed earlier, but I didn't want to bring it up."
Ash sighed and looked at Jenny for support. She nodded in acknowledgment. "Here's the story. A couple years ago my former girlfriend, Linda, and me went up to a cabin for a weekend." He looked into Faith's eyes for understanding, which he found. "Anyways, something evil was in those woods as soon as the words from the Necronomicon were said from the book it started to manifest itself."
"Necronomicon, Ash? What's that?"
Ash looked at Xander and replied, "It's an ancient Sumerian book bound in human flesh and inked in blood. Anyways, at the cabin a man, Raymond Nolby, read from the book on a tape recorder. I played it not knowing what would happen, and evil things started to happen. It soon got to Linda, and took over her body. Sadly, the only way to kill it was to kill her and dismember the body."
The former chosen one looked over his arm to the chair he was sitting on. He lifted the chainsaw into view, placing it on Jenny's lap. "I used this chainsaw to dismember her. It was the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life." He paused as the memory reappeared in his mind. It still hurt! Then he looked at his Jenny and a smile appeared on his face. "Later that night, the evil corrupted my hand, and I had to cut it off at the wrist. Then in order to defeat Henrietta, Nolby's wife, I retooled this chainsaw into an attachment for my arm."
Faith just looked at her uncle in shock as he continued his story. She just listened as he told her and Xander about his adventure in 1300 AD Medieval Europe where he had to kill his deadite double. That was also the time where he took a gauntlet from a suit of armor and attached it to his handless limb. "Then I drank the potion the wise man gave me and said the magic works, bringing me back to the present."
Xander just looked at him a little in disbelief. Not because of the deadites, but because of his track record of remembering the correct words. He remembered that Ash also said that there were three Necronomicons in Medieval Europe, and when he found the right book, he said the wrong words. This permitted the army of dead awaken. "Did you say the right words this time when you came back?"
Ash swayed his head in a 'no' fashion and responded, "I said them correctly for the most part, but that didn't stop the deadites from coming back. But I did stop them from coming back when I went back to the cabin with Jenny that time."
Jenny quickly kissed Ash on the cheek and then looked back at Faith and Xander. "Is there anything else that we need to know about you besides the slayer part or that vampires are real?"
Faith knew the next part would be the hardest. She had to tell them about killing a man. But after hearing what he Uncle had been through, made her believe that maybe it would be easier for her. "There is one more thing, Uncle Ash." Then she looked down at the floor.
Ash rose from the chair, allowing Jenny to sit down. He walked over to where Faith sat and placed his normal hand on her right knee. "What is it, Faith? If I survived all my deadite encounters and that damn book, I can believe that vampires are real. I'll believe in whatever you have to say."
Fiath breathed a little easier knowing that what he said would be true. "There's a lot more, Uncle Ash." She paused and took a deep breath, and blurted out. "I murdered Deputy Mayor Finch, then blamed it on Buffy Summers, another slayer. I teamed up with the mayor who apparently was a true demon. Then we tried to bring forward the Ascension. However, we were stopped by Buffy. And I've been in a coma for the last eight months or so.
As for the mayor, Buffy and her friends stopped him. I even tried to kill Xander, but Buffy's boyfriend, Angel, stopped me." Then she looked at Xander. "I'm glad he stopped me, Uncle Ash. Xander here has been helping me get my life back on track, but he didn't reach me until yesterday. Of course this happened after my body-switching episode with Buffy, which is a whole other story. The mayor told me that there was basically no more future for me, and then gave me the device to switch bodies.
After I got back into my body, I planned to head for Los Angeles to kill, Angel who, by the way, is a vampire. I thought this would be revenge on Buffy Summers. I really hated her for what she did and that she always tries to make me like her. And I would have gone to LA, but Xander stopped me. He told me that he cared about me. He asked me if I knew anyone else that cared about me, and then I thought about you, Uncle Ash."
Ash had a hard time believing that Faith actually killed someone, but then he remembered Linda, and that wasn't a happy experience. He hated how he felt and could understand what Faith was going through. Ash immediately pulled her into a hug. "It's okay, Faith. You can stay here." Then he looked at Xander. "So what's the Xander Harris story?"
Before Xander could tell Ash about his Scooby problems, Jenny got up and walked over to Ash and yelled, "How could you be okay with this Ashley J. Williams?! Faith killed someone and worked with a demon!"
Faith couldn't breath. Here she was trying to confess to her uncle and start over. Now, Jenny was yelling at her. She needed to get out of here. Faith got up from her seat and looked at Xander then she headed for the door. "I come here to start over, and Jenny wants to turn me in. I'm leaving! This was a mistake!" Then she ran out of the house.
Xander's efforts to get Faith to come around were showing progress and now this—Jenny's outburst. He looked from Ash to Jenny. "I'm going after Faith! You two talk it out." With that, Xander ran out of the house in pursuit of the rogue slayer.
***Walker Lake***
The Master walked over to sit underneath the shade. He didn't want anyone to know that he was there. He took the Necronomicon in his hands and opened it up. The Master started to skim through it looking for the correct passage when he heard a noise. He immediately hugged the book to his chest to protect it.
The Master looked around him and saw David approaching.
David walked over cautiously not to bring to much attention to himself. When he was a foot away from him he said, "Master, it appears that Faith has come to Hawthorne as you foretold."
The Master nodded in acknowledgement but pondered something. "Did Faith bring anyone with her? I remember that she was quite the looker back in Boston."
David looked up at The Master's eyes. "She brought someone named, Xander, Master. But she is at her uncle's place."
The Master knew that Faith and her uncle could be trouble. However, he didn't know what this Xander character was capable of. "I want you, David, to check out this Xander character. Make sure he isn't a threat to us. I can not be defeated once I bring the deadites to Hawthorne."
David responded, "Is everything in the Necronomicon to your liking, Master?"
The Master took the book from his chest and opened it up. He quickly flipped through the book making sure everything was in its correct location. The Master wanted to make sure nothing was torn out of place. "In this book, David. I can awaken the dead or use it on injured people to place them under control. Once we defeat Faith and her uncle, we will use the deadites and open the Hellmouth."
"Master, why do we need to open the Hellmouth?"
The Master was disgusted with David's response. He wouldn't expect anything less from him though. "If we combine the power of the Hellmouth and the Necronomicon we can bring about global destruction."
David walked over to the tree and leaned up against it. All of a sudden something dawned on him. "Isn't there another slayer, Master?"
The Master knew exactly who David was talking about. "You mean Buffy Summers?" David nodded. "The thing is David. Buffy may have been a slayer longer than Faith, but Faith is the more dangerous of the two. Faith has proven herself to be unstable. Now, she has contacted her uncle. Ash has had experience with deadites before. Together, they would be quite hard to beat. Defeat Faith and Ash first, and then we will meet with Buffy."
David simply replied, "That's a good plan, Master."
TBC
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Sorry this chapter is shorter, but I needed it to be this length.
Next Chapter: Xander catches up with Faith. Ash talks to Jenny. The four get back together. More Master secrets revealed. Don't miss it!
I hope you liked this chapter.