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Chapter 3: Imposter!

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The witch and slayer just laid there on the pavement for a minute until they both realized that they needed to get Kennedy some first aid. Willow got off of the brunette, but Kennedy got up too fast only to fall down. Willow caught her quickly before she hit the ground. "Thanks…" Kennedy said shyly.

"No problem, why don't we head back to my place since we both know where it is." Willow smiled down at Kennedy who was all of a sudden shy as her second attempt to stand a more successful. The two started walking down the street with Kennedy slightly leaning on Willow for support.

"So umm…just to let you know I was kind of…well I wouldn't call it stalking, I would really call it checking up on you after last night and all…" Willow started to giggle. Kennedy was confused, "What? Did I say something wrong?"

"No, no you didn't it just seems that me and you seem to already have one characteristic in common…we both babble. You know what that is right? It's where you just start to talk and you can't seem to get to a point so instead you basically dance around it and then everyone is confused and…"

"Willow?!" Kennedy laughed and pulled them to a halt. She turned to look into green eyes. "It's okay I do know what babbling is." Willow nodded and they started to walk again, but Willow realized something..."You know it's not fair."

"What's not fair Willow?" Kennedy replied smirking.

'Man do I love saying her name…Willow…Will...Willow the willow tree…he he, now that's funny.'

All of a sudden she saw a hand waving in front of her face. "Did you hear me or were you babbling in your head?" Kennedy shrugged, "A little bit of both actually. Sorry what did you say?" "I said it's not fair that you know my name and I don't even know your name."

"Oh, I didn't tell you?" Willow shook her head. "Well than this calls for a formal meeting…" She turned to face Willow. "Hello my name is Kennedy Hansen and yours is?" She put out her hand. "My name is Willow Rosenberg but you already knew that of course." Willow took her hand and shook it, "Now Miss Kennedy Hansen let's go get you cleaned up."

Once more they started to walk content that the actually knew each other fully now, well at least each other's names. A few minutes later they arrived at the Summer's home. The only reason Faith and Willow called it the Summer's house was to keep the hope one day Buffy would come back and they would be there for her if she decided to stay.

They walked up the front porch and into the living room. Dawn came running as she heard them coming from the kitchen. She froze once she saw a person attached to Willow's arm. 'Damn she's hot…' Dawn thought as she walked up to help the girl onto the couch.

"Willow who is this?" She asked now facing Willow. "This here is Kennedy Hansen, the runaway slayer." Willow pointed at Kennedy. Kennedy turned around on the couch totally taken by surprise by the redheads slayer statement.

"What…but…how...owww!?" Was all she could manage to say as the twisting of her body did not feel nice on her newly open neck.

Dawn immediately turned around and engulfed her in a painful hug, not seeing Kennedy's wound. "Air…and ne-neck..." Kennedy squeaked as her body was being engulfed by the teenager. "Oh…hehe sorry, I seem to be doing that a lot lately." Dawn apologized and backed off for the second time that day. "S'okay." Kennedy then got a shot of pain through her neck. "Oww…"

Willow saw this and asked Dawn to go get the first aid kit. She left quickly leaving just Willow and Kennedy. Kennedy sighed as the pain slowly subsided. "What...who...how…I'm mean how did you know that I am a slayer?" Willow smiled and walk over sitting down on the couch next to Kennedy.

"Well you see Dawnie…" She pointed at the teenager who just bounded in and handed Willow the kit, "Is the sister of the slayer before you and well I'm a witch. The last three days I have been here I have been looking for you. I must say that you are quite the good hider too." Kennedy winced as Willow cleaned her bite and put a Band-Aid on her neck.

"Well I do have some helpful friends who are hackers that got the whole identity thing right. It was just me that had to keep low and I have done a good job of that to. It was just supposed to be a hit and run, but no I just had to stay around to see what else there was to kill…" Kennedy realized what she was saying about Willow and started to backtrack. "Oh…umm…not that I'm mad that I stayed behind. I'm sure glad I met you and Dawn here…"

"It's okay Kennedy you don't have to explain yourself . I'm just glad that you did stay because you saved my life back there." Willow was blushing, but then she did something that even surprised herself. She leaned forward and grabbed Kennedy's hand, interlocking their fingers. They stared into each other's eyes, then looked down at their hands, both sure energy just jolted between them .

"She saved my life too here!?" Dawn interjected and interlocked Kennedy's other hand. Totally ruining the moment Willow let go and moved to another chair close by. Dawn didn't budge.

"Well your both welcome…I guess I was just lucky I was walking in the same area on my patrol to run into you ladies." She lied to Dawn, who was totally oblivious to the lie. Willow just looked at her with raised eyebrows. Kennedy smile and Willow returned it understanding that she didn't want Dawn to know what happened last night.

"Well…Dawn isn't time for bed?" Willow turned around to face her. "Oh come on Will…" Dawn whined. "No buts Dawnie I am laying down the law. It's a school night and Faith said for you to be in bed before curfew. Looking at my watch it's 9:30. Now scoot." Willow replied firmly.

"Fine!" Glaring at Willow and before Kennedy realized what was happening, Dawn kissed Kennedy on the cheek. Dawn then jumped up and practically skipped up the stairs only to slam her door in true teenager form. "Damn teenagers got some spirit. Just like me when I was her age." Kennedy chuckled nervously rubbing the spot where Dawn kissed her.

Willow got up from the chair to sit next to Kennedy again. "Speaking of age…how old are you?" Kennedy paused. She had to think about it, "Well my parents said in my head I'm around age 6, but in the real world I'm about 20." "About?" Willow asked. "Yea, I have been on the road for awhile so I don't know the date." Kennedy began looking around to avoid eye contact. She hated questions, especially about herself.

Willow made an "O" with her mouth and nodded. They were silent for several minutes. Both were ignoring the fact that they had shared two kisses. Kennedy sighed and stood up. Well I guess I should get going…plenty of demons still out there." Kennedy turned around and started to leave.

Willow just sat there staring at her ass as it walked away. 'Man that is one nice ass…wait no Willow snap out of it!'

"Wait!" She blurted as she got up and ran to Kennedy stopping only a couple of feet away. "Are you...hungry?" Willow asked, grasping at straws to make her stay. "Hungry?" The kind of hungry that was on Kennedy's mind was definitely not kitchen friendly.

"Yea…well, I mean that usually slayers are hungry once they have gone out on a patrol. I could fix you up a sand which or something else if you don't like them…" Kennedy cut her off laughing, "A sandwich sounds wonderful." Both women smiled, happy they would have a few moments longer together. Willow lead Kennedy to the kitchen and had her sit in a chair at the island.

"So what all it be? PB and J? Turkey? Ham?" Willow had opened the fridge and was listing off ingredients they had. "How about PB and J. My mom used to make it like all the time when I was little." "Coming right up…" Within a couple of minutes it was all ready to go, Willow even with the crust off.

"You look like a non crust type of person." Willow stated as she handed the sandwich to Kennedy. "Thanks Will, but are you gonna have anything? I don't want to pig out in front of you."

"No I am all full on popcorn as you probably watched in the theater." Willow started blushing with the thought of Kennedy watching her. "Yea I know…you ate like the whole bucket." It took a second for Kennedy to realize what she said and then it was her turn to blush. Willow laughed. She got a glass of water and a pain reliever for her new found slayer. "This should help with the pain in your neck."

"Thanks. What I said back there was true. It was my first time getting bitten. Have you ever been bitten before?" Kennedy asked mouth already full of food. Kennedy downed the pill and sandwich like vampire is to blood after two weeks without so much as a drop. "Actually I have onc-" Before she could continue she was cut off by Faith barging in through the back door.

"Willow you okay?!" She asked her out of breathe. "Yea…why?" Willow replied confused. Before she could get an answer Faith grabbed Kennedy and threw her on to the floor. Then she picked her up again and punched so hard it knocked her into the next room. "Oww much…" Kennedy said as she picked herself up off the floor, brushing remnants of sandwich off.

"Faith what the hell was that for?!" Willow yelled as she ran to Kennedy's side but was blocked by Faith who just picked up Kennedy and gave her once last punch completely knocking her out. "Red stay away from her!" Faith yelled back. "You gonna tell me why?" By now Willow was furious, both hands on her hips.

"Because she is an imposter-" Faith exasperated and pointed to the lifeless body of Kennedy on the floor. She was caught off by Willow, "What!?" She said. "She is not the new slayer Red." Faith said desperately.

Again Willow said, "What!?"

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