A/N thanks to all that reviewed. Also I'm sorry for taking so long to update, I've been kind of busy.
Also thanks to Darklegacies and gengen07 for reviewing. I'm glad you two like the story. Also I just updated Kendra the vampire slayer so check that story out too.
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Chapter 3
Story Teller
As Willow finally got Xander up the stairs, she opened the door only to see Kendra standing there looking stunned. Surprisingly enough even tired Xander was the first to speak.
"Kendra are you alright?"
"Dad?" Kendra asked coming out of her stupor.
"Are you okay." he asked with a wince. The sound of her father in pain made her snap totally out of her daze.
"I'm fine." she said as she got on the other side of Xander and supported his weight.
"Good." Willow replied as she made a move to go upstairs. "Now help me get Xander out of here."
"What about her?" Kendra asked pointing at the still unconcious form of Buffy.
"Leave her." Willow replies. Kendra looks at her in disbelief.
"She should come with us." Xander said looking down at Willow.
"But Xander..."
"Willow please, she can't stay here." Xander pleaded. The two stared at each other for a second, until Willow let out a sigh.
"Fine, Kendra you take your father upstairs to the car." Willow said letting go of Xander. "I'll get the girl."
"Slayer, Jamaican Queen." Kendra said into the mirror while holding up Xander. As they finished getting scanned the door to the elevator opened and they stepped inside.
"Dad!" Faith shouted as she jumped out of bed and engulfed Xander in a hug.
"I kind of need to breath honey." Xander said with a wince.
"Sorry." Faith said letting him go. "Who's she?" Faith asked pointing at the girl in Willows arms.
"Her names heavy." Willow replied handing her over to Kendra. "Now take her upstairs to one of the spare rooms, so I can talk to your father alone."
"What crawled up mom's ass?" Faith asked Kendra as they entered the elevator. Kendra gave her a shrug as they started to ascend upstairs.
"Why the hell did you want to bring that girl with us?" Willow asked Xander as she started to bandage his wounds.
"We couldn't leave her there to die Willow!" Xander snapped back. "Besides." he continued calming down. "It's not like you never brought someone home."
"Seriously, Xander." Willow said calming down herself. "Why do you want that druggie here?"
"Because I can feel something special about her Willow." Xander said standing to his feet and walking up to a desk. "I think she might be the one." he said as he took out a red crystal.
"You can't be serious?" Willow said walking up to him. "I refuse to believe that a drug addict, can be one of us."
"Just trust me on this Will's." Xander said pulling her close. "If the crystal chooses her then I'm right and she belongs with us." Letting out another sigh Willow leans into his chest and they stand there holding each other.
"What about Johnathon, Amy, and Cordelia?" Willow asked looking back up at him. Xander was immediately saddened as he heard their names.
"We'll get their bodies tomorrow." Xander said meeting her gaze. "We'll give them a proper burial."
"And the Master?" Willow asked once again putting her head on Xander's chest.
"We'll deal with that bastard sooner or later." he replied as he held onto Willow tighter.
As Buffy slowly opened her green eyes, she saw a pretty raven haired girl staring down at her.
"Who the hell are you and where am I?" Buffy asked as she sat up in bed.
"My names Faith and you're at my house, bitch." Faith replied, as her eyes flickered dangerously. 'Who the hell does she think she is?' she thought to herself.
"Please forgive my sister." Kendra said as she walked up from behind Faith. "How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine." Buffy replied as she finally looked up at her. "Did you kill him?" Buffy yelled as she jumped out of bed and grabbed Kendra roughly by the arm. "Did you kill Angelus?"
"Get the hell off my sis!" Faith yelled as she pushed Buffy away.
"I need to know did you kill, him!" Buffy yelled again.
"No." Kendra replied, her voice low.
"Why the hell not? Don't you understand what he's done to me? All the times he beat me and... and raped me." Buffy said as she started to cry. Feeling sorry for her Kendra sat down on the bed and pulled her into a hug. Faith only looked at the both of them for a minute before she said anything.
"Who the hell is Angelus?" Faith asked, as she looked at Kendra. Kendra's face fell as her eyes started to well up with tears.
"He was my brother by adoption. Years ago my mom thought that they couldn't have a baby so they adopted Angel. A few years later they had me."
"You never told me you had a brother." Faith said looking at her.
"That's because I thought that he was dead." Kendra replied as she started to tell her story.
LA Slums
2003
A towering inferno engulfs a building in a poor section of town. Flames shoot out of the upper floors as people watch helplessly on the street.
"Stay behind me!" Angel shouted to his little sister over the roaring fire. Obeying him she got behind him a clutched tightly onto the back of his shirt.
"Angel I'm scared." she said in a little voice as she looked up at him.
"Don't be." Angel said as he looked down at her with a weak smile. Suddenly a support beam catches on fire and is about to fall on them.
"Kendra look out!" Angel shouted as he pushed her away just in time. The support beam falls down just as Angel jumps away in the other direction. They are now separated from each other because of the burning support beam.
"Angel!" Kendra shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Don't worry about me!" Angel shouted back to her as he begins to cough. "Find a way out!"
"I can't leave without you!" she yells back to him as she starts to cry.
"No matter what happens just remember that I love you!" Angel yelled as he began to cry himself. "Now go..." he tried to yell to her as the floor gave way under his feet. Kendra could only watch in horror as her brother fell through the burning floor.
"Nooooo...!" Kendra screamed as she collasped to the floor.
"But there's still another family in there!" one of Kendra's neighbors was saying to the fire captain.
"It's impossible, lady! I can't send My men into that tinderbox!" he said grimly.
"Look!" one of the fireman yelled staring up at the building in awe.
A dark figure lands on top of the burning building! Hooking his nylon cord securely, he shields his face with his gloved hand, then launches himself downwards, swinging straight through a window in a shower of glass and fire! After an agonizing moment - he reappears! He cradles a little girl in his arms and practically leaps onto a neighboring building.
Xander was patrolling in the poor part of town when he suddenly saw smoke in the distance. Jumping from rooftop to rooftop, he saw a burning building. As he was prepared to help the fire department he heard a lady scream and say that there was another family in the building.
Taking out his miniature grappling hook, he aims it at the building and swings through a window.
As he jumps down through the building he see's a small black girl passed out a few feet in front of him. Quickly scooping her up, he looks back into the building to look for some other survivors. Only seeing fire and seeing that the place was falling apart, he jumped out of the window and onto another smaller neighboring building.
As he layed the girl down, her eyes popped open. As she looked at him she began to whimper and move back.
"It's okay honey, you're safe." Xander said in the most soothing voice possible.
"But me brother is still in dare." Kendra shouted as she pointed at the burning building. She had already had to witness in silent horror as her parents burned to death.
As if on cue the building started to crumble and burn behind him.
"I'm sorry sweetie, but I don't think that he made it." Xander said as he looked back at her.
"Noooooo..." Kendra cried as she ran into Xander's arms. "He was all dat I had left." she managed to get out as she cried into his chest.
"It's alright sweetie... shhhhhhh... I have you now." Xander soothed as he rocked her back and forth.
End flashback
"I'm sorry Ken." Faith said as a tear formed in her eye. "How come you never told me any of that shit?"
"I didn't want to think about it anymore." she replied as she wiped some tears from her eyes.
"But why did she ask you if you killed your brother or not?"
Before Kendra could answer, Xander and Willow walked in.
"I see our guest has woken up." Xander said as he looked at Buffy who was also crying from Kendra's story and from what she had to go through herself.
"Are you girls okay?" Willow asked as she saw their tear streaked faces.
"Yeah just fine." Kendra replied.
"I talked it over with my husband and he said that you can stay, Buffy." Willow said as she looked at Buffy. "That is until we can get in contact with your family." she added.
"I don't have a family." Buffy said looking up at her.
"I'm sorry to hear that, do... do you want to talk about it?"
Buffy let out a sigh as she started her story.
"I came home from a friend of mine's house one night and I saw ton's of blood on the carpet and on the wall. I tracked the blood into the kitchen and I saw..." Buffy stopped for a second as a tear fell from her eye.
"I saw my mom and my little sister dead on the kitchen floor. It looked like someone ripped their throats out. There was so much blood. I... I was about to call the police but then somebody grabbed me from behind. This guy ... this thing wasn't human. Before he could lower his fangs into my neck an old guy ran into the kitchen and staked it. He called the police and they came and got me. Since I was still fifteen and had no more family, I had to be put up for adoption. Strangely enough the same old guy, was the one to adopt me. He told me what it was that killed my family and then he trained me. Me and old Giles killed alot of vamps and demons, after that."
"Wait, did you say Giles as in Rupert Giles?" Xander asked.
"Yeah did you know him?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah he was our highschool librarian." Willow replied, remembering the gentle old man. "How is old Giles doing anyway?"
"He's dead." Buffy said as she looked down to the floor.
"How did... how did he die?" Xander asked sadly.
"It was during a lycan attack. He pushed me out of the way when It tried to bite me."
"Then how the hell could you work for the enemy!" Willow yelled. "Didn't his sacrifice mean anything to you?"
"When Giles died, I don't know it was kinda like a part of me died. I...I just didn't care anymore."
"Buffy." Xander said looking down at her. "If you had a chance to fight against the darkness again, would you take it?"
"For Giles... then yeah." Buffy said looking up at him.
"Then touch this stone." he said as he took out the red crystal from before.
"What is it?" Buffy asked.
"It's called a Slay stone." Xander said still holding it out to her. "It bestows power onto those who it finds worthy. If it chooses you it'll turn green and you'll start to feel differently." he explained.
"I don't know... who are you guy's anyway?"
"We call ourselves the Death Dealers." Willow said as she took the stone out of Xander's hand. "Now look if you're serious about this then I want you to touch this stone."
Without another word, Buffy extended her hand to the crystal. As she touched it, it started to glow with a brilliant green light.
"No way." Faith said open mouthed.
"She's one of us." Kendra said excitedly.
"Yeah." Willow said taking the stone back. "Maybe."
Deep under LA
same time
Angelus get's down on one knee in front of a throne, with a smile on his face. 'My little sis is still alive who would have thunk it.' he thought to himself as he licked his lips. Suddenly the Master sat down before him.
"I heard that the Slayer's attacked the club last night." The Master said looking down at his favorite childe. "Did our trap go as planned." he asked.
"Hook, line, and sinker." Angelus replied with a smirk. This mission was going to be more fun then he thought. Perhaps he could convince the Master to let him turn his sister, so they would be together forever.
"I can't believe they fell for our bait."
"Ah... seeing is believing, boy." The Master said with a smile of his own. "Now go from me, I must think of how this plan of ours will play out." The Master said waving him off dismissively. With that said Angelus stood and walked out of the cave. All the while thinking of all the fun he and his sister would have, once he turned her.
TBC...
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