Willow just looked up exhausted and excited. "Well that was different."

Clark just nodded as he looked around and saw their clothes scattered across the room. "Yeah, well things have been different for a couple months now."

Willow just smiled at him. "I'm starting to think this should be a quiet moment."

Clark just kissed her on the top of the head. "I know what you mean."

The two teenagers' eyes lit up in terror when they hear the front door open. "Willow are you home?"

"Mom" Willow whispered and they both shot out of bed desperately gathering their clothes.

Clark gracefully slammed his toe into Willow's bedpost and bit his lip as he sat back down.

Willow just looked at Clark as she was putting her pink dress back on. "That's not graceful for a vampire slayer."

Clark just stared at her trying to get the pain out of his toe. "I still feel pain Willow it's not like I've been turned into the Juggernaut I'm just stronger then I used to be."

Clark and Willow share a couple kisses before Clark gets his jacket and reaches into his pocket and hands Willow a box. "I almost forgot Happy Anniversary."

Willow smiled and opened the box revealing a necklace that was a Star of David. Willow just smiled as she tried to put it on and Clark helped her with a delicate kiss to the neck afterwards. Willow looked at herself in the mirror. "Clark I love it."

Clark just smiled. "I love you you're the best thing that ever happened to me Will."

Willow just smiled and blushed with how built Clark has become she figured he'd ditch her for one of the more popular girls. "I love you too."

Clark's eyes open he smiles and looks over but sees nothing as reality catches up to him. In a way those dreams are actually worse then the ones he gets because he's a slayer they almost gives him hope that she'll still be here.

"Clark there's a Mr. Giles here." Joyce shouted from downstairs.

"Give me a few minutes." Clark shouted back.

Joyce watched as Clark came downstairs while she made breakfast. "So who's Mr. Giles?"

Clark just looked at his mother. "Put the knife down first and Ill tell you."

Joyce put the knife down. "So who is he? No librarian is this passionate."

Clark just frowned and hoped for the best. "He's my new watcher."

Joyce just nodded and turned to Giles and hit him with a surprisingly effective right hook to the face knocking him off his feet. "You stay the hell away from my son!"

Clark just grabbed her mother by the waist and carried her back. "Mom that's not going to do anything."

"Why are you even listening to him after the last one?" Joyce asked almost hurt.

"Because they'll just send another one!" Clark shouted in fury. "Do you think I like having a watcher? You think I even wanted one. All I can do is sit here and hope he is less of a bastard then the one before him." Clark just went for the door clearly upset.

Giles just went to follow him but Joyce grabbed him. "Clark's last watcher got someone I loved as a daughter killed. You do anything to betray my son and I will kill you."

Giles and Clark got into car and drove with Clark silent as a statue in the passenger seat. He thought between the Harvest and patrolling Clark would put his walls down a little but no such luck. Wesley left a knife in Clark's back and it's obviously going to take some time for him pull it out. "You know if you want to talk about Carm…"

"You just want to keep driving right now." Clark warned.

Giles just drove them to the Kent Farm they were quiet the whole way there. Clark got out of his car and to his surprise he saw Buffy putting down giant wooden stakes on the land.

"Don't you need tools for that?" Clark asked as Buffy jumped startled.

Buffy was nervous damn it this is bad. She should have been paying more attention she was thinking about what the cave showed her last night. "Clark I-I-I it's not what it looks like its really… weak… land."

Jonathon just stuck his head out the door. "It's OK Buffy they're expected."

The two teens stare at the watcher and the farmer they certainly weren't expecting this when they woke up today as the two role models went in.

Buffy just looked at Clark. "Do I look any different to you now?"

Clark just looked at her for a minute and grabbed one of the stakes slamming it in like she had. "Demon or not you're still Buffy."

Jonathon watched as Clark and Buffy got to work putting the fence poles up. Jonathon laughed as it quickly turned into a competition between the two as to who can put their pole in further. The competition quickly comes to an end when Buffy drives her's into the ground completely and Clark just looks down in shock when he sees nothing but a hole. Once they were done with that they left for Buffy's fortress in the loft.

Giles looked to Jonathon. "The key you asked me to bring with me today. I'm afraid it's gone missing."

Jonathon just frowned. "Any idea where it can be? Lex Luthor was at the school yesterday according to Buffy."

Giles just pointed to the loft. "I don't believe we actually have to look that far."

Clark looked around "Couch in a barn. You're a very peculiar woman."

Buffy just looked at him mock offended. "I can deal with that. My dad built it it's my own little home away from home thank you very much."

Clark shrugged and held something out. "OK if you're here a lot I get the couch but why this thing?"

Buffy eyes went cold and for a moment Clark swore he was about to lock horns with a demon. "You never mock Mr. Gordo its wrong I'll kick your ass."

Clark just smiled. "I'd like to see that."

Buffy just smiled as she grabbed Clark and threw him onto the hay pile in the barn. Clark just stood in awe before letting out a chuckle he wonders if girl slayers are like this. Clark stops when he sees Jonathon and Giles coming in. "She started it."

Jonathon just laughed. "You mocked Mr. Gordo didn't you?"

Clark just nodded.

Jonathon just had a smile. "You're lucky she didn't throw you through a stable."

"With you if I broke a stable I'd have to fix it then I wouldn't be able to buy new shoes." Buffy objected she should have thrown Clark through one.

Clark does notice she goes through them very quick. "Don't you have about 20 pairs already?"

Buffy looked away she does but her superspeed destroys them constantly.

"Could you follow us back to the house please?" Jonathon asked.

The two teenagers nodded their heads Clark felt uncomfortable so he took his jacket off because of all the hay on it. When he did Buffy saw the other side of his elbows full of holes. "Whoa what are those?"

Clark looks at his arm and sees it. "Science experiment."

Jonathon just looked at his arm. "It looks like needle marks."

"They are." Clark assured them.

Giles just shakes his head Clark. "May I ask why?"

Clark just looked at him. "A science experiment that will hopefully never get tested can we go in now."

Jonathon's eyes shot out and when he saw Buffy staring at him. Wait a minute is she? "Buffy Jessica Kent!"

"It's just X-ray Pa I'm making sure he's clean."

Clark just put his arms up. "Are you happy clean as they get the only way I can get any cleaner is to shave my head and clean your house."

Buffy and Clark sit down at the kitchen table as Martha pours them each a glass of milk and joins them. Jonathon looks at Clark better to get this out of the way now. "Before we get started I think you should know I know you're the slayer."

Clark just frowned. "I swear Chloe just wrote it up for the newspaper."

Jonathon just smirked. "I'm good friends with Rupert when he found out the slayer was coming here he volunteered to come here. Considering what you saw outside with Buffy I'm assuming you have questions."

Clark just shrugged. "She's a slayer too. I could use the help."

Buffy just smiled. "Actually I'm a lot more then a slayer. Have you ever seen Roswell?"

Clark just nodded as Buffy pointed up and Clark caught on. "Oh…wow. So what planet are you from Mars?"

"No…do I look like a Martian?" Buffy asked.

Martha just smiled. "Buffy's ship crash landed near us during the meteor shower. We took her in because we couldn't have any children of our own."

"So is Buffy her actual alien name?" Clark asked as Buffy glared at him and Clark faltered. "What? You have to admit it's a unique name."

Buffy shrugged she could see that and turned to her parents. "Why am I Buffy anyway?"

Jonathon laughed at the story now. "The first time Buffy used her abilities, she'd crawled under a big oak bed that my grandfather had made, and I crawled underneath it to try to get her out. All of a sudden the frame just came up in the air. She... she was a toddler lifting… I don't know… 500 pounds over her head."

Clark just stood in shock he never stood a chance. "So what did you do?"

"We decided to take her to a doctor scientist, somebody more equipped to understand than we were. But when we got in front of the office, Martha... she said that if we left her there that... they would want to keep her and we'd never see her again. So I took her home. Now, that may have been a mistake, but it was a mistake I'd gladly make again. When we got home she continued the heavy lifting so I nicknamed her Buffy. By the time we decided to name her Jessica she wouldn't answer to anything other then Buffy so that became her name. I called Rupert told him everything so he'd hide it from the council." Jonathon just looked at Clark. "I hope you realize how big this secret is."

Clark just nodded listening to every word. "I can keep my mouth shut."

Jonathon just looked. "I have a hard time believing that since half the town already knows you're the slayer."

Clark glared at him. "The only reason anyone knows I'm a slayer is because of the useless Englishman over there."

Giles looked at him. "I beg your pardon."

Clark just sighed. "Chloe saw us talking in the library that's how she knew. See if I didn't have a watcher just like I didn't want one my secret would be perfectly safe he's the big mouth not me. How do you two even know each other anyway?"

Jonathon just sighed hating to think back on this. "Before I met Buffy's mother there was another woman in my life her name was Nell Potter. We were engaged when she let a stranger into the barn only it wasn't a stranger… it was a vampire. He ran off when I got back and I chased after him with my dad's gun. I shot him in the back I emptied every shot I had into him but he still didn't die. Luckily Giles was close by and he heard everything he staked the vampire… saved my life."

Buffy turned to Giles. "What were you doing here anyway?"

Giles took off his glasses. "The council sent me the death toll was kind of high with vampires and the slayer was deployed in Chicago sent after some powerful vampire but she failed."

Jonathon just turned to his daughter. "Any other questions"

"No, I'm good." Buffy replied.

"Good then you can give us the key to the spaceship you took yesterday." Jonathon said knowing Buffy took it she's always impulsive.

Buffy just put it on the table. "Technically this is mine."

Martha looked at her upset. "Buffy, what did you do with it?"

Buffy just shrugged innocently. "Cleaned it, shined it… I might have stuck it in the cave wall."

Clark just looked at her. "You what!"

Buffy rolled her eyes. "Buffy you had no way of knowing what would happen to you Buffy that was dangerous?"

Clark just stared at her for a moment and then pinched her in the arm.

Buffy flinched and rubbed her arm actually feeling it. "Ow"

"You forgot Buffy that was stupid." Clark added. "That's ground zero it's where we lost Pete."

Buffy was just rubbing her arm. "OK I'm sorry but I had to know. And how did you do that?"

Clark just shrugged. "Pinching its easy."

Buffy rolled her eyes. "Not pinching hurting me. When you punched me you nearly broke your hand but I felt it and when you pinched me how come it's no biggie to hurt me."

Jonathon turned to Giles. "Why can she get hurt now she never has before?"

Giles just went to cleaning his glasses. "I don't really know there's a lot about Buffy we don't know including the burns on her hands from yesterday."

Clark looked it over and remembered what hurt Buffy since he's got here. She was bit by Pete, punched in the face by Billy Idol, and finally burned by fire from a witch. Clark just laughs he knew he didn't need no watcher. "You guys aren't that bright are you?"

"You know?" Giles asked.

Clark just took a drink. "It's magic. Vampires are demons magically held in human bodies so they're pure magic and the fire she tried to put out was caused by a witch its mystical. The slayer is a person powered by a demon. It's all magic she must be vulnerable to it."

Martha just smiled seeing the boy was right and what caused it considering the look of shock on Giles and Jonathon's faces. "We have a winner."

"And two losers" Buffy added in a smile.

Martha smiled relieved to know what's hurting her daughter so Buffy can protect herself from it.

Buffy just turns to Clark excited that someone knows her secret and isn't the slightest bit wiggin out. She wants to show him her ship.

Clark just turns to Jonathon however. "Can I ask you something in private?"

Jonathon just nodded as Clark followed him out to the farm.

Clark and Jonathon both came out to the farm and got to work baling hay.

"So what did you want to talk about?" Jonathon asked.

Clark just picked up the next hay bale and stopped. "How did you move on…from Nell to Mrs. Kent after the vampire did what it did."

Jonathon just frowned. Giles offered him a spot on the council in their youth and he shut it down for this very reason. The slayers young girls barely given a chance to live have to endure crap like this. "What was her name Clark?"

Clark just frowned. "Willow"

Jonathon just patted him on the shoulder. "You don't ever really do. Some days are much, much better then others but that pain will always be there. My advice take it one day at a time."

Clark just lifted up a piece and threw it in. "That's kind of hard to do when she's the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing I think of when I go to sleep."

Jonathon just touched his shoulder for support. "It will get better slowly besides you have your friends to support you and Giles he's not as bad as most watchers if you give him a chance. It will get better you just have to give it time."

Clark spent the whole day doing farm chores it was a nice reprieve from slaying. That night the parents all went in and went about their business. Buffy and Clark both stayed out and walked into the storm cellar. Clark looked in awe at the ship it's so… tiny. How did something so little carry her so far?

Clark looked at it. "Kind of underwhelming I think you outgrew it."

Buffy just chuckled. "It carried me from baby to 3 it didn't have to be big."

Buffy held up the key a bit nervous.

Clark just looked at it. "So how long did they ground you for?"

Buffy just shakes her head. "I'm not allowed near Metropolis for a week. It's a very sad thing." Buffy puts the key in and the ship opens up piece by piece.

Clark watches as Buffy pulls out another thing this one is white and metallic. "What's that?"

"The control to my ship." Buffy answered as she put it in.

Clark watched Buffy as her face lit up in joy as the writing started she must be happy to understand her language. Buffy's face went to joy as she read the message but it quickly turned into terror.

Clark saw the fear in her eyes. "What is it Buffy?"

"It's a message from my biological father. I'm sure I'm reading it wrong." Buffy answered

"Why? What does it say?" Clark asked.

Buffy read it again and got the same result. "On this third planet from this star, you will be a goddess among mortals. They are a flawed race. Rule them with strength, my daughter. That is where your greatness lies." Buffy just panicked. "I think I was sent here to conquer. What the hell kind of planet am I from?"

"Maybe you did misread it," Clark offered. "But even if you didn't, it's you who decides what kind of a life you're gonna lead. Not me, not your parents, not your... biological parents. Believe me I'm walking proof that destiny isn't always right."

Buffy just held her head with her hands. "What if it's part of who I am? Is that the kind of person I will become?"

Clark just shakes his head no. "I know you're here to be a force for good, not a force of evil."

"How can you be so sure?" Buffy asked "You've known me for a whopping 2 weeks.

Clark just hugged her. "Because I saw your heart. You came into the tunnels no one forced you to go but you came because that was the type of person you were. Just like at the Bronze even after you discovered you can be hurt by vampires you still came running to help. Buffy there is no doubt in my mind that you are a force for good."

The two teenagers stood there in each other's arms for a while until Buffy regained her composure.

Buffy never thought she would find anyone outside of her parents that was like this. Clark saw who she really is as it ends up Amara-El of Krypton and still accepts her anyway.

Giles comes down and sticks his head down. "Clark it's getting late."

Clark just sighed. "I know I have a job to do. Give me a lift to the cemetery. Do you want to come with me?"

Buffy just shakes her head no. "I've gotta talk to my parents about this but thanks though."

Clark dosed off on the ride there even for him it was a unique and long day between finding out about Buffy and doing all that work on the farm.

A dozen vampires enter the building and smile seeing Clark staring at them with empty eyes in jeans a blue shirt and red denim jacket holding an axe with his right hand.

The last vampire in was a woman of exquisite beauty with hazel green eyes with raven black hair draped down to her shoulders. The woman smiled seeing the blank stare in his eyes. Clark used to be an optimist not that long ago. "Clark you actually showed did you enjoy my present for you?"

Clark just looked her in the eyes. "I told you I'd meet you here. Why did you bring her into this?"

Carmilla just smiled seeing the pain she's put him through. "She tasted like honey you know. She was good but not pure guessing you had a hand in that from the smell."

Clark just tightened the grip on his axe as three vampires approached him. Clark swung with one horizontal swing cutting the first one's head clean off. Clark kicked the second one in the stomach causing him to keel over a table holding his stomach and Clark used it as a chopping block to cut his head off. Clark swung the axe around in a show off display before bringing it up like a golf club on the third vampire's groin. The vampire tried to scream but before he could do anything Clark just pulled the axe up cutting him half vertically and dusting him.

Carmilla watched the fight he was a lot more ruthless now. "Not bad but if you keep fighting me I'll just sick the others on you so I can get a head start to dear old mom's house."

"No wait don't." Clark pleaded for the only family he has left.

"Good boy we're at the place you requested" Carmilla mocked him. "Now give me the ring."

Clark just pointed to a suitcase. "It's in there along with rest of Wesley's research."

Carmilla smiled seeing her dreams come true. She'll have the ring of Rao the one way a vampire can walk in the sun. She undid the latches with a smile. "Guess you really weren't much of a slayer after all."

Clark just smiled as she opened the briefcase. "Maybe I'll surprise you."

A bright light hit Carmilla while Clark covered his eyes with the old vampire stunned Clark picked up his Axe and fought through the vampires just making a break for the middle and going through the double doors.

"Get him you morons." Carmilla shouted in her blindness.

The vampires went for the door only to find it locked or barricaded. One sticks his head in the window on the door and sees Clark wedged his axe keeping them from being opened. "We're trapped boss."

Carmilla ran at the door but it was reinforced. She grabbed the doors and kept shaking the doors trying to break free but it doesn't work.

One of the vampires lifted the table cover in the gym and saw explosives under the table. "He rigged this whole place to blow."

Carmilla watched as the explosions start rattling the building as the floor is being covered in flames. Whatever this is its more then explosions. The flames shot up and hit Carmilla in the side of her face. A vampire with a fire extinguisher sprayed her in the face as she held the burned and scarred remains of her face as the fire spread.

Carmilla growls what kind of a slayer fights with napalm. Don't they use wooden stakes anymore? "Damn you Summers. You'll pay for this till the day I die!"

Clark just watched the building burn. He thought seeing it seeing the end would somehow make it OK. He was wrong nothing's OK it doesn't matter if he burns 1, 10, 100, or a vampire extinction attack it doesn't stop it, and it doesn't change anything not now not ever. Willow is gone and nothing is going to bring her back. She's gone but he's stuck here.

"Clark, Clark wake up son."

Clark focused his eyes and saw it was Giles. "What's going on?"

"You're home." Giles answered.

Clark just looked at the floor. "Why aren't we at a graveyard?"

"I doubted vampires would fear a sleeping slayer. Get some rest Clark the hellmouth will survive a night without you."

Clark couldn't argue that so he just went upstairs to his house. "Good night Giles"

Giles just looked forward while Clark went in. "Good night Clark."

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