"How was your first day?" Melissa asks Buffy as the blonde walks in through the front door.
Buffy smiles at her God-mother before moving to sit on the edge of the couch, the blonde pauses honestly trying to think of the best way to describe what had happened "Eventful, to say the least."
Melissa smiles at the young girl before moving over to her "You weren't too stressed?"

"No." Buffy tells her honestly "Actually it was nice, seeing everyone again."
"Did Scott and Stiles help you out?"
Buffy laughs softly as she sinks into the couch next to Melissa and rests her head on her shoulder "Lydia beat them to it."

Melissa smiles before tapping the blonde's knee "You're gonna be good here. Now I'm done momming for the day." She says as she stands only making Buffy laugh.

If she was going to end up living with anyone other than her dad, she was glad it was Melissa.

Buffy moves to switch on the TV only for her phone to buzz, frowning she sighs as she stops Allison's name come up screen. It wasn't that she didn't want to talk to her new friend but she just wanted to chill and try and push all thoughts of vampires out of her head.

"Hey Allison." She says happily not wanting to risk losing a new friendship.
"I'm going to the party with Scott!"
Buffy's eyes widen at that, when the hell did this happen "What, when how and huh please?"

Buffy leaps onto Scott's bed making him jump in bed and leap off the bed right onto the ground, Buffy giggles before sitting crossed legged on the kid's bed.
"Buffy what the hell?!" He exclaims as he pull himself off the floor.

Buffy merely rolls her eyes "Cover up Fabio." She tells him tossing him a shirt, before looking down at her hands "So I guess we're living together now huh."
Scott pauses and moves to sit next to her, no matter what she was still one of his best friends "Looks like."

Buffy smiles before looking up at him with sad eyes "Look Scott um...I know I went radio silent with you and Stiles. And there is an explanation..." Buffy opens her mouth before groaning "...one I can't give you but...let's put it this way...I went through something big in freshman year, something that drastically changed my perception on life, which got all—I got all..." Buffy waves her hands around frantically before looking at Scott defeated "You know what I mean?"

Scott smiles at her before placing his arm over her shoulder, at her words he thinks back to everything that had started happening to him since the bite, he understood more than ever "I know exactly what you mean."

Pausing he looks at the blonde "Look, me and Stiles are still you're annoying best friends. You're stuck with us."
Buffy lets out a small laugh "Good."

"I'm coming. I'll be there in ten." Buffy assures Allison after she had left Scott's room, she had promised the brunette she would come over when they spoke earlier.
Walking down the dark empty streets of Beacon Hills Buffy racks her brain trying to remember how to weave the streets like she used to.

As she walks a small chill goes up her spine, she wasn't sure what but she could feel something watching her, stopping in her steps for a beat she turns her head and that's when she sees it, the shadow.

Clenching her jaw she feels panic settle in, speeding up her pace she turns the next corner only to freeze as she finds herself in dead end alley way.

Buffy groans before looking around her, suddenly a pipe running across the narrow alley about ten feet above her draws her attention, she tilts her head, that could work.

Derek Hale walks into the now-empty alley and frowns before walking further into the street, he was sure she had come this way, he could still smell her.
Before he could react two feet hit his back sending him crashing to the ground.
Buffy lands next to Derek and places a foot on his chest keeping him laid on his back, as she does Derek stares stunned he hadn't expected her to be this strong.

"Is there a problem here?" He asks flatly sounding rather amused.
Buffy scoffs before eyeing his suspiciously, looking at him carefully she frowns, she wasn't stupid he was handsome for sure, but had a dangerous look in his eyes.
"There's a problem, why are you follow me?"
Derek arches a brow at the blonde "What? Worried I bite?"

Buffy backs off slightly staring stunned at him as he stands and dusts off his leather jacket.
"I thought you'd be taller, my sister told me you'd be taller. You're pretty spry, though."

Buffy makes sure to keep a fair distance, her arms raised ready for a fight "What do you want?"
"From you?" He asks almost taunting her "Nothing. I'm doing a favour for my sister, she was into all this prophecy crap."

Buffy drops her arms in annoyance before shrugging "Sorry! That's incorrect but you get this lovely watch and a year's worth of Turtle Wax." She tells him sarcastically before turning her back on him intent on leaving and ending this conversation.

Derek stares at the blonde stunned, almost cracking a smirk but it doesn't reach his face "You're standing at the mouth of a whole lot of pain. Things are returning here, do you really think you can just hide under the covers."
Reaching into his jacket he pulls out the box he had found with his sister's things and tosses it at the blonde "You need to be ready. There are things here, things you've never seen. Mountain Ash will be your best friend."

"Mountain what now?"
He doesn't answer, merely turns away and begins walking away from her, Buffy clenches her jaw her curiosity eating at her "What am I getting ready for?"

Derek lets out an amused breath before turning back to her "The Harvest." He says simply before turning again and starting to move away.
"Who are you?" She calls out.
Derek for the first time smirks slightly "Let's just say I'm a friend."
Buffy groans exasperated "Well, maybe I don't wanna a friend."
"I didn't say I was yours."

Finally he exits the alley leaving Buffy standing there in annoyance, she was really regretting coming back here, looking down at the small black box in her hands she opens it only to spot a silver cross on a silver chain inside.

"Scott!" Stiles screams the next day as he runs over to his friend tripping over almost everything in his path as he speeds onto the lacrosse field "Scott, wait up."
Scott turns to his best friend confused "Stiles, I'm playing the first elimination, man. Can it wait?"
Stiles shakes his head as he attempts to catch his breath "Just hold on, okay? I overheard my dad on the phone. The fiber analysis came back from the lab in LA. They found animal hairs on the body from the woods! And the guy in the locker had a bite mark, completely drained of blood!"

Scott shakes his head he didn't have time for this, this was his only chance to make sure he made the team and wasn't a loser for the rest of the year "Stiles, I gotta go."

As Scott begins running onto the field Stiles panics "No Scott you're not gonna believe what the animal was!" Stiles sighs, as he watches Scott run off "It was a wolf."

Buffy, Allison and Lydia all sit on the bleachers watching the tryouts for the lacrosse team.
Buffy winces as Jackson knocks Scott down to the ground, only for her eyes to widen as he runs across the field and flips over several of the guys before making the goal.

Buffy frowns, what the hell was that?

"How did he get good?" She asks herself before she looks over where Stiles who watching her with a worried frown, at the look on his face she knew something was wrong. Something major.

Standing she makes her way down to the bench and sits next to Stiles "Stiles, how did he learn to do that?"
Stiles turns to her and gulps slightly "He didn't."

"How much Adderall have you had today?" Scott asks Stiles as he walks into the spaz's room and Stiles was practically jumping off the walls.
Stiles spins around in his desk chair and shrugs "A lot. Doesn't matter. Okay, just listen."
"Is this about the bodies? Did they find out who did it?"
Stiles shakes his head "No, they're still questioning people, even Derek Hale."

"Oh, the guy in the woods that we saw the other day."
Stiles nods practically spazzing out "Yeah! Yes. But that's not it, okay?"

Scott chuckles nervously his best friend's behaviour was starting to freak him out a little "What then?"

"Remember the joke from the other day? Not a joke anymore." Scott frowns in confusion only making Stiles sigh "The wolf. The bite in the woods. I started doing all this reading." Suddenly he stands unable to stay still any longer "Do you even know why a wolf howls?"
"Should I?"
"It's a signal, okay?" Stiles informs him "When a wolf's alone, it howls to signal it's location to the rest of the pack. So if you heard a wolf howling, that means other could have been nearby. Maybe even a whole pack of them."
Scott's eyes widen in fascination but he still wasn't getting the true extent of what Stiles was saying to him "A whole pack of wolves?"

"No..." Stiles tells him nervously "Werewolves."

Buffy groans almost in agony as she holds two outfits in front of her while staring at the mirror. Holding them up in front her she groans "Hi! I'm an enormous slut!" She says cheerfully as she holds up the black leather one before raising the other one which honesty looked like something out of her grandmother's close it "Hi! Would you like a copy of Watchtower?"
Groaning in frustration she throws both outfits on the bed "I used to be so good at this..."

"Lydia's party?" Melissa asks as she leans against the doorframe of Buffy's room.
Buffy smiles and nods "Yeah. What the Queen demands must occur." She jokes making Melissa smile before she walks over to Buffy's closest.

Grabbing a blue shirt and some black jeans she hands them to the blonde "Whenever you're not sure, play it safe. White tank underneath, hair up."
Buffy stares at the outfit before smiling happily 'Thanks."

Melissa smiles before adjusting slightly "This is the same party Scott's going to right?"
"Yeah-huh." Buffy answers as she begins playing with her hair.

Melissa shifts awkwardly, she was used to Scott, boys were easy...but teenage girls, this was a whole other ball game, and she had made a promise to Joyce that she wouldn't screw her daughter up "So there will be boys there?"
Buffy arches a brow and turns to face the worrying brunette "No, Melissa; it's a nun club." She says sarcastically.
Melissa sighs before watching the girl in worry "Well, just be careful?"
"I will."

Melissa sighs "Look Buffy, I know this is weird, trust me it's weird for me too, I am prepared for every talk...with a teenage boy, girls are a mystery to me."
Buffy turns to Melissa, she felt bad, she knew she had put the woman in an awkward and difficult situation by moving in with them "Melissa..."
"Joy used to say not to be too nurturing especially with girls." Melissa continues "You're sixteen, you're not that little girl who used to push Scott off the swings. So I'll figure it out. We'll make it work. Just..." Melissa sighs and runs a hand through her hair "Help me out too, try not to fall into the wrong crowd."

Buffy smiles "I promise. From now on, I'm only hanging out with the living." Her eyes quickly widen in panic cursing her babble brain she attempts to fix her words "I—I mean, the lively...people."

Melissa exhales in relief leaning against the wall before her eyes fall on Scott's bedroom door across the hall "Do you know about this date?"
Buffy smirks slightly "Her name is Allison."
"Ah." Melissa grins "Thanks for the tip." She says before heading into Scott's room to give him a talking to.

"Buffy!" Stiles yells as he runs over to the blonde who had just managed to pull herself away from Greenberg who had been begging her to dance.
Buffy sighs in relief "Thank God." She says before grabbing his arm and pulling him onto the dance floor.

As she begins dancing Stiles frowns in both shock and confusion, "Buf-wh-what are you doing?" He stutters out as he watches her.
Buffy groans "Dance with me dummy, Greenberg doesn't seem to understand that by throwing a ball at his head I wasn't interested."

Stiles chuckles before looking at her seriously all thoughts of the fact that Scott was a werewolf slipping from his head "Are you okay Buff?"
Buffy sighs "I will be."

Suddenly Stiles pulls out her stake from his back pocket "Actually I forgot you dropped this earlier."
Buffy's eyes widen in panic and her brain quickly scrambles for an explanation as she grabs the Stake and slips it into her shirt "Oh..."
"The only thing I can figure is that you're either obsessed with twilight or building a really little fence."
Buffy chuckles softly trying to hide her nervousness "Oh. No. Neither of those. It's for self dense. Everyone has them in L.A. Pepper spray is so passé."

Stiles chuckles "Buff, you were born in the wrong decade."
"Very much so."
She assures him only to giggle as he spins her around before dipping her making her laugh loudly.

As they continue to dance neither of them realise their focus was on something else, Stiles was focused on Scott who was dancing with Allison, while Buffy's focus was on a certain vet, nodding his head at her.

"I gotta go!" Both Stiles and Buffy yell at the same time.
"Cool." They both say ignoring the other as they take off in different directions.

Buffy approaches Deaton and leans on the railing of the fence he was behind "So, you like to party with students? Isn't that kind of skanky?"
Deaton chuckles in amusement "This isn't exactly my sort of place. But I needed to speak to you."
Buffy groans before shrugging "Fine."
"This is the perfect breeding ground for vampire activity. Dark, crowded..."

"Drunk teenagers?" Buffy finishes making Deaton nod his head in amusement.
Deaton after a beat continues to scan the crowd "Buffy, I need you to understand—"

"That the harvest is coming." Buffy says offhandedly remembering back to her meeting with tall dark and handsome "I know, your friend told me."

Deaton freezes for a moment, the only person he knew who had any interest in Slayers and supernatural creatures was Laura Hale and she hadn't mentioned anything to him "What did you say?"
"The...Harvest." Buffy repeats in confusion know, shouldn't he be the one with all the answers "That mean something to you? 'Cause I'm drawing a blank."

Deaton shakes his head as he tries to think of what The Harvest could possibly mean, but like her he was coming up with nothing "No, it's doesn't...who told you this?"
Buffy shrugs as she remembers back to those eyes "This guy. Dark, gorgeous in an annoying sort of way." She quickly rants about him "I figured you were buds. I really didn't like him."

Deaton sighs as he realises who's description this man fit, God knows how much Laura had told Derek, maybe more than he himself knew.

Turning back to the crowd of people he leans over to Buffy "Look at them." He tells her "Throwing themselves about...completely unaware of the danger in this town."
Buffy sighs sadly, a part of her wishing for that sense of unknowing "Lucky them..."
"I'm sure it's nothing though." Deaton assures her, scanning her face for her reaction "The signs could be wrong. It's not like you're having the nightmares."

At his words Buffy's face clouds over in fear, clenching her jaw she says nothing as she continues to watch the dancing kids.

Allison watches in confusion as Scott runs away from her, stumbling towards his car.
As he climbs inside and speeds off she stares in shock and disbelief he had just left her.

Upset and feeling slightly dejected she turns to head back to the party to hopefully find Buffy or Lydia but instead she is stopped by one Derek Hale.

"Allison." Derek says as he walks up to her "I'm a friend of Scott's. My name's Derek."

"I didn't say I'd never slay another vampire." Buffy argues as she continues to look around the party "I'm just not gonna get way extracurricular with it. If I run into one, sure..." She trails off hoping that now that she had given him what he wanted he would leave her alone.

Deaton turns to the blonde "Would you be prepared though? If there was one here right now?"
"Yes." She argues glaring at him before turning back to watch the party, which she prayed to be enjoying right now.

Deaton sighs before gesturing to the teens surrounding them "Without looking, without thinking. Can you tell me if there's a vampire out here?"

Buffy pauses before looking around at the mass of kids dancing around the pool, as she searches her eyebrows furrow in concentration.
"You have to hone your senses." Deaton tells her "Inside of you is a gift, you can feel—"

"There's one." Buffy says suddenly cutting him off, leaving him stunned to silence.
"What?" He asks.
Buffy rolls her eyes before pointing at the vampire "Down there. Talking to that girl."
Deaton frowns in curiosity "How do you know?"

"Oh please..." Buffy says as if it were nothing "...look at his jacket. He's got the sleeves rolled up. And the shirt...deal with that outfit for a moment."
Deaton lets out a small mind "That's a new method to say the least."
Buffy grins happily however her smile falls as she realises the vampire and the girl were gone "Oh boy."

Scott's eyes widen in horror as claws begin growing from the tips of his fingers and his teeth begin sharpening.

Finally his eyes flash yellow, in horror Scott quickly slams his eyes shut praying for all of this to be a dream.

A loud banging from his bedroom door makes him groan "Go away!"
"Scott, it's me." A panicked Stiles says from the other side of the door.
Scott stumbles to the door unlocking it but keeping Stiles from entering the room.
"Let me in Scott. I can help." Stiles begs in worry.

Scott takes a heavy breath as he tries to remain in control but his control as slipping "No! Listen, you gotta find Allison."
"She's fine, all right?" Stiles assures him "I saw her get a ride from the party. She's...she's totally fine. All right?"
"No, I think I know who it is." Scott exclaims cutting him off as he continues to grunt in effort.
Stiles groans in frustration "Just let me in. We can try..."

"It's Derek!" Scott reveals "Derek Hale is the werewolf. He's the one that bit me. He's the one that killed the girl in the woods, he probably killed the guy in the locker room."
Stiles' eyes widen at that, this wasn't good "Scott, Derek's the one that drove Allison home from the party."

Buffy runs through the graveyard in the direction where she had seen the vamp dragging one of her classmates.

At the sound of a loud female scream Buffy runs towards the nearby mausoleum and as she enters she quickly spots the girl from earlier and another boy, as well as two vampires. A guy and a girl in what looked like a catholic school girl outfit.

"Well, this is nice." Buffy comments as she slowly makes her way into the room causing everyone to stop.
Buffy shrugs and places a finger on the dirty tombstone before groaning "A little bare, but a dash of paint, a few throw pillows – call it home."

"Who the hell are you?" The vampire Darla asks the blonde.
Buffy scoffs "Wow, you mean there's actually somebody here who doesn't know already? That's a relief. I'm telling you, having a secret identity in this town is a job of work."

The two vampires begin circling the tombstone together both coming up on each side of the Vampire Slayer who was still chatting away " Okay, first of all, what's with the outfit?" Buffy asks suddenly turning towards the vampire boy "Live in the now, okay? You look like DeBarge."

Rolling her eyes she turns to Darla, a part of her knew that it wasn't DeBarge in change here, it was the school girl "Now, we can do this the hard way, or..." Buffy pauses before laughing softly "Well, actually, there's just the hard way."
Darla grins having no idea just how much in trouble she was "Fine by me."
Buffy arches a brow "You sure?" She asks sweetly "It's not gonna be pretty. We're talking, strong violence, adult content."

As she speaks, the boy vampires rushes at her from behind, charging at her with incredible speed and momentum.
Whipping out the stake Stiles had returned to her, in one graceful motion Buffy sticks it out behind her letting the vampire impale himself on it before turning to dust.

Buffy grins "See what happens when you roughhouse?"

Stiles bangs on Allison's front door in a panic "Come on, come on." He mutters to himself as he continues to bang on the door.

Suddenly the door opens and immediately Stiles is faced with Allison's rather terrifying mother, who clearly was pissed at him "Hi, Mrs. Argent. Um...you have no idea who I am. I'm a friend of your daughter's. Uh, look, this is gonna sound kind of crazy, um, really crazy, actually. You know what? Crazy doesn't..."

Mrs. Argent who was clearly uncomfortable with the babbling idiot turns towards the stairs "Allison!" She calls "It's for you."
Stiles looks up only to find himself staring in shock as there was Allison, totally and utterly safe.

"You're Buffy friend right?" Allison asks sweetly trying to hide the fact that she was a little creeped out.

Stiles nods still in shock while Mrs. Argent rolls her eyes and walks away while Allison walks downstairs towards him.
"Ye-yeah Best...best friend...I'm her best friend."
Allison frowns in confusion "Lydia said she was..."

"I'm her best friend!" Stiles groans realizing this was sounding was too much How I Met Your Mother for his liking.

Allison clears her throat uncomfortably "Actually um...could you tell her sorry I didn't say goodbye tonight, you're likely gonna see her before me and she's not answering her phone."
Stiles pauses at that, Buffy was not one to not answer her phone "She's not answering her phone?"
"No."

Hearing a voice behind her Allison sighs before saying goodnight and closing the door.
As the door is closed in his face Stiles frowns, he was positive Buffy hadn't been at the house earlier but he was also positive he had seen her leave alone.

Where the hell was she?

"What did you do with her?" Scott asks in anger as Derek pins him up against a tree.

Derek ignores the teenager as movement in the forest draws his attention, as he listens his eyes widen in panic "Shh. Quiet." Clenching his jaw after a long beat he turns back to Scott "Too late. They're already here. Run."
Scott frowns in confusion while Derek takes off leaving him, Scott's eyes widen and he stands making a move to run only some sort of flame to blow up next to him causing his vision to go, before he feels an arrow pierce his shoulder pinning him to a tree.

"Go!" Buffy yells to the two teens on the floor before she blocks Darla's arm, twisting Darla's arm Buffy raises her left leg slamming it into Darla's chest.
As Darla topples Buffy drives her elbow into the vampire's back causing her to drop to the ground.

Buffy grins before grabbing the back of Darla's head and launching her into the wall on the opposite side of the room.
As Darla hits the ground with a painful thud Buffy stands over her, all humour now gone from her visage.

"You know, I just wanted to start over. Be like everybody else. Have some friends, maybe a dog...but no. You had to come here. You couldn't suck on some other town."
Darla groans in pain before looking up at the sixteen-year-old girl, who had somehow beat her and tossed her around the room like a rag doll "Who are you?"

"Don't you know?" Buffy asks only to gasp as she is suddenly grabbed by the throat, her body now hovering above the ground before a threatening voice whispers in her ear "I don't care."

"Who were they?" Scott asks struggling out breath after Derek had saved him from the men who had shot at them. He was terrified he had no idea what the hell was happening.
"Hunters." Derek tells him as he turns to the teenager "The kind who have been hunting us for centuries."

Scott's eyes widen, what the hell had Derek gotten him into "Us? You mean you! You did this to me!"

Derek scoffs before approaching the teenager "Is it really so bad, Scott? That you can see better, hear more clearly, move faster than any human could ever hope? You've been given something most people would kill for. The bite is a gift."

Scott who was still grunting in pain from where he had been shot glares at Derek "I don't want it."

Derek nods "You will. And you're gonna need me if you want to learn to control it." Stepping closer Derek places an arm on Scott's shoulder "So you and me, Scott, we're brother's now."

Buffy groans as she pulls herself up after the vampire Darla had called Luke had tossed her into the wall.

Lifting herself off the floor just as Luke closes in on her she turns to face him more prepared this time. So when he grabs her she knocks his arms away and kicks him in the face. It sends him back stumbling slightly, but only slightly.

Quickly recovering he lands a solid punch to her jaw "You are strong." He says before backhanding her sending her to the ground "I'm stronger."

After driving around for hours in search of his best friend Stiles picked up a shirtless Scott off the side of the road and slowly began driving him home. There was only a couple hours left till sunrise so they didn't have long to get home before their parents noticed they weren't there.

"You know what actually worries me the most?" Scott asks as he leans against the window of the car door.

Stiles feels his blood boil for a second "If you say Allison, I'm gonna punch you in the head."
Scott only groans "She probably hates me now."
Stiles groans "Ugh. I doubt that. But you might want to come up with a pretty amazing apology. Or, you know, you could just tell her the truth and revel in the awesomeness of the fact that you're a freaking werewolf."

Scott's head shoots to glare at Stiles, he couldn't be serious, glaring at his best friend he waits for Stiles to finally realise how stupid his head was.
Stiles shrugs "Okay, bad idea." Looking over at his terrified best friend he places a hand on his shoulder "Hey, we'll get through this. Come on, if I have to, I'll chain you up myself on full moon nights and feed you live mice. I had a boa once. I could do it."

Scott looks over at his best friend and can't help but smile, it was great to know he had someone with him through all of this craziness.

Stiles smiles before groaning, "Not to make a bad situation worse, but..."
"What?" Scott asks worriedly, how could this get worse.
Stiles groans, "Buffy. She never came home last night either, and I started thinking, all those fights she was getting into in L.A, the fire..."

"What are you getting at Stiles?" Scott asks in confusion.
Stiles groans, before glancing at his best friend in worry "I don't think you're the only one with a secret."

"But on the third day of the newest light will come over the Harvest." Luke tells Buffy as he continues to toss her around the room, making the young Slayer weaker.

Pulling herself off the ground again she turns to Luke, as he continues with his speak "...when the blood of men will flow as wine...when the Master will walk among them once more... the world will belong to the Old Ones...and Hell itself will come to town."

As he pins her to the ground and wraps an arm around her neck Buffy screams in terror, she didn't want to die, not now, not like this.

Moving to the side in an attempt to get away Luke backhands her again, sending her flying again but this time she lands right inside the open tomb.
Buffy falls landing hard on her back, the wind completely knocked out of her. Looking beside her she gasps in horror as she spots the withered corpse of the tomb's owner.

Groaning due to her injury's she attempts to move, looking up she frowns, there was no Luke. Only the walls of the tomb. Gulping slightly she slowly and achingly lifts her head, the fear evident on her face.

Suddenly Luke jumps into the crypt pinning her down, Buffy grunts as she tries to fight him off only for her eyes to widen as he moves in on her neck "Amen."