Chapter Seven

The sound of the cell phone broke into Giles and Christopher's conversation.

"Faith?"

Christopher's head shot to the door as it crashed open the wood split and fell off its hinges. Giles shot to his feet with the phone still against his ear. The pink haired teenage girl stood in the vacant space.

"Yes... I'm still here." Giles whispered. "I see... clearly."

Giles and Father Christopher were staring at the blood stained hands.

"Anna?" fear ripped at Christopher throat.

"You have a visitor I see."

Giles was amazed at the sight of the small Asian girl, so this was Anna Kusitu: A slayer. Buffy had met her once in another timeline. Another world. She'd told him all about that world. "Anna Kusitu?" Giles greeted.

The girl looked at him with interest. "Have we met?"

"Not in this world." Giles replied sardonically.

Anna gave him a cold smile. "You know me; I however do not know you?"

"I'm Rupert Giles."

Anna's eyes widened for a split second, before returning to their icy glare. "I'm sorry for your loss." She added coldly, not an ounce of remorse or sympathy in her tone.

"Anna you don't understand." Christopher got to his feet, taking a few steps towards her. "You're not the only slayer. - Things are different now."

There was a deafening silence as Anna's eyes flashed from one man to the other.

"The rules have changed." Giles added.

"Really?" Anna's blood covered fist clenched at her side. "How?"

"We had to call all the potentials in order to stop the First." Giles informed her, calm and collected. He was used to facing the dangers of an out of control Slayer.

Anna took a determined and threatening step towards the men. "We?"

"Buffy, myself and…others."

"You? - You called me?"

Giles nodded slowly.

"And the other slayer?"

"Thousands." Christopher clarified.

After another long silence, Anna approached the Priest, her gaze red with anger. "What gave you the right? - And what is it to me? - I'm the slayer I'm doing my duty. It matters not that there are others. It will only help our cause. We can wipe them out. All of them."

"Who?"

"The demons."

"You want to wipe out all the demon? - But some are innocent." Giles reasoned.

Anna laughed. "Are you all blind? There's no such thing as innocent demons."

"Or Priest's it would seem." Giles remarked flatly.

Anna's lips tightened looking at Christopher with disgust. "He was in my way. - Fool."

"Who?" Christopher looked between the slayer and the watcher.

"Your friend, Father Keller. - She killed him."

"What!" Christopher began to shake.

"He would not hand her over. What could I do." despite her words there was no guilt in her voice.

"He was a Priest." Christopher gasped. "A Priest, Anna."

Giles thought for a second he saw emotion beneath her dark eyes, but as soon as it appeared it was gone. She felt nothing.

"Like you." Anna said plainly.

The pain in Christopher's body reminded him that she had no care for man or Priest, all she wanted was death. To kill. Well no more. He'd allowed this too long. Far too long.

Christopher rushed at the slayer, ignoring the pounding of both his head and his heart.

"No!" Giles cried.

The words reached Christopher too late, the priest's nose broke with a cry. Blood filled his mouth once more. Anna's fist continued its attack. Giles raised a chair to Anna's back. The force didn't stop her. Anna turned her attention to Giles.

Glass shattered as a body fell towards the concrete. A few scattered screams called out in the street. The sound of sirens could be heard in the distance. Some gathered around the semi-conscious body, blood beginning to stain the dark concrete.

"Is she?"

"Call a doctor!"

Giles and Father Christopher stepped out from behind the crowd, Christopher walking regretfully forward, wincing as he lent down beside her. "Anna." he whispered.

Faith stared from the Window about the crowd. Killing a sister slayer had not been the plan but she'd had no choice, Anna was within inches of killing both Giles and Father Christopher. Faith through it a shame, Anna was strong, well trained but sadly completely unhinged, she could have given Faith a run for her money, the elder slayer knew.

The difference between Faith and Anna was timing. Maybe if there had been time Anna could have been shown a new path as Faith was, but there hadn't been any. Anna was unstoppable; she had needed to be stopped. Her heartless disregard for the shades of gray that inhabited their world made her more of a threat than Faith had been in her life.

As the old saying goes it takes one to know one. Faith knew Anna, she seen it in the girls eyes. She wasn't going to be saved. - Not by Father Christopher, not by Giles or herself. She'd keep killing and killing and killing.

Christopher bowed his head over Anna, giving her last rights. He needed to give her forgiveness. For him, for all she'd done, all she'd killed. If he didn't forgive her he may find himself hating her and Christopher didn't want to hate the young girl. It wasn't her fault she'd taken the path that had led them to this place. That blame lay at the feet of her previous watcher.

"You're all fools. - You'll regret this." Anna groaned, even at the gates of death her eyes were filled with fury, hate and anger.

"He did you wrong Anna, so much wrong. - He was a monster. Worse than any you fight. - You know that."

"He was wise. He knew what it would take. He made me to do anything, no matter what." Her voice was a whisper.

Christopher wished he could change this. Anna's death had not what he had hoped for when he'd wanted Rupert Giles help. But as he knelt beside her he knew to his unending sorrow that death was always going to be the end of this story. Whether his or hers.

There was an almost silent breath and it was over. Anna had passed from this world to the next and Father Christopher prayed that God would understand that it wasn't Anna's true self that combined such horrors. She had been an innocent twisted until she was drenched in so much blood that she was unable to wash herself clean.

THE END

Based on the TV series created by Joss Whedon.


A/N: I hope this wasn't too bad, it was one of my early stories. I know its not wonderful.

The character of Anna was taken from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series of books: The Lost Slayer. I totally recommend these books.