Head First

Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon and Supernatural belongs to Eric Kripke

Summary: After a rendezvous in Los Angeles, Dean discovers something that will forever change his life… A daughter…

Spoilers: Post "Chosen" for Buffy and now post "Shadow" for Supernatural!

Author's Note: This is the chapter most of you have been waiting for… The truth comes out, in a way!

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Confessions

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"Put down the camera, Sam," Dean warned his brother.

Sam only laughed as he took another picture of his older brother pushing his daughter on the swings. "Don't you want to remember this day?"

"I don't need a camera for that," Dean kept his cool.

"Higher, daddy!" Marilyn giggled.

"Yea, Dean, higher," Sam snorted as he took another picture.

Dean smiled at his daughter as he pushed her higher, but glared at Sam when he did in fact take another picture.

"And to think, if it weren't for your stubbornness, we could be at the mall," Sam laughed.

When Dean and Sam had gone to pick Mari and Buffy up, they were surprised that Buffy let them go alone. She told them she trusted them enough, and Dean deserved to be alone with his daughter. That didn't stop Buffy from threatening to harm them if something went wrong, though.

The two options were the mall or the park. Dean wasn't a mall person, nor was he a park person, but the park seemed like the best plan of action.

"Mari?" Dean started. "A few nights ago, your uncle Sammy went to visit the school and he saw you doing something, something a little girl like you shouldn't be doing."

Mari turned to Sam and scrunched her face, trying to think of what her dad could have been talking about. "You saw me make the weights move!"

Dean was surprised to see her make the connection so fast. But at least it was finally confirmed that his daughter was special. He looked toward his brother and saw the look on his face.

Mari looked between her dad and her uncle and frowned. "Aren't you happy, uncle Sam? I moved it like you could."

"Way to make my daughter cry," Dean rolled his eyes at his brother as Sam bent down trying to make Mari happy again.

"Of course we're happy," Sam smiled when Mari looked at him. "Your dad and I just want to know how you did it."

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'Remember, Mari,' Buffy told her daughter. 'We're all special and no one can know just how special we are.'

'But why?' Mari asked confused.

Buffy got down on her knee and hugged her daughter. 'If people knew how special you were, then they'd take you away from me. And I don't know what I'd do to get you back.'

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Mari wondered whether she could trust her dad and her uncle. They were special like her, but her mom still wasn't sure about them. She couldn't tell them what she was doing was really witchcraft Willow was teaching her.

"It just happened one day," Mari looked at her dad. "I had a bad dream about a monster with yellow eyes and my mommy couldn't help me. When I opened my eyes, my bed was floating."

Dean stood outside the motel room, his brother behind him, as he looked in at his daughter watching the small television.

"She had a dream about the demon, Dean," Sam pushed. "And she said Buffy wasn't in it, meaning she probably died trying to protect her from something she knew nothing about."

Dean sighed and turned around. "Yea, and she can do more than you can with these powers you possess."

And that was something Dean still didn't understand. Sam saw her lifting weights with her powers and the only time Sam did anything with those powers was when he saw Dean getting shot in a vision. How was a kid more advanced than a man in his twenties?

"But how? She's still a kid!"

"I don't know," Dean admitted. He wished he had the answers, but he was completely at a loss. It wasn't a feeling he was used to, being hopeless and he definitely didn't like it.

"Maybe I could give you a few answers," a voice interrupted the two.

Dean turned and glared. "Meg."

"Shouldn't you be dead?" Sam asked in confusion.

"If you think that was enough to get rid of me, then you underestimated me," she smirked. "But I'm not here to talk, just here to collect."

"You're not taking us anywhere," Dean pulled his gun out.

Meg rolled her eyes at the weapon, it couldn't hurt her. "I'm not here for you two."

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As a commercial came on the television, Mari grew bored. She looked out the window and smiled when seeing her dad and uncle. She was really happy they found her. She hoped her dad and mom could be together.

She saw a woman walking to her family and Mari knew she didn't like her. She got a little frightened when her dad pulled a gun out and pointed it at the woman.

It was over before it even started, but Mari didn't scream. The woman came into the room and smirked at her.

"Wanna go for a ride?" she asked.

"I can't believe I let them go off alone," Buffy scoffed as she opened her weapons trunk. She pulled out every weapon she could.

"Buffy," Willow spoke. "You have to calm down and be rational about this. You can't go guns a-blazing to this place."

Buffy held up the scythe that she pulled from the rock and strapped it to her back. She turned to Willow, "Who said anything about guns."

"Buffy."

"You can't expect me to be rational when you tell me you sensed Mari being taken away from Dean and Sam!" Buffy's voice rose.

It wasn't the news Buffy had wanted to hear when Willow had found her training some of the younger slayers. The news that Mari had been taken by a demon posing in a human's body did not stop Buffy's rampage. Those who found her walking to her room were silenced with a glare. She wasn't in the mood.

"But nothing has happened to her yet, and we still have to make sure Dean and Sam are alright, because they haven't called."

"Maybe they're a part of this," Buffy growled as the thought came. "This whole time, they pretended, only to take her away from me."

Willow could do nothing to stop the slayer, so she followed. If Dean and Sam were a part of this, Willow was going to have play referee, if she didn't hurt them first. Mari was her goddaughter after all and she had to protect her as well.

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It seemed that Meg wanted them to know where she was as she left a note for them. An apartment building, abandoned, in the city. They didn't know why, but they knew they had to go.

Dean parked the car across the street from the building and felt the anger grow stronger inside of him. She took his daughter and she was going to pay for it.

"Buffy's going to kill us," Sam reminded his brother.

"She's not going to find out," Dean told his brother.

"Dean--" Sam didn't get to finish as his brother was already out of the car and heading for the trunk. Sam calmed himself and got out.

"How do you want to do this?" he asked his older brother.

"We go in, shoot until something is dead," Dean answered.

"You know that's not going to work."

Without turning away from the trunk, Dean spoke, "I have to get her back, Sam."

"We will, but we have to think this through."

"And how do you suppose we do that, huh?" Dean yelled. He waited for his brother to answer, but he saw that Sam was distracted. Dean turned to look in the direction Sam was facing and his mouth dropped.

The location that Mari was being held at was already being breached. There was Buffy and Willow, and Buffy had just kicked down a door. A door that no man or woman should ever be able to kick down.

"Did Buffy just--"

"Yea," Sam nodded.

Something extremely weird was going on, and after everything had been solved, they were going to find out.

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Buffy walked in the building, stepping on the door in the process. It really was abandoned.

"This is kinda gloomy," Willow said after she walked in. "With a side of creepy."

"Definitely high on the creepy scale," Buffy added as she looked at their surroundings. High ceilings, several light broken and the stench of something that wasn't human.

"Your normal demon hide out," Willow nodded.

"All that's missing are the demons," Buffy said as she tried to reach out with her slayer senses.

"Buffy!" Dean called out as he and Sam made it into the building.

She turned around and felt her anger skyrocket. Without thinking, she grabbed him by the throat and held him in the air, a few inches above the ground. "Where's my daughter?"

"Buffy, let him go," Willow spoke to her best friend. "This isn't helping us find Mari."

She released her grip and Dean dropped to the ground. He felt his neck, surprised by Buffy's strength. Something was not normal about this whole situation, especially that sharp, red weapon on her back. There was no way someone of her size could do what she did.

"Where is she?" Buffy hissed.

"Someone took her from us," Sam answered, worried. "How'd you know she was here?"

"That doesn't matter," Buffy glared at Sam. "I'm here for my daughter."

"So are we," Dean finally spoke as he stood.

"Then it's just a big party, then!" Meg called out from the other side of the room. "But we can't have anymore uninvited guests."

The door that Buffy kicked down was suddenly lifted and put back in place.

"Of course, I invited some people too, just in case."

From dark corners of the room, several people appeared. They looked like average, everyday people that she picked off the street. But it was the eyes that were different. Obsidian eyes that spoke of evil.

The brothers had their guns ready, but Meg only smirked. "I don't know about those guns. Real bullets on real people might get a little sloppy."

"They're possessed," Sam said as he lowered his gun.

"I don't care," Buffy said as she punched the first person that came near. The man fell to the ground, unconscious.

"I'll leave you all alone," Meg smiled as she went out the emergency door that led to the stairs.

"Can you handle them?" Buffy asked her best friend who nodded an affirmative. She looked at Dean and Sam. "You two seem like you've done this before."

"Same to you," Dean sent a questioning look at her.

"Later," she nodded. "I'm going after Mari."

"You sure you can handle it?" Dean asked. She already started running. He watched as she flipped over two people and took them out from behind. "That's a yes, then."

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"Mommy!" Mari screamed when Buffy burst through the emergency floor that led to the second floor.

"He said you were special," Meg said as she sized Buffy up. "But he didn't say how."

"Is that why you took her?" Buffy glared. "To get to me?"

Meg laughed. "It's not about you. Your child is what we want. You and Dean made a special gift to this world, and we want it."

"You're not taking her," Buffy warned as she rushed Meg.

She tackled her and they both went down. Meg broke away from Buffy's grip and punched the slayer across the face. Buffy pulled back, giving Meg time to move away and stand.

Buffy swept her legs, but Meg dodged.

She jumped to her feet, just as Meg threw another punch. Buffy grabbed her arm tightly and threw her across the room, hoping to separate her from Mari.

Meg got to her feet and smirked as Buffy shielded Mari from her.

"You don't seem so eager to kill me."

"I don't kill humans," Buffy glared.

"Too bad," Meg said as she ran forward.

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Dean was worried about Buffy. Sure, she seemed powerful, but Meg was just as strong and had a taste for torture. He wondered how Buffy was faring.

He ducked a fist and brought his gun up to the man's face, knocking him unconscious. There were too many and he couldn't last much longer.

"Damn things just won't stop coming," Dean looked to see how Sam was faring. His brother looked just as overwhelmed.

"I'm working on it," Willow's voice seemed eerily calm. "Stay behind me."

Both brothers turned to see Willow, her eyes staring straight at the people attacking them. As they ran behind her, Dean heard her speaking in some language he didn't recognize and her hair started changing.

"White's good, right?" Dean asked his brother. He kept his hand on his gun, just in case something went wrong.

"Yea," Sam answered, unsure. Whatever she was saying had stopped and with raised hands, Willow screamed. It was hard for both of them to hear, but the people in front of them seemed to be affected more. The bodies dropped as the spirits possessing them fled the bodies, Willow's spell forcing them out.

"A mass exorcism?" Dean stood gaping. He turned to look at the witch whose hair returned to its normal color. She swayed a little, before completely collapsing. Dean caught her before she hit the floor.

"I'm good," Willow moaned. "But you have to help Buffy."

With a nod, Dean handed Willow over to Sam and was racing to help the mother of his child.

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"Mommy," Mari clutched at Buffy's leg.

"It's okay, baby," Buffy reassured her daughter. She was expecting this Meg to be this strong. Whenever she thought she had the upper hand, Meg always got a shot in ruining any chance of Buffy winning. But at least Buffy stopped any chance Meg had of winning.

And she was not going to kill her. She may have been a murdering bitch, but it was the demon inside her that was a murdering bitch. The girl was innocent. But Meg was leaving her no choice.

She pulled the scythe from her back, getting a low whistle from Meg.

"Nice weapon. Too bad you aren't going to be able to use it."

The emergency door was thrown open. As Meg turned around, a shot rang through the air. Meg looked from Dean to the bullet in her shoulder in, what Dean could see was, shock and annoyance.

"Are you kidding me with this?" Meg shrieked. "You know it's not going to do anything to me."

"But this will," Buffy's voice came from behind her. Meg turned, only to be smacked by the side blade on the scythe, sending her flying.

"Mari!" Buffy called out for her daughter. Her girl ran into her arms and Buffy started walking to the exit. "Is everyone alright?"

"Yea, but Willow's wiped out. There no way we can exorcise Meg without her. We don't have enough supplies for it in the car," Dean sighed. He had hoped they could take of her for the last time, but without Willow there was nothing they could do except leave her.

Or kill her. She did go after his daughter, after all.

That thought scared him. Just what would Dean do to save those he cared for?

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Expect the next update to, hopefully, be up sooner than this update was. It's just the explanations, maybe a bit more. Review please!