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It was early morning at the Talon as Clark was in his blue t shirt red jacket combo waiting for Chloe. He knows it is going to be one long day he's just hoping that he can get through his share of it as fast as possible. It wasn't long before Chloe came down with Davis but he went right out to work. They go outside and see a limousine waiting for them with Oliver in the back.
Clark looked at Oliver with an are you kidding me look. "Not exactly something you bring a driver for."
Oliver just smirked. "Relax he's not staying." Oliver looked to Chloe. "So Clark ratted me out to you huh."
Chloe smiled "We trust each other. Clark tells me everything - well, almost everything. I did have to figure out about your green-leather fetish on my lonesome."
Clark and Chloe got in the back and they were off.
"I don't get it how did the first make the drugs or activate that crystal?" Lois asked. When she asked Buffy she said the first was basically a ghost.
"It used Fred's memories to get the drug formula it probably got the bringers and the vampires to make the drug." Buffy said.
"And the crystal thing?" Xander asked.
"Clark said he used it to banish a wraith to a place called the phantom zone I figured since the first was pretty much a chatty wraith it would work on him." Dawn explained.
"And the second time?" Willow asked.
"Maybe it's like a proximity bomb something gets close enough it goes off on its own. The first was just walking towards me." Dawn said. "I still don't get why it didn't just let itself out again?"
"It's afraid." Buffy explained. "It once told me when evil overtakes good it will become corporeal."
"And when this Doomsday kills all the forces of good it can kill the First." Giles finishes.
The meeting was interrupted by a limousine pulling up. First out was a blond whom Xander remarked reminded him of Veronica Mars. The other 2 were Clark and Oliver as the driver took the car away to avoid attention. Buffy looked at the clock and yep it was 10 already.
"Glad you guys can make it." Dawn said looking at the group she can't wait to see the scoobies reactions to Clark.
"Hey Chlo" Lois walks up and hugs her cousin.
"So what's this about?" Chloe asked.
"Inside, We, all of us have a lot to talk about." Lois answered.
The group is gathered into something of a war room. The scoobies decided to be the first to share to give an olive branch to the 3 strangers.
"This world is older than any of you realize." Giles began only to have Oliver put his hand up.
"Do all watchers use this speech? My mother gave it to me when I was 5." Oliver asked.
"Your mother was a watcher?" Buffy asked.
"Yes." Oliver answered.
Giles went on about the demon's world and how they lost their grip on reality clearing the way for man. How they mixed they mixed their blood with man to make vampires. How the watchers chose to make one girl the weapon to stop them the slayer.
"You said one girl." Clark asked.
"Yes that's right Mr. Kent."
Clark just looked confused "Didn't we fight with 8 kidnapped slayers last night?"
"You're jumping to the end of the story sit back and listen Superboy." Dawn ordered.
"Yes well Buffy was the original slayer. And when she died."
"Wait you died?" Oliver asked.
"I drowned CPR." Buffy answered.
"Oh." Oliver got out.
"As I was saying when Buffy died a girl called Kendra was called. When Kendra died Faith was called pointing to the other slayer."
"What did you guys do just start holding girls under till the bubbles stopped?" Oliver asked appalled.
"Stop interrupting Ollie you're not going to like this next part much better." Buffy said.
"We got into a bad situation a few years back." Giles explained. "In order to save Dawn and the world, Buffy sacrificed herself."
Oliver looked over to Buffy "CPR again."
Buffy's face darkened. "No I was dead for three months. Pretty spry for a corpse huh?"
"That means you were in haven for three months." Clark interrupted.
"Pretty much." Buffy replied.
Clark's face had a look of shock. "How do you manage? I was dead for a couple minutes and I still miss the calm and being with my dad." Clark asked.
"It's not easy but I manage." Buffy replied she was relieved to find out she wasn't the only person earth pulled from heaven.
Chloe was astonished that Clark just opened up like that without a kryptonite chainsaw.
Lois just blurts out "Wait you died Smallville?"
"Twice" Clark mutters out.
"Copycat" Buffy quipped.
"How did she come back this time?" Oliver asked.
"I brought her back to life." Willow replied
"You brought her back to life, you didn't just pull her spirit down, you gave her new life?" Clark asked for clarification.
"Yes." Willow replied.
Clark is now terrified of losing Dawn again. "Did fate balance it out yet?"
"What do you mean?" Willow asked.
Clark had shot himself in the foot with an Uzi stupid headstrong emotions. He'd beg not to have to say anything but everyone was staring.
Clark lowers his head and starts. "There is always a balance to life and death. In order to revive someone, a person that the resurrected loved would die not long after."
"Who died for you then?" Willow asked.
Clark just looked under the table and saw Dawn holding his hand trying to give him any strength she could but she looked upset. "My dad the first time. The second time my body just kind of performed CPR on itself."
"Oh god Willow" Buffy looked over at her best friend.
"It wasn't your fault I knew about the balance when I cast the spell Buffy it warned me I just acted cocky and chalked it up as the deer."
"What are you two talking about?" Xander asked.
"The balance Tara's life was exchanged for Buffy's." Giles explained before moving on.
"That spell let the evil that we fought last night try to eliminate slayers as a whole by cutting them down before they were activated. We got as many potentials to us as we could and Willow cast a new spell one that activated the potentials and turned them into slayers. Not just in Sunnydale but all over the world Slayers awoken like your friend Ms. Lane."
"So that's what you've been keeping from us." Chloe asked.
Lois nodded. "You knew?"
"I had a hunch you had a secret. Clark definitely knew you had a secret." Chloe replied.
Lois looked to Clark.
"People keep secrets for a reason Lois." Clark said.
Lois lets out a small laugh. "A couple months ago I would have said that was completely retarded."
Dawn gets up and runs out the door. Leaving everyone wondering what they said.
"Well we could use a break anyway." Xander said.
"Oh yeah definitely information overload, and that was just on our side." Buffy added.
"Right there with you B." Faith said.
Clark went out after Dawn and Lois just looked at Chloe.
"You still with us Chlo?" Lois asked.
"Please compared to Clark this was a piece of cake." Chloe replied.
Clark was in the woods behind the motel and found Dawn. She was upset and in tears crying her eyes out.
"Dawn what's the matter?" Clark asked running up hugging her trying to comfort her.
"I-I'm evil, I killed her." Dawn got out between sobs.
"You're not evil Dawn." Clark replied.
"Yes I am. Y-you said it yourself a life for a life." Dawn said still breaking down.
"Who are you talking about?" Clark asked.
"M-my mom. The monks gave me life and took her's away."
"It wasn't your fault." Clark said. "You said it yourself it was a brain tumor, and the key's energy was already alive there was nothing to balance out, and even if that was what happened it was the monks not you."
"How do you know that?" Dawn asked
"Because I know you Dawn there isn't an evil bone in your body. Trouble making definitely but no evil."
Dawn let out a little laugh. "So did your father blame you when you went to heaven?"
Clark smiles. "No he said he had a full life and was proud to protect me. I'm sure your mom would say the same."
"Thanks Clark I'm Ok now." Dawn said having calmed down.
Clark looked stunned. "Wow you didn't even call me su-."
Clark's thoughts are at a loss when he realizes Dawn grabbed him by his jacket and is now kissing him. Clark is shocked at first but then responds until they break apart coming up for breath.
"You still in there Superboy?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah, are you sure you're OK and." Clark asked
"I'm fine Clark really." Dawn decided it was just a horrible consequence from brain surgery.
"Ok, this might sound weird but you don't just kiss the first guy you see when the world's coming to an end do you?"
"Just the ones I have crushes on." Dawn answered.
"When did that happen?" Clark asked.
"Are you serious?" Dawn asked looking like she could slap the big dumb alien. "6 feet tall and gorgeous." Dawn raised a finger. "Hero" Dawn raised another finger "Shares his secrets with me." Another finger goes up. "Saved my life twice in one day." And another one goes up. "Willing to fight a super charged preacher to save my sister. Seriously Superboy all you're missing is the white horse."
"So what happens now?" Clark asked.
"Coffee and dates assuming I don't scare you off. Or your not interested." Dawn said.
"What do you mean?" Clark would swear he's a journalist with all the questions he was asking today.
"Clark I know some magic. I've been wanting to tell you but when you told me about Isobel I was scared I'd send you packing. I didn't want to start whatever this is with lying." Dawn held her breath and waited for Clark's answer.
"One probem." Clark said.
"What's that?" Dawn asked.
"These aren't going to be the greatest dates. Farm money sucks." Clark joked.
"You're not upset." Dawn asked.
"I already said in the motel that secrets are kept for a reason." Clark said. "Besides look at people Chloe and Lex, Willow and Isobel, Buffy and Lex's red haired girl, even me and Zod. There's good and evil in everything no matter what you are. Also as I said before there's not an evil bone in your body. You wouldn't use magic on me unless you didn't have a choice. And now that we're together you told me. So I have no reason to be upset."
"I could get use to cheap dates." Dawn said grabbing Clark's jacket and kissing him again this time Clark wraps his arms around her and lifts her up.
"Aw look they're smooching."
Clark and Dawn stop and break apart Dawn lets out a groan at who caught them. Her sister and the billionaire.
"Don't stop on our accounts." Oliver said getting him a glare from Clark.
"Excuse me that is my sister so yes please stop." Buffy ordered.
"Didn't you say you'd be happy if this happened?" Oliver asked.
"Yes, but not right in front of me." Buffy said. "Also I didn't know Clark could kill someone as powerful as Caleb by looking at him."
"Why are you two here?" Dawn asked.
"We came to get you more story time." Buffy answered.
Dawn grunts. "Because the last time was so much fun."
Everyone is back in the war room and now it is Oliver's turn to face the jury.
"Ok so Oliver Queen AKA Green Arrow what do you have against slayers." Buffy asked.
"I don't hate slayers just watchers and the council." Oliver clarified.
"Then some explainy would be nice." Buffy said.
"My mother was a watcher. Oliver said. "And before I was born my parents were given I think you called it a potential Shevaughn or Shiobahn I could never say her name right so I just called her Ruby because of the red streaks."
"That was the First last night wasn't it?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah" Oliver said.
"So what did your parents tell you about the girl living with them?" Lois asked.
"The truth that she was my sister." Oliver replied. "When she was 15 she was activated I think you called it."
"Strain the relationship?" Dawn asked from experience with Buffy.
"No if anything it strengthened once Ruby learned how to use a crossbow. She convinced mom to teach me. They taped Boxing gloves to my arrows to be on the safe side."
"Sounds like a happy family what happened?" Buffy asked knowing she wasn't going to like the answer.
"My mother started looking for some sort of mystical super weapon m-exclamation mark or something."
"M question mark." Giles corrected.
"It's real." Oliver asked.
"We have it." Buffy said. "So what happened?"
"The council found out what she was up to and realized it wasn't a watcher better preparing her slayer it was a mother trying to protect her daughter. They relieved her of duty because she saw Ruby as a girl not a weapon. My parents refused to go down without a fight they went to Lionel Luthor and traded my dad's necklace for adoption papers. Only to have their plane crash and burn on the way to get her. Couple months later got a letter Ruby died on her 18th birthday."
"So did you do the vengeful son thing?" Faith asked.
A frown comes to Oliver's face thinking back to his youth. "No I bullied and drank my way through my young life."
"What Changed?" Buffy asked, Oliver never brought up his past and now she knows why.
"Crashed my plane into an island, spent two years becoming the best archer out there learning to hunt food with a longbow." Oliver replied in a smug smile.
"Second best." Clark said.
"Ok farmboy who do you know that's a better shot then me." Oliver asked.
"Buffy" Clark answered.
"And you have proof?" Oliver asked.
"You shot me point blank and I caught it." Clark explained. "Buffy shot me right in the heart from across rooftops."
"That was you?" Buffy asked.
"That was me." Clark said.
"That doesn't count." Oliver objected. "You were distracted blowing up the roof."
"Can we please get back to the story?" Giles asked.
"Right well after I dealt with some pirates. I came back mastered archery and then started looking into the plane crash." Oliver said. "I first suspected it was Lionel Luthor but he showed me everything and said that if it was about what he wanted he'd only go after my father. Then he showed me picture's of Quentin Travers I realized he arranged to sabotage the plane so the council can keep its weapon."
"Quentin's a prick." Faith said remembering how the head watcher had planned to have her killed in LA.
"He was a ponce." Giles said venom rolling off his tongue.
"We should have had Buffy hit him at least once." Xander pouted.
"I have." Giles replied.
"Wait you hit who and where was I with a video camera?" Buffy asked.
"After you died I found out Quentin sat on the part where the council knew Glory had a human side. When I confronted him about it he said the whole thing was a tragedy. It was a tragedy that a new slayer would not be called to take your place. I don't think I need to say what happened after that." Giles explained.
"Did you kill him?" Willow asked Oliver.
"5 seconds too late." Oliver replied. "I had his old British head in the crosshairs but the building kind of exploded."
"Is that everything?" Buffy asked.
"Do you know the part where I prowl the streets with green leather and a compound bow?" Oliver asked sarcastically.
Xander lets out a laughing smile catching everyone's attention. "What I know the Green Arrow. How is that not cool."
"Well I'm sitting on the story of my life but can't report about it." Chloe said.
"Downside to knowing a superhero." Xander replied. "If only I knew this blur guy."
Clark, Dawn, Chloe and Oliver all flinch which doesn't get past Xander.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me?" Xander asked with the smile of an 8 year old.
"Guess I'm up." Clark said.
Everyone looked on at Clark. Dawn couldn't but notice it was like watching a deer in the headlights.
"You can trust us Clark." Dawn said. "Not sure about Oliver though."
"Hey I can keep a secret." Oliver replied.
"I don't think there is any nice way to say this so I'm apologizing in advance for sticking my foot in my mouth. But what are you?" Buffy asked.
"I'm a man." Clark answered.
"That's kind of obvious CK but no human male can go 12 rounds with Caleb. Then turn him into ash." Xander explained.
"You didn't mind what he was when I showed you what was left of Caleb." Dawn said.
"Just because I enjoyed stepping on what was left of Caleb didn't mean I wasn't curious." Xander said.
Dawn quickly realizes what this is. "You have a bet on this don't you."
"Yes with Faith and Willow you weren't included because Giles thinks you already know. Please continue CK."
Clark just looked at this weird group of people what he is in for. "Well as I was saying I am a man. I just wasn't born here. In fact I wasn't born anywhere near this galaxy. I'm from a planet called Krypton."
Dawn quickly realizes this is almost the conversation he had with her verbatim. "This is your go to isn't it Superboy?"
"Yes"
"Go to for what?" Buffy asked.
"Another galaxy he's an alien Buffy this is how he tells people." Willow explained.
As the a word sunk in everyone was in shock Giles nearly fell off his chair.
"I prefer intergalactic traveler." Clark said.
The word Traveler struck a cord in Oliver from his youth when he'd ask Ruby what their parents were always doing with Virgil Swann, Lionel Luthor and the Teagues since he was too nervous to ask them. Ruby had told him that they were going to take care of a child from the stars a traveler.
"Clark does Lionel Luthor know what you are?" Oliver asked.
"Unfortunately" Clark answered.
"You might want to talk to him after this. Ask him about the meetings with Virgil Swann, my parents, and the Teagues." Oliver said.
"I know a superhero and an alien. That is so cool." Xander said.
Faith just looks him over. "So Clark, you doing anything tonight."
Buffy just puts her arms up in frustration. "Faith now not really the time for that."
Faith just laughs "Well he looks human enough sue me for being curious B."
Buffy roles her eyes. "I think Dawn has you beat."
Lois just tuts. "Like he'd ever get over Lana."
"The way they were kissing outside I'd say he's over her." Oliver said earning him glares from Clark and Dawn.
"Alleluia" Lois said.
"Lois why are you more concerned about my dating life then the alien thing?" Clark asked.
"Because I care about you Smallville and I'm happy to see you finally moving on it was getting stalkerish." Lois said. "As for the alien thing it doesn't matter it just explains your fashion sense. No earthling would ever own so much plaid."
"Anyone have a problem with this?" Clark asked he was expecting people to freak but they are all just accepting it.
"Clark we grew up on a hellmouth." Buffy said. "We're just glad for once the big powerful guy is on our side."
"Shes's not." Clark said pointing to Willow.
"I'm glad you're on our side it's just what in goddess' name do you run off of?" Willow asked. "You're aura is big white and seemingly never ending. It's like the sun."
"I'm supercharged by earth's yellow sun." Clark answers. "Gives me a good collection of abilities."
"Such as?" Faith asked
Clark ran down the list. "Superspeed, Superstrength, invulnerability, heat vision, super breath, x-ray vision and I can see through solid objects." Buffy, Willow, and Lois cover up with their hands, Faith just leans back and puts her arms behind her head, and Chloe and Dawn just share a laugh at Clark's expense.
"That's quite a list." Giles says.
"Faith why aren't you?" Buffy asked.
"Because he's too much of a boyscout to go through with it." Faith said. "So who wins the bet?"
"Since he's not a demon, hellgod, or Dragon humanoid it's a scratch." Willow said.
"Clark are you the last of your kind?" Giles asked.
"If you had asked me two days ago I would have said yes." Clark answered.
"What happened?" Chloe asked.
"I think I ran into Dawn's demon destroyer yesterday. I think he has all my powers and the ability to fly."
"Clark you really need to get on top of that one." Chloe said. First Zod and now this new guy.
"I know Chloe still can't figure it out." Clark answered.
"Clark could he have come from the phantom zone?" Dawn asked.
"No, the phantom zone was built for the worse of the worse. He's just interested in killing demons."
"Can you fight him?" Buffy asked if you have the boy equivalent of Glory on your side you might as well use him.
"No last time we fought I hit his hand with my throat." Clark joked. "Then he bodyslammed me into the Daily Planet Globe."
"So that's what did that." Chloe said.
"You also hit his foot with your face." Lois not so helpfully added.
"That sounds like the attacks I use on Buff when we spar." Xander said. "Though it's not surprising, no offense CK but you fight like Glass Joe."
"I hold my own." Clark defended himself.
"Your powers hold their own." Dawn said. "Without them I can kick your butt."
"Thanks for being supportive." Clark said wryly.
"Being supportive is keeping you alive." Dawn answered. "Next time the destroyer might say screw it and twist your head off."
"Alright that's enough." Buffy said regaining control of the conversation. "We all know who we are now and we'll take an hour before we get back to this and discuss our current situation."
An hour later and everyone started coming back. Giles was the first being the ever diligent watcher. Xander and Willow came second. Xander held his head in shame being the second person here. Lois, Faith, and Chloe returned from the Talon with coffee for the group and muffins. Dawn and Clark came back from the woods and went back into the house. Once everyone gathered Buffy and Oliver came in and the meeting continued.
"Ok so where are we on Dark Thursday?" Buffy asked.
"The earthquakes were caused by a military weapon used by someone who fought and moved like Glory." Xander explained.
"Actually the person was Lex Luthor." Oliver said.
"Actually you're both wrong." Clark said. "Dawn I thought I told you this."
"You did." Dawn answered. "I just couldn't figure out the words to tell them without betraying you."
Giles is cleaning his glasses. "Of course you know." Giles is fuming two months of researching for nothing.
"I have pictures of Lex from satellite Clark. They don't lie." Oliver protested.
"It was Lex's body but he wasn't exactly driving it." Clark replied.
"Explainy please." Buffy asked.
"A wraith got out of the Phantom Zone possessed Lex and put me in it." Clark explained. "You know what the phantom zone is right?"
"Yes Dawn explained it last night." Giles said.
"How did you get out?" Willow asked.
"My family built the place so we have a backdoor." Clark said as his face saddens "But I didn't know how strong the eject push was and things followed me out."
"Clark you had to get out of there or Zod would have killed us all." Chloe said seeing another Clark Kent guilt trip coming.
"How many super powered criminals followed you out?" Giles asked facing another threat.
"We figured it out a month ago." Dawn said. "There are 4 of them out there. There were 5."
"What happened to prisoner number 5?" Xander asked.
"We killed it." Dawn answered.
"When?" Buffy asked in shock. "I'm pretty sure someone would remember you taking a weapon."
"The costume ball." Dawn answered.
Buffy turned to Clark "Your idea."
"No, she said she would sneak in if I didn't take her. Figured she'd be safer with me then wondering around."
The tense scene is cut off by Oliver laughing. Buffy turns to him. "What is so funny?"
"Just thinking back to that night." Oliver said. "Something to show you in the greenhouse."
Buffy realizes that is what was in the greenhouse. "Oh how did I miss such an obvious sign?"
"Maybe you're getting old." Dawn quipped.
"Not getting old. And as for you two next time you go after a super powered criminal talk to me or Giles going in alone gets you killed."
"Ma'am yes ma'am" The teenagers responded giving a mock salute.
"Smartasses. Willow, Giles the blackout?" Buffy asked.
"Nothing new." Willow answered.
"Actually I know what caused those." Clark said.
Giles is making a clucking sound with his tongue two months and all they had to do was talk to a bloody farmboy.
"Your just full of surprises today aren't you Clark." Oliver quipped.
"What happened?" Buffy asked.
"A kryptonian supervirus." Clark answered. "I have the computer that started it but I'm not turning it on."
"I want to have a look at it if that's ok?" Willow asked.
"Sure" Clark answered.
"So whose computer nearly ended the world?" Xander asked.
"Lex Luthor's" Clark answered.
"Is everything encrypted on it?" Willow asked.
"Not turning it on." Clark repeated. "Just thinking about it last week turned the power off in Smallville for 6 hours."
"I can help with the computer." Chloe offered.
"So are you apart of this now Chlo?" Lois asked.
"You're all good people like Clark and any friend of yours." Chloe answered. "Besides when else will we be able to get the jump on Lex?"
"So Clark since this is your day to know things. Any idea on what Doomsday or this she is?" Buffy asked.
"Not a clue and my version of a watcher is down right now so he can't tell me anything." Clark said referring to the fortress.
"If it ever gets up will you-" Buffy said.
"Of course." Clark answered cutting her off.
"The third slayer?" Buffy asked.
Faith just shrugged. "Not a clue B."
"OK lets just start over and put new twists on our jobs." Buffy said turning into a general with an army. "Dawn, Giles you two research Doomsday and get everything you can on it. Date of birth, casualty list, there has to be something on it before the First and Caleb buried it in the hellmouth. Xander, Lois you two try your hand in finding the third slayer."
Xander gets a smile on his face but hides it from everyone "Ah sure Buff no problem."
"Willow, Chloe you two look at that computer see what you can find on Lex."
Buffy turns to Clark. "Are you with us?"
"Yes." Clark answered
"Good" Buffy turned to Faith. "Can you train him?"
"Hot and sweaty with the farmboy sounds like fun B."
Clark blushes but gets out. "She can't train me."
"Why the hell not?" Faith asked.
"You can't hurt me, and I'll crush you with one punch." Clark answered "invulnerable."
Feeling insulted Faith asked Clark to get up and when he did she ran right at him and jump kicked him in the stomach. Clark was able to move with it in time to save her foot but Faith bounced off and went through the table. Clark being the guy that he is helped her up and back to her seat.
"And did we learn anything?" Xander asked mockingly.
"You're not invulnerable Xan I can still smack you around." Faith got out holding her ribs.
"I've hit you a hundred times Smallville how come I never even bruised my hand?" Lois asked.
"Same reason Faith didn't break her foot I went with the attack so you wouldn't get hurt." Clark said.
"Clark can you fight while holding a meteor rock." Buffy asked.
"No there's a good chance that I won't learn anything from the pain and then I'll die. Pretty sure one of the first rules of fighting is don't die."
"It is the first rule of fighting." Buffy, Lois, and Faith said.
"Since I have to see him anyway I'll ask Lionel if he has any ideas." Clark said.
"This is secret stuff we're trusting you with." Buffy said offended that he would talk about them so quick.
"I won't tell him any of this I'll just tell him I want to take MMA in case I have to fight someone like Zod again." Clark replied as everyone breathed in a sigh of relief. "Magic."
"What?" Buffy asked.
"You were going to ring up the destroyer next. If me and the destroyer have the same powers it means we have the same vulnerabilities. Green meteor rock and magic."
"You realize you just taught me how to kill you." Willow said.
"Dawn already knows how to too." Clark replied. "Also I didn't want to tell you but if this destroyer turns his attention to slayers you have to be able to protect yourselves."
"Thank you" Buffy said. "Can everyone here who doesn't have blond hair or a fetish for leather leave."
Everyone gets up to leave.
"Come on Chloe I don't think you like leather." Clark joked.
"How do you know?" Chloe asks leaving the door. "For all you know me and Davis play 'Mistress of Pain' every night." Chloe revels in how red Clark's face is getting.
Giles goes to cleaning his glasses as a defense mechanism trying to wash the visual away.
"Thanks Chloe now I will never be able to unsee that." Dawn replied.
"Can you pretend you didn't hear that." Lois asked Xander.
"Sure, I'll just repress it right next to Will and Oz." Xander replied.
"Speaking of Red I think we know what she's dreaming of tonight." Faith said.
"I most certainly will not." Willow objected.
Buffy looked over to Oliver and waited for him to start talking.
"You still with us." Buffy asked.
"I don't know." Oliver said honestly. "In one day two months were wiped out."
"I never lied to you." Buffy defended herself. "I just didn't bring up the slayer thing."
"Which is definitely part of who you are." Oliver replied.
"Just like Green Arrow is part of who you are." Buffy said. "No wonder we started going out."
"What do you mean?" Oliver asked.
"We both hide in the world." Buffy explained. "The peppy chief of staff and the immature billionaire that become completely different people at night, we exist in the world but barely live in it."
Oliver laughs. "Yeah I can see that."
Both laugh at how similar their lives are. Oliver shares about how he's trying to put a team together for the heroics. Buffy laughs at how similar it sounds to the slayers she is helping organize.
"So" Oliver says breaking the laughter. "Tell me how different this council is from the old one."
"Well for starters barely any of Quentin's ideas are followed." Buffy begins.
Oliver lets out a smile. "Oh I like this new council better already."
"The girls aren't kidnapped it's their choice to join up or not. Other wards Lex's redhead would be chained up in the attic."
Oliver looks stunned. "T-Tess Mercer is a slayer. Hope she doesn't find me again."
"Bad blood?" Buffy asked
"Couple oceans worth." Oliver answered.
"Where was I?" Buffy asked losing her place.
"Girls are here by choice." Oliver fills her in.
"Ok and they will never be tools or experiments ever again. And starting today any watcher who tries to invoke the 18th birthday surprise will be locked in the phantom zone for 18 years."
"Think Clark might have a problem with that." Oliver said.
"What he doesn't know won't hurt him." Buffy quipped.
Oliver laughs at Buffy's attempt to cheer him up. "I'm with you. I'll give you the money you need for the new council."
Buffy stands there confused things are never that easy. "Just like that?"
"It will be hypocritical not to considering I'm trying to do the same thing." Oliver explained. "Maybe we should talk about a partnership."
"Easy there speedy" Buffy replied. "One thing at a time."
Buffy walks around and realizes she emptied the motel. 'They all must have left for dinner.' She turns to Oliver and kisses him. "So we have the place to ourselves just you and me. Any ideas?"
Oliver smiles. "I can name a few" as he carries her to her room never stopping kissing her.
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