Chapter 11: Questions and Answers

Chapter 12: Questions and Answers

A/N: I know this looks familiar too but the next chapter is something that I never got to post the first time around. NE aways, as always enjoy and please review. =)

Faith looked a little wary. "Why?"

"It will explain some of what is happening to you. Or I could ask you a few simple questions?" Giles explained.

"Okay, go for it."

"Have you noticed your increase in strength, agility and hand and eye coordination?"

"Yes."

"How about your eyesight? You notice you can see better in the dark?"

"Yes, but what does that have to do with anything?" Faith asked getting impatient.

"It has to do with the fact that you are a vampire slayer. To each generation there is a slayer. One girl in all the world to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the vampire slayer. Your friend Buffy is a vampire slayer also. She died for a minute or two before being brought back to life. Now there are two slayers."

"Buffy died?" Bella and Faith asked, shocked.

"Yes, I drowned."

"Oh." Was all they said.

"So, Faith, I will let this information set in before going into all the details about what you are to learn. I'll give it a few days." Giles said with a nod to himself.

"Thank you."

At that moment the bell rang signaling it was time to get to class. Standing up I gave Edward a tender kiss on the lips before we split up to go our separate ways.

In English we were still working on Wuthering Hights, we were having a pop quiz. I ended up finishing my paper, that I couldn't yesterday after wards.

When we walked out of the English building I could see that the air was full of swirling bits of white. I could hear people talking and laughing excitedly about the snow. Mike and I joined in throwing snow balls at each other. One look a Bella kept me from throwing some snow at her. Turns out she didn't like snow although she liked to look at it, she just didn't like getting in it. She rushed inside when Mike and I got into a snow fight. I tried to not throw it that hard but a few slipped.

Throughout the morning, everyone chattered excitedly about the snow; apparently it was the first snow fall of the year. Walking into the cafeteria Bella and I went through the lunch line to get our lunch, then sat at our table which was now filling up with our friends and family.

I had just started on my french fries with cheese when I noticed that Edward was sitting by himself. When he noticed that I was watching him, he waved me over.

"I wonder what Cullen wants?" Mike asked.

"I don't know, but I'm going to find out." I walked over to Edward and gave him a kiss on the cheek, then sat across from him. "Why don't you come sit with us? We can make room for one more."

He smiled his crooked smile that I loved and then nodded.

So I grabbed his hand and pulled him to the table that we were sitting at. "Guys I would like to introduce you to my friend Edward Cullen."

Everyone greeted him as we sat down at the table. We talked freely about everything and nothing in particular. After lunch ended, Edward and I walked to Biology together.

We were working a lab today, working as lab partners. We had to separate the slides of onion root tip cells into the phases of mitosis they were represented and label them accordingly. Thankfully I had already done this in Sunnydale, and had paid close attention when doing it. Edward, Bella and I were done before the rest of the class. As a prize, we won the Golden Onion.

At the end of the day it was misting again when Bella, Edward and I walked into the parking lot at the end of the day. I got into Willow's and we headed home. That night I slept soundly.

In the morning it was bright out side, but as I looked out the window I noticed a blanket of snow.

I went downstairs and ate breakfast quickly, then went outside to play in the snow. Xander, Willow and I had a snow ball fight, after wards getting dressed I walked downstairs and outside into the snow again. Willow was already waiting in the car and I climbed in with my book bag and purse.

Getting to school was a long and slow ride, but once we got there Willow parked in her usual parking space. Willow and I both got out of the car, grabbing our bags and books. We were chatting about mocha's when Willow broke off mid sentence. I had just closed the passenger side door and looked up to see why she had stopped talking, then I heard her scream.

"Buffy! Behind you!"

I swiftly turned and dropped my books. My eyes widened in horror as I saw a boy swerve his SUV on the iced over pavement. It was coming right at me. My heart stopped. My body wouldn't move. I only had one thought swimming through my head. "Oh no, I'm going to die...again."

I felt my knees buckle and I fell to the ground, feeling a sharp pain in the back of my head. With my eyes shut tight, I waited for the impact. It never came. I heard the crash, the crunching of metal, but the pain never came.
"I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead." I muttered not daring to open my eyes, thinking I experienced a painless death. Then I heard the sweetest sound.

"Buffy, you're not dead."

My eyes shot open and there he was, his hand halfway impaled into the side of Tyler's van. His honey eyes full of concern.

"Edward..." I whispered breathlessly. I could hear the other students drawing nearer, several yelling at others to call an ambulance. Edward reached out brushing the bangs out of my eyes, then he was gone. After he disappeared, the boy poked his head out of his passenger side window.

"Oh my God, Buffy. I'm so sorry. Are you alright?"

I stood up on wobbly legs and nodded. Willow was at my side instantly, as well as Xander, Bella, and Faith. Everyone kept asking if I was alright, or if I was hurt. The only replies I gave were "I'm fine" and short nods, which made the back of my head ache to no extent.

"Buffy, you're head is bleeding. We have to get you to a hospital." Willow told me.

I rubbed the back of my head, wincing when I made contact, and sure enough my fingers were covered in blood. I sighed knowing I had no choice but to go to the hospital.

When the ambulance showed, they immediately strapped me into a stretcher, with a neck brace and everything. God it was so embarrassing. All my friends were watching through concerned eyes. I couldn't look at them, so i just closed my eyes waiting to get this over with.

At the hospital I was rolled into a room in the E.R. and was seen by Doctor Carlisle Cullen.

"Great." I groaned inwardly. "Now Edwards father gets to see me like this." I took off the neck brace while I was waiting to be seen. About thirty minutes later I was taken into the X-Ray room, and they took several X-Ray's and CT scans of my head. Turns out I had a concussion and would be staying in the hospital for a few days. Xander, Willow and Giles, looking worried, walked in with Edward and his father. To say that Carlisle was mad was an understatement. He looked furious. Although he was directing all of his looks at Edward, I still squared my shoulders and waited to be yelled at.

When they got to my bed Tyler was brought in by some Emergency Medical Team people. He tried hard to apologize to me, I accepted numerous times, but once he asked me to prom to make it up to me I turned him down lightly saying that I was going with Edward. Once he started to apologize to me again, Giles closed the curtain to give us some privacy. Giles and Carlisle agreed to have the conversation once I got to the Children's Recovery Section.

It was when I got in my own recovery room they started in on me.

"Are you okay?" Xander and Willow asked at the same time.

"Yeah I am fine, nothing that a slayer can't handle." I looked at Carlisle, "Are you sure I can't go home. With my slayers healing powers I will be as good as new with in a few hours."

"I'd say with a concussion like that you should be here for at least a day."

"But..."

"No buts. You are staying her just like Carlisle suggested." Giles said in his no-nonsense-tone.

"We need to talk about the possibility of exposure." Said Edward.

"Exposure to what? The people in this town are just like the people in Sunnydale. You give them an explanation and they go with it. I am telling you there is not going to be any exposure." Buffy added with confidence.

"We shall see." Carlisle said.