"Are you sure about this?" Kara asked as she walked through a deserted cemetery around eleven at night.
"You said you wanted to learn." Angel said from beside her.
"Why do I always have to say that?" Kara muttered to herself, causing Angel to laugh.
"Well it's good you want to learn new things." Angel told her.
"Yeah, yeah." Kara muttered again as they walked through the cemetery.
"Well, well. Angelus, what a surprise." They both whipped around when they heard the voice. Behind them was a male vampire with blonde hair and green eyes.
"It's Angel." Angel corrected.
"Oh yeah, because you're a good boy now." The vampire mocked. "And who do you have there?"
"Kara. And I'll be staking you in a few seconds." Kara said, smirking. Even though she was scared, she always had Dean's cocky attitude. The vampire just smirked back before lunging for her. It knocked her down to the ground and pinned her there. Angel just stood to the side, ready to jump in if Kara was in trouble.
Kara got her arm free and punched him in the jaw, making his head snap back. While he was recovering, Kara brought her leg up and kicked him off. She then flipped up, using the move Angel taught her and kicked him again before staking him.
"That was fun." Kara smiled, turning to face Angel.
"You were great." Angel smiled, walking over to her.
"Are there anymore?" Kara asked, hoping there were.
"You want to keep patrolling?" Angel asked.
"I've been cooped up in a motel for almost a week. I haven't hunted anything in two. I need something to do." Kara said, pulling Angel's arm. "Come on, let's go."
"Alright, alright." Angel said, smiling. When he first met Kara, she seemed upset and depressed because of how her family was. He was happy to see her so happy.
They walked a little farther and saw a vampire a few feet away, pinning someone down. Kara ran up and pulled the vampire off before kicking it in the gut and punching him. The vampire punched her back, causing her to stumble back. She quickly recovered and pulled the stake out of her pocket before burying it into the vamps chest. It gave her a shocked look before turning to dust.
"Buffy?" Kara snapped around when she heard Angel's voice. The girl that the vampire had pinned down was Buffy. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Buffy said bitterly, picking herself off the ground.
"You let that vamp get the better of you, didn't ya?" Kara asked, trying to look concerned but inside she was happy that she'd just had to save Angel's ex, making her feel powerful.
"I had everything under control." Buffy said before muttering something under her breath. Kara couldn't hear what she was saying but by the look on Angel's face, it was a good thing she didn't.
"Sorry, just trying to help." Kara muttered angrily. She just saved her ass and she didn't even get a thanks.
"Sure you were." Buffy said to herself before leaving. Kara started after her but Angel grabbed her around the waist and pulled her back.
"Kara, don't." Angel said calmly.
"No, bitch almost got killed and I don't get a thanks? What kind of bull is that." Kara said, but she calmed down and stopped struggling.
"She's just mad she let a vamp get the better of her." Angel said calmly.
"A thanks still would've been nice." Kara said bitterly.
"Well Buffy's not used to being the one being saved." Angel told her.
"Whatever." Kara said, walking out of Angel's arms and starting back for the motel. She looked at her watch and saw that it was just after midnight. "Thank god Dean and Dad are gone."
"Where are they?" Angel asked, following her.
"L.A. tracking some demon." Kara shrugged. "I get stuck in a motel room by myself because school starts tomorrow."
"Want to stay at the mansion?" Angel asked.
"I'm not waking up at friggin five in the morning just to make it to school on time." Kara told him.
"Want me to stay with you?" Angel asked. Kara smiled and turned to look at him.
"That would be nice." Kara nodded. "But what about, you know, when the sun comes up. You'll be stuck in that small room all day."
"Don't worry about it." Angel shrugged.
"Thanks Angel." Kara said as they arrived at the motel. Kara opened the door and led him inside. It was pretty clean except for the mess Dean left on the table and around his bed. "Sorry about Dean. Never could keep anything clean."
"Sure, blame it on your brother." Angel said, giving a small smirk. Kara rolled her eyes and hit his arm lightly.
"It was him, I swear it." Kara said, pouting. Angel just smiled and gave her a small kiss.
"I was joking Kare." Angel told her.
"Better be." Kara smiled before kissing him again. They broke apart and Kara pulled away. "Uh, Dean and my dad will be gone for a day or two, so I think it'll be safe if you steal his bed."
"You think?" Angel asked.
"What, are you scawed of Dean?" Kara asked in a small baby voice.
"Well he's a hunter and your brother, I'd say yes." Angel nodded, making Kara laugh.
"It's safe, don't worry." Kara promised. "Dean left one of his bags, I think he has sweatpants you can wear." Kara moved over to Dean's bag and rummaged through it and found a pair of black sweatpants and gave them to Angel.
"Thanks."
"No problem, they're not my clothes." Kara smiled before grabbing a pair of shorts and a tank top and walked into the bathroom to change. After she'd changed, she looked into the mirror and saw the bruise forming on her cheek.
"Great." Kara muttered to herself. First day of school and people were already going to think she got beaten. She sighed to herself and walked back into the room where Angel was sitting on Dean's bed, already changed. She looked down at her watch and groaned.
"Damnit, I need to start getting to sleep at a decent hour." Kara said, falling back on her bed. Angel just laughed. "What are you laughin at?" She asked, shooting him a mock glare.
"Nothing." Angel said, covering his laugh with a fake cough. Kara rolled her eyes and moved under her blankets. "Night." Kara said before falling into a restless sleep.
Kara was back in the cemetery by herself. She looked around, searching for Angel or Dean or someone else, she hated being alone.
"Oh you're not alone." Kara whipped around and saw a girl with blonde hair and ice blue eyes.
"Who are you?" Kara asked, subtly checking to see if she had a stake on her. 'Damn.'
"I'm Darla." she introduced herself. "And you must be the Winchester girl."
"What's it to you?" Kara asked, crossing her arms across her chest.
"He has big plans for you." Darla said.
"Who?" Kara asked.
"But first, some people need to be taken out of the picture." Darla said, avoiding the question.
"What are you talking about?" Kara asked. Darla just pointed behind her. Kara turned and saw her father and both her brothers lying dead on the ground. "No, Dad. Sammy. Dean." Tears started to fall from her eyes.
"One more." Kara turned to look at Darla, who was holding Angel in front of her, with a stake pointed at his heart.
"No. Angel!" Kara yelled but he just turned to dust as Darla staked him.
Kara shot up in bed, breathing heavily. Her head snapped to the bed beside her and saw that Angel was asleep, not dust like she'd just seen. Kara looked at the clock and saw she'd only been asleep for twenty minutes. She got out of bed and moved over to Angel's.
"A-Angel." Kara said softly. Angel's eyes immediately snapped open when he heard her voice.
"Kara." Angel said, sitting up. He instantly noticed the tears falling from her eyes. "What's the matter?"
"S-She killed my dad and my brothers." Kara said, trying to stop crying. "And then she staked you."
"Who?" Angel asked.
"Darla." Kara said.
"Kara, Darla won't kill anyone. She's dead." Angel told her, wrapping his arm around her.
"But it looked and felt so real." Kara cried.
"Kara, nothing's gonna happen. Come on, you should get back to bed." Angel told her.
"C-Can I sleep with you?" Kara asked. She hoped that if she knew he was there beside her, nothing would happen.
"Yeah." Angel moved over on the bed to make room for her. She laid down beside him and laid her head down on his chest. She was confused when she didn't hear a heartbeat but remembered that he hadn't had one for a couple hundred years. Soon she was back asleep, this time, she didn't dream.
Kara groaned when her alarm clock started beeping.
"Please, shut up. Please." Kara begged. She felt and heard Angel chuckle beneath her head, then the beeping was gone.
"You need to get ready Kara." Angel told her.
"Don't wanna." Kara said, snuggling closer to him.
"Fine, we'll stay here all day." Angel said.
"Okay." Kara smiled, but it soon faded. "You weren't serious, were you?"
"Not today." Angel said, kissing the top of her head. Kara groaned and got up walked over to her bag.
"Lucky, you get to lay in bed all day." Kara muttered, making Angel laugh. Kara pulled out a pair of jeans and a black tank top before heading into the bathroom. Kara took a quick shower, washing the dirt off her body from the night before and changed into the clothes she'd left on the sink. She quickly dried her hair before walking back out to the room. She saw Angel sitting on the bed, flipping through channels, waiting for her.
"That what you gonna do all day?" Kara asked, walking over to him.
"Well the sun's up. I can't go anywhere until it's down, so yeah." Angel nodded.
"I'm sorry I made you stay with me." Kara said, sitting next to him.
"It's not your fault. I wanted to stay with you." Angel told her, giving her a kiss. "Now you better get going."
"Damnit, you sound like Dean." Kara muttered, getting up. She made to move for the door but stopped and turned back to him. "You sure Darla…"
"Darla's dead. She won't be coming back, I promise." Angel said, pulling her into another kiss. "I promise."
"O-Okay." Kara nodded before pulling away from him and leaving the room. She sighed to herself and started walking toward the school.
Kara went to all her classes and slept in a few. Sam was right, she was more like Dean than she thought. Kara laughed at the thought and walked out of her last class for the day. She looked down at the paper in her hands, it was a small list of books she needed for a history paper and an English paper.
"It's the first damn day and I have two papers. What kind of Bullshit is that." Kara muttered to herself as she walked toward the school library. She stopped outside the door when she heard Buffy's voice.
"I swear, I can't stand her. She rubs the fact that she's with Angel in my face constantly and I saw them both in the cemetery yesterday so I didn't concentrate and got tackled by a vamp. Then she had to 'save me.' God I hope she leaves soon." Buffy vented. Kara put on a fake smile and walked into the library.
"Talking about me Buff?" Kara asked cheerily.
"Snooping on me Kare?" Buffy asked in the same tone.
"Nope. Just came in cause I have two papers for class and I needed to get some books for them." Kara explained.
"What do you need?" A man that was standing behind the counter asked.
"Um…these four." Kara said, handing him the list. "Do you have them?"
"Yes, I'll get those for you." The man nodded before heading for the book stacks. Kara then turned to Buffy and the two just glared at each other.
"Okay Buffy, why are we here? What demon are you after…" Kara turned toward the door and saw a boy with black hair and a girl with red hair walk in. The boy had been talking and closed his mouth when he saw her.
"You're after a demon?" Kara asked, intrigued.
"Of course not, demons aren't real." The boy said.
"Really. Damn, then what the hell have I been killing for six years?" Kara asked, smiling.
"You kill demons?" The girl asked.
"Yep, my dad and brothers taught me." Kara nodded.
"Six years? That's impressive." The boy said, smiling at her. Kara smiled back.
"Eyes in your head Xander." Buffy said from behind Kara.
"What?" Xander asked, still looking at Kara.
"Of course." The red head rolled her eyes before smiling at Kara. "I'm Willow."
"And I'm Xander." He introduced himself.
"I'm Kara." Kara said, smiling.
"Kara, that sounds familiar." Xander said.
"I'm sure it does." Kara said to herself. "So what are you slaying Buff?" Kara asked, turning to Buffy.
"Don't worry about it, I got it under control." Buffy said, still glaring at her.
"Sure ya do. When you end up dead, don't blame me." Kara said as the Librarian came back.
"Here you are." He said, checking out the books for her and giving her to them.
"Thanks." Kara smiled and turned to the table where there were about ten different books open. "Is that Der Kinderstod?" Kara asked, looking at a page.
"How do you know about him?" The librarian asked, walking over to him.
"Giles." Buffy hissed.
"I killed him when I was ten." Kara told him.
"When you were ten?" Giles, Willow, and Xander all asked, sounding impressed.
"Yeah, there was a werewolf in the woods killing people. It was my first hunt. My dad and Dean left me and Sammy by ourselves to go check out a scream we'd heard. While they were gone, it came after me and Sam. It knocked him away and started for me. I shot it as it knocked me off a ledge. Fell about ten feet, broke my left arm and cracked my head. It was raining and when I woke up, I was in the hospital and I was told I had broken my arm and I had a mild concussion and a high fever. I saw it and no one believed me. Well the night before I left, I took Dean's knife from his sheath around his ankle while he was asleep and went into the basement. Dean followed me down and I fought it. He said it looked like I was punching and slicing at air until it grabbed my good arm and flung me across the room. I got up and started back for it when it pinned me down. His eyes started coming out of his head to try and suck the life from me and when it did, Dean gave me the knife and I cut them off, and it died." Kara smiled, telling the story of her first hunt. They all seemed impressed, which just seemed to piss off Buffy more.
"That's impressive." Giles said.
"Not really. I know people who could do that kind of shit when they were seven." Kara told him. It was true, Bobby's cousin Tara had started hunting when she was seven.
"That's way too young." Giles said.
"Nope, a lot of hunters teach their kids to fight around that age." Kara shrugged. "So by their standards, I got a late start. And by their standards, Buff got a real late start." Buffy just glared at her more.
"What else have you slayed?" Giles asked.
"I don't slay, I hunt. And just a few different kinds of demons, most I can't remember. Mostly pissed off spirits, those are always fun." Kara told them.
"Spirits?" Willow asked.
"Yeah, people died and they're pissed so they kill other people. Simple salt and burn and then you go home. Unless they can fling shit at you, they normally go for the knives. Don't know why." Kara shrugged it off. She looked down at her cell phone that was ringing. She looked at the called I.d. and saw it was Dean. "Hold on." Kara walked out of the library and stood by the door before answering.
"What is it bro?" Kara asked.
"You go to school today?" Dean asked.
"Yes father, I went to school." Kara muttered.
"I'm just making sure, if you didn't I'd get yelled at." Dean told her.
"Maybe I should've stayed at the motel today." Kara said, smirking.
"Not funny, dad's not in a good mood." Dean told her.
"What else is new. Since Sammy went to Stanford, he's always pissed." Kara said.
"No, now he's even more pissed about you going out at night." Dean told her.
"I can take care of myself. And now I gotta go, I'm having fun." Kara said in a cheery tone.
"Why is that?" Dean asked.
"Because I'm makin Buffy's life hell." Kara answered.
"Kara." Dean said sternly.
"Bye." Kara hung up the phone and walked back into the library. "Sorry, it was my bro. What did I miss?"
"Me." Xander said, making Kara laugh.
"You're cute, you know that." Kara smiled, making Xander blush. "So what are we huntin Buff?"
"We're hunting nothing. I'm hunting a demon." Buffy said bitterly.
"Alright, hopefully I'll be around to save your ass. Later." Kara smirked before grabbing the books she'd come in to get. "Thanks for the books Giles." With that, Kara walked out of the school and back to the motel.
"You're late." Angel said, laying on the bed, flipping through channels.
"Yeah, had to stop by the library." Kara said, smirking.
"What did you do?" Angel asked.
"Nothing. I went to get books and met Xander and Willow and Giles. I saw a book on Der Kinderstod and I told them how I killed it when I was just ten years old. Buffy didn't seem to like my story." Kara said, pouting.
"She's used to being the center of everything, being the slayer and all." Angel explained.
"Yeah well Slayers aren't the only people killing the baddies." Kara muttered, sitting on her bed. "I'm just as good. Better even, I've been doing it for years before she even thought about doing it." Angel got off his bed and walked over to Kara's and sat beside her.
"I know, it's just hard for her to deal with the fact that someone who doesn't have abilities could possibly beat her." Angel said, hugging her close. "And I bet you could beat her."
"I could, couldn't I." Kara said, smiling.
"Yeah, you could." Angel nodded. Kara turned to him and gave him a small kiss. She pulled back and looked out the window.
"It's dark out." Kara said.
"Then let's go." Angel said, picking himself off the bed and helping Kara up.
"Good, I really need to hit something." Kara said, walking with him out the door.
"Ow, ow, ow." Kara said, limping slightly back to the motel a few hours later.
"You want me to carry you?" Angel asked.
"No, I'm fine." Kara said, shaking her head. "Damnit, how the hell did we get out of that alive?" Kara asked. They had just gone on a small patrol but ended up finding a nest of about twelve.
"Because you're tough." Angel said, wrapping his arm around her waist, keeping her steady.
"Yeah, and stubborn." Kara nodded.
"Very." Angel agreed, earning a small hit on the arm from Kara. "I was joking."
"Better be." Kara mumbled, taking her room key out of her pocket and opened the door. Angel helped her into the room and onto her bed.
"Where's your first aid kit." Angel asked.
"I'm fine, just a scratch." Kara protested. Angel just gave her the look that her brothers had always used on her. "I am, I'm just gonna take a shower." Kara grabbed her bag and picked herself up off the bed and limped into the bathroom. She locked the door behind her and turned on the water as she could stand it. She looked in the mirror and saw how bad the cut was. She also saw the bruise forming on the side of her face.
"Great." Kara muttered to herself as she got into the shower. She washed the dirt and blood out of her hair and off her face.
Twenty minutes later, Kara walked out of the bathroom in black pajama bottoms and a black t-shirt. She found Angel still sitting on her bed with an Ace bandage in his hand.
"Angel, I'm fine." Kara said, moving over to her bed.
"You're going to damage your ankle more if you don't keep it wrapped up." Angel told her.
"You don't have to tell me, I've had so much shit sprained and broken, I've lost count." Kara said, laying down. Angel walked over to the bed and lifted up her left pant leg and started wrapping up her ankle.
"You shouldn't go hunting for a couple days." Angel told her.
"Uh-uh, I can hunt. I did it with a broken arm." Kara argued.
"That's an arm Kara, you have to keep pressure on your leg when you hunt. You should stay off it as much as possible." Angel said. Kara opened her mouth to argue but closed it when she saw the concern in his eyes.
"Fine, three days and that's it." Kara said. Angel nodded as he finished bandaging her ankle. They both jumped when the door opened and Dean walked in. He closed the door and looked up, seeing Kara on the bed with Angel sitting beside her.
"Kara, what the hell's he doing here?" Dean asked, clenching his fist.
"I went on a hunt and busted my ankle. He helped me back here." Kara told him.
"You went on a hunt by yourself?! Dad's gonna kill you!" Dean half yelled.
"Well a hunt needed to be done and you guys are never here to take care of them." Kara yelled. "You're always going off, leaving me here by myself."
"To protect you." Dean argued.
"I don't need protecting." Kara protested. "Dean, I can handle stuff by myself, you've seen me do it when I was ten, remember. First the werewolf and then Der Kinderstod."
"Kara." Dean said in a low voice.
"Don't. You guys trained me for a reason. With you guys gone, me and Angel were looking after Sunnydale." Kara told him.
"Okay." Dean said after a few seconds of silence.
"Okay?" Kara asked, not sure she heard right.
"You're right. We did train you for a reason, we just don't want you going by yourself." Dean told her.
"I'm not by myself. I have Angel." Kara said, leaning against him. When she saw the look Dean sent him, she moved back.
"I should go." Angel said, looking at Dean before turning to Kara.
"Alright, I'll see you later." Kara gave him a kiss on the cheek before Angel walked out.
"I don't like him." Dean said when Angel was gone.
"Well I do." Kara said, laying back down on her bed. "Things have changed, I can take care of myself." Dean didn't say anything else to her. Kara just turned around and fell asleep.
So there's another chapter. Remember reviews are love. I know you all want me to update Headstrong, but I just can't get the chapter right so I prolly won't update it until somewhere in September.
Also, I'm writing another story today. I know, I keep writing stories but see, when I get a story in my head, I just have to write it down and post it so It should be up today.