Buffy awoke in a hospital room that seemed vaguely familiar and she sat up gazing at her surroundings. In front of her was a woman with strawberry-blonde hair and an angelic face. Her eyes widened as the light consumed her form.
"Who are you?"
"I'm the Goddess of Destiny."
"Why did you erase my memories?"
"I took them because you weren't met to sleep with Spike until way later. This wasn't supposed to happen this way."
"I don't understand."
"I'm going to take you into the future, show you how it should have been. You can't change the past anymore."
Buffy nodded slightly and took a deep breath. The goddess reached out and touched her hand.
Angelus sat there in front of the strange statue and she appeared beheading the vampire minion. Buffy stood there
"Hello Lover." She commented raising her sword.
"I don't have time for you!" He said exasperated.
"You don't have a lot of time left." She said confidently.
"You're playing some pretty deep odds aren't you? Do you really think you can take me?"
"No…I don't"
Spike rose up from the wheel chair and struck Angelus with a copper pipe repetitively. Buffy attacked him with the sword and he dodged it eventually getting the sword from the statue. Angelus knocked the sword from her hand and she fell back against the wall, pulling her knees up against her chest. Angelus smirked and held the sword lightly with his hand swinging it lightly.
"Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends... No hope. Take all that away... and what's left" He shoved the sword forward and caught the blade.
"Me." She said jamming the sword up against his nose and regaining her sword. Angelus lost his balance and something went through him. An orange glow illuminated his chocolate eyes and he was back. Buffy released her guard a tiny bit and looked back at him. She dropped her guard and lifted him up.
"Buffy?" Angel questioned as though seeing if it were really her. Tears flowed from his eyes. " What's going on? Where are we? I-I don't remember." He said looking around. Buffy looked at him, sadness flashing in her eyes.
"Angel?" She questioned. What if this was just another trick?"
"You're hurt. Oh, Buffy... God. I... I feel like I haven't seen you in months. Oh, my God, everything's so muddled. I... Oh... Oh, Buffy... What's happening?" he heard a 'whirling' sound behind them and she looked up. Acathla's mouth had opened and so had the portal.
"Shh. Don't worry about it. I love you." She said hoping there was no other way. She kissed him passionately and held on to him.
"I love you."
" Close your eyes." She kissed him more and stabbed him with the sword. Angel's eyes widened and he cried out in agony. She sank down on her knees and sobbed as her true love was sucked into the hell dimension.
She saw years pass by and relationships fall. Then time stopped and there she was standing facing a girl who appeared to be fifteen. Her hands were placed firmly on the girl's shoulders and her eyes sparkled with tears.
"Buffy, you have to let me go! Blood starts it, and until the blood stops flowing it'll never stop. You know you have to let me ... It has to have the blood…"
"No!" Buffy said defiantly and looked over at the white blob forming out of nowhere in the sky.
A flash back formed in her mind and she saw Spike sitting on a set of stairs.
" 'Cause it's always got to have the blood."
Another flashback came up in her mind. She was sitting across from the girl and placed her hand on each of their hearts.
"Summers blood. It's just like mine." She said reassuringly and smiled gently.
"She's me, the monks made her out of me." She said desperately
Another flashback formed in her mind. She was sitting on a rock on a chilly night. In front of her was a primal being. She was speaking "Death is your gift." "Death?"
"Is your gift." The guide repeated.
She was standing there looking at herself again. Buffy looked back at the light and realized what she had to do. The girl obviously noticed too.
"Buffy... no!" The girl cried
"Dawnie... I have to--" She said desperately "NO!" The girl who she guessed was Dawn screamed " Listen to me! Please, there's not a lot of time, listen. Dawn listen to me. Listen. I love you. I will always love you. This is the work I have to do. Tell Giles... Tell Giles I figured it out. And... I'm okay. Give my love to my friends. You have to take care of them now -- you have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn, the hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me." She turned around, ran and swan dived into the energy. It consumed and crackled around her. Buffy watched herself die and flew forward a year or two.
"Life's a song you don't get to rehearse
And every single verse
Can make it that much worse
Still my friends don't know why I ignore
The million things or more
I should be dancing for
All the joy
Life sends
Family
And friends
All the twists
And bends
Knowing that
It ends
Well that
Depends
On if they let you go
On if they know enough to know
That when you've bowed
You leave the crowd
There was no pain
No fear no doubt
Till they pulled me out
Of heaven
So that's my refrain
I live in hell
'cause I've been expelled from heaven
I think I was in heaven"
Time rushed forward a few weeks and she saw herself with Spike fighting. Buffy could feel the heat.
"I wasn't planning on hurting you." He smirked and punched her. "Much."
"You haven't even come close to hurting me." She said viciously and shoved him against the wall.
"You afraid I'm gonna?" She shoved him against the wall and kissed him passionately.
Time passed forward and She saw herself facing a bunch of girls pacing.
"So here's the part where you make a choice. What if you could have that power, right now? In every generation one Slayer is born because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men." She pointed to Willow who smiled nervously. "This woman is more powerful than all of them combined. So I say we change the rule. I say my power should be our power. Tomorrow, Willow will use the essence of the scythe to change our destiny. From now on, every girl in the world who might be a Slayer, will be a Slayer. Every girl who could have the power, will have the power. Can stand up, will stand up. Slayers? every one of us. Make your choice. Are you ready to be strong?"
She was whipped back in time and realized that it was true.
"What happened when I…"
"I can't tell you because you haven't done it. You have destroyed the natural order of the future. You have to live with that. There will be no more memories to aid you."
Faith sat at the bar chugging down her third beer. She stood up and walked out of the bar. She sensed somebody following her and turned around. Not even five feet from her, she saw a woman. The woman wore a tweed suit, professional glasses, and her auburn hair framed her face.
"Who are you?" Faith inquired putting her fists up.
"Forgive me, I am Rose Deleon. Are you Faith?" She inquired in an heavy English voice.
"Who wants to know?" She asked
"I thought as much. I want you to come with me to the grave yard."
"What's in the graveyard?"
"You'll see." She said handing her a Stake.
"Okay," Faith said thinking she might as well humor herself. A half an hour later, she stood at the graveyard wondering what was going. A few feet from where she was standing, she saw something rise up from the grave.
"What's going on?" She asked backing away. The thing smirked and persued her.
"Faith, you must fight the vampire." Faith stared at the woman as though she were on drugs and in the process was knocked to the ground. The 'vampire' lowered it's neck and leaned down to bite her but she slammed her head against its and kicked it off knocking it on its back. Faith slammed the stake in its heart and watched in awe as it dusted. She jumped back a few feet and fell on her back.
"What the fuck was that!" She shouted.
"In every generation, there is a chosen one…well two, they alone must stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. You are the Slayer."
"I'm the what?" She asked as the rain started to pour.
AN: I thought that I might want to add Faith being called so we could see how she was and everything. It's hard to explain, anyways thanks for reading this slightly boring chapter. The next chapter is going to contain, Willow/Angelus and Spuffy. You know the drill: R&R
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