Disclaimer: I do not own Highlander or Buffy, unfortunately. The reason I wrote this story is not for monetary value, but for entertainment only.
The first thing Buffy though of when she came back to life was a need for oxygen. There was no air in her lungs and she gasped for breath.
Then, she realized she was alive. 'I'm alive!' she thought to herself and remembered how the vampire had drained her of blood.
She remembered how Ritchie and Duncan had come leaping out of the shadows, swords in hand.
Suddenly, she realized someone was watching her. Her eyes flew open and she looked straight at Duncan.
"How am I alive?" she asked him.
"First, we have to get food into you." Duncan said and started to leave the room.
Buffy, upset that she had died AGAIN at the hands of a vampire, jumped up off the sofa and shouted, "No! We talk about this now!"
"Fine, one minute. Ritchie, bring Buffy something to eat." Duncan called and sat down again behind his desk. "Okay, Buffy. What do you want to know?"
"What are you and Ritchie?"
"Well, we are Immortal. I was born in the highlands of Scotland four hundred years ago. Ritchie is twenty-seven when, ten years ago, I caught him stealing from an antique store I ran with my fiancée. One year later, they were both shot by an assassin. They both died, but Ritchie was a Pre-Immortal, so he came back."
Buffy digested all this information before Duncan continued.
"When you came into the dojo, I could feel you. You were already an Immortal. Although I couldn't figure out if you knew or not."
Buffy thought back to a year earlier when she had died at the Master's hands.
"Now," Duncan said as Ritchie came into the room with the lunch he had made for Buffy, " can you tell us more about yourself?"
"Where to begin? Well, probably at the beginning. When I went to school at Hemery in L.A., a man named Merrick, who was my first Watcher, came to me. He told me that I was the Chosen One and I had a destiny to kill the vampires. Unfortunately, Merrick was killed by an old vampire, whom I then killed. Then, after I burned down the gym at Hemery, my mom moved us to Sunnydale."
Buffy took a drink from her soda then continued her story.
"In Sunnydale, I met my new Watcher, Giles. I stopped, on my first three days in Sunnydale, a massacre with the help of Giles and my two new friends, Xander and Willow. Then, toward the end of the school year, I drowned because the Master vampire dumped me in a pool of water after drinking some of my blood. My friend, Xander, performed CPR on me and brought me back to life. I killed the Master. We skip ahead a few months until we get to my seventeenth birthday. My boyfriend, until this time, had been a 243-year-old vampire named Angel."
Duncan's breath hissed through his teeth as he remembered the many deaths that someone named Angelus and William the Bloody had been responsible for.
"Angel's soul had been returned to him almost a century before, but, on my seventeenth birthday, Angel and I made love and his soul was taken from him. After months of him tormenting and torturing me, I went after him one night after getting kicked out of school, out of my house, and after the Slayer that had been called after I died was killed. My friend, Willow, had found a spell to return his soul to him, but it was too late. I had to kill my boyfriend to save the world. And, here I am."
Duncan and Ritchie sat quietly though all of this.
"What do you want me to do?" Buffy asked, afraid they would kick her out.
"How about I complete your training with the sword, teach you about the Game, and we'll go from there." Duncan said with a smile.
Buffy smiled back. This was the happiest she'd been in a long time.
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The first thing Buffy though of when she came back to life was a need for oxygen. There was no air in her lungs and she gasped for breath.
Then, she realized she was alive. 'I'm alive!' she thought to herself and remembered how the vampire had drained her of blood.
She remembered how Ritchie and Duncan had come leaping out of the shadows, swords in hand.
Suddenly, she realized someone was watching her. Her eyes flew open and she looked straight at Duncan.
"How am I alive?" she asked him.
"First, we have to get food into you." Duncan said and started to leave the room.
Buffy, upset that she had died AGAIN at the hands of a vampire, jumped up off the sofa and shouted, "No! We talk about this now!"
"Fine, one minute. Ritchie, bring Buffy something to eat." Duncan called and sat down again behind his desk. "Okay, Buffy. What do you want to know?"
"What are you and Ritchie?"
"Well, we are Immortal. I was born in the highlands of Scotland four hundred years ago. Ritchie is twenty-seven when, ten years ago, I caught him stealing from an antique store I ran with my fiancée. One year later, they were both shot by an assassin. They both died, but Ritchie was a Pre-Immortal, so he came back."
Buffy digested all this information before Duncan continued.
"When you came into the dojo, I could feel you. You were already an Immortal. Although I couldn't figure out if you knew or not."
Buffy thought back to a year earlier when she had died at the Master's hands.
"Now," Duncan said as Ritchie came into the room with the lunch he had made for Buffy, " can you tell us more about yourself?"
"Where to begin? Well, probably at the beginning. When I went to school at Hemery in L.A., a man named Merrick, who was my first Watcher, came to me. He told me that I was the Chosen One and I had a destiny to kill the vampires. Unfortunately, Merrick was killed by an old vampire, whom I then killed. Then, after I burned down the gym at Hemery, my mom moved us to Sunnydale."
Buffy took a drink from her soda then continued her story.
"In Sunnydale, I met my new Watcher, Giles. I stopped, on my first three days in Sunnydale, a massacre with the help of Giles and my two new friends, Xander and Willow. Then, toward the end of the school year, I drowned because the Master vampire dumped me in a pool of water after drinking some of my blood. My friend, Xander, performed CPR on me and brought me back to life. I killed the Master. We skip ahead a few months until we get to my seventeenth birthday. My boyfriend, until this time, had been a 243-year-old vampire named Angel."
Duncan's breath hissed through his teeth as he remembered the many deaths that someone named Angelus and William the Bloody had been responsible for.
"Angel's soul had been returned to him almost a century before, but, on my seventeenth birthday, Angel and I made love and his soul was taken from him. After months of him tormenting and torturing me, I went after him one night after getting kicked out of school, out of my house, and after the Slayer that had been called after I died was killed. My friend, Willow, had found a spell to return his soul to him, but it was too late. I had to kill my boyfriend to save the world. And, here I am."
Duncan and Ritchie sat quietly though all of this.
"What do you want me to do?" Buffy asked, afraid they would kick her out.
"How about I complete your training with the sword, teach you about the Game, and we'll go from there." Duncan said with a smile.
Buffy smiled back. This was the happiest she'd been in a long time.
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