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Chapter 6: The Meeting

"Are we there yet?" Anya asked in her most annoying voice possible.

Spike was banging his head repeatly on the tinted window. "Bloody hell, woman, you've asked that question a million and one times. We are almost there."

"Don't yell at her Spike," Xander said,"yes, Anya almost there. Look there's a sign that says Roswell." he said gently.

"Ew, what is this?" Anya said punching something next to her, "Xander is this one of our sex toys?"

"No its the sumo outfit, remember? I thought Buffy will need to practice."

"Would you buggers shut up? What does a guy have to do to get some sleep?" Spike asked putting his platinum hair on the window again.


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"Wow, aliens, cool, huh?" Willow said with great curiosity.

"Yes its quite fascinating." Giles said in his accent.

"Giles turn here," Willow said pointing to the Crashdown, "I guess this is it."

"Quite alien don't you think?" Giles said rubbing his eyes from the bright lights.

"This is Roswell. Home of the aliens."

They all went inside and were told to go to the "Y" by Mr. Parker.

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At the Y everyone was there excluding the Sunny D gang.

Michael was smiling at Maria. She was arguing with the punching bag. He couldn't help but laugh. "Maria, let me help you."

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Max watched Buffy with steady eyes. He found the way she moved her body fascinating. She was so small yet she could beat the crap out of any of them.

Buffy could feel Max's eyes on her. As she moved and did various flips, his eyes were stuck on her. She felt weird. He had the dark eyes, the mysterious persona. Hell, he was an alien. Only the undead, not of this world was attracted to her.

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"Hey." Max said to Liz. He sat next to her on the bleachers.

"Oh," Liz wa slightly startled by Max, "hey."

"How was it?" he asked trying to come up with small talk.

"Oh, it was okay. I just bruised myself," she said finding a great interest of her white sneakers.

"Do you want me to heal you?" Max asked with concern. What did I get into? A god? And Liz get hurt just by practicing. Whats going to happen when to real fight starts.

"No, no I'm okay," Liz said standing up. She couldn't let him see in her. He might see Future Max and everything she didn't want him to know, "And I'm still in this. I'm not backing out."

"Am I that obvious?" Max said with a slight smile.

"Yeah."

There was a moment or two of silence. Max was trying to muster up something to say and Liz, well Liz was interested in her ring.

"Hey Max, come over here." Michael said breaking the silence. He motion Max over to the mat that was sprawled on the floor.

"Check this out technique Buffy showed me." he said.

Max looked at Buffy and she smiled and went over to the window.

"Look its Buffy," Anya said pointing to the window.

"Spike its bright out here's a blanket." Willow said handing him a heavy thick blanket.

"Thanks, Will," he was caught off guard by her gesture. He thought she and all the Scoobies would hate him after all he's tried to kill them numerous times.

"Why yes it is," Giles said adjusting his glasses.

Buffy saw the gang and her eyes widened with joy. She ran out of the room to greet her friends.

Everyone looked at her running not knowing what to do.

"Um, Buffy....?" Kyle said confused wondering where she was going.

"They're here...." was Buffy's last response before running down the stairs.

"Is that good?" Maria asked outloud.

"Hey guys" Buffy said to her friends.

"Hello Buffy. How you are?" Giles said hugging her.

She greeted everyone with hugs except Spike.

"Spike" she said to him looking him in the eyes.

"Buffy" he said not knowing what to say.

"Thanks for coming. For helping."

"Its no problem just wanna see Little Bit safe and its nice to see ------"

He was interrupted by a male voice from the window.

"Are those your friends?" Kyle asked.

"Yeah they are."

"Remember to eat him when you get the bloody chip out of your head." Spike said to himself.

Buffy and the Scoobies went upstairs to meet the others.

"Hey, Buff I brought you the sumo outfit so you can practice." Xander said.

"Thanks, Xan. I kinda broke the other bags."

"Guys this is Xander, Giles, Anya, Willow, and Spike. Buffy said to the Roswell gang. They exchanged names.

"Doesn't Spike have to be invited in since you know h's a vampire and all." Tess said with concern.

"Not exactly, Tess is it?, since this is a public place its open to the undead as well, unfortunately." Giles said with some remorse.

"Hey, mate. I'm here to help you, losers." Spike snapped back.

"So Giles tell us Glory, facts, everything, the way I kill her," Buffy said getting to the point.

"I will in a second, but Willow and I have to perform the binding spell."

"Right, yeah, at least we have one less thing trying to end the world," the Buffster said with a sigh. She sat down on the bleachers next to Max.

"How many times have you done this?" Max asked.

"Done what?"

"Stopped the world from ending?"

"This would be the sixth apocalypse now. I'm tired of it. Of this. Slaying."

"Why are you tired of it? You're helping people."

"Yeah, I know, but I've lost--sacrificed--so much. I've killed two boyfriends. One was a vampire with a soul and Riley, God I've done so much for this world and I don't get anything. I've lost my sister."

"I didn't know you had a sister."

"Yeah, see these monks put memories and feelings of Dawn in everyone and she's the key and apparently with Riley gone I blocked them out."

"Oh, so what you're saying is that when you left Dawn was made."

"Exactly, stupid monks got the timing wrong."

"I'm sorry," Max said sincerely, "We'll help. Don't worry we'll get through this."

"I hope so." Buffy said looking into Max's eyes. Dark brown, nice, very cute. Ahh no more guys. For now on I'm Sister Buffy. I should join a convent or something, Buffy thought.

They were just staring at each other for a couple of moments. They felt something inside them. The Slayer side and the alien side had some kind of connection. They were going in for the kiss. When something happened Giles and Willow came back from the back of the gym, the spell was complete. Max and Buffy immediately moved apart. Leave up to Giles to make them move apart.

God what I'm I doing. Liz, Liz, Liz. You love Liz. What is it about Buffy?, Max thought

Doma was screaming with pain. Her flesh was melting and fell to the ground full of dirt. Soon her and her sisters will become part of the dirt as well.

Doma, second in command went to the leader.

"Bava what is happening?" Doma managed to say.

"Young one, our time has come. We must have faith in Kivar to continue our mission." she responded.

Kivar was in a pod. The red murky water was conserving his skin. He needed the body to be preserved for a couple of days until the Royal 4 were dead.

Glorificus had Dawn in her possession.

"So Dawnie how come big sis isn't here yet? I know she doesn't love you. She doesn't even know your alive. Her memories of Riley boy have affected her. Good because I helped that teacher of hers to get Riley evil. I impressed myself with that one. But anyway I like you. We will go home. To my dimension and I'll mold ya to be evil and everything will be peachy, right kiddo?" Glory told Dawn.

"Buffy will come and rescue me," Dawn said, "And will kick your ass."

"Don't think that because I can't cut you now you can talk dirty about me," the curly hair god said, "There's other things we can do." Glory tossed dawn across the room like if she was a rag doll.

"Buffy" was the last word Dawn said before she blacked out.