chap7

Dreams
Author: Jennifer or IxOi JeNn ioXI@aol.com
Category: Buffy/Roswell Crossover
Rating: PG
Distribution: Ask and you shall receive and plus let me know where your putting my story.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters. Buffy and gang belong to Joss Whedon and respective owners. Roswell goes to Jason Katims and Melinda Metz and respective owners. Both shows belong to UPN and 20th Century Fox.
Summary: Buffy killed Riley because the chip implanted by Professor Walsh was sending messages to his brain to kill Buffy and the Scoobies. Buffy runs away from Sunnydale (in guilt) and ends up in Roswell, NM. Michael has been getting dreams about Buffy and the death of Riley. How could his dreams be connected to Buffy? How could two different worlds have so much in common?
Author's Note: There may be spoilers but nothing specific. Everything related to spoilers is in general. There are no time frames regarding the story. For the Max/Tess lovers I'm sorry but I don't like them together but they MAY be a hint for their relationship. ** are meant for thoughts If you ever see this AN: that stands for Author's Notes. I may have a word or two to say to the readers regarding the sentence the AN is in. And there is no Ford/Buffy reference. So pretend that Ford never existed for this story. On to the story (finally)..........


Chapter 7: Revelations

Giles explained everything to Buffy and the Roswell gang.

They decided to go to the Crashdown for a very deserved lunch. Liz's dad gave Michael and Liz and Maria the day off since he saw how tired the kids were and plus it wasn't going to be busy. It was the town's annual picnic so no one really went to the Crashdown.

"God, this day has been a long, hard, sweaty day." Isabel said to her fellow aliens and friends.

"Amen sister." Maria said.

"But this was only practice. Imagine the actual fight." Tess said.

Maria and Isabel were silenced by her remark which was absolutely true and that frighten them.

They ate a hearty meal to their hearts content.

"So how have you been lately, Buffy?" Willow asked her friend.

"Does lonely, sad, tired, and sick of slaying and worried about Dawn satisfy you?"

"Oh I was looking for an okay."

"Did I add stressed? And apparently I have some weird thing with Max." Buffy said.

"What do you mean? Please don't say you slept----" Willow said with wide eyes.

"Willow how can you think that! I would never. Not on the first date anyway." Buffy said with a grin. Sister Buffy, Sister Buffy. No men. She kept repeating that in her head.

"You know people do stupid things when they grieve. I worry about you Buffy." Willow said with concern. Max, she can't do anything. He's an alien. Well, Angel was a vamp -- er - but it doesn't matter. He's an alien. And his friends are aliens too. Isabel is cute. Tara, Tara, Tara. "Don't worry, Buffy. Dawn's going to be ok."

"But what if I can't get Dawn back. She's my world and my mom will be so devastated. If this god beats me-----"

"She won't. You got us. And aliens with neat super powers. We got the Dagon sphere and Anya's ex-boyfriend's hammer." Xander said.

"Didn't she date a troll or something?" Willow asked.

"Don't remind me?" Xander said disgusted. "A tall green troll who broke my hand."

Kyle, Michael, Maria, Tess, and Isabel were all asking Anya about mythical creatures of the night.

"So what's Dracula like?" Kyle asked. It wasn't everyday you meet a demon. Or ex-demon.

"Dracula does not exist?" Michael said stubbornly.

"Oh no Vlad does exist. He was a real ladies man. Always had a girl or two with him. He's a cool guy," she said cheerily.

Max passed by and couldn't help, but laugh. Anya was now asking the aliens if they abduct people.

"So have you come up with anything else?" Max asked Buffy and Giles.

"Well, if my calculations are correct Glory will use the key tomorrow night. The prophecy says 'The blood flows, the gates wall open. The gates will close when it flows no more,'" Giles removed his glassed, "when Dawn is dead."

"So explain it again, Giles." Max asked.

"The Key," everyone in the Crashdown got quiet to hear Giles, "was living energy. It needed to be channeled, poured into a specific place at a specific time. The energy would flow into that spot, the walls between the dimensions break down. It stops, the energy's used up, the walls come back up. Glory uses that time to get into her own dimension, not caring that all matter of hell will be unleashed on earth in the meantime."

"Um, but only for a little while right? The walls come back up, uh, no more hell." Isabel asked worriedly. Hell would be on earth, everyone she loved would die.

"Thats only if the energy is stopped. And now that they Key is human," Willow looked over to Buffy who looked down at her fidgeting hands, "is Dawn."

"Why blood? Why Dawn's blood?" Tess asked.

"Yeah, why couldn't it be like, a lymph ritual?" Xander added.

"'Cause its always got to be blood," Spike said while lighting a cigarette.

"We're not actually discussing dinner right now," Xander said.

Spike took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Blood is life, lackbrain. Why do you think we eat it? It's what keeps you going. Makes you warm. Makes you hard. Makes you other than dead." He stopped and quietly said, "Course its her blood."

Buffy stood up in front of everyone and said, "Its pretty simple math here. We stop Glory before she can start the ritual. We still have a day----"

"Thats only if my calculation are correct. I could be off. But Buffy-----"

"I don't wanna hear it." She turned away to go to the back room.

"I understand that------"

She turned back, "No! No, you," points finger at her mentor, "don't understand. We are not talking about this."

Giles jumps from the table and almost hits his head on the lamp hanging from the ceiling and yells, "Yes, we bloody are!"

Everyone looks at him and the Sunny D gang are shocked by his outburst.

Quieter he says, "If Glory begins the ritual if we can't stop her...."

"Come on, Giles. Say it. We're bloody well talking about this. Tell me to kill my sister."

Giles whispered to her, "She's not your sister."

"No, she not...."

"What no sister? What the hell?" Michael whispered to Max and Isabel.

"...She's me. The monks made her out of me. I remember all the memories. She may not have been here a couple of days ago, but she's here now and we all love her."

"We'll solve this, "Isabel said and Tess nodded her head in agreement, "We will. You have us to help."

"Yeah, Buffy, I may not have wanted to help in the beginning, but I do now. It's going to be ok." Michael said.

Giles said quietly breaking everyone's hopes. He was sure good at that, "If the ritual starts, then every living creature in this and every other dimension imaginable will suffer unbearable torment and death...." He looked at Buffy and everyone else in the room, "including Dawn and everyone else you love."

"The the last thing she'll see is me protecting her." Buffy said.

"You'll fail. You'll die. We all will."

And that point everyone had a worried look on their faces.

"Giles we have some time. We'll figure something out." Liz said trying to bring peace to Giles and Buffy.

At that time Buffy and Giles went to the opposite ends of the Crashdown. They were both angry, distraught, worried, everything. You could practically see the fumes coming out of them.

"Do they always argue like that?" Michael asked Willow. Maria had her head on Michael's chest and she was making circular motions on his chest.

"No, not always. Once Giles--- well lets put it they sometimes don't agree on things."

"So Liz, how have you been doing?" Max asked Liz sitting next to her, again trying to make small talk.

"Um, ok, I guess. I've really been distracted to find out what happened to Alex, since Buffy came to town. He died so suddenly and Max I never meant to say you were to blame. I was just overworked and in denial I guess you could say. Its been hard," Liz said.

"Its been hard on all of us. And I know I've been against you finding out what happened to Alex, buts its been dangerous and I don't want anyone to get hurt, especially you Liz. I'll help you," Max said. Finally more than 3 words were said, Max thought.

"Thanks Max, I really appreciate it. I've kinda been alone through this. Maria was there, but she was a million miles away thinking about Michael. Isabel, well I've never really gotten comfortable telling her what I've felt. I really felt comfortable with you, but you've been busy with Tess. You've seemed happy and I just didn't want to interfere with your destiny."

"But my destiny doesn't have anything to do with me comforting you or being friends. If I can't have you then I want us to be friends," Max said pleading to her to at least have the friendship they once had.

"Destiny has everything to do with it. You have to focus your time on Tess, Max. I'll only be a distraction. That's all," Liz said trying not to burst into tears.

"Look at Michael and Maria, " they both look over to them who are kissing, "why can't we be like them." Max said.

"We aren't them and Isabel isn't running to be with Michael. Look Max, I really you to be a friend to me, nothing more. Now please, lets stop this now," Liz said hoping Max would get the point.

It broke her heart to even think it was over between them. She thought, no she knew, they were soulmates and could not be together. But they had a connection, a bond, you can call it, that no one ever had. But fate could not be avoided. As hard as they could try they could never run away from it. It was and will be always there lurking, waiting for its prey to finally succumb to it. Destiny always seems to be trouble for people. Sometimes fate just isn't on a person's side.

Note Liz for example. She always wanted a perfect life. Then she meets Max, instantly falling in love with him. Leaves Kyle behind, but are good friends. All was going well for the two lovebirds, but a certain blonde came into their life, revealing their destiny. A destiny in which the Royal 4 hated. Well, 1 of them loved her destiny and wanted to fulfill it. The one who had Nesado to teach her everything. The one with the most knowledge. But yet that blonde didn't know an another blonde knew her games, her tricks. That blonde is unknown to the podsters.

Her destiny was already mapped out for her. She may even be more powerful then the almighty King Zan. She loved Zan, but her loyalty to the Royal 4 family was her first priority. Sacrificing her love for the sake of his people. See she was their protector. She knew Zan and Larek since they were kids. But she found a likely to Zan even though Larek had a crush on her. You can say they were childhood sweethearts growing up. But Zan's family had to merge with another family for more strength and power. So Ava would be his bride to be. The young girl still had to be with Zan no matter what. She decided to train with the best soldiers and become their protector. Zan never knew her love for him, had grown since their childhood. He loved her, but never gave her the love she wanted. She of course accepted that. They had a great bond. A connection. No, he did not save her like Max saved Liz, but a connection that the higher powers knew would be a great alliance and if ever they would be killed in battle on their planet their essences would be sent to earth. And that alliance would be the savior of the universe. A link from Antar to Earth. This girl isn't fully alien like Zan was. She had the strength in her that needed to be awakened. Her family believed in magic only to be laughed at by other families. No, not voodoo, but a magic that needed to be called upon. A magic that the young girl possessed. Originally her parents wanted her to marry Zan, but as mentioned before it wasn't possible. A child between them would be the most powerful thing born onto the planet. An alien with incredible strength and a source of magic born into royalty.

But this story doesn't have the fairy tale ending as one would think. The protector died leaving the planet vulnerable to other leaders. Her life was taken by someone close to the family. Many had suspicions that it was Ava who planned her death. Others thought it was Vilandra. No one ever knew. Kivar took over and everyone forgot about the girl and her story. The planet reduced it to a mere fairy tale, a myth. But we know what happened and that it did happen.

She died for Zan, Vilandra, Rath, and Ava. At that time Zan realized his love for her when he was betrothed to Ava. And this girl's name was Novalee. Named after the great nova near their planet. But her family put her essence in a young human girl. Her name was Buffy Summers.

And how this will come out is uncertain. Fate will have this come out one way or another.