A/N: For those of you who haven't seen episode 7.15 "Get it Done" which was
shown on February 18, 2003, there is a small piece of this chapter which
revolves around the teaser from the episode.
A/N2: As characters from the show that are in this fanfic die, their character will be removed from the fic.
Chapter Eleven
Faith stood in the backyard and watched Giles train the potentials. She remembered her own training sessions when she first found out she was a slayer. A lot had changed since then. She had changed. Being a slayer was a lonely gig, cut off from the outside world. Her first watcher had forced her to drop out of school. She went from being a normal girl, to a hunted nightly girl. Her life had ended the day she became a slayer. That's why she was jealous of Buffy when she first came to Sunnydale. Buffy didn't have to give up her life, she got to lead one while she slayed. Buffy tried to bring her into that life, but Faith couldn't deal. She was jealous of it, tried to make herself better, and lost herself in the bitter end. But Buffy hadn't given up on her. Faith had been welcomed into the group as soon as she returned to Sunnydale, given a place to stay and a family to love her. She felt like an outcast at first, frustrated by the glares from the potentials. Frightened that she'd fall back into old habits, scared that she would never be forgiven. It wasn't until Dawn started talking to her that she knew everything would be okay. Little Dawn, Buffy's made-up sister. Faith's memories of her were so real, yet so fake. But Dawn helped to bring Faith back. Dawn and Buffy. They made Faith feel welcome again. And now, watching the potentials, her new found little sisters, train, Faith felt a sort of completion in her life. The redemption and forgiveness she needed and the ability to help again. Faith joined the training, working on the combos and blocks.
"Again." Giles called from the front of the group. The potentials started their training routine for the second time.
-
Buffy watched from the window as Faith and the potentials trained. She smiled as she watched Dawn fold into the group. Not a potential, never leading the life of a slayer, but Dawn would never again be a normal kid.
"Hey." Angel said as he entered the room.
"Hey, yourself." Buffy gave him a forced smile.
"You okay?" Angel asked, concerned.
"I'm just tired." Buffy replied. "Actually, I'm going to go join the girls." She motioned to the training.
Angel nodded as Buffy left the kitchen.
"Angel." Fred said, as she entered the room. "Have you seen Wesley?"
"Basement." Angel answered softly. "Spike's helping him with a translation."
Fred simply nodded and left the room.
-
The sun drifted from the sky as the morning patrol unit returned. Cho-Ann fell onto the couch with a sigh. Her broken English was improving, but still presented a challenge for the others in the house. Wesley took to her side and in a combination of broken English and broken Mandarin, they discussed the morning's patrol.
"Is the morning team all accounted for?" Buffy asked, entering the room.
"Everyone is back." Wesley replied, jotting down as much as he could from Cho-Ann's report.
"Good." Buffy nodded. She called up the stairs and got everyone together. "Same teams as last night." Buffy called as the groups began to split up.
The evening patrol left the house with in minutes and took to the street.
Faith, Vi, Chloe, Oz and Dawn moved off towards the East, while the other teams went their own separate directions. They walked down the street weapons at the ready.
"Oz, you and Dawn take the left side of the street. Vi and Chloe, the right." Faith said. "I'm going to take the middle."
"Able to help either team out." Dawn smiled.
Faith nodded as the group split up to cover the street. Vi and Chloe stood a couple of feet apart, each turning with a practiced routine, covering all sides and all directions at once. Chloe's side ached from her recent battles, but she forged on.
"Dawn!" Oz shouted as a group of vampires leapt from a tree-covered yard.
Dawn ducked at Oz's command and rolled under the first of the attacking vamps. She kicked up at the second as he ran by, knocking him out of the group. Ten young vampires clad in leather jackets and chains rushed to follow.
Oz growled low and pounced onto two of the vampires, changing fully into the wolf as he landed. He began attacking fiercely, pulling on the vampires arms and mutilating them as he went.
Dawn pulled Mr. Pointy from her side and began jabbing the vampires as quickly as she could. Three had surrounded her. Dawn took a deep breath and trusted herself, trusted that Faith, Vi and Chloe were nearby and trusted her training.
Faith ran into the fray and attacked like a viscous animal. She pulled vampires aside and staked them as quickly as she could. She looked quickly to all sides as more and more vamps poured from the surrounding streets. "Ambush!" She screamed as loud as she could.
Chloe and Vi teamed up on the attacking vampires. Chloe would grab them, Vi would stake them. It was their system. More and more vampires poured in from every direction. Vi ran the training routine in her mind and began lashing out. Chloe saw this and reacted to Vi's maneuver. Both girls changed their strategy and split their attack.
The group of vampires that had surrounded him threw Oz back into the street. He looked out and saw Dawn surrounded, Faith barely holding her own and Vi and Chloe trying hard to get out of the corner they'd been pushed into. Oz turned quickly and fled. His heart pounded as he pushed himself faster and faster back to the house. Oz flung himself at the door with all of his strength, shattering it into pieces. Unable to change back to human, he howled as loud as he could, drawing as much attention as possible.
"Oz!" Willow shrieked as she came into the room. "What is it?"
Oz looked at Willow and whimpered, he turned and took off back down the street. Wesley grabbed a stake and a sword as he rushed out the door to follow with Giles hot on his heels. The two Watchers feared for the life of the girls.
Willow grabbed the phone and called Buffy's cell. Before Buffy could even get the word "hello" out of her mouth Willow started screaming for her to return. Willow dropped the phone and followed Xander out of the house. The morning patrol rushed down the stairs and quickly followed, grabbing whatever weapons they could as they ran out of the door.
Anya pushed Fred into Buffy's bedroom and locked the door. Fred barricaded the door from the other side with everything she could move. The little girl stirred on the bed and began to cry.
Anya ran back downstairs to the phone and began dialing Angel's cell. She screamed into the phone as Angel answered. "Ambush!" She cried as she pushed grabbed a baseball bat. "Ambush!"
Oz ran back to the group and instantly forced himself into the circle surrounding Chloe and Vi, he snarled and began batting at the attacking vampires. More and more seemed to pour out of the streets and surrounded the group. Oz pushed back, allowing Vi to get free. She ran toward Chloe and tackled one of the vampires to the ground.
Buffy and Connor came around the corner at full speed, leaving behind the others of their group. Connor instantly sprung and landed next to Dawn's attackers. The vampires converged on him, causing Connor to drop both of his swords. That wouldn't stop, he thought. He began kicking and punching without thought.
Dawn ducked one of Connor's blows and allowed it to connect with a vampire behind her. She quickly pushed Mr. Pointy back into her pocket and grabbed one of Connor's fallen swords. She pulled it up and swung it around. Removing heads where possible. She kicked the other sword back to where Connor had been forced.
Buffy trusted that Connor would protect Dawn. She quickly rushed into the madness and began fighting for her life and the life of her teammates.
Giles and Wesley attacked with great force, pushing the attacking vampires back further and further. Gunn ran to them, flanked by Rona. Gunn raised his flamethrower and blasted a stream of fire out to the vamps. Rona rushed in after and began staking those that weren't burning. Wesley and Giles quickly joined in.
Angel and Molly spilt and joined Oz and Connor in their attacks. Angel pounced on the vampires and drove in stake after stake after stake. His eyes began to burn in the dusty night.
Xander stopped as he and Willow watched the battle. "Anya." He whispered.
"The girl." Willow deduced.
The two ran back to the house. Willow ran inside to find Anya fighting for her life. Spike had gotten the call to return and was fending off the demons trying to get to Fred and the little girl. Willow practically threw herself on the floor and began chanting.
A bright red light began to circle around the room and up the stairs as Willow chanted louder and faster. Xander ducked the attacking demons and rushed to Anya's side. The light became brighter and brighter and brighter as Willow yelled "Expel!" The demons, including Spike, flew out of the house and on to the front lawn. "Protect!" Willow commanded as a barrier flew up around the house.
Xander ran up the stairs to check on Fred. Anya ran to the barrier and reached out, grabbing Spike; she pulled him back inside.
"Buffy." Spike breathed. Anya nodded and wordlessly Spike was gone, back out through the barrier and to the ambush on the street.
Dust rose from the ground as vampire after vampire was slain. The crescent moon glistened off of the swords as they were brought down on vampire heads. Stakes and bolts were pulled from dusting vamps and pushed into the next attacker. Flames rose from the ground as the burned vampires crashed into dust.
Buffy finally stopped. She took a breath and looked around. Vampires were fleeing in the direction they had come from. Teams were fighting back those stupid enough to remain. A scream penetrated the sounds of the battle.
Chloe fought helplessly as four vampires lifted her limbs and pulled her off of the ground. "No!" She cried as a fifth vampire joined in. He titled Chloe's head so she could see the fight and sank his teeth deep into her throat, with in seconds the other vampires grabbed on to uncovered flesh and began to feed.
Vi ran to Chloe's aid, but it was too late. The remaining vamps ran off, leaving Chloe's lifeless body limp on the dust-covered street. The remaining blood in Chloe's body poured out into the street. Vi covered her friends body with her own and let out a wail. The scream filled the eerie post-battle silence as it turned to sobs.
The others surrounded the lifeless body as tears flowed and stung their eyes. Buffy collapsed to the ground next to Chloe and cried.
A/N2: As characters from the show that are in this fanfic die, their character will be removed from the fic.
Chapter Eleven
Faith stood in the backyard and watched Giles train the potentials. She remembered her own training sessions when she first found out she was a slayer. A lot had changed since then. She had changed. Being a slayer was a lonely gig, cut off from the outside world. Her first watcher had forced her to drop out of school. She went from being a normal girl, to a hunted nightly girl. Her life had ended the day she became a slayer. That's why she was jealous of Buffy when she first came to Sunnydale. Buffy didn't have to give up her life, she got to lead one while she slayed. Buffy tried to bring her into that life, but Faith couldn't deal. She was jealous of it, tried to make herself better, and lost herself in the bitter end. But Buffy hadn't given up on her. Faith had been welcomed into the group as soon as she returned to Sunnydale, given a place to stay and a family to love her. She felt like an outcast at first, frustrated by the glares from the potentials. Frightened that she'd fall back into old habits, scared that she would never be forgiven. It wasn't until Dawn started talking to her that she knew everything would be okay. Little Dawn, Buffy's made-up sister. Faith's memories of her were so real, yet so fake. But Dawn helped to bring Faith back. Dawn and Buffy. They made Faith feel welcome again. And now, watching the potentials, her new found little sisters, train, Faith felt a sort of completion in her life. The redemption and forgiveness she needed and the ability to help again. Faith joined the training, working on the combos and blocks.
"Again." Giles called from the front of the group. The potentials started their training routine for the second time.
-
Buffy watched from the window as Faith and the potentials trained. She smiled as she watched Dawn fold into the group. Not a potential, never leading the life of a slayer, but Dawn would never again be a normal kid.
"Hey." Angel said as he entered the room.
"Hey, yourself." Buffy gave him a forced smile.
"You okay?" Angel asked, concerned.
"I'm just tired." Buffy replied. "Actually, I'm going to go join the girls." She motioned to the training.
Angel nodded as Buffy left the kitchen.
"Angel." Fred said, as she entered the room. "Have you seen Wesley?"
"Basement." Angel answered softly. "Spike's helping him with a translation."
Fred simply nodded and left the room.
-
The sun drifted from the sky as the morning patrol unit returned. Cho-Ann fell onto the couch with a sigh. Her broken English was improving, but still presented a challenge for the others in the house. Wesley took to her side and in a combination of broken English and broken Mandarin, they discussed the morning's patrol.
"Is the morning team all accounted for?" Buffy asked, entering the room.
"Everyone is back." Wesley replied, jotting down as much as he could from Cho-Ann's report.
"Good." Buffy nodded. She called up the stairs and got everyone together. "Same teams as last night." Buffy called as the groups began to split up.
The evening patrol left the house with in minutes and took to the street.
Faith, Vi, Chloe, Oz and Dawn moved off towards the East, while the other teams went their own separate directions. They walked down the street weapons at the ready.
"Oz, you and Dawn take the left side of the street. Vi and Chloe, the right." Faith said. "I'm going to take the middle."
"Able to help either team out." Dawn smiled.
Faith nodded as the group split up to cover the street. Vi and Chloe stood a couple of feet apart, each turning with a practiced routine, covering all sides and all directions at once. Chloe's side ached from her recent battles, but she forged on.
"Dawn!" Oz shouted as a group of vampires leapt from a tree-covered yard.
Dawn ducked at Oz's command and rolled under the first of the attacking vamps. She kicked up at the second as he ran by, knocking him out of the group. Ten young vampires clad in leather jackets and chains rushed to follow.
Oz growled low and pounced onto two of the vampires, changing fully into the wolf as he landed. He began attacking fiercely, pulling on the vampires arms and mutilating them as he went.
Dawn pulled Mr. Pointy from her side and began jabbing the vampires as quickly as she could. Three had surrounded her. Dawn took a deep breath and trusted herself, trusted that Faith, Vi and Chloe were nearby and trusted her training.
Faith ran into the fray and attacked like a viscous animal. She pulled vampires aside and staked them as quickly as she could. She looked quickly to all sides as more and more vamps poured from the surrounding streets. "Ambush!" She screamed as loud as she could.
Chloe and Vi teamed up on the attacking vampires. Chloe would grab them, Vi would stake them. It was their system. More and more vampires poured in from every direction. Vi ran the training routine in her mind and began lashing out. Chloe saw this and reacted to Vi's maneuver. Both girls changed their strategy and split their attack.
The group of vampires that had surrounded him threw Oz back into the street. He looked out and saw Dawn surrounded, Faith barely holding her own and Vi and Chloe trying hard to get out of the corner they'd been pushed into. Oz turned quickly and fled. His heart pounded as he pushed himself faster and faster back to the house. Oz flung himself at the door with all of his strength, shattering it into pieces. Unable to change back to human, he howled as loud as he could, drawing as much attention as possible.
"Oz!" Willow shrieked as she came into the room. "What is it?"
Oz looked at Willow and whimpered, he turned and took off back down the street. Wesley grabbed a stake and a sword as he rushed out the door to follow with Giles hot on his heels. The two Watchers feared for the life of the girls.
Willow grabbed the phone and called Buffy's cell. Before Buffy could even get the word "hello" out of her mouth Willow started screaming for her to return. Willow dropped the phone and followed Xander out of the house. The morning patrol rushed down the stairs and quickly followed, grabbing whatever weapons they could as they ran out of the door.
Anya pushed Fred into Buffy's bedroom and locked the door. Fred barricaded the door from the other side with everything she could move. The little girl stirred on the bed and began to cry.
Anya ran back downstairs to the phone and began dialing Angel's cell. She screamed into the phone as Angel answered. "Ambush!" She cried as she pushed grabbed a baseball bat. "Ambush!"
Oz ran back to the group and instantly forced himself into the circle surrounding Chloe and Vi, he snarled and began batting at the attacking vampires. More and more seemed to pour out of the streets and surrounded the group. Oz pushed back, allowing Vi to get free. She ran toward Chloe and tackled one of the vampires to the ground.
Buffy and Connor came around the corner at full speed, leaving behind the others of their group. Connor instantly sprung and landed next to Dawn's attackers. The vampires converged on him, causing Connor to drop both of his swords. That wouldn't stop, he thought. He began kicking and punching without thought.
Dawn ducked one of Connor's blows and allowed it to connect with a vampire behind her. She quickly pushed Mr. Pointy back into her pocket and grabbed one of Connor's fallen swords. She pulled it up and swung it around. Removing heads where possible. She kicked the other sword back to where Connor had been forced.
Buffy trusted that Connor would protect Dawn. She quickly rushed into the madness and began fighting for her life and the life of her teammates.
Giles and Wesley attacked with great force, pushing the attacking vampires back further and further. Gunn ran to them, flanked by Rona. Gunn raised his flamethrower and blasted a stream of fire out to the vamps. Rona rushed in after and began staking those that weren't burning. Wesley and Giles quickly joined in.
Angel and Molly spilt and joined Oz and Connor in their attacks. Angel pounced on the vampires and drove in stake after stake after stake. His eyes began to burn in the dusty night.
Xander stopped as he and Willow watched the battle. "Anya." He whispered.
"The girl." Willow deduced.
The two ran back to the house. Willow ran inside to find Anya fighting for her life. Spike had gotten the call to return and was fending off the demons trying to get to Fred and the little girl. Willow practically threw herself on the floor and began chanting.
A bright red light began to circle around the room and up the stairs as Willow chanted louder and faster. Xander ducked the attacking demons and rushed to Anya's side. The light became brighter and brighter and brighter as Willow yelled "Expel!" The demons, including Spike, flew out of the house and on to the front lawn. "Protect!" Willow commanded as a barrier flew up around the house.
Xander ran up the stairs to check on Fred. Anya ran to the barrier and reached out, grabbing Spike; she pulled him back inside.
"Buffy." Spike breathed. Anya nodded and wordlessly Spike was gone, back out through the barrier and to the ambush on the street.
Dust rose from the ground as vampire after vampire was slain. The crescent moon glistened off of the swords as they were brought down on vampire heads. Stakes and bolts were pulled from dusting vamps and pushed into the next attacker. Flames rose from the ground as the burned vampires crashed into dust.
Buffy finally stopped. She took a breath and looked around. Vampires were fleeing in the direction they had come from. Teams were fighting back those stupid enough to remain. A scream penetrated the sounds of the battle.
Chloe fought helplessly as four vampires lifted her limbs and pulled her off of the ground. "No!" She cried as a fifth vampire joined in. He titled Chloe's head so she could see the fight and sank his teeth deep into her throat, with in seconds the other vampires grabbed on to uncovered flesh and began to feed.
Vi ran to Chloe's aid, but it was too late. The remaining vamps ran off, leaving Chloe's lifeless body limp on the dust-covered street. The remaining blood in Chloe's body poured out into the street. Vi covered her friends body with her own and let out a wail. The scream filled the eerie post-battle silence as it turned to sobs.
The others surrounded the lifeless body as tears flowed and stung their eyes. Buffy collapsed to the ground next to Chloe and cried.
