That afternoon Buffy and Dawn were the first to enter the shop. Sarah was sitting at the back table with Giles while Anya stood behind the counter. There were no customers and the only sound heard was the soft talking of Giles and Sarah. As the slayer and her sister entered, the bell rang and all turned around to look.
"Buffy," Giles said, in this way making clear for Sarah who she was.
"Hi," Buffy answered as she and Dawn walked to the back. She looked curiously at Sarah and was about to ask as the door opened again and Willow, Tara and Xander walked in.
As they all gathered in the back, everyone was staring at Sarah, but no-one said anything. Sarah was studying each one of them, in her mind trying to find out who was who from the Council notes she had collected.
'Buffy the slayer, blonde and small, is her; the girl earlier is Anya, former vengeance demon involved with Xander, which has to be him. Willow and Tara, powerful witches, the redhead is Willow I believe so I guess the other blonde is Tara. The young girl must be the Key, eh… Dawn, yes, Dawn.'
When everyone was seated, Giles, who stood before them, called for attention.
"Guys, uhm… I'd like your attention please, there's someone you have to meet." He indicated Sarah and continued: "This is Sarah; she's… she's… my daughter…"
Everyone started talking through each other and when al was calm again, Giles and Sarah explained the situation.
"… So, I came here to get to know my father. And I figured I could also lend a hand in some way." Sarah finished the story.
All were silence for a moment to let everything sink in. Then they started talking about it all and end of the line was that Sarah was going to live with Giles and would help with the gang and the Magic Box.
This seemed to work fine; Sarah was pleasant to work with and soon proved useful in research and also fighting. One night she had offered Buffy to accompany her on patrol and so the two young women, both slim, one blond and rather small, the other dark haired and taller went on their way. As they entered the cemetery they had picked to check, there was a rumble in the bushes. Both turned around and listened carefully
"I'll go around the back," whispered Sarah. She sneaked around the bush and peeked in. She saw a vampire sitting there, grinning in such a way that his pointy teeth were clearly visible. Sarah smiled, jumped up and kicked the vamp in the back, causing him to fall, face forward, in the mud in front of Buffy.
"You messed up my shoes," Buffy said to the vamp, who started to jump up and dusted him.
A month after Sarah's arrival, the entire gang had been out to the Bronze and were on their way back home. Xander and Anya were walking at the back, arm-in-arm, with Willow and Tara, hand-in-hand, before them. Buffy and Sarah were talking to each other and were walking to the side. Suddenly a group of vamps jumped out. There were at least six of them, surrounding the group completely. Right away Buffy and Sarah grabbed the stakes they held in their coats. They formed a circle within the surrounding group and when the vampires attacked, they defended themselves well. Most of the Scoobies were able to grab some kind of weapon from around them; except Anya.
How exactly it happened was unclear, but suddenly she was cornered with two vampires closing in. Sarah turned around, saw it and was about to run to it when a third vampire kicked her legs out underneath her. As she fell and saw the vamp getting ready to drop on her she got so terribly angry she started to glow, literally. A blast of energy hit the vamp in the chest, incinerating him on the spot as Sarah turned around and instinctively threw her hands in the direction of the two vampires cornering Anya. Two tendrils of sparkling energy surged out of them, hitting the vamps full in the back, dusting them on the spot.
The other three, the moment they came to their senses, ran. Buffy threw a piece of wood at them, hitting one of them in the back, piercing through him and turning the guy to dust as the other two ran on and turned a corner, out of sight.
"What the hell was that?" said Willow, "you never mentioned you were a witch!"
"I'm not!" Sarah said, looking at her hands with slight terror, "I had no idea I could do that!"
Xander helped Anya up while Buffy pulled Sarah up, who held her hands away from herself, eyeing them suspiciously.
They continued their way to get to Giles' place, which was closest by.
As Sarah pulled her key out of her pocket an opened the door, she was extra careful, she didn't want more blasts from her hands, or any body part for that matter.
When they entered, Giles was still awake, reading some old text. When he looked up he immediately saw their faces and knew something had happened. Sarah sat down on the couch and the others gathered around her as Giles, realising they could probably use a drink, made some tea.
When he came back with the tea, Sarah had relaxed a bit and the gang told him what had happened. Giles' face grew more worried with every word and as they finished the story, he took Sarah's hands and studied them.
"Your mother experienced this phenomenon too. Twice," he said.
Sarah's mouth fell open.
"Mom?"
Giles nodded
The first time she was terrified, she had no history of magic in the family and only knew it because I sometimes spoke of it. Afterwards nothing happened for about a year and we thought it was a one-time-only thing. But then it happened again. And again, afterwards nothing happened anymore. I don't know if it happened after that, she was gone by then. But I eventually came out on a mental cause."
"Mental?" Xander asked.
"Yes, I think with Emma it was some sort of telekinesis that didn't show in normal life, only in certain extraordinary conditions. She showed this power, both times, at an occasion when we were mugged. I think it's the same for you, and if you want to make use of it in normal everyday life, you'll have to train it."
Sarah agreed and the next day she started working on it and two months later she had become pretty good. Giles had tested her and it had appeared that her newfound power was not completely a mental thing but also magical. She was susceptible to magic and had picked it up at some point in her life. But the power wasn't that big as Willow's or Tara's, she could lift small objects like pens and glasses and perform small spells, but that was it. The energy tendrils hadn't returned and Giles had theorized that that burst had been the release of years of unused magic, all coming out at once. He figured that if she didn't use her magic for a few months, she could have another burst. Sarah, not really wanting to repeat that sensation, therefore used her magic daily; even if she only lifted a pencil a few times.
She could never guess it would one day help in saving her life, again.
"Buffy," Giles said, in this way making clear for Sarah who she was.
"Hi," Buffy answered as she and Dawn walked to the back. She looked curiously at Sarah and was about to ask as the door opened again and Willow, Tara and Xander walked in.
As they all gathered in the back, everyone was staring at Sarah, but no-one said anything. Sarah was studying each one of them, in her mind trying to find out who was who from the Council notes she had collected.
'Buffy the slayer, blonde and small, is her; the girl earlier is Anya, former vengeance demon involved with Xander, which has to be him. Willow and Tara, powerful witches, the redhead is Willow I believe so I guess the other blonde is Tara. The young girl must be the Key, eh… Dawn, yes, Dawn.'
When everyone was seated, Giles, who stood before them, called for attention.
"Guys, uhm… I'd like your attention please, there's someone you have to meet." He indicated Sarah and continued: "This is Sarah; she's… she's… my daughter…"
Everyone started talking through each other and when al was calm again, Giles and Sarah explained the situation.
"… So, I came here to get to know my father. And I figured I could also lend a hand in some way." Sarah finished the story.
All were silence for a moment to let everything sink in. Then they started talking about it all and end of the line was that Sarah was going to live with Giles and would help with the gang and the Magic Box.
This seemed to work fine; Sarah was pleasant to work with and soon proved useful in research and also fighting. One night she had offered Buffy to accompany her on patrol and so the two young women, both slim, one blond and rather small, the other dark haired and taller went on their way. As they entered the cemetery they had picked to check, there was a rumble in the bushes. Both turned around and listened carefully
"I'll go around the back," whispered Sarah. She sneaked around the bush and peeked in. She saw a vampire sitting there, grinning in such a way that his pointy teeth were clearly visible. Sarah smiled, jumped up and kicked the vamp in the back, causing him to fall, face forward, in the mud in front of Buffy.
"You messed up my shoes," Buffy said to the vamp, who started to jump up and dusted him.
A month after Sarah's arrival, the entire gang had been out to the Bronze and were on their way back home. Xander and Anya were walking at the back, arm-in-arm, with Willow and Tara, hand-in-hand, before them. Buffy and Sarah were talking to each other and were walking to the side. Suddenly a group of vamps jumped out. There were at least six of them, surrounding the group completely. Right away Buffy and Sarah grabbed the stakes they held in their coats. They formed a circle within the surrounding group and when the vampires attacked, they defended themselves well. Most of the Scoobies were able to grab some kind of weapon from around them; except Anya.
How exactly it happened was unclear, but suddenly she was cornered with two vampires closing in. Sarah turned around, saw it and was about to run to it when a third vampire kicked her legs out underneath her. As she fell and saw the vamp getting ready to drop on her she got so terribly angry she started to glow, literally. A blast of energy hit the vamp in the chest, incinerating him on the spot as Sarah turned around and instinctively threw her hands in the direction of the two vampires cornering Anya. Two tendrils of sparkling energy surged out of them, hitting the vamps full in the back, dusting them on the spot.
The other three, the moment they came to their senses, ran. Buffy threw a piece of wood at them, hitting one of them in the back, piercing through him and turning the guy to dust as the other two ran on and turned a corner, out of sight.
"What the hell was that?" said Willow, "you never mentioned you were a witch!"
"I'm not!" Sarah said, looking at her hands with slight terror, "I had no idea I could do that!"
Xander helped Anya up while Buffy pulled Sarah up, who held her hands away from herself, eyeing them suspiciously.
They continued their way to get to Giles' place, which was closest by.
As Sarah pulled her key out of her pocket an opened the door, she was extra careful, she didn't want more blasts from her hands, or any body part for that matter.
When they entered, Giles was still awake, reading some old text. When he looked up he immediately saw their faces and knew something had happened. Sarah sat down on the couch and the others gathered around her as Giles, realising they could probably use a drink, made some tea.
When he came back with the tea, Sarah had relaxed a bit and the gang told him what had happened. Giles' face grew more worried with every word and as they finished the story, he took Sarah's hands and studied them.
"Your mother experienced this phenomenon too. Twice," he said.
Sarah's mouth fell open.
"Mom?"
Giles nodded
The first time she was terrified, she had no history of magic in the family and only knew it because I sometimes spoke of it. Afterwards nothing happened for about a year and we thought it was a one-time-only thing. But then it happened again. And again, afterwards nothing happened anymore. I don't know if it happened after that, she was gone by then. But I eventually came out on a mental cause."
"Mental?" Xander asked.
"Yes, I think with Emma it was some sort of telekinesis that didn't show in normal life, only in certain extraordinary conditions. She showed this power, both times, at an occasion when we were mugged. I think it's the same for you, and if you want to make use of it in normal everyday life, you'll have to train it."
Sarah agreed and the next day she started working on it and two months later she had become pretty good. Giles had tested her and it had appeared that her newfound power was not completely a mental thing but also magical. She was susceptible to magic and had picked it up at some point in her life. But the power wasn't that big as Willow's or Tara's, she could lift small objects like pens and glasses and perform small spells, but that was it. The energy tendrils hadn't returned and Giles had theorized that that burst had been the release of years of unused magic, all coming out at once. He figured that if she didn't use her magic for a few months, she could have another burst. Sarah, not really wanting to repeat that sensation, therefore used her magic daily; even if she only lifted a pencil a few times.
She could never guess it would one day help in saving her life, again.
