Eva-
Eva was having a bad everything day. Her hair wouldn't behave, she broke a nail, lost her calculus homework and Matt picked the same day to break up with her.
Logically she knew that him being mad that she had broke their date was stupid. Buffy had been kidnapped and Richie and the other girls and her had to patrol. Unfortunately she couldn't tell Matt that.
She grumbled through the rest of the day and her friends kept their distance. When she walked out of the school her day totally changed. There was Richie on his red and gold Suzuki Katana, waiting for her.
"Hey Eva, let's get a groove on. You have a test to take!" He hollered, and she smiled and raced down the stairs. He gallantly took her bookbag and made her laugh when he pretended to drop it because it was sooo heavy.
"What are you carrying in here, rocks?" he complained and she giggled as she pulled on the helmet. He held the backpack in front of himself, looked at Eva who nodded and took off with a roar out of the school parking lot.
Her friends watched in amazement from the school steps. Rachel turned to Lacy, "Who was that?" she asked, a little jealously. Lacy shook her head, "I think he's someone she met at the karate school that Mr. McLeod runs." She replied, referring to the occasional substitute teacher they had come in for history. Neither of them had noticed Matt standing there. He was feeling hurt and jealous and decided to do something about it.
That night Duncan picked up Eva and Buffy and drove them to the cemetery. The girls got out and Duncan went to park, staying with the car in case they needed backup.
Buffy stopped in the middle of the street with her hands on her hips and glared at Eva.
"Well?" she said tartly and Eva looked at her, "Well what?"
"What has you so distracted that you didn't notice our little tag along?" Buffy replied, and watched Eva stare in shock.
Eva spun around and saw Matt slink quickly behind a car.
"Matt?" She yelled and he sheepishly crawled out and walked to her. Buffy diplomatically moved off to give them privacy. Matt stood in front of his ex girlfriend and stared as she shook her finger in his face.
"You have no right to stalk me! I wasn't cheating, I was training. Richie is a friend, and in college and my parents won't let me date college guys and he's like an older brother and that's just 'yuck'." She looked over his shoulder and saw a vamp behind him.
"You!" she pointed at the vamp who jumped. "Yeah you, go away. This idiot broke up with me, he's too stupid to be a vampire." She said and the vamp walked around Matt, gave him a disgusted look and disappeared into the dark.
"Go Home Matt." Eva turned and stomped towards Buffy. Duncan stepped out of his car, watching the show in some amusement, including her yelling at the vamp. Matt jumped as he recognized the substitute teacher, Mr. McLeod.
"Mr. McLeod, what are you doing here?" Matt asked and Duncan smiled, "Eva wants you to get home safe." He replied. Matt nodded and followed him to the car, "I don't understand." He complained.
Duncan nodded wisely, "Aye lad and you never will."
Buffy and Eva staked vampire after vampire, including the one Eva had yelled at earlier. Eva was panting at one point, and even Buffy shook her head, "Is it just me or are there more vamps than usual, and not all of them are locals?" she asked and Eva nodded. "The last one I staked looked Chinese."
Eva was suddenly grabbed by the arm by a large vamp and she cried out. The pain in her shoulder was so huge she passed out, dangling from the vamps hand as he leered at Buffy. "Go home Slayer." He spat, with an accent that Buffy couldn't identify. She looked at him puzzled, "What are you? Russian?"
He started to drag Eva away when Buffy leaped, spun kicked the vamp who dropped Eva, and then staked him. Buffy brushed off her hands then went to kneel on the ground by Eva.
Eva fought the pain to open her eyes, but made the mistake of moving her shoulder and passed out again.
Buffy winced, and then reached into her pocket for her cell to call Duncan.
"Hello?" came Methos voice and Buffy sighed, she had dialed the wrong number. "Adam, Eva's hurt. We're at the north gate, can you come?"
"Five minutes."
Buffy smiled in relief, then settled down to wait. Minutes later she heard the familiar roar of the Jag and felt Methos' buzz as he hurried through the gates.
Methos sighed in relief as he saw Buffy kneeling beside Eva. "My hero." She said as he knelt beside her to check Eva out thoroughly. He sat back after a moment and Buffy nodded, "Dislocated shoulder?"
"Yes. Help me hold her." Buffy steadied her and he popped the shoulder back in. Buffy winced, it had happened to herself more than once but she still hated the sound.
He lifted Eva into his arms and they walked back to the Jag. Eva came to on the drive home, and Buffy reassured her. They carried her into her house where her worried mother about passed out. Buffy reassured Eva's mother, "As a slayer Eva will be healed by tomorrow, it is one of our perks for getting swatted around occasionally. Just let her rest."
Eva lay in bed and waited as her parents came up.
"Are you really alright?" her mother asked tremulously and Eva nodded, "I am, really. I can already move the shoulder and it doesn't hurt as much anymore."
"It's too dangerous." Her father began but Eva stopped him. "Mom, Dad, this is important. I'll get better, this is the first time I've been hurt and I've been slayer for almost 2 months." She pleaded and her mother nodded, then her father.
"We are proud of you dear." Her mother said and her parents tucked her daughter in bed and turned off the lights.
