03-25-05 Dear Diary,

"A birth of twins apart in years

A brother and sister

Two warriors fused together

To end the battle one left behind

Lest one life should consume it's other half. "

That is the prophesy that will shape my life. I found out about it today. I'm so scared. I don't know what it means or what I have to do. I do know who my twin brother is though, and it wasn't someone I was looking at in a brotherly way. It's Spike, the vampire. I don't know how I am considered a twin of a vampire over a century old when I'm not even two decades old, but I guess that's what it means by apart in years. Oh wow, there is way too much swirling around in my brain right now. I'll have to start from the beginning.

Well it's Sunday, no classes, so we got enough girls to make up two softball teams and started a game out on one of the fields. When our team was at bat, I decided it would be a good time to question Stacey about what she had meant about letting a stupid prophesy come between us. So I was sitting on the bench between her and Pilis. I kind of beat around the bush trying to get info out of her, but she wasn't getting what I was after. So finally I just blurted it out, "What did you mean about it being stupid to let a prophesy come between out friendship? What were you talking about?" She got this really shocked look on her face and her jaw just dropped. Unfortunately our team had just gotten it's third out and we had to go out on the field. I know Stacey was upset because her pitching sucked, and her pitching never sucks. Thanks to that we were out on the field for quite a while.

Finally I caught a fly ball out in right field and it was the third out. We went back to the bench but I was due up at bat, another delay. I just wanted it over with so I went out there and hit a homerun on the first pitch, I didn't even have time to bask in the glory because I was so nervous of what she was going to tell me. As I sat back down Pilis put a hand on Stacey's shoulder and said that she had to tell me sometime, before heading out to bat. Stacey looked straight at me and then looked away. Eventually, with much ado, she spilled the beans. She said that she had heard from Malaya who had heard from Rona who had heard from a girl neither of us know named Kennedy who heard from Miss Rosenberg that there was a prophesy about a newly called slayer and a battle she would have to fight and that Miss Rosenberg had done some spells that indicated that I was the slayer. I think I just sat there for five minutes trying to process it. It seems like everyday I keep finding out new scary things about my life. Finally as our team headed back into the field, I started sprinting back towards the school.

I ran all the way to Miss Summers' office ad barged in without knocking, very, very stupid idea. She was lip locked with the bleached wonder, as I've heard some people refer to him, and I was so unprepared that I gasped when I saw it. She pushed him away and her face turned so red with embarrassment that I was kind of worried her head might just pop off. Spike on the other hand thought seemed to find it amusing and was just watching the two of us and smirking. Eventually she got it together and asked if I needed something, I replied, "the truth." Then I repeated everything that Stacey had just told me and waited for her to explain it to me. Instead she just laughed. She was like, "Wow, kids these days come up with the funniest rumors. Back in my day it was all about who was boinking who and how the new girl had been expelled for burning down her old school." She started to tell me that none of it was true when the vampire stopped her. He told her, in that oh so sexy, rugged, British voice of his, that it was true and that the reason he had come here was to find the girl that was involved in the prophesy. He had not known that I was the one and was apparently ticked off that "Red" had not told him she knew.

He took out a piece of paper and read us the prophecy. I didn't really understand it. I told him that I must not be the right one, because I didn't have a twin. He warned me never to use the words of prophecies in the literal sense. Then he said that he was my twin. My legs dropped right out from under me when he said that and I went crashing to the floor. By the end of an hour he had managed to explain to Miss Summers and me that because he had not died a natural death, he had simply moved to another dimension. He wanted to get back to make sure she was okay, but he was trapped in a land plagued with war where he could not find anyone to help him return to our world. In the world he was in two peaceful species had been living together in harmony for several millennia. Recently, a new species had broken into their dimension and was turning the two species against each other in hopes of gaining control by dis-unifying them. He had finally managed to find a dimension porthole where the new species was going to and from their land and the one he was in. In the new dimension he traveled to through the hole, he found several human witches and warlocks there who agreed to help him return to earth for the price of his soul. He was pretty upset that he would have to lose the possession he had worked so hard to get, but finally agreed it was worth it. When he returned to our world, soulless, he found himself in Agua Caliente, a desert just outside of San Diego. So he walked out of that, "bloody hot hellish land" back to the city, and took a bus to Los Angeles. He went and found "The Poofter," who I assume is Angel, who agreed to take him to SLAYER, only so that he could fulfill the prophesy a man named Wesley had warned Angel about. Spike of course, at the time, had just wanted to go to see Miss Summers. However when he learned the details of the prophecy he decided that was more important.

He then explained that right when he had entered this dimension I had been called as a slayer. I would not have been called if he had not returned. I guess it's like when you bring something into this world there's like a price, something that the world wants in return, and since Spike has apparently killed two Slayers, his gift, though he didn't know he was giving it, was to have a new Slayer called. However, because of the circumstances that we both got where we are today, we have a connection to each other, like metaphorical twins. If we do not win the battle that the prophesy talked about, then we will slowly start draining each other of life until one of us kills the other. Unless we win the battle, we can only be killed at the hands of each other, and are essentially immortal, but if we don't win the battle before it is lost, well that's when we start draining each other of life and on of us will have to kill the other in order to live. It's all very complicated, I know because I don't really get it. But Spike is pretty sure the battle is the one he left behind in the dimension that he went to after he died. So somehow we need to get back there and stop the new species from taking over, and have a way to get back to this dimension without causing trouble. And of course so far I have zero fighting skills and my only encounter with a de-souled vampire consisted of me nearly getting drained, although come to find out that wouldn't have killed me if he had drained me because he wasn't Spike. Oh which brings me to another, slightly more humorous story from Spike.

Why did Angel lose his soul? Well you see Spike lost his first, the price to the magically inclined people for his passage to this world. Well about half way to Ohio, the two vamps drove in a heavily tinted limo courtesy of Angel's law firm, Spike decided he couldn't show up here without a soul being as Miss Summers is so prejudice to the unsouled ones. (Miss Summers looked away guiltily when he said that bit although he said it with a smirk. The again, when isn't he smirking?) Well he started researching it on the laptop that Angel had brought and finally on the night before he got here he found a spell that would do just the trick. He could sacrifice Angel's soul in return for his own, of course he had no problem with it and did the spell that night, that's when Hell broke loose. Apparently Angelus is worse than most vamps because Angel keeps him in check so much that when he finally breaks loose it's all and the world this, and bring on the apocalypse that. So Spike got his shiny soul back courtesy of Angel. I'm sure Angel must have been thrilled when he found out, or if he found out, I somehow doubt that Spike was very forthcoming with that information especially since we had to promise to keep it on the down low.

After that I was rushed all around school talking to different teachers and older slayers and stuff. I would have been thrilled for all the attention normally, but I was kind of in shock with the whole I have to win a battle in another battle or have the life sucked out of me by an attractive vampire deal. So that's pretty much the whole deal. I start slayer training tomorrow, but Miss Summers said I'm going to have to train extra after classes and during lunch and stuff so that I can be prepared to go soon. Great, extra work. Why me? Why can't I just be a normal vampire slayer like everyone else?

~Abby: A chosen ~