Gifts Of Passion-
BY: ME! :lol: Conleykm also known as Katlin :)
Disclaimer: *hear's excited gasps* I'm sorry to disappoint you all, but know the show has not been moved to the Spice channel, an obvious indication that despite the petition I still don't own them.
Pairings: Kind of B/AUS, X/Dawn, Faith/Wood, W/K (a not so annoying version), Aus/evil Cordelia, small amounts of other's including Buffy/Dracula, Oz/other, Oz/other/Willow, B/A undertones...
Ratings: It won't get past an PG-13-R for posting, but there will be NY17 chapters later on, that I can send them to you if you like, and are old enough to read them :evil:
Summary: Starts a year after 'Chosen', with a new battle in the bruin...life goes on until, years in the future, the past pays a visit, and old mysteries come to light
Authors Notes: This is one of my first fan-fics so be nice. It gets much more interesting later on so bare with me. I already have a lot of the chapters written, I'm just waiting to see if people are going to want to read it... :wink:
Part 1: Old friends, New enemies
//Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever//
-Mahatma Gandhi
A confident female voice echoed through the crowded classroom, drawing the undivided attentions of the diverse pupils who looked on. Her emerald eyes glowed, as she told tales of how she got here today. She looked upon us with pride as the explained our heritage, our purpose. Their teacher spoke eloquently of the battles that had raged a year ago tomorrow, the combat that allowed themselves to be here today. I just one of many students sighed looking on in admiration at the golden women who was now ending her speech...
"....after all your deaths, or your generation is served, the slayer line will go back to what it has always been One girl in all the world, a chosen one, she alone will stand against the vampires demons and the forces of darkness, she will be the slayer. Luckily for now though, we all stand together as a unit. When you are ready we will sweep the world, knocking down the demon population everywhere. My name is Buffy Summers, I am the oldest living slayer in history, and together we are the mission! Welcome to slayer training 101. class dismissed."
Loud eruptions of applaud could be heard vibrating through the entire left wing of the house Kennedy had donated. Only another distant buzzing to be heard. Buffy answered the ringing phone, glad that her 1st class was over.
"hello.."
Faith's sultry voice poured through the line, "B, come quick we have a problem"
"alright, I'll be right there." The phone went dead on the other line. Buffy did not like this, Faith never sounded nervous unless it was serious, 'well' she thought, 'these kids better grow up quick because class is most definitely in session.'
Buffy walked down the long corridor, she could not find Faith and the others anywhere. Sighing in anguish, she continued to strut down the narrow path of the West Wing. 'where the hell……' her line of thought was stopped abruptly at the sound of Faith's voice screaming for her to come to the conference room. She walked coolly over to her group of friends Faith, Kennedy, Willow, Giles, Xander, Dawn, and Robin all who were staring at her impatiently. 'geesh it's not where I knew where I was going, how'd they all get there so quick anyway' she thought, greeting them all with a reserved bitterness in her tone that didn't go unnoticed.
"Hey Buffster no need to get your panties in a bunch, we just all figured with your slaying abilities and all that you wouldn't of just moseyed around when you get an urgent phone call,"stated Xander.
"whatever your just jealous cause I do have superpowers,"
"you and the rest of Ohio." Xander shot back.
"Minus one," Buffy smirked.
"O gee golly miss molly how will I ever survive the wrath of Buffy, speaking of you, how did the lecturing go, it IS what you do best."
"children enough," bellowed Giles in his disappointed father tone.
"it's not the time nor the place …… we have a serious situation in our wake and you two bickering is not helping in the least!"
"Is the problem something a few dozen slayers cant handle?" inquired Buffy looking pointedly at Giles though Faith was the one who answered, "we honestly don't know we have about 50 slayees including you and me B. Those are the ones that didn't die in their first year or in the Sunnydale blowout battle last year, so they should be pretty spry. If I understand right they have 50 deadlies of their own though."
"ubervamps," sighed Buffy
"not to mention about 10 masters," stated Robin
"and a vamp army ranging from 500 to 1000," capped off Dawn.
"The slayers can all be taken out by just the ubervamps, I meen I've been doing this a hell of a lot longer and once they have that blood in them they can kick your ass 1 on 1, trust me I remember," Buffy said rubbing her once injured arm.
"It took a lot of work just to take that 1 down. The ones that were down below hadn't had good liquid refreshment in a while and could be taken down 2 or 3 at a time for the girls tops. 4 or 5 if they wield the schye, but these won't be near as easy," noted Buffy.
"Well, they better put on the chain-mail cause there coming. Quick." Robin observed nervously, his gaze flicking to his girlfriend whom he knew would be fighting. There was never any talking Faith out of a fight, god knows he'd tried.
"how long," Buffy asked softly, using the quietness to control the fear she knew could be heard in her voice.
"24 hours tops" Xander stated briefly looking into the mossy green eyes of the girl he once loved, and now his beloved friend, quietly apologizing for the pettiness of their earlier quarrel, seeing the bitterness fade into love for him for all her friends. She spoke letting her desperation and anger to be heard through her voice, "so were f*in screwed"
"as a prostitute on prom night," joked Xander trying successfully to cut through the thickness practically vibrating in the room.
Buffy grinned impishly, "Will, anything to be done on the magic front?"
"sorry Buff, that spell we did to make all the slayers messed up the forces, no magic can even be used in the world for another hundred years or so, until the universe knows that all the forces of good meaning the abundance of slayers are dead, and it can return to one being born every generation."
Kennedy gripped Willows hand trying to ease her disappointment about her failure to help. "my watcher told me the powers have to keep an equal balance of good and evil in the world that's why the first could never be destroyed," she said confidently kissing Willows cheek.
"I''m sorry Buffy it seems this is a war we can't win, only lesson their troupes," Giles said his earlier condescending attitude now replaced with sadness for the lives of the young girls, that would surely be taken.
"I don't believe that, there is always a way…….." Buffy said forcefully, determination written on her face. Suddenly she beamed as if a light bulb had gone off inside her mouth instead of inside her head, " hand me the phone," she demanded softly. Dawn quirked an eyebrow at her speculatively "you know someone who can take out a whole army of vampires," Buffy just smiled at her, her nimble fingers already punching in the numbers.