The next day at the house, Willow, Oz, and Giles are
building a cage for Oz in the basement. Next week is the full moon. While
upstairs everyone else is talking about the new slayer.
"We have to find her, she needs to start her training." Wesley said.
"We checked out the school, but nothing interesting happened." Gunn
said.
"Xander, did you see anything?" Buffy asked.
"Nothing slayerish. But Spike got himself a meal."
"It was really gross." Anya added.
Everyone stared at Spike.
"What? It was a squirrel."
"Like I said gross."
"Anyway, we saw someone jump out of a tree and take off on a
motorcycle." Buffy said. "That was probably her."
"Details?" Cordelia asked.
"Short, brown hair probably a boy cut."
"And?"
"That's it." Angel said. "It was dark and that's all we
saw."
"So is this meeting over yet?" Cordelia asked.
"Go ahead." Wesley said.
Everyone went their separate ways.
At 3rd period (Jake's study), Jake went to the library, while Ham was at class.
She went to the back and started reading the VAMPYRE book. Suddenly Jake had a
funny feeling. She looked up and saw two girls walking through the stacks. One
was Jake's height with chin length red hair and the other was from the other
night, Buffy. Jake put the book back and walked toward the front.
"Hey, Pratt!" Jake looked up and saw Ryder. She groaned and noticed
the Buffy and her friend were staring at her. Ryder walked up.
"What do you want?" Jake asked Ryder, trying to ignore Buffy.
"I just want to say hello."
"Funny. Get your britshness out of my face!"
"Excuse me." Both Jake and Ryder looked up to see Buffy and her
friend. Buffy spoke. "Are you Jacquelyn Pratt?"
"What?! No, my name's Jake Pratt."
"Oh, I'm sorry." The two walked away.
Ryder looked at Jake funny. "What?!"
"Nothing." Ryder said and walked away.
Jake walked back, grabbed the book along with another on Vlad, and went to
check them out. The librarian looked at the book and then at Jake. "I
can't give you this."
"Why not? It was in the stacks."
"Because it's very valuable."
"I'll be careful." Jake filled out the card, but he took the book
from her, so she left.
After she was out of hearing range, the librarian got on the phone and dialed.
"Hello? Yes, I've found her."
That night, the Scooby Gang broke into their groups again.
Meanwhile Jake and Ham went into the woods to be alone. "I missed
you." Ham said as he kissed her.
"I missed you. Sorry about earlier."
"It's okay." They kissed.
Meanwhile, Spike, Xander, and Anya were walking through the woods. Spike
sniffed the air. "Slayer." He hissed.
"Eww, you can smell her?" Anya asked.
"Once a slayer has recognized her skill she has a distinct smell. Plus she
smells a little like Buffy."
"And as interesting as that is." Xander said as he pointed. He was
pointing to Ham and Jake, who were necking.
"They're human." Spike said. "But..."
"What?" Xander asked.
"The skinny one, that's her."
"And you're sure?" Anya asked. "They look like, I think they're
gay."
"No, that's a girl." Spike insisted.
"Are you sure?" Xander asked.
"Well, there's only one way to find out." Spike pulled out the cell
phone and called Angel.
Ham pulled away. "Do you feel like we're being watched?"
Jake looked around; she spotted a tall, blonde, pale figure. "Ham, go back
to the dorm, I'll meet you there."
"Jake, what's going on?"
"I can't explain. But trust me, I know you do, so go." Ham started to
run, but he turned around, grabbed Jake, kissed her, and then ran back to the
dorms. She watched Ham for a second, but turned in time to see a fist come at
her face.
"Ahh!" Jake squealed.
"Argh!" Spike screamed as the chip gave him a little reminder of its
presence.
Jake knocked Spike to the ground. She pulled out a stake, but as she went to
stake him something stopped her. She turned to face Angel.
"Xander, now!" Spike yelled. Xander fired the crossbow at Jake. She
caught the arrow inches from her face.
"Well, that settles it." Angel said.
Spike stood up. "Are you sure?" His face changed. Jake again tried to
stake him. But he stepped away and she fell to the ground. Angel tried to stop
Jake, but she ran toward the dorms. Angel grabbed her arm and she splashed him
with Holy Water. He pulled his arm back, which was smoking, and he vamped out.
Jake saw and ran. Angel and Spike followed, but she was too fast. Suddenly Jake
disappeared from their view, but they now knew who she was, so they didn't
follow.
The next morning, Spike, Angel, Xander, and Anya walked in.
"So?" Wesley asked.
"No, hi, hello, is Angel's burnt arm okay?" Spike said.
"We found her." Angel said.
"Yup, and get this her name is Jake." Xander added.
"Wait, we met her in the library." Buffy said.
"What library?" Giles asked.
"The one at the school." Willow said. "You would like it, it's
really big."
"Yeah, and the librarian is British, too." Buffy added.
"Anyway, so she's here and you could find her during the day?" Wesley
asked.
Everyone just stared at him. "Right?"
"Well, it's a big school and all. And when we met her, she told us she was
a boy." Buffy said.
Wesley sighed.
Meanwhile, Jake woke up to see Hamilton sitting on her bed staring at her.
"Morning." She said, yawning.
Ham just stared.
"Hello?"
"What was last night all about?"
"Look some people have been stalking me, so I wanted to keep them away
from you."
"But you didn't get back right away."
"I took a long way, so they couldn't see where I went. I was afraid of
what they'd try to do to you." Jake said.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, just some weirdoes from New York."
"I'm sorry. I'm just feeling rejected."
Jake hugged him. "Sorry."
There was a knock at the door. Ham opened it to find Scout and Will.
"Come on, guys were gonna be late to Finn's class." Will said.
"I'll meet you guys there. Ham, go ahead." Jake said.
Later during Jake's study, she went to the library. She had been reading the
book for twenty minutes, when she saw a pair of feet. She looked up it was the
guy who shot the arrow at her last night.
"Hey, Jake."
"You're..."
"Xander. I want to explain about last night." He sat down next to
her. "We didn't mean to scare you, we just wanted to test you."
"Test me?"
"Yeah, to see if you're the one."
"The one?"
"The chosen one, the Slayer. In all the world, there is one who is born
with the talents and ability to slay the vampires and other creatures of
darkness. Blah, blah, blah."
"Yeah, um, okay. I'm gonna go." She tried to get up, but
Xander grabbed her arm. She pulled out a bottle of Holy Water and splashed it
in Xander's face. He spit out the water and wiped his face. "I'm no one of
them. "I'm human."
"How do I know what you're saying is true? I just want to live a
normal-semi normal life." She ran away.
At the house, Xander walked into the basement to see Spike inside Oz's cage
trying to get out.
"Did you find her?" Spike asked as he slammed his shoulder against
the door.
"Yeah, why are you…?"
"He's testing the door." Xander turned to see Oz. "He's just
about as strong as my werewolf self, so it works."
Wesley came down the steps. "Why are you all wet?"
"She threw Holy Water in my face." Xander said.
Oz smiled. "Okay, Spike, I think that's enough." Oz opened the door.
"All set for tonight."
"What's tonight?" Gunn asked, walking down the steps followed by
Willow and Cordelia.
"Well, three days a month, Oz goes a little wild." Cordelia said.
"What?" Gunn asked.
"He's a werewolf." Willow said.
"Excuse me?"
"Gunn, let's go upstairs, I'll explain everything." Cordelia said
leading him up the stairs.
"So she knows about her destiny?" Wesley asked.
"Yeah, she was reading that book that Giles tried to give Buffy on her
first day in Sunnydale."
"This one?" Wesley said, pulling a book from under his arm.
"Yeah."
"Then we have to find her soon."
That night, since Oz was out of commission, Wesley let everyone have the night
off. Spike went off to find some road kill.
Meanwhile, Ham had to go to a family night, so Jake took off and rode around.
She didn't see anything, until 3 a.m., a dead deer on the side of the road.
After thirty minutes, she decided to go back. When she rode up to where the
deer was, she saw a figure bent over the animal. She stopped and it looked up.
It was the vampire from last night the one who punched her. Jake got off her
bike and jumped on top of him. She pulled out a stake, so he pushed her away,
and started to run. He looked at his watch, it was 3:45. The sun was going to
rise in an hour. Suddenly Spike heard the roar of a motorcycle. As Jake
followed after him she heard him yell, "Bloody Hell."
After a while, they arrived in town. Spike used trashcans to try and block
Jake's way. As Spike came up to the house, he checked his watch; the sun will
rise in a few minutes. Spike ran in the back door and up the stairs.
Jake watched him go. She parked her bike and tried the door, it was open, so
she went in. She saw a cage built into an alcove on her left. In the cage was
some type of wild animal. It growled as she passed. Next to the cage, sleeping
in a chair was the red head from the library. Suddenly as the sun rose, the
creature in the cage started to change. The hair disappeared and the face
became human, it became a boy with red hair. Jake took off up the stairs, she
looked around, found another set of stairs, and went up. After five doors, she
finally found Spike. He had ended up having to stay with Gunn, who was sleeping
in the first bed.
Spike came up behind Jake and grabbed her. But she flipped him onto his back.
Suddenly Angel came up from behind Jake and grabbed her before she could stake
Spike. He held her, so she couldn't get up.
"Spike, get Wesley." Angel said.
At that moment, Oz burst in. "She's...oh." Jake stared at Oz, mostly
because all he was wearing was a pair of shorts.
Wesley came in. "Jacquelyn Pratt?"
"Who's asking?" She spat.
"Wesley Wyndam Pryce, your watcher."
