Author's Notes: Okay this is my first attempt at writing in first person so
cut me a little slack. The way I'm going to do it is, I'm going to switch
the view points around, between the characters, But I'll let you know which
characters which.
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The Diaries of:
BUFFY:
I sat in the kitchen, of this mutant institute. I got there earlier that evening, because I'd promised my cousin Scott that I would come and visit him. Plus Giles said I could use a vacation.
I couldn't sleep, I usually didn't sleep at midnight, usually I was patrolling or something equally as dull, but not sleeping, not yet. But even though this was New York, it was relatively quiet, well compared to Sunnydale, save for the over abundance of crime, but that wasn't my business. I thought about going out to patrol, just sitting here was driving me crazy. Xander didn't seem to have much of a problem sleeping, I was tempted to wake him up to come with me, I mean besides, Why should he sleep if I can't? I smiled in spite of myself, Maybe I should let him sleep, I thought.
I stepped out into the cool night with my trusty stake Mr. Pointy in hand. I paused a second feeling I was being watched but when I saw nothing I continued on.
The streets were really lively compared to the streets of Sunnydale, maybe that's why there were so few vampires, they might be discovered if too many vampires roam the streets with the pedestrians. Whatever the reason it was refreshing, but it left me itching to fight something. Then there was a crash in a nearby alley, Yes, I thought, Finally some action.b
I cautiously crept into the ally. A girl was slammed up against the wall by her throat, and the creature that held her there? Definitely a vampire. A tall lanky one at that, his long blonde hair brushed the girl's face causing her to whimper even more than she already was.
"Is this a private party or can I join?" I said.
The vampire turned around slowly, dropping the girl in surprise. He laughed, "You have no Idea what you're getting into girl,"
"Do the words 'Vampire Slayer' mean anything to you?" I asked the imbecile.
"Right," he said, laughing some more, "and I'm Count Dracula,"
The girl ran past me crying but she seemed fine so I let her go.
"Okay," I said, "I tried to warn you,"
And with that I was on him; launching a serious of punches and kicks, surprisingly the vampire was fast, and fought well, for an imbecile.
LOGAN:
I follow the short blonde kid silently for a while, I was too far behind to see exactly what she had in her hand, Until I caught up with her in the ally.
I was just outside the ally when a girl ran past me crying. Then I heard the unmistakable sound of fighting. I ran into the ally just in time to see a tall blonde guy turn to dust and the blonde kid pulling a wooden stake out of his chest, which as I saw at the time, was the object in her hand. A wooden stake? I thought.
The girl's jaw dropped seeing me, her eyes widened, but for a moment neither of us said anything. Then I broke the silence.
"What the hell'd you do to that guy?" I demanded.
"I introduced him to Mr. Pointy," she said innocently.
"Mr. Pointy?" I raised an eyebrow.
She held up the wooden stake in her hand. I wrinkled up my forehead in confusion, I couldn't understand how a wooden stake could do that. I couldn't understand how she took out that guy, or why.
"Yeah, my stake has a name I know that's weird," then she paused, "Okay I have a little explaining to do don't I?"
I crossed my arms and nodded, awaiting an explanation.
"That was a vampire, I'm a Vampire Slayer, I, um Kill them for a living," she said.
I blinked, then waited a minute for the punch line, half expecting her to say she was kidding, but I also halfway knew she was telling the truth. The ally wreaked of the smell of death, like there was a dead body recently in the ally but there wasn't. Plus the vampire thing explained a lot. So I decided I believed her I had to.but I wanted to know more.
"Okay," I finally said, "Let's walk.and Talk."
She nodded, "Just one thing," she told me, "You can't tell Scott, or anyone for that matter,"
"Okay," I said, But I neglected to mention that Xavier, being a telepath, might find out, but Chuck wouldn't tell anyone, so why tell her?
We talked a while, I asked her questions, she answered them, sometimes telling me more than I needed to know. She told me about her Vampire boyfriend with a soul who recently lost it though she didn't tell me how in fact she quickly changed the subject when I asked. She told me about the Hellmouth, the master and this British guy named Spike who was in a wheelchair and working along side of Angelus, she told me about the crazy chick Drusilla I think her name was, she told me why she was crazy too. The kid had it rough I had to admit.
Finally she paused, then informed me that she hadn't meant to tell me that much. It'll stay between us, I had promised her, again that excludes Charlie.
We walked back into the institute, it was about 2:30 a.m. now. Still everyone was asleep, we went our separate ways, I decided I would try to sleep though those dreams were likely to keep me up.
XANDER:
I Stumbled groggily into the kitchen it was really early it had to have been about 9:00 a.m. I sat at the table across from Buffy who looked rather perky for this hour.
"Hey Buff," I muttered.
"Okay Xander when they say Rise and Shine, they mean Rise 'and' Shine," she grinned.
"I've got the rise part down packed but I refuse to shine," I mumbled, "Its too early,"
"Early?" Buffy raised an eyebrow, "Xander it's 9 o'clock, it's not early I got up at 8:30,"
I yawned, "Makes me want to go back to sleep just thinking about it,"
She shook her head. Then her eyes flicked to an Asian girl that walked into the kitchen. Her black hair was to her shoulders and the tips were bright pink. She was wearing black pajama pants and a black tank top.
I didn't recognize her so I didn't say anything, but Buffy being in a good mood cheerfully greeted the girl with a 'Good Morning' though considering the girl only stared at her blankly, then offered a small smile, I think Buffy might've scared her away.
"Or a not so good morning," she muttered to me under her breath.
As she said that Logan walked and he'd apparently heard her. That guy had to have ears like a dog or a vampire or. something.
"She doesn't talk to anyone except Xavier, no one's figured out why though," Logan muttered as he opened the refrigerator, then shut it back, apparently finding nothing of interest to him, i.e. no beer.
"Her names Lilith, but we just call her Lil," he continued sighing and sitting down, then he looked at Buffy, "What're you so happy about?"
She flicked a glance around the kitchen, Lilith had left, she lowered her voice slightly.
"Are you kidding? In the time I've been here I've only killed one vampire, in that same amount where we're from I could kill about twenty vampire and a something else." she grinned, then she glanced at the shocked look on my face, Buffy and Giles had been the one stressing secrecy, What? Did she just forget that this guy was here?
"It's okay, Xander he knows.and no I didn't tell him he followed me last night on patrol.Why? I do not know.but it happened to be the exact time when I stake the Vampire," Buffy quickly explained.
"Not everyday you see someone turned to dust," Logan muttered.
I looked at him for a second, in all seriousness, "Yes it is," I said simply.
LILITH:
I sat down in the Rec. Room, usually no one was there in the morning, like this one. That's the reason I went there in the first place. I wasn't too fond of people, I'm still not, but I've gotten better, well it's not that I'm not fond of them, its that I don't trust them, especially not humans.
I flipped on the TV, the news was on and for a second, I paid no attention to it, until I saw the words at the bottom of the Screen flashing, 'Breaking News' I turned it up.
The news anchor had that same indifferent look all news anchors did, then she began to Speak, "It Has been decided, A new Branch of the CIA has been formed, The MCA or the Mutant Control Agency, It has been charged with protecting the public from harmful or potentially harmful Mutants all of the ones taken by this new Agency will be placed in a holding cell on an Island in the Atlantic.Security is so tight there that it has been dubbed, Alcatraz II,"
My mouth dropped open, all I could picture was another Holocaust, and then World War III. I ran into the Kitchen, my eyes wide.
Logan's eyes were immediately on me, normally this would make me uncomfortable, mostly because he was kinda scary.
"What is it Lil?" he asked me.
But I hesitated, mostly because his questions sounded more like an interrogation, so I only looked at him. Logan being pretty perceptive, still stared at me. Then putting much emphasis and meaning into the one word he said sharply, "Lil!"
That snapped me out of my stupor, but I only said, "Come look," and gestured for him to follow, which all three of them promptly did.
I sat down on the couch and pointed to the TV. The same newscaster was on, "The MCA will work along side of Federal police to rid the nation of any troublesome Mutants. The head of this new organization, Lieutenant Jack McKeen would like to stress the fact that no innocent mutants will be harmed and a fair trial will be given, stay tuned for more up dates, and if you have any mutant emergency, please dial 811 on your phone, and the MCA which has be station in all of the major states, including, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, California, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, Nevada, Washington state and DC, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia will be dispatched to your location. Rest assured more will be added to the rest of the states, ASAP. We'll keep you posted,"
Even at this the small blonde girl's mouth dropped open, she wasn't a mutant, but she was different, I could tell by the way she seemed to fit in. I hadn't seen her much but my mutant ability told me she felt comfortable here and she was angered by this new agency.
I have the ability to read peoples emotions and overload their senses, with an emotion or any feeling, physical pain, sadness, a relaxed feeling, fear or just about anything I can imagine, a feeling so strong that no matter what feeling it is, they often go unconscious, or they could as the professor told me even die. Since I had yet to control my powers some times a projected my feelings into people so they feel what I'm feeling but sometimes stronger.
Logan growled slightly he was really angry, which made me very uncomfortable, because I had yet to learn to block people out. I shifted my weight slightly.
"Maybe you should calm down a little and." I started but Logan cut me off I could feel his anger flare.
"Calm down? Your the one who came in freaking out about it in the first place, Do you have any Idea what this could mean?" Logan all but growled.
I shifted my weight again but instead of replying I walked out, if I replied he might get even angrier which would probably give me a migraine.
"No wonder she doesn't talk to anyone," I heard Xander muttered.
I guess Logan realized how he had just sounded, because I heard him call after me but I ignored him, I walked down the hallway looking at the floor, and I ran right into Scott. I gave him an apologetic smile. He quickly assured me it was okay.
SCOTT:
"It's okay," I assured the girl, "Did you happen to see the news?"
She nodded, then pointed into the Rec. room, I started to head in there but then I asked, "Are you coming?"
She shook her head and continued walking down the hallway. I shrugged and walked into the room where Buffy, Xander and Logan sat watching the TV which was now on mute.
Buffy greeted me with a slight grin, "I'm assuming you've seen this?" she asked.
"Y'up," I said grimly.
"I wonder if the professor's been watching this?" I said out loud.
"Yeah, sure, no innocent mutants will be harmed, but note the fact that they said 'potentially dangerous mutants' now how many mutants don't fall under that category, I mean.and that whole fair trial deal, I wonder how many of the jurors are going to be mutants, and I wonder if the judge is going to be a mutant," Xander said all in one breath.
I had to admit, Xander was smarter than I thought he was. Though this probably wouldn't affect, either Buffy or Xander, they both seemed just as concerned as any mutant would be.
"Maybe some should get the professor," I suggested but as I said that Lil and the professor entered the room.
"I'm here, Scott," Xavier said, "I do believe this could present a problem, we have to prepare for the chaos that could be created, you mustn't use you mutant abilities in public, I know you try not to now but you must try harder than ever,"
Lil's face was hard her anger radiating from her she was looking at Xavier, probably speaking to him mentally and as if to confirm my suspicion, Xavier said out loud, "Lilith, I know its not fair, but we have to do whatever we must to protect ourselves, if it means going into hiding then we'll do what we must," he told her.
"I stop at hiding, I sure ain't hiding from those bastards," Logan snapped.
"Logan we may not have any other choice," I sighed.
"Looked Laser eyes, I ain't hidin' from nobody, you hide if want," Logan growled.
I noticed Lilith putting a hand to her head, then she walked out of the room. I looked at Xavier, "Is she okay?"
"The emotions are running high in the room, that's why she suggested you calm down earlier Logan, she can feel your anger, as well as everyone else's and her own, she can't always deal with it all without getting a migraine, I've been trying to teach her to block it out, but she's still learning," Xavier explained.
I could almost see Logan inwardly wince, I kind of felt bad too, but honestly you can't feel bad for feeling an emotion, but the fact that she knows what you're feeling at any given time, it probably causes a lot of stress, and I thought, it was kinda creepy.
The Diaries of:
BUFFY:
I sat in the kitchen, of this mutant institute. I got there earlier that evening, because I'd promised my cousin Scott that I would come and visit him. Plus Giles said I could use a vacation.
I couldn't sleep, I usually didn't sleep at midnight, usually I was patrolling or something equally as dull, but not sleeping, not yet. But even though this was New York, it was relatively quiet, well compared to Sunnydale, save for the over abundance of crime, but that wasn't my business. I thought about going out to patrol, just sitting here was driving me crazy. Xander didn't seem to have much of a problem sleeping, I was tempted to wake him up to come with me, I mean besides, Why should he sleep if I can't? I smiled in spite of myself, Maybe I should let him sleep, I thought.
I stepped out into the cool night with my trusty stake Mr. Pointy in hand. I paused a second feeling I was being watched but when I saw nothing I continued on.
The streets were really lively compared to the streets of Sunnydale, maybe that's why there were so few vampires, they might be discovered if too many vampires roam the streets with the pedestrians. Whatever the reason it was refreshing, but it left me itching to fight something. Then there was a crash in a nearby alley, Yes, I thought, Finally some action.b
I cautiously crept into the ally. A girl was slammed up against the wall by her throat, and the creature that held her there? Definitely a vampire. A tall lanky one at that, his long blonde hair brushed the girl's face causing her to whimper even more than she already was.
"Is this a private party or can I join?" I said.
The vampire turned around slowly, dropping the girl in surprise. He laughed, "You have no Idea what you're getting into girl,"
"Do the words 'Vampire Slayer' mean anything to you?" I asked the imbecile.
"Right," he said, laughing some more, "and I'm Count Dracula,"
The girl ran past me crying but she seemed fine so I let her go.
"Okay," I said, "I tried to warn you,"
And with that I was on him; launching a serious of punches and kicks, surprisingly the vampire was fast, and fought well, for an imbecile.
LOGAN:
I follow the short blonde kid silently for a while, I was too far behind to see exactly what she had in her hand, Until I caught up with her in the ally.
I was just outside the ally when a girl ran past me crying. Then I heard the unmistakable sound of fighting. I ran into the ally just in time to see a tall blonde guy turn to dust and the blonde kid pulling a wooden stake out of his chest, which as I saw at the time, was the object in her hand. A wooden stake? I thought.
The girl's jaw dropped seeing me, her eyes widened, but for a moment neither of us said anything. Then I broke the silence.
"What the hell'd you do to that guy?" I demanded.
"I introduced him to Mr. Pointy," she said innocently.
"Mr. Pointy?" I raised an eyebrow.
She held up the wooden stake in her hand. I wrinkled up my forehead in confusion, I couldn't understand how a wooden stake could do that. I couldn't understand how she took out that guy, or why.
"Yeah, my stake has a name I know that's weird," then she paused, "Okay I have a little explaining to do don't I?"
I crossed my arms and nodded, awaiting an explanation.
"That was a vampire, I'm a Vampire Slayer, I, um Kill them for a living," she said.
I blinked, then waited a minute for the punch line, half expecting her to say she was kidding, but I also halfway knew she was telling the truth. The ally wreaked of the smell of death, like there was a dead body recently in the ally but there wasn't. Plus the vampire thing explained a lot. So I decided I believed her I had to.but I wanted to know more.
"Okay," I finally said, "Let's walk.and Talk."
She nodded, "Just one thing," she told me, "You can't tell Scott, or anyone for that matter,"
"Okay," I said, But I neglected to mention that Xavier, being a telepath, might find out, but Chuck wouldn't tell anyone, so why tell her?
We talked a while, I asked her questions, she answered them, sometimes telling me more than I needed to know. She told me about her Vampire boyfriend with a soul who recently lost it though she didn't tell me how in fact she quickly changed the subject when I asked. She told me about the Hellmouth, the master and this British guy named Spike who was in a wheelchair and working along side of Angelus, she told me about the crazy chick Drusilla I think her name was, she told me why she was crazy too. The kid had it rough I had to admit.
Finally she paused, then informed me that she hadn't meant to tell me that much. It'll stay between us, I had promised her, again that excludes Charlie.
We walked back into the institute, it was about 2:30 a.m. now. Still everyone was asleep, we went our separate ways, I decided I would try to sleep though those dreams were likely to keep me up.
XANDER:
I Stumbled groggily into the kitchen it was really early it had to have been about 9:00 a.m. I sat at the table across from Buffy who looked rather perky for this hour.
"Hey Buff," I muttered.
"Okay Xander when they say Rise and Shine, they mean Rise 'and' Shine," she grinned.
"I've got the rise part down packed but I refuse to shine," I mumbled, "Its too early,"
"Early?" Buffy raised an eyebrow, "Xander it's 9 o'clock, it's not early I got up at 8:30,"
I yawned, "Makes me want to go back to sleep just thinking about it,"
She shook her head. Then her eyes flicked to an Asian girl that walked into the kitchen. Her black hair was to her shoulders and the tips were bright pink. She was wearing black pajama pants and a black tank top.
I didn't recognize her so I didn't say anything, but Buffy being in a good mood cheerfully greeted the girl with a 'Good Morning' though considering the girl only stared at her blankly, then offered a small smile, I think Buffy might've scared her away.
"Or a not so good morning," she muttered to me under her breath.
As she said that Logan walked and he'd apparently heard her. That guy had to have ears like a dog or a vampire or. something.
"She doesn't talk to anyone except Xavier, no one's figured out why though," Logan muttered as he opened the refrigerator, then shut it back, apparently finding nothing of interest to him, i.e. no beer.
"Her names Lilith, but we just call her Lil," he continued sighing and sitting down, then he looked at Buffy, "What're you so happy about?"
She flicked a glance around the kitchen, Lilith had left, she lowered her voice slightly.
"Are you kidding? In the time I've been here I've only killed one vampire, in that same amount where we're from I could kill about twenty vampire and a something else." she grinned, then she glanced at the shocked look on my face, Buffy and Giles had been the one stressing secrecy, What? Did she just forget that this guy was here?
"It's okay, Xander he knows.and no I didn't tell him he followed me last night on patrol.Why? I do not know.but it happened to be the exact time when I stake the Vampire," Buffy quickly explained.
"Not everyday you see someone turned to dust," Logan muttered.
I looked at him for a second, in all seriousness, "Yes it is," I said simply.
LILITH:
I sat down in the Rec. Room, usually no one was there in the morning, like this one. That's the reason I went there in the first place. I wasn't too fond of people, I'm still not, but I've gotten better, well it's not that I'm not fond of them, its that I don't trust them, especially not humans.
I flipped on the TV, the news was on and for a second, I paid no attention to it, until I saw the words at the bottom of the Screen flashing, 'Breaking News' I turned it up.
The news anchor had that same indifferent look all news anchors did, then she began to Speak, "It Has been decided, A new Branch of the CIA has been formed, The MCA or the Mutant Control Agency, It has been charged with protecting the public from harmful or potentially harmful Mutants all of the ones taken by this new Agency will be placed in a holding cell on an Island in the Atlantic.Security is so tight there that it has been dubbed, Alcatraz II,"
My mouth dropped open, all I could picture was another Holocaust, and then World War III. I ran into the Kitchen, my eyes wide.
Logan's eyes were immediately on me, normally this would make me uncomfortable, mostly because he was kinda scary.
"What is it Lil?" he asked me.
But I hesitated, mostly because his questions sounded more like an interrogation, so I only looked at him. Logan being pretty perceptive, still stared at me. Then putting much emphasis and meaning into the one word he said sharply, "Lil!"
That snapped me out of my stupor, but I only said, "Come look," and gestured for him to follow, which all three of them promptly did.
I sat down on the couch and pointed to the TV. The same newscaster was on, "The MCA will work along side of Federal police to rid the nation of any troublesome Mutants. The head of this new organization, Lieutenant Jack McKeen would like to stress the fact that no innocent mutants will be harmed and a fair trial will be given, stay tuned for more up dates, and if you have any mutant emergency, please dial 811 on your phone, and the MCA which has be station in all of the major states, including, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, California, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, Nevada, Washington state and DC, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia will be dispatched to your location. Rest assured more will be added to the rest of the states, ASAP. We'll keep you posted,"
Even at this the small blonde girl's mouth dropped open, she wasn't a mutant, but she was different, I could tell by the way she seemed to fit in. I hadn't seen her much but my mutant ability told me she felt comfortable here and she was angered by this new agency.
I have the ability to read peoples emotions and overload their senses, with an emotion or any feeling, physical pain, sadness, a relaxed feeling, fear or just about anything I can imagine, a feeling so strong that no matter what feeling it is, they often go unconscious, or they could as the professor told me even die. Since I had yet to control my powers some times a projected my feelings into people so they feel what I'm feeling but sometimes stronger.
Logan growled slightly he was really angry, which made me very uncomfortable, because I had yet to learn to block people out. I shifted my weight slightly.
"Maybe you should calm down a little and." I started but Logan cut me off I could feel his anger flare.
"Calm down? Your the one who came in freaking out about it in the first place, Do you have any Idea what this could mean?" Logan all but growled.
I shifted my weight again but instead of replying I walked out, if I replied he might get even angrier which would probably give me a migraine.
"No wonder she doesn't talk to anyone," I heard Xander muttered.
I guess Logan realized how he had just sounded, because I heard him call after me but I ignored him, I walked down the hallway looking at the floor, and I ran right into Scott. I gave him an apologetic smile. He quickly assured me it was okay.
SCOTT:
"It's okay," I assured the girl, "Did you happen to see the news?"
She nodded, then pointed into the Rec. room, I started to head in there but then I asked, "Are you coming?"
She shook her head and continued walking down the hallway. I shrugged and walked into the room where Buffy, Xander and Logan sat watching the TV which was now on mute.
Buffy greeted me with a slight grin, "I'm assuming you've seen this?" she asked.
"Y'up," I said grimly.
"I wonder if the professor's been watching this?" I said out loud.
"Yeah, sure, no innocent mutants will be harmed, but note the fact that they said 'potentially dangerous mutants' now how many mutants don't fall under that category, I mean.and that whole fair trial deal, I wonder how many of the jurors are going to be mutants, and I wonder if the judge is going to be a mutant," Xander said all in one breath.
I had to admit, Xander was smarter than I thought he was. Though this probably wouldn't affect, either Buffy or Xander, they both seemed just as concerned as any mutant would be.
"Maybe some should get the professor," I suggested but as I said that Lil and the professor entered the room.
"I'm here, Scott," Xavier said, "I do believe this could present a problem, we have to prepare for the chaos that could be created, you mustn't use you mutant abilities in public, I know you try not to now but you must try harder than ever,"
Lil's face was hard her anger radiating from her she was looking at Xavier, probably speaking to him mentally and as if to confirm my suspicion, Xavier said out loud, "Lilith, I know its not fair, but we have to do whatever we must to protect ourselves, if it means going into hiding then we'll do what we must," he told her.
"I stop at hiding, I sure ain't hiding from those bastards," Logan snapped.
"Logan we may not have any other choice," I sighed.
"Looked Laser eyes, I ain't hidin' from nobody, you hide if want," Logan growled.
I noticed Lilith putting a hand to her head, then she walked out of the room. I looked at Xavier, "Is she okay?"
"The emotions are running high in the room, that's why she suggested you calm down earlier Logan, she can feel your anger, as well as everyone else's and her own, she can't always deal with it all without getting a migraine, I've been trying to teach her to block it out, but she's still learning," Xavier explained.
I could almost see Logan inwardly wince, I kind of felt bad too, but honestly you can't feel bad for feeling an emotion, but the fact that she knows what you're feeling at any given time, it probably causes a lot of stress, and I thought, it was kinda creepy.