Timeline: AU after the events of the Voyager episode Coda and after the Buffy episode Chosen. (3rd season Voyager and post 7th season Buffy and beginning of 5th season Angel.)
Paring(s): Buffy/Chakotay (friendship), Buffy/Spike, Willow/Kes (friendship), Willow/Doctor (weird pairing I know), Janeway/Chakotay, Angel/Cordelia, Wesley/Fred, Paris/Torres, Xander/Anya, Giles/Joyce
Summary: Courtesy of the Powers That Be, Buffy and Chakotay dream of each other's experiences with losing their beloveds.
Author's Note: Sorry this took so long. I've been extremely busy with school and life in general but I promise I'll update as frequently as I can. Thanks for the reviews. The more you review, the quicker I'll update. Anyway, to let you guys know and I forgot to add this in the first chapter, the stuff about Cordelia becoming evil in the fourth season never happened. She was in heaven for a while but came back to be with Angel.
Twenty-first century
Los Angeles, California
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and Rupert Giles stood side by side inside the large space outside of the Hyperion Hotel watching a group of recently activated Slayers train with Faith and Angel. It was hard to believe that a week had passed since the final battle against the First Evil and saved the world from destruction. But that didn't mean that they didn't have people dying. Several Slayers were killed in the battle while a handful of them were wounded but survived. Wesley smiled at the group of Slayers in training with Faith and Angel.
"It's a miracle that they survived the battle against the First." Wesley said.
Giles looked up at him. "Buffy has trained them well. But now I think their turn to continue it." he said referring to Faith and Angel.
"Of course." Wesley replied. Then he noticed the sad glint in Giles' eyes. "Is there something wrong, Rupert?"
"Buffy hasn't been herself since Spike's demise. She's been going back to the remains of Sunnydale at least several times over the past week. I'm very worried about her." Giles said. Then he added. "There's something else too."
"What do you mean?" Wesley asked.
Giles paused before he continued. "Buffy told me last night that she's getting strange dreams."
"Dreams of what?" Wesley asked now concerned and eager to help.
"I'm not sure." Giles admitted. "Neither is Buffy. She said that her dreams always start with a man trying to revive a woman and they always ended with him crying and mourning over the woman's body. Buffy is not sure why she's dreaming of this and wants answers as to why."
Wesley was about to say something when a crash and a scream met his ears. He and Giles ran inside to the lobby to find Cordelia on the floor in the throes of a vision. Giles ran to fetch Angel while Wesley rushed to Cordelia's side. After close to five minutes, Cordelia was able to open her eyes despite the numbing pain of the vision but the look on her face was that of confusion.
"That was the weirdest vision I ever had." She said.
"Why? What did you see?" Wesley asked.
Cordelia sat up. "Either what I saw was real or my vision thing is whacked again. Anyway, I saw a guy and a bunch of other people getting creamed or probably on the verge of crashing. I-I-I 'm not entirely sure what I saw."
Giles returned with Angel who looked very frightened and concerned for Cordelia. "You had a vision?" he asked.
Cordelia nodded her head and explained again about her vision. When she was finished. Giles and Angel glanced at each other before looking back at Cordelia.
"This man, Cordelia, what did he look like?" Giles asked.
"Native American. Black hair with a tattoo on his forehead. Kind of looks like a Native American symbol." Cordelia replied.
Dear God! This man is the same one Buffy has been dreaming about. Giles realized. He tried to keep the surprise from entering his voice as he spoke again.
"Did you get a name?" he asked.
Cordelia shook her head. "No, this time I didn't get a name so I have no clue who he is."
Angel, Wesley and Giles glanced at each other before looking back at Cordelia. "I should go get Buffy." Angel said.
Wesley shook his head. "Buffy's already gone back the Sunnydale remains. I don't know how long she'll be back."
"I think right now, we should probably do some research and find out if Buffy's dreams and Cordelia's vision are somehow connected." Giles said. Wesley and Angel both nodded their heads.
"I agree." Angel said and rushed to the back to find some books.
Outside of Los Angeles
Buffy drove in silence back to the Sunnydale remains and her thoughts were on the dream she had the night before. She had no idea why she was dreaming of someone she didn't know and if the dream was trying to tell her something. Is it a message from the Powers That Be? If it is then why are they giving me dreams of someone I don't know? A loud roar in the sky interrupted her from her thoughts and she slammed on the brakes. Buffy got out of the car and looked up into the sky to see something that to her looked like something from the movie Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. What looked like some sort of spaceship came tearing down from the sky and crashed about fifty feet away from where Buffy was standing.
Dust flew everywhere causing Buffy to cough. Once it was cleared, she ran closer to where the ship was standing still. She walked around until she found an opening that to her looked like a loading deck. She squeezed through the opening and inside the ship.
"Something tells me that I'm not in Kansas anymore." Buffy muttered to herself. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. Ignoring an urge to get out and get the others, she walked on and after an hour she found a climbing ladder and then she lowered herself down. After reaching the bottom, she found herself in a corridor. Curiouser and curiouser. Buffy felt like Alice in Wonderland as she walked down the corridor. Down and down the rabbit hole I go. She reached an elevator like door and with all of her Slayer strength opened it. She then found herself what she realized was the cockpit of the ship.
And in big trouble when she saw that there were people in the cockpit.
One of the men pulled some kind of weapon and pointed it at Buffy then he shouted. "Security Team to Bridge. Intruder alert!"
Buffy was about to say something when what happened next nearly made her choke on her own spit. Another man turned to face her with a weapon in his hand but he had black hair and a tattoo on his forehead. Buffy's eyes popped as she recognized him.
Oh, my God!! That's him! That's the guy in my dream!
Chakotay woke up slowly and painfully. It had been a mere five minutes since Voyager got caught in that space storm. Sparks flew all over the place and the whole Bridge was dark and silent. For a moment, Chakotay wasn't sure if anyone was dead or alive. Shaking, he struggled to get up and managed to do so without falling flat on his face. He was about to yell for a damage report when he heard Tuvok shouting.
"Security Team to Bridge. Intruder alert!"
Chakotay took his phaser, turned and aimed at the intruder. But he was totally unprepared for whom he was about to see. A petite young woman with blonde hair and green eyes stood before the Bridge with a shocked, wide-eyed look on her beautiful face. Chakotay immediately recognized her as the young woman in his dreams.
"Who are you?" Chakotay said in what he hoped a demanding voice.
"I was just about to ask you the same question." The young woman replied.