A/n: The end is near! I hate to tell you that but it is! I'm sure that's okay since there aren't many people reading this anyway! Only a few more chapters.

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"I can't believe you're really going to leave Sunnydale!" Matt exclaimed as they turned onto his street. He adjusted his bag and looked at Ana for a response.

"I have to see what it would be like. I can't live my life wondering what if, you know." Ana replied. They looked expectantly at Sami but she'd turned a deaf ear to their conversation. She'd heard what Ana wanted to do and why but she couldn't help being angry about it.

Ana continued despite the silence from her friend. "I just hope Mrs. Jones doesn't mind. I really appreciate everything she's done for me." Sami stopped dead in her tracks, she rounded on Ana letting her anger surface.

"Mrs. Jones?" Sami repeated. "Since when was it Mrs. Jones?"

"Well," Ana muttered while looking at her hands, "I just….I…" She couldn't find the words she wanted to say. She didn't know herself why she had said Mrs. Jones.

"Just, never mind." Sami retorted. They turned onto Matt's driveway and walked up to the front door. Sami gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and Ana bide him goodbye.

"Sami." Ana said meekly as they headed in the direction of their home. "I'm so.."

"Let's just get home and talk to mom." Sami interrupted and looked away. She blinked hard to stop the tears welling inside her. The two girls walked in silence. Sami was trying to plan their conversation with her mother inside her head. There was a lot they needed to talk about. They walked up the front steps and stopped at the door. Sami raised her fist and slammed it on the door which creaked open, unlocked.

Sami's anger was replaced with suspicion. She exchanged a look with Ana and silently decided Sami would go first. She glanced in the dining room and it was clear. She motioned for the others to come in. They checked the living room but it was cheerfully empty. The lights on the Christmas tree winked pleasantly at them. The baubles cast little dancing reflections on the wall.

Sami stopped when she got to the kitchen doorway. Her world dissolved from beneath her. Ana ran forward and knelt down. She felt her wrist but looked up at the slayer.

Sami's vision wasn't in focus. She didn't hear Ana say those two dreadful words. She didn't hear her cry. She didn't feel the hug that was offered to her. The ground fell from beneath her and the walls flew away.

Hours later she found herself back at Giles's house but she couldn't remember getting there. She was on his coach wrapped in a blanket and drinking hot tea. Matt was saying something to her but an odd ringing filled her ears.

Why am I not crying? Sami thought. That's what people do when things like this happen. She rationalized. They break down in tears.

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Ana almost ran into Sami when she stopped.

"What's wrong?" Ana asked. Sami didn't answer, she just stared into the kitchen. Ana rose onto her toes to see over her friend's shoulders. The vision of the kitchen was horrible. Ana cried aloud and ran forward. The white floor and walls were covered in red. Ana knelt down beside Mrs. Jones and felt her wrist. There was no pulse and she wasn't breathing. She turned to face Sami.

"She's dead." Ana muttered and looked away. She ran to her friend and wrapped her in a big hug. Sami felt like a board, she didn't move or do anything. Tears leaked from Ana's eyes and she went to the phone. She called Giles and told him. She turned back around and saw that on the wall there was a message written in blood.

You're next Slayer!

Gills came and he took the two back to his house. He called the police and got rid of the message on the wall. If the cops had seen it, there would have been weird questions to answer. Matt came back to comfort Sami who hadn't spoken at all. She hadn't reacted to anything.

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"Giles," Matt looked up. "Why won't she answer me?"

Giles took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "She's in shock. She'll come out of it eventually." Everyone stared at her. It was like looking at an empty shell. She was sitting upright and her eyes were wide open. They knew she was still alive because her chest heaved up and down with every sharp intake of breath but otherwise there was no life in her. There was a collective shiver that everyone felt.

"I was…" Ana muttered looked down at her hands. "There was so much…" She looked up and appeared surprised that the words where coming from her mouth.

"It'll be alright." Giles said comfortingly. There was silence that followed while everyone took a drink of tea or else looked around.

"No, it won't be." Said a cracked voice. Everyone looked around and were surprised to find the speaker of the voice. "It won't be alright." Sami said. "She won't be back. I have no where to go. It'll never be alright. I shouldn't have gone."

"Sami, there was no way you could have known." Giles replied.

"If I hadn't have gone away, I could have protected her. Or if I'd told her." Sami said. She still wasn't looking at anyone. She couldn't look at them. She didn't think she could take their sympathetic looks.

"If you'd told her, she wouldn't have been able to fight them." Matt said. They'd been informed that it had been vampires. Of course, the police say that it was a brutal stabbing but they all knew better.

"Maybe if I'd have told her, she wouldn't have let them in." Sami replied. Her eyes narrowing on the spot on the wall. Her voice was still cracked sounding. There was more silence. Nobody wanted to argue at a time like this. Sami suddenly looked around at Giles.

"Will she….do you think they?" She asked hoping that he knew what she was thinking. He gave her a confused look so she forced herself to say it completely. "Do you think she's turned?"

Giles looked down at his cup of tea. "It's a possibility." Sami's heart sank, if possible, lower than it had been. Not only had she lost her but she might have to slayer her as well. There was so more tense silence in the room. Snow fell lightly outside the window and the light from the sun was beginning to fade.

"I have know where to go." Sami whispered. Although she's said it softly, everyone heard her.

"You could come with me." Ana replied. "I'm sure Remus would take you in."

"I don't want to live with him." Sami retorted. She knew it was harsh and that Ana was just trying to help but something inside of her hated this man for taking Ana.

"You could live with Giles." Dawn offered. She knew that he wouldn't mind. She also thought it would be fun to have another girl around.

"Yes, yes, of course." Giles muttered and smiled softly at his slayer. Sami didn't want to turn down the offer because it was the best one yet but she also didn't want to say yes. A part of her just wanted to be alone. She averted her eyes and nodded softly.

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The next few days were a blur. There was so much that needed to be done. They had to clean out the house and arrange the funeral. Giles did most of the arranging and the paperwork. It was up to Ana and Sami to clean the house. Soon Ana had left to live with her father and Sami was staying with Dawn and Giles. Their house was up for sale and things were slightly back to normal. The vampires that had killed Sami's mom were still at large and everyone had come to the conclusion that it had been the two that had run away from Sami. They had not turned Mrs. Jones into a vampire thankfully so Sami was spared that pain.

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A/n: I know it's short and I'm sorry but I can't think of what else to write. It's probably really bad but I'm sorry!