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Summary: they thought Black John was dead. They were wrong. Where did he go? Sunnydale of course!
Cassie Blake was glad to have some alone time with Adam, although she loved hanging out with her friends, it seemed as though she and her new boyfriend couldn't get a moment together. He gazed up at her and smiled. It was his idea to have a picnic on the beach and now she sat with his head in her lap smiling at the man of her dreams. It was hard to believe how far she had come since she first moved to New Salem. At first she was afraid of the new and strange things she learned, now she accepted her powers and her new life as a witch. She even helped her coven defeat the dreaded Black John, and found the love of her life all in a few months. She sighed to herself and looked out across the ocean.
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Buffy Summers walked through the graveyard slowly. Things had been so dull lately, she hadn't staked a vamp, or killed anything evil for weeks and she was just itching for a good fight.
"Hey Buff," she heard from behind her, "how goes the slayage?"
She smiled at her best friend, Xander, "just great. Considering that I haven't done any." She responded in sarcastic tone. Xander offered to walk her home and she accepted. They walked in silence for a while.
"man I don't know how long I am going to last with out a single vampire to slay," she told her friend.
"well Buffy, you know if you ever get extremely hard up, you could always go stake Spike." His response was a "yeah right" look from the blond girl.
"now Xander, you know that killing Spike would be like shooting fish in a barrel," she smiled at him, "besides I am really just craving a good fight."
"Buffy, if you ask me, I think all this non-demon time has been good for us," he told her, "we can finally have some down time."
She wanted to say that it wasn't him that had all the down time it was her but she appreciated him for trying to cheer her up.
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The circle had a regular meeting. Diana, Faye and Cassie were all trying to decide what they were going to do with there new found strength. They all had their own ideas about how they should use the power. A mild argument was rising between the club members and Cassie was just looking at Adam. She kind of dazed out when she felt a kind of presence. The feeling was very strong and oddly familiar. She couldn't quite figure out what was going on. Then she say it, the swirling evil face she had seen not more than a few weeks ago. It was Black John. She didn't notice that everyone around her had stopped talking and were staring at her.
"Cassie," Diana said to her, "is everything okay?" the rest of the circle was watching her closely.
"um… I don't know." She told them, "I think it's Black John." She wasn't surprised to see her friends looking skeptic. "I feel him," she said with assertion, "I don't think we killed him."