Inside Us All
Notes: Follows Roswell up till Destiny episode after that it is an AU.
AU for Highlander, Richie was never killed for good.
For Dark Angel part Max and Logan found the cure.
Disclaimer: Same as always I don't own any of these characters except Kat O'Reily, and her best friend, Blah Blah Woof Woof.
Theme Song: by Creed
Inside Us All
When I'm all alone
And no one else is there
Waiting by the phone
To remind me
I'm still here
When shadows paint the scenes
Where spotlights used to fall
And I'm left wondering
Is it really worth it all?
There's a peace inside us all
Let it be your friend
It will help you carry on In the end
There's a peace inside us all
Life can hold you down
When you're not looking up
Can't you hear the sound?
Hearts beating out loud
Although the names change
Inside we're all the same
Why can't we tear down these walls?
To show the scars we're covering
There's a peace
There's a peace inside us all
Let it be Oh, can't it be your friend?
Summary: A runaway transgenic, a slayer alien hybrid, and an immortal all end up in Seattle where they learn to go on with their lives and that no matter what everyone is the same on the inside.
Prologue 1
Duncan McLeod was walking down the street to meet with some friends when he felt the presence of a pre-immortal. He started to look around when he heard a baby crying, walking into an alley he found a small baby behind a dumpster. Picking they child up he found that the pre-immortal feeling came from the infant. Taking the baby with him he continued to his friends' house. They were a young couple that was unable to have children of their own, and he felt they would be the perfect people to take care of the child and could get a hold of him if the kid ever became an immortal
(16 years later. Year 1999)
Richie rolled his eyes as he stepped into the restaurant, [You have got to be kidding me] he thought looking at the alien theme of the place. [Mac owes me big time for this]. He sat down at a table, Duncan McLeod his teacher, mentor, and boss had asked him to check up on a pre-immortal he knew in this town so here Richie was in Roswell, New Mexico supposed alien crash site. "Hi welcome to the Crash Down Café, I'm Liz I'll be you waitress. Have you decided what you want?" A young pretty waitress with dark brown hair and chocolate brown eyes brought Richie out of his thoughts. He smiled his most charming smile, "Ya, I'll have a coke, Will Smith burger and some Galaxy Fries, so you live here long?" he asked "Yep my whole life, you staying in town for a while?" "Nope just passing through, so have you ever seen an alien?" he joked. "Uh Nope, Never, No aliens here. I'll go get your coke," She said nervously. Richie looked around and noticed a teenage boy with brown hair alternating glaring at him and at the teenage boy in the booth against the wall who was staring at the waitress who took his order. [This could be interesting.] he thought smirking and decided to have a little fun with the jealous boyfriend.
"Chica, that totally hot guy is so flirting with you!" Maria exclaimed to her best friend Liz Parker. "Maria he's just passing through town. Besides I'm with Kyle," she replied sneaking a glance at Max Evans. "And you're totally in love for a certain Czechoslovakian. Listen girl get involved with one of them will only lead to heart break, trust me." Maria put in. "Max and I are just friends" Liz responded picking up an order and taking it to the customer that had started the conversation.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Later that night)
Richie walked up to the back door of the building and knocked. "Hey I'm a friend of Duncan's, he sent me to see if the girl is immortal." "Is she?" the person who answered asked worriedly. " No it was a false alarm." Riche answered. "Thank God, the person sighed in relief. "Thank you." "No prob." Richie said as he turned around to leave.
(About a year later)
"Goodbye Max" she said. [Oh God, he's meant to be with her! I should have listened Maria and not gotten involved.] Liz thought as she ran away from the man she loved. Max started to go after her but Michael held him back.
She was so caught up in her thoughts that Liz didn't notice where she was going. "Well. What do we have here? Its the little traitor of her own kind." Liz looked up and saw one of the FBI agents standing in front of her when she felt a sharp pain in her chest and things started to go black.
Everyone looked up when they heard the gunshot; Max took off running in the direction Liz had gone off in. He felt his whole world fall apart when he saw Liz on the ground covered in blood "LIZ!" He ran over to her and picked her up as the other came up behind him. "NO! LIZ!" Maria screamed and ran over to her best friend who Max held in his arms. "It's too late. I can't.I'm too late.She's." Max said in shock. Michael grabbed Maria and held her in his arms and Isabel and Alex tried to comfort Max both of them in tears. Just then they heard something and saw a couple of FBI agents step out from behind some rocks. Michael shoved Maria in the direction of the cars used his powers to throw a blast at them, they jumped out of the way losing their guns in the process. While Tess tried to mind warp them "I can't hold this for long!" she exclaimed. Michael grabbed Max who was still holding Liz. As Michael grabbed him Max came to his senses and started to pick up Liz. "MAX! THERE'S NO TIME, WE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE! WE'LL COME BACK FOR HER, SHE WOULDN'T WANT YOU TO RISK GETTING CAUGHT BECAUSE OF HER!" Michael yelled as he tried to distract an agent that had come out of Tess's mind warp. Max kissed Liz's forehead and placed his jacket over her body before taking off with Michael and Tess towards the cars.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Later that night)
Liz woke up in confusion; the last thing she remembered was the FBI agent pointing a gun at her. [Oh God he shot me! I was shot! Again!] She looked around expecting to see Max and the others but saw no one. She was still in the desert with Max's jacket beside her. Then she heard some one coming towards her just as she was hit by the biggest headache in her life. She quickly ran behind some rocks to hide. The footsteps stopped just a little ways before the rock. After a couple of minutes a males voice spoke out, "I know you're there so show yourself." Liz hesitated for a minute, and then took a deep breath as she stepped out from behind the rock.
Richie was driving his bike down the road when he felt the presence of another immortal nearby. He pulled off to the side of the road and grabbed his sword from his travel pack. He walked quickly out into the desert. [What the hell is an immortal doing out in the middle of the freakin desert?] he thought. He could feel the immortal's presence near by; looking around he found blood on the ground. Getting tired of waiting he shouted out, "I know you're there so show yourself." A couple of minutes later a young girl covered in blood hesitantly stepped out from behind some rocks.
[Shit! It's the girl from the restaurant. Mac is not gonna be happy. What the hell was she doing out in the desert for Christ sakes.] "It's ok I'm not going to hurt you," he said seeing her eyeing his sword. "Who are you?" Liz asked the young man in front of her. [What the hell is he doing with a sword and why did my headache go away when I looked at him.] "I'm Richie Ryan, look this is going to take a long time to explain. Is there any where we could talk?" he asked her. "Ya there's a truck stop a couple of miles down the road," she told him not knowing why she trusted him so easily. "Ok you better wear that jacket so no one sees the blood," he said leading her to his bike.
"So you're telling me I'll live forever unless some one cuts off my head! That's impossible" Liz exclaimed to Richie who was sitting across from her in the booth. "Afraid so, you will and it's not," he told her. Liz sat back with a huge sigh, [Well if aliens are real why not immortals. Oh God Max probably thinks I'm dead, along with the Maria and the others. Maybe this is for the better he can get on with his destiny and I don't know how Maria could handle have an immortal for a friend.] she thought. [She's taking this better then most would. She's pretty cute.] Richie thought. "So what do we do now?" Liz broke through his thoughts. "Huh, oh well I'm on my way back to Mac's in Seattle, he's the one who found you and gave you to the Parkers. So you could come with me and he could began your training," he told her. "Ok sure, I'll have to call my parents though and tell them what happened [the edited non-alien version anyway]." "Ok here's my cell you can use it." Richie said handing her the cell phone.
After a long and emotional talk with her parents Liz handed the phone back to Richie thanking him. They paid for their food and left.
When Max and the others came back with the Sheriff to the spot where Liz had been shot they found her body missing. The sheriff had the department looking for her for two weeks but eventually she became classified as a runaway and the case was closed.
Prologue 2
(Office unknown location. Year 1999)
"What happened?" asked an official looking man who sat at the head of a long table. "Project Adam was using an abandon area of the complex he gained entrance to by a cave, Sir. He released all the hostiles, there were many causalities." "What about Adam?" the headman asked. "He was taken out by a group of civilians led by the Slayer, Sir," another man answered. "Will her group keep quiet about this?" he asked. "As long as we don't threaten any of her group I believe they will, Sir." "I want the Innative buried. Destroy all evidence and fill the complex with concrete. It never existed and I want an eye kept on these civilians." "Yes Sir, what about Project S1-101?" the headman sat thinking for a while. "That project can continue," he told them. "Should we try to grab the other girl, it would go faster if we had two of them," one of the men who had remained quite until then spoke up. "No we grab her and her friends will go public about us and we don't have a good cover-up for taking her like we did the rogue. One is enough, for now," he replied.
"How far along is the project?" he asked. "We've just implanted the girl with the embryo, Sir." "Good. Keep me informed on the progress," he nodded and left the room.
(Hyperion Hotel, 2008)
Angel was sitting at his desk reading when Buffy walked in with her ex- boyfriend Riley Finn, Willow, and Spike. "There's something you need to hear Angel," she told him. [God she's still beautiful] he thought. "What is it?" he asked. "I've found out what happened to Faith." Riley told him. "What?" he asked shocked. Shortly after Faith had turned herself in she had been transferred to another prison and disappeared. No one had been able to find out what happened to her. "I found some records the Innovative forgot to destroy. They took her." Riley replied. You work for the government so why are you telling us this?" Angel asked. "That's what I'd bloody like to know." Spike quipped, while Buffy glared at the both of them. Riley and her may not be together any more but she still trusted him. "I've seen what happened the last time they tried to experiment with people. I was experimented on myself, I don't want that to happen to anyone else even if the person is a criminal." Angel nodded. "Do you know anything else?" "No but I can get you into the computer system and Willow might be able to find something there." "Ok let's get started." Buffy put in.
"OH GODDESS!" Willow exclaimed. It was about an hour later and she had finally found what they were looking for. Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, and Connor had joined them. "What is it Wills?" Buffy asked. "They did in vitro fertilization with her." Willow told them. "WHAT!!" everyone exclaimed. "Why did they go through all that trouble for a baby?" Fred asked. "The embryo was genetically altered." "How?" Riley asked. "They put shark DNA, and cat DNA along with some other stuff in it," she replied distractedly as she read what was on the screen. "SHIT!" Everyone jumped and looked at Willow in surprise. "They also used slayer DNA and a little vampire DNA." "Are they nuts!" Cordelia exclaimed. "That won't make the kid a vamp will it?" Gunn asked Angel. " No the kid will be like me, he'll have vampire abilities, like strength and senses but sunlight won't affect him and he'll won't crave blood." Connor told him as Angel nodded. "If they embryo lived through all that." Fred put in. "It did. It was a girl they call her S1- 101. I got a location of the facility where they're keeping her." "What happened to Faith, not that I really care what happened to her. She still didn't deserve to go through that." Buffy asked, earning a glare from Angel who believed Faith deserved a second chance. "Wait a second, ok, here it is. After the birth she was unable to have any more kids so they.OH GODDESS. They DIDN'T." "WHAT?!" everyone yelled. "Th-Th-They killed her." Willow whispered, everyone looked at in shock and Buffy looked guilty.
"We've got to get that kid away from them. How old is she?" Angel asked. "She'd be about eight years old." Willow replied. "Hopefully they haven't brainwashed her too much. Where's the location?" Buffy asked. "Three hours outside of San Diego." Willow answered. "Ok let's come up with a plan to get the bloody kid out." Spike spoke up.
(Next night)
Buffy, Angel, Riley, Connor, and Gunn took out the guards as Spike followed them. Being unable to hurt anyone he would be in charge of getting the kid out. Willow and Fred had hacked into the security system to disable the alarms and so they could see if anyone where heading towards the group inside and warn them through the headsets each of them had. Cordelia and Wesley were in the cars ready to go as soon as the six got back.
Thanks to Willow and Fred they were able to find the girl quickly. Before leaving Riley and Buffy planted a virus made by Willow in Fred in the computer system totally destroying it beyond recovery, while Angel, Gunn, and Connor destroyed the labs, and Spike got the girl out of there.
(Back at Hyperion)
"Can you tell us your name sweetie?" Fred asked. "S1-101!" the girl stood at attention and shouted. They were trying to get the child to talk to them but weren't having any luck. Even Buffy who was a counselor couldn't get through to the child. The girl had shoulder length dark brown hair. She was the spitting image of her mother except that her dark eyes had flecks of gold in them.
Finally Riley cam forward, "AT EASE SOLDIER!" he shouted surprising the others. The child immediately went into at ease stance. Riley went up to the girl and started talking quietly to her after a while she relaxed and even smiled shyly at everyone. "What did you say?" Cordelia asked. "I just told her it's ok. That she's not in the Innovative any more and doesn't have to act like a soldier any more," he told them. "Well we need to come up with a name for you kiddo." Gunn put in. The young girl looked at him confused. Just then a cat came in through an open window and rubbed against the girl's leg. She looked down at it in awe. Willow picked it up and handed it to the girl who rubbed her cheek against its soft fur. "Well I guess we'll call you Kat huh. How you like that sweetie?" she asked. The girl smiled as the cat in her arms purred. "Kat it is then. I like it." Fred put in.
You guys sure about keeping her here?" Buffy asked on her way out. "Ya the Innovative knows you guys were connected to Faith, and Riley was connected to you so they'll be watching you guys to see if any of you have her. They don't know about us. We'll keep her here and home school her so they won't be able to find her in the system. Connor and I can also teach how to control her abilities." Angel replied. "Ok call me as soon as all this blows over and tell me how's she doing," with that her, Willow, Riley, and Spike left.
(7 years later)
Duncan was driving down the highway when he saw a young teenaged girl hitch hiking. He pulled over and rolled down the window, "You need a ride?" he asked. "Ya thanks Mr." the replied climbing into the car. "So are you in some kind of trouble?" Duncan asked. The girl stared at him suspiciously for a minute before shrugging, "No." "Running away won't help solve you problems," he told her. "I don't have any" she replied and tensed as they came up to a sector checkpoint. "Do you have a pass?" the sector cop asked looking at the both of them. "Yes right here officer." Duncan said handing the officer a pass. "What about the kid?" "She's my niece, I was told I didn't need one for her that this one will work for the both of us." The cop looked skeptical for a minute but eventually let them pass. "Thanks" the girl told Duncan as she relaxed. "No problem. I'm Duncan McLeod, what's your name?" he asked looking at her again. [She can't be more then 15.] he thought [What is she running from.]. The girl had dark brown shoulder length hair and dark eyes with gold flecks in them. "Kat" she replied as they passed a "Now Leaving L.A." road sign.
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Notes: Follows Roswell up till Destiny episode after that it is an AU.
AU for Highlander, Richie was never killed for good.
For Dark Angel part Max and Logan found the cure.
Disclaimer: Same as always I don't own any of these characters except Kat O'Reily, and her best friend, Blah Blah Woof Woof.
Theme Song: by Creed
Inside Us All
When I'm all alone
And no one else is there
Waiting by the phone
To remind me
I'm still here
When shadows paint the scenes
Where spotlights used to fall
And I'm left wondering
Is it really worth it all?
There's a peace inside us all
Let it be your friend
It will help you carry on In the end
There's a peace inside us all
Life can hold you down
When you're not looking up
Can't you hear the sound?
Hearts beating out loud
Although the names change
Inside we're all the same
Why can't we tear down these walls?
To show the scars we're covering
There's a peace
There's a peace inside us all
Let it be Oh, can't it be your friend?
Summary: A runaway transgenic, a slayer alien hybrid, and an immortal all end up in Seattle where they learn to go on with their lives and that no matter what everyone is the same on the inside.
Prologue 1
Duncan McLeod was walking down the street to meet with some friends when he felt the presence of a pre-immortal. He started to look around when he heard a baby crying, walking into an alley he found a small baby behind a dumpster. Picking they child up he found that the pre-immortal feeling came from the infant. Taking the baby with him he continued to his friends' house. They were a young couple that was unable to have children of their own, and he felt they would be the perfect people to take care of the child and could get a hold of him if the kid ever became an immortal
(16 years later. Year 1999)
Richie rolled his eyes as he stepped into the restaurant, [You have got to be kidding me] he thought looking at the alien theme of the place. [Mac owes me big time for this]. He sat down at a table, Duncan McLeod his teacher, mentor, and boss had asked him to check up on a pre-immortal he knew in this town so here Richie was in Roswell, New Mexico supposed alien crash site. "Hi welcome to the Crash Down Café, I'm Liz I'll be you waitress. Have you decided what you want?" A young pretty waitress with dark brown hair and chocolate brown eyes brought Richie out of his thoughts. He smiled his most charming smile, "Ya, I'll have a coke, Will Smith burger and some Galaxy Fries, so you live here long?" he asked "Yep my whole life, you staying in town for a while?" "Nope just passing through, so have you ever seen an alien?" he joked. "Uh Nope, Never, No aliens here. I'll go get your coke," She said nervously. Richie looked around and noticed a teenage boy with brown hair alternating glaring at him and at the teenage boy in the booth against the wall who was staring at the waitress who took his order. [This could be interesting.] he thought smirking and decided to have a little fun with the jealous boyfriend.
"Chica, that totally hot guy is so flirting with you!" Maria exclaimed to her best friend Liz Parker. "Maria he's just passing through town. Besides I'm with Kyle," she replied sneaking a glance at Max Evans. "And you're totally in love for a certain Czechoslovakian. Listen girl get involved with one of them will only lead to heart break, trust me." Maria put in. "Max and I are just friends" Liz responded picking up an order and taking it to the customer that had started the conversation.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Later that night)
Richie walked up to the back door of the building and knocked. "Hey I'm a friend of Duncan's, he sent me to see if the girl is immortal." "Is she?" the person who answered asked worriedly. " No it was a false alarm." Riche answered. "Thank God, the person sighed in relief. "Thank you." "No prob." Richie said as he turned around to leave.
(About a year later)
"Goodbye Max" she said. [Oh God, he's meant to be with her! I should have listened Maria and not gotten involved.] Liz thought as she ran away from the man she loved. Max started to go after her but Michael held him back.
She was so caught up in her thoughts that Liz didn't notice where she was going. "Well. What do we have here? Its the little traitor of her own kind." Liz looked up and saw one of the FBI agents standing in front of her when she felt a sharp pain in her chest and things started to go black.
Everyone looked up when they heard the gunshot; Max took off running in the direction Liz had gone off in. He felt his whole world fall apart when he saw Liz on the ground covered in blood "LIZ!" He ran over to her and picked her up as the other came up behind him. "NO! LIZ!" Maria screamed and ran over to her best friend who Max held in his arms. "It's too late. I can't.I'm too late.She's." Max said in shock. Michael grabbed Maria and held her in his arms and Isabel and Alex tried to comfort Max both of them in tears. Just then they heard something and saw a couple of FBI agents step out from behind some rocks. Michael shoved Maria in the direction of the cars used his powers to throw a blast at them, they jumped out of the way losing their guns in the process. While Tess tried to mind warp them "I can't hold this for long!" she exclaimed. Michael grabbed Max who was still holding Liz. As Michael grabbed him Max came to his senses and started to pick up Liz. "MAX! THERE'S NO TIME, WE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE! WE'LL COME BACK FOR HER, SHE WOULDN'T WANT YOU TO RISK GETTING CAUGHT BECAUSE OF HER!" Michael yelled as he tried to distract an agent that had come out of Tess's mind warp. Max kissed Liz's forehead and placed his jacket over her body before taking off with Michael and Tess towards the cars.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Later that night)
Liz woke up in confusion; the last thing she remembered was the FBI agent pointing a gun at her. [Oh God he shot me! I was shot! Again!] She looked around expecting to see Max and the others but saw no one. She was still in the desert with Max's jacket beside her. Then she heard some one coming towards her just as she was hit by the biggest headache in her life. She quickly ran behind some rocks to hide. The footsteps stopped just a little ways before the rock. After a couple of minutes a males voice spoke out, "I know you're there so show yourself." Liz hesitated for a minute, and then took a deep breath as she stepped out from behind the rock.
Richie was driving his bike down the road when he felt the presence of another immortal nearby. He pulled off to the side of the road and grabbed his sword from his travel pack. He walked quickly out into the desert. [What the hell is an immortal doing out in the middle of the freakin desert?] he thought. He could feel the immortal's presence near by; looking around he found blood on the ground. Getting tired of waiting he shouted out, "I know you're there so show yourself." A couple of minutes later a young girl covered in blood hesitantly stepped out from behind some rocks.
[Shit! It's the girl from the restaurant. Mac is not gonna be happy. What the hell was she doing out in the desert for Christ sakes.] "It's ok I'm not going to hurt you," he said seeing her eyeing his sword. "Who are you?" Liz asked the young man in front of her. [What the hell is he doing with a sword and why did my headache go away when I looked at him.] "I'm Richie Ryan, look this is going to take a long time to explain. Is there any where we could talk?" he asked her. "Ya there's a truck stop a couple of miles down the road," she told him not knowing why she trusted him so easily. "Ok you better wear that jacket so no one sees the blood," he said leading her to his bike.
"So you're telling me I'll live forever unless some one cuts off my head! That's impossible" Liz exclaimed to Richie who was sitting across from her in the booth. "Afraid so, you will and it's not," he told her. Liz sat back with a huge sigh, [Well if aliens are real why not immortals. Oh God Max probably thinks I'm dead, along with the Maria and the others. Maybe this is for the better he can get on with his destiny and I don't know how Maria could handle have an immortal for a friend.] she thought. [She's taking this better then most would. She's pretty cute.] Richie thought. "So what do we do now?" Liz broke through his thoughts. "Huh, oh well I'm on my way back to Mac's in Seattle, he's the one who found you and gave you to the Parkers. So you could come with me and he could began your training," he told her. "Ok sure, I'll have to call my parents though and tell them what happened [the edited non-alien version anyway]." "Ok here's my cell you can use it." Richie said handing her the cell phone.
After a long and emotional talk with her parents Liz handed the phone back to Richie thanking him. They paid for their food and left.
When Max and the others came back with the Sheriff to the spot where Liz had been shot they found her body missing. The sheriff had the department looking for her for two weeks but eventually she became classified as a runaway and the case was closed.
Prologue 2
(Office unknown location. Year 1999)
"What happened?" asked an official looking man who sat at the head of a long table. "Project Adam was using an abandon area of the complex he gained entrance to by a cave, Sir. He released all the hostiles, there were many causalities." "What about Adam?" the headman asked. "He was taken out by a group of civilians led by the Slayer, Sir," another man answered. "Will her group keep quiet about this?" he asked. "As long as we don't threaten any of her group I believe they will, Sir." "I want the Innative buried. Destroy all evidence and fill the complex with concrete. It never existed and I want an eye kept on these civilians." "Yes Sir, what about Project S1-101?" the headman sat thinking for a while. "That project can continue," he told them. "Should we try to grab the other girl, it would go faster if we had two of them," one of the men who had remained quite until then spoke up. "No we grab her and her friends will go public about us and we don't have a good cover-up for taking her like we did the rogue. One is enough, for now," he replied.
"How far along is the project?" he asked. "We've just implanted the girl with the embryo, Sir." "Good. Keep me informed on the progress," he nodded and left the room.
(Hyperion Hotel, 2008)
Angel was sitting at his desk reading when Buffy walked in with her ex- boyfriend Riley Finn, Willow, and Spike. "There's something you need to hear Angel," she told him. [God she's still beautiful] he thought. "What is it?" he asked. "I've found out what happened to Faith." Riley told him. "What?" he asked shocked. Shortly after Faith had turned herself in she had been transferred to another prison and disappeared. No one had been able to find out what happened to her. "I found some records the Innovative forgot to destroy. They took her." Riley replied. You work for the government so why are you telling us this?" Angel asked. "That's what I'd bloody like to know." Spike quipped, while Buffy glared at the both of them. Riley and her may not be together any more but she still trusted him. "I've seen what happened the last time they tried to experiment with people. I was experimented on myself, I don't want that to happen to anyone else even if the person is a criminal." Angel nodded. "Do you know anything else?" "No but I can get you into the computer system and Willow might be able to find something there." "Ok let's get started." Buffy put in.
"OH GODDESS!" Willow exclaimed. It was about an hour later and she had finally found what they were looking for. Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, and Connor had joined them. "What is it Wills?" Buffy asked. "They did in vitro fertilization with her." Willow told them. "WHAT!!" everyone exclaimed. "Why did they go through all that trouble for a baby?" Fred asked. "The embryo was genetically altered." "How?" Riley asked. "They put shark DNA, and cat DNA along with some other stuff in it," she replied distractedly as she read what was on the screen. "SHIT!" Everyone jumped and looked at Willow in surprise. "They also used slayer DNA and a little vampire DNA." "Are they nuts!" Cordelia exclaimed. "That won't make the kid a vamp will it?" Gunn asked Angel. " No the kid will be like me, he'll have vampire abilities, like strength and senses but sunlight won't affect him and he'll won't crave blood." Connor told him as Angel nodded. "If they embryo lived through all that." Fred put in. "It did. It was a girl they call her S1- 101. I got a location of the facility where they're keeping her." "What happened to Faith, not that I really care what happened to her. She still didn't deserve to go through that." Buffy asked, earning a glare from Angel who believed Faith deserved a second chance. "Wait a second, ok, here it is. After the birth she was unable to have any more kids so they.OH GODDESS. They DIDN'T." "WHAT?!" everyone yelled. "Th-Th-They killed her." Willow whispered, everyone looked at in shock and Buffy looked guilty.
"We've got to get that kid away from them. How old is she?" Angel asked. "She'd be about eight years old." Willow replied. "Hopefully they haven't brainwashed her too much. Where's the location?" Buffy asked. "Three hours outside of San Diego." Willow answered. "Ok let's come up with a plan to get the bloody kid out." Spike spoke up.
(Next night)
Buffy, Angel, Riley, Connor, and Gunn took out the guards as Spike followed them. Being unable to hurt anyone he would be in charge of getting the kid out. Willow and Fred had hacked into the security system to disable the alarms and so they could see if anyone where heading towards the group inside and warn them through the headsets each of them had. Cordelia and Wesley were in the cars ready to go as soon as the six got back.
Thanks to Willow and Fred they were able to find the girl quickly. Before leaving Riley and Buffy planted a virus made by Willow in Fred in the computer system totally destroying it beyond recovery, while Angel, Gunn, and Connor destroyed the labs, and Spike got the girl out of there.
(Back at Hyperion)
"Can you tell us your name sweetie?" Fred asked. "S1-101!" the girl stood at attention and shouted. They were trying to get the child to talk to them but weren't having any luck. Even Buffy who was a counselor couldn't get through to the child. The girl had shoulder length dark brown hair. She was the spitting image of her mother except that her dark eyes had flecks of gold in them.
Finally Riley cam forward, "AT EASE SOLDIER!" he shouted surprising the others. The child immediately went into at ease stance. Riley went up to the girl and started talking quietly to her after a while she relaxed and even smiled shyly at everyone. "What did you say?" Cordelia asked. "I just told her it's ok. That she's not in the Innovative any more and doesn't have to act like a soldier any more," he told them. "Well we need to come up with a name for you kiddo." Gunn put in. The young girl looked at him confused. Just then a cat came in through an open window and rubbed against the girl's leg. She looked down at it in awe. Willow picked it up and handed it to the girl who rubbed her cheek against its soft fur. "Well I guess we'll call you Kat huh. How you like that sweetie?" she asked. The girl smiled as the cat in her arms purred. "Kat it is then. I like it." Fred put in.
You guys sure about keeping her here?" Buffy asked on her way out. "Ya the Innovative knows you guys were connected to Faith, and Riley was connected to you so they'll be watching you guys to see if any of you have her. They don't know about us. We'll keep her here and home school her so they won't be able to find her in the system. Connor and I can also teach how to control her abilities." Angel replied. "Ok call me as soon as all this blows over and tell me how's she doing," with that her, Willow, Riley, and Spike left.
(7 years later)
Duncan was driving down the highway when he saw a young teenaged girl hitch hiking. He pulled over and rolled down the window, "You need a ride?" he asked. "Ya thanks Mr." the replied climbing into the car. "So are you in some kind of trouble?" Duncan asked. The girl stared at him suspiciously for a minute before shrugging, "No." "Running away won't help solve you problems," he told her. "I don't have any" she replied and tensed as they came up to a sector checkpoint. "Do you have a pass?" the sector cop asked looking at the both of them. "Yes right here officer." Duncan said handing the officer a pass. "What about the kid?" "She's my niece, I was told I didn't need one for her that this one will work for the both of us." The cop looked skeptical for a minute but eventually let them pass. "Thanks" the girl told Duncan as she relaxed. "No problem. I'm Duncan McLeod, what's your name?" he asked looking at her again. [She can't be more then 15.] he thought [What is she running from.]. The girl had dark brown shoulder length hair and dark eyes with gold flecks in them. "Kat" she replied as they passed a "Now Leaving L.A." road sign.
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