Another Halliwell
Chapter Two
Willow The Watcher
Sarah fainted.
It had been to much for her to take in all at once. Her mother, well, really her adopted mother, had been her watcher before. She and Sarah had been tracking this big apocalyptic demon, when she was killed. Her watcher had raised her after her abusive parents had abandoned her on the street outside her house. It had just been chance that Sarah had been the Slayer, and Matilda her watcher.
When she came to, Sarah found herself laying on the couch, looking up at a concerned Piper, Leo, and …Willow. "Are you alright?" Piper asked as soon as she saw Sarah's eyes flutter open.
"Yeah." Sarah replied, sitting up. "What took the council so long to send me a new watcher? Did they think they would just give me someone new who would replace Mom? 'Oh, the slayer's watcher is dead, just send another, it doesn't matter that the watcher had been like her mother. The Slayer is just an instrument with which the council fights evil, she'll never notice a new watcher'. Is that close to what that bastard Traverse said? Cause if it is, you can just pack up and go back to merry old England or wherever you came from." Sarah spat out at Willow who looked downwards at her feet. "I've been doing quite fine for a while now, and if you hadn't already figured it out, I'm living with the fucking Charmed Ones! There isn't actually a safer place for me. I've got this guardian angel who can heal me when I get hurt in a fight, and three super powerful witches looking out for me. So, you can see, I don't need a watcher." Sarah stood up from the couch, and said poisonously to Willow, "You can be on your way now. Tell Traverse to leave me the hell alone." With that having been said, Sarah stormed off to her bedroom in the basement.
"You'll have to excuse her. Her mother just died recently, I guess the stress of it is wearing down at her." Piper apologized to Willow who was just sitting on the couch looking down at her feet, not saying anything, not moving.
There was a lengthy silence, then she replied, "I don't blame her. Traverse is a bastard, and that's actually close to what happened." Willow stood up, and said, "Well, thank you for helping me out. I'll be going now." She headed towards the door, as if to leave, but Piper grabbed her arm.
"No, you can't leave." She paused, choosing her words carefully, "I don't know what a Watcher is, I didn't know her mother was her watcher, and I don't know who Traverse is or the council is, what I do know is that Sarah needs somebody who understands what the slayer is, and knows how to help her. Because even though I'm a Charmed One, I don't know everything, and I can't protect her from everything that will probably attack her. She needs you, she needs a watcher."
Willow collapsed on the couch, her head coming down in her hands. She started babbling nonsense to herself, it sounded like, "…knew I shouldn't have come, it's too hard, after what I did, I told Giles, he didn't listen, said it would be good for me. She's a special slayer, Buffy's died twice, and there shouldn't have been a new slayer, but, here she was, needs a watcher, thinks I'm the best for the job, I tried to end the world, killed people, oh, Tara baby, I miss you so much, what can I do to make this right?…" She kept on for a while, Piper looking at her husband worridly, they both sat down on the couch across from where Willow was sitting.
"Uh, do you want to translate that for us? I didn't catch most of it, and what I did, didn't make any sense." Piper asked, clutching Leo's hand hard, knowing that this story was probably going to be a hard one, because happy stories didn't make perfectly nice and sane people babble like idiots.
Willow straightened up, her eyes were red and puffy, tears were streaming down her face. "Sorry. I was friends with a Slayer from my sophomore year in highschool until recently. Me, Xander, Buffy, and Giles. We were the original Scooby Gang, Xander and I helped Buffy out with the Slaying, Giles was her watcher. When Buffy died the first time, Xander did CPR and saved her life, but in the few minutes she was dead, a new slayer was called, she was killed by a vampire, and another was called, she's in jail in LA right now for murdering three different people. Then, last year, Buffy died again, saving the world from a Hell God, Glory. At the end of the summer, Tara, Anya, Xander and I used an urn of Osiris, and brought her back to life. I thought I was saving her from a hell dimension, but in truth I pulled her out of heaven. Tara left me because she thought I was doing to much magic, and in truth I was, when I went cold turkey, she saw I changed and came back to me. But just the day after we got back together, she was shot by a lunatic who was trying to kill Buffy, she died in my arms. I tried to do the ritual of Osiris to bring her back, but he couldn't, it was a natural human death. I was devastated, I turned evil, hair black, black veins popping out of my face, my eyes completely opaque. I tortured and killed the guy who killed Tara, and then I turned against my friends, I ended up sucking power from Giles, and trying to end the world. I would have to if Xander hadn't talked me down. I then went to England to study with a coven there to learn to control my magic. After I completed my training, Giles found out there was a new slayer in California, since I wasn't ready to go back to Sunnydale and face my friends, he suggested I become her watcher, try to train her, become her friend as I had done with Buffy. I thought I wasn't ready, Giles disagreed, maybe he was right, but it still hurts to be here." Willow finished her sad tale, and saw tears on the faces of both Leo and Piper. "Sorry, didn't mean to make you guys cry. I think I'll be going, but, I'll come back in the morning." She stood up. "Thank you again for helping me out. And thank you for listening."
Husband and wife watched as the red headed watcher/witch walked out of the manor. "That was probably the hardest thing I've ever listened to. And I've been around since 1929." Leo said, leaning in and kissing his wife, grateful that as hectic and chaotic their lives were, they weren't nearly that bad, but he still felt bad for Willow, he also felt bad for Sarah, he hadn't know that when she lost her mother, she also lost her watcher, which seemed to be like a witch losing her whitelighter. "Lets go to bed, we'll talk to Sarah in the morning." He stood up, pulling Piper with him, she nodded.
"I'm going to tell Sarah she doesn't have to go to school tomorrow, I'll call in and tell them she's sick or something." She turned to Leo, and kissed him before saying, "I'll be right up." Piper headed towards the basement while Leo headed up towards their bedroom.
Once again, Piper was observant of Sarah's privacy, and she knocked on the closed door. "Sarah, it's Piper, can I come in?"
There wasn't an answer, but the door was unlocked, and opened slightly. Piper took this as an invitation and walked downstairs. "I just wanted to say that you don't have to go to school tomorrow, I'll call in and tell them something. Alright? You go ahead and sleep in. You've gone through too much tonight, I say you should get the day off tomorrow. We'll go see a movie or something, and Weezer is coming to the club on Friday, you can come and see them, and even get autographs, talk with them, whatever. How does that sound?" Piper was trying to make Sarah feel better by giving her better, more positive things to think about.
"Sure." Sarah replied, "I'm kind of tired, I did kill over fifty vamps tonight, and three demons, none of which died without a fight. I think I've dislocated my shoulder, and have a concussion, I'm going to sleep, alright?" She didn't wait for an answer before flopping down on her mattress, and was instantly asleep.
'Poor kid, she's had to go through too much.' Piper thought as she climbed the stairs to her and Leo's bedroom. 'I hope we can convince her to give Willow a chance, they might be good for eachother, they've both had rough lives. They're like twin souls.' That was the last coherent thought she had before Morpheus claimed her for her trip to dream land.