"No, that can't be true."  Buffy blurted out.  Every head swivelled round to look at her, all eyes were on her.

"What is she doing here, Rupert?"  Snape growled. 

Buffy ignored Snape and ran to the end of the long table, the wooden structure in the middle of her and Dumbledore.  "Tell me it's not true."  She demanded, desperately.  It can't be true.

Dumbledore smiled knowingly and nodded.  "It is not what you think, Miss Summers."

Buffy breathed an audible sigh of relief and placed her hand on her heart.  Thank god. Was her first thought.  I'm not in danger

"So what do you mean he's found the slayer?"  She asked, breathing heavily.

Snape stood up, and angry expression on his face.  "I really must protest Dumbledore.  This is Order business; she has no part in it."  He sneered at Buffy, and she glared back.

"If you had let me finish, Miss Summers, I would have finished by saying-"

Now another Order member had stood up, Emmaline Vance. "Dumbledore, Severus is quite right, we cannot include her in this."  Molly Weasley was closest to Buffy and she stood up, gesturing to the door.

"No!"  Buffy protested, slamming her fist down on the table and making a hole in it.  The Order member's gasped, but Dumbledore smiled.

"Do not worry my dear, Voldemort has found another slayer, by the name Kendra.  She was raised in the Caribbean under the Watcher's Council, and the Death Eater's found her.  The found out she is not a witch and they killed her."

Buffy swallowed, but she found it difficult as there was a lump in her throat.  I don't even know this girl. She thought desperately.  Why am I crying for her?  She wiped away tears from her eyes and Giles came up behind her and gave her a tissue.

"Are you alright my dear?"  Dumbledore asked, concerned.

Buffy shook her head.  "No.  When you said that he had found the slayer, I thought that was it.  I'm dead.  But then you said he found someone else and I felt," she paused and turned to Giles.  "Worse.  I don't know what better, having Voldymouth know who I am, or waiting to see if he finds out.  Everyday this summer, when it dark and I was out alone, every noise I heard, I thought it was the Death Eaters.  I thought they were coming to get me.  But it was nothing, just a bird or a demon, it was nothing."  Buffy wiped her tears away and faced Dumbledore.  "And now a girl's dead because of me."  She choked.  "At least if Voldymouth knew who I was, he could come and capture me and I could kick his ass.  Does it even make sense?"  She laughed, even though her heart wasn't in it.

Giles looked kindly at her and took her hand, squeezing it reassuringly.  "Yes it makes sense, but you should be glad he has not found you Buffy.  That isn't selfish."  Buffy nodded.

"May I ask how it was that another slayer was activated?"  Dumbledore asked gently.

"Wait a minute!"  Snape snapped, glaring at Buffy.  "This girl is the slayer?"  He laughed, and Buffy glared at him, suppressing her sadness.

"Yeah.  You got a problem with that?"  She challenged.  Snape snorted and looked her up and down.

"You're so…small…weak." 

"Shall I demonstrate my strength on you?"  Buffy questioned, menacingly.  "I can snap your spine like that."  She clicked her fingers.  "I can land you in hospital for a lifetime, do you really want demonstrating?"   She glared at him, a glare that she gave all the vampires, demons and Malfoys that she faced, and she knew that it was scary.  She was right because Snape gulped and sank down in his chair, all the while trying to look like he wasn't scared.

Giles cleared his throat, getting the attention on him.  He took off his glasses and started to clean them, at which Buffy rolled her eyes.  "A slayer is only activated when the previous slayer dies.  Over the summer, Buffy, um, died."  There was a collective gasp and then a burst of noise as everyone pounded questions onto Giles and Buffy.  It took Dumbledore several times to order quiet for the room to be silent.

"Buffy, please can you explain this.  Was it a Death Eater?"  Dumbledore asked, his eyes no longer twinkling.

Buffy shook her head and giggled.  "No, it was Oz!" 

There was a murmur and Dumbledore raised his hand to obtain silence.  "Please elaborate."

"Oz.  Oz, um, well, just Oz I think.  Oz, as in Willow's boyfriend."

"Willow's boyfriend killed you?"  Lupin exclaimed, horrified.

"No!  It was his fault though.  Well, I guess it wasn't really, but if he hadn't gone off to Willow's house and done god knows what with her, I wouldn't have started the car and gotten into a crash!"  Buffy protested, even though she knew it was her fault.

The members of the Order looked even more confused.  "A car is a muggle form of transportation."  Giles explained.  There were a collective 'oh' among the members.

"Well," Dumbledore started, his eye twinkling once more.  "I have covered all I want to cover, this meeting is adjourned."

Buffy smiled at Giles once more and ran out of the room; she couldn't wait to get rid of all those stares.

The ending is a bit rushed…sorry. 

All of you asked if it was Faith…but Kendra's dead now…so…

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