Disclaimer: I don't own BtVS, AtS, or Roswell.
Summary: The new war forces Buffy to share her sixteen-year-old secret with a past lover.
Pairings: B/A, Max/Liz, Michael/Maria. Review and tell me what other pairings to make
A/N: Sorry to all Spike fans but I couldn't fit him into this story. This story takes place eleven years after Chosen. Buffy and the Gang rebuild the Watcher's council and Angel does the whole Wolfram and Hart thing. For Roswell it is right after Liz finds out that Max and Tess slept together.
Thanks to all those who reviewed! I really appreciate it!
The loud 'hoots' in the back round didn't distract Liz of her new job in watering at a strip club.
"Hey sugar lips, why don't you and me stay true to God's plea for reproduction," the middle-aged man said in cockiness.
Even as her new confident-self, Liz was still unsure of how to behave when a grown man was hitting on her. I mean she was an innocent sixteen-year- old girl hired at an "adult" club, but of course the people that hired her didn't know that. She had convinced them that she could handle herself in situations like these.
Liz took a deep breath and let out a rough voice, "Knock it off buddy!" Pushing him out of the way making her way to the bar with a tray of empty glasses balancing on her hand. Believing he had finally let her go, she calmed her features until the guy came from behind and jumped on top of her. As he ripped open her shirt, only one thing went through her head. 'Get him the hell off of me!'
Suddenly she used what little strength she had left with little air to push him off of her, sending him flying across the club. When he got up shaking, she ran to where he was hardly standing and kneed him in the groin with a punch to the nose, breaking it.
It was like she was in a trance or something because after she had punched him she looked at her hand as if it didn't belong to her. She looked around the now silenced club, uncertain of what action to take next. Then one of the other employees spoke, "Anne, what just happened?"
"Um."
*********
On the way to Roswell, Angel drove his convertible. He was never able to part with it even though he had a whole sport-car collection to pick from. Usually Angel enjoyed the relaxation it gave him, but the car ride was far from comfort.
"I know a song that gets on everybody's' nerves, everybody's nerves,
everybody's' nerves, I know a song that gets on everybody's' nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's' nerves.
And this is how it goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's'
nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's' nerves."
"Xander shut-up!" After still so many years Angel and Xander couldn't, wouldn't stop annoying the other.
"Oh come on you mean to say you don't enjoy the classics?" Xander retorted seeing how many buttons he could push.
"Batoven, Boch, those are the classics. Not. Not I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves song! That is the most ridiculous crap I have ever had to."
Angel suddenly stopped when Buffy reached for his hand. "Oh come on I-Know- a-song-that-gets-on-everybodies-nerves is part of our classics, not all of us are over 200 years here," he smiled and the argument was done.
Buffy then got comfortable on his shoulder while he drove. She eventually fell asleep to leave Angel alone with the road to Roswell.
*******
Sneaking back through the Crashdown, Tess hoped no one would notice her absence. Unfortunately, her "lover" did.
"Where were you sweetie?"
"Morning sickness, you know," Tess lied having being raised to be good at it.
"Oh, right. So explain to me where Liz is. She knows she can't just leave without telling us. We are a team." Getting his attention back on Liz.
"Who are you, her mother? She can do whatever the hell she wants. I mean, sure, she is being reckless, but she is only following in your example!" Maria said raising her voice and eyeing Tess.
"Okay, lets take a breather!" Michael tried to be the mediator.
"Maria where are you?" They heard Mr. Parker yell from the kitchen.
"I'll be right there," Maria groaned frustrated. "Isabel you do what you need to," Maria instructed referring to the Dream walking of Liz, "and I'll meet you back here after school okay?"
"Sounds good," Isabel answered.
"We'll be here too!" Max yelled.
"Whatever."
Alone in the silent room, Isabel began the process of her alien powers. Concentrating hard of her memories with Liz, she began to see flashes.
*A club, a strip club maybe, with the name the Pink Flamingo, a nametag that reads Anne, and a lot of bright lights.*
Coming out of the trace, Isabel was confused with what she saw. "A strip club?"
********
Tossing and turning in the passenger seat of the car, Angel guessed she was having a slayer dream. He wanted to wake her but knew the dream would be of importance.
When Buffy first fell asleep she was aware that she was having a slayer dream, or nightmare, whatever you wanted to call it.
She was in a room. It looked like a boy's room but she wasn't able to tell. There were two humans (or so she thought) present in the room with her, a girl, kinda short with curly blonde hair, and a boy, a tall, lanky brunette. The blonde raised her hand and the boy had collapsed. He was dead Buffy knew. The girl had used her wicca powers to kill him or maybe this had something to do with aliens. This could be a clue!
She woke up suddenly catching her breath as if she had been running for hours.
She looked up at Angel who had pulled over the car with Buffy's awakening.
"What is it?" The three in the back had also heard her and was curious to what had caused the dream.
"Aliens."
********
Max was in his Algebra class and couldn't stop thinking of why Liz would runaway from her home. He thought she was happy with Kyle, but obviously not.
Maybe she was just as unhappy as he was without her. Sure he was with Tess and going to have a baby with her, but he didn't love her like he loved Liz. He wondered what she was thinking about right that second.
*******
'Max.' Of all that had happened today, the only thing she had on her mind was her ex-boyfriend.
It was six thirty in the morning in Las Vegas. The streets were empty but the sky was still pitch black. She had just gotten off of her first shift at work and was walking home thinking about what he was maybe doing right then.
Walking past a dark alley, she heard a girl scream. She spotted a creature with a hideous face grabbing the girl.
Feeling adrenaline run through her veins, like it had when she was assaulted at work later that night, she had mass amounts of power. She didn't know why the feeling was with her all and frankly didn't care. All she knew was to kill this, this, whatever it was.
She dropped her bag, ran at the fastest speed she has ever ran in her life and tackled the thing that she had later identified as a vampire. Sitting on top of him with his back flat on the ground she butchered his face punch after punch. After knocking the vampire out and realizing the girl and left, she remembered the old Dracula movies that she had watched with Maria, and stabbed a wooden stick found nearby in his heart.
After the fight she grabbed her bag and thought about what could have caused the sudden change in her. She reached into her shirt and grabbed her silver-cross, you know for moral support. A light bulb went off and she realized that the sudden change had been when she put the necklace on. Her confidence, maturity, strength, speed, and fighting ability all were connected through her mother's necklace.
Following her epiphany, she heard the slamming of an aluminum garbage can against a brick wall three blocks down.
"I guess the necklace powers include hearing," she laughed to herself as she made her way to an alley to become one of those comic book heroes.
********
Finally making it to Roswell, Buffy and Angel started to get their stomach in knots. Sure Angel had practice with his other non-existent son but this was somehow different.
'Buffy calm down. Sure you abandoned her for sixteen years in hopes to save her from a cruel demony world that she now has to enter because she is the secret weapon in a war with aliens. She'll still love me. Yeah right!' Buffy thought wondering why she even bothered coming here to Roswell.
"Oh, how cute!" Dawn skrieched pointing at the Diner with the sign reading Crashdown Café.
"It's kind of tacky, don't you think?" Willow said staring at it with uncertainty.
"Come on Will's, give the tourist trap a chance," Xander pleaded with a smirk.
"Let's go," Buffy said ready to get out of the car preparing what she was going to say to her daughter later that day.
Xander, Willow, and Dawn had already made their way into the diner.
"Um, I have to stay in the car," Angel said disappointed. Even though it did seem tacky, he actually wanted to go in, but it was 3:15 P.M. and the sunlight didn't do much for his skintone.
"Why don't you get us two motel rooms? I have my cell phone you can call and tell me where you are later."
"Okay."
Not sure whether to follow through with what was really on her mind, she ignored all the cons popping up in her head and pecked Angel on the lips with a kiss.
Not waiting for a reaction, good or bad, from Angel, she jumped out of the car and headed towards the diner.
Angel touched his lip and smiled. He almost even felt his heart skip a beat, but that was impossible since he was a vampire and also dead.
********
Meeting at the Crashdown was a bad idea they discovered. It was really the only place kids could go after school and Michael and Maria couldn't stop working for a second so they could figure out what to do with the Liz situation
As the strangers walked it Maria sighed in defeat, Maria believed she would never be able to figure out what Isabel had seen in the dream walk.
They did get strangers a lot with being a tourist trap town and all but these people didn't look like your average alien geeks search for some extraterestrial life. They were probably in their mid-thirties and there was no camera seen on them. Oh well Maria would keep the comments to herself.
"Hi! Welcome to the Crashdown. Can I take your order?" Maria put on the fake front with a carefree attitude, when reallly she had everything to worry about.
"Um, hey, I'll take the MIBurger, the Strawberry Independence Day smoothy, the Mars Cherry Coke, and the Crater Sundae," Xander said not letting a breath sneak through his words.
After Dawn and Willow had ordered their small-portioned meal compared to Xander's, Buffy added another request to their order.
"Do you know of the Parker's daughter? I need to talk to her."
This had taken Maria by surprise. Did they know that Liz was missing? Did they know where she was? Did they want to know where she was so they could blow her up? Maybe they were aliens. I mean I found them suspicious right off the bat. I should go talk to the others right now.
"Um, sorry haven't seen her today. I'll make sure you get your orders soon."
Worried and confused Maria made her way over to the crew. You guys those people I am finding major suspicious like I-am-a-alien-and-am-going-to- shoot-you suspicious.
Max looked over and anger came over his face as he realized who the suspicious people were. They were the people who had kidnapped Liz in his vision. He made his way over with his dog-on-a-leash close by his side (Tess).
Buffy who had heard the boy get up abruptly and stood up just in case a confrontation was near. When she looked at his lackeys she discovered the evil-alien murderer from her dream.
"Willow, put a guard up," Willow followed directions knowing that she trusted Buffy, even though this was happening in front of a huge crowd of people.
Max's guard soon went up after that.
Both groups stood up with defensives both restraining their offenses.
Mr. Parker walked through the kitchen doors and stopped suddenly to see a not so normal situation going on in his restaurant. "What the hell?"
Summary: The new war forces Buffy to share her sixteen-year-old secret with a past lover.
Pairings: B/A, Max/Liz, Michael/Maria. Review and tell me what other pairings to make
A/N: Sorry to all Spike fans but I couldn't fit him into this story. This story takes place eleven years after Chosen. Buffy and the Gang rebuild the Watcher's council and Angel does the whole Wolfram and Hart thing. For Roswell it is right after Liz finds out that Max and Tess slept together.
Thanks to all those who reviewed! I really appreciate it!
The loud 'hoots' in the back round didn't distract Liz of her new job in watering at a strip club.
"Hey sugar lips, why don't you and me stay true to God's plea for reproduction," the middle-aged man said in cockiness.
Even as her new confident-self, Liz was still unsure of how to behave when a grown man was hitting on her. I mean she was an innocent sixteen-year- old girl hired at an "adult" club, but of course the people that hired her didn't know that. She had convinced them that she could handle herself in situations like these.
Liz took a deep breath and let out a rough voice, "Knock it off buddy!" Pushing him out of the way making her way to the bar with a tray of empty glasses balancing on her hand. Believing he had finally let her go, she calmed her features until the guy came from behind and jumped on top of her. As he ripped open her shirt, only one thing went through her head. 'Get him the hell off of me!'
Suddenly she used what little strength she had left with little air to push him off of her, sending him flying across the club. When he got up shaking, she ran to where he was hardly standing and kneed him in the groin with a punch to the nose, breaking it.
It was like she was in a trance or something because after she had punched him she looked at her hand as if it didn't belong to her. She looked around the now silenced club, uncertain of what action to take next. Then one of the other employees spoke, "Anne, what just happened?"
"Um."
*********
On the way to Roswell, Angel drove his convertible. He was never able to part with it even though he had a whole sport-car collection to pick from. Usually Angel enjoyed the relaxation it gave him, but the car ride was far from comfort.
"I know a song that gets on everybody's' nerves, everybody's nerves,
everybody's' nerves, I know a song that gets on everybody's' nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's' nerves.
And this is how it goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's'
nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's' nerves."
"Xander shut-up!" After still so many years Angel and Xander couldn't, wouldn't stop annoying the other.
"Oh come on you mean to say you don't enjoy the classics?" Xander retorted seeing how many buttons he could push.
"Batoven, Boch, those are the classics. Not. Not I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves song! That is the most ridiculous crap I have ever had to."
Angel suddenly stopped when Buffy reached for his hand. "Oh come on I-Know- a-song-that-gets-on-everybodies-nerves is part of our classics, not all of us are over 200 years here," he smiled and the argument was done.
Buffy then got comfortable on his shoulder while he drove. She eventually fell asleep to leave Angel alone with the road to Roswell.
*******
Sneaking back through the Crashdown, Tess hoped no one would notice her absence. Unfortunately, her "lover" did.
"Where were you sweetie?"
"Morning sickness, you know," Tess lied having being raised to be good at it.
"Oh, right. So explain to me where Liz is. She knows she can't just leave without telling us. We are a team." Getting his attention back on Liz.
"Who are you, her mother? She can do whatever the hell she wants. I mean, sure, she is being reckless, but she is only following in your example!" Maria said raising her voice and eyeing Tess.
"Okay, lets take a breather!" Michael tried to be the mediator.
"Maria where are you?" They heard Mr. Parker yell from the kitchen.
"I'll be right there," Maria groaned frustrated. "Isabel you do what you need to," Maria instructed referring to the Dream walking of Liz, "and I'll meet you back here after school okay?"
"Sounds good," Isabel answered.
"We'll be here too!" Max yelled.
"Whatever."
Alone in the silent room, Isabel began the process of her alien powers. Concentrating hard of her memories with Liz, she began to see flashes.
*A club, a strip club maybe, with the name the Pink Flamingo, a nametag that reads Anne, and a lot of bright lights.*
Coming out of the trace, Isabel was confused with what she saw. "A strip club?"
********
Tossing and turning in the passenger seat of the car, Angel guessed she was having a slayer dream. He wanted to wake her but knew the dream would be of importance.
When Buffy first fell asleep she was aware that she was having a slayer dream, or nightmare, whatever you wanted to call it.
She was in a room. It looked like a boy's room but she wasn't able to tell. There were two humans (or so she thought) present in the room with her, a girl, kinda short with curly blonde hair, and a boy, a tall, lanky brunette. The blonde raised her hand and the boy had collapsed. He was dead Buffy knew. The girl had used her wicca powers to kill him or maybe this had something to do with aliens. This could be a clue!
She woke up suddenly catching her breath as if she had been running for hours.
She looked up at Angel who had pulled over the car with Buffy's awakening.
"What is it?" The three in the back had also heard her and was curious to what had caused the dream.
"Aliens."
********
Max was in his Algebra class and couldn't stop thinking of why Liz would runaway from her home. He thought she was happy with Kyle, but obviously not.
Maybe she was just as unhappy as he was without her. Sure he was with Tess and going to have a baby with her, but he didn't love her like he loved Liz. He wondered what she was thinking about right that second.
*******
'Max.' Of all that had happened today, the only thing she had on her mind was her ex-boyfriend.
It was six thirty in the morning in Las Vegas. The streets were empty but the sky was still pitch black. She had just gotten off of her first shift at work and was walking home thinking about what he was maybe doing right then.
Walking past a dark alley, she heard a girl scream. She spotted a creature with a hideous face grabbing the girl.
Feeling adrenaline run through her veins, like it had when she was assaulted at work later that night, she had mass amounts of power. She didn't know why the feeling was with her all and frankly didn't care. All she knew was to kill this, this, whatever it was.
She dropped her bag, ran at the fastest speed she has ever ran in her life and tackled the thing that she had later identified as a vampire. Sitting on top of him with his back flat on the ground she butchered his face punch after punch. After knocking the vampire out and realizing the girl and left, she remembered the old Dracula movies that she had watched with Maria, and stabbed a wooden stick found nearby in his heart.
After the fight she grabbed her bag and thought about what could have caused the sudden change in her. She reached into her shirt and grabbed her silver-cross, you know for moral support. A light bulb went off and she realized that the sudden change had been when she put the necklace on. Her confidence, maturity, strength, speed, and fighting ability all were connected through her mother's necklace.
Following her epiphany, she heard the slamming of an aluminum garbage can against a brick wall three blocks down.
"I guess the necklace powers include hearing," she laughed to herself as she made her way to an alley to become one of those comic book heroes.
********
Finally making it to Roswell, Buffy and Angel started to get their stomach in knots. Sure Angel had practice with his other non-existent son but this was somehow different.
'Buffy calm down. Sure you abandoned her for sixteen years in hopes to save her from a cruel demony world that she now has to enter because she is the secret weapon in a war with aliens. She'll still love me. Yeah right!' Buffy thought wondering why she even bothered coming here to Roswell.
"Oh, how cute!" Dawn skrieched pointing at the Diner with the sign reading Crashdown Café.
"It's kind of tacky, don't you think?" Willow said staring at it with uncertainty.
"Come on Will's, give the tourist trap a chance," Xander pleaded with a smirk.
"Let's go," Buffy said ready to get out of the car preparing what she was going to say to her daughter later that day.
Xander, Willow, and Dawn had already made their way into the diner.
"Um, I have to stay in the car," Angel said disappointed. Even though it did seem tacky, he actually wanted to go in, but it was 3:15 P.M. and the sunlight didn't do much for his skintone.
"Why don't you get us two motel rooms? I have my cell phone you can call and tell me where you are later."
"Okay."
Not sure whether to follow through with what was really on her mind, she ignored all the cons popping up in her head and pecked Angel on the lips with a kiss.
Not waiting for a reaction, good or bad, from Angel, she jumped out of the car and headed towards the diner.
Angel touched his lip and smiled. He almost even felt his heart skip a beat, but that was impossible since he was a vampire and also dead.
********
Meeting at the Crashdown was a bad idea they discovered. It was really the only place kids could go after school and Michael and Maria couldn't stop working for a second so they could figure out what to do with the Liz situation
As the strangers walked it Maria sighed in defeat, Maria believed she would never be able to figure out what Isabel had seen in the dream walk.
They did get strangers a lot with being a tourist trap town and all but these people didn't look like your average alien geeks search for some extraterestrial life. They were probably in their mid-thirties and there was no camera seen on them. Oh well Maria would keep the comments to herself.
"Hi! Welcome to the Crashdown. Can I take your order?" Maria put on the fake front with a carefree attitude, when reallly she had everything to worry about.
"Um, hey, I'll take the MIBurger, the Strawberry Independence Day smoothy, the Mars Cherry Coke, and the Crater Sundae," Xander said not letting a breath sneak through his words.
After Dawn and Willow had ordered their small-portioned meal compared to Xander's, Buffy added another request to their order.
"Do you know of the Parker's daughter? I need to talk to her."
This had taken Maria by surprise. Did they know that Liz was missing? Did they know where she was? Did they want to know where she was so they could blow her up? Maybe they were aliens. I mean I found them suspicious right off the bat. I should go talk to the others right now.
"Um, sorry haven't seen her today. I'll make sure you get your orders soon."
Worried and confused Maria made her way over to the crew. You guys those people I am finding major suspicious like I-am-a-alien-and-am-going-to- shoot-you suspicious.
Max looked over and anger came over his face as he realized who the suspicious people were. They were the people who had kidnapped Liz in his vision. He made his way over with his dog-on-a-leash close by his side (Tess).
Buffy who had heard the boy get up abruptly and stood up just in case a confrontation was near. When she looked at his lackeys she discovered the evil-alien murderer from her dream.
"Willow, put a guard up," Willow followed directions knowing that she trusted Buffy, even though this was happening in front of a huge crowd of people.
Max's guard soon went up after that.
Both groups stood up with defensives both restraining their offenses.
Mr. Parker walked through the kitchen doors and stopped suddenly to see a not so normal situation going on in his restaurant. "What the hell?"