Thanks to all the reviewers:
Celtic Babe/ Elven Bride: Thank you for pointing out the errors, I have changed them to what it should be. I'll try harder in the future! Thanks for reading and reviewing.
Nikinoksnix: I've changed the errors you mentioned, thanks for that. It has been a while since I read the books so there was bound to be a few mistakes. I'm glad the story isn't boring and that you gave it a chance. Good luck with your Harry/ Dawn story, I'm sure you can think of a great plot and no, i don't think you are cut out to be evil!
Buffy the Slayer: One will die (not saying who) but they wont be brought back like Buffy was. That is for three reasons. 1) Willow wouldn't want to use dark magix again, 2) The last urn of oriris broke and 3) It didn't end so well last time and no-one would want to do that again. Thanks for reviewing!
Anthony R: Thanks for reading and reviewing and I'm glad you like the story.
matt: Maybe it wasn't Draco...see end of chap notes. Ripping someones heart out, now there's an idea... I might use the date thing in a couple of chaps or at the end, I like the idea though. Exams are over, yay! Thanks for reviewing.
LaRoseMinuit : See the note at the end of the chapter for traitor info. Thanks sooo much for reading and reviewing! I'm glad you like the story.
blondi gurl: I hope I didn't make you wait too long and that you like the next chapter. Thanks for reviewing!
I've borrowed some lines from various episodes here. Don't sue me for it, pretty please with cherries on top!
A/N: This chap would have been out sooner; but I had a little ficlet on my mind and had to get that out before I finished this chappie. Sorry!
CHAPTER 20- TRAITOR
"...there is a prophecy regarding Potter and the Key."
"I already know that." Voldermort said, his voice taking a deadly tone.
"I know who the key is; I've met her more than once but I didn't know of her importance until a friend mentioned her and the prophecy.
"Her name is Dawn Summers and she is the sister of this generation's original Vampire Slayer."
Voldermort started laughing manically. "We've got them, we've got them."
The servant backed out of the throne room and removed their mask to reveal two eyes, as hard as ice and blank of any emotion.
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"This is it, guys. The scythe we used to activate all you potentials." Buffy said to the crowded room.
She had gathered all the students who knew what was happening (Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Jade, Flick, Skye, Luna, Emily and Dawn) and all the Scooby's were there as well as a fair number of teachers.
"Wow." Felicity awed. "Can I play with it?"
Buffy smirked before tossing the scythe to the young slayer who caught it and started swinging it around.
The group watched her for a moment before turning back to Buffy. But their attention was soon diverted back to Flick. She had knocked a vase off its pedestal and it fell to the floor with a satisfying smash!
"Oops! My bad!" She said sheepishly.
Professor Dumbledore cleaned up the mess with a swish of his wand and Flick quietly sat in between Dawn and Jaden.
"OK; the reason I called this meeting was so that we could let you know what's going on. Giles?" Buffy said.
Giles cleaned his glasses before speaking, oblivious to the eye rolls and sniggers his actions were getting from half the room.
"Quite right. I believe everyone here knows of our plan to cast an incantation on the scythe so that it will 'suck out' all the magic from the death eaters; however this is proving more difficult than we expected.
"So far we have been able to use the scythe to draw the mystical energy out of several objects. The problem we faced was that it drew power from all things magical, including us. Even with our extensive research in the Hogwarts library, we have not found anything to help with this dilemma."
"So, "Buffy interrupted, "we thought we'd give the guys at Wolfram and Hart a call and see if they could help."
"Ah." Dumbledore said.
"What's wrong?"
"Wolfram and Hart is an evil lawyer firm."
"Yes we know that...and?" Buffy asked somewhat impatiently.
"They support Voldermort. Any information they give us would not be remotely reliable and what we wanted to know would get back to Voldermort." Dumbledore explained.
"We wouldn't ask W and H, per sè, we would ask our friends who run the LA branch." Buffy argued.
Dumbledore pursed his lips. "As you wish. However, I will not be held responsible for any repercussions of this...judgement and I beg of you to be wary of them. They may be your friends, but they are surrounded by evil."
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"What 'cha doing?" Harry asked as he sat down beside Dawn who was sitting against a tree near Hagrid's hut.
"Training the slayers." She replied lazily snuggling up against him.
"Yes; I can see that you're working them really hard." He said, his words dripping with sarcasm.
"I sent them into the forest. Whoever brings back the most heads after three hours wins."
"Heads?"
"Yea; as in beheaded demons." She explained.
"You sent them in there for three hours to fight very strong demons?"
"Well they are slayers, three hours should be nothing and they're in partners: Flick and Emily, Jade and Luna and Ginny and Skye. Don't sweat, they'll be fine."
"You teamed up Jade and Luna?"
"Yeah; why, shouldn't I of?"
"No way. Luna can annoy the most patient person in the world, let alone a powerful slayer with a tendency to blow off the handle a bit."
"Oh; oops. Should I call them back?" Dawn answered her own question. "Nah; they'll be fine. Besides it'll do them both good...probably."
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Meanwhile, in the forest, thing were either going really well, or really badly.
For Ginny and Skye, things were going really well. They had fought together before and were both fairly experienced in fighting the demons found in the Forbidden Forest. After 45 minutes of near perfect teamwork and quick kills they had seven heads in their 'Mary Poppins bag' and were still going strong.
For Flick and Emily it was almost as good. Out of all the slayers currently in the forest, Flick was the most experienced and Emily was eager to learn. In the first hour, they collected five heads and were getting faster as Emily learnt more and became more confident.
However, Jade and Luna were having problems, although not so much with the slaying. They managed thirteen head in one hour thirty, but Jade was very close to making Luna's head the next she put in the bag.
"But, Jordan-"
"It's Jaden." Jade said through gritted teeth.
"-the Lohesh demon doesn't exist!" Luna totally ignored Jade.
"It would appear it does as I currently have its head in my bag."
"It just doesn't make sense. Father's article said that it was a soul killer and had been extinct for several decades! You must be wrong; it can't be a Lohesh."
"Yes that's it! I'm wrong! Couldn't be your bloody father, no no no, it must be me." Jade muttered to herself.
Luna looked slightly amused at Jaden's muttering. "You know talking to yourself is the first sign of madness." She acknowledged before walking on ahead.
"I'm the crazy one?"
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"Hey, dead boy junior. Spike? SPIKE! Wait up!" Xander ran up to his kind-of- friend.
"Whelp?" Spike turned around, very dazed.
"Yeah, it's me- wait a minute! My name, is Xander. Say it with me now: Xand- derrrr."
"Xander?" Spike asked befuddled.
"Are you alright?" Despite their differences, Xander felt concern bubble inside of him for his ally.
"I'm fine, would you stop spinning around?"
"I'm getting Madam Pomfrey."
"Don't bother...did you manage to split yourself in two again?" He asked, still dazed.
"Errr no. Listen Spike, there's something wrong with you. I'm gonna get you to the Scooby rooms and we'll get you better, alright? Wait; what are you doing out of there anyway? It's daylight."
"Dumbledore...Voldermort...prophecy...sunrise." Was all Xander could make out. Well, that and some vowel sounds that weren't much use.
"Riiight. Let's get going then shall we?" He slung the blond vampires arm around his neck so that he could help him walk as Spike looked very wobbly by this point.
About half way back to the common room Spike suddenly shoved Xander away from him.
"What the bloody hell are you doing, whelp?"
"Me? I was helping you, and, speaking of you; what was wrong with you?" He demanded.
"What do you- oh. That. There was nothing wrong with me; erm... Dumbledore warned me that there might be some side effects. Yeah that's right."
"Dumbledore warned you? Side effects to what?" Now Xander was the confused one.
"I can't tell you. Listen whelp, it would really be better if you didn't tell anyone about this."
"Why?"
"Just trust me...ok?"
"Ha; why should I?"
"Let me put this another way; do you value your life?"
"Oh yeah; that's convincing me that you're not evil."
"Whelp...Xander...I haven't been evil for years. I've fought by your side; can't you just trust me? Even if you can't, just give me a couple of days and I'll prove it to you."
"Fine, "Xander relented, "two days, then I'm telling Buffy."
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"So what did you lear?" Harry asked patronisingly, leaning against the portrait that would grant them entrance to the Gryffindor common room.
Towards the end of the training session, Jade had finally lost her temper and stuffed the less experienced slayer into her bag which contained all the bloody and grimy demon heads.
Needless to say that a), the bag was magically enhanced to make it bigger on the inside and weightless for the carrier and b), Luna had not been very happy about it.
"I learned... that Luna is very compactable?" She tried with a cheeky grin on her face.
"Uh-huh try again." He teased.
"Those bags hold a lot more than it looks like and that I should get one for when I go on holiday?"
"Nope, try-"
She stopped his questioning with a kiss. "I learnt that you are always right." She whispered, kissing him again.
They were interrupted by a polite cough from behind them.
"Looks like someone's been getting lucky while I've been away." The person said.
Dawn whipped round at the sound of her voice. "Faith."
Faith nodded. "Yup; that's me. Hiya Dawnie."
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ONE HOUR EARLIER:
"...so you've really come to help us?" Willow asked.
"That's what I said." Faith replied. She had thought that the Scooby's were going to tell her to get lost at first, but they seemed to be coming round to her presence slowly.
"We can use all the help we can get. Thank you." Buffy said.
"It's nothing." Faith yawned widely. "Eugh, jet lag. I hate jet lag!"
"Did you come strait here from the airport?" Willow asked, still slightly suspicious of Faith's sudden arrival.
"Nah; I dropped the mini-slayers off to get some munchies while I had a... errand to run."
"You're running errands now? Anything we need to know about?" Buffy asked concerned.
"Nah; It was nothing important, personal stuff. So what's been going on here?" Faith changed the subject swiftly.
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Jaden slipped through the corridors to clean up after her training session. She was quite pleased with herself; despite the 'babbling idiot', they hadn't done at all badly in the head stakes and a good killing session always left her feeling satisfied.
For the second time in as many days, Jade bumped into Draco as he was about to enter the Slytherin common room.
"Draco, oh my God, I'm so sorry, I can't believe I did that again!"
"Don't worry about it." He said whilst picking himself off the floor.
"Listen, I wanted to thank you for last night. I can't have been easy to deal with!"
"Don't worry about it, really." He assured her. "I found it all really interesting."
"You did? You haven't told anyone have you?" Jade panicked. "I shouldn't have told you, it was a secret and-"
"Jaden, relax. Do you trust me?" She nodded. "Then what's the problem?"
"There isn't one. Sorry."
"Don't worry about it." He pulled her into a hug, looking over her shoulder. "You can trust me."
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"When did you get here?" Dawn questioned.
"Just over an hour ago." Faith replied; felling uncomfortable due to the look in Dawn's eyes. "B contacted Angel about the apocalypse, and the prophecy of course, and he told me all about it. You know me; can't resist a good fight; I've brought some of the Cleveland slayers to help you guys out."
"You did?" Dawn asked doubtfully.
Faith nodded before turning to Harry. "Hi; I'm Faith."
"Hey. Harry Potter. I've heard a lot about you." He told her.
"I bet you have." Faith shot a quick glare in Dawn's direction, before smirking wildly. "Wait, Harry Potter? The guy you're protecting? Way to go D!"
Dawn blushed. "Now I remember why I don't like you, well one of the reasons anyway. Goodnight Harry."
Harry knew how to take a hint and make a hasty exit, grateful to get away.
"Xander said that Anya was much more embarrassing than I will ever be. And I thought you'd have got over that other thing by now." Faith commented.
"What? When you tried to kill me and my family and then made my sister act really weird for months after you were in a coma? Funnily enough I still need some time."
"You forgave Angel when he turned into Angelus, and from what I hear, he was way worse to you than I was. And everyone forgave Willow and she tried to end the frigging world! Not to mention Anya and Spike."
"That wasn't Angel; that was Angelus and Willow was grieving and dittos the Angel- Angelus thing for Anya and Spike."
"God, broken record much? You sound just like big sis, as always." Faith rolled her eyes dramatically.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Think about it Dawnie, actually don't even bother. No matter what I do, I'll always be big bad Faith who can't be trusted and kills people, no matter how much I change or how many times I help the Scoob's, it'll never be good enough. And you know what, I don't even care anymore. See ya around."
Dawn tried to hide the guilt Faith's words brought to her, but it wasn't easy. As the reformed slayer turned on her heels and strode off she made an instant decision.
"Faith!" She stopped and turned around. Dawn twisted uncomfortably under her gaze. "So...how've you been?"
"Ya know; five by five." She smirked. "You?"
"Five by five."
"So does that mean we're cool?" The once-rogue slayer asked
"Yeah; I guess." Dawn shrugged.
"I knew the guilt trip would work, it did on B and Willow."
"You mean you played us?"
"Totally." Faith said with a big grin.
Dawn just rolled her eyes, earning her a burst of laughter from Faith.
"Brat really is all woman sized!"
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I've reached twenty chapters! Only five chaps to go & I mostly know what's going to happen, yay! I want to start a review poll on one of the things I'm not sure about:
Who should be the traitor; Draco, Spike or Faith? No matter what they've said in this chapter, they could be lying. Please, please review or email (kiaraz87hotmail.com) with who you would (or wouldn't) want it to be. It doesn't make any difference to the story as to which one's picked. Oh, and don't rule out the imperious or other curses like that. It's whatever the reviewers want!
Thanks for reading; Kiara xxx