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Chapter Three

"Is the Slayer dead?" the Master asked as he saw some of his finest minions walking up to him.

"Not exactly," Spike began as he began licking blood off of his fingers. "But we took out one of her friends and there were traces of Slayer blood in the friend's blood, so me and Dru are off," he added as he grabbed Drusilla by the arm and began walking down the mall hallway, stopping when they reached a small store and ran inside, pulling at each other's clothes.

Kendra rolled her eyes in disgust as she walked up to the Master, grabbing a small cup of blood from his vast tray of them beside him.

"The Slayer still is around?" he asked angrily.

Kendra nodded slightly. "She was protected. They had weapons."

"They took Cordy," the fourth vampire shot out angrily.

"She was weak, she deserved it," Kendra shot back at him. "If you can't deal with that, then just go stake yourself," she commanded.

The Master shook his head at that comment. "Don't do that," he commanded. "If you do, then they won, which means we loose. And I hate loosing."

"Beg pardon, who are you?" Giles asked again as he walked closer toward the blond, Willow and Tara following close behind him.

"Dammit, I was afraid of this," the blond muttered to herself as she got down from her seat and walked over to Giles's personal collection of demon books and whatnot. Without hesitation, she pulled out the book she needed and began flipping to the page she needed.

"How did you know about that?" Willow asked as she took a seat at the table.

"I'll explain, I promise," the blond began as she handed the open book to Giles, pointing down at a specific section of the page.

Giles cleaned his glasses for a moment before he began reading the material presented to him. "Anyanka, patron saint of scorned women," he read aloud.

Kennedy's eyes widened in shock as she move over towards the Watcher, peering over his shoulder. Her eyes then shifted down to the small illustration of a demon woman, who looked like a brunette, veinier version of the blond in front of her. "Is this you?" she asked curiously.

The blond nodded, briefly switching into her demon face for confirmation. "Giles, you have to make things right. It's what you do, I know that," she began.

"How?" Giles asked in apparent shock as he continued staring at the blond woman, Anyanka he knew now. "If you're Anyanka, why does any of this matter to you?"

"First off, I prefer just Anya," Anya began quietly as she walked out and joined the rest of the group. "And now comes the explaining. Now, some of this you might not believe since this reality is altered, but it's all true, I swear."

"Listening," Kennedy began as she started at Anya.

Anya nodded as she began fidgeting with her hands slightly as she began telling her story. "Everything about me you will read in there before 1998 is completely true. But that's only me. Now I'm not entirely sure what happened before I got to Sunnydale, but I know a thing or two. Mainly that you are not supposed to be the Slayer," Anya continued as she pointed over to Kennedy. "Buffy Summers was not supposed to have died that night. There was this boy, a really good friend of yours," she said with a nod at Willow, "who was supposed to be in love with her and he brought her back using CPR. Cordelia was not a vampire, she was actually supposed to fall in love with this guy who brought Buffy back, we'll just call him Betraying Guy to be simple."

"Why 'Betraying Guy'?" Tara asked curiously as she raised her hand much in the style of a little schoolchild who knew the answer to the teacher's question.

"I'll get to that," Anya answered before continuing with the story. "But this Betraying Guy decides that he would rather be kissing Willow than his girlfriend Cordelia. Unfortunately for him, Cordelia finds out and her wrath calls me to Sunnydale where I grant her a wish and alter reality. But in that reality, Giles smashes my pendant, or power source, and I'm left mortal and powerless back in the real world."

"The real world with Buffy being alive?" Willow asked curiously.

Anya nodded for affirmation. "Things there get complicated and I end up falling in love with this Betraying Guy. Things are going so great between us that he decides to propose, even though he only did that because he thought the world was going to end. He didn't really want to get married, but I didn't know that until that one day I dreamed about ever since I became humanÉOn our wedding day, Betraying Guy decides that he'd rather just go steady so he runs off leaving me to walk down that aisle alone with nothing to look forward to," Anya continued as her brown eyes slightly began to tear.

"You poor thing," Willow began as she walked over to the strange blond, ultimately placing a comforting arm around her shoulder and wiping the tears from her cheek.

Anya tried to shake it off. "I'm fineÉBut anyway, after that I get my vengeance powers back again. I take off and leave for a little, then come back and while I'm getting my things from our old apartment, he comes in and that's were things get a little fuzzy. All I know is we yell at each other and I say I wish he was never born."

"And because you are a demon, your wish came true?" Kennedy asked.

"No," Giles and Anya said at the exact same time.

"Why no?" Tara asked. "It looks like it came true," she said as she gestured around at the world around them with her hand.

"A vengeance demon cannot grant her own vengeance wishes," Giles explained as he looked up from the reading.

"Meaning that another demon must have somehow heard my wish and took it upon themselves to grant it," Anya elaborated.

"Any idea on who that might be?" Kennedy asked inquisitively.

Anya bit her lower lip for a second before letting out a small groan. "For crying out loud," she mumbled. "Turn to page two seventy one of that," she commanded Giles before she began yelling out "Halfrek! Come on Hallie, get your ass down here!"