Note:
Spike had not returned with the information from the church place he went to, and Andrew did not go with him.
First Day:
Buffy, Faith, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Nevil had Potions together in 2nd period. Buffy and Faith seemed to be the only ones not fearing it. But they didn't care for Snape. But they had it figured out, if something went wrong. Buffy thought that the 'if' seemed to be a 'most likely.'
They had separate first hours. But the two sisters had the same classes, same hours. They went to divinations first. This was an interesting period already. She talked about seeing things, which a few kids giggled at, but Faith and Buffy were pretty interested in it.
She started them off with a treat for the first day. She would read their tea leaves.
Buffy didn't know why she was a little hesitant about it, but she felt that her sister was as well.
They were handed glasses, and instant-tea. And it was instantaneous. Professor Trelawney went around and read a few people's, She made some people smile, and others frown.
But when she got to Harry, she took a look. She asked Harry, "What does that look like to you?" and she pointed to a screwy line of leaves in his tea.
He turned the cup to the side before replying, "I think it looks like a lightning bolt."
The professor silently shrieked, and moved on after saying to Harry, "You have a great battle in your future. Watch out for the rain." She left him confused.
When she got to Faith, she looked it. She took a glance at her cup, and saw a sribbly line in the shape of a knife. She grumbled a little to herself about darkness and reclaiming some family or something. Then she turned to her and said "You have darkness I your past and future you are not aware of. Watch your back, and look out for your loved ones." The professor looked mighty pale.
Then she turned to Buffy, and prepared to read the blonde's leaves. The teacher went pale before replying, "death doesn't stop you child..." then she turned the cup to the other side, and fainted.
The class was looking at the floor where the professor landed. Buffy blinked, and said, "I didn't do it..."
Well, it was certainly an interesting class.
When they got to potions class, most of the school was talking about what had gone on in there. There were tons of rumors circling already. Buffy met up with her friends and housemates, and prepared to enter the classroom.
They stepped in, and many jumped when they saw that professor Snape was sneering at them. Faith thought she was going to combust as she held back her laughter at his attempt to bug her or her sister.
Buffy had been prepared to hold her eyes still, but still fought the urge to roll her eyes. Harry however, just sat down and made sure not to look at Severus unless it was called for specifically, or he was in the middle of teaching.
Ron and Hermione went to their seats, while Nevil gulped, and desperately tried to sit as far back in class as possible.
He asked some basic questions, and took twenty points from Gryffindor for getting some answer wrong. When he called on Buffy though, he asked a question that he didn't know anyone else would know about. "What is one of the ingredients to re-en-soul someone or something?"
He looked directly at Buffy, and tried to get her to jump or something when he called, "Miss Winters." Both girls looked up though, and he directly looked at Buffy. That was their cue to say who it was.
Buffy answer with, "Orb of Thesullah." Buffy had no idea where she got the idea, but she had it.
Snape was greatly surprised, as was many other students. Hermione had not even known it.
"Where did you get that?"Faith asked through their link. Buffy mentally shrugged through the link.
"It was one of those spur-of-the-moment things."she stated simply.
Snape was sneering at her now. He hadn't expected anyone to know that. He looked at her, expecting her to back up in terror or something. Instead, she looked at him as if he was any other teacher. "Where did you learn that?" he asked.
She shrugged. "I dunno, I find I remember things I would never have known before sometimes."
"Ten points to Gryffindor for the answer."
The rest of the class went as usual, and Snape avoided the twins. The ten points were quickly taken away though as the house was questioned.
As soon as the news flooded the school that a Gryffindor had actually gotten points out of Snape, Buffy was a star. Gryffindor was constantly brushing passed her, trying to get to know how to do it, and how she managed.
Faith got her sister out of the spotlight though, when they went to classes.
Nothing else really exciting happened that day. But Buffy found she was getting a headache by the time dinner rolled around. Snape had given her points, and Trelawney had fainted in front of her tea leaves.
Buffy and Faith both found that their favorite class was DADA. They were both surprisingly good. The professor complimented them. Apparently, they were uncommonly agile, graceful, and he was grateful that he had some students who paid attention.
The paparazzi were itching for details at every turn. Buffy was forced to take one of the twins' potions to relieve the headache.
When they retired to their rooms, Buffy and Faith started tutoring Hermione on the finer points of potions. Not that the other girl needed help, but they wanted her to be ready if Snape questioned her about something that she didn't know.
Harry and Ron were not liking many of their classes. But they hated Potions with a passion because of the professor being Snape. Harry didn't think that he would be able to get very far because of him.
They met up with the girls for dinner, and talked about Buffy's strange classes. Faith told them to knock t off. Her sister had a headache.
They said their 'sorrys', and talked about other things that were interesting them. Harry was wondering about Quidditch, as was Buffy and Faith. Ron knew a lot about it, seeing as how his brothers were on the team, and he was into it as well.
Hermione seemed to be the only one of the five of them that wasn't into the game.
When she told them this, Ron had a fit, but Harry quickly settled him down. Faith got them to talk about something other then sports, ad the subject quickly changed to Hogsmade.
(How do you spell that?)
Buffy and faith were already asking permission. Hermione reminded herself to send out her permission slip, and Ron had already gotten his back, knowing that it would be asked of them.
Even though they had found that Harry had only known about Hogwarts for a few days now, they were still left shocked that he didn't know about it.
They decided to go to ask Dumbledore about it.
But dinner was almost over by then, and they didn't have the time.
Sunnydale, California. The day of Buffy's and faith's deaths.
The potentials had set out in three different groups. Xander and Anya took some of them to go for food. Giles and Andrew had taken some of them to the hospital to get supplies. Dawn and Willow had taken a few more of them to the mall for a little while. They needed a break after the other night.
Giles was still feeling guilty for pushing her out of the house, and basically telling her that it was her fault that Xander lost an eye, and a couple of the potentials died. All of the others that had been in the scooby gang at any time were feeling the same way.
Willow had stopped the relationship before it even got there with Kennedy. She was starting to see that the young potential was just power-hungry in a way, and thought Buffy was the almighty power hungry person.
Kennedy didn't see that she was just as stressed as the rest of them.
Giles had gone with Andrew to get supplies because he did not want to have to go through watching girls talk about clothes and flaunt them around again. He had gone through it a lot when Buffy was his slayer in her high school years.
He would do it again with her, but he did not wish to see a bunch of girls, some of which were mean and power hungry like Kennedy, flaunt them around in a way that would make Buffy seem unfitted.
He had forced Andrew to come with him, knowing that the annoying boy would have gotten things stuck in her head about it.
He took the Asian potential and a few others with him.
Willow and Dawn made sure to get something comfortable and expensive. Everything was basically free at the moment, and the racks were being over run by excited girls.
Dawn was kind of miffed that Buffy didn't come with them. It had been her idea to go have some fun while it was still light out, and she wanted to stay home.
She went back to trying on clothes as she pushed those thoughts away.
Anya and Xander grabbed a few of the carts to load things in. They still had a some power for appliances and things, so they got the iced things as well.
Xander made sure to grab a bunch of Buffy's favorite ice cream (Fudge-mint-chocolate-chip-cookie-dough.) He was still feeling guilty, and knew he should.
Half an hour or so later, the two of them and three of the potentials had carts that were full. Xander sighed. It wouldn't be as bad if the things were being restocked, but they were beginning to run out of certain things. And the milk would go bad within a week.
He heard a gasp, and looked over at one of the girls.
She had punched one of the aisle cabinets over....
Xander sighed, and held back a bulge in his throat. That had to mean that Faith was killed. He didn't even get it through his head that it might have been Buffy.
At least the girl who had just gotten Called was worthy, smart, and an actual good person.
He sighed again, and got everybody to stop. It was time to go to the house and tell everyone the news. He didn't want to think of how Buffy would take it. He knew that she would beat herself up about leaving her there. Not that she could have done much besides breaking her out...
Giles was loading a cart he had gotten from the grocery store when his cell rang. He picked it up out of his pocket and answered.
It was one of his contacts.
Someone had found a slayer. Giles closed his eyes, thinking that Faith had been killed. But he was then told that she had been a slayer for about three months now.
He didn't know what to say. To his knowledge, none of the slayers had been killed, and Faith was still in prison.
Then he remembered the blood on Buffy's shirt when he saw the house after they had gotten Willow back. One of her shirts had been ruined with blood.
He put two-and two together, and let out a strangled sigh. His surrogate daughter had died again. And apparently Willow had kept her from getting her peace back.
He thanked the man, and was told that the girl was on her way already.
He wondered about her second death through the portal.
His question was answered when another of his contacts, a woman, had phoned him and told him that a slayer here had been fighting for a year and a half.
That explained that. He thanked the woman, who was one of the few living watchers left, and was told she was going to come with her charge to the hellmouth.
He talked with her for a few minutes, when he hung up. He collected some more supplies before deciding that his collection was adequate for now.
Willow and Dawn were happily browsing, when someone called for them. "Willow!"
They raced towards the voice, and found a rack of clothes was now just a pile on the ground. The metal had been separated, and the potential had been chosen.
Dawn gasped, and Willow sighed. None of them thought about Buffy dying. They all had unconsciously picked out the-slayer-that-was-not-Buffy's death.
Willow told them to grab what they had now. If anything they had not tried on didn't fit, then they could use it as a rag.
They had to go back to the house now, to tell Buffy of the other slayer's death.
Another had been chosen.
Dawn and her group were the first ones to return the Summers Obad. She opened the door and walked in, leaving the front door open for the people behind her.
"Buffy." She called. There was no answer. The only noise in the house was the television; and it was low in volume.
"Buffy?" she called again, wondering if her sister might have gone outside to train alone.
She sat her bag down on the chair, and went in search of her sister.
She looked in the bathroom. No Buffy. She looked into the dining room. No Buffy.
She opened the door to the kitchen, and stopped. Dead in her tracks.
Buffy Summers's body was on the floor in front of an opened door. Dawn didn't even get the impression that her sister's body was slowly becoming invisible. It was her body.
As she slid down to the floor next to the door, and against the cabinet, she couldn't breathe.
Buffy was dead... again.
Someone called for her, but she did not answer.
A few moments later, Xander's and Giles's groups returned.
Dawn said nothing.
Guilt set in for the second time in Dawn's life over her sister's many deaths.
A few hours later, all of the scoobies had tears in their eyes, and the potentials were worried.
Giles had informed them that two slayers had been found. They all found that there were now four different slayers.
But all the original scoobies could think of was how things had ended the other day. They had thrown their best friend, surrogate daughter, friend, leader, mutual sisterly person out the door. Of her own home.
There was a lot of guilt going around. Spike returned that night, and was given the news of Buffy's death, and broke down after leaving the house to grieve. He was shocked and appalled at what had happened since he left. But the slayer was dead again, and his heart hurt with the knowledge.
Willow found traces of magic in and around her. It had killed her.
But what was most confusing, was what was happening to the body. It was barely seeable anymore. It was simply disappearing.
Nobody would touch her to find out if she was disappearing, or simply becoming invisible.
An hour or so later, Giles got a call that another slayer had been found. She has only been a slayer for a few months. But she knew the slayer before her. And that girl had been the slayer for four and a half years.
Giles was really confused, and hoped that this was all just a dream. He wished that it was still 1999.
The scoobies would still be in high school, and Jenny and Him were still together. Angel and Buffy had not gone to the next step yet, and they were happy. He could watch them, as they were; and Xander was alone, as was Cordy. Willow would still be falling for Oz at the time. And Buffy was happy. And she was alive. She had finally gotten over her first death
But he knew it would not come true. He soon left to one of the rooms, broke down and cried for his daughter that he had betrayed and left alone.
The words hit him like a brick when he was crying. She had said them to him the night Jenny had died, and he had gone to kill Angelus in a fit of passion.
"What- are you trying to get yourself killed!?" she had screamed. Then she had broken down in front of him and ran into his arms. "You can't leave me alone. I can't do this without you."
But in the end, he had left her alone after all.
Answering Reviews....
PS.... I hope you like this. I finally got to the part where the scoobies find the body.
Buffy's deaths...
1- Master
2- When she Killed Angel (not physically, but it hurt her spirit enough for the PTBs to call it a death. Another was called.)
3- in Quartoth during Childbirth
4- When Angel left her. (It wasn't physical, but it hurt her spirit and soul enough that the PTBs had accounted it for a death)
5- Glory's Portal
6- Her heart stopped beating from Warren's gunshot
7- When the death eater killed her.
8- Faith died at the death eater's wand.
It took me a few minutes to figure it out correctly, but that leaves seven slayers, not including Faith and Buffy.
Hi. The only problem is that I can't write very English-y if you know what I mean. Otherwise, I would.
Zayra: Thanx! I will hopefully be able to continue it soon, but I am not making nay promises.
Enchantress10: I like your idea, but I don't think I will have Hermione be a potential, because we already have Faith and Buffy for the witches/slayers.
Buffyalora15vampr: Hi! Thanx for reviewing the many chapters, and not just every now and again. Btu you don't have to say a lot. Just let me know you care. I enjoy your reviews... Can you pleeeeease continue your fics as well? I'm waiting..... lol!
NOTE:- I don't know if I will call every potential. I might change it. I am thinking of killing Faith and Buffy AGAIN at the end of that battle, but I don't know. If I do, they may end up back in Quartoth if I use the amulets, and then they can just work their way back to earth. But that is just a thought!
If anyone thinks I have over done the Oh-no-Buffy's-dead-again thing, too bad. I kinda like it.
I am just trying to make the people as I see them through other fics. I have only seen the first two HP movies, and it has been months since either of those have reached my eyes. I can't get into the books for some reason.
I have no particular favorite to who Hermione chooses. (Ron or Harry) But that triangle is driving me insane. I tend not to finish reading fics that portray it a lot.
Oh yeah, I was asked about the age things for the groups. Remember, this does not mean they will get together right away. It just means that they are eyeing each other. They are simple crushes. Not romantic things. And blushing is not bad....
I think that is all of the basic questions I have been asked.
Please review and ask me plenty of questions. I will answer to the best of my ability, and keep any ideas in mind.