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The teacher droned on and Lizzie sat in the seat behind Sarah in the middle of the class reading through the lines.

Angel: Well, have you verified the text?

Buffy begins to laugh. Angel and Giles see her and exchange a look. She slowly starts to walk away from the office door. Angel comes out of the office after her. She stops by the table and faces them. Giles stands in his office doorway.

Buffy: So that's it, huh? I remember the drill. One Slayer dies, next one's called! Wonder who she is. (to Giles) Will you train her? Or will they send someone else?

Giles: Buffy, I...

Buffy: They say how he's gonna kill me? Do you think it'll hurt?

Tears are flowing freely from her eyes. Angel tries to hug her, but she puts up her hands and quickly steps away.

Buffy: Don't touch me! (to Giles) Were you even gonna tell me?

Giles: I was hoping that I wouldn't have to. That there was... some way around it. I...

Buffy: I've got a way around it. I quit!

Angel: It's not that simple.

Buffy: I'm making it that simple! I quit! I resign, I-I'm fired, you can find someone else to stop the Master from taking over!

Giles: I'm not sure that anyone else can. All the... the signs indicate...

Buffy: The signs? (throws a book at him) READ ME THE SIGNS! (throws another one) TELL ME MY FORTUNE! YOU'RE SO USEFUL SITTING HERE WITH ALL YOUR BOOKS! YOU'RE REALLY A LOTTA HELP!

Reading the words sent a chill down her spine and she shivered, there was something about them that made her stomach churn and she suddenly felt anxious.

The teacher let them go and Sarah walked out of the class with Lizzie, "How's the lines coming?" Sarah asked.

"Okay, I should have them down by the end of the day. They're pretty simple."

"Cool, I'm before you this afternoon so just sit with the gang and I'll come after."

The rest of the day seemed to go really fast and before Lizzie knew it she was heading to the theatre. First up were the auditions to play Anya so Sarah had already gone back stage. Lizzie spotted her new-found friends and walked over to them. There was a seat on both Side's of the group of three but she chose to sit next to Luke, whom she secretly had, had a crush on since she met him. He was taller than her, the same height as Sarah. With Dark hair and dark eyes, his sense of humour was a little hard to get sometimes but she liked him. On his left sat Gemma with her very short black hair sticking up all over the place with gel, she too is as she claimed 'vertically challenged' like Lizzie. And on the far side sat Marc with his dirty blond hair hanging in his face, she could see his underpants peaking out from under his baggy Trousers.

Sarah did her stint on stage and totally nailed her lines and did a brilliant job as Anya. Being so blunt really wasn't a problem for her she was kind of like that her self. After the Anya auditions were finished they went through the parts of Cordelia, Xander and Oz. They called all the Willows up for their turn but Lizzie had started to panic, she'd noticed that through the auditions that the people read lines from their character but her lines were for Buffy.

"Why aren't you going?" Sarah asked.

Lizzie wordlessly handed her the paper and Sarah gasped when she read it.

"You got the wrong sheet," Sarah hissed.

"The Guy gave it me, I didn't pick it my self," Lizzie defended.

"Oh crap! You'll just have the audition for Buffy then. When your finished just say you want the part of Willow instead and that there was a misunderstanding," Sarah shrugged and handed the paper back over to Lizzie.

"Okay I can do that," she said more to her self that for Sarah's benefit.

Lizzie settled back into her seat and took a deep breath, Luke looked over at her and smiled reaching over his arm and rubbing his hand over her head mussing up her hair. "You'll be great," he told her and gave her the smile that made her want to kiss him. There was just something about him that made her happy when she looked at him, he always seemed to know just what to say to make her feel batter. He treated her like a sister though but annoyed her to no-end.

She smiled up at him then rested her eyes back onto the paper in her lap, the words seemed to blur so she squeezed her eyes tightly and took another deep breath. The whiteness of the paper seemed to sting her eye's, she pulled off her glasses and gave her tired eyes a rub. The glasses were her safety barrier they belonged to her mother. After her death Lizzie had insisted on wearing them in some misguided attempt to be close to her mom. The prescription made her feel dizzy so her father seeing this wasn't a passing faze had clear glass fitted into them so not to affect Lizzie's eyes sight.

She placed the glasses into her bag and read over the lines a few more times finding it easier to see with out them on her face.

Mrs Davies the drama teacher shouted for the guys who would be auditioning for the part of Angel. Luke stood up and made his way over to the stage and Lizzie called break a leg to him in chorus with Sarah.

He was third up on stage and was by far the best one and was a shoe in for the part. Mrs Davis clapped her hands together and looked dramatically around the room as if searching for someone. "As there seems to be no one else interested in the lead role I guess we should be moving on to," she was interrupted as the theatre door slammed close and a boy walking in with his dark brown hair musses up with gel. His clothes suited him to a T, his black slacks hugged him in all the right places and his leather coat hung on him in as if it was made for his body. A white wife beater peaked out in the gap in his jacket and rested on it was a silver cross-dangling form a chain on his neck.

Mrs Davies's face grew into a grin and she clapped again, "Okay one more person for Angel then we move on to the Buffy's."

The boy walked full of confidence up to the stage but as he walked his head turned as he past Lizzie's row and looked her directly in the eyes. A strange feeling went through her body and her eyes locked with his. He made it to the stage and went in though the back entrance and Lizzie shuck her head to clear her thoughts.

"Who's he?" Lizzie leaned over to Sarah and whispered into her ear.

"That's Cole Rigby, a hottie isn't he?" Sarah whispered back.

Lizzie nodded and focused her eyes on the stage, Cole stood in the centre of it but looked as her intently as if trying to figure something out.

Mrs Davies prompted him to start his lines and he cleared his throat and began. The words came out of his mouth so naturally and it was like the words came from his heart. He finished his performance and Mrs Davies seemed pleased with her self and had a smug smile on her face. Cole jumped off the stage not bothering with using the stairs he seemed to be making his way over to her seat and she squirmed trying to get comfortable in her seat but Mrs Davies collard him and sat him down at the front of the theatre. He didn't look pleased and glanced her way. She looked at the back of his head wishing he would look around one more time. Her view was blocked by Luke walking in front of her, then sitting back in his seat. He rested his feet on the chair in front and turned to her "How'd I do?"

Luckily for her Sarah jumped in and spoke before she had a chance to speak. Leaving them to speak Lizzie got up and went to the door next to the stage and went in with the other girls. Melinda pushed her back and elbowed the front girl to the back and took the first place.

Lizzie had to admit Melinda was actually good at it, she new all the lines and did a good job. She did a bow when she finished and gave the next girl up a look of distaste and went to her friends. They hadn't dared going after the part. Jane the best friend went for the part of Cordelia and Miranda auditioned for Anya. They gave her the thumbs up and she nodded her head cockily.

Lizzie watched as all the other girls did their audition and frowned at the fact that not one of them was as good as Melinda.

She took the stage and looked at Mrs Davies, "I'm really sorry Mrs Davies but I picked up the wrong sheet," she dropped her eyes and played with her hands wringing her fingers. "So erm I was wondering if I could uses Buffy's lines to audition for Willow?"

"That's fine dear," Mrs Davies said a big smile on her face as usual and nodded at her to begin.

Lizzie fidgeted on the stage looking really un comfortable, she has always been involved in the play's at her old school. But one thing she didn't mention to Sarah was that it was normally back stage and not actually acting.

Sarah bit her lip in the audience, "she'll do fine," Luke whispered.

Lizzie caught eyes with Cole again and a calm went through her she let her hands go and stood up straight. Feeling determined she queued Mr Jacobs the Music teacher to feed her the first line. Cole mouthed it to her and she started to laugh as Buffy was supposed to. Not a happy laugh, a sad laugh. She said all her lines with such emotion and couldn't keep her eyes off Cole who was saying Angel's lines and she followed his lead.

When she finished she heard a round of applause come for near the back of the theatre and saw Sarah, Luke, Marc and Gemma stood up cheering for her. She smiled at them shyly loosing some of her new found confidence and moved off the stage.

Sarah pulled her into a tight hug and rocked her side to side hitting her hip on the row of chairs in front and her knee on the other side banged in to her the seat.

"You were brilliant," Gemma told moving Luke to the said her hugging her too.

"You rocked Liz," Marc told her and pinched her cheek.

She rubbed at it and fell into Luke's arms as he pulled her to him, "knew you could do it." He praised her and she rested her chin on his shoulder looking over it and right at Cole and she smiled at him. He didn't smile back but the look in his eyes twinkled.

"Come on," Sarah ordered and yanked her arm pulling her away from Luke and dragging her out of the theatre with the others following.

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to be continued