Jean Griffin: I'm sorry that I confused you :(
Well, let me say it in this way: you're right. actually it's impossible to recruit a new slayer if Faith isn't death. I thoguht that she is "unable to come" because she is in prison and so the watcher's council passed her over for that reason. I hope you understand it better now :)

8. The awakening of the sense

One day he found that it would be time to stake her first vampire.

So they went late in the evening to the cemetery. Sarah was quite excited and nervous, but she won't admit it in front of Monsieur Londres. They stopped in front of a new grave.

"Where will you know from that this here will be a vampire?" "I've heard from his death. He was found completely bloodless and had two small wounds on his neck. A certain sign for a bite of a vampire." "Uh-huh, ok and what's now?" "Wait!" So he set down on a gravestone.

Sarah looked at him sceptically and sighed shrugging. "Of course! What else! Why I'm asking? All right. Anyway, I haven't planned anything else tonight." Suddenly she heard a noise behind her. She looked around searching and stiffed: the earth of the grave moved, broke apart and a young man climbed out of it. She stared at the man stunned.

The man looked around at first and then sneered at Sarah. "Well, well, well, what do we have there? A sweet delicacy." And he came towards Sarah with bared fangs. "Uh!" Sarah stepped back. Then he jumped on her, but she could even do a leap by side to avoid him. She screamed and looked to Monsieur Londres.

He still set motionless on the gravestone and watched her, like a Watcher.

"Remember what you are. Not the vampires hunt you, but the other way round!" "A mean-well advice. But it's no use at all for you." "That's what YOU said!" Sarah tried to convey casual, but her voice trembled. She looked at Monsieur Londres again. He still didn't get ready for helping her. "So, you won't help me, how it seems, huh?" she stated without much hope. "Of course not, I understand! All right then!" she gave herself the answer.

"Anyway, who are you? I just want to know that before I kill you!" the vampire asked. Sarah looked at him angry and said a little bit convinced than a while ago, "I'm the Slayer!" "You are what? Ugh, don't make me laugh! A Slayer? I would better say a 'would-be-Slayer'! If you really would be one, would you then be scared of like this? No, I don't think so!" He came towards her again with that. She yielded back and ran against a gravestone. The vampire came closer to her.

There she swung back and pushed her stake, which she had in her hand all the time, against the vampire. But the stake hit him on the wrong spot. The vampire pulled the stake with a distorted face out of his stomach, threw it careless aside, sneered at Sarah and said, "Well, that was probably nothing at all. You have to hit my heart, not my stomach. My stomach doesn't like that as well, when he gets such a sharp thing pushed into. You have to practise aim. But you never would get the chance for it, 'cause you will die right now!" With that he came close to her, grasped her arms and held her tight. Sarah screamed shortly and defended herself weakly. There she gave up and waited now for her death.

The vampire lowered his opened mouth over her neck and wanted to bite just in this moment when he received a push from behind, which he noticed in his heart. He looked down. There was really a stake in his heart. He screamed angry and broke up into dust at the moment.

Sarah stared unbelieving at the place, the vampire stood just barely. Monsieur Londres gave her another stake and they moved on across the cemetery. "You have to learn to use your strength and abilities. They are necessary to survive. If I were not stepped in, you would be dead now. And this is not allowed to happen to you a second time. Finally, I cannot always come along with you. You have to fight against the vampires, defeat your fear, otherwise you will never learn it." he told her, while they walked across the cemetery.

They didn't notice the figure that watched them. This figure jumped now with a leap at Monsieur Londres and threw him to the ground. Sarah stiffed. It seemed to her, as if her dream would happen once more. And she knew how this dream ended. Monsieur Londres and the vampire fought together. When the vampire gave Monsieur Londres an extremely violent beat something awaked in Sarah. And without thinking about, she jumped at the vampire from behind, pulled him away from Monsieur Londres, so that the vampire now lay in front of her on the ground.

She stood in front of him and pushed her stake into the heart of the vampire, which just wanted get up. He let out a growl when he broke up into dust.

Now Sarah had made it: she had hunted her first vampire. She hardly could believe what she had done.

"I guess we are quits now. We have saved mutual our lives. Thank you very much." Monsieur Londres murmured and rose up groaning. Sarah turned to Monsieur Londres unbelieving and asked, "Have I really staked a vampire that turned to dust in front of my eyes?" "Yes, you have done it and I am very proud of you! But this was first of all the beginning. Many others will follow him." Monsieur Londres answered smiling. "Oh my god..." Sarah groaned, but she felt fine at the thought of her first staked vampire.

Yeah, she already would show it to the bad vampires! They should look out and tremble with fear, because Sarah Blackstone, the new Slayer, will defeat them!