Chapter seventeen – The Real World

It was an early Monday morning, third day of camp and the council had no idea what was coming, no matter what they did, sooner or later it would happen.

Wesley placed Buffy's booklet under the door and smiled. Buffy had gotten all A's on her work. The individual plan was running smoothly but what they had no clue about was the only reason why the plan was working so well was because Buffy was not full of hope. Buffy had lost hope the second Giles was taken away.

Wesley went down to the dining hall and about fifteen potentials were already up by 8:00am. He went over and grabbed something to eat and sat down. Gwendolyn Post came in and sat down next to him with her breakfast.

"How's your brilliant plan going?" she asked.

"Just fine," said Wesley with a big grin.

"Well someone seems happy and proud. Wouldn't it be a shame if your mood was just suddenly ruined?"

"What are you suggesting? You suggesting something is going to happen to my plan?"

"I'm not suggesting anything at all. I'm just saying watch out; something will come and ruin not only your mood but also your plan."

"Well thanks for telling me that. It was such an important thing to say, bub-bye."

"Well sorry I was only trying to help."

She then walked out of the hall and left Wesley alone at the table. Wesley could now feel something different about what was around. He felt like something was wrong, something was out of place.

Buffy woke up, had a shower and got changed. She then walked back to the desk and found her breakfast. She ate it all and found her booklet on the ground near the door. She picked it up, read her latest mark and comment from Wesley and the Council.

After reading the comment she started working on her next tasks for the day. One of Buffy's tasks for the day was to write about a Slayer in the past and a little about their life and who they lost their last battle to and then write in 100 words how they could have won the battle.

As the days have gone by the tasks had gotten a bit harder. Buffy started writing about the Slayer from the diary she had read but Buffy couldn't answer one of her questions, the question about the last battle. Buffy didn't know anything about it. This was the first time Buffy couldn't complete one of her tasks.

It was now nearly 9:00 and Faith had just awoke and was headed for breakfast. Faith kept her eyes open for anything that seemed suspicious and she also listened to the sounds and noises around her. She sat alone and then saw Kat and Alyssa walk into the dining hall. To Faith, their behavior seemed strange because they didn't come and annoy her by sitting down next to her at her table. Faith got up and walked over to their table. She asked them what they were up to and why they were acting like this? They didn't say a word and the hall became silent.

Faith sat herself down next to Alyssa and Kat and they turned their heads and ignored her. Faith got up, left her breakfast and walked out onto the field. Everyone had disappeared; it was completely silent of any human voices or sounds. You couldn't even hear a bird cheap or tweet.

Faith walked around the field hoping she would find something to help her out on finding out what was going on. Faith didn't remember any of what was going on now from the files she had read yesterday. Faith looked in the direction of the forest and could see something moving around over there.

She started to walk over to the forest, walked past some trees and realized she had not seen anyone. Faith had just found a way out of this world. Faith stepped through the portal into the real world.