Haha! It's the last chapter! I'm almost done, hoorah!

"I appreciate that Indi desperately didn't want her parents to know about the whole 'I-drink-blood-to-survive' thing, but if they did find out then they'd only make an enemy out of her, whereas, by thinking we had sex they're gonna make an enemy of her and me, me especially."

"Xander, just be appreciative of the fact that someone's implied you are capable of being attractive enough to have sex." Cordelia snapped. She'd been drafted in to help with the research and was as anti-everybody as usual.

"Have I mentioned I don't like you, O Bane of My Life?" Xander retorted.

"All I'm saying is...oh you're not even worth the explanation."

"You're such a spiteful person."

"Right!" shouted Giles. "I'm calling time!" Calming down, he stood up and rubbed his temples. "We must have checked every book, every scroll, every scrap of paper in this place and there is nothing that appears to be of any remote use! Of course, it would help if we had some clues, but there should at least be some recorded prophecy for this moment in time. There always is!"

"Maybe no one foresaw what's gonna happen? Maybe it's an event outside of destiny?" Willow yawned, closing the dusty book she had been pouring over for the past hour.

"I think you're looking for Finn Miller." said Erica. Four pairs of eyes turned to meet her and Stanley at the library entrance. "We followed Indi to a place called Willy's Bar. Finn Miller turned up and knocked Buffy unconscious, and Indi destroyed him with a mini-sun."

"Mrs Stokesbridge, you witnessed these events?" Giles asked her softly. She nodded.

"You must be pretty shocked." Willow said. Erica nodded again.

"At least you don't hate me anymore, right?" Xander grinned. Willow slapped him across the back of the head for being so insensitive.

"Finn Miller. That rings a bell." Giles mused. "Ah, yes. Vampire with eyes gouged out and the Egyptian for 'Apocalypse' carved onto him and his large band of followers. Everyone's scared of him, even the Watcher's Council."

"Well, he's dead now." Erica sighed.

"What? The 'big bad' you're all worried about has already been dealt with? One spell and, boom! Gone! Why can't all your 'big bads' be this simple?" Cordelia shrieked as she stomped out of the library. As she left, Buffy and Indi walked in.

"Hey mom. Hey dad. I guess it's explaining time." Indi gulped.

"O.K. On my 5th birthday I found out that I'd been given the power to see visions of the future by The Powers That Be. I didn't tell you because I didn't want you thinking I was crazy, or some Holy Prodigy, because I'm not. I was just some mortal who was chosen to be a help to Buffy. Then in High School I got into Wiccan magick, because I thought I'd be good at it, which I was. So I tried out simple spells, and harder spells, and I made my own up. One night I was in a graveyard under a full moon, trying to do a spell that would use the moon's power to protect my fair skin from the sun. I'd just spiritually purified the area within my protective circle and had begun the spell, when a vampire came and bit me, and made me drink from him, and then I woke up a couple of days later as a vampire. I later learned that my purification spell had cleansed me and made my soul that much more determined to hold on and battle the demon. That's why I still have a soul. I also learned that I'd completed enough of the sun-block spell to prevent the sun from burning me to dust. I think that's everything, I'm not sure, I could have left something out."

Indi's parents stared at her. Her father hadn't said a thing since leaving Willy's. Her mother had stammered a few prayers. Now they both shared a silence so intense that even Buffy felt uncomfortable.

"Indi." Erica sighed, breaking the silence.

"Yes?"
"You have lied to us almost your whole life. You claim to have been given visions by someone other than our Holy Father. You have secretly practised Wiccan magick and worshipped false idols, possibly Satan."
"Mom, I haven't worshipped anyone, just borrowed strength in rituals."

"Don't interrupt me. Now, on top of all that you are a vampire. A member of the walking dead. A creature so unholy that a crucifix will burn it's very skin!"

"I may be a vampire, but I am not a monster. I have never taken a human life, only killed demons and other vampires. I get my blood from the butcher's shop."

"You are not our daughter."

"Mom!"
"Our daughter is gone. She's been gone since that full moon when a vampire feasted upon her."
"Mom, listen to me!"

"Consider this our official disownment of you."

"Mom!" Indi cried. She looked desperately at her father. "Dad? Do you feel like this?"

Stanley looked into Indi's eyes, then looked right through her as though she wasn't there. He took his wife's trembling hand and led her home.

"Indi, I'm so sorry." Giles mumbled, awkwardly putting his arm around her.

"So am I." Indi sniffed, and then she ran out of the library.

"This looks...cosy." said Buffy, stepping across the room.

"Hey!" Look! Cockroaches! Now you don't have to get a pet!" called Xander. No one laughed at his joke.

"How are you going to pay for the rent?" Willow asked.

"I don't know." sighed Indi. "I guess I could hex the landlord into thinking I've already paid him, or I could turn that frying pan into gold."

"This is awful. You shouldn't have to live in a hotel! You can come and stay with me, I'm sure my mom would let you." Buffy offered.

"No thanks Buff. I'm all right. Stop worrying; you're all more concerned than I am! I've been standing on my own two feet all my life, this is no problem."
"You sure?"

"I'm sure. Thanks for helping me with my stuff, guys. I'll see you at school."

Buffy, Xander, Willow and Giles all hugged Indi goodbye and left gloomily. She was more alone than she'd ever been, but she'd never felt so wanted. Even before her parents dis-owned her the Scoobies were her true family. She'd been a fool to believe otherwise, to believe that the real Indi was ever a true part of her biological family. No, she belonged in the hotel, alone but not lonely. That was her, the genuine Indianna Stokesbridge. She wasn't even a Stokesbridge anymore, and never had she felt so liberated. The lies and the secrets had all gone away.

The End.

Did you like the way I finished? If anything you must read the end. It's my favoutirte part. I wanted to really make it obvious that the Scoobies were more of a family to Indi than the Stokebridges had ever been, and i wanted to alienate her even further because I'm cruel. Do you think I pulled it off? Please review. Please please please, because I love reviews and they give me such joy.

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Marakins: Hey there. Much cookies for you, you crazy little thing! I must say here and now, you must watch Buffy, because yes, Xander is hot, but I cannot put him with Indi because he is meant for Cordelia, and later Anya. And no, Cordelia is not like Emma, because Cordelia is narcisistic and shallow. Emma is just Emma. And it wasn't up to me to start Xanders name with and 'X', oh dear. I should have put some disclaimers up. Anyhoo, there most definately will be a sequel, but after some LOTR stories. Don't worry, Indi does get some lovey dovey, so don't panic. So take your cookie and watch my boxsets so that you know what I'm writing about.

Marakins Hello again. Hey! Double reviews! You may have another cookie. What do you mean you're surprised Fingers didn't walk into the bar? Fingers wouldn't last a second in Sunnydale. He's a musician, not a vampire-fighting-person. Plus, he must forever stay in Britain with me so that I can finish that story figure out what Fingers' real name is, swap names around for legal purposes, and publish it! And Finn Miller is so not the most evil-y feared guy in the universe. He's just a jumped up vampire mafia guy. Did I overrate his character a bit too much? Gah! Don't know. By the way honey, you must stop referring to Indi as me. She isn't me, she's a vampire-witchy-vision-person in the world of Buffy which is not this world, though I may disappear into it now and then. Clear? Good. Watch more Buffy, or surf the Buffy sites so that you know what I'm writing about. Bye bye now.

Saggit: You're not being cruel at all. You're merely pointing out what I have realised myself since I first put this story up. You're right, she's a total mary sue. I'm sorry. It was my first ever fanfic - I didn't know any better. I'm slowly weaning myself off OCs right now, this story is just here so that I can remind myself of what I should never do again. Thank you for reviewing and for being so direct. It's comments like yours that are helping me become a better writer.