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Chapter 4
The room was dark and dank. There are hundreds of candles burning everywhere.
A demon with red glowing eyes has his hand around a blonde girls throat. She swings up with her arm, knocks his hand away and starts to run. He holds his hand out toward her and she freezes, caught by his hypnotic powers. She looks back at him and can't move. He approaches her, making slow twisting motions with his hand. He comes up behind her, gently takes off her leather jacket and lets it fall to the ground. The girl is panting hard with fear.
"You tried. It was noble of you." the demon started. "You heard the prophecy that I was about to break free and you came to stop me. But prophecies are tricky creatures. They don't tell you everything. (whispers) You're the one that sets me free! (gloats) If you hadn't come, I couldn't go. (whispers) Think about that!
The girl is frozen with fear. The vampire waits a moment longer and then bends down and bites her at the base of her neck. He drinks a few sips and lets her go.
"Oh, God! The power!" The vampire cries as the girl falls to her knees.
"And by the way..." he starts as she falls face down into the pool of water. "I like your dress." He steps over to the edge of his confines and pushes against the field. He forces his hand through, and his confines break down in a burst of light and energy. He starts up and out of his lair.
Angel and Xander see the light coming out of an adjoining tunnel.
"What was that?" Xander asked.
"It's too late. He's gone up." Angel states.They look at each other then they break into a run for the Master's lair. Angel gets there first, looks around and spots the blonde haired girl. He scrambles down to the floor and rushes to her as Xander reaches the lair's entrance. Xander stops and stares at Buffy in the pool. Angel reaches her and quickly pulls her out of the water. He holds her and tries to listen for breathing. Nothing. He looks up at Xander.
"Buffy's dead!" Angel states grimly. Xander looks down at them and swallows hard. Xander comes down to Angel and Buffy.
"No. She's not dead." Xander states, full of determination.
"She's not breathing." Angel replies.
"But if she drowned, uh, there's a shot! CPR!"
"You have to do it. I have no breath." Angel says as he staeps back. Xander takes off his jacket and lays it over her. He kneels down by her face and looks at her a moment, then puts his mouth on hers and blows into her lungs. He lets go and begins to pump her chest.
"C'mon. C'mon!" Xander chants as he pumps her chest.
Kendra wakes suddenly with her eyes open wide and with sweat rolling down her forehead.
"What was dat about?" she asks herself as she gets out of bed and wipes the sleep out of her eyes. Using her slayer sensative hearing, she hears noises coming from downstairs. As she walks down to the kitchen area, she see's Giles reading the morning paper and drinking a cup of tea.
"Good morning, Kendra." Giles said brightly as he saw her enter the room.
"Good mornin' to you, Mr. Giles." Kendra said as she sat down across from him.
"Please, just Giles." he said with a smile. "Are you hungry? I was going to fix breakfast, but you slept rather late."
"Late?" Kendra asked, looking confused. "How late is it .......Giles."
"It's around noon. Did you sleep well, you look kind of tired?" Giles asked.
"I just had a .....bad dream, dat's all."
"Was it a slayer dream? Do you want to talk about it?" Giles asked as he retrieved a pen and pad.
"It was just a dream about a blonde haired girl fighting a vampire with red eyes." Kendra explained.
"Is that all?" Giles asked writing the very vague dream down.
"No sir, dey were in a cave and for some reason Xander was dare." Giles stopped writing when she said this.
"Good lord." Giles suddenly bellowed as he stood from the table. Opening up one of his packing boxes he takes out a picture.
"Did... did the girl in your dream look like this?" Giles asked.
"Yes dat's her. Who is she?" Kendra asked.
"She was Buffy."
"She really said that?" Willow asked as she sat down on Xander's bed. Last night Xander called Willow and told her about his confrontation with Kendra.
Xander only nodded.
"What a B-I-T-C-H."
"Will's I hardly think name calling is going to fix things." Xander said. "Besides what's a Bitca?" he asked. Willow just gave him an incredous look.
"Anyway Giles is really leaving?" she asked.
"Yeah." Xander replied sadly. "He called me this morning and told me that he's leaving tomorrow. He wants us to meet him at his apartment today so we can say goodbye."
"But I don't understand." Willow said as she stood up and started to pace the room. "Why does he have to leave?"
"The way he explained it to me is that once a Watcher's Slayer dies, he reports back to England. Besides Kendra's Watcher should be here later tonight. I think he's going to be the school's new librarian."
"I don't like this." Willow said sadly. "I wish Giles could stay."
"I do too Will's." Xander said as he pulled the red head into a hug. "Now come on, let's go to Giles."
With a somber expression the two walked over to Giles apartment. A second after they knocked on the door, they were surprised to see Kendra open the door.
"Kendra who is it?" Giles asked as he walked up behind her and peered out the door.
"Ahhh... come in." Giles said to his charges. As they all sat in Giles living room, he saw Xander and Willow, glaring at Kendra. Deciding to be the diplomat he started the conversation.
"Xander, Kendra informed me of the argument you two had last night." Giles started. "I had a talk with her and I think she has something to say." with that said all eye's fell on Kendra.
"I'm sorry for what I said, I spoke without thinkin'." Kendra apologized. Xander still had a scowl on his face but it quickly faded away. Putting on his patented lopsided grin, he put his arm around her shoulder.
"Hey it's cool, isn't it Will's?" he said looking over at Willow who's features visibly softened too.
"You're darn tooten." Willow piped up.
"I was just mad that people kept calling me useless." Xander explained. "I wasn't really mad at you."
"I know you're not useless." Kendra muttered.
"What do you mean?" Xander asked.
"Kendra had a dream last night." Giles cut in. "A Slayer dream to be more precise. Xander she saw you in the cave when.... Buffy died."
Xander just looked at her as if he was going to cry. That day was one of the worst days of his life. Next to staking Jesse of course.
"I'm sorry you had to see that." Xander said sadly.
"Dat was very brave of you." Kendra said meeting his gaze. "Mr. .......Giles told me dat it was the Master's cave dat you went into."
"Yeah alot of good that did." Xander stated bitterly. Then the whole room was silent. Seeing how miserable everyone was, Giles decided to intervene again.
"I would like for you all to be friends." Giles said looking at the teens all in turn. "So I would suggest that you all spend the day together. Maybe show Kendra around and get to know one another better." he said as he handed Kendra over two hundred dollars.
"Take this and buy yourself some more clothing." Giles said. He didn't want to embarress the girl, by informing the other's that the only clothes that she owned were the one's on her back.
"That's a great idea." Willow said standing to her feet. "Come on Kendra, we'll show you around town first."
"Yeah we'll even make you an official Scooby." Xander said excitedly.
"What's a Scooby?" Kendra asked in confusion. Xander just looked at her with wide eyes.
"You don't know who Scooby Doo is?" he asked. Kendra shook her head no.
"Come on you have a lot to learn." he said as he grabbed her hand and walked to the door.
"And for the record I'm still mad at you Giles." Willow said as she gave him a hug. "How could you try to leave without saying goodbye."
"I thought it would be easier." Giles replied as he returned the hug.
"Well it wouldn't have been easier, buster." she said as she hit him on the arm playfully. Giles just smiled down at her.
"Hey Will's come on." Xander called out at his place by the door. Willow looked back at him and then back up at Giles.
"You better not leave while were gone." Willow told him as she began to walk by the door.
"I promise." Giles said as they left. As soon as they did so the phone started to ring. With a sigh Giles went over and answered it.
"Hello... yes this is Rupert Giles. (pause) Yes she's here... yes... (another pause) Good lord, you can't be serious?" Giles asked. "Yes, thanks for calling, I'll be sure to inform her." he said as he hung up the phone.
With a look of sadness on his face he went to the liquor cabinet and got out some scotch. For today was going to be a long one.
After a few hours of shopping the three of them were now lounging in Willow's
living room. (her parents were out of town on a business trip.) Kendra had bought about three outfits and some under garments. As promised Xander showed her a tape of scooby doo and explained to her what was going on.
After the Scooby cartoon went off, Xander started to flip through the channels and stopped when he heard a warriors cry.
"Who is she?" Kendra asked looking at the leather clad woman on TV.
"Xena the warrior princess," Xander replied through a mouthful of popcorn. "Big time martial arts gal."
"Very impressive," Kendra said. "However I tink I could defeat her."
"So what do you want to watch when this goes off?" Willow asked.
"I don't know. I was never allowed to watch television." Kendra said.
"Wow you must have had some strict parents." Willow replied. 'Even stricter then mine.' she silently added.
"I wouldn't know, I never knew me parents." she admitted. Xander almost dropped the bowl of popcorn when he heard this.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Me Watcher took me from me family when I was very young." Kendra said not taking her eyes off of the tv. Xander noted that she said this as if it didn't matter.
"So what did you do for fun?" Willow asked.
"I read lot's of books and I trained in martial arts."
"That's it." Xander half shouted. As he rested his hand near her's he silently promised that he would do anything to bring happiness to his new friends life.
Nightfall
After watching Xena and a couple more Scooby Doo movies, the three walked happily back to Giles apartment. Without knocking Xander opened the door. The first thing the trio noticed was that a few of Giles boxes were unpacked. The second thing they saw was that he had a bottle of scotch emptied. Xander and Willow had never known Giles to drink, anything more then tea.
"Giles!" Xander yelled out. "Giles!" Xander and Willow yelled together. After a second they saw Giles slowly shuffle down from upstairs.
"Giles are you okay?" Willow asked as she ran up to him. Giles just ignored her and looked over at Kendra with a pained expression on his face.
"Kendra, would you please come into the kitchen with me. I have something of dire importance to tell you."
Kendra looked at him in confusion, then layed her shopping bags on the floor and quickly followed him into the kitchen.
"Please Kendra have a seat." Kendra then obeyed. Giles let out a sigh before he got started.
"The Council phoned me this morning and..... I'm afraid I have some bad news. The plane that your Watcher Mr. Zabuto was on crashed. Everyone on the plane died." Giles explained.
Xander was in the middle of telling Willow a joke, when both of them heard Kendra yell "No!" Before any of them could move or even say a word, they saw Kendra run out the front door.
"Kendra please wait!" Giles called out second's later as he ran from the kitchen.
"G-man what's going on?" Xander asked as he stood up and walked over to Giles.
Kendra ran about a whole block before she stopped and broke down crying. Mr. Zabuto was like a father to her and now he was gone. She was so wrapped up in her thoughts that she didn't even notice the large figure looming behind her.
"Hey sweet thing, what you crying for?" someone asked from behind her. As she turned around she was met with a fist to the face, that sent her sprawling. Before she could get up to defend herself the large vampire jumped on top of her. As he pinned her arms to the ground he whispered in her ear.
"You're the easiest prey, I've had this century." before he could lower his fangs into her neck his eyes suddenly go wide. Looking at her in disbelief, he crumbles into dust, revealing Xander with a stake in hand.
"Oh my God, Kendra are you alright." Xander asked as he sank to his knees and kneeled beside her.
"Xander, he's dead." Kendra said over and over as she grabbed Xander in a hug.
"I know." he gently soothed as he hugged her back, while she sobbed into his chest.
Meanwhile on the other side of town
A black desoto hits the 'Welcome to Sunnydale' sign. As the car comes to a halt a bleached blonde falls out of the driver's side and collapses to the ground.
TBC.......
A/N just assume that the night of prophecy girl that Xander kills the Annointed one. So you don't have to worry about that little bastard anymore. Also the episodes want be the same stuff you saw on TV. Either I will drastically change them or it will be something different altogether.
Also to BAKAMAN I'll update Problems with the Soul as soon as I can. It'll probably be by the end of the week.
