A/N: Yet another update, I've just been in the mood for writing recently,
but knowing me I'll end up losing inspiration and leaving it for weeks on
end, but I'll try my hardest not to! Besides I'm in a good mood today,
season 7 uncut is being shown in the UK, and It's Storyteller tonight, I
love that episode!
Disclaimer: Joss and M.E.
Summary: After just moving from Britain a girl with unusual abilities meets the scoobies, a pre-chip Spike and unsouled Angelus.
Warning: Nothing as of yet, maybe in later chapters
Rating: PG-13
Spilers/Timing: Up to season four, there shouldn't be any actual spoilers on anything, but maybe the odd mention, you have been warned!
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Chloe arrived home from school that day feeling particuarly good. She'd had a great laugh at lunchtime, managed to go the whole day without showing her neck to everyone, and more importantly, she hadn't thought about any vampires all day. She now had a few hours of peace to look forward to before she met her friends at the Bronze, the local nightclub.
Chloe put her hand in the back pocket of her jeans and she managed to find the scrap of paper that had directions on it from Cordy, who apparantly was in charge of anything that involved a night out, and she put it under a magnet on the fridge, along with about 100 other notes and bits of paper she needed. She jerked open the fridge to get some milk and swore under her breath when the magnet fell off the fridge, along with all the paper that had been under it. Sweeping everything up and dumping it on the kitchen counter she went to her room, no longer in the mood for a drink.
She sweeped her hair up and removed the makeup from her neck to study the marks clearly. Her first bite mark had faded away mostly, but she knew that it would never dissapear completely. The bite she had recieved yesterday night from Angelus, however was still glowing a bright red and the puncture marks were clearly visible.
She had wanted to wear her hair up mostly tonight so she tied it loosly back and tried to see what wodners she could do with a make-up brush. About fifteen minutes later she looked at the result proudly in the mirror, maybe she would be a make-up artist one day. Her first mark was completely invisible, and other than the slight dips in her neck the other one had practically gone as well. Realising that it would be fairly dark in the club anyway and she didn't intend on letting anyone get that close to her neck to see it, and anyone who did manage to get close enough would probably be a vampire, meaning one of them would be dead soon after they saw it anyway, so it wasn't all that much of a problem was it?
A few hours later after a ready meal, a bath and a serious make-up and clothes session Chloe stepped outside wearing one of her new halter tops and leather trousers, Chloe had no idea what it was about leather trousers but she just loved them, except when they were being worn by two extremely annoying vampires. She made her way to the Bronze, and by following the directions that Cordy had given her it didn't take her long to get there, and she didn't even have to walk through the park, which was a plus seeing as she had high heeled shoes on. Even though she was still a few roads away from The Bronze she could hear the music pumping inside and followed the direction of the music before stepping inside.
She checked her crucifix was still hanging around her neck as she made her way to the dance floor, she had a feeling that something was going to go down tonight, and whatever it was, she didn't want to be in the middle of it. Sliding easily to the center of the floor she spotted Xander, who seemed to have quite a wide space around him, most likely to do with the fact that he was swinging his arms around him madly and standing on anyone's toes who came within a meter radius of him, but Chloe decided to go over and dance with him.
He looked greatful for her company and she guessed that the rest of the gang was sat down, refusing to dance with him, they probably valued their toes too much to dance near Xander.
When the song finished she followed him out to the table where the rest of the gang were sat, and then made her way to the bar to grab a drink. By now she was feeling really bad, something was definitely going on, she might not have slayer senses when it came to vampires but she had seen a hell of a lot of them tonight, and they seemed to be spreading themselves out fairly evenly around the place and giving each other a lot of 'casual' looks.
Just as she was about to turn back to the table she felt a cold hand on her shoulder, great she thought, this was all she needed tonight, to have to dust a vampire without anyone seeing, in the middle of a club, she turned around to face him.
"Look, I know what-" she cut herself off mid-sentence when she saw exactly who she was talking to.
"Hello Chloe"
"What are you doing here?" she hissed, desperately hoping none of her friends would see them, she didn't want them to get the wrong idea.
"Just passing" Angelus gave her one of his trademark smirks "Nice outfit" Chloe wondered what he was talking about when she realised that he had only ever seen her wearing jeans and long sleeved tops before.
"Piss off Angelus" She tried to turn away from him but found herself pulled up against him. She looked about and saw that everyone around them was aware as to what was going on, to a certain extent at least, but they were all ignoring it, acting like it wasn't happening. She looked back at Angelus and saw he was looking at his mark on her neck.
"You've covered it up"
"You want to help me explain to people why I have a dog bite on my neck?"
"Are you calling me a dog?" Angelus's smirk turned dangerous and his eyes darkened but Chloe ignored it, he wasn't going to scare her with silly little facial expressions.
"I can think of a lot of worse things to call you if you like" Angelus looked over Chloe's shoulder and saw Xander walking towards him. Spike also noticed him and muttered under his breath.
"Whelp's coming, lets go" Chloe was wondering what he meant by that comment, did he already know Xander? And if so how? And why wasn't Xander dead yet?
"I'll see you around Chloe" With that the two vampires left Chloe as she walked towards Xander, made her excuses about taking a long time and went to sit back down at the table with everyone else. For some reason she recieved a rather pissed off look in her direction from Buffy when Xander sat down next to her.
A new song came on and Chloe decided it was about time she hit the dance floor again, looking round at Xander she smiled.
"Want to dance?" A big goofy grin in her direction was a response enough and they made their way to the floor. Chloe was surprised at how well Xander could dance during a slow dance, she had only seen him do his 'snoopy dance' earlier, but this dance was the complete opposite. She wrapped her arms loosely around his neck and swayed in time to the music, leaning gently against him, it felt nice to be supported by someone for once, instead of being the person who was doing the supporting.
The music came to a stop and Xander led her back off the dance floor, her hand in his, and Chloe smiled, it had been a long time since she had had a boyfriend and Xander was so sweet, she wasn't going to rush anything though, she knew how that could turn out from past experience.
By the end of the evening Chloe was tired and practically dropping off to sleep on Xander's arm when they all decided to make a move. Chloe decided that her earlier predictions that something was about to go down must have been incorrect and they walked outside. A few streets away from the Bronze and down a back alley she changed her mind. The six of them were surrounded, by a lot more than six vampires.
"Oh look, it's the slayer and her little pals" Buffy looked around desperately for an escape, there was no way she could fight all of them, then she remembered Chloe, she didn't know about vampires!
"You're the slayer?" Chloe turned round with a completely shocked look on her face, which matched Buffy's own when she realised that Chloe must know about vampires, after all if she knew what a slayer was then chances are she would be pretty clued up when it came to matters of the hellmouth nature. Chloe managed to get her composure back first and she walked up to one of the nearest vampires with confidence, despite several warnings from her friends.
"Who's the leader?" He looked unsure, but his glances at someone opposite gave him away and Chloe walked up to him.
"You know who I am?" The leader looked unsure until one of the others muttered something in his ear.
"Not personally" He had lost some of his previous confidence when he found out who she was, word was she had managed to take out about ten vampires with one spell the other night when she hadn't used a ball of fire, but a ball of sunlight which had managed to kill all of the vampires nearby.
"You really want to get in a fight with me?" The leader still looked unsure but after a few more glances around he led off the group of vampires to find some easier pray, he wasn't going to mess with a wicca that strong. When all the vampires were gone Chloe turned back round to Buffy.
"I should have guessed it before, I take it the librarian is your watcher?"
"Giles? Yeah. I think he's going to have a few questions for you though"
Chloe sighed, how did she get into this mess? She tried to keep her superatural talents to herself and now another 6 people knew about them, typical. Plus she was now going to have to face the spanish inquisition from the watcher, life just got better and better.
Disclaimer: Joss and M.E.
Summary: After just moving from Britain a girl with unusual abilities meets the scoobies, a pre-chip Spike and unsouled Angelus.
Warning: Nothing as of yet, maybe in later chapters
Rating: PG-13
Spilers/Timing: Up to season four, there shouldn't be any actual spoilers on anything, but maybe the odd mention, you have been warned!
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Chloe arrived home from school that day feeling particuarly good. She'd had a great laugh at lunchtime, managed to go the whole day without showing her neck to everyone, and more importantly, she hadn't thought about any vampires all day. She now had a few hours of peace to look forward to before she met her friends at the Bronze, the local nightclub.
Chloe put her hand in the back pocket of her jeans and she managed to find the scrap of paper that had directions on it from Cordy, who apparantly was in charge of anything that involved a night out, and she put it under a magnet on the fridge, along with about 100 other notes and bits of paper she needed. She jerked open the fridge to get some milk and swore under her breath when the magnet fell off the fridge, along with all the paper that had been under it. Sweeping everything up and dumping it on the kitchen counter she went to her room, no longer in the mood for a drink.
She sweeped her hair up and removed the makeup from her neck to study the marks clearly. Her first bite mark had faded away mostly, but she knew that it would never dissapear completely. The bite she had recieved yesterday night from Angelus, however was still glowing a bright red and the puncture marks were clearly visible.
She had wanted to wear her hair up mostly tonight so she tied it loosly back and tried to see what wodners she could do with a make-up brush. About fifteen minutes later she looked at the result proudly in the mirror, maybe she would be a make-up artist one day. Her first mark was completely invisible, and other than the slight dips in her neck the other one had practically gone as well. Realising that it would be fairly dark in the club anyway and she didn't intend on letting anyone get that close to her neck to see it, and anyone who did manage to get close enough would probably be a vampire, meaning one of them would be dead soon after they saw it anyway, so it wasn't all that much of a problem was it?
A few hours later after a ready meal, a bath and a serious make-up and clothes session Chloe stepped outside wearing one of her new halter tops and leather trousers, Chloe had no idea what it was about leather trousers but she just loved them, except when they were being worn by two extremely annoying vampires. She made her way to the Bronze, and by following the directions that Cordy had given her it didn't take her long to get there, and she didn't even have to walk through the park, which was a plus seeing as she had high heeled shoes on. Even though she was still a few roads away from The Bronze she could hear the music pumping inside and followed the direction of the music before stepping inside.
She checked her crucifix was still hanging around her neck as she made her way to the dance floor, she had a feeling that something was going to go down tonight, and whatever it was, she didn't want to be in the middle of it. Sliding easily to the center of the floor she spotted Xander, who seemed to have quite a wide space around him, most likely to do with the fact that he was swinging his arms around him madly and standing on anyone's toes who came within a meter radius of him, but Chloe decided to go over and dance with him.
He looked greatful for her company and she guessed that the rest of the gang was sat down, refusing to dance with him, they probably valued their toes too much to dance near Xander.
When the song finished she followed him out to the table where the rest of the gang were sat, and then made her way to the bar to grab a drink. By now she was feeling really bad, something was definitely going on, she might not have slayer senses when it came to vampires but she had seen a hell of a lot of them tonight, and they seemed to be spreading themselves out fairly evenly around the place and giving each other a lot of 'casual' looks.
Just as she was about to turn back to the table she felt a cold hand on her shoulder, great she thought, this was all she needed tonight, to have to dust a vampire without anyone seeing, in the middle of a club, she turned around to face him.
"Look, I know what-" she cut herself off mid-sentence when she saw exactly who she was talking to.
"Hello Chloe"
"What are you doing here?" she hissed, desperately hoping none of her friends would see them, she didn't want them to get the wrong idea.
"Just passing" Angelus gave her one of his trademark smirks "Nice outfit" Chloe wondered what he was talking about when she realised that he had only ever seen her wearing jeans and long sleeved tops before.
"Piss off Angelus" She tried to turn away from him but found herself pulled up against him. She looked about and saw that everyone around them was aware as to what was going on, to a certain extent at least, but they were all ignoring it, acting like it wasn't happening. She looked back at Angelus and saw he was looking at his mark on her neck.
"You've covered it up"
"You want to help me explain to people why I have a dog bite on my neck?"
"Are you calling me a dog?" Angelus's smirk turned dangerous and his eyes darkened but Chloe ignored it, he wasn't going to scare her with silly little facial expressions.
"I can think of a lot of worse things to call you if you like" Angelus looked over Chloe's shoulder and saw Xander walking towards him. Spike also noticed him and muttered under his breath.
"Whelp's coming, lets go" Chloe was wondering what he meant by that comment, did he already know Xander? And if so how? And why wasn't Xander dead yet?
"I'll see you around Chloe" With that the two vampires left Chloe as she walked towards Xander, made her excuses about taking a long time and went to sit back down at the table with everyone else. For some reason she recieved a rather pissed off look in her direction from Buffy when Xander sat down next to her.
A new song came on and Chloe decided it was about time she hit the dance floor again, looking round at Xander she smiled.
"Want to dance?" A big goofy grin in her direction was a response enough and they made their way to the floor. Chloe was surprised at how well Xander could dance during a slow dance, she had only seen him do his 'snoopy dance' earlier, but this dance was the complete opposite. She wrapped her arms loosely around his neck and swayed in time to the music, leaning gently against him, it felt nice to be supported by someone for once, instead of being the person who was doing the supporting.
The music came to a stop and Xander led her back off the dance floor, her hand in his, and Chloe smiled, it had been a long time since she had had a boyfriend and Xander was so sweet, she wasn't going to rush anything though, she knew how that could turn out from past experience.
By the end of the evening Chloe was tired and practically dropping off to sleep on Xander's arm when they all decided to make a move. Chloe decided that her earlier predictions that something was about to go down must have been incorrect and they walked outside. A few streets away from the Bronze and down a back alley she changed her mind. The six of them were surrounded, by a lot more than six vampires.
"Oh look, it's the slayer and her little pals" Buffy looked around desperately for an escape, there was no way she could fight all of them, then she remembered Chloe, she didn't know about vampires!
"You're the slayer?" Chloe turned round with a completely shocked look on her face, which matched Buffy's own when she realised that Chloe must know about vampires, after all if she knew what a slayer was then chances are she would be pretty clued up when it came to matters of the hellmouth nature. Chloe managed to get her composure back first and she walked up to one of the nearest vampires with confidence, despite several warnings from her friends.
"Who's the leader?" He looked unsure, but his glances at someone opposite gave him away and Chloe walked up to him.
"You know who I am?" The leader looked unsure until one of the others muttered something in his ear.
"Not personally" He had lost some of his previous confidence when he found out who she was, word was she had managed to take out about ten vampires with one spell the other night when she hadn't used a ball of fire, but a ball of sunlight which had managed to kill all of the vampires nearby.
"You really want to get in a fight with me?" The leader still looked unsure but after a few more glances around he led off the group of vampires to find some easier pray, he wasn't going to mess with a wicca that strong. When all the vampires were gone Chloe turned back round to Buffy.
"I should have guessed it before, I take it the librarian is your watcher?"
"Giles? Yeah. I think he's going to have a few questions for you though"
Chloe sighed, how did she get into this mess? She tried to keep her superatural talents to herself and now another 6 people knew about them, typical. Plus she was now going to have to face the spanish inquisition from the watcher, life just got better and better.