Hello again! Here is chapter 6 of my story! This chapter is mostly about Kennedy leaving the gang after the spell and how it affects Willow. Just to let know that I really don't like Kennedy that is why I'm getting rid of her, and getting rid of her will help me in other chapters! You'll see what I mean later! I want to thank Spike-is-so-hot and Buffy21 for all of the wonderful reviews! Enjoy! R&R!
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the story and the potential slayers that are left except Rona who was on the show! You get the picture!
Aftermath: Life After Sunnydale
Chapter 6- Ciao Kennedy!
Things were finally starting to return to normal around the houses at Cleveland. No more potential slayer deaths, no more weird demons, and no more weird Willow phases. Everyone was starting to feel safe again. "Willow! Please don't go! You've ignored me for like an entire week! How is that fair to me?" Kennedy whined. "Kennedy, I can't stay. I haven't ignored you! Potential slayers were dying! How dare you put yourself before them." Willow retorted. Willow got out of the bed Kennedy and she shared. She looked for a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Willow quickly put on the outfit and walked out of their bedroom, slamming the door behind her. Kennedy lay on the bed with her lip poked out. She was really pissed off at Willow. Kennedy and Willow have been on the rocks since the week the 'slayer plague' started happening. "If she doesn't want to be with me anymore then I guess I will leave. Things haven't been right since the whole 'slayer plague' anyways!" Kennedy said to herself. At this point Kennedy would have gotten up to start packing, but she was badly bruised from battling the demon Zermeke. "Damn! I hate being injured." Kennedy thought. "Denise!" Kennedy yelled loudly. "Yeah?" "Come up here and help me will ya?" Kennedy yelled to Denise in response. Kennedy heard footstep come up the spiral staircase. "With what Kennedy?" "I need help packing my clothes. I'm going home." "You're what? You're going home? Why?" Denise asked in disbelief. "I just don't think Willow and I are working out. It's time for me to move on. I am to strong to stay here and be supervised by other slayers just like me." Kennedy said with authority. "Whatever! Sure, I'll help ya." Denise knew Kennedy was a strong girl and if she said she wanted to leave then Denise would not argue with her. After all Denise did want to miss school. Now that Willow and Xander were going into town, so no one could make her stay.
"She is being totally selfish, like she is more important than the slayers that died." Willow complained to Xander. Willow, Xander, and Hope were driving into town to shop for different things that were needed in the house. Xander was concentrating on driving so he was hardly paying attention to what Willow was saying. "I can't believe that. Even after she almost died." Hope said to Willow. It was a bright Friday morning. The whole gang would have gone for this weekly food splurge, but some had school, Buffy had to work, Faith and Robin were being Faith and Robin, no one cared about what Andrew was doing and of course Giles was reading or researching more on the 'slayer plague'. Willow and Hope started talking more about Kennedy, which only upset Willow slowly. "From now on I won't talk about her till I get home, because I have to see her." "You go girl!" Xander said adding in his two cents.
"Well, looks like this is goodbye you guys! Just don't cry when I leave." Kennedy said to her small group of people that were Rona and Denise. Kennedy made Rona call the bus station to see when the next bus was leaving for Kennedy's destination. Kennedy wanted to make a quick exit so that no tears would be shed. None of the cars were around so Kennedy decided to try and walk to the station. "Are you sure you want to walk? After all you are pretty banged up." "Heck yes! It's like therapy for me. I swear if you called a taxi I will personally slay you." Kennedy said giving Denise and Rona a death stare. Chills ran down both of their spines. "Just kidding guys." Kennedy said laughing. "Give me a hug guys! I'll miss you two." Kennedy said walking toward Denise and Rona. They both gave her a big bear hug. After the hug Kennedy grabbed her stuff and turned around to both of the girls and gave them a quick smile and walked out of the door. "Bye Kennedy." Denise muttered.
Kennedy closed the door to the house she'd been living in for the past four months. She didn't want to do the cliché turn around and have special memories run through her head and start crying. "I'm better and stronger than that." She thought to herself. Kennedy walked down the steps toward the road and started her hour walked toward the bus station. As she started walking she saw a bus approaching and prayed that it wasn't the bus that the Scooby gang still had after seven months. Kennedy quickly looked at her watch and noticed that the time was only eleven o' clock. She let out a sigh of relief and continued walking. Her stupid conscience started to bug her then. "Are you sure to want to do this? I mean you love Willow? Right? Wow, you love Willow. That's amazing. I mean she's the first girl you've been in a serious relationship with. She's helped you get better when you were injured. She made love to you almost every night. But, she has been ignoring you since the 'slayer plague'. Suddenly disappearing like this will break her heart. It will be like Tara all over again." These thoughts surged through Kennedy's head. She stopped walking and just stared up into the sky. The blinding sun was to her left and small, white clouds were slowly moving to the west. More thoughts went throughout her head. "You love her don't you? Just maybe she doesn't love you." Kennedy continued walking toward the bus station. She heard cars quickly passing by her on her right. Her leg started to hurt her from when the demon Zermeke threw her into the tree. "Now, I kinda wish Denise and Rona called a cab. Maybe I could hitchhike." Kennedy turned around to look at the cars and thought about hitchhiking, but quickly changed her mind. Kennedy was staring straight forward when she saw a car that looked very familiar to her.
"I can't wait to get home and eat! I'm so hungry!" Xander complained. Xander, Willow, and Hope were shopping for the past three hours. "We're almost home Xander. I can't wait to watch the new movie we got." Hope said while staring at Xander. "Stop the car!" The car came to a sudden halt when Willow yelled at Xander to stop. "Kennedy?" Willow whispered. Willow quickly opened the door and walked over toward Kennedy. Kennedy stared at the car and Willow running up to her. "What the hell are you doing?" "You can't stop me Willow. I'm going home! You don't need me anymore and I'm stronger than any other slayer that lives with this deranged group." Kennedy turned around and started walking toward the bus station. Willow quickly grabbed her arm to stop her. "What your ego grew while I was gone too? You've been so big-headed lately." "And you've been a bitch lately." Kennedy retorted. This made Willow speechless. "You know what. If you want to leave then no one is stopping you." Willow quickly turned around and walked toward the car. She got in the car and slammed the door shut. "Drive Xander." "Willow, are you sure you want to leave her like this. Those were some pretty harsh words you two exchanged." Xander said trying to talk some sense into Willow. Willow's eyes started to swell with tears. "No, just drive." Xander nodded slightly at Willow. Hope put her arm around Willow. Willow put her head on Hope's shoulder and started crying.
Kennedy stood still for a moment and ran through the sequence of events that just happened in her head. She watched the car pull off toward the houses. Did she really want to leave like this? Should she leave like this? Willow deserves it right? Willow was being harsh to her after all, but then again Kennedy was being harsh right back at Willow. Maybe she should walk back and apologize. Maybe. Should she really leave with her mad at Willow and vice versa? Yes, she should. Kennedy continued walking toward the bus station and figured she could just call them when she got back home.
When Willow, Hope, and Xander arrived home, Willow ran right upstairs and started crying. Xander walked over toward the phone and called Buffy at work. "Buffy? Hey, it's Xand. We've got bad news. It concerns Willow. No, she's not turning into evil Willow. After all I know how to take care of that situation. Are you coming home anytime soon? Okay, see ya then." "Will Willow be ok? She's not going to turn evil will she?" "I hope not baby." Hope smiled. "You just called me baby." "I did? I mean, yeah I did. You don't mind do ya?" Hope walked over toward Xander. "Of course not sweetie." She hugged Xander and placed her head under his neck. Xander smiled. "She'll be fine. She just needs sometime to herself. We just need to watch over her." The phone rang which made Hope quickly jump from Xander's grasps. No one still knew about the relationship between Hope and Xander. They still themselves didn't know what they were. Xander walked over toward the phone. "Xander, let me talk to Willow." Xander heard on the phone. "Kennedy. Don't you think you've hurt Willow enough with your actions and words? Now you want to make it worse by calling her before you leave?" Kennedy let out a small sigh. "Xander, just give her the phone. Please." Someone touched Xander's shoulder. "Hand me the phone Xander." Willow said quietly with tears rushing down her face.
"I know why you are leaving Kennedy. I understand that I haven't been paying much attention to you since we got to Cleveland. My love for you fell away. I just didn't want to admit it and I'm not going to cry anymore." Willow said sniffling in between sentences. "I just need to know that." Kennedy replied. "I'll keep in touch." With that one last sentence Willow hung up the phone. "She's gone." Willow said quietly. "Willow, are you okay?" Xander asked quietly. "Yes, I'm fine. Just need a minute to myself. Thanks." Willow slowly walked up to the room Kennedy and she once shared. "I'll be just fine."
"What's wrong with Willow?" Buffy said almost kicking the door down to Xander and Willow's house. "It's okay now. Kennedy has left us." Xander replied. "She what? She can't leave us! She has lots of stuff still to learn about being a slayer." Buffy said in an outraged tone. "Buffy, she's pretty advanced for a slayer. She's close to being as good as you were in high school." Buffy was slightly offended by this remark, but she knew it was true. "Fine. Where did she go?" "Back home." Buffy nodded her head slightly and walked up the stairs to see Willow. Buffy knocked quietly on Willow's door. "Will? Are ya in here?" Buffy opened the door slightly to find Willow lying on her bed. Willow wasn't asleep though. "Will? Do you want to talk?" Willow slightly nodded her head. "You want to tell me all the wacky events of the day I missed?" "The day was pretty much self-explainatory." Willow smiled slightly. "I always knew I didn't love Kennedy, but I didn't want to admit it. I think I loved the fact that she loved me. She made the first move and I accepted from there. Something inside me has always told me that Tara was the only girl that I would fall in love with. I've tried the girl thing. I've tried the guy thing. I don't know what to do anymore. Demons? Vampires?" "What are you trying to say Will?" "I'm trying to say, I'm going back to being straight." "Can you do that?" Buffy said in a not believeing way. "Sure I can. I mean I've always liked guys. I've always liked girls. So, I guess I'm a bisexual. Now, I'm confusing myself." Buffy and Willow both laughed. "Who knows maybe I'll find a guy who likes me and doesn't care if I liked girls or vice versa." "I hope so." Buffy agreed. The two women hugged each other and Buffy walked down the stairs toward her house.
Willow sat in her room thinking about her conversation with Buffy. Did she really want to go back to liking guys? Oz hurt her really bad by just leaving. Tara did the same thing, and so did Kennedy. Oz came back though, so did Tara. Willow didn't really want Kennedy to come back because she never loved Kennedy. Willow now wished Tara was still with her. She even wished Oz came back before she met Tara and maybe they'd be together and Tara wouldn't have died. Maybe this was all inevitable though. Was Willow supposed to be left alone the rest of her life? "Xander!" Willow yelled loudly. She heard footsteps running up the stairs. Willow's door was jolted open by Xander. "Yeah Will?" "Come over here toward me please." Xander sort of hesitated because he was wondering about what she might do. Xander slowly walked over toward Willow. The next thing she did caught Xander off guard. Willow kissed Xander on the lips. "Will? What was that for?" "I felt something." "Willow, your confusing me." "I wanted to kiss you to see if I still felt something for guys. That kiss really helped me. Thanks Xander!" Willow kissed Xander again and ran out of her room happy. "Did I miss something?"
Okay...that bout does it for this chapter! Does everyone get what I was trying to do? I hope so cause it was hard to write this chapter! I know it took me forever! Neways, don't forget to R&R! Your comments will be greatly appreciated!
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