X Woman Chapter Six

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Xavier Institute

Buffy mailed the letter early in the morning before going to class.

As the day proceeded, she went through the regular courses of math, history, literature, and science. Then she went through the side course of art and another side course of psychology. She was interested in her side courses, but the others were droll, very boring; sleep-worthy really.

The problem was that she already knew just about all of this from school, even if she never showed others that she paid attention. And after getting at least the notes from her six classes, Buffy walked around for a while, and was finally getting used to the campus. Well not used to it; she just now knew her way around better. The slayer didn't need to study too much-she already remembered most of it.

She made friends with a girl named Rogue, her boyfriend who everyone called 'Iceman,' and another boy who many referred to as 'Night Crawler.' She knew they were names for their mutation, or whatever you want to call it. But she preferred her usual name of Buffy. Many questioned it, but she just scooted them off of the subject, pointing them back towards whatever they were talking about before.

At the end of her walk, Buffy went directly to her room to do her homework so she could mess around for the rest of the night. She planned on centering herself.

When she finished her work though, Professor X and Jean called her over to the sic bay to look for ways her mutation could have varied. Logan was down there also. She said 'Hi' and made small talk with him for a few minutes, while the others discussed her mutation. She learned that he was cool with her, and she was same with him. But she found only brotherly feelings for him, and it was the same for Wolverine. Not that he wasn't hot, and she was a girl, but in her own mind and thoughts, she was already taken.

She saw Scott before she went in, and they said their 'hellos.' When they went in, the four of them (Professor X, Scott, Buffy, Jean) had a long conversation over it. She told them about her being the slayer, and how now, there are two since she died a little over two years ago. They were shocked to learn that bit of information. That's when she told her that that was the reason for cracking up the other day.

When they were finished going through her blood work and stuff two hours later, it was decided that she would stay with them at the school/house until she was ready to go back. She told them of how she doubted it would be anytime soon. They were okay with that.

Scott gave them the news that his dad would be there in a day or two. Buffy had actually been okay to see him. She told Scott later how her mom had thrown her out just after learning of her destiny. Scott had sympathized, and joked with her about how they got the good dad now. Buffy always liked her Uncle Mike. But she just called him Uncle.

She had Giles for her dad-replacement now. The non-visits her dad sported out to her just strengthened the resentment she had for him. But Buffy knew, already seeing it before Angelus, that Giles treated her and the scoobies like a parent. The five of them, Oz included, treated him like the father all of them seemed to lack as well.

Angel was older, but in everyone else's, he was another teen. Buffy could kind of see the light he had for the watcher, as an equal, but still a parental person, a boss.

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Sunnydale

Giles and the others were still in shock, not ready to grieve.

Two days ago, two different slayers had turned up. They had just showed up together telling them that they had been assigned to guard against the hellmouth until 'She' arrived back. Neither of the girls were fully aware about who she was, except that her past was here; she was like them but a little different, but they didn't tell the scoobies. They trusted Her, and that was that. The Council had come to 'claim them' but they just rolled their eyes and paid no attention to the Englishman, having been warned away by the brunette that naturally felt like an older sister.

All the two slayers said was that the other hellmouth was under guard (there was always only two, both being currently in America), and this was the one that needed to be guarded. But the scoobies were missing their Slayer, the core of their group. None of them wanted to think of her as dead.

None of them were ready to. They just weren't accepting it. Jenny, Giles, Willow, Oz, Xander, and Cordelia were all that was left, and no one was willing to face that fact.

At the end of the day, they decided to go home and try to get some sleep. They all left the library, all knowing that sleep was very likely not to come to them. They left in couples, and the two slayers made their way back to the motel room.

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Four days later

Giles went to his mail box to get his daily mail, when he saw the letter. When he did, he just stood there for a second. Not sure what to do. He wasn't fully positive that he would wake up and still see Jenny's dead body laying in his bed, and Buffy falling to pieces over her lost lover. His hand twitched, wanting to pick the letter up and rip the paper open to search the words he expected to find in the familiar loopy handwriting of Buffy's that was on the envelope cover.

So he went inside, and checked the letter. And he smiled. It was dated the day after the two slayers arrived.

The others were there within ten minutes of his important call, and waiting impatiently to get Giles to read it. Ultimately, Jenny had to read it. Giles was jittery, and the others were way too anxious.

When she read the letter, everyone was momentarily calm. They all had their questions, but they kept in mind that this letter meant that Buffy was alive three days ago, and that she might still well be.

Giles went to his books, knowing he wouldn't find anything. Before, two were impossible to have. And now with three? It was 'Bloody Unlikely!' as Giles had said many times that day. But they should have all expected something like this, being with Buffy and all…

They were all just content that she was still alive, and that she may still be breathing and kicking. And hopefully fine and coming home. None of them really stayed long on the topic that Angel was her home, because they all were pretty sure he was gone.

Yet again, Xander felt guilt well up in him. But he never voiced his concern. He was afraid what he would say in his defense. He had always known he was shallow, but he came to his friends' rescue when it was called for. But when his selfishness came to hand, he couldn't take it. Xander himself didn't know why he lied. If he could, he would take it back.

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Xavier Institute

Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine, watched Buffy as she moved. He wasn't checking her out, but he got a primal sense off of her, like she would be able to kick him down without having to go behind him.

And as he watched carefully, he saw how she moved, but he couldn't picture why. It was as if she could move easily, but moving was the thing that was causing her trouble- like she would rather sit down somewhere for the rest of her natural life.

It was also extremely weird to him. Logan had watched and learned the human psyche by seeing it all, but after all of the years he could remember, she was different. But he knew that he had to keep her safe, like he knew to keep Rogue safe. Which was also freaking him out.

A small girl was making him protective, and guarded at the same time, not that Rogue was any different. But he had met the girl on a personal level when they were both learning about themselves, and they had bonded over their experiences, including the time when Magneto had taken her to Liberty Island.

He was aware that she was beautiful, but he wasn't really paying any attention to her beauty. He was watching her through the shaded eyes of a wolf-like animal, a predator. He had a bad feeling something was about to go down. And he didn't like that feeling one bit.

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