As We Were

Rated T for mild language, sexuality, and violence

I do not own any of these characters or things from Joss Whedon's shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Summary: Post Chosen as if Angel season five never happened. Season Eight of Buffy. The Scooby gang lives on a new hellmouth in Saline, Michigan. Buffy is having dreams of the deaths of girls, and life seems much like life in Sunnydale. Everything will come together in the end, and I think you will be very happy with the end result.


Chapter 3:

"Willow, have you found anything yet?" Giles asks from behind a stack of books.

"Nope nothing. I can't find anything online when we don't know her name." Willow responded.

"Buff, do you remember the girl at all besides from your dream?" Giles asked calmly even though he was obviously mentally wasted.

"I told you, I have only seen her in my dream!" Buffy said as she raised here voice.

"Wait! Buffy, do you know where Dawn keeps her old year books?" Willow asked.

"Uh, yeah. Come on, they're up in her room." The three of them ran up stairs into Dawns room and started searching through her pile of yearbooks on her shelf. One by one, yearbooks were searched then dropped on the floor in disappointment.

"This is hopeless," Buffy moaned flipping through pages in the yearbook. She flipped to the last page, then closed the book. "I guess that's it, she's no where in any of these."

"What are you doing! Get out of my room! Are you going through my stuff! Ugh!" Dawn screamed from the doorway of her room. Giles, Willow, and Buffy all looked up at Dawn with ashamed and guilty faces. Buffy started "I'm sorry Dawny, we were just, um, looking for…"

"Me?" a girl says stepping in front of Dawn into the room. Giles, Willow, and Buffy's mouths all fall open. Dawn just stared at all of them like they were crazy. Giles cleared his throat and said, "Well, um, yes. We were."

"Okay, now this is getting really weird, what the hell are you all talking about?" Dawn said.

"I thought you were staring at me funny. I didn't get it 'till now, but I had a feeling. You're a slayer aren't you?" The girl asked Buffy.

"Well uh, yes" Buffy replied confused.

"I've heard a lot about you, you are like THE one or was THE one."

"You're a slayer too aren't you?"

"Yes I am thanks to you I think. You are the one who gave me the powers right?" The girl asked

"Well actually, it was technically Willow, but yes. Hold on, what's you name?"

"Oh sorry, I'm Jill, and you?"

"Buffy"

"HOLD ON!" Dawn screamed, "What the hell is going on!"

"Oh sorry Dawn, we were just trying to find out who she was, because Buffy had a feeling when she saw her." Giles explained. Dawn seemed to have accepted the answer, because she became quiet. Buffy gave Willow a "what is he doing look", and Willow gave her a "just trust him, I think I know where he is going look" look. Jill then explained that when she had acquired her slayer powers a few months ago. She was scared, but then she started studying stuff about slayers on the Internet, and thought it was cool. She also talked to a Demon who she paid for information on the previous slayer. That was how she found out about Buffy and how she gave slayer powers to all potential slayers. She ran away from home and came to Sunnydale to learn more. She moved in with her aunt, and now went to school here. When she was done with her story, Dawn, who had been patiently listening, asked if she and Jill could finally go to the movies. They had just come back for Dawn's coat. "Oh, sorry for keeping you. See you soon Jill, and thanks for talking with us." After Buffy walked the two teenagers out, she walked to the kitchen where Giles and Willow were already sitting and waiting for her. "Why did you make up that lie? I had no clue that she was a slayer. It's not like I have special slayer sensing power like I do vampires."

"You didn't want Dawn to know, remember." Willow replied calmly.

"Yeah, but couldn't you have made up something more logical."

"What, I personally think it is more logical than seeing a girl in your dreams before you actually meet her," Giles said half serious, half teasingly.

"No comment," was all Buffy said. " So what do think, me having dreams of slayers dying? What does it mean?"

"I really have no clue," Giles answered. "But we should keep an eye on this girl." They all just sat there thinking, and string glumly.

"Buffy!" Dawn yelled running into the house.

"What is it?" Buffy asked concerned. Dawn took a moment to catch her breath and then said, "It's Jill, she…she, was attacked! I...I think she's dead!"

Ha, I bet you can't guess what's gonna happen. If you have any ideas or guess, e-mail me. Please review. I want at least one review before I post the next chapter!