Chapter 2

Sitting up groggily, Jesse opened her eyes and found herself to be in a large warehouse.

"Mom, Dad." She called out hoping against hope that what just happened was all just a dream. To her dissappointment the echo of her own voice answered her back.

Putting the bag down, that she clutched tightly in her arms, she began to cry. 'I can't believe this is happening' she thought over and over in her mind as she began rocking back and forth. Moments later, after her tears subsided, she stood up with a grim look on her beautiful face.

'I want let there deaths be in vain!' she thought to herself as she looked up to the heavens.

Opening up the bag her father threw to her, she began doing inventory. The first thing she pulled out were a pair of wrist stake launchers, which she promptly put on. As she tested them she took out another item, which was a palm sized circular disk. Not really caring what it was she put it in her coat pocket. Maybe it'll come in handy later.

Looking back into the bag she saw that she had over seven plasma grenades in the bag. 'Holy shit and dad threw this to me', she thought half bemused as her eyes widened theatrically. Zipping the bag back up she walked to the door to see where she was.

As she opened the door she saw that it was night time and it seemed real peaceful. 'Peaceful' she thought bitterly. My parents will never know peace. Hell with the way L.A. turned out no one will ever know peace. With that thought she ran out into the night in search of answers to where she was.

After twenty minutes of walking down the dark and disolate streets, Jesse came to the conclusion that she wasn't in L.A. anymore. Where were all the destroyed buildings and the pollution? She thought to herself.

Looking up at a sign she read it out loud. "Sunnydale. But that's impossible. Sunnydale was destroyed."

Just as she was walking past a gas station, a scream interrupted her reverie.

"Finally some action!" she muttered to herself as she took off at a run. As she neared a corner she saw a trio of men surrounding two women. As the light from an above street lamp shone on there faces, she saw that they were vampires. Dropping her bag she slowly approached them.

"Good evening." she said with a small smile.

"Piss off, Girlie!" the vamp snarled as he looked back at her. Jesse walks up to him and leans in to get a closer look at his face. The vamp growls at her and she leans back:

"Uhh, breath mint?" she quips.

The vamp throws the girl into some trashcans and swings at Jesse. Jesse blocks his punch, knocks him down, and spin kicks the vamp behind her. As the leader tries to get back up she kicks him in the face knocking him back down.

As she's distracted the other vamp tackles her to the ground, but she catapults him over her head and gets back up. Seeing two vamps charging her from opposite sides, she triggers the wrist stake launchers under her sleeves and stakes both at the same time. They dust.

The vampire leader comes up and hits her over the head with a trashcan, knocking Jesse to the ground.

"You shouldn't have done that." she grounds out as she does a flip to get back on her feet.

She kicks the vamp in the stomach then throws him. The vamp spins in the air and lands on top of a car's windshield cracking it.

The two girls watch on, looking scared. One girl is bleeding from a cut on her forehead.

"Oh, my god! They were…" one of the girls started but was cut off.

"What year is it?." Jesse asked with her back turned to the two girls.

"What?" the brunette girl asked.

"I said what year is it?" she asked again, still with her back turned to them. The girls exchange a look before answering.

"It's May 2003." The blonde answered as Jesse started to walk off.

"Thank you." the other girl said as she touched Jesse on the arm.

"Stay away from me."

The girls back off. Jesse stalks down the alley looking disgusted. Breaking a slat from a wooden crate she stakes the vamp still lying on the car's hood without even looking. The girls watch her leave.

Sunnydale Vineyard: the same time Jesse goes back in time.

The First is sitting on a wine barrel in Buffy form as she talks to Caleb. In mid-sentence a wave a nausea hits her as she falls off the barrel and her eyes flash green. Immediately Caleb comes to her side and helps her to her feet. Then realization hit, Caleb just touched the first's arm.

Just as quickly as he touched her arm, his hand went straight through her. Stilling herself she sat back down on the wine barrel.

"What the hell is going on?" Caleb asked as he folded his arms over his chest. As the nausea went away the First looked up at him with a feral grin on her face.

"It seems that we have another player in town." she replied as she flashed away.

After two hours of gathering supplies and food (actually she stole them, but hey the shops were abandoned.) she made her way to revello drive. As a small child she always wondered why her father and mother always made her study a map of Sunnydale. I mean the place was destroyed. But now she figured out why, her parents planned this the whole time.

But did they really plan to come with me or did they know they were going to die? She thought bitterly. But now since I'm here, I can see them in the past. But how are they going to act towards me. Pushing down her trepidation, she knocked on the door of Buffy Summers house and glanced nervously at her feet.

After hearing some stumbling around in the background someone opened the door.

"Yes, can I help you?" Giles asked as he looked at the girl before him. As she recognized the voice she looked up at him with a grin.

"Grandpa?"

TBC...

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