Chapter 4

Explaination's

Jesse was just about to ask Willow if she needed any help with the wounded, until a hand touched her on the shoulder. Spinning around she saw Buffy, Giles, and Kennedy staring intently at her.

"We need to talk." Buffy said still holding her on the shoulder. Jesse nodded but then looked over at Kennedy.

"Ok, but just as long as it's you and Giles." she said as she handed Willow some bandages. Willow's and Jesse's eyes met for a moment. Something about the girl seemed familiar to Willow. Just as soon as it was there it was gone. Shrugging it off, she started back bandaging the girls up.

After a few minutes, Giles, Jesse, and Buffy finally find a quiet place to talk.

"So who are..." Buffy began, but was cut off.

"First things first. Where did you get this?" Giles asked as he held up the silver necklace that she dropped. Her hand immediately went to her neck. She took it away from him before she answered.

"I got it from you." she said as she began to put it around her neck.

"Don't lie to me!" Giles growled as he grabbed her rough around the arm.

"Giles, calm down!" Buffy shouted as she made her watcher release his hold. To her surprise the girl wasn't mad but it was like she expected him to act like that. After a moment Giles calmed himself and apologized.

"Now what do you mean, I gave you this?" Giles asked again in a much gentler tone. Jesse let out a breath and looked up at him and sighed.

"You gave that to me in the future. I'm from the future ok." she said already knowing he wouldn't believe her. And he didn't.

"The first has stooped to an all time low. Using a little child to do it's dirty work." Giles said as he grabbed a seat and sat down in front of Jesse.

"Let's hear her out first Giles." Buffy said as she to took a seat.

"I'm from the year 2023." she began." And in my time The First enslaves mankind and it's corporeal."

"Damnit so we don't beat the bad guy." Buffy said angrily.

"No you did. Only for a little while though." she explained. "In two days time you guys will beat the first and successfully close a hellmouth for good."

"A hellmouth?" Buffy asked.

"Yeah, there are three of them. One in Sunnydale, New Mexico, and in Cleveland."

"You said that we defeated the First. So how does it come back? And why does it take so long for it to try to destroy the world in the future?" Giles asked.

"I'm getting to that part." Jesse said as she gave Giles a stern look. Which seemed to say 'I hate being interrupted'. Oddly enough that look seemed familiar to him.

"In 2004, a group of heroes go out in a blaze of glory, destroying the major players of evil in this dimension."

"So what does that mean?" Buffy asked.

"It means that there were so many dead demon bodies and the like spread in L.A. that the general public had to take notice."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Buffy asked as she put her sycthe on the table.

"No it's..."

"It's better to be blind." Giles said as he began to clean his glasses. Jesse grinned in spite of herself. 'Damn Grandpa never changes.'

"What do you mean?" Buffy asked looking over at Giles.

"He means that because of everybody knowing about demons and such an apocalypse would be just around the corner. Which oddly enough is what happened. When people found out they demanded the government to protect them. So they set up an anti-demon committie and started killing off any demons they came across."

"And the demons in turn fought back." Giles stated.

"Exactly!" Jesse said as she grinned at Giles.

"So where do we come in? Don't we try to stop them?" Buffy asked nervously.

"Of course you tried to stop them. But that turned out to be the problem. In 2018 the government of America and other nations started digging into what the Watcher's council was all about. Once they found out about the Slayer's and them having a demon essence in them they hunted them down all over the world and killed them."

There was an audible gasp as Jesse told them this part. Then Buffy started to cry with Giles holding her. Then something hit Buffy.

"Wait, what do you mean all over the world? Buffy asked. "There's only me and Faith!"

"That's not true. Not yet anyway. You see the way you guys won the war with the First in the first place is because you made Willow do a spell to activate all of the potentials into Slayers."

"Damn that's a good plan." Buffy said with a huge smile.

"Actually it wasn't." Jesse said making Buffy lose her smile. "You see you didn't count on two things. One if you made all of the girls Slayer's now, the slayer line wouldn't exist anymore. Two if there are no more Slayers then the future would be left unprotected." Jesse said.

"If that's true then how can you be a Slayer?" Giles asked. "You look like you are about 15, and if you are indeed from the year 2023 and if the Slayer line is non-existant, then how can you be a Slayer?"

'Damn Grandpa is as sharp as ever.' "That's what I was going to tell you in the beginning of my story, until someone interrupted me." she said looking over at Buffy, who smiled sheepishly in return.

"I was born in 2007. My parents were the heads over the magicks and the civilians division of the new Watcher's Council. Basically you are the head of the council and my parents looked up to you as a father. So when I was born they introduced you as my Grandpa." Jesse said as she looked over at Giles to see his reaction. To her surprise Giles just stared at her impassively so she continued her story.

"But when I turned 11,." Jesse started until her eyes started misting over with tears. " Mom and Dad took me to the Watcher's Council, so I could show you that I mastered the magick trick you taught me. Then as a reward, you gave me this silver necklace. You said it was because i was a good girl and that I reminded you of somebody." Giles flinched a little at that but Jesse didn't seem to notice, so she continued.

"Later that day after I showed you the trick we went out into the parking lot and we were about to leave, until the Watcher's Council blew up. The explosion killed everybody inside, all the Watcher's and Slayer's alike(even buffy and faith), except me, my parents, and you." She stopped for a second and found that Giles was squeezing her hand.

"I remember you picking me up to get me away from the fire. Then the military came and started shooting at us. They were aiming at me, but you jumped in the way..." She stopped again as she broke down crying. Giles got down on one knee and bowed to her level to give her a hug.

"It's going to be alright, Dear." Giles soothed as he stroked her hair and back. "I'm here for you now."

"Mynmeisjeshe." she muffled into his shoulder. Breaking apart he looked at her.

"I'm sorry dear, I didn't quite catch that." Giles said with a little smile, to lighten the mood. Which worked because she smiled back at him.

"I said my name is Jesse." she said as she straighted herself and sat back into her seat.

"Jesse?" Giles said with a grin.

"It's really Jessica Harris, but my dad insists on calling me Jesse."

"Harris?" Buffy spoke for the first time in awhile. "Oh my God is Xander your father?" At least I know Xander and Anya make it out of this mess alive, Buffy thought to herself. But Jesse looks like someone else, not Anya though.

'So much for being secretive' Jesse thought to herself. "Yeah he's my dad!" Jesse said with a lopsided grin, Xander's grin. "And Willow is my mom."

"Whoa just wait a minute, Willow is a les..."

"A lesbian?" Jesse cut Buffy off. "It's a long story but basically mom and another girl wanted to have a baby. But the only guy Mom trusted was my dad, which my mom's girlfriend didn't like. They broke up after that. So Mom and Dad went and had me artificially assemmulated and I was born. Later they fell back in love with each other and got married."

"As much as I would like to hear about Xander and Willow, I would still like to know how you became a slayer." Giles said as he took his glasses off again and polished them. Jesse stiffled a giggle as she watched him.

"Ok. Well after you died mom, dad, and I got to our car and went into hiding. I stole one of mom's books and learned some intense spells. One of which was a spell to bring forth souls. I did the spell and called forth the souls of 3 Slayers (Which happened to be Kendra, Faith, and Buffy) and they went inside of me and endowed me with their powers."

She went on to tell them that Xander taught her military strategies (including weapons training) and Willow taught her magick. Then she told them how that since there were no slayer's around the bringers did a spell on the hellmouth in Cleveland and in New Mexico and resurrected the First into corporeal form. After it roamed the earth, it defeated this dimension's forces and killed all of the world leaders. It also resurrected some of the old one's, so they could go all throughout other dimensions and conquer them. They took a large amount of humans with them and made them slaves, leaving earth a wasteland. The whole time Jesse told the story Giles just held her while Buffy sat back looking scared.

TBC...

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