A/N thanks for the reviews WP. and yes you were right. They were future Willow and future Giles.
Chapter 7
New Hope
Just as fast as the zombies came to the porch, they quickly turned around and shuffled away. Much to the relief of the occupants in the house.
"What the 'ell is going on?" Spike asked as he came to the partially boarded up window.
"Their just...leaving." Kennedy answered from her position at the window. At that moment Jesse and Giles came down from upstairs.
"The First is giving us a break." Jesse said in answer to everyone's question. "I just had a visit by it." As soon as she said this she was bombarded with a hundred questions at once. To her amazement Giles was the one to silence them.
"Enough everyone!" Giles shouted. Then all eyes feel on him. "I'm afraid we have an even bigger problem." he said as he removed his glasses. "It seems that the first is now corporeal."
"WHAT!" everyone exploded at the same time.
"Oh great now we don't have to wait for that freaky preacher to come and kill us. Now the first can do it, it self." Rona fumed as she sat down on the couch.
"What do you mean The First is corporeal?" Buffy asked looking expectantly at Giles.
"The only conclusion I can come up with is that we now have three Slayers. And since there are three it has caused an imbalance, thereby giving the First the power to assume corporeal form." Giles explained, before anybody could shoot down his crack pot theory. (like the fact that since Jesse was supposed to have been a slayer for 2 years, then why would the first just now take corporeal form.)
"Now everyone go get some sleep. As the First has already made it clear, that it will attack tomorrow."
"Right Rupes, like anyone can get some sleep after that." Spike said as he approached him. Only for Jesse to get in his way.
"You heard my father, Vampire." Jesse said as she kept walking making Spike take a few steps back. "I personally don't care what you do, but the potentials need rest for what's about to go down tomorrow."
"Oh, and who made you General?" Spike asked as he looked over at Giles with a pointed look on his face. He never saw the punch coming.
"Oh, I'm not a General, just a soldier." she stated as she walked off, leaving Spike on the other side of the room rubbing his jaw.
"Does anybody else have any objections to getting some rest?" Giles asked the stunned group in front of him. To his delight everyone just shook their heads. "Good."
"Well now." Caleb started as he walked down the stairs of the vineyard. "And in the last days the dead shall rise." Caleb said to Buffy/The First as they stood in front of an army of the dead.
"Nothing will stop us this time." The First muttered as a few uber-vamps appeared in the room.
"This time?" Caleb asked.
"Yeah. It seems that the new girl in town, I was telling you about is from the future. I guess when she fell through the portal the spell that made me corporeal was activated."
"But what do you mean by we will win this time?" Caleb asked but then he thought about it for a second. "Oh!"
"Oh, indeed." The first said as it changed into Caleb.
"In this time line I was supposed to lose. But sometime in the future I get to destroy this world." The first said in Caleb's southern drawl.
"Hallelujah!" Caleb said as if he was hearing a sermon.
"Now did you do the job I told you about?" The First asked slightly amused as it turned back into Buffy.
"Yeah I did." Caleb said with a smile. "I snapped her neck like kindling."
"Good. Now that the Guardian (That old lady that told Buffy about the scythe on the show) is dead, it's time to plan our next move." she said as a WolfBlade layed down at her feet.
10 hours later
Jesse was just waking up from her much needed sleep when someone walked into her room.
"Hi Willow." Jesse greeted as she saw the red head duck into the room.
"Hi." Willow greeted back. "Giles wanted me to tell you that he wants to see you downstairs."
"Ok." Jesse said as she got out of bed. To her surprise Willow was still standing there watching her. "What?" Jesse asked as she looked at her with a grin.
"Oh. Sorry for staring it's just that...do we know each other from somewhere?"
'Damn, I wish I could just tell her the truth.' Jesse thought bitterly to herself. "I get that alot." Jesse said with a grin.
"Just tell dad I'll be down in a few minutes. I have to freshen up first." With that Willow nodded and headed back downstairs.
20 minutes later after a shower and a change of clothes (Which Buffy gave her earlier that day) Jesse made her way downstairs. Looking around in the Living room she saw that she was alone. Hearing some noise in the kitchen, she made her way in there and saw Willow and Giles sitting at the table together.
"Good morning Gran... Dad." Jesse said as she sat down at the table. "Where is everyone?" She asked referring to the scoobies, potentials, and the slayers.
"They all went to get weapons, food, and the like." Giles said as he looked over at Willow. "But what I wanted to talk to you about is to see if you have come up with a plan yet?"
"Actually yeah." she said as she produced a grocery sack. After 5 minutes of explaining her plan, Giles removed his glasses and started polishing it on his shirt.
"So what do you two think?" Jesse asked as she took the green and silver amulets out of the sack and put them on the table.
"What you're asking is..."
"Both crazy and wreckless." Giles said as he put his glasses back on. "But I like it." he said with a smile.
"I don't think I can do this." Willow states as she stands up from the table.
"I think you can." Jesse says back as she lays a hand on her shoulder.
"But you don't understand the power is..."
"To much." Giles answers for her. At her nod he continued. "Willow you know I think of you as if you were my own child. I would never let you do anything that would cause harm to you. That's why Jesse wants all of us to do this spell. So you want be alone."
Teary eyed from Giles speech, Willow takes a seat at the table.
After setting up the supplies they needed, Jesse put her sword on the table(Which was a rune weapon like the scythe, that Jesse found in the future, by the New Mexico hellmouth) the three began the spell.
The sword on the table suddenly flares with a brilliant white light as tremendous power flows from it into the amulets. As they sat there in amazement ghostly figures emerged from nowhere into the room. Their smiles were cut short as they saw a ghost that had an aura of black walk near them. Giles and Willow knew immediately who it was. It was the first Slayer.
"Who dares to envoke the souls of the fallen Slayers?" she asked as she looked between the three of them.
"I did." Jesse said as she stood up.
"You are merely a child." the first slayer stated as she cocked her head to the side. "Why have you summoned us?"
"Because The First Evil is here and is trying to destroy the world." Jesse explained.
"I understand. But why should we release our powers to you?"
"Because I'm a Slayer."
"A Slayer?" she asked as she looked at Jesse closer, as if she were looking into her mind and soul. "Ah, you are a artificial Slayer. I see the powers of three mighty warriors inside you." she said as she took a step back.
"Very well. We will grant your wish." And with that the First Slayer dissappeared and the ghosts went inside the amulets.
After the bright lights went away the group fell to the floor in fatigue.
"Damn that was..."
"Intense." Giles finished for Willow. At her nod the trio slowly stood up.
At that moment the kitchen door opened and Buffy and the others entered.
"What's going on?" Buffy asked looking over the group.
"Nothing much. We just figured out how to save the world." Jesse replied with a lopsided grin. At Buffy's look she pointed to the amulets.
"Vi, Rona would you two mind telling all the others to come in the kitchen?" Giles asked. They nodded and headed into the living room to get the others. After all of them came into the room, Giles explained what occured with the slayer spirits.
When Buffy asked about the slayer line, Jesse told her that they are just borrowing the power. The strength and skills were connected with the amulets, and the dead slayers, not the girls. That way the Slayer line would still exist.
After the potentials put the amulets on they felt dormant powers develop in thier bodies. As the mysterious white light appeared and disappeared into their bodies they felt like new people. The experience was different for one person in particular though.
Rona looked over at Spike with hatred in her eyes and then she looked over at Principal Wood. After a moment of staring at the man, she figured out who it was.
"Robin?" Rona asked in a whisper, but not in her voice but someone else's. Someone very familiar to the principal. Principal Wood looked over at Rona with a questioning look on his face. But then it clicked with him who it was.
"Mom?" he questioned back. At her nod they ran to each other and hugged.
"You grew up to be a handsome man Robin." Nikki Wood said still holding her son.
"Mom!" he said again as he hugged her tighter and cried.
There reunion was cut short though as the back kitchen door burst open. A very familiar man ran into the room holding up an orange crystal and then the house exploded.
TBC...
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