Disclaimers:
These are obviously not my characters, I'm just borrowing them from Joss Whedon and anyone else who owns them.
If you have issues with people of the same sex loving each other, or live someplace where that's illegal (in which case, consider moving) please move on.
Buffy: takes place after series end so everything that happened in the series happened here.
Angel: begins after episode You're Welcome and there may be differences from canon after that. Specifically that the Illyria plot doesn't exist. Deal with it.
Charmed: differs from canon as of the end of season 5. Leo did not become an elder, he and Piper are still together, and big Chris doesn't exist. Takes place in the time period of season 6.
Rating: PG-13 mostly for some violence
"When did she die?" Angel asked softly. Cordelia was dead, the latest casualty in the war against evil. Angel suddenly felt very tired. Cordy hadn't even really wanted to fight. She had gotten into it accidentally in high school, and then when Doyle gave her his psychic powers she had lost any choice in the matter.
"Ah!" Dawn suddenly doubled over in the middle of the street.
"Dawn, what's wrong?" Buffy picked her sister up and carried her to the curb, ignoring the stares from the Italians at her display of strength, because Dawn weighed at least twenty pounds more than the slight slayer.
Dawn opened her eyes, rubbing her temples.
"Buffy, I…I think I just got a premonition."
"You what? You don't get premonitions." Buffy stated flatly.
"I know, but I did! I saw this girl, she was being attacked by a demon…it was green, with little red bumps on his head. I think it was tonight, it was night time. We have to save her!"
"Dawn, you don't get premonitions!"
"Buffy, I did! You'll see, we'll find her!"
"Okay. Do you know where she's going to be?"
"No…wait, but she was wearing a uniform….it said Le Bon France on it. You think it was a restaurant?" Dawn asked.
"I guess we can look in the phone book." Her sister agreed skeptically.
They returned to the long-term hotel they were living in and found the phone book.
"Dawn, it's here. How did you know about this restaurant? It's all the way on the other side of Milan." Buffy asked suspiciously.
"I told you, I saw it! I swear! Why would I lie about this?" Dawn whined.
"Fine…well let's go to dinner there, maybe that girl will be there and you can point her out. We can follow her or something, see if this demon appears." Buffy said, still skeptical of her sister but knowing enough to see this out.
After Dawn had taken a large dose of asprin, the girls started out across town and reached Le Bon France around 9. Upon entering, Dawn gasped and grabbed Buffy's arm.
"This is it! That's her! That's what she was wearing!" she hissed in Buffy's direction.
They had as nice a dinner as they could with Dawn staring at the dark-haired girl from her vision the entire time. By the time they finished, it was nearly 11, as it had taken them some time to find the restaurant. It closed at 11, so they went across the street to wait for the girl to come out. They didn't have to wait long. At 11:05 they heard a shriek from the alley. They rushed back to find the girl pinned to a wall by none other than a green demon with red bumps on his head.
"Dawn, I don't know how you knew but damn you were right!" Buffy said as she rushed to distract the demon.
"Hey, why don't you pick on someone your own size!" she yelled at it.
It turned around and stared at her as if it was confused.
"Okay fine, not your own size but your own strength!" she amended as she attacked the demon with a flying sidekick.
Dawn groaned. "Buffy, that was sad." She turned to the girl. "Come on, let's get inside. Buffy can handle this. What were you doing out here anyway?"
"I was just putting out the trash…what is that thing?" she answered shakily, allowing Dawn to lead her back inside.
"It's…well it's a demon, they're real. Sorry. But don't worry, Buffy will kill it."
Sure enough, momentarily Buffy walked in the door covered in green goo.
"Yuck! I hate it when they don't go poof! Now I have to deal with it." She complained.
"Wasn't he wearing clothes? We can put rocks in his pockets and put him in the river." Dawn suggested. "That always works in the movies."
After assuring the girl, Fiona, that it was safe to walk home after closing up, they carried the demon to the river and tried Dawn's idea, which worked surprisingly well.
"What time is it in London?" Buffy asked as they walked back to the hotel.
"Um…one hour earlier. So 12:30 am. You can't call Giles, he'll be sleeping."
"Hmmm, that would make it only 4:30 in the afternoon in California. I'll call Angel. He knows about premonitions. Cordy got them. He'll know what's up."
Back at the hotel she dialed the number for Angel's office in Wolfram and Hart.
"Hi, Harmony, it's Buffy. Is Angel in? Thanks." She waited while the vampire put her through.
"Angel. It's Buffy. I have a weird question…what do you know about premonitions? Dawn got one tonight and we found it and it came true."
There was silence on the line for a minute.
"Dawn got a premonition? Was it about a demon attack?" he asked.
"Yes, it was. How did you know?"
"Maybe she got it for a reason. You see…Cordy died, about a week ago."
"What? Did she ever wake up from that coma?"
"No. She died without ever waking up. Although somehow she astrally projected herself right before. We thought she woke up and came and helped us solve a case, but then she said goodbye and disappeared from my office right when I got the call about her death." It was the most Angel had spoken to anyone about the seer since her death. Buffy didn't really understand but she could hear the emotion in Angel's voice.
"Oh god Angel…I'm sorry. We'll miss her." Buffy said sincerely.
"Yes, we will. But er… about Dawn. She had been practicing witchcraft, correct?"
"Yeah." Buffy confirmed. "It surprised me but she seems to have a knack for it."
"Well, sometimes witches are given special powers for a reason. It might not have anything to do with Cordy, but it does seem pretty coincidental."
"I guess that means we should come back to California."
"Maybe." Angel returned to his usual taciturn self, not wanting to pressure Buffy but knowing that selfishly he would like her to be closer than Italy.
"Yeah, so we're going to go back to LA. Work with Angel, I guess. If the Powers that Be chose Dawn, I guess we should go help out again. We've had a nice break from it. Anyway..we were wondering if you guys would want to come too. We've missed the gang. I've missed you, Wills."
"Well..I know that Kennedy really likes it here in Brazil, but I miss you too. And I miss California. I want to finish school and get a real job, maybe as a programmer or something. I'll talk to her, okay? Have you talked to Xander yet?"
"Yeah. He's going to come back. He was all alone, you know? I know he was liking Africa but he said he wouldn't pass up the chance to join back up with the gang. He was pretty upset about Cordy though…"
"I know, can you believe it? It's horrible. So soon after Anya too." Willow felt sorry for her best friend. He really had a bad track record with women.
When she got off the phone, Willow walked into their living room where her girlfriend was watching television.
"What did Buffy have to say?"
"She and Dawn and Xander are moving back to LA. They want us to come." She said bluntly.
Kennedy sat up. "What? Why would they think we'd do that?"
"I want to do it." Willow said.
"Why? I thought you liked Brazil!" Kennedy whined.
"I do…but I miss my friends, Kenn. And I want to finish college, and you should finish high school or get your GED or whatever you'd have to do now."
"Why do I need that? I'm fine without it."
"You can't get a real job without it." Willow pointed out.
"I don't need a real job, I'm a slayer. I fight evil." She said proudly.
"Yeah we've been fighting so much evil at those parties." Willow said sarcastically. "Besides, that's what we'd do in LA. Fight evil."
"I thought you liked the parties." Kennedy started to get defensive.
"I did. But we can't party forever. Honey, I want to go to LA. Are you going to come with me or not?" she put down the ultimatum.
Kennedy was silent for a minute. "Fine. I'll go with you. Happy?" she flounced off to bed, leaving her girlfriend alone in the living room.
Willow sighed. She and Kennedy had been fighting a lot lately. They really didn't have that much in common, except for the evil-fighting, and they hadn't done much of that since leaving the remains of Sunnydale.
By the time she got to bed, Kennedy was asleep or at least pretending to be. Willow crawled into bed on the other side and went to sleep without touching her girlfriend.
Three weeks later, the last of the core Scoobies was back in LA.
"Xander!" Willow squealed as she rushed to greet her best friend. "You took forever!"
"Hey, it's harder to get a plane out of Uganda than Rio, okay?" he teased her.
Buffy gave Xander a big hug too. "Hey Buff, easy on the ribs okay? I missed you too, but not that crazy strength." He grinned to show that he really had missed everything about her. "So, where are we staying?"
"For now in Angel's building, until we can find somewhere else." Willow explained.
"Hey, so Buffy said you are gonna go back to school?" he asked.
"Yeah, probably UCLA. I can transfer pretty easily, but I can't start until the summer because the semester already started a month ago. I went and talked to the admissions guy there yesterday. I need three terms to graduate, since I got incompletes that last semester when…I left. Probably better that way, I hadn't really cared about school most of that semester anyway." She explained.
"Is Kennedy going to go there too?"
Willow rolled her eyes. "No. She never graduated high school, she was a senior when she left to come to Sunnydale. She doesn't want to go back or study for her GED or anything."
"Oh, sorry. Seems like a sore subject, didn't mean to bring up anything bad. Oh god I missed you two!" he hugged them again.
Sorry it's a bit slow to start out, things will pick up more now they're all back together. And don't worry, I'm getting rid of Kennedy soon!