Title: A Breed Apart
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: Some, mostly early series.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy. I would buy the show but I am broke.
Summary: On her first day at Sunnydale High, Buffy finds an odd kinship to a fellow student and something she never knew about herself.
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Buffy sat in the hospital bed. She hated hospitals, but at the moment she more wanted to get away from Xander than from the hospital. Everyone had come to see her because she was injured. Very few people, only Xander, Giles, Willow, Jenny Calender and Angel, knew that she had died yesterday. She had been visited by her mother, the entire self defence and gymnastics clubs, and the aforementioned affiliates. Currently only Xander was in the room with her, and she could not meet his eye. He was annoyed, she could feel it and it was kind of freaking her out.
'How can I feel what he is feeling?' she silently asked herself.
"Look at me." Xander said. "Buffy Anne Summers, look at me this instant!"
His anger washed through her and she shyly looked at him.
"What's the matter with you? You are stronger than this." Xander demanded.
"I drank." Buffy responded, her voice full of shame.
His anger and annoyance faded, replaced with warmth and concern.
"You're not like them, if that's what you're thinking. The fact that you are ashamed proves that you are better than them."
"You're not mad?" she whispered.
"Why would I be mad? I fed you." He responded. "Free will, Buff. Plus, I promised that you wouldn't get rid of me that easily."
Buffy laughed, she could not help herself.
********
Xander smiled at Buffy across the dinner table, and Joyce grinned from her position at the table. The summer was drawing to an end and they would have to return to Sunnydale High in two days.
"Right, off to bed you two." Joyce said. "Big day tomorrow."
Xander and Buffy had been spending a lot of time together over the summer, especially since Joyce had insisted that Xander move in. Joyce had gone over to Xander's early in the summer, concerned about her daughter's boyfriend as he never discussed his home life. When she had arrived and asked for Xander, she had seen stark terror in the Harris' eyes. No one should live in a house where their parents feared them for nothing, so she had convinced Xander to move in to the Summers Household. She was not sure how Xander had convinced her to let him stay in Buffy's room, with Buffy, recalling something about Dampirs and closeness, but she trusted him, especially after he vowed that he would kill himself before ever betraying her trust or hurting Buffy. Buffy had even related that he had locked himself in a cage to stop the possibility of him hurting her.
The next day was bigger than the start of the new school year, bigger than their defeat of the Master just before the start of the summer. Buffy, Xander and Joyce, had been discussing the possibility and consequences for what was about to happen all summer. Tomorrow evening, Buffy and Xander would be mated, in effect married. Joyce had insisted that they go over everything with her, the mating ritual in particular. The mating ritual was to be combined with a traditional wedding ceremony performed by a local priest who they had saved last year, and he kept them in supply with Holy Water and blessed items. After they had explained some of the advantages of the mating, such as a permanent, two way version of the empathic connection that Buffy had experienced after the fight with The Master and the ability to know where the other was, among other things, Joyce had agreed on the condition that they would not be intimate till they both reached the age of 18, after negotiating Joyce down from 39 years old. In California underage couples could get married so long as they had parental consent (AN: I don't know if that is true, but for the purposes of this story they are.), which Joyce had provided when they had agreed on the arrangement, and they had gotten from Xander's adopted parents through their fear of him.
Buffy and Xander went to bed, comfortably wrapped in each other's arms. Tomorrow would be a big day.
********
Buffy and Xander were walking the halls of Sunnydale High, just having been to the office to change Buffy's surname to Harris and Xander's address to 1630 Rodello Drive, Buffy's address. As they walked, hand in hand, they were intercepted by the new principal, since Principal Flute died in a "Gang related incident involving PCP" also know as a vampire attack. The new principal's name was Snyder and he was a little weasel of a man who seemed to hate children and teenagers.
"Enough of that." He ordered, indicating to their joined hands. "School is not the place for that. This is not the time for that."
"And when, prey tell, would be?" Xander asked.
"Um. When you are married, many years from now." Snyder responded, thinking he had got them.
"Too late. We are married." Buffy replied, showing Snyder her wedding band, as did Xander.
The newlyweds walked off leaving a stunned Principal, heading to home room. They arrived early and wait for class to start, Xander sitting next to Buffy as always. The rest of the class filed in, as did the home room teacher, who called the roll. Buffy and Xander tuned out till the teacher got to H.
"Harris, Alexander."
"Here." Xander called.
"Harris, Buffy." The teacher said, shocked.
"Here." Buffy responded.
Everyone in the classroom except Xander, Buffy and Willow, who had been at the mating/wedding were completely shocked.
"What the hell?" Cordelia called out.
"Got married. Der!" Buffy responded.
Cordelia fell off her chair in shock.
********
Buffy and Xander walked into the Library laughing at the reaction of their classmates to their marriage. They got an impression of a honey chocolate skinned girl with long, bushy black hair before she slammed into Xander and started punching him. Buffy yanked the girl off of Xander and dropped into a fighting stance facing her as the girl flip-kicked to her feet and dropped into her own fighting stance.
"Kendra. Stop this instant." Giles ordered. "Buffy, stand down."
Buffy growled and Xander was getting to his feet.
"I know, but stand down and I'll explain." Giles said. "Kendra?"
Buffy straitened, followed by the girl Giles called Kendra, who eyed her and Xander suspiciously.
"Kendra, why did u attack them?" Giles asked.
"Because dey are vampires, sir." Kendra said shyly, with a distinct Jamaican accent. "I can feel it."
"She's a Slayer." Giles explained.
"But I though the only way to get a Slayer was for the old one to die?" Willow said.
"Hey! I was only gone a few seconds." Buffy protested.
"Excuse me, sir. But why are you taking to dem?" Kendra asked.
"Sorry, this is Buffy and Xander. She is also a Slayer." Giles responded.
"But dey are vampires." Kendra said.
"Hey. We are not vampires. We are Dampir. Hello, standing in sunlight." Xander said.
Giles sat everyone down and explained the situation. Kendra's Watcher had been injured, by a car accident of all things, and had send Kendra to Giles until he recovered. He believed that there was no active Slayer on the Hellmouth and had sent Kendra to protect it, and Giles was to act as her Watcher for the time being.
"So, you're a Slayer. I like that in women." Xander said with a grin.
"Um. I mean.um." Kendra stuttered.
"Hey. Yesterday we get married and today you are hitting on the new girl? You are unbelievable." Buffy said.
"Hey, I was just welcoming her to Sunny Hell, trying to make her feel comfortable. Plus we are Mated. You know what that means." Xander said.
"Yah. I know. Sorry." Buffy muttered.
"Plus now we got another Slayer to break in. Sometimes I worry about Wills, she does too much." Xander said. "Welcome to the team, Kendra."
"Um. Thank you, sir." Kendra said, nervously.
"Call me Xander. Or the other Slayer's Husband." Xander said, earning him a slap across the back of the head from Buffy.
Suddenly Buffy and Xander started looking around.
"Deadboy's coming." Xander called.
A few seconds later a vampire appeared on Kendra's Slayer senses.
"Don't slay." Buffy ordered. "As much as we hate him, this one's a good guy and he helps us."
"We got trouble." Angel said as he walked in, then he spotted Kendra.
"She a Slayer. What's the deal?" Buffy snapped.
"Spike."
TBC.
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: Some, mostly early series.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy. I would buy the show but I am broke.
Summary: On her first day at Sunnydale High, Buffy finds an odd kinship to a fellow student and something she never knew about herself.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Buffy sat in the hospital bed. She hated hospitals, but at the moment she more wanted to get away from Xander than from the hospital. Everyone had come to see her because she was injured. Very few people, only Xander, Giles, Willow, Jenny Calender and Angel, knew that she had died yesterday. She had been visited by her mother, the entire self defence and gymnastics clubs, and the aforementioned affiliates. Currently only Xander was in the room with her, and she could not meet his eye. He was annoyed, she could feel it and it was kind of freaking her out.
'How can I feel what he is feeling?' she silently asked herself.
"Look at me." Xander said. "Buffy Anne Summers, look at me this instant!"
His anger washed through her and she shyly looked at him.
"What's the matter with you? You are stronger than this." Xander demanded.
"I drank." Buffy responded, her voice full of shame.
His anger and annoyance faded, replaced with warmth and concern.
"You're not like them, if that's what you're thinking. The fact that you are ashamed proves that you are better than them."
"You're not mad?" she whispered.
"Why would I be mad? I fed you." He responded. "Free will, Buff. Plus, I promised that you wouldn't get rid of me that easily."
Buffy laughed, she could not help herself.
********
Xander smiled at Buffy across the dinner table, and Joyce grinned from her position at the table. The summer was drawing to an end and they would have to return to Sunnydale High in two days.
"Right, off to bed you two." Joyce said. "Big day tomorrow."
Xander and Buffy had been spending a lot of time together over the summer, especially since Joyce had insisted that Xander move in. Joyce had gone over to Xander's early in the summer, concerned about her daughter's boyfriend as he never discussed his home life. When she had arrived and asked for Xander, she had seen stark terror in the Harris' eyes. No one should live in a house where their parents feared them for nothing, so she had convinced Xander to move in to the Summers Household. She was not sure how Xander had convinced her to let him stay in Buffy's room, with Buffy, recalling something about Dampirs and closeness, but she trusted him, especially after he vowed that he would kill himself before ever betraying her trust or hurting Buffy. Buffy had even related that he had locked himself in a cage to stop the possibility of him hurting her.
The next day was bigger than the start of the new school year, bigger than their defeat of the Master just before the start of the summer. Buffy, Xander and Joyce, had been discussing the possibility and consequences for what was about to happen all summer. Tomorrow evening, Buffy and Xander would be mated, in effect married. Joyce had insisted that they go over everything with her, the mating ritual in particular. The mating ritual was to be combined with a traditional wedding ceremony performed by a local priest who they had saved last year, and he kept them in supply with Holy Water and blessed items. After they had explained some of the advantages of the mating, such as a permanent, two way version of the empathic connection that Buffy had experienced after the fight with The Master and the ability to know where the other was, among other things, Joyce had agreed on the condition that they would not be intimate till they both reached the age of 18, after negotiating Joyce down from 39 years old. In California underage couples could get married so long as they had parental consent (AN: I don't know if that is true, but for the purposes of this story they are.), which Joyce had provided when they had agreed on the arrangement, and they had gotten from Xander's adopted parents through their fear of him.
Buffy and Xander went to bed, comfortably wrapped in each other's arms. Tomorrow would be a big day.
********
Buffy and Xander were walking the halls of Sunnydale High, just having been to the office to change Buffy's surname to Harris and Xander's address to 1630 Rodello Drive, Buffy's address. As they walked, hand in hand, they were intercepted by the new principal, since Principal Flute died in a "Gang related incident involving PCP" also know as a vampire attack. The new principal's name was Snyder and he was a little weasel of a man who seemed to hate children and teenagers.
"Enough of that." He ordered, indicating to their joined hands. "School is not the place for that. This is not the time for that."
"And when, prey tell, would be?" Xander asked.
"Um. When you are married, many years from now." Snyder responded, thinking he had got them.
"Too late. We are married." Buffy replied, showing Snyder her wedding band, as did Xander.
The newlyweds walked off leaving a stunned Principal, heading to home room. They arrived early and wait for class to start, Xander sitting next to Buffy as always. The rest of the class filed in, as did the home room teacher, who called the roll. Buffy and Xander tuned out till the teacher got to H.
"Harris, Alexander."
"Here." Xander called.
"Harris, Buffy." The teacher said, shocked.
"Here." Buffy responded.
Everyone in the classroom except Xander, Buffy and Willow, who had been at the mating/wedding were completely shocked.
"What the hell?" Cordelia called out.
"Got married. Der!" Buffy responded.
Cordelia fell off her chair in shock.
********
Buffy and Xander walked into the Library laughing at the reaction of their classmates to their marriage. They got an impression of a honey chocolate skinned girl with long, bushy black hair before she slammed into Xander and started punching him. Buffy yanked the girl off of Xander and dropped into a fighting stance facing her as the girl flip-kicked to her feet and dropped into her own fighting stance.
"Kendra. Stop this instant." Giles ordered. "Buffy, stand down."
Buffy growled and Xander was getting to his feet.
"I know, but stand down and I'll explain." Giles said. "Kendra?"
Buffy straitened, followed by the girl Giles called Kendra, who eyed her and Xander suspiciously.
"Kendra, why did u attack them?" Giles asked.
"Because dey are vampires, sir." Kendra said shyly, with a distinct Jamaican accent. "I can feel it."
"She's a Slayer." Giles explained.
"But I though the only way to get a Slayer was for the old one to die?" Willow said.
"Hey! I was only gone a few seconds." Buffy protested.
"Excuse me, sir. But why are you taking to dem?" Kendra asked.
"Sorry, this is Buffy and Xander. She is also a Slayer." Giles responded.
"But dey are vampires." Kendra said.
"Hey. We are not vampires. We are Dampir. Hello, standing in sunlight." Xander said.
Giles sat everyone down and explained the situation. Kendra's Watcher had been injured, by a car accident of all things, and had send Kendra to Giles until he recovered. He believed that there was no active Slayer on the Hellmouth and had sent Kendra to protect it, and Giles was to act as her Watcher for the time being.
"So, you're a Slayer. I like that in women." Xander said with a grin.
"Um. I mean.um." Kendra stuttered.
"Hey. Yesterday we get married and today you are hitting on the new girl? You are unbelievable." Buffy said.
"Hey, I was just welcoming her to Sunny Hell, trying to make her feel comfortable. Plus we are Mated. You know what that means." Xander said.
"Yah. I know. Sorry." Buffy muttered.
"Plus now we got another Slayer to break in. Sometimes I worry about Wills, she does too much." Xander said. "Welcome to the team, Kendra."
"Um. Thank you, sir." Kendra said, nervously.
"Call me Xander. Or the other Slayer's Husband." Xander said, earning him a slap across the back of the head from Buffy.
Suddenly Buffy and Xander started looking around.
"Deadboy's coming." Xander called.
A few seconds later a vampire appeared on Kendra's Slayer senses.
"Don't slay." Buffy ordered. "As much as we hate him, this one's a good guy and he helps us."
"We got trouble." Angel said as he walked in, then he spotted Kendra.
"She a Slayer. What's the deal?" Buffy snapped.
"Spike."
TBC.