Potential in Smallville
Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon, while Smallville belongs to Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and whoever I forgot to mention. I do not own these characters.
Timeline: Post "Chosen" but takes place during the end of Chloe's junior year. The season finale did not happen, although Pete did leave. No one will be brought back from the dead.
Full Summary: BtVS/Smallville crossover. When Willow activated the potentials around the world, Chloe Sullivan started to experience certain changes within herself. "Why do these dreams seem so real?" "How was I able to heal myself so quickly?" "Where did all this strength come from?" She keeps her new changes to herself, until the scoobies come to town offering her guidance. She is taken to the new and improved Watcher's Council where she trains for the entire summer. When she finally goes back to Smallville for the start of her senior year, she will see that a lot of things have happened that will need to go on her, now deserted, "Wall of Weird."
Pairings: There will be no pairings in this story, only mentions of past couples. (Ex: Angel/Buffy or Buffy/Spike or something along those lines)
This fic is based off the challenged proposed from by JadeHunter.
Reviewers:
Danni Rand- Spike will probably come back since he did in the Angelverse, but this story is mostly focused on Chloe, so even if I did make it Spuffy, there would be very little. And I think I would only have it Spike/Buffy friendship.
gosullivan- Chloe will be going to Paris, but not for anything big. She will probably slay while she is there and her friends might be going along with her, too.
And many thanks to: Panther28, Buffy-CrazyaboutAngel, Village-Mystic, and WelshChicky for their reviews!
"Blah" means speech
'Halb' means thoughts
Chapter Four: Arrival
London, England- Watcher's Council
The trip back to England had been much better than to Kansas. Or at least in Willow's opinion since Andrew slept most of the way back. The flight they had taken was one at night so that Chloe could get enough sleep since when they arrived in London, it would already be morning. She would need enough sleep to get through the day since she wouldn't be able to sleep until night time. 'Stupid time zones!'
"Chloe, you have to wake up," Willow urged the young slayer. From the time they got into the cab and arrived at the Council, Chloe had slept. "You can't fall asleep until night time. Trust me."
"Fine, are we even there yet?" Chloe asked irritated.
"That's what I've been trying to tell you," Willow said, "we are arriving now, if you aren't too lazy to move?"
Chloe emitted a groan and after a few seconds she was out of the cab and getting her bags from the trunk. She was very happy to be wearing comfortable clothing since the plane ride took so long. She didn't really know what to expect. Willow told her the building would be big, but when Chloe actually looked up at the place in front of her, she didn't think it would huge!
She was walking towards the building with Andrew on her left and Willow on her right. As she walked through the doors, she noticed a bunch of girls talking to a woman at a desk. She knew immediately that these girls were slayers. The power she felt from them was strong. It was different than Willow's, but that was to be expected since Willow was a witch and not a slayer.
"I don't think I need to tell you that those girls are slayers," Willow said, "but the woman at the desk is our beloved secretary, Joanna."
"Well, this is where we part, young Chloe," Andrew said. "I have to go add these tapes to my collection and get caught up on what I've missed."
"Before I leave you, I will give you the tour," Willow said. "This is the ground floor, as you can see. The room to the left is the library. That's where you'll see the older slayers or Watcher's researching. The room behind that library is the library of magic. Not many people venture in there, since most still refuse to recognize it as real. That would explain why it's so much smaller than the demon library," Willow said angrily.
"To room to the right is the planning room. That's usually where the Scooby gang will be. Whenever there is a big emergency, you'll find us there. The auditorium, where everyone will be at from time to time, is behind the planning room."
Chloe was taking everything in as best as she could. She hadn't expected everything to be… real. She knew she was chosen, but had no clue that her life would change this much. Willow led her to the second floor of the six floor building.
"This floor is the rooms for the Scoobies. You probably won't be here much, unless you want to pop in and say hello or something. Above us is where you will be staying, the fourth floor is for the Watcher's and their classes, then above them are the classes for the slayers and the top floor is slayer training and the like. I'm sorry for rushing this, but I'm needed downstairs in the planning room."
Willow gave Chloe a key to her room and told her where to go and expect her roommates to be there waiting for her. Chloe trudged her way up the stairs, not noticing until it was too late, the elevator. She grumbled to herself until she found her room. She unlocked the brown door and found herself in a bright blue room. There were two bunk beds, opposite of each other. They were a neutral color and still looked new. To Chloe's left was a door that she figured led to the bathroom. The walls were pretty much bare, except for the occasional poster. 'Muse… gotta love them.'
There were three girls looking at her as she finished looking around the room. Two of the girls, a blonde and a red head, were on one the bottom bed of the bunk beds. They looked like they were studying for something. The third, a brunette, was on the opposite bunk bed, but on the top with her legs dangling over the side. The girls that were studying smiled, while the brunette gave an unenthusiastic smirk.
"Hi, I'm Chloe," she said waving.
"I'm Alicia Moran," the red head said.
"I'm Dana Harper," the blonde said.
"Bianca Bay." At the realization of the names, Bianca grumbled. "Oh, great, we really do start off the freakin' alphabet!"
"We told you it would happen," Alicia said as she turned to Chloe. "We figured that our fourth roommate would have a name that started with 'C' since we already formed 'A,' 'B,' and 'D."
"I was just hoping against all hope that it wouldn't be true," Bianca said.
"Anyway," Dana said as she got off the bed, "since we can't let you sleep just yet, we have been told to give a more in-depth tour."
"Yea, cause we have all been here for so long," Bianca said sarcastically.
"Stop being bitter!" Alicia snapped. Her voice softened as she started speaking to Chloe again. "We've only been here for not even a month."
"Did you all come together?" Chloe asked.
"Basically we did, but we came from different cities in the same state," Alicia explained.
After the introductions were made, Chloe, Alicia, and Dana started their tour of the Council. Bianca opted to not partake in it, not seeing the reason as to why everyone needed to go.
"Don't worry about Bianca. When we first became roommates, she didn't like us very much either. She'll warm up to you eventually," Dana said. "I guess she likes the amount of slayers being awakened to stay small."
"On with the tour!" Alicia yelled. "Willow already showed you the second floor which has been dubbed the Scooby floor, so we will work our way up. If you really become great friends with one of the Scooby's then you will be a frequent visitor to their floor."
"On opposite ends of our floor, we have a kitchen. You will find everything you will need in there to satisfy your appetite. When you slay something, you will get incredibly hungry and in our kitchen, we have a variety of meals."
They made their way the escalator to the Watcher's floor, where the numbers of slayers had lessened, but the number of men rose. "This floor is known as 'Uptight Central!" Dana said.
"Why uptight?" Chloe asked. From what she heard about Giles as a Watcher, she imagined them to all be like him. Well, the stories she heard from the more previous years, he was better than when he first met Buffy.
"Not all of them are uptight," Alicia interjected. "Some can be very cool, indeed."
"Do any of you have a Watcher?" Chloe asked as they made their way to a classroom.
"We don't, but Bianca does," Alicia said. "On this side of their floor are their classrooms where they themselves are taught and on the other side of the floor are their rooms."
"We eventually will probably get a Watcher, but I think they are focusing on the slayers who want the training faster to get back into the world," Dana said, "like you."
"What she means is," Alicia explained, "is that Bianca is going to be here for a short time, like yourself, so they gave you two Watchers's so that when you leave, you won't be leaving alone."
"Ah."
"You meet your Watcher in due time," Dana said, "though I don't know why you would want to meet someone who will only hold you back."
"Moving on!" Alicia yelled.
The tour continued as Willow had hoped it would, but she did not plan on Chloe's roommates giving her a different version of how things worked at the Council. Unknowingly to Willow, Chloe was getting the dirt on everything.
"We really should right a book," Alicia said.
"Yea, The Good Stuff That No One Wants You to Know," Dana said.
"It would have to be better than that," Chloe said. "It needs to be a real attention getter."
Watcher's Council- Courtyard (July 9, 2004)
It had only been one day since Chloe's arrival, but it felt like she had been living at the Council for months. She bonded instantly with Alicia and Dana, and was slowly getting closer to being friends with Bianca. They were already having fun times, but at the moment, Chloe was alone. She wasn't to start her classes until the following Monday, but her friends were already in their own classes. While she waited for them to finish, she spent her time in the courtyard, located behind the Council, reading books about slayer lore or studying for her future classes. Often, her mind went back to Smallville. It hadn't even been a week and she missed everyone.
"What are you frowning about?" Alicia asked as she sat down on the bench that Chloe was on.
"It's probably what she is reading," Dana answered while she snatched the book from Chloe's hands. "The Rise and Fall of the Master."
"Yep," Chloe said, "I went into the library and picked up the first thing that caught my eye."
"Well," Dana began, "if you really want a detailed analysis of the fall of the Master, then talk to Buffy Summers."
"Cause that wouldn't be a little intimidating," Alicia frowned. "She's the greatest slayer… Ever!"
"She didn't seem so intimidating when we snuck out to see one of her patrols," Dana said smiling.
"You did what?" Chloe asked shocked. "This was the information I needed to know yesterday, and you didn't think to tell me this?"
"It's not something I'm proud of," Alicia said. "Dana asked me and Bianca if we wanted to go watch the slayer fight some vampires when she didn't have other slayers with her."
"It was such a great night," Dana explained. "We got dressed in all black and snuck out of the Council and followed Buffy."
"She never caught you?" Chloe asked.
"There were many times when she turned around because she thought she heard something," Dana said, "and she did; it was Alicia talking about how she regretted coming with Bianca and I."
"It was hard to keep up with her," Dana continued. "She went to a cemetery that had a high gate as an entrance. She vaulted over that easily, but we had to climb it. She went very deep in the place, making it even harder to find her."
"When we did," Alicia took over, "she was fighting this nasty looking vampire. My guess was that he was trying too hard to be a "creature of the night." He was wearing all black, even his make-up, which could be spotted a mile away. It was too much, even for me to stand. He appeared to be very adamant about killing Buffy. The fight didn't last very long, even though he was very persistent. He was never able to land a hit on her. After a series of kicks, he was down on the ground and the stake was planted firmly in his chest."
"We had to wait until Buffy was gone so that we could leave since we would never have been able to get over that fence fast enough for Buffy to not see us," Dana said.
Chloe had sat in rapt attention at the story she was just told. 'Is it really been that easy to sneak out of here?' She knew the abilities that a slayer possessed, but she never saw one in action, and she really couldn't count herself slaying that one vampire. 'Should I really sneak out? If they did it when they were still new here, then I shouldn't have a problem, right?'
"Don't worry, Chloe," Dana said noticing her internal struggle, "we will tell you everything you need to know about getting out of this place!"
"Yippee," Alicia grumbled. She was really hoping that Dana wouldn't corrupt another slayer. Before she met her, she was a nice, somewhat timid, girl who never went looking for trouble. After Dana came into the picture, she became outspoken and sought out the danger. 'I don't think I can take another Dana as a roommate.'
Watcher's Council- Chloe's Room (July 12, 2004)
"So when do you plan on sneaking out?" Dana asked. She was waiting, rather impatiently, for Chloe to decide so that she could impart her wisdom on how to properly leave. So far, Chloe hadn't said a word in the past three days about when and how she was going to leave.
"I will leave when I get all this reading done." It had been her first day of classes and already she had to read about random things. One book was about magic and control. The control part was stressed in class over and over again until Chloe thought her head was sure to explode. Another book was about different types of weapons. She had no clue why she was reading it since she was told that slayers can handle any weapon thrown at them. Of course, control was mentioned once more. The last book, which was more a journal, was from a past Watcher who wrote about his slayer.
"I don't see why they make us read about this stuff," Bianca said as she was whittling a stake. "We don't need to learn about magic or the history of dead slayers. We should be out there fighting whatever we can find."
"For once I agree with you," Dana said. "A slayer doesn't need to learn magic. I mean, Buffy didn't and look at her."
"True, but she did have Willow," Alicia reasoned. "She is pretty powerful. She made it so that we can be having this conversation about slayers. Without her, where would be now? I'd still be at that horrible boarding school even in the summer."
"Partying," Dana reminisced.
"Taking care of my deadbeat parents," Bianca said.
All heads turned to Chloe, who was pretending to be reading. There were a lot of things she could be doing right now if she were still in Smallville. She could be having an all nighter at the Torch looking for new stories for the new issue. Or finding more information on the meteor rocks, and spending more times with her friends.
"Clark."
"And who is this Clark person that you just mentioned?" Alicia asked.
"My best friend from Smallville."
"He's sounds like he's something more than that," Dana interjected.
"I wish, but that won't happen, not as long as Lana Lang is in the picture." Chloe noticed the confused looks she was getting from Alicia and Dana and tried to explain. "He would much prefer Lana Lang over me any day. He thinks of me as like his sister if anything."
"Well, that blows."
"Thank you for your kind words, Dana," Alicia said.
"I tell it like it is." After a few minutes of silence, Dana decided to break the ice again with questions of when Chloe was going to sneak out. "Y'know, to cheer a person up, sneaking out is always a good way to do that."
Chloe knew she was never going to get Dana to stop pestering her about leaving for the night, so she finally decided to hear what she had to say. "Just get the explanation over with then."
"Alright," Dana jumped down from the top bunk and sat next to Chloe, "Buffy usually leaves around midnight. Luckily for us, the third floor is not that high up from the ground. You probably shouldn't just jump from the ledge since I don't think you can handle it yet. If you were to jump from a room on the second floor then you should be fine."
"Isn't that the Scooby floor though? How am I supposed to jump out of one their windows without causing the least bit of suspicion?"
"You don't have to go to one their rooms at all. Just go to one of their kitchens and use a window. Either window will have you landing next to the demon library or the planning room. You should be able to follow Buffy from there. Make sure to keep a nice, but stealthy pace behind her."
"Hello! I only had one day of classes. Not to mention, I haven't even started my defense classes yet, these were the classes where I had to read books and learn things from the past. How am I supposed to be stealthy when I don't know how?"
"You really don't know anything about why you are here, do you?" Bianca asked. She had been whittling her stake, trying to ignore the conversation that was happening, but had to interject. "Let your slayer side take over. She'll know what to do. Eventually, you won't need to let it take over, but for what you are trying to do, I think the regular Chloe will need to be a passenger while the slayer drives your body."
"Uh, thank you for that comment, Bianca," Dana said.
"When do you plan on leaving?" Alicia finally spoke up.
"Tomorrow night."
"Why not now?" Dana asked exasperated.
"I have classes bright and early tomorrow and none on Wednesday. I do not plan on being moody tomorrow morning because I was forced to sneak out and not get enough sleep."
"Anyway," Dana said trying to get back on topic, "always stay hidden. When she reaches a graveyard, you might have to do some climbing, or if the gate is that short, you should be able to jump it. When you find Buffy, she will probably already be deep in combat, so you shouldn't have to worry about waiting too long."
"And after that, just wait until she leaves and you follow her back to Council, where we will leave a window open in the demon library for you to enter through. When we aren't out with Buffy or another member of the Scooby gang, we have a curfew and trust me you will be back past that," Alicia said.
"When is our curfew?"
"For us, we have to be back by one, but it's easy to sneak around Joanna. Even at that time, she is till busy with phone calls and other things. I tell you, that woman is not human to be here 24/7. She doesn't sleep, but we all love her anyway."
The rest of the night for Chloe was spent reading over her books and ignoring Dana, who wouldn't stop telling Chloe other helpful hints about sneaking out. It was easy to ignore her since the books she was reading were starting to get interesting. The book about magic and control got her really interested. Maybe she could ask Willow on how to further pursue her studies with it. The Watcher's journal about Isabel Alexander was a good read too. The beginnings were a little aggravating as the Watcher always found something wrong with his charge. 'Is this really how my Watcher is going to be?'
As she continued to read, the words got better. The Watcher was starting to see a different side to his slayer. This relationship seemed to better the skills of the slayer. More and more battles were documented and most seemed to have the slayer escaping with little damage. The journal ended some time after when a demon that was supposed to bring in the apocalypse had risen. That was all that was written. 'I guess they went into battle after her Watcher wrote this. The apocalypse must have been stopped but the slayer and her Watcher must have been killed during the fight. Is this really how my life is going to be?'
Watcher's Council- Slayer Floor (July 13, 2004)
"How was your talk with Willow?" Alicia asked Chloe as they made their way from the training room. Chloe still hadn't had a defense class yet, so Alicia took it upon herself to give Chloe some beginner training. She seemed to be a natural, or maybe she just let the slayer take over. After their little session, Chloe was upset that she only had training on Thursdays and Fridays.
"Uneventful. She thinks I should do more in my classes, about control, first before I talk to her about more lessons."
"Well, I'm sure she has a good reason for doing it. It's not like the teachers here aren't good with magic, so at least you'll be learning something."
The girls continued walking to their room until they found out that they couldn't enter. Someone was pushing from the other side. "You can't come in yet, until I found the outfit for Chloe," Dana yelled.
"Tell me you're joking me?" Alicia asked.
"You may enter now," Dana said very formally.
What lay on Chloe's bed was nothing but a bunch of black clothing. "You made us wait outside so that you could pick out the darkest clothing you could find?" The shoes were black, as well as the jeans and of course, the long sleeved shirt.
"I even found a hat for you?" Dana said. "This night is going to off without a hitch!"
"It will," Chloe reassured Dana, "as soon as I finish my homework!"
After many pieces of paper and many pens, Chloe was able to finish her work. She should have gone slower since as soon as she was finished, Dana forced her to get dressed even though it was only eleven at night.
"I have another hour before Buffy leaves for her patrol. I don't have to get changed this early."
"The early bird catches the worm!" Dana said eerily cheery.
"What does that have to do with this?"
"How am I supposed to know; I'm just trying to lighten the mood. Do want to take a weapon with you?"
Chloe turned on Dana with a weird look on her face. "Why would I need to take a weapon with me?"
"Well, just in case you, yourself, happens to come across a vampire, you surely won't let it live?" Dana asked.
"I don't think she could take out a vampire, even she let her inner slayer out," Bianca said, not looking away from her book.
"Actually, when I was in Metropolis I fought against a vampire," Chloe said matter-of-factly.
Bianca stopped reading her book and looked up at Chloe with a look of respect in her eyes. "You really battled against a vampire single handedly?"
"Yep, that was before I even knew I was a slayer, too."
"I wouldn't want to break up this heartfelt conversation between you two, but it is now twelve. I will go with you to the kitchen and then make my way down to the demon library to open a window that no one will notice being open."
Watcher's Council- Scooby Kitchen
"This is unbelievable!" Dana exclaimed. "The Scoobies have some great food!"
"You're unbelievable," Chloe said under her breath. "You are here to help me escape, not to look at the wondrous food selection they have."
After pulling Dana away from the refrigerator, Chloe was able to open the window that was above the sink and climb out. She looked down at what laid before her. 'Maybe jumping from the second floor wasn't such a good idea.' "Maybe this wasn't a good idea," Chloe yelled to Dana.
"If you don't jump, I will push you and you might land the wrong way on that stake you are carrying. Bianca would start to hate you again if you snapped the stake she spent so much time on making."
After weighing the pros and cons of the situation, Chloe took the plunged and before she knew it, she landed on the ground. Nothing hurt, as she thought would happen, and was ready to jump from the third floor next time.
She immediately set off after Buffy and was soon on the main road. Her eyes were able to spot Buffy rounding a corner further up ahead. She slowly made her way to the intersection that Buffy disappeared at and found that she had a good lead on Chloe. Chloe ran silently to catch up to Buffy and found that they had already arrived at a cemetery. Luckily for Chloe, the jump that Buffy had done to get over the gate was one she, herself, could do. She made her way to the gate, placed her hands on it and pulled herself over.
She was completely at a loss as to where Buffy was, but her hearing had picked up the sounds of a fight. She ran at the noise and found Buffy fighting against three vampires. 'No wonder everyone looks up to her.' Buffy seemed to be immersed in the fight and was dead set on dusting the vampires. She meant serious business and could see why Buffy was the longest living slayer in history.
As soon as Buffy got rid of the two of the vampires, the last one whistled. Chloe assumed he was going crazy, but two more vampires came out of nowhere. They didn't fight Buffy, but ran away. One of them ran deeper into the cemetery and Buffy followed after him. The other two vampires ran in the direction of Chloe.
She froze as the vampires stopped running and took a look at her. They smiled as they made their way towards her. "Is she going to move at all? I usually like my food to scream a little."
"Does it matter? The slayer ruined our hunt so she will have to do." The vampire who liked his food to scream watched as the other vampire made his way to Chloe. He was top of her within seconds and was trying to sink his teeth into her flesh.
Realization finally dawned on Chloe as she felt the fangs on her neck. Her strength came back to her as she threw the vampire off of her and into a tree. She sat up and felt her neck. She couldn't feel any blood and knew that that was a good sign. The vampire got up and exclaimed that Chloe was a slayer.
"I can see that, Tim," the other vampire said.
"Thanks for the help, David," Tim said, "if you had helped me, then maybe she could be screaming for you now."
Chloe hadn't waited for the two to stop arguing and was already running out of the cemetery. She could hear them tailing her. She was almost back at the Council when one of the vampires took a shortcut and blocked her way to the street that the Council was on. The vampire that was blocking her way made a move towards her, but Chloe was ready. She kicked his legs out from under him and tried to run again, but as he hit the ground he reached out and caught her leg. Chloe fell hard onto the pavement and watched as the two vampires came closer to her.
The one named David lunged for Chloe, getting the scream he wanted to hear from her. Before he had a chance to really make her scream, he was kicked in the face and thrown back to the stop he was originally standing at.
Chloe stopped screaming, very happy that Buffy had heard her and stopped the vampires. When she looked up to see Buffy, she saw that it wasn't her all. This woman was a brunette and had a look in her eyes that said she was itching to fight these vampires. The vampires noticed this too and looked a little scared. They began to slowly back up, but were stopped by the words of the woman in front of them.
"You picked the wrong place and person to pick a fight with," the woman said. "You really need to realize that a slayer always has back up. So say goodbye now."
End Arrival
It can't be that hard to guess who this person is. I don't know what I'll give the person who guesses it, but we will see. I probably should have named the chapter Arrivals, since the new person is here.
I know I said Chloe would do some magic, but I lied. It will happen sometime soon. More than likely, that will be the next chapter.
Next Chapter
-Chloe finally attempts some magic
-Willow explains why Chloe needs control
-Defense classes begin
-Chloe contacts Clark
-Plans to ride the Eurostar to meet Lana in Paris are made