Potential in Smallville Chapter 5: Remembrance, a buffy x-overs fanfic

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 her. "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: I do believe I changed the date back to the correct one. I don't know how I missed that or my beta. Well, sort of beta, but whatever! I have decided that since Spike did appear in Angel season 5, he shall appear in this story. So instead of not going to join Buffy, like he did in the series, he does in this story! I just don't know when he's going to show up, though. And another thing, I found your profile… you're 13! That reminds me of when I was 12 and a member on fanfiction. Eek, 5 years go!

Buffy-CrazyaboutAngel: Her watcher won't be a Scooby, but he will be someone who has his cool moments. He won't be like all work and no play, but he will want the best from his slayer. He'll make me people happy…I hope!

And cookies to everyone else who reviewed and guessed Faith, since it wasn't that hard: CT Malone (thank you for adding me to your favorites story list! Many cookies to you!) and SFBKludge

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Chapter Five: Remembrance

London, England (July 13, 2004)

"Another one!" Tim hissed.

"You can take this one," David said nursing his head where the woman kicked him.

During the time the two vampires were discussing who would be attacking first; the woman had helped Chloe up. "I don't even want to know why you are out of the Council, but I won't tell B."

"Thank you so much!" Chloe yelled. She had no idea who this woman was, but it didn't matter since she saved her from the vampires. She figured that 'B' was Buffy and silently thanked the woman for not informing Buffy about what she did.

"You might want to get back to the Council before anyone notices that you're gone."

That was all Chloe needed and started running back. She only turned around once and what she saw shocked her. She had only ran for about ten seconds and turned around to see the other woman, who she assumed what a slayer, standing alone. She had already taken out the vampires. 'And they expect me to do that one day?'

She had run to the side of the Council where the demon library was and found the open window. After climbing through and remembering to shut the window, Chloe made her way out of the library. She saw Joanna, as usual, on the phone and snuck past her desk to make it to the stairs. The escalators were too risky for Chloe to use. She made it to her floor without incident and ran silently to her room.

After Chloe unlocked the door, she slid in her room and pushed the door shut, very quietly. She didn't want to disturb her roommates, but they appeared to be ready for this. As soon as she shut the door, the lights came on. Chloe turned around only to find all three of her roommates staring at her. This was so similar to when she first arrived last week.

"Wow, déjà vu," Chloe said. Dana was the first one off her bed. She grabbed Chloe by the arm and made her sit down to tell her story of what happened.

"Well, I did everything you told me to do and at first, it worked."

"What do you mean, 'at first?" Alicia asked worried. "Did something go wrong?"

"Well, I followed Buffy and when I saw her, she was fighting. She was amazing at what she was doing, by the way. One the vampires had alerted his friends, who I guess were hiding from Buffy, to run away. One ran deeper into the cemetery, while the other two came running at me."

"Oh my goodness," Alicia said, "I knew you shouldn't have gone."

"I'm sure she fought them and won since she's here in front of us now, right?" Bianca asked.

"Not exactly. For some reason, I froze. All my slayer abilities had left the building. They didn't return until I realized there was a vampire pinning me down trying to bite me."

There was a collective gasp in the room at what Chloe had said. None of them had thought something like this could happen.

"I threw him into a tree and ran away. I was almost back to the Council when one the vampires cut through an alley or something because he was in front of me now. I kicked his legs out from under him and tried to run again, since I didn't think I could take both these guys on without proper training. When he fell down, he still managed to grab my leg. I fell down and when I turned on my back, one of the vampires had tried to get on top of me again."

"But you fought back and staked him, right?" Dana asked.

"Nope. Before he got a chance to get on me, someone had kicked him on the face and sent him back to his other vampire friend."

"Buffy came to save you then? And you didn't get in trouble?" Alicia asked relieved.

"Once more, nope. It was a brunette woman, who looked around Buffy's age. She taunted the vampires and told me she wouldn't tell B, who I assumed was Buffy, that I had snuck out. When I ran, I turned around to see what she was doing and she had already dusted the vampires. Do you guys know who this person is?"

"You said she called Buffy, B?" With a nod from Chloe, they all knew who it was.

"Faith," the three girls said together.

"Isn't Faith the second chosen slayer or something?" Chloe asked. When Willow told Chloe all about the Scooby members and people they met over the years, she barely talked about Faith. All she mentioned was the Faith was chosen when Kendra died and she had to go away some time after. She made an appearance or two later and came back for the fight against the First.

"Well, that part is true, but I guess Willow didn't tell you what you are sure to learn," Dana said. "When Faith was here, she led some of our defense classes. That was for like one day, but still, we learned a lot. Before we started though, she told her story about how she met the Scooby gang and let me tell you, we didn't think her story would be like that."

"What happened?"

"I don't want to ruin it for you, but when she met Buffy, she couldn't take that she couldn't penetrate the Scooby gangs circle. She went evil after killing a man and blaming Buffy for it. She and Buffy fought and she was put in a coma. She came back, still bent on taking Buffy out and switched bodies with her or something. She was a bit fuzzy on the details on what happened when she went to Los Angeles, but that's where everything changed for her. She turned herself in and was going to stay until she was needed to help people in L.A. and then she came to help beat the First."

"Wow."

"That's what we said," Alicia said laughing.

"Since she's here, you'll probably have her for a defense teacher or something," Bianca said. "I wish I could be there, but my Watcher wants to meet with me."

"I just wanna go to sleep," Chloe said yawning, "that took a lot out of me."

"You just followed someone," Dana said, "it's not like you fought or anything."

Watcher's Council- Magicks Library (July 14, 2004)

"Ignite!"

"Ignite! Why won't you light?"

"Just give it up, Chloe," Dana said, "I told you magic was useless."

"It is not useless!"

Both Chloe and Dana turned to Willow, who was standing at the beginning of the aisle. She was a few aisles over reading her book when she had heard Chloe trying to use magic. She was kind of loud, but Willow didn't mind since no one besides herself and a few other people were interested in magic. What made Willow come over to speak to them was Dana and her disbelief of magic.

"No offense, Ms. Rosenberg, but all a slayer needs are her fists," Dana said.

"Two things," Willow started, "number one, call me Willow, number two, magic can be a very powerful ally when you are fighting."

"And that is why I'm trying to light this pencil on fire," Chloe said. She had been trying for about 15 minutes and she couldn't even produce smoke. She was beginning to think that Dana and Bianca were right.

"Maybe you should start with something smaller than the elements," Willow said.

"Is that what you first did?" Dana asked.

"Well, my first spell was re-ensouling a vampire," Willow said quietly, "but then I moved on to levitating things, which is what you should start with! I'm sure there are a couple of books around here that should help you with that."

"You ensouled a vampire?" Dana asked. "Magic really can be that powerful? After you finish that book, Chloe, give it to me. I wanna be able to do those types of things as soon as I can."

"Trust me when I say, you will need to take it slow," Willow said. "I was obsessed with magic and didn't realize that I was using it for everyday life."

"What happened that was so bad?" Dana asked.

"Yea, you look fine now," Chloe said worried. Willow had never mentioned anything bad about magic when she spoke to her in Smallville.

"Just know that I had an overdose of magic and I almost destroyed the world," Willow said quietly. When you are dealing with magic, you must have control and you have to know your limit."

"Whoa."

"Not having a lot of control can lead to that?" Chloe asked. "Control or not, I just can't seem to light this pencil on fire. I'm doing everything I'm supposed to be doing, but nothing is happening!"

Willow could tell that with Chloe upset like this, she was bound to produce some form of magic; she just wasn't sure how big it was going to be.

"The teachers aren't helping me at all. They stress control, but just when I think I've done all the control I can, they start another lesson on it! How hard can it be for them to just teach me how to say "ignite!"

Willow could feel the magic in the air and as soon as Chloe spoke the words, the fire was lit. The pencil had burned, but the spell didn't stop there. Chloe's anger had fueled the fire and the desk that it was on had burned too.

"I did it! I did it!" Chloe tried to yell over the roaring flames.

"You definitely did something!" Dana yelled back. "Aren't you gonna put it out?"

"Uh, I don't exactly know how to," Chloe said timidly.

"You mean to tell me that you never looked for the spell to put out the fire?" Willow asked.

"I only meant to do the pencil, which I intended on stepping on or something to put it out."

With a groan, Willow waved her hand over the desk and the fire was gone. Everything now looked normal, as if the fire had never happened. "Next time," Willow said as she was leaving, "go with the levitation spells first."

Chloe's Room (July 14, 2004)

"It was beyond amazing, Bianca," Dana said. She was retelling the story about the fire in the library. "We both know that I was just as skeptical about magic as you are, but trust me when I say, we should learn it!"

"Did you really light the table on fire with just your words?" Bianca asked Chloe.

"It was more than my words, but yes, I did light the table a flame. It was my anger with my magic teachers that I lit it. All those emotions coming to the surface and the poor, little table didn't stand a chance."

They all shared a laugh, even Bianca, but they were interrupted by Alicia as she came through the door, bearing mail for everyone. "Jeez Chloe, you've only been here for less than a week and you have mail from the Kansas and France. Do you already have a fan club?" Alicia asked as she handed Chloe her letters.

"You know me, I like to make my slayer abilities known to everyone who needs my help because I'm that great of a slayer." Chloe began going through her mail and found the last two envelopes to be from Clark and Lana. Lana must have talked to Clark or her father because she forgot to tell her about her surprise stay in London. She opened the letter from Clark first.

Dear Chloe,

Before you panic, I am not sending this because something went wrong at the Torch! Everything in that department is fine, so you have nothing to worry about. Everyone misses you and wishes that you speed along in England so that you can hurry up and get back to Smallville. It's going to be our last year, so everything needs to be perfect.

The meteor rocks haven't been affecting people lately. And those who do come in contact with them have been dealt with, but they haven't had any big abilities that caused anything. Since you left though, there have been other people in the town doing worse things. People are starting to go missing at night and the police can't do anything to stop it from happening. I'm sure that eventually they will be stopped and the people will be found.

Onto a happier note, how are things there? Have you written a ground breaking, award winning article yet? Don't worry, I'm sure they all love you there and if they don't, I give them another week before you blow them away with your investigative journalism skills.

Write back soon,

Clark

The letter made Chloe laugh, but the mention of people disappearing at night made Chloe wonder if vampires had gone to her town. What would happen if they did? Would Clark be able to handle them? She knew there was something about him that wasn't like another human whenever she was around him, but would he still be able to beat the vampires? Chloe made the decision to inform Willow about her letter. But first, she would read Lana's and hope that she wasn't sending a letter about strange activity in Paris.

Dear Chloe,

How come you didn't think to tell me you got accepted at a journalism school in London, of all places? You left Clark alone in Smallville? Maybe that is just what he needs to sort things out, right?

Paris is great. I have much more freedom here than I did in Smallville and I LOVE it! How's London treating you? Have you gone sight-seeing yet? Trust me, doing that helps you find your way around later.

When you finish your first article, I'm going to have to see it before anyone else. I mean, we're neighboring countries, after all. I'm closer than anyone else. This reminds me, you should visit me here! Just take the Eurostar and that takes you into Paris where I will meet you! Just send me back a reply of when you can make it and I'll be sure to make time for you!

Hope to see you soon,

Lana

Chloe sighed with relief at the tone of the letter. Nothing strange had happened to Lana and she had told Chloe that she could visit her! She handed her letters to her roommates, who were dying to know what the letters said.

"You don't think vampires have infested your town, do you?" Alicia asked.

"I think they may have," Chloe said, "I'll tell Willow when I see her. Maybe someone could go and see what's wrong."

"Moving past that," Dana said, "are you going to go visit this Lana in Paris? I'm sure they let people visit others here."

"It would be cool to go there," Bianca said.

"I'll also talk to Willow about that, then."

Slayer Training (July 15, 2004)

The next day was Chloe's first day of official defense training. Her encounters in Metropolis, with Alicia, and other night, did not count. When she entered the gym, she found her teacher, was indeed, Faith. Every time Faith looked at her, she smiled, which meant that she definitely remembered saving her from the vampires.

They were doing simple sparring exercises and Chloe was matched up with a girl named Heather. She was fairly new to the Council also, but could still take Chloe down. Within the first few minutes of their sparring, Chloe was on her back. She seemed to forget that she was fighting against a fellow slayer when she threw a punch that would have surprised a normal human, but Heather was able to flip Chloe over her shoulder.

"Are you alright?" Heather asked looking down at Chloe.

"I'm great," Chloe said standing up and getting back into her stance.

Heather attacked first this time with a leg sweep. Chloe was able to avoid it by jumping. Heather came up, but Chloe had done her spinning heel kick and caught Heather's cheek. This time, Heather was the one nursing her wounds.

"So sorry!" Chloe yelled. "Are you okay, I was just going with my instincts and they said kick."

"Don't worry, Chloe," Heather said, "we're all slayers here, so don't worry about hurting any of us unless you really mean to."

Chloe nodded and continued her session with Heather, but every time Chloe had connected with a part of Heather's body, she always stopped and apologized. She still did this even after Heather explained that she, also, was a slayer, so there was no need to worry. Faith took notice of this too and when the class ended, she approached Chloe.

"You didn't seem to hold back the other night, so why today?" she asked an unsuspecting Chloe. Chloe had jumped nearly a foot when Faith snuck up on her. She was hoping to leave with the rest of slayers, but she had dropped some of her things and tried to put them away in hurry, and yet, Faith still managed to get her.

"Well, the other night was different," Chloe said turning to look Faith in the eyes. "They were vampires, so why should I hold back?"

"That's true, but we slayers bounce back better than them also," Faith reasoned. "We partner people up for a reason, y'know. The two are usually similar, meaning you are just as strong as your partner. You shouldn't worry about beating up her badly, she can probably take it."

As she was finishing, Faith was walking Chloe to the door and the two thought they were going in different directions. They both went to the elevator and headed for the Scooby floor.

"I just need to have a talk with Willow," Chloe said as they made their way to her room.

"They need me to recruit more slayers so I have to find out where I'm going," Faith said angrily. "I look over the Hellmouth and make sure nothing apocalyspey type things happen and I come home for "me" time, but I get sent back out."

"And that's definitely not five by five, right?" Willow asked as they made their way into her room. "Your assignment is downstairs, but I just want to talk to Chloe first."

"Well, just a couple of things, I guess," Chloe said quietly. "Can friends visit here or can I at least visit them?" She decided to break the ice with something small.

"You can visit people, sure," Willow smiled, "but the people who can visit here are usually those who know the real reason you are here. I assume you're talking about Clark, right?"

Chloe nodded.

"I know it's hard for you, but you're doing this to protect him. Was there something else?"

"I think there are vampires in Smallville."

"She saves the best for last, I see," Faith said laughing. "Do you know this for sure?"

"Clark sent me a letter and he mentioned people disappearing at night, which made the vampire alert signal go off in my head."

"We should probably take this to Buffy," Willow said to Faith, "go get your letter and meet us in the planning room."

Planning Room

When Willow told Chloe to meet her in the planning room, she assumed she would be there with Willow, Faith, and Buffy. She was finally going to meet her, but when she arrived, she saw the whole Scooby gang was there. She was just standing in the entryway when Willow had noticed her first.

"Guys, this is Chloe, the slayer from Smallville. She has some news for us," Willow said loudly.

All eyes had turned on Chloe, as she was expected to speak. She had talked to big crowds of people before so this should be no different… right?

"On Wednesday, my friend, Clark, uh, sent me a letter from Smallville. People have been disappearing at night and the police can't do anything about it."

"And you think vampires have set up shop in your town?"

Buffy had been the one to ask that. Chloe thought she had ruined whatever she had with Buffy already. She didn't seem to believe her and probably wasn't going to waste her time in Smallville.

"Well, I'm not sure exactly, but something inside me told me that they did," Chloe said not backing down.

"Xander," Buffy said turning to him, "we're gonna need doughnuts." She took a count of the amount of people in the room. "A lot of them."

"I'll help Dawnie bring up any information on the disappearances," Willow said. "Giles, you may need to look for any prophecies or something. A town that's never had any trouble with vampires before and now, them being everywhere, spikes the suspicious meter."

"And I'll just wait it out until I'm supposed to leaving again," Faith said relaxing in a chair with a smile on her face.

"It's on the table, Faith," Giles said not looking up from his book.

Faith got up angrily from her chair and took the envelope that was waiting for her. She sifted through the papers that were in it, hoping for a place that was a great vacation spot.

"New York, Ohio, Michigan!" Faith yelled. "You're sending me back to Ohio? How come no one called me to say a slayer was there?"

"Well, the power from the Hellmouth was blocking me from detecting her," Willow said, "now that it's calmed a bit, I sensed her. Your plane leaves tomorrow morning, so you may need to go pack again. Oh and there should be six other tickets with yours. Pick any six experienced slayers and take them with you."

"Can I at least grab a doughnut before I leave?" Faith pleaded, which was an action she hardly did.

"Faith, we need you to be ready to leave early tomorrow, so no," Giles said sternly. When Faith left, grumbling about dying of hunger is not the way she planned on going out, he turned his attention back to Chloe. "We will find out whatever information we can and will report to you our next plan of action."

Chloe hadn't expected this to happen. When Willow wanted her to explain what happened in the letter, she had thought that the Scooby gang would take matters into their own hands and send her on her way. And now, Giles, the head Watcher, had assured Chloe that any decision made, she would know about it. She might even get a chance to add her thoughts to any choices, too. She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't hear Buffy calling her name.

"Yea?" Chloe asked, snapping out of her dream state.

"What kind of doughnuts would you like?" Buffy asked.

Chloe was shocked by the question, but smiled anyway, "Uh, glazed are fine, but could I get coffee with it too?"

"You can call me the coffee man now, too," Xander said making his way toward the door. "I'm stepping up in the world."

"Chloe had another question, too," Willow said. "She wants to visit her friends, or have them come here."

"Do they know about your calling?" Giles asked. He was set on keeping this secret a secret. He failed at that with Buffy, not that he was angry, but what's the point of saying it's a secret headquarters if everyone knows about it?

"Well, not exactly, but I want to tell them and I'm sure that they will understand," Chloe rushed.

"They cannot visit here unless they know, but if you are confident that they will accept your destiny, then they can visit anytime," Giles said.

"Unless of course we are facing an apocalypse, in which case, just email them," Buffy said.

"Right," Chloe said confused. 'Was this really the way things worked around here. These were the people that stopped the world from ending on many occasions. It's hard to believe that, but they seem to know what they are doing.'

"You can visit your friends, whenever you have enough time. We have scheduled a break of sorts in the last week of this month."

"I've been thinking about that Giles," Buffy interrupted, "I think we should give the last week off every month."

"We'll talk about that later," Giles said slightly annoyed.

When Xander had returned, 15 minutes later, the research party began. Occasionally, someone would yell out that they found something, but would quiet back down when they were proven wrong. Chloe was just excited to be there. Researching with the Scooby gang was a huge thing to do. She had much to tell her friends. They had been pouring through the books and the internet for 3 hours, before Buffy complained about needed to stake something, even though the sun hadn't set yet. The party was called to a close and Chloe went back to her room.

Chloe's Room

"What took you so long?" Alicia asked worried. "You came to get the letter and left without telling us anything!"

All three of her roommates were worried. Even Bianca, though she wouldn't admit to it. They had all waited for her to return to the room, and she had. She took her letter from Clark and bolted out the room, not even hearing the yells of her roommates.

"After my defense class, which by the way, Faith is the coolest, I went with her to Willow's room to talk about my letter and ask about visiting Clark and Lana. She actually invited me to the planning room, where I met the entire Scooby gang!"

"Are you joking with me?" Dana asked excitedly. "You saw everyone, including Buffy, up close and personal?

"Yes I did. And they even treated me as their equal, which is surprising for adults to do with teenagers. They believed my story about vampires in Smallville and they, along with me, investigated it."

"Did you discover anything?" Bianca asked, again from the top bunk of her bed.

"No, but I was still honored to research with them," Chloe said with a smile. "They are letting me visit Clark and Lana, but it's when we all get the break off at the end of the month. I think I will visit Lana first since she's closer. It might take a while to talk to Clark about things, but it will happen."

After telling everything, in great detail, about what happened with the Scoobies, Chloe had decided to write Lana and Clark.

Dear Lana,

Sorry about not telling you about the school! It must have slipped my mind. That first article may take a while, but I will have some news for you when I get there, be sure about that. And yes, I did say I will be there. At the end of this month, we have the week off and they are letting me visit you! Chloe and Lana in the City of Lights! It's great here, though. Everyone, including the teachers, are great to me!

Oh and before I get hit, my roommates wish to come with me. I would ask if that's okay, but they would come along anyway, sorry.

See you soon,

Chloe

Dear Clark,

The disappearances in Smallville sound like something you should stay clear of. Don't try anything stupid without me there to help you! Just stay inside at night and don't invite anyone inside unless you are sure you're aware of who they are.

And yes, my skills have blown them away as you put it. I have made a close knit group of friends, and I've even befriended many of the teachers. They will let me visit you, but only during breaks. The first one is in two weeks, but I'm going to see Lana then, but I'm sure another break is over the horizon.

Missing you already,

Chloe

"Well, someone sure is lovesick," Dana said pretending to gag.

"You shouldn't have been looking over my shoulder, then," Chloe replied.

"It's your fault that you put 'missing you already' in you letter," Dana argued.

"Are we going to visit this Clark person on another break?" Alicia asked.

"I doubt it," Chloe said disappointed by her own words. "The presence of vampires is steadily growing, so no trips over there for a while."

Front Office- Joanna's Desk

"Watcher's Council, Joanna speaking," she said cheerily. "Hold on one moment, I see him now."

Xander had been walking out of the planning room, to get away from any more research before his head exploded. Joanna had called him over, saying that someone had called asking for a member of the Scoobies immediately.

"Yello," Xander said. "Alive! Alive and going where?" Xander dropped the phone and bolted back into the planning room. He told the gang that he was called away on an emergency and had to leave that minute. They didn't ask questions and wished him their best. Xander ran to his room and got any supplies he would need. He didn't know when he would coming back, but he was going to be prepared for anything that may happen when he found this person.

End Remembrance

Yes, well, another character is introduced and this time from Xander's past. What's going to happen when he sees this person? Will he embrace this person or give them a stern yelling and sending this person flying back to where they came from? Stay tuned my kind readers.

And wow! 10 pages and I didn't even realize it! Sorry about the length if it's too long. They should be around 7 or 8 from now on, but I doubt it.