A/N I personally wanna dedicate this chapter to a hopefully new friend of mine named Eduardo aka Baggo. Thanks for helping me out man, I really appreciate it.

Also thanks for all of the reviews, now to answer some questions. To Anthony1, firstly thanks for your review and to answer your question. Slade was a last minute thought to add to the fanfic. As of right now, I'm not sure if he's gonna be in any future chapters. That's why I'm hoping that after I'm done with this fanfic, that someone will continue it and add him into the story as a villian.

To screaminheathen69, I actually originally planned in the beginning of this fanfic for Xander/Batman and Angel to meet. Basically Batman was gonna end up slaying Angel and I didn't want that to happen. I just couldn't realistically see Angel existing in the same town as Batman without getting slain, so I opted for him to leave. But don't worry, I have a few surprises yet. Also thanks to Kurama, don't worry Xander will bounce back.

This takes place two weeks after chapter 18 and most of Xander's and Buffy's injuries have healed. So this is their first night back as the dark knight and the slayer.

Chapter 19

The Missing Wayne pt. 1

Restfield Cemetery

Night

Ducking under a lunge, Buffy came up with three rapid fire punches that rocked her opponent back. Doing a quick spin, she took out her stake and stabbed it through it's unprotected heart. Scanning the night for her friends, her eyes widened as she saw a vampire sneaking up behind her red headed friend.

"Willow watch out!"

Turning Willow back-pedalled as a vampire lunged at her, only for Faith to tackle it in mid-air.

Blocking a high punch from her assailant, she grabbed onto his shoulder and flipped him forward, making him land hard on his back. Flipping back to it's feet the vampire staggered backward into a lamppost from the force of Faith's next punch. Doing a full spin toward him, she jammed her stake home, and the demon burst into ashes.

"Ummm, thanks." Willow told her ackwardly.

"No problem, Red." Faith replied with a smirk as she looked over and saw Buffy and Jesse, still fighting some vamps. "Now let's go help..." suddenly both of them heard a deep demonic growl behind them.

Turning they both took a step back as they saw a huge red demon, with horns behind them. As it let out another, earth shaking growl from it's lipless mouth, a batarang was suddenly embedded in it's forehead, sending out a spray of crimson blood. Wobbling on unsteady legs, the thing fell face first to the ground.

"You really should watch your backs." Batman commented from his position on top of a neighboring crypt. Hearing Jesse grunt, he turned and flew off of the crypt to engage the rest of the enemy.

Little did they know but somebody was watching them from the shadows. Having seen enough, she stood to her feet and ran off into the night.

"I'm glad I didn't leave for the summer." Buffy commented as she led the group out of the cemetery. "Where are all these vamps coming from? I remember last summer in LA was quiet, when I got rid of the big bad."

"I bet you ten bucks, G-man will know." Faith told her as she opened the door to her brother's convertible.

"Ummm, Faith me and Jesse wanted to say something to you." Buffy said as she nervously ran a hand through her hair. "It's something, we've been thinking about for the last two weeks and I wanted to talk to you about it."

"Yeah, me and Buff accused you of being..."

"It's no sweat yo." Faith cut him off, as he Willow and Buffy got in the car. "Xander already told me about it and it's no big deal."

"But still..."

"Hey the way I see it he owes you the apology for yelling at you." Faith cut him off. "Now come on let's go and tell Giles about what happened tonight."

"So you've seen this giant bat and it did what exactly?" Wesley asked Kendra as she got done with her story. They had been to Sunnydale for almost five days and they hadn't seen hide nor hair of the bat the council warned them about. Until now.

"It saved a group of teeagers." Kendra told him as she stood in a military stance in the apartment.

"And what were a group of teenagers doing in the cemetery?"

"It seemed dat dey were patrolling." Kendra answered. "But dat's not all. Dare was dis one girl dare dat I felt a strange power from."

"Then perhaps she was a demon, of some sort, in human disguise." Wes figured as he wrote something down. "According to Mr. Giles' last report to the council, he recieved an annonymous tip that the mayor of this town was really a demon, before he was destroyed. So maybe the demons you encountered last night were trying to take over this area in his absense."

"So what about de bat?"

"I'll accompany you on patrol tomorrow night." her Watcher replied as he stood to his feet. "Hopefully we can slay it soon. Now get some rest, we have a busy day ahead of us."

The Next Night

Wayne Manor

"You sure you want to go out on patrol by yourself?" Faith asked as Xander played three keys on the grand piano, revealing the secret passage.

"Yeah, I think tonight'll be slow." he replied as they both entered the elevator.

"I was talking to B and Jess and I think you should stop being an asshole and apologize to them for what you said to them."

"Apologize? Apologize for what?"

"Oh, I don't know, maybe for talking to them all crazy like a few weeks ago." Faith replied as she twirled a half of a heart necklace around her neck and stepped out of the elevator.

"What are you...oh." he said as it finally came to him. "I just don't like people talking about you like that. That's my job." he said as Faith slapped him on the back of the head, making him groan. "Alright, I'll talk to them tomorrow."

"About time you're seeing things my way." she replied as she sat down and propped her feet up on his desk.

"Are you still wearing that thing?" he asked as he noticed the necklace around her neck.

"I never took it off." Faith informed him as she stopped spinning it around in her fingers. "Hey where's your piece of it?"

"It was just the middle piece of it." he replied as he walked into the costume room. "I stopped wearing it because dad lied to us about getting her back."

"I don't think he lied to us about trying to find her. When dad makes a promise he tries to keep it."

"If you say so." Batman said as he walked out into the room. "Don't wait up."

Shadow Hill Cemetery

Batman nimbly hopped from crypt to crypt in search of demons. As he predicted the night was slow on demonic activities. Stopping on the last crypt in the cemetery, he was about to crouch down and over look the cemetery when he sensed something behind him. Turning, he was clotheslined hard, causing him to flip off of the crypt and land hard on his back.

Opening his eyes, from his position on the ground, he saw a beautiful black girl with long braided hair and a sword, jumping down from the crypt he was just on.

"Time to die, demon." the girl said in a thick jamaican accent as she lifted up her sword and pointed it at him.

'You wear a costume and suddenly everybody wants a piece of you.' Batman thought to himself as he flipped back to his feet. Thinking the girl was a vampire, he triggered a hidden stake from his wrist stake launcher.

Opening with a roundhouse kick at the vampire, she caught his leg right before it connected with her head. Using that to her advantage she dropped her sword, grabbed his shoulder, spun halfway around and threw him against a tall gravestone. Hitting the ground hard, he immediately started to get back up, only for her to kick him hard in the face. Kicking her away from him, he got up and heard her coming from behind him. Spinning his head around to see her, she swung her long sword in a wide arc and sliced off the tip of his stake. Jumping back in surprise and to avoid another swing, he popped off what was left of the stake and threw it to the ground.

Seeing that she was about to swing again, he high blocked the attack with his left arm guanlet, grabbed her arms and brought both of her arms down hard, forcing her to drop the sword. Using it to his advantage he high punched her in the head and tried to follow up with a double roundhouse kick with alternating legs. She knife-hand blocked both kicks and gaining the upper hand, grabbed him by the shoulders and tried to get to his neck, to snap it. Struggling to keep her at bay, he was unable to avoid a knee to the crotch from her, that sent him reeling back. Finally getting him on the ropes, she ran up behind him and thrust her stake into his back, making him howl in pain.

Standing fully erect, he back-handed her across the face, sending her tumbling back. Luckily for him the stake didn't go all the way through his body armor. Taking it out of his back, he reached into his utility belt and brought out a blade, that clicked into place forming a larger, sharper version of his batarang.

Seeing the weapon, the girl leapt into the air and pounced on him, sending them into a roll on the damp cemetery ground. As they stopped rolling, he ended up on top of her. As he was about to bring his weapon down on her, he looked at her neck and saw the other half of his sister's heart necklace. Looking at the girl harder, his eyes widened as he recognized who she was.

"Kendra?"

Flashback

Jamaica

1989, Night

"I can't believe Bruce brung us all to Jamaica." a seven year old Xander said to Faith as they walked out of the tall beach house and stood at the front door. They had rented it out for the weekend, in honor of Faith's birthday and Bruce told them to stand out front and wait on him so he could take them to the carnival. "He never took me to a place like this on my birthday." he said with a pout.

"It's not my fault daddy likes me better." Faith teased as she stuck a tongue out at him, causing Xander to lightly shove her. "Xander do you think he'll like what I bought him?" she asked as she dug into her pocket and handed him a necklace with a heart pendant on it, that had three different chains on it.

"Faith, you do know that this is your birthday right?" Xander asked with a smirk. "And you might want to get your money back because this thing is cracked."

"That's because it's breaks apart dumby." she growled as she took the necklace back and broke it apart, so that it was half of a heart and a little thin strip of an iron magnet, that served to hold them together. "It's just in case we ever get seperated. One heart goes to me, the other to dad and this for you." she said as she handed him the strip in the middle.

"Wow, lucky me." Xander said sarcastically as he excepted it. "Why do I get this dumb metal stick?"

"Because you hold all of us together." Faith replied lowly, causing Xander to hold his head down ashamed of himself.

"I'm sorry." he said as he attempted to put the necklace on, only for it to slip through his fingers and fall through a crack in the porch. "I'll get it." Xander said as he ran down the steps and under the stilts of the house. "Faith! Faith, come quick." came his voice a moment later.

Running down the steps to see what was wrong, Faith saw her new brother leaning in a small boat that was under the stilts of the house, looking down at something.

"Alex, what's wrong?" Faith asked as she ran over to him. Looking down into the boat, she saw a skinny, pretty little black girl, probably around his age, laying unconcious inside the boat.

"Faith, get dad quick." Xander replied as he looked up at her, then back down at the little girl.

Eyes fluttering open, the little black girl looked up and saw a figure looming over her. As her eyes fully adjusted, she saw that it was a tall white man looking down at her with gentle eyes.

"You gave us a scare." Bruce said as he tried to help her up, only for her to flinch away from his touch. "Hey nobody's gonna hurt you." he said causing her to look around the room, where she saw a little boy and another little girl. "My name is Bruce, this is my daughter Faith and my son Alex. What's your name?"

"Ken...Kendra, sir." Kendra said shyly.

"Kendra, that's a pretty name." Bruce said as he sat down next to her on the bed. Feeling strangely safe with him around, she didn't move away. "Now Kendra, why were you under this house?" he asked only for her to not answer him. 'Okay, I'll try a different approach.'

"Where are your parents?"

"Dey gave me away." Kendra answered sadly.

"What?" Faith asked startled. She usually wasn't the type to show much emotion, but she struggled with herself not to walk over and hug Kendra.

"What do you mean they gave you away?" Bruce asked as he put her hand in his.

"Dey gave me away to someting called de Watcher's Council." Kendra said as a tear fell from her eye. "Some man came to our home to get me, so I ran away."

"You look so tired." Bruce commented as he gave her a look. "How long ago was it when you ran away?"

"I ran away from him a day ago."

"Xander, Faith...take Kendra into the kitchen and get her something to eat." Bruce said as he stood to his feet. "I have to make a few calls."

Four Hours Later

Kendra sat on the couch with her new friends watching tv. Bruce seemed to be a nice man that genuinely cared for her, so she knew that he couldn't have been with the Council. He had fed her, taken her too the carnival, given her some of his daughters clothes, and had allowed her to take a bath to freshen up.

There was something about her new friend Alex, or Xander as he liked to be called, that she really liked. Not only was he funny, but she also found him to be cute. As for Faith, she didn't know what to make of her because she seemed so protective and seemed to want to explain everything for her.

The more Bruce heard about the Council of Watchers, the less he liked. He had called Alfred to get him to check any record he could find of the Watcher's Council and he was surprised that the old butler already knew a pretty decent amount of information about them. Like for the fact that Kendra might one day grow up to be what was known as a Slayer.

But as Bruce looked over at the little girl, that's all he saw, a little girl. He felt that fate was playing a creul joke in having a little girl fight and lose her life fighting the forces of evil. If this Council was filled with men, then where were they in helping the Slayer fight? Why were they just sitting around and watching as another girl sat there and died.

Suddenly somebody knocked on the door, snapping him out of his reverie. Standing up off of the bed, he watched as his children ushered Kendra out of the room, before he answered the door. As he did so, he saw a nervous skinny blackman, wearing all tweed standing on the other side of the door.

"My name is Sam Zabuto." the man said panting heavily. "And I'm looking for a little girl, this is a picture of her." he said as he took out a small photograph of Kendra and handed it to Bruce.

"I'm sorry Mr...Zabuto is it?" Bruce asked as he examined the picture. "But I haven't seen her."

'Damn.' Zabuto thought to himself. 'I did a locater spell and it led me here. I was so sure that..."

"Dad!" Faith yelled out as she ran into the room, not seeing Mr. Zabuto. "Kendra ran away." giving Bruce a disgusted look, Zabuto turned on his heel and ran down the stairs to see if he could catch up to his young charge.

"Damnit!" Bruce yelled in frustration as he closed the door. "Faith, what happened? How did she get away?"

"She said she had to use the bathroom, but she was gone for a long time. I went to check on her and the bathroom window was open." Faith informed him as Xander walked into the room.

"I have to go and find her." Bruce said as he slipped on some shoes. As he was about to open the door and walk out, he suddenly looked back at his children. He couldn't just leave them behind. "Come on."

Kendra ran with tears in her eyes and until her little legs were about to give out. Stopping, she took in her surroundings and saw that she ran into a dark alley. Sitting down on a nearby metal trashcan, she thought about her situation.

She had trusted Bruce and he had betrayed her. She thought that he was really going to be her friend, but he led Mr. Zabuto right to her. 'But maybe he didn't.' she questioned her ownself. Hearing a rattling of cans further down the alley, she stood to her feet and was about to run, until she bumped into somebody. Looking up she saw that it was, Mr. Zabuto and she screamed.

Little did she know but somebody heard her scream and started to run in her direction.

"Why did you run away child?" Zabuto asked as he grabbed Kendra's arm so she wouldn't run. "Don't you understand how important you are?"

"She might not understand." a cold voice said behind them. "But I do. She's important to us to be our snack." a vampire said as he and two other vampires emerged out of the shadows, wearing game faces. "And guess what? You're our main course."

"Kendra, quickly get behind me." Zabuto said as he shoved her behind him and took out a stake. Just at the same time, Bruce and the others looked down the alley.

"Stay here." Bruce ordered of his children as he ran down the alley to help. Seeing that Zabuto was taking on all three vampires and losing, he quickly ran behind Kendra, directed her to run down the alley towards his children and ran to help Mr. Zabuto.

Zabuto had managed to stake one vampire, but the other two were holding him down and drinking him dry. Ripping the first one off of the Watcher's arm, Bruce quickly shot out a viscious side kick that sent the demon stumbling back. Seeing his friend being attacked, the vampire that was biting on Mr. Zabuto stopped and ran over to attack Bruce.

Feeling someone coming up behind him, Bruce spun around and did a leg sweep on the approaching vampire. With a rainbow kick to the one behind him, he jumped into a roll and scooped up the stake that Zabuto, had dropped earlier. As one of the vamps jumped into a lunge, Bruce brought the stake up and stabbed him in his unprotected heart. As he crumbled into ash, a fist came out of the dust cloud and hit Bruce in the jaw sending him stumbling back. Blocking three punches and a spinkick, Bruce did a front tuck over the vampires head and stabbed him through the back, sending him to join his friends.

Remembering Mr. Zabuto, he turned and saw that he was still on his knees. Running up to him, he was about to pitch forward and fall flat on his face, until Bruce caught him in his arms.

"Hold on." Bruce said as he settled him down on the pavement. "You're gonna make it."

"No..." Zabuto answered back as he looked up at Bruce. "Find her...find her a good home." were his final words as he let out a final shudder and stopped breathing. Letting out a deep breath, Bruce reached forward and closed Zabuto's eyes.

"Is he dead?" Faith asked as she and the others walked down the alley. As Bruce heard her voice it reminded him of Xander's question to him, only a year ago.

"Faith no... all of you get back." Bruce said as he ushered them away from the body. Seeing Kendra about to run away again he called out to her. "Where are you running too?" he asked, making her stop dead in her tracks. "You can't keep running forever, you have to face your fears."

"I...I can't." she told him as she turned around. All she wanted to do was go home and be with her family, but they seemed like they didn't want her.

"You can." Bruce said as he took a step towards her, only for her to take a step back. "Let us be your family Kendra. I'll take care of you."

"Yeah, I always wanted a sis." Faith said giving her a friendly smile.

"Come here sweetheart we're not gonna hurt you." Bruce said as he squatted down with his arms opened wide. To his surprise Kendra ran willingly into his arms and allowed him to pick her up. "Well it looks like you guys are gonna have a new sis..."

"Hold it right there!" a british sounding voice said from behind him. Turning, he saw three armed men coming out of the shadows. "Release the girl at once."

"Dad, what's going on?" Faith asked as she looked up at her father. He had a look on his face that seemed to be full of rage. It was a look that would scare her for the rest of her life.

"On what grounds?" Bruce asked the lead man lowly, as he clutched onto Kendra tighter.

"Because she's the property of the Watcher's Council." he said as he hefted up his machine gun.

"Property..."

"He's dead." another one of the Council's wet works team members said as he examined Mr. Zabuto. "The poor bugger was sucked dry by a vampire."

"Was he turned?" the lead man asked, not taking his eyes off of Bruce.

"No. I don't see any blood in his mouth."

"Then throw him in the back of the truck. And you, hand over the girl."

"Not without a figh..."

"No." Kendra's little voice stopped everybody cold. She felt that if Bruce resisted, then those men would kill him without a second thought.

"What?" Bruce asked as he looked at her.

"I...I have to face me fears." with that said, Bruce reluctantly sat her down and watched as the Council men started to take her out of the alley.

"Dad do something." Xander pleaded as he looked up at the older man.

"I..."

"Wait!" Faith shouted out as she ran forward to Kendra.

"Get back you little..."

"I just wanted to give her this." Faith said to the mercenary as she handed Kendra the other half of her heart necklace that she was going to give to Bruce. "Bye."

"Goodbye, Faith." Kendra said as the mercenaries started to drag her off. Looking back at her would be family, she rememered all of their faces. Especially Bruce's and his gentle eyes.

End Flashback

"Kendra?" Batman asked in disbelief as he dropped his curved knife. Looking at the demon curiously, Kendra punched him in the face and kicked him in the small of his back. Getting to her feet, she put some distance between herself and the bat.

"How did you know me name?" Kendra asked as she stood in a defensive position.

"Because..."

"Kendra let's get out of this place." Wesley said as he grabbed her arm.

"But..."

"Just trust me, now come along." never taking her eyes off of the bat, Kendra and Wesley dissappeared out of the graveyard, leaving Batman in a daze.

Wesley's Apartment

"I don't mean to question your decision sir." Kendra said as she paced around her Watcher. "But why did you pull me away from de fight? I could have killed dat ting."

"Don't be so certain." Wes said as he turned around with a book in hand. "I think I've determined what kind of bat demon that was. It's called a kliptos-notis, it's a very rare bat demon and it says here that it has the ability to hypnotize it's victims and read minds." he said as he showed her the picture of it. She had to admit that it looked similar to what she saw in the book, but there was still something wrong.

"I still don't know, sir." Kendra said doubtfully.

"Well how else could it have known your name?"

"I don't understand it but...someting about his voice sounded familiar." she said as she looked out of the window, twirled the heart necklace around her neck, and up at the full moon.

Batcave

Sametime

Faith watched as the Tumbler jumped up and into the batcave, settling into a vast amount of water. As Batman jumped out of the car, he immediately threw his cowl to the floor and ran up the stairs that led to the main computer.

"Damn bro what's the matter with you?" Faith as ked as she looked at her brothers face. "You look like you've just seen a ghost." Ignoring what his sister was saying, he started typing into the batcomputer until Bruce's face showed up on the wide screen.

"Xander what is it?" Bruce asked, sort of irritated. "I have to get to a meeting in..."

"Dad it's Kendra." Xander interrupted. "I saw her today."

"I'll be in Sunnydale by the end of the week." Bruce said with a frown as he severed the communication's. It seemed that he had to visit Quinton Traver's and the Council once again.

A/N Next up, Bruce reunites with Kendra and speaking of which, you'll find out the history Bruce has with the council and his past via flashback.

TBC...

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To aris.gor As far as Slade goes it wasn't really a point of seeing them fight for his personal pleasure. It was a ploy to see Xander's abilities just in case one day he could try to manipulate him. I deleted a scene in which Slade talked to himself about Xander and the future plans he had for him. It's only because I hope that someone else will pick up this fic and use Slade as a future villian. As far as him training, manipulating Faith I'll let another authour worry about an explaination for that, if and when someone does a sequel. I'm just not going that direction with the story.

And pro or not, Slade would do something like that regardless, because like I said when I use comic book characters I try to use what I see in the comics and on tv. And what I remember is an episode of teen titans he made robin go against his friends, when he made robin be his apprentice.

As far as Faith/Catwoman, I tried to combine both of their personalities. On the show, Faith had been used her whole life, which I thought would be a valid reason for her to be easily manipulated, whether she's independent or not, the manipulaters still kept her on a short leash. She was used her mother/Some abuser, the council, Gwendolyn Post, and the Mayor. Since I want have her join with the council at all, I wanted her character to be manipulated by an outside force. Slade. So that was my motivation to use him. Now that she's free, or so she thinks, she can be as independent as she wants.