Two Jedi and a Hellmouth…
Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy or Star Wars.
Summary: Sequel to 'Second Chances'. In the Aftermath of Halloween, new powers are discovered and possibly a new love for Xander Harris
Rating: PG-13; just to be on the safe side.
Author's Notes: Thanks for all the reviews. Sorry for the delay but I had exams : (
Rating: PG-13; just to be on the safe side.
Author's Notes: Thanks for all the reviews. Sorry for the delay but I had exams : (
sophiedb: Yeah, she still can.
Shane Cawley: The second Jedi is going to be the girl that was Tahiri.
Anime-Ronin: Xander's going to go to extremes to keep Buffy away from his lightsaber ;)
Lin: Its still a little while off before they meet.
Smeghead: Some memories? Try all memories! He remembers everything! And that's a lot of Nightmares!
Duoshyperfangirl: What the hell are you talking about!
Dogbertcarroll: If you were living on the mouth of hell would you want to dress up as a bad guy? I can pretty much guarantee that something like that would be bad karma or something…
May Contain Spoilers for the New Jedi Order series!
Chapter 2 Suspect usesThe day after Halloween found Lillian Monroe, Lily to her friends, sitting listlessly in her history class trying to pay attention as her teacher, Mrs. Macdonnel droned on about the French Revolution and why the French rose up against the Aristocracy. She was a stuffy old woman with old-fashioned ideas and preconceptions and today she was wearing a plain colour faded blouse with a white skirt.
But try as she might, other things dominated her thoughts.
I mean how do you focus on what some boring dead Frenchmen did when you have to deal with everything that's happened…thought Lily unhappily, at least I know for certain that something is wrong with this town.
From day one in Sunnydale, California, she'd felt that something was off with the town and on Halloween, her suspicions were confirmed. Everywhere she turned now she could feel the Primordial Darkness and dark corruption.
Lily had always loved Halloween. The chance to dress up and pretend that you were someone else, anyone else. When she was little her mother had always gone all out in celebrating Halloween, extravagant costumes for the entire family, extravagant decorations for the house and a massive party for Lily's friends and her father's coworkers. Every year they had been the toast of the neighborhood…until that senseless tragic accident that had claimed her mother's life, four years ago.
Marie Monroe had been on her way back home late one night, when her car had been hit by a truck. She'd been killed instantly on impact while the driver, who hadn't had any sleep for five days had escaped with only minor injuries. The unfairest of deals. Lily had been only 12 when it happened and black hated of the driver had nearly consumed her, or so the child psychologist and her therapist said.
In reaction to this, her father, the industrialist, Henry Monroe had tried to keep his daughter healthy and safe, not essentially in that order. He'd dived into his work and started to neglect everything else including his relationship with Lily, but only after taking her to all the best psychologists and therapists and moving her to Sunnydale.
To compansate for her mother's loss, Lily had always reveled in Halloween in honor of her mother's love for that day. And it was this that had lead her to Ethan's a day before Halloween. She'd passed through Partytown, the only other decent costume store in this damned town, but nothing had caught her attention. In Ethan's, the female Jedi costume the Brit had offered, had been the only thing that caught her attention…that had seemed to call to her. She'd bought the costume without a second thought or a second's hesitation.
Lily sighed, she couldn't have know how that decision was going to affect her and her perception of the world around her. Feeling and using the Force was going to take a lot of getting used to, to say the least.
"Miss Monroe! Pay attention here! What was my question?" demanded the old hag Mrs. Macdonnel, bringing Lily suddenly out of her revere.
"What?" said Lily in confusion as she looked up to find Mrs. Macdonnel staring fiercely from behind her spectacles, at Lily.
"I asked you a question," stated Mrs. Macdonnel evenly.
Uh oh, "Uh…what was the question again," asked Lily nervously.
"I asked why did the French rebel against their King?"
"Uh…cause they were French and the King didn't want them to eat frog legs anymore?" answered Lily lamely.
The class laughed but Mrs. Macdonnel was not amused, "I believe its time for a pop quiz, you know the drill, put everything away except a pencil…And don't forget to thank Miss Monroe for prompting this test," Mrs. Macdonnel said as the class groaned in protest and those nearest Lily started giving her the glaring at her.
A few minutes later, Lily sat hunched over her test, struggling to remember the answer to the first question.
What is it? Wasn't it on page 26? Or was it on page 35? Lily thought, desperately grabbing at straws, trying to remember the answer, she hadn't studied well…or at all.
Lily slowly turned her head trying to see the paper of the girl next to her.
"Eyes on your own paper Miss Monroe!" ordered Mrs. Macdonnel from where she was sitting behind her desk at the front of the class.
Lily started to fume, mentally cursing Mrs. Macdonnel. A dark voice in her head told her to strike out at the old bag. Another voice half-heartedly preached peace.
Lily looked up from her paper, to find Mrs. Macdonnel, scrutinizing another student from where she sat, her mug of steaming hot coffee sat precariously at the edge of the edge just in front of the menacing teacher.
Lily fixated on the mug and pushed. The mug fell directly into the teacher's lap. She leapt out of her seat with a muffled curse as the coffee stained her white skirt as the class watched the spectacle. The class giggled at Mrs. Macdonnel's expense.
"QUIET! NO TALKING AND NO CHEATING! Continue working, I'll be back in a few moments," ordered Mrs. Macdonnel before leaving the class in search of a clean skirt.
Lily just stared after her with smug smile, as the dark voice in her head complimented her on her work while the other voice only half-heartedly disagreed.
Author's Notes: Hope u like this chapter. Please Read and Review.