I love you guys! I love opening my inbox to find reviews. Hope all you guys are having wonderful holidays and I would suggest seeing ROTK to make the holidays even better. If you've already seen it, heck, see it again! I knew all you Kennedy haters would love the part about Kennedy getting decked. Now for responses to my readers.
Kristy Marie: Yes it is possible that there are more witches and wizards that had been living on the hellmouth, but they've all split so I really don't think there is a part for them in the story. Glad you liked the last chapter.
Black Rose9: Dawn is going to be a witch. She should've been noticed beforehand, but the hellmouth interfered.
Lila: Thanks for reading and reviewing and I'm happy to know you like the story. I hope you enjoy what I have in store.
Susan: I liked how you pointed out the slayers being human vs. their callings. I was originally going to have them all jump in the bandwagon like you said and follow Buffy into battle, but I had to take into account that these aren't just humans, they're 21st century teenage girls. Some probably just wanna get back to their lives now that the threat from the First is over with. I kinda had to put myself in their shoes. Most, however, will stand beside Buffy and fight and those that are iffy will probably stay behind and defend the Muggle world. And yes break-up between Willow and Kennedy coming up.
becks89: I thought making Jordan's brother a hottie might serve well for humor in the future. Dumbledore does know Dawn is the Key; he seems to know just about everything else so I thought hell why not that too. I am a little unsure about the pairings. I know a lot of people like the idea of Hermione and Draco, which I have no problem with and I know a lot of people like the idea of Hermione and Ron. Hell I think I'll just make a love triangle to serve as an angsty subplot. I am almost positive Dawn and Harry will get together since they have so much in common. The adults will take some thinking. I don't know who to put Jordan and Aidan with though. A little help with the pairings is welcome. Glad you enjoyed the Orlando Bloom pic thing. He is so hot!
NoAlias: Thanks for the reviewing and I'm glad you like my characters too. I was originally going to have Jordan be some messed up witch with a hellish past so she was gonna be all closed up and broody, but I figured we've seen plenty of that and decided to create a person who had a fun and happy past and not a lot of experience in the emotional pain area. And you're right, I have no idea where this story is going. Well that's not true; I have a vague idea, just no definite shape to it. I'm pretty much writing as I think it up. As for the Spike thing: Well I'm not bringing back Anya or Tara, but Spike's a vamp which means whole different set of rules. I'll have to see how the story goes.
Feel free to email me and im me whenever. And I'm a big girl I can take flames, just please have justifiable reasons for the flames and don't be surprised if I flame back.
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"You know what, I think I'm gonna like hanging out with witches and wizards." Buffy said between mouthfuls of chicken that Dumbledore had conjured up with his wand.
"Yeah. This food is delicious and it pops out of nowhere. That's the best kind!" Xander agreed.
Everyone else was seated at the tables that Professor Tranley had conjured eating the large lunch Professor Dumbledore had provided. Aidan declined eating for now stating that he had already eaten. Jordan immediately dug in.
"You know if she keeps eating so much she'll lose that figure of hers." Hermione warned Aidan.
"Nah not Jordan. She's got one of those perfect metabolisms." he said.
"Really?" Hermione asked, intrigued.
"Yeah. She ate for almost twelve hours straight once and I swore she actually lost weight. Plus she does a lot of exercise. Ever since she was eight she has been doing martial arts, fencing, gymnastics; training in case she became the slayer. Both of us are in the wandless defense class in school. Naturally she's at the top, but I'm a close second." he explained.
"Your school offers wandless defense classes?" Hermione's eyes widened.
"Yeah. I think all the American and Canadian schools do. Real useful if you lose your wand." he said casually.
"That's a good idea. I wonder why we don't have one." she said.
Aidan shrugged his shoulders.
"Maybe because this continent has like four, well three now, hellmouths. Does Britain have any hellmouths?" he asked.
"I don't think the British Isles do but I know there is one in France and a few in Asia. Is it true that a hellmouth interferes with the magic of witches and wizards?" she asked.
"Yeah. We can only do the most simplest spells on the weakest ones and then there's the Bermuda Triangle where our magic doesn't work at all." he told her.
"Interesting. I'll have to read up on that." she said thoughtfully.
Dawn was sitting beside Jordan and she was grilling her on questions about the Wizarding World.
"So can you like turn people into frogs?" Dawn asked with excitement.
"Yeah right. As good as I am at Transfiguration I'd probably turn them inside out instead." Jordan said.
"Wow." Dawn said.
"I'm okay at the other brands of magic though. I'm not the best in classes, except for wandless defense class, but I have an advantage. Oh and Potions Class, I'm a natural at Potions. I even make my own, although I have to keep redoing it over and over to get it right." she said.
One of the slayers approached Jordan and sat down beside her. She was twisting her hands as if she were very nervous about something. Jordan had a good idea what she was going to ask.
"Um Jordan, is your brother you know.....seeing anyone?" the girl asked timidly.
Jordan groaned. This was like the fifth time one of those girls had asked her about her brother. It was becoming annoying. She was this close to telling the next person that asked that he was gay and had a boyfriend waiting at home just to mess with their heads. But then Aidan probably wouldn't appreciate that.
"He sees lots of people. In fact I bet he's seeing a whole bunch of people right now." Jordan said sarcastically.
"Jordan!" Dawn squealed.
"I'm sorry it's just everyone has been asking me that. This is the last time I'm going to answer. No, as far as I know he does not have a girlfriend. But you had better get in line because there are tons of girls at our school that are just waiting to sink their teeth into him." she said, then she grimaced and added, "Metaphorically speaking of course."
The girl nodded and backed away.
"Is he really that popular?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah, I used to think he did love spells or love potions, but Potions isn't his thing. He's the Charms and Magical Creatures guy. Plus he's way too nice to trick girls into falling in love with him. No, he's just your regular run-of-the-mill heartthrob." Jordan shrugged her shoulders and continued munching on her sandwich.
"What about you? Are you a hit with the guys?" Dawn grinned when she asked that.
Jordan stopped munching and contemplated on how to answer that. She had lots of guy friends, more than she had girl friends. She had dated a couple of guys here and there. She had not, however, been in a steady relationship with a boy. She didn't see anything wrong with it; it was just she couldn't find any guy to have a steady relationship with. It was fine with Jordan, she had her brother and her father. Not many more men she needed than those two right now. But it would be nice, to have someone (other than family) to love her.
"Well I know a lot of guys like me that way, but my brother scares them off and I scare them off." she replied.
"Aidan scares them off?" Dawn said skeptically.
"He doesn't do anything, or at least I don't think he does anything. It's more that they think he will come after them if they ask me out. The over-protective big brother thing. They don't know it, but I could do more damage to them than he could. And I scare them off because I'm the top of the wandless defense class and I have always been able to handle myself. Except with worms and vomit. I have a worm complex and I can't stand vomit. Well who can? But I'm really bad about it. Blood and entrails I can handle which is weird, but show me a pile of vomit and I'll go all woozy on you, same thing with worms." she had suppressed a shudder and put down her sandwich.
"You are afraid of worms?" Dawn nearly laughed at the absurdity of it that this girl, who fought valiantly against Ubervamps was creeped out by something as trivial as worms.
"It's not funny! Okay it is kinda funny when I think about it from your perspective. I just cannot stand the sight of them and they make that disgusting sound when they're squished and I'm going to shut up now before I lose my lunch." she took a couple of deep breaths and resumed eating.
"I'm sorry. Are you okay?" Dawn asked with concern.
"It's okay. I just need to steer away from that topic." Jordan assured her.
"Okay then, tell me more about your world."
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Willow excused herself from lunch right before everyone began their seconds. Funny how nearly getting killed can make people so hungry. She would've loved to stay and eaten and just enjoyed pleasant conversation with her friends. And she definitely wanted to know more about Jordan and the Wizarding World. But a certain dark-haired slayer was plaguing her thoughts. She had been completely shocked and outraged by Kennedy's response to being asked to help fight this new evil and it stung Willow very deeply. Had the power of a slayer been the only thing she had wanted all along? Did their relationship really mean nothing to Kennedy?
The redheaded Wicca knocked on the door of the room the two had stayed in. She could sense Kennedy's essence from within, but she felt it would be politer to knock. Kennedy didn't answer, so Willow let herself in. She found her girlfriend packing away what few belongings she had brought from the hellmouth.
"So that's it? You're just gonna leave? Were you even planning on telling me or were you just gonna wait until you were about 3000 miles away and send me a postcard?" Willow asked trying and failing to mask the hurt in her voice.
"Come on Will. You really didn't think I was gonna stayed tied down were you? I am done with this stupid save-the-world fiasco. I have the power now and I don't need you guys anymore." Kennedy replied icily.
"I-I thought we-" Willow's voice was breaking as she struggled to hold back tears. Crying was something she could not do in front of her.
"What? That we were in love? Aww gee Will, that's so sweet." Kennedy cooed mock-sweetly. "Listen, you're a nice girl and pretty good in the sack, but you didn't actually think we were going anywhere did you? I just happed to get a little antsy while I was with you guys and you happened to be in the right place at the right time. In my case anyway."
Willow couldn't believe she was hearing this. Kennedy had used her? Their whole relationship was a joke? Everything that they had been through and said and felt was a joke? The words uttered by her soon to be ex-girlfriend hit the young woman hard. They broke her heart and stepped on the shards repeatedly.
Willow tried to speak, but she couldn't make any lucid sounds right about now. All she could manage to do was hold back the wave of sobs that was coming.
"Aww are you gonna start blubbering now?" Kennedy scorned. "I'm outta here."
Kennedy walked to the doorway and came face to face with Buffy, who didn't look too happy.
"You're not just gonna leave like that are you? First you will apologize to her and then you will let the door hit you on the ass on your way out." the blonde slayer said in a deadly voice.
Buffy hadn't meant to eavesdrop. Slayer ears were so sensitive and on her way to find Kennedy herself she had heard every word of their conversation.
"I have nothing to apologize about. Get out of my way!" Kennedy yelled.
Buffy didn't budge. She wasn't the least bit afraid of Kennedy. She knew she could take her and pretty much any other slayer in a fight. Eight years of experience gave her an edge.
"Buffy just let her go. I don't want an apology. I just want her gone." Willow whispered.
Buffy grudgingly stepped aside.
"I am doing this for Willow's sake and for her sake only. But if I ever, ever see you again I will personally set your ass up an appointment with my foot." the slayer warned.
Fear shone in Kennedy's eyes, but she didn't say anything. She just turned on her heels and strode down the corridor.
"Good riddance." Buffy muttered.
Willow sat on the bed with her head in her hands. Buffy immediately wrapped her arms around her best friend and let the young woman sob in her lap.
"I know Will. But trust me, you're better off without her." Buffy soothed while stroking Willow's hair.
Willow just sat there and cried. How could she have been so stupid? How could she have fallen for that? Hadn't she learned from the Buffy-Parker incident?
After Willow felt like she had cried herself out she dried her eyes and finally pulled herself up.
"Feeling a bit better?" Buffy asked.
"Not really. I'm just so angry with myself. How could I not have seen it coming?" Willow said.
"Will, she had everyone fooled. Well I never liked her, but I thought that it was just me. I never thought she would hurt you." Buffy said.
Willow nodded her head and strayed into her pensive state. The silence unnerved Buffy a bit.
"You're not having murderous urges are you? Not planning on calling on a vengeance demon or anything? Cause that would not be of the good." Buffy said nervously..
"No." Willow mumbled. "Not yet."
"Well that's a good sign."
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Yay! Kennedy's gone! Now I can make a new girlfriend for Willow or use an OC of Whedon's or Rowling's, but I'm thinking I will create her myself. She's probably gonna be a witch though. I will do Willow justice and not allow her to fall in love so easily. Yeah it's gonna be tricky.