A/N sorry for taking so long in updating this story. I've been kind of busy with other stories and since people hardly read this one, I put it on the back burner. Anyway tell me what you think of this chapter.

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Chapter 10

When she was bad

Sunnydale High: The next day

Tara and Giles pulled into the sunnydale parking lot, in Giles beat up old car. Tara wasn't a vain person, but she silently wished that she had her own car. As Giles parked the car he looked up and saw Principal Snyder making a bee-line towards him. Letting out an inward groan he turned to Tara.

"Tara do you mind waiting for me in the library? Just go up those steps, go straight down the main corridor, and take a left."

"Okay." Tara said as she stepped out of the car.

"I'll be in there to join you shortly. I have to talk to Principal Snyder and get your class schedules." With that said Tara walked up the steps and into the building.

In actuality Tara knew exactly where the library was via Angel. As she walked down the hallway going towards the library, she bumped into somebody. Looking up she see's a tall guy with a goofy grin on his face.

"I'm sorry." he automatically blurted out.

"It's okay. Really it was my fault." Tara said with an easy smile.

"Are you new here?" the boy asked.

"Yeah, my names Tara." Tara replied as she held out her hand.

"My names Xander." he said with a little bow, as he shook her hand. "It's nice to meet you."

"Hey I see some friends of mine." Xander said looking over her shoulder. "Maybe, I'll see you around." he said as he walked off from her.

As Tara started to walk by the library she heard a voice. Looking up she see's Cordelia with a group of girls talking about something.

It was odd seeing her so young again, was Angel's thought as he looked at Cordelia from Tara's eye's. As Tara made to go towards the library again, she finally saw what or rather whom the girls and Cordy were talking about.

It was a short guy with dark hair and he looked kind of pasty. Using her vampiric hearing, Tara listened in on what the girls were saying to him, and quickly scowled. All her life she was bullied and just to look at the guy she knew he didn't deserve it. Ignoring what Angel was telling her that, Cordy would grow to be a better person one day, Tara walked up to them.

Jonathon Levinson was again caught in the middle of one of Cordelia's tirades. Just once he would like for a beautiful girl to pay attention to him. His prayers were answered however as a cute blonde with pouty lips draped an arm around his shoulder.

"Hey Cutie." the girl purred.

"Me cute?" Johnathon asked.

"Him cute?" the other girls echoed. Ignoring the other girls, the blonde continued.

"My names Tara and I'm new here. I was wondering if you could show me where the library is?" Tara asked.

"umm...ummm sure." Johnathon managed to get out. "Just come this way." he said as they walked off, leaving a pissed off Cordelia.

As Giles entered the library, he was surprised to see Tara talking antimately with another student. Making his presense known, he walked up to the pair and put on his most charming smile.

"I see you've made a new friend." Giles says as he stands next to him.

"Oh this is Johnathon. I got kind of lost and he helped me find my way." Tara said with an easy smile.

"Hi Mr. Giles." Johnathon replied. Before Giles could say anything the library doors swung open. Turning he saw Xander, Willow, and Buffy walk in.

"Hey G-man, what's the what?" Xander asked.

"Don't ever call me that." Giles immediately said. With a quick clean of his glasses he put them back on and smiled at Tara.

"This is Tara, she'll be living with me for a while." Giles said as he immediately shot a glare in Xander's direction, before he made an inappropriate comment. Seeing the look on Giles face Xander immediately closed his mouth.

"Tara this is Buffy,Willow, and Xander." Giles said pointing to them as he called their names.

"Actually were old friends." Xander announced as he sat beside Tara and wrapped an arm around her shoulder.

"Really?" Willow asked, obviously jealous as she sat down across from him.

"Yeah we met like ten minutes ago." Xander deadpanned.

"Yes, well ahhh Tara here is your class schedule." Giles said as he handed her a folder.

"Thanks, Johnathon do you mind showing me around?" Tara asked.

"Ahhh...yeah sure." Johnathon said as they both stood up.

"It was nice meeting you all." Tara said as she walked close to the door. "Giles I'll see you after school."

"Now that they're gone we can talk business." Buffy said with must of annoyance in her voice.

Johnathon gave Tara a quick tour of the school. Stopping at her first class he starts to fidget and run his hands nervously through his hair.

"Tara I was wondering if ....if you would like to go to the bronze with me?"

"Sure." Tara replied with a smile.

"I understand." Johnathon said sadly. "Maybe I'll see you... wait what did you say?"

"I said sure." Tara replied with a smile. "But maybe tomorrow okay. I have to get settled in, in my new place."

"Okay." Johnathon said excitedly as he walked away.

The day quickly passed for Tara as she now sat in her room working on a set of wrist stake launchers. (Her box of clothes with the weapons underneath showed up that day. Angel was teaching her how to make some earlier in the summer, but they never got a chance to finish)

'I'm telling you Tara, Buffy's really not a bitch.' Angel said with a bit of amusement in his voice. Tara overheard Buffy and Willow talking about her in school, and she heard Buffy say that Tara looked kind of fat.

"You're just saying that because you still love her." Tara scowled. Before Angel could say anything otherwise there was a knock on the door. As Tara cleared the weapons off of her bed, she answered the door. It was Giles.

"Ummm sorry to disturb you, but dinner is ready. Also I have to get to my night job." Giles said.

"Okay, I'll be down in a minute to eat." Tara said with a smile. Night job my ass.

"Very good." Giles said and left. Tara closed the door and walked back over to her bed. Loading the launcher with , she begin to talk to herself.

"You're not the only one going to work tonight Giles." The Master's bones are history, she said to herself as the stake clicked into place.

An old brick warehouse

The same time

"We have been put down, kinsmen." Absalom a former priest, now vampire says to a group of other vamps. "We have lost our way. We have lost the night. But despair is for the living. Where they are weak, we will be strong. Where they weep, we rejoice. Where they bleed, (laughs) we drink! Within three days a New Hope will arise. We will put our faith in him. (looks over at Collin) He will show us the way."

"Wait, there's something wrong." Collin says, holding his head as if he's having a vision.

"What is it?" Absalom asked coming down to where Collin is sitting.

"We must dig up the Master's bones tonight." Collin says with a grimace on his face.

"But the ceremony doesn't start until....."

"I SAID NOW!" Collin yells cutting off Absalom. "Now go. Gather every vampire you can find, we start the ceremony tonight."

As soon as Giles left, Tara put on her leather clothes and gathered some weapons. With a grin on her face she walked to the cemetery, thinking how easy it would to be to take out all of her enemies, since she knew who all the big bads were for the next six years.

That was until she gets to the Master's grave and finds it dug open and his bones exhumed.

'Damnit' Angel yells in Tara's mind, making her wince from the sound. 'Sorry' he apologizes.

'Maybe we have the wrong date.' Tara suggest's.

'No.' Angel thinks back to her. 'This definately was supposed to happen tomorrow.'

' They have the bones, so what else do they need?' Tara asked. Then they came to the realization at the same time.

'Oh my God, Giles!'

The Scooby Gang sat around in the library reading old dusty tomes. That was until Cordelia showed up and started complaining about Buffy's attitude. As all of them sat around arguing, none of them noticed the demons and vampires coming up out of the stacks.

After sensing something demonic, Buffy attempts to turn around until she feels a sharp pain in her chest. Looking down at her chest she see's a dart sticking out of it. As she falls to the ground, the noise of her friends screams feel her ears and then nothing as she falls into darkness.

Before Tara ran to the library, Angel warned her that there would probably be alot of vampires protecting the Master. So changing her direction she decided to get some reinforcements.

Angel was busy reading poetry in his apartment when he heard a knock on his door. With a sigh he marked his place in the book and opened the door. When he did he saw a cute honey blonde with a pensive look on her face.

"Yes miss, can I help you?" he asked. Tara was star struck for a moment. Angel was even more handsome in person. Clearing her mind of such thoughts, she went to the business at hand.

"Angel you need to come with me right now." Tara ordered as she walked uninvited into his apartment.

"Who....what are you?" Angel asked as he sensed something off about her.

"I don't have time for twenty questions Angel!" Tara snapped. "Buffy and the others are in danger. Some vampires are trying to resurrect the Master."

Without another word Angel grabbed some stakes and an axe, then both of them were out the door.

As the pair got to the library, Tara's suspicions were confirmed. Books were scattered on the floor and tables were over turned. The place looked like a warzone. As they turned to leave they heard a groan.

As they walked by the weapons cage they saw Buffy sprawled on the floor.

"Buffy!" Angel yelled running to her side. "Are you okay?" he asked, as he helped her to her feet.

"Just peachy." Buffy replied rubbing at her temple, then she looked over at Tara. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"We don't have time for this. Giles and the others are in trouble!" Tara yelled as she walked out of the room. Angel and Buffy just looked at each other and shrugged. After gathering a sword and a couple of stakes, the two quickly followed after Tara.

Inside of a warehouse

Collin carries a black case past the Master's skeleton, which has been laid out on a table. Absalom takes it from him.

"Begin." Absalom said to one of the minions.

The vampire he was talking to starts pulling on a chain, and Willow, Giles, Cordelia and Jenny are moved along an overhead conveyor to hang upside down and unconscious above the Master's bones. Xander lay unconcious on the ground chained to the floor. (They had him there so once the Master was reborn, they could nourish him.)

"Behold, these four mortals." Abasalom says starting the ceremony.

At that moment Buffy comes into the warehouse through a side door. Angel and Tara follow her in.

"Okay this is what we need to do." Tara says as she unsheathes her sword.

"Hey I'm the Slayer!" Buffy stage whispered in outrage. "I call the shots."

"Why don't you pull your head out of your ass for a second and listen to somebody else's opinion." Tara half yelled, half whispered back. "Whether you like it or not those people down there love you. Their like your family and they try to help you and treat them like shit. Now you're going to listen to me and what I have to say, do you understand?"

Buffy just looked at her as if she were about to knock her head off.

"Alright." Buffy said, hands and body trembling from anger. "I'll listen to your plan, but after this is over were going to have a long talk." Tara just nods as she tells them her plan.

"Witnesses to our Master's wretched demise. They will breathe their last this night. The blood that pours from their throats will bring NEW LIFE to the old one. We gather for his resurrection. For the dawn of this new hell." Absalom finishes as his eyes go wide. Suddenly he crumbles to dust and it's revealed that Buffy's behind him, stake in hand.

"Hi." she says to Collin. "It's been awhile."

"Slayer." Collin practically hisses. "I've been expecting you." he says as some vampires come out of the darkness. As they try to advance on Buffy the skylight suddenly shatters. Glass and wood shower down on the people below as Tara drops through the newly made hole.

Seeing two vamps charging her from opposite sides, she triggers the wrist stake launchers under her sleeves and stakes both at the same time. They dust screaming As another vamp runs up to her she spin kicks it knocking him to the ground.

Angel was busy however releasing Giles and the others.

After Buffy dusts two more vampires Collin raises a sledgehammer and charges at Buffy he yells as he begins his attack. The other vampire rushes at her from the other side. Buffy calmly looks at the tall wooden torch post in front of her, breaks it off and turns it a few times in her hands.

The vampire impales himself on the broken end and crumbles into ash. Collin runs into the burning end and is set ablaze. He backs up and screams as the flames spread over him. He makes a last desperate attempt to get Buffy and raises the sledgehammer over his head, but is too late as the flames engulf him and instantly burn him up. The sledgehammer falls to the floor with a loud clang. Buffy drops the post and looks over at the Master's skeleton.

Finally the battle is over. As Tara leans in the darkness watching Buffy smash the Master's bones into a million pieces, a portal opens up behind her. Before she has time to move a hand snakes it's way out of the portal and pulls her in.

The lower parts of Hell

Two demons have either arm of a small body and they are dragging it along a path. As they see their Master's throne, they throw the body at the foot of it and walk off into the darkness.

Sitting on the throne all that can be seen is a silhouette of a large demon. Reaching down, he grabs the hair of the body and lifts the head up to see who it is. It's Collin.

"You disappoint me boy." Satan says with a dark gravely voice. "For that you will be banished into the hell fire." he says as he picks up Collin and tosses him into the lake of fire.

Leaning back into the darkness, he looks up to the heavens and regards God.

"So father, you've finally released a Seraphim on earth." he says with a smile. "Then I'll see what I can do about that."

TBC......

Yes the devil will have a part to play in season two. Also I'll explain where Tara is in the next chapter. Also Just like I promised, Tara and Buffy are going to have a little talk in the next chapter. There's also going to be a bunch of all new episodes, I wasn't really satisfied at the way season two played out.