Summary: Vampire Slayer Erin is found by Buffy in Australia and is taken back to England to be trained with the other Slayers.

Author's Note: Okay. I realise that this is really stupid, but just to see if this picks up an audience I might not even finish it. (Sorry Nikki if you were hoping for more) I'll post this chapter but it might be a while before anything new gets posted. It depends on whether I get reviews about it or not. If you like it, tell me. If you don't, tell me. Either way, I'd like to know. And if you want to offer suggestions as to what should happen to me (Erin) I'm open to anything. It all helps and my little brain doesn't have to strain so much.

Chapter Two

It was the next day. It was a totally new day, and Erin had a totally new life. It was Friday, the last day of school for the week. And sadly, the last day of school for a few months. At least, in Australia.

Buffy told Erin that she'd be leaving on Saturday morning, at a flight leaving at 11:35am. That meant she had one day with all her friends before she left. One day, and she couldn't tell anyone about who and what she was.

There was no law against people knowing who the Slayer was (or in this case Slayers); it was more of a privacy thing for Erin. She didn't want the entire school knowing that she was leaving for 6 months to go to England and train to be a fighter and a killer. She wanted to tell her friends that she was leaving, because she wouldn't be seeing them for so long. She wanted them to know so that she could hug them goodbye and tell them how much she'd miss them. But she decided that she couldn't.

Buffy had told her that it didn't matter if a few people knew, because she'd be back anyway and she'd have to explain where she'd been and what she'd been doing. So at that thought, Erin decided she'd tell a few people. Just a few.

She got on the bus at 8:05am and moved to one of the seats up the back. She passed a few people from her school, but she didn't socialise with them so she didn't say anything. When her friends got on the bus, she was quiet for a while.

"What's with you?" Her friend Hayden asked as he sat down across the aisle from her.

"Oh, nothing. Whatcha got planned for the weekend?" Erin quickly changed the subject. Hayden responded hesitantly.

"I'm finishing putting my bass together." He explained. "I have to glue the body together and then attach the neck."

"Cool. So it's nearly finished then?" Erin asked.

"Yeah. Hopefully I can start playing it soon." A slightly awkward silence followed Hayden's last line, until they got of the bus and headed up to school from the nearby train station where their bus dropped them off.

Until they reached the gate, they'd basically said nothing. Erin had mentioned that she met somebody, Buffy, last night and that she was going to be staying with Buffy soon. She wanted to say more, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. She didn't know what Hayden would think, and whether he'd think she was crazy.

"Hayden!" came a young girl's voice from behind them. Hayden's little sister came running up. The kindy-student asked her brother to help her hang her bag up on the hook, and he and Erin parted.

"It's okay, I'll go up and see if Tiarne's here." Erin told him. He nodded and tended to his little sister. As Erin reached her classroom, she dropped her back on a seat beside the door and headed around to where her best friend was talking with some of the older students.

"Hey babe." Tiarne greeted Erin with a hug.

"Hey." Erin replied. She listened to their conversation for a while about tattoos and piercings before zoning out. She thought about telling Tiarne about her life. She wanted to tell her best friend right here and now, but again, she couldn't bring herself to do it. Hayden came and joined the conversation a minute or two later, and Erin soon joined in too.

When the bell for class went, Erin met up with her other friends Brooke, Emily and Scott. Brooke, Emily and Erin headed into class for the girls' role call while Scott headed off to the boys' role call. Brooke and Emily could tell that Erin seemed distant, but when they asked her what was wrong she denied anything was troubling her and quickly sparked up a conversation about plans for the weekend, like she'd done earlier on the bus with Hayden.

For the first four periods until lunch, Erin was unusually quiet. She didn't say much in class, nor to her friends. She spent almost the entire time thinking of the best way to tell all her friends she wasn't coming back for a while. She didn't want everybody else knowing, just a few. She managed to get through some of her class work, but not much. She wasn't very focussed, and all she could think about was what kind of life lay ahead for her.

Buffy had told her that there were hundreds of other Slayers in England being trained and sent out to countries all around the world. Many returned home to their families and became the "local Slayer" for that area, while others opted to be placed somewhere new. Many of those were older, late-teens-and-early-twenties-aged-girls.

Erin was starting to have second thoughts about everything she'd planned with her parents, but decided that it was all for the best. She had this power inside of her that she knew nothing about, that she wanted to explore. She was afraid last night when she was attacked, but as Buffy said, her strategy might have worked if Buffy had not shown up. It was that sort of thinking that Slayers used; that kept them alive.

Recess was a blur, and even though she sat with her friends she didn't really talk with them much. Even when there was so much to talk about. Lunchtime snuck up on her, and she didn't even realise until half of the class had left the room and gone outside to eat.

Erin decided that she'd better tell all of the people that she wanted to know about her secret now before it was too late. At the end of the day everyone would leave, and she wouldn't be able to find them all. She wanted some people to know that she wouldn't be back. At least, not for a while.

"Where's Taylor?" Erin asked Brooke, Emily and Scott as they sat in their usual lunch place on the stairs beneath the library's balcony.

"There." Scott pointed across the basketball court to where Taylor was walking towards them.

"Oh good. I need him to do me a favour." Taylor was so helpful to everyone; he was such a great friend. Erin knew that if she asked him to round up a few people, he'd do it.

"What do we have after lunch?" Taylor asked as he sat down.

"English." Erin answered. "Taylor, can you do me a favour?"

"What?"

"Can you go and find Tiarne, Hayden, Sarah and Nikki?" Erin asked.

"Why?"

"Can you, please?" Erin pressed.

"Yeah, okay. I'll be back in a minute." Taylor told her, getting to his feet and walking off again to look for the people Erin had asked for.

"What's that about?" Brooke asked.

"Don't worry, you can be here too when I tell you. I want you to know as well." Erin told her friend.

"What are you telling us?" Scott asked.

"If I told you now then it would spoil it. Just wait a few minutes." Erin took a bite from her sandwich, really not feeling very hungry. She wrapped it back up and put it away in her bag.

A few minutes later, Taylor returned with Tiarne, Hayden, Sarah and Nikki. They all gathered around the stairs as Erin got up.

"What's this all about" Hayden asked.

"I wanted to tell you all something, and it's going to be hard." Erin explained. "I would have liked to tell you one by one, but that would mean explaining it too many times."

"Explaining what?"

"I'm leaving." Erin answered.

"Leaving?" Tiarne asked.

"Leaving to where?" Brooke added.

"Leaving here to go to England."

"When?" Tiarne inquired, surprised.

"Tomorrow."

"Why?" Emily wanted to know.

"Last night I was attacked." Erin saw the looks on her friends' faces. They were genuinely surprised. "By a vampire."

"What?" Hayden laughed. "A vampire? Get real."

"Seriously."

"No, seriously, what's going on here?" Nikki said. "Vampires aren't real. They're figments of some doped-up guy's imagination."

"Well, I was attacked by one last night. It nearly killed me. Puffy face, golden eyes, fangs. What else do you call that?"

"Somebody dressed up who tries to scare teenage girls." Sarah summed up the appearance Erin described as something it definitely was not.

"I'm telling you the truth."

"Yeah, right. What's the deal?"

"The deal is, a woman saved me. Hayden, do you remember Buffy that I told you about this morning. The woman I met last night?" He nodded. "She's a Slayer."

"What's a Slayer?" Brooke asked.

'Well, from what I understand, they hunt, fight and kill vampires and demons to protect the public." Erin explained. "And Buffy told me that I am a Slayer."

"You're a Slayer?" Hayden mocked.

"Hey. That vampire could have kicked your ass. It kicked mine, nearly killing me. I fought back and didn't run off like anybody else would, and Buffy told me that its because of my Slayer nature."

"Good for you." Scott continued the mockery. "You stayed to fight a guy dressed up as a mythical creature."

"Scott, I'm being serious." Erin scolded. "This is who I am. I was as surprised as you when Buffy explained it to me, but it's who I am. I can't escape it."

"Why are you telling us?" Tiarne asked.

"Because I'm leaving. I'm going away to England for 6 months to train to use my power as a Slayer." Erin heard snickering from her friends. "Hey, I'm being serious. What will it take for you to believe me?"

"I'm sorry, we can't. It's just not logical. How can something that is a mythical creature exist?" Scott put forward the idea that Erin was making everything up, which she quickly jumped at.

"Scott, I am not making this up. This is real, and this is what is happening to me. I don't have a choice, I have to do this. I really hoped that you'd supportive and want to wish me good luck on my trip and stuff like that. I didn't think you'd rip me off for what I am."

"What you are is not logical." Hayden stepped in. "It can't be real, because vampires aren't real."

"How do you know? Have you ever seen one?" Erin realised her wording was wrong after she'd already spoken.

'No, that's my point. I haven't seen one because they're not real."

"Well I'm telling you now that I saw one. It attacked me last night, and I killed it."

"I thought you said that Buffy woman saved you?" Sarah pointed out Erin's mistake in her explanation.

"It looked like she was losing so I took her stake and forced it into the guy's heart. He exploded to dust, which as far as I know, only vampire do. Humans do not explode."

"It's like Chris Angel that magician guy." Brooke suggested. "Some stupid magic trick that's got you convinced. It's probably a scam and this Buffy woman is the one pulling the strings."

"No." Erin protested. "I felt the power inside me. I felt the will to stay and fight and kill. I've never felt that before. And it wasn't a magic trick. I didn't see anybody running away after a puff of smoke or something. It wasn't like that. I watched him fall to dust before my eyes, and then he was gone. I already explained this to my parents and they believe it, but they're having a hard time with it. They're losing me to some woman they only met last night."

"Then don't go.' Tiarne piped up. "You don't have to go, and we don't want you to. Stay, this isn't real. What you're describing can't be real."

"I can't believe you, all of you! You're my friends! I thought you'd be more supportive. I thought you'd want to give me all your best wishes and send me off happily. I won't be seeing you for a long time, and I thought that you'd understand."

"Erin, can you see why we don't believe you?" Tiarne asked.

"Yes. I didn't believe it at first when Buffy told me, but after seeing that vampire and feeling my power, I had no choice but to believe."

"And how did your parents come round?" Scott inquired.

"We took them out for a walk nearby where we killed the other vampire and showed them what we could do. Buffy instructed me and I killed another vampire right before their eyes. That's what made them believe."

"But we can't believe you." Tiarne continued. "We just can't. We haven't seen any of this stuff, and we can't feel what you say you're feeling. We can't believe any of this."

"You can. That's the thing, you just have to believe. I know it's hard, it took me a while to get used to it."

"A while?" Nikki scoffed. "You knew for one night and you just believed." Erin nodded. "That's ridiculous."

"Well I'm sorry you all feel that way. When I come back in 6 months, I'll be sure to show you what I can do. You'll see. I'll take you out and show you that I can kill something."

"Why are you talking about killing things so freely?" Sarah asked.

"Because they're not human. Slayers don't kill humans, Buffy explained it to me." Erin informed them.

"This Buffy woman sure is 'explaining' a lot of stuff to you. How can you be so sure that what she says is true?"

"I can't. I just have to believe what I saw and what I feel. Because of that, I am sure she's telling the truth."

"Erin, something doesn't feel right about this." Tiarne stepped forward. "But since you say you're going, I wanna say goodbye." Tiarne wrapped her arms around Erin's shoulders and gave her a big hug. Erin whispered in her ear while hugging back.

"Thankyou." They parted, and soon everyone was wishing Erin the best for her trip. None of them understood what she was talking about, but they did understand that she was leaving and that she wasn't coming back for a long, long time. They took the chance they had and said goodbye before they all went separate ways at the end of lunch for electives.

"I guess I'll see you all when I get back." Erin said. Her friends didn't want to know about her encounter with vampires because they didn't believe. They only wanted to wish her well because they knew she was going.

At the end of school, Erin said goodbye to Hayden, Sarah and Scott who were in her music elective class and then headed to the bus to go home. Other people saw her saying goodbye to everyone and asked what was going on.

"You can tell some people next week. Not everyone, because no one will believe you." Erin told Hayden on the bus home.

"Yeah, I figured. Anybody you want me to tell?"

"I dunno. Mrs. Gray? People in our class?" Erin suggested some people. Hayden nodded and said goodbye again as he got off the bus.

"Catch ya later" He said.

"See ya." Erin waved with a simple raise of her hand as the bus drove off, leaving Hayden behind. Erin sighed. She was done here.

A/N: Again, weirdness. I don't think it's actually that bad anymore. The cheesiness factor is not gone, because it's about me, but hopefully somebody out there is catching onto this. Nikki?