A/N Sorry it took me so long to update, but I lost most of the information that I was working with for this fic so unfortunately, I have to skip a few episodes. I hope you guys enjoy this anyway. This also takes place three weeks after chapter 11 and the First hasn't been making any sudden appearance's.
Also thanks for the review Wispr, I'm glad you're enjoying my stories. Also again to Luna's Meow, I'm sorry for taking so long.
Here's a summary of what happened. Everyone was blaming Willow and Kennedy for Tara's death. Sheila, especially hated her because she felt that Willow was responsible for killing someone, she felt was like a daughter to her. But during the episode, Get it done, they had to join magics to get Kendra back from the dimension where she met the shadow men, so they became a little close. And just like Buffy, Kendra didn't except their power either. Also Xander found out that he's losing his Hunter power, so he only uses his amulet in extreme emergences.
Chapter 12
Lies My Parents Told Me
Flashback
"Tara was me eldest daughter." Sheila was saying in the middle of Tara's eulogy. "She was one of de sweetest and kindest people, I had ever known and I'll miss her dearly. I...I can't say anymore." Sheila managed to get out as she broke down crying. She couldn't believe that another one of her children was dead. First Johnathon and now Tara. And both of their death's were so close together.
Wordlessly Xander stood to his feet and led Sheila back to her seat. She cried on his chest the whole way there. As Willow tried to comfort her and hold the immortal's hand, Sheila jerked her arm back and sent a glare towards the young wicca. That had been going on every since they found Tara dead. As soon as Willow told them why Tara had left the house in the first place, everyone started treating her funny. Even Xander.
Kennedy put her hand on Willow's shoulder and tried to comfort her. Willow just jerked her arm off and gave her a look. With a sigh and hot tears flowing down her face, Willow could only watch the rest of Tara's ceremony in silence.
End Flashback
Sheila's Home
Early Morning
Willow sat alone in a corner of her room, crying softly to herself. All she could do was think about Tara's eulogy and how her friends treated her. She loved Tara and what she did with Kennedy was just a mistake. A big stupid mistake.
"Kendra wants everyone downstairs for a meeting." Dawn said monetonelessly as she entered the room, interrupting Willow's thoughts. Turning to leave the room, she was stopped when she heard Willow's hoarse voice.
"Dawnie..."
"What?" Dawn asked irritated as she whirled around on her.
"Nothing." Willow said sadly as she watched Dawn leave the room in a hurry.
"Good, I'm glad dat you could make dis meeting." Kendra said to Willow as she entered the living room. "Now, Tabitha tell us what happened again." she said to a cute potential with pink hair.
"Me...me and Jennifer went out last night, you know to have a little fun." Tabitha said as she looked up at the group. "When we came back from this club called the Bronze, we were attacked by something."
"Was it a vampire?" Amanda asked as she handed the girl a glass of water.
"No." Jennifer answered for her. "Well at least we don't think so. It was so dark, but whatever it was told us to deliver a message."
"What was it?" Kendra asked as she sat down next to them.
"The thing said, to get ready for a real witch."
"Willow, do you sense any new magic in town?" Kendra asked as she stood to her feet.
"No."
"What about you, Sheila?"
"I'm sorry, but I don't either." the Immortal answered.
"Alright, it seems dat de First might be up to something new." Kendra said as she stood to her feet and paced about the room. "So from now on, if any of you go out den you will be accompanied by either me, Akin, Xander, or Blade."
"Where are they anyway?" Dawn asked as she looked about the room.
"Dare out back with Giles, Dierdre, and Principal Wood. Dare sparring with some of de less experienced potentials." Kendra explained. "Now..."
"I hope, I'm not interrupting anything." Buffy/First said as she materialized in the room.
"What do you want?" Kendra asked, as Dawn stood behind her.
"Your horrible death for one." Buffy/First said with a shrug. Seeing Kendra's look, she continued. "Actually, I came to warn you to watch over your little sister before she has an unfortunate accident."
"You're not gonna touch me sister." Kendra said as Dawn held onto her from behind. "Anyone of them."
"Oh, I'm not talking about the one's in Sunnydale silly." Buffy/First said as it morphed into the image of a middle aged black woman. And for some reason, Kendra felt that she should know the woman from somewhere. "I'm talking about de sister dat you have in Jamaica."
"Momma?" Dierdre asked as she dropped her towel on the floor and walked into the room.
"Yes, it's me." Tamara/First replied as Blade, Principal Wood, and Xander walked into the room.
"Dis ting is not our modder." Kendra told her sister. "It's de First."
"Damn, you never let me have any fun." Tamara/First said with a pout as it morphed back into Buffy. "Anyway, like I said you have another sister in Jamaica and if you don't get to her in time, she dies."
"I don't believe you." Kendra said as she turned to Dierdre. "Do we have anodder sister?"
"I...I..."
"She was actually a potential Slayer just like you." Buffy/First said to Kendra. "So, I'm not really surprised that she doesn't remember her. She's a couple of years older than Dierdre and was taken away by her Watcher at a young age."
"How much time do we have to get to Jamaica?" Xander asked.
"Oh, I'll be a sport." Buffy/First said looking at him. "I'll give you until the end of today to get to her."
"A full day huh?" Principal Wood asked sarcastically. "Yeah, that's plenty of time to get all the way to Jamaica from here."
"Dat's alright." Sheila said thinking. "All we have to do is call Miss Mabinty and open a portal to..."
"She's dead." Buffy/First said cutting her off.
"What did you say?" Sheila asked.
"I said that she's dead. My bringers already took care of her like a week ago."
"No...dis can't be...I..."
"As a matter of fact, don't count on any of your Immortal buddies to come and help you." The First continued. "Because, Amanda and Duncan...they're both dead too."
"Just get to the damn point." Akin said as he and Giles walked into the room.
"Alright, alright. God why are you guys so intense?" the First asked. "Anyway, your sister's name is Nicole and she's being held at the Hacinta hotel in downtown Jamaica. Now please get there quick because, I'm sure that she's dying to meet you." Buffy/First said with a wink as she vanished out of the room.
"Damnit." Xander said in frustration. "Sheila are you alright?"
"Sheila?" Giles asked, finally snapping her out of her daze.
"Yes...yes, I'm alright." she told him. But she wasn't alright. Miss Mabinty was like a real grandmother to her and her brother. She was an Immortal that had taken them in many years ago and treated them like family. And Duncan was her mentor and trainer. Without him, she would have never made it this far.
"Dat's good, because I need you in de game." Kendra said as she walked over to her. "Do you tink you can open up a portal?"
"Not alone." she informed her. "Miss Mabinty was a very powerful, Immortal with magical powers. It'll take de efforts of me, Giles, Willow, and Akin to keep de portal open as long as she did de last time."
"Alright, me and Xander are gonna go as soon as de portal is open." Kendra said as she looked around the room. "Blade. You, Giles, and Akin are in charge once we're gone."
Jamaica
Night
"These portals are opening up better then they used too." Xander commented to Kendra as the big silver vortex closed behind them.
"Dat's probably because dare's four minds working on keeping it open." Kendra said as she scanned there surroundings. She must've patrolled this area of Jamaica a hundred times. Suddenly she seemed to remember where the hotel was and looked back at her fiancee. "I tink, I know where de hotel is. Now come on let's move."
Sheila's Home
Sametime
"I had almost forgotten how exhausting it was opening up portals." Giles commented as he stood up from his position on the floor.
"Tell me about it." Akin commented as he stood to his feet. "At least we don't have to reopen it."
"Damn." Sheila commented as she blew out her candle and stood up.
"What's wrong?" Giles asked.
"I'm running low on a few supplies. Give me de key's to de magic box and I'll pick up some more."
"I'll go with you." Wood said with a smile as he put on his jacket and handed her, hers.
"Tank you." Sheila said with a smile of her own as she opened the door. And when she did, her eyes widened at who she saw on the other side. "Tara?"
"Hey mom." Tara replied with a big grin as she let out a vampiric growl, picked Sheila up off her feet by the neck, and threw her off the porch. "Are you happy to see me?"
"Giles trouble!" Wood shouted as he jumped outside to help Sheila, only for about a half dozen Bringers to get in his way.
Grabbing an axe for himself and tossing Akin a sword, he, Akin, and Blade ran outside to jump in the fray. Quickly lobbing off the head of the nearest bringer, Giles looked up and saw five hybrid reapers and ten regular vampires stepping out of the shadows. Getting Blade and Akin's attention, they went off to fight them, while he helped Wood to kill the rest of the eyeless monks.
"I hope, I didn't hurt you too badly mom." Tara said as she looked down at Sheila, who winced as she got to her knee's. "Because, I wanna remember you as a strong woman before I kill you."
"Tara what has happened to you?" Sheila asked as she stood all the way to her feet.
"Mom, can't you tell?" Tara asked as she spread her arms wide. And as Sheila looked at her closer, she saw a scar seam on Tara's chin and she knew what had happened to her.
"Don't ever call me your modder again." Sheila said with a frown. "Me daughter is dead."
"Oh don't be that way." Tara replied with a pout, as she again lifted Sheila off of the ground by the throat and started to sniff her. "I just wanna remember you just like this. I want to remember how pretty you look. How good you smell, and oh yeah..." Tara said as her scar seam opened revealing a wicked network of teeth. "how good you taste." as she moved in to bite her, she was suddenly lifted off her feet by a powerful punch, making her let go of the Immortal.
Coming out of her coughing fit, because of lack of oxygen, Sheila looked up at her savior and saw...
Jamaica
"This is the place." Xander said as he flicked on his flashlight and looked around. The place was abandoned and looked like it hadn't been in use for almost ten years. "You know for the ultimate evil, the First really could've chosen a better place then this."
Ignoring what her fiancee said, Kendra closed her eyes and concentrated. Further down she heard a man's voice and a girl softly whimpering.
"Dis way." Kendra said as she took off like a shot down a dimly lit corridor. Not knowing what she heard Xander quickly followed.
"Now, now, now sweet pea don't be scared." they heard a male voice say with a southern twine on the other side of door 312. "This'll all be over soon."
"Are you ready?" Kendra asked as Xander held up his amulet. As the familiar red and black flame engulfed him, turning him into Hunter X, he brought his foot up and kicked the door.
As the dust and the door itself settled to the floor, Hunter X and Kendra walked in to see a tall white man, wearing a preacher's collar and a sadistic smile, standing behind a black teenaged girl that was bound and gagged in a chair. Looking into the girls eyes, Kendra knew in her heart that the girl she was looking at was indeed her sister. She looked just like little D, except her hair was a little shorter.
"See sweet pea, I told you." Caleb said as he reached around and snapped the girls neck. "Someone was gonna come for you."
"No!" Kendra yelled in outrage, as her sister's body fell to the floor.
"Yes." Caleb smiled brightly as he approached the two.
"Duncan? How...how can dis be?" Sheila asked as the highlander helped her to her feet.
"I'll explain later, just get behind me." Duncan replied as he unsheathed his katana.
"I thought we killed you?" Tara asked as she stood to her feet.
"Rumours of my death were greatly exaggerated." Duncan replied.
"It's not like it matters." Tara replied as she looked behind herself and saw that Blade and the others had slayed all of her minions. "We'll kill all of you sooner or later. Bye mom." she said with a wink and ran into the darkness.
Jamaica
Stepping in front of Kendra, Hunter X sent out a flurry of punches and kicks, that Caleb effortlessly blocked. Finally getting lucky he punched Caleb in the face with a hard right hook, staggering him. Going for his sword, Caleb punched X immensely hard, sending him through the hotel window, where X fell outside for a few stories before finally falling through the glass ceiling into the lobby.
Jumping into a roll, Kendra picked up Hunter's sword and stabbed Caleb in the chest, sending black blood to splatter on her hand and shirt. Not even waiting for his body to hit the floor, she grabbed her sister's dead body, climbed out of the window and ran down the fire escape.
"Gile's you're bleeding." Dierdre said as he and the other's walked into the living room.
"It appears that I am." he replied as his eyes rolled up in the back of his head. Before he could pass out, Duncan and Blade grabbed either side of him.
"Watch, it old man." Blade commented as the both of them sat him on the couch. Having more experience in first aid Dierdre and Willow attended to him.
"Duncan." Sheila said grabbing his arm. "Now tell me what's going on? The First said..."
"I'll tell you all about it." Duncan MacLeod said, cutting her off. "Firstly, I wanted to say I'm sorry about Miss Mabinty. When the First tried to have me killed, it mentioned that it killed her first."
"Den you already know dat Amanda is dead aswell?"
"Yeah." he replied as he bowed his head down in reflection of her. Amanda was always a trouble maker, but he loved her as a friend regardless. He was really going to miss her beautiful smile and her warmth. "Now this is what happened to me."
Flashback
Three Day's Before
Paris
Duncan ran through the dimly lit warehouse, dragging his sword at his side as he went. Taking his other hand, he covered the bloody stab wound on his stomach and glanced over his shoulder.
"Damn, they're still following me." he whispered to himself.
For the past hour, he had been running from some monks who had burst into his home and tried to take his head. But before they did, something took the form of his Immortal friend Amanda and had told him that she was dead along with his students grandmother, miss Mabinty.
Turning down a narrow corner, he was suddenly confronted by a group of three bringers. With a grimace he brought his sword up, decapitated the first, avoided a knife slash from the second, and did a leg sweep on the third. Standing to his feet, he did a quick and painful roundhouse on the second, knocking it off of it'd feet. Hearing the footfalls of the others, he was about to run when the floor under him gave out, sending him plummeting to the next floor. As the bringers looked down into the newly made hole, a brilliant flash of lightning shot out of it. Feeling that their jobs were done, they sheathed their daggers and walked out of the warehouse building.
End Flashback
"I fell on top of a generator and I guess they thought that it was the quickening." Duncan said with a shrug. "So after, that I hopped on a plane and came to see if you were okay."
"And you made it just in time." Sheila said as she ran a hand down his cheek affectionally.
Wood took the gesture as a sign of lovers, but it was simply a thank you, from student to teacher. As he thought to ask Sheila about that later, a portal started to form in front of him. Taking a step back, he watched as Kendra and Hunter X emerged out of it. And as they saw the dead body, almost everyone in the room bowed their heads in silence.
"We were to late." Kendra said as she handed Blade her sisters body and as Xander angrily took off his mask.
"The First had some freaky preacher there." Xander informed them as he shook off some glass off of his clothing. He also had a few bruises and he bit his lip from screaming as he was thrown out of the window by Caleb. "And as soon as we got into the room, he broke her neck."
"Ummm...Willow?" a potential asked as she entered the room and saw Kendra's sister's body. "Oh, no...is she..."
"She's gone." Kendra confirmed as Dierdre ran into her arms and cried. Even though she didn't know her sister Nicole, she was still her sister and she mourned for her. "Duncan?" Kendra asked, as she looked up and saw the Immortal.
"It's nice to see you again." Duncan said as he walked up to her. "I just wish we didn't have to meet under these circumstances." he said as he glanced at Blade, who was taking the body out to the back for burial.
"Hello Duncan." Dierdre greeted with a sad smile.
"Who are..." he stopped as he looked at the young girl hard. "It can't be...Dee?"
"In de flesh."
"You've grown up so much." Duncan said as he gave her a quick hug. "The last time I saw you, you were this high." he said as he gestured with his hands. As they started to talk, Willow pulled the potential who had asked for her, to the side.
"What did you want to tell me?"
"Oh, umm... there was this girl named Faith." the potential spoke up. "She said she needs your help in. LA."
The Vineyard
"So how did our girl do?" Kendra/First asked, Nomak as he walked down into the cellar. She had him to spy on Tara from the shadows, because she didn't know if she could trust the witch just yet.
"She didn't kill anyone." Nomak said as he leaned against the wall. "But she did make her prescense known."
"Good. Now I only have one more player to add to me little game." Kedra/First said with a huge smile. "Now where is out little witchy girl?"
"She went to the sub-basement."
"Is she still working on getting dat ting out of stone?" The First asked.
"But of course."
Jamaica
Hacinta Hotel
Caleb layed in a pool of his own dark demonic blood, with the Hunter's sword still panted firmly in his chest. Hearing a voice inside of his head, his body started to tremble and his eyes suddenly popped open, revealing them to be pitch black. With a smile on his face, he took the sword out of his chest and stood to his feet. For his master was finally calling him home.
A/N Caleb is going to come to Sunnydale soon and what will Faith think when she finds out about what Willow did to Tara? Especially since the two were close. Also if you want a picture of Dierdre as a woman then send me an email.
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