Title: Coming Back
Author: Windandsummer
Rating: R for now later it will go up!
Pairings: eventually Angle/Xander among others
Disclaimer: I only own what my own imagination produces, that includes Natalie and Bridget so hands off, unless you ask. -)
Warning: This story will eventually be slash although the way the story is going that might take a while.
A/N: Read and Review and you might get your updates faster. -)
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Lindsey sat next to the phone in his apartment waiting for it to ring. Bridget was two hours late on check in time and considering this was her first night on the hell mouth he was past worrying. When he had decided to move to London a few years back from his hometown in Oklahoma he had never though his life would lead him here. He had been going to City Lid a college in downtown London. When the council had approached him about training to be a researcher he had thought them crazy but they had offered him enough money to over look that fact.
Then after he had a chance to do some fieldwork and saw that he wasn't really working for a group of lunatics he had doubled his efforts and soon had enough experience to become a watcher. Knowing that the current slayer was in very capable hands, having met Wesley a number of times, he had though it would be years before he got a chance to have his own slayer. So all in all he was truly shocked to hear that a new slayer had been called in the form of his mentors daughter and that he himself would be her watcher.
The first month of training Bridget had been hell. Her stepsister was extremely jealous and had done everything in her power to keep Bridget from succeeding. Finally Bridget had put her stepsister in her place and from that moment on the girl had remained absent from there training sessions. In many was Bridget was better prepared than most girls, having had extensive train in order to be come a watcher one day she already knew the facts.
Not only did her training give her enough information to coupe quickly with the change but she had a much more extensive knowledge on demons and the evils a slayer must face than any slayer before her time. And while Lindsey saw this as a huge asset it in no way helped her in the physical portion of being the slayer.
She fought with no emotion something that most watchers would commend their slayers on. But Lindsey knew that if she was to survive then she would need that emotion to give her added power. No matter what he tried he couldn't get her to step outside of her watcher training and use her anger to attack her foes. Not until he earned her trust that is. He wasn't really sure how it had happened but one day he noticed a great change in her.
She no longer treated him like he was some nameless faceless leader but as a friend. Some one that she respected yet still cared for enough to trust with her own emotions. From then on her fighting skills improved greatly and even though she was one to rely more on her knowledge than her strength he knew she'd be a decent slayer.
When they had finally left her family behind to head to America he had got to know her even better. Soon she started sharing her political, and emotional views on life. This was were he learned that she was more than book knowledge, and that she didn't share all the same views as the council. He learned that his slayer was someone that he could enjoy the company of, someone he could treat as an individual and friend.
He truly learned to respect her as well when she found the nerve to approach him on the matter of staking all vampires. To be truthful he had never thought about vampires being anything but evil creatures, then again he had little contact with them outside the council field of control. He was surprised by her concerns that not vampires deserved to die for being what they were. She had gone on to tell them that she thought it cruel to kill something for doing what it found it had to do naturally in order to survive. He had told her that if she felt that strongly that it would be her decision whether she would stake the vampire or not.
Lindsey was pulled from his memory at the sound of someone knocking at the door. Hoping that it might be Bridget he rushed of from the chair where he sat and swung the door open quickly. Upon seeing a number of vampires at his door he swung it shut just as quickly as he had opened it. Leaning up against the door he heard the voice of the what must have been there leader yelling in at him.
"Come on mate. Where not here for a pound of flesh. We just want to see that you make it safely to the base, where your slayers at."
"Why should I believe you?" Lindsey yelled back through the door.
"Call your slayer and ask her yourself if you want proof." The vampire called back.
"How am I suppose to reach her, I don't even know where she's at let alone the number." Lindsey said.
He could hear the vampire sigh then he heard him speaking to one of his minions before a scratching noise and a piece of paper was shoved under the door.
"The numbers on there, call quickly and they'll let you talk to your slayer." The vampire said through the door.
Moving quickly towards the phone Lindsey dialed the number and was relieved when the person that answered gave the phone to Bridget.
"Lindsey is that you." She asked.
"Yes its me, are you alright." Lindsey asked.
"Yes I'm fine, but you need to hurry up and get here. The quicker were all here the quicker this can get solved. Don't worry about the vamps Lins I assure you there fine. There going to bring you to the base so we can get this whole thing can be worked out."
"All right, see you soon." With that Lindsey put down the phone grabbed his coat and walked out the door into a group of vampires.
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Ok I have no clue whether I actually like this chapter or not, but my lovely beta scanned through and told me it didn't absolutely suck. So I guess I must post it. I know its short but hey I'm updating relatively quick and I know some authors who make you wait longer for a whole lot less so deal with it. Just kidding. I'll post a longer chapter later. Hope you enjoyed getting to know Lindsey. Much love. -Windandsummer
