Buffy and Kennedy
"The chosen and the SIT"
Disclaimer: I don't own it!
Pairing: Buffy/ Kennedy
Summary: After Willow dumps Kennedy whom does she turn to for comfort…my season 8.
AN: Just something that popped into my head. Takes place after season 7.
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Chapter 4: Welcome home
The airport
Buffy arrived at the airport five minutes before she was supposed to be there, and she knew she was going to scare Faith because she was never on time for anything. Buffy was waiting in one of the uncomfortable chairs that lined the airport terminal, waiting, and thinking.
Kennedy and me? That is something that I sure as hell didn't see coming, I mean when she first came here she was evil. Not literally, it was like she was a miniature Faith and it took me awhile to deal. Plus she was with Willow and I was with Spike…there was no way that I ever would have thought of her that way.
Then we had to go and get drunk and all my rational thinking went out the window and I just acted on impulse…on emotions. So I guess that confirms that there were feelings between us that we never thought about sharing because we both had someone else.
"B?" Buffy was brought out of her thoughts by the sound of the same husky voice that she hadn't heard in almost a year. "B? Are you actually on time…damn and here I thought I was going to be able to tour Sunnydale's airport, you know I never even knew this town had an airport." Faith said as she walked over to Buffy. When she stood in front of her Faith was unsure if they should hug or not so she just stood there.
Buffy smiled seeing her hesitation. "It's good to have you home Faith," she said as she brought the dark haired slayer into a hug. "If you tell anyone about this I will kill you." Buffy said when she let go.
"What and ruin the awesome hatred that people think we have toward each other…never." Faith said with a smile. "Plus it would so ruin the bad girl image." Faith added and she was rewarded with a smile from the blonde slayer.
Just then Buffy looked behind Faith and saw Dawn and Giles walking toward them. "Buffy!" Dawn squealed as she ran over toward her sister and jumped into her arms. "I never, and I mean never thought I would be happy to see you." Dawn said when she let go of her sister. "Going to England with Giles is worse than summer school," Dawn, said.
"Hello Buffy," Giles said as she walked over to her and gave her a hug.
"It's good to have you guys back," Buffy said as she looked at them. "Slayer Central is running smoothly, almost as is you never left," Buffy said as she looked at Giles. "Will should be back from her vacation in a couple of weeks." Buffy added leaving the part about her and Kennedy for another time.
"Well it's nice to know that demons didn't take over the world while I was away," Giles said.
"You know I would only let that happen if you were here to see it," Buffy said as she looked at them and then at the clock. "Well we best get back and get you guys all settled in again…no one had touched your rooms and Faith…you room is next to mine." Buffy said. "I thought have the three well trained slayers near each other was a bad idea but Willow talked me out of it telling her that she would be on the other side of the house," Buffy said.
"Three well trained slayers?" Faith and Dawn asked confused.
"You, me and Kennedy," Buffy said. "Kennedy room is across the hall from your and mine," Buffy lied, but now she figured she was going to have to move it there since here and Willow broke up.
"Okay," Dawn said. "What about me?" she asked. "Where do I sleep?" she wondered.
"You, Willow and Xander will all be on the east wing, while we are all on the west wing," she said as she looked at her sister and saw a scared look on her face. "There is nothing to be scared of, Willow and the Coven put a barrier over the house so no one that intends evil or harm can come through…unless it's one of us, in that case it would be able to tell…I think." She said.
"You think?" Giles asked.
"Well it's magic…so therefore it is Willow territory." Buffy explained. Buffy took in a deep breath and looked at the people in front of her. "Let's just get back to the house and you can see what I am talking about." She said. "A lot has changed since you guys left," she added as they walked out of the airport.
Slayer Central
Kennedy stood in the doorway of one of the training room watching as a group of potentials were sparring together. Okay so they weren't exactly potentials not with Willow's spell bring the slayer in them out. But according to Buffy and everyone they weren't slayers until they learned how to use their power.
She had a little smirk on her face as she watched them, they had no idea what they were doing and she was the one that was supposed to teach this group of girls…whatever.
"Okay…first off you're doing that all wrong," Kennedy said pushing herself off from the wall and walking over to where they were sparring on the mats. "This is not supposed to be a sparring match yet you have some how made it one…this class is to teach you who to block and avoid your attacker." Kennedy explained.
"When do we get to learn to fight?" One asked. Kennedy tried to remember her name, and she thought it was something along the lines of Jennifer but she wasn't sure. "All we learn is to avoid our attackers."
"You will learn to fight when that teacher arrives," Kennedy said knowing that Faith was going to be the one to teach the fighting. She taught defense, Faith taught office, and Buffy taught philosophy…with all her speeches and all.
"Yeah whatever," the girl Kennedy thought was Jennifer said.
"Jen right?" Kennedy asked as she nodded. "So you think your ready to fight?" again the girl nodded. Kennedy took off her jacket and placed it on a chair that was in the corner. "Come on…let's fight." Kennedy said as she walked onto the mat.
Jennifer walked up to her with a smile on her face. Instead of waiting for Kennedy to make a move Jennifer swung first and missed which left an opening for Kennedy and she took it byknocking the younger slayer to the ground with a bloody nose, which just might be broken.
"Hey!" Jennifer asked as she got up and saw Kennedy retreating back walked back over toward her jacket. "You broke my nose," she said.
"I thought you were ready," Kennedy said in a mocking tone. "Now get back to learning about avoiding punches like that," Kennedy said as she took her spot on the wall again.
"You think your all high a mighty because you and Buffy are screwing each other," the girl mumbled and before she knew she was on the ground again.
"Don't ever talk about me or Buffy like that again…you don't know what you're talking about." Kennedy spat.
"Everyone is talking about it. You got dumped by the redheaded witch and moved on to the next one in the line of power, everyone knows you were just using Willow to get to Buffy anyway. Because Buffyhas the power around here." The girl said.
Just as Kennedy was about to punch the girl in the face Buffy appeared in the doorway. "Kennedy!" Kennedy turned to look at her and anger clearly written on her features. "My office…now." Buffy said trying to keep her temper in check as she walked away from the scene before her.
Kennedy looked down at the smiling girl beneath her. "This is not over." Kennedy spat out as she walked out of the training room and toward Buffy's office.
Buffy's office
When Kennedy walked into Buffy's office she saw that the blonde slayer looked stressed to her maximum point. Kennedy walked over and sat in the chair across from where Buffy sat.
"So Giles and everyone are back huh?" Kennedy asked and Buffy looked up at her confused. "I saw that their name plates were finally on the doors. You know it looks kind of funny." She said. "When you walk down this hall you have five doors and the name of the Scoobies on there. Faith, Giles, Willow, Yours, and Xander's." she said. "Your all the boss around here." She paused. "Listen I know what you saw in the training room didn't look good but I had my reas…"
Buffy interrupted her. "I heard what she said," it was Kennedy's turn to be confused. "Slayer hearing remember."
Kennedy's eyes widen in shock. "Buffy what she said…you know it isn't true…right?" Kennedy asked as she looked at the women in front of her.
"I know." Buffy said. "But it is true." She paused. "Ever since I came into Willow's life she always thought that people would use her to get to me. People that never hung with her before started hanging with her because of me…it was her deepest fear that people would never see her because I was always right around the corner," Buffy explained.
"Willow dumped me," Kennedy said. "You had nothing to do with it," Kennedy finished.
"Yeah but," she started.
"No buts, it was over between me and Will when things started happening between you and me." She clarified. "Not to sound rude or anything but when I was with Willow I never even thought about you like that," Kennedy said with a smile.
"Thanks," Buffy said with a smile of her own. "That just does wonders for my ego," she added with a small laugh.
"Glad I could help." She paused. "So when does Faith and everyone start," she asked.
"Tomorrow, they are out right now getting used to the town…" she trailed off. "You never thought about what it would be like at all?" Buffy asked.
"Sorry Buffy, Willow was all I thought about," she said as she got up and walked out.
When she was about to walk out the door Buffy called her and she turned around. "You wanrt to, I don't know…go to the club tonight?" Buffy asked.
"No alcohol?" Kennedy asked.
"No alcohol." Buffy confirmed and Kennedy nodded and then walked out of Buffy's office with a smile on her face.
Faith's room
Faith sat in her room and looked out the window at nothing. She couldn't believe that she had rejoined the Scoobies, the group that she had tried to kill for a year, about four years ago.
It wasn't so much that she was back, it was more of the fact that they had welcomed her back, without question. Sure it took them while before they could trust her again, but in a crisis they welcomed her back into their home not knowing if she would try to kill them in their sleep.
Faith heard a knock at her door and when she opened it Dawn stood there in the doorway. "Hey kid, come on in," Faith said as she walked away from the door and went back to where she was seated moment before. The reason why she didn't kill them was because even if they hated her they were the only family she had left.
"I'm not a kid," Dawn said as she sat down next to Faith. "So how does it feel to be back?" Dawn asked as she looked at the dark haired slayer.
"Oddly comforting," Faith said with all honesty. "Weird huh?" Faith asked with a smile.
"If it wasn't weird than it wouldn't be you," Dawn said with a wave of her hand. Faith and Dawn had grown closer on the flight back from England. With Giles always sleeping or watching some weird English movie they had a lot of time to talk. "Looks like Buffy assigned you as one of the leaders here at Slayer Central," Dawn said trying to make conversation.
"Yeah…big sis and me are goin give these potential's hell," Faith said with a smile. "Should be fun." She added. There was a silence between them until Faith broke it. "Have you heard the whispers?" Faith asked. "About Buffy and Kennedy?"
"Yeah, but Buffy would tell us something like that…wouldn't she?" Dawn asked.
"She did say that a lot has changed since we have been gone." Faith explained at she looked at the younger Summers. "Maybe that is one of those big changes."
"Buffy isn't like that," Dawn said simply.
"You never know," Faith said as she hopped off where she was sitting and walking out of her room leaving Dawn to sit there and think about what she had just said.
Main hall
Buffy was sitting in one of the many chair stationed around in the main hall where people would just sit and watch TV, and basically forget about life for awhile.
Buffy was just staring out into space out looking at anything and not really think about anything, she was just enjoying the quite that seemed to be hard to find around here.
Ever since her and Kennedy started whatever it was that they had started people have been talking about it like crazy…it was worse than rumors in high school. It seems things got around a lot faster here and she was really hopping that it didn't get around to her friends yet because she wanted to tell them herself.
Just then Andrew, why he stayed with them she had no idea, came running over to her. "Buffy?" he called out to her as she looked up at him. "We have a problem in the training room," he explained.
"Great," she said. "Is it too much to ask that I get some peace and quite for awhile," she asked no one as she stood and started running toward the training room. When she got there she didn't hear no fighting or anything, it was silent. Then she turned back to Andrew who had somehow kept up with her. "I thought you said there was trouble?" she asked.
"There was," he said.
When she entered the training room it was dark but she could see fine and she didn't see anyone. Just then the lights came on and everyone jumped him. "Surprise!" Came from everyone and Buffy looked at everyone as if they had just been possessed. "You think we would forget the birth of the Buff?" Xander asked from behind her.
"I was actually hopping you would," she said with a smirk.
"Sorry but it is time to celebrate," He said as he walked further into the room. Just then Kennedy came over to her and placed a kiss on her cheek and gave her a small wrapped present.
"You didn't have to do this," Buffy said as she looked down at the wrapped box.
"I know, but I wanted to. I mean if you don't want it," Kennedy said as she went to take it back but Buffy pulled it away.
"Thanks," Buffy said as she looked at the girl in front of her.
"Okay let's get this party started," Faith said coming out from behind one of the punching bags. "After all this is B birthday." She said with a smirk at the blonde slayer.
"Yeah! Let's party," Kennedy said as she grabbed Buffy's hand and brought her further into the room.
Somewhere in town
He sat in his hotel room in a worried state. He thought he had out ran them; he thought he could get away. But everywhere he went them followed and brought destruction down on his life.
Lindsey was tired of running for Wolfram and Heart and he knew the exact person that could help him bring them to the ground…he just had to find her first.
He remembered ready Angel's file and she was all over it. You never mentioned Angel without mentioning her as well, she was the thing that evil feared. And soon he hopped that she would help bring fear to Wolfram and Heart.
She has stopped everything that ever came before her and he was sure that she could stop this two…it was just a matter of time before them came after her anyway. After all she was the slayer and she did kill a lot of their clients.
"Lindsey McDonald," he said into the phone. "I would like to find an address of one Buffy Anne Summers, I believe she moved her about a year or so ago." He said into the phone.
"Right Mr. McDonald, she just purchased a school and has been living there for awhile now. Her address is 1390 Manson drive," the women on the phone asked. "Should we call and tell her that you are coming?" she asked.
"No thank you it is a surprise for her birthday." Lindsey explained. "Thank you again," he said as he hung up the phone and continued to look out the window of his motel room. It was time to bring Wolfram and Heart to the ground.
The Club
Buffy and Kennedy were sitting at their own table while everyone else was sitting at another table on the other side of the room. Kennedy was looking at Buffy as Buffy looked out over the crowd. Just then she turned and saw Kennedy staring at her.
"What?" Buffy asked as she looked at the person in front of her.
She looked at Buffy with a raised eyebrow. "Are you always working?" Kennedy asked and Buffy looked at her funny. "You were scanning the crowd for vampires…I'm not stupid." This time Buffy looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "Even though you didn't say anything I am going to take evince to that look." She said. "All I am saying is that it is your birthday and your looking for vampires." She said.
"If you had a birthdays like the ones I have had than you would be looking for vamps too." Buffy said and then she looked away. "My past birthdays have been horrible, and I almost wished that I have never had a birthday," she said and then she looked back at Kennedy. "They have not been times of celebrations, more like times of survival." She said.
"Well you won't have to worry about any of that anymore," Kennedy said with a smile.
"And why is that?" Buffy asked still with a far away look on her face,
"Because I am here," she said and then she looked Buffy in the eyes. "From this point on no more bad birthday's for Buffy." She said and then she paused. "If we are going to do this relationship thingy than I am going to do it right," she added.
Just then a group of vamps fell through the ceiling of the club and more came through the front and back doors. Buffy looked over at Kennedy not even a little bit nervous, "See what I mean." She said.
Slayer Central
Giles was alone at Slayer Central tonight and he liked it that way. He was alone with all his books and it gave him time to catch up on his reading.
Granted he would like to be with Buffy on her birthday but the clubbing scene just wasn't for him, he preferred a book and a nice hot cup of tea.
Just as Giles was about to set down he heard a crash coming from the main hall and when he exited his office he saw a group of vamps coming toward him.
"So no a time to have every last slayer out at the club having a fun night." He said and then he heard
another crash and he saw a vamp come through his office window. "So not a good idea." He said to himself, as he got ready to defend himself if necessary.
"Well, well Mr. Giles," a voice said from Giles side and when he turned and squinted his eyes and what he saw made him gasp in shock. "I never thought that you would be the head of the new Council," the person said as he came face-to-face with Giles. "I always thought you would die back in Sunnydale." He said.
"Your dead," Giles said as he looked at the figure in front of him. "You were in the explosion," Giles stated.
"Was I," the person said. "How do you know I didn't escape before it happened? How do you know I didn't plan it?" The person said.
"You will pay for what you did," Giles said.
"Easy Mr. Giles," the guy said. "You are not in a position to make threats," the person said. Just then Giles felt something hard come into contact with the back of his head and he fell down unconscious. "Now lets leave a message for that slayer on her birthday," the person said as he started walking away.
The vampires took Giles and strung him up on the banister which was a good ten feet in the air and let him hand there as the cut a line in his stomach so he would bleed slow and eventually die by the time Buffy got to him.
The Club
Buffy and Kennedy were on their feet immediately and ready for battle. Faith came over to their side while the rest of the gang hung back and watched. Kennedy turned and looked at the girl Jennifer and smiles her evil smile.
Kennedy turned back to the events laid out before her and smile a primal smile because she knew that they were going to win and the vamps were going to lose…she was just cocky that way. Before she knew what was happen the vamps started their attack.
Just as the vamps came toward her she drew back her hand and punched him in the face while, ducking and sweeping her leg around to take out the vamp that thought he was sneaking up on her. She grabbed the stake out of her coat pocket and staked the one on the ground and as the other one lunged at her and she staked him in mid air.
When she turned around she saw Faith stake the two vamps that had been after her and then saw Kennedy stake the two vamps that she had.
Then all three of them started advancing on the one last remaining vamps. "Now…let's not do anything were going to regret." The vamp said backing away.
"Oh we're not going to regret this…this is what we do, we're vampire slayers," Kennedy said as she took her stand next to Buffy and Faith. "It's what we do."
"Now you're going to tell us why you're here," Faith said as she stepped closer.
"Am I?" The vamp asked. Just then the vamp was pined up against the wall with a stake to his chest by Buffy.
"You see today just happens to be my birthday, and yeah I should know better than to celebrate it but I just thought you know one time I would be able to have a normal birthday…but no! Some group of vamps have to crash my party and you know what that does to me?" she asked and the vamp shrugged. "It makes me do things without thinking…like staking a vamp before I get any answers," she said as she punched the stake on it's body a little further.
"Okay…I'll talk." He paused. "We were sent here to be a distraction. So you wouldn't get to him in time," he said.
"Get to who in time?" Buffy asked.
"You watcher," it said as he looked at Buffy.
Before the vamp knew what hit him he was dust in the wind and before any of the Scoobs knew it Buffy was out the door. Kennedy and Faith were not fear behind as they took off after the blonde slayer.
Buffy ran down the street, no noise but the sound of her feet hitting the pavement and she willed herself to go faster. Telling herself that she needed to get to Giles before it was too late and she lost him forever. What would she do without Giles? Would Slayer Central enable to function without its head watcher?
Buffy could hear Kennedy and Faith closing in behind her but she didn't bother to to turn around, she just wanted to get to Giles before it was too late.
Slayer Central
Buffy could see the doors of the school just up ahead so she ran faster, as fast as he body would let her go. She didn't have any idea what had happened to Giles, or who had done it, she just wanted to make sure that he was okay.
As soon as Buffy opened the door to Slayer Central she stopped moving. She stopped dead in her tracks at what she saw before her. Her mouth hung open as she looked at the way Giles was displayed for her to see.
He had a low cut in his stomach so he would slowly bleed to death. He arms were stretched out on the banister as if he was on a crucifix…it was awful…she didn't know who could have done something like this. In all her years as a slayer she had never seen anything like this.
Kennedy and Faith ran through the doors and almost ran right into Buffy but they thanked god for their slayer reflexes. Then they looked up at what Buffy was staring at and they saw Giles hanging there.
"B? I don't understand I thought you said Red put a protection spell over the school?" Faith asked but received no answer. "Buffy?" Faith said.
"She did," Kennedy said. "I was right by her side when her and the Coven put the spell on the school, there was no way something like this could have happened." Kennedy said as she looked at Giles. "We have to get him to a hospital…help me." Kennedy said as she and Faith walked past a shocked Buffy and up the stairs to string down a nearly dead Giles.
"What's wrong with her?" Kennedy ask Faith as they carried Giles down the stairs and they both noticed that Buffy had not moved from her spot.
"Giles was like her father and I guess her finding him her like this was not easy for her to take, I don't think it would have been easy on any of them." Faith said.
"Any of who?" Kennedy asked.
"The original Scoobies, Xander, Willow and Buffy…Giles had been through everything with them…he is like a father to all of them." She explained. "Here you take him, I will try and get her out of here," Faith said handing Giles to Kennedy and Kennedy easily lifted him off the ground like he was a little puppy dog.
Faith walked over to Buffy so she was standing right in front of her. "Come on B…we are taking Giles to the hospital." Faith said and when Buffy didn't answer Faith shrugged her shoulders. "You asked for this so don't be pissed at him." Faith said rearing her hand back and punching Buffy in the face.
Buffy stumbled backwards and shot Faith a death glare. "Thanks," she said.
"No problem, now I think we better motivate," she said and they exited Slayer Central.
Kennedy was waiting in the driver seat of the car. "I don't think so," Faith said as she looked at Kennedy. "I'm driving," she said. "No one drives my car but me," Faith said as she jumped into the driver seat and Kennedy got in the back so Buffy could sit in the front. "Now off to the hospital." Faith said as she drove off.
Hospital
Buffy held Giles in her arms as her, Kennedy and Faith made their way into the hospital emergency room. "Go call Xander and tell him to get everyone over here," Buffy told Kennedy and when Kennedy was out of hearing range Buffy turned to Faith. "Go call Willow, my cell is in my pocket her cell phone number is in there." Buffy said and Faith reached in and grabbed it. "Hurry," she told Faith and Faith nodded.
Buffy ran up to the nurse's desk. "I have an emergency…he's lost a lot of blood." Buffy explained and the nurse quickly got to her feet and grabbed a bed and Buffy laid Giles on it.
"Page the doctor," the nurse said to another nurse as she wheeled him away. Buffy followed as far as she could until they would let her go any further and she had to wait in the waiting room.
You have seen too many waiting rooms in your lifetime Summers. When are you going to move away from all them so they stop ending up here. First it was Willow, then it was Faith, then Xander and now you're beloved Watcher Giles…who's next huh? Kennedy? Dawn? Or maybe even you.
Buffy shuck her head to get rid of all the thoughts just as Kennedy came back into the room the same time Faith did. "She's on her way." Faith said.
"There on their way," Kennedy said as she took a seat next to Buffy. "Can I get you anything?" Kennedy asked and Buffy shuck her head. "Okay." Kennedy said as she sat back in her chair.
Faith took a seat on the other said of Buffy. "Everything is going to be okay Buffy." She said but Buffy looked straight ahead at nothing. Everything was not going as planned…no one was supposed to end up in the hospital…that was the whole point of the spell Willow put on the house.
"Why is this happening to me?" she asked to no one and Kennedy and Faith were glad that she wasn't expecting an answer because they didn't have one.
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AN: I hope you liked it!