A/N Buffy is a year ahead putting the vents of Chosen in 2005


Buffy leaned back listening carefully to the words said leaning on Xander for emotional support. She's stuck wondering why of all times, this crap had to happen now. She just lost Spike, Xander just lost Anya, Faith might just broke up with Wood… because apparently they were a thing. She can't deal with this crap right now. It's only been a month since Sunnydale and all she did was donate blood for the badly wounded slayers. Willow put her blood on file in case she ever needed a transfusion and her database program dug up some rather disturbing news about her lineage. Why is she being punished with this bombshell? "So let me get this straight Will? You're telling me that my family… isn't my family."

"Dawn's still your sister." Willow offered.

Buffy just glared at her. The slayer's own voice raised in anger. "Dawn's obviously my sister! I would have just made a nice splat when I jumped! My question is who the hell are my parents?!"

Willow gave a shrug in fear, it's one thing to find out your parents aren't your parents, it's another thing to find out your biological parents are monsters… not the icky kind they usually fight, but still monsters. "I honestly don't think you want to know?"

"You're right… I don't." Buffy answered honestly. Hank wasn't the best but before he followed the cliché he was a good father and did what he could for her. Since her mother taped her birth, which for the record was gross it means surrogacy. "But things like this tend to bite us in the ass, so it's more like I need to know."

Willow nodded. "I know that's why I went through everything. Your parents first came up as John and Jane Doe."

Xander rose his sole remaining eye and chuckled. "Call it a hunch Will, but I don't think that's they're the actual names."

Willow nodded in agreement. "I know that's why I did some crazy level hacking to the point where I had to throw some magic in just to break those firewalls. I tell you those new programs are nuts and insane to get…"

"Willow!" Buffy shouted pulling her out of her rant.

Willow looked at her. "Oh right, sorry, well after a week I made it through and well I didn't find actual names, but I did find them."

Buffy looked at her confused. "Well then some explainy please; who are my parents?"

Willow wondered if Buffy would even know the relevance of this. She didn't until she googled them. "Buffy, your mother was The Boss and your father was Big Boss."

Xander's eye widened in shock it would explain how Buffy is so badass even for a slayer, but it's not possible. "Will, as much as this would explain how Buffy does the things she does, the Boss died, in like the sixties."

Willow looked at him. "How did you know that?"

Xander looked at her and shrugged. "I was a soldier for Halloween. Those two are like the Zeus and Hera of soldiers everyone knew them. Well… until the Boss defected anyway."

"How'd she die?" Buffy asked as Xander looked away. "And don't get a jelly belly on me now."

Xander looked at her. "Big Boss killed her. But some people just believe she got caught in the blast. That no one was ever good enough to take her down."

Buffy rolled her eyes and laid back against the wall for support. Just when he though her life couldn't get anymore screwed up. "Great! Dad killed mom, you know anything else about them?"

"Big Boss was lit on fire so he's dead too. That was actually around the time we graduated." Xander replied.

Buffy rolled her eyes. "So those two are dead… so how did they have a kid if she's been dead for forty years now?"

Willow looked at her. "Well right before the boss defected they took everything they could from her. Blood, bone marrow, brain tissue you name it they got it."

Buffy nodded she's Frankenstein's monster she's got it. "So how did they get me in Joyce?"

"Your doctor, she was part of a group that idolized Big Boss. Don't know what they're called though, they have really good firewalls. She impanted the embryo, and nine months later you were born."

Buffy let out an empty hollow laugh of disbelief. "I'm sorry it's just I knew Dr. Clark until I was fourteen. I mean we talked about Star Wars and boys; she was… kind of a dork. Like an older Andrew with girl parts… though considering Andrew I should probably give her a call now."

Xander and Willow just watched as Buffy picked up the phone neither would leave her now, unless she asked them to.


Xander and Willow waited as Buffy hung up the phone.

"Did she say anything?" Willow asked.

Buffy shook her head. "No, that was some temporary replacement for a Dr. Naomi Hunter. Apparently, Dr. Clark has been dead for a while now."

Willow looked at her. "Is there anything I can do?"

Buffy looked at her. "Do you know if me and Dawn have any siblings?"

Willow nodded. "Three and all together they are a pain in my ass to even crack let alone find. I think I would have brought down all technology if it wasn't for Kennedy's belly rubs and metal tongue... can I take that last part back."

Xander shook his head and pointed to it. "Sorry Will, it's in here now."

"Any names or addresses?" Buffy asked.

"Just one." Willow answered. "His name is David and he lives in Alaska."

Buffy smiled out of morbid curiosity. "Think I'd like to meet him."

Xander weakly nodded. "I'll have Giles arrange the trip."


Three days later those were words Buffy came to regret. Here she was in Alaska and her, Dawn, Xander, and Willow found her brother. Apparently Xander moved like a soldier which caused David to choke him out when he saw just one eye and an eye patch looking at him in the bushes. Naturally attacking one of Buffy's friends brought out all of Buffy's rage over this course of events. And although David fought bravely even the legendary soldier Solid Snake was no match for a slayer on a rampage. Eventually the two swapped tales of their lives while Willow patched Snake up.

Snake took it all in smoking a cigarette, he figured the enhanced strength was some second generation Gray Fox until she explained about slayers when he asked why is she so strong? "So a vampire slayer huh?"

"You betcha." Buffy replied. "Seven years and running"

Snake nodded and leaned back, it's not like he hasn't lived through crazier things. He guesses it's a good thing there's a white sheep in the family for all the crap they did. He turned and looked at Xander. "Sorry about the throat."

"It's fine." Xander said rubbing his throat gently. "Deadboy would have left me for dead out in the snow."

Buffy looked at her brother he's cynical but seems like a decent guy. "You're really not disturbed about how I came to be are you? I mean someone just went 'Hey let's screw with the family and make a baby girl."

Snake looked at her. Big Boss gave him the rundown on him and a supposed 'brother' when he was in FOXHOUND that ended up being real. The only thing he didn't mention was her and that's because she could have been born a lot later outside of Big Boss' knowledge… Or Big Boss just never told him about her before he set him on fire. "You're not that familiar with the family tree are you?"


Author Notes

Thanks for the reviews of the last chapter

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