Authors Note: I am not yet sure, whether I want to make this an episode driven fanfic or a longer book styled fanfic. Please read and review.
Watchers Council: New Beginnings
Chapter 4: The Job
The past few years seemed like a blur. Nothing felt real anymore. For nearly a year, Angel had been in charge of one of the worlds most evil organizations. He thought he could make a difference if he was in charge of Wolfram and Hart. He guessed wrong, he was surrounded by the very evil that he had tried to fight. The biggest mistake he had ever made was leaving Sunnydale. Nothing had gone right since that fateful day five years ago. He had lost so many people, people he cared about very deeply. Wesley, Gun, Cordelia, Conner, they were all dead. He had even lost Lorne's trust, the only reason he had come along to Cleveland was he thought he could do more good here than in his club back in Los Angeles. Angel could not blame him; no one seemed to trust him. Even here, he could not pass by any of the people he thought were his friends without feeling there fear or suspicion. The only person in this entire building that made him feel welcome was James. James was different though, he had always believed in him even before he got his soul back. There was one other person in the building that did not fear him. Faith did not fear him she wanted him to fear her.
It was quite the task James had presented him, Trying to rein faith in on a leash. He was not sure if such a thing was possible but for James sake, he would try. The Slayers had a rec. room on the fourth floor James had asked to meet him there so they could address the slayers all at once. When he reached the doors, James was already standing there waiting.
"I'm not so sure about this any more angel. Thirty hormonal teenage girls are a scary thing." James smiled.
"I know what you mean." Angel dusted off his jacket. "No time like the present."
James nodded straightened his shirt and headed through the double doors. A gaggle of teenage girls stood around pool tables and large leather sofas. They all looked wearily at the new arrivals.
"Hello everyone, I wanted to come up here personally and tell you how wonderful it's going to be to get to work with all of you." The slayers stood around and just stared.
"Try that again but make it sound a little less British." Angel smiled and chuckled.
"Alright, sorry about that, I haven't been in this country for very long" James laughed and pulled his shirt straight. "What I meant to say was I am going to be your new watcher."
"Who says we need a watcher." Faith of course moseyed over to give her own opinion.
"Well quite frankly I do." James stood tall and stared down the dark slayer. "Do you have a problem with that?"
"You bet your ass I have a problem with that." Faith was itching for a fight.
"Alright then, everyone I am only going to say this once if any of you has a problem with the way this council is run than too bad. The council is now under the jurisdiction of the British government. Therefore, you are all British citizens, not only that but you are the legal children of Buffy Summers. Faith is the only exception to this rule therefore; she does not have to stay. Well what are you waiting for faith? I do not care if you stay or go; in fact, I think these girls would be much better off without you. Nevertheless, do know this if you walk out of this building you will no longer have diplomatic immunity. I'm sure there are plenty of American agencies that would love to put you behind bars." James did not flinch but he could feel Faiths blood boiling.
"What makes you think I wont kill you right here." Faith looked sinister, but James had seen scarier.
"Everyone up stairs, if Faith wants to fight me then I am more than happy to oblige." James motioned to the door. "After you"
Faith stormed out of the room. James followed her while Angel waited until all of the slayers had left before following. They all climbed the stairs between floors. Once at the top they reached a large room that had its walls and flooring covered in think foam mats.
"Alright I want the slayers to form a straight line hugging the walls. This is to ensure that Faith does not try to throw me against the wall." James watched as every one of the slayers followed his orders, each gossiping about him in the process. "Now faith how about we start with a little warm up exercise, turn around I want to see if you can anticipate my attack." James waited until she complied.
"I don't know why I'm bothering with this." Faith turned around as she was asked. "There's nothing you can throw at me that I can't deflect right back at you."
"Really, is that a fact." James nodded to angel to stand next to faith. Once he had, James removed a dagger from one of the racks on the wall. Without warning, James hurled the dagger directly at faiths head.
He had not been expecting James to do something this harsh. Angel had hardly registered the dagger before it was inches from faiths head. Reaching out he managed to absorb the daggers blow bore it hit. He was now on his knees with a large dagger stabbed straight through his left hand.
Faith turned around when she heard the impact. Looking down she saw angel trying to remove the dagger from his hand.
"What the…" faith was out raged "did you just try to throw a knife at my head."
"I didn't try anything. I did throw a dagger at your head. Just as I had predicted you did not even know the dagger was there. You are not a true slayer. The real slayer would have seen that a mile away. Hell Buffy could have caught that when she was first called, and she had not received Potential training as you did." James pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and began wiping the sweat from his brow.
Faith was furious, she reacted instantly, and grabbing the knife from Angles hand, she pulled it out and hurled it deep in James's chest in one fluid motion.
"Damn, boy that's going to leave a stain. Oh my, what am I going to do with you faith." James had not even batted an eyelid. Grabbing the handle of the knife, he pulled it out slowly and then began to clean it off with his handkerchief. "That is exactly why you are no longer going to have any responsibility regarding these girls. I am going to have your quarters moved as far from theirs as possible. I do not even want you to smile at them, you will spend your days in prayer and reading the bible and when you are not doing that you will have private training sessions with me. We will se if we cannot work out your demons. Now report to your quarters I will see that supper is sent there for you."
Faith stormed out of the room. Once she had left, James addressed the girls.
"I am deeply sorry that you had to see that display. Now I was not lying to you when I said that Buffy is now your legal mother. So do not be surprised if you begin to see a much different side of her. Now wee all have a long day ahead of us so I suggest you all return to your quarters for the night. There will be a formal assembly tomorrow in the mess hall. We are all going to start a regular school schedule. How do you like the idea of pizza for dinner." That had knocked the girls out of their stupor. They all began to cheer and shout out ridiculous orders of what they wanted on their pizza. James smiled this is what the job should be like. Everything was going to be just fine he hoped.