Sorry it's taken forever, I haven't bin writing anything lately, bad year really. Might be able to finish this story soon though.

This chapter is all about Hermione, but it is told by Buffy from her dreams; this is just because I wanted to do it in third person and this way allows me to it. Although somewhere not to far in it stops sounding like Buffy giving a narrative and just sounds like a plain old third person narrative.

Btw, there's a big fight scene. I suck at fight scenes, don't expect anything good.

Chapter Five: Kakistos

My dreams about Hermione have been really intense lately. I mentioned the dreams to Giles again because they're getting more frequent, he thinks I'm probably supposed to learn something. I'm keeping a dream journal, which I write in as soon as I wake up. He reckons this slayer I'm dreaming probably died at the hands of some demon that I'll have to face. The thing is, I had a dream all about how confused she was about whether or not to go back to school. I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with her being a witch. It means the council can't tell her what to do so much because some other body will jump in and start a big dispute.

The last dream was really bad though. Hermione was staying in this weird old hotel with two school friends. She was sharing a room with a red haired girl named Ginny. The hotel was swarming with these magical police guys who were all there to protect Hermione's moody friend.

This one night Hermione had to sneak out to meet her watcher and go patrolling. She had to use all her slayer stealth to get passed all these people patrolling the tiny hotel. She met her watcher and they set off to a nest they'd been planning to hit. Everything was going fine. She dusted about four vamps then they set off to patrol a local cemetery.

That was when things got bad. All of a sudden they were surrounded by about six vamps; the leader was a really ugly guy with cloven feet.

"You must be the slayer" he said, the evil grin doing nothing for the already in need of plastic surgery face.

"You must be the slayee" she replied with a confidence she really didn't have. She still had adrenaline pumping from her last fight, but it was starting to drain, leaving her with enough energy to fight the few newly risen fledgling she's been expecting, but not much more.

"You all try to be so witty" he said. "But the dying breath is always a plea for mercy"

"Kakistos" said the watcher as realisation spread across his face.

"You've heard of me watcher?" asked the vampire

"Kakistos, Greek for worst of the worst. A vampire so old that his hands and feet are cloven, killed many slayers for sport." replied the watcher, trying not to look as afraid as he felt.

"You didn't have to say that last bit." hissed Hermione, fear was setting in as she took in her odds, she wasn't ready for this, but she wasn't going to give up without a fight.

"Enough talk, I haven't tasted slayers blood in a while." said Kakistos. Three of his minions lunged forwards towards the slayer while the other two grabbed the watcher.

Hermione had her stake out at the ready. She blocked a punch from the first and dusted him with ease. The second vamp grabbed her from behind, so she threw her head back into his face, breaking his nose. He stumbled back and the third vampire went to kick her. She exchanged some kicks and punches with the vampire before managing to stake him. The vampire whose nose she'd broken threw her onto the floor and came down to bite her. She had dropped her only stake as she went down. She tried to reach out for it but couldn't. She tried holding the vamp back but knew she had to something. Then she remembered her wand. She pulled it out of her jeans pocket and thrust it into the vampire's chest.

She grabbed her stake, flipped herself up and dusted herself down, happy about having killed half the vampires already.

"Oh Slayer?" called a voice from behind. She spun to see Kakistos with an evil grin on his face and a nasty looking knife in his hand. "I hope you weren't too attached to the watcher" he said before sticking the knife into Adrian's stomach.

"Adrian!" said Hermione as she came forward in a panic.

"Stay where you are," commanded Kakistos, "Or your watcher might get hurt, more"

Hermione stood still, terrified. "Hermione, get out of here" called her watcher. She just stood there, she knew if she ran they would kill Adrian, but if she tried to attack they would kill him too. In fact they might just kill her as well. So she stood there working through her options.

She thought about the odds, she had on her, one stake; her wand which she could only use as another stake; a bottle of holy water and a cross. She took a deep breath then threw the bottle of holy water at one of the vampires, she staked him in his confusion, shoving the cross in the other vampires face. He growled as it touched his face. Hermione wasn't quick enough to dodge a punch from him; she fell back to the floor but swept his feet out from under him while she was down. She staked him and turned to Kakistos.

Kakistos dropped his knife as he vamped out, he growled in anger. He walked towards the slayer with a predatory gleam in his eye. Adrian fell to the floor with no one holding him up anymore, barely conscious he picked up the discarded knife. "Hermione," he called, "Catch"

Hermione neatly caught it and waited for Kakistos to approach, armed with just her stake and the knife. She briefly wished she knew how to use a knife better. She had instincts, but little practice. She stabbed out wildly as the large vampire attacked.

Kakistos screamed as the knife cut straight into his eye. He stumbled back slightly clutching his eye and Hermione used this tiny moment of confusion to thrust her stake into his chest. She breathed a sight of relief and turned to Adrian.

"Adrian?" she asked, hoping desperately for a response as she searched for his pulse. His eyes blinked open and she smiled. "It's going to be OK, he's dead." She told her watcher. "Can you walk?" she asked as she tried to help him up. He was soaked with blood and she didn't even notice as it soaked through onto her own clothes.

"Hermione?" he asked. His eyes were struggling to focus.

"Come on Adrian, we'll get you to a hospital"

A look of fear passed over her watchers face as his eyes focused behind her. "Run" he chocked out.

Hermione turned around and her eyes widened in surprise. "I think you need a bigger stake bitch" he said as he pulled the piece of wood out of his chest.

Hermione scrambled back and fell on top of her watcher. She looked down at his open eyes that were now just staring into space, but didn't have time to check if he was really dead yet. She climbed off him and turned and ran as fast as she could, not even looking back to see if she was being followed.

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AN: I know Kakistos actually had a run in with Faith, but she's not going to be around in my story, so I borrowed her big bad. I also don't know if we found out anything about Kakistos killing slayers before but he's a big bad old guy, so if Angel and Spike can do it, he must be able to.

Just for the record I know this chapter is bad, Hermione took out the vamps too easily, Kakistos stood around with a stake hanging out for too long, and the Adrian death scene was no way as dramatic as I would have liked. However, this is the best your gonna get unless I suddenly get inspiration to completely rewrite this chapter, which I doubt I will. So deal.

Lastly sorry I killed Adrian, I liked him, and I really wanted to do more with him but I had to kill him. He just didn't fit at Hogwarts, not when there's already a watcher on the staff.