Hannah Adams was barely five feet tall and weighed a hundred pounds only if she was soaking wet and had pockets full of change. She had won the dubious position as the smallest Slayer ever recorded. She was even smaller than Buffy. It didn't help that she had a very quiet personality and would rather be doing her projects in her room or off in a corner than be the center of attention.

Hannah watched as her roommates sat on the floor in front of her and worried over who their Watchers were going to be. Every Slayer at the school had her own bed of course, but they had to share rooms. There were four Slayers to a bedroom, five in her case because she was about to graduate. All three of her usual roommates were the same age she was, seventeen.

While she understood that for her roommates the reasons to worry were vast and varied depending upon both which one you were talking to and what day it was, she only had one concern. Would her Watcher try to make her give up her knitting?

As strange as it might have seemed to others knitting was her life. Before she was called, Hannah had plans for owning her own knitting shop. Now she was determined that she would fulfill her obligations to the world as a Slayer, but no one was going to make her give up her dream shop. With as many Slayers in the world as there was now, she could have her dream. All she needed to do was attend business school, save up her money, and survive. When she was done with school she was sure that she could get assigned to a minor area without a large amount of demon activity.

"I swear I'm going to," Jane reached over and grabbed one of Hannah's knitting needles, only to find Hannah's hand wrapped around her wrist. Jane was the newest Slayer to join the school and would be taking Hannah's place when Hannah moved out with her Watcher in a few days time.

"Word of advice, I don't like it when someone takes my needles." Hannah was very matter of fact, but her eyes were blazing. "It is not only rude, but these are wooden needles and as such they are very expensive. It took me a very long time to relearn how to knit with them after I was called and if you break one I will break you." The threat was mild, especially for a Slayer, they generally enjoyed making up interesting threats, but Jane was subdued by the look in Hannah's eyes and the crushing grip on her wrist.

Jane handed over the wooden knitting needle while the older girls laughed at her. "You can take her clothes, you can take her stakes, and most of the time you can walk right over her, but don't ever mess with her knitting or any of her other projects!" Janice said. "We were so lucky to get her for a roommate."

Hannah just sat back in her chair and continued her knitting. She needed to get herself under control and knitting was the only way to do that. It was her meditation and hobby at the same time. It also kept her closets filled in spite of how often it was raided by her roommates. She too was worried about who she would end up with as a Watcher. It was three days until her eighteenth birthday and her graduation from Slayer school.

Shari stuck her head in the door. "Hannah! Mr. Giles wants you in the office for your interview." Hannah put her knitting in her bag and left the room. The other girls all watched her with trepidation. The interview was a very big deal. Once the new Council had settled down in Cleveland and had gotten a handle on having so many Slayers, Giles and Buffy as the oldest Slayer/Watcher team had started setting up interviews with each Slayer before sending her off with her Watcher.

None of the younger girls knew what went on in the interview, but the rumors ran rampant with everything from learning who your Watcher was going to be to a secret ceremony where you had to swear your allegiance to the Powers. The truth of course, was more towards the middle of the two.

Hannah knocked on the door to the office and then let herself in. "Ah, Hannah, good. Let me see, now here we are," Giles shuffled around the papers on his desk. This wasn't the principal's office, (that was in the other building) but Hannah still had to fight down her butterflies. "Now sit down there. We have a lot to go over. I'm sorry we've left this until so late, but until now we haven't had a good candidate for a Watcher for you."

"You can relax," Buffy smiled. "I know what the girls say, but the truth of the matter is that the reason for the secrecy is more for your privacy than anything else. No matter what you say it won't go beyond these walls. No one can listen in and you already know that we won't say anything."

"Hannah do you have any plans for your life other than Slaying?" Giles gently asked.

Hannah actually looked at Giles in shock. "Yeah," she answered slowly.

Giles was surprised. Hannah had never said anything on the subject where he or any of the other adults could hear. "What are they?"

"I want to own a knitting shop. I need to go to business school and get a job in a shop so that I can learn the business. While I'm doing that I need to save up my money so that when the time comes I can get good inventory, rental space, etc. I'm still working on the lists of what I need to do and get. I also have to survive being a Slayer."

Giles and Buffy were both shocked. Neither one had expected Hannah to have a goal for her life, much less have lists. Growing bolder at their lack of reaction, Hannah continued, "I would also like to be assigned to a minor area. Not a hellmouth, someplace where I'd have enough to deal with to keep the Slayer inside me satisfied, but not so busy that I have to sacrifice my shop."

Buffy looked at Giles and smiled, "It looks like Willow had the right idea. Hannah, how would you like to be assigned to a Hunting Family? By that I mean have one of the Hunters be your Watcher?" She didn't mention which family because of the Winchester men's reputation among the young Slayers as the hottest thing around.

"That'd be great as long as they were based in a single area. I know that some of them travel a lot and that wouldn't be good." The look on her face said that she wouldn't be budged on that issue.

"Ok, what do you think about sharing the family, not your Watcher, but the family with another Slayer?" The question and answer session continued for some time.