A/N: Sorry about the long wait been on a 'Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift' high. Thanks for the reviews.

Chapter 4: Repercussions

Jessica wasn't exactly thrilled about going back to the house, but it was unavoidable. No one made a move to get out of the car, they just sat in the car looking up at the Summers' house. The two slayers shared a look before getting out of the car leaving the teens in the back.

Jackie turned to face Dawn asking, "Well, it was nice while it lasted, right? Your sister's not going to kill us... is she?"

"Umm... No, of course not..." Dawn replied not really convincing herself. Taking a deep breath to calm her nerves Dawn exited the car followed by a reluctant Jackie.

"Let's get this over with, then we'll work on the knives." Faith stated walking up the driveway behind the two teens. Jessica nodded in agreement, while looking at the living room window. Well, what was left of the living room window. A shadowed figure was pacing back and forth behind the boarded up window and Jessica had a suspicion of who it was. Dawn glanced back at everyone as she slowly opened the front door and walked in, once again being tailed by Jackie.

"What did you think you were doing?" Buffy yelled when she spotted Dawn and Jackie.

Letting out an annoyed sigh Jessica passed Faith, who was hovering by the door, and went inside the house. Buffy was standing in the living room archway going on about leaving the house without permission, disobeying her authority, and the stupidity of their actions. If Jessica had been anyone else she probably would be intimidated by Buffy, who was glaring down at the girls with her hands on her hips. Deciding to end Buffy's little tirade, Jessica interrupted calmly, "Did you read the note?"

"Yes, but does not give you the right to leave the house without telling me. And with a potential and my little sister! Something could've happened!" Buffy said angrily, switching her gaze to the newest slayer.

Faith joined in on the conversation, "B, what did you think was going to happen? The teens getting attacked at the mall in broad daylight. And when did Jay and I have to tell you when we leave?"

"This little adventure of yours was irresponsible. An apocalyptic battle is about to take place where we are going to be fighting to save the world and you both leave to go have fun." Buffy went on ranting.

"Nothing happened! Can't you lighten up for once! GOD, you talk and talk about saving the world you don't see what's happening right in front of you!" Dawn yelled before darting upstairs to her room. The pictures that hung on the wall shook with the sheer force of Dawn's door slamming shut. Buffy sent a deadly glare that could have possibly frozen hell before darting up the stairs to have a sister-to-sister chat. The remaining Scoobies, that were scattered around the living room, all glanced at each other in slight shock, but Jessica had a feeling that they were slightly used to these sort of out bursts.

"Don't take what Buffy said personally. She's just-" the red-headed witch tried to apologize, but was interrupted.

"I didn't." Jessica stated before walking out of the house, heading straight to the trunk of her car. Everyone in the Summers' house was way too high strung, especially Buffy. Although that bleached blonde, soul bearing vampire, Spike, seemed to be a lot more laid back than the rest of the residents. Shifting through the bags within the trunk Jessica thought about why Buffy was high strung, she could partially understand why, but still.

Inside the house, Jackie was standing near the stairwell glancing back and forth between Faith and the Scoobies, looking very lost in her current surroundings. Willow noticing Jackie's lost look mentioned, "All the potentials are out back training."

"You should probably go join them before Buffy comes back." Anya stated from her seat on the couch. "Wouldn't want to get her madder than she already is."

Before anyone could scold Anya at her last remark, no matter how true it was, Jackie was out the backdoor. Faith leant against the front door watching the Scoobies before turning her gaze out the side window of the door. She watched Jessica pull out all the bags and place them carefully on the lawn. Knowing that her friend was going to start on the potentials weapons to clear her mind of the distance yelling coming from the oldest slayer.

All the Scoobies winced at the plainly heard yell coming from Dawn, "Leave me alone, Slayer."

Soon after that Buffy appeared coming down the stairs. She didn't say a word to anyone and no one had the time to say anything because Buffy was out the front door. Faith barely had time to get out of the way so the door wouldn't hit her. Glancing back at the Scoobies, she said, "Well at least the duty of being a slayer isn't getting to her."

Xander opened his mouth to say something, but Faith already disappeared out the front door to join Jessica.

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Curled up in a chair by the window the youngest Summers girl sat. Tears trailing down her cheeks, she hated this. Hating the constant feeling of being so miserable. It was times like this that she wished that the apocalypse would happen already and just kill everyone, especially her. Feeling the cool glass of the window against her forehead Dawn sighed. She watched Buffy stalk out of the house passing angrily by Jessica and continuing down the sidewalk. The two slayers didn't say anything to each other and for that Dawn was glad. These fights with Buffy seemed to becoming so frequent, every tiny thing just seemed to set Buffy off.

At least she knows I'm here when she's mad at me. Dawn thought to herself getting up from the chair and settling herself down on her bed. Sometimes she felt like Buffy didn't even know she was alive much less in the house. It was all about the potentials. Training, patrolling, and everything else. She was just the research assistant for the Slayer... well, Slayers now. Flipping onto her back Dawn stared up at the ceiling. Nothing felt like it matter anymore. She was there, taking up space. No one understood her. They tried, but they never could get it. Displaced from the world and lost within her thoughts, nothing felt right anymore.

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Jessica and Faith were unusually quiet as they worked on the potentials' weapons. They begun unwrapping each regular combat knife of it's string-like material grip and replacing it with hand wrapped black leather. Soon the two slayers were talking as they worked. They talked about everything and anything that came to mind like the up coming patrol that Buffy was issuing with the potentials. It only took a few hours to finish all the knives. They would've been done sooner, but after they wrapped all the knives Faith came up with the idea of how they could personalize them. They took a small needle and heated the tip before engraving the initials of all the potentials slayers into the metal tip slightly above where the leather wrapping started.

"Okay. That's all of them. Damn, that's a lot of knives." Faith stated as she looked at all the knives spread out in between them. Jessica nodded smirking as she set up for the spell to allow the knives the ability to dust vampires. Faith had manage to scrounge up a big pot from the kitchen so it would be easier to cast the spell on all the knives at the same time instead of one at a time.

"So how's this gonna work?" Faith questioned leaning back on her palms watching Jessica pour in three bottles of holy water that they 'borrowed' from Buffy weapon's chest and half of the bottle of myrrh oil.

"Just watch and be quiet." was the reply Faith received. Lighting the orange and yellow candles that were placed next to the pot with her trusty lighter, Jessica begun the spell.

"Goddess Sol bless," dropping the two sun stones in the pot, "and decree that sun shall shine forever within the mixture of light."

Jessica picked up the cross with one hand and pour wax from both candles on it. Before slowly dropping the wax covered cross in the pot Jessica added, "So wish it, shall it be done."

Faith watched with growing wide eyes as the liquid within the pot turned almost blindly bright making her have to squint her eyes until it died down. Jessica not being fazed by the little light show scooped some of the liquid up with a cup and started pouring a little on each one of the knives. Each knife that was hit with the liquid glowed for a moment before turning back to normal. After finishing with all the knives Jessica stood up taking the pot with her.

"That's it?" Faith asked.

"Yeah. Disappointed?"

"A little, but hey if it works." Faith replied following Jessica into the house. Pouring the left over liquid down the kitchen sink before heading back outside to gather the weapons.

"So are we gonna give the potentials' their weapons at the patrol tonight?" Faith questioned placing all the knives in a small, empty gym bag Jessica had stashed in her trunk.

"Yeah." Jessica replied closing the trunk and not a moment to soon. Buffy walked passed the two slayers and headed inside. Already the sun was setting, patrol would begin soon.

"Well, this ought to be a fun night." Faith stated sarcastically disappearing within the house. Jessica sighed glancing up at the sky.

"I knew I should've bought some cigarettes today." she muttered before trailing after her friend thinking about the up coming patrol. From Buffy's reaction today Jessica had no doubt that she would flip over this sudden intrusion into her methods of training the potentials. "It's gonna be a long ass night."

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