Taken Away

Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon and Supernatural belongs to Eric Kripke

Summary: How ever did the Scoobies manage to stop Faith without the help of their slayer?

Spoilers: Directly after "This Year's Girl," this is season 4 for Buffy…

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Author's Note: I decided to give you a few quick phone conversations between the Scooby gang and Buffy before I start with the real drama stuff coming soon!

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It had been two months since she left them. One month of Willow without her best friend. She wasn't sure if she was going to make it without her, but Xander had been there for her. The rest of the Scoobies too, even Spike of all people had helped her.

When Buffy first left them, Willow didn't know what to do. She wanted to be angry at her, and especially angry at Dean and Sam Winchester. How dare they take Buffy away from her friends and family! But that's when Willow realized, Dean and Sam were Buffy's family now. They were her half brothers, and she couldn't stop them if they came for her.

And she couldn't stay angry with Buffy for wanting to go with them. After having her mother die at an unknown demon's hands, who wouldn't want to get away from their current life.

Willow was hoping Buffy would come back. She just had to.

Slaying on the Hellmouth still had to be done, and the Scoobies had tried their best. Their first plan of action was to play the distraction game and catch the vampires off guard. That soon failed as more vampires started attacking, and the demons were smarter.

Riley could only use his unit so much before they were called away on other assignments, so Spike was forced to help. They didn't have to use much force since he discovered that even with his chip, he could attack evil. That was good for him, but very irritating to the Scoobies. He always wanted to go slaying.

With Spike taking up most of the slaying, the Scoobies had time to enjoy what was left of their normal lives.

Xander was jumping from job to job, all the while keeping Anya happy. Though it was a rule, more like a law, that Anya was not to discuss why she was always happy. There were only so many orgasm talks Willow and the others could take.

Giles had thrown himself into his demon texts. While it wasn't the normal life people were used to, reading those books put Giles at ease. Willow had a sneaking suspicion that he only read those books to find some impending apocalypse to bring Buffy back.

Willow, after having found another witch like herself, began studying magic more and more. The connection she had with Tara was unbelievable, and they were both growing more powerful. She also thought there was something more to their friendship, but she wasn't sure about that yet.

"Willow, we're Bronzing it tonight, let's go," Xander threw her dorm room open. Anya stood behind him with a smile on her face.

"Yes, let's spend our time in a loud, crowded teen club where we'll probably be the oldest ones there," she nodded.

As a person who was over 1,000 years old, Anya just didn't know when and when not to speak, but Xander seemed to love her anyway, so Willow did too.

Willow nodded as she picked up her phone. "Just let me call Tara and see if she wants to go."

She waited to hear if she had any messages, hoping Buffy would have called, but heard nothing. With a quick confirmation, the Scoobies were off to get Tara and party the night away.

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"How do you think she's doing?" Willow finally asked when everyone settled in.

"With how our little slayer operates," Xander rubbed his hands together, "She's probably enjoying her time off."

"Thi-is is what she wanted," Tara reminded Willow. "She's getting to kn-know her family and she's happy."

"By the way she acted, I'd say she wants to get even with her dad," Anya pointed out.

"Ahn," Xander chided. "We already discussed this, Buffy isn't going to kill John Winchester."

"It makes sense doesn't it?" Anya said angrily. "The way she acted after Joyce died. She hates that man and I bet you there's a vengeance demon probably following her trail of anger right now."

"Even if Buffy was angry at him, she would know better than to wish vengeance on him," Willow countered.

"I wouldn't be too sure about that," Xander smiled weakly. "There were plenty of times when I wished things on my deadbeat parents."

"I'm sure there's a, a spell we can use to f-find her and make sure she's okay," Tara suggested.

"As much as I would love to do that, we've got problems of our own," Willow sighed. "I don't want to take Buffy away from bonding with her family if we can handle things using Spike or Riley."

"Yea because you know how much Spike likes dealing with evil cyborg demon guy," Xander snorted.

After hearing from Riley about how a creature from the Initiative escaped, they thought their normal lives would be over. Luckily, Riley and his team owned up to their blunder and now they were looking for the creature.

They knew it wasn't going to work like that, so they helped whenever they could. Their search wasn't really going that well and more eviscerated humans were being found.

"Can this year get any worse?" Xander groaned.

"Xander!" Willow hissed as she kicked him under the table. "Murphy's Law!"

"You don't really believe that always happens do you?" Xander rolled his eyes. He looked toward the entrance of the Bronze and cussed loudly. "Look what evil brought in."

All the heads swiveled around and Willow, too, cursed.

"How come no one told us that Faith woke up from her coma?" Willow looked nervously to her friends. "We should probably get with the moving now."

"What are we supposed to do?" Xander asked. "We kinda need a slayer to take the slayer."

Willow was already on her phone, knowing Buffy wouldn't pick up, but knowing she'd get the message that Faith was back in town.

"Buffy, Faith is awake and she's here. We don't know what to do. Her with the slayer strength and us… with us. Call back soon, or being here in person would be just as great!"

The four made it out the back door before Faith could notice them and were on their way to Giles' place for help on his threat that Willow continuously blamed on Xander.

"Maybe next time you'll remember Murphy's Law," Willow glared.

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I know, I took the side story and posted it here… There should be a few more of these coming, though! Buffy and her brothers talk to Willow next chapter!