"I think that went pretty well." Faith said to Robyn Wood as they walked back to their rooms. They had just been to the meeting that Buffy and Giles had held out in the courtyard to discuss their newest arrivals. " I mean about as well as any meeting where you introduce a bunch of vampires and demons to a bunch of slayers. At least nobody got killed."
"It went about as well as could be expected." Robyn agreed. Most of the girls had been just fine with the idea of working with the people from Los Angeles. Some of them had even voiced excitement about getting to work with real "master" vampires. Of course there had been some girls who were unhappy as well
"I'm just glad B layed down the law with them. I wouldn't want anyone getting hurt."
"I highly doubt any of the girls would be so rash as to pull the same kind of stunt I pulled last year. They know better than to pick fights with creatures stronger with them, especially creatures under the protection of Buffy. They look up to her. She is their leader. They'll do what she says," added Robyn. He had mellowed a lot over the past year working with Buffy and the others. He had seen many knew things, and had even been forced to except that things weren't always black and white. He would never really forgive Spike for killing his mother, but that didn't mean that he was going to hold it against every other supernatural being that he encountered. He wasn't particularly fond of Angel for obvious reasons, but he had noticed the tall vampires leadership skills and figured that he would probably be a useful vampire to have around. Also, spending so much time with Faith he had heard everything that Angel had done for her. Robyn had been one of the people to help her when Angel and the others had been sucked into hell. He was even willing to work with Spike, as long as Spike continued to behave himself.
"Well if anyone tries to hurt them, I will personally see to it that that person spends the next few years of their lives in pain, and if anyone actually succeeded in harming one of them…"
"It's not going to come to that Faith." Robyn cut her off before she could finish her thoughts. He knew that she was somewhat concerned about two vampires and a few demons living with hundreds of slayers, but he also knew that she was worrying needlessly. Most importantly he didn't want Faith to go down that road. He knew about her past as a murderer and he knew that if t something were to happen to her friends it would be too easy for her to slip back into her old ways.
"I know. I just hope that this works out for the best." She told him.
"It will. Don't worry. Now get some rest." He told her.
For the next few weeks at "slayer central" everything did work okay. While some of the girls were apprehensive about working with the people from Los Angeles, that quickly dissipated once they got to know them. Gunn, Connor, Groo, Spike, and Angel all helped Buffy and Faith lead training sessions with the girls and they instantly took a liking to them. It was safe to say that not only were these girls impressed by each of the new comers ability to hold their own in battle, but they each had a crush on at least one of them. Illyria spent most of her time with Willow so that Willow could help her. After Willow had explained that she wasn't trying to kill her, but rather separate her from Fred Illyria was mostly compliant. Besides, she was fascinated by the power that the wicca wielded. Nina and Gwen spent most of their time by themselves simply because they didn't really know anyone. Eventually Connor and Gunn got the Gwen to start coming to some of the training sessions, and Nina began to spend her time with Dawn, Lorne, and Wesley working in the research and recon departments. Lorne was an instant hit with many of the girls because of his vocal and musical talents, and he also was useful working recon in reading the auras of some of their less trustworthy contacts. Wesley of course spent almost all of his time with Giles researching the up coming prophecies and such. He also helped train some of the new watchers so that they would be ready to into the field with the girls. Angel and Spike were particularly useful during training because of their vampiric nature. There is no substitute for fighting real vampires, and needless to say when Angel and Spike each took on ten slayers during training and kicked their asses the girls were impressed. However the biggest impact they had was when they put on a demonstration for the girls. Angel paired up with Buffy, and Spike with Faith for sparring partners, and they demonstrated how a real fight should look to the class. Many of the girls said after that watching those four spar was like poetry in motion each one matching the other blow for blow. It didn't take long for the girls to actually get excited about going to training.