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Willow looks at Buffy and the others, "Yeah. The First is scrunched, so... what do you think we should do, Buffy?"
Faith chips in as well, "Yeah, you're not the one and only chosen anymore. Just gotta live like a person. How's that feel?"
Dawn looks over to Buffy, "Yeah, Buffy. What are we gonna do now?"
Buffy just stares straight ahead at the crater and smiles, but doesn't answer the question.
While they were on the bus to LA Buffy is sitting there looking out at the passing scenery. 'I can't believe Spike is gone. What am I going to do now?' While she was pondering this everyone was tending to the injured.
They arrive at the Hyperion and greet Angel there, "Hey guys, glad you didn't need to use the second front after all." Angel looks around and finds Buffy standing by herself. He looks her over and grows concerned. "Buffy…" Buffy doesn't seem to hear him, but some of the slayers hear and start to wonder what is going on.
"Buffy." Angel tries again, but is again ignored, the Scooby Gang starts to look over at Buffy who is now sitting by a window looking out at the sunset. "Buffy!" She finally startles and looks over at Angel, "What?"
"Your bleeding," Angel comments while everyone else startles and quickly look at Buffy. She looks confused, but then remembers when she was stabbed by one of the Turok-Hans. She looks down at her side where the blood stain is still on her shirt. She pulls the shirt up and finds that the hole healed up.
Everyone looks confused at how quickly the hole healed. Kennedy looks confused, "How did that heal so fast, you shouldn't have healed that fast." Willow, Dawn, Giles, and Xander all look concerned. Buffy just shrugs before looking at Angel, "Are rooms ready for us because I am wiped."
Angel just nods after a minute before showing her upstairs to her room. When he comes back down he finds everyone discussing what happened to Buffy. "So, what do you know about what happened with Buffy? Also what happened at the fight?"
They looked at each other before looking over at Angel. "Well none of us were there, but after she said that Spike helped to save the world." Angel just shook his head before chuckling a little, "Of course he did." Angel muttered.
Willow looks to Giles, "I didn't do this did I? When I did the spell?"
Giles looks at her, "I am not sure, we would have to test the theory."
Meanwhile in her room, Buffy is looking around stunned at what just happened. She goes to the bathroom and finds a mirror, she looks into the mirror before she turns away from the guilt. She punches the mirror and breaks it into little pieces. She grips the sink tightly for a minute before looking at her wound again. 'How is that possible?"
She looks down at the shards of glass before picking one up. She just holds it for a minute before holding out her arm and cutting herself with the shard. She lets out a tiny gasp before just looking at the cut. It was a deep cut, but it was healing up right before her eyes. She sighs before leaving the bathroom. She sits down on the bed and looks around. She finds a phonebook. She flips through the book, before finding a psychic in the area.
She looks at the window before going up to it and looking down, 'I am not going to get any sleep anyways and it isn't that far down.' She opens up the window, looks back at the door before letting out a sigh and jumping out the window.
She arrives at the psychic's place, she goes in and finds that it is completely empty except for one person, it is full of crystals and herbs.
"Hello, dear." Buffy turns around and sees a lady walking out from the back room. "What can I help you with."
"Something happened to me and I was hoping for some answers." Buffy tells her.
The lady gestures at the table to her right. They sit down. The psychic asks for Buffy's hand to read. "I am seeing a lot of pain, heartache, and strength." She continues to hum and haw before gasping in shock and looking at Buffy quickly. Buffy looks at her confused, "What? What did you see?"
"I saw that you are The Slayer, but at the same time not." Buffy sighs before nodding, "Yep, that's me." The psychic looks at her in sympathy. "I know what you have been through, and I am sorry for your recent loss." Buffy tears up and looks away, she lets out a breath and then shrugs her shoulders, "It happens." The psychic shakes her head, "It does not just happen young lady and you have been going through it since you were fifteen."
Buffy nods her head at that. The psychic nods her own head and sighs, "Well I do not have a lot of good news for you, I am afraid." Buffy nods saying, "I figured."
The psychic shrugs at her before going on, "Well for one I am pretty sure that spell your red-headed friend did to create more slayers has made you immortal." Buffy just stares at her in shock, "I-immortal!" The psychic nods her head sadly. Buffy looks up in exasperation, "I can't believe she did this to me again."
"Unfortunately that is not all the bad news that I have for you today." Buffy just looks at her before making a gesture saying 'come on already'. "You were adopted as a young baby by Joyce and Hank Summers." Buffy sits back in her seat in even more shock. "That is not possible."
A pop was heard, "Sorry, Slayer, but it happened." Buffy turned around and saw Whistler standing there. She wanted to get mad at him, but she just sat there waiting for him to continue. He looked confused, but went on, "You were born to some pretty powerful witches, but the Powers saw that you would be the slayer, so they cloaked you and gave you to someone who couldn't have kids, but changed her memory so that she thought she had you as a miracle child."
Buffy looked confused, "If they were powerful witches why couldn't they look for me with a spell?"
"Because they died shortly after. We kept you cloaked because we were worried that the magical kind of demons would come for you and try to kill you."
"What do you mean by magical demons?" Buffy asked.
"There are the demons that you face, ones that do not have magical abilities, then there are the magical demons, these demons have energy balls, fireballs, can teleport and do many other things." Buffy just stared at Whistler in surprise.
"Why have I never encountered them before?"
"The Hellmouth. It kept them out and if they came into town they would be powerless because the Hellmouth does something wonky with their kinds of powers." Buffy nodded at that.
"So another question." Buffy asked. Whistler nodded his head waiting, "How am I immortal?"
Whistler sighed before taking a seat next to the two. "You were the original slayer and so when the spell needed the energy for this kind of thing it used you. Now that all the slayers are activated you are immortal for a while."
"What do you mean for a while?"
"Well, the Powers allowed you to use the spell and for it to work, but if we don't want another First Evil kind of problem on our hands the scale has to balance out, so when the last slayer from this generation dies it will go back to one slayer until she dies and so on. The only plus side to this is by the time that happens, you will not have to rejoin the fight if you do not want to." Buffy looks a little happy at that.
"So, I am immortal for at least a generation and when I am no longer immortal what will happen?"
"Well, you won't die automatically. You will be a normal human who ages."
"That is great to know."
Whistler and the psychic sit there while she digests the information that was given to her. She looks at them after a moment, "What is the catch?"
Whistler looks at her sadly for a moment, "Your parents were witches, so that means that you are a witch as well."
Buffy looks surprised, "What? Like Willow?"
Whistler shakes his head, "No. Willow is a Wiccan, she uses energy from the earth, you will have these powers naturally and won't have to call on some god or goddess to get you power."
Buffy nods following along.
"The catch is that since you are a witch, you will have to learn to control your powers and we can't do that so you will go to San Francisco and meet some other witches who can help you. The problem is that you can easily run into demons there and you will have to join the fight sooner or later."
Buffy grew sad at that hoping that her end of fighting days was starting. She looks back at Whistler, "Who are these witches and how does this magical community work?"
"I am going to give you a mental download of the rules and magical things that could be possible, so that you aren't too green when you meet who you are supposed to meet."
Buffy sighs before looking to the psychic, "You said that you didn't have a lot of good news for me. What is the good news?"
The psychic looks to Whistler so that he can tell her. "The good news is that even though you have this new partial destiny, you will find love and be able to keep it although there will be some trials to go through, but in the end it will be worth it."
Buffy looks surprised at that before smiling slightly, giving into the first emotion since Spike. At the thought of Spike she grew sad.
"Whistler, can I ask you something?" Whistler nods his head. "What will happen to Spike. I mean he saved the world, but he used something evil to do it, so what will happen?"
Whistler sighed before tilting his head up to the roof. Buffy looks to the psychic in confusion, the psychic responds, "He is conversing with the Powers." Buffy nods.
After a few minutes he looks down again, "His soul was sucked into the necklace and he will be brought back to fight again with Angel at the law firm." Buffy nods smiling at the thought of him alive again.
Whistler looks at the clock, "Alright, it is almost time for me to go, so give me your hands for the download." Buffy holds out her hands and Whistler grabs them. Their hands light up with the light going up Buffy's arms and surrounding her head. The light begins to fade, then disappears completely.
She moans and grabs her head. Whistler pats her shoulder in sympathy, "You will have a headache for a few hours, but you will be able to access the information you need when you head off to San Francisco."
He stands back up, "Oh and Slayer," he waits for her to look at him, "If you want to do this alone then don't tell them where you are going."
"But Willow will be able to find me."
"No, she won't. Because the Powers will have shielded you from her. You can tell the gang anything you want, just not where you are going, otherwise you will always have them over your shoulder. Plus Willow would probably become self-absorbed and think that she deserves some things more than you."
Buffy listens while also thinking of what to tell the gang. "Thank you Whistler and for before, I am sorry about threatening you."
Whistler just laughs, "I liked the way that I was threatened by you. It was creative."
Buffy just smiles and starts to laugh. "Oh, wait, what kind of powers do I have?"
"This is where I become cryptic. You will just have to find out for yourself." Buffy shakes her head, but Whistler disappears before she can ask. She looks over to the psychic who was smiling at their conversation.
"Do you happen to know the name of my parents?"
"Yes. I believe I do."
"Dammit, I forgot to ask Whistler if Dawn has powers as well."
"Oh, I can answer that for you."
Buffy looks at her, "Well Dawn was made from you right, that should make her a witch, but since she is not really an actual human, but a 'key' then she is not a witch, so you don't have to worry about her being a witch and having to come with you."
Buffy sighs in relief. "I know it makes me sound like a bad person, but I would like to do something by myself for a time because of this last few years with the gang."
"That is perfectly understandable, although if you don't want to be in trouble then I would suggest running back to the hotel otherwise you will have a lot of mad people on your hands."
Buffy looked at the clock before agreeing with the psychic. She rises from the table and thanks the lady before leaving. She gets to her side of the room outside and jumps back up to the window. She enters through it, but when she is being quiet the lights come on. She jumps and turns around, but gives a sigh of relief because it is just Faith.
"Faith! I am glad it is just you." Faith smirks at that, but then stands up, "Where have you been?"
"I was consulting a psychic for answers about this," gesturing to her wound, "when an old friend or ally popped up and answered the questions for me."
Faith looks confused, but before she could ask Buffy stops her. "I will tell you all about it tomorrow, but for now, I finally want to just sleep for a while before telling you and the rest of them out there what is going on."
Faith agrees with that. She gets up and leaves. Buffy takes a shower and changes her clothes before falling into bed and was asleep within seconds.
A/N: What kind of powers do you think that Buffy should have? Do you think her parents should know the Halliwells because I was going with her being a powerful witch, but not related to the Charmed Ones based on all the other stories like that.
