For a guest reviewer I did my best to explain the difference between Willow and the Charmed ones. I mean Willow is a great, powerful witch, but she can become drained while the Charmed ones don't become that way. I also think that their magic is based on different principles. I found this definition: "Humans who were born without magical powers but follow the Wiccan Rede are called "practitioners". Wiccan practitioners are mortals with a natural affinity to magic. However, a witch practitioner must rely upon external sources of power from which to draw upon in order to use the three basic witch powers." I think that Willow is a practitioner and the Charmed are born with magic.
As another side note: I don't think that I am pretentiously writing this story. I don't mean to hate on the Scoobies and thought I had done well at that. But I mean in the last few seasons they grew slightly unlikeable, at least in certain episodes. And I am sorry, but I just don't really like Kennedy, if that came out in my writing. I know you have your opinion and that is okay, but the Scoobies will not be in this story anymore unless I change my mind at some point. I am sorry if that annoys you, but the story is in my opinion.
Buffy arrived at San Francisco and looked at the map that she had to find her way around. She ended up buying a car to get around the big city. She realized that she couldn't just walk around like she would normally would.
She got in the car headed to find an apartment to live in. She took a deep breath before turning the car on. She breathed a sigh of relief when nothing bad happened. She was on her way to the first apartment she found in the newspaper. She was going slow, but at a good speed when she got to the apartment.
She checked out the apartment. It was small, cramped, and smelled a little moldy. She decided against getting that apartment. When she got in her car for the next place she got complacent and backed out to quickly, crashing into a pole. Buffy turned and looked before putting her head down on the wheel with a groan.
The tow truck came and picked up the car and took it and Buffy to an auto shop. She was waiting for her turn when she sensed something from someone who worked there. She was looking around when it was her turn for the car. "Hi, my name is Mitchell Haines and I will be working on your car." Buffy stared at him for a moment before realizing that her senses were 'pointing' to him.
"Sure. I backed up to quickly and hit a pole." Buffy said while looking at the back of her new car. "And I had just gotten this car today." She muttered to herself. Mitchell looked at her in disbelief. She saw it, "What!? I am not a great driver okay!" Mitchell just smiled before turning away.
He was working on her car while Buffy was trying to figure out how to ask him something. She just shrugged and decided to ask, "Are you a witch?" Mitchell dropped one of his tools and quickly turned to her in shock. Buffy nodded. "H-how did you know that?" Mitchell asked her. Buffy shrugged, "I just sensed it."
Mitchell hummed and narrowed his eyes, "Are you a witch as well?"
"Apparently. It is a new thing though." Mitchell just sighed. Buffy looked confused. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, it's just that I decided to quit being a witch because of my wife and now I am meeting you."
Buffy holds up her hands, "Whoa, hold on, I am not asking of anything, I am just getting my car fixed and then I am going to check out apartments."
Mitchell nodded at that gratefully. "Although, do you know any witches that could help me with my powers that I will soon be getting?"
Mitchell thought about it, "There are many witches, but the best or greatest known witches are called the Charmed Ones, they live on Prescott Street."
"Thanks for the information."
Mitchell fixed her car and gave her some directions. She looked up the next apartment and it was similar to the first and she didn't like that one either. After a few more apartments she came up to a condo complex and found a nice living space. She bought it with the money that they Scooby gang got from the Council. 'Now all I have to do is find a job.'
She decided that she would try for a waitressing job first. She was good at it before so she could do it again. She went to a diner that had a help wanted sign. "Do you still have an opening?"
A blonde lady turned around, "It is still open, when can you start?"
"Now?"
"Great, I'm Selena and you are?"
"Buffy."
"Okay, here is your apron and those are your tables."
Buffy got to work. When it was her break she got to know her coworker, Selena. "So, Selena tell me about you."
Selena paused for a moment, "Well, I can tell you my life story or I can tell you something strange that you probably won't believe."
Buffy laughed, "Try me."
"Okay well last year a cop was after me, but it turned out he thought I was a witch and he tried to burn me at the stick."
Buffy blinked, "Wow, why did he think you were a witch?"
Selena paused, "Well, he said that my mother was one so that would make me one as well."
Buffy nodded, "That makes sense."
Selena snorted, "Really? That makes sense to you?"
"Well yeah, magic is generally inherited which means if it didn't skip a generation then you would be a witch. If you are not a witch then you are part of the skipped generation."
"Huh, that actually does make sense. How do you know this?"
"Oh, well I was adopted and I just found out that my parents were witches and that would make me a witch."
Selena nodded, "Okay."
A few weeks later Buffy was looking to find the Charmed Ones, but didn't know their names and it is not like she could find them online. She was behind the counter when she realized how hard this would be. She groaned and then plonked her head down on the counter with a groan. Selena walked up, "What's wrong?"
"I am trying to find some witches called the Charmed Ones, so that they can help me to learn to control my powers when I get them."
"Oh, I know them, they were the ones that rescued me from the witch hunter."
Buffy stands up, "That's great!"
"Yep, their names are Piper, Phoebe, and Paige Halliwell. Phoebe is the Ask Phoebe lady on the newspaper and Piper is the owner of P3, a club."
"Cool."
Buffy spent the next week looking up the Halliwell's. She went to check out P3 before she decided on what she was going to do. She changed her clothes and went to the club. She thought it was kind of similar to the Bronze only on a better scale. And bigger. She went to the bar and ordered a soda before asking about Piper. They told her what they knew.
She was exploring some more when she saw that there was help wanted here as well. She tilted her head in thought, 'hmm, if I get this job I would get closer to the sisters for when my powers come through.'
The next day she handed in her resignation and then said goodbye to Selena, saying that she would stay in touch.
She arrived at her apartment and got ready for bed and an interview tomorrow at P3. The next day she goes to P3 and meets with someone about a bartending/server job. She is hired and is told to start work that night.
That night she is delivering drinks when she sees Phoebe sitting at a table with a guy. She heads to a table near them and overhears some of their conversation; "I am really glad Elise made me call you. You're exactly the kind of guy I've been looking for."
"Is that so?"
"Oh, it is so so. You're cute, you're sweet, you're smart. And from what I hear, you're raking in the dough."
The guy laughs, "Well, you have quite the way with words, don't you?"
"Yeah, well, when it comes to helping needy children, I'm shameless. Come on, Evan, please do the charity auction. It'll be fun.
"It'll be fun to be auctioned off like a side of beef?" They laugh. Buffy smiles, but goes back to the bar.
Buffy is putting some glasses away when she overhears another girl and guy;
"Then I graduated from Stanford law in '98."
"Harvard law. Hm, that's impressive. So do you want to give to a charity, or what?" Buffy smothered a laugh.
"I said Stanford, not Harvard."
"Let me ask you something. Have you been having any kind of end of the world, fire and brimstone, doomsday kind of dreams lately?" Buffy frowned at that glancing at the girl.
"Wait a minute, is this some sort of religious charity?"
"Huh?" Paige looks confused.
Phoebe walks up to them, "No, it's not. It's for children."
"Right. Yeah. Hey, to each his own, but I'm not into the whole fire and brimstone thing."
Phoebe turns to Paige, "Paige, you're supposed to be flirting with the bachelors, not frightening them." Buffy then realizes that this is the third sister.
"I'm sorry, I guess I'm just a little off."
"Well, my boyfriend moved to Hong Kong, I'm thoroughly depressed. But I still managed to sign up six people and you have…"
"I have none people."
"None people. Paige, I know you've been in a bad mood but this is getting a little crazy."
"What? I've barely slept all week. I keep having these strange dreams about ancient wars and weird magic. All very disturbing." Buffy listens with a frown some more.
"Do you think they mean something?"
"I don't know. It could be hormones. More likely, it could be my subconscious trying to tell me something."
Phoebe notices a blonde girl close to them, frowning as though listening to their conversation. She begins to frown and wonder who she is. She raises her hand and Buffy heads over.
"What can I get you?"
They order, when she comes back Phoebe asks, "Are you new."
Buffy smiles, "Yep, just hired today." She holds out her hands, "Buffy Summers." They shake hands and introduce themselves.
"So, what is going on here right now." Buffy asks gesturing to what was going on.
"It is a charity auction for children. We are hosting it here in Piper's club." Phoebe explains while watching Buffy look around. Buffy nods at that. "Sounds like fun, although I do not have the best of luck with romance." Phoebe laughs at that, "Same here."
They leave. When they get home Paige asks what that was about. "I don't know she was just too close when you were discussing your dreams and then she was frowning like she also believed it." Phoebe shrugged, "I am probably overreacting."
Buffy gets home and when she is asleep she also has a dream about the end of the world as well. She bolts upright and pants, she looks up, "Really, I still have prophetic dreams?!" She falls back down and tries to go back to sleep.
The next morning at the manor, after a few minutes of conversation;
"Who are you and what have you done to my sister?" Phoebe asks.
"What? I can't be in a good mood?"
"No. Mary Poppins wouldn't be in a good mood in this kind of heat."
"Well, Wyatt is finally sleeping through the night and my hormones are back in wack and, you know, Leo and I are finally…"
"Back in the saddle."
"So to speak."
Phoebe had a question to ask, "What do you know about your new hire?"
Piper looked at her, "Not much, I didn't hire her personally, but I hear that she is doing well. Why?"
"Just being cautious the last few new people have not been kind."
Buffy was at work setting it up for the auction when Phoebe and Elise walked in talking about the auction. She was towards the back room so they didn't see her, but she was able to see Paige orb in. Buffy stood in shock before shaking her head and going about her work, with that power in her mind, 'That was cool.'
A little while later, while she was off, she was running in the park when she came across a woman on the ground. She runs over to her and checks to see if she is alive, a white lighter orbs in and sees this. She goes to check on her charge when some woman dressed in a white dress comes out.
Buffy turns to watch as the white-lighter asks who the woman is. She claims to be white-lighter and then turns the woman into stone. Buffy stands up, "Who the hell are you!?"
The woman, Meta, turns to her in surprise, "Who are you?"
Buffy ignores her and then goes to fight her. She punches her and it barely hurts her. Buffy is surprised before Meta hits her and makes Buffy fly back a few feet. Buffy gets back up, but is a little warier than before given the strength she had.
Buffy kicks Meta and this time is able to make her move, which makes Meta surprised and shocked, she orbs away before the fight can continue. Buffy is worried since the last person that she went up against that had that kind of abilities was a god.
Meta arrived to her other Titans and discussed what had happened, she got the robing power, but a mystery girl attacked and was actually able to make it land and move her. This causes the other to glance before deciding that it didn't matter right then, that they had a plan to keep to.
Later that night, Buffy is back at work when the auction starts. She is just minding her own business when she hears that the guys are bidding not the girls. She looks up confused before getting wide eyed at Phoebe.
Phoebe leaves after a few bids leaving everyone confused about what is happening. Buffy wants to ask, but decides that is too weird for the new girl to ask.
An Elder is being attacked when the sisters show up. Cronus asks, "Who are you?"
"The Supremes," Paige says before pointing the trident and giving off a bolt of lightning in his direction.
The second Titan looks confused, "She wields the powers of the gods." He looks at the three sisters, "Are one of you the girl that attacked my Meta?" The girls looked confused before Cronus stopped them and started to attack them. They had to orb away.
They are orbed to a sewer with other elders. Paige looked at the others, "Did you hear that one guy, there was a girl that attacked one of them and didn't die."
"I wonder who that was." Piper said.
They are back at the manor, Piper is in with Wyatt when Leo orbed in. They talked for a minute before Piper remembered to ask, "Hey do you know of a girl who could get a hit in with the Titans and live."
Leo is confused and says that he doesn't know anyone like that. Piper shrugs and mentions that they will figure it out later.
Buffy is walking home when it starts to violently rain. She starts to jog wondering what is going on. Soon the rain starts to quiet down. 'Magical weather, I think that is a new one.'
In the next few days nothing major happens. Buffy is out for a walk after her shift when she senses someone behind her. She ducks and the fist misses her. She turns around and sees a man trying to attack her.
"Why are you attacking me?" Buffy asks while backing up into an alley.
"You're a witch and I need your powers!" Buffy looks confused at that, but continues to back up until the entrance to the alley was barely seen. She then stopped, this confused the warlock, but he grinned thinking he still had her.
She smiles before jumping up and over him and kicking him from behind. He stumbled forward. He turned around and brought out his athame. She watched him silently. He tried to throw the athame at her, but she dodged it. He then tried to fight her. She was starting get angry at this guy. When he came forward she threw her hands up, ready to block when he caught on fire. She watched stunned as he basically exploded before her eyes. She looked at her hands in surprise.
She looked around for people, when nobody was there she tried to make another fire start, but couldn't. She frowned. 'I guess it will happen when it happens.' She grabbed the athame on her way home. She decided that this is how she would introduce herself to the Charmed ones. 'Tomorrow though,' she thinks as she tiredly falls to sleep.
AN: The bad apartments are similar to her apartment in S3 Anne. The condo she does get is like Phoebe's condo in Season 8. I know it is unrealistic, but this is fiction. I wanted her to meet some other people that are witches or have met the sisters. Mitchell is the witch in season 7 so he hasn't met them yet, but Selena is from the season 4 finale. I haven't gotten Buffy to involved yet because she hasn't met the sisters for real yet and I am not sure how to go about doing that. Let me know what you think.