Buffy goes about her life for the next few days, she was at home listening to Phoebe's interview before work. She drove to P3 for work when the manager comes in, "Buffy, how are you with kids?"
"Uhh, okay I guess?" Buffy responds in a questioning voice.
"Great! Apparently Piper decided to host a big play date with her kid and a couple of other kids here at P3."
Buffy thinks for a minute before shrugging, "Piper will be here if things go sideways, plus I haven't met her yet. This will be a good opportunity to meet her."
The manager shrugged, "I don't know, she sounded slightly different on the phone then she normally does."
Buffy just dismissed it for now since she doesn't really know Piper.
An hour later Piper and a bunch of parents come in and hand off the kids. Piper comes up to the bar where Buffy and the manager are and smiles perkily at them, "Hi! I don't think we've met yet." She holds out her hand to Buffy. Buffy takes it while shooting a look to the manager, "I'm Buffy."
Piper smiles and makes a humming sound before turning around and going back to the kids. Buffy leans towards the manager, Teri, "Is that how she normally acts, because if so I am freaked out."
Teri smiles, "No, that is not how she normally acts, something is definitely up."
A couple walk in with their kid and head over to Piper. They talk for a little bit before the guy starts to head out. Phoebe and Paige stop him for a moment. "Hey Daryl have you met our new bartender yet?" Phoebe asks innocently. Daryl looks at her suspiciously, "No, I haven't. Why?" Phoebe shakes her head, "Never mind, I am just being overly cautious." Daryl nods before heading over to the bartender. He looks her over for a minute thinking that she doesn't look dangerous, but then he remembers that a previous bartender was a stalker and attacked Prue.
Buffy looks over and finds a guy staring at her. She walks over, "Hi, can I help you?"
Daryl snaps out of it, "Uh, no I am just a friend of the Halliwell family and thought I would introduce myself. Detective Daryl Morris." He holds out his hand, she hesitates for a brief moment before shaking his hand, "Buffy Summers."
"Well, I am off to work." Daryl waves to Buffy and the girls before leaving. Phoebe and Paige were watching this interaction, "Did you see her hesitate when he introduced himself?" Phoebe whispered to Paige, she nodded, "Yes, but we have bigger things to deal with like Leo and Piper."
After a few hours the sisters had erased Piper's memory and found Leo in Valhalla. They thought of a way to get to the island, but needed some help so they went to go find Daryl. They find him in an alley arresting a criminal.
Phoebe waves him over, "Hey Daryl we need your help."
They tell him that they need him to die so that they could get to Valhalla. They get to Valhalla and are able to rescue Leo, but are forced to leave Piper behind because of the pain that she is in.
When they come out of the portal to where Daryl's body was laying on the floor. Daryl turns to them, "Before you go off and rescue Piper, you should know that I looked into Buffy Summers for you." He pauses which cause Paige and Phoebe to become wide-eyed, "What! What Daryl?"
"Well it turns out that she burned down her high school gym and was a murder suspect for a while when she was in high school. Just thought you should know."
Paige and Phoebe are surprised at Buffy's history while Leo is confused on what they were talking about. They decide to wait to talk about this before getting on with saving Piper.
Daryl is at a murder scene when he sees Piper riding on a motorcycle. He is surprised, but immediately calls Phoebe. He lets them know before following. Buffy is on a jog around the city when she hears screams, she runs to them and sees men attacking other men and killing them. She runs in, "Hey! Stop!" They turn to her in confusion, before the Valkyries and Piper ride in on the motorcycles. Buffy sees this and is very confused. The leader of the Valkyries tries to stop them, but they attack. One of the men goes after Buffy. She sighs before glancing at Piper and shrugging at what this will do.
The warriors are fighting with the Valkyries and Buffy. One of them gets the jump on Kara, a Valkyrie, Buffy sees this and throws a hub cap at the warrior to distract him. He looks at Buffy and joins the other warrior that is attacking her. Paige and Phoebe orb in and see Piper fighting. They look around and do a double take when they see Buffy fighting the warriors and looks to be winning. They look at each other in confusion before focusing on Piper.
Piper notices them and tries to attack them, Daryl comes in and is almost killed with a knife to the back, but Piper freezes the knife. The Valkyries are able to convince the warriors that they are for real and get them to come back to Valhalla, Piper goes back with them. Before they leave the leader looks at Buffy in confusion as if she knows what she is but isn't positive about it.
Paige and Phoebe watch in shock before looking at Daryl and noticing Buffy leaving out a side door. Paige is about to call out when Phoebe stops her. "We have Piper to worry about for now." Paige agrees with that and they head back to the manor.
Buffy is outside the warehouse and breathes in relief as she isn't followed, but she knows that it is only a matter of time.
Paige is about to leave when she runs into Chris cleaning up and then Phoebe walks in and they start to talking about Phoebe's new power and Piper's emotions. Phoebe turns to Chris, "Hey, in the future did you ever hear of someone named Buffy Summers?" Paige also waits for the answer. Chris sits there thinking for a moment, "Uh, no, not really, I mean the name sounds vaguely familiar, but nothing particular, good or bad." Phoebe just sighs while Paige decides to leave for her date.
The next week, Buffy hadn't had any conversation with the sisters yet which is making her confused because she thought that they would have asked questions or attacked by now. She is not that off on the mark though.
Piper, Phoebe, and Paige were visited by the Cleaners' last night and now don't remember anything about yesterday. So Piper is making breakfast and watching TV when Paige walks in. They talk about the things that they don't really remember and then they try to get Phoebe out of the basement.
They walked down the stairs. Phoebe starts, "The point is I have to figure out how to work my new power, I'm gonna have to lock myself down in this basement for the rest of my life. Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Piper and Paige suddenly stop before the bottom of the stairs. "Stay behind the yellow line." Piper and Paige look down to see a thick yellow line drawn on the ground. "I might channel what you both are feeling.
Piper, holding the breakfast tray, "So would you like me to toss you your breakfast?"
Paige notices a band-aid stuck to Phoebe's forehead. "What happened to your head?"
Phoebe points to it, "This? I don't know. I've been so scattered lately I must have bumped it or something. Now, are either one of you feeling any strong emotions? Anger? Sadness?"
"Annoyance?" Paige says.
"You may proceed."
Paige smiles sarcastically, "Thanks."
They talk for a few more minutes before they talk about Buffy. "What are we going to do about her, I mean its not like we caught her red-handed with something, we just have suspicions." Paige mentions.
Piper turns to Phoebe, "Well haven't you got a reading off her?"
"No, I haven't been close enough to her since I got this power." Piper hums.
"Well, sooner or later you will have to come out of the basement and when you do you will see if you can get a reading off of Buffy." Phoebe groans. Then Phoebe gets a call from Elise and has to go into work. Paige goes to her work and notices that her coworker got fired and that she had forgotten to do something for her friend yesterday.
Buffy hasn't met Chris yet, but when she walks into the club for work she notices that the backroom door is open. She narrows her eyes and even though she doesn't need it really, more for appearances, she grabs a knife from the bar. She heads over to the door listening and just hears a lot of rummaging.
She opens the door and sees a guy with a bag, "Who are you and what do you want?!" Chris jumps in surprise and turns around. He looks her over and thinks she is pretty, but then notices the knife. He holds up his hands, "Whoa, whoa, I'm Chris, Piper is letting me stay here for awhile." Buffy looks at him suspiciously, but puts the knife down.
Buffy turns and walks to the phone, she hands it to Chris, "Call her real quick, so I can check you out. Make sure you aren't some thief." Chris scoffs, "A thief? What would I take from here?"
Buffy shrugs, "I don't know, for all I know you could be a raging alcoholic and are here to steal free booze, or the money from last night." She stands holding the phone, tapping her foot. She waves it in his direction. Chris thinks this is pointless, but if it will get her to put down the knife he will do it.
He calls Piper, "Hey, Piper, this is Chris, please tell your bartender, that you are letting me live here…" Piper is confused, but then gets Buffy on the line, "Sorry to bother you, but I came in and noticed he was here and I wasn't sure what to think. So if you could just tell me if you allowed him to live here then I can let it be." Piper says that Chris is telling the truth. They say goodbye, Buffy hangs up the phone and looks at Chris, "Well, I guess I should say sorry then."
"Sorry?"
"For pointing a knife at you and calling you a raging alcoholic." Buffy muttered towards the end.
Chris huffs a laugh, "Just for the record I am not a raging alcoholic, but you don't have to say sorry. You could put the knife down though." Buffy looks confused, Chris gestured to her hand, she looks down, "Oh! Oh! Sorry." She puts the knife back.
There is a pause, Buffy looks around, "Well I guess I better get to work." Chris nods, "Sure." Buffy smiles at him before going to the closet and getting a big box of glasses, Chris notices this, he comes over, "Wait, let me get that for you." Buffy is about to disagree when she just shrugs it off, letting him be 'the man'. He carries it over to the counter. Buffy goes behind the counter and starts pulling out the glasses.
Chris watches her for a few minutes before he asked her a question, "So what brings you to San Francisco?" Buffy gives him a look, Chris smiled sheepishly, before laughing, "That was lame, but apparently I was adopted and I just found out. This is where my parents lived so I came to learn more about them." She looks at him, "So, what brings you to San Francisco?"
Chris hesitates, "I am here for family as well." He says vaguely. They talk about some more mundane things before Leo orbs at the stairs. He looks around and notices that Chris is talking to a blonde woman. Leo walks down the stairs, "Chris." Chris turns around and sighs. Buffy noticed that movement, but ignored it for a moment.
She goes for the knife again, Chris notices and smirks a little, "Who are you and how did you get in?" She asks Leo who looks confused at the questioning. Chris looks at him, laughing a little, "Leo this is Buffy, the new bartender and server, Buffy this is Leo, Piper's husband." Buffy nods and Leo notices that she put something back down.
Buffy looks at Leo, "That doesn't answer my other question about how you got in, I locked the door after I came in." Leo shuffles before answering, "I-uh- I have a key." Buffy narrows her eyes, "Then why didn't I hear the door, and I would have heard it. I have great hearing." Leo laughs nervously, "I didn't shut the door since I will only be here for a moment." Buffy nods before continuing what she was doing. Leo pauses and looks at her for a moment, Buffy notices this, "What?" Leo looks at Chris in an attempt to get her to understand.
Buffy looks and nods, "Oh, I understand, but I'm not going anywhere, I have work to do." Chris snickers at that, but at a glance from Leo, gets up with a sigh and moves to the backroom. He gives Buffy a smile as he goes by, she gives a smile and small wave. As Leo passes he notices that she had a knife in her hand when she was asking her questions.
They go to the backroom and close the door. Leo turns to Chris, "Did you know that she had a knife on me when asking those questions?" Chris smirks, "Yes, she held it on me when she didn't know who I was." Leo nods at that slightly reassured. They go on to talk about Chris and his new charge. "Where is she anyways?" Leo asks. Chris thinks, "I am pretty sure that she is with her boyfriend right about now." Leo gives him a look before trying to orb out, "Leo, wait!"
Leo orbs back in, "What?" He asks exasperated. Chris motions to Buffy outside, she will get suspicious if you don't leave through the door." Leo sighs before heading out fo the room. He waves goodbye to Buffy before heading up the stairs, when he was out of sight he orbed out.
Later, Leo is in Piper's bedroom, confused. They talk about what he is doing there before, "Your new bartender is kind of rude." Piper laughs a little, "What?" Leo nods, "She had a knife in her hand when she didn't know who I was, she wanted to know how I got in with the door locked, and then she wouldn't leave me alone with Chris." Piper laughs and pats Leo on the shoulder. "She is a young woman that doesn't bow down to the man, so she was protecting herself, and then she was just doing her job."Leo huffs before he orbs out.
Soon the Charmed Ones figure out that someone erased a day of their lives. They cast a spell to see what happened and ended up actually in the past. They figure out that they have to relive the day. While that was going on Leo was assigning Chris a charge. Phoebe starts the riot at her office, Paige talks to her friend at the office and notices a dragon outside the window. The girls meet at the tunnel and see the dragon come out of the tunnel.
Buffy is at home watching the news when Paige suddenly orbs onto the screen, Buffy sits up straight. Then Phoebe levitates the weather man in the air. Paige steals the anchorwoman's jacket with her magic before they show Piper saying a spell that made the Golden Gate bridge disappear. Buffy looked on in shock.
After that stunt was wiped, Buffy went back to work and saw that Chris and Leo were arguing again. She overhears that it is about a new charge, with her new information that she has, she knew that meant that Chris is a white lighter and Leo was one too which is why he didn't need the door to get in. Leo orbs out and Chris notices Buffy at the bar putting away more glasses and straightening up. He goes to sit at the bar and they start talking some more.
While they are talking Leo orbs to the Manor to talk about Buffy with the girls. He finds Piper with Wyatt in the Conservatory. He calls Phoebe and Paige in as well. He sits down, "We need to talk about this Buffy girl." They all nod.
"Well what exactly can we do? I mean I could always try to get a read off of her." Phoebe offers. Paige offers, "I could have some magical creatures check her out." Piper, on the other hand, offers, "I could have her get near Wyatt to see if his protection shield comes up." Leo nods, "Let's try all of those options."
AN: I am not very good at the conversations between Chris and Buffy yet, so sorry if it wasn't good. Let me know what you think.