You Have Potential

A Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fan Fiction Story

Chapter 12:

We pulled up in a normal looking suburban street. Buffy lived in a house that looked very similar to the one that she had back in Sunnydale, at least from what I remember anyway. Spike was looking out the window not moving an inch just staring straight at the house that looked all too familiar to him.

" Are you nervous?" I asked him seeing the look on his face.

" Huh?"

" Are you nervous about going in, and seeing Buffy again?"

" More than you know" I nodded.

Mike looked back from the drivers seat to see all of us including Andrew just staring at the house.

" Wow, who knew just staring straight at a house was this fascinating." I snapped out of it and laughed.

" Well here goes nothing, come on" I motioned for everyone off of the RV. Andrew led the way since he had a spare key to the place. He opened the door, and we were hit with the smell of fresh apples and cinnamon. I don't remember Buffy being one for baking.

" When you come in notice the fresh aroma of apples and cinnamon. It is to hide the smell of burnt demon flesh, and dead bodies , like it so very often smells like. It was my idea. But don't be too disappointed I often bake for them."

" Andrew do you live here, or are you just a guest?"

" A guest, I live next door with Giles" We all shot him an odd look. Then I looked back at Spike who was still standing outside of the door.

" Oh Spike needs and invitation into this house, I forgot. I will look for someone." Andrew walked further inside the house, and shouted for some one. " Hello! Any one home its me Andrew, and I brought guests that you are going to want to see!" there was no answer. " Hello!" Soon we all heard foot steps we saw a tall redhead wearing a light pink dress walk down the stairs.

" Andrew what are you yelling…." She stopped at stared at us all by the door, then her gaze drifted to Spike. " Oh my God" She looked a cross between surprised and scared.

" Hello Will" Spike spoke up. " Mind inviting me in?" She just stared for a moment more, and then came to.

" Uh, sure. Spike you can come in" Then she turned to me.

" Alexis? It has been years!" I smiled. " You look good, but what are you doing here, and with Spike and Andrew, and … well I don't really know you"

" Sorry, Willow this is Mike, he's my friend. It has been a long time, and it is a long story why we are all here. Is Buffy around ,because it's sort of a Slayer issue." Willow got a puzzled expression like she wanted to know more, and we walked into the living room.

" Well Buffy isn't here, she is out patrolling with Xander and Giles."

" You didn't go with them?" She blushed.

" Actually no, I have a date." She started to get all embarrassed.

" Aww I think that is sweet! I'm glad you and Kennedy are so happy."

" Uh, actually Kennedy and I didn't work out, she went back to her home town. I met some one new"

" What's her name?"

" Her?" Mike asked curiously.

" Mike! Don be so rude!" Willow just smiled and shook her head.

" It's ok, I'm not offended. I'm gay Mike"

" Nice" He started smirking and tapping his foot on the ground. I just rolled my eyes at him for being such a perverted guy.

" Her name is Reyna" she said proudly. " I actually thought you guys were her at the door until I heard Andrew screaming through the house." Spike stood up quickly.

" You said Buffy is patrolling?" Willow nodded. " I'll go get her, come on Alexis" I got up and followed Spike to the Graveyard.

Buffy walked around the Graveyard with Xander as Giles stayed behind them rolling his eyes at their frivolous talk, when they should be, worrying about the vampires in the graveyard

" I've been thinking Buff, I haven't really dated any one since Anya, I need to get back out there"

" I work with girl that could be your type, her name is Stephanie, real pretty" He shrugged. " Totally not a demon!"

" I don't know, set ups don't always go so well. Look at how all your set ups went?" Buffy looked at Xander.

" You mean the one set up with your friend from the construction site, the day of my birthday party when we couldn't leave my house?" Xander was about to say something ,but he pointed his finger in the air. And sighed .

" Yea your right!" Giles sighed walking behind them

" I believe I have a headache" Giles moaned in the background listening to them two yammer on. " Why don't we split up, if you two didn't scare the Vampires away with all your yammering?" He suggested. Buffy and Xander just looked at each other and shrugged.

" Good idea Giles, you take the north part, Xander, South, and I'll just take the east and west side, and well meet back here before sunset." She smiled and they went there separate ways. It looked like it was going to be a pretty un eventful night. Buffy always liked when she had those kind of nights. She craved the fight sometimes but it was nice to know that she could still get a night off from the evil. She was pacing the cemetery humming to herself and twirling her stake like a baton in between her fingers.

Spike and I got to the graveyard and we saw her instantly, but she was alone. She looked to be bored, walking around with no vampire action.

" There she is" I said and Spike just looked at her with out saying a word, but I knew what he was feeling. We walked slowly up to her. Buffy was getting so bored she thought that she was starting to hallucinate seeing Vampires, but she was just getting tired, and ready to call it a night. that's when she turned around and came face to face with Spike. She stopped dead in her tracks not saying a word, and he just stared at her too nervous to say anything at all. Buffy thought that she was hallucinating again. She closed her eyes for a moment and she flashed back to the very last time she saw him.

Spike: Gotta move, lamb. I think it's fair to say school's out for bloody summer. Buffy: Spike! Spike: I mean it! I gotta do this.

Buffy: I love you.

Spike: No you don't. But thanks for saying it.

Buffy opened her eyes again and couldn't believe what she was seeing.

" Spike?" she needed to make sure she wasn't hallucinating again. She had imagined seeing him over and over again for years, and now he was really here.

" Buffy…" She dropped her stake and tried to catch her breath.

" How…" I could tell she was speechless, and I just stayed behind them until they had finished their reunion. She didn't need a bigger shock than the return of her lost love. Then that's when I saw it a Vampire popping up out of his grave right behind her. She didn't notice, so I ran over to it.

" Vampire" She looked at him funny and tilted her head.

" Huh?" he pointed behind her

" Vampire" but by the time she had turned around I had ran over there, grabbed her stake off the ground , and rammed it into the vampire's chest, before it attacked her. He didn't even know I was there so it was an easy kill. She just stared at me in shock, after he dusted. She looked at me and I smiled.

" Alexis?" she squinted looking at me trying to figure out if it was really me as well. I just nodded. " Does some one want to explain what is going on here?" I handed her back the stake.

" Sorry for the surprise Buffy ,but I found my self in a predicament, and we can explain everything once we get back to your house, we might need everyone's help on this one." She was amazed at how much I had grown and how much strength I had for a potential, wait until she finds out.

" We need to find Xander and Giles, there out here with me." Spike laughed.

We walked around the grave yard until we saw them walking together. Buffy made her way over to them with us following.

" Buffy there is no action in this graveyard tonight." Xander exclaimed.

" Yes I think it's safe to say nothing interesting will happen" Giles nodded, and then Buffy stepped aside so they could see Spike and the Potential standing in front of them. Giles took of his glasses.

" Oh dear God!" and started to clean his glasses. He put them back on, and looked at us again.

" Oh goody captain peroxide returns… why cant the evil dead just stay dead?" I looked over at Spike and he didn't seem to be phased by this un welcoming welcome, but I knew they weren't big fans of him. Then Xander looked over at me. " And you.. Look familiar"

" Yea, we met 5 years ago during the battle to defeat the First, which is actually the last time you saw Spike as well." Giles came toward me and put his hand on my shoulder.

" Alexis Gray?" I nodded. " My god what are you doing here, and with … " He glared at Spike. " Him" I sighed and Buffy found it time to interject.

" They were about to explain that but I wanted to gather everyone first. They need our help… I think"

" Very well, we better meet back at your house Buffy." She nodded and we all walked back to her place.

" Wow, Alexis…" Xander was trying to remember " I don't remember you being this…" He wanted to tell me how attractive I was, but was trying to still sound polite ,and not so much like a pig. I just laughed at him trying to stumble over his words.

" Are you blind?" Spike smirked at him.

" Well… Yea I kind of am… thanks for noticing" He said sarcastically. We walked the rest of the 2 blocks to Buffy's house ,with Buffy and Spike smiling at each other. I tried to focus on something else.

We walked into the front door, and Willow, a girl with dark brown hair to her shoulders, and a black mini dress sat in the living room with Andrew and Mike. I assumed the girl was Reyna, Willow's date.

" Oh, Buffy they found you. Uh good. Now we can all stop listening to Andrew talk about The difference between the green lantern and the Slayer." Buffy looked to Andrew with a surprised and disgusted face.

" I have no idea what that means, but could some one please tell me what happened?" I sighed and looked at Spike who looked back at me waiting for me to start.

" Well first of all, do you remember how you gave all of the potentials full slayer strength to help fight The First?" She looked to Willow and the both nodded. " Well when you, Willow did the spell to return all the power back to Buffy, mine never left."

" So that's why you fight… like me?" I nodded.

" So I started to fight off demons and Vampires, they just sort of swarmed near me. I had gotten used to the life style it wasn't a big deal until…" I froze again and looked at Spike again. " I found that amulet that Spike had, on a shady looking Vamp. It was really weird, because he just came out of it, in this flashy bright light. I found out along the way that Spike had no free will… well he did as long as I made a wish…"

" A Wish? To some one you never met before?" Xander asked perking up.

" No, not to a vengeance demon, I made the wish to Spike"

" Spike's a Vengeance demon?" We all looked at Xander like he had lost his mind.

" No" I laughed. " I had sort of have control over his free will, and we made out way out to L.A. to find you so that maybe you could help and explain what was happening."

" Tell them what Angel said" Mike spoke up totally enthralled in everything that was going on. Buffy looked thrown again.

" Angel? Angel is involved in this too?"

" More Intrigue and no end!" Giles started o clean his glasses again.

" Well I wanted to figure out what was going on, and I figured it all had some thing to do with the amulet that Spike came out of. So what better than to ask the very person who gave It to you." Looked over at Buffy. " It took us a week to get to L.A. to get any answers, but in the mean time I found our connection grew stronger, and now we were able to control leach other. Neither of us have free will. When we met with Angel he had told us that the Amulet could only be opened by basically the slayer, and since I still had full slayer power is the reason I could bring him out. He has no idea why we are connected, he is looking into it, and I was actually hoping you or Mr. Giles had some answers."

" Wow!" Willow said.

" Well that could be dangerous" Xander laughed.

" Is that all, or is there something else were missing?" Buffy asked, wasn't quite sure information she could handle.

" Well, yea actually. I was getting connected to Spikes old memories, like I could see what he saw, and felt what he felt. Angel and Cordelia said I am on my way to becoming a very powerful Seer." I looked around to see everyone speechless. "That's all"

" Don't worry Alexis, I will help you to figure out what is going on. I am sure if I cant then Angel will. I will give you and Spike your free will again!"

Buffy looked over at Spike again and couldn't stop smiling. While I couldn't stop feeling this pit in my stomach making me nauseous.