TWICE CHOSEN

RogueAngel82

Flashback

The faint glow lit up the faces of the two women gazing at the screen. "These the final readouts?" Kim questioned.

"Counted and re-counted," the other slayer stated straightening, "Same as last time K. The numbers are droppin'."

"How could we lose so many slayers?" Kim whispered.

"Guess evil's getting' a whole lot eviler." Faith replied, straddling a chair. "Plus the stiffs from the council. Wouldn't know how to run a Slayer army, even if they had a manual." She sighed, "It's been two years since B died, and the number of Slayers just keeps dropping."

"No new ones are being called," Kimberly said, "Least not that often anymore. What do we do?"

"I was kinda hopin' you would tell me," Faith stated.

"We should never have let the council take control," Kimberly stated shaking her head.

"B's death left us all shaken, no one was really in the position to do much," Faith tilted her head, "But now they are."

"What do you mean?"

"You girl," Faith replied, "The others trust you, they look up to you, they would follow you. Plus your one of the best slayers anyone here has ever seen. You should try and throw some weight around."

"Me?" Kim stated with a laugh, before smiling slowly, "You know I always thought about becoming a watcher."

End Flashback

Reefside

"Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God,"

"What, What, What?" Kimberly questioned as her younger energetic charge came running into the house.

"Guess what happen to me," She bounced slightly, continuing before Kim even took a stab. "I was attacked."

"What!"

"Oh no don't worry," Jordan wave her hand dismissively, "Some sideshow reject. Had a thing for black leather, and bad make-up. Left by way of portal."

"Portal…?" Kim was only catching snippets of conversation.

"No. No. No. That's not the important thing." Jordan stated. "Guess who's here in this town." She pointed to the ground. "POWER RANGERS!"

"Power Rangers?" Kimberly wondered if she'd heard correctly, "Wow that's a blast from the past."

"Huh?"

It was Kim turn to wave her hand dismissively "I used to live in Angel Grove."

"Oh," Jordan said, but her face showed no recollection of the name.

"And… that just made me feel old."

"Well come on Grandma," Jordan coming back to Earth, "Lets go we gotta patrol to do."

"Oh right," Kim said, "Oh wait, there something here for you…and me." She crossed to the kitchen table picking up a small device. "This was given to us," she explained, "It's a new protocol after all those attacks in New York." She handed it over to Jordan.

"Hey it looks like a blue tooth." Jordan commented.

"Yeah," Kimberly nodded, "Connects you to me, and if….you push this button it connects you to the closest Headquarters."

"Wow," Jordan said clipping the thing over her ear, before striking a poise. "How do I look?."

"Very Sydney Bristow," Kimberly remarked placing her own com in place. She moved to get some weapons.

"Hey Kim," Jordan questioned softly, "What do you think about the Power Rangers being here with the Hellmouth?"

"I don't know," Kim answered truthfully, "They've fought a lot of bad guys, maybe they'll do alright. I just hope they have a good mentor."

#SC#

"What is up with this town," Kimberly commented after she finished staking a vampire her third of the night, the fifth of both of them "Shouldn't it be crawling it demons! It's a Hellmouth."

"Maybe they haven't gotten the memo yet." Jordan remarked, dusting ash from her jumper sleavessleeves, she paused after a moments thought and asked softly "Hey Kim, why is it when the Rangers save the day they a parade but when the slayers saves the world…"

"They get to see the world keep spinning." Kimberly said looking towards the younger slayer, "That's all we need." Jordan nodded slowly, "Come on least head back it's a school night."

"I know you did not just say that!"

#SC#

"They was something up with there attack, like they were trying to divert our attention or something!" Ethan remarked the there teacher, mentor and fellow Ranger Tommy Oliver, before class the next day.

"Yeah, it was defiantly something strange." Kira nodded, "I mean they weren't into it at all. They just kept…"

"Hayley spoke to me about it on the phone last night," Tommy said, "She said, Jordan Brooks ran straight in the fight zone."

"Yeah," Connor nodded, "I'm just glad she's alright." His face flamed as he realized he had said that out loud.

"Some ones got a crush." Kira laughed.

#SC#

The bell rang as Jordan ran into the school, she hit the corridor fast her trainers squeaking on the ground. She slowed as she enter class, just as the second bell rang, dropping into her seat and pulling out her books.

It was at lunch with Principal Randall made her way towards Jordan and her group of friends. Still seething about the fight Randall glared at the girl. Her master was curious about the girl who had defeated his henchman and wished to know more about her. Elsa just wanted her to suffer.

"Miss Brooks," she called approaching the group, causing them to halt there conversation, "Late today….detention."

"What!"

"Talking back" Randall said with a grim smile "…another day of detention."

"You can't just do that!"

"Miss Brooks gather your belongings. You are currently suspended from school."

"Say what!"

#SC#

"Say what!"

"That's what I said."

Kimberly placed her hands on the kitchen bench. "Jordan it's your second day!"

"It wasn't my fault." Jordan protested. "The others protested but they got put in detention."

Sighing Kim ran a hand over her face, "I'll head over to the school and see if I can sort this out."

Flashback

She pushed through the gathering crowd, finally coming to a stop at the sight in front of her. A young girl in her early teens, long black hair hung over her pale face.

"What happened?" she asked the person next to her.

"Attack," Faith explained coming up, "Looks like a vampire gang. Both her parents where killed. Scans indicate she's a Slayer."

Kimberly looked at the taller woman in shock, and back at the scene in front of her. Police officers moved around the area, just beyond them two bodies where being loaded in to the back of an ambulance. Kimberly looked up at Faith to find the other slayer looking straight back.

She glanced around, before walking towards the slumped girl. "Hey sweetie sweeties," she greeted softly, "What's your name?"

The girl looked up finally, stunning Kim with large aqua eyes, but it was her soft whispered answer that broken her heart, "Jordan."

End Flashback

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