"I think that girl over there is dancing with a vampire." Buffy said to Willow.

"Oh, they're leaving, we should help her."

"Yeah, come on, let's go." The two followed the girl and the vampire out into the alley, where they saw the girl fighting and fighting well with the vampire. Then she realized she didn't have a stake with her.

"One of you got a stake on you?" She called out. Xander, who usually carried extra, wasn't there and since Buffy liked to improvise, she didn't have one either.

"There's a crate behind you!" Willow called out, only to attract the vampires attention. It rushed towards her and slammed her into the wall, knocking her out. Faith broke the crate and since Buffy was closer to vampire, tossed it to her. She quickly dusted it and then checked on Willow.

"She's out cold, we've got to get her to the hospital."

Once there, the doctors determined Willow had a concussion. They kept her overnight and then released her.

Then Giles discovered that Faith's Watcher was dead.

"Faith, I'm sorry about your Watcher. We went thru the Academy together and I considered Diana a friend. I understand a vampire got her."

"He messed her up pretty bad and that was before he killed her."

Buffy's came in the library just then. She'd clearly been in a fight.

"Buffy are you alright?" Giles asked, concerned.

"Ran into a vamp. Ugly sucker, I barely managed to get away. One of his minions, a black guy, called him Kakistos."

Faith looked scared. "He's here?"

"Who's here, Faith?" Giles asked.

"Kakistos, the vamp that killed Diana. I gotta get out here." She ran out of the library.

"Buffy, go help her." Giles ordered and Buffy ran after her, catching up with Faith outside.

"Faith, you can't fight him alone, he's too big!"

"I wasn't planning on fighting, I plan on running. I just need to get my stuff from the motel." Buffy followed her, minutes after they arrived a knock came at the door. Peeking thru the spyhole, Faith saw the manager, she opened the door to find he was dead and Kakistos was there. She slammed the door shut and both she and Buffy jumped out of the back window. Kakistos chased them into a warehouse. Both girls were badly hurt before they succeeded in getting a thick broken post shoved into Kakistos and dusting him.

Later, back in the library, Giles was treating their injuries.

"You're getting more scars, Buffy."

"Nothing I can do about it."

Cordelia pushed into the library. "What happened to you?"

"Very big and very ugly vampire." Buffy answered.

"What, does everyone around here know you're a Slayer?" Faith asked.

"No, just a couple of people. Cordelia Chase, this is Faith. She's a Slayer too."

"Oh, cause Kendra died."

"So how do you know about Slayers?"

"I used to help the group out once in a while. Now there is no group. Just her, Giles and Willow. The guy I was sorta seeing, Xander, Willow made a wish in front of a demon and got him sent away with no memory of any of us, because she didn't like the fact that he was with me. Then the guy Willow had started seeing got exposed to something that mutated him. The cops thought he was a wild, mutated animal and shot him. Giles, I need a book for class."

Giles helped her find her book and Cordelia left.

"She's not happy."

"No. Happy is not a word I would use to describe Cordelia."

"You really can't blame her, Buffy. Willow caused a big problem. We still have no idea where Xander is. He could be in a great deal of trouble. He is incapable of turning away from people in trouble and that has often led to him also getting in trouble."

"Yeah, sooner or later, he was going to get hurt real bad. I still think he's safer wherever he is."

"Did he get hurt alot?" Faith asked.

"No, actually. He rarely ever got hurt. He could be in the thick of a fight and somehow escape injury." Giles told her.

"B and Red seem to get hurt alot."

"It's par for the course when your fighting vampires." Buffy answered.

"Then why did you worry so much about this Xander getting hurt? G, here, says he didn't get hurt much, but you and Red do and you don't worry about her or you."

"It's not like Xander could do much. Willow's a genius and is studying Magic. Xander just sort of got in the way."

"Buffy, that's not true. Xander helped a great deal. He helped with training you, he helped with research, he patrolled, he came up with the plan against the Judge."

"Judge?"

"Big, blue apocalypse demon. We blew him up with a rocket launcher."

"D mentioned that. So this Xander came up with the idea?"

"Yeah, but I killed the demon."

"After Xander showed you how to use the rocket launcher."

"He knew how to use a rocket launcher?! That is so cool!"

"He just got lucky, that's all. Last year, a guy Giles used to know changed everyone into their costumes on Halloween. Xander went as a soldier and remembered it all."

"And no one else did. You knew French that night, Buffy and now Willow has to tutor you in French."

"Well, wherever he is, I hope he's at least enjoying himself." Buffy said, ignoring Giles' comments. "I'm going home, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Have a good night Buffy." Giles called after her.

"How are you doing, Faith?"

"I'll be alright."

"The Council has decided the need here in Sunnydale requires the presence of both Slayers, so I will be your Watcher from now on."

"Try not to die, like the last one."

"I shall endeavor to do my best."