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Buffy meets the gang and someone else too ; )

A huge thanks to my Beta Serendipity (Christine) for going over this chapter for me and getting it back to me super fast thanks sweetie your the best. Also a huge thanks to Edgehead (Mel) so the awesome banner, i love it so much sweetie!!!!!!


Chapter two.

Friend or foe.

Buffy walked into the magic box following her new watcher, looking around she saw a group of people sitting in the centre of the shop around a large table, walking towards them she heard one speak.

“Thank you, god,” Xander whispered, looking at the blond following Giles through the shop. She was gorgeous with long blond hair, black leather pants and a skin tight red top “Ouch!” Xander hissed, when he felt his girlfriend, Anya, hit him. Stopping in front of the group, Giles couldn’t help but sigh deeply.

“Buffy, this is Willow, her girlfriend Tara, Xander, his girlfriend Anya, and Dawn. Everyone, this is Buffy Summers the slayer.”

Buffy couldn’t believe her ears, snapping her head towards Giles.

“Um, apparently you don’t know the meaning of secret identity,” she snapped.

“Oh no, Buffy, these people well they were very close friends with Faith, the other slayer, they helped her when she needed it. You see Willow and Tara are witches, Anya is a thousand year old ex demon and Xander… well Xander helps where he can.”

“Hey!” Xander snapped, slightly hurt.

Buffy laughed softly at his reaction.

“So, who is the kid?” Buffy asked, pointing at Dawn.

“So not a kid! I’m sixteen as in teenager” Dawn said, standing up hands crossing over her chest.

“Oh, this is Dawn, Faith’s little sister.”

“The key,” Buffy stated matter-of-factly.

Giles knew he shouldn’t be shocked that Buffy knew about Dawn, she had been the slayer for twelve years, after all.

“I was, not anymore though,” Dawn whispered thinking of that night that she lost her sister.

Buffy nodded at this.

“Well, it’s nice to meet you all but the thing is, I kind of work alone.” She could see the hurt look on their faces and instantly felt bad but it was true, she worked better alone in the field. She had learned long ago, that taking humans out with her was a recipe for disaster, a fatal one.

“Look, no offense, I’m sure you guys are great but I have a strict no human policy in the field.”

“Oh no, Buffy, Faith was very much the same she rarely let anyone patrol with her,” Giles corrected.

“Yeah, we just helped with research and you know spells and stuff,” Willow spoke up.

“Oh, well, cool that’s fine.” Buffy had never been the research type anyway “Well, I just wanted to drop in meet the new watcher, here is the address of where I’ll be staying,” Buffy said, passing Giles a piece of paper.

“I know this house it’s actually just across the street from Dawn’s house, I live there now with Dawn and Spike.”

This got Buffy’s interest, she knew that name.

“Spike?”

“Uh yes, I’m afraid he couldn’t be here tonight and I’m not sure you will see him often either to be honest.”

“Are we talking about William the bloody? The Scourge of Europe? Slayer of slayers?”

“Well yes, but he works on the side of good now, he was an ally of Faith’s for quite a while.”

“But, you know he’s still evil so please if you feel the need to slay be our guest.” Xander smiled.

“God, Xander, you’re a jerk!” Dawn hissed, putting her hands on her hips.

“Dawnie…” he started, only to be cut off by the enraged teen.

“Don’t Dawnie me, if it wasn’t for Spike you would have been killed more times than I can count this summer you might want to show a little of loyalty and appreciation instead of being such a git all the time,” she spat before storming off into the training room.

“A git? Giles she is spending way too much time with that guy.”

“Xander, do shut up,” Giles snapped.

Xander sat back in his chair almost sulking. Buffy couldn’t help but laugh softly.

“Wow, she is a real fire cracker… I like her.” Buffy smiled. “Well, I’m off. I’ll do a patrol before heading home.” She smiled, turning and heading for the door.

“Be sure to check in, in the morning,” Giles called.

Turning to face him, she nodded.

“And Buffy, please be careful.”

“Always,” she smiled, before walking out into the night.

2 hours later

Buffy had been patrolling for two hours now, moving from cemetery to cemetery, dark alley to dark alley. It had been a pretty busy night, five demons and after the tenth vampire she had lost count of how many she had dusted, it was clear that word was spreading that the hell mouth was unguarded.

She was here now though, and she knew before the night was out she would have to get the message around Sunnydale that there was a new slayer in town and she was not to be messed with.

She was fighting two vampires at the moment in Restfield cemetery, they would be easy kills she knew that, but this was her chance to send that message before heading home. She had been at them for a bit, beating them back and forth wearing them out so when she knocked them both down it was no surprise that they didn’t get up, looking up at her exhausted.

“You two have a chance to live, do you want that chance?”

Looking at each other and then back up at her, they nodded eagerly.

“Good, here is what I want you to do, get the word out, Sunnydale is no longer unprotected, there is a new slayer in town and I’m here to stay, you got that?”

They nodded again, jumping to their feet.

“Good, get out of here,” she said watching as they turned and started to flee.

“How many vampires does it take to spread a message, Spike?” she asked, not bothering to turn and face him, she knew he was there she had known for a while.

“One pet,” he smiled. She nodded, grabbing the base of her stake lining it up and throwing it at one of the retreating vampires backs, it hit dead on the second vampire stopped only for a second to watch his friends turn to dust before fleeing again.

“So, knew I was there huh?” he asked, watching her turn to face him.

She smiled.

“Have for a while.”

“Just wanted to make sure you had everything under control,” he explained.

“And it took you over an hour to figure that out?”

He laughed softly, he shouldn’t be surprised that she had known he was there the whole time, Giles had said she was good.

“Honestly, I liked watching you dance,” he smirked.

She nodded feeling hot tingles spread through her.

“Honesty, nice touch,” she laughed softly.

“Listen, I just want to make things clear about me…” he started, but she cut him off.

“Giles told me about you being Faith’s ally for a while now, he didn’t give me details, though.”

“Cliff notes version, there was a military group here a while back that put a chip in my brain that sends pain waves through my brain if I try to hurt anything human. Faith took me in, kept me safe, and helped me get back on my feet. I’ve been helping ever since.”

She nodded.

“But, you can hurt demons, though?”

“Yeah… so, what do you think?”

“About what?”

“Me? Friend or foe?”

“Honestly, undecided.”

“Fair enough,” he nodded, a little hurt that she didn’t trust him but then again, she had no reason to, she didn’t know him or the good things he had done, all she probably saw was a vampire, he was probably lucky she hadn’t staked him already.

“Giles trusts you so does Dawn, in fact the only one who said I was free to dust you was Xander.”

“He would, bloody git, should have let him get eaten this summer,” Spike replied, annoyed.

Buffy couldn’t help but laugh

“Want to let me in on the joke pet”

“It’s just, when Xander said I could dust you Dawn said something similar about him being a git.”

“That’s my bite size,” Spike smiled proudly.

“You care for her a lot,” Buffy said, it was more of a statement than a question.

“She’s a good kid and she’s been through a lot,”

Buffy nodded, the watchers council had told her about the key and Glory and of course. what Faith had done to save her sister. Buffy’s heart broke for Faith and for Dawn but she knew if it had been her, she would have done the same thing.

“I’m willing to trust their judgment,” she smiled.

Spike looked shocked.

“Really?”

“Yeah, and I’m taking a lot on faith here so I feel I must say this… if you betray me…” Buffy started.

Spike rolled his eyes, knowing where this was going.

“You’ll stake me good and proper… yeah, yeah, I have heard that threat before, luv,” he sighed.

“Then listen up, because I won’t stake you but by the time I’m done with you… you’ll be begging me too,” she stated seriously, turning and starting to walk away from him.

Spike couldn’t help but shutter at how cold her voice had gotten and he didn’t doubt for a moment that her threat was actually a promise.

Turning back to face him, she smiled softly. “So, you going to patrol with me or just follow me around hiding behind trees and headstones?”

He laughed softly. “I think I’ll just patrol with you,” he replied, walking up to her.

She nodded, happy with his answer as they both headed off into the night.


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