Futures Hope: Return to chaos: Chapter two
by little firecracker
Disclaimer: The buffyverse and its character's do not belong to me, however Hope does
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Buffy and the others were sat around the kitchen, while they had been at the Bronze Spike had called Buffy and told her and the others to meet them back at the house, they had been back half an hour and Spike and Hope still weren't back as Buffy paced the room.

"They'll be here." Xander said sensing her worry

At that moment the front door opened Spike and Hope walked in, limping into the kitchen Hope found everyone stood around the counter.

"Full house." she said pulling out a stool from the counter and sitting on it.

"Whoa, twelve steps not working for you Future Girl?" Faith asked as the smell of liqueur filled her nostrils.

"Apparently not." Hope said looking at her cloths which were still soaked and had begun to stick to her.

Hope pulled off her jacket closing her eyes for a second at the pain in her shoulder and ribs. As spike walked over and stood beside Buffy.

"What happened?" Buffy said seeing the blood on Spikes t shirt, and the nasty looking cuts on Hopes shoulder "Who did this?"

Spike and Hope looked at each other neither of them wanting to be the narrator of this story.

"How 'bout we get the littlest slayer all patched up then we'll fill you in." Spike said sitting on the stool beside Hope.

"Patched up, you’re the one with a hole in you're chest." Hope said as Willow placed a first aid kit on the counter.

Spike took of his coat before turning so that his back was to the counter, opening the box Buffy pulled out some alcohol and gauze before ripping Spike's bloody shirt in half. Willow stood behind Hope taking a quick look at her shoulder.

"There's still some glass in there that need's to come out." Willow said before putting on a pair of gloves she pulled out a pair of tweezers from the box.

"This is gonna hurt isn't it?" Hope asked the red head.

Willow gave the young slayer a sympathetic nod before setting to work on removing the glass.

"What happened?" Faith asked sitting opposite the future slayer.

"We went to Willy's only been in there five minutes and then the bloody door gets kicked in." Spike said as Buffy tended to his wound.

"Who did this?" Buffy asked anger welling up inside of her at how close to Spike's heart the wound was it was obvious he'd been shot with a crossbow.

"Slayers, six of them." Hope said causing the room to fall silent.

"They came in started tearing the place to pieces killed everyone." Spike told them

"Wait I don’t see how that's bad I mean isn't that a slayers job to kill demons?" Andrew asked clearly confused about what was so wrong with that.

"There was a man..." Hope didn't need to continue the others already knew what had happened.

"Oh that's bad, that's....." Andrew said before trailing off.

"Did they know... that he was ..." Xander asked trying to process what he had just heard.

"He tried to run, made it as far as the door before..." Hope said anger filling her voice.

"Did you recognize any of them?" Kennedy asked from where she stood next to Xander.

"None of ours I would have spotted them.... ow! Bloody hell slayer." Spike yelled as Buffy pressed on a little too had as she bandaged the wound.

"Oh be quiet ya big baby." Hope said laughing at the vampire’s outburst.

Spike turned to face Buffy who gave him a sheepish smile before continuing.

"What happened... after I mean?" Dawn asked

"All hell broke loose. The demons joined in the fight...Ouch!!!!" Hope said breaking off and looking at Willow.

"Got it." said Willow who was stood behind Hope holding up a large piece of glass with the tweezers in her hand.

Hope turned her gaze towards Spike who raised his left eyebrow.

"You were saying." Spike said grinning at the young slayer.

"Can it William or I finish the job." Hope joked waving a stake in front of her before placing it back on the counter.

"The demons stepped in some put up a decent fight against the slayers before they were killed, even took one with them." Hope told them.

"Funny thing is I'm lying on the floor with an arrow hanging out of me and they just pass on by like I’m not even there, went straight for Hope." Spike told them.

"Why?" Faith asked

"I don’t know the one I fought was acting like I had betrayed them or something, kept going on about how I had lost the mission. that I should be with them." Hope said as Willow finished dressing the wound on her shoulder.

"Thanks." she said giving the witch a grateful smile.

"Psycho slayer and her buddies jumped me." Hope told them holding her side as she stood up.

"Really did a number too. Could've been worse if Spike hadn't jumped in." she said giving the vampire a grateful look.

"So psycho slayer sends the others after Spike so she can have me to herself, kind enough to launch me into the bar before she left." she said rubbing her hand over the bandage on her shoulder.

"I get the felling she really didn't like me?" she said turning her attention back to the others.

"Because you hang out with a vampire or cause you don't kill people?" Xander asked shifting on his feet.

"Y' know I forgot to ask." Hope said matching Xanders sarcasm.

"Wait they left, after all that they just left?" Dawn asked

"Yeah they were coming at me and then the just stopped, said something about being called to then they just left.

"Look's like Giles picked a good time to come home." Willow said packing up the first aid box.

"Giles is back?" hope asked

"Yeah his plane lands in an hour." Buffy told her

"Ok, mind if I grab a shower, ‘cause alcoholic slayer not the first impression I want to make." Hope asked

"No go ahead." Buffy said putting Spike's ruined t shirt into the bin.

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Water ran from the shower head as steam began to fill the small bathroom, wareing only a towel Hope stood in front of the small mirror that was hung above the sink. Turning on her feet so that she could see her back in the mirror she slowly pulled off the bandage Willow had applied earlier, to reveal a series of tiny cuts and scrapes.

Pulling her hair to one side she stared at two large scars that ran down the top of her back.

"It's started." she said before turning away and walking towards the shower.


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