Dark Paradise: Expecting 4: Safe Haven
by Wonkabar
CLEM ISLAND - 2045

The spaceliner passes through the energy barrier that kept the island safe. It was the reason that every mission had to carry a wiccan. Maple looked out of the cockpit window as the Spaceliner came in for a landing.

Buffy and Faith were waiting for their loved ones to get back. The two orginal Slayers had long since retired, both were now in their sixties. They were the only two from the orginal Sunnydale group that dyes their hair. The Spaceliner pulls into the hangar and out of the sun. The huge doors close and the team gets out. Faith hugs Maple tightly, while Buffy hugs Spike and William. As always Buffy gets a slight hug from Kennedy.

Buffy looked at her daughter as she walked towards the tunnel that leads from the hangar to the basement of the house. William acts and looks a lot like Spike. Kennedy has Buffy's looks, but the darkness....Buffy has no idea were Kennedy gets that from. They were times when Kennedy was practicing with some of the Slayers, and she hurt a few of them. Accidents happen in training, and everyone feels bad about it. Everyone expect Kennedy...she felt nothing. It's almost like dealing with a zombie than a half vampire.

After everyone was in the house, it was debriefing time. Dawn Harris and her husband Xander were already there.

DAWN-
"So anything?"

MAPLE-
"No. Nothing again."

XANDER-
"Well, no bad guys either, so that's a plus." He looks into Kennedy's eyes and they briefing turn yellow, like a vampire's would. Xander looks away, a little shaken. Kennedy turns and storms out with Buffy behind her.

BUFFY-
"What's your problem?"

KENNEDY-
"Problem....why would I have a problem? You and Dawn send us time after time in search of humans. Face it, mum. There are no humans left, expect the ones of this island."

BUFFY-
"What do you want to do? Take 120 people and fight 6 billion demons?"

Kennedy rolls her eyes and walks off. Later that day, Willow and Buffy are sitting on the beach. Willow is also watching her granddaughter Josie, while Buffy is babysitting Xander's grandson, Jonathon.

BUFFY-
"I don't understand her, Will. She's so....angry, and what's scares me is that's all she shows."

WILLOW-
"I understand it."

BUFFY-
"You do."

WILLOW-
"Look who her parents are. I can still remember so many times when things were down, and the only thing you could thing of was 'Show me who I can hit.' Spike, right after he got his chip, was so down, until he learned he can hit demons. You and Spike were warriors, and Kennedy is just the same way. She sees the world all screwed up the way it is, and she can't fight."

BUFFY-
"Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe instead of searching for more humans to bring here, maybe we should start taken back the world."

WILLOW-
"I agreed (Buffy looks at her in surprise). Buffy look at us....you, me, Xander, and Faith. We're all in our sixties now. How many more years do you think we have? Ten...twenty. Do you really want to go knowing that the world you swore to protect is their world now."

Buffy looks at towards the ocean, her best friend was right. It was time for war....again.

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