Buffy, Willow, Xander and Giles were in the library talking about last night's hunt. If you could call it a hunt. All any of them had done was wander around looking for vampires, not a sight of one in the whole night. "Weird" Buffy said, "Vampire activity has been slow before, but never as dead as this. No pun intended!" She shot at Xander, who was unfortunate enough to be the one who was about to mention the lameness of her call. "Well What are we going to do tonight?" queried Cordelia, "I don't plan on wasting another night walking around hunting for the seriously disgusting undead!" "She has a point" Willow admitted, "we've spent a three nights looking for vamps and we haven't found one. Can't we take the night off and head to the Bronze?" "Great idea" agreed Xander. Buffy turned to face Giles, "Sorry Giles looks like you're outvoted, tonight's the night for us to cool off and have some fun. Meet you all at 7" and with that she picked up her books and headed off to math with Xander.
Buffy sat at the table alone, watching Willow and Oz dancing. Then she turned her head to see Xander and Cordelia at it together. * Great * she thought * Just my luck that all my friends are playing happy couples when the guy I love turns back into a horrible blood-sucking-demon. Wow, could my life get any worse? * "Guess I spoke too soon," she said as she turned to see a mega-ugly vamp walk out the door with Tara by his side. Buffy motioned to Willow and Oz that she was leaving for a kill (it wasn't possible to get Xander and Cordelia's attention; they were a little too focused on each other). She ran out the door into the alley to be dealt a killer of a blow to the head, courtesy of none other than Angel himself. "Gee, thanks" quipped Buffy as she pulled herself upright, "I knew I could count on you to ruin my night. Nice to see you're not into disappointing me. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to kill one of your lame friends." With that she threw the stake she had tucked in her boot straight through the heart of the other Vampire. "Tara, I think you'd find the party more happening if you went back inside" she said. With that Tara ran back inside, leaving Buffy and Angel alone to face off. "Nice to see you again Buffy" said Angel "I hope you won't mind my being here to kill you tonight"
"No problem" answered Buffy "I guess I'll have to stake you, like your little friend before you get the chance"
Before either of them got the chance to stake one another they both sensed someone watching them. they both turned to the rear of the alley, all buffy could see was two bright blue eyes staring out of the darkness.Angel was the first react, he swore and turned to face Buffy "We'll continue this later." With those final words he disappeared into the night. Buffy turned to peer down the back of the alley, but the eyes had dissapeared. * What could have scared Angel off? Oh well, I'll try to remember to ask Giles about it tomorrow morning * she thought as she headed back into the Bronze.
The next day at school she entered the Library to find Giles telling a new student all about the borrowing rules of the Library. * Gimme a break * thought Buffy. * I need to tell Giles about last night and who'd wanna learn about the Library anyway? * Giles looked up from what he was doing. "Oh, hello Buffy. This is Niki, she just transferred here from L.A." "Hi, how are you?" Buffy politely asked. "Um, Fine thanks, Mr. Giles is just showing me around the Library before school starts" answered Niki. At that moment the bell for first rang and Giles sent the two of them off to class. After the two morning classes with her; Xander, Willow and Buffy were in agreement that Niki wasn't all that bad. Niki was 170cm tall with auburn hair that fell just below her shoulders. She had deep chocolate eyes and a voluptuous body that had gained plenty of admiring looks from guys in all her morning classes. She was, like Buffy, a shopaholic; could handle a computer with complete ease and had gained Xander's approval due to her interest in sports.
During Lunch, whilst Niki was in a meeting with Principal Snyder, Buffy, Willow and Xander were filling Giles, Cordelia and Oz in about Niki. "You never know, maybe we've found ourselves another slayerette" quipped Xander.
"Give me a break" moaned Cordelia. "Anyway who's to say she's not just another demon in disguise. We seem to have plenty of them around here"
"Hellmouth, sweet Hellmouth..." muttered Buffy."Well we've invited her to the Bronze with us tonight. So you'd better make out all nice Cordelia" Buffy said
That night was uneventful. Buffy and Niki sat and chatted whilst Willow and Oz and Xander and Cordelia danced. Buffy was starring into space thinking about Angel when she felt someone tapping her.
"So who is he?" Niki queried.
"What?" said Buffy.
"Hello, I've like been calling your name only like twenty times and you still just sat there like some undead goon. I mean consider the evidence; you're a female teenager, who's at a raving club and you're starring into space, off in LA LA Land. What other conclusion am I going to come to!!!"
"It's a long story" said Buffy. Thinking, * What am I supposed to tell her that I fell in love with a vampire with a soul, who's now lost his soul and is walking the streets at night waiting to kill me. Sure she'll think I'm sane! * "I don't really want to go into it" she said aloud.
"Not a problem. I understand" Niki said. "All I can say is that if you really like the guy, you never know, sometimes miracles do happen."
* Great! * thought Buffy, * Now I know what I need, a soul-restoring miracle! No sweat! Should be a piece of cake finding one of those!! * "Thanks Niki" she said aloud.
"Well I've got to go home. I've got a ton of work to catch up on before school on Monday. Night Buffy. Say bye to everyone else for me."
"Night Niki! Don't forget you're meeting Xander, Cordelia, Willow and I for some serious shopping tomorrow."
A week later Buffy was back on patrol detail. She had just finished staking a freshly emerged vampire when ten vamps on ‘Catch Buffy' detail showed up. * Oh, great * thought Buffy * I'm all by myself and the goon squad decides to rock up. Oh well, lucky I came prepared. * With that she pulled out a couple of stakes and got ready to fight. Fifteen minutes later the score was Buffy: 5, goon squad: 0. But Buffy was beginning to tire, killing these guys wasn't all that easy. She was seriously wishing someone would turn up to give her a hand. A quick look around was enough to see that her fairy godmother wasn't granting wishes tonight, not a sign of Willow or Xander coming to help her out of this one. She was just beginning to lose the upper hand when out of nowhere Niki showed up, stake in hand, "thought you might be able to use some help."
Buffy let out a quick gasp when she saw Niki's eyes shining a brilliant blue but had to get back into the fight. Once the score had become Goon squad: 0 Buffy and Niki: 10, Niki turned to Buffy saying "I guess you kinda want to know what I'm doing here staking your Vampires"
"It'd be nice to be filled in" Buffy answered. "For starters" she said staring at Niki's now brown eyes, "what's with the freaky eye colour changing thing?"
"You want the long or short version, I know I'll give you a run down and you can just ask questions at the end. Basically the story goes that: I have some issues with vamps, I kinda don't like them and what they stand for, so that's why I stake them. The reason I'm here is that I've come to sort out one vamp in particular. I got an e-mail some time ago from Jenny Calendar, mentioning Angelus - a guy I've had issues with for some time now. So to make the story short, when I didn't hear from Jenny again I figured Angelus had got her and decided to come out here and sort him out myself. Jenny mentioned that the slayer had some ‘other' issues with him and that it'd be best if she, I mean you, didn't have to take the guy out on your own. So here I am. Oh and with the eye thing it's kinda part of my curse"
"Curse!!" spluttered Buffy "And here I was thinking you were just another new kid!"
"Sorry, um, I was a princess in Europe about a hundred years ago, when I was killed by a vampire. The vampire who killed me was named Angelus, or as you know him now: Angel. That's why I'm here. But before I talk about that I just want to reassure you that I'm not a vamp. Well at least not in the sense that I go around biting people etc. My godmother was a witch. When she found out how I'd been killed she sat by my grave waiting for me to rise. When I did, instead of staking me she put a spell on me giving me a soul. Kinda like the one Angel had but mine's permanent. The other part of the curse is that I'm destined to seek out the Vampire that killed me and make amends. Then there's the eye thing, Slayers get cramps when they sense a vampire; My eyes turn blue when I'm either angered or about to kill. Just one of those everyday symptoms of a vampire killer.
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