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Title: Change
Chapter Two: Smoking Cigarettes 
Disclaimer: All BTVS characters belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.
Summary: A very different Buffy returns to Sunnydale. 
Spoilers: Tough Love
Thanks: Cheryl Hill 
Warning: Smut, strangeness & lesbians all in a story.

Smoking Cigarettes

The first odd thing Willow noticed was the cigarette. Before they even
reached Angels' car, Buffy had lit up and was smoking like a pro. 

"Buffy, ah... the... ah...you know .........when the... you're smoking."
Willow babbled as the others turned around and looked at the slayer.

"I can't believe you are still ragging on me about the smoking. What's it
going to do kill me?" Buffy said throwing up her arms. "I forgot what an
anti smoking freak you are, the year we lived together I thought you would
never stop lecturing me about smoking." Buffy said between puffs. 

"Buffy you're not smoking in my car." Angel said studying Buffy carefully.

"Mine either." Giles added a little shocked

"You both still act like I am seventeen." Buffy replied taking a puff and
stomping out the cigarette. "And you are both worse than my mother about it.
At least when mom caught me smoking when I was 15 she just said 'don't do it
in front of your sister.' I still get cramps just thinking about the time
Giles made me write a thousand times 'Smoking is bad for slayers'." Buffy
babbled getting into the back of Angels' car, as the rest of her friends
looked on stunned.

"Since when did Buffy smoke?" Cordelia asked Angel totally puzzled. 

"Since forever, God even when I was a slayer I could have heard that, I have
vampire hearing now. I hear every whisper. And come on Cordelia you knew I
smoked, you used to make all those comments in the girls' bathroom about my
smoking. Smells like slayer. What is wrong with you guys." Buffy said
looking at her friends like they had all lost their minds.

"We are just not used to you being a vampire, that's all." Angel replied
holding the door open for Willow. 

Willow climbed in beside Buffy followed by Cordelia. Giles and Wes got in
the front with Angel. Giles had left his keys with Xander. 

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Xander had called a couple of carpenter buddies of his from work to do a
rush job on the door. In about an hour the 3 men had fixed the door. The
whole time the girl just sat on the floor where Buffy had left her seemingly
not reacting to anything. Even the loud sounds of hammering and a drill did
not cause a single reaction from her. 

Anya had opened Buffy's drawer of money several times but a 1000 years of
lifetime told her that it was not wise to play with a vampire's possession,
especially a slayer vampire. So she moved over to the girl. Placing her hand
under the girl's chin she turned the girl's head back and forth and looked
carefully in her eyes. 

"She is an Akacsal. That is amazing. If you only knew how hard it is to make
one of them. I know a few vamps that can make a Reinfield, but an Akacsal
now that is impressive. Oh sorry honey I forgot all about you and Drac."
Anya said still turning the girls head and looking in her eyes.

Xander checked the new hinge on the door and handed some cash over to David,
one of the guys he hired to put a new door in. "Can we talk about something
else." 

"Sure, sorry, it's just you don't know how powerful a mage you have to be to
make an Akacsal." Anya comment then sat down beside the girl.

As the other two men gathered their tools, Xander moved back in the room and
looked at Anya and asked, "Ok what is an Acaseof whatever." 

"Akacsal, and she is an Akacsal. Blood toys for vampires. She can feed a
vampire; her body replaces the lost blood really quickly. She is so much
more than a Reinfield. She is immortal for starters, and as sex toys they're
a thing of legend. And she can project her presents for her master.
Sometimes they are called keys, not like Dawn was a key, They can walk in
uninvited anywhere and anywhere they go their master can go, or mistress in
this case. But they are really hard to make; it takes years to just get
someone ready to become an Akacsal. Normally you fry their brain before you
get to the final stage." Anya explained.

Xander looked at the girl and said, "Honey I am not so sure about the fried
brain part now."

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Katherine of Argon looked through the eyes of her creation. She laughed at
the boy's statement. He had no idea how truly cunning her little pet could
be. The girl had been an important find before she began the process of
changing her into a plaything. 

In truth she was a little upset Buffy had chosen this particular toy as her
own pet. But it really didn't matter, she didn't plan on going very long
with out Buffy by her side, and if the girl pleased her lover then all the
better. 

Buffy had been her ultimate creation. Katherine had grown bored with her
life when she had heard of the slayer fighting a hell god. She had moved to
Sunnydale to watch the battle, only if the slayer won would she be deserving
of her attention. 

When Buffy expelled Glory to another dimension, Katherine knew her mate was
at hand. She had taken the Slayer from her hospital bed while she was
weakened. And she began making the changes inside the slayer's brain.
Changing her sexuality was only the first step; she added color to her
sexual taste, and general personality. The first step was to get her to
smoke. It may have sounded crazy but it was a keystone in changing her
personality. After that everything else fell into place. And once she had
the changes in place she simply turned the slayer. All the changes had to be
made before the slayer died for the demon to have those traits.

Only the girl had to be a slayer. Katherine hadn't counted on that factor.
That damn soul splinter that Slayers sometimes keep after they are turned.
Well she was going to get rid of that nuisance once and for all. Only she
was going to have to wait for the right time. 

Now Buffy was too dangerous even for her. The splinter was in flux
currently. Buffy's damn guilt popping up left and right. Her soul splinter
wasn't stable at all. Mostly Katherine just hoped it would go away on its
own. But it was more likely to become permanent. In the process it was not
safe for her to be near Buffy. The fact that Buffy was worried to death
about her kid sister had worked out well for her. Letting Buffy run off to
her family while the damn thing fluxed was the safest thing for her. It also
gave her time to find a way of getting rid of the damn soul fragment. 

Buffy was too good a lover and too strong an ally for her to just give up.
Buffy was either going to be hers or dead.

Still she had to be careful. Doing something stupid like killing off the
one-time slayers friends and family would only serve to drive Buffy away. No
she was going to have to be careful and sneaky. At least she could use Pet
to watch her lover.

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Xander finished up in Buffy's room. "Ok how do we get her up or do we just
bring food here?" he asked Anya.

Anya snapped her fingers and held out her hand. The girl got up taking
Anya's hand. "She does what ever you tell her to. Let's go to one of those
buffet places, Ryans would be good. She needs lots of food. Buffy has been
sucking on her a lot." Anya replied holding the girl's hand and walking to
the door.

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They went into the restaurant and Xander paid. Anya just looked at the girl
and said, "I don't need to tell you what to do?" 

"No mistress." The girl replied and picked up her plate and went to the bar.

After the seven plates of food she ate, Xander was getting worried. "You
really take that all you can eat thing to heart" He replied watching the
girl.

"She needs to eat. It takes a lot of energy to lose that much blood. Plus
all the fucking." Anya said as an old couple passed by their table. Xander
just blushed. 

"My guess is Buffy has been really feeding on her since she came to
Sunnydale. Still the girl can't be her only blood source." Anya said taking
a sip of coke.

"I still can't believe it's Buffy doing this." Xander replied as the girl
got up for another plate of food. "When we busted in, she had all those
bruises and her ...." Xander replied thinking of the nude girl underneath
Buffy.

"Caning, the girl was caned." Anya replied watching the girl at the bar.
"Besides it isn't really Buffy. A soul splinter isn't a soul; it's like a
shadow of a soul. The inprint of some of Buffy's soul is there but not a
real soul. Buffy isn't like Angel at all. It's like a shadow or photograph
of Buffy that was left behind." Anya explained. 

"I still don't understand," Xander said as the girl returned and sat down.

"It's kind of like Spike's chip, she is a demon but she has this splinter
inside, a chip-like piece of her soul that makes her feel guilt, or lets her
care about people. But it's not complete. It's not a surprise she ended up
here. She feels like she is missing something, it's her soul that she is
missing only she doesn't know that, she doesn't really know it because she,
the demon Buffy, has never had a soul." Anya explained carefully.

"That isn't good is it?" Xander asked as Angelus memories flooded his brain.

"No it isn't good." Anya said evenly.

"I am finished mistress. May I go to the bathroom." The girl asked.



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