Re: FIC: The red headed Slayer 7/?

["bighotvirgo" <bighotvirgo@xxxxxxxxx>]

oh, so nice to see Jenny pop up. 

I enjoy the teasing but pls tell me Buffy's not out of the running.....

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jend1205" <jend1205@y...> wrote:
> Author: Jen D
> Disclaimer: I don't own just like it. 
> Rating: G-R and all points between mostly language and violence
> Pairing: Willow/ Buffy
> Spoilers: I guess all of the shows this is A/U but some of it might 
> come up.
> 
> 
> Willow walked into the deserted library and looked around.
> "Giles?" 
> she yelled.
> 
> "Willow, what a pleasant surprise. What brings you here?"
> Giles said 
> as he came out of his office.
> 
> "Nothing really. I hope you don't mind but I told the lady
> down in 
> the office that I was a former student of yours and needed some help 
> on a project. I figured it might be a good cover if I ever needed to 
> talk to you through the day."
> 
> "Excellent idea if I say so myself. So where is the little one 
> today?" Giles asked not seeing the toddler.
> 
> "She's at her first day at day care. I have to say I'm a
> little 
> bored. Before when she was there I always had school. I was kind of 
> hoping maybe we could talk for a few minutes? I have the pleasure to 
> get to know Joyce and Buffy quite a bit but I haven't had the
> chance 
> to get to know you."
> 
> Giles sat down at the table, "Of course, what would like to
> know?"
> 
> "How did you become a Watcher?"
> 
> "My father was a Watcher and his father before him and on and on.
> I 
> guess for him there wasn't even a thought that I would do
> anything 
> else."
> 
> "And you?"
> 
> "I bloody hated the idea and I let him know."
> 
> "So you had as much of a destiny as I do?"
> 
> Giles studied the red head, "I suppose your right but it
> didn't mean 
> I had to like it. I rebelled and I got into quite a lot of trouble 
> doing it. In the end I become a Watcher and my father was a happy 
> man."
> 
> "What about you? Are you happy?" 
> 
> "I am now. I have a beautiful, intelligent wife and a wonderful 
> daughter, who I thankfully don't have to keep my secrets from. I
> have 
> a bright Slayer, who I think will probably be with me for a while. I 
> don't think I could ask for a lot more, do you?" Giles asked.
> 
> "No I suppose not and I definitely plan on being around for a
> long 
> time."
> 
> "Good and know that I will do everything in my power to make sure 
> that you are prepared and have all that you need to be successful. 
> Joyce and I both."
> 
> "Why? I mean I know that it's your job to look after me but
> what the 
> two of you have done goes way beyond what's called for."
> 
> Giles took his glasses off and began to clean them, "I'm
> going to be 
> honest here, Willow. I hope that you understand my thinking. Joyce 
> and I have a personal interest in keeping you alive and well. We 
> found out a few years ago that Buffy is a potential slayer and we 
> want to do everything in our powers to make sure she is never
> called."
> 
> "Oh god. Buffy's never said anything to me about it,"
> Willow said as 
> she began to pace around the library.
> 
> "She doesn't know."
> 
> "What?"
> 
> "We decided that we wanted her to have as much time as possible
> to 
> have a normal life. I taught her self-defense and what I can without 
> her Slayer powers. If by some chance she is called she will have a 
> good start."
> 
> "Wow"
> 
> "I know that I have put you in a awkward position of having to
> keep 
> our secret but I hope you can see why we have kept it from her."
> 
> "Yeah I think so. I know what it's like to miss out on your 
> childhood."
> 
> "How old were you when Merrick first found you?"
> 
> "Ten, I trained three years with him before I was called. Giles,
> we 
> need to make sure she never has to be called."
> 
> "I know, Willow, we will," Giles said.
> 
> "So tell me about this shop we're going to be training
> at?" Willow 
> asked.
> 
> "It's owned by a friend of mine and run by his niece, Jenny. 
> He 
> spends all his time in England now that he has gotten up there in the 
> age. I suppose someday he will leave it to her."
> 
> "What kind of shop is it?"
> 
> "It's a magic shop actually," Giles said hesitantly,
> knowing that 
> Merrick tended to stay away from magic.
> 
> Willow cocked her eyebrow, "Magic? Like pulling rabbits out of
> hats, 
> sawing people in half, magic?"
> 
> "No, more like making vamps go poof with a light spell,
> magic."
> 
> "Oh well that could be helpful," Willow said after thinking
> about it 
> for a minute.
> 
> "I'm glad you think that way because Jenny is having a young
> witch 
> who attends the university stop by today for us to meet. Jenny seems 
> to think that this girl could be of some use to us. Seems she is 
> quite powerful."
> 
> "Umm?ok, I leave that up to you but I can't say I like
> bringing 
> anyone in," Willow said mildly, not meeting his eyes.
> 
> "Willow I know that it has been pounded into your head from the 
> beginning that the Slayer works alone, that your not allowed to have 
> friends and the council isn't real happy for you to have family
> but 
> it's not how it's going to work here. You didn't have any
> problem 
> letting Angel or Spike help. Why the hesitation here?"
> 
> "They're already dead. I just soon not have someone's
> life in danger 
> because they choose to help me," Willow voice rose slightly as
> her 
> she spoke, the fear of someone's death on her shoulders creeping
> in.
> 
> "I understand, how about we meet her and go from there?"
> Giles asked 
> trying to calm her before she became any more upset.
> 
> "You're the boss," Willow said and stood to leave.
> "I'll see you 
> later, Mr. Giles."
> 
> Giles watched the doors swing shut after her, "Well that went
> well. 
> Mr. Giles? I guess I really pissed her off."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Willow wondered around the streets of Sunnydale after picking Dawn 
> up from day care enjoying the slower pace of the smaller town.
> "You 
> know Dawnie, if it wasn't for the vampires and demons that roam
> the 
> night this could be a really nice place to settle down in,"
> Willow 
> whispered to the toddler. It had been a long time since she had just 
> allowed herself to just walk along and enjoy the sun on her face. It 
> seemed like in recent years most of her daytime activities consisted 
> of running to someplace or running from someplace. Run to class, run 
> to training, to the day care, to training, to home for dinner and an 
> evening of homework and housework. All to soon it seemed to Willow 
> they were standing in front of the address that Giles had given 
> her. `The Magic Box, how cute,' Willow thought. A bell above
> the door 
> announced her arrival as she stepped into the shop. 
> 
> The woman behind the counter smiled and waved her in, "Hi,
> I'm Jenny 
> and I'd bet the store you're Willow and Dawn."
> 
> "And you would win," Willow said, a smile working it's
> way to her 
> eyes.
> 
> "Well welcome to slayer central. Rupert's in the back making
> sure all 
> the training equipment is set up."
> 
> Willow looked around the comfy store, "Slayer central?"
> 
> "Yeah with Joyce keeping the baby at home at night he wanted to
> keep 
> things as far away from there as possible, you're not a student
> at 
> the school and most of the research books are here anyway so we 
> decided that we should just use this as a meeting place."
> 
> "I see," Willow said nodding her head.
> 
> "Plus all the good places to eat are close by for those late
> night 
> research party munchies."
> 
> "Giles said that you have a friend who is a witch that you wanted
> us 
> to meet?" Willow asked looking around.
> 
> "Yeah she should be here any minute. She called and said she got
> held 
> up at class. I think she just got caught up in this new girl she met 
> a few days ago," Jenny laughed.
> 
> "Oh young love."
> 
> Jenny winked, "More like great sex form what she said. She's
> not the 
> falling in love kinda girl. If she was I'd be right there beating
> on 
> her door. I just don't think I want the casual sex thing right
> now. 
> Not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just not for
> me."
> 
> "Oh no nothing wrong with casual sex, nope not a thing, it can be 
> your best friend sometimes but I get what you're saying."
> 
> Giles stuck his head out the door at the back of the shop and walked 
> out, "Good afternoon, Willow. I see you found your way here and
> met 
> Jenny."
> 
> "Yes she did and you interrupted a good sex talk, Rupert,"
> Jenny 
> smirked at the red faced Watcher.
> 
> "Um?ur?well?" Giles sputtered but was cut off by the
> bell above the 
> door as it opened.
> 
> "Hey Jenny, sorry I'm late. That damn professor went on and
> on," Tara 
> said as flew through the door not noticing Willow or Giles standing 
> the corner. "Are they here yet."
> 
> Jenny pointed the pair out in the corner, "Willow and Rupert,
> I'd 
> like you to meet Tara the witch. Tara this is the Slayer and her 
> Watcher."
> 
> "You're a witch?" Willow yelled.
> 
> "You're the Slayer?" Tara yelled at the same time.
> 
> "Bloody hell," Giles sighed.
> 
> "Why didn't you tell me?" Willow asked.
> 
> "Why didn't you tell me?" Tara countered, approaching the
> pair.
> 
> "Oh right because I can just walk up to people and say `hi
> I'm 
> Willow, the vampire slayer'. That goes over well."
> 
> Jenny raised her hand, "Ok time out, would someone please fill me
> in 
> on what's going on here?"
> 
> "Remember me telling you about the woman I met on campus?"
> Tara asked 
> turning to Jenny.
> 
> "Yeah cute, funny, great sex?oh boy," Jenny trailed off
> finally 
> getting the picture. "Willow?"
> 
> "She gets in one," Willow said sarcastically. 
> 
> "Ok I can understand why you didn't tell me but what I
> don't get is 
> that I thought Slayer's were teenage girls. Will, how long have
> you 
> been the Slayer?" Tara asked turning back to the red head.
> 
> "Three years," Willow whispered knowing she was going to have
> a lot 
> of explaining to do.
> 
> "And how old were you when you were called?"
> 
> "Tara, I think we need to talk privately."
> 
> Jenny pointed to a door off the side of the shop, "You can use my 
> office."
> 
> "Thank you," Willow said gratefully.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "So how old?" Tara asked after shutting the door.
> 
> Willow sighed and sat down in a chair in front of the 
> desk, "Thirteen."
> 
> "But that would only make you sixteen?"
> 
> "Seventeen in a couple of weeks," Willow answered.
> 
> "You told me you were twenty. I don't understand how you
> could be 
> seventeen and have custody of Dawn? I really confused here Will."
> 
> Willow sighed and pointed to the other chair for Tara to sit 
> down, "Ok I'm going to start from the beginning, give you the
> readers 
> digest version. Merrick, who was my Watcher until his death a couple 
> of weeks ago, came to me right before my tenth birthday and told me 
> about my calling. I was called right after I turned thirteen. My 
> mother got sick when I was fourteen and I knew that there was no way 
> the council would let me stay in a foster home with Dawn if anything 
> should happen to her. So I changed a few records here and there and 
> then I was eighteen."
> 
> "So you changed your age? Why didn't you tell me?" Tara
> asked.
> 
> "Tara, it's not something I tell anyone."
> 
> "But everyone else knows? Don't you trust me?"
> 
> Willow shook her head at Tara, "It's really not a matter of
> trust. 
> Dawn?how do I say this?Dawn is the reason that I get through
> the day. 
> Hell she's the reason I didn't give up a long time ago. Tara,
> I don't 
> think I could even begin to tell you how hard things are for me 
> sometimes. I can't take the chance of anyone finding out about
> what I 
> did to keep her. I can't lose her."
> 
> "I guess it's just a little confusing to think that
> you're only 
> sixteen," Tara said.
> 
> "But I'm not. I never got to be a normal kid. I mean think
> about how 
> you'd feel if one day some strange man comes along, tells you
> that 
> all the monsters under the bed that your parents told you didn't 
> exist really did and you were the one chosen to fight them. I was 
> raising a child at fourteen; no being sixteen was something I never 
> got to be. As far as the rest of the world thinks I am going to be 
> twenty-one in a couple of weeks. Tara, I like you and I really want 
> to keep our friendship. I would have told you the truth sometime but 
> I just wasn't ready to yet."
> 
> "Can we still have sex?" Tara smirked.
> 
> "I sure as hell hope so."
> 
> Tara smiled, "What about Buffy?"
> 
> "You want to have sex with Buffy?" Willow teased.
> 
> "Well I wouldn't turn her down," Tara countered back.
> 
> "Is there anyone you wouldn't turn down?"
> 
> "Hmmm?can I get back to you on that one? Seriously Will, she
> really 
> likes you," Tara said.
> 
> "I know we talked last night and someday I wouldn't be
> opposed to 
> seeing where things could go. I just don't think she's ready
> to 
> handle what a relationship with me would be like. She deserves to 
> just be a kid for a little longer. We good?"
> 
> "Yeah, I guess. I don't think I could stay mad at you for
> very long 
> anyway," Tara said and led them back out into the shop.
> 
> Willow saw Giles, Buffy, Cordy and Xander sitting at a round table in 
> the corner of the shop and walked up, "Hey guys what brings you
> here."
> 
> "Dad wanted us to do some research on something he found in that
> book 
> the bleach boy brought him," Buffy said smiling at the red head.
> 
> "Mr. Giles, I can go as far as having Tara help out with the
> magic 
> but I refuse to have you involve these kids in this," Willow said
> her 
> voice full of anger.
> 
> "Willow, as your Watcher I have the right to involve anyone that
> I 
> see fit to help," Giles said standing.
> 
> "I think we need to talk, Mr. Giles," Willow said storming
> off to the 
> back room.
> 
> "Way to piss off the Slayer, G-man," Xander teased.
> 
> "Alexander, how many times have I told you not to call me
> that?" 
> Giles said following his Slayer.
> 
> Willow was pacing around the room with a staff twirling it as she 
> paced, "Mr. Giles, they're kids."
> 
> "I know that Willow, kids who want to help keep you alive. Kids
> that 
> I would much rather see here looking through some books then out 
> running around doing god knows what."
> 
> "But they should be talking about clothes and who dating who and
> why. 
> Not sitting around looking through dusty books, trying to research 
> this weeks feature creature."
> 
> Buffy cleared her throat and walked farther into the room, "And 
> knowing what we know do you really think that we could just talk 
> about normal things? Will, we live on a hellmouth and my father is 
> the Watcher to one of my friends who is a super human called to fight 
> the evil of the world. Honey, normal went out the window a long time 
> ago. We just want to help. I figure it this way if we find just one 
> thing that is useful then at the end of the day we helped save 
> someone. Makes us feel pretty important and useful. We're a team
> now. 
> We can be the Scooby gang, like the cartoon. Dad can be Fred, Cordy 
> can be Daphne, I can be Shaggy, Tara can be Velma and we even have a 
> little Scrappy in Dawn. Of course Xander is Scooby."
> 
> "You people are nuts," Willow sighed knowing that she had
> lost this 
> fight as soon as the blonde had walked into the room. 
> 
> "So does that mean that you'll let us help?" Buffy asked,
> bouncing up 
> and down.
> 
> "Will you keep bouncing like that?" Willow asked, completely
> wrapped 
> up in the sight. "I?um?yes." Willow blushed and
> looked to see if 
> Giles, who had moved to retrieve is own staff, had noticed her slip 
> up. 
> 
> "Maybe," Buffy said moving to watch the training session. 
> 
> Willow noticed as she was fighting with Giles, that Buffy had picked 
> up her own staff and was absently spinning it around as she watched. 
> Willow was about to block a blow from Giles when she saw the blonde 
> smack herself in the head with it and go down. "BUFFY!"
> Willow yelled 
> as she was knocked to the ground by the blow from Giles. She was on 
> her feet and at Buffy side before Giles could even register that 
> something had happened.
> 
> "Buffy," he said as he sat beside his daughter.
> 
> "Hey how'd I get down here?" Buffy asked groggily.
> 
> "You hit your head with the staff," Willow told her wiping
> the hair 
> off her forehead to check the knot that was forming there.
> 
> "You're bleeding," Buffy said, seeing the blood run down
> the Slayer's 
> cheek. 
> 
> "Giles why don't you go get some ice for her head,"
> Willow told the 
> Watcher.
> 
> Buffy tried to stand up but lost her balance pulling Willow down on 
> top of her, "Hi."
> 
> "Hi, you need to take it easy for a minute. Let the dust settle
> in 
> your head."
> 
> "God you must think I'm some kind of dork. You just look so
> good out 
> there spinning and moving, I just wanted to be able to do that and 
> all I did was knock my self out."
> 
> Willow chuckled, "You're not a dork. I've been training
> for six 
> years. I had better look good."
> 
> "I bet you didn't knock yourself out?"
> 
> "No, I knocked Merrick out, twice. He didn't like me much for
> a few 
> days," Willow laughed and soon Buffy joined her. "Feel like
> maybe you 
> can stand up now."
> 
> "Yeah, all the cobwebs are clear now."
> 
> "Come on lets go get some ice on the head," Willow said
> helping her 
> up slowly.
> 
> "Why are you bleeding?" Buffy asked.
> 
> "Your dad got a lucky shot in when I saw you go down."
> 
> "I'm sorry," Buffy whispered.
> 
> "Don't be, it'll be the last one he gets in," Willow
> laughed, and 
> together they made their way to the front of the shop.