3rd Person's POV

Kendra stands at attention as Giles paces around the library. Buffy just leans on a chair with her left hand and has her right hand on her hip.

The girl had come to Angel's house and tried to kill her. She had no idea who the chick was. Apparently she said she was a vampire slayer. But there was no way.

"And your Watcher is, i-is Sam Zabuto, you say?"

Kendra nods, "Yes, sir."

Giles shrugs approvingly, "We've never met, but he, he's, he's very well-respected."

"What, so he's a real guy? As in non-fictional?"

"And you are called...?"

Kendra stands tall as she answers Giles with confidence, "I am de Vampire Slayer."

Buffy rolls her eyes, "We got that part, hon. He means your name."

Kendra sheepishly smiles, "Oh. Dey call me Kendra. I have no last name, sir."

Buffy huffs haughty, "Can you say 'stuck in the 80's'?"

Giles sighs in frustration, "Buffy, please. Uh, there's obviously some, some misunderstanding here."

Willow comes bouncing into the library with a smile on her face as Laney walks beside her distracted texting. Kendra marches around Buffy to intercept them.

Willow grins greets them, "Hey!"

Laney nods, "Sup." She then looks up from her phone and sees the girl she had run into earlier, "Hey I know you..."

Kendra gets into a fighting position, "Identify yourself!"

Willow is taken aback and her smile fades to a frown. Laney quickly stands in front of Willow and copied the same fighting stance as Kendra making her raise her eyebrows in disbelief.

"Back off, pink ranger! You take one step close to Will and I'll knock you on your ass... no matter how nicely dressed you are. And pretty..."

Willow pinches Laneys arm, "Not the time."

"Right sorry."

Buffy groans and steps towards Kendra then grabs her arms putting them down, "Relax. These are my friends."

Kendra looks at Buffy confused, "Friend?"

"Yeah." Buffy nods, "As in person you hang with? Amigo?"

"I don't understand."

Buffy turns to Giles, with an exasperated sigh, "You try. I'm tapped."

She sits in a chair with Willow now sitting beside her.

Laney rolls her eyes, "Be nice Buff... she's obviously not from around her. Why don't you explain Giles?"

Giles nods as Laney sits on the table. Kendra gives Laney a grateful look before going back to a stoic face.

"Uh-uh, Kendra, uh, there are a-a-a few people, uh, ci-civilians if you like, who, who know Buffy's identity. Willow is one of them, a-a-and they also, um, spend time together, uh, socially. Same with Laney."

"And you allow dis, sir?"

"And I oop..."

"Laney... Well, uh Kendra..."

"But de Slayer must work in secret for security."

Giles nods, "Of course, uh, but, uh, with Buffy, however, it-it's, um, some flexibility is required."

"Why?"

Laney snorts as Buffy gives Giles a look. She then looks at Kendra and whistles grabbing the girls attention.

"Have you ever heard of the phrase, 'Two heads are better than one'?"

Kendra nods.

"Oh good. Well that's kind of why."

Giles clears his throat, "And um Laney here is a potential if that means anything."

Kendra nods, "I can tell. The girl has strong arms."

Laney blushes, "Stop it..."

Willow looks around confused before raising her hand, "Hi, guys sorry to interrupting. But um...W-what's goin' on?"

Buffy shrugs, "Apparently there's been a really big mix-up."

Giles nods, "Uh, it seems somehow that, uh, another Slayer has been sent to Sunnydale."

"Is that even possible? I mean, two Slayers at the same time?" Willow questions glancing between Kendra and Buffy.

"Not to my knowledge. Um, th-the new Slayer is only called after the previous Slayer has died."

"Uh Giles did you forget?..." Laney grimaces.

Giles pauses realizing what Laney had meant, "Oh, good Lord! You were dead, Buffy."

Buffy frowns, "I was only gone for a minute."

"Clearly it doesn't matter how long you were gone. You were physically dead! Thus causing the activation of the, the next Slayer." He nods toward Kendra.

"Nice..."

Buffy glares at Laney making Laney smile.

"Not nice... totally not nice at all."

Kendra stares at Buffy in awe, "She died?"

"Just a little." Buffy replies.

Giles adds, "She drowned, but she was revived."

Willow smiles, "So there really are two of them!"

Giles sits, "It would seem so. This is completely unprecedented! I'm quite flummoxed."

"What's the flum? It's a mistake, she isn't supposed to be here, she goes home!" Buffy turns to Kendra, "Look, no offense, I really don't mean this personally, but I'm not dead, and frankly having you around creeps me out just a little bit."

Kendra shakes her head, "I cannot just leave. I was sent here for a reason. Mr. Zabuto said all de signs indicate dat a very dark power is about to rise in Sunnydale."

Buffy gets up, "And what's your great plan for finding this dark power? You just gonna attack people randomly till you find a bad one?"

"Of course not." Kendra scoffs.

"Then why the hell did you attack me?" Buffy asks exasperated.

"I tought you were a vampire."

"Oh, a swing and a miss for the rookie." Buffy walks around Kendra to Willow.

Kendra glares, "I had good reason to tink you were. Did I not see you kissing a vampire?"

Willow stands up in her defense, "Buffy would never do that!"

Laney clears her throat raising an eyebrow at Willow, "Five letters, Will..."

Willow realizes and smiles sheepishly, "Oh..." She looks at Buffy, "Except for that sometimes you do that. But only with Angel. Right?"

Buffy looks at her in shock, "Yes! Right." Glancing at Kendra, Buffy continues, "Look, you saw me with Angel, and he is a vampire, but he's good."

Kendra frowns, "Angel? You mean Angelus? I've read about him. He is a monster."

Giles waves a hand, "No, no, no, he's, he's good now."

Willow smiles, "Really!"

Laney shrugs, "Eh... he's mean to me."

Willow slaps her arm.

"Ouch... I'm kidding. Except when he called me short stack earlier. I'm not that short..."

Buffy sighs, "Are you done?"

Laney nods holding a thumbs up.

Buffy shakes her head smiling before looking back at Kendra, "He had a gypsy curse."

"He has a what?"

"Y'know what, just trust me on this one, okay? He's on the home team now."

Kendra scoffs, "I cannot believe you. He looked to me just like anodder animal when I..."

"When you what?" Buffy walks closer to confront her, "What did you do to him?"

"Uh oh..."

"I..."

"What did you do?!"

...

In the back room of Willy's bar, Angel leans against the back wall, weakened by the ambient light. Willy comes in and looks at him. He opens the cage door and walks in. He uses his body to shade Angel from the direct sunlight and drags him out of the cage and into another storage room. There he opens a hatch in the floor to the sewers below and drops Angel down into the shallow water.

Angel is too weak to get up on his own. Willy lowers himself through the hatch and drops to the water, too.

He's unhappy about the fact that his shoes have just been ruined. Spike walks into the light from the shadows.

"There you go, friend. He'll be as good as new in a day or so."

Two of Spike's thugs arrive to drag Angel away. Willy holds up his hands to stop them.

"Uh, hey, wai-wait. We had a deal, right?"

Spike pulls out a wad of cash, "What's the matter, Willy? Don't you trust me?"

Willy scoffs, "Oh, yeah. Like a brother."

Spike slaps him across the cheek.

"Talk and I'll have your guts for garters."

"Wild horses couldn't drag it."

Spike holds up the last bill, crumbles it and drops it into the water, "Oops! Sorry, friend."

Willy bends over to pick up the bill as the two thugs grab Angel and drag him off.

Willy nods towards Angel, "What are you gonna do with him anyway?"

Spike shrugs nonchalantly, "I'm thinkin' maybe dinner and a movie. I don't want to rush into anything. I've been hurt, you know."

...

Minutes later, Buffy barges through the door to the back room of Willy's bar.

"Angel?!"

Kendra walks into the cage where she left him and looks around.

"No ashes." Kendra states.

Buffy frowns confused, "What?"

"When a vampire combusts, he leaves ashes." Kendra replies knowingly.

"Yeah, I know the drill."

"So I did not kill him."

"And I don't need to kill you."

Laney sighs leaning on the door rolling her eyes, "Nobody is killing anybody..."

Willy shows up at the door.

"Except him. We can definitely kill him."

Willy holds his hands up in surrender, "Whoa! There's a lotta tension in this room."

Kendra attacks him and pushes him out of the back room and onto the floor.

Buffy huffs throwing her hands up, "Doesn't anyone just say 'hello' where you come from?"

Laney laughs watching, "I don't know Buffy. This is great if you ask me."

Kendra turns Willy over on the floor and grabs him by the shirt, ready to punch.

"Dis one is dirty! I can feel it!"

"That's really good for you, Percepto Girl," Buffy lifts him up, "but we're not gonna get anything out of him if he's, oh, say, unconscious."

"Boo you're no fun."

Kendra nods agreeing with Laney.

Buffy ignores the two and slams Willy into the bar, "Where's Angel?"

Willy laughs uncomfortable, "My buddy Angel? You think I'd let him fry? I saved him in the nick! He was about five minutes away from being a crispy critter."

"Where'd he go?"

"Uh, he said he was gonna stay underground. You know, recuperate."

Laney groans walking forward. She lightly shoved Buffy away and grabs Willy's head shoving it into the bar counter.

"Ah okay!"

"You remember me Willy?"

"Yeah such a ray of sunshine you are." Willy groans.

He knew the girl had some spice and toughness to her earlier. That's why he thought she was a vamp. He now knew she wasn't a vamp and wasn't a slayer but she was something. And he didn't want to get on her bad side. But Spike would end him. If he didn't know any better he would've suggested Spike meet the her.

"Are you telling me the truth Willy? Because if you're not, I'm gonna be really sad. And by sad I actually mean stabby..." Laney grabs a bottle off the counter and breaks it making the end sharp.

Willy stares at the bottle in fear, "I swear on my mother's grave! Should something fatal happen to her, God forbid."

Kendra pats Laney's arm making her drop the bottle and Willy, "Den he is alright. We can return to your Watcher for our orders."

Buffy watches Laney stand beside Kendra and feels a certain way.

"I don't take orders. I do things my way."

Kendra scoffs, "No wonder you died."

Buffy ignores the comment, "Let's go."

They start to leave. Willy stands up and leans on the bar groaning.

"I, I have to ask." All three girls look back, "Has any of you girls considered modeling? I have a friend with a camera? Strictly high-class nude work. You know, art photographs. Butt naked."

Buffy and Kendra exchange a look and just walk out without a word. Laney rolls her eyes holding up her middle finger to Willy as she is pulled away by both Buffy and Kendra.

"Ew you creep..."

"You don't have to answer right away." Willow calls out as the front door closes.

...

Later at Sunnydale High, Giles, Kendra, Willow, Laney, and Buffy come down the outside stairs and head into the halls.

"Kendra, I-I've, uh, conferred with your Watcher, Mr. Zabuto, and, uh, we both agree that, uh, until this matter with Spike and Drusilla has been resolved that you two should work together."

Buffy says sarcastically, "Oh, that'll be a treat."

Laney slaps Buffy's arm, "I think it'll be super fun!! I'm glad you're here Kendra!"

Kendra smiles lightly before looking stoic once more, "Tank you Laney. So, sir, you believe dat Spike is attempting to revive dis Drusilla to health?"

Giles nods taking off his glasses cleaning them with his handkerchief, "Yes, well, I-I-I-I think that's the, uh, the dark power that your, your Watcher re-referred to. You see, uh, you see Drusilla's not only evil, she's, uh, well, she's also quite mad, and-and-and-and if she's restored to her full health, then, uh, well, there's no, absolutely no telling what she might do."

"Den we will stop Spike."

"Ooo, good plan, let's go, charge!"

Giles frowns, "Buffy..."

Buffy ignores Giles, "It's a little more complicated than that, John Wayne."

Giles sighs, "Yes, I'm, I'm afraid it is. You see, Spike has also called out the Order of Taraka to keep Buffy out of the way."

"De assassins? I read of dem in de writings of Dramius."

Laney and Giles both smile, "Oh, really? W-w-which volume?"

"I believe it was six."

Buffy stares confused, "Um, how do you know all this?"

Kendra shrugs nonchalantly, "From me studies."

"So, obviously you have a lot of free time."

Kendra shakes her head, "I study because it is required."

Giles smiles as Laney smirks at Buffys twitching eye.

"The Slayer handbook insists on it."

Willow gapes in interest, "There's a Slayer handbook?"

"Wait. Handbook?" Buffy asks in question, "What handbook? How come I don't have a handbook?"

Willow gasps, "Is there a T-shirt, too?" She pursues her lips as she gets a look from Buffy, "Cause that would be cool..."

Buffy rolls her eyes shaking her head.

Giles clears his throat, "After meeting you, Buffy, I realized that, uh, the handbook would be of no use in your case. I just passed it along to Laney to hold."

Laney nods, "It's a great read. Very helpful."

Buffy scoffs, "Well, what do you mean it would be of no use in my case? Wha-what's wrong with my case?"

Giles grimaces before turning to Kendra, "Uh, Kendra, um, perhaps you'd like to show me the, the part in, uh, Dramius Six where, uh, uh, where it refers to the Order of Taraka. Really, I-I, I seem to have never been able to get through that book. It was a bit stodgy."

Kendra smiles, "It was difficult. All dose footnotes."

Giles and Kendra laugh out loud. Laney chuckles to herself.

Buffy turns to Willow, "Hello, and welcome to planet pocket protector."

"Oh, well, B-Buffy, Principal Snyder was snooping round after you." Giles replies.

Buffy stops and groans, "Eee. Career fair."

"Best make an appearance, I think."

Buffy nods, "Right."

Kendra frowns, "Buffy's a student here?"

"Yes."

"Riiight, of course. And I imagine she's a cheerleader as well."

"Oh, no, well, a-a-actually she had to give up her cheerleading." Gilles gets a look from Kendra, "Uh, it was quite an amusing story, actually."

Laney nods, "Yeah a crazy cheer mom tried to kill us."

Kendra frowns then nods, "Weird."

"That's what I said."

Giles nods, "Uh, uh, let's go and find the book, shall we? Come along Laney, you could help as well."

The three of them head off to the library. Buffy and Willow continue their walk.

"Get a load of the she-Giles." Buffy frowns.

"Creepy."

"Ew. I'll bet Giles wishes I was more of a book geek."

Willow chuckles, "Giles is enough of a book geek for the both of you."

"Yeah, but did you see how they were vibing?" Buffy mocks them, "Volume six, ha, ha, ha!"

"Buffy, no one could replace you. You'll always be Giles' favorite."

"I wonder."

"Of course, you will." Willow corrects herself, "Well his favorite slayer. I think Laney has us all beat."

"She just charms everyone doesn't she?"

Willow nods not realizing Buffy actually had a bit of a darker tone in her voice. Willow smiles thinking of her sister. Their relationship was much better than it had been a year ago.

"Look Buffy when it comes to Kendra don't worry. You're Giles' Slayer. The real Slayer."

Buffy shakes her head, "No. I wonder if it would be so bad, being replaced."

"You mean, like, letting Kendra take over?"

Buffy shrugs with a nod as she thinks, "Maybe. I mean, maybe after this thing with Spike and the assassins is over, I could say, 'Kendra, you slay, I'm going to Disneyland.'"

"But not forever, right?"

"No, Disneyland would get boring after a few months. But I could do other stuff. Career day stuff. Maybe I could even have a normal life."

...

After the career fair attack, Giles has the first-aid kit out, and Willow is wrapping Buffy's knee.

"She was definitely one of the Taraka gang, Giles, and way gun happy."

Giles frowns replying to Buffy, "This, um, Oz chap, he, he, he's alright?"

Willow nods frowning, "The paramedic said it was only a scrape. Thank goodness."

Cordelia and Xander walk into the library. Kendra tries to head them off.

Buffy groans, "Down, girl!"

Laney squeals running up to Cordelia who quickly opens her arms and hugs her back.

"Where the hell have you been today Laney?"

"Here there... everywhere... I missed you Cordy. We gotta have a girls night soon."

Xander ignores the two girls and walks deeper into the library, "Who sponsored career day today? The British Soccer Fan Association?"

Giles on his way to the table replies, "We had a, a rather violent visit from the Order of Taraka."

"You wanna talk Order of Taraka? We just met the king freak of the..." Xander pauses seeing Kendra. He smiles attractively, "Hello."

Kendra looks at the floor, humbling herself before Xander. Laney rolls her eyes at Xander slapping the back of his head as she senses Kendra's slight suddenly uncomfortable shy vibe.

"Down boy."

Giles Clara his throat, "Oh, forgive me. Uh, Xander, Cordelia, this is Kendra. Uh, i-it's rather complicated, but she's also a Slayer."

Cordelia heads for the table grabbing Laney's hand on the way, "Hi. Nice to meet you. Cute boots."

Laney grins, "That's what I said."

Kendra feels her lips lift into a smile then shakes her head and stares blankly.

"A Slayer, huh?" Xander turns to Buffy, "I knew this 'I'm the only one, I'm the only one' thing was just an attention-getter."

Buffy hops off of the counter, "Just say hello, Xander."

She makes for the table with Willow as Xander flirts with Kendra.

"Welcome. So! You're a Slayer, huh? I like that in a woman."

Laney scoffs mumbling, "Don't we know it."

Cordelia chuckles rubbing Laney's arm.

Kendra looks down nervously, "Uh... I hope... I tank you... I mean, sir, um... I will be of service."

Xander looks at the others, "Great! Good. It's good to be a giver."

He goes to the table and stands behind Willow's chair.

"Xander, um, this, this, uh, assassin you encountered, what, uh, what did he look like?"

Cordelia finds a mealworm in her hair and freaks out. She drops it onto a book on the table and gets up.

"Uhh! Uhh! Ohmigod, I'm showering!"

Laney gags pushing her chair away from the table as Cordelia runs from the library.

Xander indicates the mealworm, "Like that."

Buffy chuckles, "You and bug people, Xander. What's up with that?"

Xander glares playfully, "No, but this dude was completely different than praying mantis lady. He was a man of bugs, not a man who was a bug."

He slams the biology book shut on the mealworm to kill it and sits down.

Giles takes a deep breath thinking, "The, uh, the-the-the important thing is everybody's alright. Still, it's quite apparent that we're under serious attack."

Buffy looks to Kendra, "These Taraka are definitely serious. Fortunately for me, so is Kendra."

Giles adds, "And, uh, I fear the worst is still to come. I've, I-I've discovered the remaining keys to Drusilla's cure. The, uh, the ritual requires that, the presence of her sire, and it must take place in a church on the night of the new moon."

Buffy suddenly looks very concerned.

Kendra replies, "The new moon. But that is tonight."

Giles nods, "Exactly. And I-I'm sure the assassins were here to kill Buffy before she could put a stop to things."

Laney groans, "They need Drusilla's sire. You mean the vamp that made her?"

"Yes."

Buffy and Laney give one another a look before cursing.

Willow frowns confused, "W-what is it?"

Buffy looks down sadly, "Angel. He's Drusilla's sire."

Xander jokes, "Man, that guy got major neck in his day!"

Willow slaps him hard on the shoulder.

"Will this ritual kill him?"

Giles nods at Buffy, "Yes, I'm afraid it will."

Buffy stands up immediately, "We need to find this church. We need to find where this ritual is gonna take place!"

"Agreed, and we must work quickly." He checks his watch, "We have five hours before sundown."

Willow opens her laptop, "Don't worry, Buffy, we'll save Angel."

Kendra stares at everyone in shock, "Angel? But our priority is to stop Drusilla!"

Laney shrugs smiling softly, "Sorry Ken-doll, Angel's our friend."

"Except I don't like him." Xander adds.

"No one asked."

Buffy sighs, "Look, you've got your priorities, and I've got mine. Right now they mesh. So, are you gonna help me, or are you gonna get out of my way?"

Kendra considers for a moment, "I'm wit you."

Buffy nods, "Good. 'Cause I've had it. Spike is going down. You can attack me, you can send assassins after me, that's fine. But nobody messes with my boyfriend!"

"Finally!" Laney yells.

What did we think of this chapter?

How do we like Kendra's entrance?

Kendra and Laney? Think they'll be friends?

Also how do we feel about Buffy and Laney's relationship. They are still kind of frenemies for the time being. That should change soon enough it'll take some time.

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