Title: Futures Hope : Into the Woods
Author: Firecracker
Disclaimer: The buffy verse and its character's do not belong to me, however Hope does.
A/N: The first story takes place around two weeks after the season seven final. It is a AU continuation of the show... where basically Buffy ripped the amulet off Spike after the first and all the vampires were killed but before it had chance to finish the job and destroy the hellmouth. Sunnydale was not destroyed and Spike is very much alive, well as alive as Vampires get. The potentials turned slayers have all returned to their homes and will continue to slay vamps and demons there.
Also during 7x20 Touched, Faith and Wood never got it on, it was Xander who came to the room and he and Faith talked.
This is a follow up story to Enter Hope, so it might not make any sense unless you've read that first.
"So think we might see any action tonight, ?cause we've been out there almost every night since the apocalypse and not one vamp." Kennedy said sounding a little fed up...
"Well who knows tonight might be our lucky night." Faith said trying to sound positive...
"My watcher sent me here to help you, I'm from the future, my name is Hope."
"Wait did you just say Scythe's as in plural there's only supposed to be one?" Willow said.
"Yes but that was also said to be true about slayers wasn't it" Hope said
"You see the Scythe that was passed on to me isn't yours Buffy it's Faith's." Hope told them.
"Faith comes to Sunnydale after the death of her watcher and slays vampires there for a year or so before returning to Boston...
Hope said filling them in on what she knew.
"Why the hell did we tell them I was in Boston?" Faith asked standing up.
"Maybe because you deserve a second chance." Buffy said meeting faith's eyes letting her know she meant it.
"You wanna know if you and Spike are together in the future?" Hope asked
"You are, and you're happy. This isn't some passing phase he doesn't leave you for you're own good or run off and come back months later married. This is the real deal. It's destiny, Forever." Hope tells Buffy.
"I guess somewhere deep down I've always known, but I was always too scared to admit it." Buffy said looking into Spike's eyes.
"But I'm not afraid anymore. I love you." she told him
"I love you." he repeated before leaning in to kiss her.
"When do we start?" Faith asked
"Tomorrow at noon I found a couple of nests on my way though town took out one tonight." Hope told them.
The vampires were sat around on old pieces of furniture and boxes when suddenly the large blacked out window on the left side of the building came crashing through, Hope who had just dived through it landed on her feet glass falling around her. The vampires began to scramble in all directions to avoid the sun's ray's that where coming through the broken window.
It was nine thirty when Hope walked through the back door of the Summers Home, she had woke up early and decided to go for a walk. She had enjoyed herself at The Bonze last night, it was actually kinda cool, she had decided after been there for only an hour. Xander had explained that they had been coming here since they were in high school, he even told her some very entertaining stories that had happened there over the years, such as Willow's vampire self from another universe taking over the place, Olaf the troll completely wrecking the place. He also mentioned the gang following a certain vampire slayer by the name of Faith Lehane, out into the ally after seeing her leave with a vamp, only to find out that she wasn't his next victim he was hers.
"Good times." Faith had said with a huge grin as she handed them both a double shot of Jack Daniels after declaring them as her designated drinking buddies for the evening.
Closing the door behind her she found the kitchen empty, hearing voices she headed towards the living room where they were coming from.
"I still say it's a good idea, the apocalypse is over we won, I say we party." Faith declared.
"See Faith agrees with me." Xander told them.
Not one of them had noticed Hope who was standing in the doorway, not wanting to be stood there forever she cleared her throat, the whole room fell silent and turned to face her.
"Hey." Hope said by way of a greeting before stepping into the room.
"What's going on?" she asked a puzzled look crossing over her face.
"Well I said that we should go to The Bronze again tonight, figured after everything that's happened we could use a little fun." Xander replied his thoughts drifting to Anya a pained look washed over his face but was gone within the next second, unnoticed by all but Willow.
"And I still say we should be out patrolling." said Kennedy from where she sat next to Willow.
"You can't do both? From what Xander told me last night you guy's used to all the time." Hope said offering her opinion.
"Future Girl does have a good point either way one night off isn't going to kill anyone." Faith said
"Well I hate to be the one to tell you this but it already has." said Dawn who moved to stand beside Hope, she held up the mornings newspaper for them all to see. The headline read "Third body found in woods"
"May I?' Hope asked indicating towards the news paper.
"Say's here the guy was mauled, estimated time of death was some time yesterday evening."
Hope read before handing the news paper over to Buffy.
"Werewolf?" Asked Faith
"Could be, it was a full moon last night." Willow informed them.
"No it says here the first two victims were killed during the day." Buffy told them, placing the paper on the coffee table.
"Yogi had a bad day?" Xander offered trying to lighten the mood.
"We should have been out there, we should have stopped this." Buffy said sitting in the small armchair.
"Well we were kind of busy, what with the whole trying to stop the world from ending thing." Willow told her.
"And last night?" Buffy asked.
"One thing I've learnt is that you can't save everyone, it's tragic I know but sometimes all you can do is stop it from happening again." Hope told her.
"Hope does have a good point Buff, you shouldn't blame yourself." Xander said.
"Yeah you guys are right." Buffy admitted.
"So what do we do now?" asked Kennedy
"We go to the woods, see if we can find anything." Buffy said.
"We could hit the books." Dawn offered.
"Yeah me and Dawn can hit the books and willow can jump into the web see if anything like this has happened before." Xander agreed.
"Yeah that'd help a lot thanks guy's." Buffy said before standing up and walking over to the weapons chest in the corner of the room.
Picking out a small dagger and some throwing stars Buffy moved aside so that the other slayers could pick their weapons. Faith choosing a pair of matching knives and Kennedy going for a small dagger and her crossbow, Hope stood there for a moment before picking out a pair of bladed Sai's.
"You know how to use those things Future Girl?" Faith asked
"Since I was fourteen." Hope said with a smirk before twirling them around in front of her for a few seconds.
"Ok lets go, I've got my cell if you guy's find anything." Buffy said before walking to the front door.
She stood for a second waiting for Faith to finish putting on her denim jacket, turning around she walked out of the door with rest following behind
Author: Firecracker
Disclaimer: The buffy verse and its character's do not belong to me, however Hope does.
A/N: The first story takes place around two weeks after the season seven final. It is a AU continuation of the show... where basically Buffy ripped the amulet off Spike after the first and all the vampires were killed but before it had chance to finish the job and destroy the hellmouth. Sunnydale was not destroyed and Spike is very much alive, well as alive as Vampires get. The potentials turned slayers have all returned to their homes and will continue to slay vamps and demons there.
Also during 7x20 Touched, Faith and Wood never got it on, it was Xander who came to the room and he and Faith talked.

This is a follow up story to Enter Hope, so it might not make any sense unless you've read that first.

Cast:
Sarah Michelle Geller : Buffy Summers
Michelle Trachtenburg : Dawn Summers
Eliza Dushku : Faith Lehane
Jessica Biel : Hope
James Marsters : Spike
Alyson Hannigan : Willow Rosenburg
Nicholas Brendon : Xander Harris
Previously on Buffy the vampire slayer...
Michelle Trachtenburg : Dawn Summers
Eliza Dushku : Faith Lehane
Jessica Biel : Hope
Tom Lenk: Andrew Wells
Iyari Limon : Kennedy James Marsters : Spike
Alyson Hannigan : Willow Rosenburg
Nicholas Brendon : Xander Harris
Previously on Buffy the vampire slayer...
"So think we might see any action tonight, ?cause we've been out there almost every night since the apocalypse and not one vamp." Kennedy said sounding a little fed up...
"Well who knows tonight might be our lucky night." Faith said trying to sound positive...
"My watcher sent me here to help you, I'm from the future, my name is Hope."
"Wait did you just say Scythe's as in plural there's only supposed to be one?" Willow said.
"Yes but that was also said to be true about slayers wasn't it" Hope said
"You see the Scythe that was passed on to me isn't yours Buffy it's Faith's." Hope told them.
"Faith comes to Sunnydale after the death of her watcher and slays vampires there for a year or so before returning to Boston...
Hope said filling them in on what she knew.
"Why the hell did we tell them I was in Boston?" Faith asked standing up.
"Maybe because you deserve a second chance." Buffy said meeting faith's eyes letting her know she meant it.
"You wanna know if you and Spike are together in the future?" Hope asked
"You are, and you're happy. This isn't some passing phase he doesn't leave you for you're own good or run off and come back months later married. This is the real deal. It's destiny, Forever." Hope tells Buffy.
"I guess somewhere deep down I've always known, but I was always too scared to admit it." Buffy said looking into Spike's eyes.
"But I'm not afraid anymore. I love you." she told him
"I love you." he repeated before leaning in to kiss her.
"When do we start?" Faith asked
"Tomorrow at noon I found a couple of nests on my way though town took out one tonight." Hope told them.
The vampires were sat around on old pieces of furniture and boxes when suddenly the large blacked out window on the left side of the building came crashing through, Hope who had just dived through it landed on her feet glass falling around her. The vampires began to scramble in all directions to avoid the sun's ray's that where coming through the broken window.
Teaser:
It was nine thirty when Hope walked through the back door of the Summers Home, she had woke up early and decided to go for a walk. She had enjoyed herself at The Bonze last night, it was actually kinda cool, she had decided after been there for only an hour. Xander had explained that they had been coming here since they were in high school, he even told her some very entertaining stories that had happened there over the years, such as Willow's vampire self from another universe taking over the place, Olaf the troll completely wrecking the place. He also mentioned the gang following a certain vampire slayer by the name of Faith Lehane, out into the ally after seeing her leave with a vamp, only to find out that she wasn't his next victim he was hers.
"Good times." Faith had said with a huge grin as she handed them both a double shot of Jack Daniels after declaring them as her designated drinking buddies for the evening.
Closing the door behind her she found the kitchen empty, hearing voices she headed towards the living room where they were coming from.
"I still say it's a good idea, the apocalypse is over we won, I say we party." Faith declared.
"See Faith agrees with me." Xander told them.
Not one of them had noticed Hope who was standing in the doorway, not wanting to be stood there forever she cleared her throat, the whole room fell silent and turned to face her.
"Hey." Hope said by way of a greeting before stepping into the room.
"What's going on?" she asked a puzzled look crossing over her face.
"Well I said that we should go to The Bronze again tonight, figured after everything that's happened we could use a little fun." Xander replied his thoughts drifting to Anya a pained look washed over his face but was gone within the next second, unnoticed by all but Willow.
"And I still say we should be out patrolling." said Kennedy from where she sat next to Willow.
"You can't do both? From what Xander told me last night you guy's used to all the time." Hope said offering her opinion.
"Future Girl does have a good point either way one night off isn't going to kill anyone." Faith said
"Well I hate to be the one to tell you this but it already has." said Dawn who moved to stand beside Hope, she held up the mornings newspaper for them all to see. The headline read "Third body found in woods"
"May I?' Hope asked indicating towards the news paper.
"Say's here the guy was mauled, estimated time of death was some time yesterday evening."
Hope read before handing the news paper over to Buffy.
"Werewolf?" Asked Faith
"Could be, it was a full moon last night." Willow informed them.
"No it says here the first two victims were killed during the day." Buffy told them, placing the paper on the coffee table.
"Yogi had a bad day?" Xander offered trying to lighten the mood.
"We should have been out there, we should have stopped this." Buffy said sitting in the small armchair.
"Well we were kind of busy, what with the whole trying to stop the world from ending thing." Willow told her.
"And last night?" Buffy asked.
"One thing I've learnt is that you can't save everyone, it's tragic I know but sometimes all you can do is stop it from happening again." Hope told her.
"Hope does have a good point Buff, you shouldn't blame yourself." Xander said.
"Yeah you guys are right." Buffy admitted.
"So what do we do now?" asked Kennedy
"We go to the woods, see if we can find anything." Buffy said.
"We could hit the books." Dawn offered.
"Yeah me and Dawn can hit the books and willow can jump into the web see if anything like this has happened before." Xander agreed.
"Yeah that'd help a lot thanks guy's." Buffy said before standing up and walking over to the weapons chest in the corner of the room.
Picking out a small dagger and some throwing stars Buffy moved aside so that the other slayers could pick their weapons. Faith choosing a pair of matching knives and Kennedy going for a small dagger and her crossbow, Hope stood there for a moment before picking out a pair of bladed Sai's.
"You know how to use those things Future Girl?" Faith asked
"Since I was fourteen." Hope said with a smirk before twirling them around in front of her for a few seconds.
"Ok lets go, I've got my cell if you guy's find anything." Buffy said before walking to the front door.
She stood for a second waiting for Faith to finish putting on her denim jacket, turning around she walked out of the door with rest following behind
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