Choices
by bad shot
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Alternate Challenge
Buffy, after being kicked out of her house in S7, is visited by the Powers that Be and given the chance to be reborn as their vessel on Earth, a being with extraordinary power able to seal away the first Evil. However, this will come with a price. She must give up the life she has known, her friends, everything in order to take the power. If she takes it, the timeline will be reset as if she had never became the Slayer. Instead, Kendra will take her place. If she doesn't take it, the power is lost forever and as punishment the Powers that Be take the scythe with them when they go.
Meanwhile, Willow is feeling extreme guilt for siding with the others in kicking Buffy out. Her feelings for the Slayer play a part in deciding to go find her. She manages to convince Spike to stay at the house and she is the one to find Buffy just as Buffy is about to give TPTB an answer.
So your challenge is the following:
If Buffy says yes: How will B/W get together in the reset world? How do they even meet? How does Buffy learn about her new abilities (you decide what they are)? Do B/W even find each other in this world?
If Buffy says No:
What will she do without this new power? Without the scythe? Does Buffy have feelings for Willow and if so, does she act on them? Do B/W get together in THIS world? If so, what about Kennedy and Spike? Does Buffy go back to her house? Is she even allowed back? If not, where does she go? Does Willow stay with Buffy or go back to the house? If she goes back, what happens to Buffy? If she stays, what happens to everyone back at the house? Do they go look for Willow? If so, do they find her with Buffy?
Must Have:
B/W
coffee (mochas okay)
an old woman
The Powers that Be
Whistler
Pick One:
A butterfinger bar
a desk
a bag of doritos
The Penguin (from Batman)
a bear
zombies
an angry dogz
Chapter 1
Buffy sat with her back to the bed looking up at the ceiling. Willow had just kicked her out, at least that was the only person that's betrayal had hurt. The others had hurt too, but they were just like small pokes with a stick. Willow's felt like a hot poker had been applied to her back, and never went away.
"Hello child," an old woman said from the side of the room after appearing with a flash of light. Buffy's head snapped up, and looked at the old woman who was dressed in bright red robes, with several necklaces around her neck.
"Who are you?" Buffy said disinterestedly starting to push herself up to a vertical base.
"The real question is who are you?" the woman said vaguely, "But I will tell you what you may call me. Tatalia is what you may call me. I am here to offer you a... Favor so to say."
"Okay... Now if that wasn't the single most vague sentence I have ever heard then my name isn't Buffy," Buffy said sitting on the bed to the slight squeaking of the springs.
Tatalia looked at Buffy with annoyance for a second, but switched back to her neutral face, "I am here from the Powers that Be. We have decided to give you a choice."
"Okay so what is it? Is it hard because I apparently am having a hard time making good decisions right now," Buffy said thinking back to what her 'friends' had said to her.
"We can help you destroy the First," Buffy's eyes opened wide at that, "You will be reborn as our vessel, and will be able to use some of the powers we give you to destroy the First. But if you don't take this then we take the scythe away."
"Scythe? What Scythe?"
"Oh I forgot you don't have it yet. Well main point if you get it you would be able to make every potential a real slayer."
Buffy was looking at her with an astonished look on her face, "So then if I do take it what will happen to the others?" Buffy asked.
"They will go on. Kendra will be picked as the slayer instead of you, and they will live. You on the other hand will lose all connections to your past. As will they. You will lose all memory of each other."
"Well its not like they care about me anymore."
"Buffy!" Willow yelled from the door.
***
'Oh god. Oh god! Oh god!!!'
"We kicked Buffy out," Willow said to herself as she sat on the couch.
"Well ya," Kennedy said rolling her eyes at Willow.
"NO! You don't understand we kicked her out!"
"NO! I don't think you understand. YOU kicked her out," Willow looked at Kennedy in suprise, "How could you not tell that she loves you. You think she cared that I told her to get out? HELL NO! She loved you. You just never saw it, and now you lost her. I know you love her. I can see it in your eyes when you look at her, or talk about her."
Willow was stunned, but started to realize that their friend feelings had changed a long time ago, "I have to go Kennedy."
Willow walked to the door only to run into Spike, "Hey Red Whatcha doing?"
"I have to go find Buffy."
"Why? What happened?"
"We kicked her out."
"Bloody hell! I am coming with you then."
"NO! No I need to do this alone stay here with everyone. Okay?"
Spike nodded, and walked back in leaving Willow to do a small tracked spell, and race off after it.
***
"Buffy! What are you doing?" Willow asked as she moved into the room.
"Willow just stop I need to do this."
"Do what?"
"I found a way to kill the First so just let me."
"How?"
"Why do you care?"
"Buffy I care. Please I love you. Let me help."
"You can't. Don't make this harder than it already is."
"Why how can I make this harder?"
"Because I have to leave you to do this."
Willow was stunned for the second time today, "But... Why?"
"Willow I really don't want to talk right now."
"Again I ask why?"
"WILLOW! YOU WERE THE ONE WHO KICKED ME OUT! YOU THINK I WANTED TO BE KICKED OUT! I HAVE LOVED YOU SINCE BEFORE TARA. YOU NEVER NOTICED! SO WHY SHOULD I THINK YOU REALLY CARE RIGHT NOW!" Buffy took deep breaths to calm herself down, "Goodbye Willow. I don't think I will ever see you again," Buffy said before she walked over to the old woman, and they both disappeared in a flash of light.
Willow was left there for a moment before she remembered what Buffy had said, and put up the strongest magical shield she could before a wave of light shot out from the spot that Buffy had just disappeared from.