The End Of Days Trilogy
Part 1: To Shanshu in Sunnydale
SERIES: Glimpses
STORY: 6 (Attention: stories are not in time order!)
DISCLAIMER: „Buffy the Vampire Slayer", „Angel" and associated characters are copyright by Joss Whedon, David Greenwalt, Mutant Enemy Inc., Greenwolf Corp., Kuzui Enterprises, Sandollar Television, Twentieth Century Fox, WB and UPN. No infringement is intended.
TIMELINE: After BTVS S5 and AtS S2
SPOILERS: Everything up to BTVS S5 and AtS S2 happened
SYNOPSIS: My sight of the future
DISTRIBUTION: not yet sure, never posted anything before - you want it, ask me.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: I want you to know that English is NOT my mother language, so please ignore my mistakes.
FEEDBACK: Yes please. I just have to know if you liked it and if you want more stories
RATING: I`m not so sure about the rating system but I guess everyone who watches the shows can read this fic

Today's date is very familiar to me. It brings back long suppressed memories.

Five years to the day I was human.

Five years ago I had to make the most difficult decision.

Today I will face my destiny.

Today I will have to keep a promise I made nearly 3½ years ago.

God help us all, the End of Days have come.

I guess somehow I always knew. Now I'm standing here at the mouth of hell in order to fight my last battle. Standing at my side is the Slayer. But the woman I always saw here with me had golden hair, hazel eyes and the most beautiful smile. The Chosen One beside me doesn't compare to her. She has dark hair and dark eyes just like me. And Faith is not smiling. She has no reason to. The perfect irony: two dark warriors fighting for the light! This makes me remember a song I once heard: Broken heroes and fallen angels. I guess it's somehow fitting. But I know that now is not the time for such thoughts. The fight is about to begin. I have the feeling that only one of us will leave this battlefield. Maybe soon Buffy's soul and mine will meet again - this time forever.

The last days were full of battles. Even people I never met or never heard of came here to help us fight the good fight. Us are of course our two main teams. My gang from L.A. including Cordy, Wes, Gunn, some of his friends, Kate, Fred, Lorne and myself. Many years of fighting (or in Lorne's case singing) together has made us a strong team of friends which stands united against all evil.

The other team is naturally Sunnydale's home team also known as the Scoobies. There are of course the Watcher and his Slayer: Giles and Faith with their Slayerettes (their Slayerettes? I remember a time when a young blonde girl which was new in town formed a new circle of friends. And again a song comes to my mind: Don`t weep for the memories.): Willow, Xander (God help us all.), Tara, Anya, Spike (I still can't believe it!) and even Oz has returned to fight with us. I've been told he came back only some days ago. Maybe the PTB have sent him to help his friends.

Then there is someone else here to join the fight. I see the necessity of strength in number but I still can't say that I have been thrilled when I heard that Riley Finn came with some of his commando boys. I didn't liked him when me met for the first time and learning how he hurt her with his leaving didn't change my feelings to him in his favor. So I did my best in just ignoring him.

And of course there is Dawn Summers - little Dawnie.

Sometimes I can't believe she's already 17. She might not have the supernatural powers her sister had but she definitely possesses the same fire and strong will. So she joined the good fight and let never anyone talk her out of it.

But to me it only seems like yesterday when Dawn was just 11 and Buffy and I just started - no don't go there, not today. What's past is in the past and I have to fight for the future - whatever it might bring.

The hellmouth is opening and I can feel and smell that the demons are coming. Looking at Faith beside me I know she feels it, too. Our friends are outside the old high school building. Everything is barricaded. While they try to stop the demons from coming here Faith and I are inside to stop the demons from emerging the hellmouth itself, to stop them from destroying mankind forever.

Now, there is no more time for deep thoughts the battle has begun...

I don't know how much time has past. But no more demons are leaving the hellmouth. Those which did are now dead, their corpses covering every bit of the floor. It seems that Faith and I did a lot of killing today. And somehow I know that the fights outside have stopped, too. We won. But at what prize? I don't which of my friends are still standing? What I know is that Faith isn't!

I'm kneeling beside the deeply wounded body of the Slayer. Faith is still breathing - but for how long? There are tears in her eyes as well as in mine. She knows that there will be not much time for her now. But she also smiles at me because we have made it. The End of Days are over and after this night another day will be dawning.

Does that mean that I have earned my redemption?

Will I be human and alive again?

Do I still want this?

Now that a dying Slayer is lying next to me...

Go to the next story One Slayer Dies...

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