The Fallen Slayer {1}

Future Thinking

After spending a few nights at Bonnie's house to try and settle down her anger at her crazy cousins to a less murderous level, the witch, and the slayer found themselves once again in the Gilbert/Summers home.

As they chilled on her bed instead of talking about the new boy Luka that had caught Bonnie's eye, both girls were focused on the moonstone.

Given all the hassle they had gone through to get it, Buffy felt a cloud of disappointment every time she looked at it.

It was just so dull.

This tiny thing was literally the key to everything, it was supposed to hold a lot of power...yet it looked like a bar of soap.

"So how does the bar of soap work exactly?" Buffy asked Bonnie as she continued to stare down at the moonstone, twisting it between her fingers.

Bonnie snorted slightly at the look on Buffy's face "Right now, it's what's binding The Sun and Moon Curse." She explained as she grabbed a handful of popcorn out of the bowl that was resting between the two of them.

If there was one benefit to hanging out with Buffy, it was that she always had snacks.

"If I can figure out a way to remove the spell from the stone, the stone becomes useless."

"Cool." Buffy whistled as she placed the moonstone back in Bonnie's bag before taking a handful of popcorn for herself "Then we just have the vengeful Klaus to deal with. But one step at a time."

Bonnie shook her head in amusement before gesturing for Buffy to open her mouth so they could play with the food.

It was nice to have some childlike fun every now and then, during all the magical hell.

Buffy grinned and quickly caught the first cornel as Bonnie threw it at her.

As Buffy punched the air in excitement, Bonnie laughed before moving to throw another piece "We should be able to keep him from finding out."

Three pieces of popcorn collided with Buffy's nose causing the two girls to combust into giggles.

Their giggles were brought to an abrupt hold, however, as the buzzkill of the Summers family walked into the room.

"Shouldn't you guys be focused on getting Stefan out of the tomb?" Elena questioned from the doorway.

Sharing a quick look, both Bonnie and Buffy rolled their eyes. Elena was no fun.

Ignoring Elena for a moment, Buffy trying to keep the smile on Bonnie's face quickly threw some popcorn at her causing her to squeal between her giggles.

Once she was sure Bonnie was happy, Buffy turned her focus back to Elena.

Who yet again hadn't knocked on her bedroom door.

Why did everyone think they could enter her room without asking? 

"Does anyone knock in this town?"

Stifling a small laugh at her words, Bonnie swallowed down the buttery popcorn in her mouth before focusing on Elena. She immediately sighed as she spotted the unamused look on Elena's face "Stefan wants me to focus on this."

Elena shook her head in disbelief before she turned to Buffy, shocked that the blonde was not panicking at the idea of her boyfriend being trapped in the tomb with Katherine.

Though technically he was still her ex-boyfriend.

"Don't you want him out? He's in there with Katherine."


At the reminder of that little fact, Buffy rolled her eyes. First of all, as worried as she was, she did trust Stefan, plus, they had way bigger things to worry about.

As much as she hated knowing Stefan was trapped, right now his freedom wasn't her first priority.

"I know that, Elena." She sighed "And as much as I dislike it, he's right. If we don't do this now then we're all screwed. Plus, he saved Jeremy to get the moonstone. Not focusing on the moonstone would make everything he did pointless. Plus, he doesn't age and he's patient. He will be fine."

He had dated her, there was no way he wasn't patient.



"You guys are wrong, you don't need to protect me." Elena told them only causing both Bonnie and Buffy to glance at each other again, sharing the same disbelieving look.

Elena totally needed to be protected.

Hell, she needed a full-time nanny.