I had to do a happy ending.
Chapter 14
Future Shock
May 2023 L.A. Memorial Hospital
Jesse slowly opens her eyes, but quickly closes them as the bright lights hurt her eyes. 'Well at least I made it to heaven,' she thought bitterly.
As she opened her eye's successfully this time, she found herself to be in a hospital room. As she looked around the room she saw nothing but Teddy bears, balloons, and flowers.
Looking at the many cards on the desk beside her, she see's that some of them are from Wes, Angel, Gunn, Dawn, and Buffy. People who are supposed to be dead.
"What the hell." she says as her voice is low and hoarse. As she tries to move the door to her room suddenly opens. And in stepped a man she thought she would never see again. But this time he didn't wear an eyepatch. Both brown eyes were intact.
"Dad!" Jesse tries to shout as she sits up. Xander just smiled at her before he responded.
"Who else would I be?" he asks as he takes a seat right next to her bed. "How do you feel?" he asks as he takes her hand in his own.
"Weak and confused." she said after a moment. "One minute I'm in Sunnydale and the next I'm here. What's going on?"
Xander looked at her for a moment, then a smile slid on his face.
"So that was you all those years ago." Xander replied comprehension dawning. "Well to be honest about three days ago, you were walking towards me and then you just killed over. You've been in a coma since then."
"But all that stuff I remember from the past...I just don't understand."
"I'm guessing because of all of the stuff me and the others did, that there was no reason for you to go into the past." Xander replied as he started to rub his chin.
"Maybe all of your memories are just now catching up to you because today is the anniversary of..." Xander stopped himself as he looked down at his feet.
"Of what Dad?" Jesse asked as she squeezed his hand.
"Of your death." Xander replied as a tear fell from his eye. "Today is the anniversary of you dying in the hellmouth."
"Hey what's all the crying about?" a woman asked from the door. As they look up they see that it's Willow. Her hair is still red but it has a few grey hairs in it.
"Mom?"
"Jesse, you're awake." Willow said as she came fully into the room and stood next to Xander.
"How are you feeling, Baby?" Willow asked as the two hugged.
"I feel ok but I just need some answers."
"Answers?" Willow asked as she looks at her daughter funny.
"Will, she remember's everything." Xander replied as he held her hand.
"What do you...Oh." Willow said finally catching on.
"Mom, Dad ... Hello." Jesse says as she moves her hand in front of her parent's faces. "I still don't know what's going on. Why didn't the first take over?"
Willow and Xander shared a look before they answered.
"Thanks to you, we don't have to worry about The First anymore." Willow said as she sat in the seat by Jesse's bed.
"To me? What did I do? Bleed to death all over The First to not make it come back." Jesse stated bitterly.
"No honey... it's just... I killed the first and..."
"Let me explain." Xander offered, seeing that Willow was getting worked up.
"Since you gave Wesley that disk, it started another series of events to happen."
Flashback
May 2004
Angel runs down the alley behind the Hyperion, carrying his sword, running through the pouring rain. When he gets to the chain-link fence at the end of the alley, he looks around for the others, but doesn't see anyone. The sky thunders above him as the heavy rain continues.
"Boo." Spike says as he walks out from the shadows.
"Anyone else?" Angel asks.
"Not so far." Spike replies. Worry evident in his voice. "You feel the heat?"
"It's coming." Angel replies with a grim look on his face.
"Finally got ourselves a decent brawl."
"Damn!" Gunn said running down the street toward them, carrying his homemade battle-axe.
"How did I know the fang boys would pull through?" his steps become progressively less sure, weaker.
"You're lucky we're on the same side, dogs, 'cause I was on fire tonight." he says weakly. "My game was tight." he manages to get out as he almost collapses, but Angel and Spike catch him. Then they help him to a box on which he can sit down.
"You're supposed to wear the red stuff on the inside, Charlie boy." Spike quips as he looks at Gunns wounds.
"Any word on Wes?" Gunn asks holding his hands over his wounds
Suddenly Illyria jumps down from the chain-link fence to stand behind Angel.
"After I defeated my opponents I went to Vail's to see if I could assist Wesley. When I arrived Vail was dead and Wesley was gone.I believe that Wesley's dead.
Angel looks heartbroken; Gunn cries; Spike hangs his head. "I'm feeling grief for him." she states as a crowd clamors in the background. "I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence."
"Well, wishes just happen to be horses today." Spike quips as the noisy crowd get's closer.
"Among other things." Angel states. Angel looks at the approaching crowd. It's hundreds, if not thousands, of demons of all sorts, shapes and sizes. A huge winged dragon flies angrily toward them overhead.
"OK. You take the 30,000 on the left..." Gunn says through gritted teeth.
"You're fading." Illyria's voice droned with concern. "You'll last 10 minutes at best."
"Then let's make 'em memorable." Gunn states boldly as he stands.
Angel steps forward and Spike, Gunn and Illyria follow. Spike is standing off to Angel's right side. Angel is flanked a step behind by Gunn on the right and Illyria on the left. They stare at the horde of demons approaching them in the alley.
"In terms of a plan?" Spike asks.
"We fight." Angel states as he lifts his sword. Spike gives him a 'well no shit' look before he replies.
"Bit more spe..."
"Is that hairgel affecting your brain or is that really the best you can come up with ?" someone asks.
As the four heroes turn around they see Xander smiling at them.
"Xander what are you...?" Angel starts as he looks behind Xander and see's Wes.
"Wesley?" Illyria asks.
"But I thought you were..."
"Dead." Wes finishes for Angel with a chuckle. "No I was just getting the calvary." He states as over 30 girls with weapons start climbing over the chain-link fence. The last two are Buffy and Faith.
"Hi Angel." Buffy says nonchalantly. "I heard you needed some help." Then she looks over and see's Spike.
"Spike?" Buffy shouts.
"We'll talk about this later, Luv." Spike says as the demon horde attacks.
"Let's go to work." Angel says as he swings his sword.
End Flashback
"So then after we got rid of the demon horde, Willow did a spell to get rid of their bodies. After that we got rid of the Cleveland Hellmouth and the one in New Mexico." Xander said finishing up his story.
"That reminds me." Willow started as she stood up from her seat. "Wes, Gunn, and some of the others should be here later on tonight. They said your coma gave them an excuse to visit." she said with a smile.
"But I still have more questions mom." Jesse said sounding tired. "Like how did dad get his eye back? Or how did you two get together?"
Willow and Xander shared a look before Willow answered.
"As far as me and your father getting together...well that was do in part to your sword."
"My sword?" Jesse asked in confusion.
"Yeah, after you...went away I touched it. And when I did I saw me, you, and Xander as a family."
"And after she touched it I did." Xander said as he walked behind Willow and held her. "Then this white light shined down on us and we felt so much peace. Then these future memories started to flash in our minds and I saw... no I felt so much love and peace with you and Willow. Shortly after that me and your mom got married and had you."
"Oh." Jesse managed to get out between yawns.
"As for my eye... we'll talk about that later kiddo." He said as he ruffled her hair. "Now get some sleep." he said as he moved to the door with Willow.
Jesse was about to close her eyes, when a voice woke her up.
"I was wondering if I could visit with her for awhile." a British man asked. Snapping her eyes open, Jesse looked over at the older British man.
"Grandpa!" she yelled as she held her arms open as the two hugged.
Later that night the fang gang and the sunnydale group showed up to see Jesse. Jesse was a little surprised to see the older version of Angel and Spike. It turned out that the two turned human after the battle with the Circle of the Blackthorn. (You can't sign away a prophecy. If something is meant for you in this world, then it will happen.)
The biggest shocker for Jesse for the night was seeing Winifred Burkle step through the door. Right after she did Illyria did. It seems that Willow seperated the demon esscence from fred's body and fred came back. But oddly enough another body formed and there stood Illyria. (The only one who can destroy a soul is the Almighty himself. I totally didn't buy it when they said that fred's soul was destroyed and they couldn't bring her back.)
Fred was married to Wesley and had two children. Oddly enough Spike got married to Illyria and they had three kids. Gunn got married to Faith and had two kids. Angel a Nina got married and had a little girl named Kathy Cordelia Angel(she was named Kathy after Angel's baby sister. you know the one he killed when he was first turned. And Conner was later adopted by the two, to make him Angel's legal son.)
Speaking of Conner, he was also getting married. To Dawn Summers of all people. Buffy was pissed when she found out Angel and Spike were married. Out of the whole gang besides Giles (who was currently dating Olivia , that black chick from season four that he was having sex with.) she was the only one not married. Till this day she still claimed that her cookies were still baking. Hell even Anya and Andrew got hitched.
So here ends the tale of Jesse the Last Slayer.
The End
I originally planned for Andrew to be reading this story to a five year old Jesse. I was going to do a prequel to this story, but I'm not sure. Maybe one day.