Graveyard || Act One || Living Dead Girl
‘Born in destruction it follows you everywhere you go.’
Sunnydale, California. The center for all mystical activity, the Hellmouth. Rose hoped she would never have to go there, content to patrol the streets of Chicago and guard as best she could against the forces of darkness. Sunnydale was the Slayer’s responsibility, not Rose’s.
But Rose learned long ago that fate makes fools of us all and whatever she might have planned wouldn’t matter in the face of her destiny or whatever. All it takes is a message from The Powers That Be and Rose was packing up to head to California.
Never mind the fact that her vampire dad, who she hasn’t talked to in literal decades by the way, is there, skulking around in the shadows and pining over the Slayer. Oh, and Rose has a couple of ex-boyfriend also kicking around town, one there to cause chaos and one serving as the Slayer’s Watcher.
So yeah, it gets a little complicated.
‘Raised in destruction it is the only friend you know.’
Effie Bishop has lived in Sunnydale for her entire life, and yeah things have always been a little string. You learn to get over it, set your sights ahead and move past the strange occurrences, the mysterious disappearances, the weird deaths. That’s just what happens in Sunnydale.
Other than that, life for Effie is pretty normal. She goes to school, hangs out with her boyfriend, practices with her band, plays shows at The Bronze. That’s it. Normal. Mundane.
When her boyfriend starts to display... werewolf tendencies, Effie doesn’t know what to do, and so she turns to Buffy Summers and her friends who seem to always be around when the weird stuff happens. What she does not expect is to become part of their group, and to join in the battle against evil.
(Maybe peace is not meant for all of us.)
What Rose had hoped would only be a quick trip turns quickly turns into something more when the worst happens. There is nobody better qualified than Rose O’Hara to deal with Angelus, so when her father loses his soul, a curse that she helped to inflict him with so long ago, Rose knows it is her job, her destiny, to help.