From The End to the Beginning

A/N: This is an old fic that has been edited more carefully and rewritten in most parts.

Disclaimer: I do not own nor or making profit from either Buffy or Lord of the Rings. Although Legalas is extremely hot.

Pairings: Buffy/Eomer, Dawn/Legolas

Timeline: Takes place 4 years after the Buffy Final episode and 2 days before the hobbits and Aragorn reach Rivendelle.

Summary: It's been 4 years since Sunnydale was destroyed and Spike saved the world. Now Buffy and Dawn Summers have moved to Puerto Vallarta with Andrew, Faith, and a handful of the newly made slayers that survived the battle against The First. They all thought life was going to more peaceful, with more slayers and the watchers council being remade by Giles and a few remaining watchers, and only a couple of late night patrols needed a week, until one night when Buffy and Dawn go patrolling around the near by cemetery and are suddenly pulled into a portal of some kind while arguing about life and why Dawn thinks it sucks. They end up in a world far from peaceful and meet many interesting creatures, and people and help to save another world from coming to an end. And find new friendships, love, and adventures on the way.

Chapter 1: Late Night Patrol

It has been 4 years since Sunnydale became a giant crater, and everyone who survived, moved to different parts of the world. Giles moved to Cleveland, where the second hell mouth resides, to set up the newly made council with a couple of other surviving watchers. Xander also went with Giles but as his new position, of watcher in training, entitles him to travel around the world in search of new slayers he is rarely in one place for very long. Willow and Kennedy moved to England so that Willow could spend time with the coven there and learn to channel her newly begotten goddess powers, and of course Kennedy wasn't going to let Willow go alone. As for Buffy, Dawn, Andrew, and Faith, they all moved to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with a couple of surviving mini slayers from the battle with The First. They chose to live away from the new council so that they could relax as they so deserved.

They lived in one huge house in the good part of the city near the best beach you have ever seen. Buffy, for one, loves that beach because it is where she goes for her runs, to forget all the bad memories in her head. It works most of the time but more often than not she gets attacked by some sort of demon and all the bad memories come rushing back. She had thought that if she moved away she would get some peace and quiet, and only have to go on one or two patrols a week, but it didn't end up that way.

On this certain night, Buffy took Dawn with her on patrol because Faith was driving her insane with her five by fives, and easy going attitude. Dawn also wanted to talk to Buffy and this was the only way they could talk with minimal interruptions.

"Why did we have to move here?" Dawn complained. "I hate it and after 4 years I still can't speak the language that well. Andrews been trying to teach me but come on, Xanders a better teacher. Also I miss everyone… including Spike," she whispered at the end.

"Do you know what? You're not the only one who's having trouble." Buffy replied frustrated. "So I don't have to pay for the house, because the council does that, I still have to pay for stuff like food and entertainment and to do that I need a job, which I can't get. At least you and the mini slayers have school to keep you occupied most of the time, I'm stuck at home with Andrew and Faith and a person can only take so much dungeons and dragons, and loud music. Also, you're not the only one who misses everyone, and I know that Spike was like a big brother to you, but I loved him and was too confused to tell him until it was too, so I think that if anyone here should be upset about the loss of Spike it's me. I mean, why did he have to be the hero?" now Buffy was starting to get teary eyed. She hadn't thought about Spike in a while now and she forgot how much she really missed the bleached blonde vampire.

"Buffy I'm sorry. I know you loved him and yes I miss him too but let's face it, he did die to save the world and he wouldn't want us mopping around would he? He would want us to get on with our lives."

"Your right, I'm sorry that you can't speak the language very well, but you could have just told me that, I can help you. Knowing a bunch of languages comes with now being the most powerful slayer around. Also having a goddess for a friend helps too. If you are ever having a really tough time with the language just call Willow and she will teleport herself down here to help you. That is if she isn't too busy."

"I'm glad we had this talk,"Dawn said. "And it's a good thing we're done, because here comes company."

Just then 4 Vampires came out from the trees. Buffy took the 2 bigger ones and Dawn took on the 2 smaller ones. The 2 vamps Buffy was fighting took a swing at her at the same time and she ducked then knocked the feet out from under one and sucker punched the other one in the stomach causing him to falter backwards giving her time to stake them both when they were both on the ground. "That was too easy." Buffy said, a little confused and worried.

As Buffy was fighting her vamps Dawn was busy fighting the other two. One went to punch her while the other tried to knock her feet out from under her but before they could she jumped and flipped over them both kicking out at them to knock them off balance. Then she did a round house kick and knocked one on his back and staked him while she punched out quickly with her other stake and staked the other before he could attack again. "You're right, that was way too easy they usually put up more of a fight."

They stood in the cemetery for a while, contemplating whether they should just head back home or not when out of nowhere came a great big ugly red demon. Both sisters got in fighting stances ready to kill the demon if it attacked but, to their surprise it just stood there. "Well, are you going to attack us or not big guy?" Buffy said mockingly to the demon. "We are a little tired so we can either fight now or we can reschedule for a time when you are ready."

Then the demon got a great big grin on its face and began running towards Dawn. Before she could even try to act, Buffy pushed her out of the way and tripped the demon. "Are you ok Dawnie?" Buffy asked her sister as she helped her off the ground.

"I'm fine Buffy. You do know I can protect myself now, I'm not a little girl anymore." Dawn argued.

"Well sorry, can't I protect my little sister?" asked Buffy.

"Not unless I ask for help."

As they were arguing, the demon was getting off the ground and while doing so, it saw something behind the sisters and got scared and ran. Buffy and Dawn stopped fighting with each other and turned to see that the demon had run off. Then Buffy and Dawn turned to see what the demon ran away from and they saw the weirdest thing. Out of nowhere a portal began developing.

"Buffy what's happening?"

"How should I know?"

Then all of a sudden Buffy and Dawn were being pulled into the portal and were sucked in.

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