A/N: Thank You zwritessss for voting and commenting. Overall for encouraging me to keep writing this fic. I feel like I haven't thanked you enough.

In the ecstasy of having found a new family, home and friends in this new life, I had started to become way too complacent.

I had stopped researching my life over the past week and had accepted that I had been resurrected by a powerful force to live my new life for some unknown reason.

I was rewarded for my carelessness when my newfound sister, Buffy Summers, the vampire slayer (Technically one of the two slayers. Faith was the other slayer but the relationship between Buffy and her soured due to some complicated reasons) suddenly decided to choke my neck.

"B..U..F..F..Y" I croaked out as my sister was choking my neck.

"What are you?" She interrogated me with disdain and tightened her grip on my neck.

I could only muster a time-out gesture at this point.

Luckily, she decided to part her arm from my neck.

I rubbed my neck in pain and when I looked at her, it seemed like she was completely out of it.

"What in the actual hell Buffy?!" I was incredulous at this sudden display of power from my sister.

"I'm telling mom!" I threatened her with the only thing I could think of. This must be some sort of an elaborate prank that Buffy must be pulling on me.

"You stay away from my mother" She admonished me.

She might not have understood this but her words broke me. And I broke my back when Buffy pushed me into the nearby closet.

"Ahh! My Back!" I felt like Tobey Maguire from Spider-Man 2.

She looked at me with such anger. I was just confused but decided not to speak another word and rubbed my back in agony.

As she was about to take another round at choking my neck, she was interrupted by a telephone call.

"Stay here or I'll break every bone in your body" Buffy intimidated me. But unlike me, she was very serious in her threat.

I just nodded. Then she went downstairs.

Ever heard the term 'Curiosity killed the cat'? My curiosity got the better of me as I ignored Buffy's threat and went down to overhear her convo on the phone.

But Buffy's spidey sense got activated as I neared her and she stopped talking.

She kept the phone in its cradle and faced me.

"What did I tell you?" She decided to twist my arm and I cried in pain.

"Buffy? Shaun?" I heard mom's voice near the front door. We were in the kitchen at this point.

"Come with me. Don't talk" Buffy was stern in her instructions. I just figured that something was wrong and I may most probably die.

Anyway, dying isn't so bad, is it? Don't have to worry about constant traumatic images filling your head, don't have to study, don't have to worry about being reborn and most important of all, don't have to worry about being hacked to death by your slayer sister.

She just held my arm tightly as we both went towards the front door.

I found that my mom looked a bit pained.

"Hi, Shaun! Buffy"

"Hi, mom" Buffy returned the greeting.

I decided to live and just smiled at mom.

"I was feeling kind of- what's the medical term?" She paused and then tilted her head slightly "crappy. So I called off the big night out"

"Mom, I've already made some tea for you. Want it?" I asked her.

Buffy twisted my arm again. I decided to control my voice as I didn't want to alarm mom.

"Mom, actually I drank Shaun's tea" She looked at me with those piercing green orbs like she's gonna beat the hell out of me

"But don't worry, I'll make you tea now"

After saying that, Buffy virtually dragged me to the kitchen. She had handcuffs using which she tied my left hand to one of the drawers there.

"Sis, this is way too BDSM for me" I sassed.

"Stop Talking" Buffy just twisted my free arm again.

I just decided to shut up.

After 5 minutes, Buffy finished making tea and poured my tea into the sink.

Ouch! That stung. I decided to keep my feelings to myself as Buffy seemed angry for some reason.

"Mom. Sleep. Take rest. Shaun here" She uncuffed me and dragged me to the front door and continued " is going to have a sleepover with his friend Shannon"

I just nodded.

Then after we came out of the house, Buffy stopped for a second and looked around. She now reached behind a tree and yanked out Spike.

"Spike," Buffy said indifferently.

"Hi, Spike!" I greeted him with a wave of my left hand as Buffy was holding my right hand tightly.

He dropped the cigarette from his mouth and stomped it.

"Hi Buffy, little lad" He greeted us.

"Don't take this the wrong way but-" Buffy suddenly socked him in the nose.

"Ow!" He aired his concerns about pain.

"What are you doing here?" Before Spike could answer, she interrupted him

" Five words or less!" she commanded him.

"Out... for...a...walk...bitch" he replied counting a finger for each word.

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"Out for a walk at night by my house. No one's got time for this, William" Buffy saw right through Spike's ruse.

"On your merry way, then. " He scoffed but continued "You know, contrary to one's self-involved world-view, your house happens to be directly between parts... " Spike looked towards our back and then his back and continued ranting "and other parts of this town. And I would pass by in the day but I feel I'm outgrowing my whole 'burst into flame' phase"

"Fine. Keep going, I cut you a break" Buffy said nonchalantly and was nearly about to take me out of this place when Spike interrupted.

"Oh, yeah. Okay, let me guess... you won't kill me?" Buffy sighed but Spike droned on

"Wooo... the whole crowd-pleasing threats-and-swagger routine. How stunningly original. You know, I'm just passing through." he pointed his hands in a direction which was backward to him and continued "Satisfied? You know,"

He chuckled now "I really hope so because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard and I never really liked you anyway and..." he stuttered but went on to conclude his rant "and you have stupid hair."

I guess Spike was in a way right about grandpa.

But why does he keep talking so much? Oh, wait! That look in his eye and the dozen cigarette butts at the base of the tree imply one thing. The dude's obsessed with her and is stalking her.

"Captain cardboard's a cool name for grandpa, I'll take it from now on" I remarked.

Buffy's had enough by now and she started dragging me to wherever she was taking me.

"You know Spike's stalking you right?" I don't care if she kills me. She's my sister through everything despite what she said moments ago. She's not herself.

"I know. All blondes are not idiots" Buffy retorted.

What's being blonde got to do with being an idiot? I'll never know. Sometimes, Americans have the dumbest stereotypes.

After some time, I found myself standing in front of Giles' magic shop.

I found the shop bustling with customers.

"That's not candy" He was advising some girls who were trying to eat some magical stuff.

"Hi Buffy, Shaun, what a nice surprise!" Giles greeted us.

"Hi Mr Giles, I see business has picked up" I remarked.

"Giles, Training room now! Shaun. Like I told you already, shut up!" Buffy ushered both me and Giles towards her training room.

"Giles. There's something wrong with Buffy" I told him.

"No. Shaun here's all wrong" Buffy engaged in a battle of one-upmanship with me.

Now I found myself tied to a chair with ropes and gagged. Things started to become infinitely grim for me. But one thing I was sure of was that Buffy would never kill me. I didn't know why but I kind of knew. It was like a hunch or an instinct if you will.

Both the watcher and the slayer left me alone there and went on to chat about something.

Then later both of them returned with the golden shining ball that Buffy was talking about earlier and they showed it to my face

"O way. I a w phe hei oua he co phu hed how" With the gag around my mouth, I couldn't get out the intended words.

They both looked confused.

"Giles, don't let him get out of your sight. I'll visit the place where I found the sphere" Buffy instructed her father figure and was now off.

I was now starting to wonder how I got into this fucking predicament. My mind now started to wander around the events that happened earlier in the day.

Roughly half a day ago

It was morning roughly around 8:00 AM I guess.

I found Buffy in the kitchen making French Toast for our mom who was still sick for some reason.

"Shaun, Touch nothing"

"Ok. So Who died and made you the Iron Chef?" I teased her. But internally I found it heart warming that Buffy was cooking for mom.

"Look, Mom's sick and I made her a nice non-instant breakfast for once. And I don't need you..."

Buffy's talk was interrupted as I tripped the flower vase on the kitchen stand by mistake which fell down to the floor and shattered.

"Oh! Check out the 'Pamper Mom' platter"

I turned back to find my mom in a bathrobe smiling at me.

"You two do all this?" she asked.

"Buffy did. And I helped" I so did not help but I can't make my mom feel bad now can I?

"So neither of you is pregnant, failing or under indictment?" I gave her a weird look.

"Mom, I'm a guy, I can't get pregnant. But Buffy I'm not so sure. Considering she's shagging grandpa all the time" Right. That came out.

"Shaun, what language is that?" mom asked innocently.

"Spike. I so do not want to be thinking about Spike" Buffy supplied the reason for my language to mom.

Buffy sighed.

"We knew you were feeling less-than-great so..."

It was mom's turn to let out an exhale

"Yeah, the headaches they said would go away came back and brought some friends along with" Mom lamented about her health.

"Well, what did the doctor say?" Buffy inquired.

"Oh, take four of some pills a day and come back for tests" Mom replied

"So they don't know what's wrong?" Buffy asked again in a low voice.

"Well, not yet" Mom returned.

"Well, that's unacceptable. I think we should get a second opinion" Buffy asserted.

"Well, we need a first opinion first, honey." Mom clarified.

"Ok. We'll go right now!" Wait. What in the Buffy?

"Buffy, I know you're concerned, okay? But don't be. I'm still the mom. Which means I get to worry about you two. Which is a good thing because you're a Vampire Slayer." Mom hugged me and continued " You're my sweet little pumpkin boy"

"Mom. I'm 16. I'll be an adult in two years. Also, I am taller than both of you." I registered my embarrassment at my mom using my kid name. Ok. Shaun's kid name. I mean I am Shaun now right?

"So I can't be retro?" Mom teased me.

"Did you ever have any names for me?"

"No... I think you were always just Buffy" Mom replied casually.

But I could feel a look of hurt on her face like she was left out or something.

"I got some names for you" I decided to lighten her up which had the opposite effect as Buffy just closed her eyes like she can't believe what I was doing.

"What are you doing hanging around here? Isn't this Giles' big day?" Mom asked Buffy after a realization hits her.

"Oh! Bigger than big. It's his grand opening." Buffy clarified.

"So go. Bring me back a..." Mom shakes her head "I don't know.." She thinks "...A flying broomstick or something"

"Mom don't be stereotypical. Magic is not just flying broomsticks. Besides, they don't work well like they do in Hogwarts" I decided to butt into the conversation.

"Hogwarts. That reminds me. Harry Potter and The Philosopher's stone for book club tonight?" Mom suggested.

"Sure mom" I replied in affirmative.

"You guys have a book club?" Buffy asked surprised.

When I and my mom gave her a look, she just turned her head sideways.

"Okay, I'm gonna go. I will be back later."  Buffy then turned towards mom and asked her "What time is your doctor's appointment?"

When mom gave her an exasperated look, Buffy anticipating a worse lecture from our mom said "I just want to know...take it easy. I want you to relax all day, keep your feet up, and plenty of Oprah."

"Plus you can check my reports on Artificial Intelligence and you know there are like zillions of board games--" My suggestion got interrupted as Buffy dragged me out of the house.

"Hey, you said I couldn't come" I asked her shocked.

"I changed my mind" She informed me nonchalantly.

Later, when we entered the magic shop we found Giles standing in a spangled purple robe and pointed purple warlock's cap.

"Whoa... Mr Giles! You look so cool." I appreciated his getup while Buffy just stood there and stared him down. I swear the girl has no taste.

"Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well Shaun" Giles retorted.

But as Buffy kept giving him the death glare he decided to get rid of his getup much to my chagrin.

"So, at what time does it open?" I asked the watcher.

"Since 9:00 this morning actually" he replied.

"Shaun, go browse.. and.." I completed Buffy's words "You break it, you bought it"

I roam around the place. The place was so cool. There were so many books, artefacts and a lot of other magic stuff. I mentally noted to stay away from the stuff as some of them could be dangerous.

Giles and Buffy were talking about how he had a good feeling about this place and would soon be earning a lot of money.

Soon, I found Willow and captain cardboard entering the store as the bell on the top of the front door jingles.

"Giles! Where's your hat and cloak?" Willow asks excitedly.

"Yeah, the hype was out of control" Cardboard was being his old grumpy self. Just great.

"Yes, Willow! It was so cool. Can we ask him to wear it again?" I asked Willow to join my cause.

"Giles you have to wear it now. For me please!" Willow did her puppy dog eyes thing.

Giles finally relented and wore his getup again.

While I and Willow clapped gleefully, Buffy and her boyfriend looked like they wanted to run out of this place.

"I actually have something very important. Scooby-centric" Buffy interrupted our fun which resulted in Giles removing his robe and hat AGAIN!

Buffy took out this shining yellow ball from her handbag.

"I put this before the group" The slayer announced and then questioned, "What the hell is it?"

"Glowing ball" I guessed.

"Way to state the obvious, Shaun!" I swear Buffy always took every chance to insult me.

"It appears to be paranormal in origin" Giles stated seriously.

"How can you tell?" Willow quizzed.

"Well, it's so shiny" Giles explained.

"Wait. That's what I said. Glowing ball." I felt weirdly validated by Giles. I mentally scolded myself for being so immature all of a sudden.

"Found it on patrol/" Buffy gave the ball to Giles after saying that.

"Maybe more where that came from. I say we go back out again tonight." Grandpa suggested to Buffy.

"For the love of God, grandpa" I pointed my index finger at him and went on "We can't have another incident of a heart attack from you."

Giles, Willow and grandpa look away while Buffy looked furious.

"Oh oh, Awkward silence." That's when it registered that I just did a colossal screw-up.

"I worry about you old man" Buffy got even more furious but I looked away from her and looked at the ex-military man "You are my sister's boyfriend whether I like you or not, you being hurt means I have one pissed off slayer at my house. So please stay out of trouble."

"Also see Buffy, I never told him how you said he looked even cuter when he was all weak and kitteny and you'd better go solo or he'd get hurt?" That's when I realised I just blasted a nuclear bomb on myself.

Buffy looked absolutely mortified, I hid my face in shame to avoid any more reactions.

While cardboard and watcher headed to the training room, Willow went to take care of the shop and I was dragged out by a furious Buffy who was scolding me the entire way home.

When we both entered the house, we found mom resting her left hand on her head as she lay on the couch.

I and Buffy stopped bickering and went towards our mom who was obviously in distress.

"Mom! What happened?" We aired our concerns in unison.

"It's just my head" Mom replied weakly.

"I'm taking you to the doctor" Buffy said.

"No sweetheart. I'm fine" Mom tried to not worry us too much which was obviously not working.

"We don't know that. We don't know anything. We're going." Buffy strongly asserted her opinion on the situation.

"I just need my prescription. Please?" Mom requested meekly.

Buffy just took a slip of paper from the table near the couch. I am guessing it was mom's prescription.

"Hospital pharmacy open?" Buffy asked.

Mom nodded in affirmative and my older sister rushed out of the house to buy the medicine in prescription.

"Mom. How do you feel?" I asked her with concern.

"Oh, Shaun! Darling, I'm fine"

"No, you're not. Please don't lie to me. Honestly, tell me how you feel"

"Well, my head throbs like anything but don't worry, Buffy will be back with my meds in a jiffy"

I chuckled with teary eyes "Mom, you sure know how to roll your punchlines"

Then the rest of the time went off with me taking care of my very ill mom.

My bigger sister obviously lied because she took her own time and returned after 15 mins. I mean 5 whole minutes late.

"Mom, take your meds. After the stunt you pulled before, I'm not taking you to the magic shop. Stay." Buffy instructed mom and made me feel bad in the same breath.

"What was that about?" She went into her typical motherly interrogation mode.

I explained the nuclear disaster that was today's morning to her. She advised me to be more sensitive to other people's feelings and whatever. In some time, she was sleeping like a baby.

I decided to prepare for the computer science test that was coming up next week. Apparently, Shaun was actually good at art but I, on the other hand, sucked at art. So, I had to immediately change my art course to a computer course.

Ok. So the remaining day was largely uneventful. I had lunch. Fed mom lunch. She refused but I manned up for once because of my irresponsible sister. Sorry, sorry I get it. She's saving the world and all.

But in the evening, There was something weird.

As usual cardboard grandpa and my sister locked themselves up in her room. But instead of the usual moaning sounds that I heard from their room, there was no sound this time.

I thanked the gods and continued studying for my test.

But later when I closer to Buffy's room I smelled incense from her room.

I was following manners and I gently knocked on her door.

"What are you doing?" I asked her curiously.

"My boyfriend. Go Away" I could hear her frustrated voice from the closed room.

"Liar. Are you doing magic?" I asked her.

"No, I'm not!" She lied again.

"Can I watch?" I was feeding my curiosity here.

"No you can't" Her negative reply dismayed me.

"Please. Please. Pretty Please" I begged her and I tried to open the door but Buffy pushed it against me and slammed it in my face.

I guessed that she was doing some world-saving business. I did not want to bother her and went back to my room.

Later at night, I found Buffy in my room. Huh, I guess she completed doing magic.

We all know what happened after.

Now

After approximately three-fourths of an hour, I found Buffy returning.

She stood in front of me, arms folded with a serious expression on her face.

"Let's Talk"

A/N: Things may start to diverge from canon a little bit more from this chapter. The juicy part of the story just started. I need some suggestions on which Buffyverse character to pair Shaun with as creating another OC for a love interest is too much work. I am leaning towards Faith or Glory as of now. Also as usual leave your feedback(Votes, Comments, Messages) which usually makes my day. Also, the next chapter might take more than a week as I have some exams coming up.