A/N: Thank you zwritessss for the vote. It really means a lot. My first-ever vote on Wattpad. So thank you again for that. Here comes the next chapter when the story actually starts. While things will mostly go canon, Shaun/Matthew is more mature than Dawn so his reactions will be a bit different. Some tiny details might vary as it had been some time since I watched the actual show.

I was never a religious person in my previous life but in this life, I visited the church regularly and purchased at least a bottle of holy water and a cross daily. Weirdly enough holy oil does not work on vampires even though they are blessed and I'll never know why.

Yes. I looked up the apparent rules for vampires in this universe.

a) Do not invite them into your house: Translates to never say 'Come In' separately or as part of a sentence.

b) Fuckers can be killed with a stake to their heart, 

decapitation, 

sunlight 

and if they drank holy water, they'll burst. Also, Holy water burns their skin.

The sunlight part always confused me because despite Spike being a vampire, he roamed around in daylight. If any of his body parts were exposed to the sun they burned but nothing serious happened to him. I don't know how that worked. Also until I came to this universe, I always thought vampires just sparkled in the sunlight. Bloody Twilight and the misinformation it spread to a whole new generation like me.

I am 16 but it felt really tired being treated like a child. Buffy kind of became like an overprotective big sister(which she actually is). It was kind of nice but made actual research into the supernatural more difficult.

Also now that I think about it, the town people were either dumb or else they willingly chose to ignore the weird stuff that happens.

Right, that's enough of that. I was getting bored at the time when Buffy was standing upside down on a wooden plank in one hand. Giles was saying some stuff that is usually told in these meditation classes that I used to attend when I was a kid.

Now that I was feeling bored, I found some white colour crystals arranged so that they look like a mini tower. I wanted to just check if there was just one more crystal I could place atop the tower.

Unfortunately, my little physics experiment was a failure and the crystal tower came crashing down with a huge noise.

Giles shot an aghast look in the direction of the table AKA at me. Buffy meanwhile lost her balance.

"Buffy I'm so sorry" I apologised profusely

"But can we go home now?"

Buffy who was seriously peeved that her upside-down one-hand mediation was interrupted now just rolled her eyes and shut it.

She did not take me home though. She just continued on with the routine until she perfected it. I, on the other hand, decided to do a little meditation of my own. The best thing that I could now do would be to keep my hands to myself and not poke them in unnecessary places. Ok. That came out wrong.

So, finally after successfully completing her training, Buffy took me to the church as per my daily routine. As usual, I purchased some holy water for the day and both of us were back home.

Finally, dawn was upon us.

Having been in this town for more than two weeks, my body had adjusted reasonably well to the temperature conditions. In India, it was enough if you just wore a cotton shirt. But here, one had to wear a shirt and some kind of sweater or jacket upon it.

I always watched English movies with English subtitles because I always found that the native English speakers spoke too fast for my understanding. So, I was surprised that I understood the way people spoke despite their accents being either American or British.

After some unnecessary musing, while taking bath, I arrived at the kitchen to have my breakfast.

I will always be surprised by the sheer amount of refrigerated food Americans consume. While I can't exactly ask for Indian food without raising suspicions, I decided that the best course of action would be to eat boiled healthy vegetables three times a day.

Also milk. Yay! Finally, one thing that is common across all cultures. I swipe the glass of milk that Buffy had and downed it. But before I could drink it fully, Buffy grabs it from me. Slayer strength! So bloody unfair!

Of course, eating milk and veggies alone cannot give you carbohydrates and one needs carbohydrates for a balanced diet. So, I take the toasted bread which Buffy had prepared for herself and ate them before she could lay their hands upon them. Sweet, sweet revenge! I cackled internally like an evil supervillain.

"So Buffy, what are your plans for today?" Joyce quizzed.

"Giles and I are making a little magic shop run this morning. Need to pick up some supplies for my improved training sessions" Buffy returned.

"Oh that's great.." Joyce hummed

"Well, yeah, thanks, it's kinda exci-"

"You can take Shaun for his back-to-school supplies" Joyce interrupted Buffy and assigned her a task in the same breath.

"What?" Buffy was shocked I think.

It was Joyce who had actually promised me to buy some books for school. So, even I was shocked too.

"Mother, why the sudden change of plans?" I said that may be a little too dramatic.

"I've got the Gurion showing tonight and there's so much to do to get the gallery ready" Joyce explained.

"No. But see mom, we're just going to magic shop. No school supplies there" Buffy was trying to ditch her sole big sister duty of taking care of me.

"Yeah. Mom, I'm not going to Hogwarts" I had to get that Harry Potter joke in there. Chosen one and all that.

Buffy obviously doesn't get the joke.

Wait! Wait! Oh shit! Oh Shit! Harry potter movie had not been released yet. I might have done something suspicious.

But there was a muffled giggle on Joyce's end. Which meant she understood my joke. Right. The books are a big deal too.

"I'm sure Mr Giles won't mind dropping you and your sister off at a department store afterward" Joyce asserted to Buffy.

"Yes, he'll mind. This is supposed to be quality Watcher/Slayer time. I told you, Shaun, totally messed up my training yesterday" Buffy complained about me to Joyce.

"For which I profusely apologised. It was not intentional. I was getting bored when you were supposed to take me to church" I had to defend myself.

"Buffy, I realize the importance of your new... slayer... thing..." Joyce's speech was interrupted when there was a knock on the front door.

I called dibs and went to open the door.

"Hey, kid" he greeted me.

"Hey, grandpa" I caught Riley off guard with that.

Riley just cleared his throat.

"Morning, Mrs Summers. You look great"

"Thank You, Riley"

Buffy and Riley kissed as Joyce went outside the door for her showing.

"Suck Up!" Buffy teased him.

"What, it's a nice outfit. Besides, 'I'm here to violate your firstborn' never goes over with the parents. Not sure why" Riley sassed.

"Oh because pregnancy at the age of 20 is the best thing" Yeah, I don't know but I feel like roasting Riley.

Somehow I never saw what was so great about the guy. I never understood why Buffy was so in love with the sucker.

"Shaun go back to the kitchen" Buffy admonished me.

"Rather than see you and grandpa do frenchies, gladly" I returned to my safe spot.

I have kind of become a brat which was nigh impossible in my previous life. Because I'm a younger brother and not an only son, my being a brat will always be excused.

After making out some more and doing some lovey-dovey stuff, Riley was off.

"See you, Kid"

"See you, Grandpa"

Our initial exchange and final exchange turned out to be the same.

Giles and Buffy were off in the car and I tagged along with them. They were basically discussing Riley. Oh, God. Not Riley Reid. Riley Finn.

Also Buffy was talking about books all of a sudden. I was starting to pinch myself to check if I was dreaming and when I screamed in pain, Giles admonished me to not disturb him.

Then the conversation veered towards automatic transmission and how Giles hated new tech.

Then Willow and Tara popped up. While they both were mostly scarce in their PDA, I could find that they were lovers in the way their eyes spoke with each other. They greeted each of us.

Buffy and Willow meanwhile went on talking about the new slayer training and Willow threw shade at Giles for making Buffy miss the drama class which was the only class they had together.

I and Tara now stood in front of the magic shop.

"Shop's kinda dark maybe it's closed" Tara guessed.

"That's odd" Giles remarked.

He opened the door and all the grown-ups entered first. I was the last one to enter.

"Well, I think the 'odd' just got upped to 'bad' " Buffy was stating things out of my mind now.

The shop had been ransacked, glass smashed and books and other items had been pulled from shelves. Something had definitely gone down here.

"Hello, Is anyone here?" Giles was searching for the presence of someone in the shop.

"Mr Bogarty?" Tara called out.

I turned to see Tara puzzled. Who in the actual hell was this Bogarty guy?

"The owner" she explained amid continued looks directed at her and continued "I'm in here a lot"

"Maybe this happened really late in the night when no one was-" Willow suddenly trips and falls to the floor.

"Will?" Buffy queried her best friend in concern.

Tara immediately went towards her lover to help her.

"I'm fine. I just tripped over..." her eyes widened

"Mr Bogarty" she finished her sentence despite being shocked.

I was taller than Buffy so I was able to sneak a peek into the dead man.

As far as I could see, there was this old man with some blood-dripping puncture wound on his neck. Before I could process what I saw, I found myself being pushed outside of the magic shop.

"Just wait here" Buffy ordered me and I just nodded.

I would have spoken something sassy but then I was too traumatised at seeing my first dead body with a brutal neck wound.

I was being a good little brother and silently waiting outside when this lunatic suddenly popped up in front of me.

He was wearing a stained business suit and tie. His hands and face were filthy. His eyes had this deranged edge to their look.

Sorry, I know 'lunatic' is not exactly the most sensitive way to address a person with mental health issues but when the said person is so close to you and gives off a creepy demeanour, words flow out.

"Whatcha Doing? What are you doing HERE? Can't loiter. No loitering... That's why I'm a cat... Quiet... cat's in the cupboard, but they find you anyway... and it hurts..." I was too scared out of my mind now and couldn't find some decent enough words to speak and was just stammering but the dude yammered on. "Please make it stop... Shut up! SHUT UP! They'll hear you!"

As I said I was too scared to say anything or speak anything. I was near catatonic. I found myself cornered to a truck.

The dude's expression now changed.

"I know you... curds and whey... I know what you are... You don't belong here" he said with disdain.

I just somehow escaped from the screwed-up man and found myself sitting on the pavement near the magic shop. the man luckily went away from the place. I was deeply pondering when the images of the dead man were flashing in front of my eyes. Again and again. I was almost about to hyperventilate when I heard a voice.

"Shaun! Shaun!" I heard Tara calling out to me.

'Calm Down! Calm Down! Calm Down!' I internally screamed at myself to calm the hell down.

Despite my best try, I found myself shaking when Tara arrived and had a worried look on her face directed at me

"That guy in there, he's dead right?" I asked her as if it wasn't the obvious thing in the world.

"Yeah" she replied in a low tone and sat down beside me.

I took deep breaths and found myself becoming calm.

"They're gonna be a little while longer, doing the detective thing. Best non-Scoobies like you and me stay out of their way" She informed me.

I just nodded and we sat in silence for about 15 seconds.

"Do you wanna thumb wrestle?" she asked

I snickered. "Tara, what am I? 14?"

I found myself becoming calmer but still, the dead body kept flashing in my head. But then I decided that something to take my mind off of things would be better and agreed to thumb wrestling.

After some time, thumb wrestling was starting to become boring. So, I thought of introducing her to the epic game of hand cricket but cricket is not so popular in the US and things could get suspicious so I settled on the next best thing. Hand Football. No, No, Hand Soccer.

I'll never understand why Americans call rugby football and football soccer. When I decided to introduce a new game to Tara, Buffy and the others exited the magic shop.

"Shaun!" Buffy called out.

"We're here" I and Tara called out in chorus.

Then Buffy took me home. I went to my bedroom when Joyce arrived and the mom-daughter duo duked it out.

" So not only didn't you take your brother shopping for school supplies, you brought him to a murder scene"

"I didn't bring him to it. It just sorta came upon us..."

While I was sitting in my bed, both the dead body and the alive baddy (You know, the mental health patient) flashed in front of my eyes. I really wish there was a switch to turn off traumatic stuff but there isn't.

They were both duking it out but I managed to listen to the important stuff.

"Who's going to watch Shaun?" Joyce asked Buffy.

"I don't need anyone to watch me!" I shouted indignantly.

"Yes, You do!" Buffy and Joyce yelled back applying salt to my wounds.

" So you're saying if I can get a babysitter over here before you leave, I can go patrol now" Buffy mused out loud.

"Babysitter?! I'm sixteen! I'm old enough to BE a babysitter" I yelled from my bedroom which fell on deaf ears.

At last, the mom-daughter duo decided that the goofball Xander and the oddball Anya would babysit ME! 16-year-old ME!

"Shaun Patrol! Check this out: They put cheese on round bread. It's gonna be big" Xander stood outside the house with pizza in his hands and then entered.

Joyce thanked him to which he replied "Total non-sweat"

"Shaun, you be good" Joyce warns me

"We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from... some guy, I don't know his name" Xander's way of speech I still could not completely understand. The guy was always funny, I'll give you that.

"Hello there, little guy" There she was, Anya. Ex-vengeance demon. Xander's girlfriend.

" We are gonna have fun fun fun. Look. We've got, uh..." She read the sides of the boxes and continued " Monopoly... Clue... ooh, The Game of Life, that sounds really good..."

"Do we have chess?" I asked Xander who replied in the affirmative in his own way riddled with grammar mistakes.

I just facepalmed and rolled my eyes. This was going to be a long day.

After some time

The chess match was at a very important point when the window glass shattered and a rock came inside with a tied-up note.

Xander removed the note from the rock and opened it.

"Slayer! Come Out and Die!" Xander read from the note.

I could feel my eyes widen.

"I am waiting for you, Buffy! I know you're in there!" I heard a woman's voice outside. When I peeped through the window crack, I found a blonde woman standing outside with 4 more guys. But the guys looked weird with yellow eyes and bumps near their foreheads.

That's when it struck me. These guys are vampires.

Xander opened the door and informed the blonde girl who I understood to be named Harmony that Buffy was not home.

"What do you mean she's not in there?!" Harmony exclaimed while I peeked at her meekly behind Anya.

"She has to be. I'm calling her out!" Harmony continued childishly.

"And I bet she'll be real sorry she missed your call" Xander looked back at me not even looking at the girl who was standing outside with heavy makeup. Then he turned back to the 4 weird guys and continued "Afraid you and your buddies are gonna have to come back and be killed by Buffy later"

Because they were vamps, they could only enter if invited inside. I just internally advised myself never to say 'Come In' at any cost for some time.

"They are not my buddies. They're my minions" Harmony said with a bit of attitude.

Xander meanwhile was unfazed "They're.. what now?" he was teasing her now.

"Minions! You know... Lackeys. They work for me" she clarified.

Xander burst out laughing raucously.

"What's so funny?" Harmony was pissed.

"Nothing" HE was replying through his laughter "What could be funny? Just... Look out, it's the terrifying Harmony gang! Ooooh!" He's taunting her now.

"Stop laughing" she tried to enter the house but to no avail. That's when I understood that she was a vampire too. It should have been obvious when she had 4 vampire minions but I guess this was enough virtual proof.

I could feel this conversation getting out of hand anytime now. So, I immediately went up to my bedroom and collected 5 bottles of holy water and came back down. I had two bottles in both my side pant pockets and one in the back pant pocket or the 'bum pocket'. Important thing. I made sure to tear the holy water sticker from the bottles.

"You should know all about being somebody's lapdog. I hear you were a good little puppy for Dracula" Harmony was now taunting Xander. I must have missed the part of the conversation which resulted in this 180.

"Shut up!" I felt bad for Xander. I don't know what the hell happened with Dracula but that was mean. I was holding a holy water bottle each with both my hands bent backwards.

"Shaun, I'm handling this" Xander turned back to look at me. I just winked at him.

"Shut up Harmony!" Xander shushed her.

"Make me!" she dared.

"I oblige" I just poured the holy water from the bottles in my hands on her face.

The blonde vampire cried in pain and I used the opportunity to close the door.

"This is not over! I'll be back." I heard her stomp and vacate the spot with her lackeys.

"Buffy's not gonna be happy about this" Xander remarked.

I wondered why she was not going to be happy. Wondering, I went back to my room.

I mused about the events so far. Holy water helped for now but from what transpired, I could sense that this vampire and her gang were a joke. I had to be ready if and when more serious threats arrive. If I knew something for sure about entertainment, things would always get worse and reach a crescendo later.

"SHAUN!" I heard Buffy yell which snapped me out of my thoughts.

"What now?" I asked her lazily.

"What did you think when confronting Harmony like that? Something could have happened to you! You have to be more careful!" She admonished me but I found the sisterly affection really cute.

"I just did what I thought was best at the time. Agreed it was risky. What else would you have me do? Wait till Harmony and her minions bash our house?" I returned with the most possible logical explanation on my side.

"Shut it, Logic Boy! I am your big sister. You're not supposed to talk back to me" Buffy for a lack of a comeback decided to use her big sister card now.

"Ok, Buffy. Sorry. This would not have happened if you didn't go outside to fondue with grandpa"

Buffy smacked my arms and I rubbed them in pain.

Our bonding moment was interrupted when a small piece of rock came hurtling inside smashing through the window walls.

"Shaun! This time, hide"

I just nodded and within seconds found Buffy fighting with the minion vampires downstairs as I peeked through the window. What! Curiosity got the better of me.

She staked 3 of them but found it difficult to fight this one bigger minion who banged her with a hammer on her spine. Buffy dropped down to the floor. He continued assaulting her with the hammer when grandpa came out and staked the sucker on his back.

All 4 were now dust. I saw Harmony coming towards Buffy from the bushes but after seeing Buffy's carnage decided to flee the place. I really hope she doesn't come back again.

I am guessing all 4 of these vampires must have killed the old man in the shop. So, Yay! In a way, justice is served I guess. The deranged guy in the morning said something about me not belonging here. Got to check what that was about and get more involved in whatever Buffy gets up to because something tells me that the main villain is gonna pop out soon.

A/N: There ends this chapter. I am planning a pair for the OC in this fic. We'll see how that turns out. As usual, I'm always open to constructive criticism(comments, votes, messages). With Shaun being a little bit more mature than Dawn, things ended much more quickly with lesser conflict but I assure you the future chapters will have more conflict and THRILLS. Also, there will be exactly one occurrence of the F-word in each chapter.