Nice touch with Lisbon's interest in vengeance demons, there at the end.

Any chance of another story in this series, eventually?

"She couldn’t have done too badly if a Slayer wanted to grow up to be just like her."

:-D

I like it. It was not a cross I expected but you have woven the worlds together really well.

Fire

Loved that moment between Rachel and Lisbon! So hearfelt and ernest.

Awww...! I can't think of a better compliment, or a better way for Lisbon to realize how much she's appreciated by the Cleveland crew, than to have one of the most courageous young Slayers take her as a role model and want to follow the same career path Lisbon has chosen. Very neat!

Heh. I love your Faith-and-Jane conversations.

Finally caught up with this, and liking it.

I approve of Faith's current outlook/motto. Certainly works in her favor - she's content now, and everyone else approves.

I do think Faith and Kevin deserve a 'talk'. He failed her and the other Slayers. She needs to make him understand that he was acting the way the old Council would train Watchers about how much information they should allow their Slayers to know. He needs to get with the program and become an all-sharing partner, rather than unconsciously seeing himself as an all-seeing/all-knowing authority lording over his 'more uneducated' Slayer minions.

Don't be too harsh on Kevin - he screwed up and he knows it. Don't forget, he's pretty new to the whole Watcher thing. I don't think he meant to withhold info; he genuinely didn't think of it until it was too late. At least, that's how I wrote it!

Loved this bit of Faith-Jane dialogue at the end:

“You might have a point.”

“Hell, I got an armoury of pointy things. Even sometimes make sense to myself..."

I really appreciate that you don't underestimate Faith's intelligence or her ability to be insightful about the tragedies she's experienced, when absolutely necessary.

Faith knows what it's like to mess up. If Patrick Jane was really to meet the Scoobies, I think he'd get on with her best, simply through shared experience. After all, they've both lost a lot (could be argued that neither helped the situation, though through different faults), but generally they both just get on with life. Patrick seems to have taken the Slayers to heart, in my mind anyway, because his daughter would be around eleven or twelve by now (based on a couple of comments from the show), so she could easily have been Marissa or the younger Slayers. I think that would hit him hard...

oh i am so glad i found this! i love this xover! *hands you scones*

Ah, "disposing of uglie beasties 101" from the Slayer curriculum -- lovely!

Nice twist.

Good story so far. You have made this situation very tense and kept me on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happens next.

Cool scene with Lisbon observing Jane as he melts the vampires.

Trust Jane to come up with the 'holy water in kids' water pistols' notion!

Great job on the action descriptions. I could totally picture the scene as Rachel fought. Also, excellent contrast with Rachel's excitement to Ayako being taken down - very "Buffy" in its dichotomy and imagery.