Can't wait to see the next chappie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I have a cool idea for what comes next. Hopefully you guys will agree.

I sincerely hope the author gets that beta writer soon!!! This story is aweson-Buffy able to read all those ancient languages!!

Like one of my betas suggested, she won't be a genius in all fields; I'm thinking just the ones suited towards being a Slayer.

Oops, forgot to remove the invite for betas.

So happy to see this update. :)

Thanks.

I can see Buffy having a huge discrepancy between her grades and her intelligence. I was one of those students who was sporadic about turning in assignments and yet did very well on tests. It had nothing to do with cheating, I was just too damn lazy to do any kind of schoolwork when I wasn't sitting in a classroom with a teacher watching me. Apparently, Buffy's teachers weren't watching, which is not really surprising, nobody in Sunnydale seems to expect anything from any of the kids there. Don't know if it was some kind of subconscious recognition that most of them wouldn't live to adulthood, or if the Mayor was fiddling with the schools as well as the police department, stacking them with the incompetent and the corrupt, to make sure that the kids stayed easy prey, and never got out of town. Somebody should probably look into that now that SG-1 has noticed.

I just wish that Dr. Gregory survived, seeing as how he sounded like he was different from the other teachers. Maybe someday I'll have to do that and see how it changes her high school career. As much as I'd love to lay all the blame at Snyder's feet for the way Buffy was viewed by the teachers, Gregory's comments show that it started with Flutie. Guess he wasn't the sweet, caring guy he pretended to be.

I'm glad the SG-1 is taking action so quickly, too bad they got caught on their way in (I'm sure they'll be able to get out of it). & I liked that they didn't instantly run into vamps (or other demons) because that would just be too easy! Love the idea of the Initiative not really being military at all...can't wait to see who's truly/ultimately in charge. & Council or Initiative visiting the ME? I'm guessing the latter, but the former may be interested at some point soon. Good chapter, looking forward to more soon! :)

As common as it is to introduce SG-1 and the Scoobies via a vamp attack, I really didn't want that this time. But there will have to be some creative explanations for the creatures behind the clear cell doors. Oops, didn't think of that before now.

I think I'll do the cop-out thing and have the NID be the ones in charge of the Initiative. I know it's been done to death, but to me it does make some sense.

Thanks for reminding me that somebody has to try and stop Faith's autopsy.

I know this is just a story but the very idea of forcing an artificial insemination ( in my mind "rape"), on a helpless, vulnerable woman should be punishable with a death sentence via slow, excrutating torture for several weeks. It is quite sickening that this sort of thing is probably happening somewhere in the world in one form or another every day.
Thank you for highlighting that humans can think up stuff that no demon would normally consider. Our choices make us good or evil, not our genetics.

Given the stories I see on shows like CSI or Law & Order, it wouldn't shock me to think that Walsh would consider something like this - especially if she didn't view Faith or Buffy as *truly* human beings. And while it may not fit the legal definition of rape - since there was no sexual intercourse - I totally agree that it would have the same affect psychologically on the victims if they found out as rape. Given that they are Slayers, I can't begin to imagine the trauma this would do to girls who are considered practically superhuman by those around them.

To keep it realistic, I may have to take Buffy to a dark place when she finds out. I apologize right now to all the readers if I do.

Yessss a update. Love it.

You know I wonder what the Council will do when they discover what Maggie Walsh did. Putting babies in their Slayers, testing them, killing one. The Council maybe cruel but I think they are also very possessive. Nobody touches their "weapons". If they wanted Faith dead They would have done it already. Giving their Slayers babies will mean the Hellmouth won't be protected and they won't like that.
Not that they care about the Slayer but what they can do to two Slayer imagine when they get their hand on every Slayer they can find or follow. nope the Council will not like it at all. If they ever find out that is.

You know I always thought they underestimated Buffy. When you can get a SAT score as high as Buffy without having the time to learn what will she get when she gets the opportunity to learn.

I'm glad you updated and can't wait what will come next.

Yeah, if anyone is going to experiment on their Slayers, it's gonna be them! Hmmm...thanks for a plot-tribble.

Nice to see an update for this - I've been hoping you hadn't abandoned it. This is a solid chapter which doesn't contain a lot of drama but moves the plot along nicely. I liked the information on Buffy's teachers; it explains the discrepency between her obvious intelligence and her poor grades (I actually saw something like this happen to a classmate in high school - he did an unusually good job on a project and the teacher just assumed he must have copied it). Overall a very nice job.

I've seen several different approaches to the discrepancy issue, but this one felt somewhat fresh to me. It's possible (probable) it's been used before, however, I can't remember anything recent, and it gels nicely with the image I'm trying to convey of Buffy.

more questions indeed...
looking forward to reading the next chapters ^_^

I'll have to remember to come back and tie up loose ends that I've left scattered throughout the chapters.

awesome to see this update. I hope you will continue again soon. I am looking forward to Buffy and SG-1 crossing paths and I hope they get along.

Musie seems to like this story. Even though there are older stories that need updating, she keeps veering my creative energy - when I have any - to the updates for this one.

Thanks for the update can't wait for more.

Glad you liked it.

An UPDATE! It's a miracle!! *cue angelic/heavenly music*

And a nice one, moving things around quickly but believably >:). I hope the clowns in the initiative realize they are eventually FUBAR >:).

Have to think of what their reaction to Jack's announcement should be.

Yay! Good update, lady! ^.^

CT.

Thanks.

So glad to see a continuation of this story! And the bit about missing paperwork makes a lot of sense, since Riley and friends always seemed awfully young to have attained the military raniks they held in season 4 -- if this wasn't a 'real' military mission, the fact that they were experimenting on their own troops without knowledge or consent and a lot of other things make a bit more sense. Good to see that SG1 and friends have the President's order to shut the Initiative down, regardless.

Also, I LOVED the bit about Buffy's academic record having been sabotaged by her teachers in Sunnydale. As a professor myself, I understand the temptation to underestimate a student who's spotty in turning in required assignments, but I also know that a discrepancy between assignments and test scores does NOT necessarily indicate cheating, and that it's worth digging deeper to find out what's going on with the student. (Also, all my exams are 'open-book/open-notes' essay tests, which is designed to make 'cheating' both easier to spot and less likely to occur.)

I think the reason I came up with the non-military angle was because I get so tired of writers - both fanfic and shows - making the military out so seem like zealots who believe the ends justify the means. Like there aren't civilian groups who are radicals like that or something.

In a town like Sunnydale especially, I can see the teachers not wanting to expend the time and energy to find out why her test scores and homework performance was so different. When they're worried about their own survival, a student's academic records doesn't seem that important.

I'm pissed.

Not at you, I'm just pissed that whoever it was that impregnated Faith saw fit to kill her and her baby.

Betcha any money it was Maggie Walsh and her fellow nutjobs.

I don't really see the Council doing this kind of thing. They'd have killed her outright by injecting an air bubble into her IV.

Yeah, I think if the Council wanted Faith dead, they wouldn't be too sneaky about it. They certainly wouldn't impregnate her, then kill her *before* the baby was born. The explanation for that will come though.