Faith Rose
Five by Five
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the vampire slayer and I did not created Buffy the vampire slayer. The shower was on WB, UPN and was also part of the fox network. Joss Whedon who is a screenwriter, film and television director, film and a television producer created the tv show. I did make up the character Catalina Victoria Reducan, the Romanian pronunciation for first name is Kadl ene.
Author note: I had the idea for this fan fiction for years now and I was planing on write it before Faith and Buffy vampire slayer since season one series, but ended up wrote Faith and Buffy vampire slayer since season one: the high school years and then start writing Faith and Buffy vampire slayer since season one: the college years and I ended up put off writing Welcome to Sunnydale. I was planing on waiting to write this fan fiction until I finish with Faith and Buffy vampire slayer since season one: the college years, but have decided to start writing Welcome to Sunnydale at the same time I work on finish up Faith and Buffy vampire slayer since season one: the college years and then Faith and Buffy vampire slayers since season one: after Willow change slayer line forever. If you want to see a picture of the person that I base the character Catalina Victoria Reducan after go to my profile on fan fiction.net, username is Lexi1981 and look under the fan fiction name for this fan fiction to find a picture URL if the URL does not show up and you still want to see a picture of whom I base Catalina Victoria Reducan off of sent me an email at makeitorbreakitlove81@gmail.com and I will send you the picture URL.
Chapter one: Forming of the Scooby gang
It is the evening of Sunday, September 15, 1996 and at 1630 Revllo Drive Mrs. Summers and Buffy Summers who arrived in Sunnydale that afternoon have started unpacking boxes. Mrs. Summers is unpacking boxes in the kitchen and Buffy is unpacking boxes in her bedroom, now that all the boxes have been brought inside from the moving truck. Buffy who hair is French braid and is wearing a pair of light gray pajama pants and a white tank top is hanging clothing up in her closet, thinking about what her first day at Sunnydale High School will be like tomorrow and about what she should wear to school tomorrow. Buffy hears her Mom walk up to her bedroom door and turn around to see her mom standing at her bedroom door wearing a pair of gray sweatpant and oversized gray T-shirt.
“Buffy I order us two pizzas from the Pizza barn and it should be her in twenty minutes.”
“What did you get on the pizzas?”
“One has Tomatoes, mushroom, green peppers, feta cheese and red peppers and the other is a meat lovers pizza.”
“Yell at me when the pizza get here.”
“I will Buffy.”
Mrs. Summers head back downstairs, then walks into the kitchen and goes back to unpacking the kitchen boxes. At the same time Buffy is hanging up a short black mini skirt in her closet. The sun has just start to go down and there is one Sunnydale residence outside walking down a street in downtown Sunnydale and her named Catalina Victoria Reducan who has dark-brown hair that just above her breasts in length and roundish almond shape eyes that are brown, an inverted triangle/heart shape face, thin lips, a small beak nose, inverted triangle body and she is four foot nine inches tall. The teenage girl is wearing a pair of black cotton workout pants and a white T-shirt with the American flag on it and a pair of white tennis shoes. Her hair is pull up into a ponytail and her round diamond pierced stud earrings of the four piercing on the lower earlobe and the one piercing on the top of the left earlobe and that is in the cartilage can be seen and she is also wearing a small gold cross pendant that has diamonds inset into the cross and that is on a fourteen-inch chain. The young looking fifteen-year-old girl is carrying a large black duffle bag on her right shoulder and a blue gym bag that say USA Olympic Gymnastic Team and has the American flag on the front pocket, is on her left shoulder. Catalina is walking up to a sage door of a Victorian red brick row house on State Street, there is a row house on each side of Catalina’s house and the row houses are across the street from an old warehouse that was turned into Sunnydale gymnastics club and the street behind the gymnastic club is called Mercer Street. Catalina takes her keys out of the front pocket of her blue gym bag and then open up the front door of the row house. She heads inside of the house and stop inside the entry hall of the house, then looks around the street because she has the feeling of being watch and despite not seen anyone she knows that the vampire with a soul that calls himself Angel is watching her, because he has been watching her all summer. Catalina close the front door of the house and then locks the door, she walks over to the wooden staircase that is up against the left-hand wall and across from the front door then set her duffle bag and gym bag down on the floor in front of the staircase. Catalina then walks over to the first doorway on the right-hand side if your back is to the front door and looks through the doorway into the parlour (living room). She looks at the fireplace that is on the center of the wall across from the doorway and start staring at the very old wooden mantle that is walnut, which matching the hard wood floors that are in every room but the bathroom upstairs. Catalina then looks at the back of the French antique sofa that is hand carved and is made out of solid walnut and the sofa is from 1890 and the upholstery fabric is black with prints of pink roses and white ribbons between each of the roses. In the center of the wood above the top of sofa and blow the seats are some carved roses. The sofa is in front of the fireplace and beside each arm of the sofa is an armchair from the same time period that matches the sofa and the armchairs are facing each other, but there is no tv in the parlour. Catalina turns away from the parlour doorway and walks down the hallway toward the back of the house then looks into the dinning room that is the second door on the right-hand side if your back to the front door and there a walnut table and chairs in the center of the room. Catalina then walks to the end of the hallway and goes up to the doorway of the kitchen. She looks at the white refrigerator that is up against the right-hand wall if standing in the kitchen doorway and is happy that her grandfather Reducan empty out the refrigerator and freezer before they left for the summer Olympic games. She looks at the walnut upper cabinets and the walnut lower cabinets that have black granite counter tops, which start after the refrigerator and wrap around the corner of the back wall of the house for a foot then there is the Gold Medal Glenwood Combination Antique Cook Stove, which still works and all the wood burning parts have been convected to gas. The stove has eight burners, and there are two ovens. One of the ovens is eighteen inches times eleven inches high and eighteen inches deep, the other oven is eight inches deep times twelve inches high and eighteen inches deep and there is a broiler that is thirteen inches wide times fourteen inches deep and nine inches high. The overall dimension of the stove and ovens is forty-two inches wide time thirty-two inches deep time thirty-two inches high to the top of the cook surface times sixty-four inches to the very top of the stove and the stove is up against the wall across from the kitchen doorway. The back door is on the left-hand side of the stove if standing in the kitchen doorway. In the center of the kitchen is a walnut island with a black granite counter top, Catalina starts to cry as she looks around the kitchen thinking of the last breakfast she ate in the kitchen, which is when her grandfather cook pancake for her the morning that the two of them were leaving for Atlanta, Georgia. Her grandfather who was also her gymnastic coach pass away a few days later in Atlanta, Georgia, Catalina walks away from the kitchen and walks over to the staircase. Catalina grabs her bags off the floor, then starts walking up the stairs and a minute later she steps onto the landing of the second floor. Catalina looks through the door that across from the staircase that lead into the small guests’ bedroom that has peach colored walls. Catalina then turns to her right, so her back is to the first bedroom and then walks down the hallway past the bathroom that has white marble floors, white subway tiles on all the bathroom walls with lines of thin black subway tiles around the center of all the walls. The white cast-iron clawfoot bathtub with shower kit is up against the right-hand wall if standing in the bathroom door and the white round cast iron wall mount pedestal sink and the white Victorian toilet is on the wall across from the bathtub, the sink on the left-hand side and toilet on the right if your back to the bathtub. Catalina walks down the hallway, which all of the walls on the first floor and hallway of the second floor are light gold, in the kitchen there are white subway tiles on the walls between the upper and lower cabinets. Catalina walks up to the door of her bedroom that is across from the staircase, she looks at the door that lead into her grandfathers’ bedroom that is at the end of the hallway but turns and walks into her bedroom, which has lavender walls. The closet is on the far right-hand wall if standing in the bedroom door. Catalina set her bags down on the floor at the foot of her white cast-iron full sized bed footboard and the headboard of the bed is up against the center of the wall across from her bedroom door, on the headboard and footboard there are roses in the center of both. Catalina unzips her duffle bag and start unpacking her clothing, underwear, sport bra, bra and leotards that were washed at a laundry mat yesterday and is thinking I wonder how far behind I have get in school since I missed the first two weeks of school. At the same time Xander Harris is in his bedroom, which has light-blue walls. He has all ready change into a pair of red pajama pants and a red short sleeved shirt and is laying on his bed with his eyes closed, but has not fall to sleep yet. Mrs. Harris knocks on her sons’ bedroom door.
“Willow is on the phone.”
“Tell her that I have Ah-choo went to bed.”
“You are supposed to be study Algebra 2 over at Willow’s house and it is too early for you to go to bed Xander, get up and talk to Willow.”
“I do not feel well and I have a headache and I am tired just tell Willow that I went to bed Ah-choo.”
“Fine but if you are not running a fever in the morning you will be going to school.”
“Sniffling whatever mom.”
Xander hears his mom walk away from his bedroom door and roll onto his left side and shuts his eyes, a few moments later he falls to sleep. Meanwhile at Sunnydale High School Rupert Giles who is wearing a gray tweed suit, a black vest, a white dress shirt that is under the vest and suit jacket and a gray tie and Mr. Giles is in the library. Rupert Giles is busy stacking the library shelves to get the library opening seeing that it is going on the third week of school and the library was closed the first two weeks of the school year. Rupert Giles knows it is going to be a long night getting the school library ready, but he is ok with it because he is not able to put any of his personal books away at the home library of the Georgian house that was built in 1714 and that he is rent from Catalina Victoria Reducan because she has not been able to pack up her family book collect yet, which are the only items she is taking out of the house, she is letting him use all the furniture, plate, bowls, spoon, et cetera so he did not have to bring them over from England.
A few hours later Xander is awake and sitting up in bed bowling his nose into a tissue, because his nose will not stop running and he is thinking I hope that I am not getting sick. At the same time Buffy, Willow and Catalina have gone to bed, Willow is having a dream about her and Xander being on a date at the movies. But Buffy and Catalina are having a nightmare, both of them are dreaming about walking through a dark and wet cave together and they are both wearing all black. The two teenage girls that are both vampire slayers are not sure why they are in the cave because neither one of them wants anything to deal with slay vampires nor killing demons. Catalina and Buffy see a teenage boy from school named Jesse chain to the cave floor and run over to him, then the two of them are no longer in the cave but are standing in Sunnydale Cemetery looking at two open and empty graves. The slayers look at each other and then hear someone come up behind them. Buffy and Catalina turns around to see an ancient and powerful vampire who is in full vampire face and the male vampire is pale then the everyday vampire that the slayers face and a younger blonde hair and hazel eye female vampire that is not in vampire face and who name is Darla, is with the Master. The master walks toward Buffy and Darla walks toward Catalina. Catalina does a roundhouse kick that sent Darla flying through the cemetery and at the same time Buffy does a roundhouse, but the master grab Buffy leg and throws Buffy across the cemetery. The nightmare goes on all night for the two slayers, which mean the two girls do not get a good night sleep. Xander spent most of the night up blowing his nose and he only gets a few hours sleep. Catalina’s alarm clock goes off at six o’clock and she gets up right away. Catalina looks down at her clothing and sees that she went to sleep wearing the T-shirt and workout pants that she was wearing when she got home last night. She walks over to her dresser that is up against the wall on the right-hand side of the bedroom door and is across from her bed. Catalina open up the top drawer on the left side of the dresser and grab a pair of underwear out of the drawer. Catalina’s close the drawer and then open up the top drawer on the right-hand side of the dresser and grabs a pair of socks, a sport bra and a bra out of the dresser drawer. A few moments later Catalina throws the socks, sport bra, bra, underwear, a red velvet long sleeved leotard with gold stars on it, a light-blue jean skirt and a red wide strap tank top with a squared neckline onto her bed. At the same time Buffy is still asleep and is tossing and turning in her sleep and is still dreaming. In the dream she and Catalina are back in the cave walking toward the boy that is chain to the floor of the cave. A few minutes later Buffy has starts to dream about Catalina and sees Catalina kneel on the ground beside an elder male that is six feet tall, with gray thinning hair and brown eyes and he looks a lot like Catalina. The man is laying on the ground holding his chest and Catalina is on her large gray flip cellphone. In addition there is a pale guy dress in all black who has dark brown hair and he is fighting a blonde female vampire that is in full vampire face and it is the same female vampire from early in the dream when the two slayers were in Sunnydale Cemetery.
“Angelus’s why are you fighting me, you are supposed to be on my side, not the humans?”
“I go by Angel now, Darla and since 1898 in Borsa, Romaina when the Kalderash cursed me by restoring my human soul, I have only killed soulless vampires and I only drink pig blood now.”
Darla knows that Angel is not saying this for her, but for the young slayer and elder man laying on the ground. Angel and Darla hear an ambulance coming and Darla runs away from Angel, he watches her for a few moments and once she is out of sight, Angel walks over to Catalina and Mr. Reducan. Angel looks down at Mr. Reducan and can tell he is in really bad shape and then he looks at Catalina and notices that the young slayer is very worried about her grandfather. At the same time Catalina flip the cellphone closed and looks up at Angel with a mix look of hatred and confuse on her face.
“Thank you for fighting that vampire and allow me to call nine one one for my grandfather who is having a heart attack.”
“You are welcome and I know that you do not know what to think of me seeing that your mother and her family are part of the Kalderash clan that cursed me.”
Angel stop talking because two EMT’s are walking over to the three of them. Buffy gets wakening up from her dream by the sound of someone knocking on her closed bedroom door. A few moments later Buffy’s bedroom door open up and Mrs. Summers who wearing a pair of black dress pants and a white sleeveless blouse walks into Buffy’s bedroom. Mrs. Summers walks over to her daughters’ bed and Buffy slowly sit up rubbing her eyes.
“You need to get up and get ready for school Buffy.”
“Can I stay home from school?”
Mrs. Summers looks at her daughter and notice that her eyes are puffy and she looks tired. Mrs. Summers puts her right hand onto Buffy’s forehead, which does not feel warm. Mrs. Summers takes her hand off Buffy’s forehead and puts her hands on her hips, then Mrs. Summers looks at Buffy who is still rubbing her eyes.
“You do not seem to be running a fever and since it is your first day at a new school I feel that you should go to school.”
“But I did not sleep well last night and I feel achy all over from help you move all of the boxes into the house yesterday!”
“No Buffy you need to go to school, get up and get dress.”
“Will you give me a ride to school?”
“Yes.”
Mrs. Summers walks out of Buffy’s bedroom and close the bedroom door behind her. At the same time Buffy gets out of bed, which the white cast iron headboard is up against the far right-hand wall after a window if standing in the bedroom door. Buffy walks over to her closet, which is on the left side of the bedroom door if standing in the bedroom door and open up the four French doors of the closet, then look at the clothing in the closet, she pulls a black mini skirt, a white short sleeved shirt with a scoop neckline and a light-blue short sleeved button up shirt out of the closet. Buffy tosses the shirts and skirt onto her bed and grab a pair of black high heel dress boots off of the floor of the closet. Buffy set the boots on the floor at the end of her bed, then close the doors of the closet. She then open up the drawer that is under the two doors on the left-hand side of the closet if looking at the closet and gets out a bra and underwear. Buffy close the drawer and then open up the second drawer that is under the third and fourth doors and grabs a pair of white socks out of the drawer.
At seven fifteen in the morning, Willow’s who long red hair is down and who wearing a black sleeveless dress that has little green squares on it and comes to the knees, a pair of white tight and black Mary Jane dress shoes and Amy who blonde hair is in a ponytail is wearing a pair of black jeans, a black short sleeve shirt and black boots. The two teenage girls are inside Sunnydale high school and are standing in front of Amy and Willow lockers waiting for Xander and Catalina to get to school. A few minutes later Xander walks into the school wearing a pair of brown pants, a blue sleeveless shirt that has a dark blue trim around the neck and a white button up short sleeved shirt that is see through over the sleeveless shirt. Xander walks over to Amy and Willow blowing his nose into a tissue, wishing that he was home and in bed. As Xander walks over to Willow and Amy, the two teenage girls notice that Xander nose is bright red and that he looks tired.
“Hi Willow and Amy have Catalina or the new girl that supposed to start today Ah-choo get here yet?”
“(Amy and Willow) No.”
At the same time Willow, Amy and Xander see Catalina walks down the hallway, as she walks by Willow, Xander and Amy she waves at them but does not stop walking. Xander lean up against Willow’s locker and start blowing his nose into a tissue. Amy and Willow are watching Catalina walking down the school hallway and are thinking she seems a little sad when she should be happy for helping the USA gymnastic team win a gold medal in the team competition, winning the gold medals in the all-around and all four event finals at the summer Olympic, but her grandfather Reducan that was her last living family member in the United State did dead over the summer, so she does have a reason for being a little sad, at the same time Xander clears his throat.
“It was nice seeing Catalina again even if she did not stop Ah-choo to talk to us.”
“It is her first day back at school, Catalina needs to get her class schedule, locker number and locker combination for her locker from the office then she has to go to the locker room to change into a leotard because she giving an exhibition performs of her Olympic vault, beam, uneven bars and floor routines at her welcome back assembly.”
“Sniffling I know that Willow I just miss hang out with her at school and talking to her.”
“I wish they could have the assembly after school, so we would not have to miss world history first hour.”
“(Amy and Xander) but that is the best part of an assembly is getting out of class.”
Xander starts to sneezes and cover his mouth and nose with a tissue, Amy and Willow looks over at Xander and when he stops sneezes, Xander notices that Willow and Amy are now looking at him and have worried looks on they face, at the same time Willow start to talk.
“Xander when your mom told me that you did not feel well last night I thought that you do not want to come over and study for Algebra 2, so I did not believe your mom and now I know that you really did not feel well last night.”
“Ah-choo did not feel bad Willow, my mom did not believe me last night either.”
“Xander why did you not stay home if you are sick?”
“I wanting to stay home Amy, but my mom would not let me because I was only one degree over the normal body temperature of ninety-eight point six degrees Fahrenheit, so she said Ah-choo I was not running a fever and my Ah-choo parent’s rule is if you are not running a fever you have to go to school.”
“Amy and Xander we should head to the gym, so we can get front row seats on the gym bleachers.”
“Sound like a good Idea Willow.”
Xander does not sound anything, so Amy and Willow start walking to the gym but stop when they notice Xander is not walking with them. The two teenage girls turn around and see Xander still lean against Willow’s locker and he is blowing his nose into tissue.
“Go ahead Ah-choo Willow and Amy’s I will catch up to you, just save me a seat Will.”
“I will Xander.”
Willow and Amy start to walk away from Xander and at the same time Xander start sneezes again. Meanwhile outside the school Mrs. Summers has just pulled her 1993 Jeep Cherokee that is green with sliver strip baseboards, up in front of the school. Buffy is looking out the passengers’ window and see a red, white and blue banner hanging over the school doors that say welcome home to Sunnydale six time 1996 summer Olympic gymnastic gold medalist Catalina Victoria Reducan. Mrs. Summers put the SUV into the parked position and then looks over at her teenage daughter and can see that something is bothering Buffy.
“Buffy what is on your mind?”
“Nothing much, just that everyone will be stare at me all day because I am the new girl at school, worried that I won’t make any new friends and that I will be behind in all my classes seeing that I am start two weeks late.”
“You are not the only one start two week late, it is Catalina Victoria Reducan first day back at school and I am sure that most of the student body will be trying to talk to Catalina Victoria Reducan and learn about what it was like to competition in the summer Olympic games and I’m sure you will make friends Buffy.”
“Yeah maybe no one will notice a new girl start two weeks late. I will see you tonight.”
“I love you Buffy and try not to get kick out of school.”
“Love you too and I will be on my best behavior mom.”
Buffy open up the passengers’ door and get out of the SUV, then grab her tan messenger bag off the floor of the SUV. Buffy close the SUV door and then waves bye to her mom. Buffy turns her back to her mom SUV and start walking toward the steps that lead up to the walkway to the main doors of the high school, thinking about the nightmare she had last night and this morning. A minute later Buffy walks into the high school and start looking around to see if she can see the office, but can’t find it and at the same time a teenage boy that is blowing his nose into a tissue and has dark brown hair and light brown eyes walk up to Buffy.
“You look lost can I help you find something?”
“I am looking for the office?”
“I will show you.”
“Thanks what is your name?”
“Alexander Lavelle Harris, but my friend Ah-choo call me Xander, what your name?”
“Buffy Summers.”
Xander starts to walk and Buffy follows him down the hall that is to your left if standing with your back to the main doors of the school. Buffy follows Xander past a display case and he walks through the first door on the right-hand side, if your back is to the main doors of the high school and you are walking down the hall toward the office. Xander stays by the office door as Buffy walk up to the counter to get her class schedule, locker number and locker combination for her locker from the school secretary.
“Can I help you?”
“Yes I am Buffy Summers and I need to pick up my class schedule, locker number and locker combination for my locker.”
“I will go get these for you right now.”
The school secretary walks away from Buffy and goes to find Buffy Summers class schedule, locker number and the locker combination, A minute later the school secretary hand Buffy her class schedule, locker number and the locker combination.
“You do not go to first hour today because there is a welcome back assembly in the gym for Catalina Victoria Reducan and everyone is meeting in the gym at the start of first hour.”
“Thank you for letting me know.”
Buffy picks up the two pieces of paper, which has her class schedule and locker number and combination for the locker on it. Then Buffy turns and walks to the office door to see Xander is still standing by the door. Buffy smiles at Xander, as she walks toward the door.
“Xander will you show me where the gym is?”
“Sure, I have to head to the gym myself for the assembly.”
Xander open up the office door and then he walks out of the office. Buffy follows Xander out of the office and then Buffy follows Xander to the gym, which is at the back of the school and on the right-hand side of the school if standing at the intersection hallway that lead from the front to back (south and north) of the school and the hallway that goes from east to west, Buffy sees that the library is on the left-hand side at the back of the school, as Xander turn right into the hallway that lead to the gym. Buffy follows him down the hallway and up to the gym doors and then follows Xander into the gym. Xander and Buffy walk over to Willow and Amy who are sitting on the center of the first row of bleachers that are on the right-hand side of the gym doors if your back is to the doors. Willow is sitting right in front of the vault horse and Amy is sitting on Willow’s right side. Xander sits down on Willow left side and Buffy sits down next to Xander. Buffy looks at Xander and he points to the red hair girl.
“Buffy this Willow Danielle Rosenberg and the girl sitting on Willow right side is Amy Madison. Ah-choo Willow and Amy this is Buffy Summers.”
At the same time Xander, Amy and Willow other friend Jesse McNally walks up to Buffy, Willow, Xander and Amy and sits down on the bleacher next to Buffy. Jesse looks over at Xander and then look at Buffy with a look that say he finds Buffy beautiful.
“Ah-choo Buffy this is Jesse McNally and Jesse this is Buffy Summers.”
“Bless you Xander and it is nice to meet you Buffy Summers.”
“It is nice to meet you too Jesse.”
At the same time Catalina Victoria Reducan open up the girls’ locker room door that leads into the gym and then walk into the gym wearing a red velvet long sleeved leotard with gold stars on it and a white Donjoy cartilage sleeve knee brace with an open patella on her left knee. In addition Buffy notice that Catalina has her hair pulled into a ponytail and has curled her hair too and the strap of her blue gym bag is on Catalina right shoulder. In addition Buffy notice that Catalina is wearing the same diamond earrings and the same necklace she wore at the Olympic this summer. Catalina walks past the vault horse and over to the blue spring floor exercise mat with white on the outside of the mat, which is in the center of the gym on the left-hand side if sitting on the bleacher that Buffy, Willow, Amy, Xander and Jesse are sitting on. The beam is in front of the other bleachers that are on the side of the gym across from the gym doors and the uneven bars are in the center on the right-hand side if sitting on the bleacher that Buffy, Willow, Amy, Xander and Jesse are sitting on. Willow, Buffy, Amy, Xander and Jesse watch Catalina stretch on the floor exercise mat. When the bell for first hour to start rings principal Flutie walks in between the floor exercise mat and the uneven bars with a portable microphone in his left hand, once the students have become quiet, the principal starts to talk into the portable microphone.
“First off, I want to welcome back Catalina Victoria Reducan to Sunnydale High School and say congratulates on winning six Olympic gold medals for gymnastics, you have put your small hometown on the map and I am very proud of you for your achievements in the sport of gymnastics.”
“Thank you principal Flutie.”
“You are welcome. Now to get this assembly start Catalina is going to performing the vaults she did at the Olympic game.”
Catalina walks over to the end of the blue vault runway, which is by the gym doors that lead into the hallway of the school. She steps onto the runway and then start to run down the runway, when she reaches the springboard Catalina jumps onto the springboard then jumps up and does a front handspring onto the vault horse. She pushes off the vault horse and does a layout with one and half twists off the vault horse and stick the landing of the vault with her back to the vault horse and has prefect form throughout the whole vault. Catalina smiles at everyone as she walks to the end of the vault runway. Once at the end of the vault runway she takes a deep breath and then start running down the runway. When Catalina gets near the springboard she does a roundoff onto to the springboard then jump up and does a back handspring onto the vault horse, with prefect form throughout the first half of the vault. Then Catalina push off the vault horse and does a layout with one and half twists off the vault horse and stick the land with her back to the vault horse. At the same time principal Flutie start to talk into the portable microphone.
“Prefect form just like at the Olympic game, I feel she does these two vaults better then the other gymnasts that compete against her at the Olympic games over the summer or other competitions. Catalina is going to do her uneven bars routine next.”
Catalina walks over to her gym bag that sitting on the floor by the spring floor exercise mat. She unzips the main part of the gym bag and reach into the gym bag then pulls out a small purple grip bag. She open up the grip bag and take out her white wrist bands and then take out the Bailie Dowel double buckle grips out of the grip bag. She put the wrist bands on each of her wrist first and then put the grip onto her left wrist and buckle the grip. A minute later Catalina is standing at the end of the blue mat that in front of the low bar. Catalina starts to run and when near the springboard and the low bar she does a roundoff onto the springboard. Then Catalina jumps up and does an Arabian salto over the low bar and grabs the high bar and has prefect form through the whole skill. Catalina has her back to the low bar, which is in front of the door to the girls’ locker room. Catalina then does a backward giant with a double turn into a forward giant in a reverse grip. She does a cast then let go of the high bar and does a forward salto straddled over the high bar, she recatches the high bar and had prefect form throughout the whole skill. Catalina swing backwards then lets go of the high bar and does a straddled flight down to the low bar and catches the low bar in a handstand, then let go of the low bar and does a stalder hecht up to the high bar and catches the bar with prefect form and her back is to the low bar. Catalina then does a forward giant with a full turn in a L-grip, then lets go of the high bar and does a layout salto over the high bar and catches the high bar with prefect form (skill called a layout Jaeger) into a forward swing then lets go of the high bar and does a layout double backward with full twist and stick the land of the dismount with her back to the high bar to end a prefect uneven bars routine, at the same time principal Flutie start to talk into the portable microphone.
“And once again Catalina show as why she is the best in the world. She is going to show as her balance beam routine next.”
As the principal Flutie say she is going to show her balance beam routine next Catalina is taken off her bar grips. A minute and half later Catalina is standing at the end of the mat, which has been placed at the end of the beam that is on the left side of the gym if standing with your back to the gym doors. She starts to run toward the beam and when near the springboard does a roundoff onto the springboard then jump off the springboard and does an Arabian salto onto the beam and stick the landing with her back to the end of the beam. Catalina then jumps forward into a front tuck salto with a half twist and is now at the other end of the beam facing the end of the beam she just came from. Catalina then does a tuck side salto and stick the skill with prefect form. She lower to a kneeling position on her right knee with her left leg out straight on the beam and goes into a full turn in a tuck stand into a double turn in a tuck stand end the turn with her left leg out straight on the beam. She rises up and then turn on both feet to face the end of the beam. Catalina then does a back handspring into a layout step out into a tucked back salto and is now at the other end of the beam. Then she does a wolf jump with a full turn into a split leap into a spilt leap with a full turn, which take her back to the other end of the beam. She does a turn on both feet so her back is to the end of the beam then she does a roundoff into a back handspring into a double tuck back salto with a full twist off of the end of the beam and stick the landing with her back to the beam to finish a prefect balance beam routine and at the same time principal Flutie start to talk into the portable microphone.
“That was a great beam routine and once again Catalina Victoria Reducan shows us why she is the best gymnast in the world. She will be preforming her floor routine next.”
At the same time Catalina is put chalk onto her feet, she then puts some chalk onto her hands. A few moments later Catalina steps into the right corner of the mat and her back is to Amy, Willow, Buffy, Xander and Jesse. Catalina goes up on pointed toes and look down at the floor and when the instrumental version of the song called reflection by the Charlie Daniel band start to play Catalina does a double turn with her left leg up horizontal in front of her into a full turn with her left leg held in the spilt position. She then runs a few pace toward the other corner then does a roundoff into a back handspring into a back handspring into a piked double salto backwards with a full twist with prefect form and goes right into a switch spilt leap with a full turn. Catalina then does a front handspring into a front handspring into a double Arabian salto tucked with half turns and stick the land with her back to the edge of the mat. She turns on both feet toward the left corner of the mat then does a sheep jump with both legs bent behind her and foot point to her head into a split leap with one and half turns that take her into the left-hand corner of the mat. Catalina then does a one and half turns on her right foot and now her back is to the edge of the mat. She then runs a few pace into a roundoff into a whip into a whip into a layout double salto backwards and sticks a prefect tumbling pass. She then runs a few pace then does a roundoff into a back handspring into a back handspring into a layout salto forward with double twist and sticks the land of the tumbling post facing the edge of the mat to end a prefect routine, but on the land of the last tumbling pass Catalina feel a sharp pain in her left knee. Catalina also hears a snap and it feels like a piece of bone break off her kneecap, but just put a huge smile on her face and does not let anyone know that she is in pain. Principal Flutie walks up to the edge of the floor mat as Catalina step off the mat and onto the gym floor, then the principal starts to talk into the portable microphone.
“Catalina I always wanting to know why you picked the song reflection for your floor routine?”
“When I first start doing this floor routine in 1995, I pick that song because my grandmother Reducan that pass away in 1994 loved the song and it reminds me of my grandmother, but when I did the floor routines at the summer Olympic games I dedicate each of the floor routines to my grandmother and grandfather Reducan because the song was they favorite song and it reminds me of both of them.”
“I am sure you grandparents were watching in heaven and loved your routine. If you do not mind, I have two more questions for you.”
“I do not mind, go head and ask principal Flutie.”
“How did you make it through the Olympic after your grandfather pass away and you no longer had a coach?”
“Before my grandfather pass away he asks the head coach of the USA women gymnastic team Gina Ionescu to take over coach me until the game end and I know you are going to want to know if I am retired from the sport now or if I am going to stay in the sport. I plan on continue in the sport and try to make the 2000 summer Olympic team and I have all ready talk to Gina Ionescu and she is moving to Sunnydale to take over training the elite gymnasts at Sunnydale gymnastic club and will be coaching me.”
“Just one more question are you going to take time off to have surgery to fix the meniscus tear in your left knee or just go right back to training full time?”
“I plan on have the surgery soon and take some time off from full training, but will not stop working out fully I will still do upper body workouts and mostly work on uneven bars until the doctor gives me the ok to go back too training fully on all the events.”
“There is still time before the bell to head to second hour rings, everyone please take this time to get what textbooks and notebooks out of your lockers that all of you might need and finish any homework that you still need to get done before going to second hour. Buffy Summers and Catalina Reducan I need the two of you to meet me by the door to the girls’ locker room because I need to have a word with the two of you.”
All the students and teachers sitting in the bleacher’s stand up and then everyone but Buffy and Catalina leaves the gym. Catalina’s pick up her gym bag from the floor and then she and Buffy walk over to principal Flutie who is standing by the door to the girls’ locker room.
“Buffy Summers and Catalina Reducan before you head to your second hour class, I want the two of you to head to classroom fifteen and see Mrs. Jackson and get your textbooks, homework assignments and class notes for the last two weeks. Catalina after you have change will you show Buffy to the history classroom?”
“Sure.”
Author note: I had the idea for this fan fiction for years now and I was planing on write it before Faith and Buffy vampire slayer since season one series, but ended up wrote Faith and Buffy vampire slayer since season one: the high school years and then start writing Faith and Buffy vampire slayer since season one: the college years and I ended up put off writing Welcome to Sunnydale. I was planing on waiting to write this fan fiction until I finish with Faith and Buffy vampire slayer since season one: the college years, but have decided to start writing Welcome to Sunnydale at the same time I work on finish up Faith and Buffy vampire slayer since season one: the college years and then Faith and Buffy vampire slayers since season one: after Willow change slayer line forever. If you want to see a picture of the person that I base the character Catalina Victoria Reducan after go to my profile on fan fiction.net, username is Lexi1981 and look under the fan fiction name for this fan fiction to find a picture URL if the URL does not show up and you still want to see a picture of whom I base Catalina Victoria Reducan off of sent me an email at makeitorbreakitlove81@gmail.com and I will send you the picture URL.
Chapter one: Forming of the Scooby gang
It is the evening of Sunday, September 15, 1996 and at 1630 Revllo Drive Mrs. Summers and Buffy Summers who arrived in Sunnydale that afternoon have started unpacking boxes. Mrs. Summers is unpacking boxes in the kitchen and Buffy is unpacking boxes in her bedroom, now that all the boxes have been brought inside from the moving truck. Buffy who hair is French braid and is wearing a pair of light gray pajama pants and a white tank top is hanging clothing up in her closet, thinking about what her first day at Sunnydale High School will be like tomorrow and about what she should wear to school tomorrow. Buffy hears her Mom walk up to her bedroom door and turn around to see her mom standing at her bedroom door wearing a pair of gray sweatpant and oversized gray T-shirt.
“Buffy I order us two pizzas from the Pizza barn and it should be her in twenty minutes.”
“What did you get on the pizzas?”
“One has Tomatoes, mushroom, green peppers, feta cheese and red peppers and the other is a meat lovers pizza.”
“Yell at me when the pizza get here.”
“I will Buffy.”
Mrs. Summers head back downstairs, then walks into the kitchen and goes back to unpacking the kitchen boxes. At the same time Buffy is hanging up a short black mini skirt in her closet. The sun has just start to go down and there is one Sunnydale residence outside walking down a street in downtown Sunnydale and her named Catalina Victoria Reducan who has dark-brown hair that just above her breasts in length and roundish almond shape eyes that are brown, an inverted triangle/heart shape face, thin lips, a small beak nose, inverted triangle body and she is four foot nine inches tall. The teenage girl is wearing a pair of black cotton workout pants and a white T-shirt with the American flag on it and a pair of white tennis shoes. Her hair is pull up into a ponytail and her round diamond pierced stud earrings of the four piercing on the lower earlobe and the one piercing on the top of the left earlobe and that is in the cartilage can be seen and she is also wearing a small gold cross pendant that has diamonds inset into the cross and that is on a fourteen-inch chain. The young looking fifteen-year-old girl is carrying a large black duffle bag on her right shoulder and a blue gym bag that say USA Olympic Gymnastic Team and has the American flag on the front pocket, is on her left shoulder. Catalina is walking up to a sage door of a Victorian red brick row house on State Street, there is a row house on each side of Catalina’s house and the row houses are across the street from an old warehouse that was turned into Sunnydale gymnastics club and the street behind the gymnastic club is called Mercer Street. Catalina takes her keys out of the front pocket of her blue gym bag and then open up the front door of the row house. She heads inside of the house and stop inside the entry hall of the house, then looks around the street because she has the feeling of being watch and despite not seen anyone she knows that the vampire with a soul that calls himself Angel is watching her, because he has been watching her all summer. Catalina close the front door of the house and then locks the door, she walks over to the wooden staircase that is up against the left-hand wall and across from the front door then set her duffle bag and gym bag down on the floor in front of the staircase. Catalina then walks over to the first doorway on the right-hand side if your back is to the front door and looks through the doorway into the parlour (living room). She looks at the fireplace that is on the center of the wall across from the doorway and start staring at the very old wooden mantle that is walnut, which matching the hard wood floors that are in every room but the bathroom upstairs. Catalina then looks at the back of the French antique sofa that is hand carved and is made out of solid walnut and the sofa is from 1890 and the upholstery fabric is black with prints of pink roses and white ribbons between each of the roses. In the center of the wood above the top of sofa and blow the seats are some carved roses. The sofa is in front of the fireplace and beside each arm of the sofa is an armchair from the same time period that matches the sofa and the armchairs are facing each other, but there is no tv in the parlour. Catalina turns away from the parlour doorway and walks down the hallway toward the back of the house then looks into the dinning room that is the second door on the right-hand side if your back to the front door and there a walnut table and chairs in the center of the room. Catalina then walks to the end of the hallway and goes up to the doorway of the kitchen. She looks at the white refrigerator that is up against the right-hand wall if standing in the kitchen doorway and is happy that her grandfather Reducan empty out the refrigerator and freezer before they left for the summer Olympic games. She looks at the walnut upper cabinets and the walnut lower cabinets that have black granite counter tops, which start after the refrigerator and wrap around the corner of the back wall of the house for a foot then there is the Gold Medal Glenwood Combination Antique Cook Stove, which still works and all the wood burning parts have been convected to gas. The stove has eight burners, and there are two ovens. One of the ovens is eighteen inches times eleven inches high and eighteen inches deep, the other oven is eight inches deep times twelve inches high and eighteen inches deep and there is a broiler that is thirteen inches wide times fourteen inches deep and nine inches high. The overall dimension of the stove and ovens is forty-two inches wide time thirty-two inches deep time thirty-two inches high to the top of the cook surface times sixty-four inches to the very top of the stove and the stove is up against the wall across from the kitchen doorway. The back door is on the left-hand side of the stove if standing in the kitchen doorway. In the center of the kitchen is a walnut island with a black granite counter top, Catalina starts to cry as she looks around the kitchen thinking of the last breakfast she ate in the kitchen, which is when her grandfather cook pancake for her the morning that the two of them were leaving for Atlanta, Georgia. Her grandfather who was also her gymnastic coach pass away a few days later in Atlanta, Georgia, Catalina walks away from the kitchen and walks over to the staircase. Catalina grabs her bags off the floor, then starts walking up the stairs and a minute later she steps onto the landing of the second floor. Catalina looks through the door that across from the staircase that lead into the small guests’ bedroom that has peach colored walls. Catalina then turns to her right, so her back is to the first bedroom and then walks down the hallway past the bathroom that has white marble floors, white subway tiles on all the bathroom walls with lines of thin black subway tiles around the center of all the walls. The white cast-iron clawfoot bathtub with shower kit is up against the right-hand wall if standing in the bathroom door and the white round cast iron wall mount pedestal sink and the white Victorian toilet is on the wall across from the bathtub, the sink on the left-hand side and toilet on the right if your back to the bathtub. Catalina walks down the hallway, which all of the walls on the first floor and hallway of the second floor are light gold, in the kitchen there are white subway tiles on the walls between the upper and lower cabinets. Catalina walks up to the door of her bedroom that is across from the staircase, she looks at the door that lead into her grandfathers’ bedroom that is at the end of the hallway but turns and walks into her bedroom, which has lavender walls. The closet is on the far right-hand wall if standing in the bedroom door. Catalina set her bags down on the floor at the foot of her white cast-iron full sized bed footboard and the headboard of the bed is up against the center of the wall across from her bedroom door, on the headboard and footboard there are roses in the center of both. Catalina unzips her duffle bag and start unpacking her clothing, underwear, sport bra, bra and leotards that were washed at a laundry mat yesterday and is thinking I wonder how far behind I have get in school since I missed the first two weeks of school. At the same time Xander Harris is in his bedroom, which has light-blue walls. He has all ready change into a pair of red pajama pants and a red short sleeved shirt and is laying on his bed with his eyes closed, but has not fall to sleep yet. Mrs. Harris knocks on her sons’ bedroom door.
“Willow is on the phone.”
“Tell her that I have Ah-choo went to bed.”
“You are supposed to be study Algebra 2 over at Willow’s house and it is too early for you to go to bed Xander, get up and talk to Willow.”
“I do not feel well and I have a headache and I am tired just tell Willow that I went to bed Ah-choo.”
“Fine but if you are not running a fever in the morning you will be going to school.”
“Sniffling whatever mom.”
Xander hears his mom walk away from his bedroom door and roll onto his left side and shuts his eyes, a few moments later he falls to sleep. Meanwhile at Sunnydale High School Rupert Giles who is wearing a gray tweed suit, a black vest, a white dress shirt that is under the vest and suit jacket and a gray tie and Mr. Giles is in the library. Rupert Giles is busy stacking the library shelves to get the library opening seeing that it is going on the third week of school and the library was closed the first two weeks of the school year. Rupert Giles knows it is going to be a long night getting the school library ready, but he is ok with it because he is not able to put any of his personal books away at the home library of the Georgian house that was built in 1714 and that he is rent from Catalina Victoria Reducan because she has not been able to pack up her family book collect yet, which are the only items she is taking out of the house, she is letting him use all the furniture, plate, bowls, spoon, et cetera so he did not have to bring them over from England.
A few hours later Xander is awake and sitting up in bed bowling his nose into a tissue, because his nose will not stop running and he is thinking I hope that I am not getting sick. At the same time Buffy, Willow and Catalina have gone to bed, Willow is having a dream about her and Xander being on a date at the movies. But Buffy and Catalina are having a nightmare, both of them are dreaming about walking through a dark and wet cave together and they are both wearing all black. The two teenage girls that are both vampire slayers are not sure why they are in the cave because neither one of them wants anything to deal with slay vampires nor killing demons. Catalina and Buffy see a teenage boy from school named Jesse chain to the cave floor and run over to him, then the two of them are no longer in the cave but are standing in Sunnydale Cemetery looking at two open and empty graves. The slayers look at each other and then hear someone come up behind them. Buffy and Catalina turns around to see an ancient and powerful vampire who is in full vampire face and the male vampire is pale then the everyday vampire that the slayers face and a younger blonde hair and hazel eye female vampire that is not in vampire face and who name is Darla, is with the Master. The master walks toward Buffy and Darla walks toward Catalina. Catalina does a roundhouse kick that sent Darla flying through the cemetery and at the same time Buffy does a roundhouse, but the master grab Buffy leg and throws Buffy across the cemetery. The nightmare goes on all night for the two slayers, which mean the two girls do not get a good night sleep. Xander spent most of the night up blowing his nose and he only gets a few hours sleep. Catalina’s alarm clock goes off at six o’clock and she gets up right away. Catalina looks down at her clothing and sees that she went to sleep wearing the T-shirt and workout pants that she was wearing when she got home last night. She walks over to her dresser that is up against the wall on the right-hand side of the bedroom door and is across from her bed. Catalina open up the top drawer on the left side of the dresser and grab a pair of underwear out of the drawer. Catalina’s close the drawer and then open up the top drawer on the right-hand side of the dresser and grabs a pair of socks, a sport bra and a bra out of the dresser drawer. A few moments later Catalina throws the socks, sport bra, bra, underwear, a red velvet long sleeved leotard with gold stars on it, a light-blue jean skirt and a red wide strap tank top with a squared neckline onto her bed. At the same time Buffy is still asleep and is tossing and turning in her sleep and is still dreaming. In the dream she and Catalina are back in the cave walking toward the boy that is chain to the floor of the cave. A few minutes later Buffy has starts to dream about Catalina and sees Catalina kneel on the ground beside an elder male that is six feet tall, with gray thinning hair and brown eyes and he looks a lot like Catalina. The man is laying on the ground holding his chest and Catalina is on her large gray flip cellphone. In addition there is a pale guy dress in all black who has dark brown hair and he is fighting a blonde female vampire that is in full vampire face and it is the same female vampire from early in the dream when the two slayers were in Sunnydale Cemetery.
“Angelus’s why are you fighting me, you are supposed to be on my side, not the humans?”
“I go by Angel now, Darla and since 1898 in Borsa, Romaina when the Kalderash cursed me by restoring my human soul, I have only killed soulless vampires and I only drink pig blood now.”
Darla knows that Angel is not saying this for her, but for the young slayer and elder man laying on the ground. Angel and Darla hear an ambulance coming and Darla runs away from Angel, he watches her for a few moments and once she is out of sight, Angel walks over to Catalina and Mr. Reducan. Angel looks down at Mr. Reducan and can tell he is in really bad shape and then he looks at Catalina and notices that the young slayer is very worried about her grandfather. At the same time Catalina flip the cellphone closed and looks up at Angel with a mix look of hatred and confuse on her face.
“Thank you for fighting that vampire and allow me to call nine one one for my grandfather who is having a heart attack.”
“You are welcome and I know that you do not know what to think of me seeing that your mother and her family are part of the Kalderash clan that cursed me.”
Angel stop talking because two EMT’s are walking over to the three of them. Buffy gets wakening up from her dream by the sound of someone knocking on her closed bedroom door. A few moments later Buffy’s bedroom door open up and Mrs. Summers who wearing a pair of black dress pants and a white sleeveless blouse walks into Buffy’s bedroom. Mrs. Summers walks over to her daughters’ bed and Buffy slowly sit up rubbing her eyes.
“You need to get up and get ready for school Buffy.”
“Can I stay home from school?”
Mrs. Summers looks at her daughter and notice that her eyes are puffy and she looks tired. Mrs. Summers puts her right hand onto Buffy’s forehead, which does not feel warm. Mrs. Summers takes her hand off Buffy’s forehead and puts her hands on her hips, then Mrs. Summers looks at Buffy who is still rubbing her eyes.
“You do not seem to be running a fever and since it is your first day at a new school I feel that you should go to school.”
“But I did not sleep well last night and I feel achy all over from help you move all of the boxes into the house yesterday!”
“No Buffy you need to go to school, get up and get dress.”
“Will you give me a ride to school?”
“Yes.”
Mrs. Summers walks out of Buffy’s bedroom and close the bedroom door behind her. At the same time Buffy gets out of bed, which the white cast iron headboard is up against the far right-hand wall after a window if standing in the bedroom door. Buffy walks over to her closet, which is on the left side of the bedroom door if standing in the bedroom door and open up the four French doors of the closet, then look at the clothing in the closet, she pulls a black mini skirt, a white short sleeved shirt with a scoop neckline and a light-blue short sleeved button up shirt out of the closet. Buffy tosses the shirts and skirt onto her bed and grab a pair of black high heel dress boots off of the floor of the closet. Buffy set the boots on the floor at the end of her bed, then close the doors of the closet. She then open up the drawer that is under the two doors on the left-hand side of the closet if looking at the closet and gets out a bra and underwear. Buffy close the drawer and then open up the second drawer that is under the third and fourth doors and grabs a pair of white socks out of the drawer.
At seven fifteen in the morning, Willow’s who long red hair is down and who wearing a black sleeveless dress that has little green squares on it and comes to the knees, a pair of white tight and black Mary Jane dress shoes and Amy who blonde hair is in a ponytail is wearing a pair of black jeans, a black short sleeve shirt and black boots. The two teenage girls are inside Sunnydale high school and are standing in front of Amy and Willow lockers waiting for Xander and Catalina to get to school. A few minutes later Xander walks into the school wearing a pair of brown pants, a blue sleeveless shirt that has a dark blue trim around the neck and a white button up short sleeved shirt that is see through over the sleeveless shirt. Xander walks over to Amy and Willow blowing his nose into a tissue, wishing that he was home and in bed. As Xander walks over to Willow and Amy, the two teenage girls notice that Xander nose is bright red and that he looks tired.
“Hi Willow and Amy have Catalina or the new girl that supposed to start today Ah-choo get here yet?”
“(Amy and Willow) No.”
At the same time Willow, Amy and Xander see Catalina walks down the hallway, as she walks by Willow, Xander and Amy she waves at them but does not stop walking. Xander lean up against Willow’s locker and start blowing his nose into a tissue. Amy and Willow are watching Catalina walking down the school hallway and are thinking she seems a little sad when she should be happy for helping the USA gymnastic team win a gold medal in the team competition, winning the gold medals in the all-around and all four event finals at the summer Olympic, but her grandfather Reducan that was her last living family member in the United State did dead over the summer, so she does have a reason for being a little sad, at the same time Xander clears his throat.
“It was nice seeing Catalina again even if she did not stop Ah-choo to talk to us.”
“It is her first day back at school, Catalina needs to get her class schedule, locker number and locker combination for her locker from the office then she has to go to the locker room to change into a leotard because she giving an exhibition performs of her Olympic vault, beam, uneven bars and floor routines at her welcome back assembly.”
“Sniffling I know that Willow I just miss hang out with her at school and talking to her.”
“I wish they could have the assembly after school, so we would not have to miss world history first hour.”
“(Amy and Xander) but that is the best part of an assembly is getting out of class.”
Xander starts to sneezes and cover his mouth and nose with a tissue, Amy and Willow looks over at Xander and when he stops sneezes, Xander notices that Willow and Amy are now looking at him and have worried looks on they face, at the same time Willow start to talk.
“Xander when your mom told me that you did not feel well last night I thought that you do not want to come over and study for Algebra 2, so I did not believe your mom and now I know that you really did not feel well last night.”
“Ah-choo did not feel bad Willow, my mom did not believe me last night either.”
“Xander why did you not stay home if you are sick?”
“I wanting to stay home Amy, but my mom would not let me because I was only one degree over the normal body temperature of ninety-eight point six degrees Fahrenheit, so she said Ah-choo I was not running a fever and my Ah-choo parent’s rule is if you are not running a fever you have to go to school.”
“Amy and Xander we should head to the gym, so we can get front row seats on the gym bleachers.”
“Sound like a good Idea Willow.”
Xander does not sound anything, so Amy and Willow start walking to the gym but stop when they notice Xander is not walking with them. The two teenage girls turn around and see Xander still lean against Willow’s locker and he is blowing his nose into tissue.
“Go ahead Ah-choo Willow and Amy’s I will catch up to you, just save me a seat Will.”
“I will Xander.”
Willow and Amy start to walk away from Xander and at the same time Xander start sneezes again. Meanwhile outside the school Mrs. Summers has just pulled her 1993 Jeep Cherokee that is green with sliver strip baseboards, up in front of the school. Buffy is looking out the passengers’ window and see a red, white and blue banner hanging over the school doors that say welcome home to Sunnydale six time 1996 summer Olympic gymnastic gold medalist Catalina Victoria Reducan. Mrs. Summers put the SUV into the parked position and then looks over at her teenage daughter and can see that something is bothering Buffy.
“Buffy what is on your mind?”
“Nothing much, just that everyone will be stare at me all day because I am the new girl at school, worried that I won’t make any new friends and that I will be behind in all my classes seeing that I am start two weeks late.”
“You are not the only one start two week late, it is Catalina Victoria Reducan first day back at school and I am sure that most of the student body will be trying to talk to Catalina Victoria Reducan and learn about what it was like to competition in the summer Olympic games and I’m sure you will make friends Buffy.”
“Yeah maybe no one will notice a new girl start two weeks late. I will see you tonight.”
“I love you Buffy and try not to get kick out of school.”
“Love you too and I will be on my best behavior mom.”
Buffy open up the passengers’ door and get out of the SUV, then grab her tan messenger bag off the floor of the SUV. Buffy close the SUV door and then waves bye to her mom. Buffy turns her back to her mom SUV and start walking toward the steps that lead up to the walkway to the main doors of the high school, thinking about the nightmare she had last night and this morning. A minute later Buffy walks into the high school and start looking around to see if she can see the office, but can’t find it and at the same time a teenage boy that is blowing his nose into a tissue and has dark brown hair and light brown eyes walk up to Buffy.
“You look lost can I help you find something?”
“I am looking for the office?”
“I will show you.”
“Thanks what is your name?”
“Alexander Lavelle Harris, but my friend Ah-choo call me Xander, what your name?”
“Buffy Summers.”
Xander starts to walk and Buffy follows him down the hall that is to your left if standing with your back to the main doors of the school. Buffy follows Xander past a display case and he walks through the first door on the right-hand side, if your back is to the main doors of the high school and you are walking down the hall toward the office. Xander stays by the office door as Buffy walk up to the counter to get her class schedule, locker number and locker combination for her locker from the school secretary.
“Can I help you?”
“Yes I am Buffy Summers and I need to pick up my class schedule, locker number and locker combination for my locker.”
“I will go get these for you right now.”
The school secretary walks away from Buffy and goes to find Buffy Summers class schedule, locker number and the locker combination, A minute later the school secretary hand Buffy her class schedule, locker number and the locker combination.
“You do not go to first hour today because there is a welcome back assembly in the gym for Catalina Victoria Reducan and everyone is meeting in the gym at the start of first hour.”
“Thank you for letting me know.”
Buffy picks up the two pieces of paper, which has her class schedule and locker number and combination for the locker on it. Then Buffy turns and walks to the office door to see Xander is still standing by the door. Buffy smiles at Xander, as she walks toward the door.
“Xander will you show me where the gym is?”
“Sure, I have to head to the gym myself for the assembly.”
Xander open up the office door and then he walks out of the office. Buffy follows Xander out of the office and then Buffy follows Xander to the gym, which is at the back of the school and on the right-hand side of the school if standing at the intersection hallway that lead from the front to back (south and north) of the school and the hallway that goes from east to west, Buffy sees that the library is on the left-hand side at the back of the school, as Xander turn right into the hallway that lead to the gym. Buffy follows him down the hallway and up to the gym doors and then follows Xander into the gym. Xander and Buffy walk over to Willow and Amy who are sitting on the center of the first row of bleachers that are on the right-hand side of the gym doors if your back is to the doors. Willow is sitting right in front of the vault horse and Amy is sitting on Willow’s right side. Xander sits down on Willow left side and Buffy sits down next to Xander. Buffy looks at Xander and he points to the red hair girl.
“Buffy this Willow Danielle Rosenberg and the girl sitting on Willow right side is Amy Madison. Ah-choo Willow and Amy this is Buffy Summers.”
At the same time Xander, Amy and Willow other friend Jesse McNally walks up to Buffy, Willow, Xander and Amy and sits down on the bleacher next to Buffy. Jesse looks over at Xander and then look at Buffy with a look that say he finds Buffy beautiful.
“Ah-choo Buffy this is Jesse McNally and Jesse this is Buffy Summers.”
“Bless you Xander and it is nice to meet you Buffy Summers.”
“It is nice to meet you too Jesse.”
At the same time Catalina Victoria Reducan open up the girls’ locker room door that leads into the gym and then walk into the gym wearing a red velvet long sleeved leotard with gold stars on it and a white Donjoy cartilage sleeve knee brace with an open patella on her left knee. In addition Buffy notice that Catalina has her hair pulled into a ponytail and has curled her hair too and the strap of her blue gym bag is on Catalina right shoulder. In addition Buffy notice that Catalina is wearing the same diamond earrings and the same necklace she wore at the Olympic this summer. Catalina walks past the vault horse and over to the blue spring floor exercise mat with white on the outside of the mat, which is in the center of the gym on the left-hand side if sitting on the bleacher that Buffy, Willow, Amy, Xander and Jesse are sitting on. The beam is in front of the other bleachers that are on the side of the gym across from the gym doors and the uneven bars are in the center on the right-hand side if sitting on the bleacher that Buffy, Willow, Amy, Xander and Jesse are sitting on. Willow, Buffy, Amy, Xander and Jesse watch Catalina stretch on the floor exercise mat. When the bell for first hour to start rings principal Flutie walks in between the floor exercise mat and the uneven bars with a portable microphone in his left hand, once the students have become quiet, the principal starts to talk into the portable microphone.
“First off, I want to welcome back Catalina Victoria Reducan to Sunnydale High School and say congratulates on winning six Olympic gold medals for gymnastics, you have put your small hometown on the map and I am very proud of you for your achievements in the sport of gymnastics.”
“Thank you principal Flutie.”
“You are welcome. Now to get this assembly start Catalina is going to performing the vaults she did at the Olympic game.”
Catalina walks over to the end of the blue vault runway, which is by the gym doors that lead into the hallway of the school. She steps onto the runway and then start to run down the runway, when she reaches the springboard Catalina jumps onto the springboard then jumps up and does a front handspring onto the vault horse. She pushes off the vault horse and does a layout with one and half twists off the vault horse and stick the landing of the vault with her back to the vault horse and has prefect form throughout the whole vault. Catalina smiles at everyone as she walks to the end of the vault runway. Once at the end of the vault runway she takes a deep breath and then start running down the runway. When Catalina gets near the springboard she does a roundoff onto to the springboard then jump up and does a back handspring onto the vault horse, with prefect form throughout the first half of the vault. Then Catalina push off the vault horse and does a layout with one and half twists off the vault horse and stick the land with her back to the vault horse. At the same time principal Flutie start to talk into the portable microphone.
“Prefect form just like at the Olympic game, I feel she does these two vaults better then the other gymnasts that compete against her at the Olympic games over the summer or other competitions. Catalina is going to do her uneven bars routine next.”
Catalina walks over to her gym bag that sitting on the floor by the spring floor exercise mat. She unzips the main part of the gym bag and reach into the gym bag then pulls out a small purple grip bag. She open up the grip bag and take out her white wrist bands and then take out the Bailie Dowel double buckle grips out of the grip bag. She put the wrist bands on each of her wrist first and then put the grip onto her left wrist and buckle the grip. A minute later Catalina is standing at the end of the blue mat that in front of the low bar. Catalina starts to run and when near the springboard and the low bar she does a roundoff onto the springboard. Then Catalina jumps up and does an Arabian salto over the low bar and grabs the high bar and has prefect form through the whole skill. Catalina has her back to the low bar, which is in front of the door to the girls’ locker room. Catalina then does a backward giant with a double turn into a forward giant in a reverse grip. She does a cast then let go of the high bar and does a forward salto straddled over the high bar, she recatches the high bar and had prefect form throughout the whole skill. Catalina swing backwards then lets go of the high bar and does a straddled flight down to the low bar and catches the low bar in a handstand, then let go of the low bar and does a stalder hecht up to the high bar and catches the bar with prefect form and her back is to the low bar. Catalina then does a forward giant with a full turn in a L-grip, then lets go of the high bar and does a layout salto over the high bar and catches the high bar with prefect form (skill called a layout Jaeger) into a forward swing then lets go of the high bar and does a layout double backward with full twist and stick the land of the dismount with her back to the high bar to end a prefect uneven bars routine, at the same time principal Flutie start to talk into the portable microphone.
“And once again Catalina show as why she is the best in the world. She is going to show as her balance beam routine next.”
As the principal Flutie say she is going to show her balance beam routine next Catalina is taken off her bar grips. A minute and half later Catalina is standing at the end of the mat, which has been placed at the end of the beam that is on the left side of the gym if standing with your back to the gym doors. She starts to run toward the beam and when near the springboard does a roundoff onto the springboard then jump off the springboard and does an Arabian salto onto the beam and stick the landing with her back to the end of the beam. Catalina then jumps forward into a front tuck salto with a half twist and is now at the other end of the beam facing the end of the beam she just came from. Catalina then does a tuck side salto and stick the skill with prefect form. She lower to a kneeling position on her right knee with her left leg out straight on the beam and goes into a full turn in a tuck stand into a double turn in a tuck stand end the turn with her left leg out straight on the beam. She rises up and then turn on both feet to face the end of the beam. Catalina then does a back handspring into a layout step out into a tucked back salto and is now at the other end of the beam. Then she does a wolf jump with a full turn into a split leap into a spilt leap with a full turn, which take her back to the other end of the beam. She does a turn on both feet so her back is to the end of the beam then she does a roundoff into a back handspring into a double tuck back salto with a full twist off of the end of the beam and stick the landing with her back to the beam to finish a prefect balance beam routine and at the same time principal Flutie start to talk into the portable microphone.
“That was a great beam routine and once again Catalina Victoria Reducan shows us why she is the best gymnast in the world. She will be preforming her floor routine next.”
At the same time Catalina is put chalk onto her feet, she then puts some chalk onto her hands. A few moments later Catalina steps into the right corner of the mat and her back is to Amy, Willow, Buffy, Xander and Jesse. Catalina goes up on pointed toes and look down at the floor and when the instrumental version of the song called reflection by the Charlie Daniel band start to play Catalina does a double turn with her left leg up horizontal in front of her into a full turn with her left leg held in the spilt position. She then runs a few pace toward the other corner then does a roundoff into a back handspring into a back handspring into a piked double salto backwards with a full twist with prefect form and goes right into a switch spilt leap with a full turn. Catalina then does a front handspring into a front handspring into a double Arabian salto tucked with half turns and stick the land with her back to the edge of the mat. She turns on both feet toward the left corner of the mat then does a sheep jump with both legs bent behind her and foot point to her head into a split leap with one and half turns that take her into the left-hand corner of the mat. Catalina then does a one and half turns on her right foot and now her back is to the edge of the mat. She then runs a few pace into a roundoff into a whip into a whip into a layout double salto backwards and sticks a prefect tumbling pass. She then runs a few pace then does a roundoff into a back handspring into a back handspring into a layout salto forward with double twist and sticks the land of the tumbling post facing the edge of the mat to end a prefect routine, but on the land of the last tumbling pass Catalina feel a sharp pain in her left knee. Catalina also hears a snap and it feels like a piece of bone break off her kneecap, but just put a huge smile on her face and does not let anyone know that she is in pain. Principal Flutie walks up to the edge of the floor mat as Catalina step off the mat and onto the gym floor, then the principal starts to talk into the portable microphone.
“Catalina I always wanting to know why you picked the song reflection for your floor routine?”
“When I first start doing this floor routine in 1995, I pick that song because my grandmother Reducan that pass away in 1994 loved the song and it reminds me of my grandmother, but when I did the floor routines at the summer Olympic games I dedicate each of the floor routines to my grandmother and grandfather Reducan because the song was they favorite song and it reminds me of both of them.”
“I am sure you grandparents were watching in heaven and loved your routine. If you do not mind, I have two more questions for you.”
“I do not mind, go head and ask principal Flutie.”
“How did you make it through the Olympic after your grandfather pass away and you no longer had a coach?”
“Before my grandfather pass away he asks the head coach of the USA women gymnastic team Gina Ionescu to take over coach me until the game end and I know you are going to want to know if I am retired from the sport now or if I am going to stay in the sport. I plan on continue in the sport and try to make the 2000 summer Olympic team and I have all ready talk to Gina Ionescu and she is moving to Sunnydale to take over training the elite gymnasts at Sunnydale gymnastic club and will be coaching me.”
“Just one more question are you going to take time off to have surgery to fix the meniscus tear in your left knee or just go right back to training full time?”
“I plan on have the surgery soon and take some time off from full training, but will not stop working out fully I will still do upper body workouts and mostly work on uneven bars until the doctor gives me the ok to go back too training fully on all the events.”
“There is still time before the bell to head to second hour rings, everyone please take this time to get what textbooks and notebooks out of your lockers that all of you might need and finish any homework that you still need to get done before going to second hour. Buffy Summers and Catalina Reducan I need the two of you to meet me by the door to the girls’ locker room because I need to have a word with the two of you.”
All the students and teachers sitting in the bleacher’s stand up and then everyone but Buffy and Catalina leaves the gym. Catalina’s pick up her gym bag from the floor and then she and Buffy walk over to principal Flutie who is standing by the door to the girls’ locker room.
“Buffy Summers and Catalina Reducan before you head to your second hour class, I want the two of you to head to classroom fifteen and see Mrs. Jackson and get your textbooks, homework assignments and class notes for the last two weeks. Catalina after you have change will you show Buffy to the history classroom?”
“Sure.”
