circle_daybreak | When the Daybreaks for a Slayer

Someone had brought the tip to Buffy, a nervous seeming young witch, maybe all of fifteen. She was on the run from a cabal of vampires and witches and shapeshifters that tried to force her to join them to help with some sort of end of the world plan and they wanted her to let a vampire drink from her to prove her commitment. She fled but she heard there was an amazing slayer here so she was hoping that Buffy would hear her out and not just kill her for being a witch, she promises she's not with them and to prove it she brought Buffy a lot of information to help her take them down.

They were stationed in New York but she didn't know where the main headquarters was, the one she had been taken to was what looked like an abandoned newspaper building in Queens. She would give Buffy the address. She would also say that everyone who had agreed to be part of this group, which they call Daybreak because they want to shatter the people who live in the daylight, all wear a design of a black flower over a sunrise, liked the flower is threatening to overtake the sun. But because it is NY the black flowers became a fashion statement so now lots of people not with the group are wearing black flowers too, but not with the sunrise.

Also and perhaps most concerning is that the vampires there are rumored to have a found a way to survive being out in the sun.

She was also able to give Buffy the names of a few members and where they were hanging out when they found her. There is a mall on long island called Roosevelt Field where they had first cornered her. The shill they got to pretend to befriend her is a vampire named Poppy North, if that is her real name, who told her in confidence that she had a vampire boyfriend but was also stringing along a human guy for fun. And the main enforcer who tried to kidnap the girl talking to Buffy was a shapeshifter who called herself Killer or something like that and she had a vampire and a witch for back up. She got the witch's name - Winnifreth Arlin - but not the vampire's name. They were recruiting in the food court mostly.

LaGuardia airport was crammed and busy, so maybe it wasn't a surprise to see at least one guy spotting one of those black flower over a sunrise marks. His was on a bracelet and the flower was a black rose. He looked about 19. He was on a cellphone as he walked past. "If she doesn't get them all killed this way I may kill her myself" he was growling into the phone as he passed. He was walking swiftly towards the baggage claim, if she wanted to catch up she would have to move fast.

If she went the other way instead she might spot a man who looked about the same age and wore the same design but was otherwise night and day. Where the first guy was dark and brooding in grungy clothes and could have been related to Angel. This guy was in a crisp three piece suit with neatly brushed hair. His black rose over sunrise emblem was on a necklace on a white gold chain. Clearly he was doing well financially. The young woman walking with him looked like a picture book generic secretary. She had her hair swept up in a perfectly neat twist, a pressed suit dress, small glasses on the tip off her nose. She wore a black foxglove over sunrise lapel pin. She was carrying a clipboard as if they were working as they walked towards their gate. And she had a Bluetooth earbud in one ear.

"Did Morgead land safely?" He was asking as they passed.

"Yes, my Lord. Johnson is already on her way from drop off to pickup to get him and bring him back to the Queens base for debrief before we return him to his SM." Unless she follows that's all she would hear from them.

Please excuse typos and other errors posting from my phone