Title: Becoming Kate

Author: NautiBitz (nautibitz.com/contact.html)

Summary: A young Kate Lockley suffers the consequences of sleeping with her ensouled vampire lover, Faith. Extreme AU in response to a challenge.

Stats: 4 chapters | 9,781 words

Show | Pairing | Rating: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Kate/Faith, Buffy/Willow, B/F/W | NC-17/M for sex/violence/rape | Character Death

Timeline: An extremely AU Season 2

Genres: Angst, Horror, Drama, Romance, Challenge

Author's Note: Dubbed the "challenge from hell" over at You Got the Stones (a defunct challenge site), I was compelled to give it a try: "An alternate-universe fic in which Faith is a vampire with a soul, Buffy is her grandchilde, Kate Lockley [the cop on Angel] is the slayer, and the rest of the characters are up to the author. Must have BOTH of the following: Angst, Death by fire for some vamp. Must have ONE of the following: Mention of some movie made by SMG or Seth, Alyson, or Eliza, but with diff actors; Riley getting beat up, whoever his character is; Mention of a vamp being executed mob style with cement boots; Some type of jail." (I used all.)

Author's Note the Second: Some may interpret this story as lesbianism = bad. That certainly isn't my intention, what with me being in a happy same-sex relationship and all.

Thanks: to beta readers Rabid, Limber, KJ Draft and Annie Sewell-Jennings.

Series Started/Completed: July 2002/January 2003

Distribution: Links only, please. Do not reprint.

Disclaimer: All characters are property of Mutant Enemy and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. I'm borrowing them to make them pervier and meaner than usual. Some dialogue is Joss Whedon's.

Winner of the Highly Coveted: "Best Alternate Reality - Runner Up" from the Vixen Fiction Awards. See 'em in all their shiny glory here.

Feedback: Always welcome.