The Mezzanine

After a full decade of twice-weekly training, your Watcher finally concludes that you'll never be the Slayer, and prepares for a new assignment. You ask "So, what do I do now? Just go to university and forget about all of this?" He smiles and says "You know, the Council is always in need of fresh blood..."

Works for me.

Can you really see potential!Faith ending up in the standard issue tweed?

...Now that you mention it, I sort of want someone to write that.

They're ruthless and heartless; they're not evil.

Amen. Well OK, depending on your definition of evil. They're not vampire evil, they're not in it for the evulz, but they're definitely representative of oppression. But quasiamen.