The Xander Gander: July 10th, 1998
by slayerfest
It’s been a full month, and there’s still absolutely no sign of life from Buffy. No word, no cameo appearances… she’s not even around to fight evil anymore.
So that job is left to us ickle civilians. Willow, Oz and I go out patrolling nightly. Cordy left to some resort a couple of weeks ago and won’t be back until September.
Giles comes with us sometimes, but mostly he’s too busy following leads on Buffy’s whereabouts.

The man is possessed. He even checks the internet for sightings of a blonde girl beating up on people, which for Giles is a huge step. Then he spends way too much money on plane tickets to check out the situations. Then he comes back and she’s not there and he’s so disappointed and he’s a wreck for a day, but then he’s back to checking out every possibility of where Buffy could be. It’s tearing the man apart.

Joyce is still trying to sift through the proverbial baggage Buffy left her. She doesn’t quite get what being a Slayer is all about. Giles tried to explain it to her, but she got a little testy with him because he knew about it all this time and was actually the one putting her in all sorts of danger. I think she secretly blames him for her leaving, but doesn’t say anything about it.
Will and I have taken on the daunting task of explaining to Joyce what we know and what we’ve done. She’s taking it in stride better with us because we’re just trying to help Buffy out. She feels better knowing that her kid’s not the only one putting herself in danger… we’re all that stupid!

No demons of yet; just the normal vamps. We’re still pretty much terrible at staking them, but I think we got two last night, which is about two better than usual.

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