Truth Behind the Demon: Forgotten Books
by Fighter78
^remember the dream she had and the beginning of this chapter will make sense =)

Buffy sat up suddenly in the bed and felt her neck and when she felt nothing there she calmed down just a little until she looked around the room. She had no idea where she was and then she remembered. It was 1870 and she was with Spike, well not Spike per say, William. She felt her head as well and found that the gash was still fully there and it surprised her, she thought her slayer healing would have taken affect by now.

Buffy decided she wasn’t going to fall asleep anytime soon, due to a dream about a certain blonde vampire biting her, so she got up out of the bed and decided she would take a walk around the house.

“Are you alright,…Buffy?” a voice in back of her asked. She had wondered into what appeared to be a living room.

“Hello, William, yeah I’m fine. I just had a dream that shook me up a bit and I couldn’t get back to sleep. Sorry if I woke you up.” Buffy said looking up at William to was standing in the doorway.

“That’s alright. I wake up in an hour so I’ll be fine.” William said smiling kindly.

“You weren’t kidding when you said you got up early. Why do you?” Buffy said looking at him.

“I have to make sure I get to the school on time so that the headmaster doesn’t cane me.” William said looking down at his feet.

“Sorry, does that happen a lot?” Buffy asked and the moment the word lot left her mouth she wanted to smack herself.

“Not anymore. I just have to make sure I do everything right.” William said quietly.

“School sounds really harsh. Hopefully it gets better.” Buffy said thinking back on Principle Snyder and then quickly shaking his memory away.

“Would you like some breakfast?” William asked and it was obvious that neither one of them had anything of interest to say.

“Yeah, that sounds good.” Buffy said and she followed William into what she guessed was the kitchen.

“So do you cook or what?” Buffy asked as she stood near the fireplace, which a gentle glow.

“I’m afraid not much. What do you want?” William said as he took to mugs out and started the water boiling over the low embers of the fire.

“What ever you have is fine.” Buffy said.

“I think there may be some muffins left that my mother made. You can have those if you like.” William said as he poured the water into the mugs and handed one to Buffy.

“Thank you. So what day is it?” Buffy asked as William set a muffin in front of her.

“Friday I believe.” William said as he sat down across from her.

“Wow, wonder if Spike’s freaking.” Buffy said basically to her self.

“What?” William inquired having heard her say something but hadn’t quite made it out.

“What oh nothing. Just talking to myself, sorry.” Buffy said looking up into William’s eyes and then she quickly looked away ‘Stop it Buffy he’s 16 you’re 20 nothing’s ever going to happen and plus you’ll hate him in the future’ she thought to herself.

“Um well I have to get to school.” William said a little nervously as he got up from the table.

“Ok well I’ll see you later.” Buffy said as she sipped the warm tea and William headed upstairs to get his stuff for school. It was quiet for a while and then Buffy saw William coming down the steps saying “Oh my” over and over.

“What’s wrong?” Buffy asked worriedly

“What oh I can’t find my school books.” William said rushed as he sat down sadly in the chair across from Buffy.

“Do you know where they might be?” Buffy asked.

“I think they might be where you were when I found you. I’m sure to get caned now.” William said as he put his head in his hands and cried.

“Hey, it’s alright we’ll figure something out.” Buffy said as she put her hand on his shoulder, trying to comfort him.

“How are we going to do that?” William asked as he put his head up, took off his glasses and wiped his eyes dry.

“I don’t know maybe I can go with you to school and explain to your headmaster that you had saved me and in the midst of the excitement you had forgotten about your books or something like that.” Buffy said smiling.

“You would do that for me? For someone you barely know?” William asked amazed that she would do that for him.

“Sure why not. One quick thing though, do you by any chance have some clothes that I could wear since he probably would believe me as much if I wore what I had on when you found me.” Buffy asked hopefully.

“Um yeah I do come with me.” William said quietly as he got up and Buffy followed.

“This could possibly work. Would you mind wearing it?” William said as he handed Buffy a semi plain navy blue dress with white lace frill at the neck.

“This is lovely, whose is it?” Buffy said as she held the dress up to herself.

“It was my sister's. It was one of her favorites.” William said a little sadly.

“What happened to her?” Buffy asked noticing he used the word ‘was’.

“She got hit by a bad case of pneumonia and passed a few years ago.” William said sounding sad.

“I’m sorry.” Buffy said putting her hand on his shoulder again.

“Thank you. Well I’ll let you change into the dress.” William said as he left the room leaving Buffy standing there holding the dress.

She got dressed and walked out of the room and went downstairs where she saw William sitting in a chair.

“So do I look 1800s to you?” Buffy said jokingly as she came to stand by him.

“Wow, you look really good.” William said blushing a little.

“Why thank you, kind sir.” Buffy said giving a small curtsey and smiling.

“Are you ready to go?” William asked.

“Yep. Let’s get going.” Buffy said pulling on her leather jacket, which was noticed by William.

“We will, I just have to say good-bye to Mother and I’ll get you a warmer jacket because you’ll freeze with that one on.” William said and he ran upstairs he came down about five minutes later carrying a navy blue coat and it appeared to be cotton and homemade. He handed it to her and the moment she put it on she felt a lot warmer.

“Thank you, William.” Buffy said and they walked out the door.

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