And Then There Were Three: Teabag Capital of the World
by DiabloVixen
(Weeks later Dawn is out of the hospital but now she is bearing a bright pink cast. Paige has begun training with Buffy. Life for the Scoobies has been pretty much uneventful, at least so far this week.
Its late afternoon and the Scoobies are at the Magic Box doing that Scoobies do… Researching. There is banging and what sounds like a fight coming from the backroom. It has the customers looking up and glancing awkwardly.)
Suddenly the noises from the backroom stop and a few moments later Paige limps in followed by Buffy, both are sporting cuts and bruises, Paige seems to be worse. Paige slumps down in a chair.
“I told you to take it easy back the-” Giles begins but is interrupted by the phone ringing. “Magic Box, The one stop shop for all your magic needs. This is Gile-”
“That’s a lot to say in one breath.” Xander joked in a low tone as Giles continued his phone conversation. The conversation seemed to carry on longer than the usual customer phone calsl. Finally Giles hung up the phone and in a long silence he nervously took of his glasses and wiped them with his cloth.
“What’s the matter G-man? Someone get a defective… umm Chicken foot thing?”
“We have discussed that nickname before Xander.” Giles said cracking a smile. Giles turned to Buffy and his serious tone returned. “I need to speak to you… privately.”
Buffy shot a glance to her friends and followed Giles to the backroom.
“Tomorrow you’re going to England.” Giles said.
Buffy did not know how to respond. “Why?”
“The Council needs to talk to you.”
“About What?”
“I don’t know they refuse to tell me. It has to do with Glory but that’s all I know.”
“Why can’t they just call me or send a pretty little letter… Or even better an E-mail? Simple, easy, cheap.”
“They request your presence and your presence only, it sounds important and we need all the information we can get, so you’re leaving tomorrow at 8.”
Buffy started to take him seriously, “What about Dawn?”
“She will be fine for a day. And Paige is here.”
“There’s no way she’s ready to face Glory.”
“It’s just a day Buffy, things will be fine.”
“How do you know they’re not gonna pull another 18th birthday on me?”
“Still 18?”
“Ya know what I mean.”
“Your flight departs at 8:00 A.M. You’re probably gonna have to be at the airport aroun-”
“I’ll get packing.”
“Very good.”
Buffy walked out to tell the group about her brief “vacation”. The Magic Box bell rung and Dawn walked in.
“Hey All, Hows- What happen to you two?” Dawn Said in surprise seeing Paige and Buffy’s faces.
“Training.” They echoed in unison.
“Oh, well that’s…good.” Dawn said as she sat down.
“Yeah, Well I’m leaving for England tomorrow.” Buffy casually, as though the gang knew this fact for a while.
“Completely random, Buff. Why are we going to the teabag capital of the world?” Xander said. The group sent him glances and he caught his mistake. “That’s definetly not what I meant.”
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