It was late Saturday night, but at the library in Sunnydale High no one was sleeping. Buffy and 'the gang' were busy doing research on a recent series of deaths that had been happening on several farms located on the very remote outskirts of Sunnydale. Very, very remote.
Apparently over a dozen billie goats had been found dead over the past two weeks; shriveled and sucked dry like a week old grapefruit. Cordelia was quick to assume vampires did it, because hey, it's always easy to blame the undead. Soon though, Willow disproved this idea.
"It can't be vampires..." She said absently as she flipped through a rather ancient looking book.
Cordy frowed. "Well, why not?" She thought her idea was a really good one, even though she personally tended to want to accuse vampires for every evil thing that happened in Sunnydale.
Willow took a deep breath and forced herself not to look annoyed as she put on her best perky-Willow-smile. "Because--"
"Because what vampire in their right mind would suck goats?!" Xander broke in before Willow could finish. "Duh!"
This little outburst shut Cordy up quickly and she sat there looking at Xander with an indignant look on her face. Willow on the other hand was smiling at him very appreciatively.
"Thank you Xander, that was one reason I was going to say." Xander was grinning from ear to ear.
"The other reason I was going to mention was," she held up some pictures of the goats in question ", that the bite marks don't look like a vampire's. They look more like...like leeches, or something...leech-like."
At that moment Buffy and Giles walked in, followed by Angel, who was wearing a fairly confused look on his face. Buffy flopped down in a chair next to Willow with an exasperated sigh.
"This is getting too frustrating." she announced. "I smell like dead goats and other icky things I would rathernot smell like, and I have about as much idea of what is killing these goats as I have about what I'm going to be wearing three weeks from next Tuesday!"
"Now now Buffy, don't get discouraged." Giles chimed in. "There's a solution to this problem, and we'll find it. All it takes is a lot of good research."
"But all those cute, innocent little goats are dying and all we can do is research?!?" Buffy was horrified.
Giles just gave her a wilted smile which was a poor apology for the lives of those poor goats that were being snuffed out while they sat around doing research. Pouting, Buffy sat up in her chair, grabbed a book and opened it up to any random page.
"Fine then, I'll do research." No one mentioned it to her that the book she picked up was the textbook for German 2 and probably had jack squat information in it about things that suck goats.
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