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Last edited: 10-3-99
Timespan: This would either have to take place before Angel turned evil again, or after his return (he ain't back yet in Australia...*SOB*...). I began writing it just after the episode "Ted". Please note that I can't be held responsible for any inaccuracies that I wasn't aware of at this point, and that I've only actually seen about five or six episodes (not including the comics or what I've read on the Internet). What I'm trying to say is if I've screwed up, don't be too disgusted (but e-mail me and tell me so I don't embarrass myself too much!).
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Part Two
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"So you say this thing just took a bite out of Angel and then ran off?" Giles asked, pressing a pad soaked with liquid against Angel's shoulder. The vampire, stripped to the waist because his shirt sleeve had refused to roll up far enough, was sitting on a table in the library as Buffy's Watcher tended to his shoulder. Angel ground his teeth as the liquid stung the open wound, but for all that, it seemed to staunch the bleeding fairly effectively.
"Well, not exactly," Buffy replied, cutting a length of adhesive bandage from a long roll. "It put up a bit of a fight...but if it was as strong as Angel says, I don't know why it gave up so easily."
"Any ideas?" Angel asked the librarian.
"Well, I'm not entirely sure," Giles replied, "but from what you've told me, it's a possibility that it simply got what it came for."
"What, a piece of me?" Angel grunted, watching Giles thread up a needle.
"It would appear so, yes. Now hold still, please."
"Great," Buffy snorted. "That brings us a whole lot closer to knowing what it was and why it attacked us."
An angry growl escaped Angel's throat as Giles made the first stitch in his shoulder, and the vampire immediately looked somewhat embarrassed. Giles immediately looked somewhat nervous.
"You wouldn't...would you?..." he stammered a little.
"Relax," Angel replied. "That just kind of happens sometimes. I've got no intention of flooring you in return for sewing me up."
Reassured, Giles added a second stitch.
"Aargh," Angel grunted. "Then again..."
"Now, Buffy," the Slayer's Watcher continued, turning to her again, "contrary to what you just said, I'd be inclined to think that we now have quite a large clue to what this creature is...or was. There aren't a large amount of animals that strong that would attack with such a simple goal, and disappear without ending the fight. It's not terribly logical, when you think about it."
"So we're dealing with more than some dumb animal here," Buffy assumed.
"Probably," Giles agreed.
"Maybe I should call Willow..." Buffy began.
"Actually, I spoke with her earlier, after you called me," Giles, quite uncharacteristically, cut her off. "She seems to be indisposed at the moment."
"Hmm...I wonder what Will would be doing on a Saturday night?" Buffy murmured to herself.
"Maybe that 'Oz' guy you mentioned," Angel suggested innocently as Giles tied off the line of stitches. Buffy pointedly ignored him.
"I decided that, without Willow, we might at well leave the search until tomorrow," Giles continued, applying the bandage to Angel's shoulder. "It's a little late tonight, and researching is significantly easier with her help."
"Great," Buffy said, her sarcasm as obvious as it was pointless, as Angel slipped off the table and pulled on his bloodstained shirt. "Fantastic. Can't think of a better way to spend my Sunday."
"See you here, then," Giles called after them as they left.
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