As is the normal, all characters and places by Joss Whedon are his sole property and i own none of it. I do own Tallulah, and her companions. Please any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you and enjoy.
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“Are you sure that the woman who supposedly changed Angel is a witch and a vampire?” Giles asked his disbelief plain on his face.
“Hello Giles! I know what my senses tell me, and I don’t see how an ordinary woman could have changed Angel like that without some helpfrom her magical friends!” Buffy exclaimed in exasperation.
They were gathered in the library, she, Giles, Willow, Xander and Jenny Calender. Giles sat at a table piled high with various tomes ofvampire lore and prophecies. His hair is all mussed up and he is wearing his normal apparel of rumpled slept in clothing. Beside him Jenny and Willow sit scanning the Internet on two different computers for any accounts of vampires who might also be witches. Xander was sprawled in a chair, a book on one knee, looking over Willow’s shoulder, and pays scant attention to the conversation, which is in it’s 4th go around.
“Why don’t you believe me?” Buffy asked, throwing her hands up in theair as she paced the room.
“It’s not that I don’t believe you Buffy, it’s just that... well... Ihave never in my life heard of such a thing happening. I haven’t seenit any of the books I have read. I just want to make sure we have all the facts before we start thinking too hard.”
“Oh, and when has that stopped you before?”
Giles just looked over his glasses at her. “To quote you.... ‘that washarsh.’” Sitting back he ran his hands through his hair, making it stand even further out on end.
“Rupert?” Jenny’s calm voice interrupted him, as she looked up fromthe computer where she had been typing rapidly to another technopagan.Turning to look at her, Giles noticed as he always did, that she looked very lovely that evening in her high waisted, ivory silk gown. “You may be wrong about there never being any record of such a being. I just got an email from a good friend of mine, Snugglebunny,” Xanderbroke up in laughter over the name, repeating it over and over. Givinghim a cold look Jenny went on, “she is faxing over a copy of an old diary she has. Her great grandmother was in a romany clan, and in it she writes of a young woman who’s skin was pale, lips blood red, hair like ebony, who lived with her clan.”
“Hmmm sounds like Snow White to me.” Xander stated deadpan. “Mirror,mirror on the wall who’s the fairest of them all.” He suddenly cackled like the Disney witch from the movie.
Elbowing her friend sharly in the ribs, Willow said “Cut it out Xander. You’re not helping.”
“So, what about this mystery chick? Just because someone is beautiful and a little Goth doesn’t mean she is a vampire and/or a witch.” Buffyinterjected.
“Well, we will soon find out, for SnuggleBunny is sending a fax ofthe diary entries.” Jenny answered.
Everyone turned and looked at the innocent looking fax machine, sitting quietly on it’s shelf, minding it’s own business, in Giles’office. Just then it beeped and there was a mad dash as both Buffy and Giles raced towards it.
“Buffy, please allow me to get it. You might miss something important! After all I am the Watcher.” Giles said.
“Giles this is Angel we are talking about!”
Xander turns toward Willow, “Who do you think will win? Wanna bet?” he asks with a twinkle in his eyes.
“Xander!” Willow punched him lightly in the arm, then rolls her eyes dramatically.
“Hey! why do you keep hitting on me?” he asks, as he rubs his arm. She just sighs in reply.
Jenny approaches the stand off.. She blithely takes the document inquestion out of the playing field. “I will take that. Oh good, theseare the recipes I have been waiting for. The next fax should be the one you want Rupert.”
As if on cue the fax machine beeped again, and with a stern look, Giles sent Buffy back to her corner of the ring. Gathering up the sheaf of papers, he began to scan them. His face grew stern as he deciphered what was there. “Hmmmm...” was all he said for quite awhile.
Buffy went over to wear Xander and Willow were sitting and sank down onto the edge of the table with a sigh. “So what did you think of the bands?” she asked.
“I think there was a pretty good line up tonight,” Willow offered. “You know, giving all of those bands a chance to play.. although thatlast act definitely stole the show.”
“Yeah, I can agree with you there Willow, mmm for a vamp that girl sure looked good!” Xander enthusiastically agreed. He began to reminisce.
Looking more exasperated than usual Buffy poked her friend in the side, “Xander...”
Hearing his name Xander came up for air, “huh?”
“Hormonal overload, be careful.”
"Oh yeah right... Although I have to ask again, why is it that all the beautiful girls are supernaturally inclined?”
Willow looked at Buffy just as Buffy looked at Willow, turning to face Xander they both shrug.
Twisting the ring that was on her right ring finger, Willow looked atBuffy a little worried, “Buffy, I don’t’ know if you noticed this but did you see any resemblance between Angel and that girl? It was almostlike they were brother and sister.”
Buffy looked thoughtful, “Hmmm to tell the truth, no I didn’t. That would be interesting, but not possible, Angel said he killed his entire family and friends, when he first became a vampire.”
”Oh. OK. I just thought I’d tell yo....”
“Ah, I believe this is what we were looking for” Giles interrupted,the pair. Looking over Buffy saw the wild gleam of delight in Giles’eye as he continued to scan the document.
”Supposedly this woman was traveling about alone when the clan picked her up and allowed her to travel with them. Oh wait she wasn't completely alone, she had two companions, a large dog and a black cat” turning suddenly Giles looked at Buffy. “Didn’t you say that there was a wolf and a cat on the stage tonight?”
Nodding with her eyes on the floor, Buffy tried hard to block out the memory of those eyes. Looking up she met Giles’ gaze. “They were just too weird Giles, they both had green eyes, and all the while theyjust stared at Angel as though they knew exactly who and what he was.”
"Hmph. Well this may well be the same woman. Snugglebunny’s great grandmother writes of her as having a lot of power, and that she onlywished to go out at dusk. Hmmm. It also states that there was trouble in another clan and the woman went to solve it. She was gone for two moons, .. er.. months, when she returned there was a young man with her, who then left a few weeks later. The great grandmother describes him as the most beautiful man she had ever seen.”
Buffy breathed in slowly and then exhaled, “Angel.”
”So it would seem.”
“I’ve got to talk to him. Now, tonight.”
Grabbing her jacket, she turned to Xander and Willow, “Please, stay here. I want to see him alone.”
“No prob Buf. I think there is a banana split calling my name.. how about you Willow? Shall we blow this popsical stand and head for the ice cream one instead?” Xander turned to his best friend boppingher lightly on the head with his book.
Her eyes dark with concern for Buffy, Willow managed a smile and quickly agreed to Xander’s plan.
Xander grabbed her hand and started to skip out of the library. “See ya later Buff!”
Watching them go, Buffy whispered, “Thanks guys.” Shrugging on her jacket, she started to head for the door. Behind her Giles took a step after her, “Buffy..?”
Looking back at her Watcher, Buffy smiled, “I know Giles... be careful. I will, don’t worry.” With a last smile she went out the door, to look for her Angel.
Stepping forward with her recipes in one hand, Jenny laid her head on Giles shoulder for a brief moment. Looking up at him, seeing the worried look still on his face, she took his hand gently into her own and repeated what Buffy said. “She will be careful, don’t worry.” Reaching down to the table beside her she picked up his scarf andthrew it around his neck. Giving it a gentle tug she started to pull him towards the door... “Come on, I have some new recipes, would you like to be my guinea pig?”
Looking down at her, he smiled hesitantly, “I...I...I would love to. But what about the computers?”
She smiled, “The Guard Dogz will look after them. They will be fine.” She handed him his coat and grabbed her own.
”Ahh.. Guard Dogs?”
“Computer Program.. sort of like a screen saver.. they’re cute. Don’t worry.”
“I seem to be hearing that phrase a lot lately.”
“Well, you shouldn’t.”
Letting her lead the way, Giles took one last look at the library, then turned out the lights.
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