Render what is Joss and the big wigs that own BtVS what is theirs and leave me to my insanity. I thank you.
Author's Note: After "BBB" and before Season 3.
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Part Two
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“Man, it was a boring class,”Xander groused at lunch. Buffy nodded morosely as she looked at her lunch.
Willow sat beside Xander and opened her textbook in front of him.”We have fifty minutes to get your chem work done.”
Xander looked at her with pleading puppy-dog eyes.”Can’t I eat first? Please?”
“Xander Harris! You are going to carry my books,”Cordelia announced as she stood next to him. Xander looked at her in puzzlement.”Now!”
“I’m eatin’ Cordy,”Xander said as he pointed down to his plate.”We have no books for lunch. Unless it’s cook books.”
“Well, then after lunch,”Cordy allowed as she sat down next to him.”But you are carrying my books.”
Xander looked at her warily.“Why am I surrounded by books during lunch?”
“Karma,”Buffy shrugged as she picked up a spoon and bravely dug into her lunch.
“Anyway, hurry up so that I could help you with the chem homework,”Willow said as she dug into her lunch bag.
“Hey! Are you doing the chem homework now?”a voice called out. Xander looked up to see the girl from the library stand next to him.”Can I join in?”
Then without a word, she wedged a space and plopped down next to Xander.”I see you got the page ready.”
Willow and Buffy exchanged glances as Cordelia looked coldly at the upstart member of her court.“We’re a bit busy here, Candace. Don’t let us keep you.”
“Don’t worry, I won’t,”Candace said as she looked at Xander.”So what number are you up to? I got as far as two.”
“We’re up to lunch,”Willow said.”And I’m not-”
“Hey, hey! Looks like a party here, Zinna!”Devon announced as he looked over Willow’s shoulder.”Ow! Chemistry! Man, that bites! Only geeks know chem.”
“Try not so show how stupid you are, Devon,”Oz said as he walked up behind Devon. He gave Willow a quick peck on the cheek before pulled up a seat and sat next to her.”So this is lunch time?”
Willow nodded as she offered her sandwich.”I got turkey, lettuce and mayo. Want a piece?”
“Sure,”Devon said as he took a wedge.”Hmm...good. Great sandwich, Iris.”
Buffy stared at the oaf that took Willow’s lunch. Then she looked at Oz’s face, which looked quietly furious. The girl, Candace, was trying to talk to Xander but Cordelia answered almost every question and attempt. Willow and Buffy’s eyes met and they both started to get up.
“Hey! Where you fems going?”Xander yelped. Buffy and Willow looked at him.
“Library,”Buffy smiled, trying to look unconcerned.”I forgot some, uh, books there. And that’s where we’ll, uh...”
“Do the other homework...for math,”Willow said quickly. She then quickly pecked Oz’s cheek.”See you later after classes, Oz.”
Both girls left the table quickly as Xander stared after them, then it hit him.“Homework? Math? Willow! Buffy! What homework?”
“Wait up!”Xander shouted as gathered his bag and he raced after them. Cordelia stared at the running Xander then at her books on the table.
“He did again!”Cordelia said in disbelief.”He didn’t carry my books!”
* * *
“Giles! Something’s wrong!”Buffy shouted as she entered the library. Willow hurried behind her and added her two bits.
“Very wrong! Everyone’s acting, weird!”
Giles came out of his office, looking slightly bemused.”What’s wrong?”
“I don’t know, but people have been acting wierd,”Buffy started. Xander raced into the library with Cordelia right behind him.
“What homework?”he asked breathlessly.
“You carry my books,Xander!”she shouted. Giles gave her a stern look, and she quieted.
Buffy continued.”Well, this girl, Candace, keeps hanging around Xander. And there’s this guy, Devon, who keeps trying to attach himself to Willow.”
“And that’s strange because?”Giles asked slightly confused. Buffy looked at her Watcher a bit impaitently.
“Because after what happened on Valentine’s Day,”Willow offered. Then Giles nodded.
“It maybe a residue of the spell that Amy cast,”Giles concluded.”I see.”
“It’s nothing magical about Devon being after Willow,”Oz announced as he came in.”He’s just being a two-faced idiot guy.”
“What?”Willow asked as she looked at him.’What are you talking about?”
“He wants to see why you like me, Will,”Oz explained.”The jerk wants to know what I see when I look at you.”
“In other words, he wants to try Willow out,”Buffy said, understanding.”What a jerk! Why hang with him, Oz?”
Oz shrugged.”He sings well. But is that chick Candace under a spell or not?”
Cordelia snorted delicately.“Not. She probably is after Xander because I’m dating him.”
Everyone looked at her strangely then at Xander. He looked at everybody.”What?”
Cordelia sighed when she looked at him.”She wants my place in the crowd, so she goes after whatever I got. Or had. Clothes. May Queen. Boyfriends.”
“Boyfriends?”Xander yelped.”Please say that she’s not after me. Not after last time.”
“So then they’re not under a spell? They’re just curious,”Giles ventured.
“About Xander and me,”Willow said with a frown.”Why?”
Cordelia snorted. “Because they’re a bunch of-”
“Grapes,”Buffy said quickly.”They want us to know about those red grapes.”
“Grapes? You want to know about red grapes?”Cordelia echoed as she looked at Buffy in disbelief. “Have too many vamps knocked you-”
“Hello, Senor Giles,”said a soft accented voice. Giles looked up from Buffy to the voice. Then he quickly put on his congenial face when he saw who it was.”Hello, Cordelia. Oz.”
“Hi, Ms. Delcaza,”Cordelia smiled. For a teacher, the woman had a great fashion sense. But that jet black hair, Cordelia betted it was straight from a bottle.
“Hello, Ms. Delcaza,”Oz echoed as he stood away from her. He wasn’t sure, but he didn’t like her one bit. Ever since she came two months ago, she always looked at him as if he were some sort of bug under a microscope. And she smelled...wrong.
“Senor Giles, I wanted to know if you knew of any students that was interested in taking extra college credit for writing something on Romance Languages.”
“Does the student have to write it in Spanish?”Giles asked absently. Ms.Delcaza smiled.
“The student doesn’t have to write about the language from my country, Senor Giles. Maybe about France or Italy, and it has to be written in that language. Extra college credit will be given in any language.”
“Extra college credit? French?”Willow echoed. Ms. Delcaza smiled at her.
“Yes, extra credit. And you are?”
“Willow Rosenberg,”she said happily.”Can anyone join? Or-”
Just then the bell rang. Xander jumped up in horror.“The bell! Oh no! Chem homework! Math! Willow!”
“Uh, we gotta go now,”Willow said as she and Buffy laid a calming hand on Xander.”Homework panic.”
She leaned over to kiss Oz.“See you after classes. In the library. Ms. Delcaza, can I see you tomorrow for the information?”
When she nodded, Willow turned her attention to her panicking friend.”Let’s go, Xander. We’ll get this work done.”
“Oh, God! Homework!”Xander moaned as Buffy and Willow led him away.”Why? Why?”
“What an odd boy,”Ms.Delcaza said to no one in particular. Cordelia looked at her hands again and screamed.
“He left without my books again!”
* * *
A small wrinkled hand covered with golden rings held an athame above a candle. The robed woman’s sharp eyes watched the athame as it grew heated, and smiled coldly. It had been so long since she had done this, but she still remembered how. After that botched attempt to stop her two hundred years ago, she would make sure that no one would be near her when the ritual took place. Not even that damned Slayer the vampires whispered about.
She looked up at the clear moonless night. Her altar was set for the sacrifices. She just needed the werewolf and his virgin love for the spell to begin. She looked down at her pawed feet, and frowned. After a moment, they returned to their more human shape. Soon she would be a full human again.
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