Giles spasmodically clenched the letter in his hand, then turned suddenly and ran back into the house. To the telephone. He dialed the Summers' number. "Hello? Joyce? This is Giles. I just got a letter from Buffy! Yes, yes, come over by all means. I just need to call - I just need to make a couple more calls first. Yes, yes, do please hurry."
He dialed again. "Willow? It's Giles. I've heard from Buffy; she sends her greetings and says she's all right. No, she didn't tell where she was, but the letter is postmarked from -- " he checked it. "From New York?! Damn and blast! What on earth is she doing there? Oh? Oh, sorry. Yes, please do let Xander know. Thank you. Uh, goodbye."
Giles showed the letter to Joyce, to Willow, to Xander, to Cordelia, and even to Oz. He wasn't quite sure how any of them were going to take it, especially since there were new interpersonal dynamics among the teenagers. He attributed that to Buffy's absence, and ignored it.
"But, but, you mean the ritual worked? And then she stabbed him? How can that be?" Willow wondered aloud.
"It must have already opened, then. Right?" Xander asked. "So she knew the only way to close it was to…" his shook his head. "Oh, man. Poor Buffy!" Xander spoke again after a minute. "One thing I'm not quite sure about. Giles, who was with you when Angel was doing his pain-and-death number?"
"No - no one. Why?" Giles asked.
"Did you say that thing to Angel, about a tutu?"
"Well, I don't know. I suppose I did. I wanted to get him off balance."
"Fine and good, Giles, but how did Buffy know about that little conversation?"
Giles started. "I have no idea!" he said. He thought for a moment, then said, "Spike. Buffy mentioned Spike in her letter. Perhaps he spoke to her..? I recall he was there in the next room when Angel was having his fun. He, uh, made some comment about not wanting Angel to kill me because he didn't want to spend the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet." He chuckled, then quickly turned it into a cough when Willow and Xander both looked at him with their "Ew!" faces on. "Uh, yes. Perhaps there was some sort of, I don't know… alliance?" He looked up. The "Ew!" faces were still in full force. He gave up.
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