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Merry Christmas Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy crept through the cemetery alone. It had been a very slow night. No demons of any kind so far. A sound from behind her caught her attention. She sped towards the direction of the noise to find Xander.

"Xander? What are you doing here?" Buffy shouted.

"What a guy can't walk alone in a cemetery at night anymore?" Xander answered.

Buffy glared at him.

"Well I asked earlier today if I could come along tonight." He said.

"And I said no." Buffy said annoyed.

"And being the faithful wacky sidekick that I am, came anyway. Now where are the bad guys?" Xander said as he walked to her side.

"Sorry to disappoint you but it has been a really slow night." Buffy said.

"Yeah I bet all of the vampires and demons are still counting the coal they got in there stockings last year. Speaking of Christmas Buff I was just wondering what you….." Xander said as he tripped over a dead body.

"Whoa dead guy." Xander shouted as Buffy helped him to his feet.

"It's Bob. He is the gravedigger here. We've talked before." Buffy said as if not believing what she was seeing.

"Buffy, look." Xander pointed out a vampire running away from them.

Buffy left Xander and took off after the demon. She finally caught up to her enemy and tackled him. He easily got back to his feet and slammed her into a tombstone. Buffy jumped to her feet and prepared to fight but the vampire was gone. She walked to where she last saw him and listened. She could hear a faint noise from one of the open graves close to her. She ran up to one and saw the demon cowering in fear.

"Getting homesick?" Buffy yelled as she pulled the vampire from the grave. She was about to go for another attack when the demon stopped her.

"Wait, Wait. Listen I don't want to fight, can we not do this?" The vampire asked sounding hopeful.

"You killed Bob now I'm going to kill you." Buffy said.

"Who is Bob? Hey I didn't ask to fight the slayer."

"Well what can I say tis the season of giving." Buffy said as she kicked the demon in the face. As he fell to the ground she staked him and he melted into ashes.

Buffy picked up a piece of Bob's shirt the vamp had dropped and stuck it in her pocket.

Spike had seen everything. He had sent one of his lackey's out to get Drusilla some food. He would have gone himself but he was still not at full strength from the last time he fought the slayer. He would be in trouble if he fought her in his condition now. Spike wanted to make sure everything went smoothly but then she showed up.

"Pun all you want slayer because after this holiday season you'll be doing it from your grave."