"She had finally told him the truth last night. The truth about how she was really feeling about being brought back to life. Torn out of heaven by her friends, he was the only one she could tell. He'd always been a farther figure to her, he was so much more than a watcher to a slayer, and so she had told him how she wasn't coping so well. How everything felt hard and bright to her and now she no longer knew how she fit into this world.

"Buffy had made her way over to Giles's apartment early this morning at his request. He'd been very vague about what he wanted to discuss with her but had said it was important and could help.

She tapped on his front door, she didn't have to wait long, seconds later he was stood in front of her inviting her in. He must have been pacing in front of the door waiting for her. Buffy gave him a small smile and took a sit in the arm chair. Giles sat across from her giving her a pained look.

"How are you feeling buffy?"

"I'm fine, muddling you know" Giles nodded as she spoke.

"I have an idea that you probably won't like, but I really think that it might help"

"Let me hear it" Buffy was curious

"While I was away in England, I heard of a great threat, changes in the supernatural world that are so...could be so catastrophic if it were to be true. These changes and the monsters responsible are in town not too far from here."

"Your sending me away" Buffy accused, feeling very hurt, she had opened up told him the truth and his answer was to not deal with it, send her away, make her someone else's problem.

"No, Buffy please" Giles sighed and took his glasses off to start polishing them, a sign of how uncomfortable he was. "I think it would be good for you to leave Sunnydale for a while, get away from the hell mouth. This would give you a chance to have a break from this place, away from...your friends. I want this to be a chance for you to connect with the outside world beyond this place, beyond these people."

"Beyond these people? Your just sending me from one bad place to another, I'm supposed to go to this place and hunt vampires how is that any different from what I'm doing here?" Buffy stood frustrated.

"Because you're not doing that here, Buffy, I see you struggling, you told me you didn't know your place anymore, this is a chance to get away from here, to a place where no one knows you. A place for you to perhaps reconnect with the slayer part of you" Giles spoke softly and she could feel he was pushing her to consider this.

"What would I do there?" She admitted she was slightly intrigued she had never really left Sunnydale since she had been the slayer, was never allowed to leave the hell mouth.

"I have a contact there that you would work with, he's a trustworthy guy and he informs the council that there's some serious vampire issues going on, stuff that could change the dynamics, I don't have all the details, but I know he needs help to protect his town."

"Where is this place? Buffy asked.

"It's called Mystic Falls and my contacts name is Rik."