Buffy frowned and stared hard at the slab of transistors in front of
her. Why had she let willow talk her into this class? She couldn't wrap her
head around what went where or how this whole damn thing was meant to work.
She pounded on the desk once in annoyance and then looked around. Everyone
was staring at her.
"I could help you with that," said a smooth masculine voice from behind her.
Buffy turned to be confronted by the largest, roundest and deepest blue eyes she'd ever seen. She was lost for words for a few moments as her eyes followed the line of his jaw down to his mouth with its full and totally kissable lips.
"Umm… please?" said Buffy rather pitifully.
The young man laughed softly and moved seats so he was next to her. Willow was away that day and the seat she usually occupied was empty.
"Abe… Abraham Marr… call me Abe… Please." He grinned at her in an open and friendly manner.
"I can't work this out…" she blushed a little as being so useless and offered him the slab of whats'it's.
"Well, the reason you can't get it to work is because it isn't wired properly… they gave you a dud." He put his hand up and the teacher came around and inspected the slab. In short order Buffy received another one.
"That should work better," he made to get up and go back to his desk, in an attempt to stop him Buffy blurted out…
"Buffy!"
Abe stopped and looked at her strangely for a moment. His blue eyes held merriment and a little confusion but none of the 'damn your nuts' she was expecting to see.
"Buffy?" he repeated a little puzzled but still smiling.
"Umm, its my name, Buffy Summers. I never told you my name." Good save there Buff…
"Oh… alright. Nice to meet you Buffy Summers," he stood there for a moment unsure of whether to go back to his seat where he to was all alone, or to chance sitting down.
"Please… my friend Willow isn't here… please sit with me?" she sounded so pitiful to her owns ears and he fully expected Abe to just turn his back and walk away.
"I'm glad you asked. I'm all alone today too, Cass and Adam had a Wicca meeting."
"Ohh, you have Wicca friends? Willow is a Wicca friend!" she just wanted too burry her head under the desk and die. Could she sound dumber if she tried? Probably.
Abe laughed and leaned back in his chair fiddling idly with some nameless computer part Buffy didn't even fee safe breathing near.
"Yeah, Adam and Cass have been at it since before I met them, they are giving me pointers but… I'm a slow learner. I think I know Willow though, Cass brought her round once for coffee, she had a spell or something they wanted to go over." He smiled a little and hopped quietly she wouldn't ask him anything about the spell, he had no idea.
"It's all a little beyond me, Willow is the witchy one." She smiled.
"I can understand that. Cass and I can hit the computers pretty hard but Adam is in the same boat as you. When it comes to computers… he's not so much…" Abe let the sentence taper off… Buffy knew what he meant.
The buzzer sounded for the end of the period and Abe stood and tucked in Buffy's chair for her as she gathered her books together. He held the door open for her as she moved out into the corridor and smiled his friendly and open smile at her all the way to the cafeteria. At the doorway they said their goodbyes and Abe struck off to the left and slid into a seat in-between a short and almost sickly thin boy and a brown haired girl. They leaned in close together and began to talk in the hushed tone of very close friends.
Buffy moved forward to where Willow was sitting at a table in the sun, out in the open with Oz by her side. They smiled at her as she approached and she couldn't help casting a glance over her shoulder at the secretive three in the corner. At the moment she looked back, Abe and the boy were looking over their shoulders at her and the girl grinned and turned back to her books.
Willow grinned up at Buffy as she sat down.
"Ohh, you met Abraham? You like? I like, in fact EVERYONE likes Abe, I don't know a single girl who's talked to him and doesn't want to get physical!" she stopped and looked at Oz whose expression hadn't changed. "Ohh, except me, I don't wanna get physical with him at all!"
Oz didn't smile, didn't frown, he never did either of those things; he looked into Willows eyes with his big soulful ones.
"I trust you." He said simply, and that was the end of it.
Buffy smiled accommodatingly at the two and glanced over her shoulder at the cluster of three across the room. This time only the brunette was looking back at her with a grin on her face that Buffy really couldn't place.
"Do you know them?" she asked Willow.
"Oh yeah! The little guy is Adam, he's so cool! He's empathic you know! Don't you just wanna study him and work out what kinda magic does it?" she looked at Buffy expectantly but was discouraged to find her best friend giving her an empty look, "He reads emotions.."
"OH! Well that's cool! Hey that could be helpful sometimes! Good info to have!"
"And the girl, her name is Cassandra, she's named after the prophetess at Troy. I've never heard anyone say so, but I get the impression from Adam and Abe that she can see the future sometimes. She gets feelings and stuff. She's also a really powerful witch!" Willow smiled brightly at her intelligence gathering abilities.
"She also sings with the Dingo's sometimes… or she used to before her boyfriend broke up with her," added Oz without a trace of emotion.
Once again Buffy looked over her shoulder and again the deep brown eyes of the brunette, Cassandra, were there to meet her. The girl gave a half wave with one hand then leaned back into the private little world of three that they had happening in the corner.
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The bubbling cauldron in the middle of the Attwood/Marr/Jones kitchen exploded and the fiery liquid spilled out into the kitchen counter burning the surface. Cass swore and turned on the tap to try to put out the fire as Abe and Adam came running from the other room.
"What the…" Abe couldn't finish his sentence.
Cassandra giggled and grabbed Adam's hand, then Abe's and they all stared at the fire that slowly died under the combined weight of their wills and flickered out to nothing.
"What were you trying to do?" Asked Adam with a chuckle in her voice.
Cass shot him an annoyed glance.
"I was trying to get that damn binding spell to work. I was a little liberal with the alcohol I think." She smiled up at her flat mates sheepishly.
Abe just looked at her blankly and Adam moved into the kitchen and sniffed what was left of the stuff in the cauldron.
"Hey Abe, I think we could drink this stuff and get wasted." He smiled at Cass and patted her on the back. "Look at it this way, at least you invented a drink, we can call it a binding!"
Cass just looked at him and tried her hardest to take offence but he was just too cute and eager about it. She eventually began to laugh to and Abe joined them after a quick sniff of the cauldron himself.
"Oh, I talked to Elizabeth today." Said Abe offhandedly.
"You did…" Adam and Cassandra both turned to look at him.
"Well, only for a moment."
Adam frowned as he poured the new concoction out of the cauldron and into a spare glass bottle.
"I thought we agreed that unless we could work out why her aura is so funky we weren't going to get involved with her…? She could be devil spawn or something, we all know the kinds of things that run around this town." Adam was usually light hearted but this could be bad.
"I don't know how we're meant to work her out when we don't talk to her." he said defensively.
"Well, I've been talking to Willow, apparently she is to Buffy as we are to each other. I don't know about Buffy, but I do trust Willow." Cassandra smiled a little as she started trying to polish some of the burn marks from the kitchen bench.
"So what are we going to do?" asked Adam.
Two sets of eyes, one bright green the other sky blue turned and looked at Cassandra expectantly…
"Why are you looking at me?" she whined.
"Because you're the one who does the talking… always have been. 'Sides, your scarier than us," smiled Abe "Come on Cass… oh mighty leader, tell us what to do!"
She slapped him playfully in the arm and growled.
"I really hate you guys you know," she muttered sulkily.
Abe wrapped one arm around her waist and picked her up over his shoulder much to her squealing delight. Adam ran after them as Abe carried her around the room struggling all the while. It quickly degenerated into a tickling fit on the ground, by the end of which Cassandra and Adam were sitting on Abe in an attempt to hold him down.
"I'll do it on one condition!" Cass laughed as she tickled Abe's sides.
"What…" he managed to gasp out.
"You will damn well stop elbowing me in the head in your sleep!"
Buffy was disgusted. She'd just cut the head of a rather large green slime monster and it had gotten iky yellow goop all over her new shirt. It always happened that way; she didn't know why she bothered. Swearing at no one in particular she made her way back towards her dorm.
"Those things always spurt like that," came a quiet voice from behind her.
Buffy spun but couldn't see anyone. She moved into a fighting stance, her axe at the ready.
"Who's out there?" she called out.
"Please put that away or I'm not coming out," came the reply.
Buffy looked at her goop-covered axe and sighed a little. She hadn't met much that she couldn't take on hand to hand at least till she got the axe back. She laid it on the ground and took a few steps back.
"Better," Cass jumped down out of a tree, landing hard on one knee but only whincing slightly, "Don't like weapons, make bad juju."
Buffy looked at the girl up and down. She didn't look like much really. 5'5 with short curly brown hair, a little wide set in the shoulders and she could probably stand to lose a few pounds. She moved with confidence however, and that was something Buffy understood.
"What do you want?" the Slayer asked.
"What's the deal with you?" was the cryptic answer.
"Umm, huh?" Buffy made a face, "Please rephrase question."
Cass moved forward and Abe and Adam crept out of their respective hiding placed among the bushes. A group of very ordinary looking people, even if Abe was incredibly hot.
"We just want to know what you are…" said Abe in his quiet yet powerful voice, "We know you aren't human."
"Thing is, we can't work out whether you're on our side or not." Finished Adam.
Buffy just looked from one to the next until her eyes came back to rest on Cass. The leader? Probably if they wanted to call her that, Willow seemed to think the girl was OK. Buffy hated spunk on other people however and this Cass person had it in spades.
"Why should I tell you anything?" she asked accusingly.
"Because if you give the right answers we can help you." Was the simple answer.
Really, Buffy couldn't argue with that. If Willow was even half right, these three would be indispensable to the scoobies. She wondered if the two guys came separately.
"I'm the Slayer." Said Buffy defiantly.
The three looked at one another then at the goop covered Slayer.
"The what?" asked Adam.
Buffy looked at them as they moved closer together, seemingly finding comfort in each other's presence and grew frustrated and annoyed.
"I am the Slayer, the chick who kills the vampires," she looked down at her new top and began to yell, "the girl who sacrifices her new clothes when they get covered in GOOP from nameless slime demon number 8!"
Cass looked at the remains of the demon she'd just killed and back at the Slayer.
"Umm… that's a Norgal… If its out and about then there is going to be a natural disaster soon, Earthquake probably, they are attracted by the energies…" she said carefully.
"Great, what… Earthquake? I need to see Giles!" she grabbed her axe and started towards Giles' place. "Oh… I guess your guys better come too, that is if you've decided I'm not evil."
The three looked at one another and back at Buffy. Without a word Cass lead the way and the two men followed her as they moved after Buffy. By the time the reached Giles, the three witches were walking in a perfect line their steps perfectly in time. They looked like the oncoming Gestapo! Buffy was freaked.
More if you want it but you gotta give me feedback! BTW Cass, Adam and Abe are all people that I know, and they more or less ARE like this, I just gave them some funky powers. Like I said, gimme feedback if you want some more.
"I could help you with that," said a smooth masculine voice from behind her.
Buffy turned to be confronted by the largest, roundest and deepest blue eyes she'd ever seen. She was lost for words for a few moments as her eyes followed the line of his jaw down to his mouth with its full and totally kissable lips.
"Umm… please?" said Buffy rather pitifully.
The young man laughed softly and moved seats so he was next to her. Willow was away that day and the seat she usually occupied was empty.
"Abe… Abraham Marr… call me Abe… Please." He grinned at her in an open and friendly manner.
"I can't work this out…" she blushed a little as being so useless and offered him the slab of whats'it's.
"Well, the reason you can't get it to work is because it isn't wired properly… they gave you a dud." He put his hand up and the teacher came around and inspected the slab. In short order Buffy received another one.
"That should work better," he made to get up and go back to his desk, in an attempt to stop him Buffy blurted out…
"Buffy!"
Abe stopped and looked at her strangely for a moment. His blue eyes held merriment and a little confusion but none of the 'damn your nuts' she was expecting to see.
"Buffy?" he repeated a little puzzled but still smiling.
"Umm, its my name, Buffy Summers. I never told you my name." Good save there Buff…
"Oh… alright. Nice to meet you Buffy Summers," he stood there for a moment unsure of whether to go back to his seat where he to was all alone, or to chance sitting down.
"Please… my friend Willow isn't here… please sit with me?" she sounded so pitiful to her owns ears and he fully expected Abe to just turn his back and walk away.
"I'm glad you asked. I'm all alone today too, Cass and Adam had a Wicca meeting."
"Ohh, you have Wicca friends? Willow is a Wicca friend!" she just wanted too burry her head under the desk and die. Could she sound dumber if she tried? Probably.
Abe laughed and leaned back in his chair fiddling idly with some nameless computer part Buffy didn't even fee safe breathing near.
"Yeah, Adam and Cass have been at it since before I met them, they are giving me pointers but… I'm a slow learner. I think I know Willow though, Cass brought her round once for coffee, she had a spell or something they wanted to go over." He smiled a little and hopped quietly she wouldn't ask him anything about the spell, he had no idea.
"It's all a little beyond me, Willow is the witchy one." She smiled.
"I can understand that. Cass and I can hit the computers pretty hard but Adam is in the same boat as you. When it comes to computers… he's not so much…" Abe let the sentence taper off… Buffy knew what he meant.
The buzzer sounded for the end of the period and Abe stood and tucked in Buffy's chair for her as she gathered her books together. He held the door open for her as she moved out into the corridor and smiled his friendly and open smile at her all the way to the cafeteria. At the doorway they said their goodbyes and Abe struck off to the left and slid into a seat in-between a short and almost sickly thin boy and a brown haired girl. They leaned in close together and began to talk in the hushed tone of very close friends.
Buffy moved forward to where Willow was sitting at a table in the sun, out in the open with Oz by her side. They smiled at her as she approached and she couldn't help casting a glance over her shoulder at the secretive three in the corner. At the moment she looked back, Abe and the boy were looking over their shoulders at her and the girl grinned and turned back to her books.
Willow grinned up at Buffy as she sat down.
"Ohh, you met Abraham? You like? I like, in fact EVERYONE likes Abe, I don't know a single girl who's talked to him and doesn't want to get physical!" she stopped and looked at Oz whose expression hadn't changed. "Ohh, except me, I don't wanna get physical with him at all!"
Oz didn't smile, didn't frown, he never did either of those things; he looked into Willows eyes with his big soulful ones.
"I trust you." He said simply, and that was the end of it.
Buffy smiled accommodatingly at the two and glanced over her shoulder at the cluster of three across the room. This time only the brunette was looking back at her with a grin on her face that Buffy really couldn't place.
"Do you know them?" she asked Willow.
"Oh yeah! The little guy is Adam, he's so cool! He's empathic you know! Don't you just wanna study him and work out what kinda magic does it?" she looked at Buffy expectantly but was discouraged to find her best friend giving her an empty look, "He reads emotions.."
"OH! Well that's cool! Hey that could be helpful sometimes! Good info to have!"
"And the girl, her name is Cassandra, she's named after the prophetess at Troy. I've never heard anyone say so, but I get the impression from Adam and Abe that she can see the future sometimes. She gets feelings and stuff. She's also a really powerful witch!" Willow smiled brightly at her intelligence gathering abilities.
"She also sings with the Dingo's sometimes… or she used to before her boyfriend broke up with her," added Oz without a trace of emotion.
Once again Buffy looked over her shoulder and again the deep brown eyes of the brunette, Cassandra, were there to meet her. The girl gave a half wave with one hand then leaned back into the private little world of three that they had happening in the corner.
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The bubbling cauldron in the middle of the Attwood/Marr/Jones kitchen exploded and the fiery liquid spilled out into the kitchen counter burning the surface. Cass swore and turned on the tap to try to put out the fire as Abe and Adam came running from the other room.
"What the…" Abe couldn't finish his sentence.
Cassandra giggled and grabbed Adam's hand, then Abe's and they all stared at the fire that slowly died under the combined weight of their wills and flickered out to nothing.
"What were you trying to do?" Asked Adam with a chuckle in her voice.
Cass shot him an annoyed glance.
"I was trying to get that damn binding spell to work. I was a little liberal with the alcohol I think." She smiled up at her flat mates sheepishly.
Abe just looked at her blankly and Adam moved into the kitchen and sniffed what was left of the stuff in the cauldron.
"Hey Abe, I think we could drink this stuff and get wasted." He smiled at Cass and patted her on the back. "Look at it this way, at least you invented a drink, we can call it a binding!"
Cass just looked at him and tried her hardest to take offence but he was just too cute and eager about it. She eventually began to laugh to and Abe joined them after a quick sniff of the cauldron himself.
"Oh, I talked to Elizabeth today." Said Abe offhandedly.
"You did…" Adam and Cassandra both turned to look at him.
"Well, only for a moment."
Adam frowned as he poured the new concoction out of the cauldron and into a spare glass bottle.
"I thought we agreed that unless we could work out why her aura is so funky we weren't going to get involved with her…? She could be devil spawn or something, we all know the kinds of things that run around this town." Adam was usually light hearted but this could be bad.
"I don't know how we're meant to work her out when we don't talk to her." he said defensively.
"Well, I've been talking to Willow, apparently she is to Buffy as we are to each other. I don't know about Buffy, but I do trust Willow." Cassandra smiled a little as she started trying to polish some of the burn marks from the kitchen bench.
"So what are we going to do?" asked Adam.
Two sets of eyes, one bright green the other sky blue turned and looked at Cassandra expectantly…
"Why are you looking at me?" she whined.
"Because you're the one who does the talking… always have been. 'Sides, your scarier than us," smiled Abe "Come on Cass… oh mighty leader, tell us what to do!"
She slapped him playfully in the arm and growled.
"I really hate you guys you know," she muttered sulkily.
Abe wrapped one arm around her waist and picked her up over his shoulder much to her squealing delight. Adam ran after them as Abe carried her around the room struggling all the while. It quickly degenerated into a tickling fit on the ground, by the end of which Cassandra and Adam were sitting on Abe in an attempt to hold him down.
"I'll do it on one condition!" Cass laughed as she tickled Abe's sides.
"What…" he managed to gasp out.
"You will damn well stop elbowing me in the head in your sleep!"
Buffy was disgusted. She'd just cut the head of a rather large green slime monster and it had gotten iky yellow goop all over her new shirt. It always happened that way; she didn't know why she bothered. Swearing at no one in particular she made her way back towards her dorm.
"Those things always spurt like that," came a quiet voice from behind her.
Buffy spun but couldn't see anyone. She moved into a fighting stance, her axe at the ready.
"Who's out there?" she called out.
"Please put that away or I'm not coming out," came the reply.
Buffy looked at her goop-covered axe and sighed a little. She hadn't met much that she couldn't take on hand to hand at least till she got the axe back. She laid it on the ground and took a few steps back.
"Better," Cass jumped down out of a tree, landing hard on one knee but only whincing slightly, "Don't like weapons, make bad juju."
Buffy looked at the girl up and down. She didn't look like much really. 5'5 with short curly brown hair, a little wide set in the shoulders and she could probably stand to lose a few pounds. She moved with confidence however, and that was something Buffy understood.
"What do you want?" the Slayer asked.
"What's the deal with you?" was the cryptic answer.
"Umm, huh?" Buffy made a face, "Please rephrase question."
Cass moved forward and Abe and Adam crept out of their respective hiding placed among the bushes. A group of very ordinary looking people, even if Abe was incredibly hot.
"We just want to know what you are…" said Abe in his quiet yet powerful voice, "We know you aren't human."
"Thing is, we can't work out whether you're on our side or not." Finished Adam.
Buffy just looked from one to the next until her eyes came back to rest on Cass. The leader? Probably if they wanted to call her that, Willow seemed to think the girl was OK. Buffy hated spunk on other people however and this Cass person had it in spades.
"Why should I tell you anything?" she asked accusingly.
"Because if you give the right answers we can help you." Was the simple answer.
Really, Buffy couldn't argue with that. If Willow was even half right, these three would be indispensable to the scoobies. She wondered if the two guys came separately.
"I'm the Slayer." Said Buffy defiantly.
The three looked at one another then at the goop covered Slayer.
"The what?" asked Adam.
Buffy looked at them as they moved closer together, seemingly finding comfort in each other's presence and grew frustrated and annoyed.
"I am the Slayer, the chick who kills the vampires," she looked down at her new top and began to yell, "the girl who sacrifices her new clothes when they get covered in GOOP from nameless slime demon number 8!"
Cass looked at the remains of the demon she'd just killed and back at the Slayer.
"Umm… that's a Norgal… If its out and about then there is going to be a natural disaster soon, Earthquake probably, they are attracted by the energies…" she said carefully.
"Great, what… Earthquake? I need to see Giles!" she grabbed her axe and started towards Giles' place. "Oh… I guess your guys better come too, that is if you've decided I'm not evil."
The three looked at one another and back at Buffy. Without a word Cass lead the way and the two men followed her as they moved after Buffy. By the time the reached Giles, the three witches were walking in a perfect line their steps perfectly in time. They looked like the oncoming Gestapo! Buffy was freaked.
More if you want it but you gotta give me feedback! BTW Cass, Adam and Abe are all people that I know, and they more or less ARE like this, I just gave them some funky powers. Like I said, gimme feedback if you want some more.