"So, your parents have no idea you're a vampire?" Buffy checked.
Indi nodded and ignored the surprise in her friend's voice.
"But surely they know you're a witch?" Buffy pressed, only to have Indi shake her head. "Do they even know you have visions?"
"No." Indi sighed. "They are safely in the dark about any supernatural or living dead qualities that I have. Though, when I wasn't able to wear my crucifix anymore I raised a few eyebrows."
"But, how can they not know?" Willow asked as she returned with Xander and joined the conversation. "I mean, I've seen you're room. It's got pentagrams and candles all over the place! What if your mom went in there while you were at school and put two and two together?"
Indi smiled. "Well for that, I have a cunning plan. I thought about the way I can't go into a house unless invited, and I flipped the idea around a bit, then I came up with this spell that stops anyone going in my room without being invited."
"And that works without raising any suspicion?" Xander laughed.
"Yes, It does." Willow beamed. "I remember now, the other day when I came round your house to work on that English project and my feet froze when I got to your doorway. Then you invited me in and I could move again. Only now did I realise there was anything strange about that."
"See, it works." Indi spat through a mouthful of sloppy joe. She smiled as she thought of how hard she'd worked on that spell. Then a thought occurred to her, "Anyway, why are you so surprised that I haven't told my parents? Your mom doesn't know that you're the Slayer, and she doesn't have any strong Christian beliefs against your existence!"
"True." Buffy sighed. These people did a lot of sighing. "But then, all signs of my dark and anti-social nightlife life are safely locked away in my weapons trunk."
"Yeah, it's easier for Buffy to keep her double-life a secret." Xander said.
"Anyway," said Indi, "I guess we choose to keep our parents in the dark because we're afraid of their reactions."
"Yeah, but even if we told them they'd tell us to wash our mouths out with soap and stop watching late-night TV." Buffy laughed bitterly. "Truth is, we're just kids forced to fight an evil that most people think is fairytales."
"Except Xander and Willow choose to fight." Indi added. "You and me are bound by destiny."
"You and I, Indi." A weary voice corrected her. She turned around to see Giles, the school librarian and Buffy's Watcher, standing behind her. He had his hands stuffed in the pockets of his tweed jacket and his eyes expressed more concern than usual.
"Hey Giles. What's wrong?" Buffy greeted him.
"Oh, I don't know. That's the problem. The Watcher's Council called me and told me to be on high alert, but wouldn't tell me anything else." he sighed. His noble British accent was thick with worry. "I've exhausted all of my resources and can come up with nothing. There are no prophecies whatsoever for this moment in time and no one on the Council will tell me what to be alert for." His gaze fixed hopefully on Indi.
"I haven't had any visions lately." she said apologetically. "In fact, my reservoir of visions has all but dried up these past few months."
"I guess we'll have to do what the Council says and be on high alert." Willow suggested.
"Yes." Giles sighed. Indi was becoming depressed from the we're-all-doomed look on his face, and she wanted to help.
"Maybe...maybe I can do this spell that shows me all the visions I've ever had." she offered. "Maybe I saw something ages back that I've forgotten about."
"It's a possibility Indi, but it sounds very strenuous, and most definitely very painful. I wouldn't want you to put yourself through that on a whim. It could be very risky." Giles told her.
"It's no more risky than Buffy patrolling graveyards at night." Indi retorted.
"All right. If you think it might help, then go ahead, but be careful. Well, I'll see you all later, I've got to get back to the library." Giles waved his goodbyes and left the Scoobies to their lunch.
Update30/4/05: Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck! I'm just here to reply to a review, and I cannot stop cringing. I hate this story now. And I hate Indi. Yuck!
Saggit: Yes, I know. It's shameful. I could lie and defend the whole seer thing by saying how I thought it was strange that Angel was given Doyle, but Buffy didn't get a seer, but I won't, because I'm a terrible liar. I'm sorry to have bored you, and I'm trying to write less stories with mary sues in them, because i realise how boring for the reader it is. To be honest, this story was just something to keep me sane at school. Pure escapism for me, and i should never have inflicted it upon the public. Sorry.
