Title - Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: Love's Energy - Part 1
Author - Shane A. Hopkins
Rating - PG (New Zealand rating)
Notes - Contains one borderline foul word
Historians Note - This story takes place between the Season 5 episodes 'Fool For Love' and 'Shadow' (I think cos I haven't quite decided)
Disclaimer - What I don't own. Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and 20th Century Fox own Buffy the Vampire Slayer and everything related to it What I do own. Everything not owned by the above mentioned people / companies is owned by me but you may use any of it as long as you give me credit, the only exception to this is Quinton Everett III as this character is based on me you can't use it without getting my approval first.
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Love's Energy - Part 1
It was a stormy afternoon in Sunnydale, California and Willow Rosenberg was
flipping through a spell book at the back of The Magic Box, her girlfriend, every now and then she still giggled at that term, Tara Maclay had her head resting on her shoulder watching as she flipped the pages.
"Hey, hang on" Tara said stopping Willow from turning the page "That spell wasn't there yesterday, was it?"
"No it wasn't" Willow replied before turning to the man behind the store counter and calling "Hey Giles um, small problem here."
"What is it Willow?" asked Giles.
"T-this book it appears to be growing spells, Mr Giles." Tara answered.
"What? Growing spells?" Giles said as he walked over to the two women and picked up the book. "That shouldn't be possible."
"Actually it is very possible books grow new spells all the time most people, even very powerful wicca don't notice." came a strong masculine voice from behind Giles. "I'm sorry I couldn't help but overhear," the voice said again as Giles turned and moved out of the way so Tara and Willow could see who had spoken, it appeared to be a young man in his mid-twenties with a goatee and a dark grey duster that was rather dry considering the weather. "Sorry where are my manners, my name is
Quinton Everett the third, Practicing Sorcerer."
"Y-you're a sorcerer?" asked Tara with wide eyes.
"Yes and I can tell you that all magic books change over time for example this one here." Everett said taking a book off the shelf and sliding it across the table to Willow and Tara. "How many pages does it have in it?"
Willow opened the book to the last page and looked at the page number. "456." she answered.
"Would it surprise you to know that three years ago that book only had 356 pages." Everett told them. "In three years that book grew one hundred pages of new spells isn't that just so cool."
"You know a lot about this sort of thing?" asked Giles.
"Yea I did my thesis on the changing face of magic." replied Everett.
"Your thesis?" asked Willow.
"Yea at Gol-nath-gree Wizard University." Everett said looking around the bookshelves.
"I've heard about that university it's reportedly extremely hard to get into." said Giles with a semi-surprised look on his face.
"Your not wrong, if it wasn't for the fact that I was born into a family of sorcerers." said Everett sitting back down at the table.
"A-aren't you worried about telling all this to people who are complete strangers?" asked Tara.
"No, because you're not." replied Everett. "Strangers that is, You two." he said indicating the two women on the opposite side of the table. "Are the unlicensed witches who are friends of the slayer, and you." he said indicating Giles. "Would be the slayer's guide, formerly her watcher before the council fired you."
"How do you know so much about us?" asked Willow.
"I like to research my contacts plus it's a force of habit." Everett answered her.
"W-what's a force of habit." asked Tara.
"Knowing things." Everett replied with a shrug.
"That's all well and good but getting back to this book and it's new spell." Giles interrupted trying to steer the conversation back onto topic.
"Y-you w-won't report us to the wiccan authorities w-will you?" asked Tara a little nervously.
"Don't worry I won't tell." Everett replied to her before pointing to Giles and saying. "But Mr Giles here was trying to get us back onto the original topic of our
conversation."
"Ahem yes I was." said Giles with a slightly annoyed look on his face. "Mr Everett, can you tell what this spell does?" he asked.
"Please call me Quinn, all my friends do." Everett answered him before holding out his hand for the book. "May I please have the book?"
"Here ya go." replied Willow handing the book to him with a small smile.
"Thank you Willow." Quinn said returning the smile. "Now lets see Conis mehock nowr ahh a spell to pause time in a select area."
"I have never heard that language before, what is it?" asked Giles.
"It's a very dead demonic language called Mi-knock toolos kemok roughly translated Very Dead Demonic, who or whatever named it had a real sense of humour." Quinn said with a laugh.
"Y-you seem to know a lot about demonic languages." Tara commented.
"Yea I minored in dead demonic languages." Quinn said with a far away look coming into his eyes. "Those were the best classes I took at Uni."
"So Quinn, this spell," began Giles. "it freezes time?"
"No, it pauses time, it lasts for only a few minutes where as freezing time lasts for hours or even days, that's a fun one to do on tutors at Uni." Quinn replied with a smile.
"Ahem yes well if we can get back to the book." Giles suggested.
"Yes it will continue to grow new spells until it reaches 500 pages and then it stops for a few hundred years and then it will begin to loose spells at the rate of three pages a year until it's empty." Quinn told them. "but this book appears to have come into contact with a very strong magical aura, an unusual one at that, I would have said that it was a dimensional key." Giles raised an eyebrow at those words. "but the colouring isn't quite right, and there isn't any indication of when this might have happened so it could have happened at any time over the last 250 years."
"Y-you can see all that from the aura?" asked Tara.
"I can actually see more that just that but the rest is unimportant." said Quinn with a smile as the blonde witch. "However I actually came here to talk with Mr Giles here, I came here to ask if you could get a book called the Fox-tell-e Demon Compendium, the 20th century edition, can you?"
"Why yes I should be able to get you a copy, when do you need it by?" Giles
answered with a nod walking over to the counter followed by Quinn.
"Well as soon as you can would be." Quinn started but was interrupted by a loud squishing sound from the table where Willow and Tara were sitting.
Quinn spun round recognising the sound instantly "Oh damn I should have told them about that." He said staring at the frozen forms of the two witches.
"What, what's happened to them?" said Giles a little frantically.
"They read the spell together with out direction and it paused them." Quinn answered with a frown.
"Can you undo the spell?" Giles asked looking at Quinn.
"Yea no prob bob" Quinn replied before holding his hand palm flat towards the table area and chanted. "Boosh arnet goomles KABOO!" and with a popping sound Willow and Tara came to life. "Thank you thank you very much, I'm here Mondays through Fridays, Try the veal it's delicious." taking a mock bow and smiling at the two witches.
"W-what happened?" asked Tara.
"You read the spell together without any directions." Quinn told them sitting down at the table again. "It caused the spell to affect the area surrounding the book."
"So how long were we out?" asked Willow with a glance at her watch.
"Only a few seconds, I undid the spell." Quinn told her. "I would advise being careful about what spells you two read together especially if you have no idea what the words actually mean."
There was a jingling as the stores door opened and in walked a young brunette waved at Giles and came over to the table saying. "Hiya Mr Giles."
"Hello Dawn how was school." Giles replied.
"Educational." Dawn answered simply.
"And this would Miss Dawn Summers." Quinn said standing and taking Dawns hand and kissing the back of it in an old fashioned way, Dawn giggled and pulled her hand away as Quinn went on with a smile. "And I am Quinton Everett the third, but you may call me Quinn."
"Dawn, Quinn here is a sorcerer who wanted to buy a book." Giles told her.
"You're a sorcerer?" Dawn asked in awe.
"You bettcha." Quinn said snapping his fingers and producing a thornless rose from thin air and handed it to the amazed teenager. "but I must be going, Mr Giles I'll drop by tomorrow to see if you can get the book Ok."
"Yes that should be fine." replied Giles.
"Ok see ya all tomorrow." Quinn said, and with a wave walked out of the door. Dawn ran to the window to watch him walk down the road in the rain. "Hey his coat isn't getting wet." she yelled to the rest of the group.
"Dawn, shouldn't you start your homework before your sister gets here." asked Giles.
Dawn stuck out her tongue at Giles back.
To be continued.
Author - Shane A. Hopkins
Rating - PG (New Zealand rating)
Notes - Contains one borderline foul word
Historians Note - This story takes place between the Season 5 episodes 'Fool For Love' and 'Shadow' (I think cos I haven't quite decided)
Disclaimer - What I don't own. Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and 20th Century Fox own Buffy the Vampire Slayer and everything related to it What I do own. Everything not owned by the above mentioned people / companies is owned by me but you may use any of it as long as you give me credit, the only exception to this is Quinton Everett III as this character is based on me you can't use it without getting my approval first.
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Love's Energy - Part 1
It was a stormy afternoon in Sunnydale, California and Willow Rosenberg was
flipping through a spell book at the back of The Magic Box, her girlfriend, every now and then she still giggled at that term, Tara Maclay had her head resting on her shoulder watching as she flipped the pages.
"Hey, hang on" Tara said stopping Willow from turning the page "That spell wasn't there yesterday, was it?"
"No it wasn't" Willow replied before turning to the man behind the store counter and calling "Hey Giles um, small problem here."
"What is it Willow?" asked Giles.
"T-this book it appears to be growing spells, Mr Giles." Tara answered.
"What? Growing spells?" Giles said as he walked over to the two women and picked up the book. "That shouldn't be possible."
"Actually it is very possible books grow new spells all the time most people, even very powerful wicca don't notice." came a strong masculine voice from behind Giles. "I'm sorry I couldn't help but overhear," the voice said again as Giles turned and moved out of the way so Tara and Willow could see who had spoken, it appeared to be a young man in his mid-twenties with a goatee and a dark grey duster that was rather dry considering the weather. "Sorry where are my manners, my name is
Quinton Everett the third, Practicing Sorcerer."
"Y-you're a sorcerer?" asked Tara with wide eyes.
"Yes and I can tell you that all magic books change over time for example this one here." Everett said taking a book off the shelf and sliding it across the table to Willow and Tara. "How many pages does it have in it?"
Willow opened the book to the last page and looked at the page number. "456." she answered.
"Would it surprise you to know that three years ago that book only had 356 pages." Everett told them. "In three years that book grew one hundred pages of new spells isn't that just so cool."
"You know a lot about this sort of thing?" asked Giles.
"Yea I did my thesis on the changing face of magic." replied Everett.
"Your thesis?" asked Willow.
"Yea at Gol-nath-gree Wizard University." Everett said looking around the bookshelves.
"I've heard about that university it's reportedly extremely hard to get into." said Giles with a semi-surprised look on his face.
"Your not wrong, if it wasn't for the fact that I was born into a family of sorcerers." said Everett sitting back down at the table.
"A-aren't you worried about telling all this to people who are complete strangers?" asked Tara.
"No, because you're not." replied Everett. "Strangers that is, You two." he said indicating the two women on the opposite side of the table. "Are the unlicensed witches who are friends of the slayer, and you." he said indicating Giles. "Would be the slayer's guide, formerly her watcher before the council fired you."
"How do you know so much about us?" asked Willow.
"I like to research my contacts plus it's a force of habit." Everett answered her.
"W-what's a force of habit." asked Tara.
"Knowing things." Everett replied with a shrug.
"That's all well and good but getting back to this book and it's new spell." Giles interrupted trying to steer the conversation back onto topic.
"Y-you w-won't report us to the wiccan authorities w-will you?" asked Tara a little nervously.
"Don't worry I won't tell." Everett replied to her before pointing to Giles and saying. "But Mr Giles here was trying to get us back onto the original topic of our
conversation."
"Ahem yes I was." said Giles with a slightly annoyed look on his face. "Mr Everett, can you tell what this spell does?" he asked.
"Please call me Quinn, all my friends do." Everett answered him before holding out his hand for the book. "May I please have the book?"
"Here ya go." replied Willow handing the book to him with a small smile.
"Thank you Willow." Quinn said returning the smile. "Now lets see Conis mehock nowr ahh a spell to pause time in a select area."
"I have never heard that language before, what is it?" asked Giles.
"It's a very dead demonic language called Mi-knock toolos kemok roughly translated Very Dead Demonic, who or whatever named it had a real sense of humour." Quinn said with a laugh.
"Y-you seem to know a lot about demonic languages." Tara commented.
"Yea I minored in dead demonic languages." Quinn said with a far away look coming into his eyes. "Those were the best classes I took at Uni."
"So Quinn, this spell," began Giles. "it freezes time?"
"No, it pauses time, it lasts for only a few minutes where as freezing time lasts for hours or even days, that's a fun one to do on tutors at Uni." Quinn replied with a smile.
"Ahem yes well if we can get back to the book." Giles suggested.
"Yes it will continue to grow new spells until it reaches 500 pages and then it stops for a few hundred years and then it will begin to loose spells at the rate of three pages a year until it's empty." Quinn told them. "but this book appears to have come into contact with a very strong magical aura, an unusual one at that, I would have said that it was a dimensional key." Giles raised an eyebrow at those words. "but the colouring isn't quite right, and there isn't any indication of when this might have happened so it could have happened at any time over the last 250 years."
"Y-you can see all that from the aura?" asked Tara.
"I can actually see more that just that but the rest is unimportant." said Quinn with a smile as the blonde witch. "However I actually came here to talk with Mr Giles here, I came here to ask if you could get a book called the Fox-tell-e Demon Compendium, the 20th century edition, can you?"
"Why yes I should be able to get you a copy, when do you need it by?" Giles
answered with a nod walking over to the counter followed by Quinn.
"Well as soon as you can would be." Quinn started but was interrupted by a loud squishing sound from the table where Willow and Tara were sitting.
Quinn spun round recognising the sound instantly "Oh damn I should have told them about that." He said staring at the frozen forms of the two witches.
"What, what's happened to them?" said Giles a little frantically.
"They read the spell together with out direction and it paused them." Quinn answered with a frown.
"Can you undo the spell?" Giles asked looking at Quinn.
"Yea no prob bob" Quinn replied before holding his hand palm flat towards the table area and chanted. "Boosh arnet goomles KABOO!" and with a popping sound Willow and Tara came to life. "Thank you thank you very much, I'm here Mondays through Fridays, Try the veal it's delicious." taking a mock bow and smiling at the two witches.
"W-what happened?" asked Tara.
"You read the spell together without any directions." Quinn told them sitting down at the table again. "It caused the spell to affect the area surrounding the book."
"So how long were we out?" asked Willow with a glance at her watch.
"Only a few seconds, I undid the spell." Quinn told her. "I would advise being careful about what spells you two read together especially if you have no idea what the words actually mean."
There was a jingling as the stores door opened and in walked a young brunette waved at Giles and came over to the table saying. "Hiya Mr Giles."
"Hello Dawn how was school." Giles replied.
"Educational." Dawn answered simply.
"And this would Miss Dawn Summers." Quinn said standing and taking Dawns hand and kissing the back of it in an old fashioned way, Dawn giggled and pulled her hand away as Quinn went on with a smile. "And I am Quinton Everett the third, but you may call me Quinn."
"Dawn, Quinn here is a sorcerer who wanted to buy a book." Giles told her.
"You're a sorcerer?" Dawn asked in awe.
"You bettcha." Quinn said snapping his fingers and producing a thornless rose from thin air and handed it to the amazed teenager. "but I must be going, Mr Giles I'll drop by tomorrow to see if you can get the book Ok."
"Yes that should be fine." replied Giles.
"Ok see ya all tomorrow." Quinn said, and with a wave walked out of the door. Dawn ran to the window to watch him walk down the road in the rain. "Hey his coat isn't getting wet." she yelled to the rest of the group.
"Dawn, shouldn't you start your homework before your sister gets here." asked Giles.
Dawn stuck out her tongue at Giles back.
To be continued.