Chapter 2

"William, Buffy please sit down and I will explain everything." When Spike hears his real name from this stranger it made him very wary. He sits in a chair opposite the couch to keep an eye on the stranger. Buffy just stood there looking at him. He sat up, put his feet in the floor, and pointed to the opposite end of the couch. "Please, Buffy sit down. I promise to explain everything." When at length she did sit where he had pointed. He stood up and stretched. Walking to the fireplace, he leans on it. He turned to see their faces and let out a heavy sigh. "I assure you I am not a demon as William could taste if he liked." He held out his arm to Spike and moved closer to Spike so he could take a bite easer.

"The name is Spike now." Spike vamped out read to take a bite.

"That won't be necessary." Buffy said with a growl in her voice. "Just get on with what you have to say."

With a bow of his head he walked back to the fireplace. "I shall begin at the beginning." He said standing up straighter. "I am Duncan Mac Leod of the Clan Mac Leod. I was born in the highlands of Scotland. In the town of Glen Fennen on the shore of Loc Sheel. This was in the year 1592, for I am immortal." He said with a slight Scottish burr. Turning to look directly at Spike, "do you remember Cecile Underwood's dinner party?" Duncan asked with the Scottish accent gone. "The one that made you what you are today."

"Vividly," growled Spike though he had sadness in his eyes. His eyes then go wide, "I seem to recall meeting a man named Mac Leod. He was a friend of Cecile's father." Looking more closely at Duncan he asked, "that was you?"

"Yes, that was me you met at that party."

"I almost forgot you were in the cemetery to meet someone." Buffy interrupted. "Should I have Spike go find the person and bring him here?"

Duncan smiled as he walked to the couch and sat down. "No, Buffy you don't have to do that. The person I was there to meet, was you" Looking into her eyes he smiles and continues, "you see we had made a date for me to meet you there."

"Now that's crazy. How could we have made a date to meet, when this is the fist time I have ever laid eyes in you?" Buffy asked as she tried to accept all of what Duncan was saying.

"Some time in your near future you were sent into the past. You ended up in London in the spring of 1880."

"Did I tell you why I was there?" Buffy asked not believing what he is saying.

"Your sister, Dawn was the reason you went back."

"Well that is the way it always is, Dawn gets in trouble and I have to save her." She said with a cynical tone in her voice. "It's getting late Spike, you can bunk in the basement and Duncan you can use the couch. We will finish this later this evening. That way the rest of us can be here."

"That's a great idea I have wanted to meet Willow and Xander. You said that they were your best friends." He said with a smile on his face. After Duncan revealed that, he knew the names of her sister and her best friends, when she knows that she had never mentioned any names, Buffy knew that he may be speaking the truth about the time shift. Moreover, the whole idea was giving her the wiggins.

"Buffy can I speak to you in the kitchen?" Spike asked as he got up and stocked out of the room.

"Please excuse me I will be back in a minute." She said with a half smile, and then followed Spike.

As Buffy entered the kitchen Spike turned to her and asked, "you trust this man enough to have him stay in your house?"

"Not completely that is why I'm having you stay here instead of sending you home. Also I can keep an eye in him easier if he is here."

While Buffy and Spike were in the kitchen, Duncan sat patiently in the couch. He stands as the front door opens.

"Buffy look who I found on the door step." A red headed female announces as she walks into the house. Another young woman and a man that looked to be in his mid forties followed her in. "Oh," the red head said as she stopped short when she saw a strange man in the living room with his shirt opened wide. "Where is Buffy?"

She is in the kitchen talking with Spike. You must be Willow?" He said extending his right hand. "I'm Duncan Mac Leod."

"Uh, yes I am." She stutters slightly as she shakes his hand. Buffy quickly appears from the kitchen when she heard Willow's voice. Spike followed close behind her. As Willow spots Buffy, she lets go of Duncan's hand and asked, "is there something we should know about?"

Buffy then noticed Giles standing in the living room. She rushes over to give him a hug. "What are you doing here? I thought you were going to stay in England?" She asked letting go of her embrace and trying not to sound to cold or too happy. Even though the fact was that, she was ecstatic to see him.

"I will explain later." He said cryptically with a side ways glance to the strange man in her living room.

"It's ok to talk in front of him. Giles his is Duncan Mac Leod. Duncan this is Rupert Giles." Buffy said introducing the two men.

Duncan extended his hand to Giles and said, "you're the watcher. I thought you would be older from the description of you from Buffy.

"Thank you, I guess but you have me at a loss, Buffy has never mentioned you to me."

"This is because she just met me tonight." He said with a sly smile. This statement sent questing looks between the three new arrivals. Please sit down and I will explain what I mean." Before he began, he turned to look at Buffy and said, "maybe you should call Xander and get him over so I don't have to tell this a third time."

"You know Buffy that is good idea we may need his help." Giles said as he made his way to the couch and sits. "We have a new trouble to deal with. You should also get Dawn because this concerns her as well."