DPOV

What have these two gotten into now?! They're always doing something they shouldn't be and it's like taking care of children! I swear! Wait, something in Faith's voice....panic. That's actual panic. That means there's something really wrong with my girlfriend. I glance at Buffy in worry and rush over only to hear Li growl in my general direction. She whimpers and burrows closer to Faith whose looking confused, freaked out, and just a little bit fascinated as Li's appearance changes from my usual well kept, totally hot girlfriend to some kind of....ick. That's all I can say as she changes to a rather unflattering....

"Cave-woman!" Buffy shouts.

"How much you been drinkin, B?" Faith asks with a raised eyebrow.

"No, no, no! I- I recognize that face from w-when I was all Cave-Slayer like!" Buffy exclaims. Faith looks to me.

"You're sister...." she trails off.

"Hey don't look at me, she's your girlfriend." I say holding my hands up in defense. Finally Li stops whimpering and opens her eyes. She engages in a staring contest with Faith before she springs up and nudges Faith in the shoulder then she sniffs her.

"Ah! Tig, what the hell?!" Faith says moving away from my girlfriend whose trying to sniff her. Faith backs into a wall, Li following the entire way, and just sits there for a moment while Li traces her face. She looks so freaked.

FPOV

Alright, Li's really startin' to scare me. I mean, since when does she trace my face? She'd better be lucky I trust her cos nobody, and I do mean nobody touches the face.

"Friend." she says pointing at my chest sniffing me again. I sit up and tilt my head to the side and study her. Maybe there's somethin to this Cave- Li thing B's goin' on about. But I mean....Fred and Wilma didn't act like this!

"Yeah." I say with a nod. She smiles happily but frowns when B gets closer.

"Bad!" she says before yanking my shoe off and throwing it at Buffy's head before we can stop her.

"Li!" the pint size yells. Li hangs her head and walks over to Dawn like a sad puppy. I stand up over Buffy and glance down at her. Yep, she's gonna be out a while. "You can't just throw shoes at people's heads! I-it could be dangerous!" she yells like she's scolding a two year old. Li just sits there, on her haunches and scratches under her arm and stares like she's inspecting herself. Then she looks back at Dawn before transforming again. Holy fuckin Spiderman!

"She's a Saber Tooth tiger!" I yell excitedly. She's still got her white coat though and you can still tell it's her but man....that is so cool. She walks over to Dawn's hand, and rubs her head under it gently. It's sorta awesome to watch cos even though she's so obviously not herself, she's still gentle as a bird with D. Movin' away from D, she comes and sniffs my leg, what is with this girl and sniffing me?! She seems satisfied I guess cos she just flops down by my feet. I look from Li to Dawn then back again. I just shrug.

"Hey Dawn, go get Giles?" I ask. She stares at her girlfriend before nodding and moving away. I look down at Li who looks up at me all innocent.

"Hey Faith why is bu- gah! Tiger! Really... really big tiger, with very long fangs..." Xander yells then gulps audibly "Wha- Wha- Why is that inside the club?!" he shrieks. Li growls but he doesn't notice.

"Its her birthday." I say with a shrug. I mean, I don't have a real serious problem with Xan- man, but I wont go outta my way to be nice to him. Li growls a little more and stands up to bare her teeth at him. Those are intimidating. She moves forward on one paw but I kneel down. I start rubbin her neck.

"Hey, Tig, calm down. Don't be mad at Xander, he didn't know it was you. And I gotta say, you're a little scary." she growls at me. "Hey now, I'm just sayin, right now, you don't look like the Li we know. But don't go tryina munch on him. I think he might taste like rubber and well, it'd piss Dawn off. You know how you get when you're woman's all mad and well, now isn't the time for some good ole lovin'." I keep whisperin to her.

"Are you talking to her?" he asks like a dummy.

"Nah, I'm tellin her where I keep the hot sauce for when she eats you." I retort sarcastically.

"I actually believe that." he mutters. Li growls again.

"C'mon kitty, we're goin for a walk." I say standin. Getting away from him is the best thing I can do right now. Li stands there growling for a minute but she turns to me slowly. "I just saved your ass Xander, the least you could do is act like I've changed." I throw over my shoulder. I'm a little distance away when I hear,

"I would if I believed it." I just close my eyes and sigh. Li turns, she's about to pounce but I get her attention.

"Hey!" I whistle and snap my fingers. She looks up at me, "Lets go get some food while your lady's yappin to Giles." I say. She growls in his direction once more before following me. This is gonna be a long night.

DPOV

Giles looks like he's confused but I'd be confused if I was talking faster than Willow on speed but you'd think after hanging around her for so long he'd know how to interpret things in a quicker fashion cos hello, I'm not getting any younger and he's not getting any younger and Li's not getting normal and this is all ju-

"Salali is a Cave-Woman you say?" he asks wiping his glasses.

"Is that all you got out of that entire explanation?!" I ask, five minutes and that's all he understands?!

"No, I also understand that Buffy is now unconscious and it looks as if Faith just saved Xander's life." he says gesturing towards Faith and Li. She's kneeling beside Li, stroking her neck, like a owner does their pet. I nod.

"Probably so. Anyway, what do we do?" I ask. He wipes his glasses.

"Well if she is devolved as you believe, which I must agree seeing as she is now a Saber Tooth Tiger instead of her regular state, we must consult the books. We have dealt with a Cave-Slayer before but never a Cave-Maji." he explains. I feel the hairs on my arm stand up. I look around and notice something very very wrong.

"What about a group of Cave-Maji?" I ask in a high pitched tone. He looks confused.

"What do yo-" he starts then looks around. "Oh bloody hell." couldn't have said it better myself.