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(Don't worry, mmooch, Giles is still there somewhere, and this chapter goes into it)


Chapter Four
Library

Buffy sat on her bed with her knees on her chest, staring at her locked door. She just got back from patrol and took a quick shower, retreating to her room immediately. She hadn't seen anything so far of Ripper. Knock on Wood. Buffy was afraid to sleep. So much had happened in the last two days she was afraid of what he'd do. She closed her eyes for a second, then opened and stopped herself from shrieking. One minute the room was empty except for herself, the next, Ripper was standing before her bed. She swallowed as she jumped back, trying to prevent the inevitable. He gave her a deadly smile as he moved to take off his shirt. He motioned to her nightgown.

"Take it off." He rumbled. She shook her head as he pulled off his boxers. He gave her a withering glance.

"Do you want me to take it off? Let's make a deal. You don't fight, I'll not hurt you." Buffy's lip trembled as she looked up at him with tears in her eyes, and then she slipped her nightgown over her head slowly, leaving herself only in her panties. He licked his lips as his eyes traveled over her young body. She bit her bottom lip as he put a knee on the bed and he reached out with his hand to grab her ankle. She couldn't pull her ankle free from his grasp and he used her ankle to pull her under his body.

His lips went to her breast as his hand went down to play with her. She bit her lip as his gentle ministrations slowly coaxed her to become wet for the first time. He smiled against her breast and plunged a finger in her after spreading her juices. It was still uncomfortable, but not painful as it was when she fought. She whimpered as he placed his penis at her core, gently pushing into her folds. She tensed for the pain, but found no pain, just uncomfortable stretching. She put her head to the side as his hands went to her hips and he thrusted into her quickly. Soon, he seized above her and a jet of semen poured into her and he fell onto her a sweating, panting mess.

Buffy winced and tried to sidle out from below him. He turned so that he lay next to her, grabbing her so she lay uncomfortably in his arms. He kissed her head as he fell asleep. She silently cried as she looked out of the window at the stars outside. She thought of the Giles she knew compared to the Ripper next to her. She knew without a doubt that Giles wouldn't've done the same as Ripper did.

She knew her caring and shy Watcher wouldn't've hurt her or violated her, like, ever. She blinked her tears away as she tried to imagine what Giles would say in her current situation. She turned over and looked into Ripper's face. Ripper said that he took over when Giles was suicidal, so Giles was still in there somewhere. She just had to call for him. She could tell the major difference between Giles and Ripper's impersonation. Giles' eyes. Giles didn't have the red tint to his eyes that Ripper always had. She just had to reach him.

"Giles. Dear Lord, Giles… I can't do this without you. I need you to take control. Oh Giles, he's raped me. He, Giles he raped me. I need your help. I need…I need you." She whispered quietly, sobbing more as she finished. She imagined that it wasn't Ripper holding her, but Giles as she slowly leaned her head against his chest, crying silently.

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Giles heard something from his cocoon, hidden in the dark recesses of Ripper's stolen mind. He rammed his strength against the force keeping him captive and grew stronger as he heard Buffy murmuring. He finally took over enough to hear what Buffy said, though he had no control over Ripper's body yet. 'He, Giles he raped me. I need your help. I need…I need you.' He felt cold dread wash over him as she leaned her head against his chest. Ripper raped her. Ripper used Giles' body to rape Buffy.

Giles felt sick as he smelled Buffy's blood even with his lack-of-control. He opened his eyes and looked down at her thin white neck, pulsing with the life he lacked. Giles closed his eyes as he felt bile rise to the back of his throat as he realized he actually considered drinking her blood. Then his eyes widened as he realized he had full control. He slowly de-tangled himself from his Slayer as he realized that she was awake still, crying.

He stood and grabbed his clothes as he left the room. He couldn't be near her while he was vulnerable like this, even if he really wanted to comfort her. He'd clean up and find an animal to slake his hunger. Then he'd disappear until he could take full control over Ripper again without worry about danger to Buffy. Also, he had to steal the memories that Ripper earned during Giles' submission.

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Buffy looked at the door for minutes after Ripper left. She lay back down on her bed before getting up tiredly. She threw on a spare nightgown and robe before stripping her bed of the sheets. She balled the sheets together and went to the door warily, looking out before exiting. She went down to the laundry room and threw her sheets into the washer, starting the load quickly. She went to the kitchen and started a pot of water on the stove before sitting at the kitchen table. She heard a noise and looked up scared, then realized that it was her mother joining her on her midnight sojourn. She smiled up at her mussed mother.

"Would you like a cup of tea?" Joyce looked at her daughter with a small smile as she sat next to her.

"Yes, Buffy. I would. Is your English Watcher starting to rub off onto you?" She chuckled as Buffy tried to hide her wince at her mother's unmeaning double entendre. She nodded.

"A little more than others know." She gave her mother a wan smile then stood when she heard the kettle whistle. She stood and went to fix the tea tray to have tea with her mother.

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Jenny Calendar went up to Rupert's door and knocked. She was worried about him, his lack of showing at the school the last few days. She looked at her watch and sighed. She saw a light turn on in the living room and smiled until the door opened and a balding man stood at the door mildly irritated.

"Yes?" Jenny looked at him confused.

"Umm, isn't this Rupert Giles' residence?" The man seemed to understand as she stood outside his door.

"No. He sold me this house today, he said he was staying with someone he knew until he found new residence." Jenny closed her eyes a second and he felt bad for her. She opened her eyes and faced him with a pointed stare.

"Did he seem well today, healthy like? Not sick, or with some sort of symptoms or anything?" He shrugged.

"He seemed a little pale, his skin was a bit white, I mean white not like he was a few weeks ago when I met him, but he seemed healthy enough." Jenny sighed and thanked him as she turned to leave. She didn't know what to make of this. She had to find him now.

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Angel sat at his desk as he looked over at Giles across the room. He knew a Vampire when he saw one. He sighed as he mulled over Giles' new situation. He was the only vampire that Angel could trust though, from what he'd seen. Anyway, he could tell that Giles hadn't changed any from their conversations so far. He smiled at his fellow vampire. Giles smiled back.

"So I'm going to move to LA, and I'll leave the Bronze to you." Giles nodded as he smiled at Angel. Buffy and Angel ended up breaking up the night of her seventeenth birthday before anything had happened, and Angel realized that their relationship was going nowhere.

"I will keep the Bronze in good condition, and I hope to set Buffy up there to, if her mom will allow it. It'll help to train her and it'll strengthen our Watcher/Slayer bond." Angel nodded, agreeing with his reasoning. He handed Giles the set of keys and Giles followed him out to the main door. Angel had already given the full tour of the Bronze to his successor and had a covered car ready for L.A. and his new business awaited him. Cordelia Chase had already promised him to visit after graduation to possibly get a job helping him as a secretary and he found her a lot more precise and accurate that he first thought she would be.

"So, take care of Buffy for me, promise?" Angel looked at the Watcher. Giles smiled at Angel, and he wasn't sure if it was a good smile or a bad smile.

"Don't worry, Angel, I'll take good care of her. After all, I'm her Watcher. It's my job." Angel nodded and jumped into the car. Giles chuckled as he watched the limo drive away, Whistler in the driver seat unbeknownst to Angel. Ripper grinned as he pocketed the keys and shut the door shut behind him. Giles almost took him out of town, then Ripper took over just in time to stop him from hopping onto a greyhound to Arizona.

Ripper stood in the 2nd floor of the Bronze that none of the partygoers knew about. There was an apartment attached to the top of the Bronze, above where the teens partied, but a soundproof floor was set between the apartment and club. He looked in and saw that there was a large bedroom with a balcony that could be closed to the sounds of the world, but opened to the most beautiful sunsets. There was a room large enough to hold all of his fighting equipment, so the room could be a training room for the Slayer if he decided to convert it, and it had a bathroom off of the bedroom and a little kitchenette off of the main hall.

Ripper smiled as he started to plan. Giles pushed weakly at Ripper but he had to regain his strength to take over again. Ripper went out to find a snack in the Bronze and did not leave disappointed.

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Buffy sat with Willow and Xander at lunch in the cafeteria as they talked about Ms. Calendar's sudden disappearance the night before. Buffy hadn't heard the news yet and was heavily alarmed as the Slayerette's filled her in.

"Yeah, it was in the news and everything." Xander talked animatedly.

"The last person to see her was the old man that moved into Giles' old place. By the way, has anyone any news on what's up with Giles? I haven't heard anything since he quit." Buffy tried to think about what could've happened, but Willow beat her to the punch.

"The last person who saw her lived at Giles' old apartment? She could've been looking for Giles then. After all, I think that she really liked Giles. I thought he liked her too. I guess not if even she doesn't know. Buffy, what do you know about what's happened with Giles?" Willow and Xander looked at Buffy and she cringed, trying to stay near the truth, but not too much.

"I knew that he moved out, and he stayed with me and my mom, but he moved out this morning. Not sure where he's staying, he wouldn't spill. Not sure what's up with him, he's been so distant lately." She answered truthfully. She tried to stay quiet for now, not that she didn't trust her best friends, but she was afraid of how they'd take the betrayal of their mentor. Ever since his turning, she found that she enjoyed the presence of her friends less and less, unable to share with them her terrible secret and more stress pushed upon her person. She knew that she had to soon, probably this night she'd invite them to her house and she'd throw the news at them. She sighed and picked her books up, needing some fresh air. When Willow and Xander offered to join her, she gently refused and stepped outside. She held her books to her as she walked through the halls to the library. As she stepped inside the empty room that had been reopened that morning. She looked at the room generally then heard the librarian's office door open. Mrs. Howle, the new librarian, stepped out and cast a curious eye to Buffy.

"Is there something I can help you with, deary?" Buffy gave her a fake smile and shook her head.

"No thanks, Mrs. Howle, I just need to get a book in the English section. You don't need to waste your time with me, I know where it is." The older lady smiled back and stepped behind the circulation desk to check in some returned books. Buffy walked to the back to the library, stepping through the double doors to the stacks behind. She walked until she didn't even hear the librarian's mutterings any more. She sighed, closing her eyes as she slid down a bookcase until her knees touched her chest. She wrapped her arms around her knees and hugged herself, watching the back of her eyelids. All of a sudden she felt a hand on her shoulder and she gasped, her eyes flying open.

"God! Guys, you shouldn't sneak up on me like that!" She exclaimed, then looked around to find no one around. She gulped, then wondered why she had to go so far away from another person's hearing. She picked her books up from beside her and stood between the bookshelves, ready to run. She turned around slowly and her books were taken from her only to be dropped to the side as she found herself face-to-face with Ripper.


(A/N Okay, so I have never planned to drop this story and I plan to go all of the way with it!!!! Especially after my awesome reviewers asked me to!)