From the Diary of Rupert Giles

July 27, 2006

It's coming. Whatever Twilight has planned its coming. The war between us and Twilight has been brewing now for years but all of Twilights plans and hard work are about to come to fruition and all we can do is wait. Buffy says not to worry because what happens won't even matter in the history books of the future, but I'm afraid that she is dead wrong… or lying. For once I'm actually pleased about the presence of Spike and Angel here at the castle their arguments have caused so much drama that no one has even noticed how tense it's been around here lately. A couple of years ago Buffy told me that this battle would be occurring in a few weeks from today, but she wouldn't tell me the outcome. She wouldn't say anything except when. Gave me some line about how we make our own futures, but I know that she was hiding something. I don't know what, but she was hiding something. She did tell me one thing though. In the future there is only one slayer, which means at some point something is going to happen that disrupts the slayer line again… or restores it… whatever your point of view. A couple of nights ago Buffy told me that she had a dream about a demon that was headed our way. She said it should be arriving soon and that it was going to cause a lot of damage. I hope she's wrong. We don't need to have to deal with anything else right now; we need to focus on the battle that is coming. The future depends on it. When she heard me swear after she told me about the demon she smiled at me and said "Everything happens for a reason." I laughed. She didn't know just how wrong, and yet how right she was. After learning that a majority of the evil we'd face in Sunnydale was because of some evil secret society in Los Angeles it was hard to believe that anything happened because of coincidence anymore. I think that's why she's been acting so weird lately. One day she's yelling at Angel and Spike for being untrustworthy and useless, and the next she's asking if there is a way for a human being to become immortal. I asked her if this had anything to do with what she saw in the future, but she wouldn't tell me. I asked her why she wanted to know but she just smiled and said "There are some things that I learned when I went to the future that rose some questions. I don't really want to talk about it because it could mess with the present. I just think… that if there was something… that could make a person immortal, other than a vampire, that it might come in handy you know?" I had a suspicion this had to do with why she was fighting with Spike and Angel so much, or why she seemed distant from Willow ever since she came back from the future, but I didn't say anything. I didn't wan to upset her for no reason. I am beginning to wonder if she's afraid of dying. For someone who's died so many times you'd think it wouldn't be such an issue, but I think that's why she asked. Angel must have over heard us talking because a few minutes after she left he came in to speak with me. He told me that whatever I found I shouldn't tell her. I told him to shove off, but a couple days later when she asked if I'd found anything I told her that I didn't. I lied. I'd found something, but it was too horrible to even imagine. I think I'd rather see her as a vampire. At least vampires can be killed. I don't know what Angel was so worried about but I think he knows more than he's letting on. He always seems to know more than he's letting on which is part of why I know better than to trust him.