Chapter 3 - Arrivals
Earth, Sunnydale, Summers house, Buffy's room,
Buffy sighed and leaned her head back against her pillow 'Another great birthday' she thought to herself. Charlie cutting himself when he finds out he's a Key and I'm having crazy dreams of the man…vampire, whatever I just want to move past him. But could she really.
She just confessed the answer of that question to Charlie. Angel was the one for her. She knew that, she could feel that. Every guy would just be second best, if they would survive being the slayers boyfriend.
Buffy closed her eyes forcing thoughts of Angel into a far away corner of her mind. 'We can't be together. He didn't want to be with me.' She finalized her thoughts on the subject and welcomed the darkness that claimed her as she drifted off to sleep.
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Earth, Colorado, Cheyenne mountain, SGC, Briefing room,
"Wait Dr. Rupert Giles?" Dr. Daniel Jackson asked his team's leader Colonel Jack O'Neill.
"Yes, you know him Daniel?" Jack asked.
"Well not personally but Dr. Giles was the only one who didn't think my theory was crazy. At the time he was I think a curator at the British museum." Daniel explained.
"Well I suppose he wouldn't think you were crazy since he knew about the Goa'uld." Dr. and Captain Samantha Carter told them. "I wonder how Dr. Giles went from a curator at the British museum to working as a high school librarian to being unemployed to owning a shop called the Magic box." She comments as she studied the file they had on Dr. Rupert Giles.
"I say we ask him when we meet him and Miss Jenkins." Jack told them.
"Indeed." Teal'C agreed.
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Earth, Sunnydale, Giles's apartment,
"Are you certain they have the Chappa'ai?" Quentin Travers, head of the Watchers Council, voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Yes they clearly said they had it in a facility where Willow had sent Glory. Why wasn't the Council aware that it had been dug up? Didn't we have it under surveillance?" Giles asked.
"I do not know, we will investigate this. Meanwhile we will inform the Queen and the British minister and hope these bloody Americans will see reason and bury that gate again." Quentin told Giles.
"They do seem to like to meddle with things." Giles agreed. "They even offered us their military aid should we need help with the Goa'uld. They should know better than to mess with the supernatural. You think they learned after the whole Initiative mess they made."
"Indeed? They offered their aid. I presumed by your tone of voice you turned them down Rupert. You should be careful though. They might still come since they now know you know about the Goa'uld. You should be ready with your witches or they could see it in their national security right to apprehend you into their custody. The slayer needs her watcher right now and you being locked up by the United States government could cost us the world. I could sent one of our Special teams to aid you into them thinking twice before arresting you." Quentin suggested.
"No thank you Quentin, I will however take your advice and ask Willow and Tara to put up some spells should we need them. I doubt the American government would try to make Buffy her enemy again. Not after what happened last time. Nevertheless it never hurt to be prepared." Giles told him.
"Very well Rupert. I shall leave you to your preparations while I assemble the rest of the Council and work on getting the Chappa'ai." Quentin replied.
"Goodbye, Quentin" Giles said through the phone.
"Goodbye Rupert." Quentin replied before the connection was broken.
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Earth, Airplane on its way to California,
"This is strange." Carter replied from behind her laptop. She'd been working on gathering more information about Dr. Giles and Miss Anya Jenkins.
"What is it Carter?" Jack asked.
"Well sir, it seems that Miss Jenkins might have be an alias for a previous name. I've been looking into more information on her but it seems her parents don't exist."
"Maybe she's in the Witness Protection program? It is a little strange that a girl who is what 20 years old? And has no special degrees in anything or connection to anyone that has information regarding the Goa'uld." Daniel suggested.
"Is it not possible that Dr. Giles works with this woman and has therefore told her about the Goa'uld." Teal'C told them.
"Well it does say that Dr. Giles owns a shop called the Magic box and that Anya Jenkins works there for him." Sam told them.
"What would you sell in a shop called Magic box?" Jack asked.
"There is a website." Sam told him and pulled it up.
"Magic items & ingredients for magic spells?" Jack asked not quite sure what to think of that. "I thought this man was Scientist with a PHD?" he asked.
"He is." Sam answered as she continued to study the site.
"Then what the hell is he doing selling these things?" Jack asked.
"I don't know, sir." Sam replied.
"Keep looking Captain. I want to know what these people are up to." Jack ordered.
"Yes sir." Sam replied.
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Earth, meanwhile in Sunnydale,
Tara and Willow set up a few spells around the Magic box, at Giles's apartment and at Xander and Anya's apartment.
And now in the morning paper it states the arrival of a vampire…well not in those words more like many deaths in train when it arrived at Sunnydale's train station, no trace of killer. All victims had severe neck wounds.
"So the train came from LA?" Charlie asked the Scooby gang.
"It stopped there yes." Giles answered.
"Maybe we should call Angel and see if he knows who might have been on that train." Charlie suggested.
"It was a vampire or more then on vampire." Xander states then adds "I think we can handle those without calling Angel."
"It would be helpful to know who or whom we might be dealing with Buffy. It is possible Angel might know." Giles told her ignoring Xander and his own personal feeling towards the vampire.
"Xander is right Giles. It's just a vampire or a group of vampires. Nothing I haven't handled before. I don't need Angel for this." Buffy told them and sent a glare towards her brother.
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Earth, Sunnydale, Motel,
After having driven by car from a long flight towards Sunnydale most of Sg-1 was beat hence for a stop at the Sunnydale Motel before they would go to see Dr. Giles and Anya Jenkins.
Sam picked up a paper and looked at the cover "Looks like there was a massacre at the train arriving in town last night." She comments and shows the article to Jack.
"Could it have been our Goa'uld?" Daniel asked them.
"I doubt it the article says all the bodies had severe neck wounds." Jack replies.
"Maybe this team that is supposed to be in Sunnydale handles cases like this." Carter suggests.
"It's possible." Jack replies.
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Earth, Sunnydale, Joyce's gallery,
"Hi, I'm looking for a Joyce Summers." A beautiful blond woman asked as she stepped up to Joyce.
"That's me…can I help you miss…" Joyce starts to say.
The blond woman smiles "Sure you can, you're going to help me find my Key."
Joyce's eyes widened briefly before she remembered to act cool and pretend she doesn't know what the woman she now knew for sure to be Glory, the Hell Goddess her daughter has been fighting and who is after her son. "A key?" Joyce asked "I'm sorry this is a gallery we don't sell keys. If you lost your key here maybe you should check with lost and founds."
Glory looked annoyed at the woman before she opened her purse and pulled out the Goa'uld. "I'm sure once you have this pretty little thing inside you you'll sing differently." She said before letting the Goa'uld jump into Joyce's open mouth.
Joyce was about to scream for help when that things her daughter had told her about suddenly jumped towards her. She managed to grab the snakelike creature and prevent it from fully entering her mouth. She now began to try and pull out the thing with all her strength.
Glory saw the struggle and sighed annoyed "Hurry up already. I want my Key."
Joyce had managed to throw the Goa'uld away from her and quickly began to ran only to jerk to a stop as someone painfully grabbed her hand and prevented her to leave.
"Now, be nice and let snaky here in." Glory said as she pulled Joyce towards her and opened her mouth forcefully. The Goa'uld slithered closer and pulled itself up to the tip of its tail and jumped into the open mouth.
Glory released Joyce and watched impatiently for the snake to take control of the slayers mother. Finally convulsions seemed to stop and Joyce's eyes glowed bright for a second before saying "This hosts memories are something…I know who you are now Glorificus."
Glory smiled "Good. Now where is the Key!?"
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Earth, Sunnydale,
Spike had had an lead on the vamps who were responsible for the deaths in the train so he and Buffy went to stake out a warehouse were the vamps were supposed to be holed up. Finally the vamps seemed to have shown up and Buffy and Spike went into action.
Two vamps are sitting on a sofa. One is making popcorn over a small lantern. The other is looking through a pile of CDs. Buffy and Spike enter. The vamps get up.
"The Slayer!" One of the vamps said and the both turn and run away. The popcorn continues popping.
"Well, that was sad." Spike comments. Buffy moves forward, looking around "I'm embarrassed for our kind." Spike adds.
Buffy looks at the vamps furniture arranged in a cozy grouping. Spike comes forward, goes a few steps in the direction the vampires went.
"So. Should we chase after 'em, then? They couldn't have gone far." Spike tells her.
Buffy is still staring at the furniture and stuff. "These vamps have been here for a while. They've nested."
"So ... you're saying they're a couple of poofters?" Spike asked.
"No. I'm saying they had nothing to do with last night's murders." Buffy tells him.
"How do you figure?" Spike asks.
"Whoever did it only arrived in town last night. Looks like you've wasted my time." Buffy says and she turns to leave.
Spike hurries after her, arrives in time to open the door for her. Buffy stops with her hand up to prepare to grab the doorknob and turns to Spike with a frown. "What are you doing?" she asks.
Spike looks at the door "I, I was…" Spike stops and scoffs "I wasn't thinking."
"What is this?" Buffy asks.
"Oh, come-" Spike starts and shoves the door closed "don't get your knickers twisted, I was-"
"What…is this?" Buffy asks again and Spike stares at her "The late-night stakeout, the bogus suspects, the flask?" she continues while Spike raises his eyebrows "Is this a date?" she asked.
Spike loudly starts to say "A d- Please!" he pretends to be amused "A date? You are completely off your bird! I mean-" he then quietly asks "Do you want it to be?"
Buffy makes a little groan, with an expression of disgust. She moves past Spike back into the warehouse. Upset she says "Oh my god." Spike bites his lip, turns to watch her. "Oh…oh no." She turns back to Spike "Are you out of your mind?"
" It's not so unusual." Spike tells her and walks toward her "Two people…in the workplace…feelings develop."
"No! No, no, feelings do not develop. No feelings." Buffy tells him.
"You can't deny it. There's something between us." Spike tells her.
"Loathing. Disgust." Buffy informs him.
"Heat. Desire." Spike adds.
"Oh Please! Spike, you're a vampire. You don't have a soul, you think that chip in your head changed you or something? That's not change. Tha-that's just…holding you back. You're like a serial killer in prison!" Buffy tells him.
"Women marry 'em all the time!" Spike tells her.
"Uhh!" Buffy exclaims.
Spike realizing that is not what he meant "But I'm not…like that. Something's happening to me. I can't stop thinking about you."
"Uhh." Buffy exclaims again and turns away.
"And if that means turning my back on the whole evil thing-" Spike starts to say but Buffy interrupts.
Buffy turns back "You don't know what you mean! You don't know what feelings are!" she tells him.
Spike offended replies "I damn well do! I lie awake every night!"
"You sleep during the day!" Buffy retorts.
"Yeah, but-" Spike starts then stops and through his teeth says "You are missing the point. This is real here. I love-" Buffy interrupts.
"Don't!" Buffy says and puts up a hand to stop him. He sighs. "Don't say it." She sighs before she continued "I don't know why you think you feel that way. Maybe it's some weird way for you to try and hurt Angel. You've seen this mark here right?" Buffy ask him. "You should recognize the teeth who made this scar. They are you grandsire's. I may not know all there is to know about vampires and their weird ways but I do know that this mark means I'm his mate. I still love him Spike. Even if you were good and had a soul this would always stand in the way. Even Angelus would have a better chance with me then you have."
Spike stares at her "I'm going." Buffy states and starts to walk toward the door again.
"Oh Come on. You can't be serious!? You would sooner let that psycho poof touch you then you would me. I can make you forget about him claim you as my own mate. I know you only accepted your status as his mate to save his life." Spike tells her.
"I may have done it to save his life but Angel would never have bitten me if I'd ask him to claim me as his. He'd even say no if I'd have asked him. Even dying I had to force him on me. I was scared of him drinking me but truth was it was one of the most erotic experiences on my life. Dracula couldn't duplicate that. I'm Angel's mate by choice otherwise this scar would have faded a long time ago like Dracula's scar did. You could never be him Spike, nor do I want you to be. So whatever is up with you just get over it." Buffy tells him and turns to leave."
"Buffy." Spike calls but she ignores him and opens the door and exits. Spike watches her go.
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Earth, Sunnydale, Spike's crypt,
Spike entering his crypt, moving slowly. It's dark. He walks in, makes a face and puts his hand to his face. Suddenly there's a sniffling noise. Spike looks up, looks around suspiciously.
"Who's there?" Spike asks.
A voice comes from the shadows behind him. He turns. "A happy memory, pretty Spike." Drusilla says as she walks out from the shadows, holding a red rose. "Look who's come to make everything right again."
Spike stares at her, astonished. She puts the rosebud against her cheek and draws it down across her face.
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