Chloe, Xander, and Buffy walk into the library and see Giles staring at something and looking like smoke can come out of his ears at any second.

"This is madness."

Clark just stares at Giles with a 5 foot stake in his hand. "What? Too sharp?"

Giles just mad a clucking sound with his tongue. "Clark, do you ignore everything I say. As a rule?"

"No I believe that's your trick." Clark responded. "I told you I was making a new weapon."

Giles was cleaning his glasses. "Yes though I don't understand why you needed to turn one of my quarterstaffs into a stake unless Goliath is a vampire and I missed it."

Clark just looked at him. "Nothing that serious Giles just patrol has been very easy since the harvest."

"Clarify easy please." Giles questioned.

Clark rolled his eyes. "I made this because I don't want to bend over to stake the ones on the ground."

Giles just looked at his slayer like he had a cow on his head. "You expect vampires to just lay down and let you stake them."

"No" Clark answered. "But I will take advantage of it. Ever since the Harvest every deadhead I've seen has either been unconscious or begging to be staked on the floor it's like they've developed a weakness to gravity. And without battle adrenaline my knees are bothering me with all the bending. Guess slayers really do like a fight."

Giles looked at him. "Well we can better spend your energy with more training or mystical..." Giles sees Clark's head moving left or right trying to look past him. "Clark, are you even listening?"

"Nope, I'm trying to see Buffy in a cheerleader outfit. Move please." Clark pleaded.

Buffy just waved her head in disbelief how Clark can be a strong warrior and revert to a teenage boy in 2 seconds. Giles moved out of the way and he got a full view of her in a red and yellow cheerleading uniform. "What do you think?"

"They're not really your colors but you look good." Clark answered bluntly.

Buffy looked at him. "They're the school colors."

Clark just shrugged and said weakly. "Just think you might look better in blue is all."

Buffy looked at him. "Nice save genius now come on. You can be my supportive friend and watch all the other cheerleaders."

Clark just followed his friends out as Buffy pushed him out the door. "Well there's an idea."

Giles cleared his throat. "Anything on patrol?"

Clark had the eureka moment and reached into his pocket. "I found this. A vampire gave it to me in exchange for staking him."

Clark went to throw it to Giles but it was quickly caught by Buffy. "Nice get"

Buffy opened her hand and looked over it. It was a shiny metal octagon with symbols on it the same symbols as those caves in the master's lair. Could this be the missing piece of her ship? She hands it off to Giles and plans to maybe steal it after a talk with the folks. "Let's go show some school spirit."

Clark came in and saw the girls, stretchy girls.

Chloe sees her new friend in awe and whispers into Buffy's ear. "It's almost like he's a real boy."

"I heard that." Clark said taking his seat.

Xander just started in. "People scoff at things like school spirit…but when you see these
young women giving their all like this..." He sees Amber doing an extra low split on two chairs. "Ooh stretchy. Where was I?"

"You were pretending that seeing scantily-clad girls in revealing postures was a spiritual experience." Chloe replied.

"What do you mean pretending?" Xander asked.

Cordelia walks over in a cheerleading costume. "Can you believe Amber who does she think she is a Laker girl."

Chloe turned around and saw Xander. "Well considering the amount of drool, Xander thinks she's the future Mrs. Harris."

Xander turned to Chloe. "Do you think she'll say yes?"

Chloe just ignores him as she sees an old friend. "Amy"

Chloe is up and over to her old friend who is with a black haired girl. "Hi Amy."

"Hi Chloe, Hi Buffy, Xander, guy I don't know." Amy replied and saw Chloe's mind already going into second gear. "Heel girl this is my cousin Kennedy."

Chloe just nodded. "This is Clark Summers."

They all shake hands and sit down as they watch Amber perform.

Clark just watches her. "She's good."

"She has a coach." Kennedy pointed out as she moved closer to him.

Clark sat next to her and smiled. "They have those."

"Yeah" Kennedy answered. "Amy works out with her mom three hours in the morning and three at night."

Clark turned to Amy. "You are a saint I'd be looking into accidental matricide by now."

Buffy was just watching Amber when smoke started coming out of her hands. "What the?"

Chloe turned and saw it. "Holy crap that girl is on fire."

Cordelia rolled her eyes not paying attention. "Enough with the hyperbole."

Buffy watched as Amber's arms burst into flames. She screams as does the other girls.

Kennedy watches Clark rip off a Crows flag as Buffy runs out and tries to put out Amber out but burns her hands the moment she touches her. Clark tackles Amber with the flag and puts the fire out and holds her tightly in it putting out the flames.

Buffy just hid her hands as she heard Clark repeatedly whispered to Amber you're going to be fine.

Jonathon and Martha were having lunch when Buffy ran through the door and into the sink.

Martha looked at her hands. "Buffy what happened?"

"I don't know." Buffy answered as her hands finally started to heal. She wonders what took so long. "A girl caught on fire and I tried to put her out. I ended up burning myself. Thankfully Clark was smart enough to grab a blanket and put her out."

"Did Clark see you use your abilities?" Jonathon asked.

Buffy rolled her eyes. "He didn't see anything. But I'm more concerned about what he found last night."

Martha saw the look of fear in her daughter's eyes. "What is it?"

"I think Clark found a piece of my ship last night." Buffy answered.

Jonathon looked at her. "Are you sure?"

Buffy nodded. "I had it in my hands it's the octagonal missing piece."

Jonathon knows what to do he'll call Rupert. "You let me worry about that Buffy OK in the meantime I think you should get back to school."

Buffy just nodded and went to the door and stuck her head back in. "You'll be happy to know I got cut from the team for skipping tryouts." She disappeared in a blur.

Buffy makes it back to school and in a blur she goes to PE. The boys had their fun now it's the girls turn as the boys have swim meets. Buffy joins Chloe, Amy, and Kennedy on the steps. And watches as the boys came out. All 3 stood mouth wide open when Clark came out in a red bathing suit. Kennedy just smiled. Chloe's face heated up. Amy fanned herself and Buffy had to focus on control to avoid boiling the pool with heat vision.

Cordelia stared open mouthed with the Cordettes why the hell did he have to wear glasses the first day and throw her off.

Clark looked at the others. "What? Is there something in my teeth?"

Chloe just looked at him. She figured he would be naturally buff being a slayer but this is like Popeye eating a spinach truck. "Where's your chest hair?"

Clark just shrugged. "I don't know never questioned it."

"Hey handsome I think you have a race to get to." Kennedy quipped.

Clark made it to the pool and he and his opponent both dove in for a 5 lap race. Clark wasn't as much racing the opponent as he was himself. Clark had to keep in control so people don't ask questions damn Slayer strength. They were rounding lap 4 when the other guy sank like a rock. Clark dove under after him and everyone rushed the pool. Soon a gray old dead man surfaced followed by Clark hoisting him up.

Buffy looked him over. "He's dead." How does someone go from 16 to 90?

Clark swam to the corner and found a hand outstretched as Kennedy pulled him up.

Clark climbed up easy enough and put all the pressure on him. "Thanks for the help."

Kennedy just nodded. "Don't mention it."

Clark got up and looked at him he was a teenager just a minute ago. He needs to see Giles whatever this is its not good.

Clark was in the library airing his thoughts to everyone. "I've been slaying Vampires for more than a year now. I've seen some pretty messed up stuff...I caused some messed up stuff but nobody's hands ever got toasted. At least not until the rest of the body did first. Also the hyper age thing."

"I imagine not." Giles agreed

"So this is not a vampire problem." Clark realized.

"No." Giles answered.

Buffy chipped in. "But it is funky, right? Not of the norm?"

Giles just nods. "Quite. Spontaneous human combustion is rare, and scientifically unexplainable. But there've been cases reported for hundreds of years. Usually all that's left is a pile of ashes.

Chloe spoke up from her laptop. "That's all that would have been left of Amber if it hadn't been for Clark."

Xander looked it over. "So we have no idea what caused this? That's a comfort."

"Well, that is the thrill of living on a hellmouth" Giles explained. "One has a veritable cornucopia of fiends, devils and ghouls to engage."

Giles sees the awkward looks they are giving him. "Pardon me for finding the glass half full."

"Any common denominator in cases of spontaneous combustion?" Buffy asked.

"It's a witch." Clark said without doubt.

Chloe looked at him. "Oh come on I just got done all this work and even found an article on spontaneous combustion."

Clark just shrugged innocently he didn't mean to ruin Chloe's work. "It's just the age thing and the fire thing is two completely different…things it has to be magic."

Chloe sighed. "I'd say check out who has books on witchcraft but that would be a waste of time since Xander has them all."

Everyone turned to the now shy teen waiting for an explanation. "OK it's not how it sounds besides I'd never attack any cheerleader."

Buffy just looked at him. "You checked out the books to look at half naked women?"

Xander just had a smile. "OK it is as it sounds."

Clark just wondered why the two spells would be so different. "Don't understand what a witch gets from sucking someone dry though."

Giles just shrugged. "Usually it has to do with eternal life."

Clark just nodded. "OK so a cheerleader is a witch maybe. Amber was the best girl out there…besides Buffy naturally."

Buffy just looked at him and smiled when he stuttered. "You're on a roll today genius."

Giles just took his glasses off. "Let's be certain which one is the witch before we arouse her suspicions. She's capable of some fairly ugly things if Clark is right."

"And how are we testing that we can't exactly hook cheerleaders up to a polygraph." Clark quipped.

Giles got one of his books and looked. "We'll need a conclusive test anyway. There should be one…yes! The ducking stool. We throw her in the pond. If she floats, she's a witch; if she drowns, she's innocent." They all give the librarian a look. "Some of my texts are a bit outdated."

Giles looks in another book. "Ah! Yes. This should work. You'll need some of her hair, a little quicksilver and aqua fortis."

Chloe smiled she knows this. "That's just mercury and nitric acid; we can get it in the science lab."

Giles reads on. "Heat ingredients and apply to witch, if a spell has been cast in previous forty-eight hours the witch's skin will turn blue."

Buffy sighed as she realized the problem. "And how are we going to get it on the cheerleaders."

Clark put his hand on her shoulder. "I'll take it from there."

Cordelia just rolled her eyes seeing something on the skin of her leg. Sure she laughed when it happened to the last three girls but who had the guts to do it to her. "OK it's officially not funny anymore."

Chloe and Buffy were sitting on the bleachers watching Clark tag each cheerleader hidden in the crowd of people with a dollar store squirt gun he usually kept holy water in.

Chloe just smiled. "Have to admit I respect his resourcefulness."

Buffy just smirked. "Yeah his…resourcefulness."

Chloe just looked at Buffy. "Are you trying to make a point?"

Buffy just nodded. "You have a thing for him. I'm happy you waited 8 years for Xander to see the hottie within please move on."

Chloe just looked at her. "I-I don't have a thing for Clark he's too jock like. You're the one that turned red earlier. Let's just drop this."

Buffy looked at the floor Clark could turn her blood on fire maybe even literally but she is not telling him that. "Agreed"

Clark is set to squirt the next girl when someone touched him from behind causing him to jump. He quickly turns around and sees Kennedy standing there. "Scared me half to death"

"Sorry" Kennedy joked as she watched Clark hit the next girl with a squirt to her leg. "What are you doing exactly?"

Clark just shrugged. "It's a hobby."

Kennedy just smirked. "Fair enough. So I was thinking do you want to hang out tonight."

Clark just turned to her. "Hang out?"

Kennedy just smiled. "Yes hang out me and you dinner and a movie."

Clark was taken back he forgot normal people date. But does he really want to date her. She seems nice and she's pretty Clark guesses he could do that as he squirts the next cheerleader down her leg. "I could do that."

Kennedy just looked at the scene in a smile. "Next time you say yes to having dinner with me could you not hit my cousin with a water pistol full of blue dye."

Clark saw Amy's blue leg and nodded. "No problem."

Buffy went outside for a breather and ran into Lex talking to the vice principal of the school Snyder. "Lex what are you doing here?"

Lex just smiled seeing Buffy here and leaves Snyder. "Hey Buffy, I heard about the male student that died of progeria."

"What's so important about it?" Buffy asked.

Lex looked around the hall and saw the coast was clear. "He's not the only person who had it. A week ago one of the men from my plant died in the same manner."

Buffy was deep in thought. This might be interesting she should tell Giles. "Nice seeing you Lex I have to go."

Lex saw Clark walk out of the auditorium in a smiled. "You should congratulate your friend on winning the lottery."

Buffy turned around and saw Clark almost walking on air. "What has you in such a good mood?"

"I have a date tonight." Clark answered.

Buffy just sighed which didn't go past Lex. "With who?"

"Kennedy" Clark answered as he walked away.

Lex looked to Buffy and smiled. "You like him don't you."

"I am not having this conversation with you." Buffy flat out stated.

Lex just smiled. "Buffy take it from someone who knows if you don't take a risk you'll never get there."

Lex goes to leave but Buffy talks. "Did you ever take the risk?"

Lex turned his head as he walked away. "Haven't found the right girl yet."

Buffy moved in a blur around the library and grabbed the octagonal disk and quickly fled. Her father wouldn't approve but Buffy needs to know this little key could have everything she has been looking for since she found out she was an alien last year. She sees Clark and Giles having an argument she grabs the key and runs right back out.

Buffy heads for the graveyard and goes to the empty crypt she followed Clark to and easily dropped down to the cave. Buffy seals off the tunnels with a big rock blocking vampires from getting in here. She feels around the cave and feels the octagonal hole. She knew one was here she never forgets anything. Buffy takes out the key and it glows red, yellow, and blue as it flies into the indentation. The key opens and Buffy is hit with a pulse of light and collapses to the floor.

"Blond girl, blondie, rise and shine"

Buffy struggles to get her eyes open. That was a brain rush. Buffy focuses her eyes and sees the redhead that follows Clark around. "What happened?"

"I was hoping you could tell me." Tess answered. "I found you down here unconscious."

"It's a nice place to sleep." Buffy answered.

Tess rolled her eyes. "No, it's a nice way to say hey vampires free Filet Mignon."

Tess looked over the cave. "I've been in here a lot. Can't figure out what one symbol of it means."

Buffy looks at the wall and realizes she is now fluent in the language and read it over deciding not to tell Tess. 'This is the story of Amara of the planet Krypton. Our last daughter, our last hope. On the third planet from a yellow sun she will be a goddess among mortals. She will be more powerful than any man on the planet and shoot fire from her eyes. One day she will hold the world in her hands.'

Buffy saw the key embedded in the key in the wall. Buffy just reached into the wall and pulled it out. The two girls turn their heads watching the rock start to shake.

Tess just turned to Buffy. "Think it might be time to go."

Buffy just nodded and ran up the ladder.

Author's Notes

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