The remaining scoobies were all pouring over volume after dusty volume at Giles house. They were not making much progress, aside from getting tired, irritated and worried while waiting for the slayer to return. Giles rose from his seat for the millionth time in so many minutes and went to check the window.

"She's not there, Rupert." Anya whined. "She hasn't been there for the past three hours." Pushing aside the book she was reading, she sneezed at the dust it produced. "This can't be healthy for my skin or my lungs. Which I am still getting used to, thank you very much." She glared at Giles. "You are ruining my body with this busy work. Can't we just pile all the books on Willow? She likes to learn new things and magical stuff." Anya stood up and walked to the sofa, lying back on it. "You all finish my work. I am going to rest now."

Willow rolled her eyes at Anya. "Oh yea, I sure do love to study dusty books until the wee hours of the morning." She sounded sarcastic, so Giles gave her a look. "What? I do. I am sorry if I sounded sarcastic." She yawned. "I hope Oz gets back her soon, he promised me he'd bring breakfast."

Xander looked over at Giles. "So, if this evil happens, it will be the apocalypse again right?" Giles nodded and Xander shook his head. "Apocalypse again is barely a month. When will these demons learn to space out their evil deeds? It's more dramatic that way." He smirked at the others. "I think this guy needs a PR man. What do you think? I could make him look good." Giles was about to tell Xander exactly where he could put his PR when the door opened and Oz came in, laden with coffee and donuts. Xander brightened at the sight. "Oz man, I could kiss you right now." Both Anya and Willow shot him a look and he shut up.

Oz chuckled a little, and shrugged at Xander. "I'm flattered, Xander…really. But I prefer hot redheads who dig books." He places the coffee and donuts on the table and leaned down to give Willow a kiss.

Smiling at Oz, Willow turned and nodded at Xander. "That's right Harris, don't you forget it." She watched as Oz sat down. "So, you see anything as you were driving around getting breakfast? As in Buffy wise or anything?" Oz just shook his head and shrugged.

Giles sighed and sat down at the table. "I supposed we just have to keep working on this until she returns." He scanned the table and looked at the mountains of books they had available. Leaning forwards, he stared at one book in particular. It was a large black book with red and silver trim. On the spine was written, 'The Tome of Ha'Thaalen'. Giles frowned at his ineptitude. "Where did this book come from? I don't remember seeing this before now…"

Anya looked up from the couch. "Oh, that one is mine. I brought it with me; I figured we could use it if we needed it." Anya stared at the four aghast faces who were all staring at her incredulously. "What? I thought it would help."

Xander smiled at Anya. "Sweetheart, what have we talked about before?" He stood up at walked over to her, sitting on the arm of the couch. "About if you have something to share with the class, then do." He sighed. "We could have left hours ago if we knew about this book."

Anya shrugged and stood up, walking over to the table grabbing a donut. "But. You guys like to read and study dusty things. So I figured, why ruin your fun with that." She smiled. "I'd see if you could find it, like a game."

Luckily, Anya was not killed by anyone in that house, mainly because Xander got her out of there as soon as she finished speaking. Willow said goodnight (or morning) to Giles, and she and Oz both left. Giles watched them leave and he shook his head, picking up the book and began to read.