Chapter eight: The puppet show
Giles is sitting in the Auditorium watching the students get ready for the talent Show. He did not want to be in charge of the talent show, but Principal Snyder did not give him a choice, despite Giles did told Snyder that his choice of school librarians' was to limit his time with the student body. Principal Snyder is also causing trouble for both the slayers by keeping a very close eye on them. He is watching how much school that Buffy and Faith's miss and also the number of fights they start at school. Faith, Buffy, Willow and Xander walk into the auditorium and sit down around Giles. Buffy sits down on Giles left-hand side and Faith sits down on Giles's right-hand side. Willow sits down on the seat in front of Giles and turns sideways in the seat. Xander sits down on the seat behind Faith and she turns a little in her seat and gives Xander her right hand to hold, which he takes right away. Xander also has a look on his face that says that he loves Faith and Faith is resting her left hand on her stomach, which is cramping really badly and has been since Monday at midnight.
"I see that Faith's show up for school today!"
"Yo G, If I had been able to come to school yesterday, I would have been here!"
"Why did you not come to school yesterday Faith?"
"I wasn't feeling good, G"
"That reason is not good enough Faith! Not with Principal Snyder is watching you like a hawk. You can't just keep skipping classes, because you do not want to come!"
"Giles lighting up, so she misses a day it happens!"
"Xander it happening way too often with Faith, she already had to repeat the ninth grade. I am sure she does not want to retaken tenth grade too!"
"G, I really could not come to school yesterday!"
"I need to know the reason that you were not in school yesterday, Faith!"
"Fine G, I went to the school nurse at the beginning of third-hour on Monday and she sent me home for school because of a slight fever, upset stomach and killer stomach cramps. I spent the afternoon lying in my bed till it was time for me to get ready for work at four o'clock. I did not want to go into work, because I felt awful and the cramps had getting worse and so had my upset stomach. But I had no days left to miss, so I made myself go into work. I get to work at five o'clock and an hour later I was about to take some chips, slash and two bottles of water over to table number 4, but had to set the tray that had the chips, slash and two bottles of water were on down on the bar counter, because I get really nauseate. At first I was able to fight it off and I pick the tray up and I walked over to table number four, but once I get to the table the nausea feeling comes back times ten. So I could not take the chips, slash and two water bottles off the tray and give them to the Cordelia and Harmony, so I just put the tray onto the table. Then I run into the restroom, because the feeling that I was going to be sick to my stomach had become too strong to ignore any longer. I just made it into the restroom and into the stall before I started getting sick to my stomach. As I was throwing up, my boss walked into the restroom to see what my reason was for running off without telling anyone and found me throwing up. Once I had stopped getting sick to my stomach, I walk out of the restroom, then I walk into the staff locker room to get a drink of water and found my boss waiting for me. My boss then made me leave work and go home sick. But she told me that she would cover my shift for the rest of night, since I only misses work when I am really ill. On the cab ride home from work I thought that I was going to be fine, because I thought I had threw up everything that I had eaten that day. But as I walk into my apartment I become really nauseate again, so I sit down on my bed hoping the feeling would past but two minute later, I was running into my bathroom and I spent the night with my head hanging over my toilet throwing up. Then I started dry heave after I run out of things to throw up, I finally stop getting sick at seven a.m. on Tuesday morning. After that I brushed my tooth and splash water on my face to cool down. When I was done in the bathroom, I walk out of the bathroom and the walk over to my dresser and grab my nightshirt out of the dresser. Once I had changed into my nightshirt and I walked over to the bed and I pulled the bedspread down to the end of the bed, I lay down on my bed and pull the cover up over me. When I put my head down on the pillow I went right to sleep, but it was a rough sleep because the stomach cramps were really bad. I sleep most of day Tuesday only waking up a few times to use the bathroom and then sleep all night, until my cellphone ring really loud waking me up this morning and that is the reason I was not in school yesterday, G."
"Oh, That is a very good reason for not coming to school Faith, But next time please calls me and let me know you are sick and also call the school to let them know that you are too sick to come into school!"
"Ok, I will try and remember that G."
"Come on let go and leave Giles's to what he call a show."
"(Xander and Willow) Sound like a great idea, Buffy."
Xander, Buffy and Willow stand up and start walking to the auditorium doors. Faith does not get up, but stay sitting and lean back in the seat. Faith then shut her eyes and starts holding her stomach with both hands and is wishing that her stomach would stop hurting. Snyder walks through the doors and up to Xander, Willow and Buffy and blocks the way out of the auditorium. Snyder then gives Xander, Willow and Buffy an evil look.
"Willow Rosenberg, Buffy Summer and Xander Harris the three of you left school yesterday!"
"We left to fight!"
"Did you just say we left to fight, Xander Harris?"
"No, we left to avoid a fight."
"Sure Miss. Summers. The three of you have to take part in the talent show, this year."
"(All three) Please anything but that!"
Snyder ignores what Buffy, Xander and Willow have just said and walks away from them and over to Faith Lehane who is still sitting next to Giles holding her stomach, but she now has her eyes open. Snyder stops in front of where Faith's is sitting at and start staring at Faith, who stares back at him.
"Miss. Lehane if you miss any more days of school, you will need a doctor note to prove you are really sick and that you are not faking."
"Whatever."
"Not whatever you will have a doctor note for any more days that you miss!"
Snyder walks out off the auditorium and at the same time Xander, Willow and Buffy's walks to the seats they had just left and all three of them fall down onto the seats that they just get up from a few moments before.
"Principal Snyder makes me sick!"
"You did not mean, he makes you feel like you are going to throw up right here Faith?"
"No, Willow."
"Good, but then again it would be really funny if you were to throw up on him."
"Yeah come on Faith go get sick on Snyder and maybe he will catch want you have and have to misses work for a few weeks."
"I have nothing left to throw up Willow and Xander. I have not eaten anything since Monday afternoon."
"That is not good Faith. Go to the lunchroom to get something to eat. Breakfast is served until the bell for first-hour rings."
"G, my stomach is still cramping really badly, I did not know if I will be able to keep anything down and I have no appetite!"
"Your stomach could be cramping, because you need to eat something."
"Ok, I will go get something to eat G and Xand will you come with me?"
"Sure Faith."
Faith and Xander stand up and walk out of the auditorium holding each-other hands. As they are walking to the lunchroom, Xander looks over at Faith and see that she looks flush and tried, deposits the fact that she slept most of the day and all night yesterday. Two and half minutes later the two of them walk into the lunchroom and walk up to the area the food is served at. Xander is watching Faith as she looks at all the food she could choose to get for breakfast.
"Xand, will you please get something to eat too, I do not want to eat alone?"
"Ok, I will get something to eat too and I will pay for your breakfast Faith."
"Thanks, Xand."
"The pancakes look good, Faith how about you get them."
"No, I want something that lighter, Xand."
"I understand that Faith, how about you get a couple pieces of toast with butter, along with a bowl of mixes fruit."
"Yeah, I will try that Xand, seeing that everything looks unappetizing to me."
"Your stomach really is bothering you, because you never say that food looks unappetizing!"
"Yeah it is, but G is right I should try and eat something, so let's get this over with."
Xander and Faith each grab a lunch tray and plate then start down the breakfast line. Faith has the breakfast/lunch lady put two pieces of butter toasts onto her plate and grabs a bowl of the mixes' fruit and set it on her tray. Xander has the breakfast/lunch lady put four pancakes on his plate and also grabs a bowl of the mixes' fruit. Faith then grabs a bottle of apple juice and so does Xander. Xander goes and pays for his and Faith breakfast and then the two of them walk into the lunchroom and Faith and Xander sits down at a table that is near the lunch room doors incase Faith has to run out of the lunchroom and to the restroom really fast. Faith and Xander have just started to eat when Buffy and Willow walk into the lunchroom and sits down at the table that Xander and Faith are at. Buffy then get out the "Diary of Anne Frank," which the English class is reading and she starts to read it. Willow's has just get out her math textbook and has start working on her math homework. Faith is watching Willow and Buffy doing their homework as she slower eats the toast and fruit. Xander is watching Faith as he eats his pancakes and fruit, because he is worry about his girlfriend/friend. When the bell for first hour rings, Faith has just open her apple juice up, Faith drinks the apple juice down really fast and then Xander's takes Faith's tray and his tray. Xander takes the tray over to storage bins used for dirty trays and dishes and puts them into the bin. Xander then walks over to Faith, Willow and Buffy and the four of them walk to history together. As they are walking to class Xander put his left arm around Faith's waist and she lays her head on Xander shoulder and puts her right arm around Xander's waist. Xander looks at Faith and sees that she has her left arm wrap around her stomach, Xander also notices that Faith's feels a little warm. The four friends are four doors away from the history classroom when they all hear a loud rumbling sound and Faith face turns red, because it is her stomach that is making the sound.
"Are you still hunger Faith?"
"No and way did I let G talk me into getting breakfast. I wish that I did not eat because eating has only cause my stomach to hurt more!"
"That not good Faith I will take patrol tonight, so you can stay home and take it easy."
"Thanks, B"
Faith, Xander, Buffy and Willow have reached the history classroom. Willow and Buffy walk into the class, but Xander pulls Faith aside and over to the lockers. Faith and Xander are now facing each other and Xander is looking at Faith with a very worry look on his face, at the sometime Faith stomach starts rumbling again and this time more loudly then the last time.
"Are you going to be ok and do you think you will be able to make it through the whole school day, Faith?"
"I am not sure if am ok Xand and I'm also not sure if I will be able to make it through the whole school day. But seeing that I do not have any more excuse absents days left I am just going to have to tough it out!."
The bell about to ring, so Faith and Xander walk into the classroom and go take their seats. Once sitting at their desk Faith and Xander gets out their history textbooks and notebooks out of their backpacks. Then the two of them open up their notebooks to a blank page, because there are notes on the chalkboards that the two of them have to take down. Xander and Faith each take a pen out of their backpack front pocket and then get to work taking the notes that are on the classroom chalkboards. The history teacher Mrs. Jackson is walking around the classroom talking with each of the students to see if their need any help understand the homework and reading assignments that were given out, when she was out with the stomach flu last week. Buffy looks over at Faith and sees that she is moving around in her seat and Buffy can tell that Faith is really uncomfortable. Just then Faith stomach rumbling loud then the other two times and her right hand shoot into the air, faster then a lighting bolt. Mrs. Jackson is two seats away from Faith and teacher sees Faith hand go into the air, but does not ask Faith what she wants. So Faith starts waving both her hands in the air, which does get Mrs. Jackson attention.
"Faith Lehane what is that you need?"
"Can I have a restroom pass, because I really have to use the restroom?"
"Can you wait to after I get to you and talk about the homework and reading assignments that was given out last week when I was out sick?"
"No, I really have to go badly. I'm sorry Mrs. Jackson."
"Ii is ok Faith and yes you can go. The girls' restroom pass is setting on my desk, just grabs it on your way out of the classroom."
"Thanks"
Faith's stand up and walks up the row of desks and to the teachers' desk at the front of the classroom. She then grabs the girls' restrooms pass and walks to the classroom door. Faith quickly opens the classroom door and walks out of the door, shutting the door behind her. She then starts running to the restroom and runs right into Giles knocking her watcher down and the box of trophies Giles is carrying goes flying into the air, which causes all the trophies to fall onto the hallway floor. Faith's stop for a second and then start running again and does not even look back to see if her watcher is ok. Giles watching Faith until she turns left at the end of the hallway and he can no longer see her. Giles then stands up and start gathering up the trophies and looking at each of the trophies to make sure there did not break. Ten minutes later Willow comes walking down the hallway carry the boys' restroom pass, Giles stops gathering up the trophies and looks at Willow.
"Giles, what happened here?"
"Faith's came running down the hallway and she ran right into me knocking me down, which made the box of trophies I was carrying go flying and the trophies fall to the floor and now I have to gather up all the trophies. What are you doing with the boys' restroom pass?"
"Mrs. Jackson has sent me to go check on Faith because she has not come back to class yet. "
"Then I will not hold you up any longer, Willow."
"Ok, bye Giles."
Willow walks away from Giles and down the hallway and when she gets to the end of the hallway she turns left, just like Faith did. As Willow walks down the hallway to the nearest girls' restroom from the history classroom, she is trying to think of an act, song, sport, etc. that Xander, Buffy and she can do in the talent show. Willow opens the door to the girls' locker room, which is the nearest restroom to the history classroom and she walks to the back of the locker room. Then walk through the doorway leading to the restroom section of the locker room and she can hear Faith crying in the first restroom stall. Willow's see a pair of pant hanging over the door of the stall and also notices the legs of Faith black jeans sticking out from under the stall door. Willow walks up to the closed first stall door and knocks.
"What I am use this one, go use one of the other stalls!"
"Faith's its Willow. Mrs. Jackson sent me to see if you are ok? Did you throw up your breakfast?"
"I'm sorry Will, I did not mean to sound so rude. Yeah, I think that am all right and no I did not throw up. I ended up getting diarrhea today and it is a good thing that I always keep a couple sets of extras clothing in my gym locker, because I had to grab a pair of underwear and a pair of pants, the oversized black workout pants before heading to the restroom section. Because the one second I stop after knocking Giles down, cause me not to make it to the restroom in time."
"That not good Faith, what do you want me to tell Mrs. Jackson?"
"Tell her it is going to be a little while, before I am back in class. But I should be back before the end of class and if she asks why it is taking me so long, whisper it into her ear. Because I do not want the whole class to know the true reason that I had to change my pants, I would rather have them think that I start my monthly early or whatever else they choose to think then the real reason is that I change my pants."
"I understand that Faith, I would not want the whole class to know that either if it was you."
"Thanks, Will. You should get back to class, I will see you when I come back to class."
"Ok, bye for now."
"Bye"
Willow turns around and walks toward the door of the locker room and then walks out of the locker room. As she is walking back to class, she is happy to see that Giles is no longer in the hallway gathering up the trophies. Willow head back into class and tell the teacher that Faith is going to be a little while in the restroom and then sits down at her desk and get to work copy the notes down. Later in first hour history class there are only five minutes to first-hour ends and Faith chair in history class is still empty. Xander has just finish writing the last of the history note, so he shut his notebook. He then starts watching the classroom door, so he can see when Faith walks through the door and into the classroom. With only a minute and half of class to go, Faith walks into the history classroom with both of her arms wrap around her stomach. She then walks over to the teachers' desk and unwraps her arms and puts the girls' restroom pass on the teachers' desk. Faith then wraps her arms around her stomach and start to walking toward the desk that she sits at. Buffy, Willow and Xander watch Faith as she slower walks back to her desk and the three of them notice that Faith's look more flushes then when she left the class to use the restroom. Faith sits down at her desk and unwraps her arms from around her stomach again. Faith then unzips her backpack and closes her history notebook. The next thing Faith does is to pick up her textbook and notebook and puts them into her backpack. As Faith is zipping up her backpack, the bell for class to end start ringing. The whole class stands up and starts walking to the classroom door to head to their second-hour classes.
"Faith Lehane, can I have a word with you after everyone has left?"
"Sure, Mrs. Jackson!"
Xander walks over to Faith and takes her backpack. He then runs his right hand through Faith hair and kiss Faith on her right cheek. Faith smiles at Xander, but she does not kiss him back, because she does not want to get him sick.
"I will wait for you outside the classroom door, Faith."
"Thanks, I will be out shortly."
"Ok"
Xander walks out the classroom and Faith sits on the center desk in the front row, which is also right in front of Mrs. Jackson desk. Morgen walks up to the front of the class holding his head with both hands and stops next to Faith. Morgen looks at Faith and she looks up and him and can tell right away that he is in a lot of pain, just like she is.
"Morgen, do you have another headache?"
"Yes, Mrs. Jackson and can I have Sid back, because you said when class was over you would give him back to me?"
"Sure, but for now on do not bring your dummy to class, Morgen!"
"Yes, Mrs. Jackson."
Faith looks at the teachers' desk and sees Morgan's dummy setting on the middle of the desk. At the same time Morgan's walk up to the teachers' desk and he pick up the dummy. Morgan then walks out of the classroom leaving only the teacher and Faith in the classroom.
"I just wanting to make sure you understand last week homework and reading assignments?"
"Yeah I did, last week homework and reading were the easy homework that I had all year!"
"That what almost all the class says, beside the four students that misses days last week. I also wanting to ask if you are you feeling all right because you were not in school yesterday and today during class you were in the restroom for all but three minutes of class?"
"No, I think that I came down with the stomach flu. I went home during third hour Monday with a low garde fever, upset stomach and stomach cramps. Then I spent all Monday night throwing up. I slept most of the day yesterday and I also slept all night. Today I have diarrhea, which is the reason I was in the restroom for so long."
"And why you had to change your pants?"
"Yeah, this school year has been the worsted year when it comes to my health. I never get sick before and now this year I seem that I am catching everything that going around the school and the town."
"I am sorry to hear that and I hope that you feel better soon. Make sure you get the notes from today class and yesterday class notes from one of your friends, because you will need to know them for the next test. That is all I needed to talk to you about, you can go to second-hour now."
"Ok"
Faith stands up and walks out the classroom to find Xander lean against a locker that is across from the classroom with his and her backpacks at his feet. Faith walks over to him and gives him a hug and he hugs her back and Faith start crying on his shoulder. Xander rubs her back and whisper into his girlfriend right ear and she whispers back into xander's right ear.
"What wrong and can I make it better Faith?"
"It just that my stomach upset again and my stomach is also cramping. And now I have diarrhea, so no, there is nothing you can do to make it better, Xand."
"We need to start walking to English, because there is only a minute until the bell rings and second-hour starts."
"Sniffling, ok let's go."
Xander picks up his backpack and puts it onto his back, then he picks up Faith's backpack and puts one of the straps onto his left shoulder. Xander then puts his right arm around Faith's waist and she puts her left arm around his waist and the two them starts walking to English class. The rest of the school day goes by very slow for Faith, but way to fast for Xander, Buffy and Willow, who has to go to their first talent show practice after seventh-hour ended. Faith walks home at the end of seventh-hour and as she is walking home she takes her cellphone out of her backpack. Faith then dials her boss phone number for the Bronze office phone to leave her boss a message, but her boss answers the phone on the fourth ring.
"Carrie Hopeford speaking, who is this?"
"It is Faith Lehane."
"I try calling your cellphone and apartment phone this morning, but I get your voice mail on the cellphone and the apartment phone ring eight time before I hang up. How are you feeling today? And Kevin filled in for you last night since you were a no show, I will forgive it this one time since you could not keep anything down on Monday night, so I figure that you were still sick and that you could not make it to the phone to call into work sick."
"I am sorry about not answering my cellphone that was the call that wake me up from sleeping most of the day and all night Tuesday and I must have left for school before you call my house phone, I really do need to get an answering machine. About how I'm feeling today, I am not doing much better then Monday. I have not thrown up today, but I still have an upset stomach and stomach cramps, also I had diarrhea since seven thirty-two this morning. In addition I think that I am starting to run a fever, because I look flush and when I felt my forehead a few minutes ago it felt clammy."
"That is not good, Faith. You are not having a very good year when it comes to your health in 1995 and almost all of 1996 you did not get sick. Then comes October of 1996 and it all went down the hill when it comes to your health. You can take as many days off as you need to get well and I will give you sick pay, since you never used any in 1995 and most of 1996."
"Thanks for letting me take time off to get well and I know this year has been the worsted year when it comes to my health. I never get sick before and now it seems like I am catching everything. I will let you go and call you in a couple days to let you know how I am doing."
"Ok and feel better soon, we will all miss you here."
"I will miss you all too and I hope I feel better soon too, bye."
"Bye Faith."
Faith's flips her cellphone closed and unlocks her apartment door. As Faith opens up the apartment door, her stomach start rumbling again and she starts cramp really badly too. Faith runs into her apartment slamming the door shut behind her and drops her backpack on her bed, as she runs to the bathroom. Once in the bathroom she slams the door closed and is happy that she made it to the bathroom on time again and only had that one accident this morning at school.
Meanwhile across town at the high school during talent show practice, seeing they do not have an act to practice Xander and Buffy is helping Giles get all the costumes, props, awards and trophies ready and Willow is making up the talent show leaflet, which will let people know who is in the show and what the person or persons' act is. After the talent show practice ends, everyone leaves to go home that was practice in the auditorium, but one girl name Emily who has gone into the girls' locker room to put her ballet shoe away in her gym locker. Emily is getting her cross country gear out for a cross country meet and hears a noise behind her. Emily looks around the locker room but cannot see who or what is making the nosie that was coming from behind her. Emily goes back to getting her cross country shoe and unfirm out of her locker and putting them into her gym bag. Then out of nowhere something leaps up and stabs Emily in her chest and takes out her heart.
The next morning before the start of the school day, Xander, Willow and Buffy are sitting on the edge of the stage in the high school auditorium talking about what there are going to do in the talent show, which the three of them are forces to take part in tomorrow evening and that mean that Giles has to know what they are doing for the show by the end of seventh-hour, that way Willow has time to add it to the talent show leaflet and get the leaflet printout for the show.
"Willow can play the piano!"
"You play the piano?"
"Yeah I can, Buffy!"
"You could play and we could try to sing along."
"You meaning in front of people then no, I do not play Buffy!"
Morgan is practice with his ventriloquist dummy Sid on the stage behind them. Buffy, Willow and Xander turn around and start to watch Morgan, seeing that they have no clue what they are going to do in the show.
"Oh Buffy, is so hot today."
"Morgan you are really getting good at that."
"Thanks Buffy!"
"I'm the one with the talent here, not Morgan!"
"That enough Morgan."
"That was not I, it was Sid, Xander."
"Sure, not Sid is a piece of wood and you make him talk. If you think otherwise Morgan you need to see a Psychologist and get you head straight."
"Yeah, I know that Sid really can't talk. "
"Yes, I can Morgan and that way you use me instead of one of the other dummies your father has."
"Ok, this is getting too weird even for me, let's go Xander and Willow."
"(Both Willow and Xander) Ok, Buffy."
Buffy, Xander and Willow stand up and walk away from Morgan and then Willow, Xander and Buffy leave the auditorium and walk into the hallway, which is when the three of them see that the girls' locker room has been sealed off with yellow police tape and that Faith is already waiting by the tape to see what has happened? Buffy, Xander and Willow walk up to Faith and the three of them see that she looks really flush and also looks very tired. Willow, Buffy and Xander then notice that Faith is wearing a gray knit workout pant and white wide stripe tank top with a jean jacket and around her neck is a sixteen-inch sterling silver necklace chin and there is a ring on the necklace chain that is an old silver ring that has two serpents who eyes are emerald and the serpents met beneath a crown of golden flowers and one of the serpent is upholding the crown and the other serpent is devouring the crown. There is also a silver cross on the necklace chain too. Willow, Buffy and Xander also notice that Faith has her arms warp around her stomach. Xander who is worry about Faith is the first to say anything.
"How are you feeling today, Faith and I never saw that ring before where did you get the ring?"
"Like I could sleep for a month and there is no way G, will get me to eat today. I can't even keep water down now and I never want to see another bathroom or toilet again. In addition my stomachache gets more painful with each hour that goes by. My mom gave the ring to me when I born. The ring has been pass down to the first born when they were born or the parent feels the child is old enough to take care of it and the ring is very old."
"I think that you need to make a doctor appointment, Faith."
"I already did Willow, I made one this morning before school and it is scheduled for tomorrow at seven-fifty p.m.."
"That good, helpful it noting major and the doctor will say that it will go away in a few days without having to put you onto antibiotic again."
"I'm also hoping that, because I do not want to get put on antibiotic again. I'm also hoping that it will go away in a few days, B. Ouch, I just get a sharp pain in my lower abdomen on my right side, this is the first time that it has hurt there."
"Faith's it sound like you have appendicitis, I think you should change you doctor appointment and make it for today!"
"I try to get into the doctor today, but the schedule was full. I get lucking in getting the seven-fifty p.m. appointment tomorrow the person that had it called right before me and cancels their appointment Willow, Ouch."
"Let's hope you are able to make it till tomorrow night for you appointment and you do not end up going to the hospital."
"I should be fine Xand, Ouch."
Giles walks out of the locker room and over to the yellow tape and he stop by Faith, Buffy, Xander and Willow and gives them a look that says something bad happened last night and since Giles does not say anything Buffy breaks the silent.
"What happened, Giles?"
"A girl name Emily was killed last night and her track coach says that she never made it to the cross-country meet, which was last night and Faith's I am so sorry that you were the one that found the body. The police officers did not treat you badly when asking you questions about finding her body did they?"
"No, but I do not think that office Tim Webber like it when I throw up on his shoe, when they wheel Emily out of the locker room and the coroner stop then uncover Emily body to show Snyder."
"Knowing Snyder, he told the polices that Buffy or Faith did it."
"He tries Xander, but at the time of the murder Buffy's was still helping me with the costumes, props, awards and trophies and one of Faith's neighbors was able to confirm that she was at her apartment and throwing her trash into the apartment dumpster at the time of the murder."
"So G what did this a demon or human?"
"Demons do not need knifes."
"I do not buy it Giles this is the hellmouth, the murder has to be relation to the supernatural somehow?"
"Let's move this talk to the Library!"
(All four teenagers) Ok, Mr. Giles."
Xander, Willow, Faith, Buffy and Giles walk to the library and when they get to the library Faith, Buffy, Xander and Willow sit down on chairs by the study table. Faith leans back in the chair and is holding her right lower abdomen with her right hand. Giles stay standing and studying the drawing that he did of the knife that was used to cut Emily heart out and Xander, Willow and the two slayers are staring at Giles as he is studying the knife drawing.
"I think we need to split up and talk to people that seen Emily yesterday before she dead."
"(Buffy, Xander and Willow) Sounds like a good idea to me, Giles."
"Hey G, is it all right if I pass on talking to people and stay behind?"
"Faith's we could use your help with this, do you have any good reasons why you should be able to sit out of helping Buffy, Xander, Willow and me?"
"Sure I do, the first one is that I still do not feel well, I had diarrhea all day and night yesterday and today my stomach is really upset and I throw up on a police office. In addition I still having diarrhea on and off so far today and my stomachache is getting worst as each hour goes by. In addition I have a low garde fever again and think it is spiking, because I am starting to feel aching. My second reason is that I am starting to get behind on my homework and could really use this time before first-hour starts at seven-thirty to work on my homework."
"Fine, Faith. But seeing that you are having diarrhea on and off, I want you to go and get a bottle of water out of the mini refrigerator and I want you to push the fluids, so you do not get dehydrating!"
"Ok G, I will push the fluids."
Buffy, Xander and Willow stand up and then Giles, Buffy, Xander and Willow walk out of the library. The four of them then start walking around the school and talking with people that had seen Emily's yesterday or were friends of Emily. Which turns out was most of the school and it seems that people love hanging out with the dancers, at lest the boys do. Meanwhile, in the library Faith's has taken her history notebook and Xander history notebook out and has start copying down the history notes from Tuesday and when these are done she will start copying done yesterday history notes, since she has only get two lines wrote down before having to run out of class to use the restroom. She stops writing the history notes and picks up the bottle of water, then takes a few drinks of water hoping that she will be able to keep it down seeing that the water and jell-O she had eaten for breakfast come up, only two minutes after eaten it. Faith recaps the bottle and set the water bottle down on the table by Xander history notebook, then Faith's get back to copying down the history notes. After almost an hour Xander, Willow, Buffy and Giles come back into the library and Xander sits down next to Faith. Giles sits down across from Faith and Willow sits down next to Xander. Buffy then sits next to Giles and gives Faith a look that says that talking to Emily friends was very boring, but at the sometime very useful. Giles is the first to say anything.
"Buffy, what did you find out?"
"All the people that I talk to keep come back to Morgan and his dummy Sid, Giles."
"Xander, what did you find out?"
"The same as Buffy did, Giles."
"Willow what to you find out?"
"The same as Buffy and Xander, what did you learn Giles?"
"The same as the three of you did."
"Next time someone else gets Cordelia."
'Poor Xand, was Cordelia driving you nuts?"
"Yes, she kept asking me if her hair look fine!"
"You should have told her no Xand and then she would have run to the girls' restroom to check her hair."
"I will keep that in mind for next time, Faith."
"Buffy and Faith's I think you should look in Morgan Locker, after school gets out today. Willow will you look his locker number and combination up for them?"
"Sure, Giles."
Willow stands up and walks over to the computer at the check out counter and she does a search for Morgan locker number and combination. Three minutes later Willow has found the number and combination and hands a copy to Buffy and a copy to Faith and at the same time the bell to head to first-hour rings. Faith's who had just finish writing down yesterday history notes as the bell rings give Xander his history notebook. Faith then puts her history notebook into her backpack, Faith stands up and grabs her backpack. Then Xander, Buffy, Willow and Faith walk out of the library and head to class. During the seven hours of school day Faith and Buffy take turns keeping an eye on Morgan who seem to be lost without Sid the dummy by his side and both slayer notices as the day goes on the more Morgan is holding his head. When school gets out for the day Buffy and Faith's walks to the girls' restroom, so the two of them can use the restroom and give the hallways time to clear out before going to Morgan's locker. Buffy is the first done in the restroom, so after washes and dries her hands Buffy leans against the restroom wall and is waiting for Faith to finish up.
"B if you want to go search Morgan's locker without me, you can. Because I am going to be awhile and I am sure it can't smell that nice in here right now."
"Faith, I am a vampire slayer, like you are and I have killed demons and vampires that smell way worse then this, beside the hallways will still be too busy for me to get away with searching Morgan's locker. Beside I need you as my look out, that way I will know if anyone is coming toward us."
"Ok, if you want to wait you can, B."
"So how are you doing emotionally after founding Emily body this morning?"
"All right, it not like Emily dead body was the first dead body that I saw, but ouch I have to say that was the first time I saw a dead body that had the heart removed. I so hope it was a demon that did it, so we can deal with it."
"You seen the knife did the knife look like a ritual knife or does it look like a kitchen knife?"
"Not sure, G got a better look at the knife then I did though. On a different note, do you have any tampon B, I just start my monthly and do not have any? Can this week get any worst?"
"Yeah, I do hold on a sec and I will get it for you and yes the week could get worst."
"Thanks"
Buffy gets into her backpack front pocket and pulls a tampon out and then hands the tampon to Faith over the stall door. Once Faith has taken the tampon from her, Buffy zips the front pocket of her backpack up. Several second later Buffy hears the toilet flush then Faith opens the stall door up. Faith walks out of the restroom stall and walks over to the sink. Faith turns the water on and then put soap onto her hand. As Faith's washes her hands, Buffy notices that Faith hands are shaking and that she looks tired.
"Are you up to this, because if you are not you can go help Giles do research, seeing that what we will have to do after we finished searching Morgan's Locker?"
"Yeah, I am up to this, it's not like I have to fight a demon tonight, just keep a look out as you go through Morgan's locker."
"Ok, let's get this over then."
"I second that, B."
Buffy and Faith's grab their backpacks off the restroom floor and then the two of them walk out of the restroom. Faith and Buffy then walk through school hallways and turns down the hallway that is one over from the auditorium. Faith pulls the printout of Morgan locker number and combination out of her left jean jacket pocket and Buffy pulls the printout out of Morgan locker number and combination out of the right pocket of her black leather jacket. Then Buffy and Faith start looking for Morgan's locker, half way down the hallway they find his locker. The two slayers walk up to the locker and set their backpacks on the hallway floor. Buffy open up Morgan's locker and then starts searching the locker looking for anything that says, he has something to do with Emily murder. Faith is keeping a look out to make sure no one is coming toward then from either end of the hallway. She is also listening for any sound that someone is near by or in one of the classroom or the next hallway over. Buffy is just about done looking through Morgan's locker when both slayers hear someone coming down the hall and two people talking in one of the classroom that is on the same wall as Morgan locker is on. Buffy's closes Morgan's locker, then Faith and Buffy grab their backpacks off the floor and runs into one of the empty classroom. Faith closes the classroom door, because she sees Snyder at the other end of the hallway and at the sometime the two slayers hear Morgan and Sid, who are in the classroom across form the one Faith and Buffy is in.
"I told you it was Buffy or that Faith girl."
"No, it can't be one of them Sid the two of them have always been nice to me."
"It might not be that Faith girl, but only because she seems to be getting weaker each day. But I still say that she is a strong possibility and Buffy's a possibility too. I do not care what you think Morgan there is a chance one of them is the demon that killed Emily and take her heart."
Buffy and Faith looks at each other and quietly laughs, because of what they heard. Both of the slayers look out the door and find that the hallway is empty, so they walk out of the classroom and into the hallway. Buffy and Faith then starts walking to the library.
"So Sid the dummy thinks it is one of us. I always thought that Morgan was not all there, but to practicing for the talent show and have the dummy says we are murder is not right, Faith!"
"No, but we are stronger and can run faster then a normal teenage girls and boys and are more like demons and vampires when it comes to our strong and speed, so if he believes in supernatural events and also believes in vampires and demon, then I can see way he thinks it is one of us."
"But way does Morgan not say something to someone, instead of just make Sid the dummy says it has to be either you or I and way does he told Sid that we are too nice to murder anyone and then take their heart, it is not like Morgan knows us well enough to know what we are able to do and what we are not able to do."
"I do not know, B. But what is with Morgan holding his head all the time? Yesterday when Mrs. Jackson asks me to stay after to talk with her and before Morgan left he stops to talk with Mrs. Jackson, because he wanting Sid back since she took the dummy from him during class and she asks him if he had another headache because Morgan was holding his head then too and he said yes he did have another headache. Also have you notice that Morgan has misses more school day then either you or I have?"
"Yeah, I have. When we get to the library, let's have Willow get into the school attends records and see why, maybe he is the demon or working for the demon. We should also have Giles check to see if dummies or toys can be bewitched to be brought to life to help demons or vampires do their dirty work."
"Sounds like a great plan, B."
Buffy and Faith walks into the library to see Angel sitting at the study table with Giles, Willow and Xander and that there is four pizza boxes and bottles of pop, plastic cups and paper plates on the first table and pile of books on the second table. Faith and Buffy walk over to the study table and sit down on chairs that are at the study table and Angel stands up and he passes out the paper plates to everyone, beside himself. At the sometime Xander opens up the pizza boxes, The first and second pizzas have everything on them and the third is a vegetable pizza and the fourth box is not a pizza, but cheese bread. After the plates are all past out, Angel then gives everyone, but himself a plastic cup. Then Willow, Xander, Buffy and Giles start helping themselves to the pizza's, cheese bread and pop and Faith's who is sitting at the table that has the piles of the books on it does not get up to get any of the pizza's, cheese bread or any of the pop. Angel who is setting between Faith and Buffy looks over at Faith and he notices that she holding her stomach and is trying not to look at the food or Giles, Xander, Willow and Buffy who have started to eat.
"Faith, I am not eating because human food does nothing for me since being turned into a vampire, but way are you not eating? Not that I mind having someone else beside me not eating."
"Because I had a stomachache since Monday morning, and I have also been having trouble keep anything down since Monday evening and since Wednesday morning I had diarrhea and I had a low garde fever since Monday morning too. Is anyone hot beside me?"
"(Everyone) No, it's just you, Faith."
"Great, I am sure that my fever is spiking now!"
Faith's stand up and takes her jean jacket off and as Faith is setting down, Giles is putting a slice of vegetable pizza onto her plate, he then puts two pieces of cheese bread onto Faith's plate. At the same time Willow is pouring Vernors ginger ale into Faith's plastic cup.
"G and Willow, what are the two of you doing? If I want to get anything to eat or drink, I would have help myself when everyone else got their food."
"I am making sure that you eat something tonight and also that you keep pushing the fluids, Faith. Beside Vernors ginger ale is supposed to help settle the stomach when it is upset."
"If I eat or I drink anything it is just going start come out of both ends again!"
"Faith's I am not taking a no for an answer because your hands and legs are shaking, which means your blood sugar is to low and you need to get it up."
"Fine I will eat the slice of pizza and the two pieces of cheese bread. I will also drink the Vernors ginger ale, but I am letting you know a head of time I will probably not be much help when we start to do research."
"I am sure you will be as much of a help as you can be Faith."
"Whatever G!"
Faith rolls her eyes at her watcher and then she takes a bite of the pizza. A half hour later the pizza's and cheese bread is all gone and they have now starts to do research to see if it Emily murder could have been supernatural. The two slayers, Giles, Angel and Xander are research what type of demon use human heart in their rituals and if their needs a knife to cut the hearts out. Willow is looking up Morgan attend records on the library computer to see why he misses so many days and why he has headaches all the time. Also Faith stomach has been rumbling really loudly since she took her third bite of pizza. Faith's now has her right arm wrap around her stomach and she also keeps belching. Angel looked up from the book he is reading and look over at Faith and he notices that Faith is starting to look green.
"What is that resonant sound and where is it coming from and if someone in this room making the sound please stop it now?"
"That would be my stomach G!"
"Then make it stop making that sound!"
"I can't gagging because I eat, burp."
"Now Faith that was just rude."
"I am sorry, but the slice of pizza, two pieces of cheese bread and the Vernors ginger ale that you made me eats and drink is not set right in my gagging, stomach burps."
"I know why Morgan has misses so many days of school and why he always has a headache!"
"(Everyone) Ok, Willow's let's hear it."
"He has a brain tumor and has been going to university of Ohio Medical Hospital for treatments. The demon, could be using Morgan as a way to found health people, so the demon can murder the person and get the hearts, lungs, etc. for the demon rituals."
"Great work Willow. We now know that the demon is not Morgan and that the demon could be using Morgan to help him found people."
"Thanks Giles."
"You are welcome Willow."
"Burp I feel a little sorry for Morgan now gagging, but his dummy Sid's gives me the creepy and gagging I do not get creepy out gagging easily."
Willow gets off the computer and walks over to the study table. She then sits down next to Giles who is sitting across from Angel. Then Angel, Willow, Xander, Buffy, Faith and Giles start looking through the very old dusty books again to see what they are able to find out, but a minute and half later Faith stands up and runs out of the library with her left hand over her mouth and right arm wrap around her stomach. Xander stands up and runs out of the library after Faith to go see if she is all right. At the same time Buffy close the books she is look through and set the book on the study.
"Giles' it is getting dark, so I am going to changes into my black workout pants and black tank top then I am going on patrol, Angel's do you want to come with me?"
"Not right now Buffy, but I will join you later. I am going to stick around here a little while longer and wait for Faith to come back and see if she wants me to drive home, so she can try to get some rest."
"Ok see you later, in one of the twelve cemeteries that are in our lovely town."
With that Buffy stands up from the chair and grabs her backpack, then Buffy walks into the book cages and grabs several wooden stakes. Buffy unzips her backpack and drops the wooden stakes into the backpack, then rezips her backpack. Giles, Angel and Willow watch Buffy walk out of the book cage and then walk out of the library. Once Buffy left the library she walks to the girls' locker room, to changes into slaying friendly clothing, before going out on patrol. Meanwhile three hallways down from the library Xander is getting worry, because Faith has not come out of the girls' locker room yet. But he can't hear anything at all and is scary that she passes out, so he pushes open the girl's locker door and walks in. Once inside the locker room he looks around and finds that Faith is not in the locker room half or in the shower area. So he walks into the restroom half of the locker room and notice that Faith's is not by the restroom sinks, so he walks over to the stalls and finds her setting on the floor in the first one, with her right elbow resting on the toilet seat and her head rest on her right hand.
"Faith's are you all right?"
"Xander's you do not belong in the girl's locker room and I am not all right. Why did I let G talk me into eating again?"
"I know that I do not belong in the girls' locker room, but I was worry about you because it has been a few minutes since I hear any nosie coming from the locker room. So I walk into the locker room to make sure you did not passes out."
"That sweet of you Xand, let's hope gagging Snyder gone home and if he has not gone home yet let's hope he does not catch you gagging coming out of the girls' locker room."
"I see him leave the school twenty minutes after school got out with the police, he had to go to the police stations to answers more questions about Emily murder."
"Xand, will you do me a favor and go get the small trash can by the sinks and bring the trash can over here for me? I need to uses the bathroom, but gagging it feels like am going to be sick at any moment."
"Sure Faith."
Xander's walks over to the restroom sinks and he pick up the small trash can and then walks over to his girlfriend. Xander set the trash can down in the stall, then he helps Faith's stand up. Faith smiles at her boyfriend and then close the stall door.
"Thanks Xand."
"You are welcome Faith, do you want me to leave now?"
"No, but if you go stand by the door and stop anyone that gagging not Buffy or Willow from come in."
"Sure I will do that."
"Thanks Xand, retching."
"You were right you was going to be sick at any moment."
"Be quiet retching, I think that retching I hear someone gagging in the locker room retching Xander."
"Hi Xander and Faith, I am just going to get change into slaying friendly clothing before going out on patrol, so Xander can you move away from the mirrors and not look out the doorway of the restroom area, please?"
"Sure, Buffy."
"Is Faith all right Xander?"
"Not sure at lest she not throwing up right this second but that could change any second. She just using the bathroom right now, but please don't tell Giles I was in the girls' locker room."
"I won't, Xander."
"B, be careful gagging on patrol tonight retching and did not do anything I wouldn't!"
"I will be careful and you know that I would never do anything that you wouldn't do Faith. I get to go. I will see the two of you tomorrow."
"Bye Buffy."
"Bye, B."
"Bye Faith and Xander."
Xander watching Buffy's walk out the locker room and then he walks over to the wall that separating the locker room from the restroom section of the locker room. Xander then leans up against the wall and waits for Faith to get finished using the bathroom. Fifteen minute later Faith walks out of the restroom stall and over to the restroom sinks. Xander sees that Faith has tears running down her face, as she turns on the water. As Faith's is washes her hands in the restroom sink, she hopes that she is finished vomiting for a while and that she also finished going to the bathroom for a long while. When Faith has finished drying her hands, Xander takes her left hand with his right hand, then runs his left hand through Faith hair and Faith runs her right hand through his hair. Xander then feels Faith's forehead, with his left hand and finds that she feels really clammy and warm. Faith and Xander stand there looking at each other for a few short moments and Xander notices that Faith is looking palely then normal.
"Faith's let's head back to the library and see if Angel will give you a ride, because you are in no shape to be doing research and you will probably be more comfortable at your place, then laying on Giles office couch or sitting in one of the study table chairs, which are as hard as rocks and it feels like you are running a fever."
"Yeah that a good idea Xand because I am not going to be any more help to G, tonight. I just want to go home and take a cool shower and burps go to bed."
Xander and Faith walk out of the girls' locker room together and as the two of them walk toward the library Xander puts his right arm around his girlfriends' waist and she puts her left arm around his waist. She then lays her head down on Xander shoulder and is trying not cry, but she is in a lot of pain and her stomach is rumbling again. She just hopes she can make it home before getting sick again or needing to use the bathroom. When the doors to the library open up Willow, Giles and Angel look up from the very old dusty books, they are reading to see Xander and Faith walking over to them with their arms around each other waist's and Faith head laying on Xander's right shoulder.
"G, I need to go home, is it all right with you if I leave and go home for the night?"
"It is fine with me if you go home for night, in fact Xander and Willow can go home too because you all could use a good night sleep. I can do the research on my own and I am very used to that by now."
"Thanks G, I will see you in the morning if I am able to, but I might not be able to come in tomorrow. I do not think this is the stomach flu, I think Willow might be right about me having appendicitis."
"Then you should make a doctor appointment in the morning Faith."
"I already did, this morning, my appointment is tomorrow night at seven-fifty p.m., I just hope that I can make it until then, because my stomachache is getting a lot more painful. I know that I have a very high pain threshold, but this stomachache is starting to push the limits of my pain threshold. Angel can you give me a ride home?"
"Sure and I will also give Xander and Willow a ride home too. But I will take you home first Faith seeing that you are ill and then I will take Willow home followed by Xander."
"(All three teenagers) Thanks Angel."
"You are welcome Faith, Willow and Xander."
Xander, Willow and Faith grab their backpacks and Faith's also grab her jacket, at the sometime Angel and Willow stands up. Then Angel, Willow, Faith and Xander walk out of the library, leaving Giles all alone to do the research. The two teenager and Angel walk out of the high school and over to the parking lot to Angel's car. When their reach Angel's car, Xander and Willow's open up the back doors of the car and then sits down on the backseat. Angel's opens the front passengers' door for Faith, who sits down on the passenger seat. Angel then close the car door and walks over to the driver side of the car. He opens his door and gets into the car, then Angel checks to make sure Willow, Xander and Faith have their seat belts on and when he sees that the three of them do have their seat belt on, he put his on. Angel's then starts up his car and check his review mirror and looks both ways to make sure no one is coming. Since no one is coming he backs out of the parking space, then he drives through the parking lot and to the parking lot entry/exit. He then stops at the stop sign and once he has a break in the traffic, he moves his car forward and turns left out of the school parking lot onto Main Street. Angel's stays on Main Street until he reaches the intersection of main street and State Street then he turns left again onto State Street, as Angel turns onto State Street Faith rest he right elbow and the door then rests her head in her right hand. Faith then shut her eyes, hoping she will make it home without throwing up in Angel's car. Angel's drives down State Street for a few minutes until he reaches the intersection of Sycamore Street and State Street Angel then turn right onto Sycamore Street. Angel's then he drives down Sycamore Street until he comes to Fourth Street, which is where you have to turn either right or left. Angel turns left and drives down the street until he gets to the entry/exit of the Sunnydale Motel and Downtown Apartment, which is on the left-hand side before Fourth Street turns into the highway and Angel turns left into the driveway and drive to the parking spot by Faith apartment. Once the car has come to a stop Faith takes her seat belt off and then she open up the passengers' door. She slower gets out of the car and grab her jacket and backpack off of the floor of the passenger seat.
"Thanks for the ride home, Angel and for drive Willow and Xander home too, I will sleep better tonight know the two of them had a ride home and were not walking home by themselves after dark, seeing that the Master vampire helpers have been gagging out in large numbers the last couple of nights."
"Your welcome and I would rather drive them home then let them walk home alone with the amount of vampires that have been out the last few days. Xander and Willow might be able to fight one on their own. But the vampires have not been going out on their own lately, there are only going out in groups. I am going to let you hand inside now Faith and get your friends home."
"Ok, bye Xander, Willow and Angel."
"(Willow. Xander and Angel) Bye Faith."
Faith walks up to her apartment door and unlocks the door, then opens up the door and walks inside of the apartment shutting the door behind her. Angel's pulls out off the parking space after Faith is inside her apartment and then he drives to the exit/entryway of the apartment and stop at the stop sign. One there is a break in the traffic on Fourth Street/ highway Angel pulls out and turns right and then drives out of the downtown area and toward the neighborhood that Willow lives in, which a few streets away from Buffy's house.
Meanwhile at Sunnydale memorial cemetery Buffy is fighting a group of newbie vampires that were soldiers in the army before they were killed or past away, in this cause attack by a vampire and then turn into one. This group of five newbie vampires is well training in fighting and the five of them are giving Buffy a very good workout.
"Hey guys this is a little unfair five against one I know that I can hold my own, but you do not all need to fight me at once. I will be more then happy to fight one of you at a time!"
"The Master and the Anointed one send they love."
"How nice vamp one, you must tell them thanks for me!"
"The Master and the Anointed one also want you to know that very soon the Master will be able to walk above ground again and then the Master will kill all of Faith's and your family and friends then he will kill you and Faith."
"That will never happen vamp two, Faith and I will stop the Master, before he can stop feet above ground. Now let's get this over with. Now we can do this the hard way or the easy way either way the five of you are going to end up dust."
"It's going to be the hard way, because none of us are going to just let you stake us, that would make the Master look weak and we cannot have that slayer!"
A second after the leader of the group stops talking all five vampires run toward Buffy and vampire number one does a round house kick and the kick sent Buffy flying into the Wilkins Mausoleum. Buffy hits the mausoleum with a loud bang and then falls to the ground. Buffy hops right up and start running and then Buffy vaults over a gravestone that between her and vampire number one, after her feet hit the ground she does a round house kick that knocks the first vampire down. Buffy grabs a stick off the ground and stabs the first vampire through her undead heart with the stick. Buffy then runs over to her backpack, which is setting by the fence and pulls a stake out of her backpack. Vampire number two comes running toward Buffy from the right and vampire number three comes running at Buffy from the left, so she leaps into the air cause the vampires to run into each other and knocking them both down. When Buffy feet hit the ground, she quickly stakes vampire number two in his heart and then stakes vampire number three in his heart before the dust for vampire number two can reach the ground. Buffy's see vampire number four and five running to the gate of the cemetery, so she runs after vampire number four and five. Buffy's has just reaches vampire number four and five when Angel runs over to her, Angel's grabs vampire number four and Buffy grabs vampire number five and then Angel and Buffy stakes the last two male vampires through their undead heart at the sometime, which makes a large cloud of dust that fall down onto Angel and Buffy hair.
"Angel, if you get her a minute later, you would have missed all of the fun!"
"I would never let that happen Buffy."
"What took you so long, I thought you were just going to give Faith a ride home and then come and join me?"
"I give Willow and Xander a ride home after dropping Faith off at her apartment, so they did not have to walk home alone in the dark seeing that the Master has been sent vampires out in large groups the last few nights."
"Thanks Angel, I did not even think about how Xander and Willow were going to get home, tonight."
"You are welcome, Buffy."
"Yawning so is Giles's still doing yawning research, Angel?"
"He was when Xander, Willow, Faith and I left. You look tired and you keep yawning Buffy's do you want me to take over patrolling, so you can home and get some sleep?"
"That would be nice, but we have incoming vampires in a group of ten this time."
"I will take the five on the left and you can take the five on the right!"
"If Faith was here right now, she would be saying, let's get ready to party!"
"Then I will say your line Buffy, let's kick some vampire butt."
Angel and Buffy take off in a run toward the group of ten vampires, which is a group of five males and five female and the vampires are lined up so it is male, female, male, female, male, female, male, female, male, female. As Buffy runs up to the five vampires on the right and she notices that three of them used to go to school with her at Sunnydale high school. Angel and Buffy give each other one more quick look then the slayer and Angel start fighting the vampires.
Meanwhile, across town at the Sunnydale Motel and Downtown Apartment and in apartment number three, Faith has finished taken a shower and putting her nightshirt on. She walks over to the bathroom sink and grabs her toothbrush. She turns on the water and gets her toothbrush wet then puts toothpaste onto her toothbrush. Faith starts to brush her tooth, but she is having a hard time because the mint toothpaste keeps making her gag. Two minutes later Faith's has just get done brush her tooth, when she hears someone walking around in the main room of the apartment. She washes her toothbrush off and puts it away in the toothbrush holder that is setting on the sink. Faith's then quietly walks to the bathroom door with her left arm wrap around her stomach and open up the door up quietly. She then walks out of the bathroom and toward the bed, which is where the sound was coming from. She is almost to the bed when Sid the dummy jumps off of the bed with a knife in his hands. Faith jumps out of the way just in the nick of time and Sid falls to the floor. Faith runs over to him and pulls the knife out of the dummy hands, Sid looks at Faith for a few seconds then jumps onto bed and from the bed he jumps onto the top of the dresser and out the open window. Faith walks over to the opening window thinking to herself, I know that the window was closed and lock when I went into the bathroom to take my shower. Faith reaches over her dresser and closes the window and locks the window, Faith then takes a look outside. Faith sees nothing outside beside a neighbor and the neighbor golden retriever who is doing its business in the grass. Faith close the window curtain and then sit down on the bed. Faith then lays back on the bed and looks up at the ceiling, thinking to herself, how was Sid the dummy able to get into my apartment, when I know that the window was closed and locked? Faith stands back up and pulls the bedspread down to the end of her bed, Faith is about to get in to bed when her cellphone starts ringing to the tone of Don't Speak, which is the ring tone she use for Willow, Buffy and her boss. For Xander, Angel and Giles her ring tone is Just a girl. Faith grabs her cellphone off her dresser and sees that it is Willow that is calling her, so she flips her cellphone open.
"Hey Willow, what is up?"
"Not much, I want to ask you if you have any ideas about a song, sport or any other type of talent that Buffy, Xander and I can do in tomorrow night talent show?"
"You could play the piano and Xander and Buffy could sing a song."
"I do not play the piano in front of people."
"You have played the piano in front of Xander and me before, just do not look at the people watching the show."
"But Xander is no good at singing."
"Xander is really good at singing Willow, but if you do not want to play the piano for the talent show maybe the three you should found a poem that large enough that you could split the poem into three part and each of you recite a part of the poem."
"That a good idea Faith, thanks. I am going to call Buffy and Xander right away and let them know, bye."
"Bye Will."
Faith flips her cellphone close and set her cellphone on the second shelf of her bookcase headboard. She then gets in to bed and takes the "Dairy of Anne Frank" off the second shelf. Faith then pulls the bedspread up over her leg and chest, because she has starting to get cold. She then opens up the book to the page the forward is on and begins to read the book despite how terribly she feels, but since she has to have the book finished by Monday she has no choice seeing that it is ten p.m. on Thursday. Meanwhile after stopping at the Espresso Pump so Buffy could get a large Cappuccino, Angel and Buffy are now walking through Shady Hill Cemetery keeping an eye out from more groups of vampires that the Master sends out. Buffy and Angel stops at a fresh grave and kneels down to get a closer look at the gravestone. Angel's puts his right arm around Buffy shoulder, because the gravestone belongs to a three-year-old girl.
"Aylass Anne Adams born January 1, 1994 till May 3, 1997. Beloved daughters' of Amber and Andy Adams and beloved sisters' to Ace, Alex and Ashley Adams, Aylass lived a short but lovely life and will be missed dearly. This is so sad Angel, she hardly got to live her life, I wish that I know how she dead Angel?"
"I say that a vampire attack her and turned her because I can hear her crying from through the dirt and the dirt has also starts to move."
A few seconds later, two little hands come through the dirt and Buffy grabs the girl hands and pulls her out of the grave. Once out of the grave Buffy set the girl on her feet and Buffy is shock when she sees the girl for the first time, because the little girl look just like she did at three-years-old. Buffy slower back away from the little girl to a better look at her. Angel looks over at Buffy and can see that something is bothering her, but before Angel can say anything Aylass runs up to Buffy and bites her right leg, which start to bleed, Buffy grabs the girl up.
"Has anyone taught you that it wrong to bite?"
"Yes, but hunger. Smell good."
"Do you know who I am?"
"Buffy Summers the vampire slayer!"
"Who turn you into a vampire Aylass?"
"The Anointed one, because I look like you at three years old."
"I can't slay her Angel, can you do it or do I have to take her to Faith place for her to slay the mini vampire?"
"Faith's is in no shape to even slay a three-year-old vampire and I am not doing it Buffy, you are going to have to slay the Anointed one soon, so you better get use to slaying children vampires."
Angel takes the little girl from Buffy and hold the little girl up, so Aylass is at Buffy height. Buffy takes a stake out of her backpack and looks at the little girl one last time. Buffy then stakes the little girl through her undead heart. Buffy grabs her backpack before the dust of the little girl can hit the ground and walks away from Angel and she walks right into a Glurgg demon. Buffy takes a step back and looks at the demon that she walks run into and lets out a long sigh, Angel walks over to Buffy with two swords in his hands.
"Where did you get the swords from Angel?"
"The trunk of my car and we are going to need them because there are several more Glurgg demons coming our way."
"You know it really amazes me how fast you can get for here to your car and back Angel."
"That is vampire speed for you."
"The Glurgg demon body is like ninety percent pus right?"
"Yes, you will definitely want to take a shower before going to bed tonight!"
All six of the Glurgg demons are now in a circle around Angel and the slayer and the fight starts up right away. The Glurgg demon, Buffy's fighting swings his sword at the slayer head and Buffy ducks just in time and avoid getting hit in the head with the sword. Just as Buffy's straighten up Angel's decapitate the demon he is fighting and pus goes flying everywhere, hitting Buffy right in the face. Buffy's ignore the pus and swings her sword at the head of the demon she is fighting. The sword hits the demon and takes his head right off. Buffy starts to fighting a second Glurgg demon as Angel starts fighting his third along with a fourth and last demon because it comes at him at the sometime as the third demon did. Buffy sees Angel is fighting two demons at once, so she cuts to the chase and swings her sword at the demon and decapitates him, before he can even get more then two swings of his sword aimed at the slayer. Buffy then runs over to Angel's side and starts fighting the second demon that is attacking Angel. Thirty minutes later both Angel and Buffy are walking to Angel's car to put the swords away, because now the cemetery is completely quiet and the only new grave at this cemetery was the three-year-old Aylass grave. The two of them reach Angel's car and he open up the trunk, Buffy puts the sword she used in first and them Angel puts the sword he used into the car trunk. Angel's then closes the trunk of the car and looks at Buffy who covered in pus from head to toe. Buffy looks at Angel who is also cover in pus from head to toe and the two of them start laughing.
"I am going to head over to Sunnydale Cemetery and do a walk through, then I am going to call it a night Angel."
"Ok, Buffy I will cover the other nine cemeteries in Sunnydale tonight."
"Thanks, this town really needs nine more slayers."
"You are right Buffy. This town really does and maybe a few extras, that why when one sick or injury one of the extra slayers can go on patrol for them."
"It would make the job so much easy, I will see you around Angel and start with Crawford Cemetery, I think Giles might have said something to me and Faith about two funerals at that cemetery one yesterday and one today the body would be in Crawford Mausoleum, because the people that dead were relation to the Crawford."
"That would make sense because they are not adding any more graves to that cemetery, people are only being added people to the Mausoleums, I will start at the Crawford cemetery Buffy and be safe."
"I will try, Angel but staying safe is not in a slayer job description."
Angel and Buffy both laugh again and then Buffy walks away from Angel as he gets into his car. Buffy then starts to walk toward Sunnydale Cemetery and does not notice Sid the dummy behind the rose brush watching her. In fact Buffy does not notice that Sid has followed her to the Sunnydale Cemetery or that he is watching her. An hour later Buffy is climbing into her bedroom through her bedroom window. Once in her bedroom Buffy set her backpack on the floor and grab her pink tank top and pants pajamas set. Buffy then walks quietly out of her bedroom and into the bathroom. As Buffy is taking her shower Sid climbs through Buffy's bedroom window and into her bedroom. Sid stays on the floor behind the bed and waits for Buffy to come back into her bedroom. An hour later Buffy walks into her bedroom, rubbing her wet hair with a towel and Sid jumps onto Buffy's bed, as she walks over to the armchair that is by the bed. Buffy lays the towel out to dry on the armchair. Buffy then turns around and is about to walk to her bed when Sid jumps off of the bed toward Buffy with a knife in his hands and his arms out stretch. Buffy jumps out of the way a second before Sid reach her and Sid hit the bench of her vanity. The dummy then falls to the fall and Buffy runs over and takes the knife from him. Just then Buffy hears her mom in the hallway, so she opens the vanity drawer and put the knife into the drawer. Buffy then shut the drawer really fast and at the sometime Sid jumps out of Buffy's open bedroom widow and jumps to the ground. Thirty second later Mrs. Summers walks into her daughters' bedroom and over to Buffy, who is staring out the opening widow.
"Buffy is everything all right, because I heard a banging sound coming from your bedroom?"
"Yeah, just hit my toes on the vanity bench when I was drying my hair with a towel and not watching where I was walking is all."
"You really need to be more carful honey. You could have walked into a close door or fall down the stairs from not watching where you are walking and Buffy way was you take a shower so late for?"
"I could not sleep and I thought it might help me relax enough to be able to go to sleep. I do not wake you up did I mom?"
"Yeah you did, but its all right I was having a nightmare that I did the taxes wrong and an IRS agent came to the house. Also, Buffy you should not sleep with the window open."
"I will close the window before going to bed, mom. The room was stuffy, so I was letting air in during my shower is all."
"Ok, I am going back to bed, I will see you in the morning."
"Ok mom, good night."
Mrs. Summers walks out of her daughters' bedroom and she shut the door behind her. At the sometime Buffy walks over to her bedroom window, then shut and lock the window. Buffy then takes a good look outside and does not see anyone beside a neighbor who works the graveyard shift leaving for work late. Buffy close the curtain and walks over to her bed. Buffy sits down on the side that is near the vanity, then picks up the cordless phone and dials Faith cellphone number, so she can leave a voice mail to let her know about Sid being in her bedroom and to ask her if she had a visit, but on the third ring Faith answer her cellphone.
"Hey B what is up?"
"When I come into my bedroom after my shower I found Sid the dummy on my bed and he jumped off my bed and try to stab my chest with a knife!"
"He was in my apartment too, he got into the apartment when I was taking a shower, but I still have no idea how because my apartment door was lock and the window shut and lock."
"First things before school tomorrow, the two of us have to go and talking to Giles and let him know about Sid and see if he found anything out from his books. Then we need to take the time that Xander, Willow and I are suppose to be using to get ready for the talent show to look for Morgan and Sid the dummy."
"Ok, I will meet you in front of the school at seven a.m. or do you want to meet early, B?"
"Seven a.m. is fine Faith, see you then, Bye."
"Bye, B"
The two slayers hang up and then Buffy lays down and goes to sleep. Faith on the other hand picks "The diary of Anne Frank" back up and starts to read again, because she in too much pain from the stomachache to sleep and reading is helping her block out some of the pain. The next morning comes way to fast for both Faith and Buffy. When it is six o'clock in the morning, Faith gets out of bed after only an hour of sleep and walks into the bathroom. Once in the bathroom Faith look in the mirror and see that she is really flushed. She opens up the medicine cabinet and takes the thermometer out. Faith takes the cover off the thermometer and then she puts the thermometer into her mouth and sits on the edge of the bathtub/shower combination. Thirty second after Faith's put the thermometer into her mouth the thermometer starts to beep. Faith's take the thermometer out of her mouth and takes a look to see if she has a fever and see that she is running a fever of 103.9 degrees Fahrenheit. Faith stands up and at the same time gets a sharp pain in her lower right abdominal. When the pain becomes less, she walks over to the bathroom sink and puts the thermometer away. Faith walks out of the bathroom and turns right when she comes out of the bathroom and goes into the small kitchen area. She walks over to her mini refrigerator and grabs a bottle of water and then Faith closes the door of the mini refrigerator. Faith knows that she should try to eat, but cannot bring her self to eat anything. Meanwhile across town at the Summers house Buffy is eating pancakes with strawberry on top and so is her mom, Mrs. Summers made the pancakes as a treat for breakfast seen that neither of them sleeps good last night. At six fifteen Buffy and Faith's get ready for school and at seven o'clock on the dot both Faith and Buffy walk into the Library, yawning and sit down on the check out counter. Giles walks out of the book cages and over to Faith and Buffy. Giles notices that it looks like neither of the slayers had a good night sleep. He then notices that Buffy is wearing jean and a pink short sleeve shirt and that Faith is wearing a black long sleeve shirt and a pair of old black wear out workout pant. Giles also notices that Faith looks flushed and that Faith's has her arms are wrapped around her stomach.
"Its Sid the dummy, Giles!"
"Buffy what are you talking about?"
"He was in my bedroom last night Giles and he tried to stab my heart out with a knife!"
"Sid was in my apartment too last night and he also tried to stab my heart out!"
"That would go with the information that I find, so a far."
"(Both slayers) I really hate dummies!"
"Buffy and I need to go find Morgan and his dummy now, G!"
"Ok, but be careful Buffy and Faith."
Buffy hops of the counter first and Faith hops off a second later and stumblers and nearly fall on her face, but Giles catches Faith before she falls. Once Faith is stable on her feet Giles lets go off his slayer. Faith looks at Giles and then at Buffy who is both giving her a worry look and Giles is also feeling her forehead with his right hand. Faith pulls Giles hand off her forehead and start to walks toward the library door, but Buffy is not following her, Faith's turn around and looks at Buffy and Giles again.
"B let's go I do not have all day, I have that doctors' appointment this evening."
"Faith, I think that you should go home and rest till it time to leave for your doctors' appointment. I can search for Morgan and his dummy without you."
"No way B, Sid the dummy is going to pay for last night, beside he is a dummy. Even if I'm as sick as dog I can fight a dummy."
"I have no doubt about that Faith, but I agree with Buffy because you are running really warm and do not look well at all!"
"I can't Snyder will not let me till I have a note saying that I am too sick to be in school."
"Then stay here in the library or go lay down in the nurse station."
"No, G. I will be fine going with Buffy."
At the same time Sid the dummy walks into the library and up to Buffy, Faith and Giles on his own two feet. The two slayers and they watcher stops fighting about Faith going with Buffy's and looks down at Sid the dummy and Sid looks up at them. Buffy and Faith then runs over to the book cage and opens up the storage cabinet, which is where Giles stores the slayer weapons in.
"You will not need any of these weapons' Faith and Buffy."
"(Both slayers) we will be the judges of that one Sid!"
"I am here to talk only, the three of us have the wrong ideas about each other from the beginning, will you give me a chance to explain my side please?"
"Fine have a seat at the study table Sid."
"(Both slayers) What are you doing Giles?"
"Let hear him out first then make a choice on what to do with him Faith and Buffy!"
"Ok"
Sid, Giles, Buffy and Faith walk over to the study table. Buffy and Faith pulls the two end chairs out and moves the chair so the chairs are facing toward the table. Then the two slayers sit down on the two chairs as Sid sits down on the table. Giles stands behind the two slayers keeping a hand on Buffy left shoulder and a hand on Faith right shoulder.
"I was cursed by the Brotherhood of Seven, which is a group of demons that can appear in human form for seven year and the demons imprisoning my sprit in this dummy. I have to kill all seven too broke the cruse and once the cruse is break and I will dead and be in peace for the first time in years. I have killed six of the seven demons so far and the last of these demons is going to your school and in the school talent show tonight, I am just not sure who it is. I now know that it not either of you after last night when my attack on the two of you failed I went to Willy's Bar, which allows demons, vampires and humans and ask around and found out that Buffy and Faith are the vampire slayers, I date a Korean Slayer in 1930 when I was still human and she was hot, but not as hot as the two of you are."
"G, what is the brotherhood of seven?"
"(Now has a very old watcher diary in his hand) There are a group of demons that can take the form of humans and every seven years these demons need to take human organs, their need a brain and a heart to maintain their humanity and the organs have to be health."
"How will I be able to found the demon, Giles or Sid?"
"Buffy he or she will be looking for the brain, if he or she does not have it already."
"Right Rupert Giles, I know they have the heart but I am not sure about the brain, but I think that might have one, because I could not find Morgan this morning."
"Morgan brain won't do the demon any good if their take it, because he has brain cancer."
"Faith that means the demon will be looking for another brain from someone who is really smart like Rupert Giles or your friend Willow."
"Faith and I have to go found the demon before he founds Willow, Giles lock yourself in your offices and do not come out until Faith and I come back."
"I will not the school is big, I will help you found Willow and Sid will come with me to help in the search."
"(Both slayers) fine, Let's go."
Giles's pick up Sid and then the four of them walk out of the library together. Once they are out in the hallway Giles and Sid walks toward the front of the school and the two slayer starts walking toward the auditorium. When Buffy and Faith get to the auditorium, it is still empty, so they walk up to the stages and then walk up the stairs onto the stage. The two slayers notice a guillotine on the center of the stage. Faith and Buffy walk back stages and starts to look around, but the only thing they found is a brain in the back stage trash can.
"That must be Morgan brain, the demon must have left the school after killing him to discard of the body and then find someone else to take their brain."
"I agree with you Faith, he is not back here for sure."
The two slayers walk back out onto the stages to see Marc strapping Giles into the guillotine and Sid laying on the floor by the auditorium doors. Buffy and Faith runs over the watcher and Buffy does a side kick and sent Marc flying to the edge of the stage, by the stairs to get onto the stage. As Marc stands up his face starts coming off and starts to relieve his demon face, at the time Willow and Xander walks into the auditorium and sees Sid the dummy laying on the floor and Xander kneels down and picks up Sid.
"Willow and Xander you need to help Faith get Giles out of here now."
"Willow did Sid the dummy just talk to me?"
"Yes he did Xander and I think Sid right that we need to help Faith get Giles out of here, because Buffy is busy."
Xander looks up at the stage and sees Faith trying to get Giles free from guillotine and Buffy is fighting a demon. Then Willow and Xander (still hold Sid) run up to the stage and runs up the stairs. Once on the stage Xander set Sid down the floor and then Xander and Willow runs over to Faith, who is trying to undo the straps on the guillotine. Xander and Willow look over at Buffy who is fighting the demon and the two friends notice ripped pants and shirt on the stage floor and now know the demon was Marc who was doing magic in the talent show that evening.
"Get Giles unstrap and out of here Xander and Willow, I need to go help Buffy this demon seems to be strong then he looks and he beating Buffy right now."
"(Both Willow and Xander) Ok, Faith."
Faith runs over to Buffy and then Faith's punch the demons in the stomach and the demon stumbler a little, Buffy then does a vertical kick that hit the demon in his stomach before he gets his footing back and the demon goes flying through the air and lands on the guillotine that Giles just get up from. Willow undoes the rope holding the guillotine blade up and it falls down cutting the demon head off. Sid walks over to the demon with a knife in his hands and stabs the demon in his heart. Then Sid falls to the floor dropping the knife, which land next to him on the floor. Buffy walks over to Sid and picks him up, then Buffy looks down at Sid with a sad look on her face. At the sometime Faith looks out at the empty auditorium and she is thankful no one outside Giles, Willow and Xander and Sid sees what Buffy and she were fighting. Then Faith, Willow, Giles and Xander walk over to Buffy who is holding Sid in her arms.
"Another demon stop and another cruse broken, I say that a great day on the job, B!"
"Yeah, me too and Sid is finally resting in peace, which is what he wanting and also no more brotherhood of seven because all seven are dead now thanks to Faith, Sid, Willow, Xander, Giles and me."
"Now we just have to get the demon body out of here, before Snyder sees it and everyone start coming into the auditorium."
"Come on Giles let leave it maybe everyone will think it a prop for the talent show tonight."
"No, Buffy's let's get the demon body out of here."
"(Buffy, Xander and Willow) do we have to?"
At the same time Faith walks away from Xander, Willow, Buffy and Giles, as Buffy, Xander, Willow and Giles are fighting about what to do with the demon body and walks down the stage steps and sit down on the middle seat of the front row. Faith then shut her eyes trying to block out the stabbing pains in her lower right abdomen, which is so bad that it is causing her to feel nausea. Xander is the first to notice that Faith is no longer on the stage, he looks around and finds her sitting on the middle seat of the front row. He runs down the stairs and over to his girlfriend and Willow, Buffy and Giles follow Xander down the stairs and over to Faith. Xander kneels down in front of Faith and puts his hands on her knees. Faith open up her eyes and looks at Xander and at the same times tears start run down her face.
"Can you stop fighting about what to do with the demon body, ouch and help me for now?"
"What can I help you with Faith?"
"Xander, all you can do is be here for me, I need G help because he the one with the car. I think that I need to go to the hospital."
"You think that it is appendicitis Faith?"
"I have no idea what I have G, but I can't take the pain anymore!"
"Ok, let's go, But Buffy you need to stay at school, Snyder going to be watching to make sure you and Faith are both here at school. Faith will be able to get a doctor note from the ER to cover her."
"Ok, Giles."
"I am coming with you Giles."
"Ok Xander, I will go get my car and pull the car up in front of the school, the two of you can go wait for me in front of the school!"
"Ok, Giles's I will help Faith outside and we will see you in a few minutes."
Xander helps Faith up from the seat and Faith puts her right arm around Xander's waist and he puts his left arm around Faith's waist and then Giles, Xander and Faith walk out of the auditorium. Giles runs out of the school and to the staff parking lot, as Xander helps Faith to the main doors of the school and down the steps of the front walk of the school. Xander and Faith's have just reach the last step of the staircase (that leads to and from the school main entrance) when Giles pulls up in front of the school. Xander open up the passengers' door for his girlfriend and then help Faith into the car. Xander closes the passengers' door and then opens up the back door and gets into the car and closes the door of Giles 1966 Citroen. As Xander and Faith are putting their seat belts on Giles start driving to the school exit, Giles stops at the stop sign and sees no car coming so he pulls out turning right and drives up Main Street until he has to stop at the stop sign at the intersection of Main Street and Second Street. After two cars that stop before him goes, Giles turns left onto Second Street. When he reaches the intersection of Second streets and Hamilton Giles turns right, seeing that it is a green light. He drives a few more miles until he reaches Seventh Street and then he turns left into the parking lot of Sunnydale hospital, which is across from Seventh Street and Giles's then pulls up in front of the ER door. Giles puts his car into parked position and turns it off and then he gets out of the car. Xander is already out of the car and he is helping Faith out, as Giles runs up to the ER doors and inside the hospital. Giles then grabs a wheelchair and pushes the wheelchair outside and over to Xander and Faith. Xander helps Faith into the wheelchair and then Giles push Faith in the wheelchair up to the ER doors and when the doors open, he pushes the wheelchair inside and over to the ER admission desk.
"Can I help you?"
"Yeah, I think that I might have appendicitis."
"How long have you been sick for?"
"Since Monday."
"A nurse will be out in a few minutes to take you to an exam room, you and your friends can go wait in the waiting room. Also you need to feel out this medical history form, while you wait."
"Ok"
Xander takes the form from the nurse at the ER admission desk. Giles then pushes Faith in the wheelchair over to the waiting room and Xander walks beside Faith. Once Giles and Xander have sat down on the waiting room couch, Xander's hands Faith's the medical history form. Faith takes the pen off of the clipboard and starts filling out the form. Faith has just finish fill her medical history form out, when an ER nurse that has blonde hair, blue eyes, oval shaped face, a slight tan and wearing purple scrub walks over to Faith, Xander and Giles. Giles and Xander notice that the nurse name tag say nurse Jane Markson. The nurse takes hold of the handler of the wheelchair Faith's is sitting on and the nurse push Faith back to exam one. Xander and Giles follow the nurse that is pushing Faith in the wheelchair back to the exam room, but wait outside the room why the nurse helps Faith out of the wheelchair and into a hospital gown. When Faith is dress in the hospital gown, the nurse lets Xander and Giles's into the exam room.
"I need you to take this urine sample cup into the bathroom and fill it up for me."
"Ok, nurse Markson."
Faith takes the urine sample cup for the nurse and walks into the bathroom holding the back off the gown close with her left hand. A minute later Faith walks out of the bathroom and hands the full urine sample cup to the nurse who set it onto the tray, which is setting on the adjustable height over the bed non-tilt table that is next to the hospital bed. Faith then sets down of the bed and puts her legs up. She then pulls the covers up as the nurse takes a blood collection sets off the tray and takes the sterilized package off of the tray that the test set is in and then set it back onto the tray. The nurse warps a band around Faith's right arm above the elbow, then looks for the best spot to take the blood from. Nurse Markson's then wipes off the inside of Faith's right arm off with a rubbing alcohol swap and then puts the needle into the best blood vessel that on the inside of Faith's right elbow and then the nurse then starts drawing the blood. When the nurse is finish drawing the blood, she put a band-aid on the spot the needle was at and then picks up the tray the urine sample cup and vial of blood are on. Then the nurse walks out of the room to take the samples to the lab. Three minutes later the Dr. Kat walks into the exam room and over to Faith.
"Faith Lehane, what brings you into the ER this morning?"
"I had abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and low grade fever since Monday morning and starting on Wednesday morning, I had diarrhea. Yesterday the pain moved to my lower right abdominal and has getting worse every hour since then and this morning my fever was 103.9, but I think that my temperature has gone up since I take my temperature this morning."
"Ok. I am going to examine your abdomen for signs of tenderness and pain."
"Ok"
Dr. Kat puts her hands on the left side of Faith abdominal and starts to press down and Giles and Xander watch Faith facial express change for being fine when the doctor presses on her left side to slight uncomfortable when the doctor presses on the center and when Dr. Kat presses on the right side of Faith abdominal, tears start running down her face. Dr. Kat stops press on Faith abdominal when she sees this.
"I am going to send you to Radiography to have a cat scan and a ultrasound to confirm that you have appendicitis, but before nurse Markson takes you back to Radiography, I am going to have her take your temperature."
"Ok"
"Also, I have to head to my doctors' office for office hours, so Dr. Park is going to be taking over for me."
"Ok, thanks for letting me know."
Doctor Kat walks out of the exam room and right after nurse Markson's walks back into exam room. Meanwhile, at Sunnydale high school Willow and Buffy are hanging out in the library going through books of poems trying to find one that Xander and the two girls can take turns reading parts of in the talent show that night. Buffy's set the book of poems she was looking through down on the study table and looks over at Willow.
"Willow why are we doing this? It is not like Xander going to show up for the talent show tonight, he going to want to stay by Faith's side."
"Because we have to take part in tonight talent show to make Snyder happy."
"Nothing going to make him happy."
"You could be right, but we still have to take part, so get back to work."
Buffy picks up the book of poems and start looking through it again. Back at the hospital an hour later Giles and Xander have just learn from Dr. Park that Faith as been taking into surgery to have an emergency appendectomy. Xander calls Buffy cellphone and let Buffy and Willow's know what is going on. Then Xander and Giles start pace the surgery waiting room as they wait for Faith to get out of surgery, as they are waiting Willow, Buffy and Angel come running into the surgery waiting room and over to Giles and Xander. Angel's sits down on a chair and watching Willow, Xander, Giles and Buffy we are all pace and talking to each other.
"Buffy and Willow's why are the two of you here? The two of you should be at the school getting ready to perform in the talent show?"
"I do not cares about the talent show and neither does Willow. Willow and I are here to keep you and Xander company and to be here when Faith gets out of surgery Giles!"
"Buffy, Willow and Xander, Snyder is not going to be happy that the three of you left school and then did not show up for the talent show, but I will let all three of you stay."
The slayer, watcher and Xander continue to pace and Willow goes and sits down next to Angel. Two and half hours later Dr. Park walks over to Giles, Xander, Willow, Buffy and Angel, who are all now sitting on the waiting room chairs. Giles, Buffy, Xander, Angel and Willow stand up when Dr. Park gets over to them. The five of them all give Dr. Park a worry look and he gives them a look that says everything is ok, Xander is the first to say anything.
"How is Faith and what take so long, Dr. Park?"
"Faith is fine and is rest in recovery right now, when she is moved into hospital room then all five of you will be allowed to go see her. Faith's surgery took so long, because Faith appendix rupture before she came to the ER, I removed what remains of the appendix and had to insertion a drainage tube to let all the pus and other fluids that are in her abdomen to drain out."
"(Xander and Giles at the same time) How long will she have to stay in the hospital?"
"Mostly like until next Friday, but she might get release sooner, it depends on how long the pus and other fluids take to drain and if the antibiotic she was put on to prevent infection starts to work. I have to go check on Faith now. A nurse should be out shortly to let you know what room Faith is in."
Doctor Park walks away from Giles, Angel, Buffy, Willow and Xander and Giles is the first to sit down. Giles's rest his elbows on his knees and is resting his head on his hands. Buffy sits down on the chair next to her watcher and Willow and Xander sits down on the chairs facing the window looking outside, which is across from Buffy and Giles. Angel's sits down next to Buffy and Angel takes Buffy left hand and Buffy smiles at him, then goes back to looking at Giles who is now cleaning his eye glass with his handkerchief. Buffy takes a closer look at her watcher and sees tears start to run down his face.
"Giles's are you crying?"
"No, I just have something in my eyes is all."
"No Buffy, your watcher is definitely crying, Giles had been stress the whole time that the two of us have been here. I thought he was going to crying when Faith started to crying when Dr. Kat was check to see if presses on Faith stomach cause her tenderness and pain. I never thought he would make it this long without breaking down and crying. You would have thought that Faith was his own daughter and not his slayer!"
"Xander that is enough!"
"Giles's do not yell at Xander he is not one of your slayers that would be Buffy and Faith. Xander was just letting Buffy knew how hard this has been for you!"
"Xander and Willow, Faith might not be my daughter, but as her watcher I should have been paying more attention to her and listen to Faith's better. I should have also made her see a doctor yesterday morning when she lists off all the symptoms she had so she could get out of talking to Emily friends. Seeing that all the symptoms that she listed were symptoms of appendicitis and that her appendix might have rupture, instead I made her stay in school all day and then made her eat pizza and cheese bread and drink Vernors ginger ale for dinner, which she knew that she could not keep down but I still made her eat dinner after the told me she would end up threw up anything that she eat. Then I let her go home for the night, which only made her sicker Xander!"
"Giles's, Faith told you that she should be ok until her doctor appointment the next evening. This is not your fault."
"Buffy, Faith is only sixteen going on seventeen on December 14, 1997, I am adult I should have made her see a doctor Wednesday like I say before!"
"Giles's, Faith's has been taking care of herself for a long time now and know when she needs to see a doctor. She tries to get into the doctor sooner, but there was no opening till tonight."
"I know that Buffy!"
Nurse Markson walks over to Angel, Buffy, Willow, Xander and Giles and stops at the end of the two rows of seat. The nurse then looks at the two girls, one boy and the two guys. Xander, Willow, Angel and Buffy look up at nurse Markson and Giles then puts his eye glass back on his face, then he looks up at the nurse who gives the five of them a big smile and they smile back at her and Giles is the first to say anything.
"Is Faith in a room yet?"
"Yes, she is room number 116, you can all go up and see her for an hour then you all have to leave because visit hours end in an hour."
"That is fine."
Giles, Buffy, Angel, Willow and Xander all stand up and runs over to the stairs. Then the five of them run to the third floor. Once in the hallway of the third floor the five of them walk down the hallway until they reach room 116, Giles walks into the hospital room first follow by Xander, Willow, Buffy and Angel. Faith open up her eyes and see her boyfriend, Angel, Willow, Buffy and her Watcher standing around her hospital bed and gives them a half smile. The nurse walks into the room and takes a quick look at the bag the drainage tube is draining into and puts a note onto Faith's chart and then the nurse walks back out of the room.
"You all come to the hospital, what about the talent show Xander, Willow and Buffy?"
"Willow, Xander and I skip it. You are more important then making Snyder happy."
"Thanks"
"Hey you do not call me B."
"Do not get use to it, B it not going to become a regular thing."
"How are you feeling Faith?"
"A lot better G, when can I get out of here?"
"At the latest next Friday, at the earliest midweek maybe, doctor Park can't release you until the fluid stops draining,"
"Oh"
"On the bright side Faith you get to miss school until Dr. Park gives you the ok to go back."
"Yeah Xand, but I am all ready behind as it is, how can I ever get caught up?"
"I will bring your homework to you each day Faith."
"Thanks Xand."
"And I will come and help you with the homework."
"Thanks Willow.
"And Angel and I will handle patrolling until you are a hundred percent again."
"Thanks Angel and B."
The nurse walks back into Faith hospital room and Giles looks at his watch. He notices that it has already been an hour since he, Angel, Willow, Buffy and Xander come into Faith room. The nurse changes Faith IV and then looks at the five visits gather around Faith bed.
"You have to leave now visit hours are over for the night. But you can come back and see Faith tomorrow from eight a.m. to eight p.m."
"(Xander, Buffy, Giles, Angel and Willow) Bye Faith see you tomorrow."
"Bye"
Xander hugs and kisses his girlfriend bye on her forehead and then Angel, Willow, Buffy and Giles give Faith's a goodbye hugs. Then the five of them walk out of Faith hospital room. Xander, Willow and Giles heads home for the night, but Angel and Buffy go on patrol straight from the hospital. Meanwhile, Faith lays in her hospital bed and watching tv until she falls asleep.
