Buffy looked at Giles. He was her watcher he deserved better then this. "Giles, I am so sorry for this."
Giles looked at her trying not to be upset. "Yes, I know, so how exactly did you volunteer me for this Halloween thing again?"
"Snyder cornered me; I asked why you didn't have to. You got volunteered with me." Buffy explained.
Giles looked at her. "So I owe it to you that I'm working on my one night off."
Buffy innocently shrugged her shoulders. "Sorry, hey how about this for you?" She smiled and ran over to a costume. "It just screams you. Stuffy, old, it's you as an American."
Giles glared at her for a moment before conceding. "While I do have respect for the man. I just don't know."
Buffy looked at the costume. "Yeah I guess you can't pull it off. I just thought you'd like it because Ms. Calendar always said she had a thing for him."
Buffy smiled walking away and looking in the mirror as Giles grabbed the costume. She wonders why the floorguy just ran out the store.
Xander walked up with a smile in his soldier getup, petites and an old gun from when he was a kid. 0.00 the perfect price for a costume. He saw Giles. "Sup G-man… with a beard."
Giles looked at him. "You know I do outrank you."
Xander nodded. "Yeah, but you're dust in the wind." He knocked on the door and saw Buffy in her cheerleader costume. "That's not a costume. Don't get me wrong love the visual but, it's not a costume."
"Sure it is." Buffy countered spinning around as her skirt lifted a bit higher. "See, Cheerleader from Hemery, still fits."
"Can you do that again I didn't get a good look?" Xander asked but Giles glare stopped it.
Xander looked at her one problem. "So why didn't you go as a Sunnydale cheerleader?" Sure the original cheerleader recovered but she still paid for the clothes.
Buffy let out a smiled and shouted. "Willow come down here. No one can laugh in front a US President anyway it's like an unwritten law."
"Promise?"
"Yes" Buffy and Xander reply.
Xander watched as Willow came down in the modest Sunnydale cheerleader costume she borrowed from Buffy. "Wow, Will you look great."
Willow looked at him with raised eyes. "So I looked ugly before?"
"No, not what I meant." Xander assured her. "I just meant you… I'm not making it out of tonight with my dignity am I?"
"No" Willow assured him with new confidence as she wrapped her arm around his and led him out. Buffy and Giles just smiled following right behind them.
Later that night
"Oy watcher!"
The person in Giles' costume looked at him. "May I help you son?"
Spike smiled with ten of his friends as his game face came out.
Ethan's spell took hold and Buffy quickly took control meeting up with Xander and Willow whom never left each other's side the whole night. Buffy led the group on a hunt for Giles.
Xander stopped at a corner to catch his breath. "Buff, we're not going to do any good to Giles if we're half dead when we find him."
Buffy shook her head, "We have to keep moving all the costumes are changing which means he's defenseless right now."
Xander sucked air but kept following Buffy. What the hell he'll stop when he's dead. He turned and saw Willow. "You OK?"
Willow nodded. "I'm not meant to run in these shoes." Willow replied. There's a reason she's not a cheerleader… besides the obvious shyness.
Xander stopped and scooped her up carrying her as she was slowing them down.
Buffy heard a familiar groan. "He's over there." She led followed by Xander as both stopped to take in the sight. "What the hell?"
Willow looked on as Xander put her down. "I thought you dressed him up as… well you know."
"I did." Buffy defended herself like it should have been obvious. "I can't explain this unless I slept through a much greater deal of history class then I thought."
They watched Giles holding off eight vampires Spike among them with an axe. Xander watched as he used the handle to stop a vampire from biting and flipped him onto another. "Whoa!"
Buffy looked at him. "Giles hang on we're…coming."
Buffy ran in stake in hand and dusted two while they were focused on Giles. Xander grabbed one from behind in a full nelson and Willow stood with a stake ready to kill it. "Xander hold him steady."
Willow smiled and just staked him.
Spike looked at Giles, if the watcher was this good where was he on parent's night? "What the hell is this?"
Spike pushed him back and Giles stood fighting for control of the axe. Giles struggled a bit for control of the axe but saw what he needed and pushed a button. The top shot out a bit at Spike revealing a trigger as the vampire asked. "What the?"
Spike shouted in pain as the bullet shot sounded through as he lost his grip on the axe and grabbed his wounded leg. Giles took one quick horizontal swing and cut his head off.
Willow turned only to have the stake knocked out of her hand by a vampire. Xander ran over and tackled the vampire to the floor whom quickly rolled over.
The vampire smiled well at least he'll get a last meal before the slayer and the watcher take him out. He went for the neck only to raise his head and collapse into dust as Willow fell through the dust and onto Xander.
Xander smiled looking at her smile he lifted his hand and cupped her face. He quickly realized what was about to happen and pulled back. Willow frowned and got off him.
Giles looked at the two teenagers. Now those two seem similar. "Young man, might I have a word with you."
Xander shrugged. "Sure, not like anyone's going to believe I had this conversation anyway. Lead the way in your nice hat."
Buffy watched as they go. "What are they going to talk about?"
Willow gave an innocent shrug because she honestly isn't sure.
Xander looked at him. Now what does someone close to 150 or even older have to say to him? "What's on your mind?"
Giles turned to look at Willow. "Does that girl have leprosy?"
"What?...no!" Xander replied almost shell shocked. "Why?"
Giles nodded and looked at her again. "Any other diseases?"
"No!" Xander shouted.
Giles looked at Willow again and back to Xander. "I get it, she's a vampire?"
"No" Xander replied.
"Because there's nothing wrong with having a good vampire as a friend." Giles assured him.
Xander glared at him. "There's nothing wrong with Willow it's just…"
"Just what?" Giles asked him. "What makes her so bad that you were upset that you touched her? I can see it in your eyes you feel something for her but you're fearful at the same time."
Xander looked at him. No memory afterwards please. "It's not her it's me. I just, if I ever turn into my father, she'd… she'd just let me and take it. I don't want that for her."
Giles looked at him an abusive father and he's afraid of history repeating itself. "Your fear is completely unfounded. That girl just killed two vampires and if she was ever hit she'll hurt you much worse then you could ever hurt her." Honestly she strikes him as more violent then the boy is. "Why don't you give her a shot even if she does just accept it as you fear the blond fighter definitely won't?"
Xander smiled a bit. "Can I ask you something?"
"Certainly"
Xander thought on it there would probably be a lot better questions asked by a lot better people but he has to know. "Why are you getting involved in my life like this?"
Giles smiled. "Because I see a lot of you in me particularly the dedication to your friends and headstrong tendency to fight vampires. If friends hadn't intervened in my life I would have never stayed with my Mary."
Xander nodded knowing the significance of that name. "OK thanks for answering that."
Xander and Giles walked over to the two women. Buffy looked at them. "So, what did you two talk about?"
"Nothing important." Giles assured them.
Xander looked at Willow and she's changed since last year. No more mommy clothes, maybe the honest president is right. "You want to go to the movies tomorrow?"
Willow looked at him confused. "Sure, we can just meet at Buffy's house."
"No, no" Xander replied. "I mean just you and me. Move and maybe dinner after it to talk about the movie."
Willow looked at him oh goddess is he asking her out. "Oh I uh, uh, I think me and Buffy have a thing."
Buffy shook her head. "No I can do that thing with Angel, but I will stop by and help you accessorize." Buffy walked up with Giles. "So you're really the president aren't you?"
"Yes, young lady I am."
Xander rolled his eyes and put his arm around Willow as the red head smiled and he muttered out. "Brown noser"
Buffy pointed. "Hey, when else can I get slaying advice from Abraham Lincoln."
Willow hit pause as the next story started up. "OK, so apparently all it took to get Xander to notice me was a dead president, knew I shouldn't have spent my last five on that ghost costume."
Buffy smiled. "See what happens when you hide?"
Willow looked at her. "You realize you like girls better?"
Xander watched the screen intently. "I'm more baffled by Abraham Lincoln cutting up vampires, how come that never showed up in history class?"
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is written by Seth Grahme-Smith
