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Willow's smiles were regrettably not reassuring. Roy hurried after Buffy who was quickly trailed by Moss and Jen. Willow scurried behind, trying to distract them with offers of free drinks; but her generosity was ignored.
As Roy opened the door to the alley he could hear the sounds of fighting. "What's going on here?" he demanded.
"Oh I do hope there isn't anything wrong. That nice chap asked me out on a date for Saturday night. I think he wants to take me to a sushi restaurant. He asked if I liked raw food," said a worried Jen.
As the group rounded the dumpster they could see Buffy and Jen's gentleman friend locked in some sort of physical confrontation. Buffy was facing the audience which meant that they were unable to see the face of Jen's mystery man.
"Safety pins? Really?" Buffy quipped, "Couldn't you have just worn a name tag declaring yourself the Prince of Dorkness?"
"Jen, it sounds like Buffy knows your friend and he is part of the royal family. You are a lucky girl," remarked Moss.
"Or she would be if your friend stopped beating him up. What's going on Willow? Is Buffy an anti-royalist or what?" Roy asked Willow.
"I don't think you have the full story." Willow said wincing as the vampire's fist connected with Buffy's face. "Let's go back inside. Those two have issues they need to clear up."
"No, its been too long since an available single man picked me up in a bar and its not fair that your friend is monopolizing his time!" Jen insisted.
Richmond walked around the dumpster joining them, "What's going on? I saw you all leave out the back door and assumed you were ditching me."
They all watched as Buffy delivered a roundhouse kick followed by an upper cut. The vampire flew through the air and landed on his back in front of the observers. He looked over at them and snarled.
"Oh I get it - a vampire." Richmond said in a calm voice, "I think I'll go back in to see to the two beauties I left inside. I'll see you at work tomorrow," as he disappeared back through the door of the club.
Jen, Moss and Roy watched in astonishment as Buffy declared, "Come back here." While grabbing his foot she pulled him back and than leapt into the air landing on top of him stake first. He vanished into a pile of dust.
Buffy looked up to see her audience, "Oh ah, hi there."
"No need to say anymore Buffy. We all know what that was." reassured Moss.
Roy asked, "So you go around killing these creatures?" for the first time he felt that maybe he and Buffy were not in the same league.
"That's just great! I now have no plans for Saturday night thank you very much. And I've already texted my friends bragging about the catch I bagged tonight."
"Well, this went better than expected," Willow commented to Buffy helping her up before dealing with her new friends from work.