OF THINGS TO COME
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except for the ones that I created.
Chapter 26
After splitting up with Angel Wesley had started off down his hallway, keeping an eye behind him knowing how demons love to sneak up on their victims before they attack. He hadn't found a thing, and that was beginning to worry him. He found himself mentally comparing the old school and the new one, where almost everything seemed to have changed, from the placement of the library to the size of the classrooms. He hadn't spent to long in the old school but had made a point of exploring it. He had even made it a point to begin making a map of the entire town, marking vampire and demon haunts along with sightings and attack areas. He had just gotten done comparing the two different versions of the school cafeteria when he almost tripped over something.
"What the hell," Wesley said with a confused and slightly alarmed look on his face as he caught himself before he could fall and looked down at his feet to see what he had tripped over. To his relief he discovered that he had tripped over a chunk of brick that had broken off from the wall. Mentally scolding himself for almost tripping over such a trivial thing Wesley was about to continue on down the hall when he thought he saw something flash through the air down at the end of the hallway that he was cautiously making his way down. With a confused and hesitant grimace on his face he quickly made his way down to the end of the hall. The sight that greeted him almost made him gag, for piled up like trophies were the bodies of at least a dozen unfortunate people.
He slowly made his way towards the bodies, tightly gripping his axe, as he slowly and cautiously began to search about the bodies, hoping to find something.anything that could help him figure out exactly who, or what had killed the people and then stacked their bodies. He found items of little use, other than so that the bodies could be identified later for burial, like social security cards, driver's licenses and video club cards. He was about to bend down and pick up one of the driver's licenses when he heard an oddly familiar laugh that seemed to be coming from just down the hallway. The laugh was one that he had wished that he would never hear again. He quietly made his way to the end of the hall and hesitated before he slowly and cautiously poked his head around the corner. The sight that greeted him was not a happy one, for midway down the hall he saw Gunn lying unconscious on the floor being guarded closely by two large demons and a grinning Mayor. * * * * * * * * *
Spike and Buffy instantly made sure that they were in between the vampires and Dawn and Billy. Conner on the other hand seemed to not have any battle plan and simply be prepared for a long battle. For what seemed like an eternity the vampires kept their distance, as if waiting for the attack command to be given. Buffy could tell that Dawn was nervous, because she almost dropped her stake. Buffy situated herself so that when the vampires attacked she'd have plenty of room to fight back. Through the confusion Buffy could see Spike doing much the same thing, with many looks back at Dawn.
The vampires kept coming until they nearly filled the chamber, pushing Buffy, Spike, and the others back towards the tunnel opening. Spike and Buffy held their swords at ready, with Spike having jammed the torch into the ground directly in front of him. Conner had a stake in each hand and looked ready to fight. The fight seemed about ready to happen when all of the vampires suddenly snapped to attention as they saw the identity of the newest vampire that entered the chamber. Conner squinted to try and see who it was, but even if the chamber had been well lit he would not have known who it was, but Spike only needed half a glance to know exactly who it was. For the first time since becoming a human again Spike wished that he was still a vampire. Because stepping slowly into the chamber was who he thought he'd love unconditionally forever, but that had been before he'd met Buffy, and his world had never been the same.
Out into the chamber strode the one woman that could very well destroy the fragile new peace that Buffy had found with Spike. Drusilla, the undeniably evil and insane vampire that had turned Spike decades earlier, stood in amongst a small group of demons with an arrogant smirk on her face. She slowly looked over the quintet, her eyebrows raising angrily a bit as her gaze fell on Spike and Buffy. Dawn and Billy meanwhile only looked on with confused looks on their faces as they tried to figure out exactly who this new vampire was and why Spike and Buffy had almost frozen in their tracks upon sight of her, especially Spike who now seemed to almost be in a trance.
"Dawn stay behind me, don't let them split us up," Buffy said nervously under her breath as she took a step backwards towards Dawn and Billy.
"Buffy.who is that.you know her don't you, Spike does to," Dawn asked with an extremely nervous look on her face and tone to her voice.
"Drusilla, her name is Drusilla, and yes she knows Spike, she's the one that turned him into a vampire in the first place.," Buffy said back excited with a nervous look on her own face and was about to continue to describe Drusilla when Spike interjected the rest of what she would have said in his own unique way.
"And she's a bloody loon, crazy in the head, don't trust a damn word she says," Spike muttered under his breath but loud enough for Dawn, Billy, and Conner to hear him.
"So then it's no different then how I should treat you, good.," Conner said with a happy smirk on his face as he saw the glare that Spike threw his way.
"Stop fighting you two," Buffy started to say with an angry tone to her voice before she was interrupted by Drusilla as she stepped to the forefront of the congregation of vampires.
"What do we have here.the slayer, the turncoat, and the slayer's little sister and her boyfriend.and.I don't know you," Drusilla said with an almost mocking tone to her voice as she looked over each member of the group before her gaze fell on Conner, as she then gave him a peculiar look.
"No matter, you'll be dust soon enough," Conner said with an arrogant smirk on his face as he readied a stake to drive it through Drusilla's heart.
"Oh he's a funny wonker ain't he, just like his father he is," Drusilla said with a fake hurt look on her face and a soft tone to her voice as she smiled and cocked her head to one side.
"You're wrong, I'm nothing like my father," Conner said with an angry scowl on his face as he took a step towards Drusilla.
"Just like Angelus, always the impatient one," Drusilla said with a broad smile on her face as she took a step back before she broke into a giddy laugh that seemed to only make Conner even angrier than he already was.
"I said I'm.," Conner started to say with an extremely angry glare aimed at Drusilla before Spike interrupted.
"You'll back away Dru.if you know what's good for you," Spike interjected with a grim look on his face as he set his sights on Drusilla, who glared back at him with a look in her eye that more resembled someone whose puppy had just bitten them in the ass rather than as a former lover that had switched sides.
"What.what was that.did someone say something," Drusilla said with a large smile on her face as she pretended to be trying to hear something.
"Quit playing your games Drusilla, we have a little unfinished business to attend to," Buffy said with a determined look on her face and tone to her voice as she angrily took a step towards Drusilla.
"Ooh the slayer's mad at me.," Drusilla said with a mocking tone to her voice and a large smile on her face as she then took a step forward and said, "Kill them all."
At her words the vampire horde descended on them with murderous gleams in their eyes. The first to react was Conner as he met the oncoming vampires halfway and was soon all but lost in the sea of death. Spike was also soon engulfed by a wave of vampires, and try as he might he soon lost sight of Dawn and Buffy. For her part Buffy had staked a pair of vampires before she lost sight of Dawn and her heart rose into her throat when she thought she heard Dawn scream. In reality Dawn and Billy were doing better than there more experienced allies as they could still see each other and were soon fighting literally back to back, although it was clearly apparent that they couldn't last to long before they were overrun. Soon after that Spike managed to force his way back towards Billy and Dawn, finally catching sight of them just as a vampire was about to catch them off guard.
"Dawn look out.behind you," Spike yelled as loudly as he could as the vampire kept getting closer and closer to her. Upon hearing Spike's words Dawn spun around and was barely able to dodge an oncoming vampire whose punch nearly connected with her jaw. Instead that vamp was soon turned to a pile of dust as Billy drove his stake straight into its heart.
"Thanks," Dawn squeaked out with a relieved smile on her face as she looked back and up at Billy, who shared her smile.
"Anytime," Billy said with a smile before a vampire caught him from behind in a large bear hug and started to pull him back and away from Dawn, who feverishly scrambled to her feet.
"Billy," Dawn screamed in both fear and anger as she launched herself towards the vampire that had grabbed him but several jumped into her path and forced her back. Dawn charged the vampires blocking her path and had dusted a trio of them before she again caught sight of Billy, who was fighting with all his might to free himself form his current predicament.
While Billy was fighting against his attacker Spike was trying his best to make it through the crowd of vampires and get to Drusilla. Although the vampires fought hard Spike was far more experience and dispatched with relative ease those directly in his path. The first two vampires to approach him exploded in clouds of dust before they could even change into their game faces. Soon those two were followed by more and more of his former brethren, and Spike could care less them.
Buffy meanwhile struggled to keep herself from being overwhelmed after a fast start, and hearing Dawn scream Billy's name wasn't helping matters. After a short time of thinking her way through the fight she relented and let her slayer side take control, which led to even more vampires becoming piles of dust. She managed to get back to Dawn's side just as her younger sister again lost sight of her boyfriend. "Dawn.what's wrong," Buffy said exasperated as she landed a punch to the chin of a nearby and advancing vampire.
"Billy," was all that Dawn could get out with an extremely scared and worried look on her face as she staked another vampire.
"Don't worry I'll get him," Buffy said with a grim look on her face before she almost literally threw herself into the mass of vampires that sought to overwhelm them. The fighting went on for what seemed like forever as vampire after vampire was reduced to dust, however it seemed that for every vampire that was staked two more took its place. All the while Billy, try as he might, could not get out of the bear hug that the vampire had used to split him up from Dawn. He could almost feel the vampire's fangs as it leaned down to feast on his blood. But suddenly he felt the grip loosen and then release all together as he felt the vampire disintegrate behind him. He turned around slowly and came face to face with a stake wielding Conner.
"Thanks man.I thought I was a goner," Billy choked out as he bent over to try and catch his breath as well as retrieve the stake that he had dropped.
"Whatever," was all Conner said before he turned around and ran off to continue the fight, leaving Billy kneeling on the ground surrounded by hungry vampires.
* * * * * * * *
Wesley took a few seconds to run a few different scenarios through his brain, but all seemed to end up the same way, with him dying before he could rescue Gunn. And right now his death was the last thing that would help anyone and was something to be avoided at almost all costs, especially with a child on the way. Begrudgingly he slowly backed away from the corner and almost jumped out of his skin when he turned around and came almost face to face with Angel. Wesley almost had to gag Angel to keep him from talking as he nodded his head slightly towards the corner and Angel seemed to get what he was trying to tell him as he slowly stepped to the corner and took a look for himself. Seconds later Angel turned back to Wesley with a somber and serious look on his face.
"That's not good," Angel whispered hoarsely as he looked back and forth between Wesley and the corner.
"Tell me something I don't know.we need a plan, we can't just go charging in there, he'll kill Gunn," Wesley said with a deadly serious look on his face as he nervously clenched and unclenched his free hand.
"Okay.I'll sneak around and come at him from behind while you hit them from the front, maybe we can get the demon to attack me and then you can take care of the Mayor, who looks human enough.," Angel said at first with a thoughtful look on his face before it changed to one of concern and almost dread.
"Well if we're going to do this then we'd better get going, the sun will probably be coming up pretty soon and we'd better have you back to Buffy's before that or else Cordelia will have a heart attack," Wesley said with at first a grim look on his face before he finished his short speech with a wide smile on his face.
"Either that or she'd regale me all day with how worried she was.let's just do this and get it over with," Angel said with a smile before his look darkened as he then moved away from Wesley down the hall and disappeared around the corner.
* * * * * * * * * *
Back at Buffy's house the situation had degraded from its earlier dreadful predicament as now Giles was forced to post someone at every exit to keep Faith from going out to try and help. Although she tried to hide it Giles could see that as the hours grew later Faith's mood seemed to steadily worsen, going from mere anger at having to stay at Buffy's house early on in the evening to now more of pent up rage and aggression that she couldn't find any release for. He was forced to double up at the front door because he doubted that Xander would be able to stop her by herself.
"Get out of my way Xander.I have to stake something or else I'll go insane," Faith growled angrily as she glared at Xander, who meekly stood in the entryway and barred her exit.
"You ask me she's to late.she's already insane," Cordelia whispered under her breath to Fred, who stifled a snicker as best she could.
"What the hell are you laughing at," Faith yelled angrily as she whirled around to glare at both Fred and Cordelia, who cringed under the look.
"Please Faith, it's better for you and the baby if you'd just.," Giles began to say with a sigh as he took off his glasses and began to clean them before he was interrupted by Faith.
"It'd be better if you'd just shut the fuck up and let me go help my husband fight like I wanted to in the first place," Faith exclaimed with a furious glare on her face as she looked back and forth between Xander and Giles. She took a step towards Giles before she continued, "Bet you never did this to B, you just do it to me.the screw up."
"Faith please, I understand that you're worried about Wesley.but you're needed here, we have to keep Willow out of their hands.surely you see that you being here furthers that objective," Giles said with a contemplative frown on his face as he put his glasses back on and then continued as he muttered under his breath, "And this is nothing compared to what I put Buffy through over the years."
"Wesley's with Angel and Gunn, those three can handle anything," Fred said with a reassuring look on her face as she looked back and forth between Giles and Faith.
"I hope you're right Winifred, to me I'm far more concerned with the progress of Buffy's team, I wonder how Conner is getting along with Spike," Giles said with a worried frown on his face as he shook his head.
"Personally I'm hoping.," Xander started to interject with a large smile on his face before everyone in the room turned and glared at him before they all said, "Shut up Xander!"
END OF CHAPTER 26
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except for the ones that I created.
Chapter 26
After splitting up with Angel Wesley had started off down his hallway, keeping an eye behind him knowing how demons love to sneak up on their victims before they attack. He hadn't found a thing, and that was beginning to worry him. He found himself mentally comparing the old school and the new one, where almost everything seemed to have changed, from the placement of the library to the size of the classrooms. He hadn't spent to long in the old school but had made a point of exploring it. He had even made it a point to begin making a map of the entire town, marking vampire and demon haunts along with sightings and attack areas. He had just gotten done comparing the two different versions of the school cafeteria when he almost tripped over something.
"What the hell," Wesley said with a confused and slightly alarmed look on his face as he caught himself before he could fall and looked down at his feet to see what he had tripped over. To his relief he discovered that he had tripped over a chunk of brick that had broken off from the wall. Mentally scolding himself for almost tripping over such a trivial thing Wesley was about to continue on down the hall when he thought he saw something flash through the air down at the end of the hallway that he was cautiously making his way down. With a confused and hesitant grimace on his face he quickly made his way down to the end of the hall. The sight that greeted him almost made him gag, for piled up like trophies were the bodies of at least a dozen unfortunate people.
He slowly made his way towards the bodies, tightly gripping his axe, as he slowly and cautiously began to search about the bodies, hoping to find something.anything that could help him figure out exactly who, or what had killed the people and then stacked their bodies. He found items of little use, other than so that the bodies could be identified later for burial, like social security cards, driver's licenses and video club cards. He was about to bend down and pick up one of the driver's licenses when he heard an oddly familiar laugh that seemed to be coming from just down the hallway. The laugh was one that he had wished that he would never hear again. He quietly made his way to the end of the hall and hesitated before he slowly and cautiously poked his head around the corner. The sight that greeted him was not a happy one, for midway down the hall he saw Gunn lying unconscious on the floor being guarded closely by two large demons and a grinning Mayor. * * * * * * * * *
Spike and Buffy instantly made sure that they were in between the vampires and Dawn and Billy. Conner on the other hand seemed to not have any battle plan and simply be prepared for a long battle. For what seemed like an eternity the vampires kept their distance, as if waiting for the attack command to be given. Buffy could tell that Dawn was nervous, because she almost dropped her stake. Buffy situated herself so that when the vampires attacked she'd have plenty of room to fight back. Through the confusion Buffy could see Spike doing much the same thing, with many looks back at Dawn.
The vampires kept coming until they nearly filled the chamber, pushing Buffy, Spike, and the others back towards the tunnel opening. Spike and Buffy held their swords at ready, with Spike having jammed the torch into the ground directly in front of him. Conner had a stake in each hand and looked ready to fight. The fight seemed about ready to happen when all of the vampires suddenly snapped to attention as they saw the identity of the newest vampire that entered the chamber. Conner squinted to try and see who it was, but even if the chamber had been well lit he would not have known who it was, but Spike only needed half a glance to know exactly who it was. For the first time since becoming a human again Spike wished that he was still a vampire. Because stepping slowly into the chamber was who he thought he'd love unconditionally forever, but that had been before he'd met Buffy, and his world had never been the same.
Out into the chamber strode the one woman that could very well destroy the fragile new peace that Buffy had found with Spike. Drusilla, the undeniably evil and insane vampire that had turned Spike decades earlier, stood in amongst a small group of demons with an arrogant smirk on her face. She slowly looked over the quintet, her eyebrows raising angrily a bit as her gaze fell on Spike and Buffy. Dawn and Billy meanwhile only looked on with confused looks on their faces as they tried to figure out exactly who this new vampire was and why Spike and Buffy had almost frozen in their tracks upon sight of her, especially Spike who now seemed to almost be in a trance.
"Dawn stay behind me, don't let them split us up," Buffy said nervously under her breath as she took a step backwards towards Dawn and Billy.
"Buffy.who is that.you know her don't you, Spike does to," Dawn asked with an extremely nervous look on her face and tone to her voice.
"Drusilla, her name is Drusilla, and yes she knows Spike, she's the one that turned him into a vampire in the first place.," Buffy said back excited with a nervous look on her own face and was about to continue to describe Drusilla when Spike interjected the rest of what she would have said in his own unique way.
"And she's a bloody loon, crazy in the head, don't trust a damn word she says," Spike muttered under his breath but loud enough for Dawn, Billy, and Conner to hear him.
"So then it's no different then how I should treat you, good.," Conner said with a happy smirk on his face as he saw the glare that Spike threw his way.
"Stop fighting you two," Buffy started to say with an angry tone to her voice before she was interrupted by Drusilla as she stepped to the forefront of the congregation of vampires.
"What do we have here.the slayer, the turncoat, and the slayer's little sister and her boyfriend.and.I don't know you," Drusilla said with an almost mocking tone to her voice as she looked over each member of the group before her gaze fell on Conner, as she then gave him a peculiar look.
"No matter, you'll be dust soon enough," Conner said with an arrogant smirk on his face as he readied a stake to drive it through Drusilla's heart.
"Oh he's a funny wonker ain't he, just like his father he is," Drusilla said with a fake hurt look on her face and a soft tone to her voice as she smiled and cocked her head to one side.
"You're wrong, I'm nothing like my father," Conner said with an angry scowl on his face as he took a step towards Drusilla.
"Just like Angelus, always the impatient one," Drusilla said with a broad smile on her face as she took a step back before she broke into a giddy laugh that seemed to only make Conner even angrier than he already was.
"I said I'm.," Conner started to say with an extremely angry glare aimed at Drusilla before Spike interrupted.
"You'll back away Dru.if you know what's good for you," Spike interjected with a grim look on his face as he set his sights on Drusilla, who glared back at him with a look in her eye that more resembled someone whose puppy had just bitten them in the ass rather than as a former lover that had switched sides.
"What.what was that.did someone say something," Drusilla said with a large smile on her face as she pretended to be trying to hear something.
"Quit playing your games Drusilla, we have a little unfinished business to attend to," Buffy said with a determined look on her face and tone to her voice as she angrily took a step towards Drusilla.
"Ooh the slayer's mad at me.," Drusilla said with a mocking tone to her voice and a large smile on her face as she then took a step forward and said, "Kill them all."
At her words the vampire horde descended on them with murderous gleams in their eyes. The first to react was Conner as he met the oncoming vampires halfway and was soon all but lost in the sea of death. Spike was also soon engulfed by a wave of vampires, and try as he might he soon lost sight of Dawn and Buffy. For her part Buffy had staked a pair of vampires before she lost sight of Dawn and her heart rose into her throat when she thought she heard Dawn scream. In reality Dawn and Billy were doing better than there more experienced allies as they could still see each other and were soon fighting literally back to back, although it was clearly apparent that they couldn't last to long before they were overrun. Soon after that Spike managed to force his way back towards Billy and Dawn, finally catching sight of them just as a vampire was about to catch them off guard.
"Dawn look out.behind you," Spike yelled as loudly as he could as the vampire kept getting closer and closer to her. Upon hearing Spike's words Dawn spun around and was barely able to dodge an oncoming vampire whose punch nearly connected with her jaw. Instead that vamp was soon turned to a pile of dust as Billy drove his stake straight into its heart.
"Thanks," Dawn squeaked out with a relieved smile on her face as she looked back and up at Billy, who shared her smile.
"Anytime," Billy said with a smile before a vampire caught him from behind in a large bear hug and started to pull him back and away from Dawn, who feverishly scrambled to her feet.
"Billy," Dawn screamed in both fear and anger as she launched herself towards the vampire that had grabbed him but several jumped into her path and forced her back. Dawn charged the vampires blocking her path and had dusted a trio of them before she again caught sight of Billy, who was fighting with all his might to free himself form his current predicament.
While Billy was fighting against his attacker Spike was trying his best to make it through the crowd of vampires and get to Drusilla. Although the vampires fought hard Spike was far more experience and dispatched with relative ease those directly in his path. The first two vampires to approach him exploded in clouds of dust before they could even change into their game faces. Soon those two were followed by more and more of his former brethren, and Spike could care less them.
Buffy meanwhile struggled to keep herself from being overwhelmed after a fast start, and hearing Dawn scream Billy's name wasn't helping matters. After a short time of thinking her way through the fight she relented and let her slayer side take control, which led to even more vampires becoming piles of dust. She managed to get back to Dawn's side just as her younger sister again lost sight of her boyfriend. "Dawn.what's wrong," Buffy said exasperated as she landed a punch to the chin of a nearby and advancing vampire.
"Billy," was all that Dawn could get out with an extremely scared and worried look on her face as she staked another vampire.
"Don't worry I'll get him," Buffy said with a grim look on her face before she almost literally threw herself into the mass of vampires that sought to overwhelm them. The fighting went on for what seemed like forever as vampire after vampire was reduced to dust, however it seemed that for every vampire that was staked two more took its place. All the while Billy, try as he might, could not get out of the bear hug that the vampire had used to split him up from Dawn. He could almost feel the vampire's fangs as it leaned down to feast on his blood. But suddenly he felt the grip loosen and then release all together as he felt the vampire disintegrate behind him. He turned around slowly and came face to face with a stake wielding Conner.
"Thanks man.I thought I was a goner," Billy choked out as he bent over to try and catch his breath as well as retrieve the stake that he had dropped.
"Whatever," was all Conner said before he turned around and ran off to continue the fight, leaving Billy kneeling on the ground surrounded by hungry vampires.
* * * * * * * *
Wesley took a few seconds to run a few different scenarios through his brain, but all seemed to end up the same way, with him dying before he could rescue Gunn. And right now his death was the last thing that would help anyone and was something to be avoided at almost all costs, especially with a child on the way. Begrudgingly he slowly backed away from the corner and almost jumped out of his skin when he turned around and came almost face to face with Angel. Wesley almost had to gag Angel to keep him from talking as he nodded his head slightly towards the corner and Angel seemed to get what he was trying to tell him as he slowly stepped to the corner and took a look for himself. Seconds later Angel turned back to Wesley with a somber and serious look on his face.
"That's not good," Angel whispered hoarsely as he looked back and forth between Wesley and the corner.
"Tell me something I don't know.we need a plan, we can't just go charging in there, he'll kill Gunn," Wesley said with a deadly serious look on his face as he nervously clenched and unclenched his free hand.
"Okay.I'll sneak around and come at him from behind while you hit them from the front, maybe we can get the demon to attack me and then you can take care of the Mayor, who looks human enough.," Angel said at first with a thoughtful look on his face before it changed to one of concern and almost dread.
"Well if we're going to do this then we'd better get going, the sun will probably be coming up pretty soon and we'd better have you back to Buffy's before that or else Cordelia will have a heart attack," Wesley said with at first a grim look on his face before he finished his short speech with a wide smile on his face.
"Either that or she'd regale me all day with how worried she was.let's just do this and get it over with," Angel said with a smile before his look darkened as he then moved away from Wesley down the hall and disappeared around the corner.
* * * * * * * * * *
Back at Buffy's house the situation had degraded from its earlier dreadful predicament as now Giles was forced to post someone at every exit to keep Faith from going out to try and help. Although she tried to hide it Giles could see that as the hours grew later Faith's mood seemed to steadily worsen, going from mere anger at having to stay at Buffy's house early on in the evening to now more of pent up rage and aggression that she couldn't find any release for. He was forced to double up at the front door because he doubted that Xander would be able to stop her by herself.
"Get out of my way Xander.I have to stake something or else I'll go insane," Faith growled angrily as she glared at Xander, who meekly stood in the entryway and barred her exit.
"You ask me she's to late.she's already insane," Cordelia whispered under her breath to Fred, who stifled a snicker as best she could.
"What the hell are you laughing at," Faith yelled angrily as she whirled around to glare at both Fred and Cordelia, who cringed under the look.
"Please Faith, it's better for you and the baby if you'd just.," Giles began to say with a sigh as he took off his glasses and began to clean them before he was interrupted by Faith.
"It'd be better if you'd just shut the fuck up and let me go help my husband fight like I wanted to in the first place," Faith exclaimed with a furious glare on her face as she looked back and forth between Xander and Giles. She took a step towards Giles before she continued, "Bet you never did this to B, you just do it to me.the screw up."
"Faith please, I understand that you're worried about Wesley.but you're needed here, we have to keep Willow out of their hands.surely you see that you being here furthers that objective," Giles said with a contemplative frown on his face as he put his glasses back on and then continued as he muttered under his breath, "And this is nothing compared to what I put Buffy through over the years."
"Wesley's with Angel and Gunn, those three can handle anything," Fred said with a reassuring look on her face as she looked back and forth between Giles and Faith.
"I hope you're right Winifred, to me I'm far more concerned with the progress of Buffy's team, I wonder how Conner is getting along with Spike," Giles said with a worried frown on his face as he shook his head.
"Personally I'm hoping.," Xander started to interject with a large smile on his face before everyone in the room turned and glared at him before they all said, "Shut up Xander!"
END OF CHAPTER 26