At 9:55 A.M., Willow and Valerie were called into Capt. Matuzek's office. Once they stepped in Capt. Matuzek handed each of them a personnel list along with a small stack of the revised protocols for the building while saying, "I divided the list of personnel in half. Each person on the list gets a revised copy of the protocols."
"Since today's Sunday there must be a lot of people out," Valerie said. "So what do we do when someone isn't here?"
"Phone calls have been sent out to all off duty personnel," Capt. Matuzek said. "Although it is slightly unusual for the off duty personnel to be asked to come in for only the revised protocol everyone personnel have been instructed to show before 3:00 P.M. to receive a copy."
"So you're expecting us to be collecting signatures for five hours?" Valerie questioned.
"Perhaps not quite that long, but it will take you a while," Capt. Matuzek said as the phone rang. He then gestured for Willow and Valerie to wait with one hand as he clicked on the speakerphone with his other hand. "Capt. Matuzek here."
"Eugene, it's Avery again," the man said. "So are my agent and Dr. Brennan in the office."
"Agent Booth and Dr. Brennan should be knocking on my door any minute," Capt. Matuzek told the director of the FBI for the past three years. "I will put you on hold until they get here."
"Sure," Avery said.
Capt. Matuzek put Avery on hold before saying, "Okay, Willow; Valerie you two are free to do what you need to do."
"Yes, Captain," Willow and Valerie said before turning towards the door.
Booth and Dr. Brennan were walking towards Capt. Matuzek's office just as Willow and Valerie were stepping into the hall.
Willow gave Booth a double take before questioning, "Angel?"
Booth and Dr. Brennan gave Willow a slightly stunned look before Booth said, "Okay, you're the second person within thirty minutes to call me Angel."
As the two groups stepped closer to one another, Willow said, "I can see now that you're not him." Valerie glanced at Dr. Brennan in an uncomfortable manner before facing away. "You do slightly favor him though."
"We got that from a woman name… I want to say Bunny," Booth said as Willow began to sense what Valerie was sensing with Dr. Brennan.
Willow slightly grinned at what Booth had said while she and Dr. Brennan corrected him, "It's Buffy."
Willow gazed at Dr. Brennan while continuing to say, "I'm Willow. Buffy and I have been best friends since high school."
"Nice to meet you Willow," she said while offering her hand to shake hands. "I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan from the Jeffersonian Institute. Angel's look-a-like is Special Agent Seeley Booth."
As Willow and Dr. Brennan shook hands, Booth said, "Maybe Angel is my look-a-like. Did you ever think of that?"
"Yeah, anyway this is Valerie," Willow said while gesturing to her.
Valerie gave Dr. Brennan a polite grin before timidly saying, "Hi."
"It was nice meeting you both," Dr. Brennan said.
"If you ladies excuse us, we have a meeting with Capt. Matuzek," Booth said.
Willow slightly held up the papers while saying, "We have something to get to anyway. Bye."
"Bye," Dr. Brennan said as Booth nodded with a polite grin.
Buffy, Giles, Xander and Dawn were in the office while reading Internet pages on the book of 'Legends and myths on night-stalkers.' Hunter was in the floor scribbling on a piece of paper with a pen. After the four read a few pages, they learned that the author of the book was Alfred Whales from London England. Before authoring the book he was one of the firemen who were dispatched to the scene of the original Watcher's Council headquarters after the headquarters blew up.
"Bloody hell," Giles emotionally uttered. "This twit had to have found the watcher's journals in the rumble after the council was destroyed."
"The guy thought they were myths," Dawn said as the door opened to the room. "That's good. Isn't it?"
"It is," Buffy said as everyone turned towards the door to see who was coming in.
When Willow and Valerie stepped in and saw that all eyes were on them, Willow said, "Valerie and I ran into Agent Booth and Dr. Brennan outside Capt. Matuzek's office."
"Agent Booth looks like Angel," Xander said. "Dawn and I got the memo."
"Here's something that wasn't in the memo," Willow began. "Dr. Brennan is bugged in the same manner as Dr. Easter and Brandon."
Giles took of his glasses while questioning, "Are you sure?"
"I'm positive," Valerie said.
"Valerie and I both felt it," Willow added.
"I'll let Capt. Matuzek know," Buffy said.
"You can't do it now," Valerie said. "She and Agent Booth are talking with Capt. Matuzek at the moment."
"I wonder what an FBI agent and an anthropologist are talking with Capt. Matuzek about." Xander wondered aloud.
"Capt. Matuzek has to be told, so he won't say anything wrong in front of Dr. Brennan," Giles said.
As Buffy picked up the phone she said, "I'll call him and tell him." There was a short pause before she went to hang up. "It went directly into voicemail." She stood up. "I better go and tell him."
"You're going to interrupt?" Dawn questioned.
"I'm going to have to," Buffy said. "We can't take the chance that Capt. Matuzek will say anything."
After Buffy stepped out, Willow said, "Val, we might as well get to work collecting those signatures." Valerie just nodded.
In the hall outside Capt. Matuzek's office, Booth and Dr. Brennan were leaving the office. Booth was the last one out and when the door was shut, he said, "Okay, something is definitely going on."
"I agree, but you were ordered by the director of the FBI not to pursue the matter," Dr. Brennan said.
"Isn't it bothering you that you have to turn over everything pertaining to what was found to the TEC agency?" Booth questioned.
"Well, Zack was the one who found it, so he might be bothered that Theodora and everything pertaining to her remains will have to be turned over," Dr. Brennan said.
"So you're okay with being told to drop this case?"
"I would like to know the truth, but you heard your boss. We can't pursue the matter without disobeying him."
"I can't, but you can."
Dr. Brennan saw the wheels in Booth's head spinning. She gave a Booth a curious look before asking, "How can I pursue the matter?"
"You want to learn more about demonology from Bunny…"
"It's Buffy," Dr. Brennan corrected.
"Okay, Buffy," Booth repeated. "Anyway I'm going to encourage that and while you two are together I want you to subtly find out what you can about this facility."
"You want me to use Buffy to get information?" Dr. Brennan said as Buffy was entering the floor from the stairwell.
"I do," Booth said as he and Dr. Brennan caught sight of Buffy. "Now, shshsh."
"Buffy, we meet again," Dr. Brennan timidly commented.
Buffy gave Dr. Brennan a curious look before gesturing towards a door and saying, "Yes. I'm actually passing this way to go talk to Capt. Matuzek. Who are you two here to see?"
"We came to speak with Capt. Matuzek, but our business with him didn't take very long," Dr. Brennan said.
"So you two are leaving?" Buffy questioned.
"We are," Booth said.
"I would like to get with you very soon and talk about demonology," Dr. Brennan added. "Perhaps we can have lunch today."
"Today," Buffy mocked. "Can I get back with you on that?"
"Sure," Dr. Brennan said. "I'm going back to the Jeffersonian Institute, so you can reach me there."
"Okay," Buffy said. "I'll see you later."
"Bye," Dr. Brennan said followed by Booth.
As Dr. Brennan and Booth walked towards the elevators, Buffy stepped up and knocked on Capt. Matuzek's door.
"Enter," Buffy heard Capt. Matuzek saying. When Buffy stepped in Capt. Matuzek continued to say, "Buffy. What a coincidence. I was about to page you." He gestured towards a visitor's chair.
"What about?" Buffy asked while she took a seat.
"That crossmock demon you killed in the past had a knife," Capt. Matuzek said. "That knife was linked to several present day assassinations. Three years ago in Africa it was found with skeletal remains of ancient young woman; however, the knife and the remains had sat in storage at the Jeffersonian Institute until this morning when it was brought out for examination."
"Ooh," Buffy said in a tone to match her words. "That knife led Agent Booth here." Capt. Matuzek gave her a surprised look. "Agent Booth favors someone I know and I confronted him when I saw him in the reception area."
"Anyway, Agent Booth's knowledge of another incident is actually what gave him the clue to seek answers here about the knife," Capt. Matuzek said. "By no means is this the first time something had been left in the past that doesn't belong in the past, but in the future… well your future anyway, be more careful not to leave anything in the past that doesn't belong there."
Buffy politely grinned while saying, "Yes, Captain."
"So was there something you want to talk to me about?" Capt. Matuzek asked.
"Yes," Buffy said. "Willow and Valerie ran into Agent Booth and Dr. Brennan outside your office. They sensed that Dr. Brennan is bugged as well." Capt. Matuzek gave Buffy a concerned look. "So I was actually trying to get here in time before you said anything that Lowkey shouldn't hear."
"Well, luckily the conversation was brief and uninformative… well uninformative for them anyway. They were told by their boss to drop the case and everything pertaining to the knife is to be turned over to us."
"So Agent Booth and Dr. Brennan don't know what goes on here?" .
"They don't and it stays that way. As far as debugging Dr. Brennan, I'll make up an excuse to get Dr. Brennan here so Willow can debug her at the same time as the others."
"Debugging Dr. Brennan at the same time as your personnel might become dangerous for the people at the Jeffersonian Institute if there are more people bugged."
"Unless you have an idea that can solve that, we can't worry about that."
"I may have an idea."
"I'm listening."
"When we spoke in the reception area, demonology was brought up. Dr. Brennan knows a little about demonology; except she thinks it is all myths. I impressed her with my knowledge of the subject and she wants to learn more from me about it. I think I can probably manage to get a tour of the Jeffersonian Institute and during that tour, Willow and Valerie could find out who all are bugged."
"And then debug everyone at the same time," Capt. Matuzek finished Buffy's sentence.
"Exactly."
"Okay, I'll give you a few hours."
"Thank you, Captain."
Capt. Matuzek nodded before asking, "Is there anything else I need to know about?"
"That's all I have."
"Okay, well, before you leave, you should know that your hunch about Coshocton, Ohio was right; however, when Jack and the others got there, they were long gone."
"So we're starting from scratch."
"I was told that your group had an unorthodox method of finding Dr. Briers, but you need something belonging to him after he was sired…"
"Well, if we had something of his, Willow could do a locator spell," Buffy interrupted with.
"A locator spell," Capt. Matuzek mocked in a skeptical tone. Buffy just nodded with a grin. "Anyway, I had ordered everything that was found at Dr. Briers' former makeshift headquarters to be brought here. Hopefully there will be something useful mixed in the items that will help Willow with her 'locator spell.'"
"Let's hope."
"Jack and your crew are on their way back. And that's really all I have."
Buffy stood up before saying, "I don't really have anything going on, so you can find me and my group in the gym working out if you need us." Capt. Matuzek just nodded. Buffy then turned and walked out.
At the Jeffersonian Institute in an examination room with the remains of a murder victim that was found six that morning, Dr. Brennan and Booth had told Zach, Hodgins, Angela, Camille what the director of FBI had said.
"Theodora is a unique find," Zach said. "How can we be expected to turn everything over to the TEC agency?"
"This is another government cover up what it is," Hodgins said.
"Normally, I would say that you're just being paranoid," Booth began. "Not this time though. Something is going on and the FBI director is involved."
"I smell corruption within the FBI," Hodgins said with a grin. "I like it."
Booth gave him a 'get serious' look before saying, "I wouldn't go that far. Anyway Bones and I have a plan to find out more."
"If you and Dr. Brennan come up missing, I'll know why," Hodgins said.
"Okay, we have work to do," Camille said while gesturing to the remains. "So let's get to it people. This crime isn't going to solve itself."
"So what do we have so far?" Dr. Brennan asked.
Two hours later, Buffy while carrying a few books on mundane demons had met Dr. Brennan at a local diner. After being seated and ordering their food, Dr. Brennan began to flip through one of the books.
She only flipped through a few pages before asking, "So what does a demonology expert do for the TEC agency?"
Buffy grinned before saying, "I can't answer that, Dr. Brennan."
"Please call me Temperance."
"Okay. Temperance."
"So, Buffy, tell me about yourself. Where are you from?" Buffy took a deep breath before she began answering the question.
At the local FBI headquarters, Booth was alone and said aloud while gazing at the computer screen, "Buffy Anne Summers; born in Los Angeles in the year 1981. Attended Hemery high school in L.A. her freshman year and was expelled for the suspicion of burning down the gym. No hard evidence was found so no formal charges were filed. She then spent two weeks in a L.A. mental institution soon after. After being release from the mental institution you, your mother and baby sister moved to Sunnydale, California. Whoa, Sunnydale. You're from that crater. Anyway after moving to Sunnydale, your record became… whoa, a lot more interesting than catching a L.A. high school on fire." Booth than picked up his phone and dialed information. He then got the number to the mental institution that Buffy was in. After writing down the number, he dialed it. "Yes, I'm Special Agent Booth out of Washington, D.C. I'm in the middle of an investigation that involves a Buffy Anne Summer and according to her records, she was admitted to your facility in the year 1996. Why was she admitted? Yes, I have heard of patient-doctor confidentiality, but… okay fine. I will be making a formal request to get that court order. Bye." He hung up the phone. "
Before the meal arrived, Buffy shared the boring details of her life in Sunnydale with Dr. Brennan without mentioning anything about fighting demons.
After the waitress brought their food and they began eating, Dr. Brennan made a few attempts to gather information. Buffy just smiled the questions away while saying, "I can't answer that."
Once they were done eating and the check was paid, Dr. Brennan and Buffy went their respective ways with Dr. Brennan feeling dissatisfied about not getting the information that she was seeking. However, she thought that she had another chance to get that information when she Okayed a tour of the Jeffersonian Institute for Buffy and her group.
At 2:25 P.M., Willow and Valerie went to catch up to Capt. Matuzek in the hallway. While they were catching up, Willow said, "We finished collecting the signatures and we found seven personnel being bugged."
"That many?" Capt. Matuzek questioned.
"Yes, Captain," Willow said while handing Capt. Matuzek the list. He began to look over it.
"I felt something different with one of them?" Valerie added which was the first time Willow was hearing about it.
"Different how?" Capt. Matuzek asked as he looked up from the list.
Valerie took a second to think about the right words before saying, "A more intense feeling I guess would best describe it."
"Explain," Capt. Matuzek said.
"Blake Carlson is the person who I'm getting the intense feeling with and when I look at him, I'm actually feeling two separate existences within one body," Valerie said.
"Do you mean like someone being spiritually possessed?" Willow questioned.
Valerie shrugged while saying, "If I had met a possessed person before then I probably could tell you, but I never have so I don't know the answer to that."
"Okay, well, let's error on the side of caution and assume that the answer to my question is yes," Willow said.
"That's fine with me," Valerie said.
"Are you telling me that one of my Time-Cops is being controlled by a spirit?" Capt. Matuzek questioned.
"I don't believe that's the case," Willow said. "Lowkey had gotten someone in to set the fire and steal those journals, so I'm thinking that Lowkey is able to control Blake like a puppet-master would control a puppet. Of course, this is just a conjecture from past experiences."
"Will you be able to eliminate that control over Blake?" Capt. Matuzek asked.
"If I'm right about Lowkey being the puppet master then I'm thinking that Lowkey will lose his control over Blake when I cast the spell to eliminate the bugs," Willow said.
"I'll keep my fingers crossed that you're right," Capt. Matuzek said. "Now, I think Buffy had scheduled a tour for your group at the Jeffersonian Institute so you can identify the bugs there."
"Yes," Willow said. "Val, let's go find Buffy and the others."
"Keep me informed," Capt. Matuzek said.
"We will," Willow said just before she and Valerie walked away.
At the Jeffersonian Institute Booth had walked up to Dr. Brennan as she was examining the remains of a victim.
Booth had a serious expression on his face and when Dr. Brennan saw him, she said, "You look troubled. Is there anything wrong?"
"I ran a background check on our new friend Buffy," Booth said as Zack stepped in.
Before Booth could go into details about Buffy, Zack said, "I'm sorry to interrupt, Agent Booth. Dr. Brennan, there's a small group of people here asking for you. One of them said that her name is Buffy Summers."
"Buffy's here?" Booth quickly questioned.
"I just said that, Agent Booth," Zack said.
"I invited Buffy here for a tour and I told her to bring whoever she wants," Dr. Brennan said.
"The background check on Buffy showed her has having a problematic past and you shouldn't leave her or her group without an escort," Booth said.
"My past can be viewed as being problematic," Dr. Brennan said.
"Your past had extenuating circumstances and you rise above it," Booth said.
"Perhaps her past had extenuating circumstances," Dr. Brennan said.
"Why are you defending her?" Booth questioned.
"I consider myself a good judge of character and she seems to be an okay person to know," Dr. Brennan said.
"No matter what your feeling is telling you, you don't need to leave her alone," Booth strongly suggested.
"Agent Booth, all visitors are to be accompanying with an escort regardless," Zack said.
"Well, that's all you had to say from the beginning," Booth said.
Booth, Dr. Brennan and Zach left the examination room to greet Buffy, Willow, Xander and the four charmed slayers. Giles and Dawn with Hunter stayed behind at TEC headquarters.
When Dr. Brennan, Booth and Zack stepped up to Buffy and her group at the entrance, Buffy and Dr. Brennan did the introductions.
Once the introductions were done, Booth stared into Buffy's eyes while saying, "I done a background check on you. You burn down a high school gymnasium in Los Angeles and were institutionalized for a short time afterwards at the age of fifteen…"
"It was never proven that I was responsible for the fire, Agent Booth and as far as being institutionalized, I told my parents that I saw vampires and they overreacted and sent me to a clinic," Buffy said. "In fact, learning demonology was more of a therapy for me than a hobby."
"I hope you still don't believe in vampires?" Zack commented.
"I know what's real and what's not," Buffy said.
"In any case, your background check got even more interesting when you, your mother and sister moved from L.A. to Sunnydale," Booth said. "And in most of those incidences the police was left with more questions than answers."
"If I was guilty of any crimes, Agent Booth, I would have been arrested," Buffy retorted.
"Booth, back off," Dr. Brennan said.
"I don't know what you're doing for the TEC agency, but while you and your group are in D.C. all of you had better keep your noses clean," Booth said.
"Booth! Back off!" Dr. Brennan repeated more demandingly.
"I'm just saying," Booth said as he backed up a couple of steps.
"Booth can be all business from time to time," Dr. Brennan said apologetically.
"Don't apologize for me," Booth said.
"It's fine, really," Buffy said. "Agent Booth, you're not the first FBI agent who done a background check on me and warned me not to step out of line, so I'm used to being warned."
"It's not surprising," Booth said.
"Anyway, is everyone ready for the tour?" Dr. Brannan asked Buffy's group.
"We're ready," everyone said.
Before taking too many steps, Willow commented, "I'm surprised this facility is open on a Sunday."
"Not too many personnel works on a Sunday, but since our forensic team work closely with the police and FBI this place is open seven days a week," Zack said.
"How many employees are out?" Willow asked.
"Over half," Zack said.
"Is there a reason that you want to know how many employees are out?" Booth said.
"I'm just trying to get a feel as to how many people work here, that's all," Willow said.
"You're a naturally suspicious person, Agent Booth," Valerie said.
"Was that a question?" Booth asked.
"It was just a rhetorical observation actually," Valerie said with a polite grinned. Booth just gave Valerie a curious look. "I probably shouldn't have said anything."
During the tour Booth had remained with tour group. Valerie had to concentrate to block out the suspicion emotion that she was picking up from Booth.
The tour lasted for an hour and during the tour, Willow and Valerie only sensed one more person who was bugged, which was a janitor named Chuck.
Just after the tour was over, Buffy contacted Capt. Matuzek to tell him the situation. Once Buffy hung up, Capt. Matuzek contacted Camille Dr. Brennan's boss and told her how he needed to see Dr. Brennan and Chuck.
Camille thought that the request was unusual, but had told Dr. Brennan and Chuck to go see Capt. Matuzek.
Minutes later, in front of the TEC headquarters, Faith, Alexis, Jack, Kennedy, Dean, Sam, Buffy, Buffy's group, Dr. Brennan, Booth and Chuck were all arriving at the same time. Dr. Brennan, Booth and Chuck arrived in a separate vehicle from Buffy and her group, but were part of Buffy's group.
Faith and Kenney gave Booth a long stare as the three groups were approaching each other, but before anyone could say a word, a dimensional portal opened up and twenty-five Flortec crusaders marched out of it. The amulet that Faith was carrying glowed bright enough for people to see.
"What the hell is this?" Booth quickly blurted out.
"They're Flortec crusaders," Alexis quickly blurted out.
Before anything else could be said, Willow shot out electrical bolts from her fingertips with a crackling sound while blowing up the eight lead demons with a loud thundering boom and draining her powers. Blood and entrails were splattered on the surviving crusaders. The few bystanders there were took off running for their lives.
"Shit!" Booth exclaimed while pulling out his gun.
Buffy, Xander, Faith, Kennedy, Dean, Sam, Jack and the four charmed slayers rushed the demons.
Alexis and Chuck just remained back and watched. Chuck had an awe expression on his face while having trouble believing in what he is seeing.
At the onset of the skirmish, Booth pointed his gun towards the group while not really comprehending what was really happening.
Dr. Brennan was standing next to Booth and quickly blurted out "My God. Demons are real."
"What?" Booth questioned without taking his eyes off of the fight that was taking place before him. Dr. Brennan never answered Booth and being a black belt in the martial arts she rushed in to help fight off the demons. "Crap!" Booth then put his gun away and rushed in to fight behind Dr. Brennan.
There were six females among the surviving Flortec crusaders and two of them had a staff. One of them raised her staff towards Faith, but before she was able to use it, Alexis yelled, "Faith, look out! One of them is about to use her staff!"
Faith heard Alexis and turned to look. As the crusader fired an electrical discharge, Faith jump in time to missed the blast.
The crusader then faced Alexis with her staff. Alexis saw that she was the next target and dashed as fast as she could to take cover behind a parked car before the crusader could fire on her.
Willow was recovering from her power drain and she saw that the crusader was about to fire towards Alexis. Just as the crusader fired, Willow quickly rattled off a spell that reflected the electrical discharge away from the car. The crusader stopped firing when she saw her blast reflected away. Willow continued to rattle off her spell as fast as she could and reflected the original blast several more times until it was heading for the crusader who fired it. The incident took only a few seconds and the crusader couldn't dodge the blast and was immediately disintegrated.
Amber's ribs didn't have time to heal from her skirmish with the crossmock demon during the last mission into the past. She tried to ignore the pain as much as she could, but when two crusaders began fighting her at the same time, she received more damaging blows than she was able to dish out. She went down within a short time. One of the crusaders was about to take the final blow to finish her off, but before he could, Dr. Brennan knocked him off of Amber.
Kennedy took the second crusader and while Amber was free for the moment, Kennedy ordered, "Amber, fall back!"
Amber's brother, Harry was driving up and saw the skirmish. When he saw Amber limping out of the center of the fight, he stopped the car; jumped out and ran to his sister's aid.
Another crusader had reached Amber first and knocked her back without knocking her down. Before she was able to retaliate, Harry rushed in and began to pound on the crusader.
The crusaders' ranks were quickly dwindling while Buffy's group had only sustained mild to moderate injuries. Amber had the most and worst injuries, but her injuries weren't bad enough to take herself out of the fight.
When the last female crusader with a staff saw that the battle was lost she opened up a portal with her staff and then signaled a retreat to the other twelve surviving crusaders. As the crusaders were attempting to make their escape, Willow rattled off a spell and fired upon the portal while the last crusader was entering. The portal erupted in a serious of firework-colors before disappearing.
Giles, the TEC security and a few timecops rushed out when the portal was disappearing. When Giles saw that the commotion was over, he instructed the security to section off the area.
Buffy quickly stepped up to Willow and asked, "Will, what did you hit them with?"
Booth was whipping himself in every direction to determine if it was over.
"Actually, I just redirected the portal to the Rogmogg dimension," Willow said while noticing a good gash across Buffy's cheek. "Since we were never imprisoned there briefly in this reality it should still be an inescapable hell dimension."
Booth quickly stepped up to Buffy while demanding to know, "Who are you people and what in hell just happened?"
"Okay, here's the cliff note version," Buffy began as everyone gathered around. "Vampires and demons are real." She pointed people out as she continued to say, "Willow is a powerful witch. Faith, Kennedy, Amber and I are slayers; AKA vampire slayers. Nichole, Cat and Valerie are charm-slayers. Charm-slayers are potential-slayers with their slayer abilities awaken though magic and not by being chosen by The Powers That Be. Dean and Sam are demon hunters. We were hired by Capt. Matuzek to track down and stop Dr. Briers. He is a recently sired vampire and he had stolen something belonging to the TEC agency."
"Dr. Briers?" Dr. Brennan quickly questioned. "Dr. Julius Briers?"
"Yes," Buffy said. "I take it that you heard of him."
"I knew…" Dr. Brennan tapered off the word 'him' as she was noticing that Buffy's gash looked much older than it actually was. "That gash across your face looks several hours to a day old."
Buffy slightly rubbed her wound while saying, "Fast healing is one of the perks of being a slayer."
Dr. Brennan turned towards Booth while saying, "Theodora was a slayer. Zack was right. Theodora's leg did begin to heal before she died."
"I never heard of a slayer name Theodora," Willow commented.
"Zack named her," Dr. Brennan said. "She lived over fourteen hundred years ago. Her remains were found in Africa a few years ago, but her DNA markers indicate that she had Greek and Egyptian ancestors."
"That's sounds like Helen," Cat casually commented.
Buffy gave Cat a harsh look as if to say, "Don't tell her." When Cat saw Buffy's look she realized what she had done and started to nervously fidget.
"You know an ancient slayer named Helen?" Dr. Brennan questioned.
Buffy gestured towards Giles while saying, "Meet Rupert Giles. He and I are the lead members of the organization known as the Watcher's Council. Watcher's has several objectives that includes, training slayers or potential slayers and keeping a daily journals on them. Helen was the first slayer to have a watcher."
"So you knew about Helen through the watcher's journals?" Dr. Brennan asked.
"Well, those particular journals had been destroyed centuries ago, but five years after Helen's journals were lost, an aficionado of Helen's triumphs wrote down what he could remember," Giles said. "The aficionado even included how she and her watcher Ramsay had died."
"How did Helen and Ramsay die?" Cat asked.
"The two charged up a volcano as it was ready to erupt to stop a demon and they never made it back down," Giles said.
"Helen did," Dr. Brennan said. Giles gave her a curious look. "Her remains were found at the foot of the volcano."
Buffy gestured towards the entrance while saying, "Dr. Brennan, Capt. Matuzek is waiting see you and…" Buffy looked at Chuck. "Chuck, right?" Chuck just nodded. "Anyway, he's waiting for us to meet him in the large conference room, so we should move this discussion inside."
"Lead the way," Dr. Brennan said.
"Any volunteers to help me dispose of these corpses?" Giles requested before anyone could walk away. Dean, Sam, Faith and the charmed slayers volunteered to help.
"Alexis," Buffy blurted out.
"Yes?" Alexis questioned.
"Welcome and I'll get with you when things calm down around here," Buffy said.
Alexis grinned before saying, "No problem."
"Is Alexis a slayer or charmed-slayer?" Dr. Brennan asked.
"No, she's just someone who wants to learn from us," Buffy said as she turned towards the entrance and walked towards it. Willow, Booth, Dr. Brennan and Chuck followed.
"Okay," Dr. Brennan skeptically said. "So how does a person become a slayer?"
As Buffy, Willow, Booth, Dr. Brennan and Chuck were making their way to the conference room, Buffy and Willow filled them in on how young teenaged women get chosen to become slayers.
Just before getting off the elevator after the door opened up, Booth asked, "Off the record, you set fire to Hemery high school's gym, didn't you?"
"Well, it was filled with vampires," Buffy said before stepping off the elevator. Everyone followed her off the elevator.
"So every questionable thing you did that is listed on your record has to do with you fighting demons and vampires?" Booth questioned.
"It was," Buffy said. "I'm actually a high ethical person, Agent Booth."
"I told Booth that there might be an extenuating circumstances for your questionable past," Dr. Brennan said.
"Yes, you did," Booth said. "Now that I know what they are, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing." Buffy just gave Booth a grin as they continued to walk down the hall.