Chapter Eight: the Ice demons
It is a very cold and snow Thursday, December 19 and counting today there is only two days of school before winter break begins. Catalina pulls her car into the student parking lot and start looking for a free parking space, as yawning. In addition Catalina is giving Willow, Xander and Buffy a ride to school since it is snowing and too cold for Willow, Buffy or Xander to walk to school. Buffy is riding in the front of the car beside Catalina and Willow and Xander is sitting in the back of Catalina's car. Because it is snowing, the four teenagers are dress warming then normal. Willow is wearing pair of dark denim overalls, brown turtle neck, sweater, a pair of brown wool sock and tennis shoes. The sweater is light brown on top and dark brown on bottom with a v-neckline. Xander is wearing a pair of light blue denim cargo Jeans, a long sleeve red shirt and long sleeved shirt that button down in red. In addition Xander is wearing brown work boots. Buffy's is wearing a pair of dark purple pants, a deep purple blouse that is glitter, the leather jacket Angel gave her and black ankle boots. Catalina is wearing a pair of black hip hugger jeans with bootcut legs, white tee shirt and gray hoodie sweatshirts that says Atlanta 1996 in gold letters. She is also wearing a pair of black ankle boots with four inches' tall block heels, square toes and lace up closures. The lace up closures is on the front of boots. Catalina start sniffling and clears her throat to avoid coughing, wishing that the family of cats could have chosen someone else basements to get out of the cold last night. Buffy turns her head and looks at Catalina and notices that her eyes are watery, sound congestion and that she is making a wheezing sound.
"Are you getting sick because you sound congestion and are making a wheezing sound Catalina?"
"Ahem I am not getting sick. A family of six cats chose my basement to get out of the cold last night, so my allergies are acting up is all."
"Oh, are the cats still in your house?"
"No, I removed the cats from the house, ah-choo. Then I went and took a long hot shower."
Buffy and Catalina stop talking to each other and Catalina sneezes. Simultaneously Xander looks out the back window on the left side of the car. He sees that the snow has started to stick to the grass and sidewalks. In addition Xander start talking, as Catalina pulls her car into the middle parking space of the third row of student parking. In the parking space to the right and parked beside Catalina's 1962 Porsche 356 Coupe is a full sized van. The full size van belongs to Daniel Osbourne or Oz has his friends and band mates call him. In addition the van has black and white zebra stripes.
"Why are we having school when it is snowing and why did the school board not cancel school today? Also, why is it snowing in Sunnydale, Cat? It never snows in Sunnydale, which mean the snow storm has to be supernatural?"
"Xander it is just snows and many schools have classes when it is snowing. Also, the forecast says it going to warm up by ten and stop snowing. That could be the reason school was not cancel today, or at least that the reason I think school did not get cancels."
Catalina moves the gear shift of Porsche into the park and then turns the car off, as she starts coughing. Catalina notices that her chest is really tight and that breathing is hard. So Catalina gets her asthma inhaler out of her purse that set on the seat between her and Buffy. Willow, Buffy and Xander watcher Catalina shake her inhaler and then use her asthma inhaler. A short time later Buffy and Catalina open the car doors and get out of the car. The two slayers move the front seats forward, so it easily for Xander and Willow to get out. Then Catalina walks around to the front of her 1962 Porsche 356 Coupe and opens the trunk of the car. The four teenagers get their backpacks out of the trunk of the car and simultaneously Oz gets out of his van. Oz closes the driver side door of his van and then walks over to Catalina, Buffy, Willow and Xander. He stops next to Willow that standing on the side of the car that is nearest to his van and Catalina's walk over to Oz and hand OZ an envelope.
"Here are the gymnastics tickets for the American Cup on March 1, 1997 and the USA VS China VS Australia VS Uzbekistan competition on March 2, 1997."
"Thank you, Catalina."
"You are welcome."
Catalina then hands Buffy, Willow and Xander envelopes with the gymnastics tickets for the American Cup on March 1st. The envelopes have the tickets for the USA VS China VS Australia VS Uzbekistan competition on March 2nd too and both competitions are in Sunnydale, California this year. Buffy's envelope has tickets for Mrs. Summers and Dawn too. OZ, Willow, Xander and Buffy put the envelope with the gymnastics tickets into the backpacks. Simultaneously Willow turns her head and looks at the teenager boy that is standing beside her and Oz start to talk.
"Hello, my name is Daniel Osbourne, but everyone calls me OZ. I have notice you around school and at the Bronze and wanting to know your name?"
"My name is Willow Rosenberg. I have seen you play guitar with the band Dingoes Ate My Baby at the Bronze and you the lead guitarist for the band call Dingoes Ate My Baby right?"
"Yes I am. Do you want to go to a movie with me tonight?"
"I would love to go see a movie with you tonight."
"Then it is a date for tonight Willow. Let all head inside and get out of the cold."
"(Buffy, Catalina, Willow and Xander) sounds like a good idea to me."
Catalina closes the trunk of her car and then five teenagers start walking toward the doors of the school. Oz and Xander reach the school doors that leading into the school from the student parking lot first. The two teen boys open the doors for Catalina, Buffy and Willow. Catalina and Willow reach the door next and Catalina smiles at Xander and Willow smiles at Oz, as Catalina and Willow walk into the high school. Then Buffy smiles at Xander as she and Oz walk into the high school and he close the door behind him. Xander walks into the high school last and closes the door. Oz, Buffy, Catalina, Xander and Willow head to their lockers and simultaneously Oz goes to Biology. Willow, Catalina, Buffy and Xander then go to world history class.
Meanwhile, in the library Mr. Giles is pace the library and he is wearing his normal black tweet suit vest, pants and jacket. In addition he is wearing a white dress shirt with long sleeves that button down, a pair of black dress socks and oxford dress shoes in black. He looks at his wrist watch and then looks at the double doors of the library. Simultaneously the bell to head to the first class of the day rings, Jenny Calendar walks through the library double doors and into the library. Rupert Giles stops pace and smiles at Jenny and notice she has the top half of her hair pulled up into a ponytail. In addition he notices that Jenny is wearing a loose flowing black skirt that is floor length and a white loose flowing blouse with long sleeves. She is also wearing a pair of tan tights and a pair of black Mary Jane dress shoes with four inch block heels. Rupert walks over to the checkout counter and quickly writes a note for Buffy and a note for Catalina, as Jenny starts to talk.
"I just want to stop by before going to class to let you know I made it to work safely."
"That takes care of one of my worries and will you give these notes to Catalina and Buffy seventh hour?"
"Sure, but what is your other worry?"
"I have been reading the Tiberius Manifesto and I have read a Slayer prophecy about two slayers having to battle ice demons twice in December of 1996. The first time both slayer fight one ice demon and one of the slayer melt the demon from the inside out with a spell. The second time one of the slayers is magic to melt and group of ice demons included children and baby ice demons. This makes me believe that ice demons are causing the snow storm."
"Oh dear, if it is a group of ice demons' Catalina and Buffy will have a very long and tough holiday until the demons are kills. I need to head to class. I will see you at home tonight."
"Jenny's I love you."
"I love you to0, Rupert."
Rupert Giles walks over to Jenny and hands her the two notes. Jenny takes the two notes for Rupert, then he pulls Jenny into a hug. Rupert Giles kisses' Jenny on the lips and Jenny kisses him back. Jenny then pulls away from Rupert. Then Jenny's turn away from Rupert Giles and walks over to the double doors of the library, Rupert watches Jenny Calendar walk out of the library. He then goes back to pace the library and is mad at his two slayers for not stopping by the library before going to class.
Meanwhile, at the Summers's house, Joyce is sitting on the side of the bathtub in the master bathroom. She is still wearing her white nightgown and blue robe. In addition she is staring at the four home pregnancy tests that in her hands or on her lap. The home pregnancy tests that in her hands has two pink lines, which mean she is pregnant. The top pregnancy test on her lap has a plus sign and a line that means that she is pregnant. Also, the third and fourth home pregnancy tests have two pink lines each and that means she is pregnant. Joyce start talking aloud to herself, as she continues to stare at the home pregnancy tests.
"I and Hank felt the love we used to have for each other at one point back in October. Then the two of us made the mistake of having intercourse and now I am pregnant."
Joyce's picks up the home pregnancy tests from her lap and sets all of the home pregnancy tests onto the counter of the bathroom sink. She then jumps off the side of the bathtub and runs over to the toilet because she feeling very nauseous. When she reaches the toilet, she starts to vomit into the toilet. In addition she is thinking now I know the reason I have been sick to my stomach every morning for the past several weeks.
Back at Sunnydale High School and in the world history classroom, the students are busy working on a class assignment. The class assignment is a group of review worksheets for the chapter's cover since the start of the school year. In addition the review worksheets are for the 1st semester exam that on the fist day back from winter break. Buffy and Catalina stops working on the review worksheets and look out the classroom window. The two slayers notice that the snow is coming down harder and is sticking to the ground. Buffy and Catalina notices that the teacher is looking at them and goes back to working on the review worksheets.
The school day goes by slow for everyone at Sunnydale High School and after seventh hour. Willow, Xander, Buffy and Catalina are walking toward the high school library because Mr. Giles has asked the slayers in notes to meet him there after seventh hour is finished. Then all of them are to head to Mr. Giles's house. Buffy looks to her left at Catalina and notices that she looks tired. In addition Catalina still sound congestion and still making a wheezing sound, but the wheezing sound is not as loud as this morning. Catalina starts sniffling and Buffy starts to talk to Catalina.
"Do you want me to handle patrolling tonight?"
"Yes, I just want to go get the dressers from the hiding half of basement at Mr. Giles's house. Then go home to take the dresses up to my grandfather old bedroom, which is now my bedroom. Then I am going to go to bed for the night."
"How are you going to get the dressers to your house?"
"There is a full size van in the carnage house at the very far end of the driveway. Ahem, I will use the van and have Mr. Giles drive my car back to my house. Then he can drive the van back to his house."
Buffy and Catalina stops talking to each other and a short time later Xander, Willow, Buffy and Catalina walk up to the double doors of the library. The four teenagers see Mr. Giles wanting for them in front of the double doors of the library and Mr. Giles looks mad about something. The four teenagers do not say anything to Mr. Giles. The four teenagers follow him out of the school. Everyone notices that the janitor has shovels the school sidewalks that way the students, teachers and rest of the high school staff can walk out to the staff/visitor and students parking lots without having to walk through snow that is almost ankles deep. Once outside Mr. Giles heads to his car and the teenagers head to Catalina's car in the student parking lot. A short time later Catalina and Mr. Giles are driving away from Sunnydale High School.
Twenty minutes later Rupert Giles, Buffy, Xander, Willow and Catalina are walking up to the door of Mr. Giles's house. Rupert Giles's reaches the front door of the house and unlock the front door. He then opens the door and let the four teenagers go into the house first. Catalina is the first to walk into the house and once in the house, she walks into the Parlour. She takes a seat on the sofa by the right arm of the sofa, if you are standing behind the sofa. Catalina puts her right elbow onto the sofa arm and then rest her head on the palm of her hand. Willow, Xander and Buffy follow Catalina into the house and then into the Parlour. Rupert Giles walks into the house and closes the door. He then locks the front door of the house. A short time later he walks into the Parlour and into the center of the room. Mr. Giles arms behind his back and he has a serious look on his face.
"Buffy and Catalina why did you not come to the library before school this morning?"
"(Buffy and Catalina) we were running late because of the snow and head to go right to world history class, sorry."
"Do not let that happen again. In addition I believe that ice demons are in Sunnydale, which is the reason for the snow storm. Catalina and Buffy both of you are to patrol tonight and every night until the ice demons has been found and kill."
"(Buffy and Catalina) yes Mr. Giles."
Catalina stands up from the sofa and walks to the door of the Parlour. Mr. Giles, Xander, Willow and Buffy follow Catalina out of the Parlour and over to the basement staircase. Catalina start walking down the steps of the basement staircase and is yawning into her left hand. Mr. Giles, Xander, Willow and Buffy follow Catalina into the basement and over to the center of the back wall of the basement that has no egress windows. Catalina pushes down on the third brick, that slide inward. The brick Catalina push on is on the right side of the center of the wall. Everyone hears a pop and sees a double wide brick door open from the center of the wall. Rupert Giles, Xander, Buffy and Willow mouth drop open when they see a large hiding area of the basement. The back wall of this section of basement has egress windows. The left end in this section of basement has egress windows on each side of the fireplace and on the right end there two egress windows. In addition this section of the basement is the full length of the house and twice as width as the main half of the basement. In addition this section of the basement is under the outdoor kitchen area. The outdoor kitchen area is at the back of the house. Also, the outdoor kitchen area is behind the library, dinning room and kitchen at the back of the house. This section of basement is full of antique furniture and look like storage room for an antique store. Also the hiding section of basement has a large cage goes the width of the far-right hand side of the room that is full of antique furniture too. In addition the egress windows in the section with the cage have bars on the outside the windows.
"(Xander, Buffy and Willow) Why does the room have a cage?"
"The cage was there when my grandparents brought the house. However, it came in handy because my late aunt was a werewolf and used the cage on the three nights of the months she became a werewolf. Ahem also, as you can clearly see my grandmother had an antiquing problem, we could not stop her from going to Sunnydale antique mall and buy antiques."
Rupert Giles, Xander, Willow and Buffy notice a set of Parlour furniture in the center of the room. The set has a loveseat that seats two people, two armchairs and a rocking armchair. The frame, arms and legs of the loveseat, two armchairs and the rocking armchair are walnut and all of them are upholstering in pale red fabric. Behind Parlour furniture set is an oak vanity table with a round mirror attached to the back and on each side of the mirror are small drawers. In front the vanity is a round oak vanity bench with pale gold upholster. Then Rupert Giles, Xander, Willow and Buffy notice against the center of the far left-hand wall is a large fireplace. To the left side of the fireplace is oak display case that is an oval shape. The display case has glass sides and a glass door in the center. Also, the display case has four curved oak legs with four glass shelves on the inside. Xander then notice in front of the fireplace is a large settee sofa that can seat five. Seat of the settee have been upholstering in pale gold and has silver roses over it. The back has five back rest areas that are round circles that are upholster in the same fabric as the seat of the settee. The frame for the back of the settee, arms and legs are oak with dark stain. In addition roses have been engraved into the back between the five back rests, the frame of settee, legs and arms of the settee. Rupert Giles notices a horse rocking chair for older babies and young toddlers on the right side of the fireplace. The front of the rocking chair is a horse head with handles to hold onto which are on the side of the horse head. Catalina walks over to the three oak dressers on the right side of the vanity table and vanity bench. The first dresser has six drawers and a door with an oval mirror on the right side. Five drawers are to the left of the door with the mirror and are short. In addition a long drawer is under the five short drawers and door with the oval mirror in it. The short drawers have one swan neck pull handlers and the long drawer has two swan neck pull handlers and roses on the ends. The second dresser has four long drawers with two swan neck pull handlers and roses on the ends. The dresser has a square mirror attached to the center of the back. The third dresser has six long drawers with the swan neck pull handlers with roses on the end. Willow, Xander, and Rupert Giles are still looking around the hiding basement room. Buffy walks over to Catalina and tap Catalina on the right shoulder.
"Where are you going to place the dressers in the bedroom?"
"I will put the dresser that has six drawers and a door with an oval mirror, on the left side of the fireplace. That will place the smallest dresser between the closet and the fireplace. The second dresser that has the four long drawers and an attached square mirror will be place against the right side of the windows, which are across from the bedroom door. The tall dresser that has the six long drawers, I will place on the right side of the fireplace."
"I will help you carry the dresser upstairs and then outside to the van. I will also help you get the dressers into your house and upstairs to your bedroom."
"Thanks."
"Your welcome."
The two teenagers pick up the dresser that has six drawers and a door with the oval mirror on the right side. Then Buffy and Catalina start carrying the dresser out of the room to take the dresser upstairs and by now Willow and Xander are standing in front of the cage. In addition the two of them are looking at a carved oak Victorian full sizes bed. The bed is from 186o and has carved swirls on the headboard and footboard, which top is rounded. Mr. Giles has started to look at a mahogany Georgian kneehole desk that has a moulded top and seven drawers. A long drawer at the top and on each side has three drawers. The drawers are fitted with brass swan neck handles and the drawers have keyholes. In addition the desk set on four ogee bracket feet. Willow notice set a top the fireplace brick mantel is an oak antique swing mirror and Georgian oak toilet mirror. The Georgian toilet mirror is square and has three small drawers in the box base. Xander notices a Georgian tallboy dresser that mahogany and has moulded cornices that are over the eight drawers. At the top are two short drawers and then six long drawers. The drawers are fitted with brass swan neck handles and the dresser is raise on shaped bracket feet. Willow looking through the bars of the cage and sees a 18th century oak mule chest in the center of the cage. On the front of the mule chest are four fielded panels with interspersed inlaid elm and is topped with feather plumes. In addition the oak mule chest has two crossbanded drawers at the base fitted with brass escutcheons and swan neck handles and is raise on ogee feet. Willow notice hanging a key on a hook that is on the left side of the door to the hiding basement room is a key, if facing the open door. The key hanging from the hook matches the cage lock, Willow grabs the key and then unlock the cage door. Then Willow pulls open the cage door. She walks into the cage and over to the mule chest and opens the two drawers first. She sees Georgian silverware that includes twelve silver knives, twelve silver small knives, twelve silver soup spoons and twelve silver large spoons. In addition Willow sees Georgian silverware twelve small silver spoons, twelve serving spoons, twelve silver large forks, twelve silver small forks, four silver meat forks, four silver carving knives and two knife sharpeners. Willow closes the two drawers full of silver silverware and then opens the flat lid of the oak mule chest. She looks into the chest and sees it full of antiques. Inside the main part of the mule chest is a wood box that has gold upholster and inside a dozen silver napkin rings. Then Willow notices six George III cast silver candelabra with two candle holders each. Then see six 1761 George III candlesticks with square shaped base, shell decoration, cast a rococo decorated base and baluster stem. In addition in the main area of the chest are four George III circular salver trays that are engrave with armorials that are in a foliate cartouche. Willow closes the lid to the mule chest and then sees four oak Georgian butler trays from 1820 that to the left of the mule chest. The butlers' trays have rectangular trays with pierced hand holds and the tray is resting on a later turned stand.
Rupert Giles has noticed an oak 18th century urn stand that has a figured octagonal top with a shaped gallery and has pierced hand holes. In addition the urn stand is raise on a turned column and shaped cabriole legs. Willow is now looking at an oak Georgian serving table that has a figured top that set over three drawers. The drawers are fitted with the original brass swan neck handles and the table is raise on square tapered legs. Rupert Giles notice behind the bed Xander still stare at is an oak Georgian child rocking chair. The rocking chair has a shaped back that is a pierced heart-shape and has a heart cut out of the center of the back of the chair. He then notices a 1780 oak Georgian cradle with a coopered hood that is round and the cradle is raise on shaped rockers. In addition the cradle still looks new and set low to the floor. Buffy and Catalina walks into the hiding section of the basement. The two of them have finished carrying the three dressers upstairs and then loading the dresser into the full size van. Catalina walks over to Mr. Giles and start to talk to him.
"You are welcome to use any of the items in this room Mr. Giles."
"Thank you, I think Jenny and I will use most of the baby and children's items."
"Buffy and I have the dressers loaded into the full size van. When I leave your house, will you follow me to my house in my car and once the dressers are unloading you can drive the van back home?"
"Yes I will drive your car to your house and then bring the van back to my place."
"Thank you."
Rupert Giles goes back to looking at the antiques and Catalina walks over to the love seat that has the red upholster. She then takes a seat on the left side of the loveseat. Simultaneously Xander looks at the oak Georgian tripod table and the table is next to the footboard of the bed at which he was looking. The table has a round figured top that is raises on a turned pedestal and has a tri-form base with pad feet. Set on top of the tripod table is an oak antique tea caddy with a moulded lid and the caddy is fitted with brass carry handles. A 19th century oak book carrier that has turned spindle gallery and carry handles is set to the left side of the tea caddy on the tripod table. Mr. Giles is looking at a mahogany Georgian child high chair that has figured inlaid head rail and fluted splat with reeded arms. In addition the high chair has a needle work cushion that has embroider roses and the fabric is pale gold that ties onto the back of the chair. The hair chair is raise on square legs with an adjustable foot rest. Xander is now looking at an antique rosewood settee that from the nineteenth century. The settee has a serpentine shaped back and seat, which can fit three or four people depended on the person sizes. The settee has decorative foliate carving and scrolled arm supports. In addition the settee is raise on French cabriole legs capped with brass castors. The settee upholstering in pale gold with silver rosebuds that are fully opened. Also, the settee Xander looking at is across from the love seat Catalina sitting on, two matching armchairs and the matching rocking armchair too. Catalina start yawning into her right hand, as Rupert Giles and Buffy are looking at a 19th Century cot that is in solid oak and has saber legs. In addition on the sides and foot end have removable upper flanks. The cot is raise on four shaped cabriole legs. Mr. Giles then notices a antique mahogany baby highchair that has a remover tray. Catalina walks over to Mr. Giles and hand him the envelope with his and Jenny's tickers to the American cup, the USA VS China VS Australia VS Uzbekistan competition and a piece of paper that list knew competitions through the National championship. Rupert Giles sees the American cup on March 1, 1997 and the USA VS China VS Australia VS Uzbekistan competition on March 2, 1997 in Sunnydale at the top of the piece of paper. He then sees on April 5, 1997 Catalina competes in Borşa, Romania at USA VS Romania VS Russia VS Ukraine. On April 26, 1997, that she has a competition against Uzbekistan in Bukhara and on August 23-24, 1997 is the USA national championship in Sunnydale.
"Mr. Giles's can we go, so I can take Xander and Willow home. Then head to my house to take the dresses upstairs to my bedroom?"
"Yes we can go. However, I will take Buffy, Xander and Willow home on my way home, so you do not have too."
"Yawning thanks I want to take a nap before patrolling tonight, I did not sleep well last night."
Willow, Buffy, Xander, Catalina and Mr. Giles leave the hiding sections of the basement and walks over to the basement staircase. When Willow, Buffy, Xander, Catalina and Mr. Giles walk into the entry hall of the house, the four teenagers walk over to the front door. Rupert walks into the study to talk to Jenny and let her know what going on. A short time later the group is walking out of Mr. Giles's house. Catalina and Buffy go over to the dark-blue ford van that is full size. Rupert Giles, Xander and Willow go over to Catalina's car, which Mr. Giles is driving to Catalina's house. A few minutes later Mr. Giles is pulling Catalina's shine silver 1962 Porsche 356 Coupe onto the snow road. Then Catalina pulls the van onto the snow road and Buffy is looking at Catalina with a worried look on her face.
"Are you up to patrolling tonight, because you seem exhausted and still sound congestion?"
"Right now all I want to do is sleep, but I am sure after my nap that I will feel up to patrolling."
"Sure after you get some sleep you feel like going out and patrolling in the snow storm that has starts up again. I do not even want to patrol tonight. It is freezing cold out. We are going to get sick from patrolling in this weather."
"I do not think either of us will get sick from patrolling in the snow. Slayers hardly ever get sick."
"Can't we just skip looking for the ice demons and just wait them to leave Sunnydale, Cat?"
"No, we need to find and kill the ice demons before Sunnydale fall into a never ending winter."
"I cannot see that happening Cat."
"Ahem that is what Ice demons do is case a winter that will not end until they are kill."
"Great, then I guess we have to patrol and kill the ice demons."
"Yes we do have to patrol and kill the ice demons, coughing."
The two slayers stop talking and Buffy can tell that Catalina asthma is still bothering her. The normal short drive from Mr. Giles's house to her house takes more than twenty-five minutes because the snow roads are in really bad shape. Once at Catalina's house, Mr. Giles, Willow and Xander help Buffy and Catalina brings the dressers into Catalina's house. Then Mr. Giles, Willow and Xander help Buffy and Catalina brings the dressers upstairs to the bedroom that used to be Mr. Reducan bedroom, that is now Catalina's bedroom. In addition all of the walls have been repaint lavender. The walls to Catalina's old bedroom that now the guest room has been repaint pale gold. The bed now has silky silver bedding, just like the queen size bed in Catalina's new bedroom. After Xander set the smallest dresser of the three dressers on the left side of the fireplace, he notices Catalina six Olympic gold medals for the team, all around, floor, vault, the balance beam and uneven bar's finals are in locked display cases on the fireplace oak mantel. It only takes the four teenagers and Mr. Giles ten minutes to bring all three dressers into the house. Then bring the dressers upstairs to the bedroom and place the dresser where Catalina wants them. Then Willow and Xander heads downstairs and Mr. Giles and Buffy stay in Catalina bedroom and Mr. Giles start to talk.
"I want to two of you out patrolling right at sundown and you are to patrol all night if you have too. Buff and Catalina's if the two of you do not find the ice demons tonight, then the two of you will go out patrolling for the ice demons every night. In addition you will not stop patrol and looking for the ice demons, until the ice demons have been find and kill."
"(Buffy and Catalina) yes Mr. Giles.
Mr. Giles and Buffy walk out of Catalina's bedroom and Buffy close the bedroom door behind her. Then the slayer and watcher head downstairs to leave Catalina's house with Willow and Xander. Inside Catalina's bedroom, she has laid down on the center of the queen size bed and Catalina eyes are close. In addition she is thinking I hope that taking a nap will help me feel better. Outside Catalina's Victorian row house, Buffy is busy chases a family of six cats, four of them kitten away from the egress windows of the basement.
Almost an hour later Rupert Giles has walk into the hiding room in the basement and find Jenny standing near the cage looking at an antique Georgian rocking bergere cradle from the 1800, which is against the outside of the cage bars. The cradle has walnut frame and bergere cane work on the cradle. In addition the rocking cradle has a remove top canopy section at the head end and the inside of the cradle is tan. Jenny turns and looks at Rupert and she has a smile on her face.
"Catalina's really said we can use the antiques in this room?"
"Yes."
"We have enough cradles to put in the baby room, study, home library, Parlour, the master bedroom, dinning room and the kitchen."
"Yes we do and it seems Catalina grandmother Reducan had an antiquing habit and would go to the Sunnydale antique mall and purchase antiques all the time."
"I heard rumors about that but thought she just brought enough to furnish the two houses. However, now I see she brought way more furniture then she needed to furnish the two houses."
"We should talk to Catalina about taking a large amount of the antiques to the Sunnydale antique mall to sale them."
"She might not be ready to sale her grandmother antiques yet. Let tries to find uses for as many items as possible. I will talk to Catalina and see what she wants to do with the items we cannot use. Catalina could probably use some of the antique items at her house."
"That works, since we do not need this room for any purpose right now."
"I could use the vanity and vanity bench in the master bedroom to get ready in the morning, if you will help me move them. We can put the vanity and bench on the right side of the window on the far right-hand wall of the master bedroom, seeing that the two oak tallboy Georgian dressers are on the left side of the window."
"We will move the vanity and the bench up to the master bed, sometime this evening."
Jenny and Rupert stop talking and Jenny goes back to looking at the antiques. Simultaneously Rupert Giles notices four more cradles that he did not notice early and that mean the total of count of cradles is seven. The fourth and fifth cradles are from the year 1750 and are mahogany Georgians' cradles with moulded domed canopy hood and fielded panel sides. The cradles have turned finial on the top and on crescent rockers. The sixth and seventh cradles are 1780 Welsh oak rocking cradles with squared shaped hood and heavy turned finials. In addition the two cradles have paneled sides and set low to the floor. Also the cradles come with a mattress, like all the other cradles/crib/cot have mattresses too. Rupert walks over to the cage and pulls on the cage door that Willow left unlocked and the door opens. He and Jenny walk into the cage to get a closer look at the items being stores inside the cage. Rupert Giles notice against the center of the far left-hand wall of the cage is a Georgian settee bench that is oak. The bench is from 1780 and has nailheads trimmed. In addition the bench has a pale gold upholstered seat and on the back of the settee bench are four fielded panels. In addition the bench has a molded rail at the top and has shaped arms too. The Georgian oak settee bench is set on turned baluster legs and has stretcher supports too. To the left of the oak settee bench is a Georgian oak adjustable music stand with carved shoe feet. To the right of the oak settee bench is an oak Georgian trunk from 1770 with steel straps on top, front and back and steels decor corners. The trunk has a steel lock panel with the key in the keyhole and on each side of the trunk are steel carry handles. Rupert Giles notices that the trunk has hand forged hinges too. Jenny notice in the back corner on the right wall of the cage is Georgian oak washstand. The washstand comes with a six-piece mason's Ironstone toiletry set that is washbasin, pitcher, two chamber pots, a vase and round washcloth holder. Each piece mason ironstone toiletry set has red roses on them and is from 1770. In addition the washstand features the original slide up and an adjustable mirror that tilts back and forth. In addition the washstand has two top fold out compartments, one to each side, to hold grooming articles like hand mirror, toothbrush and other toiletry needs. The wash stand has a closed door cupboard to store a chamber pot with additional storage. Below the cabinet is shelf for a second chamber pot. Above the cabinet is a drawer and below the cabinet are two more drawers to keep toiletry necessities and medications. In addition the Shelf below has a circular center with fiddle splay and stretchers to join to the four legs, which end in brass castors. Also, the washstand has the original Georgian handles on the sides and swan neck drawer pull handles.
"Rupert's I want to put Georgian oak washstand and six piece mason's Ironstone toiletry set in our bedroom too on the right side of the vanity and vanity bench."
"I will move the Georgian oak washstand and six piece mason's Ironstone toiletry set up to the master bedroom sometime tonight too. I take it that you are tired of run into the bathroom because of morning sickness and think the chamber pots will can in handy."
"Yes, why does the morning sickness get worse in the evening?"
"I do not know."
The two of them stop talking and go back to looking at the antiques. Rupert Giles notice behind the mule chest is a 1810 walnut English Georgian book stand. The stand is double sided and adjustable. Also, the book stand has a platform base with three bun feet with concealed casters. The book stand is support by column that has a gilded brass collar and release catch which makes it so the table can be rises or lower. In addition the top of the book stand are two pairs of reading stands. Also, the reading stands are adjustable with supports and two book rests that are removable and kept in a storage area underneath the flaps.
"I think that I am going to put the 1810 oak English Georgian book stand in the Parlour behind the sofa. With the book stand being on concealed casters, the book stand will be easy to move around to wherever I am sitting in the Parlour."
"That would be a great place for the English Georgian book stand. I notice a mahogany Georgian kneehole desk that would be great for our son or daughter room when he or she begins school."
"Yes that would make a great child desk, let put the mahogany Georgian kneehole desk into the bedroom beside the master bedroom for safe keeping."
"I agree with that and is that the bedroom with lavender walls with pictures and posters of elite level gymnasts on the bedroom walls? Along with having the white full sized cast-iron bed and nightstands with two drawers on each side of the bed?"
"Yes."
Jenny walks over to Rupert and he put his right arm around Jenny's waist. Then the two of them go back to looking at the antique's store in the cage. Jenny notices a small mahogany Georgian desk armchair that has fluted top rail and cross splat above the solid oak seat. The seat has fluted armrests and is raise on square section legs with stretchers. She starts to point at the chair and talking simultaneously.
"That chair would work with the mahogany Georgian kneehole desk."
"Yes it would."
Jenny stops pointing at the chair and the two of them go back to looking at the antiques. Rupert Giles has notice in the front corner of the right-hand wall of the cage is an oak child Georgian bar back commode chair toilet. The chair has scrolling arms, turned supports and are on raises square tapering legs. In addition the commode chair has a ceramic chamber pot that is enclose by a lid that lift up and down. In addition the ceramic chamber pot comes out for cleaning.
Meanwhile, at the Summers's house, Buffy is in her bedroom working on English homework. However, she keeps looking out her bedroom window at the snow that falling heavily and the snow flacks are huge. Joyce walks up to Buffy's open bedroom door and clears her throat. Buffy turns her head and then looks at her mother. Buffy notice that her mother is wearing her white nightgown and blue robe and that she looks tired and unwell.
"Buffy I am going to bed, I have been sick to my stomach all day and feel awful. You are going to have to make yourself something to eat for dinner because I am too unwell to cook to night."
"Im an awful cook, can you please make me something to eat before you can to bed?"
"You will be sixteen on the nineteenth of January. You can handle making a sandwich or heating up a can of soup."
"Mom's please make me something to eat for dinner, I need to work on homework and cannot do homework and cook."
"Fine, I will go make you a grill cheeses and tomato soup are you ok with that?"
"Yes and thank you."
"You are welcome."
Joyce turns and walks away from Buffy's bedroom and is not happy about having to cook. Just thinking about making the grill cheese sandwich and soup is turning her stomach. Simultaneously Buffy goes back to doing her English homework. Five minutes later Buffy is walking into the kitchen because she smells the grill cheese sandwich and soup and could tell her dinner is almost ready. Buffy walks over to the first stool at the kitchen island and takes a seat. Simultaneously Joyce puts the grilled cheese sandwich onto a plate. She then set the plate in front of Buffy. Then Joyce goes and pours the tomato soup into a white soup bowl. Joyce set the soup bowl in front of her daughter. Then she goes to put the fry pan and sauce pan into the kitchen sink, as Buffy cuts the grilled cheese sandwich in half. Buffy picks up half the sandwich and then dips one end into the tomato soup. She takes a bite of the grill cheese sandwich that covered in tomato soup, as her mother runs out of the kitchen with both hands over her mouth. Buffy looks at the round clock that on the right side of the refrigerator and above the corner upper cabinets. She sees that it is four o'clock, which means she has forty-six minutes until sunset. A few minutes later Joyce walks up to the kitchen doorway and looks at Buffy.
"I am going to head to bed soon. However, I want to see what your plans were for tonight first?"
"I am going to Catalina and she is going to help me study world history because I am having a hard time understand the chapter that the class is on."
"That is fine, but make sure to dress warmly because it snowing heavily and it very cold outside."
"I will dresses warmly mom and I hope you start feeling better soon Mom."
"Me too and I will see in the morning Buffy."
"Good night mom."
Joyce smiles at Buffy, then turns and walks away from the kitchen doorway. Buffy goes back to eating her grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup. Simultaneously Joyce Summers is slowly walking up the steps of the staircase, thinking about how she going to tell Buffy and Dawn that she is pregnant. Then start thinking about how she going to tell Hank that he going to be a father again.
At 4: 42pm Buffy is standing outside the front of Catalina's Victorian row house and is knocking on the front door of the house and is wishing that she had taken her mother advice and had dresses warmer. Instead of wear the outfit she wore to school because it is not keeping her warm at all. Buffy knocks on the front door harder because all the lights are off in the house, which means Catalina is mostly likely still a sleep. Five minutes later Catalina opens the front door of the house and looks at Buffy.
"Sorry I forget to set my alarm before I laid down for my nap."
"Are you feeling any better?"
"A little, I think that we should start the search for the ice demons at Shadow Valley Vineyards, which is vacant."
"I am cool with that Catalina. You lived in Sunnydale of your whole life and knew the places that demon would stay when in town."
Simultaneously Catalina walks out the front door and then closes the door behind her. Catalina locks the door and then the two slayers start to walk down the street. The two slayers look around as they turn off Mercer Street and turn right onto Main Street. Then the two slayers start walking north toward 1st Street. By the time Catalina and Buffy reach 1st the two of them are shivering because the temperature has dropped. In addition what is coming down is now a mix of snow and freezing rain. The two slayers look around hope to see the ice demons, but the two of them may be the only ones outside.
Meanwhile, at Sun Cinema Oz and Willow are the only ones in theater one. The two of them are watching Evita, which is an early showing of the movie that does not official start showing full time until twenty-nine of December. The two of them are sitting in the first row of seats and have the chair tray up on the two chairs them are sitting on and several other seats. On the chair trays are an extra large tub of popcorn with extra butter, several bags of MandM, two boxes of snow caps, two boxes of Reese's pieces, nacho with cheese, tomato, lettuce, onion and jalapenos, cheese French fries and hot dogs in buns with ketchup and mustard
that the two of them are sharing. Also, each of them each has extra large mt. dew. Elsewhere, at Rupert Giles's house, he is busy move antique from the basement to the first and second floors of the house. Jenny is in the study and grading students homework assignments.
By now Catalina and Buffy are walking through the wood that are around Shadow Valley Vineyards and toward the main building of the vacant vineyard. In addition the two slayers are walking through snow that hits the center of their shins. It takes the two slayers a half hour to walk through the snow-covered woods and a large fence off area. The fence is hard to see since it is white and blends in with the snow. Also, the front of the stone building has a large sign that says Shadow Valley Vineyards, has come into view. The slayer notices the two lamps on the outside of the building are off, which mean mostly likely no one is using the building. Buffy looks to her left and at Catalina.
"Let look inside the building just to make sure the ice demons are not inside."
"Ok, but I do not think the demons are inside the building."
The two slayers walk over to the door of the building and Buffy reaches the door first. She grabs the door handle and try to open the door. However, the door will not open, which mean it either locked or freezing shut. Catalina walks around to the right side of the building and looks through the windows. The only think Catalina sees inside the building are dusty wine barrels. Buffy walks up beside Catalina and looks through the windows too. Catalina turns and looks at Buffy, then Catalina starts to talk, despite her teeth chattering.
"Let searches the area that is around the vineyard and Miller's Woods thoroughly. Then we will head into town and stop at the Bronze to warm up."
"Sounds like a great plan to me."
Buffy and Catalina walks away from the building and start to search the area around the building. However the ice demons are not in the area around the vineyard building or on the property belong to Shadow Valley Vineyards. Thirty-eight minutes later the two slayers have reach the woods that are off George Street and on the west end of Sunnydale. The two slayers have only been walking in the dark snow wood for two minutes when Buffy walks right into an ice demon and falls backward into the snow. Buffy looks up at the demon, which is solid ice and has ice blue eyes, which are large. Then Buffy jumps to her feet and runs at the ice demon. Buffy reaches the demon Buffy and does a Roundhouse kick. Her right foot hit the hard icy abdomen of the ice demon. Then Buffy hears a creaking sound, but cannot tell if the sound coming from her foot and ankle or the icy demon abdomen. The ice demon makes a fist and hits the left side of Buffy's mouth. The punch is so hard that Buffy gets knocked backwards and falls into the snow again. In addition when the demon fist hit her jaw, Buffy jaw makes a loud creaking sound and Buffy feel several teeth creak too. Buffy turns her head to the left and spits into the snow. She spit out blood, two filling from the lower teeth and a piece of tooth too. The first filling is a top surface filling from the second bicuspid and the piece of tooth is from the 1st bicuspid on the left side. Also, the second filling is facial filling from the first molar on bottom left side of the mouth. In addition with her tongue Buffy feels a large creak on the second molar on the bottom. She feels creaks on 1st and 2nd molars, 1st and 2nd bicuspids on the top left teeth too. Buffy jaw and teeth start hurting badly and Buffy notices that her right foot and ankle are throbbing too. Simultaneously the ice demon lift Catalina off her feet and then the demon throws the slayer. Catalina flies through the air and pulls her legs into the tucked position and a several minute's later Catalina lands on her feet behind Buffy. Catalina then flips over Buffy, who still laying in the snow and lands in front of Buffy. Then Catalina looks at the ice demon and the same time speaks.
"Ignis!"
Several second later Buffy and Catalina see inside the ice demon a fire is burning and the fire starts to melt the ice demon. Simultaneously the snow and freezing rain slow down a little. The only snow that is melting is right under the burning ice demon. Catalina kneels down beside Buffy that hold her right foot and ankle with her right hand and has her left hand on the left side of her mouth. Buffy looks at Catalina and start to talk to her co-slayer.
"I learn that kicking an ice demon is bad, I think that I break my right foot and ankle and I think the demon break my jaw. Is by jaw swelling?"
"Your jaw is not swelling. I will handle patrol for the rest of the night Buffy, go home. Then get off your right foot and ankle and ice your jaw, foot and ankle."
"Sound like a great idea to me, beside for ice my jaw, foot and ankle, I am way too cold to put ice on my jaw, right foot and ankle."
Buffy stands up and get shooting pain in her right foot and ankle and has to set back down on the snow ground. Simultaneously Angel walks over to Catalina and Buffy. He notices the shoe on Buffy 's right foot and the area around the ankle are very tight and the same time he starts to talk.
"Catalina stays here and make sure the ice demon melt entirely. In addition it might take more then one fire spell to kill the ice demon, I will help Buffy get home."
Catalina does not say anything to Angel, who is already lift Buffy off the ground and Buffy has put her arms around Angel's neck. His plan is to carry Buffy home, since she is unable to put weight on her right foot and ankle and unable to walk. A short time later Angel is walking away from Catalina, who is watching the ice demon melt. The fire is burning out so Catalina cast a second, third and fourth fire spells back to back, which speeds up the melting of the ice demon. Simultaneously Angel is walking south down George Street and Buffy looks up at Angel face with tears running down her cheek.
"I think that I need to go to the hospital and have an x-ray of my right foot and ankle because both of them are so swelling that the shoe is cutting off my circulation."
"Sunnydale has four main hospitals and Sunnydale Mental Hospital, which will not be any help to you. The first hospitals that will be of use to you are Mercy Hospital that off Beaumont Street. Mercy Hospital is on the edge of Sunnydale and opposite sides of the street from Kingman Bluff and a medieval castle. In addition Mercy Hospital is locating in cinder brick building. The second hospital that will be of use to you is Sunnydale General Hospital that in a white Victorian building off the corner of 1st and Hamilton Street. The third hospital that will be of use to you is Sunnydale Memorial Hospital that is shape like in L. In addition the exterior walls are mainly windows and the hospital is off 1st and between the Sunnydale bus station and Sunnydale international airport. The fourth hospital that will be of use to you is Sunnydale University Hospital that off the corner of Gilbert Street and Ninth Street with the military base behind it. In addition the hospital is in a brick Victorian building. Which hospital do you want me to take you too?"
"Which hospital is the best hospital?"
"I am not sure because I never went to any of them. However, I hear that Sunnydale General Hospital ask the least amount of questions out of the four hospitals."
"Then take me to Sunnydale General Hospital."
"If that is what you want, I will take you to Sunnydale General Hospital."
"That is what I want Angel."
Angel's turns left onto State Street and walks toward Hamilton Street. However, the streets are cover in snow that is just above Angel's ankles, so the walk is taking long then normal, because the two salt/plow trucks in Sunnydale are being filled with salt and have the plows put onto the front. Angel turns left onto Hamilton Street and start walking north toward the hospital that slowly comes into sight for Angel. The hospital has a section on the left side that three stories tall. A center sections where main doors are that is five stories tall and the section on the right that is four stories tall if facing main doors. In addition the hospital has a basement level too. Angel walks toward the double doors of the hospital emergency room. When he reaches the emergency room doors he hit the handicap door button with his right hip and the door opens. He then carries Buffy through the open doors of the emergency room and Buffy notices the nurse desk/counter in desk is peach color. Then Buffy notices the walls of the emergency room are white on the top and gray on the bottom and tile floor that are pale red tiles. An older male doctor walks over to Angel and Buffy. He is wearing a white lab coat and a shirt that button down and is white with long sleeves. In addition he is wearing a pair of black suit pants. His name tag say Doctor Stanley Backer and older doctor look at Buffy right foot and ankle. He sees that the shoe is cutting into her right ankle and foot.
"Miss what happened to your foot and ankle?"
"I slip on the ice and when I try to stand on my right foot or ankle it gives out and I am in major pain."
A nurse comes over to the Doctor Stanley Backer, Angel and Buffy and she is pushing a black hospital wheelchair. The wheelchair has an iv pole attached to the back left side and adjustable leg/foot rests. Buffy and Angel notices the nurse has red curly hair that pulled into a ponytail that comes to her waist in length. In addition the nurse has hazel eyes with roundish almond shape, diamond shaped face, small hero shape nose, full lips and round ears. Buffy sees that her name tag say Nurse Kara Heart and that she is wearing deep purple scrubs. The nurse reaches Buffy, Angel and Doctor Backer and puts the brakes on, so the wheelchair will not move. Angel set Buffy in the wheelchair and then lift her right leg up careful. The nurse then adjust the right leg/foot rest, so Buffy right leg will be elevate. Then Angel careful set Buffy right leg onto the leg/foot rest. Buffy turns her hear to the right and looks at Angel.
"Angel's call my house and let my mom know that I hurt my right foot and ankle. Tell my mom that I am at the emergency room of Sunnydale General Hospital having X-rays and asks my mom to meet you and me here. When you talk to her say that you are my physical science tutor."
"Sure Buffy."
Nurse Kara Heart takes the backer off the wheelchair and then takes Buffy to get a X-ray of her right foot and ankle. Doctor Backer shows Angel to the ER waiting room and a pay phone he can use. A mute and half later Doctor Backer and Angel reach the double doors to the ER waiting room and Angel's walk through the double doors. He then walks over to the pay phone. The pay phone attaches to the center of the far-right hand wall if walking into the waiting room. Angel picks up the handset and then put quarters into the coin slot and short time later he is dialing Buffy home phone number.
Ten minutes later Angel is alone in the waiting room and he is pace the room. A few minutes later when Joyce Summers runs into the waiting room, Angel stops pace and look at Buffy's mother. She wearing a pair of dress pants that are black and a turtle neck shirt that white with an oversized light brown sweater over it. In addition Joyce Summers is wearing thick white socks and a pair of white tennis shoes too. Joyce runs over to Angel with a worried look on her face.
"You must be Angel, any news on Buffy's foot and ankle yet?"
"Yes I am Angel and there has been no update."
"Thank you for bring Buffy to the hospital, you can leave now."
"Do you mind if I wait with you, I want to know what wrong with her ankle and foot and that she is all right before leaving?"
"I do not mind if you wait with me and it only right that you get to find out what wrong with her foot and ankle. See that you were kind enough to bring Buffy to the hospital after she got hurt."
Joyce Summers and Angel start to pace the waiting room, as they wait for a nurse or doctor to come out with an update. Or for a nurse to bring Buffy to the waiting room, because she is ready to go home. The two of them pace the waiting room for an hour and half. Final Nurse Kara Heart and Buffy sitting in the wheelchair appears at the open double doors of the ER waiting room. Buffy is hold a pair of silver aluminum underarm crutches that has tan underarm pads, hand grips and tip. On Buffy right ankle and foot is a gray tall orthopedic ankle walking boot. The orthopedic walking boot has a three-piece shell design that can be adjust to fit the wear ankle and foot accurately. On the inside of the boot is a gray knit lining and the hard plastic shells are on sides, front, back and foot/ toe area. The shells are hold into place with the five adjustable velcro straps. In addition the tall orthopedic walking boot has a rocker sole that offers a more natural gait, when you start put weight on the foot and ankle. Nurse Kara Heart pushes the wheelchair that Buffy sitting in over to Joyce Summers and Angel and Buffy smiles at her mom and Angel. Simultaneously Nurse Heart starts to talk.
"Buffy has severely fracture the ankle in four places and severely fracture her foot in ten places. In addition the X-ray and MRI showed that her ankle joint dislocated, but when tried stood up the ankle joint moved back into place. In addition she has sprains her tendons, ligaments and muscle in her foot and ankle. She will need to be on crutches from six to twelve weeks depending on how long it takes the ankle and foot to heal. For reducing of swelling and pain control Buffy can take 200mg or 400mg of ibuprofen every four to six hours, she already had a dose of ibuprofen. However, if in four hours she needs another dose it is fine for her to take more. In addition Buffy can go home after you filled out some paperwork Mrs. Summers."
Joyce Summers follows Nurse Heart out to the nurse desk to fill out the paperwork and Angel and Buffy starts to talk to each other. A few minutes later Mrs. Summers walk into the waiting room and over to Buffy and Angel who stop talking. Mrs. Summers smiles at her daughter.
"I am going to bring the suv around to the doors of the emergency room. Angel's will you pushes Buffy outside and wait with her, while I get the suv?"
"Yes I will push Buffy outside and wait with her, as you get your suv and drive the suv up to the emergency room doors."
"Thank you."
"You are welcome."
Joyce Summers walks out of the waiting room again and Angel walks behind the wheelchair. He puts his hands onto the grips of the push handles and then walks backwards out of the waiting room double doors. A short time later Angel is pushing Buffy up to the double doors of the emergency room. When Angel and Buffy reach the emergency room doors, Mrs. Summers has not pulled her suv up to the doors yet, so the two of them wait inside the doors. A minute and half later Mrs. Summer pulls the Cherokee Jeep up to the double doors of the emergency room. Buffy push the handicap button and the doors open, then Angel push the wheelchair Buffy sitting in out the open door. He pushes Buffy over to her mom Cherokee Jeep and once at the jeep Angel puts the wheelchair brake on. Then he opens the passengers' door of the jeep and he helps Buffy stands up from the wheelchair. Angel's then helps Buffy over to the door of the jeep. Once Buffy sitting in the suv, Angel opens the back door on the passenger side of the jeep. He then puts the crutches onto the back seat of the suv. He closes the door of the jeep and waves bye to Buffy and Mrs. Summers. Joyce Summers pulls the jeep away from the Sunnydale General Hospital emergency room and Angel takes the wheelchair back into the hospital.
The drive from the hospital to the Summers' s house takes more than twenty-five minutes because of the road conditions. Joyce Summers is currently help Buffy out of the jeep that parked in the driveway of the house. A short time later Buffy is careful hopping toward the front porch on her crutches and Mrs. Summers is walking behind her daughter. Buffy safely makes to the front porch and then up the steps of the porch safely. Mrs. Summers walks up to the front door and unlocks the door. Then Buffy hops inside the house on her crutches and over to the staircase, as Joyce Summers locks the front door of the house. Five minutes later Buffy has taken a seat on the vanity bench in her bedroom and Joyce is walking over to Buffy closets. Once Joyce has open the closet doors she gets a light pink oversized long sleeve nightshirt out of the fourth sections of the closet. Then gets a pair of pajama pants with wide legs out of the closet from Buffy to wear to bed. A short time later Joyce hand Buffy the nightshirt and pajama pant.
"I think that I can manage to get change and get over to my bed on my own."
"Buffy what about walking from your bedroom and turn into the hallway Dawn and your bathroom in, then walking into the bathroom on your crutches?"
"I am not ready to go to sleep yet. I am just going to sit on my bed and work on my homework. However, I think I have the hang of the crutches and I made it upstairs without any help."
"Ok, but if you need any help when you are ready to head to the bathroom, just yell that you need help and I will come help you."
"Ok mom."
Buffy stands up from the vanity bench and simultaneously Mrs. Summers walks out of her daughters' bedroom. Joyce closes Buffy's bedroom door behind her and then walks to her bedroom to go back to change back into her nightgown. An hour later at the Summers's house, Buffy is the only one awake. She is laying on her bed and has her right foot and ankle resting on top of a pile of six square decor pillows. In addition Buffy has several blankets' wraps around her shoulders because she freezing cold from being out in the snow storm for so long. Buffy looks down at her swelling foot and ankle in the gray tall orthopedic walking boot. She knows the ankle and foot are black and blue and three times big then the left foot and ankle. She starts to yawn and lays her head against the pillows. Buffy then close her eyelids and drift off to sleep, despite her teeth, jaw and right foot and ankle still hurting.
At Catalina's house, she is walking through the front door although she should be patrolling for vampires, the other ice demon and other demons. However, she is freezing cold, wet and feeling unwell. She closes the front door and simultaneously hears cat purring in the basement. Catalina walks over to the basement staircase and starts walking down the step of the staircase. She is only half way down the basement staircase when her chest because really tight and she starts wheezing. Catalina turns around and walks up the stairs, despite having a very hard time breathing. Once on the first floor Catalina walks over to the staircase to the second floor and then head upstair to her bedroom to get her inhaler and to call to Angel and asks Angel to come remove the cats for her basement. Fifteen minutes later Catalina opens the front door of the house, because Angel is standing outside waiting to come in. In addition Angle is carrying a large cat carrier in his left hand. Catalina's step away from the door, so Angel can come in. However, he just stands outside, because despite ask him to remove the cat from the basement she has not invite him into the house yet.
"You need to invite me into the house."
"Come into the house Angel."
Angel walks into Catalina's house and as he walks past the Parlour doorway he sees the painting of the Kalderash girl he killed when he was soulless. Catalina closes the front door and Angel walks past the Parlour doorway. Catalina walks over to the double Parlour doorway, which pocket doors are slides into the walls. Angel turns and looks at Catalina and also start to talk.
"How did you get that painting?"
"The painting was past down through the family. I am a distance relative."
"That explains why you look like the Kalderash girl in the painting. In addition I am truly sorry for everything I did to the girl in the painting and I wish every day that Darla never brought her to me as gift."
"Angel's will you please go and remove the cats from the basement and figure out how the cats are getting into the basement."
"I will go do that right now."
Angel's then turns away from Catalina and walks over to the basement staircase. Catalina walks to the top of the basement staircase and watches Angel put the mother and the fathers' cat into the cat carrier simultaneously. He then close the door to the cat carrier and start to look for the four kittens. A white kitten and a gray and white kitten runs up the basement steps. Then the two kittens run up to Catalina and the two kittens start to rub against Catalina's legs. Angel runs up the steps of the staircase and gentle pick up the two kittens. Catalina start wheezing and pulls her asthma inhaler out of her right jean pocket, as Angel carries the two kittens down the steps of the staircase. A short time later Angel looks up the stairs, as putting the kitten in the cat carrier and sees Catalina using her inhaler. The last two kittens come out from under the basement staircase and walks over to Angel. Then the two kittens, which are both are black like the adult male cat walks into the cat carrier, Angel close the door of the cat carrier. He then starts to look around to see how the cats and kittens have been getting into the basement. Catalina walks down the basement staircase and stop on the second to last steps, as Angel close the left egress window that on the back wall of the basement. However, the window will not stay closes. Angel notices the latch that hold the window closes has come unscrew and is laying at the sill of the window. He picks up the two half of the latch and the screws, as Catalina walks over to him with a screwdriver. Angel takes the screwdriver and he fixes the latch for Catalina, so no more cats or kittens can enter the basement through the window. He then checks the latch on the three other windows, the second window that is on the back wall of the basement and the two front windows. The rest of the window latches are screwing into the windows tightly.
"Thank you for come to my house to gather up the two adult cats and the four kittens. In addition thank you for fixing the latch on the egress window."
"You are welcome."
Angel walks over to the cat carrier set in the center of the basement floor. He then picks up the cat carrier, then he and Catalina walk over to the basement staircase. Catalina and Angel then walks up the steps of the basement staircase. A few minutes later Catalina open the front door for Angel and the two of them see it has starts snowing heavily again.
"Ahem I guess there is more then one ice demon in Sunnydale?"
"I think you are right, because if the one you killed was along the snow would have stops."
"Coughing, I feel too unwell to patrol for more ice demons tonight. Will you patrol for the rest of the night?"
"Yes I will patrol the rest of tonight and look for where the other ice demon or ice demons are stays. If I find anything I will let you know."
"Thanks."
"You are welcome. Go take a long warm shower and then get some rest."
"That sound like a good idea, coughing."
Angel walks out of the house and start to walk down the street. Catalina closes and locks the front door of the house. She then walks over to the staircase to the second floor coughing into her left hand and her right hand is rest on her chest that feel very tight still. Catalina takes her inhaler out of her jean pocket and goes to shake the inhaler. However, find it is empty and does not have a refill for her inhaler at her house. The reason for this is that the pharmacy was out and the order been delaying because of the snow storm, along with the shipment of her Ultrase. When Catalina reaches the second floor, she heads to her bedroom that is now at the front of the house. She grabs a pair of lavender pants and long sleeve nightshirt out of a cardboard box. The cardboard box is set on the floor at the end of the queen size bed. She then looks at two very old and fade red books. The books are on the nightstand on the right side of the bed. On the binding of the top book in gold lettering it says Transliteration annals. On the bottom book binding it says Kalderash curses and spells in Romanian. Her great-aunt Lavinia gave both of the books to her during the visit in November with a note. In addition the note said these books were hiding and keep safe for you because it was prophase that you would be chose as a slayer. In addition you would need the book Transliteration annals and the book of Kalderash curses and spells to aid in your slayer duties. Catalina walks out of her bedroom and head to the bathroom to take a warm shower.
Meanwhile, in a cave in Miller woods is a group of a dozen adult ice demons, eight children ice demons and two baby ice demons. The ice demons are inside a cave because they know that the vampire with a soul that called Angel is looking for them. In addition they are mourning the death of the leader and are making a mix of rain and snow come down faster and harder. Simultaneously Oz is driving Willow home since the movie got out about twenty minutes ago. Willow looks to her left and at Oz, as she starts to talk.
"Do you think we will have school tomorrow?"
"Yes we will have school tomorrow, during all my years going to Sunnydale schools, school never been delaying or cancel. In addition Sunnydale school board never cancels school. I believe the school board has a mandate that states that school must take place every day of the week beside Saturday and Sunday. That school will take place during a snow storm, raining so hard it flashes flooding or half the student body and teacher are out school ill."
"I do not remember school getting delay or cancel during the years I have been attending Sunnydale elementary school, Sunnydale junior High or Sunnydale High school either."
Oz pulls his van into the driveway of the Rosenberg's house and puts the van gear shift into the park position. Willow smiles at Oz, as take off her seat belt. She then opens the passengers' door of the van. Willow gets out of the van and smiles at Oz again and starts to talk.
"I had a great time tonight and loved the movie, thanks for agreeing to see Evita with me."
"I love the movie too and I had a great time with you tonight. Do you want to be my girlfriend?"
"I would love to be your girlfriend. I will see you at school tomorrow. Be careful drive home."
"I always drive carefully. I will see you tomorrow at school."
Willow steps away from the door of the van and then close the van door. She then walks up the driveway with a huge smile on her face, despite having a stomachache from eating too much at the movie. Oz watching Willow walking toward the front door of the house because he wants to make sure Willow get inside safely. He is smile to himself too, despite having a stomachache from eating too much at the move. He then watches Willow open the front door of the house and when Willow walks through the front door, Oz moves the gear shift out of parked position. Then he moves the gear shift into reverse position, but keeps his foot on the brake. Once Willow has closed the front door of the house, he looks into the rear view mirror and side view mirrors of his van. When he knows that no vehicles are coming down the street he backs the van out of the driveway. Once in the road he put the van into drive and then start to drive to his parent's house.
Morning comes to fast for Catalina her alarm goes off at 2:30 in the morning, because she has to get up and go to her morning gymnastic training sessions. She hits the off button on her new purple cordless phone/digital alarm clock. The cordless phone/digital alarm clock is on the back of the nightstand on right side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed. Going from left to right if facing the cordless phone/digital alarm clock is the off button for the alarm clock. Then the button that you hold down to set the alarm time, the hour button, the minute button and then the snoozes buttons. Then comes the button to hold down when set the time and lastly the button to turn the alarm clock on. Under the buttons and on the front of the squared base with rounded corners is the digital display for the alarm clock. The cordless phone handset set at the back of the cordless phone/digital alarm clock. The buttons on the alarm clock and on the handset of the cordless phone are silver. Catalina lays in bed for several more minutes because she is exhaust from hardly getting any sleep last night. She was up half the night having a hard time breathing, coughing and sneezing, so she put her clothing away. In addition her eyes were watery all night. At 2:35 Catalina throws the bedspread off and then set up. Then get out of bed and walks over to the small dress between the closet and fireplace. Catalina opens the door that has the oval mirror on the front and then starts looking through the long sleeve leotards that are on the first and second shelf. The reason she is looking at long sleeve leotards is because she is cold and has been cold since being out in the snow storm last night. She chose a long sleeved leotard with a squared neckline. The leotard has velvet opal white sleeves and shoulders with the opal white stop just below collarbones. Then the leotard is a velvet violet from below the collarbones to the bottom of the leotard. The neckline and hem of long sleeves have violet trim. Catalina closes the door of the small dresser and then grab the white elastic knee sleeve brace that has an open patella off the top of the small dresser. Catalina then goes over to the tall dresser on the right side of the fireplace and opens the top drawer and sixth drawer to start with. Out of the top drawer she grabs a nude sport bra and a nude pair of underwear and both by GK. Then close the top drawer of the dresses and then kneels down. She starts looking through the sixth drawer to find a pair of leggings by GK to wear as training and warm up pants to wear to the Sunnydale Gymnastic Club. She chose a pair of violet velvet leggings and a pair of relax fit black warm up pants that are velvet with a draw string waist band. She close the sixth drawer and opens the fifth drawer. Then grab a black velvet zip up jacket and then closes the drawer. Catalina stands up and walks over to the end of her bed coughing into her left forearm. She tosses the leggings, warm up pants, underwear, sport bra, jacket and leotard on the bed. Then walks over to her bedroom door and leaves the bedroom. Then head to the bathroom to brush her tooth, cleaning the newest piercing in her ears and belly button, then comb and pull her hair into a ponytail. Once in the bathroom she goes over to the medicine cabinet and opens the medicine cabinet. She then takes the digital oral thermometer off the top shelf and probe cover out of the small new eggplant basket on the left end of the shelf. She put a probe cover onto the probe end of the thermometer and turns the thermometer. Catalina then put the thermometer into her mouth, as walking over to the wall across from the medicine cabinet and bathroom sink. She leans against the wall, as waiting for the thermometer to beep. A minute and half later the thermometer starts to beep, Catalina takes the thermometer out of her mouth and looks at the digital display. Catalina sees that her body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, which is average body temperature. She takes the use probe cover off the thermometer and tosses the probe cover into the trash can. Then she put the thermometer away and get out her toothbrush and toothpaste.
Elsewhere, at the Summers's house, Buffy is sitting up in bed and Joyce Summers is standing beside her daughter bed hold a glass of water. Buffy is putting two 200mgs tablets of Ibuprofen that are orange coated and round into her mouth. Once the pills are in Buffy's mouth, Joyce hands Buffy the glass of water. Buffy takes a drink of water to wash down the Ibuprofen tablets and then set the glass of water on the nightstand to her left, if laying on the bed.
"Try to get some more sleep Buffy, so you will be well rested for school."
"I will try to sleep, but by foot and ankle are hurting really badly. Also, to make it worse when I fall on the ice, I bite down on my teeth so hard that I break filling. The filling came out from teeth on the bottom left side of my mouth and now I have a really bad toothache and jaw ache too."
"I will make you a dentist appointment, once the dentist opens"
"Thanks and can I stay home for school today?"
"No, you have no excuse absents left for this semester, so you have to go to school for the last day before winter break. In addition you have to go to school the first day back after winter break since it the last day semester and semester exams."
"Ok."
"Now try to get some more sleep."
"I will try."
Joyce Summers turns away from her daughter and then walks toward the bedroom door. Joyce walks out of Buffy's bedroom and closes the door behind her. Joyce's walk back to her bedroom and once in her bedroom goes right back to bed. Inside Buffy's bedroom, she is repositioning her right ankle and foot on the pile of pillows. Buffy then lays her head against her pillows and close her eyes, hoping the Ibuprofen will start working soon.
Meanwhile, at Sunnydale Gymnastic Club Catalina is standing in the center of the spring floor that is at the front of the club. Catalina is doing arm swings to stretch her arms and leg kicks to the side simultaneously. She is the only gymnast in the club and head coach Gina Ionescu is the only other person in the gym. The rest of the elite gymnasts do not start the morning training sessions until six o'clock. They training session starts at six in the morning because the school age elite gymnasts have tutor for home school. In addition the college/university age gymnasts' classes are between morning and evening training session and after the evening training session. Gina Ionescu is watching Catalina doing arm swings and side kicks and Catalina is switching between right and left arms and legs. She notices that Catalina looks tried and hears Catalina's lungs making a wheezing sound. In addition Catalina sound congestion, the wheezing and congestion are most likely causes from the cats that the male friend of Catalina removed from her house last night. Catalina sneezes into her right arm, as swing her left arm and kick her right leg up to the side. Simultaneously the clubs phone starts to ring. Gina Ionescu heads to her officer to answers the phone. A few minutes later Gina Ionescu walks out of her officer and walk over to Catalina who is now doing trunk twists with her arm swings.
"Your watcher Rupert Giles wants to see you and Buffy Summers at his house before all three of you head to school. You are to swing by Buffy Summers's house and pick up Buffy and then the two of you are to go to your watcher house. Rupert Giles has already got in contact with Buffy Summers to let her know about the meeting before school. This means that you are to leave morning practice at 5:30am, instead of seven o'clock in the morning."
"Ok, it mostly likely about the fact that it is still snowing and freezing rain simultaneously. Meaning that the ice demon that I killed was not alone and Mr. Giles is upset that I and Buffy did not find all of the ice demons."
"Ice demons, never seen one of theses in Texas. Sunnydale Hellmouth is a lot more active then the Hellmouth in Dallas, Texas, we had vampire and once in a great while a demon."
"You do not want to meet an ice demon. Ice demons are solid ice and it is extremely cold around them."
"I hope that I never run into an ice demon and I know this snow storm was not a normal snow storm."
Gina Ionescu and Catalina stop talking, as Catalina switches to doing arm swings between her legs. In addition it sounds like Catalina is having a hard time breathing, as doing the arm swing between her legs. Five and half minutes later Catalina is standing beside the spring floor and is drinking water from a white water bottle with a black top and a pull spout. An image of the USA flag in red, white and blue is on the front of the water bottle. A black silhouette of a gymnast doing a handstand with her legs in stag position is on top of the flag. On the left side of the image is the start of a saying in blue letters. The start of the saying is going from top to bottom of the water bottle and says 1996 USA Olympics. On the right side of the image it says a gymnastics team member. As Catalina is drinking her water, she is thinking I hope the reason that my chest being tight. Along with the sneezing, watery eyes and coughing are my allergies from the cats that keep getting into my basement. Because it is not a good time for me to get sick, a minute later she pushes down the pull spout and set her water bottle down. Catalina then goes over to the vault horses to train her vaults. She walks up to the end of the first vault runway. The ends of the vault runways are at the far left end of the club if standing with your back to the clubs main doors. She puts some chalk onto her feet and hand, then takes a deep breath. Catalina runs down the runway and jumps off the springboard. She then does a front handspring onto the vault horse into a double front salto tucked off the vault horse. Catalina sticks the landing with her back to the vault. Then Catalina starts coughing and covers her mouth with her left hand. Gina Ionescu walks up beside the first vault horse landing mat and looks at Catalina, who is still coughing and gasping for air.
"Go home and rest until you have to pick up Buffy Summers."
"I feel up to training ah-choo."
"You are having a hard time breathing and the whole time that you been training this morning you cannot stop coughing. In addition you cannot stop sneezing and you have watery eyes that will not stop watering. Catalina either your allergies are bothering really badly because of the cats that kept getting into your basement the past two days or you are getting sick. Take the day off training and rest when not at school or slayer tonight."
"I really feel well enough to train. I am not sick. I check my temperature before come here and it was normal, my ah-choo allergies are just bothering me."
"Either way I want you to take this morning training session and the afternoon training session off, to get some rest today and you will not be missing anything. Because of the weather, I am going to cancel the training for the elite and recreational gymnastics classes too."
"Ok if everyone else is getting the day off training, then I will go home and take a warm shower. Then I will rest coughing until I have to leave to pick up Buffy."
Catalina walks away from her coach and goes over to her gym bag beside the first spring floor. She then pulls the warm up pant and jacket out of her gym bag. She pulls the pants on and then put on the warm up jacket and zips up the jacket. Catalina pulls her socks out of her white tennis shoes and then puts on the socks onto her feet. A short time later Catalina has the right shoe on and is putting her left shoes on. A minute and half later Catalina is walking out of the club and into the freezing rain and snow mix that is coming down very heavy.
At five thirty in the morning Buffy Summers alarm clocks starts buzzing in her left ear. Buffy reachers over with her left hand and turns off the alarm clock. She then tosses off the bedspread and lift her right leg off the pile of pillows. Then turns in the bed, so facing the vanity and beach, then puts her legs over the side of the bed. Buffy stands up putting all her weight on her left leg and then grabs her crutches, which are resting against the armchair. Then put the crutches under her underarms, wish her right ankle and foot would stop tubbing. Buffy looks at her windows and sees that it is still snowing and that freezing rain is coming down too. Then Buffy hops over to her built-in closets on her crutches and once at the closet door opens all four of the doors. Buffy start looking at her clothing to decide what to wear to Mr. Giles's and school. Buffy grabs a pair of black knit workout pants with wide bootcut legs and a light pink long sleeved shirt. The shirt has a hot pink gem cat face in the center of the chest. In addition she grabs a thick sweatshirt hoodie jacket in the color black out of the closets.
Ten minutes later Buffy is hoping out of her bedroom on her crutches. She sees through the open hallway door to the master bathroom that her mother is kneel in front of the toilet. Joyce Summers has her arms resting on the side of the toilet seat and her eyes are close too. In addition Buffy notices that her mother looks unwell. Buffy hops over to the hallway door to the master bathroom and stop outside the door.
"Are you still sick to your stomach mom?"
"Yes, gagging."
"You been getting sick to your stomach a lot the last few weeks, I think it time that you go see our family doctor and get check out."
"Our family doctor cannot help, I need to go see my obgyn."
"Obgyn cannot help with stomach bugs mom!"
"Buffy's I do not have a stomach bug. I am pregnant. When your father was in town during your hospital stay because of chickenpox, he made me dinner one day. Then it became romantic gagging and then we (Buffy interrupts) . . . "
"Stop mom I do not need to know what happened."
"Good because I do not want to go into the details. However, you are going to be a big sister again and Dawn going to be a big sister now too."
"Mom's I have a question where are we going to put another child in this house?"
"When the baby first born, the baby will sleep in a bassinet in my room. However, when the baby out grows the bassinet either Dawn or you will be sharing a room with the baby?"
"I am not going to share a room with a baby. We can get bunk beds or loft bed that we can put a bed underneath, then Dawn and I can share a room when she is visiting us."
"You do not mind sharing a room with Dawn?"
"I am fine sharing a room with Dawn and Dawn's room would make a great baby nursery since it attached to your bedroom. I need to get ready for school. I have to go in early to work on a world history report and presentation that I and Catalina are doing together. You do not worry about getting dress to take me to school because Catalina is giving me a ride to school."
Buffy turns around and then start to hops down the hallway on her crutches to head to her bathroom. Simultaneously Joyce Summers start to vomit. Buffy reaches the open bathroom door and walks into the bathroom. The bathroom walls are pale pink and pale purple subway titles in a diagonal herringbone tile pattern that alternative between the pale pink and the pale purple. The white clawfoot bathtub with the silver loin paw feet is against the far left-hand wall. In front of the wall and attached to the clawfoot tub and on the left side of the bathroom door, if standing in the door is brass silver clawfoot tub Gooseneck shower head. That came with a hand shower head with a holder set at base of the pipe of the main gooseneck shower head. In addition the tub faucet with lever handles is under the handhold shower head. Attach to the ceiling and wall is a d-shaped ring from which the pale purple shower curtain hangs. In attrition attached to the wall is an antique silver brass rotatable towel rail with four tiers. The rotatable towel rail is next to the clawfoot tub and on the left side of the bathroom door, if standing in the door. The square white porcelain consoles sink that has a silver brass stand (legs). The console sink has a towel bar on front and side bars on each side and is attaching to the center of the wall. The sink is across from the bathroom door and under the front window of the house. Against the center of the far right-hand walls is a golden oak high water tank with pull chain toilet that has a round porcelain Victorian toilet bowl. In addition it has gold oak toilet seat and silver brass pipe connect the high water tank to the toilet bowl. Over the high water tank is an oak cover. On the right side of the square white porcelain console sink is a medicine cabinet that natural golden oak with an oak door in the center. The medicine cabinet has a shelf below the door and on each side of the door are two small shelves above the long bottom shelf. Under the medicine cabinet is a three-tier silver brass storage rack with swirls on the sides. The storage rack has the bottles of shampoo, conditioner, body wash, face wash and lavender bubble bath. Along with lavender body lotion, lavender shower gel, lavender bath fizzes, lavender bath oil, lavender bath salts, a loofah back scrubber and bath poufs. In addition on the left side of the porcelain console sink is a large square mirror with the silver trim. Under the mirror is a three-tier silver brass storage rack with swirls on the sides. On the top shelf of the storage rack is a hair comb, a hair brush, a curl iron, hair crimper and hair straightener. On the other two tiers are baskets with hair supples. On the right and left side of the golden oak high water tank with pull chain toilet is floor to ceiling cabinets. The cabinets and doors are painting a pale purple. Attached to the side of the cabinet on the right, if facing cabinets is a silver brass toilet paper holder. The cabinet on the right is uses for bath, hair and hand towels and washcloths. The cabinet on the left is use for store toilet paper and extra bath and toiletry items. Buffy flips the light switch into the on position and the light switch is on the right side of the bathroom door, if coming through the door. The chandelier in the center of the ceiling comes on. The chandelier is silver with five lights that has classic curves and scroll work and five bell-shaped lights with frosted glass shades. The chandelier column is in the center of the chandeliers and connects to the ceiling. The column starts with a diamond shape at the top, then scroll work that forms a heart shape on each side under the diamond shape. Then the column straight out, as it leads to the bottom. The chandelier has fiver light arms. Near the center of the arm of the lights curved upward and each of the light set on top of scroll work. Buffy hops over to the white porcelain console sink to brush her tooth and she left her toothpaste and toothbrush on the sink last night.
At ten minutes to six o'clock Buffy is standing on the front porch and leaning on her crutches. Buffy has her backpack on her back and is waiting for Catalina to pull her car into the driveway. In addition she has the sweatshirt hoodie jacket zip up and the hood of the jacket is cover her hair that pulled into a ponytail. A few minutes later Catalina pulls her car into the Summers driveway. Buffy hops down the stairs of the front porch on her crutches and then careful hops over to the passenger side of Catalina's car. Once at the car Buffy opens the passengers' door and then puts her crutches and backpack onto the backseat. She then gets into the car and notices that Catalina is wearing a long sleeve velvet blouse in eggplant (deep purple) that button down and set just above the hip. In addition Buffy notice that Catalina is wearing a pair of charcoal gray hip hugger Jeans with bootcut legs with a silver snap and zipper closure. Catalina is wearing her hair down and parted to the right side. Buffy closes the door of the car and Catalina start to talk.
"Do you have Angel take you to the ER or did your mom take you last night?"
"I had Angel take me and find out that I severely fracture my ankle in four places and severely fracture my foot in ten places. In addition the X-ray and MRI showed that my ankle joint dislocated, but when I stood up the ankle joint moved back into place. I also sprain my tendons, ligaments and muscle in my foot and ankle. I will be on crutches from six to twelve weeks depending on how long it takes the ankle and foot to heal."
"That sucks."
"Yes it does."
Simultaneously Catalina backs her car out of the Summers's driveway and after putting the car into drive she starts to drive to Mr. Giles's house. The driver to Mr. Giles's house does not take long because Sunnydale roads have been plow and salt too. Seven and a half minute later Catalina's is parking her car in the driveway of her watcher house. Mr. Giles opens the front door of his house, as Catalina turns her car off.
Five minutes later Buffy and Catalina have just walk into the entry hall of Mr. Giles's house. Catalina looks through the study double doors and sees that Rupert Giles has set the hand craved walnut coffer (stronghold or chest) on the left side of the fireplace. The coffee has three panels on front and back and one panel on each end. All of the panels have large two side swirls with a flower under each side of the swirl. Between the panels are leafs and the coffer has a flat lid. On the right side of the fireplace Rupert has set the 1744 walnut Tralran cassone chest. The chest has hand forged black strap hinges and iron side carrying handles. In addition the chest was construct with chunky dovetails and single plank top, sides, base and front. The chest shaped frieze to the front base and is set on sledge feet. In addition has black brass keyhole plate and the key is in the keyhole. In addition both of the chest have candle boxes on the right sides of the chest. Catalina notices hanging over the fireplace is a needlework map. The map shows the countries of England and Wales done with brown thread and black thread use to write names of cities and town. In addition the needlework map framed in an oval walnut frame. The two slayers walk into the Parlour and toward the settee sofa. Catalina notices that Rupert and Jenny have placed the 17th century upholstered walnut stools in each of the four corners of the room. The stools are upholstering in green velvet fabric and set on top of barrel turned legs. Catalina then notices hanging over the left side of the fireplace is original hand wash colored double hemisphere map of the world. The double hemisphere map is from New General Atlas of 1720. Hanging to the right of the world map from New General Atlas is a 1810 needlework map of the world and both of the maps are framed in walnut frames. Buffy and Catalina takes seats on the 18th Century Venetian Settee sofa that upholstering in green velvet fabric and the carved wood parts are walnut. Mr. Giles is bringing over a footstool for Buffy to put her legs up on, which is an antique walnut footstool. The footstool top is upholstering in black fabric with four embroider full bloomed roses in the center with closed pink rosebuds going around the edges of the footstool. The two slayers notice that their watcher is wearing a pair of tweed suit pants that are black and a white dress shirt. Also, the dress shirt has long sleeves and buttons down. In addition he is wearing a black tie, a black sweater with v-neckline, a pair of black dress socks and a pair of black oxford dress shoes. Rupert Giles set the footstool down in front of Buffy and Buffy gentle set her right leg onto the footstool.
"Angel's called and let me know that a group of ice demons with children and babies are in a cave in Miller's Woods. Catalina after school gets out for the day, you are to go to Miller wood. Then you are to take out the rest of the ice demons with the spell you use last night. If you want help with your nightly patrol while Buffy out of commission call Angel, he told me that he was willing to help you patrol. I have a question for you Catalina I found some knife, daggers, swords, other weapons in an antique walnut coffer. The coffer seems to have belonged to your father, because there were pictures of him with the weapons, do you want the weapons?"
"Hold onto them for now and keep them with your weapons. Maybe at some point I will want them, but right now I do not want them. Also, I do not have anywhere to store them because I am out of trunks to store weapon in."
"In the hiding basement room are several trunks still."
"I do not want my fathers' weapons right now, I am not sure that I will every want my father antique weapon, he was evil. However, my grandfather would not let my grandmother get rid of their son antique weapons."
"I understand and will hold onto the knife, daggers, swords, other weapons."
"Your father was evil, Cat?"
"Yes Buffy my father was evil and so was my mother and grandparents on my mother side. The four of them at one point raised a demon called Eyghon and wore his mark tattoo onto they left forearm just above the inside of the elbow joint. In addition on the night of April 4, 1985 my Mother Sabina Kalderash, Father Bela Reducan and grandparent's Kalderash try to end the world by raise Effigy of Proserpexa on Kingman Bluff. The Effigy of Proserpexa is on the Temple of Proserpexa. In addition my parents and grandparent brought three and half year me to watch them raise Effigy of Proserpexa. See what my parents and grandparents were doing scary me and I raise my arms into the air. The next second green and yellow light belts come out of my hands. The green and yellow light belts hit my Mother, Father and grandparent's and killing them, which saving the world. That was the first time I cast a magical spell and the only time for a very long time because the power I used that night was very strong. Also, the power felt so wrong even at the age of three and half that I did not want anything to do with magic, until nine years old. Then my grandmother and grandfather Reducan sent me to visit my uncle Enyos, aunt Rosella, great-uncle Ephraim and great-aunt Lavinia. Along with the rest of my mothers' family in Borsa, Romanian, so I could learn about the Kalderash way of life and magic."
"You stop the world from ending at three and half that is something most people cannot claim."
"You are right it something that most people cannot claim. However, it is something that I am not proud of. I killed my parents and grandparents and that never set well with me. It felt wrong to kill a human at three and half and still feels wrong till this day."
Catalina start coughing and making a wheezing sound simultaneously and stand up from the 18th Century Venetian Settee sofa and starts to walk toward the door of the Parlour. Rupert Giles walks over to Catalina and puts his hand onto her shoulder. Catalina turns around to look at her watcher, as he starts to talk.
"I still have matters that I want to talk to you and Buffy about, so will you sit back down."
"I need to go upstairs to the bedroom that I used when stay here. So I can get the prescribed box with my extra Ventolin inhaler (albuterol) out of the nightstand, which is where I put the inhaler at back in May. I need to do this because the one I have is out and the shipment of Ventolin to my pharmacy has been delay because of the snow storm."
"Fine. However, do not take a long time."
"I won't."
Catalina walks away from her watcher and Buffy that sitting on the sofa. She then walks into the entry hall of the house. Catalina walks over to the grand wooden staircase. She starts waking up the step of the staircase with her left hand on her chest, wishing the chest tightness would go away. A short time later she steps off the top step of the staircase and onto the landing of the second floor. Then turns to the left, so the staircase is on her left side and the master bedroom is on her right. She then starts to walk down the hallway and walks up to the second bedroom door that is across from the grand staircase. Catalina walks into the bedroom that she stays in when living in this house full time until she reaches the junior elite level in the sport of gymnastics. Then switches to living in the Victorian row house full time and living in this house on long weekend and holidays. Catalina notices that her watcher and Jenny have a place mahogany Georgian kneehole desk with moulded top and seven drawers into the room. A long drawer is at the top of the desk and on each side of the desk has three drawers. In addition all of the drawer are fitting with brass sawn neck handles and have keyholes. Also, the desk set on four ogee bracket feet and the desk has been place in front of the center of the wall on the right side of the bedroom. In addition a small mahogany Georgian desk armchair slides under the desk top. The chair has fluted top rail and cross splat above the solid oak seat. The seat has fluted armrests and raise on square section legs with stretchers. Catalina walks over to the white full sized cast-iron bed, which is a 18th century iron sleigh bed with flowers going down the sides of the headboard and footboard. The center area of the headboard and footboard has eight curved thin bars. On the mattress of the beds are pastel lilac fitted and unfitted sheets. The bedspread covering the sheet has three wide stripes on it. The two end stripes are pastel lavender and has a plum colored diamond shapes over the two end stripes. In addition the center stripe is lavender with daisies in pastel lilac, pastel lavender and plum and plum color strips of fabric are on each side of the center strap. Four full size sleep pillows are on the bed in front of the headboard of the bed. The two bottom pillowcases are pastel lilac and the top two pillowcases are lavender with daisies in pastel lilac, pastel lavender and plum. In front of the top sleep pillows are two decorative pillows, one is a square decorative pillow and one is a rectangle decorative. The square decorative pillow is lavender with daisies in pastel lilac, pastel lavender and plum. The decorative rectangle pillow is pastel lavender with fabric cover bottoms that crate diamond shape. Each diamond shape is form with the four fabric-covered buttons. The square decorative pillow is on the left and rectangle decorative pillow is on the right, if standing at the end of the bed. Catalina takes a seat on the right side of the bed, if standing at the end of the bed. She then open the top drawer of the two drawer nightstand, which is mahogany serpentine nightstand and a nightstand is on each side of the bed. The nightstands have serpentine fronts with gadrooned top edge on the two drawers are gold swan neck handles. The nightstands are resting on square reeded legs. She pulls out the white box that has a blue band around the bottom of the box and on the front of the box is a prescribe label from Munoz Drugs store that is white with black print. She takes the inhaler out of the box and take the dark-blue end cap off the light blue plastic outer canister holder that top half is the actuator and the bottom half is the mouth piece. She shakes the inhaler and then take the first of two puffs. After the second puff she put the end cap back onto the inhaler and then lays back on the bed. Jenny's calendar walks up to the bedroom door. She is wearing a lavender spaghetti strap tank top with cream sheer see through long sleeved top over the tank top. In addition the top that is see through has pink, purple and yellow poppy flower over the top. She is wearing a loose flow skirt with a silk lavender slip and sheer cream outer layer over the slip. Jenny leans against the left side of the door frame and start to talk.
"So this was your bedroom?"
"Yes, this was my bedroom when stay at this house."
"Can I get your opinion on the layout of the baby room?"
"Sure."
Catalina sits up on the bed and grabs the inhaler of the bed with right hand and box with left hand. She put the inhaler back into the box and then Catalina stands up from the bed, hold the box inhaler in her left hand. Catalina walks over to the bedroom door, as Jenny steps into the hallway. Catalina walks out of the bedroom and follows Jenny down the hallway and over to the door to the bedroom across from the master bedroom, which has light gold walls. The two cast-iron twin beds and the four antique mahogany Georgian nightstands are now longer in the room. In addition the nightstands have moulded tops, shaped aprons, are standing on square legs, two shelf and one drawer that below the second shelf. Then Catalina looks into the bedroom and sees the walls are still light gold. In addition sees in the very center of the bedroom is a white cast-iron canopy crib that has a square canopy top that can be use with or without fabric. In addition the tips of the canopy have rosebuds and the ends of the crib are rounded and taller then the sides of the crib. Rosebuds are at the top of the ten round bars and rosebuds are at top of the twenty-four bars on the front and backs side of the crib too. Set beside the right end of the crib is a mahogany Georgian cradle with moulded canopy and fielded panel sides. The cradle has turned finial on the top and on rocker legs. Catalina then notices against the center of the wall that is across from the bedroom door is a long button daybed with a rollover backrest on the right end. The left end of the daybed is rounded and the daybed is upholstering in pale gold velvet upholster. The daybed set on turned mahogany legs with the original brass casters. In the right corner if standing in the bedroom door, is an antique Georgian mahogany rocking chair with an original rush seat. The rocking chair has a fielded panel backrest with gun barrel supports and cresting panel with a carved motif. The armrests of the rocking chair are curve in the inside center and near the end of the armrests on the outside. Against the center of the right-hand wall, if standing in the bedroom door is a mahogany tallboy chest of drawers with two small drawers on top, then six long drawers. The drawers have swan neck pull handles. The long drawers have two swan neck handles and the two short drawers each have one swan neck handle. Set on top of the center of the tallboy chest of drawers is a 1900s silver plated owl with modeled feathered body with glass eyes that are brown and black. To the left of the silver plated owl is a 1990s bronze young owl and adult eye and the two owls are sitting on a branch. The two owls have glass eyes that are brown and black. On the wall across from the bedroom door and on the left of the rocking chair if facing the rocking chair, is a small Georgian bookcase in mahogany. The bookcase has two fixed shelf with a total of three shelves if counting base and the bookcase is set on Gillow feet. Catalina then notices hanging on the right side of the window is a1700s framed in mahogany is a hand colored engraving of an adult and baby short eared owls. Hanging on the wall on the left side of the window and framed in mahogany is a hand colored engrave. The hand colored engrave is of an adult barn owl and baby barn owl that dated September 7, 1782. Catalina then notice against the center of the far left-hand wall is a mahogany Georgian chest of drawers with two short drawers on top. Then three long drawers and all of the drawers have swan neck pull handles. Two on swan neck pull handles long drawer and one swan neck pull handles on the short drawers. Each drawer has keyhole and key that works. In addition the chest of drawers set on squared bun feet. To the left of the chest of drawers is mahogany Georgian washstand/night table with two tiers and scalloped on top tier. Below the second tier is a drawer and then a shelf that is attach to the turned legs.
"We are going to use the top of the chest of drawers as the changing table and the washstand/night table to hold the diapering supplies. What do you think of the baby room so far, I know it early, but Rupert and I want to get it starts?"
"I love the layout and you and Mr. Giles did a great job set up the baby room, so far. In addition I can see my grandmother Reducan sitting in heaven and smile down at the baby room right now. My grandmother would love that someone is finally uses all the antiques she brought during her time living in Sunnydale."
"Thank you."
"You are welcome and I should head back downstairs."
"That fine, I need to finish getting ready for work."
Catalina turns away from the bedroom and walks over to the grand staircase, as Jenny walks back into the master bedroom. Catalina then walks down the steps of the staircase, wondering what else Mr. Giles has to tell her and Buffy before they leave for school. Once downstairs Catalina walks toward the kitchen to get something to drink. When walking toward the kitchen she looks into the dinning room and against the wall on the right side of the doorway is a mahogany Georgian trolley with two tiers. The trolley has carved rosettes on the turned legs and supports. In addition the trolley has the original castors too. She then sees against the far-right hand wall is a mahogany Georgian serving dresser with three drawers. The serving dresser is standing on four cabriole legs and drawers have sawn neck pull handles. Catalina notices in the back left-hand corner, if standing in the doorway is a mahogany Georgian dumb waiter. The dumb waiter has three tiers revolving tables that set on twisting column support and raised on tripod base with castors.
Catalina walks through the kitchen doorway and sees to the right of the kitchen island is an antique 1770 mahogany Georgian tip-top table. The table has a circular top that is support on turned central support and three shaped legs. Around the table is four mahogany Georgiana bar back chairs with drop-in seats that have sage green upholstering and the backs of the chairs are curved. Catalina walks over to the china cabinet that has no doors and is on the left side of the stove. On the shelves of the china cabinet are white porcelain dinnerware and tableware sets. However, the match silverware with porcelain handles that matches the white porcelain dinnerware and tableware set and antique silver silverware is in the cabinet drawers. The white porcelain dinnerware and table set on the shelf of the China cabinet include dinner plates, dessert plates, saucers, oatmeal bowls, small bowls, soup bowls, salad bowls, rice bowls, tea bowl and serving bowls. In addition part of the white porcelain dinnerware and tableware set are severing platters, large mugs, tea cups, silver basket full of two dozen napkin rings and a bon bon dish. The rest of the part of the white porcelain dinnerware and tableware set in the China cabinet is salt and pepper shaker, butter dish, cream jug, sauceboat, sugar bowl, soup pot, gravy boat, custard cups, tea pot and pitcher. All of the white porcelain dinnerware and tableware set items have rounded rims that are gold and hand paint groups of fully opened rosebuds. The rosebuds are in the colors of pink, red, purple and yellow and each rosebuds have green stems with leafs on the side. Also, in the china cabinet are Georgia baluster wine glasses and 1820 cut glass water jug. The jug got a notch neck and pulled a pouring lip that leads to a slice cut neck. The body of the cut glass water jug is slices with diamond cut out. The glass water jug has an applied handle with slice cut and rest on a star cut base. In addition on the shelves of the china cabinet are Georgian Sherry Glasses, Georgian Ale glasses with drawn trumpet bowls, a tearer stem and a conical folded foot. Other items on the shelf of the china cabinet are pedestal stem champagne glasses, Georgian tavern glasses and 1770s Georgian short and tall glass tumbler glasses. The tumbler glasses have tapered bowel and kick base feet. Gadrooned half pint tankards that are from 1780 on shelfs of the china cabinet too and the tankards have thick rim. The tankards also have applied handles, gadrooned base with conical feet and a rough pontil support. Catalina grabs a tall glass tumbler off the bottom shelf and then goes over to the framer sink to fill the tumbler with water. Once the tumbler has a little water inside, she takes a sip. However, does not swallow the water, Catalina rinses her mouth out with water and then spit the water out. She rinses the tumbler out and then fill it with water because she is thirsty. Once the tall glass tumbler is full of water, she turns off the water. Then take a long drink of water that she does swallow this time.
Meanwhile, in the Parlour Rupert Giles is pace the room. Buffy has her right elbow on the arm of the 18th Century Venetian Settee sofa and resting her head on the palm of her hand. Rupert's keep pace and looks at his wrist watch to check the time. Simultaneously Catalina walks into the Parlour drinking a glass of water. Catalina takes a seat on the sofa and Rupert Giles walks in front of his two slayers. He turns and looks at Catalina and Buffy, then he starts to talk.
"The second matter I want to talk about is the vampire Penn, it is time that one of you finds and dusts Penn."
"I am not going to be find or killing any vampires or demons any time soon Mr. Giles, I cannot even put weight on my right ankle or foot."
"Right, you off slayer duty for the time being. It will be Catalina's job to find and kill the rest of the ice demons and the vampire Penn."
"I will deal with the ice demons tonight and then do the normal patrol. Mr. Giles's get a hold of Angel and ask him to do some reconnaissance of Penn. To see if he living at the Master lair or if he living somewhere else on his own because the Anointed One is not taking part in the murders anymore. Which make me think Penn has parted from the Master."
"I will call Angel before leave for work and ask him to do reconnaissance of Penn to find out what you want to know. However, the two of you should leave for school now. That way you have time to stop at your lockers and spend sometime with your friends before first period of the school day."
"(Buffy and Catalina) Yes we should."
Rupert Giles's pick up the crutches from the floor, as Buffy takes her right leg off the footstool and Catalina stand up from the sofa. Buffy stands up a short time later and takes the crutches from Mr. Giles. Buffy puts the underarm crutches under her underarm, as Rupert Giles takes the empty tall glass tumbler glasses from Catalina. Rupert Giles then sees his two slayers to the front door of the house. He then opens the front door and watches Buffy and Catalina leave the house. He then watches the two slayers walk over to Catalina's car in the driveway.
At Sunnydale High School Willow Rosenberg is walking toward her locking and she is wearing a pair of dark khaki pants with bootcut legs and a white tee shirt. The white tee shirt has a yellow rubber ducky centered on the front. She is also wearing a blue hoodie jacket that is a cotton and sweatshirt mix. The jacket is zip up half way and the long sleeves are pull over her hands. In addition her backpack on her back and is wearing her hair French braid. Willow is walking up to her locker with her arms wrapped around her abdomen and looks paler then normal. Oz walks over to Willow and he is wearing a black tee shirt with a charcoal gray long sleeved shirts that button down over the tee shirt. The button down shirts is unbuttoning and he is wearing a pair of wide leg cargo denim jeans. In addition Oz has his arm wrapped around his abdomen too. Oz looks at Willow and simultaneously Willow looks at Oz. OZ notice Willow looks like she is unwell and in pain too. Willow notices that Oz looks unwell and like he is in pain, as Oz starts to talk.
"Do you have a stomachache and do you have diarrhea?"
"Yes, I had a stomachache and diarrhea all night. However, since I was not running a fever this morning I made myself come to school. Do you have a stomachache and diarrhea?"
"Yes, I had a stomachache and diarrhea all night too. However, I am running a run grade fever. However, I want to check in with you, so I came to school. I think we eat something that was bad, last night at the movie theater."
"Or we both just happen to catch a stomach bug simultaneously."
"I need to use the restroom. I will see you around."
Oz turns away from Willow and starts to run toward the close boy's restroom. Simultaneously Willow start shivering and thinking our thermometer must be breaking. I have to be running a fever because I have been cold since midnight and cannot warm up. Willow reaches her locker and starts to turn the dial of the combination lock. Xander walks over to Willow and she notices that he is wearing a pair of relaxes fit black jeans. Willow also notices that Xander is wearing a long sleeved shirt that black and has three yellow stripes that are going the length of the sleeves. By now Willow has open her locker door and is putting the textbooks and notebooks for the afternoon class into her locker. Willow has just put the last textbook and notebook into her locker when her stomach starts making a growling sound. Willow slams her locker door close and drops her backpack onto the floor in front of her locker. Then Willow runs away from her locker and Xander. She then starts running toward the nearest girl's restroom and Xander start yelling at Willow.
"Willow where are you going?"
"Restroom, I really have to use the bathroom badly."
Before Xander can say anything back to Willow, she turns the corner. Now Xander is unable to see Willow, from his position of standing in front of the locker to the right of Willow's locker. He leans against the locker and waits for Willow to come back. In addition he is waiting for Buffy and Catalina to arrive at their lockers that are near Willow's locker. A few minutes later Catalina and Buffy are walking toward Xander. Xander notices that Catalina looks tired and pale. He also, notice Buffy is using crutches and on her lower right leg is a gray tall orthopedic walking boot.
"What happened Buffy?"
"I learned last night that kicking ice demon is a bad thing, I severely fracture my ankle in four places and severely fracture my foot in ten places. In addition when I kick the ice demon my ankle joint dislocated, but when I try stood up the ankle joint moved back into place. I sprain all of my tendons, ligaments and muscle in my foot and ankle too. I will need to be on crutches from six to twelve weeks depending on how long it takes the ankle and foot to heal."
"Did you and Catalina mange to kill the ice demon?"
"Catalina killed one ice demon. However, there is more then one ice demon in Sunnydale. Since it did not stop snowing last night Catalina had Angel patrol town to look for more ice demons. Angel's called Mr. Giles and told him a group of ice demons with children and babies are in a cave in Miller's Woods. Catalina has to go out to Miller's woods to night and search for the cave. She then has to cast the fire spell that would burn the ice demons from the inside out, melting them."
Buffy and Catalina walks over to the lockers to put away the textbooks, folders and notebooks that are not need until the afternoon. As the two of them are putting their afternoon textbooks, folders and notebooks into their lockers, Willow walks over to her locker and picks up her backpack from the floor. Xander looks at Willow and notice that she looks a little green.
"You look a little green and have your arms wrapped around your stomach Willow. Do you have a stomachache or upset stomach?"
"Both and I have diarrhea too. In addition I thinking that I might be running a fever too because I am cold."
Simultaneously Oz walks over to Willow, Xander, Buffy and Catalina with his arms wrapped around his stomach and he looks a little green too. Catalina start sneezes and opens the front pocket of her backpack. She pulls out a travel pack of tissues and opens the tissues. She pulls out a handful of tissues and puts the travel pack of tissues back into her backpack with her left hand. Simultaneously cover her nose and mouth with the tissues in her right hand because she is still sneezing. Xander looks over at Catalina and start talking.
"Cat are your allergic still bothering you?"
"Yes, the cats get into my basement again last night, ah-choo. I had to ask Angel to remove the two adult cats and four kittens. He got the adults cats into cat carrier first and then grab two of the kittens that were rubbing against my legs. My chest has been tight ever since, I have also been sneezing, coughing and had watery eyes since then too. After Angel got all six cats into the cat carrier, he found the latch on the back left egress window had come unscrew. The latch was set on the sill of the window, so he picked up the two half and screwed the latch back onto the window, ah-choo. Then check the rest of the windows to makes sure the latches were tightly screws in, which there were. Then he and the cats left my house."
Willow and Oz both turn away from Catalina, Buffy and Xander and runs to the nearest boy' and girl restrooms. Simultaneously the warning bell rings, which let students know to head to first period of the school day starts. Catalina and Buffy close their locker doors and then Xander, Buffy and Catalina head to the world history classroom.
Five minutes later the bell for first period of the school day to start rings, most of the class minus Willow has got their review sheets out. The students in the classroom get to work on the review sheets for a second day in a row. The reason for this is that the review sheets are very thick, since it covers from the first day of classes to this Wednesday. Buffy is not sitting at her normal desk, but at the first desk of the row beside the classroom windows. In addition she has her right ankle and foot up on a stool. Catalina is sitting at the desk behind Buffy and Xander is sitting at the desk on Catalina's right side and looking at Catalina. In addition he is thinking I am so glad that Catalina is dating me and that she agreed to go to the Spring Fling dance with me in May. Willow walks into the classroom ten minutes into class and walks over to the desk behind Xander and takes a seat. Then Willow gets out her history textbook, notebook and folder out of her backpack. Willow then gets out her review sheets out of her folder and flips to page 19. She then starts working at the top of page 19 of 40 pages. After answers only two questions, Willow starts feeling very nauseous. Willow leans against the back of the desk chair and wraps her arms around her abdomen, as closes her eyes. Willow sits with her back against the desk chair, arms wrapped around her abdomen and eyes closed for several minutes. Then Willow raises her right hand into the air and Mrs. Jackson notice Willow's hands in the air.
"What do you need Willow Rosenberg?"
"Can I use the restroom?"
"Can you make to the end of class and then go to the restroom before the second class of the school day, since you come to class late?"
"No, I urgently have to uses the bathroom."
"Fine, you can go use the restroom."
"Thank you."
Willow jumps up from the desk chair and then runs to the close classroom door. She pulls the door open and then runs out of the class room. Then Willow runs to the nearest girl's restroom, hoping that she will make it to the restroom in time. Because the urge to have a bowel movement is becoming very urgent. Back in the world history classroom Catalina's chest have become very tight again and she is having a very hard time breathing. Buffy has stop working on the review worksheets and is rubbing the left side of her jaw and mouth. That has start hurting badly again and the left side of her face has starts to swell too. In addition Buffy right foot and ankle have starts throbbing badly. Simultaneously principal Snyder voice comes over the loudspeaker.
"Due to the continuing snow and freezing rain that keep coming down, Sunnydale High School will be release early and the student body will be release after fourth hours."
principal Snyder stops talking and the loudspeaker goes silent. Buffy and Catalina looks out the classroom windows and sees that the snow and freezes rain is coming down heavily again. Xander looks over at Catalina and can tell that she feeling under the weather because of her allergies and sound like she is having a hard time breathing. Xander leans to his left and hears Catalina's lungs are making a wheezing sound, he taps Catalina on the shoulder and start talking simultaneously.
"Your breathing sound bad and you look tired and unwell, maybe you should go sees the school nurse and go home sick."
"I can make through the ah-choo rest of world history and through second, third and fourth hours too."
Catalina start coughing and covers her mouth with a tissue from the travel pack of tissues set on her desk, as Willow walks back into the classroom. Willow makes it as far as the first row of desk and starts gagging. She puts her hands over her mouth and then runs over to the trash can beside the teacher's desk. She leans over the trash can and remover her hands from her mouth and right away start vomiting into the classroom trash can. Mrs. Jackson grabs the nurse pad from the top left corner of her desks and then picks up a pen with her right hand. She then starts to write a pass for the nurse office out for Willow Rosenberg.
"Willow Rosenberg when you finished getting sick to your stomach, I want you together up your textbook, notebook, folder, review sheets and backpack and then go to the nurse office."
Two minutes later Willow stands up straight and takes the nurse pass from the Mrs. Jackson. She then walks over to the desk she was sitting at and grabs her textbook and notebook and puts them into her backpack. She then puts the review sheets into the world history folder and then puts the folder into her backpack. Willow zips up the backpack and then walks over to the classroom door. Willow walks out of the world history classroom closes the door behind her. Then Willow walks to her locker to get her textbooks, notebooks and folders for the afternoon classes, so she can study for first semester exams over winter break.
A few minutes later Willow is walking toward the nurse office with her arms wrap around her abdomen. Oz walks up beside Willow on her left and he has his arms wrapped around his abdomen too. Willow sees the corner of a nurse pass stick out of Oz left hand.
"Why are you not in class Willow?"
"I vomit into the world history classroom trash can, so Mrs. Jackson is sending me to the nurse office. Why are you not in class?"
"Mrs. Taggart is sending me to the nurse office because I vomit into the classroom floor, I was unable to make it to the trash can."
Willow and Oz stop talking because both of them have start gagging. The two of them put their hands over their mouths and start running down the hallway toward the nurse office. Willow runs through the door of the nurse office first. Then Oz runs through the door to the nurse office after Willow, once through the door Oz lean over the trash can by the door. He removes his hand from his mouth and start vomiting, as Willow runs over to the trash can by the nurse desk. She takes her hand off her mouth and starts getting sick to her stomach right away. Nurse Greenliegh grabs two ear probes for the ear thermometer and the ear thermometer. She puts one of the probes onto the prob end of the thermometer. Then turns on the digital ear thermometer and put the ear thermometer into Willow Rosenberg left ear first. A minute and half later the thermometer start beeping and the nurse take the thermometer out of Willow's ear. Then looks at the digital display and see that she is running a fever of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The nurse takes the use probe cover of and throws probe cover into the use probe cover bin that on top of the small filling cabinet behind her desk. Nurse Greenliegh clean the probe end with an alcohol swap. Then put a new probe cover onto the probe end of the thermometer. The nurse then goes over to Oz that lean on the wall on the right side of the trash can that beside the nurse office door. Nurse Greenliegh put the ear thermometer into Oz's right ear, as Willow stops vomiting. Willow then lies down on the recovered couch that across from the nurse desk and against the center of the far left-hand wall if walking through the nurse office door. A minute and half later the thermometer starts to beep again. Nurse Greenliegh takes the thermometer out of Oz's ear, then Nurse Greenliegh and Oz look at the thermometer display and sees it says 100. 3 degrees Fahrenheit.
Meanwhile, in the high school library Rupert Giles is checking books out to Owen Thurman. Jenny Calendar walks through the double library doors and up to the check out counter. Rupert Giles checks the last book out and then set the book on top of a large pile of books with Own library card. Then the high school librarian smiles at the computer science teacher and the mother of his unborn daughter or son. Owen's pick up his library card and put the card into his wallet. He picks the wallet into his left back pocket of his black dress pants and then picks up the pile of books. Rupert Giles and Jenny Calendar watches Owen leave the library and then Rupert walks over to Jenny.
"You should be in class Jenny, why are you in the library?"
"I want to see you and all of my ninth grade student are absent today. Sitting in my empty classroom was boring so I come to spend sometime with you until the bell to go to second hour rings."
"Your whole class is absent?"
"I had two students show, up. However, right as the bell for class to start rang, both ask to use the restroom. When the two students come back to class asked for passes to the nurse office because they had Diarrhea and were vomiting when in the restroom and felt feverish too. In addition both look unwell."
"The two students could come back to class."
"I told them to stay at the nurse office the rest of the hour, evens if the nurse says they are not sick enough to go home. Because the class is not working on anything today and with me being pregnant it is not a good idea for sick students to be around me."
"Well it nice to get to spent sometime with you during the school day."
"Yes it is."
Jenny and Rupert go into Rupert Giles office and Rupert closes the office door behind him. Jenny takes a seat on the wide sleeper armchair that back is against the center of the wall that right across from the office door. In addition the wide armchair seat cushion comes off and then you pull out the sleeper bed. The armchair is upholstering in dark brown fabric. To the left of the office door is a short filling cabinet and then a black table with small hot plate, a tea kettle, mugs and tin of tea bags. To the right of the office door is a tall filling cabinet. Up against the far left-hand wall is a short filling cabinet, if standing in the office door. Then Rupert Giles's desk, Rupert is sitting on the desk chair that in front of the desk and facing Jenny. Then after the desk is another tall filling cabinet with a space between the filling cabinet and the wide sleeper armchair. On the left side of the wide armchair is an oak double side cabinet, if facing the armchair. The cabinet top can be use as a table and the cabinet has two doors. Inside the cabinet are sheets, pillows and blankets. Against the far right-hand wall is a bookcase with five shelves and glasses doors, then an oak coat rack. Rupert and Jenny picks up book of baby names and then start looking at baby names. When Jenny and Ruper find a name they like or love writes the names down onto a pad of paper that set on their laps.
Meanwhile, back in Mrs. Jackson classroom Buffy Summers has raised her right hand into the air. Mrs. Jackson notices Buffy Summers hand in the air, but does not ask what she need right away because she is helping Heidi Berrie on her review sheets. Heidi looks at Buffy and then at looks at Mrs. Jackson with a worried look on her face. Heidi then looks back at Buffy, so Mrs. Jackson looks back over and the teacher can tell something is bothering the teenager.
"Buffy Summers what do you need?"
"Can I have a pass to the nurse office my ankle and foot are throbbing badly and I have a really bad toothache too?"
"Yes, I will write you a pass to the nurse office."
"Thank you."
"You are welcome Buffy Summers."
Buffy close her world history textbook and then puts her review sheets into her world history folder. A few moments later she puts her textbook, notebook and folder into her backpack. Then stand up putting all of her weight onto her left leg. Buffy puts her backpack onto her back and then puts her crutches under her underarms. Catalina and Xander watch Buffy hop over to Mrs. Jackson's desk on her crutches. Mrs. Jackson hands Buffy the nurse pass and Buffy puts the pass into her right pant pocket. Mrs. Jackson goes back to helping Heidi Berrie and Catalina and Xander watch Buffy Summers hop over to the classroom door on her crutches. Simultaneously Jonathan Levinson stands up from the first desk that in the first row. He walks up to the classroom door, as Buffy opens the classroom door and he starts talking to Buffy.
"I will close the classroom door for you."
"Thanks."
"You are welcome."
Buffy hops out of the classroom on her crutches. Once Buffy in the hallway, Jonathan closes the classroom door. Catalina and Xander go back to working on their review sheets. However, Xander keeps looking over at Catalina, who looks tired and unwell. In addition Catalina cheeks have started to become rosy in color and her nose is red from blowing it every few minutes.
The bell for first hours to end rings and Willow and Buffy has not come back to class. Xander and Buffy put their history textbooks, notebooks and folders with their review sheets and other history papers into their backpack. Then the two of them leave the world history classroom with the rest of the class. Xander and Catalina then head to the English classroom. Simultaneously in the nurse office it is final Buffy's turn to see Nurse Greenliegh. Buffy set her crutches against the right end of the recovered couch. Then set her backpack on the floor beside the crutches. Buffy takes a seat on the recovered couch and then head Nurse Greenliegh the nurse pass. Nurse Greenliegh reads the pass and then looks up at Buffy Summers.
"I cannot do much to stop your fracture ankle and foot from hurting or to stop the pain from the toothache, when was the last time that you take Ibuprofen?"
"I take 400mg of Ibuprofen at five thirty this morning."
"You cannot take any more Ibuprofen until nine thirty in the morning, since the 400mg of Ibuprofen is not working to reduce the pain level. Have your mom call your doctor officer and then have your mom ask the doctor to write you a prescription for 600mg of Ibuprofen. Do you think you can make it through three more hours of school?"
"No, I am too much pain to go back to class."
"I will check your temperature, since your left side of your face is swelling and you look a little feverish. Then
I will call you mom and tell her that you need to come home sick. In addition since it is the last day before winter back, I will ok the absent for the rest of the school day since you having medical issues. Just make sure to have your mom gets a doctor note for the school."
"Thank you and I will make sure my mom gets me a doctor note."
"You are welcome."
Nurse Greenliegh grabs the ear thermometer and a probe cover. She puts the probe cover onto the probe of the digital ear thermometer and then turns on the thermometer. The nurse then puts the ear thermometer into Buffy's right ear. A minute and half later the thermometer start beeping, Nurse Greenliegh takes the thermometer out of Buffy's right ear and looks at the display.
"Do I have a fever?"
"Yes, you are running a fever of 101. 9 degrees Fahrenheit."
Nurse Greenliegh walks over to her desk and pick up the handset of the cordless phone. She then starts to dial Buffy Summers home phone number. Buffy lays down on the recovered couch, so she is facing the door to the nurse office. Hold the cordless phone handset in place with her left shoulder Nurse Greenliegh puts four pillows under Buffy's right leg. That way the leg is elevating above heart level, to help reduce the swell and maybe help reduce the pain too.
In Ms. Miller English class, the students are talking a pop quiz on common elements of English, constituent structure, rules and regularities and what is nouns, subcategories of nouns. In addition the pop quiz covers noun phrase, predeterminers and postdeterminers, what is the function of nouns and what is verb phrases. Also, covered on the pop quiz are what is subcategory of verbs, verb tense, verb phrases and what is nonfinite verb phrases. Catalina is the first in the class to finish the pop quiz and she walks up to Mrs. Miller's desk with her backpack purse over her left shoulder. Catalina hands the teacher the pop quiz.
"Ahem Mrs. Miller can I use the restroom?"
"Yes you can use the restroom, here is the restroom pass."
Catalina takes the pass from the teacher and then turns and walks toward the classroom door. When she reaches the door Catalina opens the classroom door and then walks out of the door, closes the classroom door behind her. Catalina slowly walks to the nearest girl's restroom, which is the restroom with yellow subway tiles for most of the walls. However, at the top of the walls are wide strips of white. She opens the restroom door and walks by the first half of the mirror that is right after the door. She also walks by the first several stall on left if your back to the door that leads to the inside hallway of the school. In addition if you are facing the door that leads to the outside corridor. Catalina then walks up to the end of the mirror and turns so facing the mirror and the first wall mount sink to her left. Then Catalina looks into the mirror and sees that her nose is red and that her cheeks have started to get rosy. In addition Catalina notices that her eyes have started waterily again and simultaneously she starts to cough with a dry hacking sound. Catalina covers her mouth with her left hand and start rubbing her forehead with her right hand, because she has a throbbing headache too. As coughing Catalina hears the wheezing sound that she been making since yesterday has become louder and her chest because tighter. She also notices that she is having rapidly breathing and with every cough the tight because worse and her chest hurts. Catalina coughs for more than six and half minutes, then Catalina takes her asthma inhaler out of her purse and shake the inhaler. Then takes the cap of the inhaler and takes the first of two puffs. A few minutes after taken the second puff, she put the asthma inhaler away and walks into the fourth stall and pulls some toilet paper off the toilet paper roll. Then Catalina starts to blow her nose and wish that she was at home and in bed. Cordelia Chase walks through the restroom and over to Catalina.
"Mrs. Miller sent me to check on you because you been gone for more than ten minutes. Is everything all right or is something wrong because you look pale beside for a red nose and rosy checks?"
"My allergies are bothering me, which is making me feel unwell ah-choo."
"Bless you."
"Thanks. You can go back to class and tell Mrs. Miller I am fine and ah-choo will be back to class shortly. I am going to use the restroom while I am here."
"Ok."
Cordelia turns away from Catalina and walks to the restroom door and Catalina closes the door to the fourth stall. She locks the stall door and then leans against the stall door with the right side of her head touching the steel door. She closes her eyes and is thinking the steel door feel cooling on her forehead, which is not a good sign at all. It means that she could be running a fever and developing a secondary viral or bacterial infection that resulting from her allergies, which is the last thing she needs. Catalina puts her left hand onto her forehead, which feels clammy to the touch. She unzips the front pocket on her backpack purse and takes out an oral digital thermometer and a probe cover. Then she puts the probe cover onto the mouth end of the thermometer and pulls off the paper covering. Catalina turns the thermometer on and put the thermometer into her mouth under her tongue, then closes her mouth. A minute and half later the thermometer starts beeping and she takes the thermometer out of her mouth. Then looks at the display and see that it says 99.1 degrees Fahrenheit. Meaning that she is not running fever, but is close since a lower grade fever is 99.3 to 100.8 degrees Fahrenheit. She takes the use probe cover off and tosses the probe cover and paper wrapping from the probe cover into the wall trash can for used menstrual pads and tampons. Catalina puts the thermometer back into the front pocket of her backpack purse. After zip up the pocket of the purse she grabs some more toilet paper and then blows her nose again. After blowing her nose she looks at the nasal discharge and sees it is still clear for the time being, which is a good thing.
Back in Mrs. Miller English's classroom, Xander is working on review worksheets for the first semester exam. The review worksheets are due the first day they are back from winter break, which is the day of the exam. He stops working on the review worksheets and looks at the classroom door to see if Catalina is walking toward the classroom door. Xander gets a smile on his face because Catalina is walking up to the classroom door. She walks into the classroom and walks past the first two rows of desks. Then turns down the walkway between the second row of desk and third rows of desks. Catalina walks by Meredith Todd on her left and Aphrodesia on the right. Then Catalina walks by Harmony Kendall on her left and Cordelia Chase on her right. Then Catalina walks by Xander that on her left and on her left and by the empty desk and seat on the right where Willow's seat. Catalina sees the empty desk and seat behind Willow where Buffy seats. Catalina then walks up to the last desk in the third row and takes a seat behind Xander. Xander turns around in his seat and looks at Catalina, who staring at the thick stapled review sheets that are set on the center of her desk.
"You were in the restroom a long time, you not catching the stomach bug that Willow and Oz have?"
"Ah-choo, no I am not catching the stomach bug that Willow and Oz left school with. Nevertheless, I am feeling unwell because of my allergies and Im going to ask to go to the nurse."
"You can ask, but Kevin Benedict, Larry Blaisdell, Kyle DuFours, Tor Hauer and Rhonda Kelley were asking Mrs. Miller for passes to the nurse office when Cordelia Chase come back from checking on you. Cordelia told Mrs. Miller, Kevin Benedict, Larry Blaisdell, Kyle DuFours, Tor Hauer and Rhonda Kelley that the nurse office has a sign on the door that said full. Under the word full it said if it is a medical emergency go to the main office."
"Great if I go to the main officer Principal Snyder will just give me a hard time, coughing."
"Xander Harris and Catalina Reducan stop talking and work on your review worksheets."
"(Xander and Catalina) yes Mrs. Miller."
Xander turns around and goes back to working on the second page of review worksheets. Catalina flips through the sixty-five pages of review worksheets to see what is being cover in them. She sees it covers the subjects from the writing and grammar grade ten textbooks, which for the most part was on the pop quiz from today. In addition the review worksheets cover subjects from the literature grade ten textbooks, which are fiction and nonfiction, short stories, plots and point of views. Also covered in the review worksheet are types of narrators, characters and setting, tone and styles. In addition it covers theme, symbol and the first half of the chapter on reading long stories and novels. Catalina lays her head down on the desk and closes her eyes because her head is pounding. Simultaneously principal Snyder voice comes over the loudspeaker.
"The snow and freezing have getting worse over the last hour and half. So instead of being released after fourth hours, the student body is now being release at the end of second hour."
Principal Snyder's stop talking and the loudspeakers in the school are silently again. Catalina smiles because she can go search the wood this morning. Then go home to take a warm shower and then get some sleep before the evening patrol. Catalina sits up and starts to work on the review worksheet, despite feeling unwell. Fifteen and half minutes later the bell rings that normal mean head to third hours, but today it means the school day is over. Xander turns around in his seat, as putting his textbooks, notebook and folder into his backpack.
"Can you give me a ride home, Cat?"
"Do you want to come search Miller woods for the cave the ice demons are living in with me?"
"Sure, it will mean less time at home listening to my parents fight."
Xander stands up from his desk chair, as Catalina starts to put her textbooks, notebook and folder into her backpack. A few moments later Catalina stands up from the desk chair, as grab her backpack purse off the floor. Then Xander and Catalina walk over to the classroom door and leaves the English classroom. Catalina and Xander stop at their lockers to get their textbooks, notebooks and folders for their afternoon classes, so they have them to study for exams during the winter break.
Eleven minutes later Catalina has broken the icy layer off the top of the snow that on her car. In addition Catalina is finish up clean off the snow from her silver 1962 Porsche 356 Coupe. Xander has been sitting in the car that is running, the whole time and is wearing a x-large dark gray sweatshirt that used to belong to Catalina's grandfather Reducan. The sweatshirt was in a bag on the back seat of the car. Catalina gets into the car and closes the door, she is also wearing an old sweatshirt of her grandfather, but the one she is wearing is red. Catalina and Xander put their seat belts on, then Catalina puts the gear shift into reverse. Then Catalina looks in her side mirror and rearview mirror to make sure no one is coming down the row into which she going to be backing her car into. Catalina then starts to back her Porsche 356 Coupe out of the middle packing space of the first row of parking spaces. Several minutes later Catalina stops her car at the stop sign that is at the exit of the student body parking lot. She looks both ways several time to make sure no one is coming down Main Street and then pulls out of the exit making a left turns onto Main Street. The light is still green when Catalina reaches the intersection of Main Street and State Street. She makes a right-hand turn since no one is in front of her on or on the other side of Main Street and no one is on State Street. The normal short drives from to the driveway up to the stone mediaeval castle and the parking lot for Kingman Bluff and Miller wood takes more than twenty-five minutes. In addition the parking lot is between Kingman's Bluff, Whisper Lake and Miller wood. The drive takes so long because the roads are cover in snow and the snow has a solid sheet of ice over the snow. In addition the mediaeval castle set on top of a bluff across Kingman's bluff and behind from Kingman's bluff too. Also, the long twisting driveway of the castle is off the back left corner of the parking lot between Kingman Bluff and Miller wood. The parking lot is compelety empty when Catalina pulls her car into the parking lot, which has been plow and salt recently. Catalina looks around the empty parking lot and turn right, then start to drivers across the parking lot. She drives up to the first row of parking spaces that are in front of the pathway that leads to Whisper Lake and the outer edge of Miller wood. Catalina pulls the car into the parking space that in front of the path. With her right-hand Catalina puts the gear shift into the park position. The gear shift is in the center of the floor and between the driver seat and passenger seat. Then Catalina turns her head to the right and looks at Xander.
"Xander when we find the cave with the ice demons, I want you to stay back and let me cast the spell to melt the demons from the inside out."
"I will not get in the way when it time for you to cast the spell to melt the ice demons from the inside out."
Catalina turns the Porsche 356 Coupe off and then grabs her backpack purse off the seat between her and Xander. Then the two of them open the car doors and get out of the car, close the doors behind them. Catalina locks the driver door and then walks over to the passenger side and locks the door. Catalina and Xander then walk up to the path that leads to Whisper Lake and the edge of the wood and Catalina is putting her backpack purse onto her back. Once Catalina's backpack purse is on her back, she and Xander stop off the plowed parking lot and onto the snow cover path, which is past Catalina's knees. In addition the snow comes to the base of Xander knees. The two of them start to walk slowly down the snow cover path. Xander looks to his right and at Catalina who is blowing her nose into a tissue that she pulled out of her right jean pocket. He then looks ahead and sees Lake Whisper in the distance, which for the first time in history is frozen solid. Still blowing her nose, Catalina looks toward the lake and her eyes go wide.
"I live here my whole life and that lake has never frozen over before, this is not a good sign Xander."
"No, it is not a good sign."
The two of them stop talking and Catalina start coughing into her left hand. It takes about twenty minutes to reach the path on the teenagers left sides that lead up to the area around the lake. Then Catalina and Xander's turn left onto the path that leads to the area around Lake Whisper. Ten minutes later Xander and Catalina walk over to the edge of the lake. Then the two of them stare out the frozen lake for several minutes, because it might be the only time they ever see the lake frozen. Four minutes later Xander and Catalina are back on the main path and walking toward the edge of Miller wood, hoping that they will warm up when walking. The normal ten and half minute walk from the lake path to the edge of the wood take another twenty minutes. Xander steps into the woods first and then Catalina steps into Miller wood. The two of them are glad too seen that the snow is not as high in the wood. Also, the snow only comes up to the top of Catalina shins and just above the base of Xander shins. Xander knows that the two of them are in for a long walk because the cave system in Miller wood starts in the northwest section of the wood. In addition the cave runs westward and goes way into the woods and the cave system of Miller wood is near the edge of University of California, Sunnydale too. Catalina and Xander have reached the part of the path that has a fork that goes northwest or continue going north toward Shadow Valley Vineyard. The two teenagers stop walking and look at each other. Xander then pulls Catalina toward him and kiss Catalina on the lips. She kisses him back, despite feeling unwell and feverish since he exposed himself to any germs that she might have. The two of them kiss for several moments and Catalina is the one to break the kissing, by pull away from Xander, because she needs to cough. She turns her head away from Xander and covers her mouth with her left hand and start coughing into her hand. Simultaneously the two of them start to walk down the path that goes northwest, as walking toward the cave Xander is listening to Catalina breathing. Catalina breathing has become labor, but so has his breathing. This is because it so cold that it making both of their lungs hurt from walking. However, Catalina lungs are making a loud wheezing sound and his lungs are not making a wheezing sound. In addition she keeps coughing, sneezing and her nose keeps running too. Catalina notices that Xander's keep looking over at her, as the two of them walk down the path.
"Ahem Xander I am fine. It sometime just takes a couple days for my allergies to calm down after exposing to any of my allergy triggers multiple days in a row ah-ah-choo, ah-choo, ah-choo!"
"Bless you, Cat."
"Thank you."
"You are welcome."
Catalina takes her backpack purse off the right shoulder, so it just hanging on her left shoulder. She opens the main part of the backpack purse and pull out an unopened pack of travel tissues. Then Catalina rezips the backpack purse and puts the right strap of the backpack purse back onto her shoulder. She then opens the travel pack of tissues. She pulls a handful of tissues out of the travel pack and then stick the travel pack of tissues and several tissues into the left pocket of her jeans. Catalina then starts to blow her nose with the tissue that still in her hands, thinking the normal fifteen and a half minute walk to the cave taking forever.
Thirty five minutes later the two teenagers turn the bent in the path and the entrance to the cave come into sight. Catalina steps in front of Xander and leads the way into the cave, which entrance has a rounded top. Once in the cave it wide out and Xander walks up on Catalina's left side. Then the two of them walk further into the cave side by side. Xander and Catalina notice the green leaf on the walls and the cave walls are frozen. In addition the floor of the cave is icy, so the two of them are walking carefully. The two of them have been walking in the cave for ten minute when two toddler ice demons come into view. One of the toddlers is the size of a one-year-old child and the other is the size of two-year-old children. Then an ice demon that looks to be around the age ten comes into view. Xander and Catalina stop walking and Catalina looks at the ten-year-old ice demon, as she starts to speak.
" Ignis!"
The ice demon that looks to be ten years old start burning from the inside out and start melting too. Catalina repeats the Incantation Ignis two more times. Then she starts to walk further into the cave, but Xander stays where he is. In addition he is watching the three children's ice demon's melt, which for the two toddlers take only two minutes. However, for the ten-year-old ice demon it takes five and half minutes. He can hear Catalina in the distance casting the Incantation Ignis and know she is busy killing ice demons'. Xander starts to walk further into the cave and sees a dozen adult ice demons burning from the inside out, which several fires burning inside them. He also sees five more children ice demon burning from the inside out. He walks up on Catalina right side and she cast the Incantation Ignis on a baby ice demon. The baby ice demon is laying on the cave floor, beside another baby ice demon already burning from the inside out. Xander notices that it has starts to get a little warm in the cave. Xander looks to his left and at Catalina who is now blowing her nose into a tissue.
"Did you have to kill the children and baby ice demons?"
"Yes, if I left the children and baby alive the snow and freezing rain would continue."
"Oh, the children and baby just look so young and innocent."
"The baby and children's ice demons are young. However, the baby and children's Ice demons are and are helping to make the freezing rain and snow, which makes them as bad as the adults."
Xander and Catalina turn and check to see how far the adult ice demons have meltdown. All of the adults are almost fully meltdown. All of the children and baby ice demon are completely meltdown. The two teenagers' watches the dozen adult ice demons' meltdown until each is a puddle of water on the cave floor. Simultaneously the ice on the cave floor and walls start to melt. Xander and Catalina start to walk back to the entrance of the cave. When the two of them reach the entrance to the cave, the two teenagers see that the freezing rain and snow have stops. Also, Xander and Catalina feel that the temperature is warming up too. Catalina and Xander walk out of the cave and start walking back toward Lake Whisper and the parking lot. Xander looks to his right and at Catalina.
"What are you doing over winter break, Cat?"
"Training for the American cup on March 1, 1997 and the USA vs. China vs. Australia vs. Uzbekistan competitions on and March 2, 1997 and I am spending Christmas day with Buffy, Dawn and Mrs. Summers."
"It is nice that Mrs. Summers has invited you to spend Christmas day with them. My mother and Father want to know if you will come and spent Christmas eve with us, which includes the annual watching Charlie Brown Christmas with Willow?"
"Ah-choo sure that sound like fun and I will not be alone for Christmas eve or on Christmas day now. What are you doing over winter break?"
"Hopeful hang out with you doing your down time from training and hang out with Buffy and Willow too."
"Sniffling, I have Sunday to hang out with friends, along with Christmas eve and Christmas day. However, Monday through Saturday will be spent at Sunnydale Gymnastic Club. Ah-choo during the break between training sessions I will be study for exams that take place Monday, January 6, 1997, coughing."
Catalina covers her mouth with her left hand and she continues to cough the same dry hacking cough that she had all day. Xander looks down at the ground and notice that the snow has starts to melt and he notices that it warming up too. The two of them do not talk the rest of the walk, which is faster then the walk out to the cave. Catalina and Xander walk up to Catalina car thirty five minutes after walking out of the cave. Catalina unlocks the passengers' door first and then Catalina walking over to the driver side of the car, simultaneously Xander is getting into the car. Catalina reaches the driver side and then unlocks the door. She opens the car door and then gets into the car, sneezes into her left hand.
Three and half minutes later Catalina stops her silver 1962 Porsche 356 Coupe at the stop sign that at the parking lot exit. A short time later she turns left onto George Street and drives north until she reaches the intersection of George Street and Second Street. Catalina turns right onto Second Street, Xander looks out the window and watches the snow melt. A short time later Catalina turns left onto Hamilton Street and drivers north to the intersection of Hamilton Street and Seventh Street. Catalina then turns onto Seventh Street and start driving east. When she reaches the intersection of Seventh Street and Main Street, Catalina turns right onto Main Street and start driver south. Then turn right into the first driveway, which is the driveway of Xander's parents house. Catalina stops her car and then puts the gear shift into the park position. Xander open the passengers' door and get out of the car. He then grabs his backpack off the back seat of the car.
"Thank for the fun advantage after school got out early and then give me a ride home."
"You are welcome, see you around town, ah-choo."
"Bless you and I will see you around."
Xander closes the car door and then walks toward the front door of the house. Catalina waits until he is inside the house then takes the car out of park position. She checks to make sure no one is coming down the road for either direction. No cars are coming down Main Street, so she back her car out of the driveway. The back end of the car is to the north and the front of the car is facing south. Catalina puts the gear shift into driver and then start to drive south and toward her house.
Meanwhile, at the Osbourne's and upstairs in the second floor bathroom, Oz is laying on the bathroom floor and is asleep. His back is to the white cast iron bathtub and the white oval pedestal sink, if facing the bathtub and sink. The bathtub is on the left and sink is on the right. In addition the shower head is center on the wall at the left end of the shower and the shower head is mounting to the wall. Oz is facing the white toilet, which back is against the center of the wall. On each side of the toilet are tall cabinets and a cabinet above the toilet. The walls of the bathroom are paint light blue on top and have white subway tiles in a brick pattern is on the bottom half. The floor has tiny black hexagon tiles around the edge and tiny hexagon tile in white cover the rest of the floor. At the Rosenberg's house, Willow is laying on her bed with her arms wrapped around her abdomen, she has only been in her room for a few minutes. Since coming home from school unwell, she has been in and out of the bathroom because of need to use the bathroom. In addition she been vomiting into a large pink plastic bucket that her parents use as vomit bucket, since she was a little child. Willow closes her eyes and drift off to sleep.
Elsewhere, at the Summers's house, Buffy and Joyce are upstairs in Buffy's bedroom, after just getting back from the Buffy emergency demist appointment and stop by Munoz Drugs store. Joyce hands Buffy 600mg of ibuprofen and a white oval tablet of 500 mg Azithromycin. Buffy has to take Azithromycin every twenty-four hours for five days then she can have her fillings replace and crack teeth's repair. Buffy puts the Azithromycin and ibuprofen into her mouth and then Joyce hand her daughter a glass of water. Buffy takes the glass of water and then take a sip to wash down the Azithromycin and ibuprofen. Buffy set the glass of water down on the nightstand. Then Buffy lies her heads against her pillows, Joyce walks over to Buffy bedroom door and stop beside the door. Joyce then turns and looks at her oldest daughter.
"Try to get some rest, if you need me I will be reading a book in my bedroom."
"I will be fine mom, yawning."
Joyce walks out of Buffy's bedroom and closes the bedroom door. Simultaneously Buffy closes her eyes and hoping the ibuprofen start to work soon. Meanwhile, at Catalina's house, she is in her bedroom and she has changed into a pair of black knit workout pants with bootcut legs and white long sleeved shirt. The long sleeved shirt has a gold silhouette of a female gymnast doing a piked Tkatchev salto over the high bar of a silver set of uneven bars. Above the uneven bars and gymnast it says 1995 Sabae, Japan and under the image of the uneven bars and gymnast it says artistic gymnastics world championship. Catalina walks over to her bed and stop beside the right side, if standing at the end of the bed. She pulls down the bedspread and then lie down on the bed. Catalina then pulls the bedspread up and falls right to sleep.
At 4;40pm Rupert Giles is standing outside the front door of Catalina's house and he is knocking on the front door. Inside the house, Catalina is slowly walking down the staircase and is blowing her nose into a tissue. A short time later she steps of the bottom step and then walks over to the front door. She sees through the Parlour window that Rupert Giles's car is park outside the house. Simultaneously Catalina hears another knock on the front door again, Catalina reaches the front door and opens the door.
"What are you doing at my house, Mr. Giles?"
"I am going to go on patrol with you and observation and evaluation you slaying skills. In addition I come to get the pink and purple gymnastic mats to move them to my house. That way the two of us can start our slayer and watcher training sessions in my basement and for now it will just be the two of us. Buffy will join in the training sessions when her ankle and foot have fully heal."
"We go to the basement and fold up the mats, first and then take the mats out to your car."
"That is fine Catalina."
Catalina steps away from the door and Rupert Giles walks into the house. Catalina closes and locks the front door. Mr. Giles walks over to the basement staircase and Catalina slowly walks behind him, wishing that she had taken her temperature before coming downstairs. Catalina follows her watcher into the basement and knows that she will not have time to take her temperature before going on patrol. Once in the basement Rupert Giles notice some of the folding mats are solid pink and some of the mats are solid purple. However, other gymnastics mats are pink on top and purple on the bottom part of the fold mats. The pink and purple are in a diagonal pattern. The two of them get to work folding up the gymnastics mats. Rupert Giles does not seem to notice that Catalina keeps blowing her nose or coughing into her left elbow. Ten and half minutes later, Catalina is pile the gymnastics mats into the back seat of Rupert Giles's car. Simultaneously Rupert Giles is putting the mats onto the floor of the car behind the back seat. By the time all of the mats are in Mr. Giles's car the sun has set.
Ten minutes later Catalina and Rupert Giles are walking up to the gate of Sunnydale Cemetery. Catalina has a black backpack full of slayer weapons on her back. The two of them see Penn walking down the street with a group of vampires. Catalina starts to walk toward them and her watcher Rupert Giles puts his hands on her shoulder to stop her. He recognizes the dark brown hair female vampire as Drusilla. Drusilla is holding the hand of the male vampire with platinum that is know as William the Bloody A.K.A. Spike. Rupert Giles also recognizes the two other vampire Absalom and the Anointed One, which answer the question that Penn is still working with the Master.
"Mr. Giles's why are you stopping me from dust that group of vampires?"
"I am stopping you because we are out number."
"We are only out number by three."
"We are not prepared to take on Penn along side Drusilla, William the Bloody and Absalom. All of them will do everything to protect the Anointed because they all want the Master to raises."
"So we are just going to let them walk away?"
"Yes because you need to take on Penn, when he is on his own."
"Mr. Giles my job is to dust vampires not let them walk away from me!"
"You are not prepared to take on Drusilla and William the Bloody in a fight!"
"Mr. Giles is right Catalina. You are not prepared or ready to take Drusilla and William the Bloody in a fight."
Rupert Giles and Catalina turn around to see Angel walking up behind them. Rupert Giles opens the gate to Sunnydale Cemetery and Catalina walks into the cemetery first. Angel's walks down the sidewalk because he is following Penn and the group of vampires with him. Rupert Giles walks into the cemetery and then he closes the gate behind him. Rupert Giles sees that his slayer is walking by the tombstone of the kneeling monk that is crying over a tomb and notices an Ethros demons walking toward his slayer. Catalina slides the backpack off her back and then does a powerful front kick that sent the Ethros demon falling backwards. Rupert Giles's runs over to the backpack on the ground and opens the main section of the backpack. He looks into the backpack and start going through the weapons. Rupert Giles bypass the wooden stakes, as Catalina does a roundhouse kick and sent the demon falling through the air again. Mr. Giles pulls out a 18th century silver Koftgari hilt tulwar sword, which has a wootz steel blade. Rupert Giles takes the black embossed leather scabbard off the sword and tosses the sword to his slayer. Catalina catches the sword by the hilt. She swings the sword and the Ethros demon duck down.
"You miss and even if you kill me it will not stop by fellow Ethros demons from our plan."
"Which are?"
"I am not telling the plan. You are the slayer and will try to stop us."
"So you know that I am one of the slayers."
"Yes."
Simultaneously Catalina swings the sword again and the blade of the sword slice through the Ethros demon neck, as he finishes saying yes. The demon head falls to the ground and so does the beheaded Ethros demon. Rupert Giles walks up to Catalina and looks down at the Ethros demon that Catalina is pushing into the open grave. The open grave is to the left of the tombstone of the kneeling monk that crying. Rupert Giles pick up the head and then he throws the head into the open grave.
"Mr. Giles's what do you think the demon meant when he said even if you kill me it will not stop by fellow Ethros demons from our plan?"
"I have no idea, this is the first time I hear of Ethros demons working together. Ethros demon normal just possess humans and normal work on their own."
"Do you think the Master is behind the Ethros demons and they plan?"
"That seems unlikely to me. Since family of the possessed one would most likely believe their loves have gone crazy and commit them to the mental hospital. Me, you, Buffy, Xander and Willow would be the only one to think otherwise. When I get home tonight, I will hit the books and see if I can find out way the Ethros demons are working together. In addition I will try to find out what the Ethros demons are up too."
"Ahem ok, if you find ah-choo anything out call and let met know."
"I will and we should head to the center of the cemetery because that is where the new graves are."
"Ok."
The dead Ethros demon rolls into the open grave and Catalina takes her backpack from her watcher. Then the two of them start walking through the cemetery and toward the new graves. Catalina pulls a tissue out of the right pocket of her workout pant and start to blow her nose. Rupert Giles's reaches the new grave first and see that vampires have already clawed their way out of the grave and are nowhere in sight.
"We are too late to dusty the four new vampires. All four of the vampires have rises from the grave and are no long in the cemetery."
"I will catch up with the four new vampires and dust them at some point."
"Let do a quick look around the cemetery and then we will be onto Resstfiled Cemetery."
"Ok."
Rupert Giles starts to walking through the cemetery, looking for any signs of the new vampires that raises from the grave. However, Catalina does not follow her watcher. She has taken a seat on one of the headstone. The slayer closes her eyes and starts yawing into both hands, as her watcher turns around. He then looks at his slayers and notices for the first time that evening that she looks exhaust and sound congestion. Rupert Giles walks over to his slayer and stop in front of her.
"Are you feeling up to patrol tonight?"
"Yes I am up to patrol tonight. I just need to catch my breath."
Catalina stands up and starts to walk away from her watcher. Rupert Giles watches his slayer and can tell that she is not being a 100 percent honest with him. He starts walking to catch up to his slayer, who has a large head start on him. A short time later the two of them are heading to Resstfiled Cemetery. The nightly patrol goes slowly for Catalina, who kills four more Ethros demons and ten vampires between Resstfiled Cemetery and the gates of Shady Hill Cemetery. There are still several hours until the sun come up when Catalina dust the eleventh vampire of the night. Catalina then starts coughing, the same dry hacking cough that she had since the cat got into her house the first time. Rupert Giles looks over at Catalina and starts to talk.
"It has been a long night of patrolling and I think it is time to head home for the evening."
"Ahem I am fine to continue patrolling Mr. Giles."
"Go home and take a shower. Then get some sleep before your morning gymnastics training session."
"Fine."
Rupert Giles and Catalina leave Shady Hill Cemetery together and Rupert Giles follows Catalina to her house, to get his car. The slayer and watcher do not talk on the walk Catalina's house. Once the two of them reach the slayer house, Catalina inside the house and Mr. Giles gets into his car.
