[Vamped Buffy will be referred to as V-Buffy]


Chapter 15: Please don't call me Superman



Scene:The library


After Buffy and Xander left Giles finally got through to the council to inform them about the situation. Although it was his worst nightmare about Buffy, it seemed to answer some of the questions about the murders and disappearences of the council members. Giles found out that one of the victims seemed to have survived an attack and confirmed that it was a turned Buffy who attacked him. Stephen George, the man Giles was talking to, was one of the most important
people in the council and with all of the deaths and disappearences he along with the rest of the council were extremely tense with this confirmed information. Giles could hear the panick in Stephen's voice as he talked to Giles.


"Mr. Giles, I don't think I have to tell you the implications of this situation."

"Well, Mr. George I think you do, seeing that this has never happened to my knowledge." Giles said a little enraged.

Hearing the rage in Giles' voice, Stephen seemed to calm down a little, "Mr. Giles, I understand that she was your slayer and you feel responsible, but..." He was cut off by a not too happy Giles, "You understand nothing!"

After a minute of silence from both parties, Giles started the conversation back up, "Have you located the next slayer?" Giles asked as if it were killing him to ask.

"We did, but she was dead."

To this Giles stood from the chair he was sitting in, "What? H-how?"

"It looks like a vampire, probably..." he trailed off, which gave Giles the answer.

"Buffy." Giles let out in a low voice as he sat back down looking defeated.

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The three eyed demon watched Buffy and Xander from across the street, from behind a tree as they talked to each other. The demon couldn't hear what they were saying, but he didn't care. All he was waiting for was an opening for his attack. As Buffy leaned into Xander, he smiled as his opening presented itself. Moving so fast that he seemed to glide he made his way across the street to attack.

Xander leaned into the kiss, as did Buffy. It started out gentle, like a soft caress of the hand to the face. Then as they leaned into it more, it grew more passionate.

Buffy was overwhelmed by the sensation as she leaned into the kiss, but all of the sudden she started feeling another sensation. A sensation she called her spider sense, but before she could brake off the kiss both her and Xander were knocked off their feet.

As Buffy tried to get back to her feet, the demon grabbed her by the back of her shirt and slung her into the street.

Buffy heared her shoulder pop as she hit the pavement, but that was nothing compared to the feeling of it. When she looked up the demon was coming towards her. He seemed to have forgotten about Xander, either that or he didn't see Xander as a threat as he walked right past Xander, who at the moment was just making it to his feet.

As the demon made his way towards Buffy his third eye on his forehead started glowing dark red as if it were on fire. When he was within striking distance of Buffy he reached down towards her only to have Xander stab him in the back with a stake that Xander had been carrying just in case they ran into trouble. Unfortunately this trouble would need more than a stake, which Xander soon found out as the demon turned his attention towards Xander like he was an annoying bug which was fixing to be stepped on.

Xander backed up a few steps, but it wasn't enough as the demon picked up a struggling Xander as Buffy watched in horror, wanting to get up and help, but as she tried to get up the sudden surge of pain from her shoulder sent her back to the pavement.

Xander felt like a sack of potatos as he was flung into the air over the demon's head. He kept struggling, but it just seemed to make the demon more mad. For some reason Xander thought about the last time he was in this position. He was about eight years old and his dad was holding him over his head. Xander remembered he use to pretend he was superman as his father held him up for what seemed like the last time. All of the sudden Xander felt like he *WAS* superman as went flying through the air. The only problem was...he was flying straight into a tree.

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Back at the library:


Giles had just gotten off the phone with the council and was sitting in silence, looking at nothing inparticular, when a noise from outside of his office startled him. In wasn't a loud noise, more like a whisper or a slight singing.

Giles was torn between shutting the door to his office or letting his curiosity get the best of him. He lost the fight with his curiosity as he slowly stepped out of the office, peaking around in a manner that seemed to say he really didn't want to come out of his office, but couldn't stop either. When he looked around he didn't see anybody...or anything for that matter. Then, his
attention was turned towards the open window above the stacks.

"I don't remember opening that." Giles said as he went up the stairs to the stacks and closed the window.

"I opened it." said a voice from behind him, to which Giles turned around so fast he knocked one the books over that lay on the table under the window.

"I thought I'd came by for some training." V-Buffy said smiling as she stood at the bottom of the steps leading up to the stacks.
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