MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Ratboy
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : Hey, went past there last nght, cops crawling all over the place.
Anyone know what happened?
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Sysop-X
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE: Saw them flashing by me last night, couple ambulances too.
No ideas here. Anyone?
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Scop
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : You got me. Snuck past the line this AM blood all over the place.
I'm thinking sacrifice. Messy one too.
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Sysop-X
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : Hey Scop, got any juicy details you could share?
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Ambulance Chaser
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : Shouldn't tell you this, but I had a good close up. Dunno what
Happened but the poor guy was alive and felt every bit of it.
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Sysop-X
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : That's harsh man. Anything else you shouldn't tell us?"
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Ambulance Chaser
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : In for a dime in for a dollar.
Poor guy had his belly slit open then some one reached in and
Pulled his heart out.
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Ucstudent
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW
Willow sensed a shadow, and glanced up to see Buffy standing over her. Not wearing her
friendly face. Buffy glanced at the print outs she was reading. "What're those," she demanded.
"Messages from the Watcher's Web." Willow set her face and returned Buffy's look.
"You got something to say say it."
"Yes I got something to say. You betrayed us. You went off the deep end. We trusted
you Will, and you used magic on us."
"How many times do I have to apologize for that?" Willow stood up and glared at her
friend. "There's only so many apologies I can make before it becomes useless to continue. You
want to keep throwing it in my face for the rest of my life, fine, you keep doing that. I messed up,
fine, we both know that. But I'm gonna move on with or without you."
"I can't trust you, not completely, like I used to."
"Did you Buffy?" Willow had finally had enough. "Did you Buffy? Did you ever trust
me completely?"
"I trusted you with my life."
"But not with Dawn's. Not when it counted. Then you turned to a vampire."
"But, Spike was the only one who could..."
"You asked him to protect Dawn," Willow pushed onward. "You didn't ask us, any of us.
You told us that you'd kill anyone who tried to kill her."
"Hey you're not twisting this on me. I didn't mess up. I didn't kill anyone."
"Jenny Calendar? If you'd stopped Angelus like you were supposed to she'd still be
here." Willow couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth, but some how she couldn't
make herself stop. "You talk about trusting me but its okay not to when its something you want."
Buffy moved for Willow but was flung back by a small explosion that burts between the
two. Her eyes grew wide. "You...you..."
"She didn't, I did." Christina stalked into the room until she stood in between the two.
"Some of us have to study and I'm trying to haelp Dawn with her homework. Besides you're
scaring the customers away and Anya's getting edgy. Dunno about you but that girl's packing
some power and if its all the same to you, I'd like to keep her somewhat pacified. If you know
what I mean."
Christina's eyes moved from one to another.
"Now you too gonna play nice. Cause there's two corners here and if you need some time
out I'll be glad to see you get some."
"Now look," Buffy got to her feet. "You can't..."
"She won't have to." All three turned to see Serina and Meribeth standing in the hall,
with an irate looking Giles looking over their shoulders. "Your arguement may have merit but it
gets you, and us, nowhere." It was Meribeth who was speaking. "It is also disturbing our
meeting. Willow," her voice becaome sterner if at all possible. "You may go and sit in that
corner. I have no authority over the Slayer. If I did she'd be in the other."
Willow's mouth gaped open, but saw the look on Meribeth's face. With a heated look at
an equally stunned Buffy, she sat on the chair indicated and crossed her arms.
"Hey," protested Buffy. "You can't treat us like that. We're not children."
"Yet you squabble like them. Uselessly and with no purpose except to hurt each other.
As I said, I have no authority over you Slayer, so you may do as you wish. But of her I expect
better." She glanced pointedly at the two of them. "I expect to hear no other word out of her,
not spoken in a civil tongue."
Buffy stared as the three of them left, followed shortly by a smirking Christina. She
glanced at Willow, who stared at her, eyes smoldering, but with a slight upturn to the sides of her
mouth. "God, she burst out, I haven't had a time out sine Xander and I were like five. " She
giggled. "Now I know why I never wanted to repeat the experience.
"Sorry Wills," Buffy shrugged helplessly. "Didn't mean to get you in trouble."
"Yeah weel, we did sound like kids, I suppose." Willow shrugged and leaned back against
the wall, lifting the fron of her chair. "Least ways, I'll be free of her for the weekends, and
nights."
"Huh?"
Willow looked at her oddly, then reached down and pulled up her right pant leg. Her
ankle sported a bracelet with a small black box on the side.
"What's that?" Buffy was confused.
Willow blushed. "I, uh, I confessed to my part in Cchristina's grandmother's death, well
not the magic part, but the unintentional accidental part, and well they didn't really know what to
do, but the Judge is in Serena's coven so instead of putting me in jail, they gave me one of these
to wear. They don't think I'm a real dangerous criminal type, and figure I learned my lesson, and
I did turn my self in and I did confess, and so they gave me two years for accidental manslaughter.
I have to be home by ten at night, and I can't leave until nine in the morning, otherwise this thing
squeals and the cops get a message and I go to jail for real. Oh, and I can't leave the house all
day weekends and holidays."
Buffy looked sympathetic. "Well I'm glad you're dealing, and uh, if I can do anything to
help, you know."
"Well, you could get me the print outs I was looking at when you came in." Willow
pointed at them on the table. "I sort of have to stay here."
"Huh, oh yeah right." Buffy got up to fetch the papers. "What are they anywa?"
"There's a new Bulletin board system up that's all the rage with some of the students on
campus. Has message forums for all kinds of things to do with witch craft, vampires, and that
sort of stuff. Its called the Watcher's Web, which is what drew my attention. Anyway, I copied
some messages that deal with that murder that was on the news today, you know, the one in
Weatherby park."
Willow passed the papers to Buffy, who rapidly scanned through them. "Who're these
people, Sysop-X, Scop, Ambulance Chaser."
"Willow shrugged. "Dunno, they're not real names, so unless..."
"You mean you haven't hacked into this yet? You're slipping girl."
Willow blushed. "This isn't like the web. You gotta phone it up directly, and you only
get so much time before you get logged off. And its real slow."
POSTER : Ratboy
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : Hey, went past there last nght, cops crawling all over the place.
Anyone know what happened?
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Sysop-X
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE: Saw them flashing by me last night, couple ambulances too.
No ideas here. Anyone?
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Scop
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : You got me. Snuck past the line this AM blood all over the place.
I'm thinking sacrifice. Messy one too.
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Sysop-X
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : Hey Scop, got any juicy details you could share?
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Ambulance Chaser
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : Shouldn't tell you this, but I had a good close up. Dunno what
Happened but the poor guy was alive and felt every bit of it.
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Sysop-X
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : That's harsh man. Anything else you shouldn't tell us?"
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Ambulance Chaser
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : In for a dime in for a dollar.
Poor guy had his belly slit open then some one reached in and
Pulled his heart out.
MESSAGE FORUM : Chatter
POSTER : Ucstudent
SUBJECT : Weatherby Park
MESSAGE : EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW
Willow sensed a shadow, and glanced up to see Buffy standing over her. Not wearing her
friendly face. Buffy glanced at the print outs she was reading. "What're those," she demanded.
"Messages from the Watcher's Web." Willow set her face and returned Buffy's look.
"You got something to say say it."
"Yes I got something to say. You betrayed us. You went off the deep end. We trusted
you Will, and you used magic on us."
"How many times do I have to apologize for that?" Willow stood up and glared at her
friend. "There's only so many apologies I can make before it becomes useless to continue. You
want to keep throwing it in my face for the rest of my life, fine, you keep doing that. I messed up,
fine, we both know that. But I'm gonna move on with or without you."
"I can't trust you, not completely, like I used to."
"Did you Buffy?" Willow had finally had enough. "Did you Buffy? Did you ever trust
me completely?"
"I trusted you with my life."
"But not with Dawn's. Not when it counted. Then you turned to a vampire."
"But, Spike was the only one who could..."
"You asked him to protect Dawn," Willow pushed onward. "You didn't ask us, any of us.
You told us that you'd kill anyone who tried to kill her."
"Hey you're not twisting this on me. I didn't mess up. I didn't kill anyone."
"Jenny Calendar? If you'd stopped Angelus like you were supposed to she'd still be
here." Willow couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth, but some how she couldn't
make herself stop. "You talk about trusting me but its okay not to when its something you want."
Buffy moved for Willow but was flung back by a small explosion that burts between the
two. Her eyes grew wide. "You...you..."
"She didn't, I did." Christina stalked into the room until she stood in between the two.
"Some of us have to study and I'm trying to haelp Dawn with her homework. Besides you're
scaring the customers away and Anya's getting edgy. Dunno about you but that girl's packing
some power and if its all the same to you, I'd like to keep her somewhat pacified. If you know
what I mean."
Christina's eyes moved from one to another.
"Now you too gonna play nice. Cause there's two corners here and if you need some time
out I'll be glad to see you get some."
"Now look," Buffy got to her feet. "You can't..."
"She won't have to." All three turned to see Serina and Meribeth standing in the hall,
with an irate looking Giles looking over their shoulders. "Your arguement may have merit but it
gets you, and us, nowhere." It was Meribeth who was speaking. "It is also disturbing our
meeting. Willow," her voice becaome sterner if at all possible. "You may go and sit in that
corner. I have no authority over the Slayer. If I did she'd be in the other."
Willow's mouth gaped open, but saw the look on Meribeth's face. With a heated look at
an equally stunned Buffy, she sat on the chair indicated and crossed her arms.
"Hey," protested Buffy. "You can't treat us like that. We're not children."
"Yet you squabble like them. Uselessly and with no purpose except to hurt each other.
As I said, I have no authority over you Slayer, so you may do as you wish. But of her I expect
better." She glanced pointedly at the two of them. "I expect to hear no other word out of her,
not spoken in a civil tongue."
Buffy stared as the three of them left, followed shortly by a smirking Christina. She
glanced at Willow, who stared at her, eyes smoldering, but with a slight upturn to the sides of her
mouth. "God, she burst out, I haven't had a time out sine Xander and I were like five. " She
giggled. "Now I know why I never wanted to repeat the experience.
"Sorry Wills," Buffy shrugged helplessly. "Didn't mean to get you in trouble."
"Yeah weel, we did sound like kids, I suppose." Willow shrugged and leaned back against
the wall, lifting the fron of her chair. "Least ways, I'll be free of her for the weekends, and
nights."
"Huh?"
Willow looked at her oddly, then reached down and pulled up her right pant leg. Her
ankle sported a bracelet with a small black box on the side.
"What's that?" Buffy was confused.
Willow blushed. "I, uh, I confessed to my part in Cchristina's grandmother's death, well
not the magic part, but the unintentional accidental part, and well they didn't really know what to
do, but the Judge is in Serena's coven so instead of putting me in jail, they gave me one of these
to wear. They don't think I'm a real dangerous criminal type, and figure I learned my lesson, and
I did turn my self in and I did confess, and so they gave me two years for accidental manslaughter.
I have to be home by ten at night, and I can't leave until nine in the morning, otherwise this thing
squeals and the cops get a message and I go to jail for real. Oh, and I can't leave the house all
day weekends and holidays."
Buffy looked sympathetic. "Well I'm glad you're dealing, and uh, if I can do anything to
help, you know."
"Well, you could get me the print outs I was looking at when you came in." Willow
pointed at them on the table. "I sort of have to stay here."
"Huh, oh yeah right." Buffy got up to fetch the papers. "What are they anywa?"
"There's a new Bulletin board system up that's all the rage with some of the students on
campus. Has message forums for all kinds of things to do with witch craft, vampires, and that
sort of stuff. Its called the Watcher's Web, which is what drew my attention. Anyway, I copied
some messages that deal with that murder that was on the news today, you know, the one in
Weatherby park."
Willow passed the papers to Buffy, who rapidly scanned through them. "Who're these
people, Sysop-X, Scop, Ambulance Chaser."
"Willow shrugged. "Dunno, they're not real names, so unless..."
"You mean you haven't hacked into this yet? You're slipping girl."
Willow blushed. "This isn't like the web. You gotta phone it up directly, and you only
get so much time before you get logged off. And its real slow."