See the Light
Rubbing his temples, Giles looked at the very frustrated werewolf. The thing banged against the metal bars all night. Giles had to remind himself that the beast was actually Oz and Willow would be very angry if he shot a silver arrow into the demon.
Tonight he began trying to figure out why there were so many deaths in the hospital. Lately a lot of people had been mugged and the next day they'd be laying in the hospital sick as a dog. He hadn't been able to find anything suspicious. None of them had fang marks.
"Bloody hell, I just don't understand this." Giles groaned.
"Maybe you could take a break and work on some battle wounds for us Doctor G." Buffy called to him from the front of the library. He had been so consumed with his work that he hadn't heard anyone entering. Also it might have a great deal to do with Oz slamming against the cage bars. Grimacing at the Slayer's American teenage slang, he turned towards the door.
Scanning over at the three teens, he noticed they had gotten into quite a scuffle. Xander held his arm close to his body and a large bruise started to form on his forehead. Buffy also had cuts and bruises all over. Willow just looked shocked. What the bloody hell happened?
"Got mugged by an ugly demon." Buffy told him as if reading his mind.
"Willow, go get the First Aid kit from my office. Buffy, Xander, please sit down. Now tell me what happened." He walked over to them and studied the scratches on Buffy's arm.
"We were walking back from the Espresso Pump when we caught something moving in the bushes about twenty or thirty feet from the campus. At first I thought vamp, but then it just didn't feel right. Like it didn't come on my spider sense..." Giles looked at her confused and she rolled her eyes. "Spider sense as in Spiderman. Spiderman is a comic super hero..." Giles looked at her impatiently and she sighed. "Anyway, the demon is faster then anything I've ever seen. I didn't get a good look at it but Willow might have. For some reason it ignored Willow completely as if she weren't there. It attacked Xander first. I went to get it off him and it attacked me. After a trade of blows it ran off as if something had scared it."
"Yes well..." Giles said trying to keep up with her fast pace. The scrapes just looked like a cat had scratched her. A couple of them were deeper then the others. The more shallow ones were already healing. He was still amazed by how quickly she healed. Even with all the Watcher training that he had had and all the times Buffy would look like hell one night and just perfectly fine the next morning.
Willow came out with his box of bandages and rubbing alcohol. He addressed Xander's wounds first and then started on Buffy's deeper cuts. He figured he'd leave the shallow cuts alone since they seemed to do fine on their own.
Willow looked at Oz and then back at Giles. "The demon was all slimy and a dark shade of green. It had long sharp claws and it had horns on top of it's head."
"How many?"
"How many what?" Willow asked confused.
"How many horns Willow?" Giles asked standing up straight and looking over at his stack of books.
Willow's brow knotted and then she snapped her finger. "Three."
Xander let out a cough and grinned. "Goodie, we get to find out about a new demon. Research time."
"Does that mean you are volunteering?" Giles asked.
"Uh, did that sound like volunteering? Cause if it did, I didn't mean it like that. I'm kinda tired and all. That attack took everything out of me. I think my mom is calling me. You know she hates me to miss the twelve o'clock news." Xander stood up. The boy did look a bit tired. So did Buffy who nodded along with him.
"Alright you three may head home. I doubt we can find too much anyway." Giles waved them off.
Willow shook her head. "I'm going to stay with Oz. I'll help you. I'm research girl all the way."
Buffy grinned at the girl and then waved to Giles. "I'll be back at seven. Xander lets boogie."
The two walked out and Giles went back to his stacks. Now he had two things on his hands, a demon, and the latest occurrences of hospital entrances and deaths. It would be one long bloody night.
* * * * *
The sun's rays crept through the old musty windows of the Sunnydale High library. Oz got dressed quickly and now waited patiently for either Giles or Willow to wake up. He watched the clock making sure he wouldn't let them sleep past the homeroom bell. The clock read six fifty two. He figured he'd wake them up at seven ten. A late night stay meant something was wrong. But that made him wonder why Buffy and Xander hadn't stayed to help. He started making up situations and then shook the images out of his head. He wouldn't worry unless it was time to worry.
One of the library doors slowly opened. Oz let out a sigh and pressed against the wall. If it was a student, they'd have a whole lot of explaining to do, such as why Giles and Willow were sleeping here and why Oz stood inside the Library Book Cage.
"Alright sleepy bums, time to get up. New morning and all." A familiar voice said as the person walked towards the cage. The voice belonged to the Slayer and she had the key to let him out.
Giles sat up off the table and rubbed his eyes. Willow was a little slower to get up and her gaze went towards the cage. The bared door opened and he walked out knowing that he had freedom for twenty nine more days.
"Oh dear, what time is it?" Giles asked placing his glasses back onto the bridge of his nose.
* * * * *
Buffy looked at her plate of food. Cafeteria food, right now, just didn't look very good. Like it ever did? The principal said that they served gourmet food. She felt sorry for the rich people who liked gourmet food. No wonder most of them were so skinny.
Xander sat next to her as always, but today he hadn't scarified up his food. That part was definitely strange. No matter how bad and horrible the food looked, Xander usually ate it frighteningly fast. Today he just played with the school's entree, pasta and beef casserole.
"Not hungry for a change?" Buffy asked smiling.
"Mmm, I think that coffee I had this morning went bad or something. I'm not feeling one hundred percent Xander right now." Xander replied. As far as she could tell he was absolutely correct. Xander didn't look all that great. His face looked paler then usual and his eyes were a bit red. "I didn't get much sleep last night. I think I'm sick."
Buffy nodded. "Maybe you should go home, rest up."
"I would but my parents have just found out about each others annoying habits and it's kinda loud in the house. I wouldn't be able to sleep if someone handed me sleeping pills." Xander told her and then nodded to someone behind her. She knew who it or they were before turning to them.
"Hey Xander, hey Buffy." Willow said sitting beside her. Oz sat in between Xander and Willow with his home made lunch. He was definitely the smartest of the bunch. Nobody else was willing to wake up early and pack a lunch. "Guess what...?"
Xander rolled his eyes. "Oz is werewolf free. We know."
Both Buffy and Willow frowned. It wasn't like Xander to groan about something like this. He usually liked to be interested with whatever Willow was into. Even Oz looked over at Xander with as much concern as he could muster up.
"Maybe you should go home Xander." Buffy nodded. "Get some rest, come back when you're one hundred percent Xanderman."
"You're not feeling well?" Willow frowned.
"Yeah... I'm not coming to the after school meeting today." Xander rubbed his temples and tried to smile. He failed miserably and went back to playing with his food.
"So did Giles figure out what just attacked us last night?" Willow asked biting the only edible thing on her plate, which was a cold roll.
Shrugging, Buffy took a sip of her tropical fruit splash drink and then sighed. "Not really. Nothing more then you two found before you fell asleep."
Coming up:
"Where's Xander? He usually comes about the time you come."
"Ah, good ol' Xander. He wasn't feeling well, so he went home to rest his eyes." Buffy nodded.
Rubbing his temples, Giles looked at the very frustrated werewolf. The thing banged against the metal bars all night. Giles had to remind himself that the beast was actually Oz and Willow would be very angry if he shot a silver arrow into the demon.
Tonight he began trying to figure out why there were so many deaths in the hospital. Lately a lot of people had been mugged and the next day they'd be laying in the hospital sick as a dog. He hadn't been able to find anything suspicious. None of them had fang marks.
"Bloody hell, I just don't understand this." Giles groaned.
"Maybe you could take a break and work on some battle wounds for us Doctor G." Buffy called to him from the front of the library. He had been so consumed with his work that he hadn't heard anyone entering. Also it might have a great deal to do with Oz slamming against the cage bars. Grimacing at the Slayer's American teenage slang, he turned towards the door.
Scanning over at the three teens, he noticed they had gotten into quite a scuffle. Xander held his arm close to his body and a large bruise started to form on his forehead. Buffy also had cuts and bruises all over. Willow just looked shocked. What the bloody hell happened?
"Got mugged by an ugly demon." Buffy told him as if reading his mind.
"Willow, go get the First Aid kit from my office. Buffy, Xander, please sit down. Now tell me what happened." He walked over to them and studied the scratches on Buffy's arm.
"We were walking back from the Espresso Pump when we caught something moving in the bushes about twenty or thirty feet from the campus. At first I thought vamp, but then it just didn't feel right. Like it didn't come on my spider sense..." Giles looked at her confused and she rolled her eyes. "Spider sense as in Spiderman. Spiderman is a comic super hero..." Giles looked at her impatiently and she sighed. "Anyway, the demon is faster then anything I've ever seen. I didn't get a good look at it but Willow might have. For some reason it ignored Willow completely as if she weren't there. It attacked Xander first. I went to get it off him and it attacked me. After a trade of blows it ran off as if something had scared it."
"Yes well..." Giles said trying to keep up with her fast pace. The scrapes just looked like a cat had scratched her. A couple of them were deeper then the others. The more shallow ones were already healing. He was still amazed by how quickly she healed. Even with all the Watcher training that he had had and all the times Buffy would look like hell one night and just perfectly fine the next morning.
Willow came out with his box of bandages and rubbing alcohol. He addressed Xander's wounds first and then started on Buffy's deeper cuts. He figured he'd leave the shallow cuts alone since they seemed to do fine on their own.
Willow looked at Oz and then back at Giles. "The demon was all slimy and a dark shade of green. It had long sharp claws and it had horns on top of it's head."
"How many?"
"How many what?" Willow asked confused.
"How many horns Willow?" Giles asked standing up straight and looking over at his stack of books.
Willow's brow knotted and then she snapped her finger. "Three."
Xander let out a cough and grinned. "Goodie, we get to find out about a new demon. Research time."
"Does that mean you are volunteering?" Giles asked.
"Uh, did that sound like volunteering? Cause if it did, I didn't mean it like that. I'm kinda tired and all. That attack took everything out of me. I think my mom is calling me. You know she hates me to miss the twelve o'clock news." Xander stood up. The boy did look a bit tired. So did Buffy who nodded along with him.
"Alright you three may head home. I doubt we can find too much anyway." Giles waved them off.
Willow shook her head. "I'm going to stay with Oz. I'll help you. I'm research girl all the way."
Buffy grinned at the girl and then waved to Giles. "I'll be back at seven. Xander lets boogie."
The two walked out and Giles went back to his stacks. Now he had two things on his hands, a demon, and the latest occurrences of hospital entrances and deaths. It would be one long bloody night.
* * * * *
The sun's rays crept through the old musty windows of the Sunnydale High library. Oz got dressed quickly and now waited patiently for either Giles or Willow to wake up. He watched the clock making sure he wouldn't let them sleep past the homeroom bell. The clock read six fifty two. He figured he'd wake them up at seven ten. A late night stay meant something was wrong. But that made him wonder why Buffy and Xander hadn't stayed to help. He started making up situations and then shook the images out of his head. He wouldn't worry unless it was time to worry.
One of the library doors slowly opened. Oz let out a sigh and pressed against the wall. If it was a student, they'd have a whole lot of explaining to do, such as why Giles and Willow were sleeping here and why Oz stood inside the Library Book Cage.
"Alright sleepy bums, time to get up. New morning and all." A familiar voice said as the person walked towards the cage. The voice belonged to the Slayer and she had the key to let him out.
Giles sat up off the table and rubbed his eyes. Willow was a little slower to get up and her gaze went towards the cage. The bared door opened and he walked out knowing that he had freedom for twenty nine more days.
"Oh dear, what time is it?" Giles asked placing his glasses back onto the bridge of his nose.
* * * * *
Buffy looked at her plate of food. Cafeteria food, right now, just didn't look very good. Like it ever did? The principal said that they served gourmet food. She felt sorry for the rich people who liked gourmet food. No wonder most of them were so skinny.
Xander sat next to her as always, but today he hadn't scarified up his food. That part was definitely strange. No matter how bad and horrible the food looked, Xander usually ate it frighteningly fast. Today he just played with the school's entree, pasta and beef casserole.
"Not hungry for a change?" Buffy asked smiling.
"Mmm, I think that coffee I had this morning went bad or something. I'm not feeling one hundred percent Xander right now." Xander replied. As far as she could tell he was absolutely correct. Xander didn't look all that great. His face looked paler then usual and his eyes were a bit red. "I didn't get much sleep last night. I think I'm sick."
Buffy nodded. "Maybe you should go home, rest up."
"I would but my parents have just found out about each others annoying habits and it's kinda loud in the house. I wouldn't be able to sleep if someone handed me sleeping pills." Xander told her and then nodded to someone behind her. She knew who it or they were before turning to them.
"Hey Xander, hey Buffy." Willow said sitting beside her. Oz sat in between Xander and Willow with his home made lunch. He was definitely the smartest of the bunch. Nobody else was willing to wake up early and pack a lunch. "Guess what...?"
Xander rolled his eyes. "Oz is werewolf free. We know."
Both Buffy and Willow frowned. It wasn't like Xander to groan about something like this. He usually liked to be interested with whatever Willow was into. Even Oz looked over at Xander with as much concern as he could muster up.
"Maybe you should go home Xander." Buffy nodded. "Get some rest, come back when you're one hundred percent Xanderman."
"You're not feeling well?" Willow frowned.
"Yeah... I'm not coming to the after school meeting today." Xander rubbed his temples and tried to smile. He failed miserably and went back to playing with his food.
"So did Giles figure out what just attacked us last night?" Willow asked biting the only edible thing on her plate, which was a cold roll.
Shrugging, Buffy took a sip of her tropical fruit splash drink and then sighed. "Not really. Nothing more then you two found before you fell asleep."
Coming up:
"Where's Xander? He usually comes about the time you come."
"Ah, good ol' Xander. He wasn't feeling well, so he went home to rest his eyes." Buffy nodded.