Part: 5/?
Author: PsycGurl
Rating: PG-13
Couples: -
Spoilers: Set in season three of Buffy…around after Lover's Walk, but Angel and Buffy are not together as a couple.
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Disclaimer: Don't own anyone.

A/N No one seemed to review the last chapter…but anyhoo here's the next one. This is really short…but that does not mean I don't want reviews. Also I realise that around this point in season three Faith was present…but I haven't included in her in the fic (although I am a big Faith fan!).

CHAPTER 5

GILES

" Hmmm…futurus demon…I've been through seven bloody books and all I've gotten are the futurus demons that eat babies…" Giles grumbled to himself and took a gulp of his tea.

He searched through another book in his hand…nothing. Frustrated Giles slammed the book on the table.

" Ahhhhh…my head hurts so much! I need medicine…hmmmm I think I left some aspirin in my office." Giles stumbled to his office clutching his head. He opened up the second drawer of his desk and took out the little prescription bottle. He popped two aspirin in his mouth and gulped it down with his tea.

" Stupid demons and research…if only I could live a life without all this…" Giles moaned as he collapsed into his desk's chair.

~*~*~*~

Buffy and Giles sat in a training room.

" I can't do this without you." Buffy said.

"You can. That's why I'm going. As long as I stay you'll always turn to me if there's something coming up that you feel that you can't handle, and I'll step in because, because...because I can't bear to see you suffer." Giles responded.

"Me too. Hate suffering. Had about as much of it as I can take."

"Believe me, I loath to cause you more, but this..."

He paused as Buffy was on the verge of tears.

"I've taught you all I can about being a slayer, and your mother taught you what you needed to know about life. You ... you're not gonna trust that until you're forced to stand alone."

"But why now? Now that you know where I've been, what I'm going through?"

"Now more than ever. The temptation to give up is gonna be overwhelming, and I can't let…"

"So I won't! No giving up. You can be here, and I can still be strong."

They stood silently as Buffy stared at Giles anxiously.

"Buffy, I've thought this over ... and over. I believe it's the right thing to do."

~*~*~*~

Giles looked perplexed as he looked around his office to see if anyone or anything was there that had provoked the vision. He took of his glasses rubbed them with his shirt and put them back on…starting to blink furiously.

" What the bloody hell was that?" He proclaimed to himself jolting up in his seat. He swallowed his tea down in a few gulps.

" Was I leaving Buffy?" Giles couldn't imagine why he would leave Buffy to handle things by herself. Although he may think it at times, he would never want to give up Buffy, her friends or his life in Sunnydale.

" I was leaving her when she was obviously most vulnerable…I was leaving her on her own. How could I do that?"

Giles again looked around the room and then staggered back to his books. He had to find out whatever this demon was and what it was doing to him and why…soon.