Chapter 13
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This story is close to being done…finally! Unfortunately I'm the type of person to likes to write the beginning and ending of stories, it's the middle that's hard.
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The group looked from Oz to Connor waiting to find out what else the future held.
Connor looked at the quiet teen in the corner. "I don't' know you but you look familiar. I'm good with faces and I know I've seen you somewhere."
"His name is Oz. He's a werewolf." Willow said proudly.
"Werewolf?" Connor echoed.
"Yeah. I got bit." Oz replied. He hadn't said a lot during the meeting, but he had been watching. The boy obviously didn't know them well at all. As far as he could tell Connor knew only three of the people in room and they were Wesley, Cordelia, and Angel. But the boy did have some knowledge of all of them in some form.
"I never met a werewolf before." Connor answered, looking at Oz with curiosity.
"It's only three nights a month. I stay locked up."
Connor nodded. "Cordy said something about werewolf's once. It was the full moon and she mentioned high school fun taking turns watching the werewolf." Connor looked at Oz. "I guess that's you."
"Probably."
"I think I saw you in Cordelia's yearbook. It's were I know a lot of faces. She used to flip through it a lot. I never went to high school, it was nice to see what it was like."
"Well, that's not really all high school is about. They leave out the going to class, failing tests, and of course the lovely hell mouth." Buffy answered, trying to make the teen feel better.
Connor gave her a small smile. "Unfortunately I don't know anything about your future. Just that you graduated."
"Well that takes some mystery out of this year. At least I know I won't be held back again."
Everyone else smiled before turning their eyes to Giles who was busy writing everything down in a journal. Sensing their gaze he looked up.
"I believe it is your turn, Mr. Giles." Wesley stated. The other nodded in agreement and Giles sighed.
"Very well."
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"I gather that you don't know me in your time, based on our earlier meeting." Giles said.
Connor shook his head. "No, but I have heard of you too. You were in the yearbook and Wesley's mentioned you. Especially with the new apocalypse. Wes was saying we should ask you for help."
"He did?"
"Apocalypse?"
"Yeah. There's a beast that has come to Los Angles. He caused a fire to rain from the sky. We haven't been able to defeat him yet."
"A beast?"
"Rain of fire? That's new." Xander said, only half joking.
"We're working on a plan. At least we the group was. It's only been there for a day and already it's bad."
"Calling Giles would be a good call." Buffy said, smiling at her ex watcher.
Connor nodded. "That was the general agreement."
"Okay, so what about this rain of fire? Is that still happening?" Cordelia asked, freaked at the prospect.
"No. It stopped, but it lasted all night. The whole city is in an uproar."
"I can imagine." Willow said, wondering what could cause a rain of fire. Even when the hell mouth opened they hadn't gotten fire in the sky.
"But that's all I really know about you. You're alive, live in Sunnydale, and can help us."
"At least he's alive." Buffy said, happy with that fact.
"Yes, well. I would like to look up this beast when I get a chance." Giles said, already thinking ahead and mentally sorting books.
"What's a watcher?" Connor asked suddenly.
"Huh?"
"I've heard it today and apparently it applies to you and Wesley but I don't know what it means. You watch stuff? What kind of stuff?"
"Me." Buffy answered.
"You?"
"I'm the slayer."
"What's that?"
"One girl all the world chosen to hunt the vampires, blah, blah, blah."
"Only one? But there are other girls who hunt. Cordelia and Fred hunt vampires too."
"Yes. But Buffy has the advantage. She is chosen and therefore has certain supernatural benefits."
"Supernatural benefits?" Connor echoed, looking confused.
"Much like vampires, Buffy has more strength and agility than a normal person, she can also sense when vampires or danger in general is near." Giles explained.
"Okay, Buffy's the slayer. It's not her turn. We can go back to that after I find out about me." Cordelia interrupted.
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All for now. By my estimation I'll have 4 more chapters, maybe five depending on how I break them up.
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