ALL BLOODY CONSPIRACY
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Chapter Seven
"Compass"
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Sunnydale, California
March 1 2003 19:20 PM



The trio noticed that time-stop barrier still there and working but in other side of it, it seamed invisible and unable to cross it back. Summarizing just an invisible solid wall. Two cars got smashed when they hit the imperceptible anomaly. Another unlucky car had his windshield holed by the stone Andrew has thrown.
They entered in the car that was exported from inside, Spike sat in the driver's seat, Amanda sit beside him and Andrew sat in back seat. Spike turned on the radio. "It's Toni on the flash back FM, now a kindly flash back that everybody mistakes the band, lets pump it up with a classic, not from Mili Vanilli, it's from Linear – Sending all my love (club mix) only on you Flash Back FM" and the cited song was played.
"Hey, I think I killed this band" Spike said making fun of it before a little dance (in the hit of the song) he did when turned the car on "or was the other one, I'm sure I killed one of them at least" this comment make the passenger show a shocked disgusted face. "Hey, I was a bloody killer for 100 years, what you were expecting from my past"
They drove about twenty blocks and stopped in a convenience store near from the city limits, in order to look back, in that distance the anomaly could be seen reflecting the moonlight, a half of a globe covered a huge part of Sunnydale.
"What a crap hmm?" Spike sighed.
"What should we do?" Andrew contributed.
Spike just answered with a how-can-I-know gesture. "We must try to call someone on the cell phone" I will confess that they really tried, but could anyone them remember the phone number of someone? Nope. "Well, what kind of matter should I call the slayer anyway?" Besides the actual situation "Never mind."
"What do you have bought there?" Andrew asked Amanda that came from the store holding a plastic bag.
"Some snacks, and another copy of Avril Lavigne, this is the 3rd copy I bought, the other two disappeared, who could I blame when I live in a house full of strangers?" she wreaked.
"It happens, don't get upset, isn't it?" Spike consoled. "I lost mine... my.. stuff there too"
"Yep, sure." Andrew confirmed very strangely. "Stuff disappears there, all the time... Even food, do you know that I have to impress my name on my food on the cooler, that girls were terrible..."
Kind of insulted of being one of the 'terrible girls', Amanda walked to car to listen to her album, the guys looked to each other:
"Please! Don't tell her that I robbed his CD!" Andrew asked Spike.
"Who do you think that took the other one?" Spike smiled raising his eyebrow and walked near the car.
Spike laid over the car's front , looking the stars in a moment of peace. And his mind followed the lyrics I don't know who you are, but I'm with you... where are you slayer? "Sunnyhell gimme a direction, where should we go now?"
Something in his pocket started to move, he slid down to the ground when he got surprised. His jacket started to push him dragging his butt in the parking lot's pavement. He managed to take it off, a pirouette was needed to do that, he was free but his jacket continued to move. "It's what everybody needs here today, a clothing possession to complete the perfect day!" The jacket doesn't moved so fast so he walked near in an act of curiosity.
"Is that a rat?" Amanda joined his pursuit with Andrew.
"I hope it is" Spike kicked that jacket that went free showing the source of the movement: that artifact, it was sleepy all day and just started to move again. "Damn! Stop it!" The artifact obeyed.
"Spike! Don't you think it receives orders from you? It's a very cool remote control thing, very useful to..."
"Drop him!" Spike yelled pointing Andrew, it happened, in the next second Andrew was down twenty feet away. "Really very useful." He opened his hand, the object moved to back making he grab it in the air. "And I don't need to talk, just think, cool !!" Spike released the thing that quickly destroyed the streetlight in the other side of the road and turned back to his hand.
"Why this thing obey you?" Amanda tried to understand.
"I just don't know, but now I am certain that it came as a gift to me" Spike smiled enjoying his new toy.
"Why don't I get one of this? You already have some vampire powers, I don't have any!" Andrew massaging his chest walked back envying Spike's thing.
"You have the power of being strange!" Amanda tried to help his self-esteem, in vain, certainly.
Spike ignored him and understand that "The movement the made the jacket move was triggered because I asked where should we go now!" The thing moved slightly like nodding yes. "What do you think about discover that hell it wants with me?"
Andrew thumbed an okay and Amanda expressed on 'We don't have anything to go anyway!' face.
"I am also thinking that its what they are coming after, they... the MIBs that stupidly started the time stopping there. This stuff should worth something."
They got back into the car, Spike moved the CD track back to Complicated and raised the volume, after some mental instructions to his thing it started to give them the directions without move from his place, good enough to instruct them the path that the artifact wanted to escort them.
It was 00:24h on the digital display of the radio, the younger ones where already sleeping when Spike noticed a high light in the rearview, he presumed that it was the end of the time anomaly, he didn't wake them evading some discordant idea from his, that was determined to check what the artifact would tell.
The high light made everyone protect their eyes, after almost a minute it vanished.
"I think we are able to get in now" Giles tried and did walk into before was the invisible wall. "Please people, I think it's safe, lets go home." He was in front of the cortege of cars of the group. Buffy joined him from behind.
"Giles what do you think was that?" Buffy asked "But please, just don't say your phrase"
"What?"
"You know not that phrase, your little motto..."
"Buffy I don't have..." His British accent always magnified his words.
"Okay, fine, just tell me what do you think about this" she lost a bit of patience and gestured around. "Then Say it"
He was intrigued but did "I do not know for sure, I will have to check my books..."
"Got it? Years begins, years ends, but it didn't change, book solution!" satisfied look in Buffy's eyes and body language.
"Wow... It's true" he got it and smiled little ashamed "But you can not say that it did not work!"
"It worked G-man, we are proud of it!" Xander came closer and tapped his shoulder.
"This nickname, G-man, you took from the bottom of the ages, passed years since you started to call me that!" Paused "Anyway I hate that now and then! Don't do that anymore!"
Coerced Xander stated "Lets just go home now, please, there's a squadron of crazy teenagers back there complaining about resting or about bathroom stuff or about woman stuff that I do not want to get into details, they should be slayers but they drive me mad with all this want that what is those Xander it stop it Xander"
"Xander stop! We are going!" Giles exalted but forgave him "Put their in the cars, we are just going." He waited Xander walk away "Yes, Buffy, things do not change... thankfully"
"Really? a lot of things changed."
"It's also true, what a paradox, I can even state what I really think" They moved to the sidewalk, gesturing to the others that they would go home walking. "There's one think that didn't happen as I thought it would happen..."
"What?" Buffy curiously asked.
"Willow's taste about, you know... mates..." he said in a inevitable ashamed face.
"What a concept Giles, it's a new century of new combinations of... of... possibilities, you know!"
"Not that Buffy, I am aware of it, and I seem to understand it... Tara was cute, we all still miss her. I will not talk about it"
"Don't do that, It's me, your main slayer, open your heart!"
"I always hoped to they get together" Giles pointed to Xander and Willow.
Buffy smiled. "Cool Giles, what a emotional heart"
"I can remember your first vacation, they got so close, but it didn't worked anyway."
"I think here it's not going to happen anymore"
"Maybe in a parallel universe, I hope yes, they were kind of meant to each other"
"Giles! I am not recognizing you, are you okay?"
His face reddened. "That light effect should affected me, I've read about light exposures should result in a emotional effect in the brain..."
"I will let you think I got you explanation."
"I will too" He smiled. "Buffy, just don't talk them about my expectations, please..."
"Sure! And about me? Brainy temporary affected extra lover! What you hoped about me and my... mates, as you said" she interrupted before he answered "Don't mention that military R person, please!"
They enjoyed a good laugh.
"It's a really forbidden subject" He confirmed.
"Where were my head all that time?"
"Don't ask me. I know that you have a crush for unusual beings."
"I had to, otherwise they would became the victim of the week!"
"Angel was formidable, I have to admit it, but the Jenny situation hurt my heart too deeply, I have never seen him the same again. And now almost the same, but in reverse, I feel something strange between you and Spike."
"Giles, he..." She interrupted herself when them turned the street and found a big blue container and in front of her house their people were stopped staring at something. She performed a slayer running letting Giles behind.
She came and passed trough the small crow of little slayers and friends spotting some demons corpses displayed in the entrance. "Ykes! What a dirty mess!"
"What a kind of mail is that?" Anya joked in her own style "I never seem of o this" without fear or disgust she touched the bodies "Very demoniac" She looked back making a kid-scaring gesture "Boo!" it worked with some of the girls.
"Amanda was at home?" sleepy Dawn asked.
"Damn! Spike was here alone!" Buffy exclaimed.
Fade out in a commercial break suspense.
"Maybe, there was Andrew too!"

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To Be Continued
Next (8): "Agent Mulder?" Naaaaa
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