And here is my next chap. YAY! Thankyou BlackCherryMeg16, Ms Trick and Ivo- tentye, my reviewers make this all so worthwhile. A/N: Anya is still a vengeance demon, and (as you may have guessed already) she and Xander are together.
May sat on the sofa, grinning with satisfaction. All the babysitters could do was ask her questions. Bianca went first.
"So your name, May. Where did that idea come from?" May thought for a moment.
"I dunno. Daddy wanted to call me Drusilla but then him and Mommy had an argue 'cause Drusilla was Daddy's ex-girlfriend before Mommy. Mommy wanted to call me Joyce 'cause that's what her mommy was called." May thought for a moment. "Her mommy's dead though, and she didn't want to be reminded all the time. So my middle name is Joyce." The babysitters all nodded, it seemed normal enough.
When Mabs finally took May up to her room, she had more problems.
"May, why do you think vampires will come in through your window at night? Please let me open it, it's like a furnace in here."
"Because they do come through the window... if you invite them." May seemed to know a lot about vampire legend. Mabs decided to put it down to irresponsible parents letting her watch horror movies. She walked down to the others, and sat down, exhausted, on the sofa. Annie pushed her glasses back onto her nose.
"Everything OK?" Mabs rolled her eyes in a Bianca-like way.
"Yeah, apart from the vampire that comes through her window, or something." Annie laughed her annoying laugh.
"God, she's weird." At that moment, there was a ring on the doorbell, and Bianca rushed to the door. They heard a woman's voice.
"Sorry, I must have come to the wrong house. Um... does Buffy Summers live on this road?" Then they heard Bianca's voice, sounding strangely urgent.
"Yes, she lives here, we're babysitting her daughter, come inside quickly."
Bianca walked in, holding the arm of a blonde woman who was staggering slightly. This was probably because of the massive gash across her forehead, which she had her hand over. Blood was seeping through her fingers. Annie gasped.
"Oh God, what is it?" The woman huffed.
"That's not very nice. To most people I look perfectly human." Mabs looked at her strangely.
"Huh?" The woman blinked, looking slightly startled, as though she had said something she wasn't supposed to. Then they heard the familiar stair-creak of May coming downstairs.
"Hello Anya!" May looked at the woman. "Oh no! A nasty got you!" The blonde woman gave her a small glare, as though in warning.
"No May... someone hit me with... er... a bat." She stood up, ready to go. Bianca stopped her.
"May talks about you a lot. She obviously really likes you." Anya smiled slightly.
"Well, I have taught her a lot. Buffy's a bit of a rubbish mother if you ask me." Bianca nodded slowly.
"Right." Anya gave another, bigger smile and walked out of the door, blood still dripping through her fingers. May smiled.
"That was Anya." The babysitters nodded and said, in perfect unison, "We know."
