The bus slowed down to a stop as Buffy reached the drivers seat where Giles
was, she looked out of the window trying to see any sign of danger before
asking him,
"So what's up then?"
Giles sat in the driving seat and said,
"I thought that we should take a break sleep in a real bed, so I phoned ahead and this was the only place open."
He then stood up and starting waking up the slayers, an hour later everyone was settled in their rooms and most people had fallen back into a deep sleep, Buffy was just climbing into her bed next to a snoring dawn, when a knock came at the door, She got up and pulled her coat off the chair next to the bed and pulled it across her t-shirt in an attempt to make herself more decent.
She walked over to the door, and opened it ajar just enough to peer through it and see whom it was, she was surprised to find Giles standing the other side of the door, with a nervous expression on his face,
"Is everything ok?" she asked opening the door wider and beckoning him into the cramped room, he looked around for a moment before saying,
"I need you to come with me..... I have to show you something, it's important. Please get dressed we have to go now."
He took his glasses off and started to clean them as Buffy turned away and pulled her jeans on and grabbed her boots, when she had finished and turned back to face him he put his glasses back on and smiled at her.
They turned to leave the room, when they had got outside Buffy turned to him and said,
"Alright Giles you need to tell me right now what the hell is going on."
Giles stopped briefly and took a deep breath before turning to Buffy and saying,
"I made a promise to Spike.. He. We found out what the amulet would do to him last night,"
Buffy gasped shocked that spike had known what was going to happen to him, it made it all the worse that he knew he was going to die and yet all he had been concerned about was her and her safety as they prepared for the battle, he didn't even drop a hint or show any sign he just did what he always did pushed her to the front and backed her up no matter what it was she was fighting.
"He knew?"
She whispered softly, Giles nodded back to her and said,
"The amulet was a very rare specimen, there were only three which were ever created, one has lost in the sands of time, the third was the on which Spike used tonight, but the second one was used in the 16th Century by a Vampire called Jaquetta De Bon, She had begun her un-life participating in the typical bloodlust fuelled violent activity.... But enough of that, a century after her turning she was discovered by a slayer Anne her name was, Anne and Jaquetta fought from dusk till dawn for three nights solid. Both were impressed with the others strategies, techniques and stamina, on the fourth night Jaquetta bowed down to Anne, who in turn showed her lenience and so the first Vampire/Slayer comradeship was formed, they fell in love much to the disgust of Anne's Watcher, Sir Paul Hector who in his diaries tells how he concocted a plan to kill Jaquetta or Anne to destroy the disgrace which their relationship was. Hector contacted a race of demon called the T'ELLCK, which are a race of assassins, they are trained from birth how to track and capture targets, they have evolved in such a way that their whole body is a weapon. He then led Jaquetta and Anne into a trap where the T'ELLCK attacked the pair, unbeknownst to Hector however Jaquetta had been a member of the Hark-to clan who crafted the amulet and she herself possessed the second one. When the T'ELLCK attacked the amulet was activated and a blinding light surrounded Jaquetta and Anne who had clung to her lover in fright supposedly when the amulet activated itself, the demon was destroyed as was the village in which the trap had been made, but the remains of Anne and Jaquetta were never found, however an ancient text discovered years later told the tale of a two woman who appeared in the midst of the Hark-to clan out of a blinding light both possessing un natural strength and power and a knowledge of the future."
Buffy who had stopped in her tracks to listen to the story suddenly dropped to the floor, her legs giving way in her grief. Giles only just managed to grab her before she hit the floor she looked up at him his eyes clouded with tears and said,
"So the amulet saved them and sent them back in time?"
"Yes, But more importantly Buffy Jaquetta was sent back to a time before she was changed with possessing her knowledge and experience and so was able to avoid being changed in the future, and so was able to lead out a normal life as she should have done in the first place."
Buffy looked shell shocked for a moment before saying,
"SO Spike's gone back to a time before Drusilla before he was spike?"
"Yes." Giles said simply.
Buffy cried and cried her eyes out, Giles jumped out of his seat and said softly "Buffy shush come on now he wouldn't want you to be upset about this, he wanted you to have all your dreams come true to be happy with life, and to let someone love you as much as he did."
Buffy smiled through her tears and said, "I know Giles I know."
"So what's up then?"
Giles sat in the driving seat and said,
"I thought that we should take a break sleep in a real bed, so I phoned ahead and this was the only place open."
He then stood up and starting waking up the slayers, an hour later everyone was settled in their rooms and most people had fallen back into a deep sleep, Buffy was just climbing into her bed next to a snoring dawn, when a knock came at the door, She got up and pulled her coat off the chair next to the bed and pulled it across her t-shirt in an attempt to make herself more decent.
She walked over to the door, and opened it ajar just enough to peer through it and see whom it was, she was surprised to find Giles standing the other side of the door, with a nervous expression on his face,
"Is everything ok?" she asked opening the door wider and beckoning him into the cramped room, he looked around for a moment before saying,
"I need you to come with me..... I have to show you something, it's important. Please get dressed we have to go now."
He took his glasses off and started to clean them as Buffy turned away and pulled her jeans on and grabbed her boots, when she had finished and turned back to face him he put his glasses back on and smiled at her.
They turned to leave the room, when they had got outside Buffy turned to him and said,
"Alright Giles you need to tell me right now what the hell is going on."
Giles stopped briefly and took a deep breath before turning to Buffy and saying,
"I made a promise to Spike.. He. We found out what the amulet would do to him last night,"
Buffy gasped shocked that spike had known what was going to happen to him, it made it all the worse that he knew he was going to die and yet all he had been concerned about was her and her safety as they prepared for the battle, he didn't even drop a hint or show any sign he just did what he always did pushed her to the front and backed her up no matter what it was she was fighting.
"He knew?"
She whispered softly, Giles nodded back to her and said,
"The amulet was a very rare specimen, there were only three which were ever created, one has lost in the sands of time, the third was the on which Spike used tonight, but the second one was used in the 16th Century by a Vampire called Jaquetta De Bon, She had begun her un-life participating in the typical bloodlust fuelled violent activity.... But enough of that, a century after her turning she was discovered by a slayer Anne her name was, Anne and Jaquetta fought from dusk till dawn for three nights solid. Both were impressed with the others strategies, techniques and stamina, on the fourth night Jaquetta bowed down to Anne, who in turn showed her lenience and so the first Vampire/Slayer comradeship was formed, they fell in love much to the disgust of Anne's Watcher, Sir Paul Hector who in his diaries tells how he concocted a plan to kill Jaquetta or Anne to destroy the disgrace which their relationship was. Hector contacted a race of demon called the T'ELLCK, which are a race of assassins, they are trained from birth how to track and capture targets, they have evolved in such a way that their whole body is a weapon. He then led Jaquetta and Anne into a trap where the T'ELLCK attacked the pair, unbeknownst to Hector however Jaquetta had been a member of the Hark-to clan who crafted the amulet and she herself possessed the second one. When the T'ELLCK attacked the amulet was activated and a blinding light surrounded Jaquetta and Anne who had clung to her lover in fright supposedly when the amulet activated itself, the demon was destroyed as was the village in which the trap had been made, but the remains of Anne and Jaquetta were never found, however an ancient text discovered years later told the tale of a two woman who appeared in the midst of the Hark-to clan out of a blinding light both possessing un natural strength and power and a knowledge of the future."
Buffy who had stopped in her tracks to listen to the story suddenly dropped to the floor, her legs giving way in her grief. Giles only just managed to grab her before she hit the floor she looked up at him his eyes clouded with tears and said,
"So the amulet saved them and sent them back in time?"
"Yes, But more importantly Buffy Jaquetta was sent back to a time before she was changed with possessing her knowledge and experience and so was able to avoid being changed in the future, and so was able to lead out a normal life as she should have done in the first place."
Buffy looked shell shocked for a moment before saying,
"SO Spike's gone back to a time before Drusilla before he was spike?"
"Yes." Giles said simply.
Buffy cried and cried her eyes out, Giles jumped out of his seat and said softly "Buffy shush come on now he wouldn't want you to be upset about this, he wanted you to have all your dreams come true to be happy with life, and to let someone love you as much as he did."
Buffy smiled through her tears and said, "I know Giles I know."