The Missing Slayer
Chapter 2
"Hey Will, have you seen Buffy?" Dawn asked Willow, she seemed worried.
"Huh?" Willow was doing some reading. "Well she should be upstairs in her room." She said not looking up.
"No she isn't, I checked already. She isn't anywhere!" Dawn seemed quite worried from not hearing from her sister since the night before.
Willow quickly looked up from the book that she was reading and put it down. "You mean she didn't come home from patrolling last night?" Dawn shook her head, tears starting to well up in the young girl eyes. "Willow, what if something happened to her?"
Willow went over to where Dawn was standing, noticing the tears streaming down her face. "It's okay Dawnie, no need to cry. I'm sure that Buffy is alright." Willow wrapped her arms around Dawn trying to console her. "Don't cry. Come on, lets call Giles, maybe she's at the Magic Box."
Dawn felt a bit relieved now and quickly wiped her face "Yea, you're right. I'm just being stupid and over reacting."
Just as Willow was going to pick up the phone to call Giles, it rings. Willow picks up, "Hello?"
"Uh Willow. Hello, its Giles." Said the voice on the other line.
"Oh, hey Giles I was just going to call you."
"Well that's nice-uh-let me ask you, have you by any chance seen Buffy?" Giles asked nervously.
Willow's face quickly fell and the blood quickly rushed from her face. "Uh no-no I haven't. Um that's why I was going to call you." Willow began freaking out but at the same time she was trying to stay calm so that she wouldn't upset Giles.
"That's odd." Giles said, "she was supposed to meet me at the Magic Box after her patrol so we could do a little training."
"Well, no. We haven't seen her ever since she left to patrol last night." Willow began to wonder where Buffy could be.
"Are you sure you haven't heard from her? Maybe she's in her room sleeping?" Giles asked anxiously.
"Well Dawn said that she wasn't up there. She checked earlier this morning."
"Ok Willow, I'll be right over. Good-bye." And Giles hung up the phone, took off his glasses and cleaned them. 'Where could she be?' thought Giles. He then grabbed his coat and headed out the door."
Dawn pops her head into the kitchen, "Who was that?" she asked.
Willow decides that she needs to tell Dawn that her sister is missing. "Dawn, come and sit down."
Looking confused and worried at the same time "What is it? What happened?" Tears once again welling up in her eyes. "Is Buffy alright? Did something happen to her?"
Willow quickly changing her mind, "No, nothings wrong don't worry." Trying to convince the young girl that everything was alright didn't work. She knew that she was too old for that game.
"Will, what if something happened to her while she was out patrolling? What if-what if a vampire got her?" Dawn quickly realizing how ridiculous that sounded corrected herself. "No, that's like impossible for Buffy." she tried to crack a smile, then broke down crying.
Willow kneels down beside Dawn "Oh come on, of course a vampire didn't get her. She's the Slayer, it's what she does." Even she couldn't convince herself that things were alright. She just didn't have a good feeling about this.