Chapter Three

Dawn came slowly as I lay tossing and turning in the small guest bed. I waited until about six o'clock to get up. I headed for the kitchen first deciding that I should try and cover up my insomnia with a few cups of coffee. I was beaten to it.

Buffy sat on one of the tall stools in front of the bench. Her head was propped up on her hand and in the other was a warm cup of coffee goodness. I smiled at her as I went to get a cup my self and she watched me carefully.

"Not much Sleep?" Buffy asked groggily and I nodded.

"Not really"

"Same here." She agreed and we sat in silence as we both drank.

Buffy finished her cup first and went off to have a shower, leaving me to my depressing thoughts. I had been a long night; thoughts and memories of the past had flowed freely through my mind after that and with every bump in the night I started to get more paranoid.

I showed, got dressed tried to make myself presentable over the course of the next hour- without success, I should add. We got to school at half past eight and made our way to the library to find the rest of the 'Scooby' gang sitting around the main table. Giles was in his office reading.

"Hey Buff, Kat." Xander called from him chair. Willow said hey as well and Oz- never one to waste words- nodded a greeting. Giles quickly came out of his office and acknowledged us in passing of his way to the 'restricted' shelves they kept up the back for demonic sorts of things.

"So what's the big bad?" Buffy asked as we sat down. I leaned back in my chair and closed my eyes. I had been in Sunny Dale a little over twenty-four hours and in that time I had learnt there was always a 'big bad' here. That could be explained by the fact the town or more precisely the school was built on top of the Hellmouth.

"Some vampire with visions of grandeur," Willow stated, "Seems to think it can open the Hellmouth. Again." Buffy and Xander laughed. I had been told that lots of the demons coming here liked to try; apparently none had yet to succeed.

Giles came walking back frowning and shaking his head. "Can't find a reference in any of my books." He sighed in his English way and sat down with us.

"This vamp got a name?" Buffy asked, still yawning.

Giles held a small slip of paper closer to his eyes and read it before answering "Arabreth."

I froze for a minute and held my breath. It couldn't be Arabreth. She was the one that killed...

"Tell me who did it!" I yelled at the man filling in for my dear crazy watcher. He sighed and sat down at his desk. He opened one of the large, leather-bound books in front of hi and flicked through some of the pages before sliding it across to me. I turned it to face my way and started to read. "Arabreth," I read, "One of the oldest female vampire masters still hunting to this day." I stopped and looked evenly across the table at him. I was going to kill her...

The flashback ended and I found myself absently stroking the still healing wound on my neck. A bite mark. So the woman who killed my love and drove my watcher insane was coming after me. Well why else would she be in Sunny Dale?

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