Buffy stood in the middle of her hotel suite and drank in the restrained elegance.
"Finally, some perks!" She said reverently.
Her eyes settled on a mini-refrigerator. Crossing the ankle-deep pile she opened the fridge and perused the contents. Candy, bottled water, champagne, some weird circular kind of spongy things and various types of fruit. Buffy spotted some of those scones Giles was always going on about and wondered if he had any. She smiled as she went to find the others.
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Day Three, Thursday, The Hilton, London, England"Oh man this sucks!" Exclaimed Xander. "Did you see the place Buffy's been hooked up with? And we're expected to share the smallest room in the whole damn hotel?"
"Actually, Willow and Anya have a smaller room." Said Giles. Xander glared at him and continued to speak. "I mean, where are we going to sleep? There's only one bed! I'll say it now and I'm prepared to say it again, there's no way I'm sharing!" Xander broke off as there was a knock on the door. "That had better be management come to apologise for putting us in the wrong broom closet." He concluded as Giles opened the door.
Buffy strode into the room and stopped abruptly. She pushed her sunglasses down and surveyed the room. "Whoa."
"Yeah." Said Xander.
"You guys cannot seriously be considering sleeping in here." She said.
"I fear that there is nothing we can do about it." Said Giles. "It was the Watcher's Council's decision to allocate these rooms and we simply do not have adequate funds to do anything about it."
"Willow and Anya don't even have their own bathroom." Xander said gloomily.
Buffy looked at Giles. "We may not have adequate funds but the Watcher's Council sure as hell does. They didn't want you guys coming in the first place so they're trying to drive you back to America. Well, if you go, I go. And the sooner they realise that the better. For you guys."
"What're you going to do?" Asked Xander hopefully.
"Change the subject. They've got some of those funny scone things you like and some weird spongy things in my fridge, you guys fancy some? We can collect Willow and Anya on the way."
"Uh, no thanks Buff. We've got to sit here and be depressed." Said Xander as he sat down on the edge of the feared double bed.
"We can phone the Watcher's Council and get you guys different rooms." Continued Buffy.
"Okay then, scones it is." Xander jumped off the bed. "Come on Giles, scones and spongy things!"
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A/N
Guys, the next chapters should be up in a couple of days and there'll be a lot of them so keep your eye out for them!
Kennie