Chapter 2 ~*~ Twilight
Buffy sat on the edge of the bed in nothing but Ripper's t-shirt. It was now almost 4:30 in the morning. She had been awakened by the sounds of music rolling through the walls. She looked around and found a pair of sweat pants and slipped into them before walking out the door and down the hall.
When she came around the corner she could see him sitting with his back to her. He had a guitar sitting in his lap and he was singing. She had heard him sing before, but it didn't have nearly as much heart as he did now. She just stood there listening to him for a few minutes. She wasn't sure but she thought she recognized the soft slow song.
"I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again"
She sighed when she realized that it was the song she always heard Giles playing when he thought no one was listening. She just continued to stand there as he played the way through the rest of the song. When he was done he put the guitar down in front of him and just sat there. Buffy feeling like she was invading his privacy so she turned to leave.
"Well now" He said startling her "Your not going to tell me what you thought?" He turned around to look at her at the same moment she turned around. He smiled at her and she walked over to him.
"It was very nice" She said sitting down next to him on the floor. "Its one of my favorites"
"Oh really?" He said smiling "You a like James Taylor?"
"James?" She said not knowing that name "No, Gil....a friend of mine plays it a lot, back home"
"Oh" He said leaning back against the couch. "So when are you meeting your friend?" He asked.
"Oh, well, I...uh..." She trailed off a little and looked down at her hands. "I'm staying here in the city for a while"
"Ok" He said standing up. "You can stay here as long as you like"
"Thanks" She said smiling at him "You really don't mind?"
"No" He said walking into the kitchenette and getting some tea started.
"You don't seem like the tea type" Buffy said walking into the kitchenette after him.
"Yeah" he said smiling "It helps me sleep" He chuckled and looked up at her "Don't tell Ethan thought, he seems to think I'm a big bad ass"
"I won't" Buffy said smiling at him.
"He probably thinks we're shagging like rabbits in here" He said looking up at her, she turned a little red and he smiled. "I'll be right back" He said and headed to the bathroom. While he was gone the tea he had started got done so, with out thinking, Buffy poured them some and fixed his just the way he liked it.
"Here" She said handing him the cup.
"Thanks" He said smiling as he took a sip. He looked up at her and smiled "How did you know how I liked it?"
"Uh, you seemed like a two sugars light milk kind of person?" Buffy said smiling at him.
"Right" he said letting it drop.
"Do you always play in the middle of the night?" She asked gesturing towards the guitar.
"Only when I can't sleep or are feeling restless" He said putting down his tea.
"Oh" Buffy said putting down her finished tea.
"You should go to bed" He said smiling at her.
"Why, I haven't any where I have to be" She said
"Well you have to get up early" He said walking her to his room.
"Why?" She asked again.
"Because I'm going to show you around tomorrow" He said smiling at her. "Good night Beth Winters"
"Goodnight Giles" She said after he closed the door and she was sure he had moved away from the door. She turned around and walked to the bed. This had to be on of the weirdest days ever.
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Giles folded up the letter and headed down the stairs. He had taken the picture out of the frame and put it in his pocket to show Dawn. It would make her feel better to be able to see her sister was safe. He got into his car and turned the radio to the oldies he liked to listen to.
He smiled when 'Fire and Rain' came on and as he listened he remembered the first night she had stayed at his flat in Bath.
She had said a friend from back home played it a lot. Did that mean she had heard him playing when he had thought he was alone? 'How funny' that all that time he had been singing that about her. How was it he didn't see it before now? Did her hair color really change her looks all that much?
He was still thinking this all over when he got to the magic shop. He opened the door and walked in, there was no one in the main part of the store. That must be why the 'closed' sign was up. He walked over to the back door and opened in only to be plowed into by a tall red head.
"Willow?" He said looking down at the girl who was now sitting on the floor in front of him. He looked up to see the rest of the Scooby's hard at work.
"Hey Giles" Willow said. Giles held his hand out to help her up. "Sorry, I was just going to call you" She said smiling "I found something"
"What?" He said walking into the room with her.
"This is the book she read from right?" Willow said pointing to the book in front of her.
"Yeah that's it" he said "But I've been over it five times, there's no return incantation"
"Not now there's not" Willow said opening it to the page Buffy had read from. "But there was" She flipped it to the next page and smiled at him. "You see how this goes from talking about jumping between times to different kinds of time travel. Here read this" She said pointing to the end sentence.
"One of the best ways to travel to and from the past is to have some kind of incantation that tells exactly when and where you want to go. A good example of a return incantation can be..~.. There is also a good range of medallions that you can use to travel through time." Giles stopped and looked up at Willow.
"Someone ripped a page out of my book" He said looking surprised.
"Yes, Giles some one ripped your book, move on" Willow said smiling at him "If it has the return incantation on it, who do you think tore it out?"
"Buffy" Giles said smiling "She sends herself home"
"That's what I'm thinking" Willow said smiling.
"But we should still work on bringing her home" Xander said "Just in case"
"Yes, yes of course" Giles said smiling "We'll still look" He said looking down at the book. How had he missed that? It must be this whole Beth thing had him all turned around.
"Giles?" Willow said smiling at him.
"Oh, what?" He said looking up at her.
"I said what did you go home for?" Willow said again after sitting down next to Tara.
"This" He said pulling something from him jacket pocket. He handed it to Dawn and she smiled at him.
"Is that you?" She asked looking up at him.
"Yes that's me" He said smiling "And that..." He said pointing out Buffy "Is your sister"
"Wow" Dawn said smiling down at the picture "This is so cool, she dyed her hair"
"Can I see?" Willow asked holding out her hand. Dawn handed her the picture and Willow looked it over. She of course could see so much more in the picture then Dawn did. They were both looking at each other so it was more of a profile. She had her hands on his hands in the middle. They were standing in front of what looked like a big museum of some sort. Willow could also see the look in her best friend's eyes. That look that says 'there's no one else in the whole world I want to be with.' She wondered what would happen when Buffy got back. She would keep her fingers crossed for her friends.
"Cool" She said handing it around to the rest of them.
"Yes" Giles said sitting down as well. "So what shall we do now?"
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Buffy sat at the kitchen table and sipped her Pepsi. She had been here for three nights now and was no closer to getting home. And tomorrow was Friday. She really didn't what to be here when Randy died. She had gotten to know them all a little and liked them, well all but Ethan, he was a sneaky little bastard. She wished she could just tell Ripper, but she knew she couldn't do that and it was driving her nuts.
Buffy turned when she heard the keys in the door. The door opened and Ripper walked in caring a basket and food.
"What are you doing?" Buffy asked walking over and taking one of the bags of grocery.
"Picnic?" He said smiling at her. She went a little red and smiled back to him. 'This is Giles' She keep telling herself 'Stuffy, tweed wearing, library guy.' She looked he over as he put the food in the basket. 'Oh hell' she thought as he bent over to put the milk in the fridge. 'Stupid Willow and Faith putting these thoughts in her head"
"Beth?" He said smiling at her slightly glazed look. "You ok?"
"Hum? Oh yeah I'm fine" Buffy said smiling at him. "So picnic?"
"Yeah sound good to you?" He said putting the chesses in the basket.
"Yep, good" She said smiling again. 'Damn, damn, damn' She thought as he pulled her off her sit and out the door.
"Come on we don't want to be out there after night fall" He said winking at her.
"Ah huh" Buffy said. She looked back at the door and sighed. 'I'm never going to get home' she thought looking back up at Ripper. 'Oh well'
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"Its getting dark we should head in" Giles said smiling at Buffy.
"Ok" Buffy said putting the turkey sandwiches in the basket. "What time is it?"
"Six" He said smiling at her. "Come on" He said helping her up when every thing was packed.
"Did you hear that?" Buffy said looking behind them.
"No" He said smiling "You must be hearing things"
"Yeah" She said not looking so happy now. She heard twigs braking and turned around. "There it is again"
"I don't hear anything Beth" He said walking over to her. She put her hand to her stomach.
"There's something out there" she said seconds before three vampires jumped out of the woods.
"Aw look guys" What must be the lead vampire said "Dinner"
"Spike?" Buffy said looking at the vampire in the back.
"Do I know you Luv?" Spike said smiling a little.
"No" Buffy said looking over at a confused looking Ripper.
"What?" Ripper said pulling his little cross bow from behind his back.
"Nothing just...nothing" She said turning to fight one of them.
Ripper fired at the one who Buffy was about to fight he jumped out of the way and strait into Buffy. He grabbed her by the hair and pulled her close to him.
"Appetizer" He said bending down to take a bit.
"Yeah right" Buffy said pulling the stake she had been carrying. She pulled the vampire over her shoulder and slammed him to the ground before dusting him. She looked up and saw that the other two had ganged up on Ripper, who looked like he was doing just fine.
He shot off a second shot and dusted one of the vampires before turning around and finding the third one was gone.
"Beth" He said walking over to her. "Are you ok?" She smiled and looked down at the stake she had dropped on the ground.
"How did you do that?" He asked looking from her to the stake.
"Um...I'm a black belt?" She said smiling. He looked at her skeptically then looked at the stake.
"Come on I've seen the movies I know had to kill it" She said smiling at him.
"Right" He said still a skeptical. "Well let's go before the other one comes back with friends"
"Ok" Buffy said as he grabbed her hand and they ran off. 'What the hell was Spike doing here?' She thought as they walked.
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"Giles" Willow said waving her hand in front of his face. "Earth to Giles"
"What?" He said looking up with a smile on his face.
"Were did you go?" Willow said smiling at him. They were the only two people in the shop because Xander, Anya and Dawn had gone to get something to eat and Tara had gone home to get some books.
"Just thinking" He said looking back down to his book.
"About what?" She asked looking over at him.
"The first time she fought with me" He said smiling "Black belt indeed" He said looking over at Willows confused look. "Well she had to tell me something" He said. Then he's smile faded and he remembered what happened later that night.
"Why didn't Buffy get rid of it?" He said to Willow.
"Get rid of what?" She asked.
"The Mark of Eyghon" Giles said looking up at Willow.
"Oh...um...well" Willow said thinking of a good answer.
"Willow" he said staring at her.
"She thought it would be useful if...well" She stopped again and looked at him "Your not going to be mad right?"
"I'll try my best" He said dreading what she was going to tell him.
"Well she thought if Eyghon came back she could protect you better if she could draw it to her" Willow said this all in one long breath and looked up at Giles.
"Damn it" He said looking over at Willow. "And how has she been hiding it?"
"A glamour" Willow said in a whisper.
"Willow" Giles said sighing "What am I going to do with you two?"
"Hey we're back" Xander said as the bell jingled.
"Saved by the bell" Willow said smiling at Giles.
"So it would seem" He said going back to his book.
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"It was a cute picture" Buffy said smiling at the camera that he had brought.
"No it wasn't" He said grabbing for the camera again. "I look bloody awful"
"No you didn't" She said smiling at him "You looked fine"
"Fine, fine have it your way" He said smiling when she put the camera back in the basket. They walked into his apartment and Buffy looked around.
"Where did all the boxes come from?" She asked looking around.
"Ethan brought them over" He said putting the basket on the counter. "I was going to go though then, want to help?"
"Yeah sure" Buffy said picking up one of the boxes.
"Be careful there" He said smiling at her "Those are filled with books don't hurt your back"
"I won't" She said pretending to be a little weak. "Ok maybe a little help?" He walked over and helped her move the top book to the ground.
"I'll go through this one" Buffy said opening the books.
"Ok" He said pulling another one down. "These are mostly my dad's things" He said pulling out a book.
"Blood rights and rituals?" Buffy said holding up a book.
"Yeah my Fathers" He said taking the book. "There just all going over there" He said pointing to an empty bookshelf.
"Ok" Buffy said taking out books. She piled them next to her then crushed the box when she was done. "Just anywhere?"
"Yeah that's fine" Ripper said as he sat back and lit up a cigarette.
"You know those things will kill you" Buffy said looking over to him as she put a book on the self called 'Time Travels finer points'.
"I know" He said smiling at her.
"Then why do you do it?" Buffy said as she put books away.
"Because" He said exhaling "The way I see it by the time it makes me sick I'll be old and sick already so, who cares?"
"Right" Buffy said smiling. He put the cigarette out and grabbed another box to unload. They worked in silence for the rest of the time. As Buffy was finishing up the last box Ripper got up and walked over to a window.
"Hot?" He said smiling at her.
"Yeah I am a little warm" She said it was semi winter so still not very warm so Buffy had spent all her time her with some kind of over shirt on. But being that she was warm from all this work she pulled off the sweatshirt Ripper had let her wear and smiled over at him. She had on a tank top under nether.
"That's better" She said looking at Ripper who had his back to her. She put the last few books on the self and got up. "Want something to drink?" She asked as she walked over to the kitchen.
"Sure" he said watching the people walk by on the street. Buffy grabbed two Pepsi's and walked over to him and looked out the window.
"So what do we do now?" Buffy said sipping her soda.
"I don't know" He said smiling at her "We could go get something to eat, or we could stay here and I'll make you something"
"Oh, you can cook?" Buffy asked turning to him with a smile.
"Yes I can cook" He said walking over to the kitchen. "Staying in then?" He asked opening the fridge.
"Yeah ok" Buffy said walking over and sitting at the table "What do you cook?"
"Well I make really good spaghetti" He said smiling at her "I could make you that"
"Ok" Buffy said smiling as he walked over and opened the pantry.
"But it would seam I have no noodles" He said looking over at her.
"Oh to bad" Buffy said smiling "That sounded good too"
"Well there's a store right down the street" He said walking over to the door. "I'll go grab some"
"No you don't have to" Buffy said smiling "I'm sure there's something else we can make"
"No" He said putting on his coat "I said spaghetti and I'll make spaghetti."
"Ok" Buffy said from her sit at the table. "Hurry back" Buffy said smiling at him.
"I will" He said smiling at her. He opened the door and walked out shutting it and locking it behind him. Buffy just sat there smiling after him. 'This is not good' Buffy thought to herself 'I can't seriously be falling for Giles can I?' She crossed her arms on the table and put her arms on her head. 'I have to go home' She said to herself 'Dawn needs me' She thought 'And Willow, Xander and...Giles' was her last thought before she fell asleep.
"Beth" Ripper called when he opened the door. "I'm back" He had gotten the noodles and some French bread as well. He saw her sleeping on the table and smiled. He walked over there and went to shake her a little. But as soon as he could see her back he stopped.
"Beth" He said a little more loudly this time "Wake up"
"Wha..." She sat up with a groggy smile on her face "Did I fall asleep?"
"Beth" He said her name like it was killing him. She turned and saw that he looked like he had seen a ghost.
"Are you ok?" She asked getting up. He took a step back and put the bag on the counter.
"Were did you get that" he said looking her in the eyes.
"What? Get what? Ripper what are you talking about?" She asked as his face went from almost scared to angry in a blink of an eye.
"Don't pretend you don't know what's on your shoulder" He said anger filling his voice. Then it hit her, the tattoo, the one that Ethan had so kindly given her a few years back. The one that she had not gotten rid of incase it ever came back to haunt Giles. 'Ok' She thought 'play dumb, you aren't suppose to know he knows what it is'
"It's just a tattoo" She said 'man I'm a horrible liar'.
"Bullshit!" He said. 'Well here's the Ripper I knew' Buffy thought as she stepped back.
"What do you know?!" Buffy said 'think, think, what I'm I going to tell him?' She thought. Ripper pulled up his sleeve and walked over to her.
"This is what I know" He said pulling his sleeve back down. "Now where did you get that tattoo?" Buffy sighed and looked down at the floor.
"A friend" She said dropping her shoulders "Well not so much a friend as a bitter enemy"
"What?" He said looking at her weird "Why would you let an enemy give you a tattoo?"
"Well he wasn't an enemy at the time" She said 'ok, alright this makes a little sense'
"What does that mean?" He looked less angry and more confused now. "And how did you know how to fight that vampire and when I first meet you why did you so easily except that there were vampires?"
"Well..." She trailed off and looked down at the floor again.
"The truth" He said as she looked up at him.
"Ok" She said taking a deep breath "I know all this stuff because...I know a vampire slayer" She said praying he would believe her.
"You...what?" He said looking at her.
"I know or well that is to say I knew a vampire slayer" She said looking said. 'And she wasn't really lying to him. She had known two other vampire slayers.'
"How...how do you know a slayer?" He said looking at her "I thought they were meant to have secret identities?"
"Well that's true" She said smiling "Now I have a question for you"
"Ok" He said looking worried.
"How the hell do you know what a vampire slayer is?" She smiled a little "It would seam that nether of us is completely honest, now wouldn't it?"
"Ok well that's true" He looked at the bag on the table "I guess we have some talking to do then?"
"I guess we do" Buffy said walking over and taking out a pot. "Over dinner?"
"Ok" He said getting out the noodles.
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"Ok so" Giles said twirling some noodles onto his fork "He put this tattoo on you then called forth Eyghon and sent him after you in your friend's body"
"Yep" She said taking a bit. "This is really good by the way"
"Thank you" he said "So how did you kill it?"
"Well, ok this is going to be hard to explain" She said taking a drink of wine. "I had a friend that was a vampire"
"Wait, wait, wait" He said holding his hand up "You had a friend that was a vampire?"
"Yeah well, it's a really long story" She said smiling at him "So anyway we got my friend/Eyghon in the same room as the vampire..."
"And it jumped to the closest dead body" Ripper finished for her.
"Right, they battled it out in his body and the demon in my vampire friend won" Buffy said smiling at him.
"Ok" He said "Why didn't you get rid of it?"
"Are you kidding me?" She said "Do you know how painful that would be?" She took a bit "And besides he was dead so there's no harm."
"Well he was gone" Ripper said "he never dies"
"Ok well yeah" She said looking at his arm "So?"
"Well can we just say it was a stupid mistake and leave it at that?" He said looking over at her and smiling.
"Alright but I still want to know how you know all about vampires and things" She said smiling at him. So he told her all about his dad and how he wants him to be a watcher. Buffy smiled and nodded when he looked up at her. And an hour later they were cleaning up.
"I think you should do it" Buffy said putting the last dish away.
"Do you?" He said smiling at her.
"Yeah my friend, she had some really bad watchers" She said walking with him to sit down.
"Oh yeah" He said "Well I'll think about it"
"Ok" He said "One more thing" He said looking over to him.
"Ok" Buffy said smiling.
"How did you know that vampire?" He said looking at her.
"I didn't" She said "I thought he was a friend" She said looking at her hands "But he wasn't"
"Oh ok" He said "Well that's good"
"Yep" Buffy said smiling at him. "Good thing"
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"So what's up with the Scooby gang?" Spike asked as he walked into the magic shop.
"Nothing" Willow said pulling out a new book.
"Looks like research" He said looking over at every one "Where's the slayer?" He asked smiling at Dawn.
"More like when" Xander said from his sit in the corner.
"What?" Spike said looking around.
"She's been doing a little time traveling" Willow said looking up at him.
"Oh" He said sitting down next to Dawn. "So what is she lost or something?"
"No we know exactly when she is" Anya said smiling "Just not how to bring her home"
"Oh" Spike said picking up the picture sitting in the middle of the table. "Who's this?"
"Buffy" Dawn said smiling "And that's Giles" She said pointing to the guy next to her.
"Wait she's back with you in the past" Spike said looking over a Giles.
"Yes Spike that is where she is" Giles said not even looking up from his book. Spike turned back to the picture and studied it a little. 'She looks so familiar' he thought to himself.
"Oh shit" he said looking up at Giles.
"What?" Willow said looking over at Spike.
"I know her" He said looking to Giles.
"Well of course you do" He said turning the page. "You and some of your friends attacked us when we were having a picnic"
"Right" he said looking around at every one "What?" He said pulling out a book. "I was a bad guy remember"
"Right, right" Dawn said smiling "A real bad ass"
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"Beth wake up" He said shaking her a little. "Come on" He said picking her up from where she had fallen asleep on the couch. He carried her into his room and put her down on the bed.
"Good night" He said smiling down at her.
"Night Giles" She said smiling in her sleep. 'Why would she call me by my last name?' He thought as he walked out and over to the living room. He had just told her tonight when he was talking about his family what his full name was.
"Weird" He said as he lay down on the couch. 'I need to talk to Ethan' he thought as he closed his eyes.
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Buffy woke up and looked around. Hadn't she been on the couch? How did she get in here? Ripper must have brought her, which meant he carried her. She got up and walking into the living room only to find it empty. She walked into the kitchen and saw the note.
"Beth, I had to run out. I went to talk to Ethan I'll be back in a while. Make your self at home.
Ripper"
Buffy walked into the bathroom and took a shower. She got dressed in a new blouse she had gotten the day before, before they had gone on their picnic. She walked into the living room and turned on the TV. She sat down and flipped through the channels. As she finally found something she could watch. 'The Facts of Life' there was a knock at the door.
Buffy got up and walked over to the door. She looked through the pip hole and sighed.
"Ethan" She said smiling as she opened the door. "Ripper is looking for you"
"I know I just talked to him" Ethan said walking in and looking around "He told me to come tell you he'd be running late"
"Oh" Buffy said closing the door. "Thanks"
"Yep" Ethan said sitting down and smiling at her.
"Well I was just about to run to the store" Buffy said not wanting to be in the same room with him alone. "I'll see you later"
"Wait" he said standing up. "Don't go so soon" he said walking over to her. "Ripper tells me he's been sleeping on the couch"
"So" Buffy said wishing she could bash his head in.
"So you're not interested in him?" He said smiling at her. 'Oh I am so going to kick your ass if you ever show up in Sunnydale again' Buffy thought as he trailed his hand down her arm. Buffy shuttered Ethan taking this for a good shutter went in to kiss her. Buffy put her hand on his forehead to stop him.
"Kindly take your hands off me before I have to break them" Buffy said smiling sweetly at him.
"Yeah right" he said putting his other hand on her waste. "Like a little thing like you could do anything to me"
"We'll see" She said "Now I'll ask you one last time" She said looking into his eyes "Remove your hands before I have to break them"
"Fine" He said taking a step back. "Have a good day" He said sneering at her. He walked out the door and she turned to the fridge to get something to drink.
"Asshole" She said as the door opened again "Go to hell" She said turning to chew out Ethan.
"Sorry" Ripper said smirking at her "Did you mean me?"
"Oh Ripper" She said going red. "Sorry"
"I take it you weren't wishing me to hell?" He said with a smile.
"No" Buffy said smiling a little "Ethan was here to give me your message"
"Oh, sorry about him" He said walking over and taking a beer from the fridge.
"Yeah" Buffy said "Me too"
"I have something to do tonight" he said looking over at her. "You'll be ok here right?"
"Yeah I'll be fine" Buffy said hating that she knew what was going to happen tonight and not being able to do anything about it.
"I'll make you dinner before I leave" He said smiling at her.
"Ok" Buffy said smiling "That sounds good"
A/N- Ok so what do you think? I can take it I swear...well anyway let me now what you think. Oh and reviews, reviews would be nice :-)
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Buffy sat on the edge of the bed in nothing but Ripper's t-shirt. It was now almost 4:30 in the morning. She had been awakened by the sounds of music rolling through the walls. She looked around and found a pair of sweat pants and slipped into them before walking out the door and down the hall.
When she came around the corner she could see him sitting with his back to her. He had a guitar sitting in his lap and he was singing. She had heard him sing before, but it didn't have nearly as much heart as he did now. She just stood there listening to him for a few minutes. She wasn't sure but she thought she recognized the soft slow song.
"I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again"
She sighed when she realized that it was the song she always heard Giles playing when he thought no one was listening. She just continued to stand there as he played the way through the rest of the song. When he was done he put the guitar down in front of him and just sat there. Buffy feeling like she was invading his privacy so she turned to leave.
"Well now" He said startling her "Your not going to tell me what you thought?" He turned around to look at her at the same moment she turned around. He smiled at her and she walked over to him.
"It was very nice" She said sitting down next to him on the floor. "Its one of my favorites"
"Oh really?" He said smiling "You a like James Taylor?"
"James?" She said not knowing that name "No, Gil....a friend of mine plays it a lot, back home"
"Oh" He said leaning back against the couch. "So when are you meeting your friend?" He asked.
"Oh, well, I...uh..." She trailed off a little and looked down at her hands. "I'm staying here in the city for a while"
"Ok" He said standing up. "You can stay here as long as you like"
"Thanks" She said smiling at him "You really don't mind?"
"No" He said walking into the kitchenette and getting some tea started.
"You don't seem like the tea type" Buffy said walking into the kitchenette after him.
"Yeah" he said smiling "It helps me sleep" He chuckled and looked up at her "Don't tell Ethan thought, he seems to think I'm a big bad ass"
"I won't" Buffy said smiling at him.
"He probably thinks we're shagging like rabbits in here" He said looking up at her, she turned a little red and he smiled. "I'll be right back" He said and headed to the bathroom. While he was gone the tea he had started got done so, with out thinking, Buffy poured them some and fixed his just the way he liked it.
"Here" She said handing him the cup.
"Thanks" He said smiling as he took a sip. He looked up at her and smiled "How did you know how I liked it?"
"Uh, you seemed like a two sugars light milk kind of person?" Buffy said smiling at him.
"Right" he said letting it drop.
"Do you always play in the middle of the night?" She asked gesturing towards the guitar.
"Only when I can't sleep or are feeling restless" He said putting down his tea.
"Oh" Buffy said putting down her finished tea.
"You should go to bed" He said smiling at her.
"Why, I haven't any where I have to be" She said
"Well you have to get up early" He said walking her to his room.
"Why?" She asked again.
"Because I'm going to show you around tomorrow" He said smiling at her. "Good night Beth Winters"
"Goodnight Giles" She said after he closed the door and she was sure he had moved away from the door. She turned around and walked to the bed. This had to be on of the weirdest days ever.
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Giles folded up the letter and headed down the stairs. He had taken the picture out of the frame and put it in his pocket to show Dawn. It would make her feel better to be able to see her sister was safe. He got into his car and turned the radio to the oldies he liked to listen to.
He smiled when 'Fire and Rain' came on and as he listened he remembered the first night she had stayed at his flat in Bath.
She had said a friend from back home played it a lot. Did that mean she had heard him playing when he had thought he was alone? 'How funny' that all that time he had been singing that about her. How was it he didn't see it before now? Did her hair color really change her looks all that much?
He was still thinking this all over when he got to the magic shop. He opened the door and walked in, there was no one in the main part of the store. That must be why the 'closed' sign was up. He walked over to the back door and opened in only to be plowed into by a tall red head.
"Willow?" He said looking down at the girl who was now sitting on the floor in front of him. He looked up to see the rest of the Scooby's hard at work.
"Hey Giles" Willow said. Giles held his hand out to help her up. "Sorry, I was just going to call you" She said smiling "I found something"
"What?" He said walking into the room with her.
"This is the book she read from right?" Willow said pointing to the book in front of her.
"Yeah that's it" he said "But I've been over it five times, there's no return incantation"
"Not now there's not" Willow said opening it to the page Buffy had read from. "But there was" She flipped it to the next page and smiled at him. "You see how this goes from talking about jumping between times to different kinds of time travel. Here read this" She said pointing to the end sentence.
"One of the best ways to travel to and from the past is to have some kind of incantation that tells exactly when and where you want to go. A good example of a return incantation can be..~.. There is also a good range of medallions that you can use to travel through time." Giles stopped and looked up at Willow.
"Someone ripped a page out of my book" He said looking surprised.
"Yes, Giles some one ripped your book, move on" Willow said smiling at him "If it has the return incantation on it, who do you think tore it out?"
"Buffy" Giles said smiling "She sends herself home"
"That's what I'm thinking" Willow said smiling.
"But we should still work on bringing her home" Xander said "Just in case"
"Yes, yes of course" Giles said smiling "We'll still look" He said looking down at the book. How had he missed that? It must be this whole Beth thing had him all turned around.
"Giles?" Willow said smiling at him.
"Oh, what?" He said looking up at her.
"I said what did you go home for?" Willow said again after sitting down next to Tara.
"This" He said pulling something from him jacket pocket. He handed it to Dawn and she smiled at him.
"Is that you?" She asked looking up at him.
"Yes that's me" He said smiling "And that..." He said pointing out Buffy "Is your sister"
"Wow" Dawn said smiling down at the picture "This is so cool, she dyed her hair"
"Can I see?" Willow asked holding out her hand. Dawn handed her the picture and Willow looked it over. She of course could see so much more in the picture then Dawn did. They were both looking at each other so it was more of a profile. She had her hands on his hands in the middle. They were standing in front of what looked like a big museum of some sort. Willow could also see the look in her best friend's eyes. That look that says 'there's no one else in the whole world I want to be with.' She wondered what would happen when Buffy got back. She would keep her fingers crossed for her friends.
"Cool" She said handing it around to the rest of them.
"Yes" Giles said sitting down as well. "So what shall we do now?"
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Buffy sat at the kitchen table and sipped her Pepsi. She had been here for three nights now and was no closer to getting home. And tomorrow was Friday. She really didn't what to be here when Randy died. She had gotten to know them all a little and liked them, well all but Ethan, he was a sneaky little bastard. She wished she could just tell Ripper, but she knew she couldn't do that and it was driving her nuts.
Buffy turned when she heard the keys in the door. The door opened and Ripper walked in caring a basket and food.
"What are you doing?" Buffy asked walking over and taking one of the bags of grocery.
"Picnic?" He said smiling at her. She went a little red and smiled back to him. 'This is Giles' She keep telling herself 'Stuffy, tweed wearing, library guy.' She looked he over as he put the food in the basket. 'Oh hell' she thought as he bent over to put the milk in the fridge. 'Stupid Willow and Faith putting these thoughts in her head"
"Beth?" He said smiling at her slightly glazed look. "You ok?"
"Hum? Oh yeah I'm fine" Buffy said smiling at him. "So picnic?"
"Yeah sound good to you?" He said putting the chesses in the basket.
"Yep, good" She said smiling again. 'Damn, damn, damn' She thought as he pulled her off her sit and out the door.
"Come on we don't want to be out there after night fall" He said winking at her.
"Ah huh" Buffy said. She looked back at the door and sighed. 'I'm never going to get home' she thought looking back up at Ripper. 'Oh well'
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"Its getting dark we should head in" Giles said smiling at Buffy.
"Ok" Buffy said putting the turkey sandwiches in the basket. "What time is it?"
"Six" He said smiling at her. "Come on" He said helping her up when every thing was packed.
"Did you hear that?" Buffy said looking behind them.
"No" He said smiling "You must be hearing things"
"Yeah" She said not looking so happy now. She heard twigs braking and turned around. "There it is again"
"I don't hear anything Beth" He said walking over to her. She put her hand to her stomach.
"There's something out there" she said seconds before three vampires jumped out of the woods.
"Aw look guys" What must be the lead vampire said "Dinner"
"Spike?" Buffy said looking at the vampire in the back.
"Do I know you Luv?" Spike said smiling a little.
"No" Buffy said looking over at a confused looking Ripper.
"What?" Ripper said pulling his little cross bow from behind his back.
"Nothing just...nothing" She said turning to fight one of them.
Ripper fired at the one who Buffy was about to fight he jumped out of the way and strait into Buffy. He grabbed her by the hair and pulled her close to him.
"Appetizer" He said bending down to take a bit.
"Yeah right" Buffy said pulling the stake she had been carrying. She pulled the vampire over her shoulder and slammed him to the ground before dusting him. She looked up and saw that the other two had ganged up on Ripper, who looked like he was doing just fine.
He shot off a second shot and dusted one of the vampires before turning around and finding the third one was gone.
"Beth" He said walking over to her. "Are you ok?" She smiled and looked down at the stake she had dropped on the ground.
"How did you do that?" He asked looking from her to the stake.
"Um...I'm a black belt?" She said smiling. He looked at her skeptically then looked at the stake.
"Come on I've seen the movies I know had to kill it" She said smiling at him.
"Right" He said still a skeptical. "Well let's go before the other one comes back with friends"
"Ok" Buffy said as he grabbed her hand and they ran off. 'What the hell was Spike doing here?' She thought as they walked.
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"Giles" Willow said waving her hand in front of his face. "Earth to Giles"
"What?" He said looking up with a smile on his face.
"Were did you go?" Willow said smiling at him. They were the only two people in the shop because Xander, Anya and Dawn had gone to get something to eat and Tara had gone home to get some books.
"Just thinking" He said looking back down to his book.
"About what?" She asked looking over at him.
"The first time she fought with me" He said smiling "Black belt indeed" He said looking over at Willows confused look. "Well she had to tell me something" He said. Then he's smile faded and he remembered what happened later that night.
"Why didn't Buffy get rid of it?" He said to Willow.
"Get rid of what?" She asked.
"The Mark of Eyghon" Giles said looking up at Willow.
"Oh...um...well" Willow said thinking of a good answer.
"Willow" he said staring at her.
"She thought it would be useful if...well" She stopped again and looked at him "Your not going to be mad right?"
"I'll try my best" He said dreading what she was going to tell him.
"Well she thought if Eyghon came back she could protect you better if she could draw it to her" Willow said this all in one long breath and looked up at Giles.
"Damn it" He said looking over at Willow. "And how has she been hiding it?"
"A glamour" Willow said in a whisper.
"Willow" Giles said sighing "What am I going to do with you two?"
"Hey we're back" Xander said as the bell jingled.
"Saved by the bell" Willow said smiling at Giles.
"So it would seem" He said going back to his book.
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"It was a cute picture" Buffy said smiling at the camera that he had brought.
"No it wasn't" He said grabbing for the camera again. "I look bloody awful"
"No you didn't" She said smiling at him "You looked fine"
"Fine, fine have it your way" He said smiling when she put the camera back in the basket. They walked into his apartment and Buffy looked around.
"Where did all the boxes come from?" She asked looking around.
"Ethan brought them over" He said putting the basket on the counter. "I was going to go though then, want to help?"
"Yeah sure" Buffy said picking up one of the boxes.
"Be careful there" He said smiling at her "Those are filled with books don't hurt your back"
"I won't" She said pretending to be a little weak. "Ok maybe a little help?" He walked over and helped her move the top book to the ground.
"I'll go through this one" Buffy said opening the books.
"Ok" He said pulling another one down. "These are mostly my dad's things" He said pulling out a book.
"Blood rights and rituals?" Buffy said holding up a book.
"Yeah my Fathers" He said taking the book. "There just all going over there" He said pointing to an empty bookshelf.
"Ok" Buffy said taking out books. She piled them next to her then crushed the box when she was done. "Just anywhere?"
"Yeah that's fine" Ripper said as he sat back and lit up a cigarette.
"You know those things will kill you" Buffy said looking over to him as she put a book on the self called 'Time Travels finer points'.
"I know" He said smiling at her.
"Then why do you do it?" Buffy said as she put books away.
"Because" He said exhaling "The way I see it by the time it makes me sick I'll be old and sick already so, who cares?"
"Right" Buffy said smiling. He put the cigarette out and grabbed another box to unload. They worked in silence for the rest of the time. As Buffy was finishing up the last box Ripper got up and walked over to a window.
"Hot?" He said smiling at her.
"Yeah I am a little warm" She said it was semi winter so still not very warm so Buffy had spent all her time her with some kind of over shirt on. But being that she was warm from all this work she pulled off the sweatshirt Ripper had let her wear and smiled over at him. She had on a tank top under nether.
"That's better" She said looking at Ripper who had his back to her. She put the last few books on the self and got up. "Want something to drink?" She asked as she walked over to the kitchen.
"Sure" he said watching the people walk by on the street. Buffy grabbed two Pepsi's and walked over to him and looked out the window.
"So what do we do now?" Buffy said sipping her soda.
"I don't know" He said smiling at her "We could go get something to eat, or we could stay here and I'll make you something"
"Oh, you can cook?" Buffy asked turning to him with a smile.
"Yes I can cook" He said walking over to the kitchen. "Staying in then?" He asked opening the fridge.
"Yeah ok" Buffy said walking over and sitting at the table "What do you cook?"
"Well I make really good spaghetti" He said smiling at her "I could make you that"
"Ok" Buffy said smiling as he walked over and opened the pantry.
"But it would seam I have no noodles" He said looking over at her.
"Oh to bad" Buffy said smiling "That sounded good too"
"Well there's a store right down the street" He said walking over to the door. "I'll go grab some"
"No you don't have to" Buffy said smiling "I'm sure there's something else we can make"
"No" He said putting on his coat "I said spaghetti and I'll make spaghetti."
"Ok" Buffy said from her sit at the table. "Hurry back" Buffy said smiling at him.
"I will" He said smiling at her. He opened the door and walked out shutting it and locking it behind him. Buffy just sat there smiling after him. 'This is not good' Buffy thought to herself 'I can't seriously be falling for Giles can I?' She crossed her arms on the table and put her arms on her head. 'I have to go home' She said to herself 'Dawn needs me' She thought 'And Willow, Xander and...Giles' was her last thought before she fell asleep.
"Beth" Ripper called when he opened the door. "I'm back" He had gotten the noodles and some French bread as well. He saw her sleeping on the table and smiled. He walked over there and went to shake her a little. But as soon as he could see her back he stopped.
"Beth" He said a little more loudly this time "Wake up"
"Wha..." She sat up with a groggy smile on her face "Did I fall asleep?"
"Beth" He said her name like it was killing him. She turned and saw that he looked like he had seen a ghost.
"Are you ok?" She asked getting up. He took a step back and put the bag on the counter.
"Were did you get that" he said looking her in the eyes.
"What? Get what? Ripper what are you talking about?" She asked as his face went from almost scared to angry in a blink of an eye.
"Don't pretend you don't know what's on your shoulder" He said anger filling his voice. Then it hit her, the tattoo, the one that Ethan had so kindly given her a few years back. The one that she had not gotten rid of incase it ever came back to haunt Giles. 'Ok' She thought 'play dumb, you aren't suppose to know he knows what it is'
"It's just a tattoo" She said 'man I'm a horrible liar'.
"Bullshit!" He said. 'Well here's the Ripper I knew' Buffy thought as she stepped back.
"What do you know?!" Buffy said 'think, think, what I'm I going to tell him?' She thought. Ripper pulled up his sleeve and walked over to her.
"This is what I know" He said pulling his sleeve back down. "Now where did you get that tattoo?" Buffy sighed and looked down at the floor.
"A friend" She said dropping her shoulders "Well not so much a friend as a bitter enemy"
"What?" He said looking at her weird "Why would you let an enemy give you a tattoo?"
"Well he wasn't an enemy at the time" She said 'ok, alright this makes a little sense'
"What does that mean?" He looked less angry and more confused now. "And how did you know how to fight that vampire and when I first meet you why did you so easily except that there were vampires?"
"Well..." She trailed off and looked down at the floor again.
"The truth" He said as she looked up at him.
"Ok" She said taking a deep breath "I know all this stuff because...I know a vampire slayer" She said praying he would believe her.
"You...what?" He said looking at her.
"I know or well that is to say I knew a vampire slayer" She said looking said. 'And she wasn't really lying to him. She had known two other vampire slayers.'
"How...how do you know a slayer?" He said looking at her "I thought they were meant to have secret identities?"
"Well that's true" She said smiling "Now I have a question for you"
"Ok" He said looking worried.
"How the hell do you know what a vampire slayer is?" She smiled a little "It would seam that nether of us is completely honest, now wouldn't it?"
"Ok well that's true" He looked at the bag on the table "I guess we have some talking to do then?"
"I guess we do" Buffy said walking over and taking out a pot. "Over dinner?"
"Ok" He said getting out the noodles.
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"Ok so" Giles said twirling some noodles onto his fork "He put this tattoo on you then called forth Eyghon and sent him after you in your friend's body"
"Yep" She said taking a bit. "This is really good by the way"
"Thank you" he said "So how did you kill it?"
"Well, ok this is going to be hard to explain" She said taking a drink of wine. "I had a friend that was a vampire"
"Wait, wait, wait" He said holding his hand up "You had a friend that was a vampire?"
"Yeah well, it's a really long story" She said smiling at him "So anyway we got my friend/Eyghon in the same room as the vampire..."
"And it jumped to the closest dead body" Ripper finished for her.
"Right, they battled it out in his body and the demon in my vampire friend won" Buffy said smiling at him.
"Ok" He said "Why didn't you get rid of it?"
"Are you kidding me?" She said "Do you know how painful that would be?" She took a bit "And besides he was dead so there's no harm."
"Well he was gone" Ripper said "he never dies"
"Ok well yeah" She said looking at his arm "So?"
"Well can we just say it was a stupid mistake and leave it at that?" He said looking over at her and smiling.
"Alright but I still want to know how you know all about vampires and things" She said smiling at him. So he told her all about his dad and how he wants him to be a watcher. Buffy smiled and nodded when he looked up at her. And an hour later they were cleaning up.
"I think you should do it" Buffy said putting the last dish away.
"Do you?" He said smiling at her.
"Yeah my friend, she had some really bad watchers" She said walking with him to sit down.
"Oh yeah" He said "Well I'll think about it"
"Ok" He said "One more thing" He said looking over to him.
"Ok" Buffy said smiling.
"How did you know that vampire?" He said looking at her.
"I didn't" She said "I thought he was a friend" She said looking at her hands "But he wasn't"
"Oh ok" He said "Well that's good"
"Yep" Buffy said smiling at him. "Good thing"
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"So what's up with the Scooby gang?" Spike asked as he walked into the magic shop.
"Nothing" Willow said pulling out a new book.
"Looks like research" He said looking over at every one "Where's the slayer?" He asked smiling at Dawn.
"More like when" Xander said from his sit in the corner.
"What?" Spike said looking around.
"She's been doing a little time traveling" Willow said looking up at him.
"Oh" He said sitting down next to Dawn. "So what is she lost or something?"
"No we know exactly when she is" Anya said smiling "Just not how to bring her home"
"Oh" Spike said picking up the picture sitting in the middle of the table. "Who's this?"
"Buffy" Dawn said smiling "And that's Giles" She said pointing to the guy next to her.
"Wait she's back with you in the past" Spike said looking over a Giles.
"Yes Spike that is where she is" Giles said not even looking up from his book. Spike turned back to the picture and studied it a little. 'She looks so familiar' he thought to himself.
"Oh shit" he said looking up at Giles.
"What?" Willow said looking over at Spike.
"I know her" He said looking to Giles.
"Well of course you do" He said turning the page. "You and some of your friends attacked us when we were having a picnic"
"Right" he said looking around at every one "What?" He said pulling out a book. "I was a bad guy remember"
"Right, right" Dawn said smiling "A real bad ass"
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"Beth wake up" He said shaking her a little. "Come on" He said picking her up from where she had fallen asleep on the couch. He carried her into his room and put her down on the bed.
"Good night" He said smiling down at her.
"Night Giles" She said smiling in her sleep. 'Why would she call me by my last name?' He thought as he walked out and over to the living room. He had just told her tonight when he was talking about his family what his full name was.
"Weird" He said as he lay down on the couch. 'I need to talk to Ethan' he thought as he closed his eyes.
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Buffy woke up and looked around. Hadn't she been on the couch? How did she get in here? Ripper must have brought her, which meant he carried her. She got up and walking into the living room only to find it empty. She walked into the kitchen and saw the note.
"Beth, I had to run out. I went to talk to Ethan I'll be back in a while. Make your self at home.
Ripper"
Buffy walked into the bathroom and took a shower. She got dressed in a new blouse she had gotten the day before, before they had gone on their picnic. She walked into the living room and turned on the TV. She sat down and flipped through the channels. As she finally found something she could watch. 'The Facts of Life' there was a knock at the door.
Buffy got up and walked over to the door. She looked through the pip hole and sighed.
"Ethan" She said smiling as she opened the door. "Ripper is looking for you"
"I know I just talked to him" Ethan said walking in and looking around "He told me to come tell you he'd be running late"
"Oh" Buffy said closing the door. "Thanks"
"Yep" Ethan said sitting down and smiling at her.
"Well I was just about to run to the store" Buffy said not wanting to be in the same room with him alone. "I'll see you later"
"Wait" he said standing up. "Don't go so soon" he said walking over to her. "Ripper tells me he's been sleeping on the couch"
"So" Buffy said wishing she could bash his head in.
"So you're not interested in him?" He said smiling at her. 'Oh I am so going to kick your ass if you ever show up in Sunnydale again' Buffy thought as he trailed his hand down her arm. Buffy shuttered Ethan taking this for a good shutter went in to kiss her. Buffy put her hand on his forehead to stop him.
"Kindly take your hands off me before I have to break them" Buffy said smiling sweetly at him.
"Yeah right" he said putting his other hand on her waste. "Like a little thing like you could do anything to me"
"We'll see" She said "Now I'll ask you one last time" She said looking into his eyes "Remove your hands before I have to break them"
"Fine" He said taking a step back. "Have a good day" He said sneering at her. He walked out the door and she turned to the fridge to get something to drink.
"Asshole" She said as the door opened again "Go to hell" She said turning to chew out Ethan.
"Sorry" Ripper said smirking at her "Did you mean me?"
"Oh Ripper" She said going red. "Sorry"
"I take it you weren't wishing me to hell?" He said with a smile.
"No" Buffy said smiling a little "Ethan was here to give me your message"
"Oh, sorry about him" He said walking over and taking a beer from the fridge.
"Yeah" Buffy said "Me too"
"I have something to do tonight" he said looking over at her. "You'll be ok here right?"
"Yeah I'll be fine" Buffy said hating that she knew what was going to happen tonight and not being able to do anything about it.
"I'll make you dinner before I leave" He said smiling at her.
"Ok" Buffy said smiling "That sounds good"
A/N- Ok so what do you think? I can take it I swear...well anyway let me now what you think. Oh and reviews, reviews would be nice :-)
Andy- I'm glad you like my take on time travel. It's so much fun to write. :^)
Tweed is Good- By the way I love your name. Also I went to the site that some one left me and it didn't work. SO if you know any good Beta's let me know and I'll love you for ever. :-)
Shelley Barnard- I just love that you want to see more. It makes me all tingly I love writing it so it makes me happy you like to read it. ;-)
Sumiko Kenchi Haimoto- I would tell you what's next but then, well there would be no surprise. There is something coming thought. What ever could it be? :~)
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