Author: mkcrl120
Disclaimer: All the characters mentioned in this story belong to Joss Whedon or Mutant Enemy or some other people. I own nothing and wrote this just to get it out of my system.
Summary: I'm writing some of these, as I've come up with ideas that I honestly don't know what I'll be doing when the Ultimate series gets that far. In the meantime, these won't go away from my brain unless I do something with them. Warning: It may be a standalone it may be spoilers for something later; only time will tell.
Rating: 15 probably… mainly for language.
Setting: Season 3 - I think you'll recognise when.
What The Hell(mouth) Happened?? - Chapter 32
A Few Minutes Later.
Giles spotted the flashing light on his answering machine just before they stepped out of the office. He gestured Jenny ahead of him and pressed Play.
"Hi... this is... is this..?" An unfamiliar female voice began, obviously unsure how to start. "I'm after a Rupert Giles... I was given this number by... well by some kids the other night... That's a point," the woman continued to babble on. "I don't know if you're some other kid like them... or an adult... I'm not sure if I should call you Rupert or Mister Giles... I guess it depends on..." She trailed off, the machine becoming silent for a few moments.
'Is this some prank call?' Giles thought to himself. 'What can the woman possibly want?'
The voice on the other end began again, this time it had a more confident tone to it. "Anyway, that doesn't matter... I'm calling to talk about what I think happened to me the other night. I was sent out to install cable television to this student house when the people inside attacked me... least I think they were people. Anyway, they attacked me and their faces went all weird... and then these kids saved me... least I think they saved me... I'm still not sure whether or not I imagined the whole thing. Probably the result of too much food before turning in for the night. One of them gave me this number, which I was afraid of calling just incase... oh god... it was real... they gave me this number and a name and I rang it and the name at the beginning matched."
The voice on the other end could be heard breaking down in tears.
Giles looked uncomfortably around the room, hoping no-one came in to see him standing there listening to a tape of a woman crying. Silently willing her to get to the point, he moved over to the side of the room to pick his glasses back up and replace them back on his face.
"Anyway, the girl told me I could call you if I had any questions about... well anything I guess. So I'm calling you... I need to know what they were... and that they weren't real... but I'm not sure if you can help me there. My name is click"
Giles stared in disbelief at the infernal machine. It had taped five minutes of someone babbling on, a minute and a half of it mainly consisting of the sounds of tears running freely; but had completely failed to tape any useful information.
"And she wonders why I hate technology." Giles muttered before heading into the other room to join the others.
Approximately Five Minutes Previously
Jenny strolled out of the office to greet the others. They were sitting back at the main table, they all looked expectantly up at her, as if unsure what her next words were going to be. Glancing at the clock on the wall she noted that none of them had gone to class, sighing she walked over to them. Stopping when she reached the table, leaning on it slightly eyes, flicking across all the students taking in their likely reactions.
"Hello." She began, forcing her voice into a friendly tone. "My name is Janna Kalderash, but you can all continue to call me Jenny." She finished with a smile.
The students leapt into action simultaneously, all except Cordelia throwing a barrage of questions at her.
"Kalderash..?" Buffy queried.
Willow offered, "We can call you Janna if you prefer."
"So Jenny's like the English version of Janna..?" mused Jesse, mainly to himself.
"Less of a JayCee and more of a JayKay then. That can be cool." This from Faith.
"Was that Janna or Yanna..?" asked Xander.
She raised her hands to calm them down, eyes flicking to Cordelia as if asking her to ask her question.
"What..? I've been through all that bit before... I was just wondering if you and Giles'll be okay?" Cordelia stated, shrugging unapologetically.
"I believe so." She answered honestly, watching as the looks of relief flicked across the faces of the others.
"I'm interested in the spell." Willow asked curious.
"Now that's a surprise." Cordelia muttered under her breath.
"If it could ensoul Angel, could it ensoul other vampires..?" Willow suggested. "You said these Orbs were pretty easy to get hold of."
"Yeah." Buffy agreed. "We could stake the easier vampires and simply ensoul the ones that are harder to catch."
"So we have the more dangerous vampires on our side..?" Xander asked, with a doubtful look on his face.
"Yeah... cos a soul... not exactly proof that they're gonna be a good person." Faith added her own two cents.
Jesse moved over to question Cordelia. "What was the comment about Willow for?"
"I didn't mean anything by it." She tried to explain, then sighed as the look on his face made her realise he wasn't going to let this go. "Willow is the one that did the ensouling spell." She whispered in his ear.
His eyes went wide as he mentally ingested that piece of information. "Magic..?" He mouthed in her direction.
She nodded back, then turned her attention back to the others.
"I don't know the spell." Jenny tried explaining. "I will be speaking to my uncle tonight." She decided to explain.
"I thought you said you didn't know which uncle." Buffy countered immediately.
"Only one came with me to Sunnydale." The computer teacher explained. "I'll start with him... and if it's not... I guess I'll jump straight to my grandmother... she's never lied to me yet."
By this point Giles had left the office and came over to them wearing a confused expression on his face.
"Everything alright hon..?" Jenny asked, ignoring the smiles on the students faces as Giles let her rest her head on his shoulder.
"Ahhh..." Xander began, mimmicking the action on Faith's shoulder. Who promptly flicked his nose and then shoved him off. "Oww."
"Yeah." Giles replied absent mindedly, "What are you discussing..?"
"Willow wonders whether we'd be able to use the spell to ensoul other vampires." Jenny stated.
The redheaded girl nodding her head in agreement, excitedly explaining. "We could have souled vampires on our side... like lots of mini-Angels to help guard the Hellmouth."
"Is it possible..?" Giles asked, internally debating the pros and cons.
"Without knowing the spell, I couldn't say." Jenny admitted. "So getting a copy of the spell is going to be my next course of action."
"Fine." He answered. "We'll see what is possible before we discuss it further."
"You want any help getting the info outta your uncle, just give me a call." Faith offered her services.
Jenny politely declined the offer. "No... I'm sure I'll just ask to begin with."
"Right... I'm lined up for round two. Gotcha." Faith said.
"Okay..." Giles stated, looking around the room. "Would any of you have met a woman recently..? One you gave my phone number to..?" He asked.
Jenny raised her eyebrows and simply smirked at him.
"No... of course not." Willow began. "We wouldn't do anything lik..."
"Last night." Jesse interrupted.
"Except for the time that we did something exactly like that." Willow quickly contradicted herself.
"Why..?" Giles asked. "Cos the message, she left means absolutely nothing to me."
"We told you about it." Buffy commented. "Jonathan's take out order... remember?"
"Oh yes." Giles said, the hint helping his recollection.
"She may actually be one of the few not suffering from the Sunnydale-inspired forgetfulness." Xander joked. "I don't know whether to be proud of her or sorry for her."
"Do you happen to know her name..?" He asked Willow, who immediately went deep in thought.
"She didn't say it?" Jenny asked.
"You didn't ask..?" Buffy raised her eyebrows.
"It was an answer machine message." Giles explained. "I couldn't ask."
"Kay... no need to get snappy." Buffy commented.
"Did you check the numb... course not, never mind." Jenny asked, striding off towards the office.
"I know this..." Willow began. "Her name was at the top of the sheet she showed me." She told them, trying to get her brain to give up the information.
"Didn't see it." Buffy answered, Xander and Jesse nodding their agreement.
"Logan." Willow stated confidently. "No wait... but something similar to that." She headed over to the computer to boot it up.
Once done she immediately called up the list of customer addresses from the local telephony company. "No wait." She said, closing that site down. "I know who she works for." She called up the local cable company list and began seeing if she could hack into their personnel files.
Jenny strolled back out of the office, "Got it." She informed them, handing the piece of paper with the number on it to Giles.
Willow looked curiously at her computer.
"She beat you, babe." Jesse said in a friendly tone.
"I've just thought of something else." She informed him, attention returning to the computer as she brought back up the telephony webpage.
"And the name?" asked Giles, hoping that the woman was going to be more coherent now.
"Just tell her who you are." She suggested.
"Willow thinks it was Logan." Xander informed him, shrugging. "Go with that and your own name..."
"I'm not sure." Giles began, just as the phone began ringing again.
"Guess who that's for." Xander commented.
"We don't know it's going to be the same woman." Giles replied.
"It's still your phone." Jesse countered, watching as Giles headed off towards the office. This time intending to get there before the dreadful machine picked it up. "So what you looking for..?" Jesse asked, turning back to his girlfriend where she'd know got the school's records in front of her. "She definitely wasn't a student here."
"Shhh..." She hissed at him.
The Master's Lair.
A Few Hours Later.
Jonathan stood in the corner watching Ms Post carefully.
"She's gonna change things around here." Trick said, as he approached the shorter vampire from behind.
"Hmmm..." Jonathan non-commitally answered. "Not gonna achieve much if all she does is sit there and read."
"It's daylight still." Trick replied. "Tonight will be her first venture out. Can't wait to see her in action."
"And if all this reading does turn out to be useful... then we don't really want her out risking herself if we can help it."
Trick sighed, "You're never happy are you..?"
"While the Slayers are still hunting our kind..?" Jonathan answered.
"What about what she said..?" Trick asked.
"That has potential." Jonathan reluctantly agreed. "But even we'd have to be very careful, if we went through with that."
"But earlier you said."
"I don't want them risking it, til we've decided." Jonathan clarified.
"Right." Trick responded. "The guys are back and said they found it."
"They know where she lives..?" Jonathan queried.
Trick patted his inside jacket pocket. "Got the address right here."
"Think we should take the Watcher with us..?" Jonathan asked.
"May as well... let's see what she can do." Trick agreed.
End chapter thirty two