Chapter twenty one – Haunted Past

Kendra laid on her bed without saying a word to Faith and Faith lay on her bed without saying a word and Buffy didn't say a word because she was in a deep, deep sleep.

In the dark both girls watched Buffy from their beds and could tell Buffy was not in a good condition at all. They could hear her tossing and turning and yelling out but the words they heard won't clear enough to understand.

Buffy was awake but in her mind only. She could see a young girl a bit older than herself running in a graveyard from something. The girl was running from three big scary vampires. She attacked one and she was knocked over by two punches from the other vamps and the girl screamed out to someone by the name of Penelope but there was no reply heard. The young girl continued to fight for her life while screaming and kicking. Someone called out to the girl, "Lauretta, Lauretta! I'm coming, don't worry!"

An older looking woman came to the young girls aide and staked the three vampires. The young girl said to the woman, "Thanks Mrs. Post, you saved my life, how may I reward you?" asked Lauretta.

"You save me life if I'm in danger," replied Penelope.

They both walked out of the grave yard and disappeared out of Buffy's mind and then Lauretta appeared again, she's was standing somewhere dark and creepy and screamed out to Buffy, "Help! Please somebody help me! Help me! Buffy?!"

Buffy awoke and she found Faith and Kendra next to her. Buffy's heart was racing at the speed of light and she was just about to faint again when she saw the ghost of Lauretta. Lauretta was still calling out for help to Buffy. Buffy got up off her bed and followed Lauretta. The brick wall opened up and the secret room could be seen ahead. Kendra and Faith were shocked to see Buffy to recover so quickly and so sudden and they saw the brick wall open as well. They got up from were they were kneeling and walked over to Buffy to see if she was all right. Buffy just told them it was time and they had to go.

Buffy walked further into the secret room and walked over to the book cage; the door swang open and Buffy continued to follow Lauretta. Kendra and Faith decided they would have to follow Buffy even though they had no idea where she was going and what was happening. At the back of the book cage was a door and it lead to a staircase. The three on the, walked down the stair case and it lead them to the shed, to outside. Lauretta was still in Buffy's sight and she was leading Buffy to the field.

Meanwhile, in the big Council hall, the rest of the camp were sitting in front a large wide screen television, they were watching Buffy, Faith and Kendra.  They were watching their every step and listening to everything they said.

The three of them  reached the middle of the field and it was daylight. They could all see the other potentials moving around quickly towards the car park, it was time to go home. The girls were standing in a triangle facing different ways when all three of them were about to turn around and face each other but Buffy heard someone calling her name again. It was coming from the direction on the car park. She followed the voice slowly. She kept following the voice until it stopped. She turned around and Faith and Kendra were still standing where they were before looking at her puzzled.

She heard the voice again, and turned around. She saw Giles standing there a few metres away and started to run towards him then stopped because he had disappeared. She looked back to Faith and Kendra and they had started to follow Buffy and were running towards her. They caught up and asked Buffy what did she see and she replied with, "Giles, I saw Giles. I saw a girl, she needed my help."

"What? Giles isn't a girl," said Faith.

"Who needs help?" asked Kendra.

"Her name is Lauretta, she needs my help," replied Buffy.

"Who is she? Where is she from?" asked Kendra.

"A Slayer from the past," said Buffy.

"Okay how the hell do you help a Slayer in the past?" asked Faith.

"Giles, he was there, just a minute ago. Where'd he go?" asked Buffy.

"We all last saw Giles when he picked you up and put you on the bed in the other secret room. Oh you were sleeping, umm you last saw him when he came to us at the stadium," said Faith.

"He was there. Where did you put him?" asked Buffy.

"We didn't put him anywhere. Are you sure your alright Buffy?" asked Kendra

"I'll be alright when you bring back Giles," replied Buffy.

"You'll see Giles soon, he just went away to go do something. He will be back soon Buffy," said Kendra

"You're lying! You are a liar, liar, liar, liar!" yelled Buffy.

"That's enough Buffy, stop it," said Faith.

"But I want Giles and she lied about where he was and that's not a very nice thing to do," said Buffy.

"No it isn't a nice thing to lie but I think Kendra was telling the truth," said Faith.

"I want Giles! I want Giles!…", yelled Buffy

"I know you want Giles but..," said Faith but was interrupted by Buffy.

"Giles! Your back! Where'd you go?" asked Buffy.

Faith and Kendra were puzzled, they couldn't see Giles anywhere but Buffy could see him clearly and ran towards him. He disappeared and she fell onto the ground.

The red book appeared on the grass in front of Buffy and she crawled towards it saying, "That's mine!" She continued crawling and reached out to touch and grab the book but it disappeared. It appeared again and when Buffy reached out to touch it she could feel it, it was in solid form. Buffy heard her name being called again and she thought Giles was calling her name and she started to stand up. As she stood up the voice changed, it was her mothers. Her mother was standing there waiting to take her home. No other potentials could be seen in Buffy's sight and she turned around to see where Faith and Kendra were but they had gone too. Buffy saw something on the ground shinning in the sun. Buffy picked it up off the ground and it was a golden pocket watch. Inside it had engraved: For Buffy from Lauretta.