AN: Reviewers:
Reflected Word: Glad you like it. No, Buffys dad actually makes an appearance in that episode. I think it was the last time he was actually on the show.
Julie: Thanks, hope you keep on liking it. LOL
Chapter2 Temper Problems
Buffy was having a nightmare. She was trying to talk to her friends; but every time she saw them they ran away screaming. Other people did too. She was hurt and confused. She wasn't that ugly was she?
She turned to look in a shop window and saw nothing. She had no reflection! Paniking, she reached up to her face and she knew. Ridges, big ridges on her nose and forhead. She licked over her teeth and found large sharp fangs.
"No!" Buffy was thrashing around in her bed.
"Buffy. Buffy! BUFFY!!" Buffy shot srtaight up in bed. Her mother leapt back at the force with which she sat up.
Buffy touched her face frantically. Normal. She sighed in relief. "Mom?"
"Are you okay honey? You must have been having a killer nightmare!"
"Did I say anything?' Buffy asked.
"No, not until I heard you tossing and turning in here and got up. Then you yelled "No!"
and I ran in to see what was wrong. Why, do you remember what you were dreaming?"
Buffy shook her head. "No." She lied. She doubted she'd be telling GIles this one either. He'd probably just start cleaning his glasses and say, "Well it probably stems from the nightmare fiasco."
"I'm okay Mom. " Buffy said. "Sorry I woke you up."
"That's okay honey. Are you sure? You don't want some tea or anything?"
"No I'm okay. I better get back to sleep, school tomorrow. "
Joyce nodded. "Okay." She kissed Buffys forhead and went back to bed.
Buffy flopped back into her pillows and thought the dream over. After a while she decided it was probably just from actually experiencing what it was like to be a vampire. "Giles would be right there." She muttered, and rolled over.Buffy was having a terrible time controlling her temper. She snapped at people, including her friends, Giles and her mom. She had to focus on counting to ten sometimes so she wouldn't kill Cordielia right in the middle of class.
Her mom brushed it off as teenage horomones, her friends sulked and Giles worried.
"Buffy you need to work on your emotional controll." He told her one day after she'd screamed at a student to get out of the library.
Buffy flushed as the frightned girl ran away. "I'm sorry Giles." She moaned. "I just can't seem to controll myself at all lately! I've been irritable with everyone! Will and Xand are mad at me, and I've actually had to ask to be excused from class to stop myself from choking Cordielia and her little following."
GIles could see how upset she was getting. "Maybe something else is wrong Buffy. Have you noticed anything odd lately? Any dreams?"
"Dreams definate yes. " She replied bitterly. "If it isn't the master, it's the one where I am a vamp and I don't even realize it. I chase people around for a good twenty minuets before I realize I'm the walking undead and then I see I don't have a reflection. Then I feel my face and It's all lumpy. I either start to burn up in the sun, or I get staked by you, Will, Xander or Angel. Once it was even my mom."
GIles nodded. "It's normal for a slayer to dream these things. " He said. "Normally it's their biggest fear."
"Becoming a vampire?"
He nodded again. "That and the betrayal of being staked by a loved one.
Buffy realized he was right about that. "But what about my temper problems GIles? I mean look at me! Half the school put together doesn't have as much trouble controlling themselves as I do! I have to run away every time I see Principal Snyder!"
"M e too." Glies muttered under his breath. Buffy heard him anyway and laughed.
He looked up. "Did you hear me?" He asked.
"Of course I did, Giles." She replied, giving him a funny look. "Why wouldn't I?"
"If I'm not mistaken your hearing has improved. " GIles' brow knitted in a frown. " Maybe your slayer essence is becoming stronger. "
"And that has to do with my temper because?" Buffy asked, lost.
"Buffy, the slayer essence is a very primal force. If you are recieving more of it than you should be, then you might have personality changes as well as physical ones."
"Slaying has seemed kind of easy lately." Buffy said in an offhand manner. "I have to go seek out huge demons just to find a challenge."
"Why didn't you tell me this!?" GIles asked.
Buffy had to bite back a scathing reply and taking a deep breath she said, " Well sometimes it gets that way. Vampires are on a downswing, and a slayer's gotta slay." She shrugged.
I"ll have to look into this." GIles muttered, walking off into his office to get a few books.
"You do that, tweed avenger." Buffy said quietly, saluting him. She needed to go find Wills and Xander and apologise to them for the umpteenth time since this thing had started. She'd have to tell them not to take it personally, as it might not be her fault after all.
"I'll be back later Giles!" She called out. "It's grovelling time."
"Yes, yes, very good." Came GIles' reply, sounding distracted. This meant he was into reasearch mode and Buffy could tell him anything and she'd get much the same reply.
"And off to grovell with me." Buffy said, and went off to find her friends.
AN: LOL, I had fun with this one. Oh, and for those who don't know, I hate Buffy and Angel as a couple, so you will not be seeing a whole lot of B/A smoochies. Yuck! But I will keep with the storyline at least until Buffy sends Angel to hell. Oh and yes her and Spike will be enemies for awhile at least. It's too much fun when they fight! LOL