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Chapter 7: Another Witch?
It was almost 3am when Paige came back home. She orbed into her room in hopes of avoiding her sisters. No such luck. Both of them were waiting for her in her room.
"Glad to see you know where home is, Paige." Piper said, startling Paige. She turned around and found Piper sitting in her chair feeding Chris. Phoebe was lounged on her bed filing her nails.
"Hi guys. How long have you been in my room?" Paige said.
"Almost as long as you've been gone. Where have you been Paige? We could have used your help earlier." Piper shifted Chris to her shoulder.
"What did you need my help on? Do you honestly think that we could make any difference in what those people can do? Wolfram & Hart have been around long before mankind has. What are we going to do about them?" Paige said exasperated.
"Well, for one; we could look into this Angel character. See if what he's telling is the truth. Two; we can check out the slayers identity." Phoebe looked up from her nails.
"I thought you had Leo looking into that." Paige said to Piper.
"I do, but that doesn't mean that the rest of us can gallivant about doing whatever we want. We could look into the Book of Shadows for and clues."
"Really Piper, I don't think that it's going to have a section about vampires with souls."
"You never know until you look. Even Grams never got through the whole thing. Anyways, where have you been all night long?" Piper wanted to know.
"I went to magic school." Paige said turning towards her dresser.
"Ok, why?"
"Um . . . to look for any clues about the vampire."
"Hah, I knew it." Phoebe jumped up from the bed.
"Listen, can we just get to sleep. I pooped and would really like a small amount of sleep before we have to face those guys again."
"Alright Paige. But don't think that your going to get off so easily. I know you found something at magic school, or you wouldn't have been out so late."
"Goodnight Piper. Goodnight Phoebe." Paige pushed them out her bedroom door. "Go to bed. I'll tell you all I know in the morning."
Buffy honked the horn on her rental car and waved. The passenger door opened and Willow Rosenberg climbed into the passenger seat.
"Hi, how was the trip." Buffy asked.
"Uneventful. This time I'm glad I can see you after a plane trip."
"Don't remind me. So, got anything on the Charmed Ones."
"Giles and I have filed through anything we had on witches. The Charmed Ones are a trio of sisters with some of the most powerful magic ever conceived. They have active powers. Unlike my power, they don't have to do many spells. One sister can freeze people and blow things up, another has empathy and has the power of premonition, and one can move objects with her mind easily. I had to really concentrate when I did it. All their powers are inherent. If they have children, they will have power as well. It's sort of like passing on blue eyes, only this is more potent stuff. I really can't wait to meet them."
"Wow, you got all that out in twenty seconds." Buffy started the car and drove away from the airport. She looked sideways at Willow and saw a few more lines under her eyes. "How are the girls doing? How's Dawn?"
"Oh, everyone's fine. Giles had us out two days ago. There was a nest of vamps hiding out in an abandoned building and we had Kennedy, Li and Jenny go in."
"Jenny did ok?" Buffy inquired.
"Yep, she got three all on her own." Willow smiled.
"That's great. She has sure come a long way." Buffy said. She was really proud of all the girls.
"So, um . . . how are you and Angel getting along?" Willow asked her friend.
"Were fine. It's not all happy go lucky though. Oh, and you'll never guess who is alive, well sort of alive."
"Who?" Willow said curious.
"Spike." Buffy said. "The last time I saw him he was about to burn up, and here he is haunting Wolfram & Hart offices."
"Spike? A ghost? Who'd have thought?" Willow shrugged her shoulders.
Buffy made it back to Fred's apartment by that time and together they went to the front door. Buffy knocked twice and Fred answered.
"Hi, Willow, how are you doing?" Fred said as she let the two in.
"Great, a little pooped though." Willow smiled then hugged her friend.
"I've got my hide-a-bed ready for you two, if you don't mind sharing a bed."
"Not at all." Buffy said. "Let's get some sleep and Willow can tell everyone what she and Giles found out tomorrow."
"Sounds great. Goodnight."
The next morning dawned bright and early. Paige was up with a cup of coffee as Phoebe walked into the kitchen.
"You look like . . ."
"Don't say anything, not until I've had my coffee." Phoebe said looking daggers at Paige.
"No prob." Paige said as she sipped hers.
Just then Piper came in carrying a fussy Chris. "Here Paige, I need coffee. And his bottle." Piper handed her squirming son to Paige and went to the fridge. "So, how about a little update on what you found out last night."
"Angel, the Vampire with a soul, cursed by gypsies, haunted by those he killed. The texts were pretty vague about it all. It is magic school, and vampires aren't really magical."
"Good point. Any particular reason why he is running a demon law firm?"
"Not a clue." Paige shrugged, "and as to the part about him being with a slayer. I couldn't find anything."
"Well, maybe Leo has something on that. So what about the slayer?" Piper said sipping her coffee.
"I didn't get much. Mostly that there is one born every generation, and when one dies another is called to take her place. There is a society called the Watchers council that trains and cares for these young girls. Some of them come into their powers at the earliest age of thirteen. The current slayer, Buffy Summers used to live in LA, but moved to Sunnydale, CA seven years ago. That's about all I got on her."
"Then let's see what Leo came up with. Leo!" Piper called and her husband orbed right in front of her.
"Good Morning, Beautiful." Leo said to Piper.
"Hi. So what did the Elders have to say about our 'friends'? " Piper asked.
"Ok, this might take a while. First Angel, his real name is Liam the son of a merchant. He was changed by one Darla, and he killed his entire family. He called himself Angelus because his sister thought he came back as an angel."
"Creepy." Phoebe shivered.
"Then about a hundred years later he and Darla killed this gypsy girl and the clan cursed him with a soul. After that he has been haunted by every single person he has killed. Now here's a little glitch in the gypsies curse. If he at any time experiences a moment of pure happiness his soul is released and Angelus is back."
Phoebe shivered again. "Man, what a way to live. Oh I know he's not really alive per se. But you know what I mean."
"There is something else. Angel is part of a prophecy called the Shanshu Prophecy. He has to survive a dozen or so apocalypses and a lot of other demons and in the end he gets to become human." Leo shrugged. "There is a little more on the slayer. Buffy Summers went to Sunnydale CA, right over the Hellmouth. And for seven years fought demons, vampires and a few apocalypses herself. She had a run in with the Master, and she died for all of five minutes, but in that time another slayer was called. She ran into Angel shortly after her arrival in Sunnydale and believe it or not, they fell in love. They had an encounter and he had his moment of happiness and out comes Angelus. Buffy sends him into hell after he killed a friend of hers, then he pops back into the picture after a while. They go their separate ways after a demon blows up Sunnydale High School. She died again a year later saving the world again and was brought back to life by her friends, who by the way, one of them is a witch."
End of chapter Seven.
