Everything was in chaos. There were crumpled up covers, extra couches, opened out sofas, clothes on the floor,…..Giles was lying in the middle of this mess, on a bed. He had to share a hotel room with some potentials like the others, too, in order to keep an eye on them. Buffy was still in hospital and won't probably be discharged within the next two days.
This morning Dawn, Willow, Faith and Wood went to breakfast with the potentials while Xander, Andrew and Gils preferred to stay in the rooms to today them up a little, like they had told the girls. But to be honest to be together with so many girls the whole day was just too much for them.
During these minutes of silence Giles had to think about Buffy. When he had seen her injured he felt for her again like he did a long time ago, like he would be her father. But before……her kind of thinking, her ideas to win the battle against the First had just seemed to be so crazy that he felt like she would be a foreigner. He couldn't understand her and his biggest problem had been Buffy's relationship to Spike, which had always been incomprehensible for him. Spike's a murderer and he had hurt Buffy so deeply,…..how could she still have feelings for him !
Giles' thoughts got interrupted when Xander entered the room.
"Did you know that you need only one eye to watch cartoons?"
"Well, not yet, but that's an interesting information." Giles murmured while he sat himself up.
"How do you feel?"
Xander made free the way to the bathroom by pushing away some clothes with his shoe. " As fine as you can feel when you lost one eye."
Giles took his glasses off to clear them, although it wasn't necessary at all. Andrew, who had been outside came in with a big brown bag in his arms.
"Did you know there's a supermarket at the end of the street? "
The answer were two men taking the bag. One searching for Soft Cakes and the other one for chocolate…
