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Rating: PG
Spoilers/ Timeline: Very slightly up to the fifth or sixth episode of the first season of Desperate Housewives. I haven't seen any further than these episodes, so sorry if it doesn't really make sense with the way the story goes after those eps. Set after Edie has moved in with Mrs. Huber, during the whole blackmailing Susan bit and about a year after 'Chosen' in the Buffy-verse.
PART THREE- A LITTLE DIRTY LAUNDRY
"Do we have to do this?" Dawn whined.
"Shhh!"
Dawn was quiet for a moment. "This is pointless!"
"Shhh! You're the one who wanted to be more involved." Buffy said in a quiet whisper.
"That was before I thought being involved meant hiding in the bushes." Dawn muttered.
There was a lot of rustling then.
"Dawn?" Buffy looked around for her sister. "Dawn! Get back here!"
Dawn turned her head defiantly and knocked on Bree Van de Camp's door.
"Why, hello Dawn." Bree said surprised when she opened the door to find her newest neighbour there. "Did you want something?"
"Umm yeah. Could we borrow some sugar?" Dawn cursed herself for her unimaginative excuse.
Bree looked slightly suspicious. "Of course. Come in, I'll just get you some."
"Thanks. So…is everything okay here?"
Bree sent Dawn an odd look. "Everything's fine. Why do you ask?"
Dawn grinned. "Just making conversation."
Bree smiled falsely as she handed over a cup of sugar. "There you go."
"Thanks, Mrs. Van de Camp."
The moment Dawn left the house Buffy rounded on her. "What happened?"
"Her whole family is there. Definitely no demons attacking that house."
Buffy frowned. "And there wasn't one at Edie's, Lynette's or Mrs. Huber's. But Willow swears that she did the spell right. We must be looking at this the wrong way…"
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"This is hopeless." There was a dull thud as one of the Watchers Council's more valuable books dropped onto the table sending a cloud of dust into the air.
Willow looked up at the blond slayer who had absolutely no patience for the research. "We don't exactly have any other leads that we can follow, Buffy."
Buffy ignored her long time friend. "We should be out there looking!"
"For what?" Dawn asked. "We don't know what we're looking for, and that goes for the research too. What am I looking for? Vampires? Demon's who can conceal themselves from humans? What?"
"Probably both." Willow said distractedly as she thumbed through a particularly large volume. But then she stopped and she looked up, her eyes wide. "That's it! I've got to go to headquarters and pick up a book- I'll be five minutes, max!"
With that she teleported out of the house leaving two confused sisters behind her.
Buffy stared at the spot Willow had recently vacated. "Did you understand any of that?"
Dawn shook her head. "Not a single word."
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It was another coffee morning around Susan's. The four housewives sat around the kitchen counter drinking their tea and gossiping about the latest event in their lives and their friends' lives. The topic of conversation had quickly moved onto the newest residents of Wisteria Lane; Buffy and Dawn Summers.
"So what? I borrow sugar and stuff from you guys all the time." Gabrielle said after Bree had told them of her encounter with Dawn the previous evening.
"I just got the feeling that it was some kind of a cover story. I've heard enough of them from Andrew to recognise one when I see it. As a matter of fact, I think them being here is a cover story."
"What do you mean?" Gabrielle asked.
"Why did they suddenly move here? You wouldn't have thought they could afford it to look at them for one thing, I really don't feel comfortable around the older one for another and they've been acting suspiciously since they got here."
Lynette nodded. "I agree, something isn't right."
"I think we should try to find out why they're really here." Susan said.
"Oh yeah that'll be easy." Lynette snorted.
"It doesn't matter, we should still try!" Susan said passionately.
"How?" Gabriele said. "Just go over there and ask them why they moved in? Even if there is something fishy about it they're hardly going to just tell us, are they?"
"Well, we could do it gently. We could ask them about it over coffee and pastry." Bree suggested as she sipped on her coffee.
"That would be fun: 'So girls, we were just wondering why you moved to the neighbourhood because we think you're involved in some kind of illegal scam or something, another croissant?'"
Gabrielle grinned slightly. "We could always call the police. "
Lynette, as always the voice of reason, shook her head. "No, we don't have any proof."
"We've gotta find out what was going on." Susan repeated.
"Let's say we do find out why they moved here. There's a chance we're not gonna like what we find. " Lynette said as she refilled her coffee cup.
"Well, isn't it worse to be in the dark, wondering why they're here? " Susan reasoned.
Bree sighed gently and put her cup back onto the worktop. "It's the usual question, isn't it? How much do we really want to know about our neighbours?"
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"Human Demons?" Buffy scrunched up her nose. "What are human demons?"
"They're demons that have an aspect of humankind in them." Willow explained. "Like vampires."
"What? Like they used to be human?"
"Sort of. Okay, so vampires were once human and they keep one aspect of human-ness when they're turned." Buffy and Dawn stared blankly at Willow. "Their appearance." Willow clarified. "They look like regular humans when they want to."
"Oh I get it." Buffy said nodding her head, but there was still a look of bewilderment on her face.
Willow sighed patiently. "Okay, look at the lights on the map. They mean that there's a demon on that spot, right? It could be a full demon like Clem or it could be a part demon."
"Okay."
"By the map, there are two demons running right outside the street now, correct?"
"Yes," Dawn said as she looked out the window; "but there isn't anything out there except for…no, really?"
Willow nodded, glad that someone was getting her point.
"But that means…wow."
"Exactly." Willow said.
"Exactly what?" Buffy asked.
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"Porter? Preston?" Lynette ran out into the street. "If you two don't back here right now then I swear to God…"
Bree pulled up in her car. "Is everything okay, Lynette? Danielle, can you start to put shopping away?"
Her daughter obeyed as her son stepped out into the sun and leaned against the car talking on his mobile phone.
"No it's not. The gardener left the gate open and the twins escaped…again. Preston! Porter! Get back here!"
"Mom!"
Lynette turned as she heard her boys call out for her and saw them being frog marched towards her by Martha Huber who was being followed by a smirking Edie Britt.
"Get your hand off my kids!"
"Lynette," Bree warned as both Andrew and Edie looked on in amusement.
"These…monsters where trampling on my rhododendrons!"
Even Paul and Zack Young stopped to watch as Lynette and Mrs. Huber started yelling at each other.
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Meanwhile…
"Look at the map Buffy, what do you see?" Willow asked patiently.
"Well, most the demons seem to be in the street outside." The original slayer observed.
"And what's outside?"
"Nothing." She said puzzled. "Just the Young's, Mrs. Huber, Lynette, Bree, Edie, the twins and Bree's kid. Why? Wait, you're not saying that they're demons?"
"Yup."
"You want me to slay my neighbours?"
"No; peaceful demons, again I use Clem as an example. They probably don't even know what they are. At some point, possibly generations and generations ago their blood was mixed with a demon's. Maybe a vengeance demon or something." She said as an afterthought.
Buffy frowned. "Okay, so there are some non-evil demons drawn to this cause it's a minor demon hotspot and they pose absolutely no threat to society? Does that mean I can go back to Italy without getting blood and guts on my clothes?"
Willow grinned. "Suppose so."
"Great! Let's go now!" Buffy jumped up in excitement. "I can go back and see my friends and Dawn can get back in time for the start of the new term."
"Wahoo." Dawn said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. "I can hardly wait."
All the same she went upstairs to pack her few belongings. It was always the same- they always moved on as soon as the job finished.
An hour later Buffy, Dawn and Willow were walking back down Wisteria Lane, Buffy laden down with two bags and Dawn carrying one small one. Gabrielle, who had been doing her yoga exercises on her front porch ran down the steps towards the trio. "Wait! Where are you going?"
"We're leaving!" Buffy said cheerfully. "Nice to meet you. Bye then."
Gabrielle watched the Summers' and their friend lest Wisteria Lane once and for all leaving so many questions unanswered.
But as Gabrielle watched the mysterious former-residents of Wisteria Lane walk down the street for the last time, she had no idea that she wasn't alone. Someone who knew that the slayer was a very real threat to their kind, but she was leaving as the pair of glowing amber eyes watched from the shadows…
THE END
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