A/N: PLEASE REVIEW!!! They were rollin' in. What
happened?!?!?!?!
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Chapter
8-An Unexpected, Badly Timed Phone Call
"Sorry,
guys. I thought we had the night off." Buffy said, addressing
the group (minus Spike) in her living room. "Giles just took a
look in the good old Codex this morning-"
"Book
of prophesies." Giles told the confused group of Gryffindors.
Buffy was the only one to notice that Harry tensed slightly when
Giles said 'prophesies'. But, not wanting to draw attention to it,
she plowed on.
"Yeah,
well, Giles found a prophesy that revealed that Volder- whatever is
coming to Sunnydale in the beginning of June. We also learned that he
is gonna ask some hellmouth natives to help him out."
"Let
me guess." Xander said pretending to think hard. "What is
one thing that this area seems to have a lot of ...well... there are
the cemeteries, but they couldn't help that dude out a lot. Ya know
Alex, I'm gonna have to go with; What is a vampire?"
"That's
correct Mr. Harris, you've won a lovely watch, a years supply of
turtle wax, and a bag of chips." Buffy tossed him a bag of
potato chips. Xander, pretending to be excited, opened the bag, and
started eating. "But really, right now, were ahead of the game,
but we really don't know how long that will last." As if to
answer her, a vampire came crashing thought the window, and jumped
over Ron, Harry and Hermione who were sitting on the
couch.
The
vampire then turned toward Harry, and was coming at him. It hadn't
gotten far before Buffy, trying to distract it, punched it in the
back of the head. "I think I got it's attention." She
said unnecessarily. Harry, Ron, and Hermione had reached for their
wands, before realizing that they wouldn't need them. Buffy was
giving the vamp a series of kicks and punches, mixed with a few witty
comments, and eventually got the vamp on the ground. She was
searching the room for something to use as a stake (the others were
keeping the teens back), when the phone rang. Buffy thinking she
could multi-task answered it. "Hello?" Then a few seconds
later "Angel?" Xander nearly choked on his chips (as far as
he was concerned there was no better entertainment then watching
Buffy kick vampire butt).
Buffy
was so distracted that the vampire ended up punching her in the
stomach. "Angel, can you hold on a sec? I'm kinda in the middle
of a dusting." Buffy tossed the phone to Xander, who was taken
by surprise. He was still managed to catch the phone, but he dropped
is chips in the process. Spike had just walked in, and seeing Buffy
fighting, he walked over to her weapons chest, and pulled out a
stake.
"You
all are a lot of help." He said just before he called Buffy.
"Hey, Slayer, heads up!" He through the stake in the air,
and with out looking up Buffy reached up into the air, and pulled the
stake down, and into the vamps heart.
"
Gee, thanks Spike." Buffy said, gratefully. Buffy glanced up a
Ron, Harry and Hermione's awestruck faces. Buffy could see that
Hermione had a question, and was about to ask her what it was when
she heard Xander talking.
"So,
Dead Boy, how are you? Pretend I care." Now that the sound of
Buffy's fight was gone, everyone could hear Angel's
response.
"I'm
okay, and I thought I told you not to call me that?!" Buffy
walked over and ripped the phone out of Xander's hand. Spike had
figured out who was on the phone, and rolled his eyes just as Buffy
walked into the kitchen. The others got the pleasure of hearing
Spike's comments on Angel.
"Oh,
what does that great poof want?" Spike asked, but he was
ignored.
Willow
was looking at Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who had yet to move from
their places on the couch. "You guys okay there?" She
asked.
"How-?"
Ron started.
"Super
Slayer strength, kinda comes with the job." Dawn answered the
unfinished question.
"Yes,
well, at the moment we have more pressing matters. First of all, did
anyone, who lives in this house, invite anyone in recently?"
Giles asked. No one responded, so Giles took that as a no. "
Well, then , we have a great deal of research to do. We need to find
out how that vampire could get in, and stop something like that for
happening again."
"A
vampire can't just walk into a person's home?" Harry
asked.
"No,
Harry, they can't. A vampire can only enter a person's house if they
are invited in. Once that occurs, they are then after welcome in the
house." Hermione stated.
"Unless
of course, you do a spell to reverse the invitation. That's something
I think we do a little to much of around here." Willow
said
"I
know how the vampire got in!" Buffy said coming back into the
room and hanging up the phone. " Angel just said that he got
wind of a curse that can make it possible for vampires to enter
houses uninvited, and guess what? It's been used. Angel's not to sure
of the specifics, all he can tell us is that it's been around for a
while, and I'm talking before Darla."
"That
was a while ago." Spike commented.
"So,
someone wants vampires to enter everyone's house, and why not. I
mean, sending out the invitations, inviting them in one by one is far
to much work." Xander said with extreme
sarcasm.
"Right.
Well we need to find out who is doing this and why." Giles
said.
"Isn't
it obvious who it is?" Harry asked.
"Harry
you are used to there being only one creature of evil that could do
or want to do something like this. Now, it is quit probable that it
is Voldermort, but right now we have no way of knowing. Many things
could have done this, especially on the hellmouth." As Giles
finished, Harry nodded.
"I
just have one question." Hermione said. "Who's
Angel?"
"That
is a much longer story then we have time for." Buffy answered
simply.
"Right."
Hermione responded.
"Giles
it's getting late. I'm gonna walk the four of them back to -"
Buffy was cut off by a high pitch scream coming from what sounded
like right in front of her house. Everyone scrambled outside to see
Anya jumping up and down.
"OH
MY GOD!!!!! IT'S A BUNNY! IN THE BUSH!" She shrieked. Harry, Ron
and Hermione looked at Dawn.
"That's
Anya, she has Bunny fear." Dawn said. The other three
understood, but were still having difficulty trying not to
laugh.
"Anya,
this is Harry, Ron and Hermione. They go to Hogwarts. Because of
certain dangers, the school has been moved here for the year."
The three Gryffindor's were not sure what Giles was doing. Obviously
he trusted this girl, but they had just met her. Giles continued
talking. "Buffy was just about to walk them back to school, but
before they go, why don't you tell us what you are doing on Buffy's
lawn, at this time of the night?"
"Oh,
Giles, it's not that late." Anya said, still staring at the
bushes. "Well, D'Hoffryn put me on suspension, because he's mad
at me, I'don't know why, but I got really board, so I figured you
guys were probably saving the world or something, and I thought I'd
help. That is if you want me to." Anya finished
hopefully.
"Of
course we want you to Anya. To be honest we an use all the help we
can get." Giles told a very happy Anya. Giles lead her inside
the house to fill her in on what they were doing, while Buffy walked
the others back to school. Buffy couldn't help but notice that Harry
and Ron kept glancing at her out of the corner of their eyes. Dawn
must of noticed this to because all of the sudden she turned to them
and said;
"You
know, she's not gonna hurt you." Buffy nodded her head in
agreement. Harry and Ron still seemed uneasy, but were soon
fascinated by what Buffy could do as Hermione seized the opportunity
to ask Buffy everything she could about Slayer abilities.
