DISCLAIMER: all belongs to Joss Whedon, Sky and Sir are mine

"So you're a transfer student. From where exactly?" He said just to break the silence. Sky gasped.

"He speaks!" She said mockingly. The waiter set down their cups and she slurped the foam from the top of hers. Connor passed her a napkin as she lifted her head revealing a small cream moustache above her top lip. She smirked and wiped it off.

"You are very strange." He stated, Sky giggled.

"I'm not strange, just unique! I can guarantee you'll never meet another girl like me." She smiled brightly, "Around." Connor stared at her.

"What?"

"You asked where I was from, around."

"That's it, just around?"

"When you're ready I'll tell you exactly." She replied a twinkle in her eye. It was then Connor realised that he didn't care where she was from or what exactly she was doing here, he just liked her being around. Like she was supposed to be there with him. Connor smiled and nodded drinking the last drops of his coffee. Sky grinned and finished her drink as well.

They spent the rest of their lunch period walking around campus talking. Connor showed her where everything important was. By the time the bell rang he had learned that she was only taking the one class. He inquired as to why that was but all she did was smile and say again that she would tell him when he was ready. Connor waved and headed towards his next class stopping once to look back and see her disappear around a corner. He shook his head and entered the large lecture hall. The professor walked in and began his lesson on ancient history.

Meanwhile, Sky walked down the street and exited the university grounds. She had just reached her small pad when the headaches came. Her head was thrown back as if hit with a shovel and she grabbed the wall to steady herself, the images came flooding through her mind. She saw the woman and child walking through the night towards a parking lot. A large demon shows up behind the car and slaughters the woman and child. Sky gagged and ran for the washroom. She emerged from it a few minutes later cursing. She went to the kitchen, made a cloth wet and placed it on the back of her neck. As soon as she had her nerves back under control she grabbed her purse and left the apartment. She walked down the small road and made her way through a series of sides streets until she came to a large building. There was a bar on the bottom floor and the floors above were reserved for special businesses. She walked into the bar and was immediately greeted with the smell of smoke, beer and demons. Yes, it was a demon bar. One of the few in the city, they were situated in different places and allowed the clientele to come and be among their own kind more or less. Sky walked up to the counter.

"Can I help you lass?" The large horned bartender asked her. "Something I can get you?"

"A water and a visit with the top please Vin." She replied idly. Vin nodded and passed her a glass. She sat and drank her water as he talked to the vampire at the back door. The vampire nodded to her and she raised herself from the stool and made her way over. She thanked Vin and followed the vampire into the elevator. They got out when they had reached the top most floor. The vampire led her down the hall to a large door and knocked. The door opened and the vampire left her to go back down to the bar.

"Enter." Said a voice from within. Sky closed the door behind her. "Ah, Sky. It's been a while since I've seen you around here." Said the man seated behind a large desk. If a man is what you could call him. He was human for the most part, his eyes and ears were piggish and his nails were long and clicked as he drummed his fingers on the desk. His tail was clearly visible swishing back and forth behind the large chair he was seated on. Sky nodded and examined the room around her. Her eyes came to rest on the heads mounted on the wall and the shivering bundle of clothes in the far corner of the room.

"You've redecorated." The man smiled.

"You like it?" He asked grinning. "I decided I should put up my trophies. It keeps the new people in line."

"And the girl in the corner is what…a snack for later?" She said pointedly. Again the man grinned this time bearing teeth. "You never change Pert."

"You can have some if you want." He offered.

"No thanks, I'm trying to cut back."

"Right, right that whole powers-that-be crap." She glared at him and took a seat. "So what can I do for you Sky?"

"What have you got on camorra demons?"

"You know, you are lucky I love you more than I do the rest of our kind." He said reaching into his drawers. He flipped through some files and pulled out a folder. "This is all I got." He said handing it to her. She flipped through the first few pages and nodded.

"Thanks. By the way, while I'm here, got anything new in?" Pert sighed and got up from his chair. He led her over to the back wall and pressed a button on the bookshelf opening up the wall to reveal isles of weapons of all sorts. Though not the average guns and such, those were for human wars and most did nothing against demons and vampires. These were state of the art swords and crossbows and spears. Anything you wanted was there, like a shopping mall for the lucky Sky had once said. She followed Pert down the isle to the very end.

"This is where we put the new stuff, we're trying to get rid of the old stuff first and most people who come round here just pick the first thing they lay eyes on. You can have anything you want, just make sure you return it. Unless you got enough money to pay for one of these suckers." Sky smiled.

"Any late fees my dear librarian?" Pert laughed.

"Just make sure I get them back, not broken would be preferred." With that he left her to the stacks and returned to his desk. Sky looked over the weapons and tried out the ones she liked. Finally she picked a double-ended axe. It had an axe head on one end and a long stake on the other end, both in silver. The handle in the middle was polished oak. A very nice piece that she was sure cost a fortune. She brought the piece to Pert's desk pushing the button and closing the wall up behind her. Pert eyed the weapon she had chosen and smiled lovingly up at her. "You always knew how to choose 'em! Take good care of her you hear. And make sure you come 'round more often." Sky smiled back and turned to leave. "What! You're leaving without giving ol' Pert a hug?" He laughed and pulled her into a big bear hug. After nearly suffocating her he released Sky and said goodbye. Sky left through the back door so the demons in the bar wouldn't get the wrong impressions from the nice shiny axe she now carried. Always count on Pert to have something nice for her. She thought grimly, now she had to wait until dark to find the creep who was going to kill the woman and child.

The next morning she awoke to find her shiny new blade covered in a strange orangey blood. Sky sighed, another vision carefully avoided. She took a shower and put on some nice clothes and headed off for the university. She reached the campus and smiled to the people she knew. When she reached her classroom Connor was already there. She looked him over as he set out his books, clearly not even noticing she was there. He was muscular, she could tell from the tight fit of his shirt. He had a set jaw like his father but his eyes were his mother's, the fierceness in them gave her away. No one would have guessed he was the son of two vampires Connor was perfectly human. He looked up and smiled when he saw her. She smiled back and took her seat as the other students came in; somehow they were always the first ones there.