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"Can I have my chair back please?"

Shaylin looked up from the chair she had been rocking as she sat on the Watchers table. Giles, she thought his name was… strange name…

She'd had one foot on the top of it, and one on the edge of the seat. She quickly released her hold on the lower part, kicking it around the opposite way, then kicking it over to where Giles was pacing back and forth, a book in his hand.

"Ommph!" he cried as the seat… collided with his behind "Um… thankyou, Shaylin"

"Anytime Mr Giles"

"Mr Giles? Well, it seems like you're thought of pretty highly, hey Giles?" Willow said, grinning and playing with the ends of her jumper. Giles gave her a long look, shifting uncomfortably in his chair and continuing to read the book he had in his hands. He wasn't very happy with being woken up, again, by these annoying youngsters.

And after the incident with the school… he thought he would at least get some sleep.

Guess he had been wrong.

"So, Shaylin, where do you come from?" Xander perked up, looking the girl over. She looked at him, about to tell him, when…

"Ah, Monster Slayers"

"Um… say again Giles?" Buffy asked.

"Monster Slayers. Am I correct Shaylin?"

"Yes sir" she got off the table, coming over to the small group, standing next to a very jittery Willow and folding her arms, waiting for him to continue. Her swords and bow were at the door, which made her seem slightly more normal.

"Monster Slayers. They fight… well, monsters" Giles adjusted his glasses, and his position on the chair again "Of the… rather large variety"

"You mean like that big ugly snake thing that destroyed the school?" Xander asked.

"Yes"

"The one who… very cooly… ate our principal?"

"Xander!" Buffy and Willow hissed, then turned back to Giles.

Giles cleared his throat "Yes, like that. They are a slightly tougher, more agile version of a Vampire Slayer. They choose two types of weapons to keep with them the entire time, and what they Slay-"

"Mocktock demons, Sylths, sometimes the occasional giant snake…" Shaylin rattled them off, counting with her fingers.

Everyone just stared.

"Oh… sorry. Go ahead Mr Giles" she blushed slightly.

"Definitely not the girl she was an hour ago" Xander whispered in Buffy's ear. She gave a slight nod. She'd also noticed. It was like she had two sides to her. One was the fighter, the other an overly polite girl…

Buffy wasn't buying it.

"The Monster Slayers are a very rare breed. For every seven Vampire Slayers born, there is only one Monster Slayer. Or, if lucky, possibly two"

"Wow. That's not a very high success rate" Willow muttered, curious to learn more.

"On the contrary, the less Monster Slayers born, the better" Giles removed his glasses, cleaning them on the bottom of his shirt "Can you imagine if there were… evil Monster Slayers with all this power in them, running loose on the streets"

"It would be Faith in stereo!" Xander cried jokingly, and Willow and Buffy tensed.

"Faith" Buffy's face turned hard. Shaylin noticed this.

"Who is… or was… Faith?" Shaylin asked.

No one said anything. Giles shifted uncomfortably, and Willow looked away. Buffy was suddenly finding her hands fascinating.

So, it was up to Xander.

"To put it simply, Faith was a Slayer who… decided to turn on us" Xander gave her a dangerous look, a look that told her he was serious.

"She almost killed Angel, and Buffy…" Willow started to blurt, but stopped.

Again, the room seemed uncomfortable.

"I won't ask anymore. But I will say this; I will not become another… Faith… whoever she was. I was given an order to protect you, and…" she bit her lip, remembering… "And I will uphold my duty"

"And what, dare I ask, were you asked to protect Buffy from?" Giles spoke up, his curiosity getting the better of him.

Shaylin turned to look at him "The end"

They all turned slowly to look at her.

"Well, nothing unusual there" Buffy muttered.

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