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Chapter Eight

Count Down to Judgment Day:

T Minus Six (pt2):

(Morning):

Many of those gathered had muttered, shut up and let me sleep some more until Xanders words had penetrated through the fog of sleep. Then there was a general commotion of family and friends piling into the kitchen. Saying how glad they were that Buffy was awake.

"Buffy English and I want to take you out to the nearest bar, and celebrate." Gunn offered.

Joyce gave Gunn an evil eye. "Excuse me are you proposing to get my underage daughter drunk?"

Gunn flushed from the look Joyce gave him "It's not like that. We're celebrating her waking up."

"Uhm drinking and me are totally non-mixy things." Buffy was trying to keep from looking her mom in the eye.

"Does anyone remember Cave Buffy?" Xander smirked.

Buffy shouted. "Xander! Not in front of mom."

Joyce looked over at him as if asking what THAT comment signified, then turned a gimlet stare toward her eldest. She was thinking to herself. (I'll have to get that story out of her later.) "I think we have more important things to discuss right now. But we will discuss this Cave Buffy business when we have time."

Giles was looking around. "Where's Whistler? I have some more questions for him."

"He had to go. He'd used up all of his remaining life force to stay here as long as he did. He went against the Powers that Be to help me. And I think it cost him his life." Buffy's despondency at Whistlers sacrifice was plain to her family and friends.

Giles gathered her into his arms. "Dear girl. He did it for you. I'd didn't realize that he'd gone that far from the powers wishes. But we knew what he'd done. Just not the seriousness of it. But he did it by choice. Because he cared for you."

The entire audience was thinking that Buffy might backslide into catatonia if she wasn't distracted from carrying on like this.

Buffy sniffled a bit. "Thank you Giles. He stuck around long enough for me to thank him as well. I'll try not to let his sacrifice stop me. Did he say anything to you about what was going to happen?"

Giles and Anya went over the discussion they'd had with Whistler.

Buffy finally noticed that Angel hadn't made himself known. "Where's Angel?"

"Willow and I saw Deadboy go out and enter the sewers not long before dawn. Willow asked him what he was doing and he said he was going to get something Angelus left behind." Everyone shuddered a little when the name of Angelus was mentioned. Xander was hoping Buff wouldn't notice that tall dark and broody wasn't here.

Wesley mused. (What could he be after?)

"We'll deal with him when he gets back. Mom and I made a few plans yesterday. We even bought a bunch of canned goods and got the three of us a couple pairs of good sturdy boots. With what Whistler told you guys and what the powers shoved in my brain we got a good bit of planning to do. We'll need all sorts of survivalist gear along with a place to go."

"Whistler emphasized that we should do nothing to expose Skynet to the supernatural. Meaning we shouldn't draw attention to ourselves. So we can't just be obvious about what we're doing, we'll need to be circumspect in our purchases and escape plans. For slightly odd purchases we can use plastic, after we draw as much cash from the cards as we can. For the rest we need cash, and lots of it." Giles was running through his thoughts aloud as he absent mindedly took his glasses off and polished them.

"I have a bit of a plan. It's something Xander suggested a while back." As Buffy spoke Joyce looked puzzled again. Buffy had mentioned the same thing yesterday.

"We need to hit the demon crime ring nests. Take them out and loot the place for cash and equipment that we can use. The Shark is a prime example. I usually don't go after those low lives since they tend to only prey on people who get involved with them. They don't go out actively looking to cause mayhem. It's a matter of priorities, and they're lower down on the list than something that actively goes looking to feed of the not so smart citizens of Sunnydale. We can even hit some nests along the way and loot the dusty clothes." With that statement from Buffy Xander looked uncomfortable.

"I don't know how to say this." Xander was stalling.

"C'mon Xander, what is it? Spit it out." Buffy asked.

"Well I know you shot it down as being a bit mercenary. But Anya convinced me…"

"Hey don't blame me. You wanted to do it as much as I did." Anya was sounding indignant that Xander was trying to place all the blame on her.

Xander really didn't want Anya putting her foot more in his mouth. "Whatever. Anyway I've been looting the bodies for sometime. I've got a pretty nice nest egg set aside already. I was saving it for emergencies and I think this qualifies."

Xander was wilting a little under Buffy's look. "Xander you know I didn't want us doing that. It made us nothing more than glorified muggers. Which is why I've never allowed it. But you did it behind my back anyway."

"You better be glad I did it. It's nowhere near enough but it will help. I didn't use it for anything. It was just for in case of a big emergency, like one of us winding up in the hospital long term. So don't jump down my throat." Xander hissed deadly.

Giles stepped forward to keep the argument from escalating. "And it's a good thing you did. If this doesn't qualify as an emergency then nothing ever would. How much are we talking about?"

Xander was willing to drop it just to get on with things. "I really don't know offhand. I know it had built up to just a little under $20,0000 before the wedding, But that was just what we had taken in. But I haven't looked at it since then. Anya was in charge of it. It was her idea put into an offshore account under an assumed name, to hide it from the IRS. She did some investing with it so that it would grow steadily, I have no idea wht it's worth now."

Buffy turned to Anya. "Well?"

Anya was feeling embarrassed under the Slayers gaze. "It's not 20,000 anymore. I've had some bad luck doing some day trading so I've lost a good bit of money recently."

"You did what! That money was for only to be used in an emergency." Xander was furious.

"Well excuse me Mr. Leave at the Alter. It wasn't like I had an orgasm friend to keep me occupied now was it? And your half of the money is still safe, so don't you jump down MY throat. The vengeance demon gig doesn't pay that well or keep me that busy. I have to occupy myself somehow and day trading seemed to be the way to go." Anya was ready to simply slap the taste out of Xanders mouth.

Giles quickly intervened. "Anya I'm sure Xander was only acting from surprise. Of course you can do whatever you want with your half of the money." He shot Xander a quelling look reminiscent of Ripper. Before Xander said anything and made Anya remember her demon strength and simply hit him as hard as she could. "None of us are trying to claim your money. All we are trying to do is get an idea as to what assets might be available. Whatever YOU not Xander decide to share is up to you."

Anya was mollified a bit with Giles statement. "Ok if you all realize it's my money we can deal. I'm not stupid. With Judgment day coming the money itself is worthless. What it can buy for me is more important, than electronic funds that will be useless once Judgment day falls. Like I said I've had a few set backs financially. But I'm still worth a cool million dollars and some change. Just from this account" The only jaw in the room that wasn't attempting to reach the floor after Anya's announcement was her own.

Giles expressed everyone's sentiment. "Oh my Lord."

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