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Scene opens: Anya has just revealed that she has around One million dollars.

Review Responses: Ch8 banner SamDragon: Thanks for the reviews. Yes Anya has always had some fascination with money. So I felt it appropriate to bring that out in her. She's displayed all sorts of contacts in the series and that should help in what's to come.

Chapter Nine

Count Down to Judgment Day:

T Minus Six (pt3):

(Plans):

"How did you…" Xander couldn't believe his ears.

Anya looked smugly at Xander. "You thought your idea was original? I'd been looting bodies for years. That's not even the extent of my money. Just what I'd accumulated here in Sunnyhell."

Dawn was stunned by Anya's revelation. "Just how rich are you?"

Anya looked on Dawn with amusement. "I'm no spring chicken. I'm over a thousand years old after all. Money whatever it's form has always been useful. I have stashes hidden away all over the world. But most of it can't be switched into anything portable in a short period of time. A good chunk of it is real estate. And a lady never talks about her financial situation, unlike sex."

Giles perked up at the real estate comment. "Real estate? Do you have any in Central or South America?"

"Quite a bit actually. It's been handled as an absentee ownership by one of the law firms I've hired over the centuries to supervise my properties." Anya sounded pretty smug.

"Would that law firm happen to be Wolfram and Hart?" Wesley inquired.

"Yes I've used them for the past two centuries when my last firm went up in smoke from a client's wish. It was a nuisance replacing them." Anya said with some irritation in her voice.

"I see and did you ever feel it necessary to inform your friends about your associations?" Wesley was sounding like his old snide self that the scoobies thought had disappeared after the mayor's Ascension.

"No and why should I? Do you talk about your private dealings? After all, all they did was supervise my properties pay taxes and have some non demon locals handle the day to day stuff. As part of my contract with them. So don't get high and mighty with me." Anya was letting just a hint of her demon face manifest, before pulling back.

Wesley visibly wilted under Anyanka's scorn. "Be that as it may I…"

"You keep that up I'll arrange for some of the more interesting demons I know take an interest in you. I have a number of friends and contacts that would be willing to pay me back. In other words little man. DON'T PISS ME OFF! Who I associate with or what I do is none of your business. I got good rates and no hassles from being a demon when I signed that management contract with them and I've been happy with the way things are for a long time. Not everything that goes on there is sordid or any of your business."

Gunn was trying to head off Wesley's temper. "She's got a point English. Not even those blood sucking lawyers could be up to all bad. From what she's said there isn't anything we should worry about. I don't like it but I can understand it."

Giles was looking at Anya. "Please lets get back to the discussion. Anya are any of your properties suitable for a relocation point? Someplace remote enough that we wont get swamped from the cities but modern enough that it could be converted into a base of operations?"

Anya looked thoughtful. "Hmm let me think. Assuming I even decide to throw in with you. I need to think for a bit. Nothing jumps right out. But I'm sure I can come up with something."

Very well. I've researched demonic apocalypses but nothing like this. I don't really have the faintest idea of what we need to do. Other than what Whistler told us." Giles was having trouble admitting to the others his ignorance.

Buffy smiled at him. "Giles I don't think this is something that any of us ever really thought about."

Joyce interjected. "Buffy when you were only a baby, nuclear war used to be a big thing. The fall of the Soviet Union seemed to put and end to the nuclear sword of Damocles that hung over our heads. Your father and I thought about it a lot, unlike you kids who've never really worried about it." Joyce commenced laughing. "After all we thought that was the way the world was going to end, and it looks like we were right. Your father was more into it than I was. And even he wasn't that into it. But there are some books and survival manuals tucked away in a box someplace down in the basement. They wound up going with us instead of your father. He was the one most interested in it. I mostly went along with it to humor him."

"Buffy had a look of amazement in her eyes. "You and dad were survivalists?"

Joyce had to scoff. "No we never were survivalists. Your dad was mildly interested in it. But we never got seriously into survivalism. We were living most of the time in major cities that would have been targeted anyway. So we never saw the point. It was mostly a mildly entertaining phase your father went through for a few years."

Giles had the weight of the world's end in his voice. "Still that puts you much further up than the rest of us I'm afraid. But you did manage to bring up a very important point. What do we tell or relatives or loved ones that aren't here? Do we tell the council or the coven for that matter."

There was an immediate babble, when everyone started talking at once.

Buffy: "Let the council find out on their own."

Xander: "Other than my uncle Rory who the hell would I tell? My parents?"

Willow: "We need to tell the coven."

Joyce: "Hank would probably laugh us off."

Dawn: "We can't not tell anybody."

Cordelia: "My mom and dad need to know."

Fred: "I have to tell my parents."

Gunn: "My crew has got to know."

Wesley: "Of course the council must be informed."

"Calm down calm down." Giles was practically shouting to get himself heard above the hubbub. "One at a time one at a time. Please let me finish."

Once they settled down Giles started speaking again. "As I see it we have five different tasks.

One: Inform or loved ones of what's coming if we can.

Two: Acquire what we will need in the way of equipment. Both magical and non.

Three: A place that we can stay in relative safety.

Four: Protect John Conner

Five: Under no circumstances can we chance Skynet finding out about us or the supernatural. "

After Giles brought up his points he continued on. "I propose we go with the last item first since it will impact what we can do about the preceding points. Since Willow and Buffy are the closest things we have for experts on Skynet I suggest we listen to them first."

Giles turned to.. "Willow?"

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As Porky Pig would say. That's all folks.

The next five chapters will be released in a short period of time. But each will be fairly short, and will deal primarily with one of the points listed above.