After leaving the Bronze, Angel wearily leaned against a wall in an old dirty alley. He tapped his watch as he waited for someone to arrive.
He heard the chick of expensive heels and turned. "Ahh, Dru…you're late." He said nonchalantly.
"You've been a very bad daddy." She scolded him as she neared.
"I know, Drusilla, I've been very very bad. Will you just speak with me a trifle?" He asked.
"I suppose" Drusilla paused "but I must leave soon to feed Miss Edith. She doesn't know how to set up for tea parties." She rambled worriedly. Confusion was apparent in her features. "Are you going to come home with me…pretend it was the old days?"
"I'm afraid not, darling, Daddy's awful busy. You needn't worry about that." He sighed "but I have a favor to ask of you."
Math confused Buffy terribly. She had never been good with numbers. Reasoning she could handle, but all the numbers drove her out of her head. Imaginary numbers, square roots, division, multiplication, quadratic formulas, substitution…it was all horrendously difficult. She scribbled on her workout sheet trying to make sense out of it all, finally, she did.
"Oh, Spikey! It's…beautiful! I've never had a doll so lush!" Drusilla squealed as she danced around Acathla as if it were a maypole.
"I thought you'd like it, pet." He grinned as he watched her in curiosity. She always surprised him, even after 100 years.
"Did you buy wee little sailor's jackets and knickers? I should like to dress him up so very much!" She looked to him with a pleading childlike tone.
"No, darling, this doll isn't quite like all the others. He doesn't eat crumpets or wear frilly dresses. I suppose you could say he was an action figure."
Drusilla was shocked "He doesn't eat crumpets?"
Buffy and Angel were next to a crypt in Restfield, kissing (they were actually instructed to patrol, but that obviously never went off without a hitch), when they heard rustling branches. Buffy broke the kiss. "What was that?" She listened to the wind and lack of cemetery patrons.
"I don't know." He sniffed the air.
Buffy got up and looked all around. She was turned one way when she heard "Boo!" from behind her.
"Haha, very funny!" She turned and smiled.
"I just thought I'd rustle your feathers a bit." Kendra laughed.
"Along with the branches? Kendra, Kendra, what has Giles told you about being subtle?" Buffy hugged her Slayer friend.
"This is slightly uncomfortable." Kendra choked out.
"Oh, yeah. Sorry." She let go "So why are you here? Social visit?" Buffy asked.
Kendra shook her head "I should wish for something like that."
"Lemme guess, the world is in peril?"
"Very good. Do you want a cookie?" Kendra teased. They had apparently become very close through letters.
"We already know the sitch, Kendra. But thanks." She shrugged.
"But I have a little 'gifty' for you." She caught Buffy off guard.
"Gifty? Buffy gets a gifty?" Buffy got increasingly excited. Angel watched, amused.
"Yes." Kendra nodded "But I don't think you'll enjoy it very much." She pulled out a sword.
"You have no idea." Buffy grinned as she took the grip and held it in her hand.
"You're actually darker than I thought." Kendra seemed shocked.
"Quite the comedian."
"Isn't it pretty, Giles?" Buffy boasted off her new sword.
"Yes, yes. It's quite the weapon, but what does it do? Did you think to ask?"
"Urm, no." Buffy shrugged. "I mean, she's right here, Giles." She motioned toward her Slayer counterpart.
"True, true. I've been on the phone to the museum. The artifact in question is missing, and the curator has been murdered. Vampires. This seems to fit in very well."
Buffy tapped her head. "Like a steel trap."
"You do have quite a good memory."
Willow walked out from behind the counter.
"Okay, somebody explain the whole 'he will suck the world into Hell' thing, because that's the part I'm not loving."
Giles began to explain, averting his attention from Buffy completely. "Well, the, uh, the Demon Universe exists in a dimension separate from our own. With one breath, Acathla will create a vortex, a-a kind of, um... whirlpool that will pull everything on Earth into that dimension, where any non-demon life will suffer horrible and...eternal torment."
"And, Wills, that would be the literal 'sucked into hell'." Buffy noted.
Willow looked down "Oh. Fun."
"Totally-" Buffy spoke sarcastically and was interrupted by Xander and Cordelia entering the library. He looked around and grinned broadly.
"I have won the lottery! I won a round in the broom closet and both of my favorite Slayers are right here!" He looked to the heavens and whispered. "Thank you." Kendra stiffened. Angel smirked from the corner.
"It's not that easy, Xand." She sighed.
"Uh oh." Cordelia put her books down on the counter. "Billy Idol and crazy chica are gonna kill us all, aren't they?"
"Well, not really. I've been through this before, so all is good." Buffy crossed her arms in triumph.
"Oh yeah, that whole other Buffy thing." Xander shrugged.
"What does he mean by 'dat?" Kendra widened her eyes and opened up.
don't get mad about the whole Angel-Drusilla thing, it'll unravel, it's a total plot twist...lol. P.S. Mucho Thanks for the reviews.