That afternoon after she talked to Willow, Buffy drove down to the Magic Box to talk to Giles. When she got there she saw that the shop was closed for the day. Giles had to be at his apartment then. She drove over to his apartment. She had to talk to him to find out what she should do about Matthew. When she got to the apartment building that Giles lived in, she ran up the stairs to his apartment. She knocked on the door. She waited a minute and knocked on the door again. She heard someone coming to the door after the second time knocking on the door. Giles opened the door.
Giles: "Buffy, what a suprise. What brings you here?" He asked her with a look of shock on his face.
Buffy: "i need some advice on handling a vampire."
Giles:" Who is it this time? One of Spike's friends trying to kill you?" Giles looked at Buffy with a look of annoyance for a minute. He knew that when he became her watcher that she would come and ask for advice on handling a vampire but after he became just a friend, he thought that she would have a better sense of knowledge of handling vampires.
Buffy: I don't know if he is one of Spike's friends or not but he is trying to kill me. What do I do, Giles? I need help.
Giles: "Okay Buffy, hold on I need to clean up my apartment a minute and then you can come in, it is really messy." He steps away from the door and starts picking things up from the carpet.
After fifteen minutes of Giles cleaning his apartment, he finally let Buffy in. He had to get his books on vampires. He ran up to get the books while Buffy went and took a seat at the kitchen table. Giles came into the kitchen, carrying the books about many different kinds of vampires.
Giles: "So what is the name of the vampire you are looking for?" Giles asked, now getting in the groove of helping Buffy again. It was like the old days where he was Buffy's watcher. He hated the fact that he couldn't help her anymore other than advice.
Buffy: "His name is Matthew." She starts looking in the other book. She flips to a page and all of a sudden she looked down at the page and looks at the name of the vampire. "There is no other vampire named Matthew is there?" She asked looking at Giles for a response.
Giles: "I'm not sure. I'm thinking that there isn't any but i am not sure about that.
Buffy: "Can't we look through the whole book and see if there is. I mean we have two books and two people so it will only take a little longer than usual but it will take some patience."
Giles: "Let's start right now. I have a date tonight and I would like to have some time to myself before I have to go pick her up."
Buffy: " Okay." She started looking at the book. She saw the picture. " I found the pictiure of him." she sounded happy. She pushed the book towards Giles.
Giles: " He looks oddly familiar. He looks like someone Spike came here for the first time with. You know, when he came here with Drusicilla?" Giles was surprised to see the look of amazement on Buffy's face.
Buffy: "How did you know that about him. He does look familiar but that was so long ago, i didn't recognize him when we were fighting the night before last."
Giles:"Oh, so you had an encounter with Matthew? What did he say when he confronted you?"
Buffy: " Yeah. He said that he knew that me and Spike were involved with each other romantically and that ever since Spike fell in love me, he wanted to torment Spike. He told me the best way for him to do that is to kill me." Buffy hated telling Giles that because she knew that he had something to do that night and didn't want let him know that she would really want him to help her on her patrol that night.
Giles' " I am going on patrol with you." He wanted buffy to know that he was serous, no questions asked. He hated that he had to cancel his date but his friend was in need. He wanted to go on patrol for her but he knew that he couldn't do that for her that was her duty not his.
Buffy: "Giles, you don't have to do that I don't have to do that. I know that you are busy tongiht. Angel came back into town today and I could have him go with me."
Giles: " Oh okay. I guess that I should get ready to pick up my date."
Buffy; " Okay I'll call you tomorrow and tell you how things went tonight." She left and drove back home. It was about five and nobody was home so she had the house all to herself.