Chapter 5

"What in the hell are you two doing here?" John roared the fear for his sons consuming his mind.

"That them?" Dean asked his brother pointing to the Scooby's.

"Yep." Was the exhausted Sam's one-word reply.

Deciding to answer his dad before his head exploded Dean turned and said. "Oh you know we were just in the area figured we'd stop by, say hi, defeat a demon and a crazy blonde chick trying to bring about the end of the world. Same old same old." Dean replied as he dropped the two bags of weapons off his shoulders with a grunt.

Sam who was obviously still suffering from sleep depravation couldn't even be bothered to deal with his brothers sarcastic nature and just dumped his bags grabbed a seat put his head down on his arm and said "Vision." And then promptly closed his eyes and tried to go to sleep.

To say the least everyone in the room was quit stunned at the sudden arrival of the two men, and weren't sure what exactly was going on. John falling back onto old habits simply barked out "Dean enough report solider."

"Sam gets visions. Visions come at 3 am. Visions say go to Sunnydale to fight blonde chick and demon. We drive all night with no sleep. We stop and pick up weapons along the way. It's all pretty straight forward." Dean replied to well trained to not answer, but to tired to be completely coherent. "Hey how ya doing." He said to the Scooby's as he sat beside his brother and put his head down as well.

"What do you mean Sam get' s visions? Dean son, Dean!" John voice rose as he tried to get an answer that made sense to the confused hunter.

"John!" Buffy said grabbing the older man. "Calm down your boys are obviously exhausted and so are you. They're here, and apparently they're supposed to be since visions are serious business. Why don't we let them rest and you get some sleep as well. Xander and I will go through the weapons they brought and in a couple of hours we can clear everything up okay?" she rested her hand on John's arm making it clear that it was only a suggestion for right now. "There's a sofa in the back training area go rest a bit. Don't worry we've got this covered. We've been doing this for a while too you know." She finished with a smile as she led him into the back.

"You're right." The weary warrior said "Wake me in an hour please and thanks. I'm not fit for much right now but sleep." Yawning loudly and lying down on the couch.

"Yo Buff!" Xander whispered loudly "What are we going to do about these two." He said pointing at the boys.

"Just leave them there Xander and help me get these bags so we can do inventory of what the guys brought." Buffy told him grabbing two of the bags as Giles grabbed one and then Xander grabbed the other.

"Let's move this part upstairs children," Giles told them heading for the balcony "Lord knows we don't want to explain away modern weapons in a magic shop."

"Good idea Giles." Tara whispered as she grabbed two blankets from the back and covered the boys up.

"Anya please run the shop while we're up here, call if you need anything." Giles told the ex-vengeance demon.

"Don't worry I've got it covered. The money will be safe." The irrepressible girl answered already going to recount the till.

Once they got the bags upstairs and opened them Xander let out a low whistle. "Man these guys took the motto be prepared seriously didn't they." Looking at the array of deadly items concealed in the 2 bags.

Buffy on the other hand was looking like a kid who just got the best Christmas of their lives. "Oh my god." She said would you look at this." Axes, flamethrowers, is that a rocket launcher?" She positively squealed with delight at all the choices.

"These look like UV rounds to me." Xander said, "But what are these silver?" he asked as he handed them to Giles.

"Consecrated silver I believe looking at these markings." The Brit answered with a smile "Well I think we can safely say these gentlemen are going to be very helpful in the fight against Glory."

"Whooo boy." The redheaded witch replied, "I don't even know what half this stuff is, and how many guns do you need."

"Ohh this ones pretty." The now bouncing slayer said inspecting the weapon carefully "Do you think they'd show me how to use it Giles?"

"I'm sure they would be happy to my dear." The tolerant watcher said as he smiled at his charge.

"Giles?" Tara queried softly "What do you think he meant when he said that Sam saw the demon and the blonde fighting together? Do you think he meant Glory?"

"I picked up on that as well. It did sound like that's what he saw. Unfortunately we'll have to wait for them to wake up before we can get better clarification. Buffy what did you think of John and his boys?" Rupert asked curious about her instincts about the older hunter.

"It's weird Giles. I just trust him. I know that sounds strange, but listening to him talk about his life and how he's lived, it just reminded me so much of me you know. And there's something about him that just tells me he's someone we can count on. As for the boys the only thing I could get from them was that they have great taste in weapons, and they're both hot!" The slayer fanned herself as she giggled.

"Whooo Boy." Came in triplicate from Tara, Willow and even Anya downstairs.

Giles and Xander just rolled their eyes at the antics of the girls.

"Hey G-man had you ever heard of that psychic John was talking about Missouri Mosley?" Xander asked as he continued to take inventory of the stockpile of weapons.

"What have I told you about calling me that Xander? The answer is yes indeed" the Englishman responded, "She's considered to be one of the foremost psychics alive today. I even consulted her by phone when Buffy went missing that summer."

"You did?" Willow said looking up in surprise.

"Yes I was at my wits end and hoped she'd be able to help." Giles replied

"Sorry." The contrite slayer said as she crossed over to her watcher. "I never meant to cause so much trouble."

"My dear water under the proverbial bridge." Giles replied.

"What did she tell you?" The ever-curious Willow asked.

"Only that Buffy would return when she was ready, and to stop looking. That Buffy had some healing left to do before she'd be able to return." Giles said. "It was the reason I was able to return to Sunnydale with some sense of peace that you would indeed return."

"Remind me to send her a fruit basket." The slayer said with affection.

"What'd you think of the Winchester's?" Tara asked Willow and Xander as Buffy moved back to the weapons to finish inventory.

"Seems like they know their stuff." Xander said. "I mean we still haven't seen them fight or anything, but it's like G-man said you don't last 22 years in this business by being lucky. I mean the average life span of a slayer isn't even 22 years, and they have super powers."

"I agree with everyone." Willow piped in "Something just tells me to trust them. I'm going to see if I can come up with anything about this demon that's marked their family. It sounds just horrible." She said as she pulled out her computer

"Good idea Willow." Giles said "I'll help you with that and Tara can assist. I'm assuming Buffy that you and Xander can handle the rest of the weapons inventory?"

"Go to it Giles. We've got this covered." Buffy said as she yet again stopped to closer inspect a beautiful set of throwing stars that had the slayer practically drooling.

With that everyone set to their different tasks anticipating the upcoming evening and explanations.

To be continued.

I know I know but the guys have been up all night long I mean they only got a few hours sleep at all before they had to drive to California. Don't worry next chapter will have them up and at'em and properly introduced to the Scooby's.