GOTHICA DEE & JESSICA BEE COME TO SUNNYDALE
Chapter 3
Even as Willow and Giles struggled against an unnaturally rapid passage of time, with night nearing, Xander discovers the strangeness of the summer day and sought out the only other individuals whom he knew understood…
"Buffy, Giles, Willow," the heavily panting Scooby said as the Slayer answered his nervous knocks, "don't think I'm crazy, but, uh, s-something's wrong with, uh, time. Just minutes ago, it wasn't even late-afternoon and, now…"
Even as Xander exaggeratedly gestured at the rapidly darkening sky, Buffy basically dragged him inside while saying with a nod, "Yeah, we know and we're working on it."
Xander spastically noted that Giles was much more comfortably attired than usual for the proper Englishman, and Willow, always smiling even in the midst of something especially baffling, busied herself online with her pink Macintosh laptop.
"Oh, well," he nervously said, "good to know I'm not a loon. So…what're we up against, guys? Master Vamps? Wicked witches? Demons? What've we got?"
"At the moment," said Giles in a deadpan manner only he could pull off, "we haven't the foggiest."
"So," said Xander with a forced smile not successfully disguising his absence of bravery, "we looking at the usual here? You know…Buffy on point with the rest of us bringing up the…?"
Knock! Knock! Knock! Knock! Knock!
Opening Giles' front door for a second time, Buffy wasn't exactly surprised to see…
"Cordelia," she said with a frustrated sigh, "come on in."
"What's…?" Cordelia started to ask, just as Buffy, Xander, Giles, and Willow answered simultaneously.
"We don't know yet!"
"Okay, already, no need to snap my head off," the always overly self-conceited Cordelia Chase said as she swiftly plopped onto the sofa as Buffy, eyes rolling in exasperation, closed and locked the door.
While the Slayer and the Scoobies continued trying to discover the cause of this strange disruption of individualized Time, even as, in less than five minutes, twilight had quickly become a very dark night…
…two vampiric sisters stood, hidden by the darkness as well as by yard trees, across the street from Rupert Giles' house with fangs fully displayed and vampire eyes seeing in infrared.
"She's not dealing with this 'mystery' alone, Gothica Dee," Jessica Bee commented as her infrared-seeing eyes picked out the heat signatures associated with Rupert Giles, Xander Harris, Cordelia Chase, Willow Rosenberg, and, last but never ever least, Buffy Summers.
"Yes," hissed Gothica Dee as her infrared-seeing eyes observed the same, "so that means that Buffy needs these common Humans to fulfill her duties as Slayer. Most interesting. I believe, Jessica Bee, that it is time to…introduce ourselves."
"There's no reason for Ms. Summers to believe us," protested Jessica Bee with a twisted scowl making her fanged canines all the more monstrous. "What's to prevent the Slayer from staking both of us on the spot?"
"Nothing," replied Gothica Dee with a heavy sigh, "but the truth."
Knock! Knock!
Screwing their faces into puzzlement over who was, in the middle of this rapidly arrived night, lightly knocking on Giles' locked front door, Buffy bravely strode forward. After throwing open said lock, she swiftly swung the door open to reveal…
"Vampires!"
No sooner had Xander shouted that obvious observation, with Cordelia screaming like a little girl and pulling her long, lovely legs onto the sofa as if the vamps were rodents…
…than Giles was quick to say, while swiftly standing, ancient book of Dark Arts in hand, "Relax, everybody, vampires cannot enter a home without being invited first."
"And we're not doing that," nodded a nervous-as-Hell Xander Harris, then, a ridiculous look on his face, "Right?"
"No," answered Buffy the Slayer while assuming an Alpha role just inside said doorway. "But I'm liable to come out there with a couple of really sharp stakes, unless…"
Leaving that last hanging, Buffy provided the perfect opening for the vampire sisters, who quickly began to explain…
"My name is Gothica Dee. This is my sister, Jessica Bee. As is obvious, we are vampires, but we are also Slayers…just like you, Buffy Summers. But unlike you…we have no Watcher and no 'team'."
"How can vamps be Slayers?" Xander asked sheepishly. "They can't. Can they, Giles?"
"I've never heard of such occurring, but…"
"But?" said Xander as anxiety reached a noticeably ludicrous level. "When was there ever a 'but'? Have you ever heard of a 'but', Willow? Cordy? Buffy?"
"If you would allow us to come in," seriously suggested Jessica Bee, "then we could more easily tell you. But we have to hurry, because…"
"Because of she who will fully appear," quickly interjected Gothica Dee with an expression, even if fanged and vamp-eyed, "to do much more than merely play with Time."
Quickly shattering a nearby table with a single fist, causing Giles to cringe over such destruction of his property, Buffy now had a makeshift stake that had been a table leg.
"Don't worry, guys. If they do anything the lest bit aggressive…I'll introduce them to Mr. Stakey. Giles…?"
Quickly shaking off the fact Buffy had just wantonly destroyed a cherished piece of antique furniture, Giles uncertainly said, "Uh…you are…invited in."
It was just then that two vampire sisters, claiming to also be Slayers, looked at one another with devilish smiles accentuating their vampiric fangs, then simultaneously stepped inside.
"Why do I get the nauseating feeling," gulped a sweating-with-terror Xander, "that we've just made a major mistake?"
END OF CHAPTER 3