Buffy stood with Faith, Dawn, and Giles in a nearby room. Buffy was almost glad Xander was away, some of the minis were dissenting enough about the admitted predator of humans being in HQ unstaked and they didn't need the minis to gain steam if he made a comment. Willow on the other hand she wished was there but as that would bring Kennedy, by far the most belligerent of the minis with the chosen two, perhaps Willow's absence was a blessing.
"Opinions?" was Buffy's only question.
"Can't say I like the part about this Joel guy B. She's not mystical but if her story is accurate it had a very similar outcome to what could have happened with Walsh, even has military involvement," Faith answered first, "My opinion to her personally is she is way calm considering she knew enough about us both to know you got monikered. Girl is either stupid or deadly on her own so why does she need us?"
The group thought for a moment, when the silence was broken it was by Buffy, "The military, she's worried that the military will try and take her nieces from her."
Faith frowned, "What does she think we can do? She's rather vehement, revolted about it even, that she isn't one of ours, what does she expect from us?"
Dawn sighed, "The president is a friend, she might expect us to tell him to get the military away from her and her family that way. Or she might just expect us to lie and say she is ours. I don't really see us being able to turn her away however we protect her family. Do you?"
The general consensus was no, they couldn't. Path decided they went back to the room Saya waited in, finding her staring out the window. That didn't stop her from knowing they were there as she spoke, "So?"
"We'll help, first though I have one question. Why are you so calm in a building full of people designed to kill supernatural creatures?"
Saya smiled, visible in the window's glass, "First, because I can't afford to fail and I will not. Second," Saya suddenly blurred and was directly in front of Buffy, just outside the blonde's strike radius, "because there isn't a person here who can keep up, much less kill me."
Faith gave a low whistle, "You want a job? Might be nice to be the one who can't keep up for once."
Saya's eyes widened at the question.
"Faith!" Buffy yelped.
"What?" Faith pouted, looking for all the world as if snow wouldn't melt in her mouth.
Buffy sighed, waving her hand at the two they'd left with Saya before, "Minis, go train." Watching them go she turned back to Saya, "You know she was hitting on you right?"
Saya blushed but nodded. "There were several lesbians in Okinawa, the place I lived in most recently, they always teased me like that after I got done with track."
Sighing Buffy shook her head, "Before you try and drag her to bed like cave-Faith, could we finish our discussion first? As Faith said, we'll help, the question is how do you want that help? We can tell the president the truth and hope he sides with us, we wouldn't have a way to stop them if he didn't though. We can give you a job and protect you that way, they would happily stay away as long as you work here..."
"But would swoop in if I ever stopped," Saya finished getting a nod from the queen slayer. "The last option?"
"We tell an editted version of the truth. You're a sentient, non-inherrently violent, preternatural creature. We switch preternatural with supernatural and the government will back away so fast the Earth's rotation might change," Dawn answered with a grin. "The people responsible for the deal and such might even be fired in disgrace. It's the best option for us too, they see another project involving the supernatural that nearly destroyed the world and they'll send us a message anytime anything remotely out of the ordinary happens."
"I think that's our option then, as long as I don't get called a demon." Saya responded with a smile.
"Due to the negative connotations of the word we've been attempting to find a more accurate word anyway," Giles spoke, "I'll go call the president to start the ball rolling. Buffy, you know he'll want to meet with you over it."
Buffy grumbled but turned, motioning Saya to follow her, "Come on, need to intro you to the minis and I for one need food."
A/N: For those of you who don't know the difference between preternatural and supernatural here it is. Preternatural is something that has rational reasons it works, we just don't know them. Supernatural however has no rational reason it works, it simply does.