"Well I thought that went rather well." Giles said to Buffy as they walked out towards the courtyard. The hallway they were walking down was the main central hallway between the outer edge of the castle where the mess hall was located, and the center where the courtyard was located. Both the mess hall and the courtyard were located on the ground level. Even though it was almost three o'clock you wouldn't have had any idea unless you had a clock because the halls of the castle were completely dark. There were no windows in the internal hallways only fake plastic torches hanging were real torches once hung. The hallways were made or stone and were somewhat musty. There was a long red carpet on the ground that started at one end of the hallway and ended at the door to the courtyard. The only two windows in the area were the two next to the courtyard door at the very end of the hallway and since they were stained glass windows they gave almost no light.

The Courtyard was in the middle of the castle, which is what made it so perfect for training. The slayers could train outside in the nice weather without having to worry about being seen, or even worse being attacked by an arm of zombies or something. Unless of course the zombies had gotten there because of magic, in which case it wasn't really going to help. That was part of what had made Amy's attack earlier in the year so surprising. No one had been expecting zombies to be able to get in.

"It certainly could have been a lot worse, that's for sure." Buffy responded. "At least nobody tried to kill anyone. I just hope the same will be true once we tell the girls what is going on." At the meeting there had been a discussion about just how much information to disclose to the new slayers. Buffy had argued long and hard to keep most off the facts in the dark, and many of the others had agreed with her, while Robin Wood, Connor, and Xander had all argued that the girls should be told everything. Including many of the negative and unnecessary facts about some of the members of the group, although Connor was mostly just against the idea of lying to these girls. Eventually they had come to the consensus that it would be best to tell the truth, but to give out information on a need to know basis. Xander and Robin promised to keep their mouths shut about what really happened in Los Angeles, while Buffy and the others had agreed that they would tell the girls exactly what Angel, Spike, Lorne, Nina, Gwen, and Groo were and exactly what makes them so powerful and important. It's not that Buffy and some of the others wanted to lie to the girls, it was more that they were worried about how these girls would react to the more damning facts in some of their friends pasts. Eventually though, even they had to agree that for the purposes of safety alone it was important for these girls to know who they would be dealing with over the next few months.

"These girls are a lot more understanding than you give them credit for. Remember that unlike some of the others we've encountered in the past, that they haven't been brought up with the natural prejudices some people have. They only know what we've told them about this world, and it's all very new to them." Giles explained. "Besides I think they've done remarkably well thus far." Giles had seen the way that Robin and Xander had reacted to some of the people from Los Angeles. Even he himself was not entirely sure just how trustworthy some of these people were. He wasn't even completely sure that he trusted Angel and Spike, however their explanations of what happened in Los Angeles had cleared up a good portion of his doubts.

"Yeah, well up until now it's been pretty much demons bad people good which is a pretty simple mentality to follow. Things always get a lot more confusing once you start seeing the grey area in things. I'm not sure they're ready for that yet." Buffy told him. She had seen one too many people try and take the black and white approach to slaying, and it had almost always led down a dark path. Even her own boyfriend had gone down that road, and had almost dragged her down it too, but fortunately she was able to see reason in time to keep from going down that road with Riley.

"The grey area is always there whether they know it or not, Buffy. Isn't it better that they are aware of it so that they can prepare for it and understand it. These are smart girls. I don't think you give them enough credit. After all, you adjusted just fine to learning about these sorts of things. You never were one to go along with the councils orders." Giles told her.

"Giles, Things were a little different in my case." Buffy responded.

"Where they?" he asked her. "Where they really all that different? You never seemed to have any problems seeing the good in people. Look at the people you surrounded yourself with: Angel, Oz, even Faith. They all had they're dark side and yet you accepted them and tried to help them whenever you could."

"Oz was our friend before he became a werewolf, and Faith was a fellow slayer, The ONLY other slayer in the whole world. How could I possibly give up on her when everything that happened to her could just as easily happened to me?"

"Don't sell yourself short Buffy." Said Giles. " There are plenty of people I know who would have just lumped them into the 'evil' category and been done with it."

"That's exactly my point." Buffy explained. " How do we know that these girls won't have the same idea? They may have accepted Faith, but most of them don't even have any idea just how bad things were back in Sunnydale. It's not necessary for their survival to depend on demons because they have one another. In many ways I was forced to rely on Angel and then Spike back in Sunnydale because they were the only other people who were as strong as me. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate everything that you, Willow, and Xander were able to do for me, but lets face it, you guys weren't always able to keep up."

"I understand that Buffy, believe me, I do. Why do you think I allowed Spike and Angel to stick around as long as they did? I could see that they were a great asset to you as long as they remained loyal to you. However, as soon as their loyalties were in question they were a danger, not just to you, but also to all of us, which is why I did not always trust them. However, even if you were not dependent on them for their help, I still believe that you would have been able to see them in a better light than many people. It's not just that you allowed them to continue their existence, but you loved them. You loved beings that most would have hated the moment that they learned of their true nature. Faith also learned to trust and appreciate them. After all it was Angel that brought her back from the darkness." Giles explained.

"I guess that's true, but it took Faith a while to learn to trust both Spike and Angel, and I'm not sure that we have time to play games here. We need EVERYONE united against this coming evil, and any sort of disagreement over who is or is not on our team could lead to people getting hurt, or even killed. I'm still not sure that telling them everything is the best way to go about this." Buffy told him.

"They'd find out eventually, Buffy, and in the meantime you would loose their trust by lying too them. I wouldn't worry too much about this. I don't think there is going to be a problem. Unless you're worried about something else?" Giles asked her. "Are you worried about what the girls are going to think of you? Because you shouldn't be. They look up to you Buffy, and for good reason too. You have nothing to be ashamed of. If there was anything that I learned in my tenure on the Hellmouth it's that love is truly blind."

"Thanks Giles." Buffy said. "I know that I worry too much its just, I care about them. All of them. Angel, Spike, the girls, hell even their friends. Even Faith! I'm just so worried that something will go wrong and someone will get hurt, and it'll be all my fault."

"Believe me Buffy. Everything is going to be fine." Giles said as he opened the large wooden door, and they stepped out into the sun soaked courtyard.