Peace, it's something that everyone longs for. To have peace would mean no more troubles shrouded your mind. Everyone has the slightest amount of peace in them.

Chapter 8: Saved by Doughnuts

"Angelus, you won't believe who we ran into on our way back!" Spike laughed. "The slayers watcher."

"What!?" How could Spike be joking about something as serious as this.

"Yeah, he had a girl with him."

"New slayer?"

"No, she was way too old to be a slayer."

"Angelus, she wants to ruin our happy family." Dru frowned. "They've come here to tear us apart and dance on our ashes."

"Gypsy." Angelus growled and Dru nodded. Buffy clinged to Angelus's arm, still uncertain about this new way of seeing the world.

"Is that bad?" Spike asked in confusion.

"No, Spike, having someone with the ability to restore souls here is a good thing." Angelus was very frustrated.

"Hey I didn't know, the big poof looked like a librarian or something."

"He was a librarian." Buffy informed them.

"See, I doubt they're that big of a threat."

Angelus slapped his hand to his face. "I'm guessing that he knows I'm a vampire?"

Spike shrugged. "Probably."

"Great. We have to kill them, as soon as possible."

"Can we wait till tomorrow, I'm beat."

The eldest vampire glared and the second to youngest one. "Fine, tomorrow night we'll find out where they are and kill them." Buffy felt very uncomfortable with the thought of killing Giles, she had been devastated when Sam had died.

"Do we… um, have to kill Giles?" Buffy asked. The three vampires stared at her. She squirmed under their gazes. "It's just, he can't restore souls and well…"

"You're fond of him?" Spike asked. "Yeah, I turned my mum, sadly it ended with a stake through her heart." He looked down, a second of remorse before regaining himself.

"Well, it's just, I was so sad when Sam died and Giles brought me doughnuts and stuff." It felt as if she were deifying her sire and that felt bad, but she was sure that if she killed Giles, that would make her feel even worse.

"Alright, we'll let him live for the time being, but if he becomes a threat, we'll be forced to kill him." Buffy nodded, that sounded fair.

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"Okay, here we are." Giles announced opening the door to his old house.

"Wow, it's been so long since I've been here." Jenny put down her bags close to the front door.

"Yes, it has." Giles agreed. He sat down on the sofa, his wife (yes, wife) sitting next to him.

"So, what are we going to do about Buffy?" She asked him.

"Stake her, I suppose." Giles said feeling at a loss.

"Rupert, don't say that. Remember, we can restore her soul. Plus, we don't even know if she's a vampire or not."

"No, we don't, she could just be dead." He was very frustrated. "Anyway, even if she is a vampire, would we really want to force Buffy to live forever as one of the things that she hates most, that she spent her whole life fighting against?"

"I don't know, but I think that that should be your decision, since she's not here to ask."

"Alright." The two depressed people snuggled together, wondering what morning would bring. "Thank you for coming with me."

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It was the first time that Buffy had seen the sun since she'd been turned and it frightened her. Usually in the morning, she lie in the sun and enjoy it's warmth, but now it sent death rays in her direction. She whimpered, sad that she'd never again walk in it's light.

"What's wrong?" Angelus asked her.

"I miss the sun."

"Why's that?" He asked, not sure how anything could actually miss the sun.

"I want to walk in it's light and warm myself up, let it shine off my face, providing the perfect lighting, but that'll never happen now." She was starting to question why she had fought for so long against vampires, just to go and join their side.

"The moon can shine off of your face, it provides much better lighting then the bright sun." Angelus tried to convince her. "Anyway, you don't need to warm yourself up, your room temperature always."

Buffy straitened herself more and faced her sire, "Yeah, but doesn't that bother you? I mean not being able to use your own body heat to warm yourself up when your cold. Heck, I don't even think that we can get cold!"

"Sometimes, but that's only if it's Alaska cold. Why would you want to be cold? You never have to worry about being hot or cold."

"I kind of wish that I did." She grumbled. "Why'd you turn me?" She asked suddenly. "Why not just kill me?"

"Would you have rather me killed you?"

"Well, technically, you did kill me."

"You know what I mean."

"I don't know, it just doesn't seem right to be on the side that I spent my whole life fighting against."

"Here, why don't you stop worrying and have something to eat, Dru and Spike brought back a few snacks." He offered, trying to keep her mind off the subject.

"No, I don't want to kill anyone right now, to suck away their life slowly."

"Come on Buffy, you've got to be hungry."

"I am, I just don't want to kill anyone." Angelus walked out of the room and came back with a teenage girl.

"Buffy, look at all that blood just pumping away." He cut one of the girl's wrists, the metallic scent filling the air.

"Smells so good…" Buffy shook her head, trying to clear it.

"You know that you want it, you need it." He didn't want all that he had done to be for nothing. She leaned her head closer to the girl's wrist, her vamp face showing, within seconds, she had her fangs in the teenager and was sucking her dry. After the girl dropped to the floor, Buffy licked her lips, then froze. Pain filled her face.

"It seems so right, but yet, so wrong!" Tears fell down her cheeks, she felt the need to save people and to kill them at the same time. She was so confused.

"Buffy, it is right. It's what we're meant to do, it's what you're aloud to do." He tried to convince her.

"I'm just going to sleep on it." She decided, curling up into a ball, her head on her lover's lap. She dreamed of Angel, trying to guide her on the righteous path.

Ok, so the title of this chapter was completely appropriate, seeing that we didn't make it to the next night yet… Anyway, I will start writing the next chapter as soon as I get a chance, but right now I have school, other stories and plenty of other stuff to worry about. Please Review in the meantime, it is very helpful with my updating speed. :D Sorry this chapter took forever to write!

~~Gethernia~~