Disclaimer: I (we) don't own any of the characters (apart from Amelie, and all credit goes to my co-author).
We'd like to apologise for our absence. We've had a busy past few months, and this has been the first chance we've had to work on anything. Also, sorry for the short chapter.
Anya was stood behind the counter of the Magic Box, serving a customer as Giles and Xander were looking through books. Willow and Tara were stocking the shelves and Buffy was training.
Amelie, Dean and Sam opened the door to the Magic Box, Amelie gazing in awe at the stuff inside. Anya looked up as the bell above the door chimed.
"This place looks cool!" Amelie exclaimed as Dean walked over to Anya.
"You're welcome to spend money," Anya said.
"I will," Amelie replied. She turned Dean around, wrapped her hands around his waist and kissed him.
Dean had gone so long without kissing a girl that he stopped being mad with Amelie and forgot his surroundings. What he failed to notice was Amelie pulling his wallet from his back pocket.
Giles pulled his glasses off his nose and wiped them with the cloth in his pocket, making sure that he couldn't see what was happening.
Amelie smiled as she pulled away from Dean, she went over to join Sam and she held up Dean's wallet. Sam smirked as he watched his older brother go over to Giles.
Giles placed his glasses back on his nose, and continued looking through the book in front of him.
"Where's Buffy?" Dean asked.
"She's training in the back," Giles said.
"Thanks," Dean replied. "Sammy, Amelie, she's in the back."
Amelie looked down at her possessions and sighed, she placed them on the counter along with the wallet as did Sam and followed Dean.
Buffy held several knives in one hand and faced the training dummy. She threw each in turn, hitting the dummy in either the head or the chest.
Dean coughed, in an attempt to get Buffy's attention.
Buffy turned quickly, throwing a knife as she did so. The knife lodged in the wall, close to Dean's head.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Dean said. "Watch where your throwing that thing."
"Sorry," Buffy said, walking towards the Winchesters and Amelie.
She pulled the knife out of the wall and put it back on a shelf.
"You have some serious aim," Amelie said. "I'm Amelie by the way."
"Thanks," Buffy said. "I'm Buffy. It's nice to meet you. So you're Dean's ex, ex, ex, ex girlfriend, right?"
Amelie laughed. "What have you been saying about me dean?" She smiled at Buffy. "Dean can be so modest. He forgets that I'm his ex, ex, ex, ex, ex, ex girlfriend, especially if you count that time in Virginia."
Buffy smiled. "Right. Have you met the others?"
"No, but I'm sure you will introduce me to them. These douches behind me, they get knocked out so much that I'm surprised they remember their own names, let alone somebody else's."
Buffy laughed and started walking back into the shop section of The Magic Box.
They all followed and that was when Dean noticed the stuff Amelie had bought. He noticed it because of the fact that his wallet was open on the counter.
"This is Giles and Xander, Anya, Willow and Tara," Buffy said. "Guys, this is Amelie. She's a friend of Sam and Dean's."
"Nice to meet you, especially you Giles. I've heard a lot about you from Bobby."
"Oh so Bobby talks to you about him but not to us?" Dean questioned.
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Giles said, smiling. "Willow, could you fetch some coffee from the Espresso Pump?"
"Sure," Willow said. "Should I get some for everyone?"
"If you would," Giles said.
"Giles, you should stop destroying the stereotype that all British drink tea," Xander said.
Dean went over to Amelie. "I know you nicked my wallet."
Amelie looked at him. "Dunno want you mean."
"Just so you know I am so going to get you back for it," Dean smirked.
Willow looked at Dean, Sam and Amelie. "Do you guys want coffee?"
"That'd be great," Amelie smiled.
Willow picked up her bag and left the Magic Box and went to fetch coffee for everyone.
Amelie turned to Dean and said, ''And just what are you planning to do?''
''Well that's gonna be my decision, but I'm pretty sure that I know a few things that will get you screaming,'' Dean said and pushed Amelie against a wall.
"Dean, people are here!'' Sam looked at his brother and Amelie before turning face everybody and said, ''my brother and his girl; the porn stars."
Anya opened her mouth to speak, but before she could she had the rest of the Scooby gang looking at her, causing her to shut her mouth once again.
Dean turned to face his brother, "Sammy just cause you haven't had any action since Ruby doesn't mean you can stop me from getting some."
"Well, if you don't mind me saying, I would prefer it if you didn't 'get any action' in my shop," Giles said, cleaning his glasses.
Amelie slapped Dean's hands away as they came towards her. "Sorry Giles. I'll get them under control."
"I'm sure you will. Now, if we could return to working..."
"Right. Of course," Buffy said.
"Yep, sorry, now where were we?" Amelie asked.
"Well, before you came in Xander and I were seeing what we could find out in our books about the Demon Child. Buffy told me that Bobby was doing some research for you boys. Has he found anything yet?" Giles asked.
"He said something about us being dumb idjits, but we're assuming Rufus was around. But he said it's really obvious,'' Amelie said.
"I suppose I should give him a call. He might be more likely to tell me something," Giles said, walking into the back room to where a phone was kept.
Willow walked back into The Magic Box, just about managing to carry all the polystyrene cups of coffee.
Amelie walked over to Willow and took three cups off her and handed Dean and Sam theirs before sipping at her own.
Willow smiled gratefully at Amelie as she said, "Thanks."
She handed cups to all of the Scoobies and took one into Giles before returning back into the store front. "So what did I miss?"