Chapter 89
Giles spent much of his lunch hour on Monday October 8th explaining vampires to this group. Jessie, Xander, Willow, and Tara agreed to keep Buffy's secret. Giles didn't like letting civilians into this knowledge. But he accepted that some things were unavoidable. Much like how he had a standing lunch date with Jenny Calendar, but he had to cancel this today to brief the newbies. Giles wondere how large this group would become. He feared this could cause problems. But then he'd broken watcher protocol when he'd told Jenny the truth about his real job. He couldn't tell her everything, but she understood. Jenny admitted her true identity, she was Janna of the Kalderdash tribe in the Balkans. Jenny couldn't tell Giles everything either, Giles understood. They had different, possibly conflicting agendas. She was a techno-pagan, technology frightened him somewhat. He came from old money, she was a communist. They shouldn't be together, but they had fallen in love. After the school day ended Giles walked to his car. He noticed the trees outside the school. Some lovers had carved their initials into some trees, but it appeared that noone had done this in awhile. Jenny explained that people didn't do that anymore. Instead they posted their feelings on social networking sites. Rupert thought this was a shame, it lost something in translation. Computers crashed but trees were forever. Giles carved a heart into the tree. Inside the heart he carved the words "Rupert loves Jenny forever." It might be juvenile, not well carved, and likely against school policy. But it showed how he felt about Jenny.