Duty a Warning and Unkept Promise
Inheriting Family
By:Fire Wolfe
Beta: Genuka
Part 25 Duty a Warning and Unkempt PromisesPG-13
"Everyone relax. The soldiers are simply doing their duty. We are their guests. We will follow their rules for the moment. We can readdress the situation if they are evil." Giles said warning everyone to stay calm.
He didn't want an issue if he could prevent it. Of course he had to warn the soldier about touching. It had not been easy to watch the man run his hands over Buffy. The verbal warning was for himself as well. It would not due to have Ripper come out to play. As much as he wanted to rip the man's hands off he was just doing his job.
Fortunately, Xander and Faith's antics had distracted him. Which he suspected was the point. He had also watched the exchange of money between Dawn, Buffy and Vi. The amusement factor helped him keep his cool.
"G-man if they get out of hand; I make no promises. I feel the thing it's sooo setting off my spidy senses." Faith said. "I mean we have to be ready for stuff given what Red told us. This place is like seriously freaky. What the hell were they thinking? Plus the soldier boy here holding a gun on us. I thought we had an invite. That is seriously not friendly and I am getting pissed off. Guns are bad."
All the joking stopped as Faith suddenly became all business as she felt the gate and its power. Damn that feels almost as bad as the hell mouth. It can't be good for us. The guns were starting to freak Red out that was twice in one day someone pulled them out. What were these people? Suicidal?
Kate Todd's head snapped up. When had Willow told them anything? How the hell could she know anything it was all classified. Even she had no idea what happened on this base. The penny dropped the girl had been hacking on the plane.
Oh, boy this was going to get ugly. She so did not want to get caught in the crossfire. She looked over at President Hayes who looked resigned to the coming confrontation. I so should have taken my vacation this week.
She had to agree with Faith however there was no reason for the SF to be holding weapons on them. It was all she could do to resist pulling her own. Fortunately her boss was standing in front of the President or she might have felt it necessary to pull hers out and then all hell would break out.
"I'm with Faith on this one Giles. Buffy said. "They are messing with dangerous stuff. Plus guns pointed at us, are they crazy? It is so of the bad. I mean I am wanting to rip their arms off and beat them to death with them. We should slam them and shut them down like we did with those NID freaks." Mentally she sent Human or not Giles they might need slaying, I mean they are endangering the whole world. Why? Evil is evil even if it is hiding behind the USAF. I so am not letting them do another Adam. I mean it Giles. Cassie is ours they might hurt her or use her. I mean she is special like Dawn. We can't let that happen. I hate the idea that you might look at me different but, I will still give the order. Just so you know. I won't tolerate bad/evil government experiments on our family. Never again. I mean they tried to experiment on one of their own. I am so not liking this."
Buffy looked over at Oz who nodded grateful for her words. It made him feel he was truly a part of the family once more. He had to agree guns were not a friendly gesture. He could feel Tara's panic and Willow fighting her rage. His girls both looked ready to lose it. He stepped in front them. He could take a lot more damage than they could and maybe his standing in Willow's way might save the airman's life. She looked ready to turn him into a rat. "Chill willow. Rats freak Dawn out."
Willow took a deep breath and tried to calm herself. She was only moments away from dealing with the guns when Giles broke in again.
"Buffy, relax, if we have to we will shut them down." Giles looked over at Henry Hayes. He was clearly warning him to get things under control. "If they resist and are evil I will help you kill them all. I would never hold that against you. The world is ours to protect. Never again will we allow it to be threatened by fools who can't leave well enough alone. It's not like there was not a warning." He glared at the president. "Of course the Americans are arrogant, you know the guns are pissing us off Henry you might want to have them lowered before Willow or my girls decide to deal with them."
The airman stiffened he glared at Giles but, said nothing because the president was nearby. He flipped the safety off clearly feeling threatened now. The joking kids were gone. He could not believe they had almost fell for the act. He was glad his partner had decided to cover them after finding that so called pencil. Really it was like a large baton and it could hurt someone. Whoever these people were it was clear to him they were a danger. He wanted to lock them up. However, orders said to wait and protect the president.
Henry Hayes wanted to shoot his predecessor. It was clear that the Slayer and Watcher were pissed and that was not good. "Airman put your weapon down. It is making my guests nervous."
"With respect sir, I won't do that until General Hammond or Colonel O'Neill arrive. These folks were armed and are clearly threatening the base. I have to keep you safe and secure sir."
Hayes glared at this. He looked over at Rupert and said. "Keep them calm. You have my word Rupert. No harm will come to them."
Giles nodded. "Stand down."
Buffy and Faith did not seem to relax but, they moved their hands to their sides away from the pocket space and their weapons. With a look to the other slayers there was a shift. The tension dropped a bit, just enough to prevent an all out battle. They could wait. They looked over at Willow, Tara, Jonathan and Andrew and seemed to relax. The Wicca's were clearly all ready to defend them. They could wait and see how things played out. They shifted all ready to spring into action if needed.
Kate felt the hair on the back of her neck rise. Damn these people were scary.
Ethan adjusted the scanner to find Harry. He smiled as he locked onto him. He was really glad he had stolen that Asgard transporter from Loki. Of course the little freak was not happy but, really it was only fair as he had cloned him. He grinned he wondered what Rupert would say when he found out he had a clone that was only two years old? Ethan had never expected to have children and a clone was something even he had never thought of doing for chaos sake.
However, he had found himself in Loki's hands and managed to get free only to stumble across the clone. He had to admit he had considered leaving the clone behind. I mean really a kid that was just like him? That was chaos waiting to happen. The boy had seemed so scared and alone. Ethan remembered that feeling all too well and decided that he would give being a father a chance. Besides he had made so many mistakes with his life. Maybe his clone could do better? It was a second chance to live a decent life. Not that the clone was him. Ok, maybe genetically he was but, he would be his own person. Oddly enough Ethan had grown fond of the boy. His Jaffa had helped stabilize his DNA with a sarcophagus and so he now had a son.
One day he might tell the child the truth but, for now he was simply Randal Rupert Giles Raines. He had named him for his friends to remind himself that playing with dark things could have bad results. He also owed his friend and he hoped by naming the child after him he would gain a little of the life he should have had.
Randy and Janet were the reason he could not risk getting shot. He hated that he had not even had a chance to tell Janet about the boy. He sighed and reminded himself that he left a will if something bad happened. Plus his Jaffa would see Randy got to Giles if worse came to worse.
TBC...