"This is just so wrong." Faith complained as they chopped the giant snake demon Lurconis up. "Now I'm going to be associating chocolate with baby sacrificing and just when I'm on the verge of PMSing. Chocolate is an essential component of PMSing!"
"Tell me about it." Cordelia answered. "Now what I am going to do with my wonderful stash of Ghirardelli mint chocolates. I'm not going to be to able look at them, let alone smell them or eat them, after this!" From where she was chopping with her double swords, so cool that she could turn her double bladed staff into two swords, and Faith so was not jealous!
"Well, you could try donating them to a soup kitchen." Xander called over to them. "They, at least have no idea about this thing."
"Just die already!" From Tor's direction. Finally, the thing stopped twitching and they all stepped cautiously back, ready to resume chopping if it twitched again. Seeing none, they sighed in relief.
"Damnit," said Cordelia, "I'm all covered in demon goo. I need a shower."
"Happy to help you with your hard to reach places, my Queen." Xander said, wiping a bit of goop off her head.
"I'll take you up on that," she said as they headed out of the tunnels.
"I hope the others were able to get the babies back to the hospital safety." Rhonda said, following them.
"I felt bad that Jesse and Willow had to take all four of them by themselves. If it wasn't for that neat little spell of Jesse's, they probably wouldn't have been able to." Heidi said.
"Let's all get cleaned up at the school. It's closer than all our homes. Then we can go find out what happened to Giles and Ms. Calender." Xander said. "And we should check on Mrs. Summers too, before heading home."
The others agreed and they trooped over to the school and the locker rooms. Fortunately, they all had spare clothes in the trunks of their cars. Each of the girls had something extra to give Faith, who vowed to keep something spare in the library from now on.
"Way to go G!" Faith cheered when they discovered that the reason that Giles and Ms. Calender had been missing in action was because Giles was handcuffed to his headboard, naked. Ms. Calender was also naked, though not handcuffed.
The others just turned and walked quietly out of the door. Their sense of smell had given them a good idea of what had happened between the two. They hadn't needed visuals. But while Faith's hearing was well above average, her sense of smell was not, so she'd barged straight in.
Mrs. Summers was at home, safe and a call from Jesse confirmed the babies were safely back at the hospital. Xander ordered everyone home. Once back at Cordelia's, they took another, more thorough shower and he did indeed help Cordelia with her hard to reach places, before going to bed.
Faith decided she needed to find someone for a little unh action herself, damn C was loudly enthusiastic, plus there were the earlier visuals of Ms.C and G!
The next day several of the Pack found themselves being voluntold by Principal Snyder to help with cleaning graffiti off lockers. All the rest decided to help too and it didn't take long to get it all taken care of.
The Pack walked into the library just in time to hear Faith regaling Willow and Jesse with finding Giles and Ms. Calender naked, plus the handcuffs. Willow was sputtering like water on a hot griddle and Jesse was like. "Ms. Calender? Naked? I miss all the good stuff." Which had Willow dope slapping him and asking if she should tell Sarah that he said that. "Like you weren't thinking it too. I'm just honest about it."
Which just made Willow sputter some more.
That evening while Xander, Cordelia, Tor and Heidi were patrolling, Faith along with Kyle and Rhonda, who had the night off, went to the Bronze. Rhonda offered to help vet any guys Faith might be interested in. It took oh, about five minutes for Kyle to decide he should have gone patrolling too. If he and the other guys talked about girls like this in the girls hearing range, well sex would have probably been off the menu for while. On the other hand he was learning things about the guys Rhonda and Faith were discussing that he hadn't known. Since when was Larry gay?
Faith listened with amazement as Rhonda told her about some the guys, like Blaine Moll, who would sleep with anything, if it was female, after nearly getting eaten by a giant praying mantis lady, that wanted to have sex with virgin males before eating them! Who thinks this shit up?
Or Owen Thurman who had gone from deep broody poet guy to adrenaline rush guy after being chased by what he insisted was a feral dog. "Might actually have been a werewolf," Rhonda said, "we learned about them in our studies. People who basically have a condition that needs be managed so they don't hurt anyone. Since the wolf is in charge during the full moon cycle, in the first few months many don't even know what's happened to them, they just wake up in odd places, kind of thing."
Finally, they both found a guy Faith could spend some time with, who wasn't gay or desperate or one step away from getting himself killed chasing thrills, while also being fairly attractive and hey, he could even dance. He wasn't too bad in bed either, Faith reported the next morning.