A/N Sphygmus, I agree, the lack of either the Scoobies or the Angel team verifying anything bothers me too. Like the Pergamon Codex and Glory, both of which scream set up. Or Cordelia and Doyle being the only psychics on the show to experience pain and damage and no one questioning it. Angel had the example of Drusilla, who never has physical pain when she has a vision, either as a human or a vampire. In hindsight, the whole Jasmine thing and Angel being manipulated actually makes sense when you consider that. Which makes the final episode of Angel of Cordelia's goodbye really suspect in light of the manipulation and Angel's supposed dream vision suspect as well. Why would the vision manifest as a dream?

And the Intuitive makes no sense on so many levels, not the least of which is the handling of the military personnel. Obviously the writing staff didn't do any research on the military or they'd have known having military involved made it an illegal operation and this supposedly well funded project that was tasked with gathering information on demons never bothered to gather information on the local demon hunters. And why weren't they interested in studying Buffy? She obviously wasn't a normal human. All they did was, with her permission, test her ability to evade and take down a squad. No blood tests or scans, no attempt to understand her abilities in a scientific way. Which was the whole point, so they said, for being there, scientific study.

And as has been pointed out, Richard Wilkins knew a Slayer and the Scoobies were there and did nothing about them. Either he wanted them there keeping the Hellmouth closed, which begs the question, did he have something to do with Buffy being in Sunnydale in the first place or were they fallback scapegoats if he failed in his plans?

These are all questions that wouldn't exist if canon was clearer. But like so many things there's just no in world explanation, ever.

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"A day out of school and we're visiting a museum." Alex commented as he and his pack walked slowly through the museum. "The zoo trip last year was fun, up until the possessed people. A museum not so much. Willow's the only one having a good time." He nodded as Willow enthusiastically Willow babbled about everything they encountered. "And I'm not touching anything because everything here could trigger Ansion."

"You can occupy your hands by holding mine." Cordelia told him with a grin as she held his hand.

"Never a chore." He assured her with a lopsided grin back.

"Looks like Willow's found something else to distract her." Jesse pointed and the others turned to look as Willow talked Rodney Munson out of vandalizing a museum artifact.

"I wish her luck." Aura agreed. "Rodney's one of those idiots that likes to bully but he actually respects Willow, so if anyone can get him to stop, it's her."

"Looks like she succeeded." Alex observed as the four teens moved on and Willow rejoined Buffy and Johnathan and the tour guide announced the next exhibit was ready to be viewed. Here though, the four Wolfblood teens found a surprise.

"There's actual Magic around the mummy." Alex murmured, too low for anyone but his pack or Buffy, if she hadn't been on the other side of the room and talking to Willow and Johnathan, to hear. "I can feel it."

"So can I." Cordelia agreed, disturbed by what the tour guide was saying. "She was sacrificed, mummified alive to this so-called god and Magic was used to secure her. We should let Dad know, he can have Molly and her people check it out. What if she's actually still alive thanks to the Magic?"

"That's a horrifying thought." Jesse stated. "But I agree, we should let the adults know so they can check it out. Reminds me of being stuck in that trunk like I was when I was 5 and again on Day of the Nightmares. Better that she be dead than trapped like that for centuries."

Aura tucked her hand in his elbow and offered him comfort and sought her own over being reminded of her nightmare from that day. Jesse put his other hand over hers and squeezed, in silent apology and accepting and offering his own comfort in return before the four teens followed the tour out of the exhibit.

Unfortunately by the time Molly and her group arrived to investigate the Magic and the mummy and determine if someone actually was being held alive by the Magic, the mummy had disappeared and a mummified Rodney Munson was found by the Magic users in her place.

"We'll have to use a glamour to hide his appearance." Molly decided after determining it was definitely a modern teenager in the sarcophagus. The braces on the teeth were a very definite clue. "Until he's at the morgue and the coroner can verify the cause of death and than we can modify it until the young man's buried. His poor parents, but in the meantime, we also need to figure out what happened to the mummy. Was it actually kept alive by the Magic and is it now free? And if so, what's she doing?"

What she was doing was meeting Buffy Summers and company and sparking a new adventure.