A/N Credit BMS and Sphygmus for the details I'm using to flesh out the concept of a competent Council. Thanks guys, your advice has been great and I hope I do justice to it.

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"The Sunnydale Hellmouth can't be active." Quentin Travers protested when Michael Fischer called to report. "There are hallmarks of an active Hellmouth after all and we monitor them. Crime statistics have to be reported and Sunnydale's are monitored to gauge whether it's active or not. The numbers have been below average since Sunnydale was founded a century ago."

"There are demon bars in this town, Mr. Travers, long established ones, they have anti violence Wards on them, just like in Los Angeles. Vampires on the streets at night and police officers actively hunting them. A review of the archived newspapers show an extraordinarily high number of barbeque fork accidents going back a century, wild animal attacks and gang activity that should have the F.B.I. wondering if the Mob is still a thing and running this town. The numbers started coming down a few months before the Slayer moved here and before Rupert Giles showed up, which means something changed prior to that. The timing suggests it has to do with the disappance of the prior Mayor of Sunnydale, Richard Wilkins. A new Mayor, Charles Chase, was voted in and the numbers started dropping drastically."

"Maybe he's found a different way to cover up what ever's going on there?"

"The number of people moving into Sunnydale has dropped as well. Property records show there was a constant influx of people moving into the town for the last century due to very low real estate prices without the census numbers really being impacted. Which means an equal number of people were dying as moving in and no one in the town even noticed it. But the records for the last two years show very few people have moved to Sunnydale and the reports of barbeque fork accidents, wild animal attacks and gang activity have dropped sharply. The police didn't used to patrol on a night shift at all and now they do, that also started two years ago."

"But those reports would be reported outside Sunnydale, the law requires it and our people and the F.B.I. should have seen them. How did they miss them?"

"The only thing I can think of is some kind of Magic being used. I suggest you send someone from the Magic department to evaluate Sunnydale and the reports that ended up at the FBI, figure out why our people missed them."

"That doesn't explain why Rupert Giles hasn't reported Sunnydale's Hellmouth being active. He'd have to be aware of it."

"Given the questions you have after reviewing his reports for the last year, I'd say it's obvious he's editing his reports. Maybe to make himself or his Slayer look better. He was never trained to be a Field Watcher after all, he's a Research Watcher."

"He seemed to be adapting well, finding a trainer for Miss Summers to make up for his lack of knowledge on martial arts and researching and recommending modern equipment for her. Not to mention discovering the lost Pergamon Codex and Miss Summers stopping the Master and discovering the vampire attempting to manipulate her. But he did fail to remember we'd sent out a memo on Gwendolyn Post and didn't verify her claim that she was replacing him. She wasn't even a Research or Field Watcher, she was a Teacher at the Academy. He should have realized she would never be assigned as a Field Watcher to a Slayer. The only reason he was, was that we didn't have a Field Watcher available when we finally located Miss Summers and he was available. It was meant to be temporary until one did become available and that fell to a low priority given he seemed to be adapting and doing well. And his reports really weren't being scrutinized since Sunnydale's Hellmouth was believed to be inactive and low priority. There haven't even been very many incidents reported by him at all, which just reinforced that belief."

"And yet I found newspaper articles that suggest something's have been covered up even since he got here. Last Halloween a gas leak reportedly caused people to believe they'd turned into their costumes. People died, including children, from wounds that could actually be from claws and others seemed to have been run through with swords. A report in the paper of a fugitive hiding in the hospital concluding with a police dog seemingly killing the fugitive when he was discovered actually sitting on top of a child in her bed. Only the police department doesn't seem to actually have any trained dogs. It suggests something else happened and Mr. Giles was hospitalized the same day requiring treatment after Joyce Summers, Buffy Summers mother, attacked him. Miss Summers was also in the hospital suffering from a severe bout of the flu. Did he ever report on his injury?"

"No, he didn't. So, it seems things are happening in Sunnydale and someone may be trying to do something about it, which suggests local demon hunters. Not an issue, but definitely something he should also have reported, we could help them. At the very least, Mr. Giles is keeping things from us and everything reported by Sunnydale in the last century needs to be evaluated by our Magic Department. There's enough evidence to support an investigation. Thank you for checking, Mr. Fischer, you can return to your own assignment now."

"Yes, sir."