A/N A few areas of housekeeping, although I don't know why it matters but a few people seem concerned about it. Giles' History degree isn't why he's under qualified to be the Head or the only Librarian in a High School. He's under qualified because he doesn't have a Masters degree, let alone one in Education. A Librarian in a school library is considered a teacher and most schools require certain credentials he lacked. Yes, the Administration under Richard Wilkins didn't care, but the changed circumstances mean Allen Finch has to care.

It's possible to get teaching credentials with certain equivalent education and work experience, a job at the British Museum might qualify, but nowhere in the wiki is that stated as being part of how he got his job. Also, Giles never confirmed he actually worked there, Willow tells Buffy that's what she heard, making it a rumor, not an actual canonical fact.

I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear in either the story or my earlier author's notes when I tried to explain. I'd love to credit Giles with a Ph.D but I was using the Buffy wiki as my reference point and no Ph.D is listed in his education and as I told one reviewer, I tried giving him a Ph. D in other stories and got a bunch of negative reviews because it wasn't canon.

Sometimes I just can't win. Just try to enjoy the story and not get bogged down in tiny, unimportant details. 😊

My thanks to everyone who reads, reviews, favorites and follows my stories.

Now for Wolfie Willow! (And Oz, don't forget, he got bit too! Opps!) 😁

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"So, enjoying being a man of leisure, are you, Giles?" Xander joked a few days later when he saw Giles outside a grocery store, the two of them apparently having the same need to, you know, eat.

"I no longer am, a man of leisure, that is." Giles replied. "As I have secured employment at the Sunnydale Museum."

"Where Ampata crawled out of her sarcophagus?" Xander asked, grabbing a cart left outside by another customer.

"Yes, hopefully that is a one time occurrence. I worked at the British Museum for quite some time and never experienced a mummy rising from its sarcophagus. A few ghosts though."

"Yeah, there seem to be quite a few of them." Xander grinned. "I've confirmed a couple are living in my new place."

"Oh, dear, do we need to banish them?" Giles stopped loading his groceries into his car, which was parked near the front door of the store and looked at Xander, concerned.

"Naw, they're harmless, unless you're an intruder." Xander admitted. "They can be a bit protective."

"Yes, they are known to be territorial. They haven't tried to evict you?"

"Nope, we're getting along. Well, I've got to get my own shopping done, I've got homework to finish up and school tomorrow." Xander waved and headed into the store as Giles returned to moving his own groceries into his car.

"Do let me know if that changes." Giles said to Xander's back as he walked away.

"If Ms. Calendar and I can't handle it, sure." Xander answered, just before the doors of the store closed behind him. Giles finished loading his groceries and made his way home, Buffy would be stopping by later for training and he still needed to get ready.

The next morning Giles found a concerning article in his morning paper and discussed it with Jenny, who'd stayed over the night before. "We may have something to investigate." He told her. "It might be demon related, several small animals including dogs and cats were found mutilated last night."

"It could be related to dark Magic as well." Jenny frowned, concerned herself. "The possessed kids last Spring ate a pig, remember? But animal mutilation can be a disturbing human problem too. The police will probably be investigating it, we have to avoid tripping over each other."

"I don't start my new job until next week, I'll spend the day going through my references looking for any demon that might prefer animals to humans." Giles decided.

"I'll use my break to see if there's been any other instances reported, there may be a pattern." Jenny made her own plan. "I'm off, I'll see you after classes." Giles savored how domesticated the scene was for a moment as she kissed him goodbye before heading out and he went to his second bedroom where he'd set up his office and books and began looking for possible suspects.

Meanwhile the Scooby Gang had a mostly uneventful day themselves, aside from gym class where Larry, big dumb jock and star quarterback, grabbed a girl's butt during class and got slapped, hard, by the girl in question, after bragging about getting bit by a stray dog and showing off the stitches in his arm. Plus he got detention because the new Principal, unlike Snyder, didn't let the jocks get away with pulling stunts like that.

Jenny's day wasn't so uneventful as she turned up several news articles online mentioning animal mutilation all over the place and was frustrated at finding no real pattern that could help explain it. So she decided to do a spread sheet and cross reference with star patterns and other celestial events in case any of it was linked to dark Magic.

Willow and Oz each spent the day trying to remember what they'd been doing the night before that led to each of them waking up naked in their respective rooms.