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"I knew the statue was ugly, I didn't know it was a demon turned to stone." Mr. Teeth protested as the blond witch held him immobilized by Magic and the other small blond, the Slayer, kicked his minions around the crypt. "If I'd have known, I'd never have touched it. I like the world the way it is, I can't get rich off preying on humans and demons if it's no longer a human world. Seriously, those Hell dimensions have demons in them that would automatically make us all bottom of the food chain. Only idiots or insane people/demons would want to let something like that loose."

"Than why steal it at all?" Amy asked, ignoring the bangs and muffled oofs as Buffy played wack-a-mole with the minions. She was the only one enjoying her game.

"It was just a job, that's all, I swear. We were hired to steal it."

"Two human security officers were killed." Amy reminded Mr. Teeth.

"We were told we could kill any humans that got in our way, the boss didn't care about them and we couldn't let them try to stop us. I've been in Sunnydale long enough to know, disappointing the man in charge will get you tortured for a very long time."

"Man in charge?" Amy questioned as a particularly loud bang and oomph was heard. "You got your orders from a human?"

"Yes." Mr. Teeth confirmed, it wasn't like he could nod, his neck didn't really bend, his head had a very limited range of motion.

"And this human would be named?"

"Crap, witch, I tell you and I have to leave Sunnydale. Probably California, I mean the guy doesn't have much clout outside Sunnydale, but that's because he keeps such a low profile. But he's got his own minions and some are fanatically devoted to him. The Hellmouth might be shut down, how, no knows and his power weakened, but he's still strong enough to find me and punish me."

"Not if we stop him ourselves."

"He's human, last time I checked the Slayer's job is to kill demons. Now that the vampires are gone, I mean."

"Maybe we can figure out a legal way to stop him." Amy suggested. "But we need a name if we're going to do anything and first on the agenda is to find that demon statue before he activates it and Earth gets sucked into a Hell dimension. At which point, you are on the bottom of the food chain anyway. Our way at least allows you a chance of escaping and maybe surviving for a while."

Mr. Teeth silently debated and came to the conclusion that the witch was right, telling them was his best option. "Mayor Richard Wilkins."

Amy's eyebrows shot up. "The Mayor?! Are you kidding me?! The Mayor of Sunnydale knows about the demons, the Hellmouth, all the crap that goes on around here and he hired you to steal a demon statue that can suck the Earth into Hell? Why would he do that, what does he get out of it?"

"I don't know what he gets out of any of it." Mr. Teeth responded. "But I can tell you who probably has the answer to that question, besides the Mayor, I mean."

"Who?"

"His Deputy Mayor, Finch is the one who actually hired us. We gave the statue to the Mayor, himself, but the Deputy Mayor hired us."

"Where is the statue now?" Amy pressed on, trying to hide her shock and keep on task as she realized, this is what the Scoobies did. Kept the world and people safe from monsters, from the world ending.

Even when the monsters were humans themselves.

"In a room guarded by Magic under City Hall." Mr. Teeth informed her. "So, that's all I know, can me and my guys go now?"

"You can go." Buffy's quiet voice came from the shadows. "Your guys are a little bruised and understand this, I don't like your business. If I find a suck house or a demon brothel in Sunnydale I will burn them out."

"I gotcha." Mr. Teeth agreed. "We'll leave right now, I'm mostly into loan sharking anyway."

Buffy waited until Mr. Teeth and his minions had left before pulling out the communicator Xander had given her. "We found Mr. Teeth. Meet up at Giles', have we got a story to tell you."

Various 'on our ways' came back and when everyone had responded she tucked it back in her pocket. "The Mayor. Didn't see that coming."

"Who would? But this is what Scoobies do, right? Protect the world, even when a human is the problem."

"Yeah, it is. Gods help us, it is."