College finally had its first full moon since the Scooby gang joined, meaning it was the first time in a while since Oz had a werewolf transformation. It seemed to go well, until they heard from Professor Walsh that she had been attacked by two large dogs, "two of them. Biggest things I've ever seen. The first one was…well, for a moment, I thought it was a gorilla."
"That's horrible Professor, did you get hurt?" Eris asked in concern as she look at her frazzled teacher.
"No luckily not, they seemed more interested in attacking each other, but I want you girls to both be careful and not walk alone at night."
"We'll be careful, glad to know you weren't injured," they said their goodbye to the Professor and Riley before sprinting away to Giles to let him know and to check out Oz's holding cell.
It had been busted open and had to be welded back on by Oz who looked distressed at possibly hurting someone. Though he seemed like he knew more than he was saying, which was the usual but it was different this time, more suspicious. Maybe he knew about the second werewolf, or maybe finding out about it has put him on edge. Either way Buffy didn't like the entire situation and Eris was in agreement.
However the reality was way worse.
The other werewolf was Veruca, and Willow had found them both naked, cuddling each other in the cell. Oz tried to make up reasons as to why she was in there but nothing could explain how obvious it was that he had cheated on Willow, even if it was in werewolf form, he never told anybody and kept it to himself.
It had broken Willow so completely that she had tried to walk in front of a car to end it, luckily Riley was there to save her. "I have to go, I have to find Veruca before the sun sets. I will though. When I do, this thing stops. She's bad news."
Buffy and Eris had been comforting Willow in her dorm as she explained the situation to them, it wasn't easy to hear, and even harder to see their friend in such a state, "I'll stay with Willow, go do what you have to do."
"Thank you, Eris, I'll come back as soon as I can," Buffy grabbed her bag before turning back to Willow, "Riley was right. The main thing is put the blame where it belongs. Don't hurt yourself."
Willow agreed and promised not to hurt herself. Once gone, she turned to Eris, an idea forming in her head, "I have an idea, but I need your help."
Eris watched the witch go to a chest and grab a few items, all magical, "I'm not sure magic is a good idea…"
"She's not safe, I might be able to do a spell to find her, please?"
Eris sighed, "fine, lets go to one of the science classes."
Once inside, Eris watched Willow get everything ready and start to do an incantation, "by Satanas, and the Devil. As though art bruning, let Oz and Veruca's deceitful hearts be broken."
"Woah, that wasn't what I thought we were doing!" Eris said in panic as she watched the bowl light up in a blaze of fire.
Willow was unphased and continued, "I conjure thee by the Saracen queen in the name of Hell. Let them find no love or solace. Let them find no peace as well," everything started to float around her, making Eris feel incredibly uneasy. As Willow got to the final step she hesitated, not wanting to hurt Oz as much as she was in pain herself. This gave Eris an opportunity.
"Willow stop!" Eris pushed the witch out of the way and doused the fire in water, ending the spell.
Willow went to yell at Eris but the sight of Veruca stopped her, "for a minute there, I thought you might actually play rough," she looked hungry, ready to attack at any moment as she locked the door and stalked closer to the other women like a predator stalking its prey, "sometimes you have to, you know? To keep what's yours, sometimes you have to kill."
Eris stood in front of Willow, knowing who the real target was, "you are not going to touch her."
"Its cute you think you can protect her from me, but I'll just kill you too," Veruca looked to the window and smirked, "look at that, the sun's almost down." Verruca continued to stalk closer, causing unease with every step, "can't say I'm surprised you didn't go through with your little hex, you don't have the teeth."
Willow, bringing on some bravery, stepped around Eris to glare at Veruca, "you don't know what I have. You don't know anything about me."
"I know what you love," Veruca took in a loud breathe so Willow could hear it, "I have his scent on me right now," Willow had tried to move away, not wanting to hear the she wolf but was instead she was slapped to the ground right as Oz slammed into the room.
Eris knelt down to help her as Oz spoke to Veruca, "don't touch her again," his voice was deep and threatening, a hint of the animal inside creeping up to the surface.
Veruca was unphased, almost like she was treating this like a game, "come stop me," she taunted, "I like it rough, remember?"
Oz fought through a wave of anger that surged forth from the werewolf, wanting to try to talk first before the claws appeared, "you want to hurt me, hurt me. You leave her out of this."
"How can i? She's the reason you're living in cages. She's blinding you. When she's gone, you'll be able to admit what you are," the changes began to take hold of the two, fur sprouted on the back of their neck and hands, eyes darkened, fangs grew and animal instincts took over. Soon enough two werewolves were fighting to the death.
It was gruesome, claws dug in and growls were vicious and full of murderous intent, it wasn't long until Oz overpowered Veruca and ripped her throat out before turning his attention to Willow and Eris. Though Buffy had been lucky to show up when she did and shot him with a tranq gun, saving all the innocents involved.
That fight had sadly spelled the end of the relationship of the Witch and Werewolf, not only had trust been broken between the two but it made Oz realize how dangerous he was, how dangerous the wolf was. He needed to learn control, a way to live in society without there being a constant threat of him turning and hurting the people he loved. It caused Willow immense pain, as she had to watch him get in his van and drive off, with the possibility of never seeing him again, but it had to be done. They may see each other again, who knows, but for now they had to say goodbye. The love was not gone, it lay deep within their hearts forever.
As for the future, well, they had strange men in military gear to focus on now.
After a week of supporting Willow through her heartbreak, which seemed to be a part of the Scooby gang curse, she finally felt confident enough to go out to a party with Buffy and Eris.
She had apparently made plans with Riley to help him get in good with Buffy since he had a crush on her, which Eris was happy about. She like Riley, they talked alot when she hung with Graham and Forrest, she thought he would be good for her cousin.
And just like Riley and Buffy, Willow thought Graham would be good for Eris as well, which she was starting to agree as she was currently leaning against a wall and having a chat with him. The party was at his dorm house this time so it wasn't as crazy as Wolf House. "So you actually punched Parker?" Graham asked after calming down from laughing.
"I did, he was speaking so horribly to Buffy that I just, popped him in his snout."
"That's amazing, no wonder he was sporting a purple nose for so long," Eris laughed as she recalled him looking like that, she was glad she gave it to him, it gave the innocent women a few days of safety from him, "you know Riley punched him earlier today."
"NO! He did!?" she asked in surprise, "I didn't think he would ever do that, why did he do that?"
"Funnily enough, he was talking bad about Buffy and it pissed Riley off."
Eris raised a brow at that, "so he really does have feelings for my cousin."
"How did you figure it out, he's usually pretty hard to read."
"He and Willow teamed up to get Buffy's attention."
"Hasn't looked like they are doing very well, she's been in her own world tonight."
"It will take a bit, but I think they'll be great together."
Graham decided to take his chance and leant in a little, making the space more intimate, "and what about us? Do you think we would be great together?"
She smirked and leant in as well, agreeing to the intimacy, "I definitely think we would be."
"Then how about it? Want to be together?"
It wasn't a traditional way to ask someone to date, but Eris wasn't exactly a traditional girl which Graham had realized early on. Eris herself had luckily appreciated the way he asked her, "Hmm, I might, if you kiss me first?"
Graham chuckled, "deal," with that he leant in and pressed his lips against hers which she reciprocated eagerly. She snaked her hands to his hips and pulled him closer making him pin her to the wall and making the kiss more passionate.
That was where Buffy found her, and sadly had to cut it short despite wanting to give her cousin the space to continue her fun, "hey Eris?" she called out to her cousin who continued the kiss for a few moments more before pulling away from Graham and looking at Buffy with slight annoyance.
"Hey Buff, little busy?" she said, not hiding her irritation.
"Sorry, we just have a situation, with Willow, she's met someone and he's feeling a little pale."
Eris took a second to look confused before realising Buffy was using Vampire code, "oh! Oh no! That's not good, yeah, I'll help out, just give me a second," Buffy nodded to Eris and walked over to Xander who was waiting. Once gone, Eris turned back to Graham who had been watching silently, also a little irritated at being interrupted, "sorry, I should help out Willow, I hope that's ok?"
"Yea its fine, though we should pick this up again another time."
"Oh most definitely, we need to finish the deal," she leant up and gave him a quick kiss on the lips before running off to her friends to help out with the 'sick' friend. "You guys owe me."
"I didn't actually want to interrupt the kissing," Buffy shot back as they hurried out of the party.
"Well at least I have a boyfriend now so I'm not too mad."
"Congrats Eris! That's awesome!"
"No time for girl talk, more worrying about Spike being on the loose," aaand with that, Eris' mood was ruined.