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-Buffy the Vampire Slayer › Het - Male/Female › Buffy/Oz
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Adult +
Chapters:
23
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4,579
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6
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Chapter 2: Mysteries and Motion Sickness
Chapter 2: Mysteries and Motion Sickness
Giles was deeply asleep when someone began to shake him. He opened one eye and sat up with a startled expression, then let out a curse when he saw who it was.
“I could had had company, you know, it’s really not the thing to do, bursting into people's hotel rooms like that”.
“I didn’t burst, I appeared”.
“You did what?” Willow could see he wasn’t happy with the revelation. “You should know better than to use magic lightly like that, so I'm guessing there is an emergency. Something that you and Kennedy couldn’t deal with? That has to be bad, would you leave and allow me to get a robe so we can talk, there’s another room through that door”.
“Xander needs us, there is something very wrong with Buffy, but he wouldn’t tell me what, I could just port us from here and....”
“You will most definitely not. I’m not being “ported” anywhere in my pajamas and without information, I may need some of my books, and I believe I may need some tea if I’m going to be "ported" at all”.
Half an hour latter a tired Willow and a very dizzy Giles appeared in Xander’s bedroom, extracting a not very masculine yelp from said Xander, who had been just falling back to sleep.
“I feel a heart attack just stepped over my grave. Hey people, ever heard of knocking. And, how in heaven did you get here so fast... never mind, Will is up to her spooky things, right?”
“I really do need to sit down” said Giles as he collapsed on the edge of the bed.
“Hey! You wanted NOW, you got NOW, so what’s with all the not so very grateful attitude?”
Xander took a deep breath to try to get his heart to stop hammering away in his chest and said “It’s serious, but let’s go down so we don’t wake Buff up and we can have coffee or something while I explain?”
In the kitchen, Xander began to talk while Will got the coffee going.
“It all started with Faith. She noticed when she was here last week with Robin, and came to me. I didn’t know anything was wrong, Buff was Ok as far as I could tell. Ok, she was quieter than she used to be, but it was only me here, and I spend most of the day at the construction site, so there was not a lot to talk about. Buffy spent the days reading, watching TV, and walking, mostly at night.
Faith told me something was not “up to specs” with B, so after they left I took some time to really pay attention and there’s absolutely no doubt that Buffy is not ok”.
“She seemed fine a month ago when I brought Dawn to visit. We had a wonderful time with Buffy”. It was obvious Giles wasn’t convinced.
“And Faith is not known for her powers of observation”.
“She may not be, but I’m telling you something is going on, something not good”.
Xander left the kitchen for a moment and when he came back he was holding a sweater, which he handed to Willow.
“Here, do the hocus pocus thing with this and tell me what you feel”.
Will took it and waited a second, after that she said “There’s nothing there, it’s new, where did you get it”.
“Buff was wearing this yesterday”.
“No, It’s completely blank, it’s new, if someone had wore it, there will be a trace of that person left behind in the sweater”.
“She wore it all day Will, I saw her, and she took it off last night and left it in the sofa, so I took it for when you arrived, so that if you didn’t believe me, there would be evidence”.
Will took the sweater again and held it for two minutes. After that she left it on the table and sat down, her face preoccupied. “Give me a minute”.
The spell worked, but now Will was more worried than before, she returned to the others waiting in the front porch.
“It worked, but we are in trouble, and Xander is right, very right”.
‘What did you see?”
“I did a locator spell for Buffy, kind of regular stuff, but instead of locating her body, as usual, I looked for her “self”, her heart, soul, what makes her Buffy, get it?”
Xander was losing his patience. “We get it, what did you find?”
“Nothing, only a big dark shadow in her room” Will said with a tinny voice.
“There’s nothing more I can do, not without Buffy, and I won’t do any spells on her without her consent, not after the “brought back from heaven” fiasco”.
“We understand, Will, nobody is thinking of doing that right now, we probably need more information and I think Xander should start talking and not stop till everything is said”. Giles turned to Xander with a look that said GO!.
Xander took a deep breath and began:
“I didn’t know everything was not 5 by 5 until Faith was here a while back, she said that things were bad with the Buffter, and that I should talk to you guys. After Faith and Robin left for Cleveland, I began paying attention to Buffy, to try and see what Faith had been talking about. The short of it is that Buff is fine, is you don’t look beyond the surface, if you do, you’ll see that she only eats when you are there, I know because I’m keeping track of the food, so she has lost a lot of weight; she doesn’t talk unless you initiate a conversation, if you don’t talk to her she seats for hours without moving, looking at nothing, and believe me, last time I timed her and she was perfectly still for five hours, it was eerie. She walks a lot, but only at night, she reads a lot, but only the same six books over and over. I called you because of her, yes, but also because I’m a little scared of her too, she’s freaking me out, and I mean complete wiggins, she’s so out of it some times she seems dead, you know, a zombie or something, like when the Buffybot was recharging, eyes open, but still as death”.
The others were silent. Giles was trying to process the look of fear in Xander’s eyes.
“Maybe we should talk about what the cause for this is. Xander, can you say when this started?”
“No, But it’s been going on for a while, and is getting worse, someone has to be here to see she eats and stuff, I was gone three days last week, because of a problem at the site, and she didn’t touched anything in the kitchen, I thing she would starve if left alone too long”.
“We’ll stay, of course, and see what can be done for her. For now I suggest sleep. I want to see Buffy tomorrow and ....”
“Yes, we’ll stay, Xander, we’ll figure something out, it’ll be Ok”. Will’s voice tried to sound firm and confident, but the confidence level was not up to Will's usual, she was scared.
Giles was deeply asleep when someone began to shake him. He opened one eye and sat up with a startled expression, then let out a curse when he saw who it was.
“I could had had company, you know, it’s really not the thing to do, bursting into people's hotel rooms like that”.
“I didn’t burst, I appeared”.
“You did what?” Willow could see he wasn’t happy with the revelation. “You should know better than to use magic lightly like that, so I'm guessing there is an emergency. Something that you and Kennedy couldn’t deal with? That has to be bad, would you leave and allow me to get a robe so we can talk, there’s another room through that door”.
“Xander needs us, there is something very wrong with Buffy, but he wouldn’t tell me what, I could just port us from here and....”
“You will most definitely not. I’m not being “ported” anywhere in my pajamas and without information, I may need some of my books, and I believe I may need some tea if I’m going to be "ported" at all”.
Half an hour latter a tired Willow and a very dizzy Giles appeared in Xander’s bedroom, extracting a not very masculine yelp from said Xander, who had been just falling back to sleep.
“I feel a heart attack just stepped over my grave. Hey people, ever heard of knocking. And, how in heaven did you get here so fast... never mind, Will is up to her spooky things, right?”
“I really do need to sit down” said Giles as he collapsed on the edge of the bed.
“Hey! You wanted NOW, you got NOW, so what’s with all the not so very grateful attitude?”
Xander took a deep breath to try to get his heart to stop hammering away in his chest and said “It’s serious, but let’s go down so we don’t wake Buff up and we can have coffee or something while I explain?”
In the kitchen, Xander began to talk while Will got the coffee going.
“It all started with Faith. She noticed when she was here last week with Robin, and came to me. I didn’t know anything was wrong, Buff was Ok as far as I could tell. Ok, she was quieter than she used to be, but it was only me here, and I spend most of the day at the construction site, so there was not a lot to talk about. Buffy spent the days reading, watching TV, and walking, mostly at night.
Faith told me something was not “up to specs” with B, so after they left I took some time to really pay attention and there’s absolutely no doubt that Buffy is not ok”.
“She seemed fine a month ago when I brought Dawn to visit. We had a wonderful time with Buffy”. It was obvious Giles wasn’t convinced.
“And Faith is not known for her powers of observation”.
“She may not be, but I’m telling you something is going on, something not good”.
Xander left the kitchen for a moment and when he came back he was holding a sweater, which he handed to Willow.
“Here, do the hocus pocus thing with this and tell me what you feel”.
Will took it and waited a second, after that she said “There’s nothing there, it’s new, where did you get it”.
“Buff was wearing this yesterday”.
“No, It’s completely blank, it’s new, if someone had wore it, there will be a trace of that person left behind in the sweater”.
“She wore it all day Will, I saw her, and she took it off last night and left it in the sofa, so I took it for when you arrived, so that if you didn’t believe me, there would be evidence”.
Will took the sweater again and held it for two minutes. After that she left it on the table and sat down, her face preoccupied. “Give me a minute”.
The spell worked, but now Will was more worried than before, she returned to the others waiting in the front porch.
“It worked, but we are in trouble, and Xander is right, very right”.
‘What did you see?”
“I did a locator spell for Buffy, kind of regular stuff, but instead of locating her body, as usual, I looked for her “self”, her heart, soul, what makes her Buffy, get it?”
Xander was losing his patience. “We get it, what did you find?”
“Nothing, only a big dark shadow in her room” Will said with a tinny voice.
“There’s nothing more I can do, not without Buffy, and I won’t do any spells on her without her consent, not after the “brought back from heaven” fiasco”.
“We understand, Will, nobody is thinking of doing that right now, we probably need more information and I think Xander should start talking and not stop till everything is said”. Giles turned to Xander with a look that said GO!.
Xander took a deep breath and began:
“I didn’t know everything was not 5 by 5 until Faith was here a while back, she said that things were bad with the Buffter, and that I should talk to you guys. After Faith and Robin left for Cleveland, I began paying attention to Buffy, to try and see what Faith had been talking about. The short of it is that Buff is fine, is you don’t look beyond the surface, if you do, you’ll see that she only eats when you are there, I know because I’m keeping track of the food, so she has lost a lot of weight; she doesn’t talk unless you initiate a conversation, if you don’t talk to her she seats for hours without moving, looking at nothing, and believe me, last time I timed her and she was perfectly still for five hours, it was eerie. She walks a lot, but only at night, she reads a lot, but only the same six books over and over. I called you because of her, yes, but also because I’m a little scared of her too, she’s freaking me out, and I mean complete wiggins, she’s so out of it some times she seems dead, you know, a zombie or something, like when the Buffybot was recharging, eyes open, but still as death”.
The others were silent. Giles was trying to process the look of fear in Xander’s eyes.
“Maybe we should talk about what the cause for this is. Xander, can you say when this started?”
“No, But it’s been going on for a while, and is getting worse, someone has to be here to see she eats and stuff, I was gone three days last week, because of a problem at the site, and she didn’t touched anything in the kitchen, I thing she would starve if left alone too long”.
“We’ll stay, of course, and see what can be done for her. For now I suggest sleep. I want to see Buffy tomorrow and ....”
“Yes, we’ll stay, Xander, we’ll figure something out, it’ll be Ok”. Will’s voice tried to sound firm and confident, but the confidence level was not up to Will's usual, she was scared.