Found

But it wasn't actually Indiana Jones. Not exactly.

The vampire slammed the door shut behind him and stalked over to the group.

“Who? What? How? Who?” Xander stuttered.

“You’re Magna.” Said Buffy. “Deidra told us all about you. How did you get here? It’s sunny and all?”

Magna was furious. It was truly amazing that he hadn’t vamped out. “Sulu sent me. He protected me. What is the matter with you people? I know you’ve saved the world several times over, and Sulu and Deidra had all this confidence in you. But she’s not gone from me a day you you all lose her!” He glared at all of them, turning their insides to jelly.

Giles stood and faced the vampire. “I understand your anger….we…I…we’ll find her. I promise you.”

“Yes!” exclaimed Buffy, standing up beside Giles. “We’ll find them, safe and sound.”

“You are the Slayer and Watcher.” Magna looked them over, up and down. “You are so small.” He frowned at Buffy.

She stood up straight. “I could hit you into next week, Indiana Jones or not!”

“Buffy.” Giles admonished.

“It’s okay, Watcher. She’s a spitfire, and that’s good. And what is this Indiana Jones you talk of?”

Willow had to add to the conversation. “Oh. He’s this handsome hero that saves the world from the Nazi’s.” She got a moony look on her face, then realized where she was and what was going on, and slunk back down in her chair.

“Willow tried a locator spell, but it didn’t work.” Buffy told Magna.

“I know where they are.” Magna looked at the group. “They are being held at this place called the ‘Sunnydale Arms’ by Travers.”

Buffy paled. Giles placed an arm around her shoulders to help support her. “No” she gasped. That was one place where she never wanted to return, the place of her 18th birthday trial. She should have thought of it. “Travers has used that place before.” She steadied herself and looked up into Magna’s eyes. “He isn’t dead then, with the rest of the Watcher’s?”

“Several of them survived, all of the o in in Travers’ control anyway. We must go there and bring Deidra and Allison back safely at once. The longer he has them…well, the prophecy is looming over us. We need to stop them.”

“And Spike.” Anya added. “We should find Spike there too.”

“Who is this Spike? Another Indiana Jones?” asked Magna, confusion on his face.

“Another vampire with a soul.” Answered Xander. “How many of you soulful demons are running around these days anyway?”

Willow had been glancing at Sulu’s book that Giles had abandoned on the table with Magna’s entrance. Suddenly she thought she had discovered something. She re-read the passages carefully. “Ohhh” she exclaimed, and excitedly started up and down in her seat. “I think I found something.”

The others turned towards her and Giles came to stand behind her. “What is it Willow?”

“Right here,” she pointed. “It says something about the closing of the dimensions. It talks about Glory, and how ‘death was the Slayer’s gift’ and how the ‘Watcher will now do the same.’ Oh, that doesn’t sound good.”

Buffy and Giles locked eyes wordlessly. Buffy started to shake her head back and forth.

“But wait, there is more, I think.” Added Willow. “It also says something about the end of the Hellmouth will come with the bonding of the Slayer and Watcher, and that the Forgotten One will bleed. Geesh, none of this sounds good, does it?”

They all sat in silence for awhile to take it all in. Magna paced nervously around, like a lion hunting his prey. “We’ll have to figure out what it all means later. We need to get her back.” The emotion strained his features, and Buffy realized for the first time what Deidra meant to this vampire.

“Ok, everybody. Let’s head out. It’s time for us to save the world again.” Buffy glanced at Oz. “Can you drive us in the van?”

* * *

Deidra opened her eyes and was greeted by Travers steely gaze. She was strapped to some chair, and not at all comfortable.

“That was quite stupid of you, daughter, to come back to Sunnydale of all places. Didn’t you think I would figure that one out quickly? Now, last time we met and you jumped through the portal, now that was impressive. But this?”

Deidra had no words for this man. She closed her eyes, and tried to calm herself. She fervently hoped Allison and Spike were alright, but she had her doubts.

As if he had read her mind, Travers e ofe of them. “And it was quite brilliant of you to bring the vampire to me. He will be quite useful. I have grand plans for him and that Slayer. Allison, on the other hand, will pay for what she took from me. I am not a patient man, and these years haven lon long in coming. She will pay for that.”

Deidra tried to move, and found that she couldn’t. That darn drug again. All she could do was open her eyes. Breathing was difficult, and now she realized that she probably couldn’t talk even if she wanted to.

“It won’t be long now. We just have one more short trip to make.” He got up and motioned to someone outside the door. Two men in dark suits came in and lifted her out of the chair and onto a gurney. They wheeled her out of the room and down a long hallway. At the end of the hallway, a door was opened and she realized that she was being pushed through an underground tunnel.

“Have you ever seen a Hellmouth before, daughter?”

TBC