Pure Poison

Ch. 6: The First Sign Of Trouble

Disclaimer in prologue.



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Chapter Six: The First Sign Of Trouble, AKA Buffy Comes To Town.















Des laid back on her bed and gazed into her closet. Before she went home the previous night, Caleb slipped a note into her hand. It said:







Candy Eyes,



Meet me for breakfast at Ithaki Mediterranean Cuisine.



Sweet Black Eyes.







Des giggled and pushed off her bed. She walked to her closet and dove into the mess head first. She slipped on a red Harajuku Lovers Roundie Def Girls watch, a Butterfly Dropout Angel Heart shirt in Ivory, a pair of Eclipse Noir Flare Basic 5 Pocket Jeans in Dirty Wash, a pair of Ashley Dearborn Jane Open Pump in Black/Tort, a Chamak by Priya Kakkar Crystal Bangle in white, a Juicy Couture Zip Wallet in Black, and a Kenneth Jay Lane Flower Ring with Pearl in Pink. She looked at herself in the mirror and hoped that Caleb would be impressed.



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Dawn looked at her closet, wondering what to wear. She had Xander on the headset phone.







"I'm supposed to meet him for breakfast at a Mediterranean restaurant for breakfast, Xan," She whined.



She could just hear Xander shaking his head.







"I heard that Xander Harris," She grumbled, "don't you shake your head at me."



Xander 'eeped' over the line.







"You know me to well, Dawnie," He sighed.



"No shit, Sherlock."



"You spend to much time with Faith."



"I heard that one from Des, Spank you very much."



Xander choked.







"Little Miss Silent-As-The-Grave?"



"Yup."



"Holy shit!"



"Yup."



"So how is Desi?"



Dawn laughed.







"She's good. Our first day of school, she found a new obsession."



Xander laughed.







"What is it?"



"Who, is more accurate, Xander."



"Alright, I'll bite. Who?"



"A tall, dark, broody, Angel wanna-be named Caleb."



Xander fell out of his chair.







"Please tell me he doesn't look like Deadboy."



"Nope. He's 6' 3", with spiky black/brown hair, brown eyes, and these beautiful plump lips that..."



"Okay...Okay...I get the picture. He's not Deadboy."



"He's a Black Eyes too, Xander."



"WHAT!?!?"



"One of four in Ipswich. These four are of the good."



"They better be."



"They are. Reid is one too."



"And who is this Reid?"



Dawn rolled her eyes.







"The guy I'm going to go meet."



Xander was silent for a moment.







"Oh."



"Yeah."



He let out a breath.







"So did Ceres and Bianca meet anybody?"



"Yup. The other two Black Eyes. Tyler and Pogue."



Xander cocked his head, hearing Giles yelling at Willow.







"Xander?"



Xander groaned.







"Oh shit."



"XANDER!!!"



"What?"



"What's going on?"



Xander bit his lip.







"Xander..." Dawn said firmly, "don't make me use your full name."



"You wouldn't," Xander gasped, then groaned, "yes, you would."



"Tell me before I do use it."



"Giles is yelling at Willow."



"For what?"



"For not telling him that she booked a flight to Ipswich for Buffy."



"WHAT!?!?!?"



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No song for this chapter. It will be continued in the next one.

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Ch. 7: Buffy Comes To Town (cont.)

Disclaimer in prologue. Buffy Bashing in this chapter!



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Ceres stretched like a cat before diving into her closet. She fell out of said closet when her phone rang.







"What?"



"We had a code B."



"Shit!"



"Got that right."



"How bad of a Code B?"



"Giles yelling at Willow bad."



"Shit."



"Yup."



"Does Desi and Bianca know?"



"Not yet. I tried to call Desi but she turned her phone off. I think she was supposed to meet Caleb at Ithaki's for breakfast."



"Go, Desi!"



"Yeah. But how will we inform her of the Code B?"



"Aren't you going there with Reid for breakfast?"



"Yeah....oh, yeah, I'll tell her."



"Okay. I gotta get dressed and I'll meet you at the Town House. Xan left instructions with the Dean not to give Buffy any information on our living situation."



"Why?"



"Other than the fact that she hates our guts and is probably coming to drag our asses home and plant three of her own little spies?"



"Oh yeah."



"See ya later, Dawnie."



"See ya later, Cee."



Ceres hung up the phone and cursed a very color fine in several different languages: Human and Demon.



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The taxi pulled up to Ithaki's and Des got out, thanking the driver. She went inside and met Caleb at a table. Caleb gave her a kiss on the cheek, near her ear.







"Glad you could make it," He told her truthfully.



"I was surprised that you invited me," She replied, slightly flushed.



Before Caleb could respond, his phone buzzed in his pocket. It was Reid. The text said, 'Tell Des that they have a G.Y.A.W. Code B'.







"What does a 'G.Y.A.W. Code B' mean?" He asked.



Des cursed under her breath.







"It means Giles Yelling At Willow Code Buffy," Des clarified, "meaning that Giles was yelling at Willow for not informing him that Buffy is about to have a major fucking meltdown and yell at me and my sisters. She's had it in for us for a long time, hates our fucking guts, and doesn't want us anywhere near Dawn."



Caleb gave her a worried look.







"What do you need to do?"



"Run for our lives and hope she never finds us?"



Caleb gave her a look.







"What? It's the truth. Run, hide, and hope to God that she doesn't find us. Me and my sisters had one of those imancipation things way before Buffy came along. Even though Xander was the one to recruit us. One night..." Des looked around them, then leaned in, "one night, Dawn had gotten hurt, not even in the same area that me and my sisters were patrolling. We were the ones that Dawn paged to come and get her. When we brought her back, Buffy blamed us for Dawn getting hurt...despite Dawn's, Xander's, Willow's...hell, everyone's...protests. She made us spar with her. We had only been there for a couple of months and...we weren't as good as we are now."



"Buffy just lost it. She wailed on us. She put Ceres in the hospital for two weeks. Xan took us in. Took custody of us. And ordered Buffy to stay away from us. Nobody knows why she hates us. Though, they said that she hated us worse than Faith, when Faith first came to Sunnydale."



Caleb was worried. He could sense Des' fear. Caleb put his hand over Des'. Then felt a flash:







"It's your fault!" Buffy screamed.



Dawn, Faith, Giles, Xander, Willow, Andrew, Robin, and Kennedy were all protesting.







"I don't care!" Buffy yelled, "it's their fault! They should have been there!"







Caleb gasped when he saw Buffy's eyes.







"I think I know why," He said softly.



Des was confused.







"One of my kind...have you encountered them before?"



She nodded.







"Do they hate you?"



She nodded again.







"I think they cast a spell on her...to make her kill you..."



Des gasped.



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No song for this chapter. (Ducks rotten food thrown by avid Buffy fans)