Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2 by Holder Nancy & Golden Christopher

Author:Holder, Nancy & Golden, Christopher [Holder, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2011-07-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Are you sure about that?” Willow stared into Cutie’s big brown eyes. The library was the safest place in the whole school, quiet and mostly deserted. Nobody used it except Giles and the Scoobies, and they were all off helping the demon. Still, Cutie was pushing her to leave.

The kur twitched his button nose and purred, snuggling against her chest.

“Okay, if that’s what you want.” Willow adjusted the scarf around the precious creature as she walked toward the doors. She heard Xander talking as he approached from the other side.

“We have to kill the kur,” Xander said. “It worked for Andrew and Jonathan. This electric eel thing—”

Willow was frozen in shocked outrage when the doors opened. Xander, Ms. Calendar, and Giles smiled when they saw her, acting like nothing was wrong. Like they hadn’t been plotting to murder the one thing in the universe that made her really happy.

“Uh—” Xander’s mouth moved but nothing came out.

“How could you?” Willow glowered at Xander. Cutie trembled in her arms, sensing the danger.

“Willow, I’m so glad you’re all right.” Ms. Calendar tried to embrace her.

“Don’t touch me.” Willow shrugged out of reach. “I trusted you! All of you! I thought you were my friends, but you’re not. You want to kill Cutie!”

“No, we don’t, Willow,” Giles said. “You didn’t hear every—”

“I heard him!” Eyes flashing, Willow pointed at Xander. She was so angry, her chest heaved and she had to speak through clenched teeth to stay in control. “He said ‘kill the kur.’”

“Kur? You thought I said ‘kill the kur’? No, I said ‘her.’ Kill her. The, uh, Cordelia!” Xander smashed his fist into his hand. “She makes me so mad sometimes, I just want to . . . kill her. But I wouldn’t.”

“And you expect me to believe that?” Willow didn’t hide her disdain.

“Well, yeah.” Xander shoved his hands into his pockets and smiled his lopsided smile. “You know me. Speak first, think too late, and then regret.”

Xander fumbled for words that could make it right, but nothing could fix it this time. She didn’t need friends who wanted her pet to die. She didn’t need friends who betrayed her. She didn’t need anyone now that she had Cutie.

Willow calmed down when she realized that it didn’t matter what Xander thought should happen to the kur. He’d have to kill her first to get to Cutie, and he wouldn’t do that, not in a million years.

“Were you going somewhere, Willow?” Giles asked.

“Cutie wants to take a walk, so we’re leaving.” Nudged by the kur’s intense desire to move, Willow marched out the door. She heard her ex-friends talking behind her back again.

“Is she—” Xander stuttered. “Should I—”

“Just tell Buffy.” Giles coughed. “And that Ms. Calendar and I will be there shortly with the spell and accoutrement.”

“Huh?” Xander sounded puzzled.

“Spell stuff,” Ms. Calendar explained. “Candles, incense, charcoal—”

Willow smiled as she ambled down the corridor. Cutie was serene and all was well. She wasn’t even upset when Xander caught up with her, still pretending that everything was fine between them.

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