Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3 by Nancy Holder & Christopher Golden

Author:Nancy Holder & Christopher Golden [Holder, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2011-07-25T14:00:00+00:00

Giles was accustomed to working all hours of the day and night. Obviously, so were the pair of detectives who summoned him to a quaint suburban home several miles west of the school after ten o’clock in the evening. Unfortunately, they needed no introduction. The first was a middle-aged man named Stein, who shook Giles’s hand limply and offered a weak “Thanks for coming on such short notice.” Giles vaguely remembered meeting Stein at the school a few months earlier, when the police had been investigating Buffy’s assault on a man named Ted Buchanan. Though Buffy was never charged in the case, and Ted had turned out to be a homicidal robot, Giles still remembered darkly those few days when Buffy was devastated by the thought that she had harmed a human being.

Stein’s partner in the current investigation was the clearly overworked Detective Winslow, an African-American woman Giles had already had the pleasure of meeting when his past came back to haunt and try to kill him in the form of a demon called Eyghon.

On the one hand, Giles hated the idea that he was so well known among Sunnydale’s law enforcement community. Rule one of being a Watcher was to keep a low profile. Rule two: See rule one. On the other hand, Giles had often wondered how oblivious those who were entrusted with securing the safety of a town situated on a Hellmouth could be to the supernatural phenomena that surrounded them. He had no proof, but his instincts told him that someone, somewhere had to know more than what was reported in the papers. It was much too convenient that vampire attacks were almost always described as “kids on PCP.” It smacked of a cover-up that had to go higher than the flatfoots who worked Sunnydale’s streets. Just how high, however, Giles did not know.

Giles had been at home when the call came. Though he wasn’t convinced that Willow’s theory about the strange sleeping sickness was on target, he had to admit that he was exhausted, and he had planned to make an early evening of it when he was roused by the late-night jangling of his phone. He’d rushed to answer it, assuming it would be Buffy, and was taken aback when Detective Stein advised him that they had found evidence of a crime that they believed Giles might be able to illuminate for them.

Twenty minutes later he was standing in the middle of a full-blown investigation. The house was surrounded by yellow police tape, and several portable lights had been brought in to aid the detectives who were searching the front and back yards for clues.

Giles’s concern intensified when he noted the coroner’s van pulled discreetly up between the police cars that lined the street in front of the house.

“We need you to take a look at this for us,” Stein said simply as he ushered Giles through the foyer. Most of the activity seemed to be centered around the kitchen and an open doorway that probably led to the home’s basement.

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