Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Buffy Season3 09 by Immortal # Nancy Holder

Author:Immortal # Nancy Holder
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-06-29T11:13:40+00:00

Chapter Nine

There was a knock on Giles’s door. It was quite late, but he was still awake, surrounded by reference books, a half-eaten combination plate from Sunnydale Tandoori, and a cold cup of tea laced with sugar and lots of milk.

He wore an old navy-blue Oxford sweatshirt and a pair of dark gray sweats. Perhaps that was the reason Buffy looked caught off guard when he opened the door.

“Buffy,” he said. “Come in. Has something happened?”

“Yeah.” She flashed him a smile. “I dusted her butt.” Her smile faded. “Oh. You mean about my mother.”

“No, not at all,” he said quickly, but it was true. The first thought to pop into his mind was that Joyce had taken a turn for the worse.

“You’ve got how’s-your-mom face,” she accused, stepping in. She wore her dark blue hooded sweatshirt and gray sweats. Giving him a look, she grinned and said, “Aren’t you glad there’s an Old Navy outlet in town? For those Slayer-and-Watcher matching outfits?”

“Quite.”

“Easter, I’m thinking floral patterns.”

He led the way into his living room, saw her glance idly down at one of his books splayed open on his desk. It was a thick text entitled Soul Possession and Transmigration: An Annotated Bibliography.

You’ve always been one for a little light reading before bed,” she commented. “Even the footnotes have footnotes.”

He smiled faintly. “The sort of thing to thrill a librarian to his soul.”

She chuckled in return. “You’re not a librarian, Giles. You just play one on TV. You’re really Indiana Jones. Your little hat and whip will be on the next plane from Adidas Arriba.”

“Addis Ababa,” he corrected. He gestured for her to sit down. “You said you dusted Veronique?”

“Yup.” She looked mildly proud of herself as she got comfortable on the couch and picked up a throw pillow, cradling it against her chest. “Not to brag. Just like the Terminator, she’ll be back.”

Buffy shivered at the thought. No matter how many times she rolled it over in her mind, no matter what kind of references Giles might dig up on Veronique, the whole thing still gave her the creeps.

“It’s quite probable,” Giles allowed. “I’m hoping that in the interim — however long we’ve got — I can figure out a way to stop her.” He scratched his chin. “It would help if I had more information, perhaps if more of Peter Toscano’s journals had survived the fire. Or if I could find some other writings on her that were more than the usual twaddle about her immortality. It seems anyone who got close enough to her to learn anything useful died before they could pass that information on. If only we could discover what she wants. Her purpose in coming to Sunnydale.”

Buffy nodded. “If the demon she’s kissing up to is anything like some of the others we’ve dealt with, Veronique’s probably playing travel agent, trying to get it a one-way ticket Earthbound.”

“I’d thought of that.” Giles nodded. “It seems likely, which is why I’m continuing to look into the nature of the Triumvirate.

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