Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Buffy Season4 01 by The Lost Slayer 01 Prophecies # Christopher Golden

Author:The Lost Slayer 01 Prophecies # Christopher Golden
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-06-29T12:20:10+00:00

CHAPTER 5

“We got nothing.”

With a frown, Giles looked up from the map of Sunnydale that was spread across his dining room table. Xander and Anya sat on the floor in the middle of his apartment with the previous week’s local newspapers arranged around them so expansively it appeared as though Giles had bought a puppy that was not yet housebroken.

“Surely there must be something,” Giles said, disheartened at Xander’s declaration. “A downed plane. Strange stories from the border patrol. Violence at airport customs in Los Angeles. Something to give us just an inkling of where they might have made their lair locally.” Anya gestured with a hand to indicate the newspapers. “Nothing. The new mayor has issued more lies disguised as promises, as expected of the more talented politicians. The Coast Guard is fighting charges they didn’t act fast enough to clean up that oil spill last week. Nothing. Last night was boring and pointless. So is today.”

“We’ve got bubkes,” Xander added.

Anya, a former demon herself, and Xander’s girlfriend, glanced at him uncertainly. “Bubkes?”

“Nada,” Xander told her. “Zilch. Zip. Zero. Squat. Diddly.” He shrugged. “Bubkes.”

“Odd,” Anya told him. She shook her head ever so slightly, an expression of frustration with the confusing world around her that was almost as common as the disparaging tone she took with most everyone. “It sounds almost like a sexual act.”

“Oh, for God’s sake,” Giles muttered under his breath. The two of them did go on a bit about the more carnal aspects of their relationship.

“You’re right,” Xander said thoughtfully. “I think it’s our job to invent that. Bubkes. We’ll be the first.”

“Do you two mind?” Giles snapped. “What we’re dealing with here is quite serious. An infestation of new vampires led by an ancient demon-god. Lucy Hanover visits Buffy in a dream to warn her that something terrible is on the horizon just as she runs across this new group? I’m certain there’s a connection. I suggest you get serious about working with me to figure out where these new arrivals are secreting themselves, or simply take your … distractions with you and go elsewhere.”

Anya grinned, an amiable expression on her face. “Excellent,” she said, climbing to her feet. “Let’s go, Xander. We’ve only made it halfway through the Ka-masutra and there are dozens of —”

Xander had the good sense to be somewhat embarrassed. “Um, Anya? That was sarcasm. Hard to tell with Giles, I know. But he needs help and was kidding about wanting us to leave.” Then Xander frowned and glanced at Giles. “Right?”

“Not terribly certain of that myself,” Giles replied dryly. “But, yes, I could use all the help I can get. I don’t know why Buffy and Willow have not yet called me back.”

“The Buffster’s got nothing or she would have called you this morning, don’t you think?” Xander said. “She went down to Willy’s Alibi Room, intimidated Willy. If she’d gotten anything from him she would have called.”

Giles glanced across the room at his phone, then glared down at the map on the table as if it were purposely withholding information from him.

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