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"Not sure" she whispered back "Sorry" she frowned really starting to feel down
"Hey don't worry Buffy I'm sure Will'll find out all about this crazy vamp chick - "
"Mr. Harris!" Mr. Alan's voice rang out over the semi-silent class "I do hope you were paying attention to what I was just saying as it will be on the pop quiz we will be having in precisely" he glanced down at his watch "Five minutes" he grinned smugly
"Gulp" said Xander.

Willow sat at the computer console, it was so quiet as Giles had had to go out, but something was wrong and Willow knew she had just found a clue, it was an odd clue but it was a clue. She stared at the screen; she just couldn't believe what she was seeing, it was terrible. The screen showed a list of missing people from the last month, at first she had just thought it was normal; a few too many missing for a normal town, but not for a Hellmouth. The thing that was so bad though was the content of this list, over half of them were children. Between the ages of six and fifteen. She scrolled down the page not really wanting to see anymore but knowing she had to find out just how bad this problem was, and it was bad. There were Three different pages all together, with around one hundred and fifty people on them, over ninety of those were children. She knew there was a possibility that some of those were simple run away cases. The bell rang for second class and she realised for the first time just how long she had been staring at the pages of information. She cleared her stuff off the desk scrapped back her chair and rushed to the door, she came to screeching halt, turned and ran back to the desk, she bookmarked the site putting it next to the mortuary site, logged off, and ran back to the door. This time she made it into the hallway. When.
"Will!" a pause "Will!" she turned just as Oz came barrelling up behind her sending her flying into one of Cordelia's so called friends
"Excuse you!" she whined flicking her bleached hair that fell to her waist with extensions. Willow just ignored her, she pushed herself upright and turned to Oz
"I was gonna say I was pleased to see you" she smiled "But that was before you knocked me in to little miss bleach me" she frowned "Okay I didn't think that one through very well -"
"Umm Will?" he said "Will?"
"Huh, oh, yeah?"
"You're babbling" he smiled
"Oh" she blushed "Sorry" she looked at her shoes
"Don't be, its cute" he smiled, she felt herself blushing even more, she didn't know why, he was supposed complement her, its what boyfriends did
"So?" she prompted, he was busy gazing now, it was sweet but if he had something to say
"Yeah, umm I just wanted to know how your search was going? It just doesn't seem so important after all that, does it?" he smiled, she understood they had babbled away just for him to ask her that
"Its really interesting but at the same time"¦ gross!" she made a face
"How?" he asked pulling a little face too
"All of these children have been disappearing, and we haven't noticed" she felt her face drop this thing was really starting to eat at her "Its just I feel like we've let them down, its are job to protect them, and we've failed"
"Will" he hugged her "Don't ever think that! Okay? It's not your job, you do it because it's the type of person you are, you care!" he seemed so passionate about it she had to agree
"Yeah! I care" she noticed the other people in the corridor starting to stare "Well I do!" she said defiantly, they all turned away feeling ignoring her would do more for there status than anything "Umm Oz is that it? It's just I've really got to get to class, I kind of didn't go to first" she grinned slyly
"No that's it"¦ I think. Yeah" he smiled "Walk you to class?"
They turned and started walking towards french.

"Buffy, that you?"
"No mom its Mr. A. Hi" she walked into the Kitchen "Nice day at work?" she smiled
"It was work Buffy" her mom frowned
"I know exactly what you mean, they have a lot of that at school too" she grinned
"Oh Honey before I forget, there was a phone call for you earlier, a boy call"¦" she stopped to think
"Jack called?" Buffy filled in for her mom
"Yeah, but he didn't want to leave a message he just said to ask you to call him back. Umm Buffy who is Jack?she said very delicately
"A friend" she said a little tightly "I'm going to ring him back, I don't want any dinner, okay?" she didn't wait for an answer, turned and walked out of the room, up the stairs and into her room she picked up her phone and dialled Jack's number
"Jack, Hi it's me Buffy" she smiled
 
"Buffy Hi" in the distance she heard him say "Yes Bri it is her, no you can't talk to her, go away" his voice came back "You got my message then?" he asked
"Yeah, but you didn't leave a message. What's up?"
"A party" he paused for a long while "You comin?" he asked out of the blue
"What, huh?" she was a little shocked
"A party, you coming?" He said just a little impatiently
"When, Where? I'm gonna need more details than 'Party, you comin'" she snapped "Sorry"
"My place, Saturday, 9:00 till late. So?"
"Umm yeah, I'll see what I can do, I'll run it by Giles and the guys, but it should be fine" she smiled
"Giles, your school Liberian? Why would you need to check with him? And your friends?" he asked very confused. Buffy realised what she had just done and started back pedalling
"Oh umm"¦ I umm"¦ I promised I do some work for him. You know"¦ shelving. And I umm thought maybe I'd"¦ umm ask my friends to come to." She paused to catch her breath "If that's okay with you?" she asked
"Yeah, sure. Whatever. Just remember Saturday!" and he put the phone down. She sat down on her bed with the phone still in her hand what have I just done she thought, remembering a certain frat house with a certain giant snake I know. I've accepted a perfectly normal invitation to a perfectly normal party with that she put down the phone and picked up a text book that had been collecting dust on her floor from the last time she had been in"¦ she looked at the cover, Biology. Grimacing when she realised just how long that had been, and she started to study.

Xander was more than a little concerned about Buffy at times. This just happened to be one of them. He was worried about how Buffy had taken the attack in the graveyard, Buffy had been injured before and would be again but this time it actually seemed to have bothered her. He knew Buffy could take care of herself "“ and most other people too "“ but she was still only human. He also saw the way she winced when a sophomore had brushed passed her in the hall, he hadn't said anything at the time because he didn't want to create any tension. But it was obvious that her arm still hurt her. He was about to pick up the phone and call Willow when it started to ring. A bit startled he picked it up
"Xander it's me Willow" she said a bit jumpy "That was quick, you weren't sat by the phone were you? Cuz that would be so sad," she said very quickly obviously not thinking through her words
"No Will I wasn't, I was just about to ring you actually," he said not taking offence
"Cool what about?" she asked "NO!" she yelled down phone, he moved it away form his ear a bit to late "Sorry. But me first, okay?" she asked. He wasn't going to argue with that
"Go ahead"
"You know I was going to do a search, on the web? About the vampire that attacked Buff?"
"Yeah sure I do Will. What did you find? Anything useful?"
"Plenty!" Heard paper rustling "The amount of teenage disappearances and deaths" there was pause as she thought how to put it best "Well they've as good as doubled in the past two months. Xander I have page after page of statistics detailing things like: Place found and condition of body. We knew it was bad here but it was getting worse and we had no idea" she sounded really cut up about it. He felt bad, of course but he knew they were doing all they could, at least one of them patrolled every night and they had Buffy and Angel for the big fights, and Willow was learning Wicca and Giles was book guy. They had all the bases covered.
"Will we do all we can don't put yourself"¦ Hey! Or the rest of us down" he grinned down the phone line
"I'm not" she stopped unable to lie "It's just I wish we could do more"
"I know so do I but"¦" he said
"You were going to ring me?" she changed the subject quickly
"Yeah, but it's kind of related." he stopped "Buffy."
"Buffy, okay, what's up?" she asked
"She doesn't seem right. I know she has good reason but it's never really happened like this." And then he said a bit quieter "Apart from with all the stuff with Angel." They were both silent for a minute both remembering all that had gone, especially the death of Miss Calendar "I was going to ask if she had said anything to you about it, but I'm guessing no?" he asked deflating quickly
"I'm sorry Xand. You could always try Angel's place," thinking about it "Or I could do it" Xander almost smiled Willow could read his mind. The second she had said Angel's name he had grimaced, there was a huge amount of tension between the two of them, he made out that it was because he just didn't trust Angel, which sure, Buffy didn't like, but he thought it was better for the group that way. Xander loved Buffy and not just in that save your life, best friend way, Xander knew it had been there since he had first seen Buffy on the steps of school on her first ever day at Sunnydale High, if
 
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