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buffyfic-digest Saturday, June 13 1998 Volume 02 : Number 229
In this issue:
BUFFYFIC: Cloaked in Darkness: Chapter 8/?
BUFFYFIC: Cloaked in Darkness: Chapter 8/?
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 21:54:09 PDT
From: "Aurelia Destiny" <princessdestiny@hotmail.com>
Subject: BUFFYFIC: Cloaked in Darkness: Chapter 8/?
HI everyone! I'm looking for any Buffy Fanfiction to put on my new
Webpage, at the URL inclueded at the bottom of the page. Send me some
guys!
Love,
Aurelia
*********************************************************************
TITLE: Cloaked In Darkness
AUTHOR: Princess Destiny (princessdestiny@hotmail.com)
SUMMARY: Things are not exactly what they seem when Giles finds an
ancient diary, with news of the death of the Slayer. A new girl comes
to Sunnydale and things start to go crazy, Angel is jealous because
Buffy has a boyfriend and the Anointed one gets a nasty surprise...
It is naturally a Buffy/Angel Romance story, cause I'm a hopeless
romantic!
RATING: PG.
TIME PERIOD: Hmm, well since we have only seen up till Prophesy Girl
here in AustraliaBut I HAVE read the scripts for the rest of
them...Okay, just after Prophesy Girl and we'll leave it at that!
THANK-YOUS:
FEEDBACK: PLEASE! I love to hear from people!
DISTRIBUTION: Ask me first, I'll say yes anyway, but I want to know
where it is going.
DISCLAIMER: Buffy, Angel and the others are the property of Joss Whedon.
Gabriella and any others I add later on are Mine, Mine, Mine! This is
my first try at a Buffy fic so don't be too harsh, comments and
suggestions or even praise for my lovely story are very welcome!
************************
CLOAKED IN DARKNESS
************************
***PART 3: SECRETS***
Chapter 8: Deadly Scheming
"Hey Buffster! What's happening?" Xander's cheerful voice penetrated
Buffy's daze and made her wince. She turned to face her two best
friends and their expectant expressions with slight apprehension. Buffy
had seen Willow dancing with Angel the night before and it had made her
jealous...of WILLOW! She never would have figured herself for the
jealous type, but here she was jealous of Willow AND that girl Gabriella
that Angel liked so much. AND Gabriella might be Angel's girlfriend
too, he had not denied it.
"Hi guys, everything's cool. Have you seen Giles around today? He
wasn't in the Library when I wen there earlier." Buffy asked with a
smile, while taking her Math book from her locker and then locking it
again. Willow and Xander exchanged a look, Buffy knew when someone was
keeping something from her...and they were.
"Okay, spit it out, what do you know?" Buffy demanded and Xander choked
on his chocolate bar. Willow pounded him frantically on the back,
clearly trying to stall.
"Uh, know? We know nothing, nothing at all" Xander gasped and Willow
nodded quickly, giving her friend a sidelong look that said to keep
talking.
"Yep. Nothing." The red-haired girl confirmed, her eyes swinging around
the locker area as if for inspiration.
"So, Uh, Buffy. What're you doing tonight?" Xander asked
conversationally, he put an arm around Buffy and led her away from the
lockers. Buffy let him only because Willow had stayed behind. As soon
as they were around the corner Buffy slipped closer to Xander and
fluttered her lashes, smiling sweetly.
"Oh Xander, do me a favor?" Buffy said on a sugary tone and Xander
flushed, gasping like a fish for the moment at her unusual behavior.
Buffy knew he had a crush on her and usually avoided close contact.
"Sure Buff" he stammered and her expression hardened, she grabbed his
arm and pinned it behind his back while still smiling sweetly.
"tell me what's going on. I KNOW there's something going on...Slayer
sense and all" she said with a shrug but just then Willow came back and
Xander shook himself free with relief. He rushed behind Willow and
mock-cowered, using her as a shield.
"Willow! Buffy's trying to make me tell, stop her!" Xander pointed to
the Slayer dramatically and Buffy grinned despite herself. The day
might not turn out to be so bad, she thought with relief. Just then she
spotted a tall graceful figure with incredibly long black hair and Buffy
bit her lip angrily.
"Hey Buff, you're simmering" Xander noted and Buffy ignored him, her
eyes glued to the girl making her way through the halls at Cordelia's
side. They were heading for the front entrance and Buffy started after
them without a word of goodbye to her friends.
"She's spacier than usual" Willow noted back and Xander nodded. They
had no idea what Buffy was up to, but they were going to find out. Each
simultaneously started after their blonde friend and then laughed as
they saw they both had the same idea.
************************************
"...And this is the front office, you'll need to sign up here..."
Cordelia was saying as Buffy strode up behind them, Cordelia noticed her
first and both girls turned to look at Buffy.
"Buffy, aren't you supposed to be with the loser squad about now?"
Cordelia said smoothly and Buffy glared, not in the mood. Instead she
turned to Cordelia's new friend and the glare intensified.
"What are you doing here may I ask?" Buffy almost purred, Gabriella
looked startled and Cordelia patiently incredulous.
"Buffy, surely it's obvious what we're doing, Duh" Cordelia snapped,
taking the other girl's arm and they both entered the front office with
a steaming Buffy behind. She watched through the glass as Gabriella
talked to the woman behind the counter and saw that Gabriella had been
told the school was full. She would have had very little chance getting
into Sunnydale High this far into the year and Buffy felt an irrational
satisfaction. She didn't even see her two friend's sneak down the hall
and dash behind a wall.
"This is not a good thing, Buffy's glued to the front office" Xander
whispered as he and Willow peered around the corner. The blonde leader
of the Slayerettes was acting far more weird than usual, and that was
saying a lot about Buffy.
Buffy expected Gabriella to leave once she found out she couldn't get
in, but then something strange seemed to happen. The woman got a blank
look in her eyes after meeting Gabriella's gaze and then she handed over
a few forms for the dark-haired beauty to fill out. Buffy felt a jolt
like electricity go through her body and she shivered as if someone had
walked over her grave. Minutes later Gabriella was a student at
Sunnydale High and Buffy was flabbergasted.
"No. Way." She said slowly, each word spitting from her mouth like a
bullet. Gabriella had somehow gotten into the School with just a few
word and now Buffy had to contend with being near her rival every
day...she didn't even see as Cordelia and Gabriella left the front
office and the woman was staring out at Buffy as if she were mad. Buffy
was staring at nothing however, her Slayer senses having gone off the
scale the moment Gabriella met the woman's eyes...
**********************************************
Buffy couldn't wait till lunch to see where Giles had been and she raced
to the Library. Giles looked up startled as Buffy stormed in and dumped
her bag on the desk before the Watcher.
"Buffy. I'm glad you're here..." Giles began and Buffy glared.
"Really? Let me guess, someone wants to take over the world...Brain
perhaps?" she shouted and the Watcher frowned in confusion as Buffy
raved on incoherently and stomped away.
"Is there something bothering you?" Giles asked gently and Buffy
stopped her tirade, calming at a remarkable speed. She came back to the
desk and flung herself into a chair, leaning her chin against her hand
pensively.
"You could say that, Giles. What if I said that there was a new girl
and she gave me REAL weird vibes?" Buffy asked and Giles took his
glasses off to wipe them, something she noticed he did a lot when
worried.
"R-really, she makes you worried?" Giles said and Buffy rolled her
eyes.
"That's an understatement, as usual. I'd say it's definitely a problem,
as in my Slay-O-Meter going off the scale?" Buffy hinted and Giles
reached immediately for his books. He was silent for a while, then with
a nervous expression aimed in Buffy's direction, he pulled out a book
from under a pile of papers. Buffy immediately felt something and Sat
up straighter, staring intently at the red leather cover.
"What's that Giles, a new Codex?" Buffy asked, mystified as she reached
for it and Giles pulled it back out of her reach almost protectively.
Buffy frowned in confusion and then pouted.
"Giles! Come on, you never let me handle any of the books!" Buffy
almost wailed. It took another five minutes of pouting and wailing but
Giles eventually handed over the book just as Willow and Xander entered
the Library.
"So any new disasters abroad G-man?" Xander said good-naturedly. Giles
frowned, replying automatically as he kept an eye on Buffy. The blonde
seemed fascinated by the book, though he knew she couldn't read it, she
was looking at the back page as if she could and Giles panicked.
"Buffy! Be careful, it is very old!" he shouted, snatching it out of
her hands and they all stared at him in surprise.
"I was careful!" Buffy protested. She got to her feet and walked
towards the weapon's cupboard.
"Buffy, I haven't put the 'closed for filing' sign up yet. Anyone could
just walk...in" he finished weakly as the doors pushed inward and
someone he had never seen in the school walked in. She was amazingly
beautiful and Giles found himself gaping for a moment before remembering
he was supposed to be the Librarian.
"Can, can I help you?" he stammered and she turned from a shelf to give
him a sweet smile that melted his limbs, she was wearing a white dress
that fell to her knee's and white knee boots. Her hair was incredibly
long and dark and fell past her waist like a silken waterfall.
"I was just interested, I joined Sunnydale today and I always love to
read" she told him quietly, her gaze was steady and there seemed to be
an infinite wisdom in her dark green eyes. Giles felt drawn to her
immediately and barely heard the clatter of the quarter-staves as Buffy
brought them out of the weapon's cage.
"Ready for a thrashing Giles?" she asked cheerfully. Giles turned to
look at the Slayer in slight horror at the same time Buffy realized they
weren't alone. Giles expected Buffy to say some story about what she
was doing with the staves but instead she was glaring with almost hatred
at the girl behind the Watcher's shoulder.
"I am sorry, I didn't know you were doing something private" the girl
said quietly and Buffy leaned the staffs against the table, walking
closer.
"Oh, no. We were just practicing...vampires you know" Buffy said and
Giles gasped in horror, Willow almost fell over and Xander just gaped.
"Giles, guys, this is Gabriella. She's Angel's new girlfriend" Buffy
introduced the girl and Giles felt rather than saw Gabriella flinch at
Buffy's bitter words.
*********************************************
Gabriella blinked a tear from her eye before the other's could see it,
her heart truly felt for Buffy and her anguish. But she didn't know if
it was Angel's intention to pretend that she was his girlfriend or not.
If he wanted she was fully intending to help him out, he had to have
SOMETHING to use, Buffy had Dwayne and now Angel had Gabriella to help
him.
"Gabriella has been around a few times when I've been fighting" Buffy
murmured. Gabriella moved towards the table and past the girl, almost
reaching out to give the blonde comfort. But not. Buffy would in no
way take help from a rival.
"I didn't mean to intrude...who are your friends Buffy?" Gabriella
asked gently and the blonde seemed to shake herself out of a kind of
trace. She introduced the two students as her best friends and Giles as
the Librarian. If Gabriella found this odd she said nothing and Buffy
glared at her back as Angel's girl sat down at the table like she owned
the place.
"It IS the Library Buffy" Giles muttered in Buffy's ear, clearly
recognizing the outraged look on the Slayer's face. Gabriella saw the
look also and almost laughed, she talked with them for a while more and
then left.
******************************************
"...To see this Miss Calendar...it's amazing...can't translate..."
Giles voice echoed back from the halls as he and the computer teacher
walked towards the Library. Miss calendar had seemed most interested at
the prospect of translating an unknown book. They pushed open the doors
and walked in silently, Giles heard a slight noise and he and Miss
Calendar crept forward. Buffy wasn't due today and neither were the
other two, school was also out so there should have been no one in the
Library at all.
"Be as quiet as you can, I'll see who is there" Giles murmured and Miss
Calendar nodded and hide behind a book shelf near the door. Preparing to
fight if neccessary, as the Watcher inched around the counter till he
could see who was in the room. He recognized the new girl Gabriella
immediately and almost straightened in relief, but something made his
paused and he looked closer. He almost gasped when he saw she was
holding the precious book, the red leather covers were open and
Gabriella stroked the pages lightly.
After a moment he saw her lips move and then she began to read a loud.
But not in any language he could understand and he almost had a heart
attack when he realized she could understand and read what was written
in the pages.
"Impossible!" Giles said more loudly than he had intended and
Gabriella's head shot up, he saw with shock that there were tears in her
green eyes and they shimmered like emeralds in the light.
"Oh" she sniffed delicately and put the book down, still open. Giles
moved around the counter until he was standing opposite Gabriella, the
table between them and he glanced down at the book curiously. The pages
were open about half way through the book and he stared at the script
for a moment before glancing timidly up at her. If she could truly read
it he wanted to know how and she could very well be the key to his
saving Buffy.
"Can you...?" Giles started to say but Gabriella leapt to her feet with
a wary expression. She ran swiftly and was out the door before Giles
could finish his sentence and he ran after her without thinking.
"Stop her!" Giles yelled to Miss Calendar as Gabriella passed where she
was hiding but the teacher stood up with a confused expression.
"What? Giles?" she said, turning her head to watch the girl running
swiftly out the Library doors.
Giles felt an irrational anger and pushed past her, his eyes darting
around the school halls. He looked left and then right, all the
classrooms were locked at night so she couldn't have gone into any of
them and the halls were long. Gabriella had just disappeared into thin
air...
"I want to take you where the night never ends..."
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 21:54:09 PDT
From: "Aurelia Destiny" <princessdestiny@hotmail.com>
Subject: BUFFYFIC: Cloaked in Darkness: Chapter 8/?
HI everyone! I'm looking for any Buffy Fanfiction to put on my new
Webpage, at the URL inclueded at the bottom of the page. Send me some
guys!
Love,
Aurelia
*********************************************************************
TITLE: Cloaked In Darkness
AUTHOR: Princess Destiny (princessdestiny@hotmail.com)
SUMMARY: Things are not exactly what they seem when Giles finds an
ancient diary, with news of the death of the Slayer. A new girl comes
to Sunnydale and things start to go crazy, Angel is jealous because
Buffy has a boyfriend and the Anointed one gets a nasty surprise...
It is naturally a Buffy/Angel Romance story, cause I'm a hopeless
romantic!
RATING: PG.
TIME PERIOD: Hmm, well since we have only seen up till Prophesy Girl
here in AustraliaBut I HAVE read the scripts for the rest of
them...Okay, just after Prophesy Girl and we'll leave it at that!
THANK-YOUS:
FEEDBACK: PLEASE! I love to hear from people!
DISTRIBUTION: Ask me first, I'll say yes anyway, but I want to know
where it is going.
DISCLAIMER: Buffy, Angel and the others are the property of Joss Whedon.
Gabriella and any others I add later on are Mine, Mine, Mine! This is
my first try at a Buffy fic so don't be too harsh, comments and
suggestions or even praise for my lovely story are very welcome!
************************
CLOAKED IN DARKNESS
************************
***PART 3: SECRETS***
Chapter 8: Deadly Scheming
"Hey Buffster! What's happening?" Xander's cheerful voice penetrated
Buffy's daze and made her wince. She turned to face her two best
friends and their expectant expressions with slight apprehension. Buffy
had seen Willow dancing with Angel the night before and it had made her
jealous...of WILLOW! She never would have figured herself for the
jealous type, but here she was jealous of Willow AND that girl Gabriella
that Angel liked so much. AND Gabriella might be Angel's girlfriend
too, he had not denied it.
"Hi guys, everything's cool. Have you seen Giles around today? He
wasn't in the Library when I wen there earlier." Buffy asked with a
smile, while taking her Math book from her locker and then locking it
again. Willow and Xander exchanged a look, Buffy knew when someone was
keeping something from her...and they were.
"Okay, spit it out, what do you know?" Buffy demanded and Xander choked
on his chocolate bar. Willow pounded him frantically on the back,
clearly trying to stall.
"Uh, know? We know nothing, nothing at all" Xander gasped and Willow
nodded quickly, giving her friend a sidelong look that said to keep
talking.
"Yep. Nothing." The red-haired girl confirmed, her eyes swinging around
the locker area as if for inspiration.
"So, Uh, Buffy. What're you doing tonight?" Xander asked
conversationally, he put an arm around Buffy and led her away from the
lockers. Buffy let him only because Willow had stayed behind. As soon
as they were around the corner Buffy slipped closer to Xander and
fluttered her lashes, smiling sweetly.
"Oh Xander, do me a favor?" Buffy said on a sugary tone and Xander
flushed, gasping like a fish for the moment at her unusual behavior.
Buffy knew he had a crush on her and usually avoided close contact.
"Sure Buff" he stammered and her expression hardened, she grabbed his
arm and pinned it behind his back while still smiling sweetly.
"tell me what's going on. I KNOW there's something going on...Slayer
sense and all" she said with a shrug but just then Willow came back and
Xander shook himself free with relief. He rushed behind Willow and
mock-cowered, using her as a shield.
"Willow! Buffy's trying to make me tell, stop her!" Xander pointed to
the Slayer dramatically and Buffy grinned despite herself. The day
might not turn out to be so bad, she thought with relief. Just then she
spotted a tall graceful figure with incredibly long black hair and Buffy
bit her lip angrily.
"Hey Buff, you're simmering" Xander noted and Buffy ignored him, her
eyes glued to the girl making her way through the halls at Cordelia's
side. They were heading for the front entrance and Buffy started after
them without a word of goodbye to her friends.
"She's spacier than usual" Willow noted back and Xander nodded. They
had no idea what Buffy was up to, but they were going to find out. Each
simultaneously started after their blonde friend and then laughed as
they saw they both had the same idea.
************************************
"...And this is the front office, you'll need to sign up here..."
Cordelia was saying as Buffy strode up behind them, Cordelia noticed her
first and both girls turned to look at Buffy.
"Buffy, aren't you supposed to be with the loser squad about now?"
Cordelia said smoothly and Buffy glared, not in the mood. Instead she
turned to Cordelia's new friend and the glare intensified.
"What are you doing here may I ask?" Buffy almost purred, Gabriella
looked startled and Cordelia patiently incredulous.
"Buffy, surely it's obvious what we're doing, Duh" Cordelia snapped,
taking the other girl's arm and they both entered the front office with
a steaming Buffy behind. She watched through the glass as Gabriella
talked to the woman behind the counter and saw that Gabriella had been
told the school was full. She would have had very little chance getting
into Sunnydale High this far into the year and Buffy felt an irrational
satisfaction. She didn't even see her two friend's sneak down the hall
and dash behind a wall.
"This is not a good thing, Buffy's glued to the front office" Xander
whispered as he and Willow peered around the corner. The blonde leader
of the Slayerettes was acting far more weird than usual, and that was
saying a lot about Buffy.
Buffy expected Gabriella to leave once she found out she couldn't get
in, but then something strange seemed to happen. The woman got a blank
look in her eyes after meeting Gabriella's gaze and then she handed over
a few forms for the dark-haired beauty to fill out. Buffy felt a jolt
like electricity go through her body and she shivered as if someone had
walked over her grave. Minutes later Gabriella was a student at
Sunnydale High and Buffy was flabbergasted.
"No. Way." She said slowly, each word spitting from her mouth like a
bullet. Gabriella had somehow gotten into the School with just a few
word and now Buffy had to contend with being near her rival every
day...she didn't even see as Cordelia and Gabriella left the front
office and the woman was staring out at Buffy as if she were mad. Buffy
was staring at nothing however, her Slayer senses having gone off the
scale the moment Gabriella met the woman's eyes...
**********************************************
Buffy couldn't wait till lunch to see where Giles had been and she raced
to the Library. Giles looked up startled as Buffy stormed in and dumped
her bag on the desk before the Watcher.
"Buffy. I'm glad you're here..." Giles began and Buffy glared.
"Really? Let me guess, someone wants to take over the world...Brain
perhaps?" she shouted and the Watcher frowned in confusion as Buffy
raved on incoherently and stomped away.
"Is there something bothering you?" Giles asked gently and Buffy
stopped her tirade, calming at a remarkable speed. She came back to the
desk and flung herself into a chair, leaning her chin against her hand
pensively.
"You could say that, Giles. What if I said that there was a new girl
and she gave me REAL weird vibes?" Buffy asked and Giles took his
glasses off to wipe them, something she noticed he did a lot when
worried.
"R-really, she makes you worried?" Giles said and Buffy rolled her
eyes.
"That's an understatement, as usual. I'd say it's definitely a problem,
as in my Slay-O-Meter going off the scale?" Buffy hinted and Giles
reached immediately for his books. He was silent for a while, then with
a nervous expression aimed in Buffy's direction, he pulled out a book
from under a pile of papers. Buffy immediately felt something and Sat
up straighter, staring intently at the red leather cover.
"What's that Giles, a new Codex?" Buffy asked, mystified as she reached
for it and Giles pulled it back out of her reach almost protectively.
Buffy frowned in confusion and then pouted.
"Giles! Come on, you never let me handle any of the books!" Buffy
almost wailed. It took another five minutes of pouting and wailing but
Giles eventually handed over the book just as Willow and Xander entered
the Library.
"So any new disasters abroad G-man?" Xander said good-naturedly. Giles
frowned, replying automatically as he kept an eye on Buffy. The blonde
seemed fascinated by the book, though he knew she couldn't read it, she
was looking at the back page as if she could and Giles panicked.
"Buffy! Be careful, it is very old!" he shouted, snatching it out of
her hands and they all stared at him in surprise.
"I was careful!" Buffy protested. She got to her feet and walked
towards the weapon's cupboard.
"Buffy, I haven't put the 'closed for filing' sign up yet. Anyone could
just walk...in" he finished weakly as the doors pushed inward and
someone he had never seen in the school walked in. She was amazingly
beautiful and Giles found himself gaping for a moment before remembering
he was supposed to be the Librarian.
"Can, can I help you?" he stammered and she turned from a shelf to give
him a sweet smile that melted his limbs, she was wearing a white dress
that fell to her knee's and white knee boots. Her hair was incredibly
long and dark and fell past her waist like a silken waterfall.
"I was just interested, I joined Sunnydale today and I always love to
read" she told him quietly, her gaze was steady and there seemed to be
an infinite wisdom in her dark green eyes. Giles felt drawn to her
immediately and barely heard the clatter of the quarter-staves as Buffy
brought them out of the weapon's cage.
"Ready for a thrashing Giles?" she asked cheerfully. Giles turned to
look at the Slayer in slight horror at the same time Buffy realized they
weren't alone. Giles expected Buffy to say some story about what she
was doing with the staves but instead she was glaring with almost hatred
at the girl behind the Watcher's shoulder.
"I am sorry, I didn't know you were doing something private" the girl
said quietly and Buffy leaned the staffs against the table, walking
closer.
"Oh, no. We were just practicing...vampires you know" Buffy said and
Giles gasped in horror, Willow almost fell over and Xander just gaped.
"Giles, guys, this is Gabriella. She's Angel's new girlfriend" Buffy
introduced the girl and Giles felt rather than saw Gabriella flinch at
Buffy's bitter words.
*********************************************
Gabriella blinked a tear from her eye before the other's could see it,
her heart truly felt for Buffy and her anguish. But she didn't know if
it was Angel's intention to pretend that she was his girlfriend or not.
If he wanted she was fully intending to help him out, he had to have
SOMETHING to use, Buffy had Dwayne and now Angel had Gabriella to help
him.
"Gabriella has been around a few times when I've been fighting" Buffy
murmured. Gabriella moved towards the table and past the girl, almost
reaching out to give the blonde comfort. But not. Buffy would in no
way take help from a rival.
"I didn't mean to intrude...who are your friends Buffy?" Gabriella
asked gently and the blonde seemed to shake herself out of a kind of
trace. She introduced the two students as her best friends and Giles as
the Librarian. If Gabriella found this odd she said nothing and Buffy
glared at her back as Angel's girl sat down at the table like she owned
the place.
"It IS the Library Buffy" Giles muttered in Buffy's ear, clearly
recognizing the outraged look on the Slayer's face. Gabriella saw the
look also and almost laughed, she talked with them for a while more and
then left.
******************************************
"...To see this Miss Calendar...it's amazing...can't translate..."
Giles voice echoed back from the halls as he and the computer teacher
walked towards the Library. Miss calendar had seemed most interested at
the prospect of translating an unknown book. They pushed open the doors
and walked in silently, Giles heard a slight noise and he and Miss
Calendar crept forward. Buffy wasn't due today and neither were the
other two, school was also out so there should have been no one in the
Library at all.
"Be as quiet as you can, I'll see who is there" Giles murmured and Miss
Calendar nodded and hide behind a book shelf near the door. Preparing to
fight if neccessary, as the Watcher inched around the counter till he
could see who was in the room. He recognized the new girl Gabriella
immediately and almost straightened in relief, but something made his
paused and he looked closer. He almost gasped when he saw she was
holding the precious book, the red leather covers were open and
Gabriella stroked the pages lightly.
After a moment he saw her lips move and then she began to read a loud.
But not in any language he could understand and he almost had a heart
attack when he realized she could understand and read what was written
in the pages.
"Impossible!" Giles said more loudly than he had intended and
Gabriella's head shot up, he saw with shock that there were tears in her
green eyes and they shimmered like emeralds in the light.
"Oh" she sniffed delicately and put the book down, still open. Giles
moved around the counter until he was standing opposite Gabriella, the
table between them and he glanced down at the book curiously. The pages
were open about half way through the book and he stared at the script
for a moment before glancing timidly up at her. If she could truly read
it he wanted to know how and she could very well be the key to his
saving Buffy.
"Can you...?" Giles started to say but Gabriella leapt to her feet with
a wary expression. She ran swiftly and was out the door before Giles
could finish his sentence and he ran after her without thinking.
"Stop her!" Giles yelled to Miss Calendar as Gabriella passed where she
was hiding but the teacher stood up with a confused expression.
"What? Giles?" she said, turning her head to watch the girl running
swiftly out the Library doors.
Giles felt an irrational anger and pushed past her, his eyes darting
around the school halls. He looked left and then right, all the
classrooms were locked at night so she couldn't have gone into any of
them and the halls were long. Gabriella had just disappeared into thin
air...
"I want to take you where the night never ends..."
*My quote for the month!*
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