Whatever You Say
by TutorGurl
Chapter 17
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"Giles!" Faith called out as the three girl's entered the library. Cordy was holding an ice pack to the side of her head when Giles emerged for his office.
"Hello, girls," he greeted, avoiding Buffy's gaze. After she had left he felt horrible about what he said. He knew that he had hurt his slayer and that was not what he had set out to do. After a few hours of thinking, he had come to the conclusion that Willow made Buffy happy and vice versa. That's all he could ever ask for. "Faith said there was some sort of emergency."
"Willow was kidnapped," Cordy explained before either of the slayers could say anything. She moved further into the library and sat down in one of the chairs in a huff. "They burst in, knocked me out and took Willow." At the news, he immediately turned to Buffy.
"Oh, my."
"It gets worse," Buffy whispered. "Guess who took her?" Judging by the worry in her voice, it was an old enemy. He shook his head and removed his glasses.
"Well, I'll tell you," Cordy said, from her position behind him. He turned around to face her. "It was Blondie and Dead-Boy." He looked to Buffy for a translation.
"Spike and Angel," Faith spoke up, seeing that Buffy was having problems. He blinked a few times before removing his glasses. The Spike part wasn't that surprising, he was a pain in all their asses, but Angel?
"Angel?" he questioned, knowing Buffy would know what he meant by that. She shrugged her shoulders slightly.
"I don't know," she answered. "I'm assuming that he was turned somehow, I really don't think that Angel would have it in him. No matter how upset he is with me."
"But how was he turned?" he asked. "At last I recall, a moment of true happiness is the only way for him to be changed into Angelus."
"Well, what about a spell or something?" Cordy suggested. "Couldn't Spike have maybe done some sort of spell on him? I mean, if there's a spell to restore his soul there's got to be one to removed it right?" Giles raised his eyebrows at the thought. He put his glasses back into place.
"I haven't ever come across it, but you may be on to something," he walked back into his office. Buffy and Faith joined the other girl at the table. Giles emerged again with a book. He sat down at the table and began to flip through it. No one spoke as he looked for any information. He found the page he was looking for and began to read it over.
"Whatcha thinking, G-man?" Faith interrupted. He held up his finger to silence her. She rolled her eyes and sat back in her chair.
"Here it is," he exclaimed. He turned the book around and slid it over to Buffy. She read it over, but didn't understand what it was supposed to mean.
"Was that even English?" she asked in confusion. Faith pulled the book in front of her to read it. She made it to the end of the second line before she gave up. She shook her head and slid it across the table to Giles.
"I concur," she sighed, agreeing with Buffy about her confusion. Giles reread the passage to make sure he had read it correct. He removed his glasses again. Buffy's eyes widened.
"No, no, put your glasses back on!" she demanded. "You only take them off when something is terribly wrong! There can't be something terribly wrong when it involves Willow, you got that? Put them back on, tweed-guy!"
"It isn't anything terribly wrong, exactly," he tried reassure her. He put his glasses back on to make her feel better. She appeared to relax a little when he did.
"Then what is it, exactly?" Cordy asked, never one to bet around the bush. She was getting tired of the suspense and she was getting a major headache. She pouted and pressed the ice pack to her head. The three of them ignored her actions.
"I believe I know how Angel lost his soul," he told them. They stared at him, indicating that he needed to continue. "A true moment of happiness." Cordy's eyes widen and she looked over at Buffy, as did Faith. It took Buffy a second to realize what they were implying. She jumped up out of her seat.
"It wasn't me!" she defended. "Hello, head over heals in love with Willow now! I didn't give him a happy last night!" The girls shrugged their shoulders. Deciding she got her point across, she sat back down.
"That wasn't what I was referring to," Giles began. "It says here that when Willow did the spell of restoration to give Angel back his soul, hers became linked with his." It took them all a few moments to process the information. Faith's eyes light up.
"Oh, so you gave Red a happy last night!" she exclaimed with a wicked smirk on her face. Buffy's mouth fell open and she saw Giles giving her a stern look. She shook her head frantically.
"No, I didn't!" she correct. "Buffy gave no happies last night!" Faith gave her a 'yeah right' look and wiggled her eyebrows in a suggestive way. "Stop it!"
"Hey, you heard the book master," Faith reasoned with her. "What he said translates into; Red got laid last night." She ignored the death look Buffy was giving her. "So either you gave her some or she got it elsewhere." Before Buffy could give that any thought, Giles interrupted them.
"I said no such thing." They all looked at him.
"I gotta agree with Faith," Cordy put in. "What you said does translate."
"What I said was that if Angel didn't sleep with anyone last night than Willow must have experienced true happiness." Faith waited for the part that she had gotten wrong.
"How is that different then what I said?" Despite knowing that her and Willow didn't do anything last night, she had to agree with the other slayer. All signs where pointing to sex.
"You see, true happiness is found in different places for different people," he began to explain, a little disappointed that they all just assumed that he had meant sex. "For Angel, he was happiest when he was... when he was..."
"Boinking the Buffster," Faith filled in for him, seeing that he was having trouble finding the right words to use. Giles gave her a very uncomfortable look.
"Yes, well," he stammered. "Whatever the case, Willow may have been at her happiest for another reason." They all looked at Buffy for the answer. "Did anything special happen between you two last night, Buffy? And details aren't needed." Buffy thought back to last night and the amazing things they said to each other in the hallway. Then it dawned on her. She was feeding Willow cookie dough ice cream. The only two things she said she needed to be happy in this world. Buffy smiled sadly at the memory.
"Yeah," she spoke up, noticing that everyone was looking at her. "There may have been some specialness shared." Giles nodded.
"Then I believe that is how Angel lost his soul." He closed the book and ran a hand through his hair.
"But what does he want with Willow?" Cordy asked. Giles sighed. Buffy really didn't like the sound of that.
"I would assume that Angelus doesn't want to be turned back into Angel anytime soon, so he'll want to eliminate that threat."
"And how does he do that?" Giles took a deep breath.
"By killing Willow."
~~~~BtVS~~~~
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