Loving Willow More
by Rin
14a
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A/N: This is all I managed to finish, even though I had every intention to complete the entire chapter. Figured I'd at least put this much up to get it going...let you know I'm still alive, and so are the girls...
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"Oh, no. Buffy, the baby duck's missing!" Even though Willow was covered, and the room was covered in shit, the redhead still looked everywhere in the room for the duck. "What if the shit demon ate him?"
"Baby? I think that's the least of our worries." Buffy came over, and looked over the smell. They were both covered anyways. She stopped Willow's frantic search, and held her hands.
"How can you say that? That baby duck was lonely. We were his only parents." Willow started to cry into Buffy's shoulder.
"Willow...it was just a baby duck. Don't you think we should worry more about...oh, I don't know... why the hell was the shit demon in the room to begin with, and why would it take just the duck?" Buffy sat Willow down on the bed. She internally groaned. This would take hours of work, and the comforter and sheets were totally ruined, not to mention her nice...well, okay...she slept nude. No pajamas were ruined. That was a plus. "Let's get this place cleaned as best we can, and then head over to Giles. I'm tired of this shit...literally."
"Research day?" Willow looked up through her tears with a hopeful expression.
"Yeah, and don't worry. I'm sure the baby duck just escaped through the door when the shit demon came in." Buffy wanted to kiss Willow to reassure her but being soaked in poo doesn't harbor sexy feelings.
"Okay." Willow nodded, willing to believe the lie.
The girls took a shower, and put on old...very old clothes, and cleaned the room, putting their ruined items in several trash bags. Groaning, they finished their task before taking the bags to the dumpster behind the building, where the baby duck turned shit demon stood. Willow stopped, not realizing the demon as the duck until...awkwardly enough...it quacked.
"Um..." Willow looked to Buffy.
"What the...did you just quack, and hey! Why aren't you attacking?" Buffy took a defensive posture in front of Willow, and scanned the area for a good weapon. The demon just kept quacking.
"I don't think it wants to..." Willow focused on it; the smell was horrid but it wasn't like they smelled much better after cleaning the room. "Hi there. Um...do you have a name?"
"Quack." That's all it did.
"Okay...Quack...what did you do w/ baby duck, or do you know anything..."
"Buffy, baby...I think it is baby duck." Willow just studied the demon in that cute way that Buffy thought irresistible. The redhead in research mode was one of the slayer's favorites. "Baby duck, er...Quack?" The demon just cocked his head, indicating for her to go ahead w/ her question. It was amazing. The demon understood her. "Wow...um...what happened? How did you get like this?"
"Quack." The demon did something similar to Buffy's reaction at Giles's drawing of her on the overhead projector during the battle w/ the Gentleman. Quack didn't look happy.
"Buffy, I think I know why we can't find their hideout." Willow turned to her girlfriend, that sudden moment of epiphany shining in her eyes. That was another of Buffy's favorites.
"Why?" Buffy smirked, her own eyes shining.
"B/c they start out as ducks. That would make sense b/c Restfield and Minnow are the only places we see them, and they're the only two beside lakes, which coincidentally happen to reside thousands of ducks." Willow looked at the demon again, sympathy in her eyes for what the baby duck had become; it would never make any ducky friends now.
"They couldn't just...you know, like... think duck was a delicacy? Do they really have to be the ducks? I don't do duck season." Buffy grumbled, and that was one of Willow's favorites.
"We'll have to check." Willow turned back to the baby duck. He was being awfully cooperative; normally, the shit demons attack w/o thinking. This particular demon was gentle. "Who is right? Buffy w/ her duck as food theory, or me with my you are the ducks theory?"
"Quack." The demon understood them, and Willow had that glow in her eyes that let Buffy know she was intrigued. That look that she saw in Dr. Walsh's eyes sometimes that would indicate she wanted to do experiments. Quack pointed to Willow, and the theory was confirmed...well, to some degree.
"We should take him to Giles. See if we can do a spell to give him a voice. Maybe Quack here knows what we don't. Maybe he's the missing link."
"Goodbye." Buffy waited for the laughs but she only got confused looks from her girlfriend and the demon. "Okay, was I the only one to watch that show? I know Giles did...he's British."
"We just missed the reference, Buffy. Plus, shit demon? Not exactly known to watch pop culture television." Willow started to think about ways to get Quack to Giles's w/o causing too much of a scene. She didn't want to risk him taking off while they showered, so she decided it was a good idea to just go on. They could shower all the poo from their bodies at Giles's.
On the way, the demon would leave a slight trail, and the scent caused people to look at him w/ noses held, and eyes concerned for his hygiene. People in Sunnydale weren't that noticeable of the horns, or the fangs. They only saw what they wanted to see.
When the girls and Quack got to Giles's flat, they didn't even bother knocking, just barged in; it was strange but Quack just took a seat in a chair, careful not to stain the watcher's nice floors.
"Look, Buffy. He's considerate, too." Willow sounded like a proud mother; the blonde couldn't help but notice. Maybe they should talk about getting a pet to sneak in the dorm.
"What is that awful..." Giles came out of his room, holding a handkerchief across his nose and mouth. "Might I ask why there is a shit demon in my living room?"
"Funny story, really..." Willow started to blush, realizing that this was an awkward time. Maybe they should've called and warned him first.
"Not really. Willow and I brought home a baby duck last night after patrol, and..."
"Wait? A duck? What does a duck have to do w/ this monstrosity?" Giles backed away when the demon quacked at him, as though he were offended by the comment. "Quite sorry; do forgive me."
"This is the baby duck." Buffy was enjoying the reaction on Giles's face too much. He was baffled as well, and got that stuffy British 'hideous smell' look. He looked to her for further explanation. "We woke up, and the baby duck was missing but our room was full of sh...excrement."
"It was covered, Giles. It took us over three hours to clean everything up." Willow decided to pipe in a bit.
"Yeah, and our new comforter was ruined. That thing cost..." Buffy saw the 'she's going into her possessions tirade' face on Giles, and decided to just get to the point. "Right. Anyways, we took the ruined stuff out to the dump, and there Quack was."
"Quack?" Giles raised his eyebrows.
"The baby duck, or demon now." Willow thought about getting the two to shake hands in official greeting, and giggled a bit at what Giles would do, wiping his hand, and showering directly afterwards. When they came over after patrol, Giles wouldn't deal w/ them until they showered. Every single member of the Scooby gang had a drawer of clothes in the extra bedroom for such an occasion.