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"Giles? Giles? Earth to Giles!" Dawn said waving her hand in front of his face.
He had just stopped talking and was staring off into space at nothing.



"Hmm?" Giles said tearing his thoughts away from the beautiful surgeon. She
was just so. captivating, he hadn't met anyone like that since Jenny.



"You're like in outer space or something." Dawn said, put off at being ignored
again.



"It's.. the time change." Giles said quickly.



"It's only two hours later here than it is in Sunnydale." Dawn pointed out.



"On top of the change from England." Giles added. "So have you seen Xander
yet?"



"Xander?" Dawn asked, momentarily confused. Oh, right, Xander, why they were at
the hospital. "Um, not yet."



"Perhaps Willow's found him." Giles replied with a sigh, this was getting to be
a long day.



*********



"There's no shame in addiction." Kerry said soothingly, rubbing Willow's back as
she cried.



"I did. horrible things. Things I can't even describe." Willow sniffled,
thinking of Warren and the whole almost ending the world thing.



"We've all lost people we've loved." Kerry said with a far away look, thinking
of Lucy, Mark, her parents and Gabe among others.



"It doesn't excuse what I did." Willow insisted. "Tara deserved better."



Kerry felt torn, something about the young woman reminded her so much of
herself. She was silent for a few moments then spoke up.



"I don't normally do this, but I'm off in a few hours, why don't you come over
to my place for breakfast?" Kerry asked hesitantly.



"No, you have plans. Sandy right?" Willow blew her nose.



"She'll understand." Kerry said, patting Willow on the shoulder.





*********



"We found her!" The demons exclaimed as they dragged a large bag behind them.



"Good! Time to get rid of the witch!" The cloaked figure replied and opened the
bag.



An unconscious Abby tumbled out onto the floor. The figure glared angrily at
the demons.



"YOU MORONS!" The cloaked figure screamed hitting the demons.



"What?" The brown demon trembled.



"I wanted you to bring me the WITCH, not the BITCH!" The figure screamed and
threw the other demon against the wall.





*********





Xander looked up weakly as the door opened. "Hey, thought you all forgot about
me?"



Giles entered, followed by Dawn. The latter surveyed Xander and made a face.



"You look all icky." Dawn said, surveying Xander's bruised forehead and pale
color.



"Thanks Dawnie, like I wasn't feeling bad enough about my attractiveness to
women today." Xander replied with a sigh.



"How are you?" Giles asked, finding himself to be relieved by seeing Xander
alive and conscious but yet also worried by the bandage covering his head.



"Doc wants to keep me I think." Xander said with a shrug.



"I'm sorry." Dawn said in a small voice, remembering that it was her bag that he
was trying to get when he fell off the conveyer belt.



Xander shrugged. Turning, to Giles he asked, "So any news on the bad mojo
stuff going on here?"



Giles blushed slightly. "Actually, I haven't had much of a chance to
investigate."



"You? Not investigate? Isn't that what you were born to do?" Xander asked
skeptically.



"Well, your swan dive into a pillar rather put us behind schedule." Giles
pointed out.



"Hey, where's everyone else?" Xander asked, suddenly curious about the
whereabouts of the others.



"They haven't been in yet?" Giles asked, concern evident in his voice.



"You guys are the first ones." Xander replied.



"Well, I went off in search of information." Giles replied. Not exactly a lie.




"Willow went to go find you and Anya said something about a cash register." Dawn
added.



"What about Buffy?" Xander asked.





********





Buffy leaned back as Luka kissed his way down her neck. She moaned happily,
she'd been initially a bit apprehensive about Luka going after her neck, but she
reminded herself that he didn't have fangs.



Luka reached the scar on her neck and paused. "What happened here?" He asked,
looking into her eyes. The faint light of the candles gave off a beautiful
glow that highlighted her features, but hid their emotions.



"What?" Buffy asked, momentarily confused. She then realized what Luka was
referring to. "Um, long story. I really don't want to talk about it."



"Okay." Luka replied with a shrug and went back to kissing her. It wasn't like
he wasn't used to NOT talking to the woman he was with.




*********





"Has anyone seen Abby?" Haleh said with irritation in her voice as she came up
to the desk. "Her patient in three keeps asking when the nurse will be back to
give him a bath."



"I'm not a baby sitter." Frank grumbled. Damn staff, it wasn't up to him to
keep track of them.



"Hey, did anyone see where Abby went? She said she'd hang an IV on my patient
two hours ago and I haven't seen her since." Susan said coming up to the desk.




"Is this your guy with the crush on you?" Chuni said with a grin.



"He doesn't have a crush on me. He's just horny." Susan corrected. "I was
really hoping I wouldn't have to go back in there and have him ask me out again.
The guy can NOT take no for an answer."



"Could be worse, he could be a dirty old man wanting a bath." Haleh said with
disgust. "If anyone needs me I'll be in three."



"Hey, has anyone seen Abby?" Kerry asked, crutching her way to the desk.



"That's the question of the hour." Susan replied.





********





Abby groggily came to and looked around the dark room. She tried to speak but
found herself gagged and chained against a wall.



"Oh, you're up." The cloaked figure said patronizingly. "Well, lucky you, you
don't get to die with the others, no, you'll die here."



Abby tried to shout against her gag as the figure gently pressed a knife against
her skin.



"Oh, don't worry, you won't die. YET." The figure laughed.





*********





Willow looked surprised to enter Xander's room and find Dawn and Giles there.



"Oh, you guys beat me here." Willow said, trying to cover that she'd been
crying.



"Yeah, apparently there wasn't that big of a rush to come in." Xander said, with
a touch of bitterness in his voice.



"Oh, um, Giles, any news on the big bad?" Willow said, trying to change the
subject.



"Well, no, actually." Giles admitted.



"Whatever it is, it has to make itself known eventually, right?" Xander asked,
settling back onto the gurney.



"Maybe Buffy and Anya know something. They could be investigating." Dawn piped
up.





***********





"You didn't answer me." Spike whispered playfully.



"Hmm?" Carter asked distractedly.



"When's the last time someone made love to you?" Spike repeated, gently stroking
Carter's cheek.



"A long time ago." Carter admitted.



"Maybe we can change that, love." Spike said with a grin.



Carter responded by leaning into Spike for a kiss.

To be continued...
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