"Damn them!" Amy snarled, the blonde in full vamp-face as the slim young woman ripped the stuffing out of a fine old chair. The house they were staying in belonged to a upper class man with a thing for streetwalkers and not enough brains to check his dates for fangs. Now he lay rotting in the basement, and Dru and Ami had the run of the place. Dru was sitting back, her dark hair flowing down her back, dressed in a gothic style for her own amusement. "Did we lose Trick too?" she ask her lieutenant, her black gloved hands languid yet strangely deadly. Justine and Julia Cooper, the lovely reddish brown haired twins, gave each other nervous looks as Julia said, "Yes, ma'am, though I understand Trick lasted longer than most." Amy ground her teeth, then closed her eyes. "Go, now," she ordered coldly, watching with fury in her eyes as the two vampires fled. With a muffled curse she gestured to the fireplace and willed it to burn, flames roaring to life to match her fury. "I'm surprised you didn't burn them both," Dru noted as she came up behind Amy and kissed her neck lingeringly. Amy moaned softly, tilting her head back at that familiar touch. "If I start to kill the bringers of bad news," Amy said, "they'll stop telling me the truth." "True," Dru let her hands rise up the black blouse Amy was wearing and cup her breasts, "so what do you want to do about this?" "I want to kill them all," Amy hissed softly in pleasure as she added, "break their bones and suck the marrow out!" "That's my beloved," Dru agreed, "but how?" Amy turned to kiss Dru fiercly, stroking her back then sliding down to cup her ass through her short black skirt. "That's the problem," Amy growled as she nipped at Dru's neck, "those damn slayers are too much for our normal soldiers..." "Then maybe," Dru cooed softly, "it's time for something a little more unusual?" Meanwhile, a impromptu debriefing was going on at the Summers household. "God it was boring," Dawn complained as the brown haired girl sat on the couch, "it's like they assumed we forgot everything over summer." "Some students do," Giles noted mildly, dressed in her suit from working in the library. He pushed up his glasses, "Gave six tours today, and I'll have six more everyday till we finish with every home room." "I still think it would be easier if you digitized the whole library," Jenny Calendar teased as she sat beside him. "Not those idiot boxes again," Giles sighed. "I think the TV is the idiot box," Buffy noted with some amusement. Willow looked equally amused, "Computers are useful for LOTs of stuff, Giles. I'm surprised you don't use one as a Watcher." "Ganging up on me?" Giles looked pained. "Don't look at me," Faith commented from where she sat near the roaring fire, "I've only used one once to find porn." "Faith!" Tara scolded, the other woman still looking faintly uncomfortable there under the roof of Willow and Buffy. Dawn giggled, "Gee, that must explain all the guys in the computer labs..." Jenny shook her head, "Trust me, they're locked out on porn sites." "Too bad," Buffy murmured. Willow bapped Buffy gently on the arm, "Be nice." Tara shook her head, smiling softly. If someone had told her a few months ago she'd be here, sharing laughter with a vampire, she would have called them insane. 'Then again,' Tara conceded, 'Willow is no ordinary vampire.' Giles took off his glasses, wiping them with a cloth from his pocket. "I hate to bring up business," he said, "but are we patrolling tonight?" "Willow and I are," Buffy agreed. Her eyes looked impish, "I suppose you teachers better hurry to bed so you're ready for classes tomorrow." "Are you implying I can't keep up?" Jenny asked, mock offended. "Well, old folks like you do need your rest," Dawn winked. "Old?" Giles lifted a offended eyebrow as he put his glasses back on. "Positively ancient," Faith agreed cheerfully, "why, we might have to bring your walker along on the next patrol." "Whatever happened to the traditional respect a Watcher gets?" Jenny wondered aloud. "With this group?" Willow chuckled softly, "Tough luck." Tara shook her head, smiling. "I think Faith and I will join you," she said a bit more seriously, "just in case." Giles looked at her curiously, "Do you think there'll be trouble?" "I've got no premonitions, if that's what you mean," Tara answered him, "I'm just feeling a bit uneasy." "Better bring extra stakes," Buffy mused. Later, the four of them ventured out into the night even as they watched Giles and Jenny drive off in Giles' old car. "Think they'll be all right in that beater?" Faith wondered skeptically. "It may look like a beater," Willow noted as she adjusted her long leather coat to hide her weapons, "but Jenny's enchanted it a great deal." Tara looked at her in surprise, then reminded herself that Willow had once been a witch. "Yes," she agreed, "a vampire would have to be suicidal to attack them." THOOM! There was a massive blow, the ground around them rumbljng as they looked around wildly. "Giles?!" Buffy yelped, running up the road. "Wait damn it," Faith growled, her and willow soon catching up as Tara fell a bit behind. They came around the corner and stumbled a bit, all of them a bit surprised at what waited for them. "Well," Tara panted, "you don't see that every day." The troll stood in the middle of the road, his greenish skin clashing with a brown beard and rough leather clothes. He stood nearly a foot taller than the Slayers, and his nearly inhuman body rippled with muscles. In his hand he carried a massive hammer, likely the weapon that had drawn their attention in the first place. Just beyond him Giles' battered green car was rammed up against a tree but Giles appeared unharmed as he tended to a stunned and lightly bleeding Jenny. He looked up and called, "Buffy, it's a trap!" "I kind of guessed that," Buffy said as they began to warily space themselves out around their massive foe. "I am Olaf!" the troll declared, "Now where are you hiding her?!" "Hiding who?" Willow asked reasonably. "You know who!" Olaf roared before hammering the earth again, sending a shockwave right through them. Without even thinking about it Faith drew her crossbow and fired, sending out a steel tipped shaft that glanced off his hard skin. "Well crap," Faith growled. Tara began to chant, her hands swiftly moving through arcane gestures as she formed a spell. "Adept!" with a single word she released the power, a bolt of force flying from her hands to blast the troll, staggering it. "Ooof!" Olaf nearly fell backward then grinned, "You must know her! She did things like that too." Willow swiftly drew a sword from beneath her coat and attacked, swinging at exposed skin beneath the leather armor. 'He's got to have a weak spot somewhere,' she thought grimly, chipping away. Buffy followed her in carrying a axe, swinging with grim determination. "We don't have whoever you want," she snarled. "The vampires promised me..." Olaf started, "urk!" Faith's crossbow bolt soared into his mouth, piercing the soft tissues within and sending blood pouring free. "Willow, now!" Tara yelled. Swiftly moving in front of the badly wounded troll Willow took her sword in both hands and struck up on an angle with all her vampiric strength, driving it up into the mouth and through the comparetively weaker bones of the inner skull. The troll made a weak sighing noise and collapsed backward, laying still on the deserted road. "Giles!" Faith ran by the troll to where he sat, carefully cradling Jenny's head in his lap. "We're fine," Giles said as Tara knelt down to examine Jenny, "trolls regenerate! You've got to destroy the body." "Tara?" Buffy asked as Willow warily watched over the troll's corpse. Tara turned Jenny's face and gazed into her eyes before saying, "Looks like a concussion. She should be fine." "It moved," Buffy warned. Tara hurried over as she began to chant, summoning her power as she formed the spell in her mind. With a word and gesture the still impaled troll began to burn, blazing brighter and brighter as she fanned the flames. After a moment it was gone, only ashes remaining...
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