Buffy's God sisters Book One

Chapter 30

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1x08 

I, Robot... You, Jane Part 5

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Third Person

It was the next day, in the computer lab. Ms. Calendar was standing at her desk typing away on her computer. Giles walked into the room and cleared his throat. Ms. Calendar turned and saw who was there.

"Well, looks who's here! Welcome to my world." Ms. Calendar said with a bit of an attitude. "You scared?"

"I'm remaining calm, thank you. Uh, I just wanted to, uh, return this." Giles said as he held up the small curly earring. "I found it among the new books and naturally I thought of you."

"Cool. Thanks." Ms. Calendar responded as she took it.

"Uh, well, I'll, I'll see anon," Giles replied as he began to go. 

"Can't get outta here fast enough, can you?" Ms. Calendar questioned.

"Truthfully, I'm even less anxious to be around computers than I used to be," Giles responded as he came back in.

"Well, it was your book that started all the trouble, not a computer." Ms. Calendar told him.

Giles became a loss for words.

"Honestly, what is it about them that bothers you so much?"  Ms. Calendar questioned.

"The smell," Giles answered.

"Computer's don't smell, Rupert." Ms. Calendar told him.

"I know!" Giles said as he took off his glasses. "Smell is the most trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a, a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences... long forgotten." He began to move around the lab. "Books smell. Musty and, and, and, and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, is, uh, it... it has no, no texture, no, no context. It's, it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then, then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be, um... smelly." 

"Well! You really are an old-fashioned boy, aren't you?" Ms. Calendar replied.

"Well, I-I don't dangle a corkscrew from my ear," Giles responded as he put his glasses back on.

"That's not where I dangle it." Ms. Calendar mischievously replied as she walked passed him and smiled.

Giles followed her with his eyes but looked puzzled yet intrigued by her.

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Aurora POV 

We were sitting outside near the fountain. We were trying to cheer up Willow.

"We gonna go to the Bronze tonight? We six?" Xander questioned.

"It'll be fun!" Buffy said.

"Yeah, Willow, fun? Remember fun? That thing where you smile?" Xander questioned as he smiled.

"Oh, I'm sorry guys. I'm just thinking about..." Willow responded.

"Malcolm?" Kate questioned as she sipped her tea. 

"Malcolm, Moloch... whatever he's called. The one boy that's really liked me, and he's a demon robot. What does that say about me?" Willow replied. 

"It doesn't say anything about you," Kyra told her as she sipped her ice tea. 

"I mean, I thought I was really falling..." Willow said.

"Hey, did you forget? The one boy I've had the hots for since I've moved her turned out to be a vampire." I interrupted her and took a sip of my passion ice tea. 

"Right, and the teacher I had a crush on? Giant praying mantis?" Xander said with a goofy smile.

"That's true," Willow said with a smile.

"Yeah, that's life on the Hellmouth," Xander replied. 

"Let's face it; none of us are gonna have a happy normal relationship," I told them.

"We're doomed!" Xander and Kyra said together.

"Yeah!" Willow and Kate replied.

We all laughed. Our laughs quickly became nervous and stopped. We continued to talk until our free period was done.