Paper Doll |BTVS| Book One ✔️

Is That A Tattoo!

Getting to Giles' Buffy quickly kicks the door splintering it as we enter and gasp seeing Jenny as a Demon she turns and hisses at us we take a moment to absorb the hideousness of what we're seeing.

Buffy sends Demon Jenny sprawling backwards with a kick to the midsection as I stand protectively in front of Giles blocking Demon Jenny's way to him "Back off. Just stay back" I growl at her putting my hand up in front of her as I keep telling myself it's still Jenny.

Demon Jenny looks me, Buffy, then at Giles "Three down, two to go! Be seeing you" she calls before diving through a window, I kneel down to Giles who is badly injured "Are you all right?" I ask when he sits up awkwardly "Jenny... Oh, God..." Giles whispers as he stares at the broken window.

"Giles, how do we stop this thing?" I question still in shock from the scary looking Jenny "God, what have I done?" Giles mutters to him self as he rubs his face "Talk to me! Giles, you're scaring us!" Buffy shouts from my side as Giles looks up at us his eyes now soft.

"I'm sorry..." he whispers to us, Buffy stands up hurt and angry "Don't be sorry! Be Giles! Come on, we fight monsters. They show up, they scare us, we beat them up, and they leave. This isn't any different" Buffy argues folding her arms seriously.

Giles shakes his head in disagreement "It is different" he whispers to us again looking ashamed "Because you don't know how to stop it" I tell him still kneeling by his side, he looks up at me his "Because I created it".

Standing back thinking about what Giles; had said I watched as Buffy lifted him up effortlessly and walked him over to the couch, noticing his wounds I went to the kitchen and got the first aid box that Giles kept beside his oven along with his cookbook and fire extinguisher,Giles wasn't the most careful person in the kitchen.. or anywhere really he was always getting hurt.

Walking back into the living room I saw Buffy has got Giles to the couch where he sits in the darkened apartment, telling us the story behind the mark of Eyghon as I sit next to him bandaging his arm "Studying history at Oxford and of course the occult by night. I hated it. The boring grind of school, the pressure of my 'destiny'" Giles sighs using quoting fingers as my eyebrows shot up in surprise at the thought of Giles hating school.

"So I dropped out. I went to London, fell in with the worst crowd that would have me. We practiced magicks. Small stuff, for pleasure or gain. And then Ethan and I discovered something a little bigger" Buffy and I looked at each other knowingly as Giles lets out a sad sigh.

"Eyghon" I mutter to him and he nods rubbing his face "Yes. We put one of us into a deep sleep and the others would summon him. It was an extraordinary high. God, we were fools" Giles tells us and shakes his head obviously beating himself up over this.

"You couldn't control it" Buffy muttered to herself and us "One of us, Randall, he lost control. Eyghon took him whole. We tried to exorcise the demon from Randall, but it killed him. We killed him".

I closed my eyes and sighed from what I had just learned "God..." I whispered to myself wondering how this had impacted Giles "We thought we were free of the demon after that. But it's back. And one by one it will kill us all" Giles tells us as I finish wrapping his arm.

"Three down, two to go" Buffy says as Giles nods at us as we remember what Jenny said "Then it's going after Ethan. We better beat it there." Buffy says looking at me as I stand and nod knowing we'd have to go save Ethan too "We better" Giles says pointing to the 3 of us making me smirk and patronizingly patted his shoulder "You're barely mobile and speed is of the serious essence"

"Girls, I don't know how to stop it without... without killing Jenny" Giles stutters looking at me and Buffy worried "I got the guys working on it. I'll try to contain her till we can figure something" I said looking at Giles who just half smiles and nods "You didn't listen to me when I told you to leave it alone".