Paper Doll |BTVS| Book One ✔️

The Amazing Mr. Cross

So instead of being at the career fair with Xander and Willow looking at my chosen career path of a 'Forensic Scientist' I am currently walking through a cememtry with my sister and watcher who have been butting heads all afternoon.

I smirked as I watched as Giles tries to keep pace with Buffy who was walking at a brisk pace still hurt from the conversation we had before where Giles called us out on being sloppy "Buffy. Please. Slow down" Giles begs as he tries to keep up with Buffy instead of dawdling behind with me.

Buffy turns to Giles with a slight sneer which shocked me "Get with the program, Giles. We have work to do, remember?" Giles looks at Buffy equally as surprised "You're behaving in a terrible immature manner-" Buffy whirls around furiously and cuts Giles off.

"Bingo. You know why? I am immature! I'm a teen! I've yet to mature!" She all but growls at the older man as I grimaced at the aggressiveness in her voice "I was simply offering a little constructive criticism-" Buffy laughed upset at Giles' unhelpful words.

"You were harsh, you act like I picked this gig but I'm the picked. Too bad if I want a normal job" I frowned at my twins words being a slayer must be getting to her more than I thought "What you and Nikki have is more than a... gig. It's a sacred duty" Giles replied as he looked between Buffy and I as we stood arguing while the dead lay beneath us.

Buffy gives him a 'been there, heard that' look as Giles scrambles trying to calm her "Which shouldn't prevent you from eventually procuring a more... mundane form of employment if you like. Such as I have"

Buffy gasps at Giles like he didn't understand her predicament "It's one thing being a Watcher and a librarian. They go together like chicken and... another chicken. Two chickens. Or something" Buffy says before seeing the look on Giles' face "Chickens?" I whisper to myself giving Buffy a weird look.

"You know what I'm saying you can spend all your time with a bunch of books and no one blinks but what can I do? Carve stakes for a nursery?" Buffy asks Giles with her hands on her hips as Giles blinks at her obviously realizing that Slaying and a normal job didn't go hand in hand.

"Point taken. I suppose I've never really thought about-" Giles begins but then stops himself deep in thought "Tell me. Have you ever considered law enforcement?" Giles offers looking proud of himself until Buffy gasps and pushed her way past our confused looking Watcher.

I smirk and patted Giles on the shoulder as I walked forward to follow Buffy "Good one Giles" I told him laughing as I followed my sister through the cemetery as she stomped through it like an angry bull.

As we get to the mausoleum we patrolled yesterday Buffy pulls open the heavy iron door and enters with me and Giles following her, I clicks on the flashlight I had been carrying and guided the beam through the dusty room.

Buffy leads us to the open vault door "May I?" Giles asks us politely and smiles when we both look at each other and nod "Be my guest" I say holding out the flashlight I was using and moved to stand behind when he took it and shone it into the empty vault.

"It's a reliquary, used to house items of religious significance. Most commonly, a finger or some other body part from a saint" Giles says as Buffy and I peek into the vault over his shoulders "Note to self: Religion, freaky" I mutter to Buffy as she nods in return.

Giles turns and shines the wall with the flashlight beam which now falls across letters carved in the granite above the doorway Du Lac. "Du Lac... Oh dear" Giles gasps to himslef as I quickly turn and look at him wide eyed "I hate when you say that".

"Josephus du Lac is buried here" Giles tells us like we knew what he was talking about "Was he a saint?" Buffy asked Giles as I looked on interested "Hardly. He belonged to a sect of priests who were excommunicated by the Vatican at the turn of the century" Giles explained to us as he cleaned his glasses.