Buffy's Covenant

Chapter Two: Getting Connected

Disclaimer: The Covenant and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are not of my own creation. They belong to Sony Pictures / J.S. Cardone & Joss Whedon.

Summary: His remains weren't found in ruins left by the burnt down barn. No one knew what happened to him or where he went, but he was back now and intent on draining the power of the one person he underestimated...

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Buffy's Covenant

by PhoenixRae

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II. Getting Connected

BUFFY WATCHED HER FOREVER Watcher and surrogate father's face after she recounted to him a blow-by-blow detail of her dream the night before.

"So?" she demanded when Giles remained silent.

"Hmm..." Giles murmured in his typical stoic British Watcher pose. He was pacing back and forth in the comfort of the sunny kitchen and he was rubbing his forefinger against his lips. That was a sign the wizened former Council Watcher - and now the head of the new league of Watchers established by Buffy and her crew - was in real deep thought.

Buffy watched and waited for her mentor to say something. As baffling as her dream was, it sure packed a whopper of an omen that neither one of them could ignore.

"What was it about the man's eyes that you said happened?" Giles asked.

"It turned black."

"Black?

"Uh-hm. He went all...oh, I dunno, evil Source dude with all black eyes including the whites of his eyes. Very creepy," Buffy shivered visibly to emphasize how freaked out she was about that particular part of the baddie she saw.

"And the power?"

"It was familiar, but at the same time it was alien to me too, like...oh, I dunno. I've fought with someone who had the same power and yet...it was weird," again Buffy was baffled. She'd been trying to pinpoint which one of her numerous past enemies possessed the power she sensed in her dream. It was always right at the tip of her tongue, but at the very last minute she couldn't remember who it was.

"Hmm, curious," Giles mumbled and continued his pacing once again.

Buffy waited for him to elaborate, but Giles seemed lost in his thoughts once again and forgot that she was still there waiting for some scraps of info she could deduce and ponder on. Not that she'd be doing a lot of that, but it will give her something else to do while she tried to figure out who had that same power she sensed. With the countless baddies she's fought, all their powers seemed to mesh with each other and confuses the hell outta here!

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THANK YOU, EVELYN. I didn't mean to bother you," Giles apologized to the woman he was speaking to on the phone.

"It's alright, Rupert. I was expecting your call too," Evelyn Danvers reassured the worried Englishman. "Am I right to assume that you've heard?"

"Yes. Yes, my Slayer had a dream the other night," he confirmed.

"Ah, you're putting it mildly," she chuckled. "Caleb called it a nightmare."

"Ah, yes, yes, of course it was a nightmare, but Buffy tend to not call it such unless it involved a lot of maiming and gore."

A long silence stretched between the two adults. The wheels in their heads turning, trying to figure out why both the strongest Slayer alive and strongest Son of this generation received the same disturbing dream.

"Should we worry, Rupert?" Evelyn asked the one question she did not want to address, but she had no choice and knew she must throw it out there. She was worried for her son's welfare, as well as the welfare of the other Sons of Ipswich. By now all four boys have grown into manhood and ascended upon their eighteenth birthday; the other three did this without much fanfare as that of Caleb's ascension four years ago.

Giles took his time from answering. He wasn't quite sure if they should or shouldn't worry. If two of the most powerful beings walking the face of the earth received the same dream and were troubled by it, then common sense dictated they should worry. But what if it was nothing? What if it was just by coincidence Buffy and Caleb received the same disturbing dream but it meant nothing?

"For now let's not," he advised. "But let's keep a close eye on them just in case."

"Just in case what?"

"Just in case this new evil running amok comes after them."

"Oh God," Evelyn gasped. "I can't afford to lose my son, Rupert. I already went through that turmoil when he Ascended at eighteen."

"I know, Evelyn, but Caleb is tough. And he has the protection of his friends whom I believe have all Ascended by now too, haven't they?"

"Yes. Yes, they have," she nodded.

"Good. I'm sure between the four of them they'd be able to trump this evil if ever it decided to attack."

"What about your Slayer?"

"Buffy's been through one too many battles. She's a seasoned fighter, but nevertheless she'll need protection."