Conversations About Dead People, Ch. 2
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caty_did Set after Becoming pt. 2. I realize that Joyce may seem a little bit out of character here, but remember that she doesn't know where her daughter is and has just found out what goes bump in the night. She's confused, she's frantic, and she's latching desperately onto any ideas.
Giles/Joyce
Sunnydale, 1998
Three days after Buffy disappeared Joyce was sitting in Rupert Giles’ living room, holding a glass of red wine and listening to him rattle off ideas about where to find Buffy. It was still a little hard to think about. Buffy running off, to who knows where, all over some boy. How did she even get out of town? No one she knew had a car. It was then an idea formed. An idea so obvious, she couldn’t believe that it had taken so long to come to her.
“What about the other one? Do you think maybe she would have run off with him?”
Giles broke off mid-sentence. “Other one?”
“Yes. The other boy. Or, or vampire I guess.” Giles was still staring at her, lost for words. “Blond, looked kind of like Billy Idol? I think she said his name was Spike.”
Giles whipped his glasses off and began polishing them at a rather alarming speed. “Spike? Good lord, are you, are you quite sure?”
“Yes. I’m almost positive that was his name. I met them coming up the walk, and they said they were in a band together, and then some thing leapt out at us, and they fought it off together. And then it turned to dust. Right in front of me.”
Giles was rubbing tiredly at his face. “But Joyce, that doesn’t make sense. Why would Buffy take up with Spike? He’s evil. A vampire. It just doesn’t-“
“Well why not? She’s done it before hasn’t she? Gotten cozy with a vampire? I was under the impression that the whole reason she left, was because of this guy! This vampire that turned bad! So how can you stand there and tell me that there’s no way it happened again!” her voice was shaking with suppressed frenzy. Giles got up, crossed the room, and sank into the sofa beside her.
“Joyce. I know that this is all quite hard to believe, and trust me when I tell you, I know how worried you are about Buffy, but I promise you, there is absolutely no way she’s with Spike.”
She turned to face him, the wine glass trembling slightly in her hands. “I just want to find her. I need to know where she is! And this guy. Spike. When he was in the house talking to her-“
“She invited him into the house? Sorry, sorry, go on.”
“He said he was leaving town. They made a deal. I couldn’t hear all of it, but it sounded like if he helped save you, and helped defeat Angel, he could take some girl named Lucinda, I think it was, and they could get out of town. And now I assume they’re gone, but she’s gone too. So I just thought, maybe, she decided to go with them?”
Giles was staring, unseeing, at her glass of wine. “And you’re quite sure they struck a compromise? That’s, well that’s quite a remarkable occurrence. I’ll have to ask her about it when she gets back. But Joyce, I am positive that she is not with them. She may have made a deal with him, one that quite possibly saved the world, but Buffy would never associate herself with Spike on any sort of personal level. Of that I am completely certain.”
Giles/Joyce
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Sunnydale, 1998
Three days after Buffy disappeared Joyce was sitting in Rupert Giles’ living room, holding a glass of red wine and listening to him rattle off ideas about where to find Buffy. It was still a little hard to think about. Buffy running off, to who knows where, all over some boy. How did she even get out of town? No one she knew had a car. It was then an idea formed. An idea so obvious, she couldn’t believe that it had taken so long to come to her.
“What about the other one? Do you think maybe she would have run off with him?”
Giles broke off mid-sentence. “Other one?”
“Yes. The other boy. Or, or vampire I guess.” Giles was still staring at her, lost for words. “Blond, looked kind of like Billy Idol? I think she said his name was Spike.”
Giles whipped his glasses off and began polishing them at a rather alarming speed. “Spike? Good lord, are you, are you quite sure?”
“Yes. I’m almost positive that was his name. I met them coming up the walk, and they said they were in a band together, and then some thing leapt out at us, and they fought it off together. And then it turned to dust. Right in front of me.”
Giles was rubbing tiredly at his face. “But Joyce, that doesn’t make sense. Why would Buffy take up with Spike? He’s evil. A vampire. It just doesn’t-“
“Well why not? She’s done it before hasn’t she? Gotten cozy with a vampire? I was under the impression that the whole reason she left, was because of this guy! This vampire that turned bad! So how can you stand there and tell me that there’s no way it happened again!” her voice was shaking with suppressed frenzy. Giles got up, crossed the room, and sank into the sofa beside her.
“Joyce. I know that this is all quite hard to believe, and trust me when I tell you, I know how worried you are about Buffy, but I promise you, there is absolutely no way she’s with Spike.”
She turned to face him, the wine glass trembling slightly in her hands. “I just want to find her. I need to know where she is! And this guy. Spike. When he was in the house talking to her-“
“She invited him into the house? Sorry, sorry, go on.”
“He said he was leaving town. They made a deal. I couldn’t hear all of it, but it sounded like if he helped save you, and helped defeat Angel, he could take some girl named Lucinda, I think it was, and they could get out of town. And now I assume they’re gone, but she’s gone too. So I just thought, maybe, she decided to go with them?”
Giles was staring, unseeing, at her glass of wine. “And you’re quite sure they struck a compromise? That’s, well that’s quite a remarkable occurrence. I’ll have to ask her about it when she gets back. But Joyce, I am positive that she is not with them. She may have made a deal with him, one that quite possibly saved the world, but Buffy would never associate herself with Spike on any sort of personal level. Of that I am completely certain.”
