Doyle turned to Delia and in a conspiritational whisper and asked..
"Does it me or do they seem like a proper family, cos when the vamps and witchs start acting more normal than regular joes I think its time to worry"
"Willow, Doyles being nasty about you"
Delia said in a whiny fifth grade Im telling on you voice
"Thanks Delia, and I thought you loved me"
"I do, but I dont want to end up a warthog or something, after all she is a witch"
Willow turned her best mom look on them and then smirked, moveing off to get on with her net work.
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"Angelll, what do you want, I dont no nothin"
"Thats funny mearl we didnt even ask yet"
"I mean, what I meant to say was.."
"Have you met my childe, William, oh wait sorry Spike"
Mearl got a look on his face like he`d been slapped and turned a rather disgusting color of peuse, Spike smirked and stalked towards him
"Nice to meet ya mate, so what have you heard about the Varnac demon?"
"Whats a Varnac"
"Come on mearl, dont play dumb with us"
"I swear man, Ive never heard of it"
"So you wont mind if I just let my childe here take a little nibble"
"Oh, wait, its comeing back to me now, I just remembered something"
"Yeah thought you might"
"Pity"
"Spike, dont scare the snitch"
"Sorry dad"
Angel moved forward menaceingly, mearl lifted his hands as in surrender and gave in..
"Okay, alright, dont go all rabid dog on me, look all Ive heard is that some demon..Var..Varnac did you say..well he`s after some all powerful person, needs the power to regain his familys honor or something"
"And when did you hear this"
"I dont know, rescently"
"Do we know who this person is"
"Urmm, I think they said something about a flame thing, fire or something, thats all I got man, I swear, just dont set the bloody on me"
"Ahh, so ya do know me then"
"Ive..heard of you, dont fancy being on the pointy end of ya fangs neither, so if you wouldnt mind, you know, leaveing"
"Alright mearl, your safe this time, next time, play nice"
"Yeah, sure right"
Mearl figetted nervously until they`d left and then picked up the phone to ring someone.
"Yeah, hi this is Mearl"
"Yeah, they`ve bin by, what do ya want me to do, I didnt tell em much, just enough to get em interested"
"Right, okay, be seein ya"
After he`d rung off he started to throw things into a duffle bag and then left.
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When Angel and Spike got back to the office, Dru, Willow and Delia were no where in sight, Doyle was seated behind D`s desk flipping through one of here cosmo`s, looking totally bored and more than a little ticked off.
"Where are the girls Doyle?"
"There downstairs boss. They got bored and I being the complete twit that I am told em to go find something to amuse em selves"
Angel chuckled quietly, while Spike made no move to conceal his laughter.
"So your stuck mannin the phones then ey?"
"Yep, aint it great to be whipped!"
"Aww, you love it and you know it, stop wingin"
"Thanks Spike, most helpful"
"Glad to be of service mate"
"So any leads?"
"Yeah, kind of, but he wasnt much help"
"Im going down to see what the terrible triplets are up to, I dread to think whats happening to my stuff"
Spike chuckled and followed him down, while Doyle went back to flipping through magazine he was reading earlier, sighing in frustration, wishing a vision would hurry up and come.
