Time Turner
. . . fiction by Odyssea
. . .Fight Another Day. . .
So, Buffy gets home after slaying three ickthi-whatsit demons (she doesn't really care about the specifics, only how to kill them); this means she is covered in what appear to be fuchsia colored entrails with a hearty handful of mud to add to the list. Luckily her mom is working late at the gallery setting up some new exhibition, which saves Buffy from making up some lame story about getting knocked over by a late night bicyclist into a really odd colored mud puddle.
Buffy locks the door and triple checks all the windows and doors before she heads upstairs. Sure, Willow's done the spell to keep Angelus out of the Summers' house (as well as her own; Buffy offered to buy her new fish, though Willow says she's not really a fan of Carassius auratus anyway - whatever that means), but Buffy likes to check and make sure.
Of course, it makes her feel stupid; mainly this is because she's secretly too much of a wimp to actually go out there, into the night, hunt Angelus down and stake him right through what's left of his heart. She's the slayer, right? All big mystical mojo and demon killing fun. She should be doing her sacred duty, which would have involved staking Angel through the heart before they even got close. That was a wrong decision all the way around.
What's done is done, though, so Buffy keeps reminding her mom not to let strangers in the house while shutting all the blinds when she sleeps to avoid getting any more pictures. In a way, Buffy wishes he would just try to kill her, come out and do it, rather than dance around. He helped bring her back to life once, so it's about time he tries to give her back to death.
It's too late to worry about it, so Buffy decides to actually get homework done, if only to take her mind off her dead stalker boyfriend.
Meanwhile, across town, Giles lets himself into his apartment to find a rose on the door and champagne chilling on ice.
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