

Willow scowled a little but admitted, “I didn't want to bring her along, but Buffy insisted since we sorta needed her skillset.” Buffy explained, “She's awesome with lockpicks. “We got into Snyder's office and Willow made it look like Snyder called a phone sex hotline in Paris! Faith laughed so hard I thought she was gonna pee herself.” “Faith?” Xander checked, because the last time he had looked, Faith and Will didn't want to be in the same room with each other. “So then I went and talked with Amy, and Andrea, and we really need to get that girl some decent spellbooks and ward 'em to keep Tucker out of 'em, and I called up Jenny, which I totally did not do on the library phone.” Buffy burst out laughing. “Okay, so Buffy asked me why I couldn't change your clothes into Xena's clothes and back when I did the spell with the crystal and then the restoring incantation, so I did a bunch of research in Giles' books.” Buffy grinned, “Actually, I said 'why can't you do the clothes thing too when you do the thing with the crystal and the thing' but Giles got all frowny.” Giles cleared his throat slightly, but refrained from saying what he clearly wanted to drop on his Slayer. Willow was still of the red-eyed and sniffly, but she came over and showed him what she had been working on since the last time she had talked with him. It wasn't like they were going to lie there and let him work on them. And taking all of his barbless hooks out of their package and tying lengths of fishing line onto them so he was ready for the next voodoo zombie. And he got ready for all the fun of tracking down all of Jack's zombies. Xander did the manly thing and didn't help Buffy and Willow get Giles' plates and flatware into the dishwasher. Events have now veered off from canon, so you may need to read earlier chapters first.

A/N: Disclaimer, author’s notes, etc., are at the beginning of chapter 1 spoilers are through “The Zeppo”.
