3rd Person's POV

It's pitch black outside. Buffy and Laney are staking out at the cemetery yet again. Buffy sits on top of the gravestone of Stephan Korshak playing with her yo-yo as Laney lays on the grass staring at the stars.

"C'mon, Stephan, rise and shine. Some of us have a ton of trig homework waiting."

Laney sits up hastily and glares at the tombstone, "Yeah and some of us just wanna go home and sleep while ignoring their trig homework."

Buffy chuckles as she looks away from her yo yo and stares at Laney, "How do you have an A in trig? Please explain it to me?"

Laney laughs, "I told you I do it right before class. That's when it soaks in."

"Hey."

Laney jumps as Buffy inhales a quick startled breath and turns around to face her stalker.

Angel grimaces, "Is this a bad time?"

Buffy jumps down from the tombstone, "Are you crazy? You don't just sneak up on people in a graveyard. You make noise when you walk. You stomp or... yodel."

Laney frowns confused as she looks at the two, "Yodel? What in the white hell?"

Buffy freezes and smiles at Laney, "Laney you're white."

"Oh I know it's just fun to say."

Angel raises an eyebrow in confusion at the girls then shakes his head.

"I heard you were on the hunt."

Laney shrugs, "We're supposed to be, but... lazy bones here doesn't wanna come out and play."

"When you first wake up it's a little disorienting. He'll show."

Buffy frowns, "It's weird to think of you going through that."

Angel nods and shrugs slightly, "It's weird to go through. So, uh, you're here alone?"

Laney's head snaps over at Buffy and Angel. She makes a What the heck face but is ignored.

"Yeah! Why?"

"I just thought you'd have somebody with you. Like uh Xander..."

Buffy eyebrows furrow, "Xander."

"Or someone."

Laney crosses her arms, "Literally what the hell? So rude... someone is standing right here. Me!"

Buffy smirks once again ignoring Laney, "Nope... Why? Are you jealous?"

Laney groans slapping her forehead, "Welp since I'm apparently invisible I'm going home. Have fun waiting for lazy bones."

Angel chuckles at Buffy's statement disregarding Laney as she leaves, "Of Xander? Please. He's just a kid."

"Is it 'cause I danced with him?"

Angel scoffs, "'Danced with' is a pretty loose term. 'Mated with' might be a little closer."

Buffy crosses her arms over her chest and frowns angrily, "Don't you think you're being a little unfair? It was one little dance, which I only did to make you crazy, by the way. Behold my success."

"I am not jealous."

"You're not jealous? What, vampires don't get jealous?"

Finally, Stephan has come out of the ground, and looks at them from behind his gravestone.

"See? Whenever we fight you always bring up the vampire thing."

Buffy throws her arms up in the air, "Well, I didn't come here to fight."

The vampire lunges at her and knocks her into Angel. They fall to the ground, but Buffy quickly gets up.

"Oh, right, I did."

Stephan throws a few punches which Buffy easily blocks. She punches him in the face several times and kicks him in the jaw, sending him stumbling into a large adjacent gravestone. She looks around frantically.

"Where's my stake? I-I know I had a stake!"

Angel shakes his head, "I didn't see a stake!"

Buffy groans as she remembers something, "I think Laney took it with her!"

Angel throws his hands up in the air, "Well that's just great isn't it."

The vampire grabs a shovel that was lying by the other gravestone and comes at them again. Angel attacks, but Stephan brings the shovel up and hits him in the side of the face, knocking him onto his back. He leaves Angel lying there and steps toward Buffy. She meets him and jumps over the shovel when Stephan swings it at her legs. He swings it at her again, but she catches it, hits him again and breaks the handle. She spins around with her half and jams the broken handle into his chest. He falls over backward and bursts into ashes as he hits the ground. Angel gets up holding the side of his head.

Buffy is out of breath as she stares at Angel, "What do you mean he's just a kid? Does that mean I'm just a kid, too?"

"Look, obviously I made a mistake coming here tonight." He replies as he turns to leave.

"Oh, no you don't. You can't just turn and walk away from me like that." She starts following him determinedly, "It takes more than that to get rid of me."

She falls into an open grave with an open and empty coffin at the bottom.

"Oof! Uhhh..."

Angel comes over and bends down to look, "You okay?"

"I'm fine." She sits up and exhales, "Gee, I wish people wouldn't leave open graves laying around like this."

"So. Another vampire has risen tonight." Angel says.

Buffy stands up slowly and pokes her head out of the grave then looks across the grass.

"I don't think so. Look at those tracks. Whoever was buried here didn't rise from this grave."

She climbs out of the grave and finds a girl's shoe.

"She was dragged from it."

The next day at school, Buffy and Xander walk in to see Giles sitting in a chair, talking to another empty chair across from him.

Giles clears his throat, "W-w-w-what I'm proposing is, um... and I-I don't mean to appear indecorous, is, is, um, a, a-a-a social engagement, um, a, a, a, a-a date, if you're amenable."

Buffy and Xander stop and listen to him. Giles is displeased with himself.

"You idiot!"

Buffy sighs, "Boy..."

Giles is startled and quickly gets up and faces them.

"I guess we never realized how much you like that chair."

"I-I-I was just working on..." Giles knocks over a few books.

Buffy smiles, "Your pickup lines?"

Giles bends down and picks up the books with a grimace, "Um, in a manner of speaking, yes."

"Then if you wouldn't mind a little Gene and Roger, you might wanna leave off the 'idiot' part. Being called an idiot tends to take people out of the dating mood."

Xander shrugs, "Hmm, it actually kinda turns me on."

Buffy looks at Xander, "I fear you." Then she goes to the table and sits, "You also might wanna avoid words like 'amenable' and 'indecorous', y'know. Speak English, not whatever they speak in, um..."

"England?"

"Yeah. You just say, 'Hey, I got a thing, you maybe have a thing, maybe we could have a thing.'"

"Oh, thank you, Cyrano." Giles replies sarcastically.

"I'm not finished. Then you say, 'How do you feel about Mexican?'"

"About Mexicans?"

"Mexican. Food. You take her for food, for which you then pay."

"Oh. Right."

Xander smirks, "So this chair-woman. We are talking Ms. Calendar, right?"

Giles sits straight up quickly, "W-what makes you think that?"

Xander sits down, "Simple deduction. Ms. Calendar is reasonably dollsome, especially for someone in your age bracket. She already knows that you're a school librarian, so you don't have to worry about how to break that embarrassing news to her."

Buffy nods, "And she's the only woman we've actually ever seen speak to you. Add it all up and it all spells 'duh'."

"Now, is it time to have a talk about the facts of life?"

Giles shakes his head at Xander and begins to walk to the stairs, "You know, I'm suddenly deciding this is none of your business."

"Y'know, because that whole stork thing is a smoke screen."

Giles stops and looks back at him. Buffy laughs to herself.

"So, um, how did things go last night? Did Mr. Korshak show up on schedule?"

Buffy shrugs, "More or less. Angel and I took care of him."

"Angel? Where was Laney?"

Buffy gives Xander a look, "There's something else, though. We found an empty grave."

Giles flips through a book before putting it on the shelf nonchalantly, "Another vampire?"

"No. No, this one was dug up and the body was taken out."

"Grave robbing? That's new. Interesting." He comes back down to the table.

Buffy frowns, "I know... you meant to say gross and disturbing."

"Yes, yes, yes of course. Uh, terrible thing. Must, must put a stop to it. Damn it."

Xander grimaces, "So. Why does someone want to dig up graves?"

"Well, I'll, uh, collect some theories. Uh, it would help if we knew who the body belonged to."

"Meredith Todd. Ring a bell?"

Xander shakes his head, "No."

"She died recently. She was our age."

"Drawin' a blank."

"Why don't we ask Willow to, uh, fire," Giles indicates the PC, "this thing up and, uh, track Meredith down?"

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