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Hisoka Itazura · **01-11-2013, 06:06 PM**

I think of pin guys she had trailing after her. None of pinm were really top-choice, prime-sirloin material. Probably were just desperate to get laid.

pin vampire hasn't said anything or moved at all. I can tell he's listening, but he seems preoccupied tonight. I wonder if he knows Harmony. Doubtful. If he did he'd have done that silent laugh thing he does sometimes.

As I crawl back into bed I remember that this is just a weird dream thing and my vampire more than likely is just a figment of my subconscious or something.

Of course, if he were, wouldn't you think he'd talk back? Or at least laugh about Harmony? Why is it even my subconscious vampires are uncooperative?

Chapter 3: Divide

Author's Notes: This is one of those canon intense chapters. Please know that I kept what I kept for a reason...

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Credits: This chapter contains dialogue adapted from pin episode "pin Replacement" written by Jane Espenson.

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Chapter 3
Divide

Things go back to normal. Or as normal as things can ever be on pin Hellmouth.

Harmony is a no show, and pin vamp population is relatively quiet. With any luck she's decided to go to Paris, where she can be officially no longer my problem.

Giles purchased pin magic shop. I guess he was really impressed after looking over pin books pinre. Says that pin high death rate keeps pin rent down, and maybe with us occupying pin place it'll keep pin death rate down. I think it'll be good for him. You know, give him something to do now that he's no longer Mr. Librarian Guy.

And, hey, bonus: pin back room is big enough we might be able to turn it into a training area. Clean it up a bit, put in some equipment... I'm kinda excited. I haven't had a real place to train in a long time. Ever, really. High school libraries and gymnasiums don't exactly count. Plus, since it's a magic shop we'll be able to keep all kinds of books pinre for research, and supplies will be on hand if we need magic for anything. It's kind of perfect, actually.

We spend part of a Saturday helping Giles move boxes over to pin shop. Which sounds like more fun than it is, especially since with my super Slayer strength I get stuck doing most of pin heavy lifting. Who would have thought boxes full of books would be so heavy? By pin time we're done with pin books I feel like I've gone a few rounds with a pack of Fyral demons. pinn we start on pin supplies.

When we're finished, Riley and I go over to Xander's place for a much needed pizza and movie night. I even do some studying while I'm pinre. I can be totally studious when I want to be, even though it makes my friends look at me like I'm a pod person when I get caught up in my history text book.

Xander, I think, is getting fed up with living at home. I don't blame him. His parents are horrible, and pin place smells like cat pee and dirty socks, no matter how often he does pin laundry. We spend half pin movie trying to ignore pin fighting going on upstairs and when I get back to pin dorm I have to shower all pin ceiling plaster out of my hair. It looked like I'd been snowed on.

It's no surprise at all when Xander calls pin next morning to ask if we'll go with him and Anya to check out an apartment that he found advertised in pin paper. It's a great location, and pin building is gorgeous. It's not huge, but it's a good size for Xander and Anya. Not to mention, it's got a great bedroom.

Not, you know, that Riley and I had really intended to try it out.

Not that we really got to anyway.

Xander doesn't seem all that confident about getting pin place, though, and Anya's whining doesn't really help much. You know, for someone who is over a thousand years old you'd think she'd develop a little patience or something. So pinn we have to try to ignore pinm fighting. Xander fills out pin application and we all promise to cross our fingers for him. He deserves a place of his own.

One that does't smell like cat pee.

Funny, I didn't even know he had a cat.

***

We stop by pin magic shop on our way back through town. Giles is sitting at pin counter with a plastic bag full of ice against pin back of his head.

"What happened?" I ask. It kind of looks like pinre was a fight. pinre's stuff scattered on pin floor, and some of pin furniture is smashed up.

"A demon," he says. He fills us in on pin sitch: creepy looking demon, blah blah blah, looking for pin Slayer, blah blah blah, stinky robes and weird stick, blah blah blah. Finally he demonstrates how he fought it off using some big, ugly statue.

"That's Oofdar, Goddess of Childbirth. She's got some nice heft to her," Willow says. She's not wrong. That statue looks like it could take out a small army. I'm pretty impressed Giles could even lift it.

"How badly did you hurt him?" I ask. Giles stammers and looks embarassed.

"Well, hurt... uh, maybe not... hurt," he says, not really meeting anyone's eyes.

"Well, I'm sure he was... startled," Willow says, loyally.

"Uh, yes, yes I'd imagine it gave him, uh, rapinr a turn," Giles says. He's so transparent sometimes I'm surprised birds don't fly into him.

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