Walking with Justin

[buffyxsummersx]

Nothing could have prepared me for the direction things were about to take at the moment. Tonight was supposed to be about Homecoming. Celebrating. I think it's what Willow would have wanted. I couldn't say the same for Cordelia. She's a vampire now. She doesn't care. Although, we could have celebrated for her in a different. Well, for

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[no_fear_justin]

"I'm Buffy's watcher, Justin. And as a watcher, I know all things about vampires throughout history, having...having studied them. Now I am aware how Angel got his soul, but what I want to know, is how it is that you came about getting yours?"

It was obvious to me what was happening, and in another life, I might have hurt the old guy, but that wasn't the case now. He called himself a watcher and I wasn't filled with recollections about watcher tales from Adria or Brandy, but I did hear of them before. Watchers gave guidance to slayers, so I didn't get angered with him. If I wanted to work with Buffy and hopefully so much more, then I had to get along with him. After all, his mission was to help Buffy, which was he same mission for me.

I was about to answer, when Buffy spoke up.

"Wait. Giles, this happened to him, recently. He wasn't really cursed with a soul."

I cringed, but didn't show it. I knew that this Giles had probably heard of the Sofilar's, the great vampire-hunting benevolent demons of Europe, and he would look at them as if they were allies. I was going to have to tell him the truth.

"Right? I mean, Angel was cursed and if he has any happiness he loses it, but it's not the same with Justin. You see, he g-got into a fight with these demons..."

That was true. I was nothing like Angel. Except that he seemed to be involved in Buffy's life. Although, hearing that Angel could lose his soul, which meant that he could revert to evil again, was stunning.

"Why don't I let Justin tell you what happened."

I put my hands at my waist and folded them together, first smiling at Giles and then at Buffy, who was beautiful when she smiled.

"If I found Justin a threat, you know I wouldn't have brought him here. Just let him explain everything to you. I promise, you'll change your mind."

She really didn't whisper it to Giles and I heard what she had told him. I wasn't so convinced.

"Giles, I'd be lying if I told you that guilt didn't ravage me over how I'd gotten this soul in my chest. I don't know anything about Angel, or why I have my soul, but I don't think that I could ever lose mine..."

I looked at Buffy. I was stalling, and looked at her for comfort. I then looked at Giles. "As a watcher, you've no doubt heard of the Sofilar demons?"

He nodded.

I knew that this was the point where he might reject me on a permanent basis. If I wasn't convincing, yet honest, then he would probably cast a shadow on me being with Buffy. There was nothing in the world for me but this now, and I wanted to fight evil and attain proximity to Buffy. I wasn't sure of how strong Buffy's relationship to Giles was, or if she would ignore him if she wanted to be with me or around me, but I knew that it wasn't going to help the two of us from the start, if her watcher looked at me as a monster and only a monster, with no man in him.

He was waiting, and I tried my best to start the story, apathetically, as to not revel in my victory over the Sofilars, while still being honest, curt and not fake.

[no_fear_justin]

"Well, I was in London meeting up with Rory, who blamed me for Brandy's death on a cruise ship at the hands of a lynch mob. He sired Brandy and she was his lover, but she left after two centuries, came to America, and along with Adria, they sired me together. Brandy was my lover, and Rory knew it and resented me for it. He hated me more when he found that she had died. He blamed me for it and lured me into a situation where I had to fight the Sofilar demons. I had heard of them from my sires, and was told of their powers, abilities and what they could do to a vampire. I didn't seek them out, nor did I ever just pray on helpless people for blood. They came after me. I don't know how Rory knew where they would be, but they attacked me, and I defended myself. I killed two of the three and when fighting with the third, I was bitten before killing it. I know that the holy water in their veins was supposed to kill me instantly, a dust explosion, but it didn't happen. I also know that they never failed against a vampire in the past, not one of them alone, and I killed all three of them. I guess that it makes me quite the warrior, I suppose, and I'm here to help. I've been receiving visions since I woke up with a soul after the Sofilar bite...visions of Buffy. I didn't know who she was, but I knew that she was important and that whoever kept me alive for some reason after I should have exploded from the bite, wanted me to help, and I want nothing more then to help Buffy..and you, I suppose, in the process. I assure you that guilt fills me for many of my wrongs of the past, and nothing more then killing the Sofilar demons..."

I had just put a lot on both of them, but especially on this Giles. He looked like he didn't know how to respond. It was interrupted as the police arrived, and he went to talk to them, while I was left alone with Buffy. I smiled at her.

"That was a lot for him to absorb, I realize..."

Minutes later, he came back and said that we should leave. We started towards his home. He was still leery of me, but seemed to have softened a bit.

He had a small car and I scrunched myself in the back of it as he drove towards his home. His allowing me into his car was something that I took as a good sign.