After she and McCoy reached the school, Buffy immediately snuck off with her duffel bag to the library. The locks were done, but it took one encouraging slam of the handle to convince it otherwise. God bless Slayer strength. She snuck inside and dropped her bag in the caged area where they'd been keeping Oz over the full moons, paying a visit to Giles to explain the situation and pulling a stake out of the bag to keep with her. She stuffed it into her purse, which was almost too tiny to hold it and her lip gloss.
Then, she slipped back into the halls to move past rows of lockers towards the gym. It'd help her to walk around the long way, to get an idea where people were and make sure that Spike wasn't living up to his threat. Not that she took him too seriously as a general rule anymore -- weeping on Willow's shoulder had cleared that right up. But, last time he'd showed, Cordelia had to be hospitalized.
That wasn't going to happen again.
Once she was satisfied that the halls were clear except for students who'd snuck off to make-out early (raise your hand if tacky), she headed for the gym.
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