I still recall the taste of your tears

[wickedslayer]

After our little four hour spurt of distraction, it was time to get down to business. Not that either of us were complainin' about the distraction, but I knew Wes wasn't gonna leave me alone til I checked out this Guardian guy. Also knew that Angel wouldn't be able to rest until he did something about this. There was no one left to protect but he

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[neverbeenfree]

"I'm fine." I answered immediately, tilting my face up and frowning when I saw him give me the once over. I knew what he was worried about, and I felt wicked guilty about it but I'd been worried about it too. I didn't wanna get sick, not like the rest of 'em. But I'd survived this long without it, so maybe I had some kind've immunity to it. Must be it. "Look, you don't have to worry about me gettin' sick." I finally said to him reassuringly. "Everyone else is dead, don't you think I'd at least be sick by now if I was gonna get it at all?"

With a sigh I just kept walkin' and fixed my eyes straight ahead again rather than on him. Crossing my arms over my chest, I tried to think about what Wes had said, about what the Guardian had said, about what those books had told us. Destroy what the Guardian was protecting. Okay, sure. He was protecting the last slayer. Well, technically second to last since I was still kickin' around. I'd just assumed that all the other one's had died. How did I know this? Why had I known this? I just had to put all the pieces together.

"We'll have to research immediately." Wesley's voice was soft and yielding next to me, almost like he felt bad all of a sudden or something. "We need to know why he's guarding the slayer, and what's to be done about it."

No shit. Course we needed to figure it out, cause it didn't make sense. She was already on her deathbed, so shouldn't she destroy herself in a couple of days? If she even had that long.

"We have to research again when we get back." I finally just said sullenly to Angel as we approached the school.

[__angel]

I was still worried about her even though she said it was okay. Yeah, she could have already gotten sick, but she hadn't. But what if she was now? I lost all my friends, my son ... didn't want to lose her now. If I had to go back and take care of that Slayer myself, I'd do it, just so it wasn't Faith. Wait ... if he's protecting the Slayer, I would assume it was the last one ... Faith is still around ... no, still, I'm confused.

Sighing, I followed her up to the school and nodded my head when she said we had to research. Yeah, I knew that, I was getting hungry myself too. But, I could hold it off for a little bit longer.

"I'll be able to know early ... if you have it, just in case," I said quietly with a shrug. Even though that would be something that I didnt' want to find out, at least I'd know when and if ... from the very beginning.

Saw my car as we walked up around the parking lot and I got in after she did. Didn't really have anything else to say, so I started it up and headed back to the apartment.