...is a promise.
It was amazing that I was able to get this far when it comes to Giles. I knew that he didn’t want me even a plane ride away from Angel and his crew over at Wolfram and Hart, and to be honest, a few months ago, I didn’t want to be either. Something drastically changed my mind, and even I didn’t know what exactly it was. Maybe it was this sort of
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When he said that, he was right. It did motivate me more to try to get there as fast as I could. I wasn't going to deny that I was a bit angry for not telling me about this earlier. I could understand why he didn't though. If he had when he had first found out, him and I both know I'd be on the first flight out of here. I could see the depth of care in his eyes when he was telling me this, and basically pleading for me not to go. It wasn't going to change my mind about going, but it did change my mind about getting into an argument for his filtering of problems in Los Angeles from me. I knew he was only trying to help, and I could understand that.
"It's all the more reason for me to go now. I need to help them."
I sighed. That seemed a little to much like I was going only to help them. Even though they were a huge part of my reasons, I had a weird feeling about it over there anyway. I didn't know what I was going to do when I got there if Angel and Spike were really as far off the wall as everyone thought. I did know that I was going to do some good there even if it wasn't what I had originally planned. I would only know when I got there.
"If there's something that bad going on, then someone that has the power and the will to stop whatever it is should be there. And it might as well be me."
I looked at the clock, then progressed over to Giles. I was going out on a limb here, but it didn't hurt to mention it.
"You know, I don't have to go alone. But I am going with or without anyone."
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"It's all the more reason for me to go now. I need to help them."
"If there's something that bad going on, then someone that has the power and the will to stop whatever it is should be there. And it might as well be me."
Here was the point where I was rather challenged to come up with words. I did not want her to take that flight to Los Angeles. But, I knew that I wasn't going to be able to convince her to stay. At the same time, I didn't want to inform her that she actually wouldn't be alone when over there, even though I hadn't considered who I was sending as of yet to assist. It wouldn't be Faith. I needed her to be ready to assist some of the other girls if Buffy was indeed going to Los Angeles.
Kennedy was on a sabbatical with Willow, otherwise, I would have been immediately contacting her.
I would formulate a strategy and it would be executed. i just wished that Buffy wasn't involved, that she wasn't going. I had planned on intervening without her knowledge. Andrew was the only other that knew it at the moment, though.
"You know, I don't have to go alone. But I am going with or without anyone."
She was resolvant, and no act of man or god would change her mind at this point.
"If all of the signs are correct, Buffy, you may very well find nothing there to go to. Maybe, you should reconsider this and as a unit, as the Council, we can examine how we want to go abou..."
I stopped because I had just admitted to her that what I had heard very much intimated that Spike, Angel and all there would be dead within the end of the next day or two. I had indeed tried to contact Wesley to inform him, not that it would do any good, but I hadn't been able to reach him.
Buffy's eyes became steely as she realized the true weight of the words that I had just dropped on her ears. I truly despised being nefarious about withholding information, but as I had once said to her, a general had to pick his battles.
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I needed to get on that plane. I knew I was going alone here. I clenched the rather heavy bag in my hand. I was about to take another step forward when Giles let something slip that made me hold my breath and made my heart nearly stop beating.
"If all of the signs are correct, Buffy, you may very well find nothing there to go to. Maybe, you should reconsider this and as a unit, as the Council, we can examine how we want to go abou..."
Immediately after the words had slipped his mouth, I knew he regretted them. I suddenly felt cold, and worried at the same time. This wasn't just going to be cataclysmic, this was going to be complete destruction if the 'signs' were telling the truth.
I didn't have time to yell at Giles, and I didn't have time to argue anymore. All that was left for me to do was hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and get on that plane. My plan had changed. Drastically. My original plan was to put Angel, Spike, and Wesley on the right track. To, prove to them that they were on the wrong one, to maybe help them to destroy Wolfram and Hart.
Now, it was potentially to find them alive first. I choked back my words, and started for the door. I was glad that Dawn knew this plan, but I had a feeling that I might be gone longer than we both thought.
I looked at the wood on the door, as my hand clenched the knob.
"I need a ride to the airport."
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Once again, I wanted to congratulate myself for opening my mouth and spilling things that she didn't need to know. Then again, she was going. Nobody was going to stop her once her mind was made up.
After a terse few moments of angry silence, she spoke up and put me in a position where I knew that I was going to be the party helping her with ehr request.
"I need a ride to the airport."
Bloody going to Heatthrow at this time of the day was like having a colonoscopy. Not digressing into that topic, especially with Buffy waiting expectantly for me, but having one of those, which I have now had two....well, I would rather face a vampire without a weapon of any kind.
"Very well, Buffy, I shall drive you."
Wordless, we made our way out of the estate and into the BMW 740 in the driveway in front of the rather immense garage. We headed out of the estate and onto the roads that would lead to the outskirts of town in only mere moments.
Those moments passed quickly and silently as well and I knew that I had to say something. "If it's any consolation, Buffy, I had planned on getting involved in this, only I wasn't intending on using yourself or Faith because of your relationships with Angel, Wesley and Spike..."
I pulled up to the logjam of traffic and looked at her as we moved closer to the front entrances to the very substantial hub of an airport. She was ticked at me to a power that was exponentially high, but I had to say something to the girl who had come to be the daughter that I had never had, who was deservedly perturbed with me.
"Buffy, every decision that I make is to protect you and the others and always has been. I'm sorry. Still, what do you plan to do over there? The devastation could be extreme. You won't be gung-ho and cavlier about the doling out of punishment, will you?"
She absorbed the words, looked at me, said nothing, got out, grabbed her bag off of the backseat and left me in her wake; left me in her wake with worry and despair.
She truly wouldn't be alone over there. Again, those that were there, would keep themselves shielded from her. I refused to let Buffy know that I was keeping tabs on her. Still, it was Buffy. She was more capable then anyone that I had ever met, but how could I not watch for her?
A horn blared at me repeatedly from behind me as I watched her disappear through the door. I didn't immediately leave, but eventually did, knowing that I had to formulate a strategy to help her and had to get the girls that I wanted for this task and discuss with them what they were to do.
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