Prompt-- Underground
“We can’t just walk out there. They have to keep thinking I’m the enemy.”
Buffy nodded, but her intellect was still back at the entrance where she had left it when she first saw him. Alive. Unmasked. And finally ready to explain. She thought she had chased him underground; in fact he had lured her there so they could talk.
“Then we fought and you won,” she said. “Take me prisoner. They won’t attack.”
“Good. Give me your stake?”
“How do you know I brought-“
He smiled. “Don’t act like you didn’t come down here to kill me, love.”