Imagine that life was perfect. It was normal. You were popular and happy. Everything was going your way until a new girl showed up.
That's how life was for Laney. She was a popular girl who's best friend was Cordelia Chase. Everything at Sunnydale...
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3rd Person's POV
Giles is still pouring over his notes when Willow enters. He looks up, hoping to see Buffy.
"It's just me. So there's no word?"
"Not as of yet."
"Well, I'm sure they're... great."
"Did you find anything of interest?"
She sits, shows him copied articles as she talks, "I think maybe. I looked through the old papers, around the time of that big earthquake back in '37. And for several months before it, there was a rash of murders."
"Great! I mean, not great in a good way... Go on."
"They sound like the kind you were looking for. Throats, blood. Months, and not even a clue."
Giles nods, "It's all coming together. I rather wish it weren't."
A few moments later, Buffy and Xander enter, looking somewhat worse after their adventure. Willow takes one look at their faces and doesn't have to ask yet she does anyway.
"Did you find Jesse?"
Xander nods with a grim look, "Yeah."
"Was he dead?"
Buffy shakes her head, "Worse."
Willow sits and breathes heavily.
"I'm sorry, Willow. We were too late. And they were waiting for us."
"At least you two are okay."
Xander kicks a trash bin in frustration, "I don't like vampires. I'm gonna take a stand and say they're not good."
"So, Giles, you got anything that can make this day worse?"
Giles looks over at Buffy, "How about the end of the world."
Buffy grimaces, "I knew I could count on you."
"This is what we know. Some sixty years ago a very old, very powerful vampire came to this shore, and not just to feed."
"He came 'cause this town is a mystical whoosit?"
"Yes. The Spanish who first settled here called it Boca Del Infierno-- roughly translated: Hellmouth. A sort of portal from this reality to the next. This vampire hoped to open it."
"Bring the demons back." Buffy says understanding.
"End of the world." Xander adds making Buffy nod.
"But he blew it. Or, I mean, there was an earthquake that swallowed about half the town. And him too-- or at least there were no more vampire-type killings after." Willow says.
"Opening dimensional portals is tricky business. Odds are he got himself stuck. Like a cork in a bottle."
"And this Harvest thing is to get him out?" Xander looks questioningly at Giles.
