FATE’S CHOICE

CHAPTER 7: A Call for Help

“Guys…Guys I think I found something”, Willow said as she held out a few torn pages for the others to see. Everyone looked up from what they where looking at and rushed over to her. Giles carefully studied the pages as the others stood waiting for any type of response from him.

“Well”, Buffy finally asked tired of waiting.

“A…yes well it’s not quite. The language…it’s very, my goodness this must predate anything we have ever come across and I doubt the former council even had any knowledge to what”.

“Giles”, Buffy yelled, stopping his babbling, causing him to look up at her.

“Sorry I’ve only seen this once before when. Willow where did you find this”, Giles questioned her.

“It was inside this book”, she said holding it up.

“Hey that looks like Faith’s book. I forgot I had that”, Kennedy said. “I borrowed it from her and I never got a chance to look at it”.

“Why would Faith have a book of poetry”, Xander asked.

“That’s not the question that’s important at the moment. However the question is why would Faith have these and where did she get them”, Giles said rubbing the back of his neck.

“Well this isn’t good”, Andrew said jumping into the conversation, causing everyone to glare at him.

“I hate to admit it but he’s right”, Xander said shaking his head.

“Well whatever Fai….Faith was planning I doubt she is anymore cause we have the text”, Buffy tried to say, having trouble with her name. No one had mentioned Faith or even spoken of her since that night three years ago.

“These aren’t the original texts”, Giles said handing them to Willow.

“He’s right, they look like they’re copies of some kind. It looks like a copy spell of some sort”, Willow stated taking them and looking them over.

“Frankly I don’t care why she had it. All I care about is what it says and if it can help us save Gage’s mom”, Buffy said annoyed with who the conversation was about.

“Buffy I think we should consider the possibility that maybe Faith is in some way connected”, Giles tried to reason with her.

“You did say you had the book they were in”, Xander stated. “Maybe she found them. I mean if she knew what they were do you think she’d just leave them”. The room grew quiet as everyone contemplated on what Xander had just said.