untouchable - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

the harvest - p1

psa: i do realise that my last chapter kinda already started this episode, oh well

Camilla POV

"Are you sure your face is going to be ok?" I wince as I side glance over at Willow. Xander is standing next to her chair, and Buffy is standing behind her. I on the contrary am sitting at the other end of the table, away from them all. 

After last night my face begun to bruise. There was a cut where the main impact was, the rest was bruised and kind of swollen, but it wasn't the worst i'd had. 

"I think it makes you look cool." Xander smiles, glancing at his feet. A smile graces my lips. 

"Might fix her face.." Buffy smirks at me. I poke my tongue out at her. Giles begins walking down the stairs of the library towards all of us. 

"Giles?" Buffy says, all of us looking up at him. 

"This world is older than any of you know. Contrary to popular mythology, it did not begin as a paradise. For untold eons demons walked the Earth. They made it their home, their... their Hell. But in time they lost their purchase on this reality. The way was made for mortal animals, for, for man. All that remains of the old ones are vestiges, certain magicks, certain creatures..." He begins, me and Buffy cutting him off. 

"And vampires." 

"Okay, this where i have a problem. See, because we're talking about vampires. We're having a talk with vampires in it." Xander looks at me confused. My face drops a little. He didn't believe me. God you've known this boy for what 2 days. I think to myself. 

"Isn't that what we saw last night?" Willow shudders in her seat, curling her knees under her chin. I smile lightly at her, for reassurance. 

"No. No, th-those weren't vampires, those were just guys in thundering need of a facial..." Buffy begins.

"Or maybe they had rabies. It could have been rabies. A-and that guy turning to dust? Just a trick of the light." I finish, Willow sighing. Xander gives me a look as if to say 'i told you so'. "That's exactly what I said the first time I saw a vampire." 

"Well, after you were done with the screaming part." Buffy chuckles, and I smile at her. 

"Oh, I, I need to sit down." Willow stutters, shivering in her seat. Buffy puts a reassuring hand on her shoulder. 

"You are sitting down." Buffy says, smiling down at her. 

"Oh. Good for me." She smiles weakly at me across the table. 

"So vampires are demons?" Xander asks looking at Giles. I roll my eyes, looking at him. 

"The books tell the last demon to leave this reality fed off a human, mixed their blood. He was a human form possessed, infected by the demon's soul. He bit another, and another, and so they walk the Earth, feeding... Killing some, mixing their blood with others to make more of their kind. Waiting for the animals to die out, and the old ones to return." Giles tells, Buffy and I giving each other a look. 

*

"And that would be a what?" Xander asks as he paces around the table. Buffy rolls her eyes. 

"For as long as there have been vampires, there's been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, a Chosen One." Giles explains. Buffy looks at me mouthing 'sorry'. She knows how much the talk gets to me. 

"He loves doing this part." I remark looking up at Xander who had stopped behind my chair. My knees were tucked under my chin. 

"Alright. The Slayer hunts vampires, Buffy is a Slayer, don't tell anyone. Well, I think that's all the vampire information you need." Giles removes his glasses, cleaning them once again. Willow looks at me confused.