"Hades?" Talia asked, her face lighting up." Oh man, I haven't seen
him in
centuries!"
"Should I be honored that he remembers me?" Angel asked sourly.
"Well...you did send an awful lot of people his way," Talia replied lightly.
"Get off." Buffy commanded irritably, backing away from Xander, Willow
and
Giles inspection." I'm fine, it's not like I've never died before."
"How did you, I mean what did you...wait, your brother is a god, so
that
makes you a..." Willow let the sentence hang in the air as she looked
at
Buffy's head and back to Talia.
"Oh that..." Talia trailed off and looked at Angel questioningly. He
shook his
head slightly, and the newly found-out goddess favored Buffy with a
brightly
false smile. "One of my gifts for my sweet 16, was to be able to bring
people
back to life."
"Damn...and all I got was a sweater." One look at the solemn face before
him vanished his smile. "Oh my god--your a god!?"
Talia nodded toward Giles' book warily. "Would you like to do the honors?"
"What...ohh, uhh...yes, of course." Giles picked up his volume as the
group
settled themselves in varying positions of comfort. Xander perched
on the
mantle of the fireplace, Willow cross legged on the floor, and Buffy
taking
her usual seat next to Giles.
The slayer tried not to growl as Angel guided Talia towards the other
couch
and sat beside her. "This better be good." She thought grouchily.
"So, uhh...long story or the short
story?
"Hey I have this dead gerbil..." Xander started as soon as Giles finished
telling the tale.
"Oh my gods!" Talia shrieked grabbing at her neck.
"What, can you breathe?" Giles exclaimed as Talia continued to claw
at her
neck and peek down her shirt. She rolled her eyes and cast the librarian
a
withering look.
"I don't breathe period! I just remembered about the medallion and chain.
Unfortunately sometime in the 1870's Marlock stole the chain from Vikkie..."
Talia broke off and studied Giles's carpet with great interest. "Well...he
got it
from me, and I must have left the medallion in the lamp. I cannot let
him get
that too."
"Oh...uhh...quite right, yes, well I locked your lamp in my weapon chest
so
I'm sure it will be safe." Giles assured. "But are you saying Marlock
is still
after you?"
"How'd you get stuck in a lava lamp?" Buffy diverted the subject smoothly,
from what she had heard, this guy wasn't the nicest, and this Vikkie
girl must
have found that out the hard way...
"Well it mentions briefly that you can jump form any type of lamps to
another
if the original is broken," Giles said.
Talia took on a pained look. "Unfortunately, my old lamp looked suspiciously
like a bong. Damn hippies."