Magic Box - Monday

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

Giles frowned as he unpacked the most recent shipment. He really was going to have to do something about this supplier sending things he hadn't ordered. First the gross of rabbit's feet and now a crate of golden eggs. What was he supposed to do with a crate of golden eggs?

He sighed. Maybe he could convince people that eating one on Easter would act like a prosperity spell.

The Magic Box was open.

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn hesitated before entering the Magic Box. On the one hand, she was worried that Giles would be able to tell that certain things had happened. On the other, she really needed help doing the whole Key research thing, and no one was better at that than Giles.

She opened the door and walked in, "What's with the eggs?"

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

"I have a supplier with a sense of humour," Giles told her, still glaring at the eggs. "Or possibly with an over productive magic goose."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"You need Anya here to yell at them for you," Dawn remarked, picking one up and tapping it, hoping it would be a gold foil-wrapped chocolate egg. "Are they good for anything?"

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

"Not appreciably, no. Although I'm trying to come up with convincing uses they could possibly have. For advertising."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Ummmmm...doorstops? Or they need hats."

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

"The eggs need hats?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Or bunny ears, maybe?" Dawn suggested, "If you're sure they don't do anything magical, we could make them very cute Easter presents for people. Or like, fortune eggs. If they're real gold, though, you should probably just return them so you don't get charged."

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

Giles shook his head. "Pyrite. Fool's gold." He thought over what he said. "Cute Easter presents might be the right angle to take."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Do you have glue and scissors and wrapping stuff?" She asked, going behind the counter and rummaging through drawers and cabinets, "I could help. I have some stuff to talk to you about anyway."

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

"Under the cash register," Giles directed her. "What kind of 'stuff'?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Ah hah!" Dawn emerged with the wrapping supplies and carried them over to where the eggs were. "Um, I need to know what you know about me. The, er, green shiny parts."

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

Giles looked at her more closely. "You mean you being the Key."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn nodded. "I didn't get...told a lot when the whole thing was going down," she explained something Giles probably already knew, "but I should understand, shouldn't I? I'm old enough now--older than when B...older than when most slayers figure out who and what they are. I can handle it."

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure how much more I would know than you do," Giles said seriously.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Are there other ways to access...what I am?" She asked tentatively, then asked the question that had been bothering her and featured in nightmares for over a year, "Can I be unmade?"

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

"Is it theoretically possible? Yes," Giles said seriously. "But practically, it would take both a great deal of knowledge and skill and an immense amount of power. Even Glory wasn't able to do it and she was a god." He gave her a reassuring smile. "The chances of it ever happening are so vanishing small that it's as good as impossible."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"But as good as isn't is," Dawn pulled her sleeves down over her hands, not reassured. Because Willow did have an immense amount of power at her disposal these days. "Um, I should probably tell you--there was a thing. Kind of an accident."

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

That had Giles' full attention. "What kind of accident?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"There's a girl here...and she can open doors to places--kind of like portals, I guess. Anyway, she touched my hand, and we ended up across town, even though she'd only meant to take us back to the dorms. We didn't mean to do it," she added quickly, seeing a lot of dusting in her future, "and it was a complete accident and we didn't know it could happen."

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

"Interesting," Giles said, a thoughtful expression on his face.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn blinked. "Interesting? That's all you have to say? Kinda falling down on the job here, Giles, aren't you? I don't even get any glasses polishing?"