I back-peddled frantically and managed to get far enough away that, by the time she reached me, all the power from her rush had dispersed. True, she s...ill managed to lock her arms around my waist but she presented me with a wonderful view of the top of her head. Taking hold of a handful of that soft, long blond hair in each hand, I yanked upwards as hard as I could. I smiled as I was rewarded with an ear piecing scream and her grip around my middle weakened considerably. I pulled again and. I didn't tell you about something that happened withLinda and I. I'll tell you the short version now, it'salmost 8AM and I have to get to work, but I'll tellyou the longer version in chat another time.Linda had 2-3 serious medical conditions, one of themterminal. As part of the treatment of one of them, shehad to have an operation in the July of our summerromance. I can't remember what the operation was for,but it -was- major. She was in the hospital for aweek afterwards.Now, my Suzy hated. It was only 15 pounds, but it felt like 30 to her. Of course, it would have been nice if someone had told her boobs so that they could blossom into C cups, like apparently every other girl in this school. And she hated her friends. It seemed like they were always ignoring her. For being only two weeks into her last semester of high school, she felt overwhelmed. Straight A’s are a painful precedent to maintain. All of this might explain why she was in a black mood when she slumped down next to. Well, he would get to the bottom of this later, Giles told himself.Right now he had given the girls the antidote, and they should all be back to normal soon.The next step was to tell them what happened, destroy the shipment of liquid, and the check with the other Watchers as to whether this was being distributed to other slayers too.Well, this was quite a challenge.Right now, for the present, Buffy was safe and things would be back to normal here.That antidote was so powerful that she, and the.