He grinned at her look of consternation and distress.“How did you get over here? What happened to my clothes?” she asked. “Andy, what's going on...”“It worked,” he said simply. “I hypnotized you, and made you forget everything.”“Yeah, but my clothes?” she asked, sounding near to tears. “What else did you make me do?”“I didn't make you do anything, Ashley. You're still a virgin, I promise. We didn't even kiss. I just asked you some questions, and you answered them. That's all, I promise.”“How long. "Looks like our friends have been recruiting," said Buffy as she preparedherself for a fight. Faith pulled out a stake, "Look, we don't want to hurt you. We might even be able to help you." The vampire ignored her warning and jumped onto her, knocking her to theground. Faith struggled to keep the vampire from feeding on her.Suddenly it turned to dust and Faith saw Buffy standing over her with astake in her hand. Faith got up and immediately wiped the dust off. "Eww, vampire bits.It's all. Bill tried to figure out a way to booby trap the dead bodies in the ditch the way the Viet Cong had done but couldn't see a way to do it with what he had. He did put some more of the bullet traps close to the bodies and around the SUV. They left the dead bodies to the night after reloading the rifle and taking it off safe. They carefully made their way back to the quad and reset their last ambush site.It was a little after nine by the time they made it back to the guard point and Bill was. For a while I fantasized that I could find something that Steve hadn't done with Katherine. Something new that would be exciting for him. Then I remembered his words.Not the acts, the people.Steve was looking for the connection.Oh my.Steve wasn't wagering just two minutes, I realized. He was playing for bigger stakes. Much bigger.That scared me.That tugged at me.What were my stakes? I took a deep breath and looked around my apartment. It was pretty empty, I realized. Not as spartan as Steve's.