"Randall?" Buffy cautiously peaked around the door into Giles' assistant's office.

"Yes, Miss Summers?" He answered without looking up from his desk.

"Where's Giles? He isn't in his office." She was sure she was using her best 'tell me everything' pout but it seemed wasted on someone who wouldn't even look at her. She looked back at Ginny waiting in the hall and shrugged. Her reaction was a low giggle.

"He's in the Restricted Documents section in the Library." Randall said, his head still deep in paperwork.

"I didn't know we had a restricted section in the library here..." Buffy grumbled. Ginny nodded her head in agreement as she followed Buffy into his office.

"It is a recent addition." Randall said, finally glancing up at them. "We received several important documents this week that Dr. Giles believes require extra security."

"Oh." Buffy said. She wasn't against the idea but she did wonder what kind of document, among the already rare and dangerous things in the Council's collection, required such extra security. "Where is it?"

"In the Library." He told her, frowning at her question, as if she should already know that.

"Oh, right." She could feel herself blush. "Thanks." She grabbed Ginny's hand and pulled her out of Randall's office.

"I think he's related to your brother." she said.

"Which one?" Ginny asked, clearly surprised.

"The Percy one." Buffy said. "It's like they know something you don't and it isn't worth their time to tell you what it is. No matter how important."

Ginny laughed, the warm tones making Buffy's heart beat just a little faster.

"That is a good description of Percy. Except, he really is a good person, though he doesn't show it until he gets to know you. And," she stopped moving, forcing Buffy to stop also or pull her off her feet, "I don't really want to claim Randall as a brother. He's hard enough to work with now. Big brother-itist, as Dawn likes to say, is no fun."

"I think she usually says 'Big-sister-itist'," Buffy corrected, pulling Ginny towards the library again.

"I was trying to be nice." Ginny told her. "Dawn isn't here to defend herself."

Buffy grimaced as they entered the library. She'd managed to dissuade Dawn and Willow from the idea for the Cleveland office but Giles had given in to Xander's attack of nostalgia and allowed him to recreate a reasonably accurate copy of the old Sunnydale High School library in London. The old library held too many bad memories for her to be completely comfortable with the idea but she wasn't in London often enough for it to matter.

They found him in the back, in a shelf lined room tucked unobtrusively in a corner. He was leaning over a large, unrolled parchment document spread out on the large table that dominated the center of the small room. He was humming an unfamiliar tune under his breath, occasionally stopping to write in a small notebook.

"How did your visit go?" He asked them, looking up as they entered.

"It was, ah, different." Buffy said. She hadn't quite finished processing the visit herself but she'd known he would be curious about the reaction Ginny's parents had had to his oldest slayer.

"You can tell him what you really thought." Ginny told her with an amused look. "I won't be offended. Even people who've known them for years find my family a trifle odd. Just be glad the twins weren't there."

"Well..." Buffy paused for a minute, not quite at a loss for words but hoping he wouldn't notice how off balance the experience had her feeling. "You know how Willow was that year? Right before Tara died? With all the heavy magic use to solve all of our problems?"

He nodded, grimacing. "Yes."

Buffy sighed. She knew him well enough to know that thinking about his actions towards herself and Willow that year, not matter how justified he'd believed them to be at the time, could still send waves of guilt through his mind. They'd both eventually forgiven him, though Buffy suspected that Dawn still partly blamed his actions for the way things had spun out of control afterward, culminating in the fight with the First.

"Well, imagine a place where even the smallest thing is done with magic. Where it's just another tool. And where no one seems to have problems with it." Buffy told him. "That would be what it's like with Ginny's family."

Giles raised an eyebrow at the amused witch. "We've seen the effects of casually using Wiccan magic. The results can be horrifying," He told her. "Is there an explanation for why the magic you grew up with appears to be safe?"

Ginny shrugged. "I've known of magic users who used it for evil purposes but until I started working for the Council and I read Willow's account of her actions that year and later... it never occurred to me that you could overuse magic like that and become addicted to it. I have a number of ideas but I would rather ask Willow for her opinion before sharing them." She told them.

Giles frowned. "That's understandable. It's an interesting puzzle. We used to operate with the assumption that there was only one kind of magic and that it was how you used it, the intent of the caster, that made the difference. But just by being here," he waved an arm around vaguely, "you've demonstrated how complex the interaction between the different schools of magical practice are."

Buffy shook her head. "That's great but you missed the 'Great Buffy Freakout' when I saw all the things being done with magic."

"You didn't do too badly," Ginny said, winking at her. "You had almost everyone fooled."

"I'm not sure I liked being called that squid thing," Buffy grumbled.

"A what?" Giles looked at them strangely.

"A squib," Ginny corrected. "It's what my family calls someone who can't do our kind of magic."

"Ah..." Giles murmured.

"What are you looking at?" Buffy asked, trying to figure out what the parchment document was for.

"It's a duplicate, more or less, of something I thought was lost a long time ago," Giles told them.

"One of those things that was destroyed with the Council offices?" Buffy asked curiously.

"No." He said. "It disappeared several decades before that."

Buffy could feel Ginny's warm breath blowing softly across her ear as she looked over her shoulder, trying to get a better view of it. "Here!" Buffy stepped out of her way, almost immediately missing their accidental closeness. "It looks more like your thing than mine."

Ginny smiled at her, once more amused. "We can share. There's plenty of room." She looked down at the document. "I've seen something like this before." She murmured. "A family tree?"

"Close." Giles told them.

"Why is Buffy's name on it? And Faith's?" Ginny asked him.

"What? Where?" Buffy asked.

"Here!" Ginny pointed towards the middle of the unscrolled section.

"What gives?" Buffy asked.

"It is a record of the descendants of the first slayer," Giles told them, excitement evident in his voice.

"How is that possible?" Buffy said looking between Ginny and Giles.

"Magic." Ginny said. "There's a spell that can be used to create a family tree. This must be a variation of that." She leaned closer. Buffy wondered what she was sensing. "Where did you get it?"

"It was a gift." Giles said.

Buffy raised an eyebrow at his short answer. "From whom to whom?"

"Well..." For some reason, Giles seemed reluctant to tell her. "It was given to Faith and Dawn by someone they met earlier this week."

"Someone just gave this to them?" Buffy stared at him.

"Yes..."

"Butch Slayer and the Klepto Kid said someone gave them something?" Buffy groaned. "And you believed them?"

Giles pulled off his glasses and nervously cleaned them. "Yes..."

Buffy looked at him skeptically, wondering what he wasn't telling her. She knew she would have plenty of time during their trip to grill her sister and Faith for the real story. But how they'd convinced Giles that it was okay to take the scroll was probably a completely different story.

"Yumiko?" Giles asked, putting his glasses back on.

"Yes" Noticing Ginny's puzzled expression at the obvious change in topic, Buffy explained "She's one of the Tokyo slayers. Her watcher, who is also her grandfather, is a Western fanatic. 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' is one of his favorites. It just seems to fit our two wayward travel companions. Oh, and when we visit them next month, be prepared for an all night Western Marathon," Buffy added.

"But you aren't going to distract me that way, Giles," Buffy told him. "Who gave us this?"

"A Miss Luna Lovegood."

"Oh! Is that what she was talking about," Ginny blurted out. "She means well, though she can be a little odd at times."

"You know her?" Giles asked.

"She lives in the same village as Ginny's parents. We had lunch with her yesterday," Buffy said. "I think she would fit right in. She isn't any odder than Andrew or some of the geeky slayers we have."

"Faith and Dawn must have run into her at the Leaky Caldron," Ginny said.

"Why would they go there?" Buffy asked. "How did they even find it?"

"If you could find it, Faith wouldn't have any problems," Ginny said. "And the magic shop Dawn took me to near Cleveland is on a street that is hidden using similar magic."

Noticing that Ginny avoided answering her other question, Buffy turned and raised an eyebrow at her to let her know that she was aware of it.

Ginny shrugged, subtly nodding in Giles direction.

Buffy silently said 'later' to her before turning back to Giles and the scroll. "Doesn't it just tell us things we already know?" she asked.

"Yes, and no," Giles said. "As far as I can determine it is a complete record of all known slayers. Even the ones who were slayers for such a short time that the Council didn't find them until after they were replaced. But it also apparently includes slayers the Council never found, though I haven't been able to confirm that yet."

"What's this one?" Buffy pointed to a second line descending from her name. There wasn't a name at the other end, just a green (?) circle.

"There are several marks like that," Ginny pointed out. "Though that seems to be the only green one." She pointed out several yellow ones. "One in the distant past and one in the new group of slayers."

"If you look closely," Giles said, "you'll see dates. I believe that is a slayer called after your second death."

"Really?" Buffy said, surprised. "I thought we'd decided that the original slayer line ran through Faith now?"

"Obviously there is another line that split off when you died," Giles told her. "Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing who this is, unless we can figure out what these other colors mean."

"You mean 'you and Randall'. Tomorrow, we are leaving for the next stage of our trip," Buffy told him. "If you want to involve us in this 'little' research project it'll have to be after we get back to Cleveland."

"Right," Giles muttered.

Buffy almost laughed at his forlorne expression. With Willow out of town on her pilgrimage and Dawn traveling with them, Giles was short two of his top researchers.

"Second death?" Ginny asked in surprise.