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"So, you believe dat Spike is attempting to revive dis Drusilla to health?" Kendra asked eagerly.

"Yes, well, I-I-I-I think that's the, uh, the dark power that your, your Watcher re-referred to. You see, uh, you see Drusilla's not only evil, she's, uh, well, she's also quite mad, and-and-and-and if she's restored to her full health, then, uh, well, there's no, absolutely no telling what she might do."

"Den we will stop Spike." She said simply.

"Ooo, good plan, let's go, charge!" Buffy mocked.

"Buffy..." Giles sighed.

"It's a little more complicated than that, John Wayne."

"Yes, I'm, I'm afraid it is. You see, Spike has also called out the Order of Taraka to keep Buffy out of the way."

"De assassins? I read of dem in de writings of Dramius." Kendra said knowledgably.

"Oh, really? W-w-which volume?" Giles looked pleasantly delighted.

"I believe it was six, sir."

"Um, how do you know all this?" Buffy asked despite her dark mood.

"From me studies."

"So, obviously you have a lot of free time."

"I study because it is required." Giles smiled at Kendra. "The Slayer handbook insists on it."

"There's a Slayer handbook?" Willow asked in astonishment and curiosity combined.

"Wait. Handbook? What handbook? How come I don't have a handbook?" Buffy was indignant.

"Is there a T-shirt, too?" Willow got a pointed look from Buffy, that said 'Not helping'. "Cause that would be cool..."

"After meeting you, Buffy, I realized that, uh, the handbook would be of no use in your case." Giles answered delicately.

"Well, what do you mean it would be of no use in my case? Wha-what's wrong with my case?"

"Uh, Kendra, um, perhaps you'd like to show me the, the part in, uh, Dramius Six where, uh, uh, where it refers to the Order of Taraka. Really, I-I, I seem to have never been able to get through that book. It was a bit stodgy."

Giles guided the newer Slayer away from the group and into the stacks.

"It was difficult. All dose footnotes." Giles and Kendra laughed out loud and vanished into the stacks.

Buffy, now feeling double disgruntled, walked out of the library with Willow and Bodyguard Xander in tow, the latter becoming invisible to everyone else but his two friends.

"Hello, and welcome to planet pocket protector." Buffy mocked.

"The Slayer Handbook is incredibly dull, Buffy, even the Doc Manhattan part of me would fall asleep reading it." Xander explained.

"That bad, huh?" Willow glanced back to the trailing Xander.

"Yup. That's why Giles gives you the cliffnotes version when you train with him."

Manhattan X, Chapter 3