Alyssa had smiled and had served another customer, confident that the joke still had mileage in it.At half past three, when she was preparing to finis...h for the afternoon, the five had come to perch on stools by the bar, watching her wash glasses, muttering audibly about what a terrible thing a broken promise was, in any circumstances. Carter had been wearing his trademark grin."We'll see who's playing games and who isn't in ten minutes, won't we?", she'd teased them, just to keep the pot. He had leashed the beast like a dog. The chain groaned and strained from the onslaught of the monster, and the metal structure swayed. Then the heavy chain snapped from the force of the creature’s bestial charge, and the metal links scattered everywhere.Fuck, this is it. He’s dead.Drex was on his feet again, but it was impossible for him to escape the fury of the grotesque monster.Then suddenly, the whole structure started to collapse. With a piercing dreadful screech, the metal frame along. . at first.I was just walking around at the Magic Box, helping Giles out with sorting through the inventory. Faith was there, too, being no help what-so-ever. She was sitting at a table with her feet propped up on the table, and was polishing a wicked knife she had bought a few days ago. I was walking past her with this big heavy box Giles asked for. It was heavy, even with my Slayer strength.My foot hit the leg of the table, and the box went soaring through the air, and I fell. Faith's. There was my face on ET, and they were calling me an alleged crime boss. Then they showed one of Clarice’s best-known posters from the DBZ movies. They showed an extreme telephoto pic of me kissing Clarice next to my car when I brought her home. They made some snide remark about the middle age mobster and the teen movie star.“Well that didn’t take long.” I said.“It never does.” Clarice replied.“I think that’s going to make the Don and the Commission members change their mind about me.” I.