Business as usual Chp 15

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Title: Business as Usual
Author: lilachigh
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Characters belong to ME except Agnes who is all mine.
Set: Season 5 and onwards
Summary: In The Replacement, Spike talks about the charming lady who runs a teashop in the garbage dump. So meet Agnes Pringle, English spinster and reluctant vampire. Agnes just wants a quiet life but with Spike as her friend, this is unlikely to happen. Agnes met Joyce in hospital - she was hunting for blood at the time! - and they became friends. She has just been to her funeral and met Buffy for the first time. But life - and death - must go on.....


Chapter 15 Buyer Beware


“That will be four dollars and fifty cents, please.” Agnes held out her hand, trying to smile pleasantly at the demon standing in front of her.

Green and black spittle flew from its mouths and the smell of very ripe cheese hung in the air, overwhelming the other smells coming from the garbage dump surrounding the tea-shop. “Who says?”

Agnes sighed. That was the trouble with Clenorax demons. They thought they had some god given right not to pay for anything in life. She had had trouble with this one before. Well – she peered closely into the maggot-infested section of skin that she thought was it’s face – she thought it was this one!

“You have consumed three Bakewell tarts, two dozen cheese straws and several cups of tea. The sum total is four dollars and fifty cents.”

The Clenorax shook several tentacles at her. “You find the money on me and you can have it!”
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