“No, Mother won’t be pleased at all,” Methos, mused. “I’d hate to be in their shoes when she finds out.”

“Why? What will she do?” Xander asked with a perplexed frown on his face.

Before either Cassandra or Methos could answer, Joyce did. “It’s not a question of what WILL she do, more like what WON’T she do.” Joyce paced back and forth for a few moments and shook her head. “To be honest, someone should call and warn them that she’s coming. It would only be fair.”

Methos chuckled, “Now why would we want to warn them? Seeing the looks of outrage melt into absolute terror is one of the best parts!”

Cassandra smacked Methos on the back of the head. “And you really enjoy making people afraid don’t you?”

“That was a long time ago Cass, cant we let it go?” Methos asked with a sigh.

“Perhaps, in time. When you’ve proven to me that you aren’t still a… idiot.” Cassandra said with a huff as she slid into a chair beside Dawn.

Anya looked back and forth between Cassandra and Methos, and then said with an innocent smile that belied her words, “I guess that means you won’t be letting it go?”

There was dead silence in the room, and then all the men shouted out at the same time “Hey!” Which prompted laughter from the all the females.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Buffy positioned herself so both Irnhe and Mordecai could have a clear view of what she was doing. “I should have brought gloves for this,” she said with disgust. “I really don’t want to touch that tiny prick he has.”

Irhne reached out with a slender hand, “Allow me.” She grasped the tip of Angel’s cock between her thumb and index finger, pulling it up towards his navel.

Angel chuckled roughly, his throat sore from screaming. “Just what I always wanted, two bitches playing with my cock.”

Buffy flicked Angel an irritated glance, but spoke calmly to Irhne. “Thank you my dear. Just remember to scrub your hand clean really well afterwards.” Buffy placed the tip of the dagger at the place where his cock joined his balls. “To make this effective, and a fair experiment, we should remove the testicles first and see if they can regenerate. If they can...” and here she paused to give Angel a wicked grin, “just think of all the fun we can have removing them over and over.”

Mordecai chuckled at the look of disbelief and apprehension on the vampire’s face. “I do believe the vampire finally understands that this is, in fact, a punishment.”

A wicked laugh escaped Buffy’s lips as she pressed the tip of the dagger into Angel’s tender flesh. “Always knew he was a little on the slow side. This just proves it.” Ignoring the vulgar vocalizations of the vampire, she drew the dagger in a straight line down his ball sac, neatly drawing a shallow incision.

“If you don’t mind me asking, wouldn’t it be easier to simply remove the testes with a deep horizontal cut?” Irnhe asked with a look of concentration on her face.

“Normally, yes. However I have something more… intricate… in mind for our guest,” Buffy said with a smirk.

Mordecai came closer, his curiosity shining in his pale eyes. “What did you have in mind?”

“Well, I am going to make an incision just deep enough to be able to pull the skin back from the interior.” As she said this, she suited actions to words and traced the shallow incision once more, pulling back the skin as she did so, revealing the inner workings of the scrotum. She inserted a finger into the wound and hooked it around the now exposed testes, pulling them to the outside. “Now, we will simply relieve the vampire of his un-needed spermatozoa factory, seeing as they are all dead anyway.” With one swipe of the dagger, she severed the testes from Angel’s scrotum and chuckled darkly. “Prairie Oysters anyone?”

Angel screamed loudly as the searing pain raced upward from his groin. “You fucking cunt, I’m going to rip your goddamned head off and play football with it.”

“Tsk tsk tsk. Such language in the presence of ladies. Surely your mother taught you better?” Mordecai asked with a disapproving frown.

More foul words dripped from the vampire’s lips as his facial features finally changed from his human visage to his vampiric one.

Ignoring the vampire’s words, Buffy continued with her rather macabre demonstration. “Now, we shall simply replace the removed organs, with another one.” Casting a mischievous smirk towards Irnhe, “and if you would be so kind as to tuck that into the incision?”

Irhne giggled as she delicately inserted Angel’s cock into the wound, using her other hand to prop the empty sac upwards to ensure it was all tucked inside.

“Excellent.” Buffy smiled at the young girl. “Now normally we would have to sew the scrotum closed to keep his useless cock inside. However, in this case we can simply use the flat of my dagger and cauterize the wound closed. Hold the bottom please, so I don’t accidentally burn you.” As she said this, Buffy grasped the edges of the wound, holding them closed together and ran flat of the dagger across the incision, wrinkling her nose at the stench of burning flesh.” Nodding to Irnhe to remove her hand and step back, Buffy stood up and looked Angel in the face. “As much as I would have dearly loved to kill you for what you were planning to do with Dawn, I believe this will suffice… for now.” A hard look crossed her face. “However, regardless of the council’s wishes, if I ever hear even a rumor of you attempting to do such to ANY young person again, I will not stay my hand.” Turning her back on the fuming vampire Buffy addressed her next words to Mordecai and Irnhe. “Keep him here for the equivalent of 100 years, inflict as much pain on him as you wish, short of killing him. Keep an eye on my little experiment, and let me know if they do in fact regenerate. If they do, repeat what I have just done until such time as the 100 years has ended.”

Both Mordecai and Irnhe nodded at Buffy’s instructions. “How much time must pass in the mortal world before we return him,” Mordecai asked.

“1 year to the day from when he was taken, as to where I leave that up to your discretion.” Buffy said with a dismissing wave of her hand. “My time here, however, is at an end. There are matters in the mortal world requiring my attention.” She gave Mordecai a hug, “It was pleasant seeing you again.” Turning to Irnhe, she enveloped the young girl in her arms as well. “And a pleasure to make your acquaintance my dear.”

Mordecai and Irnhe both bowed low, as Buffy gave them a jaunty wave and faded from the higher realms back to the mortal world.