Buffy had just slain the last of the biker demons and had wondered home, flashes of her memory blinded her until dawn saw her and took her inside and began cleaning her up, while talking to her caringly and slowly like she was a child and that was how things went for an hour or so until spike came in and dawn showed Buffy to him.
"Yeah I've seen your bloody bot befo…dawn come here, slowly don't make any sudden movements" spike said as his anger turned to worry.
"What are you talking about its Buffy, she's back, really back" dawn said still unable to believe it.
"no come here now" spike said the worry evident in his voice and his eyes, however, dawn just looked at him confused "here I'll show you" spike said as he pulled out a cigarette and lit it before throwing it at Buffy, hitting her arm causing her to jump back in pain and surprise, Dawn then glared at spike who simply nodded towards Buffy, dawn then turned round to see Buffy, but her face had changed, her eyes were yellow, her skin had become all wrinkled, she was a vampire, dawn then screamed before running and hiding behind spike, who just stared at Buffy.
Buffy then looked at them confused, she then lifted her hands to her face and traced her wrinkles, any colour that was left in her face instantly drained away. "Oh…" was all Buffy could say as she tried to hide her face in hands.
"Dawn get out of here" spike said to her never looking away from Buffy.
"Spike I don't think she'll hurt us…I've been with her for an hour or so now and she didn't hurt me" dawn whispered in his ear.
"strange" spike said before sniffing the air "hold on she isn't a whole vampire she just feels like one she still has a soul and there's probably some other stuff we'll have to check with red about the spells other possible side affects" spike then said as he took Buffy down stairs "now Buffy you can control your face just calm down" spike said as he sat her down, trying to comfort her.
2 hours later…
"We've got to find Buffy" willow said as she entered the summer's house hold planning on getting some help in finding her.
"Found her" Anya then said when she saw Buffy sat on the sofa, only calmer next to dawn (her face normal again).
"Why didn't you tell me you were bringing her back?" spike asked causing everyone to jump.
"Err…because, well we weren't sure the spell would work or not" willow replied.
"Oh yeah so it wasn't just because I wouldn't let you because of what would happen if she came back wrong" spike retorted.
"Well she didn't and we couldn't just leave our friend to suffer in a hell dimension" willow replied.
"Friends! Ha that's a laugh you left her to dig out of her own grave and did you even look at the possible side effects of the spell you used?" spike replied angrily.
"Yes but we couldn't leave her their and nothing went wrong" willow replied.
"Wrong something did go wrong very wrong" spike replied, only getting confused looks from everyone except Buffy and dawn.
"What are you talking about she's fine" willow replied.
"He's right I came back wrong" Buffy then said causing everyone to jump she'd barley said anything at all. Buffy then looked towards her friends and her face turned back into one of a vampire, her friends instantly jumped back at the sight one hiding behind the other.
"it's okay she has a soul and isn't a whole vampire I need you to take a closer look at that spell to see how much more different she is from other vampires" spike then said as Buffy turned her face back to normal.
Willow and Tara then headed up to their room to look for the spell and for more detail on the side affects of it.
Xander then went to call Giles and tell him what had happened, meanwhile spike started to teach Buffy how to resist the cravings and about how she could use the tunnels to get around Sunnydale if she was affected by sunlight the same as other vampires or if the affects of it weren't as savvier.
