The next afternoon Elena, Bonnie and Caroline knocked on Buffy's door.
"Who?" Buffy asked, coming out the bathroom towel drying her hair.
"It's Elena" she said.
"Hi" Buffy said, opening the door. The three girls walked in. Buffy's slayer senses started tingling. She looked at Caroline.
"Buffy, this is our best friend Caroline. Caroline this is Buffy, the vampire slayer"
"Hi" Caroline said "So you're the infamous vampire slayer."
"That's me." Buffy hesitated "Are you...are you a vampire"
"Yea" Caroline and Elena answered at the same time.
"But she's cool" Elena said, Bonnie nodded in agreement.
"Yea...I don't feed on humans."
"Yea, I guess there's alot of that in this town" Buffy said, still baffled as to how these vampires can all be good with no soul. Just then Willow came in with two arms full of junk food and dropped it on the bed.
"Hey" she said. Elena and Bonnie both greeted her.
"Willow this is Caroline. She's a vampire too, a good one" Buffy said. They said hi to each other.
"I brought some of my family grimroes" Bonnie said, handing Willow some books. "I thought maybe they could help."
"I read about the Bennett witches" She said flipping through one of them. "Especially Emily. You're descended from them? That's so cool" Bonnie smiled. "Me and Giles brought a few books too." She said pulling out a duffel bag that was actually filled with books. The girls sat on the bed and started going threw the books.
Buffy flopped down on the other bed and smiled at Elena and Caroline.
"Research isn't really my thing..."
"Oh I totally know what you mean" Caroline said. "I mean, I help out..."
"Yea sure..." Buffy said "But I'm more show me how to kill and let me at it girl." Caroline laughed.
"I could imagine" Elena said. "I mean you are the slayer."
"Yea...so tell me about this hell God." Caroline said, popping open a bag of chips. Buffy smiled awkwardly and Willows head shot up.
"Uh..."
"Oh! I'm sorry!" said Caroline "Is that not something you wanna talk about?"
"That's our Caroline" Elena said playfully "Always sticking her head where it doesn't belong" She gave Caroline a sharp look.
"No, it's okay. I can talk about it." Buffy said. "It's how I died..."
The girls just looked at each other.
"The slayer in town huh?" Klaus said.
"Yes brother. I know we've had our trials and tribulations lately but you're still my family and I didn't want you to be caught off guard to whatever that doppelganger and her little vampire posse are planning now" Rebeckah said, sitting down on the couch.
"Well, I can assure you that I'll have something very special planned" Klaus said smiling "I haven't done a slayer in a while."
"What I wanna know is, why is she so...friendly with a vampire, especially that one"
"It doesn't matter. Right now I need to have Tyler do some digging for me."
"Do you really think he can be trusted? I'm sure he'll be loyal to his little girlfriend."
"He's sired to me, just like the rest of my hybrids his loyalty is to me." Klaus said with a smirk, not knowing Tyler broke his sire bond.
"I still think you need a back-up plan." Rebeckah said.
"Of course baby sister, I thought you knew me better than that." And he walked off to set some things in motion. Rebekah left to go do some spying and start some trouble of her own.
"Wow...that is epic" Caroline said after Buffy finished the story of how she jumped off the tower into the portal, saving her sister and the world.
"So how...are you..." Elena started. Buffy and Willow looked at each other. Caroline smirked at Elena as if to say Now who has a big mouth.
"I did it. Me and my ex and our friends. We brought her back" Willow said and then turned back to her books. Bonnie, Elena and Caroline looked at each other and silently decided not to say anything else, for which Buffy and Willow were both grateful.
There was a knock on the door and then Giles came in.
"Hello all" He greeted them. " I trust you've come up with some useful strategies yet."
"This is Giles" Buffy said to Caroline. "My stuffy, British watcher."
Caroline laughed and introduced herself.
"We were just um, drawing on past experiences" Buffy said. The other girls nodded in agreement.
"Yes very good" Giles said sitting on the bed with all the books.
Everyone got down to business after that. They were holed up in that room for hours, making plans, researching, eating junk food. There were even charts. Giles was trying to keep everything organized.
Caroline got a text.
"It's Tyler. He says Klaus knows about you guys!" she paused to read another text. "Rebeckah told him she seen the Slayer with a vampire outside last ni...Ahh"
Buffy's eyes widened and she kicked Caroline in the shin.
"Yea! She probably seen me talking to Spike outside last night when he came in from hanging out with Stefan and Damon"
Recognition appeared on Caroline's face and she gave Buffy a look to let her know her little secret was safe.
"Well what was Rebeckah doing all the way on this side of town?" Elena asked.
"Who knows" Caroline said.
"Ok though, this is good, we're one step ahead. We need to stay that way." Buffy said.
"Let's give Tyler some false information then. Perhaps to distract Klaus from our true intentions." Giles said.
Just then Spike burst through the door with his jacket over his head, which was literally smoking. He quickly shut the door behind him.
"And this must be Spike" Caroline said, smirking at Buffy.
"Uh, yea that's me" He said.
"Caroline just got a text saying Klaus knows we're here. His sister seen us outside TALKING last night."
"Oh..." Spike and Buffy made eye contact.
"But don't worry" Caroline said, looking up from her phone. "It's under control. I have Tyler supplying Klaus with fake information as we speak."
"Tyler's her hybrid boyfriend" Buffy explained. Spike nodded.
"Klaus is not stupid" Said Elena "What if he has someone else spying too to make sure, I mean it is Tyler."
"I don't know...we'll just have to be extra secretive" Buffy said.
There was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it." Willow looked through the peep hole. "What...?"
She opened the door and Damon and Stefan walked in. Spike's eyes went wide as saucers and his mouth dropped open.
"HOW THE BLEEDING HELL!?" He stalked closer to them. "YOU GITS CAN WALK AROUND IN DAYTIME? Is this another one of those special bloodlines mojo?"
"Not so much our bloodline, more like a little trick" Damon said holding up his hand with his ring.
"Where did you get the gem of Amara?" Spike asked with a straight face.
"Emily Bennett made these for us when we were turned" Stefan said. "I don't think it has anything to do with that Gem of Amara"
"It doesn't" Bonnie said "It's just a spell. You can put it on any silver ring."
"Bonnie made mine." Caroline said, wiggling the finger with the ring on it.
"So you all have one of these?" Buffy asked. Caroline nodded. "Does Klaus?"
"Yea."
"Why don't I have one?!" Spike yelled at Willow, who laughed at him.
"Right Spike, I'm sure if Willow knew how to do the spell her main priority would be to make you a daylight ring."
"Why the bloody hell not!?"
"Spike if you were to get that chip out of your head the last thing we would need is you walking around in daylight" Giles said.
"Oh sure, but if Angel asked you lot would be on it, I'm sure."
"Why can't he have a ring?" Damon asked instigating.
"Oh...I don't even know how to do that." Willow said. "I never even heard of nothing like that."
"Okay can we not discuss this now." Buffy said. Spike scowled at her.
"Yea...actually we came by with some news." Stefan said. "We were just over at the school. Alaric is in there...we were thinking we could get that part out of the way first."
"Oh good actually." Willow said. "We found something to separate his life force from Elena's...and then Buffy can kill him. I just need some ingredients...is there a magic store here?"
"I can probably get you whatever you need." Bonnie said.
"It's not ganna be easy to get Alaric. He's like an Original now." Damon said.
"Well see if I had a daylight ring I'd be able to back Buffy up." Spike said bitterly, sitting down in a chair. Buffy sighed.
"We'll go with her. Me and Damon."
"Spike you can stay here with the others for now" Buffy said.
"I'm ganna have to come, to get close enough to do the spell." Bonnie said.
"Yea, you can use a lock of Elena's hair, she doesn't have to be there." Willow started writing down ingredients on a Piece of paper.
"I can run Bonnie to get this stuff real quick." Stefan said.
"Buffy should come too. We can go straight over to the school after." Damon said.
"Do we have to worry about Klaus coming here? The way you make it sound Caroline and Spike won't be enough to protect everybody alone." Buffy said.
"I guess I can do a little protection spell on the hotel room if anything" Willow said. Buffy and Giles nodded.
"And here you go." Damon threw a two daggers on the bed. "You might need that" and he handed Giles some white ash.
"We're ganna have to get some more daggers" Stephan said. Elena handed Bonnie a small paper bag with a little lock of her hair she cut just now.
"Okay well, let's get going" Buffy said. Her, Bonnie, Stefan and Damon headed out the door.
"Uh" Spike stood up and stopped the brothers from passing with his arm. "Don't think I have to tell you." He said eyeing Buffy who folded her arms and rolled her eyes at this.
"We won't let anything happen to her." Said Stefan.
"And I don't think we have to tell you the same." Damon said, referring to Elena.
"No you don't" Spike said. They had an understanding. They left out and Spike plopped down on the bed and picked up the remote. "Let's see what's on the tele' then"