Buffy and Damon were sitting at the bar, waiting for Anna to show up. "So, who do you think she is?" Buffy asked.

"Who?"

"This Anna chick."

"Oh, I'm not sure."

"It can't be a coincidence that Jeremy showed her the journal and now it's gone."

"Nope."

"Anna! Hey." Jeremy said. Both Buffy and Damon looked over to where Jeremy was waving to a dark haired girl. The girl walked over to the pool tables, where Jeremy was at. "Wanna play?" Jeremy asked.

"Sure." Anna said.

"Vampire." Buffy said.

"What?" Damon asked.

"She's a vampire."

Just then, Anna turned around and Damon got a good look at her face. "Crap!" Damon exclaimed.

"What?"

"I know her."

"You do? How?"

"She was here in 1864. With her mother."

"Ok, so do you think her mom is here also?"

"No. I know she's here."

"How do you know that?"

"Because, she's one of the 26 vampires in that tomb."

"Oh. So, it's safe to say that Anna's looking for a way to open the tomb also, huh?"

"Yeah."

"Come on." Buffy said, standing up.

"Where are we going?" Damon asked.

"We're gonna find out where she's staying."

"All right."


Damon and Buffy were walking around Anna's motel room.

"Find anything?" Damon asked Buffy.

"Oh lots, just not the journal."

Just then, Buffy was across the room, in the blink of an eye, pinning Damon to the wall behind the door. Damon looked at her questioningly. Buffy pressed a finger to her lips and pointed to the door, just as it opened. Anna walked through the door, Buffy moved out of the way, as Damon lunged and grabbed Anna by the neck, slamming her against the wall. Anna's hand shot out and grabbed Damon's neck as well. She started to crush his neck. "Ok, I give." Damon managed to choke out. "OK." They both let go and Damon started to cough. "Damn. You're strong for a little thing."

"I was wondering how long it would take you to find me." Anna said.

"How long have you been here?"

"I arrived around half-past comet, watching you screw up every chance you had to open that tomb."

"How did you know about the spell?"

"I didn't say much back then... which means I heard everything."

"So if you've been here the whole time, then why are we just crossing paths right now?"

"I like to use others to do my dirty work."

"Like Logan Fell?"

"Oh, yeah, thanks for that, by the way." Buffy said. "Little bastard shot me!"

"Logan was an idiot." Anna said.

"Mm-hmm." Damon said.

"We slipped him some blood when he started getting all poser slayer with that compass. I needed his family's journal. I couldn't let him die."

"What'd you want with the Fell journal?" Buffy asked.

"I thought it contained the location of the witch's spell book. I was wrong. According to her journal, Honerea gave the grimoire to Jonathan Gilbert. And, according to this..." Anna said, grabbing the Gilbert journal. "He gave it to your father." She looked at Damon. "So now you're going to help me find it."

"Why would I help you?" Damon asked.

"Cause you and I both want that tomb open." She opened the journal to a certain page and handed it to Damon.

He read it for a second. "Hmm..." He wrapped the string back around it and tossed it onto the dresser. "Sorry. I work alone."

"What about her?" Anna asked, nodding towards Buffy.

Damon glanced at Buffy and smirked. "She's an exception. She's hot and I like her way more than I like you." He opened the door and let Buffy walk out first.

Once they were in Damon's car, Buffy turned to look at him. "So... where are we going?"

"To see my father." Damon answered, as they drove off.


As Damon and Buffy walked through the woods, they saw a faint orange glow just ahead of them.

"What is that?" Damon asked.

"It looks like fire." Buffy answered.

They crept closer and closer, what they saw was unexpected, for both of them. Stefan and Elena, standing beside a freshly dug up grave. "Well, what do you know?" Damon said, giving them a hard stare. "This is an interesting turn of events."

"I can't let you bring her back." Stefan said. "I'm sorry."

"So am I. For thinking for even a second that I can trust you."

"Oh. You're not capable of trust. The fact that you're here means that you read the journal and you were planning on doing this yourself."

"Of course I was going to do it by myself, because the only one I can count on is me! You made sure of that many years ago, Stefan. But you..." He looked at Elena. "You had me fooled."

"What the hell Stefan! I thought that we were a team!" Buffy shouted.

"You've been helping him! You're here with him, right now!" Stefan shouted back.

"So what are you going to do now?" Damon asked Stefan. "Because if you try and destroy that, I'll rip her heart out."

"Damon..." Buffy started.

"You won't kill her." Stefan said.

Damon glanced at Buffy, then suddenly he was standing behind Elena, holding her tightly to him, with one arm wrapped around her neck. "I can do one better." He bit into his wrist and then put it up to Elena's mouth. Forcing her to drink his blood. "Give me the book, Stefan. Or I'm snapping her neck. And you and I will have a vampire girlfriend."

"Let her go first." Stefan said.

"The book."

"I'm not going to give this to you until she is standing next to me."

"Problem is, I no longer trust that you'll give it back!"

"You just did the one thing that ensures that I will."

Damon looked at Stefan and then Buffy. Buffy saw this and walked over to Stefan. "Give me the book."

Stefan looked at her, confused. "What? Buffy..."

"He doesn't trust you, Stefan. Give me the book and Damon will let Elena go. Once she is standing next to you, then I'll give the book to Damon. Deal?" She looked at Damon. He nodded his head. Stefan sighed and handed the book to Buffy. Damon let go of Elena. Once Elena was beside of Stefan, Stefan looked at Damon and then he helped Elena out of the woods. Buffy walked towards Damon and held the book out to him. "Here."

Damon looked at her, his expression unreadable. "Thanks."

Buffy turned to walk away. "Why?" Damon asked.

She turned around. "Why what?"

"Why help me, if you were planning to double-cross me?"

Buffy sighed. "I wasn't planning to double-cross you, Damon. I just wasn't planning on helping you get her back."

"Why do you hate her so much?"

"Maybe I'll tell you one day. Look, I've been helping you. This whole time. Don't ask me why, but I have. I have a feeling that you will get that tomb open, on way or another. So if you do... the original deal still stands. You and Katherine can go, if and only when you help me kill the other 26 vampires."

"Why should I trust you? You don't even like Katherine."

"Well, for one, I've never lied to you. And two... You owe me."

Damon held her gaze for a long moment. He didn't have to ask her what she meant, he knew. He had killed Lexi and she had spared his life and then she had saved his life. He did owe her. "Deal."


Buffy and Damon were sitting in the living-room, looking through the grimoire. "Buffy! Damon!" Stefan called, as he rushed into the living-room.

"Stefan, what's wrong?" Buffy asked.

"Anna took Elena!"

"What?!"

"Yeah. I got that from your 600 voicemails." Damon said.

Buffy turned around and glared at him. "You knew? Why didn't you tell me?"

Damon shrugged. "They betrayed me. Ergo... not my problem."

"All night long, every single street in town, I've been searching." Stefan looked at Damon. "What if your blood hasn't passed out of her system?"

"Well, then at least you know you'll see her again."

"Please. What do you know? You were with Anna, you must know where she's living. Just tell me where I can find her."

"Nope. You can go. Really."

"You know, all I can remember is hating you. There might have been a time when that was different, but your choices have erased anything good about you." Damon laid the grimoire down in his lap and glared up at Stefan. Stefan continued. "But see, I also know that you have just as much reason to hate me. This all began with me. Katherine got taken away from you, because of me. And I'm sorry."

Damon looked blown away. "Apology accepted." He smiled.

"So please, just tell me what you know."

"Huh."

"It's Elena, Damon. If you know something...tell me."

Damon sighs and closes the grimoire. He stands up and looks directly at Stefan. "I mean this sincerely. I hope Elena dies." He walks out of the room. Stefan looks beyond crushed.

"Stefan." Buffy says gently. Stefan looks up at her. "I was with Damon, when he saw Anna. She's staying at the motel, near the edge of town."

Stefan smiles gratefully at her. "Thanks." He says, before he rushes out of the house.


"Let's go." Damon said, as he walked into Buffy's bedroom.

"Go where?" Buffy asked.

"Anna just called. She wants to meet up."

"So, go."

"I need you to go with me."

"Why?"

"Because you're older than her, which means you're stronger than her. So, if she tries anything that we don't like... You'll kick her ass!" Damon smiles brightly at her.

"So, you want me to go and be your muscle?"

"Yes. Well, that and I just really want you to go."

Buffy couldn't help but smile a little at that. "Fine. I'll go."

"Great! I'll drive."


Anna made her way through the town square. "Anna!" Jeremy yelled at her, from across the street. He ran over to her. "Hey, what, uh, what happened to you last night?"

"Sorry, I, I had to leave. I told your sister to tell you." Anna said.

"Oh, I haven't seen her."

"Well, I gotta run, so..."

"Hey, do you wanna go to a party tonight?"

"Do I what?"

"The guy that's throwing it is a total douche, but it's, uh, it's supposed to be fun. I figured, you know, safety in numbers."

Anna smiled at him. "So you're finally ready to go out with me, are you?"

"It's been a while since I've been to a party, I kinda want to get back out there. And not be such a loner. And, uh, I like you. You're fun. And you're also kind of strange and lurky, but I guess I like that too. So, yeah, you should come to the party. With me. It's in the woods by that old cemetery."

"Oh. It's there, huh? That sounds cool. Uh, I'll meet you."

"Oh...ok! Great! Cool. Ok."

"Yeah." Anna smiled at him as he walked away. She sat down on a bench and looked around. Suddenly, Damon was sitting next to her and Buffy was behind her, leaning against the back of the bench.

"Got a hot date, or are you just planning on nabbing the entire Gilbert family?" Damon asked her.

"A party, right next to the old cemetery. Isn't that nice of them? Lots of warm bodies for starving vampires." Anna said.

"I told you. I work alone."

"Yeah, so do I. But you're minus a witch and I'm minus a spell book. So what do you say?"

"Stefan will come after you, you know that. For messing with Elena."

"Then he won't be too happy if I kill her, when I don't get what I want." Anna stood up and started to walk away.

Damon groaned. "When do you want to do this?"

Anna stops walking and turns around. "God, it's like 1864 all over again. You Salvatores are truly pathetic when it comes to women." She glances at Buffy. "Or is it just women who look like Katherine?"

"When do you want to do this?" Damon asked more forcefully this time.

"Tonight. After sundown. Meet at the old church."


Buffy sat on the table in the library and watched as Damon moved around the room. He grabbed his jacket and was putting it on when Elena walked in. "I'm going to have to change the locks. Did you stage a jailbreak?" He asked her.

"Stefan." Elena said.

"Oh, brother. Ever the white knight."

"I convinced Bonnie to help you."

"I doubt that."

"I'm not going to say that I'm sorry we got the grimoire without you last night, because I'm not, really."

"Well, at least you're honest."

"I was protecting the people I love, Damon. But so were you, in your own twisted way. And as hard as it is to figure, we're all on the same side... after the same thing."

"Not interested."

"Yes, you are. Because you were willing to work with us yesterday."

"Fool me once, shame on you."

"Ok, when we were in Atlanta, why didn't you use your compulsion on me?"

"Who's to say I didn't?"

"You didn't. I know you didn't. But you could have. You and I... we have something. An understanding. And I know that my betrayal hurt you, different from how it is with you and Stefan. But I'm promising you this now, I will help you get Katherine back."

Damon groans and shakes his head. "I wish that I could believe you."

Elena takes her necklace off and sets it down. "Ask me if I'm lying now."

Damon picks up her necklace and hands it back to her. "I didn't compel you in Atlanta, because Buffy wouldn't let me." He looked over at Buffy and smiled. He then looked back at Elena, his face hard once again. "Now. Get out."

"Damon..."

"Look, I don't trust you. I don't trust Stefan. And I most certainly don't trust the two of you together. The only one that I trust is Buffy. So leave."

"Listen Elena, Just go. Tell Bonnie to meet us at the church." Buffy said.

Elena sighed and nodded her head. "Fine." She turned and walked away.

Buffy waited until she heard the door shut, she then turned to look at Damon. "Got everything you need?"

Damon nodded. "Yup."

"All right then, let's go." She turned to leave, but Damon was suddenly standing in front of her. He moved closer, until his body was pressed against hers. He looked down into her eyes.

"I meant what I said. I do trust you." Damon said.

"I believe you."

"Just... You're not planning something, are you?"

"No. Damon. I promise."

Damon nodded his head. "I believe you."

"Good. Now, let's go rescue your crazy bitch." She pushed him away from her and marched off.


Buffy looked around as she got out of the car. There were teenagers everywhere! 'Great.' She thought. "I hope they stay clear of the church."

"Your hope, not mine." Damon told her. Buffy shot him a glare. "What?" He asked.

Buffy just shook her head and continued walking. "Nothing. Let's just get this over with."

"Buffy!" Buffy looked over and saw Caroline walking over. "Buffy, hey."

"Hey Caroline." Buffy said. She looked at the guy standing next to Caroline. "Hi."

"Oh! Sorry! Buffy, this is Matt. Matt, this is Buffy."

"Hi, Matt."

"Hey, Buffy. It's nice to meet you." Matt said.

Buffy nodded. "You too."

"Have you seen Elena?" Caroline asked Buffy.

"No, uh, not yet. She said that she would be here though."

"No time to tell the whole story." Damon said.

"Wasn't talking to you." Caroline snapped.

"Sure you were." Damon smirked.

"We haven't met. I'm Matt." Matt said to Damon.

"Matt, there's a reason we haven't met." He turned back to Buffy. "You and I are going this way." He grabbed Buffy's arm and pulled her in the direction of the church.

Buffy jerked her arm out of Damon's grasp. "Stop being so pushy!"

They spotted Elena and Stefan, standing with Bonnie and Bonnie's grandmother. Damon whistles at them. "Brother, brother's girl, witches."

"Everything ok?" Stefan asks.

"Let's just get this over with. Are we ready?" Buffy asked.

"I guess so." Bonnie said.

Buffy walked down into the tomb first, followed by Damon, then Stefan, Elena, Bonnie and finally her grandmother. There were torches set up in front of the five points of the pentagram that was carved into the door.

Bonnie's grandmother grabbed a lighter and began lighting the torches. "Air. Earth. Fire."

"Water." Bonnie said, holding up a jar.

"That's it, just water from the tap?" Elena asked.

"As opposed to what?" Grams asked, amused.

"I just figured maybe it would have to be blessed or mystical or something." Elena said.

Damon pulled out a bag of blood.

"What's that?" Stefan asked.

"It's for Katherine. Gotta have something to get her going." Damon said. "Unless your girl's offering a vein to tap." Stefan sighs angrily. "Admit it... You can't wait to get rid of me." Damon grins at Stefan.

Stefan chuckles. "Huh. I can't wait to get rid of you."

"Hmm." Damon smirks.

"We're ready." Bonnie said. Bonnie and her grandmother turned, facing each other and began chanting.

"What are they saying?" Damon asked Buffy.

"Sounds like Latin." Stefan said.

"I don't think it's Latin." Elena said.

"It's not Latin." Buffy said.

"How do you know that?" Damon asked.

"I've been around a long time. Heard a lot of different languages... including Latin."

The torch flames flared up suddenly. Elena moved closer to Stefan. "What's happening?" She asked.

The door with the pentagram on it, slowly starts to open. "It worked." Bonnie said.

"Of course it worked." Grams said.

Damon turned and looked at Stefan. "We have some fires to build."

Stefan looked at Elena. "I'm gonna go get the gasoline, I'll be right back." Elena nodded and he walked out of the tomb.

Damon turned and looked at Buffy. "You ready?" He asked.

Buffy nodded and pulled out a stake. "Ready."

Damon then looked at Elena. "Are you ready?" He held out his hand to her.

Elena looked at Damon and Buffy. "What?" She asked.

Damon grabbed her arm. "You think I'm going to go in there by myself so you can seal me in?" Damon asked Bonnie and her grandmother.

"Don't take her in." Grams said.

"You have Buffy! You don't need Elena." Bonnie said.

"Buffy's a vampire. You two don't care if she gets trapped in there with me."

"I'll bring the walls down." Grams said.

"You'll bring the walls down if I don't. You think I trust you?"

"As much as I trust you."

"Enough!" Elena ordered. "Both of you. Look, he needs leverage. He needs to know that you're not going to shut the door when he gets inside. I get it. I'll go."

Damon reached down and grabbed a torch. "May I?" He nodded to Elena. "Let's go." He said. He reached over and grabbed onto Buffy's jacket sleeve, pulling her behind him.

Once they were officially inside of the tomb, they heard whisperings. "What is that?" Elena asked.

"They can sense you." Damon said.

"Sense me?"

"They've been down here for over a century. You're the first human they've been close to in all of that time. Your blood is like chocolate to a fat kid, for them right now." Buffy said.

"Now, where is she?" Damon walked off. Leaving Elena and Buffy alone.

"Damon!" Elena called.

"Figures." Buffy said.


Back outside of the door, Anna walks in.

"Hey! You're not going in there." Bonnie said.

"You think you can stop me?" Anna asked.

"Bonnie..." Grams warns.

Bonnie moves out of the way. Anna reaches down and grabs a flashlight off of the ground. She turns and walks into the tomb.

"Why'd you let her go in?" Bonnie asked.

"Because she isn't coming out, baby." Grams said. "None of them are."


"Damon? Damon!" Elena yelled.

"Give it a rest." Buffy groaned. "He's not coming back for us."

They start to hear more whispers. Elena starts looking around frantically. Her flashlight shines on a body. Elena gasps. "What is that?"

"A vampire." Buffy answers quietly.

Elena gasps and walks backwards. She trips over the leg of another vampire and falls down. She shines her flashlight in front of her and sees another body, the eyes suddenly open. "Ahh!" Elena screams. She gets up and turns around. She slams into Anna.


"Where's Elena?" Stefan asked, as he walked back inside.

"Damon took her inside." Bonnie said.

"What?!"

"Stefan!"

Grams grabbed ahold of his arm. "If you go in there you won't come out."

"What did you do?"

"Opening the door didn't remove the seal, it just... opened the door."

"What's the seal?"

"Some seals keep vampires from entering. This one keeps them from... Coming out."

"Elena's human. She can leave. Anna and Katherine can't. Buffy and Damon can't." Stefan looked at Grams. "You were never planning on breaking the spell, were you?"

"I told you. I will protect my own. Elena can get out, that's all that matters."

"What about Buffy? She's good! You can't just leave her locked up in there!"


"You must have a taste for it." Anna said. "You scream and you shriek and even bother to escape, but then you just come right back to it."

"Oh, oh..." Elena tripped over another body.

Anna looks down. "Mother! Mother!" She kneels down to check her mother and then looks back at Elena. "Your boyfriend did this, you know?"

"His father did."

"And Jonathan Gilbert. Made a choice a long time ago that it would be Gilbert blood that brought her back to life. I had Jeremy all ready to go, but..."

"Elena..." Buffy started, but it was too late. Anna was suddenly standing in front of Elena, she bit into Elena's wrist. Elena screamed. "Elena!" Buffy cried.


Stefan turned towards the door as he heard Elena and Buffy scream. Stefan rushed inside.

"Stefan!" Bonnie cried. She moved towards the door, but Grams blocked it. "You can't just leave him in there Grams!"

"He made his choice!"

"No." Bonnie turned around and grabbed the grimoire up off the ground. "Just tell me what to do. I'll do it!"

"We are not strong enough! Even if we were able to bring the seal down, there's no guarantee that we can get it back up again!"

"You said it yourself... Many things can fuel a witch's power. Help me, or I'll do it alone."


"Anna! Let her go!" Buffy growled.

"Stay back! Or I'll rip her heart out." Anna said. She held Elena's wrist up to her mother's mouth.

"Please don't! No!" Elena begged.

"Let her go!" Stefan demanded.

That was all the distraction that Buffy needed. She rushed forward and pulled Anna off of Elena. Stefan pulled Elena away from Anna's mother.

"No!" Anna cried.

"Go, Go. I'll be right behind you." Stefan said, pushing Elena in the direction of the door.

"Anna. Annabell. Where am I?"

"Pearl?" Buffy asked.


Elena ran out of the tomb. Bonnie looked up, relief washing over her. "Elena... Stefan..."

"He's right behind me." Elena said. Stefan and Buffy made it to the door and then they stopped. "Stefan, Buffy, what are you doing?"

"It's gonna be ok." Bonnie said. "We'll fix it."

"What is it?"

"We can't." Stefan said.

"Can't...Can't what?"

"The spell's still up. We can't get them out." Bonnie said. "Yet."

"You went in there not knowing if you could come back out?" Elena asked. "Oh my God." She gasped.

"I heard you scream." Stefan whispered.

"Damon's still in there."

"We can't leave him in there. I promised him Stefan." Buffy said.

Stefan nodded. "I know."

"Even if we're able to break through the seal, we won't be able to hold it for long." Grams said.

Buffy looked at Stefan. "Make sure they get started. I'll go find Damon."

Stefan grabbed Buffy's arm. "Buffy... They may not be able to hold it open long enough."

"I'm not leaving him in there, Stefan." Buffy turned around and rushed back into the tomb. "Damon! Damon! Where are you?" She found him a few moments later, towards the back of the tomb.

"She's not here!" Damon screamed.

"What?"

"She's not here!" Damon threw the bag of blood against the wall and it busted, coating the wall in blood.


Anna helped Pearl walk out of the tomb. She looked at Elena. "I just wanted my mother back. Jeremy's fine. He's outside. We won't touch him." She helped her mother walk outside.

"Bonnie, keep going!" Grams shouted. She looked at Elena and Stefan. "They better hurry."

"Buffy, they can't hold it much longer!" Stefan shouted.


"Damon, we need to get out of here." Buffy said.

"It doesn't make sense." Damon looked around frantically. "They locked her inside."

"If we don't leave now, we're not getting out!"

"How could she not be in here?"

"It's not worth spending all of eternity down here! She's not worth it!" Buffy reached out to grab him.

Damon spun around and slapped her hand away. "No!"

"Damon, come on! I'm trying to help you!"

"She should be here. I don't... I don't understand!"

Buffy reached out to grab him again. She grabbed onto his shoulder, Damon spun around and slammed her against the wall. "Damon..." He acted like he didn't recognize her. She didn't want to fight him. That would take up too much time and energy. She looked into his eyes and sighed. 'I'm so gonna regret this.' She thought. She grabbed ahold of his shoulders and pulled him completely against her. He was about to start fighting. She quickly smashed her lips against his. A second later Damon snapped out of it and pressed her harder against the wall. He grabbed onto her hip with one hand and tangled the other in her hair. After a few heated kisses, Damon pulled away. He looked down into her eyes.

"Buffy." He whispered.

"We have to go. Now." Buffy took his hand in hers and pulled him in the direction of the door. Once they were out, the door slammed shut behind them.

"Stefan, we need to check on Jeremy." Elena said. Stefan nodded and followed her outside.

Buffy and Damon walked out behind Bonnie and her grandmother. Damon stopped walking and looked down at the ground. Buffy looked at him and she couldn't help feeling for him. He looked so broken and miserable. Buffy walked up to him and took his hands in hers. "Damon... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." She hugged him tightly and he just laid his head on her shoulder.


Later that night, Damon and Buffy sat in Anna's motel room. The door opened and Anna helped Pearl inside. She looked at them in shock and fear. "You knew Katherine wasn't in there." Damon said.

"You wouldn't have helped me." Anna said. Damon was suddenly in front of Pearl, with his hands around her throat. "No!" Anna cried.

"Why do you get a happy ending?"

"Damon, please, you wouldn't have helped me! You know you wouldn't!"

"Why do you get it and I don't?!"

"The guard, the one at the church, the one who locked us in! She promised to turn him! He was obsessed with her. She had him under her spell, like everybody else!" Pearl choked out. "He let her go." Damon let go of Pearl.

"Last I saw her, was Chicago. 1983." Anna said. "She knew where you were, Damon. She didn't care. Sorry."

Damon looked crestfallen. Buffy walked up behind him and took his hand in hers. "Let's go, Damon. Come on." She pulled him towards the door and closed it behind her.


Once they arrived back home, Buffy helped Damon to his room. She stood in the doorway and watched as he walked over to his bed and sat down on the edge. "Is there anything I can do?" She asked. Damon shook his head 'no'. Buffy nodded and walked out of his room. She went to her room and changed into a tank top and a pair of sweat pants. As she started to get into her bed, someone knocked on her door. She walked over and opened it. "Damon." She said. "Are you ok?" He shook his head.

"There is something you can do." He said.

Buffy nodded her head. "Ok. What?" Instead of answering her, he grabbed her hand and pulled her down the hallway and into his room. Buffy looked at him, confused. "Damon..."

"Will you stay in here? With me? Please..."

"What?"

"I don't..." Damon looked down at the ground, when he looked back up at her, he had tears in his eyes. "I don't want to be alone."

Buffy looked at him. Her eyes full of sympathy and understanding. She nodded. "I'll stay." Damon pulled her over to the bed. They both climbed in and pulled the covers up around them. Buffy laid her head down on the pillow next to Damon's, but instead of him laying down on his pillow, he laid his head on her shoulder. He buried his face in her neck and threw one of his arms around her waist. Buffy started to run her fingers through his hair. "It's going to be ok. You're going to be ok, Damon." She whispered to him. And that's when she felt it. The wetness on her neck. Damon was crying.