*Step Two*

No one seemed to notice as the two girls made their way through the doors, until they made their way over to the table that the boys were sitting at. Stacey slid into the seat that had previously been occupied by Isabel and said something to Thomas. Melissa stood back for a few moments, her eyes going over to Ben before she noticed that Jasmine was here, she looked at the new meat and set her sights on the bleach blond out of all of them he seemed the most interesting. Willow had watched the entire scene from the moment that the two girls had walked through the door. One was tall and overly made up with shoulder length deep red hair and a dark tan. The other was shorter and paler with dark blonde hair; she was the one that had attached herself to Spike.

"Who are they?" she asked Jasmine who was also not playing this round.

Jasmine turned around and her eyes narrowed at the site of the two girls, she knew that this was part of the plan but she still didn't like those girls. She turned to Willow and asked, "Did the blonde eye Ben?"

"Yeah, then she looked over here at you and went for Spike instead."

"Good, then she got the message."

"Huh?"

"Well up until last year she used to be draped across Ben like Stacey, the other one, is over Thomas."

"What changed?"

"I knocked her out."

"Oh."

She looked at the way the girl was staring daggers at Melissa and wondered if this might have been a brilliant plan, the girl looked about ready to knock Melissa out, again.

"What's the other's name?"

"Melissa."

"We should go say hello."

"How about we wait for them to finish the game, it looks like Isa is about to beat Anya again."

"Okay."

Willow watched as the game finished, she watched Isabel as she saw Stacey and wondered again what was going on there, it was obvious that there were feelings shared, she just didn't get why they hadn't done anything about it.

The girls made their way back to the table and when the two girls sitting there saw them they stood and walked to the bar to get another drink.

Spike looked up at Willow and noticed that if looks could kill then that Melissa girl would be very dead, but the same could be said about the other one, if Isabel had her way. He thought about whether or not to push this, on one hand if he got her jealous enough she could go after him, then the slayer might not kill him. On the other hand it might hurt Willow and he didn't want to do that, and on yet another hand if Willow thought he was interested in someone else then she might not come after him at all. He decided to just watch her the next time that Melissa came around he knew she would, if he thought it was the right time to do something he would if not he'd just let it be.

The siren to signal the end of the game was heard from the TV's speakers and some of the bar's occupants stood and left, a few were annoyed that the Eagles had won and the rest were all celebrating. Spike looked around the room curious as to whether of not the two women from earlier were still hanging around, his eyes set upon then and he turned back to the conversation. He knew that Melissa had seen him looking and that was all she should need to make her way back over then maybe he could sent his plan in motion.

Anya saw that Melissa and Stacey were heading back over to the table so she nudged Jasmine who in turn signalled Buffy, the three girls excused themselves to 'freshen up'. Once in the bathroom they began to discuss their next course of action.

"Well we know that Willow is jealous and we know that Spike is helping us." Anya stated.

"How is he helping us?"

"Well he looked around for them and I believe that he initiated they trip back to our table, which could mean two things. One, he is trying to make someone jealous, Willow, or two, he is actually interested. But, if he were merely interested I think he would have gone over there because I can tell that he likes Isabel and she looked ready to rip some bodies apart."

"Jeez, how did you pick all that up you spent most of your time kissing Xander?"

"Oh, it's easy to do both, when I need air then I survey any changes."

"Our very own PI, so what are we going to do about it?"

"I think it's easy, we simply need to exploit the situation that Spike has already given us."

"How do we do that?"

"We don't, if I know Melissa and I do then we don't need to do anything just sit back and watch."

"But we have to prevent Isabel from killing anyone."

"She won't she'll bottle it up and take it out later."

"On who?"

Jasmine paused for a second before answering, "She does karate, she'll just take her anger out there."

The three girls left the bathroom, Buffy didn't notice the way that Jasmine paused at the last question, Anya on the other hand did.

The three girls took a quick look at the table before continuing, Stacey had taken Buffy's seat, which was next to Thomas, and Melissa had pulled up another chair that she had put between Willow and Spike. Buffy smiled this plan might just work, then it hit her, she was attempting to get her best friend together with a vampire, an especially mean one that had tried to kill them more than once, but it didn't matter. Spike made Willow happy and therefore Buffy would overlook the fact he was a vampire.

Willow had been seated low in her chair devising new and interesting torture methods to use on Melissa when she had had enough, she stood walked around to where Isabel was and spoke in hushed tones.

"Let's go, before we both tie them up and stick hot pokers through their eyes."

"Okay, but I was thinking though their tongues first to be really spiteful."

Willow stood and addressed the table. "We're going home, does anyone wanna come."

No one seemed all that interesting in leaving so Willow and Isabel left together, just as they got out the door, Anya turned to Buffy and motioned her head to the right to an empty table next to theirs'. Jasmine followed them as they all made their way over.

"So what do we do now?"

"Nothing, we know she's jealous this will just escalate with him being here and her not, so we bring them back tomorrow night and they will be unable to resist."

The girls turned back to the table and noticed that Spike wasn't sitting with Melissa anymore.

"Where's Spike?"

"He said he wasn't feeling well so he tried to go catch up with the girls to get a lift home." Xander said coming over to claim Anya.

"Dammit."

"Why?"

"No reason," Jasmine turned and looked at the door, Xander got the hint and left. "This still might work maybe he feels so remorseful that he's gone to apologise." She knew she was grabbing for straws but oh well.

"Spike, never. But you're right this might still work." Anya replied.

"How?" Jaz asked.

"I have a new part to the plan."

"Do tell." Buffy said with a mischievous grin.