Author: Amanda

E-mail: Amandab9@a...

Feedback: YES, please!

Rating: I think it is about PG-14,

it gets sort of dark later on.

Timeline: Second Season. During the episode "Bewitched, Bothered,

and Bewildered". (The episode where Xander had Amy do the love spell

that makes everyone fall in love with him.)

Disclaimer: I don't own them. I am writing purely to please the

annoying voices in my head. The beginning actions and speech is

actually from "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" but the feelings

are mine. You should be able to tell when I start the actual writing

of my own.

Summary: Angelus and Dru turn Willow and Xander. What will the four

do?



"Did you guys see Cordy? She's missing and the last anyone saw of her, she ran out of school with you, Xander," Buffy explained to Willow and him.

Xander hadn't thought about what they would say if the Scoobies realized Cordelia was missing. He'd have to think on his feet.

"Well, we got to your house but the mob followed us," he lied to the slayer. "They ripped her away from me, screaming that I was too good for her."

"Oh dear Lord. Then Cordelia could be in a great deal of pain. There's no telling what those girls and women could have done before the spell was reversed," the Watcher interjected, looked up from a large book.

"Yeah, and plus, ya never know. Some female vampire could'a joined in. They'd have extra strength over Cordy," Xander added, fighting the urge to laugh. How had he ever started hanging around with these geeks?

"No, actually that isn't not possible. Vampires aren't affected by love spells," Giles corrected, looking back down to his book.

"What? Sure they are," Xander augured. If they weren't why had he been turned?

Giles looked up at Xander for a few seconds, clearly not used to being challenged. And especially not being questioned from Xander.

"Vampires can't be affected by love spells, Xander. They lack the souls to hold the emotion of love. It just isn't possible," Giles concluded.

"Ah, I knew that. I was just, ya know, testing you," Xander pretended, trying to act like his old, human self.

Inside, Xander's head was frantically trying to sort things out. If Dru hadn't been under the spell, she had meant everything she had said before she turned him.

Meant that she had found a "real man", meant it all. Then had given him freedom by making him powerful and immortal. Xander couldn't wait to get back to The Factory.



Angelus stalked angrily around the outside of the Bronze. For some reason he couldn't fully enjoy his prowl and meal tonight.

Last night kept popping into his head. Now that had been fun. His little Willow had been amazing for her first time. The way she had made her food beg, only to devour the girl anyway…

Angelus forcefully shook his head as if it would help get rid of his thoughts of his newest childe.

What was it about her that made Willow special? Angelus needed a to clear his mind. He needed a voilent kill- now.



Willow was fighting everything inside of her not to laugh out loud.

She was now so far above these mangy humans and their pathetic attempts to "save lives" and "capture evil". Ha, what a laugh. "Evil" was sitting right next to them and they didn't even notice. Some saviors.

The topics of conversation alternated between Cordelia's whereabouts and stopping Angelus. Like they could ever stop him, no matter how hard they tried.

Everyone had stopped probing Xander and Willow about what had happened to them when Willow had insisted it was, "too traumatic" to repeat.

Angelus had been right, of course, they didn't question them exclusively. They just believed the ones wearing the faces of their old buddies.

Fools. They were nothing but a group of fools. And Willow couldn't wait to break them.



"Daddy!" Spike heard Drusilla's voice float up to him.

'Angelus must be back from his hunt,' Spike thought without much interest. He couldn't get himself to care one way or the other and since he was alone in his room he didn't have to pretend.

Spike could feel something was going to happen. He could feel it in the marrow of his bone, and it was going to be big. First, Angelus and Drusilla's voice had to turn the slayer's buddies. Then, Dursilla's vision. Now, they were separating him from everything they do.

Frustrated, the vampire let out a deep growl.

There was still one thing that he had which they didn't- the element of surprise. Suddenly happier, Spike got up out of his wheelchair and walked across the room to turn on the television.



=(Amanda(=