I in no way shape or form own any of these characters, and as a side note, I'm very angry because someone rudely commented on one of my stories. He/she obviously had no idea what he/she was talking about.
Pining
Teaser: Cut to: The Bronze. Vic sits at the bar. Spike tends bar, while Oz sits one seat away from Vic - leaving a spot for Willow. Zeke's band plays on stage. Vic stares up bobbing her head to the music.
OZ: They're not that bad.
VIC: (sighs) Hmmm.
OZ: You love him don't ya?
VIC: (Still staring at Zeke) Yeah, that's why I'm thinking about breaking up with him.
OZ: You wanna break up with him?
VIC: (turning to Oz) Yupp.
OZ: Because you love him?
VIC: That's right.
OZ: Why is this not making sense to me?
VIC: I don't know.
OZ: I just don't get why you would break up with someone if you're in love with him.
VIC: To protect him, and myself for that matter.
OZ: Not following.
VIC: A slayer's life is very lonely. A slayer with a boyfriend is just beyond me. I have no idea how Buffy does it.
Oz still looks confused.
VIC: Ok, basically one of us is gonna leave for one reason or another, and the other is gonna be stuck her in Sunnydale depressed an-
Willow comes back from the bathroom and sits between Oz and Vic.
VIC: And moping, and I don't want that for either of us. Not to mention that I'm putting him in danger every second I'm with him, and he could put me in danger.
OZ: So it's a preemptive break-up.
VIC: basically.
WILLOW: YOU'RE BREAKING UP WITH ZEKE!?
VIC: (sarcastically) A little louder, Will, I don't think he could hear you all that clearly.
WILLOW: But you guys just got back together.
VIC: it's better this way.
WILLOW: It is so not.
Vic rolls her eyes and turns back to the band.
Cut to: Vic and Spike walking home.
VIC: So, how are you feeling.
SPIKE: What? Considering the fact that I'm getting married in a couple of weeks? Alright.
VIC: Stomach in knots?
Spike nods.
VIC: Virtual pulse more rapid?
Spike nods.
VIC: You're about as human as a vampire can come.
SPIKE: I'll take that as a complim-
Spike pauses as her hear a rustling in the bushes. He turns and looks over into the bushes. There is a girl huddled in the bushes, again. She is holding her bleeding neck. Vic turns her back up against Spike's.
VIC: There's a vampire around here - and it isn't you.
There is another rustling noise towards Vic's left. She turns there suddenly. There is a rustling sound toward her right - she jumps in that direction. Spike stands up from his bent position.
SPIKE: We're surrounded.
Vic pulls a stake from her boot and hands it to Spike. She pulls another stake from her coat.
VIC: How do you know that - we can't see them.
SPIKE: I can feel it.
VIC: But they emit no heat, how can you feel that?
SPIKE: I sense it.
VIC: (angry/annoyed/scared) Can you sense how many there are?
SPIKE: I'm not a bleedin' tracking system.
VIC: Sorry (they circle back to back) I just - I dunno - they used her as bait. What do they want?
SPIKE: You.
VIC: And they didn't believe that it was safer if I were alone.
SPIKE: You're breaking up with Zeke!?
VIC: Yeah.
SPIKE: Why?
VIC: Can we discuss this when we're not in a life-threatening situation!?
There is a loud roar. Something jumps out at Vic.
Cut to: the Bronze. Willow and Oz sit at a table. They sit and sip their coffee.
OZ: It's getting late, you have class in the morning.
WILLOW: So?
OZ: So we should get you home.
WILLOW: But it's so nice. Sitting here with you, comfortable silence.
OZ: Vic's future ex playing.
WILLOW: why'd you have to bring that up?
OZ: Something about it just bothers me.
WILLOW: Vic can handle herself.
OZ: Is that what you were thinking about during this comfortable silence?
WILLOW: Actually, I was thinking of Buffy, and the baby, and the wedding. There are bigger things than a minor breakup.
OZ: But I enjoy unimportant things.
WILLOW: You think I'm unimportant?
OZ: No, you're the most important thing in the world. That's why you should get home and sleep.
WILLOW: fine, we'll go home.
Cut to: Cut to: Dawn, walking down a street of Sunnydale. The stupidity is obvious. Some random decision to take a stroll around Sunnydale way past dark - on a school night. She walks in somewhat of a trance.
DAWN: (in a strange whisper - calling to someone.) Darling? Honey? Where are you darling? Sweetheart?
A voice begins to call from the air.
VOICE: (scratchy whisper) Dawn, I'm here Dawn.
Dawn walks off into a cemetery.
DAWN: Sweetheart! (Dawn smiles) Sweetheart, is that you?
VOICE: Yes, Dawn, come here.
DAWN: And we can be together?
VOICE: Forever.
DAWN: Forever!?
Dawn walks closer to where the voice is coming from.
BUFFY: Dawn! Dawn!
Dawn is still in a trace and thinks the voice is calling her.
DAWN: yes, Sweetheart?
BUFFY: Sweetheart!?
Buffy begins to shake Dawn.
BUFFY: Dawn! Dawn! Snap out of it! Dawn.
Dawn is shaken out of her trance. Dawn is surprised having no idea where she is.
DAWN: B-buffy. What's going on? W-where are we.
BUFFY: The cemetery, what are you doing here?
DAWN: I-I don't know. I was asleep in my room... and now I'm here.
BUFFY: come on, let's get you home.
Buffy begins to lead Dawn away. The voice calls to Dawn.
VOICE: My sweet! Sweetheart! Where are you going?
DAWN: What did you just say?
BUFFY: I didn't. I said nothing.
DAWN: I must be tired or something.
They walk on towards the house.
Cut to Vic and Spike. They are back to back. Vic has a huge cut across her face and is bleeding badly, but stays up behind Spike. A pack of creatures surrounding them. The dark makes it hard to see the creatures, but you can see them circling around Spike and Vic. There is one laying in the ground sprawled out on the ground within the circle. It has bee stabbed in the heart and lies there dead. The creatures are beasts of some nature. They are furry and hyena like, but they stand on two legs. They lurk around Vic and Spike gradually moving closer.
VIC: They'll give up, right, I mean, eventually they have to get tired and leave.
SPIKE: I don't know.
VIC: I didn't sign up for this. I didn't even sign up. (whining) I demand a recount.
SPIKE: You're the chosen one, now deal, and we can get outa this.
VIC: (sarcastically) oh yeah, let me bust out my two way, and call for help.
SPIKE: This is no time for sarcasm - can we just figure out a way to stay alive?
VIC: We're gonna die.
SPIKE: No. We're not.
VIC: Not to panic- me being the chosen one and all, but (screaming) We're GONNA DIE!
SPIKE: If you don't shut your bloody trap, I'm gonna ram this damn stake through *your* heart.
VIC: Ok, stay calm, we'll just stay back to back until help comes, or they charge.
SPIKE: You're not a very secure person are you?
VIC: You've ban me from booze, I have to be open with my emotions now.
The group of beasts continues to circle around them moving closer.
SPIKE: Can we save this for another time?
Cut to: Willow and Oz walking home from the Bronze. They hold hands and kind of cuddle.
WILLOW: wanna come up when we get home?
OZ: Come up?
WILLOW: Yeah, you know - *Come* *Up*
OZ: Ohhh, come up. You need your rest.
WILLOW: You don't want to?
OZ: Willow, I -
Oz looks over to see a group of beasts surrounding Vic and Spike.
OZ: We've got trouble.
WILLOW: VIC! SPIKE!
Some of the beasts turn around and snarl at them.
VIC: Break!
Spike and Vic run trying to break through the chain of beasts. Vic passes through them staking one in the heart. Spike takes some time to push through and has to throw a few punches first.
VOICE: Sweetheart. Come back. Come back to me.
Dawn is jolted from her sleep. She gets up and walks out of the door. There is a light on downstairs. She goes down to find Buffy watching TV.
DAWN: Did you call me?
BUFFY: No. Are you ok?
DAWN: I'm fine.
Dawn walks back upstairs and gets back into bed. She dozes off again.
VOICE: Where are you, my darling? I miss you. Please come back to me. Oh Darling!
Dawn jumps back up again. She puts her hands over her ears.
VOICE: Darling! Please return. Return to me.
Dawn grabs a pillow and tries to use it to plug her ears.
VOICE: Darling. Come home my sweet.
Dawn closes her eyes and screams:
DAWN: Shut up, shut up. Shut up!
The voice stops. Dawn goes back to sleep.
Cut to: Willow, Oz, Spike, and Vic entering the house.
SPIKE: I'll go get something for that cut.
Spike heads straight up the stairs while the other three go into the living room.
WILLOW: (sitting down - disregarding Buffy) What were those things?
VIC: Nothing a little research won't find out, but they wanted something.
BUFFY: what were what?
VIC: Just some beastie things that almost killed me n Spike on our way home.
BUFFY: Oh. What did they look like?
VIC: Like something straight out of The Island of Doctor Moroe.
BUFFY: Everything around here looks like that. I'll call Anya- see if we can get into the magic box as soon as possible - in the mean time, try to draw up a picture of it.
Buffy gets up and for the first time you can actually see that her stomach has grown - not too much, but just enough to tell. Buffy goes to get the phone.
Spike comes downstairs with some peroxide and some gauss. He walks over to Vic and sits on the coffee table to dress her face.
OZ: Uh, sorry, but I gotta run.
WILLOW: Oh, but why?
OZ: Class.
WILLOW: I'll walk you home.
OZ: Ok?
Willow and Oz grab their coats and leave.
SPIKE: Now hold still.
Vic closes her eyes tightly expecting to be stung.
SPIKE: Don't wince, you'll move.
VIC: It'll hurt.
SPIKE: Your a slayer, you don't feel pain.
VIC: I don't know who told you that, but they were seriously disturbed.
Spike holds cloth doused in peroxide to the gash on Vic's face. Vic suck in air to help soothe the pain and breathes in deeply.
VIC: Ouch.
SPIKE: Suck it up.
VIC: Why are you being so heartless?
SPIKE: That's how I've always been.
VIC: Not from where I see it.
SPIKE: Well, that's how I was.
VIC: What made you change?
SPIKE: Buffy.
VIC: she made you caring and willing to show compassion? Willing to do almost everything for her?
SPIKE: That's what love is.
VIC: No.
Vic holds the towel in place on her face.
VIC: Love is give and take. Choosing your battles, not worshipping someone and doing everything they tell you to - acting the way you think they want you to, that's being someone's bitch.
SPIKE: That's true, but I love her.
VIC: You want to make her happy.
SPIKE: Exactly.
VIC: She should be happy with who you are.
Spike stops and ponders it. Vic pulls the towel away from her face. The gash is still deep and doesn't look like home remedy will help.
SPIKE: We need to get you to a hospital.
VIC: I'll survive.
SPIKE: You want to live with that beauty mark for your whole life?
VIC: Good point. I'll never get a man that way.
Spike grabs his jacket, and wraps Vic's jacket around her shoulder.
SPIKE: Buffy! I'm taking Vic to the hospital!
BUFFY: (From the kitchen) Ok!
Spike and Vic leave the house.
Cut to: Willow walking home from UC Sunnydale.
VOICE: My sweet, oh my darling!
WILLOW: Oz? Is that you?
VOICE: Come to me darling.
WILLOW: Oz! Stop playing around.
VOICE: Oh, my darling! Please come back to me!
A strange wisp of light flows towards Willow, and injects into her. Her eyes glaze over.
WILLOW: Darling! Where are you?
VOICE: Oh, my love, come to me!
WILLOW: I can't find you!
VOICE: Follow my voice.
Willow walks aimlessly through Sunnydale heading towards a cemetery without knowing why.
Cut to: Anya's apartment. Anya sits at her kitchen table talking on the phone to Buffy.
ANYA: So they're just beasts who wanted to attack Vic.
BUFFY: I don't know - they don't tell me anything.
ANYA: You need to whip them into shape. Get your man to obsess over your every want and need.
BUFFY: yeah, but he's got a job now, and I don't wanna burden him.
ANYA: You're having his baby, he should be doing whatever you tell him to do.
BUFFY: You know what, you're right.
ANYA: I know I am. In fact, Xander is out right now doing exactly what I told him to do.
BUFFY: And what is that?
ANYA: Cleaning my bathroom.
The shot moves over so you can see the bathroom light on and Xander's feet hanging out of the bathroom door as he scrubs the floor.
XANDER: Are you talking to Buffy?
ANYA: (to Xander) Shut up and do your job.
Cut to: The hospital - Vic sits on a hospital bed as the doctor stitches up her face. Spike sits in a chair in the corner watching him.
DOCTOR: So tell me again how you managed this?
VIC: (mumbling trying to keep her face straight) Will you just shut up and do your job?
SPIKE: Besides, we told you already - she was attacked by a dog.
DOCTOR: Aren't you gonna press charges on the owner?
SPIKE: It was a stray.
VIC: Can you make the stitches small - I don't want it to scar.
DOCTOR: There should be some kind of hunt for this dog - he may be dangerous.
VIC: Don't worry about it.
DOCTOR: (Cutting the string) you're all set.
Vic hops off of the bed. Spike stands up.
VIC: Thanks.
DOCTOR: Come back in about a week to get those stitches removed.
VIC: Ok.
Vic and Spike leave the hospital, and head home.
Cut to: The cemetery where Buffy had been patrolling earlier that night. Willow walks.
WILLOW: We will be together forever, won't we darling?
VOICE: For all eternity.
Willow goes up to a crypt, and opens the door. The strange beasts which attacked Vic and Spike snarl and growl at Willow. Willow does not flinch - she stands still.
VOICE: Heel!
The beasts back up and cower under the voice. Willow walks down the pathway further and further into the crypt. She enters a room that is lit with candles surrounding a thrown with two chairs. In one chair sits a ghostlike figure the other is empty.
VOICE: Hello, my dear, won't you take your place next to me?
WILLOW: Of course.
Willow walks towards the empty chair - suddenly, the trance wears off. She is normal Willow again. She looks up at the ghostly figure.
WILLOW: Where am I?
VOICE: With me, my dear.
WILLOW: Who are you? Where am I?
VOICE: Why, I am your true love, and this is our home, dear.
WILLOW: You're not my true love - who are you?
VOICE: I command you, take your place next to me.
Willow does not budge, and instead gives the figure a strange look. The figure lifts his hand and tries to use magical powers to pull Willow onto the thrown. Willow fights the pull, but her legs begin to drag.
WILLOW: No! Who are you?
Willow's eyes flash black and she uses magic to hold herself in place.
VOICE: What are you doing? You are mine!
WILLOW: No! I'm not!
Willow's magic has weakened, and she cannot hold herself in place much longer. Her feet begin to drag again, and she is pulled into the chair. Red straps magically appear and bind her into the chair.
WILLOW: Who are you?
VOICE: Phillip Stevens. I once ruled over this land. I will rule over it again, and you will rule with me.
WILLOW: I don't get it - This place wasn't colonized until the 1800s - way after monarchy ruled.
PHILLIP: Before monarchy was ever a big thing - back in the demon days, I ruled a group of humans, and some peaceful demons. Vampires often liked to come into my kingdom and take our humans, so we conjured up some attack dogs to ward them off. One night in a massive raid, the vampires killed all of my people - including my Queen. I was bit, but I got away, and made it into the forest where I died of blood loss. I prayed to the Gods that if they let me come back in one form or another, I'd kill all of the vampires in this world.
WILLOW: Then why kill the slayer?
PHILLIP: Competition. (leaning closer about to kiss Willow) Now, you're mine again, my dear. My Queen. You will have to die, but it will be worth it to come back and rule with me for eternity.
Phillip leans up to Willow and kisses her on the lips with his cold, dead lips. Willow tightens her lips and pulls her head back.
WILLOW: (screaming) Buffy!
The scream echoes through the walls of the crypt. Phillip rears back and smacks Willow.
PHILLIP: You will learn to love me.
WILLOW: (gritting her teeth) Never!
Phillip puts his hand behind Willow's head, and kisses her holding her head so she cannot back away. he tries to slip her the tongue and she squeals as his cold dead tongue slides into her mouth. She tries to back away but she can't.
Cut to: Dawn sleeping. She has visions of Willow entering the crypt, and Phillips cold lips kissing her. She envisions Phillip's plan. She hears Willow scream for Buffy.
DAWN: (screaming) BUFFY!
Buffy, Spike, Zeke, and Vic are all sitting in the living room when they hear Dawn's scream. They all jump up and run up the stairs.
BUFFY: (bursting through the door) What? What happened? Is that David kid back?
DAWN: Willow. She's in trouble. She's caught in a crypt.
BUFFY: How do you know all this?
DAWN: I dreamt it. She's stuck in a crypt with this guy who wants to make her his queen. The same guy with those beasts - he wants the slayers dead.
BUFFY: Where's the crypt?
DAWN: In that cemetery you found me in tonight.
BUFFY: Spike, can you call Anya and see if we can get in the magic box tonight - if we find out about the dogs, we can find out about this guy.
SPIKE: Sure.
Spike turns to go back out the door, and as he leaves, Vic gives him a look of disappointment. Spike stares at her back and then sharply turns his head and leaves.
BUFFY: I'll take Dawn and go into that cemetery to find this crypt. If all goes well, we'll hit the place at daybreak.
Buffy walks down the stairs with Dawn - Dawn is still in her PJs.
DAWN: Shouldn't I change.
BUFFY: No time.
They grab their coats and head out the door.
Cut to: The Magic Box. Giles, Oz, Anya, Vic, Zeke, Xander, and Spike look through books. There are empty cups of coffee on the floor, and fresh cups sitting in front of each person. A box of Donuts sits in the middle of the table. Everyone is in deep research mode. Vic and Zeke sit back to back on the floor reading books. Oz stares at the couple then he looks over at Spike who raises his eyebrow - they're both thinking about how Vic is gonna break up with Zeke at any second.
XANDER: These books are no help - does anyone need anymore coffee? Donuts? I can do that, but research - not happening.
GILES: Xander, just keep reading - there has to be something in one of these books.
Vic gets up and goes to the bookshelf for another book. Spike turns and watches her. They exchange accusing looks. Vic pulls a book off of the shelf, and begins to look through it. She stops at a page.
VIC: Hey, Spike, can you come over here? I think this might be the one, but I'm not sure.
Spike stands up to consult Vic on the picture. He goes over to her. She has the page flipped to one completely filled with text.
VIC: (whispering) Why are you glaring at me like that?
SPIKE: (whispering) Why don't you just tell him and get it over with?
VIC: Why won't you speak up to Buffy?
SPIKE: Because I-
OZ: Hey, I saw it too, let me see.
Oz walks over to Spike and Vic.
OZ: (without glancing at the page...whispering) Tell him - make it easier.
VIC: No, I don't wanna-
SPIKE: You don't wanna hurt him because you love him.
VIC: ye-
OZ: Face it, you just want to break up with him to make it easier on yourself.
VIC: ye-
SPIKE: You're not gonna break up with him.
VIC: But you're gonna speak up to Buffy.
SPIKE: You bleedin' wench, I'll do what I feel like doin'
VIC: That's the spirit.
XANDER: So, what's the consensus?
OZ: Not the right one.
XANDER: Then can we get to work on finding it and stop chit chatting?
Everyone returns to their spots. Vic flips the page. There it is. There is a picture of those beasts.
VIC: I found it!
She stands up and takes the book to the table, and drops it down.
VIC: Guard dogs also used as attack dogs. Used by King Phillip the First to protect his kingdom from forces of evil... namely vampires.
GILES: Now all we have to do is find King Phillip the First.
Cut to: Phillip's crypt. Buffy boosts Dawn up to a crack in the stone so that Dawn can see in. Dawn peers into the crypt. She sees Willow tied into the chair trying to break free. Phillip sits at a table sanding stakes, and oiling his cross-bow.
PHILLIP: (to Willow) By tomorrow, your slayers and all of their friends will be dead, but not you my Queen, you will be undead. At sundown tomorrow - when the vampires killed my queen, I will kill you, and bring you back to be with me forever.
WILLOW: Doubtful. Buffy will be here with everyone, and you'll be dead.
PHILLIP: I am dead, my sweet. The only way to kill me is magic. The spell of Maradi.
WILLOW: They'll find a way. you can count on that.
Dawn signals to Buffy to let her down.
BUFFY: What did you find out?
DAWN: We have until Sundown tomorrow before he kills Willow.
BUFFY: That's it?
DAWN: The only way to kill him is the spell of Maradi.
BUFFY: Is there anyone in there with him?
DAWN: Just him, Willow, and all of those beasties.
BUFFY: Shouldn't be too hard. Let's get back to the magic box and help out the others.
Cut to: The Magic Box. Buffy and Dawn enter.
XANDER: Any luck?
BUFFY: Willow is safe until sundown tomorrow, and the only way to kill that guy is the spell of Maradi.
GILES: Spell of Maradi, yes I know of it - it shouldn't be too complicated. I should be able to do it.
Buffy sits down at the table.
BUFFY: Spike, could you get me a glass of water, please?
Vic looks up at Spike.
SPIKE: (standing up) No.
BUFFY: What?
SPIKE: No.
BUFFY: Why not.
SPIKE: Because. Because I do everything for you. It's all you. You, you, you. What have you done for me lately? Nothing. I'm turning into some blubbering idiot. I love you, Buffy, but sometimes it should be less about you, and more about me. I'm a man, damnit, and you treat me like I'm a toy to you. I'm not your servant, and I'm not gonna do everything you ask me to. You have two legs and two arms, you can do it yourself.
Buffy looks up at Spike in awe. Vic smiles in accomplishment.
BUFFY: (standing up) Fine then, I'll get my own water.
Spike sits down.
BUFFY: Would you like something to drink, Spike.
SPIKE: No, but thank you for asking.
Buffy walks to go get some water. She walks past the counter where she pauses and holds on to it. Spike stands up in worry. She rushes over to her.
SPIKE: Are you ok?
BUFFY: She just kicked. Here, feel.
Buffy grabs Spike's hand and puts it up against her stomach. He smiles.
SPIKE: She did kick.
Cut to: Phillip's - he moves in to kiss Willow. As he moves in coming strait towards her, she kicks her legs out, and sends him floating through a wall of the crypt. He lands on his butt on the ground outside of the crypt. He gets up, brushed himself off, and walks back through the wall.
PHILLIP: You will mind me.
WILLOW: (gritting her teeth) Oh, I mind, believe me, I mind.
PHILLIP: We'll just have to do something about your violent outbursts, honey.
Cut to: Phillip tying Willow's legs to the chair with rope.
PHILLIP: Now, that's better.
WILLOW: Sorry, I don't dig being tied down, it's just no my style.
Phillip turns and leaves the room. Willow's eyes glow black, and wind blows through her hair.
WILLOW: (Latin) Liberare.
The rope unties from her legs, and the chair releases her arms. She stands up and wipes her lips with her sleeve.
WILLOW: Disgusting.
She walks off of the thrown and proceeds to the opening of the crypt. The beasts rear back cowering.
WILLOW: (Latin) Sopor
The beasts fall asleep on the ground. Willow turns to walk out of the door when she hears Phillip humming. She rushes back to the thrown and sits on her hands to make it look like she's tied down. Phillip walks into the room. He sees that all of the beasts are sleeping.
PHILLIP: What happened to them?
Willow shrugs and looks innocent. Phillip puts 2 fingers in his mouth and whistles. The Beasts do not move. Phillip whistles again. The beasts stay still.
PHILLIP: (to Willow) What did you do?
WILLOW: Nothing. I was just sitting here, and they fell asleep.
PHILLIP: They don't sleep.
WILLOW: Maybe that's their problem.
PHILLIP: They don't need to.
WILLOW: All I know was I was sitting here and they fell asleep. Honest.
Phillip looks Willow over. He notices that there are no ropes around her ankles.
PHILLIP: Where is the rope?
WILLOW: (revealing) Slipped off.
Phillip rushes towards Willow. She jumps up and knees him between the legs. Phillip keels over in pain. Willow runs, then turns around.
WILLOW: (Latin) Ligare.
The rope rises and hog-ties Phillip. Willow walks off and out of the crypt. Willow walks to the Summers' house to find no one is there. She walks to the Magic Box.
GILES: Here it is. The spell of Maradi. Fairly simple - I just need a few supplies.
BUFFY: Good, I want Willow out of this situation as soon as possible.
Willow walks in.
WILLOW: No problem.
They all stand up.
XANDER: Willow - we thought you were being held hostage.
WILLOW: I was. I escaped.
BUFFY: How?
WILLOW: (eyes glowing black) Heh, well, I don't need to tell you.
BUFFY: Willow. Have you been using magic?
WILLOW: (sarcastically) Gee...what tipped you off?
OZ: Willow, what's wrong with you
WILLOW: (normally) Nothing, I was jsut leading you guys on.
BUFFY: But you have been using magic?
WILLOW: Yeah, just to get free - I didn't want to die and come back as some warped King's bride.
OZ: Are you ok?
WILLOW: Fine. We need to find the spell of Maradi.
GILES: We found it.
WILLOW: Well, Phillip is tied up in his crypt - if we hurry, we could get him without a fight.
BUFFY: You're not doing any magic.
WILLOW: Buffy, I think I'm most experienced in this field.
BUFFY: But if you use too much, well, we don't want to bring about another apocalypse.
WILLOW: (sighs) I won't I just think I'm more fit to do this spell. Plus, ya know, he had me strapped in a chair and he kept kissing me - I have a little pent up anger.
BUFFY: That's exactly why you shouldn't do this spell.
WILLOW: Whatever. I'm doing the spell.
XANDER: Willow, will you just listen to her. She has a point.
WILLOW: whatever, Xander, why don't you get us all some coffee and donuts so that when *I* save the day, we'll have something to celebrate with.
ANYA: Hey! Don't talk to my boyfriend like that!
WILLOW: Just give me the book.
GILES: (holding the book tightly) No.
WILLOW: Just give me it Giles.
BUFFY: He said no.
WILLOW: (extending her hand...Latin) Donare.
The book flies from Giles' grip and into Willow's hand.
WILLOW: Thank you.
Willow turns around and walks off.
XANDER: That's not good.
BUFFY: What if she goes back to her former self?
GILES: She won't not to the magnitude of before.
BUFFY: How can we be sure?
ANYA: Just a suggestion, but shouldn't you guys be following her?
XANDER: Good point. Let's go.
BUFFY: Come on, Spike.
SPIKE: Uh, sorry, but it's almost light out.
BUFFY: Oh yeah.
BUFFY: Vic?
VIC: Does it really take 4 people to track Willow when you know exactly where she's going?
BUFFY: I guess not.
OZ: I'll go.
ANYA: Me too.
BUFFY: Thanks, guys.
Buffy, Xander, Giles, Oz, and Anya leave.
Cut to: Phillip's crypt. Phillip remains hog ties on the ground. Willow walks in.
WILLOW: Phillip, Phillip, Phillip. You've been a naughty boy.
Phillip wriggles and screams.
PHILLIP: Please, Darling, Please.
WILLOW: Bored now. (Latin) Necare.
Phillip's ghostly body turns into wisps, and floats away into a forming portal.
WILLOW: (Waving) Bye - bye.
The portal closes. Willows turns around and walks out of the crypt - all of the beasts have disappeared. when she opens the door, the group stands in front of her.
WILLOW: Oh, hey guys, the problem is solved. No more demented king.
XANDER: That's great, Will.
WILLOW: Let's go home then.
BUFFY: Willow - you need help.
WILLOW: Help with what?
BUFFY: You get high on magic - you need to control it.
WILLOW: Oh, no, not this again. I can handle myself.
OZ: can you?
WILLOW: (trying to push through them) Yes.
GILES: I don't think you can.
They grab Willow and tie her hands and legs, and gag her.
Cut to: the Magic Box. Vic and Zeke sit on some mats in the training room.
VIC: You know - you're really beautiful.
ZEKE: thanks. I think.
VIC: No, it's a compliment. You are really beautiful.
ZEKE: Are you breaking up with me?
VIC: No. No. I mean, I was gonna, but no.
ZEKE: What made you change your mind?
Vic stares right into Zeke's eyes.
VIC: I love you.
ZEKE: (unflinching) I love you too.
There is a moment where is seems like they're going to kiss. Vic hops off of the mats and walks out of the training room leaving Zeke motionless.
Cut to: The Summers' house. Willow is tied into a chair in the dining room. Giles, Xander, and Oz sit watching her.
OZ: Are you sure you wanna do that?
GILES: It's what has to be done.
OZ: All the way to England?
GILES: I have a mansion up there - it is away from any distractions - it will be a good place for her to be.
OZ: I'm coming with you, then.
GILES: Are you sure that's a good idea?
OZ: I'm not losing her again.
Xander gets up and goes to Willow's ear.
XANDER: (talking as if to a hearing-impaired person) You hear that? There are people out here who love you. Why can't you see that?
Cut to: Upstairs: Willow's room. Buffy goes into Willow's closet - packing clothes, and other things. Spike sits on the bed, and Dawn stands in the doorway.
DAWN: I just don't see why she can't train not to be a witch here.
BUFFY: Because, we're on the Hell Mouth - notorious for making good witches bad. England will be a much safer place for her.
DAWN: Well, I still don't like it.
BUFFY: There's nothing for you to like. Giles feels it's best for her.
Dawn storms off.
SPIKE: You didn't have to be so cruel about it.
BUFFY: I wasn't cruel, I was putting my foot down.
SPIKE: That wasn't putting your foot down, that was stomping your boot in her face.
BUFFY: Ok, so maybe I was a little hard on her, but his is really (Buffy drops some clothes in a suitcase on the bed) hard. For me. For every-
Spike grabs Buffy's hand as she is jamming the clothes in.
SPIKE: I know. Just calm down.
BUFFY: You're right. I shouldn't be so hard on everyone.
SPIKE: Especially yourself.
BUFFY: Right. Because I'm a person too.
SPIKE: Right, and if you fall, so does everyone around you.
BUFFY: Right. No. Not right - they can take care of themselves. We have eachother, right?
SPIKE: Sure.
Buffy pulls her hand from Spike's and goes back to the closet to continue packing Willow's things.
BUFFY: Spike, can you hand me that jewelry box over there? Wait, no you can't "you don't have to do everything for me," right? "I'm capable?"
Buffy walks over past Willow's bed to where the Jewelry Box is and picks it up. She walks back toward the suitcase at the end of the bed. Spike grabs her arm as she walks by. She stops.
SPIKE: Come here and sit next to me.
Buffy looks at him and then sits down.
BUFFY: What?
SPIKE: I know I acted...irrationally earlier. But, it's just sometimes, I feel like you don't appreciate me. Like you never did, and it burns into me, and
BUFFY: Spike. I know.
SPIKE: You know?
BUFFY: yeah, sometimes I take you for granted - I never realized it, but today - I do. And I'm sorry.
SPIKE: No, you're pregnant and I should be massaging your feet or feeding you skinned grapes.
BUFFY: No, Spike, it's just that - I don't know - Sometimes you look at me with those Revealing Cryptic Blue Eyes, and I just melt, and I know why I love you. Your eyes show everything - your love, your pain, and lately, I've been so wrapped up in myself that I haven't realized how unhappy your eyes are.
SPIKE: I'm not unhappy.
BUFFY: You are.
SPIKE: I'm happy. When I see you, and when I think about the baby, and the fact that we're getting married in a couple of weeks. I'm happy.
BUFFY: But you're working, and the world is taking you for granted, and you miss the hunt. I know you do.
SPIKE: I don't miss the hunt. I haven't been able to hunt for three years now, and I'm rather used to it.
BUFFY: Then what is it?
SPIKE: Nothing.
BUFFY: Your mouth says nothing but your eyes say everything.
SPIKE: It's just sometimes, I wish I could go out with you guys during the day. Be with you all the time instead of between when I work at night. I mean, you guys work all day, and I work most of the night. We never see each other.
BUFFY: I know what you mean, but I can't work at night, and you can't work during the day, but we have our time together, and that's good enough for now, right?
SPIKE: I suppose.
Buffy kisses Spike on the cheek.
BUFFY: I love you.
SPIKE: I love you too.
BUFFY: Now cheer up. I want no more sad eyes in this house.
Buffy gets up and starts packing Willow's things again. Vic walks into the room.
VIC: Hey.
BUFFY: Hey, where's Zeke.
VIC: I sent him home. There's no need for him to be here.
BUFFY: Yeah, the less people around the better - just in case Willow blows a fuse.
VIC: Speaking of Willow-
SPIKE: (muttering) as if there is anyone else we'd be talking about
VIC: When she leaves, do I get her room?
BUFFY: No, That will be the baby's room.
VIC: Buffy.
BUFFY: She'll be growing up fast, she needs her own room.
VIC: Fine
Vic walks out of the room.
SPIKE: What was that about no more sad eyes in this house?
BUFFY: shut up.
SPIKE: Bite your tongue, young lady.
BUFFY: Who are you calling a young lady?
SPIKE: Your over 100 years younger than me. I can call you whatever I want.
BUFFY: No you can't.
SPIKE: Wanna bet?
BUFFY: No.
Spike kisses Buffy.
SPIKE: Well, I'm gonna go give my regards to Red before she sets off to Jolly old England.
Spike walks off and down the stairs into the dining room. Willow is still tied to a chair, but she's trying to yell through her gag, and the chair is tipping back and fournth as she tries to get out. Vic, Dawn, Xander, Oz, and Giles stand around her. Spike comes behind Dawn.
SPIKE: How is she?
DAWN: I can make out every few words. Basically she's gonna curse us one the gag comes off, and we're all gonna die a painful death.
SPIKE: Nothing your sister hasn't threatened to me at one point or another.
DAWN: Spike.
SPIKE: Yeah, nibblet?
DAWN: I don't wanna know about your sex life.
Buffy comes down the stairs and into the dining room with the suitcase.
BUFFY: Ok. She's all packed up.
GILES: Good, my car is outside.
OZ: And I'll just grab some stuff in England.
XANDER: Yeah, we'll have your stuff sent over there.
OZ: Thank, man.
XANDER: One question.
GILES: Yes, Xander?
WILLOW: How are you gonna get her into the car.
OZ: Straight jacket.
XANDER: And you just happen to have one of those laying around?
OZ: Yeah. Never leave home without one.
They walks Willow out of the house with a straight jacket on. They put her in the back seat of the car, and shut the door. Spike stands in the safety of the house because it's late morning. Giles leans on the car, and Buffy stands in front of him.
GILES: I think it's better if you don't come to the airport with us.
BUFFY: Me too, too much drama. Well, have a safe journey, and call me when you get there.
GILES: Of course.
Buffy hugs Giles, and then Oz.. Xander shakes both of their hands, as does Vic, and Dawn hugs both of them. Oz and Giles wave to Spike, then they are off. Vic, Buffy, Dawn and Xander walk back into the house.
BUFFY: They'll be fine.
XANDER: Why wouldn't they be?
BUFFY: I'm trying to make myself feel better.
XANDER: How's that working out for ya?
BUFFY: Horrible.
SPIKE: lay off her.
XANDER: Sorry, Spike, nobody hit your buzzer.
SPIKE: Well, I'm about to hit yours if you don't bleedin shut up.
XANDER: Go ahead, Spike.
SPIKE: alright.
Spike takes a swing at Xander, and Xander ducks. Buffy gets in the middle. Xander punches Buffy, not realizing she got in the middle. Buffy falls to the ground on her stomach, and banging her head.
XANDER: Oh my God! Buffy!
SPIKE: Now look what you've done. The baby! Call 911! Call 911 now!
Vic rushes to the phone and calls 911.
The ambulance comes, and takes Buffy to the hospital. Xander has to ride with her because Spike can't.
Cut to: The hospital: Night: Buffy lays in a bed. Spike is at her side.
BUFFY: (waking up) Hey.
SPIKE: (teary eyed) Hey.
BUFFY: Shouldn't you be at work?
SPIKE: I called in.
BUFFY: How's the baby?
Spike is silent. Tears begin to roll down his cheeks.
BUFFY: Spike - how's the baby?
SPIKE: (crying) She's fine.
BUFFY: Thank God. Why are you crying.
SPIKE: Because...what if she wasn't?
Buffy leans up and hugs Spike.
BUFFY: Don't cry.
She runs her hands through his hair and kisses him on the face.
BUFFY: Don't cry. Everything is ok. We're all ok.
SPIKE: I know, but I just can't stop.
BUFFY: It's ok. Hush, it's ok.
SPIKE: And then I thought, what if I lost you, and not the baby.
BUFFY: Spike, we're all ok.
SPIKE: And it was day light out and I couldn't come with you here.
BUFFY: Spike, it's ok. I'm here, she's here, we're all here.
Vic, Dawn, and Xander walk in the room with balloons and stuffed animals.
XANDER: the doctor says you can come home whenever you're ready.
BUFFY: (still holding Spike) Can you just give us a second?
VIC: Sure.
The three leave.
BUFFY: Spike, we're ok. You're ok. I'm ok - everything is fine. Don't worry about anything. It'll all work itself out. Now, let's go home.
SPIKE: I feel so bad, for how I treated you last night, and I just, I wanna make it up to you.
BUFFY: You have every right to say what you did, and if it will make you feel any better, when we get home, you can give me a foot massage.
SPIKE: You promise?
BUFFY: Yes, now let's go out there and face the world.
Buffy and Spike get up, and walk out of the hospital room. They join the others, and walk down the hall carrying the balloons and stuffed animals with their arms around each other
The End..
Pining
Teaser: Cut to: The Bronze. Vic sits at the bar. Spike tends bar, while Oz sits one seat away from Vic - leaving a spot for Willow. Zeke's band plays on stage. Vic stares up bobbing her head to the music.
OZ: They're not that bad.
VIC: (sighs) Hmmm.
OZ: You love him don't ya?
VIC: (Still staring at Zeke) Yeah, that's why I'm thinking about breaking up with him.
OZ: You wanna break up with him?
VIC: (turning to Oz) Yupp.
OZ: Because you love him?
VIC: That's right.
OZ: Why is this not making sense to me?
VIC: I don't know.
OZ: I just don't get why you would break up with someone if you're in love with him.
VIC: To protect him, and myself for that matter.
OZ: Not following.
VIC: A slayer's life is very lonely. A slayer with a boyfriend is just beyond me. I have no idea how Buffy does it.
Oz still looks confused.
VIC: Ok, basically one of us is gonna leave for one reason or another, and the other is gonna be stuck her in Sunnydale depressed an-
Willow comes back from the bathroom and sits between Oz and Vic.
VIC: And moping, and I don't want that for either of us. Not to mention that I'm putting him in danger every second I'm with him, and he could put me in danger.
OZ: So it's a preemptive break-up.
VIC: basically.
WILLOW: YOU'RE BREAKING UP WITH ZEKE!?
VIC: (sarcastically) A little louder, Will, I don't think he could hear you all that clearly.
WILLOW: But you guys just got back together.
VIC: it's better this way.
WILLOW: It is so not.
Vic rolls her eyes and turns back to the band.
Cut to: Vic and Spike walking home.
VIC: So, how are you feeling.
SPIKE: What? Considering the fact that I'm getting married in a couple of weeks? Alright.
VIC: Stomach in knots?
Spike nods.
VIC: Virtual pulse more rapid?
Spike nods.
VIC: You're about as human as a vampire can come.
SPIKE: I'll take that as a complim-
Spike pauses as her hear a rustling in the bushes. He turns and looks over into the bushes. There is a girl huddled in the bushes, again. She is holding her bleeding neck. Vic turns her back up against Spike's.
VIC: There's a vampire around here - and it isn't you.
There is another rustling noise towards Vic's left. She turns there suddenly. There is a rustling sound toward her right - she jumps in that direction. Spike stands up from his bent position.
SPIKE: We're surrounded.
Vic pulls a stake from her boot and hands it to Spike. She pulls another stake from her coat.
VIC: How do you know that - we can't see them.
SPIKE: I can feel it.
VIC: But they emit no heat, how can you feel that?
SPIKE: I sense it.
VIC: (angry/annoyed/scared) Can you sense how many there are?
SPIKE: I'm not a bleedin' tracking system.
VIC: Sorry (they circle back to back) I just - I dunno - they used her as bait. What do they want?
SPIKE: You.
VIC: And they didn't believe that it was safer if I were alone.
SPIKE: You're breaking up with Zeke!?
VIC: Yeah.
SPIKE: Why?
VIC: Can we discuss this when we're not in a life-threatening situation!?
There is a loud roar. Something jumps out at Vic.
Cut to: the Bronze. Willow and Oz sit at a table. They sit and sip their coffee.
OZ: It's getting late, you have class in the morning.
WILLOW: So?
OZ: So we should get you home.
WILLOW: But it's so nice. Sitting here with you, comfortable silence.
OZ: Vic's future ex playing.
WILLOW: why'd you have to bring that up?
OZ: Something about it just bothers me.
WILLOW: Vic can handle herself.
OZ: Is that what you were thinking about during this comfortable silence?
WILLOW: Actually, I was thinking of Buffy, and the baby, and the wedding. There are bigger things than a minor breakup.
OZ: But I enjoy unimportant things.
WILLOW: You think I'm unimportant?
OZ: No, you're the most important thing in the world. That's why you should get home and sleep.
WILLOW: fine, we'll go home.
Cut to: Cut to: Dawn, walking down a street of Sunnydale. The stupidity is obvious. Some random decision to take a stroll around Sunnydale way past dark - on a school night. She walks in somewhat of a trance.
DAWN: (in a strange whisper - calling to someone.) Darling? Honey? Where are you darling? Sweetheart?
A voice begins to call from the air.
VOICE: (scratchy whisper) Dawn, I'm here Dawn.
Dawn walks off into a cemetery.
DAWN: Sweetheart! (Dawn smiles) Sweetheart, is that you?
VOICE: Yes, Dawn, come here.
DAWN: And we can be together?
VOICE: Forever.
DAWN: Forever!?
Dawn walks closer to where the voice is coming from.
BUFFY: Dawn! Dawn!
Dawn is still in a trace and thinks the voice is calling her.
DAWN: yes, Sweetheart?
BUFFY: Sweetheart!?
Buffy begins to shake Dawn.
BUFFY: Dawn! Dawn! Snap out of it! Dawn.
Dawn is shaken out of her trance. Dawn is surprised having no idea where she is.
DAWN: B-buffy. What's going on? W-where are we.
BUFFY: The cemetery, what are you doing here?
DAWN: I-I don't know. I was asleep in my room... and now I'm here.
BUFFY: come on, let's get you home.
Buffy begins to lead Dawn away. The voice calls to Dawn.
VOICE: My sweet! Sweetheart! Where are you going?
DAWN: What did you just say?
BUFFY: I didn't. I said nothing.
DAWN: I must be tired or something.
They walk on towards the house.
Cut to Vic and Spike. They are back to back. Vic has a huge cut across her face and is bleeding badly, but stays up behind Spike. A pack of creatures surrounding them. The dark makes it hard to see the creatures, but you can see them circling around Spike and Vic. There is one laying in the ground sprawled out on the ground within the circle. It has bee stabbed in the heart and lies there dead. The creatures are beasts of some nature. They are furry and hyena like, but they stand on two legs. They lurk around Vic and Spike gradually moving closer.
VIC: They'll give up, right, I mean, eventually they have to get tired and leave.
SPIKE: I don't know.
VIC: I didn't sign up for this. I didn't even sign up. (whining) I demand a recount.
SPIKE: You're the chosen one, now deal, and we can get outa this.
VIC: (sarcastically) oh yeah, let me bust out my two way, and call for help.
SPIKE: This is no time for sarcasm - can we just figure out a way to stay alive?
VIC: We're gonna die.
SPIKE: No. We're not.
VIC: Not to panic- me being the chosen one and all, but (screaming) We're GONNA DIE!
SPIKE: If you don't shut your bloody trap, I'm gonna ram this damn stake through *your* heart.
VIC: Ok, stay calm, we'll just stay back to back until help comes, or they charge.
SPIKE: You're not a very secure person are you?
VIC: You've ban me from booze, I have to be open with my emotions now.
The group of beasts continues to circle around them moving closer.
SPIKE: Can we save this for another time?
Cut to: Willow and Oz walking home from the Bronze. They hold hands and kind of cuddle.
WILLOW: wanna come up when we get home?
OZ: Come up?
WILLOW: Yeah, you know - *Come* *Up*
OZ: Ohhh, come up. You need your rest.
WILLOW: You don't want to?
OZ: Willow, I -
Oz looks over to see a group of beasts surrounding Vic and Spike.
OZ: We've got trouble.
WILLOW: VIC! SPIKE!
Some of the beasts turn around and snarl at them.
VIC: Break!
Spike and Vic run trying to break through the chain of beasts. Vic passes through them staking one in the heart. Spike takes some time to push through and has to throw a few punches first.
VOICE: Sweetheart. Come back. Come back to me.
Dawn is jolted from her sleep. She gets up and walks out of the door. There is a light on downstairs. She goes down to find Buffy watching TV.
DAWN: Did you call me?
BUFFY: No. Are you ok?
DAWN: I'm fine.
Dawn walks back upstairs and gets back into bed. She dozes off again.
VOICE: Where are you, my darling? I miss you. Please come back to me. Oh Darling!
Dawn jumps back up again. She puts her hands over her ears.
VOICE: Darling! Please return. Return to me.
Dawn grabs a pillow and tries to use it to plug her ears.
VOICE: Darling. Come home my sweet.
Dawn closes her eyes and screams:
DAWN: Shut up, shut up. Shut up!
The voice stops. Dawn goes back to sleep.
Cut to: Willow, Oz, Spike, and Vic entering the house.
SPIKE: I'll go get something for that cut.
Spike heads straight up the stairs while the other three go into the living room.
WILLOW: (sitting down - disregarding Buffy) What were those things?
VIC: Nothing a little research won't find out, but they wanted something.
BUFFY: what were what?
VIC: Just some beastie things that almost killed me n Spike on our way home.
BUFFY: Oh. What did they look like?
VIC: Like something straight out of The Island of Doctor Moroe.
BUFFY: Everything around here looks like that. I'll call Anya- see if we can get into the magic box as soon as possible - in the mean time, try to draw up a picture of it.
Buffy gets up and for the first time you can actually see that her stomach has grown - not too much, but just enough to tell. Buffy goes to get the phone.
Spike comes downstairs with some peroxide and some gauss. He walks over to Vic and sits on the coffee table to dress her face.
OZ: Uh, sorry, but I gotta run.
WILLOW: Oh, but why?
OZ: Class.
WILLOW: I'll walk you home.
OZ: Ok?
Willow and Oz grab their coats and leave.
SPIKE: Now hold still.
Vic closes her eyes tightly expecting to be stung.
SPIKE: Don't wince, you'll move.
VIC: It'll hurt.
SPIKE: Your a slayer, you don't feel pain.
VIC: I don't know who told you that, but they were seriously disturbed.
Spike holds cloth doused in peroxide to the gash on Vic's face. Vic suck in air to help soothe the pain and breathes in deeply.
VIC: Ouch.
SPIKE: Suck it up.
VIC: Why are you being so heartless?
SPIKE: That's how I've always been.
VIC: Not from where I see it.
SPIKE: Well, that's how I was.
VIC: What made you change?
SPIKE: Buffy.
VIC: she made you caring and willing to show compassion? Willing to do almost everything for her?
SPIKE: That's what love is.
VIC: No.
Vic holds the towel in place on her face.
VIC: Love is give and take. Choosing your battles, not worshipping someone and doing everything they tell you to - acting the way you think they want you to, that's being someone's bitch.
SPIKE: That's true, but I love her.
VIC: You want to make her happy.
SPIKE: Exactly.
VIC: She should be happy with who you are.
Spike stops and ponders it. Vic pulls the towel away from her face. The gash is still deep and doesn't look like home remedy will help.
SPIKE: We need to get you to a hospital.
VIC: I'll survive.
SPIKE: You want to live with that beauty mark for your whole life?
VIC: Good point. I'll never get a man that way.
Spike grabs his jacket, and wraps Vic's jacket around her shoulder.
SPIKE: Buffy! I'm taking Vic to the hospital!
BUFFY: (From the kitchen) Ok!
Spike and Vic leave the house.
Cut to: Willow walking home from UC Sunnydale.
VOICE: My sweet, oh my darling!
WILLOW: Oz? Is that you?
VOICE: Come to me darling.
WILLOW: Oz! Stop playing around.
VOICE: Oh, my darling! Please come back to me!
A strange wisp of light flows towards Willow, and injects into her. Her eyes glaze over.
WILLOW: Darling! Where are you?
VOICE: Oh, my love, come to me!
WILLOW: I can't find you!
VOICE: Follow my voice.
Willow walks aimlessly through Sunnydale heading towards a cemetery without knowing why.
Cut to: Anya's apartment. Anya sits at her kitchen table talking on the phone to Buffy.
ANYA: So they're just beasts who wanted to attack Vic.
BUFFY: I don't know - they don't tell me anything.
ANYA: You need to whip them into shape. Get your man to obsess over your every want and need.
BUFFY: yeah, but he's got a job now, and I don't wanna burden him.
ANYA: You're having his baby, he should be doing whatever you tell him to do.
BUFFY: You know what, you're right.
ANYA: I know I am. In fact, Xander is out right now doing exactly what I told him to do.
BUFFY: And what is that?
ANYA: Cleaning my bathroom.
The shot moves over so you can see the bathroom light on and Xander's feet hanging out of the bathroom door as he scrubs the floor.
XANDER: Are you talking to Buffy?
ANYA: (to Xander) Shut up and do your job.
Cut to: The hospital - Vic sits on a hospital bed as the doctor stitches up her face. Spike sits in a chair in the corner watching him.
DOCTOR: So tell me again how you managed this?
VIC: (mumbling trying to keep her face straight) Will you just shut up and do your job?
SPIKE: Besides, we told you already - she was attacked by a dog.
DOCTOR: Aren't you gonna press charges on the owner?
SPIKE: It was a stray.
VIC: Can you make the stitches small - I don't want it to scar.
DOCTOR: There should be some kind of hunt for this dog - he may be dangerous.
VIC: Don't worry about it.
DOCTOR: (Cutting the string) you're all set.
Vic hops off of the bed. Spike stands up.
VIC: Thanks.
DOCTOR: Come back in about a week to get those stitches removed.
VIC: Ok.
Vic and Spike leave the hospital, and head home.
Cut to: The cemetery where Buffy had been patrolling earlier that night. Willow walks.
WILLOW: We will be together forever, won't we darling?
VOICE: For all eternity.
Willow goes up to a crypt, and opens the door. The strange beasts which attacked Vic and Spike snarl and growl at Willow. Willow does not flinch - she stands still.
VOICE: Heel!
The beasts back up and cower under the voice. Willow walks down the pathway further and further into the crypt. She enters a room that is lit with candles surrounding a thrown with two chairs. In one chair sits a ghostlike figure the other is empty.
VOICE: Hello, my dear, won't you take your place next to me?
WILLOW: Of course.
Willow walks towards the empty chair - suddenly, the trance wears off. She is normal Willow again. She looks up at the ghostly figure.
WILLOW: Where am I?
VOICE: With me, my dear.
WILLOW: Who are you? Where am I?
VOICE: Why, I am your true love, and this is our home, dear.
WILLOW: You're not my true love - who are you?
VOICE: I command you, take your place next to me.
Willow does not budge, and instead gives the figure a strange look. The figure lifts his hand and tries to use magical powers to pull Willow onto the thrown. Willow fights the pull, but her legs begin to drag.
WILLOW: No! Who are you?
Willow's eyes flash black and she uses magic to hold herself in place.
VOICE: What are you doing? You are mine!
WILLOW: No! I'm not!
Willow's magic has weakened, and she cannot hold herself in place much longer. Her feet begin to drag again, and she is pulled into the chair. Red straps magically appear and bind her into the chair.
WILLOW: Who are you?
VOICE: Phillip Stevens. I once ruled over this land. I will rule over it again, and you will rule with me.
WILLOW: I don't get it - This place wasn't colonized until the 1800s - way after monarchy ruled.
PHILLIP: Before monarchy was ever a big thing - back in the demon days, I ruled a group of humans, and some peaceful demons. Vampires often liked to come into my kingdom and take our humans, so we conjured up some attack dogs to ward them off. One night in a massive raid, the vampires killed all of my people - including my Queen. I was bit, but I got away, and made it into the forest where I died of blood loss. I prayed to the Gods that if they let me come back in one form or another, I'd kill all of the vampires in this world.
WILLOW: Then why kill the slayer?
PHILLIP: Competition. (leaning closer about to kiss Willow) Now, you're mine again, my dear. My Queen. You will have to die, but it will be worth it to come back and rule with me for eternity.
Phillip leans up to Willow and kisses her on the lips with his cold, dead lips. Willow tightens her lips and pulls her head back.
WILLOW: (screaming) Buffy!
The scream echoes through the walls of the crypt. Phillip rears back and smacks Willow.
PHILLIP: You will learn to love me.
WILLOW: (gritting her teeth) Never!
Phillip puts his hand behind Willow's head, and kisses her holding her head so she cannot back away. he tries to slip her the tongue and she squeals as his cold dead tongue slides into her mouth. She tries to back away but she can't.
Cut to: Dawn sleeping. She has visions of Willow entering the crypt, and Phillips cold lips kissing her. She envisions Phillip's plan. She hears Willow scream for Buffy.
DAWN: (screaming) BUFFY!
Buffy, Spike, Zeke, and Vic are all sitting in the living room when they hear Dawn's scream. They all jump up and run up the stairs.
BUFFY: (bursting through the door) What? What happened? Is that David kid back?
DAWN: Willow. She's in trouble. She's caught in a crypt.
BUFFY: How do you know all this?
DAWN: I dreamt it. She's stuck in a crypt with this guy who wants to make her his queen. The same guy with those beasts - he wants the slayers dead.
BUFFY: Where's the crypt?
DAWN: In that cemetery you found me in tonight.
BUFFY: Spike, can you call Anya and see if we can get in the magic box tonight - if we find out about the dogs, we can find out about this guy.
SPIKE: Sure.
Spike turns to go back out the door, and as he leaves, Vic gives him a look of disappointment. Spike stares at her back and then sharply turns his head and leaves.
BUFFY: I'll take Dawn and go into that cemetery to find this crypt. If all goes well, we'll hit the place at daybreak.
Buffy walks down the stairs with Dawn - Dawn is still in her PJs.
DAWN: Shouldn't I change.
BUFFY: No time.
They grab their coats and head out the door.
Cut to: The Magic Box. Giles, Oz, Anya, Vic, Zeke, Xander, and Spike look through books. There are empty cups of coffee on the floor, and fresh cups sitting in front of each person. A box of Donuts sits in the middle of the table. Everyone is in deep research mode. Vic and Zeke sit back to back on the floor reading books. Oz stares at the couple then he looks over at Spike who raises his eyebrow - they're both thinking about how Vic is gonna break up with Zeke at any second.
XANDER: These books are no help - does anyone need anymore coffee? Donuts? I can do that, but research - not happening.
GILES: Xander, just keep reading - there has to be something in one of these books.
Vic gets up and goes to the bookshelf for another book. Spike turns and watches her. They exchange accusing looks. Vic pulls a book off of the shelf, and begins to look through it. She stops at a page.
VIC: Hey, Spike, can you come over here? I think this might be the one, but I'm not sure.
Spike stands up to consult Vic on the picture. He goes over to her. She has the page flipped to one completely filled with text.
VIC: (whispering) Why are you glaring at me like that?
SPIKE: (whispering) Why don't you just tell him and get it over with?
VIC: Why won't you speak up to Buffy?
SPIKE: Because I-
OZ: Hey, I saw it too, let me see.
Oz walks over to Spike and Vic.
OZ: (without glancing at the page...whispering) Tell him - make it easier.
VIC: No, I don't wanna-
SPIKE: You don't wanna hurt him because you love him.
VIC: ye-
OZ: Face it, you just want to break up with him to make it easier on yourself.
VIC: ye-
SPIKE: You're not gonna break up with him.
VIC: But you're gonna speak up to Buffy.
SPIKE: You bleedin' wench, I'll do what I feel like doin'
VIC: That's the spirit.
XANDER: So, what's the consensus?
OZ: Not the right one.
XANDER: Then can we get to work on finding it and stop chit chatting?
Everyone returns to their spots. Vic flips the page. There it is. There is a picture of those beasts.
VIC: I found it!
She stands up and takes the book to the table, and drops it down.
VIC: Guard dogs also used as attack dogs. Used by King Phillip the First to protect his kingdom from forces of evil... namely vampires.
GILES: Now all we have to do is find King Phillip the First.
Cut to: Phillip's crypt. Buffy boosts Dawn up to a crack in the stone so that Dawn can see in. Dawn peers into the crypt. She sees Willow tied into the chair trying to break free. Phillip sits at a table sanding stakes, and oiling his cross-bow.
PHILLIP: (to Willow) By tomorrow, your slayers and all of their friends will be dead, but not you my Queen, you will be undead. At sundown tomorrow - when the vampires killed my queen, I will kill you, and bring you back to be with me forever.
WILLOW: Doubtful. Buffy will be here with everyone, and you'll be dead.
PHILLIP: I am dead, my sweet. The only way to kill me is magic. The spell of Maradi.
WILLOW: They'll find a way. you can count on that.
Dawn signals to Buffy to let her down.
BUFFY: What did you find out?
DAWN: We have until Sundown tomorrow before he kills Willow.
BUFFY: That's it?
DAWN: The only way to kill him is the spell of Maradi.
BUFFY: Is there anyone in there with him?
DAWN: Just him, Willow, and all of those beasties.
BUFFY: Shouldn't be too hard. Let's get back to the magic box and help out the others.
Cut to: The Magic Box. Buffy and Dawn enter.
XANDER: Any luck?
BUFFY: Willow is safe until sundown tomorrow, and the only way to kill that guy is the spell of Maradi.
GILES: Spell of Maradi, yes I know of it - it shouldn't be too complicated. I should be able to do it.
Buffy sits down at the table.
BUFFY: Spike, could you get me a glass of water, please?
Vic looks up at Spike.
SPIKE: (standing up) No.
BUFFY: What?
SPIKE: No.
BUFFY: Why not.
SPIKE: Because. Because I do everything for you. It's all you. You, you, you. What have you done for me lately? Nothing. I'm turning into some blubbering idiot. I love you, Buffy, but sometimes it should be less about you, and more about me. I'm a man, damnit, and you treat me like I'm a toy to you. I'm not your servant, and I'm not gonna do everything you ask me to. You have two legs and two arms, you can do it yourself.
Buffy looks up at Spike in awe. Vic smiles in accomplishment.
BUFFY: (standing up) Fine then, I'll get my own water.
Spike sits down.
BUFFY: Would you like something to drink, Spike.
SPIKE: No, but thank you for asking.
Buffy walks to go get some water. She walks past the counter where she pauses and holds on to it. Spike stands up in worry. She rushes over to her.
SPIKE: Are you ok?
BUFFY: She just kicked. Here, feel.
Buffy grabs Spike's hand and puts it up against her stomach. He smiles.
SPIKE: She did kick.
Cut to: Phillip's - he moves in to kiss Willow. As he moves in coming strait towards her, she kicks her legs out, and sends him floating through a wall of the crypt. He lands on his butt on the ground outside of the crypt. He gets up, brushed himself off, and walks back through the wall.
PHILLIP: You will mind me.
WILLOW: (gritting her teeth) Oh, I mind, believe me, I mind.
PHILLIP: We'll just have to do something about your violent outbursts, honey.
Cut to: Phillip tying Willow's legs to the chair with rope.
PHILLIP: Now, that's better.
WILLOW: Sorry, I don't dig being tied down, it's just no my style.
Phillip turns and leaves the room. Willow's eyes glow black, and wind blows through her hair.
WILLOW: (Latin) Liberare.
The rope unties from her legs, and the chair releases her arms. She stands up and wipes her lips with her sleeve.
WILLOW: Disgusting.
She walks off of the thrown and proceeds to the opening of the crypt. The beasts rear back cowering.
WILLOW: (Latin) Sopor
The beasts fall asleep on the ground. Willow turns to walk out of the door when she hears Phillip humming. She rushes back to the thrown and sits on her hands to make it look like she's tied down. Phillip walks into the room. He sees that all of the beasts are sleeping.
PHILLIP: What happened to them?
Willow shrugs and looks innocent. Phillip puts 2 fingers in his mouth and whistles. The Beasts do not move. Phillip whistles again. The beasts stay still.
PHILLIP: (to Willow) What did you do?
WILLOW: Nothing. I was just sitting here, and they fell asleep.
PHILLIP: They don't sleep.
WILLOW: Maybe that's their problem.
PHILLIP: They don't need to.
WILLOW: All I know was I was sitting here and they fell asleep. Honest.
Phillip looks Willow over. He notices that there are no ropes around her ankles.
PHILLIP: Where is the rope?
WILLOW: (revealing) Slipped off.
Phillip rushes towards Willow. She jumps up and knees him between the legs. Phillip keels over in pain. Willow runs, then turns around.
WILLOW: (Latin) Ligare.
The rope rises and hog-ties Phillip. Willow walks off and out of the crypt. Willow walks to the Summers' house to find no one is there. She walks to the Magic Box.
GILES: Here it is. The spell of Maradi. Fairly simple - I just need a few supplies.
BUFFY: Good, I want Willow out of this situation as soon as possible.
Willow walks in.
WILLOW: No problem.
They all stand up.
XANDER: Willow - we thought you were being held hostage.
WILLOW: I was. I escaped.
BUFFY: How?
WILLOW: (eyes glowing black) Heh, well, I don't need to tell you.
BUFFY: Willow. Have you been using magic?
WILLOW: (sarcastically) Gee...what tipped you off?
OZ: Willow, what's wrong with you
WILLOW: (normally) Nothing, I was jsut leading you guys on.
BUFFY: But you have been using magic?
WILLOW: Yeah, just to get free - I didn't want to die and come back as some warped King's bride.
OZ: Are you ok?
WILLOW: Fine. We need to find the spell of Maradi.
GILES: We found it.
WILLOW: Well, Phillip is tied up in his crypt - if we hurry, we could get him without a fight.
BUFFY: You're not doing any magic.
WILLOW: Buffy, I think I'm most experienced in this field.
BUFFY: But if you use too much, well, we don't want to bring about another apocalypse.
WILLOW: (sighs) I won't I just think I'm more fit to do this spell. Plus, ya know, he had me strapped in a chair and he kept kissing me - I have a little pent up anger.
BUFFY: That's exactly why you shouldn't do this spell.
WILLOW: Whatever. I'm doing the spell.
XANDER: Willow, will you just listen to her. She has a point.
WILLOW: whatever, Xander, why don't you get us all some coffee and donuts so that when *I* save the day, we'll have something to celebrate with.
ANYA: Hey! Don't talk to my boyfriend like that!
WILLOW: Just give me the book.
GILES: (holding the book tightly) No.
WILLOW: Just give me it Giles.
BUFFY: He said no.
WILLOW: (extending her hand...Latin) Donare.
The book flies from Giles' grip and into Willow's hand.
WILLOW: Thank you.
Willow turns around and walks off.
XANDER: That's not good.
BUFFY: What if she goes back to her former self?
GILES: She won't not to the magnitude of before.
BUFFY: How can we be sure?
ANYA: Just a suggestion, but shouldn't you guys be following her?
XANDER: Good point. Let's go.
BUFFY: Come on, Spike.
SPIKE: Uh, sorry, but it's almost light out.
BUFFY: Oh yeah.
BUFFY: Vic?
VIC: Does it really take 4 people to track Willow when you know exactly where she's going?
BUFFY: I guess not.
OZ: I'll go.
ANYA: Me too.
BUFFY: Thanks, guys.
Buffy, Xander, Giles, Oz, and Anya leave.
Cut to: Phillip's crypt. Phillip remains hog ties on the ground. Willow walks in.
WILLOW: Phillip, Phillip, Phillip. You've been a naughty boy.
Phillip wriggles and screams.
PHILLIP: Please, Darling, Please.
WILLOW: Bored now. (Latin) Necare.
Phillip's ghostly body turns into wisps, and floats away into a forming portal.
WILLOW: (Waving) Bye - bye.
The portal closes. Willows turns around and walks out of the crypt - all of the beasts have disappeared. when she opens the door, the group stands in front of her.
WILLOW: Oh, hey guys, the problem is solved. No more demented king.
XANDER: That's great, Will.
WILLOW: Let's go home then.
BUFFY: Willow - you need help.
WILLOW: Help with what?
BUFFY: You get high on magic - you need to control it.
WILLOW: Oh, no, not this again. I can handle myself.
OZ: can you?
WILLOW: (trying to push through them) Yes.
GILES: I don't think you can.
They grab Willow and tie her hands and legs, and gag her.
Cut to: the Magic Box. Vic and Zeke sit on some mats in the training room.
VIC: You know - you're really beautiful.
ZEKE: thanks. I think.
VIC: No, it's a compliment. You are really beautiful.
ZEKE: Are you breaking up with me?
VIC: No. No. I mean, I was gonna, but no.
ZEKE: What made you change your mind?
Vic stares right into Zeke's eyes.
VIC: I love you.
ZEKE: (unflinching) I love you too.
There is a moment where is seems like they're going to kiss. Vic hops off of the mats and walks out of the training room leaving Zeke motionless.
Cut to: The Summers' house. Willow is tied into a chair in the dining room. Giles, Xander, and Oz sit watching her.
OZ: Are you sure you wanna do that?
GILES: It's what has to be done.
OZ: All the way to England?
GILES: I have a mansion up there - it is away from any distractions - it will be a good place for her to be.
OZ: I'm coming with you, then.
GILES: Are you sure that's a good idea?
OZ: I'm not losing her again.
Xander gets up and goes to Willow's ear.
XANDER: (talking as if to a hearing-impaired person) You hear that? There are people out here who love you. Why can't you see that?
Cut to: Upstairs: Willow's room. Buffy goes into Willow's closet - packing clothes, and other things. Spike sits on the bed, and Dawn stands in the doorway.
DAWN: I just don't see why she can't train not to be a witch here.
BUFFY: Because, we're on the Hell Mouth - notorious for making good witches bad. England will be a much safer place for her.
DAWN: Well, I still don't like it.
BUFFY: There's nothing for you to like. Giles feels it's best for her.
Dawn storms off.
SPIKE: You didn't have to be so cruel about it.
BUFFY: I wasn't cruel, I was putting my foot down.
SPIKE: That wasn't putting your foot down, that was stomping your boot in her face.
BUFFY: Ok, so maybe I was a little hard on her, but his is really (Buffy drops some clothes in a suitcase on the bed) hard. For me. For every-
Spike grabs Buffy's hand as she is jamming the clothes in.
SPIKE: I know. Just calm down.
BUFFY: You're right. I shouldn't be so hard on everyone.
SPIKE: Especially yourself.
BUFFY: Right. Because I'm a person too.
SPIKE: Right, and if you fall, so does everyone around you.
BUFFY: Right. No. Not right - they can take care of themselves. We have eachother, right?
SPIKE: Sure.
Buffy pulls her hand from Spike's and goes back to the closet to continue packing Willow's things.
BUFFY: Spike, can you hand me that jewelry box over there? Wait, no you can't "you don't have to do everything for me," right? "I'm capable?"
Buffy walks over past Willow's bed to where the Jewelry Box is and picks it up. She walks back toward the suitcase at the end of the bed. Spike grabs her arm as she walks by. She stops.
SPIKE: Come here and sit next to me.
Buffy looks at him and then sits down.
BUFFY: What?
SPIKE: I know I acted...irrationally earlier. But, it's just sometimes, I feel like you don't appreciate me. Like you never did, and it burns into me, and
BUFFY: Spike. I know.
SPIKE: You know?
BUFFY: yeah, sometimes I take you for granted - I never realized it, but today - I do. And I'm sorry.
SPIKE: No, you're pregnant and I should be massaging your feet or feeding you skinned grapes.
BUFFY: No, Spike, it's just that - I don't know - Sometimes you look at me with those Revealing Cryptic Blue Eyes, and I just melt, and I know why I love you. Your eyes show everything - your love, your pain, and lately, I've been so wrapped up in myself that I haven't realized how unhappy your eyes are.
SPIKE: I'm not unhappy.
BUFFY: You are.
SPIKE: I'm happy. When I see you, and when I think about the baby, and the fact that we're getting married in a couple of weeks. I'm happy.
BUFFY: But you're working, and the world is taking you for granted, and you miss the hunt. I know you do.
SPIKE: I don't miss the hunt. I haven't been able to hunt for three years now, and I'm rather used to it.
BUFFY: Then what is it?
SPIKE: Nothing.
BUFFY: Your mouth says nothing but your eyes say everything.
SPIKE: It's just sometimes, I wish I could go out with you guys during the day. Be with you all the time instead of between when I work at night. I mean, you guys work all day, and I work most of the night. We never see each other.
BUFFY: I know what you mean, but I can't work at night, and you can't work during the day, but we have our time together, and that's good enough for now, right?
SPIKE: I suppose.
Buffy kisses Spike on the cheek.
BUFFY: I love you.
SPIKE: I love you too.
BUFFY: Now cheer up. I want no more sad eyes in this house.
Buffy gets up and starts packing Willow's things again. Vic walks into the room.
VIC: Hey.
BUFFY: Hey, where's Zeke.
VIC: I sent him home. There's no need for him to be here.
BUFFY: Yeah, the less people around the better - just in case Willow blows a fuse.
VIC: Speaking of Willow-
SPIKE: (muttering) as if there is anyone else we'd be talking about
VIC: When she leaves, do I get her room?
BUFFY: No, That will be the baby's room.
VIC: Buffy.
BUFFY: She'll be growing up fast, she needs her own room.
VIC: Fine
Vic walks out of the room.
SPIKE: What was that about no more sad eyes in this house?
BUFFY: shut up.
SPIKE: Bite your tongue, young lady.
BUFFY: Who are you calling a young lady?
SPIKE: Your over 100 years younger than me. I can call you whatever I want.
BUFFY: No you can't.
SPIKE: Wanna bet?
BUFFY: No.
Spike kisses Buffy.
SPIKE: Well, I'm gonna go give my regards to Red before she sets off to Jolly old England.
Spike walks off and down the stairs into the dining room. Willow is still tied to a chair, but she's trying to yell through her gag, and the chair is tipping back and fournth as she tries to get out. Vic, Dawn, Xander, Oz, and Giles stand around her. Spike comes behind Dawn.
SPIKE: How is she?
DAWN: I can make out every few words. Basically she's gonna curse us one the gag comes off, and we're all gonna die a painful death.
SPIKE: Nothing your sister hasn't threatened to me at one point or another.
DAWN: Spike.
SPIKE: Yeah, nibblet?
DAWN: I don't wanna know about your sex life.
Buffy comes down the stairs and into the dining room with the suitcase.
BUFFY: Ok. She's all packed up.
GILES: Good, my car is outside.
OZ: And I'll just grab some stuff in England.
XANDER: Yeah, we'll have your stuff sent over there.
OZ: Thank, man.
XANDER: One question.
GILES: Yes, Xander?
WILLOW: How are you gonna get her into the car.
OZ: Straight jacket.
XANDER: And you just happen to have one of those laying around?
OZ: Yeah. Never leave home without one.
They walks Willow out of the house with a straight jacket on. They put her in the back seat of the car, and shut the door. Spike stands in the safety of the house because it's late morning. Giles leans on the car, and Buffy stands in front of him.
GILES: I think it's better if you don't come to the airport with us.
BUFFY: Me too, too much drama. Well, have a safe journey, and call me when you get there.
GILES: Of course.
Buffy hugs Giles, and then Oz.. Xander shakes both of their hands, as does Vic, and Dawn hugs both of them. Oz and Giles wave to Spike, then they are off. Vic, Buffy, Dawn and Xander walk back into the house.
BUFFY: They'll be fine.
XANDER: Why wouldn't they be?
BUFFY: I'm trying to make myself feel better.
XANDER: How's that working out for ya?
BUFFY: Horrible.
SPIKE: lay off her.
XANDER: Sorry, Spike, nobody hit your buzzer.
SPIKE: Well, I'm about to hit yours if you don't bleedin shut up.
XANDER: Go ahead, Spike.
SPIKE: alright.
Spike takes a swing at Xander, and Xander ducks. Buffy gets in the middle. Xander punches Buffy, not realizing she got in the middle. Buffy falls to the ground on her stomach, and banging her head.
XANDER: Oh my God! Buffy!
SPIKE: Now look what you've done. The baby! Call 911! Call 911 now!
Vic rushes to the phone and calls 911.
The ambulance comes, and takes Buffy to the hospital. Xander has to ride with her because Spike can't.
Cut to: The hospital: Night: Buffy lays in a bed. Spike is at her side.
BUFFY: (waking up) Hey.
SPIKE: (teary eyed) Hey.
BUFFY: Shouldn't you be at work?
SPIKE: I called in.
BUFFY: How's the baby?
Spike is silent. Tears begin to roll down his cheeks.
BUFFY: Spike - how's the baby?
SPIKE: (crying) She's fine.
BUFFY: Thank God. Why are you crying.
SPIKE: Because...what if she wasn't?
Buffy leans up and hugs Spike.
BUFFY: Don't cry.
She runs her hands through his hair and kisses him on the face.
BUFFY: Don't cry. Everything is ok. We're all ok.
SPIKE: I know, but I just can't stop.
BUFFY: It's ok. Hush, it's ok.
SPIKE: And then I thought, what if I lost you, and not the baby.
BUFFY: Spike, we're all ok.
SPIKE: And it was day light out and I couldn't come with you here.
BUFFY: Spike, it's ok. I'm here, she's here, we're all here.
Vic, Dawn, and Xander walk in the room with balloons and stuffed animals.
XANDER: the doctor says you can come home whenever you're ready.
BUFFY: (still holding Spike) Can you just give us a second?
VIC: Sure.
The three leave.
BUFFY: Spike, we're ok. You're ok. I'm ok - everything is fine. Don't worry about anything. It'll all work itself out. Now, let's go home.
SPIKE: I feel so bad, for how I treated you last night, and I just, I wanna make it up to you.
BUFFY: You have every right to say what you did, and if it will make you feel any better, when we get home, you can give me a foot massage.
SPIKE: You promise?
BUFFY: Yes, now let's go out there and face the world.
Buffy and Spike get up, and walk out of the hospital room. They join the others, and walk down the hall carrying the balloons and stuffed animals with their arms around each other
The End..