"So, do we know how, how, um, how it uh, happened?"
Buffy shook her head and kept her gaze at the ground. "Are we going to tell the others?"
"We don't really have that much of a choice. They will work out what's wrong after a while"
"So, how do we break it too them?"
"Straight. That's probably going to be the best way"
"Who's going to tell them?"
"I will."
"Buff, are you sure?"
Buffy nodded and still kept her gaze on the floor. "Someone should call Giles"
Xander stood and moved into the kitchen. The voices of four noise girls came strong when the door was opened. When they noticed everyone was there and quiet, they stopped their loud talking.
"Girls, can you got to your room please"
They nodded and walked upstairs and down the hall to their room. Buffy heard the door close and sighed. "You guys tell Blake, I'm gonna go tell them"
"Tell me what?"
"Blake, sit down." Buffy didn't wait to hear Blake's reaction but climbed the stairs, felling like she was climbing to her doom. She opened the door and the whispering stopped as soon as she did. "Girls, I need to tell you something."
---
"What?!"
"Blake, please, calm down."
"How?"
"We don't know yet?"
"Vampire?"
"Can't, there's that whole 'no invite, no entry' thing."
"Demon?"
"Blake, we don't know, okay? Just please, calm down."
"I'm going out. I'll be back later" He stormed out and slammed the door behind him. Willow sighed and leaned her head on Spike's chest. "Give 'im time Red. He'll calm down"
"Suppose"
---
"Are they really gay? As in 'real life gay' not just 'for TV gay'?"
"Yes Paige. They really truly are gay, okay? Are you over that now?"
"Sorry. It's just, well you know"
"Yeah. Okay, so, toes now?"
Paige sat up straight. "I want to show you something"
"Ooh very mysterious. You haven't, like got an extra part, down there have you?"
"Eew! Kay! That's sick." Paige hid her laugh. "Okay, so what I'm going to show you is totally top secret. No one can know about it. Are we clear?"
"Gotcha. Tell no one, or face the consequences!"
Paige stood up and all of a sudden looked really serious. "Okay, you can see on the one condition."
Kayla nodded for Paige to carry on. "No screaming. Whatever you do, don't scream. That will attract April's attention and it's gonna be sort of hard to explain. Clear?"
"Clear. Now show! I wanna know!"
Paige nodded and took a deep breath. She took a few more and closed her eyes. Kayla stared at her standing there looking like an idiot.
Paige closed her eyes and focused. Breathe in, breathe out. Kayla's gonna think I'm such a freak after this.
Paige's world started spinning. Round and round. Until it shrank and she was surrounded by total darkness.
"Kayla?" She cried out in worry and fear. She forced her eyes open and peered around. She was surrounded by total darkness, still.
"Paige?" Kayla's voice was barely a whisper, keeping her promise to Paige. "Paige, come on. This isn't funny. This is scary."
---
Buffy walked out of the Potential's room and closed the door. They had tried to act hurt and scared for Buffy's sake but she didn't buy it. Before she reached the stairs, a figure appeared out of nowhere in front of her. "Kayla?" Buffy blinked at the girl standing before her. Buffy spoke gently to herself. "Okay Buffy, its no big deal. Don't tell anyone, they'll think your nuts. And then you will end up in a real crazy house and this time you'll know what's real and what's not. Easy Buffy"
---
The girl kept walking past Paige and Paige spun round hoping to see Kayla behind her. The darkness came back and she couldn't move. Everything started spinning again and she felt her head go light. Suddenly, she was standing in the same place she had been before she left and Kayla was standing on the bed with the pillow looking terrified.
"Wow" Paige took a deep breath and put a hand to her head. She felt her legs ready to give way and eased herself onto the edge of the bed. She looked up at Kayla who was standing, armed with pillow, on the bed, looking about ready to beat Paige. "Not exactly what you had in mind, huh?"
Kayla shook her head and fell bum first onto the bed. "How did you..? What did you do?"
"Well, if I did it right, I think I cast a transportation spell which took me further than I'd hoped. I went to this black place, then I was in a house and there was a lady who I knew could see me but she kept talking to herself telling her she wasn't crazy. Then it was black again and then I was here again. And now I feel kind of groggy."
"I'm not surprised." Both girls jumped and looked up at the lady who had opened the door without either of them hearing. "April, I, we, I mean I" April shook her head. "You don't have to explain. I know being cooped up here all the time is ruff, but leaving this realm isn't the way to go you know."
"I, I left the realm?"
April nodded. "That's why everything was black and you feel sick. And why the poor lady you frightened didn't see you as real, just an illusion."
"Cooool"
April and Paige both looked at Kayla. She shrugged and looked at her hands. "Just saying"
"Paige, what you did, what you can do, you shouldn't do it. You can get hurt and you could hurt others"
"How did you know what I was doing?" She turned the Kayla "You screamed didn't you?" Her eyes were blazing and her gaze was enough to kill.
"Kayla didn't scream. I can sense these things. How else can I pick up the second you do something you shouldn't?"
"Nanny sense?"
"So, are we clear now? No transportation spells. Ever"
Paige nodded grimacing slightly and sighed. "So, can you do anything like that?"
"Yes, a little bit."
"Well, go on then, show us!"
"No, I don't think.."
"Please" Paige gave her puppy eyes and Kayla followed suite. "Oh, okay. But if your parent's get word of this"
Paige zipped her lips and tossed away the invisible key. April sighed and stood up. "What would you like to see?"
---
The four Potential's sat on the beds in silence. "What do we do now?"
"I don't know"
There was a thud on the door and a gruff voice called, "Girls, dinner's ready."
The four potentials rose from the bed and left the room in silence. Downstairs, everyone was sitting on one of the couches or on the floor. There was a box of pizza on the coffee table in the middle. They sat down quietly and pulled a piece out of the box.
---
"Did it happen yet?"
"Yes. They are mourning."
"Good all is in order" The old man stood from the large chair and walked to the curtain. "All is order. Now, all we need is the other half of it to take place."
---
"Awesome. Do it again"
April sighed but cast the spell again. "Cool!" Kayla turned her head from Paige, to April/Paige to Paige again. "It's like there's two of you!"
"Can you do the transportation spell April?"
"I can, to a minimal extent. But I'm not going to unless it's an emergency."
"Can you take someone with you when you do it?"
"I can, if I was strong enough. Which I'm not. And don't go getting any ideas Paige"
"Me?" Paige pulled an innocent look on her face and Kayla laughed. "Okay, you girls need to get some sleep. It's been a long day. Goodnight."
"Night April"
"Goodnight"
April shut the door behind her when she left and went down to her room on the ground floor. "That girl is going to cause trouble one day, big trouble" Before she turned off the light and climbed into bed.
---
"Girls, you aren't patrolling tonight. Go to bed"
"But we aren't sleepy. And if we patrol, it would take our mind's off other, stuff"
"Oh, alright, but only for an hour. Then it's bed okay?"
"Deal. Let's go!"
The four ran out of the house and waited for Buffy and Connor to follow. Connor came out and threw them a bag of stakes. "Think you forgot these"
They walked down to the cemetery and walked around waiting for a vamp to show. An hour later they had staked one vampire and they were all bored. "Okay gang, let's go home. Not a lot of vamp action tonight"
They turned to go home when a circle of vamps surrounded them, jumping down from the trees. "Wrong, little lady. Now, who want's a piece of me?"
Madison ran at him and staked him straight through the heart. "Hey, that wasn't nice" Before he erupted in dust.
Madison grinned a wide grin, very pleased with herself. "Madi!" A vampire landed on her from behind and slammed her into the ground. "Oooff." She rolled away from the vampire and staked him from behind, when he wasn't expecting it. She climbed up off the ground and dusted herself off. "He didn't play nice." She looked around at the now quiet cemetery. "Where'd all the vamps go?"
"Took off after you staked that one. Musta been their leader of something"
"Okay, now we're going home."
They headed home and stopped by Connor's place on the way. They said goodnight and carried on until they reached the Summers' residents.
Buffy shook her head and kept her gaze at the ground. "Are we going to tell the others?"
"We don't really have that much of a choice. They will work out what's wrong after a while"
"So, how do we break it too them?"
"Straight. That's probably going to be the best way"
"Who's going to tell them?"
"I will."
"Buff, are you sure?"
Buffy nodded and still kept her gaze on the floor. "Someone should call Giles"
Xander stood and moved into the kitchen. The voices of four noise girls came strong when the door was opened. When they noticed everyone was there and quiet, they stopped their loud talking.
"Girls, can you got to your room please"
They nodded and walked upstairs and down the hall to their room. Buffy heard the door close and sighed. "You guys tell Blake, I'm gonna go tell them"
"Tell me what?"
"Blake, sit down." Buffy didn't wait to hear Blake's reaction but climbed the stairs, felling like she was climbing to her doom. She opened the door and the whispering stopped as soon as she did. "Girls, I need to tell you something."
---
"What?!"
"Blake, please, calm down."
"How?"
"We don't know yet?"
"Vampire?"
"Can't, there's that whole 'no invite, no entry' thing."
"Demon?"
"Blake, we don't know, okay? Just please, calm down."
"I'm going out. I'll be back later" He stormed out and slammed the door behind him. Willow sighed and leaned her head on Spike's chest. "Give 'im time Red. He'll calm down"
"Suppose"
---
"Are they really gay? As in 'real life gay' not just 'for TV gay'?"
"Yes Paige. They really truly are gay, okay? Are you over that now?"
"Sorry. It's just, well you know"
"Yeah. Okay, so, toes now?"
Paige sat up straight. "I want to show you something"
"Ooh very mysterious. You haven't, like got an extra part, down there have you?"
"Eew! Kay! That's sick." Paige hid her laugh. "Okay, so what I'm going to show you is totally top secret. No one can know about it. Are we clear?"
"Gotcha. Tell no one, or face the consequences!"
Paige stood up and all of a sudden looked really serious. "Okay, you can see on the one condition."
Kayla nodded for Paige to carry on. "No screaming. Whatever you do, don't scream. That will attract April's attention and it's gonna be sort of hard to explain. Clear?"
"Clear. Now show! I wanna know!"
Paige nodded and took a deep breath. She took a few more and closed her eyes. Kayla stared at her standing there looking like an idiot.
Paige closed her eyes and focused. Breathe in, breathe out. Kayla's gonna think I'm such a freak after this.
Paige's world started spinning. Round and round. Until it shrank and she was surrounded by total darkness.
"Kayla?" She cried out in worry and fear. She forced her eyes open and peered around. She was surrounded by total darkness, still.
"Paige?" Kayla's voice was barely a whisper, keeping her promise to Paige. "Paige, come on. This isn't funny. This is scary."
---
Buffy walked out of the Potential's room and closed the door. They had tried to act hurt and scared for Buffy's sake but she didn't buy it. Before she reached the stairs, a figure appeared out of nowhere in front of her. "Kayla?" Buffy blinked at the girl standing before her. Buffy spoke gently to herself. "Okay Buffy, its no big deal. Don't tell anyone, they'll think your nuts. And then you will end up in a real crazy house and this time you'll know what's real and what's not. Easy Buffy"
---
The girl kept walking past Paige and Paige spun round hoping to see Kayla behind her. The darkness came back and she couldn't move. Everything started spinning again and she felt her head go light. Suddenly, she was standing in the same place she had been before she left and Kayla was standing on the bed with the pillow looking terrified.
"Wow" Paige took a deep breath and put a hand to her head. She felt her legs ready to give way and eased herself onto the edge of the bed. She looked up at Kayla who was standing, armed with pillow, on the bed, looking about ready to beat Paige. "Not exactly what you had in mind, huh?"
Kayla shook her head and fell bum first onto the bed. "How did you..? What did you do?"
"Well, if I did it right, I think I cast a transportation spell which took me further than I'd hoped. I went to this black place, then I was in a house and there was a lady who I knew could see me but she kept talking to herself telling her she wasn't crazy. Then it was black again and then I was here again. And now I feel kind of groggy."
"I'm not surprised." Both girls jumped and looked up at the lady who had opened the door without either of them hearing. "April, I, we, I mean I" April shook her head. "You don't have to explain. I know being cooped up here all the time is ruff, but leaving this realm isn't the way to go you know."
"I, I left the realm?"
April nodded. "That's why everything was black and you feel sick. And why the poor lady you frightened didn't see you as real, just an illusion."
"Cooool"
April and Paige both looked at Kayla. She shrugged and looked at her hands. "Just saying"
"Paige, what you did, what you can do, you shouldn't do it. You can get hurt and you could hurt others"
"How did you know what I was doing?" She turned the Kayla "You screamed didn't you?" Her eyes were blazing and her gaze was enough to kill.
"Kayla didn't scream. I can sense these things. How else can I pick up the second you do something you shouldn't?"
"Nanny sense?"
"So, are we clear now? No transportation spells. Ever"
Paige nodded grimacing slightly and sighed. "So, can you do anything like that?"
"Yes, a little bit."
"Well, go on then, show us!"
"No, I don't think.."
"Please" Paige gave her puppy eyes and Kayla followed suite. "Oh, okay. But if your parent's get word of this"
Paige zipped her lips and tossed away the invisible key. April sighed and stood up. "What would you like to see?"
---
The four Potential's sat on the beds in silence. "What do we do now?"
"I don't know"
There was a thud on the door and a gruff voice called, "Girls, dinner's ready."
The four potentials rose from the bed and left the room in silence. Downstairs, everyone was sitting on one of the couches or on the floor. There was a box of pizza on the coffee table in the middle. They sat down quietly and pulled a piece out of the box.
---
"Did it happen yet?"
"Yes. They are mourning."
"Good all is in order" The old man stood from the large chair and walked to the curtain. "All is order. Now, all we need is the other half of it to take place."
---
"Awesome. Do it again"
April sighed but cast the spell again. "Cool!" Kayla turned her head from Paige, to April/Paige to Paige again. "It's like there's two of you!"
"Can you do the transportation spell April?"
"I can, to a minimal extent. But I'm not going to unless it's an emergency."
"Can you take someone with you when you do it?"
"I can, if I was strong enough. Which I'm not. And don't go getting any ideas Paige"
"Me?" Paige pulled an innocent look on her face and Kayla laughed. "Okay, you girls need to get some sleep. It's been a long day. Goodnight."
"Night April"
"Goodnight"
April shut the door behind her when she left and went down to her room on the ground floor. "That girl is going to cause trouble one day, big trouble" Before she turned off the light and climbed into bed.
---
"Girls, you aren't patrolling tonight. Go to bed"
"But we aren't sleepy. And if we patrol, it would take our mind's off other, stuff"
"Oh, alright, but only for an hour. Then it's bed okay?"
"Deal. Let's go!"
The four ran out of the house and waited for Buffy and Connor to follow. Connor came out and threw them a bag of stakes. "Think you forgot these"
They walked down to the cemetery and walked around waiting for a vamp to show. An hour later they had staked one vampire and they were all bored. "Okay gang, let's go home. Not a lot of vamp action tonight"
They turned to go home when a circle of vamps surrounded them, jumping down from the trees. "Wrong, little lady. Now, who want's a piece of me?"
Madison ran at him and staked him straight through the heart. "Hey, that wasn't nice" Before he erupted in dust.
Madison grinned a wide grin, very pleased with herself. "Madi!" A vampire landed on her from behind and slammed her into the ground. "Oooff." She rolled away from the vampire and staked him from behind, when he wasn't expecting it. She climbed up off the ground and dusted herself off. "He didn't play nice." She looked around at the now quiet cemetery. "Where'd all the vamps go?"
"Took off after you staked that one. Musta been their leader of something"
"Okay, now we're going home."
They headed home and stopped by Connor's place on the way. They said goodnight and carried on until they reached the Summers' residents.