"Are you sure you have to go?"

"Yes. I know I said my parent's don't care, cause they don't, but I still have to go home."

"Oh" Paige's face fell. "Well, I guess I'll see you another time"

"Paige, I'll be back, don't worry."

Kayla leaned over and hugged her friend. Paige hugged her back and helped her carry her bags downstairs. She showed her out so Jasper wouldn't think she was smuggling Paige out, and returned to the house.

"April, I'm thinking of running away"

"Um, sweetie, hate to break it to ya, but when you're planning to run away, you don't tell the person who's going to stop you"

"Yeah, I know that. It's just, the outside world, away from demons and vampires; I don't know that world. I wouldn't be able to act like I belong there."

"Honey, no one belongs there. That's why it's the world outside."

"I know, but I don't like living like this. Alone. Bored. Alone"

"You said alone already"

"Maybe that's cause I feel twice alone rather than bored."

"Listen, hon, tell you what. You don't run away, and I'll try and track down Brandon's address for you. Then you can run away. Deal?"

Paige piped up. "Deal"

"Okay, now go upstairs and start on that English thing I gave you and at least make it look like you're doing work, your parent's will be home soon."

Paige ran up the stairs and April heard the door shut loudly.
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"Do you girls want to go to school? Cause I can get you the day off if you don't feel up to it."

"No, Buff I think they should go to school. It's better for everyone really, if you think about it."

"Oh, okay. Girls, get ready for school."

"We are Buffy. See"

"Oh, well go and wait for Blake and he'll take you to school."

"He's waiting outside Buffy."

"Oh. Go to school then you four."

The four girls walked slowly down the stairs and Alyssa closed the door behind her.

"Buff, are you okay?"

"Yeah, it's just Xander, promise you won't decide I'm insane when I say this. But last night, when I was coming out of their room, this girl appeared, in front of me. She was see-through and she was calling out for someone named Kayla. Then she just went poof, and she was gone again. You think I'm insane right?"

"No Buff, I don't think you're insane. I think the stress is getting to you, and your imagination is working over time. Go to bed, you didn't get a lot of sleep last night" Buffy nodded and walked into her room. She fell onto the bed and pulled the blankets over her.
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Paige took deep breaths again and closed her eyes. She knew this time there was no risk of Kayla screaming or of April sensing her because she had gone out to do the shopping. Darkness starting forming and the room around her started spinning. She kept up the deep breathing. Suddenly, the spinning stopped. She opened her eyes and saw a lady sleeping in her bed. "Uh oh. I went too far again. April, Can you here me?"
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Buffy sat straight up in bed when she heard the voice. "XANDER!"

She heard footsteps and Xander opened the door. "Can you see her? Please tell me you can see her."

Xander nodded. "I can see her alright. How did she get there?"

"She's like see-through to you right?"

"Yeah. Excuse me? Why are you creeping my girlfriend out?"

The girl's eyes widened. "You can see me? Not good. April didn't mention you'd be able to see me."

"Okay, so who are you? And how did you get here?"

The girl put one of her blurry hands to her head. "Damn, I'm losing it. Have to go before I get caught. Bye" And she vanished into nothing.
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Them being able to see me is not good, very bad. Paige looked at the weird people whose home she had barged into.

"Okay, so who are you? And how did you get here?" Before Paige could answer, she felt herself slipping from the room. "Damn, I'm losing it. Have to go before I get caught. Bye" And the room started spinning again until she was surrounded by complete darkness. The darkness started to fade and her room came into focus. Her head was spinning and she collapsed down onto the floor, leaning against the bed.

The door was forced open and April came barging in. "You did it again." It was a statement, not a question. Paige nodded slightly, her head still spinning. "I told you you're not supposed to ever do that again. You could have been killed! Someone else could have been killed! Now, I understand that you don't like it very much here. And hey I don't that much either. But you're too young to just leave, there's no point in running away 'cause you have no where safe to go to. Remember the deal we made?"

"Yes. And I'm sorry, I was just practicing, to, you know, see what I could do. April, the place I went to the two people there, they could, see me. And talked to me. Is that normal?"

April nodded. "That, is one of the reason's you don't do that unless you have enough power to get your entire existent's out of the realm."

"How do you get that power?"

"It's not something that you get. It's something you are."

"Oh. So, how do you know if you are?"

"You just know. For starters, you don't get stuck in the space between realms."

Paige looked guiltily down at her feet. "I'm sorry?"

"You had better be. Listen, Paige, I know you're lost at the moment, and I don't blame you, but trying to get yourself, and others, killed, is not the way to go. Clear?"

Paige nodded. "Can I get some water?"

April sighed. "Silly girl. Wait here" April left the room and went to fetch Paige some water.
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"So, what exactly did you see?"

"A girl. She appeared in my room and she was trying to call for someone named April. She was all blurry and you could look right through her. Then I called Xander and he came and he could see her too. He talked to her, but she wasn't talking back. I mean, she was talking, but not to us. Like we weren't supposed to be able to see her or something. Then when Xander asked her who she was and she went all weird said something like 'Damn, I'm losing it. Have to go before I get caught. Bye' and then she went poof. Are we insane?"

"Well, if it was just one of you, then, in a normal town, you might be insane, but this is the Hellmouth and there were two of you who saw it, so going to go with 'Not insane'."

"Well, that's good. So how do we go about finding out mysterious vanishing girl?"

"I could try a summoning spell"

"Red, I thought you didn't want to do magic again. Ever"

"A simple summoning spell isn't dangerous. It's really light magic, basic stuff."

"Are you sure Will?"

Willow smiled at her friends. "It's safe and you will all be here and I'll stop if it gets to be to much. So, I'll go to the Magic box and get what I need." Noticing the looks her friends were giving her, she sighed. "Would you like to come Xander?"

"Okay, sure" He kissed Buffy on the forehead and left with Willow.
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"So, Willow, are you sure you should be doing this?" It was two hours later, and Willow was sitting inside a circle of candles, which Spike was finishing up lighting. Buffy and Dawn were leaning against the doorframe of Buffy and Xander's room, while Xander was standing on the very edge of circle, trying to talk Willow out of it.

"Xander, I'll be fine. This is why the four of you are hanging around. To stop me if the spell goes wrong and I become what I was when, anyway. Xander you'll have to stand back or the spell will go konky."

Xander reluctantly stepped away and stood beside Dawn and Buffy. Spike moved away and leant against the wall. "Just take your time Red."

Willow straightened her back and inhaled gently. She sat for a few minutes concentrating on bringing forth the uninvited visitor who crashed in on her friends. She breathed in and out. Suddenly there was a gush of wind.
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Paige was sipping the cold water April had bought her, when there was a large gush of wind. "April what?"

"Sshhh. It's a spell. Someone's calling for you. You have to go before the calling is too strong for your body to control. Take my hands. Now focus all your energy where it feels's strongest. Close your eyes. Focus. I will be here keeping you on this realm okay? I'll pull you back. Go."

Paige breathed in and tried to focus herself. The room was spinning and April spun with it. Suddenly, April was gone and she was surrounded by darkness. "April? Please, April I'm scared."

The darkness turned to a blurry light and she was inside a circle of flickering candles. A red head jumped out of the circle when Paige appeared. She heard the redhead whisper "Is that the one you saw?"

She heard no one reply after that. Her breathing picked up pace and she had to open her mouth to stop herself fainting.

"Where, who, April?" Panic rose in her voice and she had to stop talking so she didn't faint.

"Who are you? And why were you popping in on my friends?" The redhead was questioning her and she tried to respond.

"Red? What's wrong with her?"

"Spike, I don't know. The power, she has so much power and she can't grasp it. No one taught her how. I'm Willow. What's your name?"

"Can't, have, to go, back. It's too strong, too black. I have to" She vanished and all the candles blew out. Willow collapsed on the floor and Spike was first at her side. "Red? You okay? Told you, you shouldn't have been doing magic."

"I don't understand. Summoning spells are so simple, when calling on a human. You don't even have to speak. I don't get it."

"Maybe she wasn't human." Everyone looked at Dawn and she tipped her head to the ground. "I mean, think about it. Willow said that calling a human was simple, that obviously wasn't. So, maybe she's something other than a human."

"Like what bit?"

Dawn shrugged. "Witch? Really, really powerful witch? Vampire witch?"
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The room spun out of view and she found herself holding April's hands back in her room. "Are you okay?"

"Where did I go? Why?"

"Someone cast a summoning spell on you, and you were obliged to go."

"You said I wasn't to do that ever again."

"Technically, you didn't. Whoever summoned you did. You just helped a bit. And I can't tell you where you went cause I wasn't there, you were."

"I was in a bedroom. In a circle of candles, and they were flickering. There was a redhead girl and she jumped out of the circle when I came into it. And there were some other people behind me, but I didn't have enough strength to turn around. And the redheaded one, she was asking me why I was crashing into her friend's room. And then someone spoke. He had an English accent. He asked what was wrong with me. The redheaded one told him I had too much power and I couldn't grasp it 'cause no one had taught me how. Then she told me her name. Oh god, I can't remember what it was. She asked me what mine was and I tried to tell her I really did, but the blackness was coming again and then I went poof again and was back here."

"Okay. Well, now I'm going to teach you how to handle your powers."

"Really? Do we have to do it now cause I'm really wiped."

"Yes. Now. Stand up." Paige stood and her legs were shaking beneath her body weight. "Okay, now close your eyes, and imagine lots of white light washing over you, bathing you."

Paige closed her eyes and was surprised at how quickly she could imagine the white light. "Now, imagine blue light, coming up through the white and it trying to take over you." Paige saw the pale blue and gasped at the coldness she felt. "Now, the blue light is the power, you have to take control. Can you do that? Just see the blue light, hitting the barrier around you and sinking down into nothing." Paige saw this so clearly. "Open your eyes."

Paige's eyes flickered open and she yawned. "Why am I sleepy?"

"Side effects. Now, go to sleep. I'll tell your parent's you weren't feeling great so you are taking a nap. And I'm changing my mind. You can't do that transportation when I'm not with you. When I tell you, you can and I'm here, then you can, okay?"

Paige nodded sleepily and laid down on the cold bed. "Sleep safe." She heard April whisper before the door closed and she dissolved into nothingness.