Part 1

He stood in the shadows of the magic store and watched as the Slayer's friend got the ingredients to an anti-lust spell when the idea hit him. He'd make her do a love spell to get his dark, wicked plum back. What better revenge than to have a friend of the Slayer fix what the Slayer messed up in the first place.

He smiled as he faded back into the shadows to put his plan in motion.

Willow left the magic shop with all the supplies needed for the de-lusting spell for her and Xander. She had known it was wrong when they started the whole fluking thing and this afternoon had just reinforced the feeling. She hoped this spell worked. She had only done the resouling of Angel but that didn't really count since she felt like she channeled the Romany instead of her own magick doing it.

Sure she could float a pencil but you know not really David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear or anything. She'd go home, read the spell book and call Xander. Maybe have Oz and Cordelia meet them there later to go on their double date. She'll have Xander meet her in the Science Lab about an hour earlier. That should give her time to do the spell and to make sure it worked. If it went wonky there should only be her and Xander to deal with the consequences.

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Spike makes his way through the tunnels toward Sunnydale High. He had overheard the dark haired friend of the Slayer say he was meeting the witch at the school. He'd drain the boy and take the witch. That ought to scare her enough to do the spell for him.

Silently removing the tunnel cover under the school's basement Spike poked his head up slowly. Wouldn't do to run into the Slayer after promising to stay away from Sunnyhell. Not that he cared that he promised, 'cause hello demon. His kind wasn't known for keeping their word and if the Slayer had any brains she would have realized that when he promised it. Oh yeah! Slayer didn't have any brains. Spike snickered to himself as he drew himself out of the tunnel.

He stood silently listening. He heard two heartbeats nearby. They were up the stairs and to the left of the basement. Smiling in the darkness he went to hunt his prey.

Spike stopped outside the room and listened to their conversation.

"So, do you really need to resort to the black arts to keep our hormones in check?" Xander asked exasperated.

Willow narrowed her eyes at him, "At this point, I'm thinking 'no'."

Xander turned on his heels and went to turn on the lights in the room, "I'll clean this up. Oz and Cordelia will be here soon and we don't want them to ask any questions."

Willow turned her back on Xander and began to gather her supplies. Maybe she could use the supplies for something else. She grabbed her spell book and shoved it in her backpack.

Spike waits for the boy to get closer before grabbing him.

Willow turns when she hears a high-pitched eep from Xander. Her eyes widen when she sees that Spike has Xander by the throat.

"Xander!"

Xander begins to struggle but Spike just squeezes harder. "I need to borrow the little girl. You don't mind do you?"

Xander is close enough to the wall that he can use that as leverage. He raises one foot and pushes against the wall with all his strength. This causes Spike and him to fly back against a metal shelf.

Spikes huffs in disgust and throws Xander to the floor. Xander starts to rise but Spike punches him. " I do NOT have time for this."

Willow grabs a microscope and prepares to swing it at Spike.

Spike catches her arm mid-swing, "Ah ah, little girl, are you threatening me? That's not nice." He smiles down at her before continuing, "I like that."

He takes the microscope from her and hits Xander with it. The blow sends Xander unconscious to the floor.

"Xander!" Willow cries as she watches horrified Xander falling to the ground. "You killed him."

Spike just rolls his eyes. "His head is too hard for that. He's just out."

He grabs Willow in a chokehold. She struggles in his grip but he just tightens it until she slumps forward from lack of air. "Finally." He mutters.

He picks Willow up and tosses her over his shoulder as he reaches down for her bag of supplies and backpack.

He briefly considers bringing the boy along for insurance but decides against it. He was demon enough to make her do the spell on his own. He wouldn't need any incentive and if she got too stubborn he would just threaten to kill him later.

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Spike paces back and forth watching the witch as she lay on Druscilla and his old bed. He was losing patience, which he never really had to begin with. Spike looked out the window to the darkening sky. "Right. Time to wake up, witch."

Spike lightly hit Willow on the cheek. That got no response. He hit her harder, "Come on, Witch wakey, wakey."

"Hey! No hitting."

Willow opened her eyes and almost had a heart attack. There was Spike smirking at her. She just yelled at Spike. Oh god, she was going to die a horrible death.

"W-what do you want?" Willow prayed it was something more than a quick meal. Oh god! What if he wanted to use her as bait to get to Buffy? Her life just sucked! Ack! No thinking of sucking around a vampire.

What was the chit thinking? He could see the thoughts just flitting across her mind. The scent of fear was overwhelming but she met his eyes. A little tentative but she met them. Hmm, maybe she had some backbone after all.

"A love spell. You can do that right? Get my Dru back for me? Teach her to walk out on me."

"I-I'll try."

Spike narrowed his eyes at her and before Willow could blink he grabbed her around the throat. "What do you mean try? You'll do it!"

"S-sure. I'll do it."

Spike releases her and goes for her supplies and book. "You lie to me and I'll go after that boy and bring him back. Make you watch while I first torture him and then drain him dry."

Willow closed her eyes on the terror. She had to get her emotions under control. Magick, especially love spells were tricky and if you weren't in control really bad things could happen.

"No, please. I'll do it."

"It was so different after she went with that Chaos Demon. She only did it to hurt me. So I said, 'I'm not putting up with this anymore.' And she said, 'Fine!' And I said, 'Yeah, I've got an unlife, you know!' And then she said... she said we could still be friends." Spike sits down next to Willow on the bed and hangs his head, "God, I'm so unhappy!"

Willow looked at Spike at the surreal situation that she found herself in. Trying to awkwardly console a mad vampire. "There, there." She awkwardly pats his leg.

Spike realized he was trying to get comfort from a human but she was so soft and tender. He hadn't had tenderness for a long time . . . even before Angelus took Dru from him.

"Right then. Get your magick together and do the spell. Haven't got an eternity. Well, I have but you haven't."

"You know I'm not a real witch. Only did one other spell. I'm not sure it's gonna work right."

"Well if at first you don't succeed I'll kill the boy and you can try again."

"Okay, for future reference that's not gonna get me to relax and I need to be relaxed for magick."

Spike leered at Willow. "There are other ways to get you to relax."

"Eep. N-no, really. I'm relaxed. Yep look at me I'm relaxed girl."

Willow's hand shook as she got the ingredients together and opened the spell book. She picked the first love spell she could find and that used the ingredients that she had.

Willow brightened when she thought about the fire that she would need. "I'll need to light a fire. I need to boil the ingredients."

Spike pulled out his lighter, "Not a problem."

Crap.

TBC…