"Ok," Dawn said as she walked back into the room. "Willow and Tara are gonna meet us there, too."

"Did ya fill them in on the sitch?"

"Nope," Dawn giggled. "I want it to be a surprise."

"Sounds, good. Will, are you ready to meet everyone else?"

"Sure, but when am I gonna see my mummy again?"

Buffy wasn't sure how to answer that question. How was she to explain that William would never see his mother again? How could she crush such a young child's spirit like that? She decided to go the safe route by telling him, "Soon, Will, soon."

Dawn, Will, and Buffy climbed into the car, to head to the Magic Box. On the way over they stopped to pick up a couple of pizzas. Once they arrived Buffy parked in the back parking lot, and led Will by the hand through the back door of the training room.

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"Hey, Giles? Are you here," Buffy called out. She didn't get an answer, so the trio headed further into the shop. No one seemed to be around so Buffy put the pizzas on the research table, and sat Will down in one of the chairs.

"You guys stay here, I'm gonna go see if Anya or Giles are maybe in the basement."

After Buffy was out of sight Dawn set to work on finding plates and napkins for everyone. She grabbed the plates, and set them around the table, careful not to disturb too many of the dusty tomes that littered the table's surface. When she was done she sat down next to Will again.

"Ok, dig in, Will," Dawn said as she grabbed a slice of pepperoni from the top box. After a few bites she saw that Will was still sitting in his chair, staring at the pizza in Dawn's hands with a mixture of curiosity and hunger. He seemed to sniff the air a few times, a habit Dawn thought she recognized as one of Spike's tendencies, then pout a bit. Dawn found this puzzling and decided to further investigate.

"Will, you do know about pizza, right?"

"No, not really. We don't have anything like that back at home." Dawn could tell by the way he said the word "home" that he missed it more than he let on.

"Well, why don't you try some it's really good." Dawn grabbed a slice of plain and put it on the plate in front of Will.

"If you blow on it a little it should cool off enough for you to take a bite." Dawn then took her own slice, blew on it, and then took a small bite, demonstrating for Will.

Will took the slice in his hand and copied Dawn's movements to a T. After his first bite, Dawn waited for his reaction. He chewed slowly, tasting as much as he could. After he swallowed, he put the slice of pizza back on his plate and turned toward Dawn.

"It's good, Dawn. What's on it?"

"Um, well there's some cheese, and tomato sauce and kinda like bread as a crust I guess. Glad ya like it. There's plenty more where that came from."

Just as Will was about to go back to his pizza, the bell above the door jingled, indicating an entrance. Willow and Tara walked in, hand in hand. "Hey, Dawnie. Who's your little friend there?"

"Bet you'll never guess……," Dawn sing-songed. "Go ahead, Tara, Willow. Take your best shot."

"Well, um, he has really bright hair, and blue eyes…and Oh Goddess! Is that Spike?!? Dawnie, tell me that's not Spike sitting over there," Willow pleaded.

"Ok…it's not Spike. It's Will."

"Willow, why don't we sit down," Tara said.

"Ok, I think that's a good idea…"

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Back in the basement…

"Giles? Anya? Are you guys down here?"

"Yea, Buffy. Just a sec," Anya replied.

Buffy could hear definite sounds of zippers being pulled, and clothes being rearranged. Buffy rolled her eyes at what was so obviously Xander and Anya's attempts at covering up what the were doing in the basement, and it wasn't inventory.

"I'm gonna head back upstairs, you guys can join us when you're finished."

"K, Buff," Xander hollered. "We'll just be a minute."

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Buffy headed up the stairs and entered the main part of the shop, to see Willow looking a little green, Tara rubbing small circles on her back, Dawn chowing down on pizza, and Will watching everyone, taking it all in.

"So I see you guys have met Will," Buffy said nodding toward Will's part of the table.

"Yup, we have, and he's sooo cute, but uh, what happened exactly," Willow babbled.

"There was a demon, some magic slime, and poof Spike's a kid again. Giles has been researching, apparently he needed to tell us something about it, that's why the Scooby meeting. Just have to wait for Xander and Anya to come out of the basement, and Giles to show up and I guess we can start."

When Buffy was finished talking, Giles walked out of his office, glasses in one hand, book in the other. He looked up for a moment, as if sensing he was not alone, and nodded to everyone sitting at the table.

"I'll be with you all in a moment, carry on," Giles said as he walked over to the bookshelves.

Just as everyone turned towards the pizza boxes, Xander and Anya emerged from the basement. Xander immediately went over towards the food, affectionately ruffling Will's hair on the way over.

"Xander!"

"Hey, Will. Did ya miss me?"

"Yes, can you come over again tomorrow?"

"Sorry, man. Can't. Gotta go to work sometimes," Xander said with an apologetic smile, and a shrug. Anya came over to the table then, after noticing the new addition to the Scoobies.

"Isn't anyone going to introduce me to the adorable child sitting at the table?"

"Sure, An. This is Will. Formerly Spike if you get my drift." Anya's eyes widened slightly before she slowly roamed her eyes over Will. She seemed to come to a decision.

"Xander, when can we have one of those?"

"Uh, well, som-sometime in the future I guess,"he seemed to get an idea, "but they cost a lot of money you know.

"Oh, well I suppose we can wait awhile then. Hello Will nice to meet you. My name's Anya."

"It's a pleasure to meet you too, ma'am."

"Oh, he has such cute manners, Xander! You don't see that around much anymore."

Giles then made his way over to the research table, another book in his hands. "As you all can see we have a slight problem here. I have been researching the demon that has caused this, and unfortunately I have determined that there is only one way for Spike to return to normal."

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Heehee. I'm evil. You'll all just hafta wait for the next chappie to find out what Giles has discovered. Read and Review!