Title: Making Ends Meet

~*~*~*Summary - Set after "Chosen." Buffy misses Spike so the Scoobies try to open up a portal to bring him back, but instead it backfires and they, except Andrew and Buffy, are all sucked in to the dimension Spike is in. Having no money, no job, Buffy can't pay the rent so she and Andrew must move on to the street, and try to find a way to get her friends back.

~*Disclaimer - Don't own characters( Better make up new ones so I can say that I own some. P.S. I don't count the pizza stained man. Lol

A/N: Yay it's the weekend, u know what that means, more chapters. The last chapter didn't have much happening in it, I know the title sucks. When I was writing the other chapters I forgot about Buffy having a hole through the middle of her stomach. Lol. Apparently she did too.

~Willow came over and sat beside Buffy.

"So, do you want to tell?' Willow asked.

Buffy looked around at her friends, "Not here," she said.

"We'd wake them up, let's just.let's just go outside," she said sniffing a bit.

"Are you sure? We don't have any jackets and Jack Frost might attack," Willow said.

"I'm sure. It's L.A. it can't be that cold."

The two friends made their way out the door.

It was a little cold, and the street lights faintly glowed, a stray car would pass by, but aside from that it was deserted. They made their way over to a concrete parking bar and sat down.

"Was it Spike?' Willow asked quietly.

"Yea," Buffy muttered.

"And." Willow encouraged.

"And I miss him. Mostly at nights, everything's so quiet, nothing else to think about."

"Did you love him, i..it's ok.if you did, do," Willow asked.

"Yea. I only told him in the last moments I was with him, and he didn't believe me. He's." she sighed, "He's always wanted to be close, always loved me, but now I can never.physically love him," Buffy said starting to cry.

"He cared about you Buffy, and he still does, wherever he is. But if you want I can do a spell to bring him back," Willow said sympathetically.

"I thought there was only one of those little vase thingies, and used it on me," said Buffy confused.

"For humans yes, but Spike he's a vampire. I could open up a portal and bring him out," said Willow her voice growing louder.

"But we don't know where he is. What dimension."

"It doesn't matter. First you take the bowl of Rythenessio, you put a bunch of herbs and magic powders, and grosser things like bug tongues and stuff, then recite the chant of Mhondower and it opens up this, like purple portal, then you toss in a sacrifice, no animals or people, we'll just use a spider and then say the vampires name and where they died and they'll come out, nothings changed. And best of all they haven't been scarred for life!" Willow said.

"But can we get all this stuff?" Buffy said, not convinced.

"Well first we'll check all the magic stuff for the bowl and the Mhondower chant and if I can't find them I'll just do a conjuring spell," said Willow, "It will be honkey-dory."

"Ok," said Buffy.

And with that they went back inside.

The next day Buffy was in a much better mood, heck she didn't even pick on Andrew. Her and Willow were going shopping for the ingredients, and maybe even new clothes, since her current ones were covered in blood and had a hole through them. Her stomach didn't anymore because Willow's spell had worked very well. They had filled the others in, Xander wasn't very supportive though.

"Ready to go?" Buffy asked Willow anxiously.

"Yup."

They decided to walk to the "Magic Charms Bracelet" store. It was only a couple blocks away.

They walked in. It was dark and musty, not near as nice as the Magic Box, but Buffy didn't mind as long as they had what she needed. A woman who was dressed completely in black with black makeup came over to them,"

"Can I help you?" the woman said with a deep Transylvanian accent.

"Yea, we're looking for the bowl of Rythenessio and the chant of Mhondower," said Willow since Buffy had trouble pronouncing it.

"Raising a vampire, very tricky business, only a advanced person like myself can do it, we can perform spells for people if you're not up to it, but we do have them," said the woman.

"She's a goddess, we don't need help, just the items," said Buffy quickly.

The woman looked mad because she had been showed up, but led them to the stuff.

The bowl was terracotta with engraved writing in gold on it, and the base was sparkly teal. The chant was full of difficult words, but Willow assured Buffy she could read it.

They got cricket tongues, brown fire in a jar, Quando sap, and Piknotg blood. Then Willow bought a live spider. They paid for it with the leftover money Angel had given them, and walked back to the motel.

A/N: Well, the story is starting to come out. Hoped you like it, I know I didn't have any jokes in this one. I think I did pretty good making up names of the stuff, anyway g2g. Please review. Expect more tomorrow.