"Wow, the Bronze is really going tonight!" Stated Buffy as she, Willow, Jenny and Cordy entered the club and headed towards a table.
"Are you guys sure I should be here, I mean my age and…" Asked Jenny.
"Jenny, if you keep asking us that question, we will be forced to tell Giles what you told us!" Threatened Cordy.
"You know I like it here! Very comfortable, yes very! I going to go and get us some drinks!" Said Jenny hurriedly before she got up.
Through the night all of the girls had fun, for a while Buffy even forgot she was pregnant.
"Hey!" Buffy turned around to see a very handsome guy standing behind her on the dance floor.
"Uh, hi!"
"Yeah, so I was wondering, that with all my inability to say the right things, you might want to dance?"
"Sure! I'm Buffy!"
"Craig." He turned out to be much more than just a gut to dance with. Craig and Buffy spent the next two hours talking. About everything and anything. They found they had tons in common even in expected subjects.
"Hey, Buff!" Willow and Jenny came up to the table where Buffy and Craig were sitting, followed by Cordy.
"Oh hey guys! Craig, this is Willow, Jenny, and Cordelia, very good friends of mine! Girls, this is Craig."
"Hey!" "Hi!" "Hello!"
"Very nice to meet you girls."
"Buffy, we should really get going. If I'm not home in an hour, my dad will go ballistic!" Said Willow.
"Now? Well…"
"I can walk you home in a while, if you want to stay later?" Suggested Craig.
"Really? That would be great, thanks! So, guys see you tomorrow!"
"You're sure?" Asked Jenny.
"Yup!"
"Well, ok, see you!" Said Willow as she and the others turned to leave.
For the next hour, Buffy and Craig continued to talk, until Buffy realized the club was going to close in five minutes, and suggested they leave. They were nearing Weatherly Park when Craig brought up a confusing subject.
"So, ultimately strange question! If you had the chance to become evil, and I mean not being dead, vamp, or a demon, pure evil, would you take it? Why or why not?" He looked at Buffy as he asked.
"Ok, definitely weird! Um, no!"
"Are you sure, and why not?"
"To hit two birds with one stone! Only if all of my friends and family were dead or gone, like I could never see them again. Also, there would have to be someone there to help me along the path of evil! Corny, I know, but it's what I would want!"
"No, that's really good!"
"Anyways here we are. Hey, why don't you give me your number, so we can keep in touch?" Said Buffy as she and Craig reached the end of her walkway.
"Even better, we'll both give each other our phone numbers." Craig smiled as he wrote down his number on Buffy's arm, and she gave him a scrap of paper with her number on it.
"Goodnight Craig." Said Buffy as she walked up the path.
"Buffy." He smiled. She went inside and closed the door behind, before he left.
"Spike! Drusilla! Oh you're gonna love me for what I found out!" Called Craig as he entered the main room of the factory.
"Really, cause I find that very hard to believe!" Said Spike as he and Dru came in another door. "The only way we could every love you was if you took Angel's soul and killed the bitch slayer!"
"Not quite, but I have information. It's very interesting!" Said Craig as he rubbed his hands together.
"Then tell us, you dirty prince of darkness you!" Cooed Dru as she hugged Spike. And he did. Craig told the vampires everything Buffy had told him. Including, the part about being evil, and as he said all this, Spike and Dru's smiles grew wider and more wicked.
"Oh you lovely boy, this news makes my head sing with ideas."
"She's right my lad. You've done good." Spike lit up a cigarette and offered one to Craig who took it.
"So then we discuss my payment then?"
"Of course, what is it your tiny heart desires?"
In one word, Craig said it all. "Buffy!"
Spike sputtered and coughed at Craig's words. "What the bloody hell do you mean?" Dru who had been busy dancing around the two, stopped dead.
"Yes little boy, what do you mean?" Dru squinted at him, trying to read his mind.
"Exactly what I said, Buffy! Don't you two get it, you'll have Angel and I'll have Buffy." He continued at their bewildered faces. "You'll curse Angel and keep him out of sight-possibly leaving a pile of scattered dust on her doorstep-that will be one. You kidnap the others but fake their deaths, and Buffy will have no one. She said that she would only turn evil if everyone she loved was gone, and someone to guide her. It's perfect!" He smiled evilly at the two.
"So let me get this straight. We get Angel, plus you and an evil Buffy on our side?"
"Don't forget, once she turns evil, Buffy's baby will follow in her footsteps." Said Craig
"Well, this is just great!" Spike smiled so evilly that Craig even shuddered. The three of them spent the next hours adding and finishing the plan.