Blaise wakes up in the morning to feel someone moving her. As she opens her eyes she recognizes it to be Draco's room, and she rolls off of him to lie on her back.

"Thanks," Draco says as he gets out of bed and starts pulling cloths out of the drawers. "Come on, we have to get you to your room so you can change your cloths before breakfast and the meeting."

Blaise groans as she sits up, "Not something I'm looking forward to."

"What the meeting?"

"No going back to my room to change."

"Why?"

"There are going to be at least two other girls there demanding to know where I was last night, I'm going to feel like I'm back in school again," Blaise grabs her cloths from the day before and changes back into them, "And if I'm really lucky they will already have told Dawn and Faith, and then I won't get out of there alive."

"I see you haven't lost all your sarcasm," Draco says grinning at her.

"You honestly think I'm joking?"

"Lai it can't be too bad. I mean come on at least you're a Slayer, if you weren't then ok it would be bloody awful."

Blaise laughs and follows him. "You got dressed in record time."

"Some things do change," Draco says looking over at her.

"Obviously," Blaise says as they stop in front of a portrait. "What's the password?"

"Chosen," Draco says as the portrait swings open, "And I am leaving you here, I'm sure you know how to get back to the Great Hall from this corridor."

"You just don't want to deal with my friends," Blaise says. "Of course, I'll see you later Drake." And with that goes inside to face the other slayers.

It is actually much worse then she has imagined when she walks in. Of course Rona and Vi are there, and they have already gotten Dawn and Faith. But she isn't expecting to see Kennedy, Willow and Buffy all staring at her. "So?" one of the girls says, and then the room explodes in sound.

"You know I'm not going to be able to answer any questions if I can't hear what you are saying," Blaise yells above the din as she heads to her suitcase which ended up in the corner of the room. As she pulls out a green turtleneck and a pair of jeans the girls all openly stare at her.

"Ok Blaise older Slayer privilege here, plus the fact I have no love life, what is going on between you and Draco?" Buffy asks.

"Nothing," Blaise says smiling as she goes into the bathroom to change.

"Nothing, no smoochies or anything?" Dawn asks her.

"No," Blaise emerges from the bathroom, "Guys we're just friends, we were talking last night and I fell asleep, that's all. Come on let's go to breakfast."

Blaise leaves the room, and the others have no choice but to follow her. They don't accept her answer and continue to bother her all the way to the Great Hall.

As they enter, Blaise is thankful to see a seat right in between Charlie and Xander open and slides right into it to avoid the mass of girls following her.

"Rough morning?" Charlie asks looking at all the girls.

"Just a couple of questions, because I fell asleep in Draco's rooms last night, the girls have their imaginations working overtime," Blaise says with a shrug.

Charlie and Xander exchange looks over Blaise's head that she doesn't see, knowing that they will discuss this with each other later.

Breakfast passes relatively quickly and quietly and all too soon the group finds themselves in Dumbledore's office with him explaining the plan. Blaise is zoning in and out of the conversation but notices that something seems different between what he is telling the full group compared to what he told her the night before. She looks at Snape sharply and notices that he is staring at her. A quick look at Draco reveals the same thing. She quickly realizes that this is what Snape was talking about yesterday, Dumbledore manipulating for himself.

"No!" That jogs Blaise out of her thoughts and back to the present. "NO WAY! I'm not letting her do this alone. Not without Slayer strength or backup!" Dawn yells.

"Dawn it's alright," Blaise says looking at the girl.

"No it's not Blaise," Buffy looks at her watcher, "Did you even give her the other options that were discussed or just this one?"

"Buffy this is the best option for everyone," Giles says looking at Buffy.

"Buffy, Dawn its ok," Blaise says to the girls before they can yell again, "I agreed to this. I'm fine. I know what I'm doing."

All the Slayers and Watchers in the room look uneasy about this plan, and some of the members of the Order do as well, but Blaise ignores that. She knows she has to be onboard 100% or the others will disagree to this.

"Blaise I don't understand," Vi starts, "why do you have to do this?"

"Yeah girl," Rona jumps in, "there has to be another way."

"One that would preferably include all of us and backup more then a person or two," Kennedy interjects.

"And one that wouldn't have to make you take that creepy drug thing," Vi says remembering her experience with the drug a few years back, when some vampires had gotten their hands on it.

Blaise looks ready to argue with the rest of the girls when someone lays a hand on her arm, "Blaise, are you ok with this?" Faith looks at her.

Blaise smiles, "I'm five by five Faith."

Faith nods, still looking straight at her, "then we have to let her do this. She wants to save the world this time let her, I for one want to hear the backup plan."

At that the meeting takes a turn for the backup plan, and Blaise retreats back into her thoughts. Is this a good idea? She finally figures out that Dumbledore didn't tell the girls about what she will say to Voldemort. She wonders why that strikes her as important.

"Blaise," her head snaps up to look at Charlie, "here's the potion that you need to take. The kidnap will be staged for tomorrow."

Blaise nods and grabs the vile from Charlie and follows the rest of the girls out of the office.

Charlie looks around the room and sees Xander still standing staring at him. Charlie nods and the two head down the stairs together. They see Draco in the hallway moving to follow Blaise and each grab one of his shoulders.

"Malfoy, it's in your best interest if you come with us," Charlie says as he and Xander drag Draco down the hall to an unused classroom.

"That was pleasant Weasley," Draco says straightening his robes.

"What are your intentions towards Blaise?" Xander says.

"A bit blunt there aren't you?" Draco retorts.

"Malfoy," Charlie warns looking at him.

Draco sighs and sits down, "She was my best friend here. I loved her then, and I never expected to see her again. I want her back as my friend. I don't know about anything else. If you are asking if I fancy her? Sure I do, she's a beautiful girl. But if you are asking me anything beside that, I'm not sure; it's been less than 24 hours since she got back here."

"You better not hurt her," Xander says looking at Draco, "and there better not have been anything going on last night, any making out and all that."

Draco looks confused at Xander and turns to Charlie. "Snogging, you better not have been snogging," Charlie says.

"God no," Draco says looking at the two men. "You thought I was taking advantage of Blaise. Never, I just got her back and that would be the quickest way to lose her. I mean I wish we could, but, with everything...."

"It's OK Malfoy, we just wanted to warn you not to hurt her," Charlie says looking at him.

Draco nods at both men. "Can I leave now?" Draco asks.

"I'll follow you out," Xander says clapping a hand on Draco's shoulder as he leaves.

Charlie shakes his head. The poor guy thinks he's done, he doesn't know how protective Xander is. Charlie idly wonders why he isn't as protective as he should have been. Probably because of everything. Because of this whole plan thing.

He sighs. The plan bothers him. Has since he first heard it. He knows from experience that Giles is holding something back, which means that Dumbledore is too. And Dumbledore never mentioned the lying about whereabouts, and slipped him the potion for the veritasum quietly at the end. What was that about? Why would he do that?

He knows there is something going on, something bigger then all of this, but unfortunately they have gone too quickly into this situation. Too quickly into the fire to even think about this.

One main thing is what Harry's part in all of this is. He vaguely remembers a mention of a prophesy involving Harry and Voldemort from his father, years ago, but now hasn't heard anything about it. Why? If there is such a thing, it should have been mentioned by now. And why isn't, to borrow one of Blaise's phrases, the Golden Boy involved in this. Other then Blaise escaping from him, there hasn't been a mention of him anywhere, and yet he seems to be helping with all the planning. What is going on here?

Charlie gets up to leave the classroom, but still can't shake the feeling that nothing is as it seems in all of this