"If we knew what spell caused it we might be able to do a reversal
spell." Giles said later that night after a long day of research.
"I think I've narrowed it down to three choices. The first one is called the Traveler's Spell, it allows the user to travel into to other people's bodies, if an amateur tried it, this could happen. The next is the spell 'To Make Things As They're Not'. It takes great concentration and could easily go wrong." Willow explained to the rest of the Scoobies. Xander flinched as she said this. "And the third title is in Latin, but I think it could be used to switch bodies." Willow finished, looking pleased that she had narrowed it down so far.
"It has to be someone who knows us or wants to target us." Buffy said in her ultra-serious slayer tone.
"Maybe Willow did it… an accident like that forgetful spell." Anya suggested.
"Will, have you done any spells lately?" Buffy asked her best friend, she got the wiggins as she looked in to her own eyes. She couldn't wait to get back into her own body, to get home.
"A few, but nothing big, I swear. The last spell to give me a hair day. It was really bad yesterday." She stopped when she realized how stupid she sounded, invoking the dark forces for good hair.
"Maybe it was Tara." Xander said, trying to buy time before they suspected him. After all he had summoned that demon who made everyone sing and dance.
"No, she would never do that." Willow said, defending her former lover.
"Maybe she was mad-." Buffy was cut off by Dawn.
"No, Willows right. Tara would never do that."
"Dawn, people do a lot of things when they're hurt." Buffy said, trying to be comforting.
"We should probably go see how Tara is, maybe get some answers." Giles suggested.
"Good idea." Buffy agreed. "She trusts Dawn so Anya, you go. And Willow, you have the slayer strength so you-."
"I won't do it." Willow said.
"Then Xander, you go. You have the vampire strength right now." Buffy instructed.
"O-okay." Xander answered. He'd have to come up with a plan, spy on Tara and protect Anya. This would be easy-if he were Superman.
Xander and Anya left for Tara's dorm. As they walked Xander thought about what he could do. He couldn't think of a thing, other than tell the truth and he really didn't want to do that. When they got to Tara's dorm they knocked on the door, moments later it opened to reveal Tara's familiar face.
"Hi." She said, obviously happy to see Dawn, then she frowned slightly when she saw Spike standing beside her.
"Hi, I'm Dawn. I'm a 15 year old girl and do not work at the Magic Box because I go to school everyday." Anya said.
"Yeah… okay." Tara replied slowly, confused but still happy to see a friendly face.
"And this is Spike. He's a vampire and we are not getting married." Anya added, digging herself deeper without thinking.
"Dawnie, are you okay?" Tara asked. "Do you wanna come in and sit down?" Anya walked in and Tara added "You too Spike."
Xander walked in and sat next to Anya on Tara's bed.
Tara sat at her desk after closing and re-locking the door. The three sat in awkward silence for what seemed like an hour. Finally Anya spoke. As Xander heard her begin he was relieved, then what he heard what she had to say he longed for the silence to return.
"May we go to the bathroom." Anya asked.
"Excuse me?" Tara responded, obviously confused at "Dawn's" question.
"She means her, as in alone, and not with me." Xander added in a hurry.
"No I mean both of us. Together, but without you." Anya corrected.
"Umm… I guess, if you really want to. It's that way." Tara pointed to a door on the opposite wall. She was lucky enough to have her own bathroom.
"Umm… we'll be right back." Xander said quickly as he followed Anya to the bathroom.
"why did you do that?" he demanded as soon as the bathroom door was closed, then realizing he was probably talking loud enough for Tara to hear despite the closed door between them he lowered his voice. "She's going to know something's up."
"No she won't." Anya assured him.
"what did you want?" Xander asked, he apparently wasn't going to convince Anya that she was on the brink of blowing their cover.
"Well, I just don't know what to say." Anya explained.
"Just find out if she cast that spell and please remember to be tact- ." Xander was cut-off by a knock at the door.
"Are you okay in there?" It was Tara.
"Yeah, we're just fine." Xander replied, he was just about to open the door when Anya interrupted.
"We should flush the toilet, maybe turn the shower on and get our hair wet, so she thinks we did something."
"No An the less she thinks is going on the better."
But he was too late. Anya had already flushed the toilet and turned on the shower. She picked up a cup that was sitting on the sink, filled it with water, and splashed it in Xander's face. Then she refilled it and poured water on her head.
"Anya, I told you not to do that." Xander said, wiping his face with a towel he found hanging by the door.
"I will not be overpowered by a man!" Anya said, sounding very much like a recording. "I heard that on Oprah-right after the dancing dog."
Xander just rolled his and opened the door before Anya could do any more damage. Behind him he heard Anya turn the shower off and place the cup back on the sink. He walked out preparing himself for more explaining. As he strutted trying his best to look like Spike, he tripped over Tara's backpack and landed flat on his face.
"Are you okay?" Tara asked worriedly rushing over to him.
"Who me? Of course I'm fine. I'm a vampire. Nothing can hurt me. Well except for a stake through the heart, some sunlight, and decapitation, but other than that I'm invincible boy." Xander said without realizing he was as bad as Anya until he'd already said too much. He stood up trying to look all suave and Spike-like, and returned to tar's bed. Anya was already sitting there calmly. When both xander and Tara had sat back down she spoke.
"Speaking of spells and body switches, did you cause us all to switch bodies in an elaborate plan of getting back at Willow?"
At that moment Xander felt like he was going to die. Anya had blown their cover and now they were trapped in the clutches of an evil fiendish witch capable of destroying the world. Okay so it was just Tara, but magic all the same and her eye had always bugged him. Like when she got nervous and it just twitched and twitched and- okay time to calm down. He was being irrational. He decided to just wait and see what she said.
"You guys are just joking right?" Tara asked after a minute.
"No-." Anya began, but Xander quickly finished for her.
"No way would we lie to you. Of course it's a joke, just me and er umm… little umm little… bit that's what I call her, Little Bit. Well it was just our idea of a joke, we were bored, sorry."
"But-." Anya began but again Xander cut her off.
"But thanks anyway for having us." He had to think quickly or Anya would really blow their cover. Strike that, she'd already blown their cover, but they were on the brink of no cover at all.
Then Xander did the only thing he could think of. He picked up one of the heaviest textbooks Tara owned and hit Anya over the head. Hard. Then came the mind splitting pain.
"Ow. Ow. It hurts. It hurts really really bad. You happen to have a magic Band Aid or-." Xander stopped when he noticed that Tara wasn't looking at him but the unconscious figure that looked like dawn. He had to think quick.
"Wow, are you okay?" He asked the bewildered Tara. She backed away when he spoke. "You should really burn that book, it attacked An-Dawn. It's possessed!!!" He picked Anya up and ran out the door screaming "Killer book!!! Killer book!!!"
"When he was out of Stevenson Hall he looked behind him. Luckily Tara hadn't followed him. She was probably back in her dorm room examining the book like that stoned chick with the banana in Can't Hardly Wait.
"I think I've narrowed it down to three choices. The first one is called the Traveler's Spell, it allows the user to travel into to other people's bodies, if an amateur tried it, this could happen. The next is the spell 'To Make Things As They're Not'. It takes great concentration and could easily go wrong." Willow explained to the rest of the Scoobies. Xander flinched as she said this. "And the third title is in Latin, but I think it could be used to switch bodies." Willow finished, looking pleased that she had narrowed it down so far.
"It has to be someone who knows us or wants to target us." Buffy said in her ultra-serious slayer tone.
"Maybe Willow did it… an accident like that forgetful spell." Anya suggested.
"Will, have you done any spells lately?" Buffy asked her best friend, she got the wiggins as she looked in to her own eyes. She couldn't wait to get back into her own body, to get home.
"A few, but nothing big, I swear. The last spell to give me a hair day. It was really bad yesterday." She stopped when she realized how stupid she sounded, invoking the dark forces for good hair.
"Maybe it was Tara." Xander said, trying to buy time before they suspected him. After all he had summoned that demon who made everyone sing and dance.
"No, she would never do that." Willow said, defending her former lover.
"Maybe she was mad-." Buffy was cut off by Dawn.
"No, Willows right. Tara would never do that."
"Dawn, people do a lot of things when they're hurt." Buffy said, trying to be comforting.
"We should probably go see how Tara is, maybe get some answers." Giles suggested.
"Good idea." Buffy agreed. "She trusts Dawn so Anya, you go. And Willow, you have the slayer strength so you-."
"I won't do it." Willow said.
"Then Xander, you go. You have the vampire strength right now." Buffy instructed.
"O-okay." Xander answered. He'd have to come up with a plan, spy on Tara and protect Anya. This would be easy-if he were Superman.
Xander and Anya left for Tara's dorm. As they walked Xander thought about what he could do. He couldn't think of a thing, other than tell the truth and he really didn't want to do that. When they got to Tara's dorm they knocked on the door, moments later it opened to reveal Tara's familiar face.
"Hi." She said, obviously happy to see Dawn, then she frowned slightly when she saw Spike standing beside her.
"Hi, I'm Dawn. I'm a 15 year old girl and do not work at the Magic Box because I go to school everyday." Anya said.
"Yeah… okay." Tara replied slowly, confused but still happy to see a friendly face.
"And this is Spike. He's a vampire and we are not getting married." Anya added, digging herself deeper without thinking.
"Dawnie, are you okay?" Tara asked. "Do you wanna come in and sit down?" Anya walked in and Tara added "You too Spike."
Xander walked in and sat next to Anya on Tara's bed.
Tara sat at her desk after closing and re-locking the door. The three sat in awkward silence for what seemed like an hour. Finally Anya spoke. As Xander heard her begin he was relieved, then what he heard what she had to say he longed for the silence to return.
"May we go to the bathroom." Anya asked.
"Excuse me?" Tara responded, obviously confused at "Dawn's" question.
"She means her, as in alone, and not with me." Xander added in a hurry.
"No I mean both of us. Together, but without you." Anya corrected.
"Umm… I guess, if you really want to. It's that way." Tara pointed to a door on the opposite wall. She was lucky enough to have her own bathroom.
"Umm… we'll be right back." Xander said quickly as he followed Anya to the bathroom.
"why did you do that?" he demanded as soon as the bathroom door was closed, then realizing he was probably talking loud enough for Tara to hear despite the closed door between them he lowered his voice. "She's going to know something's up."
"No she won't." Anya assured him.
"what did you want?" Xander asked, he apparently wasn't going to convince Anya that she was on the brink of blowing their cover.
"Well, I just don't know what to say." Anya explained.
"Just find out if she cast that spell and please remember to be tact- ." Xander was cut-off by a knock at the door.
"Are you okay in there?" It was Tara.
"Yeah, we're just fine." Xander replied, he was just about to open the door when Anya interrupted.
"We should flush the toilet, maybe turn the shower on and get our hair wet, so she thinks we did something."
"No An the less she thinks is going on the better."
But he was too late. Anya had already flushed the toilet and turned on the shower. She picked up a cup that was sitting on the sink, filled it with water, and splashed it in Xander's face. Then she refilled it and poured water on her head.
"Anya, I told you not to do that." Xander said, wiping his face with a towel he found hanging by the door.
"I will not be overpowered by a man!" Anya said, sounding very much like a recording. "I heard that on Oprah-right after the dancing dog."
Xander just rolled his and opened the door before Anya could do any more damage. Behind him he heard Anya turn the shower off and place the cup back on the sink. He walked out preparing himself for more explaining. As he strutted trying his best to look like Spike, he tripped over Tara's backpack and landed flat on his face.
"Are you okay?" Tara asked worriedly rushing over to him.
"Who me? Of course I'm fine. I'm a vampire. Nothing can hurt me. Well except for a stake through the heart, some sunlight, and decapitation, but other than that I'm invincible boy." Xander said without realizing he was as bad as Anya until he'd already said too much. He stood up trying to look all suave and Spike-like, and returned to tar's bed. Anya was already sitting there calmly. When both xander and Tara had sat back down she spoke.
"Speaking of spells and body switches, did you cause us all to switch bodies in an elaborate plan of getting back at Willow?"
At that moment Xander felt like he was going to die. Anya had blown their cover and now they were trapped in the clutches of an evil fiendish witch capable of destroying the world. Okay so it was just Tara, but magic all the same and her eye had always bugged him. Like when she got nervous and it just twitched and twitched and- okay time to calm down. He was being irrational. He decided to just wait and see what she said.
"You guys are just joking right?" Tara asked after a minute.
"No-." Anya began, but Xander quickly finished for her.
"No way would we lie to you. Of course it's a joke, just me and er umm… little umm little… bit that's what I call her, Little Bit. Well it was just our idea of a joke, we were bored, sorry."
"But-." Anya began but again Xander cut her off.
"But thanks anyway for having us." He had to think quickly or Anya would really blow their cover. Strike that, she'd already blown their cover, but they were on the brink of no cover at all.
Then Xander did the only thing he could think of. He picked up one of the heaviest textbooks Tara owned and hit Anya over the head. Hard. Then came the mind splitting pain.
"Ow. Ow. It hurts. It hurts really really bad. You happen to have a magic Band Aid or-." Xander stopped when he noticed that Tara wasn't looking at him but the unconscious figure that looked like dawn. He had to think quick.
"Wow, are you okay?" He asked the bewildered Tara. She backed away when he spoke. "You should really burn that book, it attacked An-Dawn. It's possessed!!!" He picked Anya up and ran out the door screaming "Killer book!!! Killer book!!!"
"When he was out of Stevenson Hall he looked behind him. Luckily Tara hadn't followed him. She was probably back in her dorm room examining the book like that stoned chick with the banana in Can't Hardly Wait.