Chapter three:
She woke up hours later to find Angel asleep on a chair and a nurse checking her records. At that moment Angel woke up.
"Good morning sleepy head, how are you feeling?" the nurse asked
She had got her voice back.
"Great, so I guess I can go home, huh? That is so cool, I'll keep in touch"
She was about to get up when the nurse and Angel held her down, she struggled for a while but it didn't get her anywhere.
"Let me go!"
"Buffy, stay in bed" Angel breathed while trying to hold her down. Suddenly Buffy felt a little pain in her arm; the nurse had given her a needle. Buffy gasped, and then finally she was calm. Dawn, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya and Tara had come in just on queue. Dawn came over and hugged her sister.
"Dawn, where's Mum?"
"Um.....Buffy, she's been dead for six months now" she said very slowly and confused
She turned around and looked at the others, they all showed sympathy for her.
"What?" Buffy gasped
Dawn started crying "Buffy, I don't want to lose you too, you have to get better"
"Dawn, Mum's still alive. Where is she? I need to see her"
"I'm sorry; you'll have to go now. She needs her rest" the nurse said
They left Buffy, who was still asking for her Mum, and sat outside her room.
"What's wrong with her?" Dawn asked
"I think the needle is making her believe that your Mum is still alive" Giles said
"Well she was pretty out of it before the needle. She kept trying to get out of bed, we had to hold her down" Angel added
"Well we might as well go to the magic box and research the spider thingy while she sleeps" Willow suggested
"I'm staying here" Angel said
"Me too" Dawn added
"Ok, let us know if you hear anything"
"Yep, you too"
They walked off towards the exit. Angel was pacing the room and Dawn was lying on a chair, obviously she was tired. She soon fell asleep and Angel put a blanket over her.
Angel's phone rang.
"Hello?"
"It's Giles, we've found out what the spider is. It's called 'Marcobellen' and the name may seem cute but it means 'life sucker'. What it does is targets its prey, which was Buffy, and they pounce on their victims face and their legs suck the life out of them. They also leave scars on the victims face. Now no one has ever survived but it says it was originally created to kill the Slayer. And if Buffy was anyone but the Slayer she would have died instantly and it won't stop until the Slayer is killed"
He thanked Giles and said goodbye.
"Can I see her now?" he asked a nearby nurse
"Ok" she replied
But when he opened the door she wasn't there and the window was open. Angel knew exactly what had happened.