Chapter seven:

Buffy tried to scream but she was trying to get over how many spiders there were. She ran into the living room with the spider's right behind her. But it was useless trying to run, they had surrounded her and there was no window or door for her to make an escape, just a wall. Finally she managed to scream as they all pounced on her and she fell down, covering her face.

Meanwhile, Angel had already gathered the ingredient Willow told him to get and was at the magic box helping her prepare the potion Buffy must drink to get better. But somehow something didn't feel right; he couldn't put his finger on it so he forgot about it.

They finished the potion half an hour later and headed back to the Summers house so they could get Buffy better and figure out how to stop the Marcobellen's for good. They opened the door and entered. Angel was about to go upstairs to Buffy's bedroom when he noticed a dark figure lying in the living room. After a while he realized that it was Buffy.

He ran over to her, with the others following behind him, and checked her pulse.

"What happened?" they all asked

"By the marks on her face I'd say the Marcobellen's got to her and I checked her pulse"

"Well?" everyone asked

"And she's dead" he said as tears leaked down his cheeks

"Are you sure?" Dawn asked, tears also streaming down her face

"She hasn't got a pulse"

Dawn rushed over to her sister and started shaking her.

"BUFFY, WAKE UP, WAKE UP!" she shouted

Angel pulled her away and she started sobbing loudly in his arms, but then she stopped crying and she pulled away from him.

"Hang on. We've still got the potion, I know she can't drink it but we could insert it into her with a needle. It's worth a try, isn't it?"

"Dawny, I know you're upset and I am too, we all are but I don't think it will work" Willow said sadly

"No, I think it will. Like Dawn said it might work" Angel agreed

"We could try but if this doesn't work, I'm afraid there's nothing more we can do" Giles said

They got the needle, put the potion in it and inserted it into Buffy's body. At first, nothing happened, in fact, nothing happened for another two minutes. But then Buffy's body started moving and her eyes flung open. She stayed like that for a while, obviously trying to remember what had happened and then Angel and Dawn helped her up.