By: Tater

Title: Lost Without You

Disclaimer: I own nothing except the story idea itself.

Rating: PG13

Summery: This is about the episode Into The Woods. I have never been fond of Riley, and hate him - or really the whole idea of Buffy with Riley. Hell I hate the idea of her with anyone EXCEPT Angel. Anyways, I was not happy when Buffy ran after him thinking she loved him, so 'Instead of Buffy not letting Riley walk away, she goes after Angel'.

Author's Note: I am writing after Into The Woods ep of Buffy, because it makes me sick how she says she loves Riley. I have other stories as well, I would like it very much if you could R/R those. Oh, if you want more to this you must R/R good or bad. And please tell me a better title if you have one.

Chapter Five:

"Well what do we do now?" Willow asked Giles.

"We wait."

"We wait?" Xander asked bewildered. "How can you say that? I just helped shove my bestfriend out HER front door by threatening not to be her friend because you all said so and I am supposed to wait and see if she hates me or not."

"Xander when all this started I said you must trust me." Giles said. "As far as I can tell Buffy has been very miserable since Angel left. Everything just feel into place. Riley's new 'habits', him leaving – I knew that talk you gave her would send her back to him. We have nothing to worry about now with those two. We all know about his Shansu, the stars have all aligned so it's begun."

"I still don't understand why we had to do this. All we had to do was tell her and give her our blessing."

"No Xander." Willow said. "She needs to realize it is Angel she loves and wants without needing our approval, and without worrying about what others will think and say. Even though we knew it was unlikely, there was still a possibility she could have gotten over him these past few years. Buffy needed to be sure he IS the one she really wanted without someone telling her how to live her life."

"I just hope you guys are right about everything." He said, worrying about his slayer friend.

Cordeila quietly made her way upstairs and rounded the corner to walk into the room Dawn was in just to gather some books needed for a new case. As she did she quietly heard chanting and decided not to walk in right away but to sneak a peek at the situation.

The seer turned her head ever so slightly and was able to catch a glimpse of what appeared to be a sleeping Spike, and Dawn on the floor chanting. Cordeila went wide-eyed

"From the East to the West

From the North to the South

All four corners of the earth

Shall he gives his love to me

With this blood I demand of thee

My love shall be returned by his

To me and me alone."

With that Dawn cut her hand while holding a very thorny red rose. She then placed it in the center of her circle and smoke arose. She placed her hand over a large cup and let several drops of her blood fall into it, she then placed once rose pedal in the drink she had mashed up into the drink.

Dawn got up and began cleaning up. She poured the bag of blood she had stashed away into cup and slowly began to wake Spike.

"Hey, Spike. Wake up." She said softly, nudging him – trying not to spill his cup.

"Ugh.." He said. "I feel like I was run over by a truck."

"Here, I brought you some lunch." She said smiling.

Spike greedily took the cup and sucked it down in a matter of seconds. "Mmmm little bit. But it's had an odd taste to it lately. Do you know where Buffy has been ordering it from?

"Nope." She said acting as though she didn't know anything.

They sat there for a few minutes talking, and soon it became flirting. Then suddenly flirting became kissing.

Cordeila ran down the stairs as quickly and as quietly as possible.

"Wesly!" She screamed in a whisper.

Nothing.

"Wesly!!!" She was a little louder this time.

"Yes?" He came out of his office suddenly. "What's with all the fuss?"

"Dawn, Spike, love spell, kissing!" She said urgently, running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to find her cell phone.

"Do what?"

She finally stopped once she had her cell phone in her hand.

"Okay – I walk upstairs for books, and Dawn is in the process of doing a love spell on Spike!" She said dialing Angel's cell number.

"Oh God Angel! Get here! No one is hurt, just hurry!!"

She hung up and just looked at Wesly.

Buffy and Angel had just dusted their last vampire when the call had come in. This "mission" wasn't very hard.

It was about three dozen vampires – mainly newbies who decided to get Angel's attention, would go around picking off some of his old cases, and by trashing Wesly's car, and trying to break into the Hotel. They were convinced they could destroy Angelus. Well, they got his attention, but in the end he won.

"Newbies are such idiots." Buffy said. "Were you like that?"

"God I hope not." He replied.

That's when the call came in from Cordy. Seeing as how she decided not to really go into detail and they didn't really know what in the hell was happening the two rushed home as quickly as possible.

Once they got there they found a very distraught Cordeila and an upset Wesly sitting at the desk.

"Well, what's going on?" Angel asked.

"Where's Dawn is she okay?" Buffy asked urgently. If anything happened to her, she didn't think she could handle it.

"She fine, more than fine actually." Wesly said.

"And she is what the problem is." Cordy added.

Now both Angel and Buffy were confused.

"Ooookay." Buffy said. "Anyone care to explain?"

"I went upstairs to get some books outta the room Dawn was in, I thought she was sleeping so I was very quiet. As I rounded the corner I heard chanting going on so instead of walking on in I watched."

The slayer just nodded her head. She was gonna kill Dawn.

"Buffy, she umm…. How do I say this? Perhaps you should go upstairs and take a look."

"No just tell me."

"She put a love spell on Spike."

"SHE WHAT?!" Angel and Buffy both exclaimed. "No, no, no you're joking right?" Buffy asked.

"I wish we were." Wesly said, pulling out a small book. "We found this on her nightstand. Dawn really is asleep now and Spike is downstairs in the training room."

Buffy took her sisters diary, sat down, and began to flip through it.

TBC…………..