Chapter Seven

"Can you believe him?!" Buffy yelled once they were in her room and the door was shut.

"Kinda."

"Willow, this kid is driving me insane, and not in a good way."

Willow smiled, thinking of Oz. He drove her crazy in a good way.

"I can't stand him!"

Willow snapped out of her Oz daze. "Try using a pill then. Seriously Buffy, if you don't like it he'll at least lay off the snide comments and meanness." Buffy's eyes widened and her mouth dropped. "What?"

"I left them in the kitchen." Willow and Buffy darted downstairs. They quietly walked down the hall and Buffy slid her hand around the corner and felt for the box. Spike noticed this and snatched her hand once she found it.

He stood in front of her. "What are you doing?"

"Getting my box."

Xander little attention to them and more attention on the counter top.

"What makes this your box?"

"Willow gave it to me!" Buffy ripped her wrist from his grasp.

"Well good for you. It's the perfect place for you to store your dignity. It'll give it room to breathe"

"You know, any similarity between you and human is purely coincidental."

"Ya know, it's really great how you turn your sexual repression into humor."

Buffy rolled her eyes and turned around. Spike headed back into the kitchen. "She's completely off her bird."

"Yeah." Xander gave Spike's comment a minute of thought. "Huh?"

Buffy came into the kitchen. "I need some water."

Xander's senses stopped and all he could think and see was Buffy. "Oh Buffy!" he said with a smile.

"Yeah?"

"You beautiful, beautiful woman. I must have you!" Xander grabbed her hand.

"What?"

"You're the perfect woman and I must have you."

Buffy was disgusted. She hastily removed her hand from his. "What the hell's the matter with you?"

"I need you Buffy. I love you."

"What?" Buffy asked.

"What?!" Spike seconded.

"What the hell's wrong with him?" Buffy questioned Spike.

"I don't know."

"You Buffy. It's all you. You make me happy and I want to be happy with you," he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close, "forever." He moved in for a kiss.

Spike got off the stool and ripped Xander from Buffy, who was trying to push him away. "What's wrong with you?"

"I must have her Spike. I'm sorry but she's too close to my heart for me to give her up to you."

"You can't give her up to me if she was never yours."

"I'll fight you for her." Xander stood confidently.

"I'm not fighting you."

"Then she's mine," Xander said, looking at Buffy. He ran towards her. Buffy threw out her fist and happened to hit him in the jaw. He placed his hand on it and leaned against the counter. "Ow!" He rubbed it. "What was that?"

"Me punching you with my fist."

"Why?"

"Because you were trying to rape me in the kitchen."

"What? Why would I do that?"

"I don't know!" Buffy's thoughts raced. The pills. She ran upstairs.

Spike and Xander watched her run out and then looked at each other. "What the hell was that?" Spike asked.

"I don't know. I don't remember. What happened?"

"Once Buffy walked in here you started declaring your love for her and trying to shag her."

"I don't remember that at all," Xander said, very confused.

Upstairs Buffy raced into her room. She went to the box and opened it. "Oh no!"

"What?" Willow asked, rising from Buffy's bed.

"Two are missing."

"That's not good," Willow spoke, worried.

"I think I know where they went. Once Xander saw me he started talking about how he loved me and wanted to marry me. Then he kissed me."

"What?!"

"Exactly. But nothing happened to Spike. So, since we know now that it worked, I think Xander must've took two. The question is, which ones were they?" Buffy and Willow looked at each other with worry. They went down the stairs and clung to the wall in the hallway. Buffy listened in on Xander and Spike's conversation.

"No, I have no idea what happened," Xander said. "I swear. Why would I try to get with Buffy? She's your fiancée. Not to mention she isn't my type."

"Not your type?" Buffy whispered angrily. "Your standards are boobs and still breathing."

"Buffy, you're supposed to be happy. It was the moment pill."

"Yeah but that means the next woman he sees he'll fall in love with for a day or forever."

The front door opened. "Hey Buffy." It was Kari, Buffy's friend on the dance team. She had brown, curly hair to her shoulders and a size six body. She was wearing her spandex pants and sports bra still.

Buffy and Willow immediately jumped up and held her back from entering the kitchen. "Kari, what're you doing here?"

"You left your cd player in my car." Kari held up the shiny purple boombox.

"Oh thank you."

In the kitchen Spike and Xander heard the conversation. "Kari?" Xander said. "She's hot." Both got up from their seats.

"Well thank you, uh, let's go talk outside." Buffy pushed Kari out the door and her and Willow followed.

Spike and Xander didn't make it. The door was shut before they entered the hallway. "Bullox," Spike stated. Their heads turned to the back door. Someone entered.

"Hi Spike. Hi Xander."

"Hi Joyce," Spike greeted.