Xander and Cordelia were standing on Sunnydale's beach.

"So Cordy...what brings you back to old Sunny-D? How come Angel fired you?"

Cordy hesitated. "He fired everyone. He'll get over it, he always does."

"Well, excuse me for my bewilderment, but why come back here?"

"I miss you and I want you back!" she blurted out, then looked shocked at herself.

"No. No, I don't... Xander, I don't know what's happening to me!"

Something was up with Giles too. He realised. And Willow.

"I think I know what this is." he stated.

"What?"

"A love spell." he replied grimly.

"Oh God! Xander, have you been messing with the Black Arts again? That never works out well!"

"What? No!" said Xander, distracted as they started walking briskly back to the store, without doughnuts.

"You remember Anya?"

"The ex-demon that sent vampire Willow on me? sure."

"Well, I'm with Anya. I Love Anya. And I'm thinking of asking her to marry me." he finished, relieved at having spoken the last few words out loud.

"Oh." said Cordy. "You'd think that- because of the spell of course- I'd be jealous. But I'm not. I'm...pleased for you."

"I think the spells been lifted." agreed Xander. "Hey! Of course! Catherine said..."One by one the problems fade, when acceptance comes to aid!" I've accepted that Anya's the one for me, and you've accepted that too. The spell's lifted!

I just had my first logical theory. Giles isn't even here to look shocked..."

"Will the others be cured too?" Cordelia asked.

"No, wait, she said One by one. They need to resolve whatever issues they have. We should hurry. God knows what could have been going on all this time.

Xander was right. At the store all hell was breaking loose.

"Why did Xander leave?" Anya wailed at the top of her voice. "Why? Why!"

"Anya, shut up!" Willow exclaimed. "Xander would never stray with Cordelia, he loves me- you too much!"

Tara gave Willow another uncertain look.

Giles and Buffy were arguing at the counter.

"Giles! What is wrong with you? You just said you were proposing to Anya!"

"That's not Anya in there, it's-it's Jenny!" Giles shouted back at her.

Buffy flinched. Angel had turned evil and killed the only person Giles had ever loved, Jenny Calender, three years ago. It was partly her fault

She stopped yelling. "Giles...she's dead." she reminded him gently. "She's gone."

"I know that." Giles said, sinking to the floor. "She's gone." he repeated.

Buffy knelt down to comfort him.

Spike just looked around in amusement.

Xander and Cordelia walked in, unnoticed by all but Anya.

"Xander! You're back!" she exclaimed, hugging him tightly.

"Yeah, and I'm not going again anytime soon." he reassured her.

Willow and Tara started preparing for the ultimate binding spell, and their protection spell.

Willow began to list the ingredients. "Candles, check. Colcha Sand, check. Eye of N-"

"Willow!" Tara interrupted. "Are we okay? We, as in you and me?"

"Tara, of course! I love you!" Willow exclaimed, hurt, but then she realised why.

"What was going on about Xander before?" Tara asked.

"I don't know, I just..."

"It's a spell." said Xander, listening from behind.

"Xand, we know it's a spell, we're setting it up."

"No, he means it's a spell." said Anya helpfully. "What you said before. We're under a love-vengeance spell. He just told me. I tried something similar in Vietnam once. Those involved just tore themselves apart."

"Catherine..." realised Willow. "How do we break it? Counter it? If it helps, I'm not having Get-on-me feelings about you right now." she said, the last part directed at Xander.

"I should think not." commented Anya.

"It looks like you've already broken it. Resolved your emotional issues, whatever they were."

"Oh, they weren't anything." said Tara with a smile.

"Just some reassurance stuff." said Willow, taking her girlfriends hand and looking in her eyes.

"How are you doing Giles?" asked Buffy.

"I'm done." said Giles. "She's gone...I know that really." he sighed and cleaned his glasses.

"Wow, acceptance all round!" said Xander. "We've had some good times with spells, haven't we Cordy?"

Spike pieced together all of this information. Suddenly he understood. At last he could tell Buffy how he felt, with no consequences.

"Buffy, I love you!" he said to her, seriously.

She just looked at him in disgust.

"Right, that's enough." she said decisively. "No-one make Spike fall for me and gets away with it!"

"Hey!" said Willow, remembering a time the year before.

"Oh, except you Willow." she agreed. "But Catherine is going down."

"We're ready." said Tara. "Let's get started."

As the two witches worked their magick, Catherine was still in shock, still lying on the floor, far away.

Willow realised that she was weak. Which meant they had a good chance.

She smiled at Tara as she took her hands and they began to chant.

As the ritual began, Catherine's body disappeared in the same orange glow it had arrived in, It zoomed out of the house she was in, through the streets of Sunnydale and into the object Buffy had decided to bind her too.

It was a Magic Box item, marked "Witches Skull."

Willow muttered a few words of protection and handed the skull carefully to Buffy. She passed it to Spike.

"Bury this." she instructed him. "Don't drop it. Just in case..."

"You got it Slayer." he said and left, but waited outside the door. He could still hear snatches of their conversations.

"It's good to see you again Cordelia." Buffy told her. "Even under the circumstances. Tell Angel...Just make sure he keeps safe."

"Hey!" said Xander. "Spike never solved his problems with Buffy."

Buffy shuddered. "Xand, I don't think my problem's with him will ever be solved until he's dust."

"Does that mean his 'love' is still there?" asked Anya. "Or his feelings were never there, and he was pretending."

"Or they were always there." Spike muttered and walked away.

Better bury this hunk of junk. he realised.

Giles and Buffy sat alone in the empty shop.

Cordelia had went back to LA, saying something about how her ghost would miss her.

Xander and Anya, Willow and Tara had went home to "celebrate" the love they were now so certain they had.

"It looks like this vengeance ordeal is over." said Giles.

"Yeah." agreed Buffy. "That must have been tough on you today."

"No." contradicted Giles. "It was just a spell, an illusion. I know that, and I know that Jenny is at peace somewhere."

"She would deserve that. At least now we can rest."

"For now." Finished Giles.

Glory lay on a large bed surrounded by shopping bags and shoe boxes.

One of her minions came over to her.

"You summoned me, oh beautiful, radiant, wonderful Glorificus-ness?"

"Yes, I did." said Glory, with a fake smile.

"Just tell me where my key is!" she yelled into the night, her voice echoing over the houses of Sunnydale.