"Hey Dawn, how was school?" Buffy asked Dawn cheerfully.
"Pretty much the same really boring," Dawn said hating the thought of school.
Buffy was cleaning and cooking. She was really trying to keep her mind off of the one thing that she should be staying away from. For some reason the thought of getting caught was making this affair a little more exciting and yet she was still petrified that her friends would find out and be disgusted.
After dinner Dawn did her homework and went to bed. There Buffy was patrolling like she did ever other night. Only this time she was drawn to that certain part of the cemetary where Spike lived.
"I can't do this! I shouldn't do this!" Buffy told herself over and over again trying to stay away.
It was no use she was there standing in his doorway. Where was he? He said he would be here! She thought a little angry and disappointed. Buffy couldn't help it, she began looking around.
She found him downstairs sleeping in his bed. She tried fighting it but a smile creeped across her face.
"Hello? Look who is here," she said to get his attention and it worked.
"Come over here," he said right away "I've had a long day."
Willow lay in her nice warm bed that she once shared with woman she loved.
"How could I treat her that way?" she asked disgusted with herself.
"Willow, it will be okay she will forgive you," Dawn said "I couldn't help over hear and I just assumed I knew what was going on. She loves you and you love her things will fall into place, but you have to see eye to eye. She i just really worried about you. Believe me she is not the only one."
Willow's eyes filled with tears and they began to fall so fast. She knew that is was so wrong to continue down this path, but the magic was inside her and she just couldn't get control over it!
"I know what will happen if I don't stop. It's just so hard, Dawnie!" Willow began confessing everything she had inside "that's it! Magic is ruining my life and I am going to stop. Everything in this house that has to do with magic is going to be thrown out. I am going to get Tara back!"
Xander was looking for Buffy because they were supposed to go after that demon tribe when he realized she was nowhere to be found. He entered Spike's crypt knowing that Spike would know where she was seeing as how he was obsessed with her.
"Spike?" Xander asked as he walked through the dark and dank crypt, "are you here?"
He went down the ladder which led to his bedroom, but Buffy and Spike didn't hear him for obvious reasons. He began to hear strange noises.
"Spike are you down here?" Xander said pretty loud.
When Buffy had heard him she began panicing and jumped out of the bed and grabbed her clothes and hid in a corner. As Xander began asking Spike about Buffy's whereabouts her heart was pounding so hard that she was sure that Xander had heard it!
"No I don't know where she is. Why would I know anyway?" Spike acted as normal as he could and who would have thought he was such a good actor.
"Well, I just thought you would!" Xander hissed.
He made his way out and Spike took a deep breath even though he didn't need it. Buffy came out from behind the corner covered with a white sheet.
"Wow that was so close! I don't know what I would have done if he saw me," Buffy said shakily falling into his comforting arms.
"Don't worry I would have covered for you. I would never let anything happen to you," Spike said actually sounding like a boyfriend Buffy missed having. They just sat there holding each other.
Xander knocked on the front door to the Summers' home. Dawn answered the door because she knew that Willow was not in any condition to get out of bed.
"Hey Xander I thought you were going to patrol with Buffy tonight," Dawn said.
"Well, I went out looking for her but she was no where to be found. Can you believe that I actually thought to go to Spike's!" Xander said realizing how stupid he felt trying to go to Spike's to get answers.
No one knew where she was and they had no way of finding her. Dawn knew that Willow could do a guiding spell, but now that she was in a middle of a magical breakdown.
The next morning when Buffy came down the stairs Willow, Dawn, and Xander sat in the living room waiting for her. They all had that look that they were not going to let this rest. What am I going to tell them? She thought.