Anya had offered to go to the Magic Box. She thought she understood why they weren't opening today, and despite the long line of customers who tried to get in when she opened the front door she told them all to go away. Using those exact words. She was sure that Xander would be proud of her, their friend was sick and they wanted her to get better – somehow keeping the shop closed would help with that.

She went right to the back of the store to meet the delivery guy and signed for the boxes. She had no idea what was in them, they'd ordered a whole bunch of stuff including some new lines that she had assured Giles would be big sellers. It was her job to count and check in everything that had arrived. She didn't mind – it would lead to more profit and maybe a pay rise. Besides, Xander would be at the hospital all day; she was helping by staying out of his way.

As she took stock of the crystal balls, the lucky charms, the tarot cards, the spell books, she noticed something odd. There was something missing that had arrived yesterday which she had personally had a problem with the Magic Box having in stock. She'd told Giles and he said she was over reacting and used a lot of British terms that she didn't really listen to because she knew she was right. If someone had gotten a hold of this who shouldn't then she would personally hold Giles responsible.

When Giles came to collect Buffy to take her to the hospital that night, he did so whilst arguing with Anya.

"Anya would you please stop talking about this, it's utter nonsense."

"Look, all I'm saying is that this might not be a coincidence."

"What happened to Willow was a, a terrible tragedy, but it was down to a robbery gone wrong, not some enchanted old keepsake."

"Enchanted old keepsake?" Anya was staring at Giles in a manner that made him feel as if he were wearing a tie that was getting tighter around his neck so that he was finding it hard to breathe.

"Ok, so it, it's a little more than that," Buffy appeared in the car beside Anya and neither she nor Giles acknowledged that Buffy had sat down.

"A little more than that? Giles – did you not listen to me?"

"Everything ok here?" Giles looked at Buffy for the first time and seemed relieved that she was there.

"Yes, everything's fine – Anya has a rather far fetched theory about the cause of Willow's accident this morning."

"What kind of theory?" Anya interrupted before Giles could even try to make her idea seem as crazy as it sounded.

"Something from the delivery we had at the shop today was missing."

"What was it? What does it have to do with Willow?"

"It was the key of Boubasa."

"Key of what now?" at this point Giles jumped in to explain.

"It's rumored to have been used to lock witches in their cells in Salem during the witch trials."

"Who's Boobooso?"

"Boubasa. He was a renegade witch hunter. He used some rather terrible methods in getting people to confess to being witches. Not a nice chap."

"Giles only you could describe someone like that using the words 'not a nice chap', I'm so glad I'm not British," Giles looked at Anya and tried to ignore her glaring at him as Buffy continued her enquiry.

"So, are we saying this might have something to do with Willow? Someone made something happen with this key?"

"Well the key is supposed to be enchanted with the dying words of Boubasa. He claimed that he would never allow the world to exist with witches walking along side the rest of the population."

"Giles, why did you want this in the Magic Box?"

"Well I wasn't going to sell it, besides – it's been used by novices for decades, no one's ever been able to use it to do anything – good or evil."

"We should look into it, we know nothing about what happened to the get away car this morning, where they'd come from or what they stole."

"But the Magic Box wasn't broken into, everything was secure when Anya got there this morning…"

"Actually, the delivery door wasn't locked. If I had known this was important I'd have mentioned it earlier so you wouldn't keep insisting that I was crazy," Giles swallowed heavily trying to remove the lump in his throat and then he looked at Buffy.

"Oh dear."