Buffy stormed inside her house looking around for Dawn. "Dawn! Come here please!"

Dawn emerged from the kitchen holding a cheese pizza in one hand and a can of soda in the other. "What?" Her mouth was full and it was hard to understand a word she was saying.

Buffy however understood the Donnie language perfectly. "Dawn where's Giles? I need to speak to him."

Dawn swallowed the piece in her mouth; "Oh he's helping Anya at her apartment. Something to do with Xander. I wasn't really paying attention. What's up? Where's Willow?"

Buffy replied, " Willow is at the Bronze. I need to find Giles so I can..." Buffy realized she was about to tell her little sister something that should be only known privately between Willow, Giles, and herself.

Dawn bit into the pizza trying not to spill the stringy cheese on the carpet, "So you can what?"

Buffy knew she had said to much, "Forget it. I'll be back Dawn." Buffy opened the door and started to walk out but Dawn stood in front of her

She argued, " I want to know! What's wrong with Willow? I deserve to know this stuff. I'm 16!"

Buffy remembered her promise to Dawn in the hole and she closed the door behind her. "Fine. I'll tell you but you can't tell the others. This is supposed to be a secret so the-first can't find anything new to torture us about."

Dawn rolled her eyes, "Buffy I'm not about to go and say, 'I've got a secret but I'm not telling.' Come on Buffy. I'm a teenager not a toddler."

Buffy walked into the living room and sat on the comfy couch that stood in the open. "Leave the food in the kitchen."

Dawn placed the pizza on the kitchen counter with the soda can placed to the left of it. She walked back into the living room and plopped on the couch by Buffy, "So, What happened."

Buffy took a long breath, "There's something messing with Willow's brain. Making her think it's her fault for killing Tara."

Dawn shrugged, "Well it's happened before. Do you think Amy is messing with her again?"

Buffy shook her head, "No. Willow is having nightmares. It has nothing to do with wicca stuff. This is some other force messing with her and I need to find out what it is."

Dawn stood up and paced about the room the way she usually does when thinking really hard, "Maybe the-first is doing this."

Buffy sighed, "Maybe but I can't just let this go. If it isn't the first I need to find out who it is, and sitting on my but waiting for Willow to get better is not going to help things."

Dawn nodded, "Then go find Giles. He's better than me at the whole research stuff."

Buffy stood up and faced Dawn, "Dawn, you can do some stuff to. I need you to go on the net and try to find demons who focus on mind control. Can you do that?"

Dawn smiled, "Duh! I'm Watcher Jr. I can do anything."

Buffy rolled her eyes. "The next time I hear you say that I will personally turn that expression around."

Dawn looked down in disappointment, "Ok. See you when you get back." Dawn ran into the kitchen and began to munch on her piece of pizza again.

Buffy walked out the door sniffing the fresh breeze of the Sunnydale air. She walked among the many blocks of houses where people tended to their gardens, argued among each other, or sent their kids to Bible school. Anya's apartment came in sight and Buffy approached it hoping no demon would answer the door with Anya's frail body in his arms. She rung the bell and waited impatiently for the door to open.

After a few long 30 seconds of waiting, the door swung open and Buffy found with her relief, Anya smiling her usual way.

Buffy smiled back, "Hi Anya."