The spell in italics belongs to Charmed and the people who own that. It's taken from the episode 'Saving Private Leo'.

"Here it is." Buffy cried excitedly. "Can you read it?"

"Um yeah." Faith said squinting at the scene.

"You need to memorize it." Buffy replied.

"I'm trying, shh." Faith said mouthing the words over and over. "Ok, I got it." She said after a few minutes."

"You sure?" Buffy asked.

"Yes, where's Gideon?" Faith asked.

"Faith!" Buffy screamed.

"I'm right here B." Faith said confused waving her hand in front of her face.

"Faith where did you go?" Buffy called. "Where did I go?"

"Faith's dead Buffy, you killed her, like you killed them all." Gideon smirked.

"Get away from me." Buffy said taking a step back.

"What, and miss this trip down memory lane?" He asked smiling.

"The drugs wearing off, my strength will come back." Buffy declared hoping she sounded more confident than she was.

"It still wont save you." He smirked. "From me, or them."

"Them?" Buffy asked.

"Hello Lover." Angelus said stepping out of the shadows.

"B? What's happening to you?" Faith asked confused as she began fighting an invisible foe.

"Your not real." Buffy declared uneasily.

"Really?" He asked backhanding her. She fell to the ground bringing her hand up to her mouth and surprised to find it bleeding.

"What the hell?" Chris said as he watched Buffy's lip split and a trickle of blood flow down her cheek.

"She must be fighting Gideon." Kyle said warily. "Whatever happens to her in there must be happening to her in reality."

"I guess I'm more real than you'd like to think." Angelus laughed. "Here we are again, no friends, no weapons,"

"Your wrong." Buffy interrupted the all to familiar remark.

"Excuse me?" He asked.

"About the weapons." Buffy smirked pulling herself to her feet. "I am the weapon." She declared. Knocking him to the ground and holding out her hand. "Even more powerful than I once was." She added as an energy ball formed. "Think you can handle that Lover?" She asked blowing him up. "Bring it on Gideon, I can do this all day, you can't hurt me anymore, I'm over you."

"You haven't forgiven yourself." Gideon challenged.

"No, and I don't think I ever can but, that's because I'm good. I'll always feel guilty but, if I had to do it all over I'd snap you like twig again. I'm blonde, I'm not an idiot." Buffy replied calmly.

"What?" Gideon asked confused.

"You don't think I can tell my Whistler from the other one?" Buffy asked. "If I forgive myself, I play right into your hands, the firsts hands, I become less human. Now, I may have let the slayer makers give me power boost but, no matter how much demon they pump me with, it's my conscious that makes me human, makes me good. You can't mss with me anymore. I know how to stop you now, how to stop you both. Faith now!"

"I'm losing it or she is." Faith said shaking her head as she threw the potion the sisters gave her freeing them all.

"Gideon." Piper exclaimed.

"What! How?" Gideon sputtered.

"You messed with the wrong girl." Faith smirked. "Ashes to Ashes, Spirit to Spirit, Take his soul, banish this evil."

"NOOOO" Gideon cried as his soul was finally sucked into hell.

"What did you do!" Chris demanded furiously.

"Kicked his ass." Faith replied confused. "Hey it was B's idea."

"We needed him." Chris began as Buffy groaned stirring. "Buffy?"

"Chris." She sighed. "Did it work?"

"Like a charm." Faith replied.

"Now, we just have to get the first." Buffy coughed.

"Um Sorry B, but your not really in the shape to kick anyone's ass right now. We should regroup and take him out later." Faith replied.

"No, I'm not going to get better I have to do this now, if I don't it'll be able to stay here." Buffy wheezed.

"Your not dying." Chris insisted.

"Phoebe." Buffy called ignoring his statement.

"Yeah?" Phoebe asked unsurely.

"I'm sorry." Buffy said cryptically.

"Huh?" Phoebe asked confused. "Sorry for what?"

"This." Buffy said letting her guard down for the first time since she'd been called.

"What?" Phoebe began stumbling backwards as the emotions hit her.

"Phoebe?" Cole said concerned reaching for her as she fell to the ground clutching her head.

"What's going on?" Paige asked worriedly.

"I think she's channeling Buffy's emotions." Piper replied.

"She can't." Paige replied confused.

"She can if Buffy let's her." Piper replied.

"Phoebe." Cole called reaching out to touch her but before he could he was thrown away by an invisibles force.

"What's going on?" Paige asked worriedly.

"She can't handle it, We need to make Buffy stop." Cole shouted getting up.

"Yes she can." Piper said slowly making her way over to her fallen sister. "Phebes, come on, Phoebe look at me."

"Piper." Phoebe said working her way through the haze. "It hurts, it hurts so much."

"I know sweetie. Paige get your ass over here." Piper ordered. "You need to focus, We'll help you."

"You can't help me, no weapons, no friends..." Phoebe began crying out in pain.

"B, said something about that she was the weapon." Faith offered helpfully.

"The first, it's tied to Buffy through her emotions." Leo began realizing.

"Like our powers?" Piper asked confused.

"Yes, well no, like it said before, her rage gave it it's hold on this plane." Leo replied. "So, if Buffy's emotions brought it here."

"Only her emotions can send it back." Kyle finished for him. "It's brilliant why didn't we think of it. It's not a physical battle. But her bodies to weak to take it on even at an emotional level so she needs Phoebe to Chanel her emotion."

"Focus Phoebe." Piper demanded. "You can do this." She said taking her hand ad Paige grabbed the other.

"Your not alone." Paige added as Phoebes eyes flew open.

""You left me." Phoebe said furious. "You promised not to."

"Huh?" Paige asked confused.

"You said we'd always be together." Phoebe continued. "That's right" The first whispered evilly as Phoebe pulled her hands from her sisters and slowly stood. "Come now, embrace it, feel the rage." It dared.

"You lied!" She screamed holding out her hand as the others watched shocked by the energy ball that materialized there.

"Aunt Phoebe?" Chris asked nervously.

"You left me. Just like all the others." Phoebe continued.

"That's it, he hurt you, now hurt him back." The first laughed.

"How could you do that to me, you left me all alone." Phoebe screamed. "You forgot me."

"No, I didn't." Chris said realizing what was going on. "I'm here now, I didn't forget you."

"It hurts." Phoebe said as the energy ball faded as she closed her fist. "It hurts so much."

"It isn't working." Piper said nervously watching as the firsts form began to solidify slowly.

"Phoebe is to distracted by her pain, her anger, it feeds off that." Leo replied.

"But, I'm here now." Chris insisted. "We're together now."

"He betrayed you, just like Angel, like your friends, like Dawn." The first taunted.

"We need to get her to focus." Paige said worriedly.

"Chris." Buffy moaned. "Chris you need to finish it for me."

"Buffy?" Chris said concerned looking from Phoebe to her. "What do I do? I don't know how to help."

"You can do it, not because you're a powerful witch, son of a charmed one and an elder, because your you, the strongest person I know ." Buffy sighed sleepily she couldn't hold on much longer.

"Stop stealing my lines." Chris said with a sad smile.

"At least I didn't call you a vapid blonde cheerleader." Buffy said smirking.

"Not one of my finer moments." Chris laughed softly.

"And I haven't accused you of trying to get me killed." Buffy continued smiling.

"Ok, I'm an ass." Chris said shaking his head. "Now that we all know, can we move on."

"But you're my ass." Buffy said smiling softly.

"And I always will be." Chris said sadly as she struggled for breath.

"He's doing it." Piper whispered as they watched Phoebe slowly turn to face the first and hold her hands out in front of her. "I don't understand why, or how but whatever it is it's working." The first was starting to fade.

"Your not always an ass." Buffy said struggling to hang on. "Sometimes you do the sweetest things that make forget your assiness."

"Assiness isn't a real word." Chris pointed out.

"Says who?" Buffy challenged.

"Says the world." Chris replied shaking his head.

"Ahh, the world doesn't know as much as it thinks it does." She laughed. "Anyways what was I saying. Oh yeah, you do the sweetest things like showing up in my jail cell."

"Well, I had to visit my favorite felon." Chris teased.

"Hah, if I recall correctly, you were wanted by the Police as well." Buffy replied.

"What can I say, were both dangerous criminals." Chris laughed brushing a stray strand of hair out of her face. "Bright side maybe we could be cell mates."

"I don't know, the two of us trapped in a tiny room, that could get messy." Buffy replied chuckling softly.

"Really?" Chris asked teasingly.

"Mind out of the gutter magic boy, not messy like that," Buffy said blushing slightly.

"If you say so." Chris smirked.

"See this is what I'm talking about, the assiness." Buffy began.

"Buffy." Chris interrupted.

"What?" She asked annoyed.

"You talk to much." Chris said smiling.

"Now who's stealing who's." Buffy began but was cut off by his lips meeting hers.

"I love you Buffy." Chris said breaking the kiss.

"I love you too." Buffy said a single tear rolling down her cheek.

"Hey, no crying remember." Chris said wiping it away.

"I remember." She said her gaze locked on his. They were so lost in each other that neither noticed the First cry of pain as it was banish from their plane. They didn't notice the panic that ensued after Kyle informed the group she had but a few moments to live, he could sense her life ending.

"What do we do?" Piper asked tearfully.

"I don't know." Kyle sighed. "Gideon's gone and, Leo?" He asked confused by the expression on his brother in laws face.

"I made a deal." Leo muttered orbing out without explanation leaving everyone confused.

"I can help you." A voice said causing them all to turn. "You can save her, there is a way."