It had been storming for the past hour, the lights had been out for five minutes and all the slayer wanna-be's had been freaking and Dawn had all the candles in her room, Spike had given Dawn his lighter, and Buffy had sent her after the candles and a flashlight.
"I'm coming Buffy, I couldn't find the flashlight, it was buried under a pile of your clothes," Dawn announced as Buffy watched a ray of light appear from her room and bounce down the stairs. She handed Buffy the flashlight and went into the living room and dumped an armload of candles on the couch in Xander's lap.
"Ouch!" Xander yelled.
"Sorry! I didn't see you," Dawn told him then took a candle and lit it with Spikes lighter. Now that they had some source of light they could all see that Buffy had disappeared, Spike hovered above Dawn for a second and told everyone that he'd be right back.
As Dawn lit the second and third candles everyone could plainly see Spike walking into the kitchen and over to the basement door.
"How's it going down there pet?" Spike hollered down the stair to Buffy.
"Not so good, I found the box but the lights won't come on no matter what I do, I think a pole was struck somewhere," Spike heard Buffy holler back up the steps.
"Alright, just come on up and we'll have Dawn light a bunch of candles to keep the place well lit," Spike said as he watched Buffy's beam of light head towards the bottom of the stairs and start heading up them.
Dawn watched the two of them walk back into the living room and give the news that tonight they'd be without electric. Never a good thing in a storm.
A couple hours later Dawn lay in the floor playing go fish with Willow and Kennedy, she looked around the room and saw most of the slayerettes passed out in random spots on the floor. Anya and Xander were missing, but everyone knew where they were, Buffy was sitting on the couch with Spike talking strategies and how to get the lights back on.
"BOOM!" the lighting made everyone that was awake jump, then they all jumped again when someone knocked on the door.
Everyone of the scoobies was there, could it be a new slayer? At this time of night? It was almost four in the morning. Buffy and Spike got up and headed towards the doors as what seemed like one person, moving perfectly in time with each other. Buffy pulled the door open with Spike standing right beside her and Dawn directly behind the two of them.
When the door opened, you could see Dawn's jaw drop from a mile away. Buffy, was amazed at what stood before her. And Spike was just plain confused, along with everyone else in that entire house.