Chapter 2. Enchanted.

"How?" She aks herself then begins to walk around and finds her way to Xander's car as Dawn is closing the door. Katharine walks over to the driver's seat and waves her hand over his face and he doesn't move. "This is not good." She runs back to where she was and tries to grab her papers that are floating in the air. As soon as she grabs them and moves out of the way from the biker, time resumes.

The biker hits a bench and falls off his bike. Everyone turns around to see what just happened to the biker. Xander and Dawn from the car see the biker, then they see Katharine, who is walking away from the incident.

"Hey, that was our new substitute teacher," says Dawn.

"I saw her, too," says Xander. "I bumped into her when I was trying to get your lunch bag to you."

Katharine makes it to her car and drives off. She makes it to her house and it's a house on Revello Drive. Katharine sighs as she enters her house and leans on the door. She throws her stuff on the sofa and heads for the kitchen for something to eat. The phone rings startling her.

"Oh, I hope it's a wrong number," says Katharine as she walks over to the phone. "I'm not in the mood to talk to anyone right now." She picks up the phone. "Hello." The person speaks, but she doesn't know them. "Sorry, wrong number." She hangs up and realizes something, then quickly ignores it.

Katharine walks over to the living room and sees all her papers on the sofa, a complete mess. She looks at them for a second.

"Organize," says Katharine to herself. Nothing happens. Her theory is wrong. Everything that she is thinking could have all been a coincidence. Maybe. The frozen front courtyard at school, maybe she is hallucinating. She flops on the sofa next to her stuff. "I guess I'll have to do this the old fashioned way to get these papers in order."

Suddenly, her papers start to flutter around rapidly. She moves away from the sofa and watches as all her messed up papers fall on top of her coffee table in a nice neat pile. Katharine slowly walks over to the table and picks the pile up.

"It's all in order." Now her theory is proven right. She is the one responsible for the strange stuff happening lately since she turned 23. Katharine Lee has more than the ability teach, she has the power to say something and it happens. "Remote." The remote on top of the TV floats over to her hand. "This could come in handy."


Meanwhile at the Summers residence, Buffy enters her house with dinner from a pizza place.

"Honey, I'm home," says Buffy.

Xander comes from the living room with a big grin and attempts to kiss Buffy again. Buffy pulls away and pushes the pizza boxes on him.

"I was just testing it," says Xander.

"Sorry, didn't work."

Dawn and Willow come down the stairs and grab the pizzas from Xander's hands. Buffy and Xander shrug and follow them to the dining room. Dawn pulls out the soda from the frig and Willow brings over the cups and napkins.

"So, Xander told us you kissed him, Buffy," says Willow. "It was about time."

"Xander," says Buffy, glaring at him.

"I may have elaborated a little on the story," says Xander with a lopsided grin.

"You're sleeping on the sofa today."

"Don't I always?"

"Oh, right." Buffy sits down at the dinner table with the others. "So, anything else happen today? Dawn, your day was normal?"

"Yeah, normal as can be," says Dawn. "Why?"

"Buffy thinks that me kissing her was all mystical stuff from the Hellmouth," says Xander.

"Is it?" asks Willow. "Were you like possessed."

"No, I was me, but not me," says Buffy.

"Me, too," says Xander. "I mean, not that I never actually thought of doing what I just did."

"Do we have a doghouse?"

"Okay, Buff, I get it. No more me drooling about you."

"You could always flatter me to make me feel better."

"Nah, messing with you is much more fun."

"Oh, for goodness sake you two," says Dawn. "Stop arguing like an old married couple."

"She started," says Xander.

"Did not," says Buffy.

"STOP!" says Dawn.

Willow laughs at the scene. She sees this as a very strange, but fun family eating dinner together. Xander and Buffy are mom and dad and Dawn and herself are the kids. It's one of those priceless moments.


Back at Katharine's house, she is already learning to use her powers pretty well. It's in the word choice and only the right word will make the magic work. Her whole bedroom is being reorganized by her saying that word to the room. It's truly amazing.

"I could get used to this," says Katharine to herself. "Tomorrow is going to be a fun day." Katharine sits back on her bed. "Stop."

Everything in the room freezes. She laughs and then she grabs some paper from the air. Katharine reads whom the paper is from.

"Dawn Summers." It's the homework assignment she picked up at the beginning of her first class. The main topic of the homework was Romeo and Juliet had an incredible romantic tale. They were truly destined to be. Compare a couple real or fictional that you believed have a destined path together. Dawn writes.

'I don't know if a romance like Romeo and Juliet can really happen for anyone in this day and time, but the closest comparison that I see is my sister and her best friend Xander Harris. They are sometimes so cute. If only…I guess I can only dream. Xander is a great guy for my sister and he makes her smile. I'm pretty sure Romeo did that for Juliet.'

Katharine stops and realizes that perhaps this Xander guy she had bumped into is really with Dawn's sister, Buffy Summers. She could never compare to the blonde beauty. The good ones are always taken. She sighs and puts the paper down.

"Lights off," says Katharine.


The next day, Katharine felt a little better with her new powers. She walks up to the school with no worries at all.

"Wind open door," she says silently. The door to the school opens as some gust of wind blows right through.

She enters the class with a smile and everyone stares at her. Katharine puts her stuff on the desk. She begins to feel a little nervous having the class staring at her. Perhaps she is over confident.

"So, anyone want candy?" asks Katharine. Suddenly a bag of candy appears in her purse. She pulls it up and shows it to her class. The whole class rushes over to her desk to grab some candy. Dawn is the last one and looks at her substitute teacher. She notices something different about her.

"Dawn, don't you want any?" asks one of her classmates.

"Sure," says Dawn as she grabs one of the chocolate bars. She still stared at Katharine wondering something, but then decides to ignore it.

As Dawn walks out the door of her first class, she sees Katharine walking down the hallway. She follows her for a while then sees the bathroom door open automtically for her as she enters the bathrooms. Dawn's eyes shoot open and she begins to think that her sub could be something other than just a sub.

After school, Dawn heads over to Buffy's office. Buffy is surprised to see Dawn there. She stands up and walks over as she approaches her.

"Dawn, what…" says Buffy.

"Buffy, I think that my substitute teacher is a witch," says Dawn.

"Now, Dawn, just because she gave you a bad grade doesn't make her a witch."

"It's not that. She actually likes my work, but…"

"Dawn, listen, I know we all need to be on our toes, but we can't just point the finger at the first person we don't like. Oh, my gosh. I sound like Giles."

"Buffy, I can prove it, okay?"

"Dawn…"

"I'm keeping an eye on her." Dawn leaves the office. She starts looking around for Katharine. Dawn finally finds her as she's exiting the school. She catches Katharine looking at Xander getting out of the car. Then she sees that Xander spots her and is about to call out to her, when he suddenly turns away from where he is walking and turns to see Katharine.

"Hey, we meet again," says Xander as he approaches Katharine, who blushes a little. "Katharine, right?"

"Yeah," says Katharine.

"Alexander Harris, it's my name, but my friends call me Xander."

"I like that. Xander."

"Thanks."

Dawn walks over to the two and coughs really loudly. Xander turns to look at Dawn.

"Xander, I have a lot of homework," says Dawn. "Could you please take me home?"

"Oh, sorry, Dawn," says Xander. "Gotta go." Xander smiles at Katharine, then Dawn gives her a mean look as she pulls Xander away from her. "Dawn, hold up."

When they reach the car, Dawn turns to Xander. Before she says anything, she makes sure that Katharine is long gone.

"Xander, I think my substitute teacher, Katharine, is a witch and she maybe putting a wammy on you and everyone," says Dawn.

"Dawn, no way," says Xander. "She's attracted to me…Oh GOD. You're right. Why me?" Xander hits his head on the top part of the car.

"Xander, it's okay. We so need to keep an eye on her."

"Maybe we should tell Buffy…"

"I already did and she doesn't believe me. Let's just take care of it ourselves."

"Dawn, we need to…"

"Come on, Xander, please." Dawn gives him a little puppy eyed face and he falls for it every time. "Let's follow her."

Xander and Dawn follow Katharine to her house. From afar, they enter the same street that Buffy lives on and see that she lives about five houses away.

"She lives close by. She's definitely evil. Let's get Willow on this to help us."