Chapter 52: Once Upon A Time

Since Piper's almost wedding Buffy had been sleeping with Piper trying to comfort her.

Buffy shakes Piper trying to wake her up from the nightmare she is having.

Piper sits up and looks to Buffy, "Leo's not coming back."

"My sister, it was just a bad dream." Buffy says.

Piper starts crying. "No, it wasn't, it was real. I don't understand why they are doing this to us? It's like destroying lives is how they amuse themselves."

Buffy sighs knowing how Piper feels. Both of them had lost men they had fallen in love with. "It'll be alright, Piper." She pulls her cousin into an embrace and hugs Piper till they fall back asleep.

The next day Buffy is on the phone, "Pheebs, it's me."

"Buffy tell Prue I will have her car home momentarily." Phoebe says.

Buffy shakes her head, "Phoebe, I am not calling about the car, I'm calling about Piper. Look, um, she had this dream about Leo and maybe I'm overreacting but I've never seen her like this. Me sure, Piper never. It-it's like she's completely given up."

"What kind of dream about Leoooo!" Phoebe says. "I'm fine, car's fine. I'll see you later. Bye."

Later in the kitchen Phoebe and the girl she almost ran over (Kate) are there. Kate's sitting at the table still holding the box. Phoebe places a cup hot chocolate and a plate of cookies on the table.

Phoebe smiles, "Okay, you just have to be very careful because it's hot, so blow on it, okay?"

Buffy, Prue and Piper stand at the doorway.

"Hey, did you find out anything more from her?" Prue asks.

"Name, rank and serial number." Phoebe says.

"Uh, her parents are on their way, they live up the street." Piper says. "They were very worried about you."

Phoebe nods, "I gotta go to the car and get her jacket." She walks over to the key hook. "Uh, keys?"

"What?" Prue asks.

"You know, silver shiny things that go jingle jingle." Phoebe says.

"I don't have them." Prue says.

Phoebe sighs, "That's so weird. I put them up here."

Kate nods, "The fairies probably hid them."

"What was that?" Buffy asks.

"Sorry, I'm not supposed to talk about fairies." Kate says.

Phoebe smiles, "Um, you know what? In this house you can talk about anything you want. Sometimes we talk about weird things too."

Kate nods, "Well, that's what fairies do. Hide your keys and things. They're tricky like that."

Buffy nods, "Um, is that what's in that box? Is it a fairy? Is that who you're protecting?"

The doorbell rings. Buffy goes to answer it.

"That's probably your mom and your dad." Piper says.

Kate shakes her head, "He's not my dad. He's just my mom's new husband."

In the foyer Buffy opens the door.

"Hi, we're Kate's parents." Kate's mom says.

"Is she alright?" Kate's step-dad asks.

Buffy nods, "Yeah, she's fine. I mean, she scraped her arm a little bit but mostly she's just scared."

Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Kate walk in the foyer.

"Kate." Kate's step-dad says.

Kate frowns, "Get out of the doorway."

"Kate..." Kate's mom says.

"It's an in-between, get out of the in-between." Kate says.

Buffy frowns, "What's an in-between?"

"It's where the trolls are." Kate says.

"Honey, we've had this conversation before. You're a big girl and it's time to stop believing in things like that. She's had some problems since her father and I divorced. Regressed sort of back to the imaginary friend stage." Kate's mom said.

Kate's step-dad nods, "Look, uh, we should go, it's late. Thank you again for everything."

Kate shakes her head, "They'll get us."

Kate's step-dad smiles, "I won't let them. It's okay." He picks up Kate and she sees a troll hanging onto the door frame.

"Look, there it is." Kate says as her step dad carries her outside.

"Thank you." Kate's mom said.

Prue nods, "You're welcome."

Later Buffy, Prue, Piper and Phoebe are in the kitchen.

Piper's making some coffee. "Come on, Phoebe, trolls and fairies? You don't believe that stuff."

Phoebe shrugs, "Sure, why not?"

"Did someone tell her about Santa?" Buffy asks.

Phoebe sighs, "All I know is something was definitely after her."

"But you didn't see anything?" Piper asks.

Phoebe shakes her head, "No, but how else did she get hurt?"

"How about she fell down and scratched herself." Buffy says.

Phoebe shakes her head, "No, Buffy, they weren't scratches, they were claw marks."

Piper sighs, "If they were, you would've seen what had clawed her. Why are you being so stubborn about this?"

"Because I'm a Scorpio. What's yours and Buffy's excuses?" Piper says.

Prue shakes her head, "Okay, so it's kind of late and, um, we're all a bit tired so how about we finish up tomorrow?"

Phoebe sighs, "Now look what you two did. You went and turned Prue into the middle child."

Buffy shakes her head, "Okay, Phoebe, even if fairies and trolls do exist, you heard what her mom said, the problems started when her father left. That's psychology not magic."

Phoebe sighs, "I know. But you know what? I'm gonna check the Book Of Shadows just incase. 'Cause I don't wanna be out stubborned by a Capricorn or a Gemini."

The next day the phone rings Buffy goes to answer it, "Hello?"

"Hey Payson, right? It's Cole Turner. Is Phoebe there?" Cole says.

"Sure just a second." Buffy says and puts her hand over the phone, "PHOEBE, PHONE!" Phoebe runs downstairs holding onto the drawings. "It's your little lawyer boyfriend."

Phoebe hands her the drawings and Buffy hands her the phone. "So there. And he is not my boyfriend."

Buffy looks at the drawings as she walks into the living room where Piper is sitting. She hands the drawings to Piper. "Seems you guys had quite the imagination."

Prue comes down the stairs.

Piper and Buffy come out of the living room.

"Uh, really, uh, well..." Phoebe says into the phone. Buffy and Piper puts on their coats. Prue motions Phoebe to hurry. "Um, actually tonight's not good because Piper's going through something but I will call you and maybe we can meet at the club." Prue snatches the phone off of Phoebe. "Sorry, bye." Piper grabs her keys and Prue and Phoebe stand in front of her. "Did you not look at those drawings?"

Piper nods, "They're cute, yes."

Buffy nods, "Yeah it is cute. Even I used to draw when I was little. But all that proves is you drew the same thing."

Phoebe sighs, "Cute? Cute? We all had the same invisible fairy friend, Piper. That is proof that fairies exist."

Buffy and Piper tries to walk around them but Prue and Phoebe don't let them.

"Buffy's right all it proves is that one of us had a really fertile imagination and the other two were really big copycats." Piper says.

Prue shakes her head, "Okay, Piper, Buffy, just listen to me, okay. Um, we think that Kate is in trouble, our kind of trouble."

Buffy shakes her head, "Okay, well, we don't."

Piper nods, "And after what they did to Leo, I'm not really all that motivated to go dig up demons for them."

"Trolls." Phoebe says.

Buffy sighs, "Whatever."

Piper nods, "Look, you guys can do whatever you want but I've had it and I'm done. If Buffy wants to help I won't stop her either."

Buffy looks to Piper, right now she knows her place is helping Piper.

"What does that mean?" Prue asks.

Piper nods, "It means that the "powers that be" haven't done anything but ruin my life so therefore I'm not gonna do anything for them anymore, okay. I'm going now, excuse me, I'm going now." She pushes past them and leaves.

"Wait up, Piper." Buffy says as she looks to Prue and Phoebe. "Right now Piper needs me more than Kate. This deal with Leo is hitting to close to home for her. And out of all of us I think I understand what she's going through better than you two. So I'm going to go help her." She turns and walks out the door.

Later at PAYSON'S the place is nearly empty. People are leaving. Prue and Phoebe, acting like children, are on stage singing songs. Buffy and Piper walks down the stairs and is shocked by what they see.

"Oh my Goddess." Buffy says.

"If you're happy and you know it clap your hands. If you're happy and you know it pat your knee." Prue and Phoebe sings as they pat their knee. "If you're happy and you know it pat your knee."

"You guys have got to do it." Phoebe says.

Prue and Phoebe continue singing.

Buffy and Piper walks up to Abby.

"What the hell is going on?" Piper asks.

Abby shakes her head, "You think this is bad? You should've been here for Frere Jacques. They've been acting like kids since they got here. I didn't serve them, I swear."

Buffy nods, "Alright, put on some music, any music and kill that microphone." She and Piper walks over to Prue and Phoebe.

Phoebe smiles, "Hi."

"Hi. Lost your minds?" Piper asks.

Prue smiles, "Buffy, Piper, we have been waiting and waiting and waiting..."

Phoebe nods, "Yeah, and you know what we did? We saw a fairy and she was very cute and she was sparkly and she was really, really pretty."

Piper freezes everyone. "Okay, what ass-backward spell did you guys cast?"

Prue shakes her head, "We-we-we didn't cast a spell."

Phoebe nods, "No, it is true, we did not cast a spell but we did use fairy dust."

Buffy rolls her eyes, "Fairy dust?"

"Yep." Phoebe says.

"Okay, great, so you can go home now and reverse it, Tinkerbell." Piper says.

Phoebe shakes her head, "No, no, no. No, I am not a fairy. She thought I was a... We have to show them. Okay."

Phoebe pulls a small pouch out of her pocket and they get a pinch of fairy dust out of it.

"Ready? Okay, go." Prue says.

Phoebe smiles, "One, two, three."

They throw the fairy dust in Piper and Buffy's faces and they sneeze.

"What the hell did you do that for?" Piper asks.

"Yeah what did you do that for?" Buffy asks.

Phoebe frowns, "Dat did not work."

Piper shakes her head, "No. Work, that's a very good idea. I'm gonna get back to work now." She unfreezes everyone and she and Buffy walks away. Prue and Phoebe follow them.

"Oh, you know what? You are being a big, big, big, extra, extra, extra, double big jerk right now." Phoebe says as a strand of hair is on Prue's face and she tries to grab it with her tongue. "Because now I have the key," she shows the key hanging around her neck, "so Thistle is safe and we have to be back with Kate at midnight so when the trolls attack..."

Piper shakes her head, "No. You guys are going home and you're not driving either 'cause someone will think you're drunk or something. So go outside and wait there and I will call a cab."

Buffy nods in agreement, "Yeah you two really need to reverse that spell."

"Oh..." Prue says.

Piper frowns, "Shh shh, no."

Phoebe plays with the zipper on her jacket.

Prue starts whining. "Why are you two being so meeeaan?"

"Because I don't want you to..." Piper says as Phoebe hugs her. "Stop it." Phoebe kisses her on the cheek. "You're trying to trick me into ending my strike." Prue hugs her as well.

Buffy shakes her head, "Guys."

Piper sighs, "And it's not gonna work. You guys go home. Scoot. Go home. Scoot. And you go home and you reverse this ridiculous behavior."

Prue and Phoebe let go of Piper and walk towards the door. They turn around and stick their tongues out at Piper and Buffy. They walk through the doorway.

Buffy sits at the bar, "Abby can I get a coke."

"Sure, Payson." Abby says.

Piper walks around the bar to the cash register and find Leo's Valentines Day card under the cash register. She looks at it and then puts it back under the register.

Buffy sighs as Abby hands her a coke, "It'll be alright, Piper."

Piper nods and grabs a tray. She starts picking up wine glasses. Buffy grabs another tray and starts helping Piper to clean up.

Suddenly Piper trips and drops the tray. She bends down and picks up the glass and cuts her finger on the glass. "Ow!"

Buffy sets her tray down on the bar and walks over to Piper, "You okay?"

Piper nods, "Just cut my finger."

Abby walks up to Buffy and Piper holding the phone. "Hey, Piper, your sister's..." she sees the mess, "on the phone."

Piper nods, "Perfect." She takes the phone. Abby and Buffy helps clean up the mess. "It's okay, I'll get it, I'll get it, it's alright." Piper walks up to the bar and wraps a napkin around her finger. "You need a diaper change?"

"Very funny. Look, we need you and Buffy to come home right away by midnight or else..." Phoebe says.

Piper shakes her head, "The tooth fairy's gonna come and harass us all for not flossing?"

"Alright, I know you don't believe in fairy's and I'm not asking you to..." Phoebe says.

Piper sighs, "Then what are you asking?"

Buffy gets up and walks over to Piper, "What's up?"

Piper moves the phone so Buffy can hear.

"We were trying to distract you before, we were trying to take your mind off of Leo, okay. And it was wrong and I'm sorry for that but it's not about that anymore, Piper. We are up against something that we can not fight without you or Buffy."

"Trolls." Piper says.

"Trolls?" Buffy asks looking at Piper. "Tell me you aren't buying this."

Phoebe sighs, "Believe it or don't but they are sneaky and mean and they are trying to hurt a seven year old girl." Piper looks around the club. "Hello?"

"Any chance they may have been here?" Piper asks.

"Yeah, one attacked me there earlier. Why?" Phoebe asks.

Piper shakes her head, "Nothing."

"Alright, look, they know that we're witches and they will do anything to stop us from helping Kate." Phoebe says.

Piper sighs, "Alright, we're on our way."

"Okay, well, don't forget to stay out of the..." Phoebe says as Piper hangs up.

Piper grabs her purse and looks for her keys. "Buffy, Abby, have either of you seen my keys?"

Buffy shakes her head, "Not since we arrived."

Abby shakes her head, "Aren't they on the hook?"

"No, if they were on the hook I wouldn't be asking." Piper says.

Piper swings around and knocks over some bottles.

Buffy frowns, "Watch it."

"I got it, I got it." Abby says.

Piper sighs, "Oh, damn it." She continues looking for the keys. "Spare key, spare key. Register." She opens the cash register and suddenly it closes on her fingers. "Son of a..."

Buffy's eyes go wide upon seeing the cash register close on Piper's fingers. "You okay?"

Piper looks to Abby, "Uh, could you just do me a favor and close up for me?"

Abby nods, "Oh, yeah, sure."

Piper smiles, "Thank you." She looks to Buffy, "Come on Buffy."

Piper and Buffy walk to the door and suddenly they are pushed outside.

"Care to tell me what's going on?" Buffy asks.

"I think trolls maybe real. You saw what happened with the cash register. I think a troll tripped me inside and of course we were both shoved from behind as we came outside." Piper says.

They walk towards Piper's car and suddenly they are both tripped. They fall on the ground and all of Piper's stuff falls out of her purse.

Piper shakes her head, "You better run while you can, you little rodents."

Buffy nods, "I think your right."

Piper stands up and looks up at the sky. "I bet you guys think this is real funny don't ya? Haven't you taken enough from me? You have to send trolls to kick me while I'm down." Buffy picks up Piper's stuff and puts them back in her purse. "I had a nice normal life once and you took that from me. You took my boyfriend, you took my life, the least you could do is leave me..." a couple walk past, "my freakin' car keys. I am a good person, I am a good witch and damn it I would've made a great wife. And how dare you take that from me. I deserve... no, you know what? I demand that you send him back to me. You hear me? Right now. I am going to stand in this very spot until you send Leo back to me."

Nothing happens.

Buffy sighs and stands up with Piper's purse. "I wish it were that simple. Come on we'll come back for your car later."

At the Manor it is 11:54pm. Prue and Phoebe are waiting for Piper and Buffy.

Prue frowns, "She said that they was coming, right?

"What'd you think I just made that part up?" Phoebe asks.

Prue shakes her head, "No, but it's almost 12:00 and we still have to go over to Kate's. Without Buffy it will be hard to get there in time."

Phoebe nods, "Well, maybe we should do it with out them. Do the best we can."

"No, I used the power of three spell, it won't work without Piper." Prue says.

"We can rewrite it." Phoebe says.

Prue shakes her head, "In six minutes."

Phoebe sighs, "Do you have a better idea?"

Buffy and Piper flames in.

"Sorry we're late." Buffy says. "First Piper's car keys went missing. Then trolls attacked on our way to her car. Finally we just flamed here."

"Hey, are you okay?" Phoebe asks.

Piper sighs, "I thought this wasn't about me."

Prue nods, "Well, it just... you don't really seem like you're very open."

"I'm as open as I'm gonna get in the next five minutes so let's just do the damn spell." Piper says.

"In this tween time this darkest hour, we call upon the sacred power. Four together stand alone, command the unseen to be shown. In innocence we search the skies, enchanted are our new found eyes." Piper, Phoebe, Prue and Buffy chant.

"You've really gotta lay off the rhyming, Prue." Phoebe says.

"Alright one flame express coming up. Piper once were there you freeze Kate's parents so they don't come looking to see what's going on in Kate's room. Okay?" Buffy says.

"Fine, whatever." Piper says.

Buffy sighs, "I'll talk to her later."

They flame to Kate's house. Piper moves to the entrance of the living room and freezes Kate's parents.

"Okay, why can't we see them?" Phoebe asks.

"Obviously the spell didn't work." Prue says and uses her power and opens the door. The trolls drag Kate under the bed.

"Help me!" Kate says.

The trolls knock down a shelf of toys.

Buffy, Prue, Piper and Phoebe look under the bed.

"Where'd she go?" Buffy asks.

Prue shakes her head, "There's nothing here."

Piper nods, "Well, she's gotta be here somewhere, she couldn't have just disappeared."

"Unless the trolls turned her into a fairy." Phoebe says.

Prue frowns, "A fairy? Why would they do that?"

Phoebe shrugs, "I have no idea. Maybe to punish her for taking Thistle." She picks up the box. "But we have to find Kate. Okay, come on, give me a premonition."

"Hold it between us, Pheebs." Buffy says as Phoebe holds the box between herself and Buffy. "Ok let's see who can get a premonition first."

"I don't understand. I mean, why couldn't we see the trolls? We've had spells backfire on us before but never the power of three." Prue says. "Especially one that was augmented."

Piper sighs, "It didn't backfire. The spell didn't work because of me."

"Piper..." Prue says.

Piper shakes her head, "No, it's-it's true. This is all my fault. I just, I wanted to save Kate and never meant to hurt her, I never meant for this..."

"Don't blame yourself, okay? You have every right to be angry." Prue says.

Piper nods, "But not at the expense of a little girl. I just don't understand how I'm supposed to believe in anything anymore. I just want him back, Prue."

Buffy sighs and moves over to Piper, "We know, my sister. But right now we have to get Kate back, okay, and we're gonna need your help to do that."

"Damn it, damn it, damn it. I don't understand. What good is this power if I can't use it when I need it? You didn't see anything, Buffy?"

Buffy shakes her head, "Nothing."

"Phoebe, you have to focus." Prue says.

Buffy walks over to Phoebe and places her hands on the box. Augmenting not only Phoebe's but her own premonition power also.

"Prue, I am focusing, believe me." Phoebe says.

Prue nods, "You're too upset, so take a deep breath... Buffy are you augmenting?"

Buffy nods, "Both hers and mine."

"Guys..." Piper says.

Phoebe sighs, "I can't levitate when I want to, I can't premonition when I want to..."

"Guys!" Piper says.

"What?" Buffy asks.

Piper nods, "I think the spell is working." She points to a fairy flying near the window. "Do you see it?"

"What's it doing?" Phoebe asks.

Prue nods, "I think it wants us to follow it."

Moments later outside in a garden Buffy, Prue, Piper and Phoebe are following the fairy. They approach a cave and it flies away.

"I think he got scared away." Buffy says.

Phoebe nods, "Yeah, and I can see why. This looks like the cave from Kate's drawing."

"The first troll I see is in really big trouble. Let's go." Piper says.

Buffy nods in agreement, "I hope they like to be roasted."

They walk into the cave and hide behind a rock. Kate and Thistle are locked in a cage.

"Troll central." Phoebe says.

The troll's place a branch underneath the cage. One troll is banging two rocks together trying to make a fire.

"What are they doing?" Piper asks.

"It looks like they're trying to start a fire, although I don't really think that it's for roasting marshmallows." Prue says.

"Kate and Thistle." Phoebe says motioning towards the cage.

The trolls get the fire started.

"Alright, Piper, do you think that you can freeze them from here?" Buffy asks.

"I can try." Piper says.

Some trolls attack them and they walk further into the cave.

"Piper, freeze them." Prue says.

"They're too fast." Piper says.

Buffy nods, "They are fast. I can barely keep track of them even with my Slayer eyesight.

One heads straight for Piper and she freezes it.

Prue moves it into the fire and it burns. "One down."

Phoebe nods, "Okay..." Phoebe jumps up and levitates. "Prue, a little help here."

Prue uses her power and Phoebe flies over to the cage. She unhooks it and lands back on the ground.

"Piper, Buffy, run." Prue says.

Piper frowns, "Run? Run where?"

Buffy tries to flame out but nothing happens, "They got some kind of ward protecting this cave. I can't flame."

"Just run, Buffy, Piper, run!" Prue says.

Prue drags Buffy and Piper towards the fire.

"Are you out of your mind?" Piper asks.

Buffy nods, "Freeze the flames!" Piper freezes the fire and they jump through it. The trolls head towards them. "Unfreeze, now." Piper unfreezes the fire and burns all of the trolls.

"Now that is just the way I like my trolls, medium-well." Prue says.

Buffy and Phoebe laughs.

Phoebe lets Kate and Thistle of the cage. "Here you guys go. It's okay, there you go." They start to fly away. "Um, hey, hey, hey, you guys, wait up."

Kate and Thistle stop.

"Thistle, don't you know how to turn Kate back into a person?" Prue asks.

Kate looks at Thistle and shakes her head.

Buffy sighs, "Kate, you know, you can't stay a fairy because if you do, your mom will be very sad. Believe I know what it's like to lose someone you love. My mom passed away awhile ago. I was very sad."

Piper nods, "Um, you know what? I think I kinda know how you're feeling also. When someone you love goes away it doesn't make any sense and it feels like the whole world is out to get you. But you know what? Your mom and dad didn't split up to hurt you. Things just happen. Things that you may never understand. But you just have to believe that it's for the best. Even if it doesn't always seem that way. You remember how sad you were when your daddy left?" Kate nods. "Well, that's how sad everybody's gonna be if you don't come home."

Kate looks at Thistle and nods. Thistle turns her back into a human.

Phoebe goes over and hugs Kate.

Prue looks to Buffy and Piper, "Nicely done."

Later back at the Manor Buffy, Prue, Piper and Phoebe flame in.

"Ow." Phoebe says.

Piper nods, "Yep."

"Ice?" Prue asks.

Buffy smiles, "Too bad I can't spread my Slayer healing around."

Phoebe shakes her head, "Bed." The doorbell rings. Prue opens the door and there are flowers on the porch. "Who delivers at this hour?"

Prue bends down and picks up her keys. "Hmm, I think this is somebody's way of saying thank you. Here." She hands them the flowers.

"Well, you're welcome." Piper and Buffy says.

They carry the flowers inside.

"Oh, they're so pretty." Phoebe says.

Piper puts on a wreath of flowers on her head. Buffy, Prue and Phoebe look at her.

"Piper, um, we..." Prue says.

Piper takes the wreath back off.

"We, um, we just..." Phoebe says.

Piper sighs, "I know, it's okay. I'm actually beginning to understand why they don't want witches and Whitelighters to be together." They walk into the living room and sit down. "Marriage is, um, hard enough, you know. But marriage to a Whitelighter... He's gotta orb out at all times of the night and sometimes he's gone for weeks at a time. But honestly if I'm gonna have a meltdown every time I have no idea where he is, then none of us are gonna be able to do our jobs." Tears fill her eyes. "And if we had lost that little girl tonight..."

Buffy shakes her head, "But we didn't."

Piper nods, "But we could've. And I don't think I could live with that. If that means that I have to give up Leo, then I guess that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make." She walks out of the room, and Buffy follows her. Leo orbs in on the stairs, and scares Piper. "Am I dreaming?"

"If you are so am I." Buffy says. "Leo?"

Leo shakes his head, "No, neither of you are."

Piper and Leo hug.

"I had a dream that you weren't coming back. That wasn't a dream either, was it?" Piper says.

Leo shakes his head, "No, it wasn't. They had forbidden me from ever seeing you again." Phoebe and Prue walk in. "But now, I don't know what you said or did but they said you showed great courage and great faith, enough to make them reconsider."

Buffy smiles, "Does that mean you guys can get married now?"

"Ugh..." Prue says.

Phoebe frowns, "What? I wanna know, too."

Leo shakes his head, "Not yet. It means they're giving us a chance to prove we can make it work."

Buffy shakes her head, "What do you mean?"

"Like probation?" Phoebe asks.

Piper gives Phoebe a look.

Leo nods, "If we can show them that our relationship won't get in the way of our work..."

Piper smiles, "Then we can stay together?"

Leo nods, "But if anything goes wrong, if we're distracted by each other to the detriment of a single innocent..."

Piper shakes her head, "We won't be."

Piper and Leo go upstairs.

"Are either of you worried?" Phoebe asks.

Prue nods, "When are you going to learn? I am always worried. I'm relieved that he's back though, not only for Piper but..."

Buffy shakes her head, "No, not anymore. At least not about Piper. I guess I will be moving back into my room tonight."

Phoebe nods, "I know. Unknown, unattractive demon on the loose."

"Yeah, let's not tell them until tomorrow. I think that the least that they deserve is one night worry-free romance don't you?" Prue says.

Buffy smiles, "Yeah they do."

Phoebe nods, "Mmm, romance, uhh."

Buffy heads upstairs and knocks Piper's door, "I'll get my stuff later, Piper. Have fun you two." She turns and enters her room.