Locker Room

"You got some nerve showing up here!" Daria was about to stomp towards Buffy but Cordelia stopped her. "Daria, just .. don't ok? It will not change anything I've said."

"Fuck what you said." She said to Cordelia before turning to Buffy and walking right up to her. "And fuck YOU! Who do you think you are? You threw away your chance with her, and now you waltz back into our lives as if nothing happened?"

"Stop Daria, leave her alone!" Cordelia kept trying to stop her, but the blond easily grabbed her arms. "Stay out of this Cor! She is just a piece of shit that keeps hurting you and you are too kind to realize that."

That hit home and Buffy almost stumbled as she heard the words and Daria turned back towards her. "The truth is a bitch eh? Hurts doesn't it?! Get out of our life you dumb little bitch." She pushed her against the lockers before storming off. Buffy didn't resist, at all and stood where to other girl had left her, leaning against a dented locker.

Cordelia immediately ran over. "I'm sorry about this, are you ok?" Buffy shook her head. "N-no .. I'm not, I'm fucked up and will never be ok.. at all. She's right.."

"No.. no no no she's not, sweetie please. It's ok now, she's gone, for good ok? She doesn't know anything about us, she just wanted to hurt you." Cordelia stroked Buffy face, trying to get the other girl to look her in the eye. "I'm here see? And I'm not going anywhere." Buffy looked up at Cordelia and the pain in the slayers eye broke her heart. "Oh sweetie, don't do this to yourself, we will get through this ok?". The blond nodded slowly. "I-i'm such a mess, I break down every other day it seems."

Cordelia smiled and hugged Buffy close. "Yep you are a wuss, but you are my wuss and once we worked through everything you might even last a week without turning into a weeping mess again." Buffy returned the embrace. "Sounds like a plan."

The Library

"It was totally messed up in there, she immediately recognized I was inside her and started to fight me.. o-or rather it started to fight me with my own hands and body.. well her body. The voice was Buffy's a-at least at first but t-this thing took over in seconds. It was a demon, a scaly, spiky, horned thing and it b-broke my neck and k-kept screaming at me 'Nooo!' and 'Y-you shall not see!' b-before trying to g-gauge my eyes out." Willow looked over to a wide-eyed Tara. "Maybe you should take a break, you don't look so good."

"N-no this is important.. b-but it sounds so horrible." Tara mumbled before motioning Willow to continue. Giles seemed eager to hear the rest of the story as well. Ever since they got into the library he had taken record of everything they had said, so this must be something important and not about getting all the facts to give the girls a proper scolding.

"Well that's when the spell broke, I'm not really sure how or why, and I was back in the office staring into Buffy's eyes while she screamed at me .. I kinda screamed too. Then she leaped at me and this shield came up around me, it stopped her. I felt a rush of power, i-it was amazing, so much power." She had started to smile as she recalled the feeling but quickly realized this was not helping her cause and calmed down again. "Um.. well, yes, there was a rush of power but I knew what it did to me. So I, well I know quite a lot of healings spells already, I twisted a few of them a little bit and they merged with the shield a-and me." Willow kept glancing at Tara, remembering how she had reacted when they had talked about this in the Slayercave.

"I-i had to! If not I would have been torn to shreds in seconds." She looked from Giles to Tara and back again, not finding that much sympathy. "Gee fine, next time I'll simply decorate the walls with my innards if that's more to your liking."

"N-no Willow t-that's not it. Y-you could have cast a calm spell, o-or sleep or q-quite a few other harmless spells that w-would have worked just the same.. b-but you didn't."

"She is right, you already lost control over what you are casting, always choosing something that leads you further down the very path I warned you about when I left you alone with Buffy." Giles sighed. "You might not be aware of this.. no you definitely are not aware of this but some of the decision you make are no longer your own."

Willow was about to protest but stopped, realizing that it made sense, had since the beginning so there was no point to protest.. yet she did. "Oh boy.." She murmured. "S-so what now? Do I have to get back into that cage? I-i mean I could do anything."

"Yes you could, which is why we have to come up with a plan." Giles removed his glasses and sighed. "Willow please call your parents and tell them you are staying over at Tara's house for the night. Tomorrow is no school day so that should be ok right?" The redhead nodded. "Good, then we .. will put you in the cage for now until we figure something out, I have at least two ideas at the moment but both of them are rather extreme so we better keep looking."

"S-she could help, let her stay here in the library and we can all work on something together." Tara reasoned but Giles shook his head. "No, that won't work. She would not find anything and might try to escape."

"Guys? I'm right here.." Willow half mumbled as she slumped to the ground waiting for the verdict.

At the stairs leading up to Sunnydale High

"I feel like one of those prisoners with an ankle bracelet." Willow mumbled as Tara explained the solution they had agreed on to Buffy and Cordelia. "So instead of p-putting Willow i-in a cage for the foreseeable future she agreed to c-cast a spell that allows me to .. kinda u-umm." Tara was having a hard time finding the right word so Willow piped in. "Enslave me! That's the human way to deal with this situation they came up with." Tara started to protest and Cordelia flashed a wide grin. "Sounds kinky."

"What? N-noo! It's not like that Willow a-and not like that either Cordelia!" Tara harumphed. "It's more of a safety spell, if she goes all grrr I can .. um.."

"Ok we get it, you can somehow make her stop, relax Tara." Buffy helped her out before Cordelia summarized the situation. "Soo.. we got a psychopathic witch who is on a leash .. by another witch and now you guys are what, heading off to Hollywood?"

"N-no we h-have a slight problem here, Willow told h-her parents that she is staying over at my place b-but my place is not really .. it's .. w-we can't go there, so I thought we could go to either of you guys? C-cause I don't think two students sleeping over at the librarians house i-is such a good idea."

Buffy looked over at Cordelia, letting the brunette handle this. "I had something very different planned for this evening." She mumbled. "Ugh.. it's not like there is a choice is there?"

"Nope." Willow quipped. "If you say no Tara will make me puke all over your shoes .. or something." The blond immediately held up her hands. "I wouldn't! I-i can't .. the spell does n-not.."

"This is going to be fun.." Mumbled a grumpy Cordelia before leading the group to her car.

The Chase Mansion

"T-this is amazing! It's like a castle!" Tara spun around in the entrance hall looking up at the far off ceiling. There was a polite cough as Maria looked at the group that had just entered the mansion.

"Good evening." She said and looked at Cordelia. "This is complicated." Came a tense reply from the brunette and Buffy felt like she should hold her hand but with Willow, Tara and Maria it was awkward. 'Damn, it is high time we talk about stuff like that.'

"I'm sure it is." Sighed Maria, shaking her head. "Oh well.. what can I get you girls?"

"Oh oh do you have strawberry ice?"

"W-what no? I d-don't need anything, we d-don't want to cause any trouble."

"I could go for a another chicken sandwich, you know with the whole chicken.."

Cordelia massaged her temples and let the chaos unfold.

'This is a bad idea, bad bad idea. I wonder what Cordy was thinking when she moved all of us over here.' Buffy pondered as the brunette had simply taken her hand as if it was the most ordinary thing in the world and lead her, followed by Willow and Tara into the TV-room.

"W-wow! L-look at that thing." Tara stammered as she looked up at the screen before dropping down onto the couch. "This is amazing, come here Willow try the couch, it's like a leather cloud." Feeling somewhat chipper Willow flopped right on down. She may have this weird spell on her but at least she got to see Cordelia's house, well mansion, something she had wondered about for quite a while now. "Hey your right, this is great, Buffy come! You have to try."

Buffy smiled as she joined the other two and was about to make a grab for the remote when something slid in from behind her. "You guys want to watch something in particular?" Cordelia asked nonchalantly as she took the remote with her right hand, and draped her left around Buffy's stomach.

"No, let's just flip on through really fast!" Willow and Tara almost said in unison.

"Sounds good, here catch." Cordelia threw the remote between the two witches and nestles her right hand around Buffy. "This is going to be a fun evening don't you think so sweetie?" She said in a whisper, thoroughly enjoying the sound of discomfort that came from the blond.

The witches tussled playfully for a bit before Tara lifted a finger and mumbled something at which point Willow panicked. The blond deftly took the remote and flipped on the TV. "I can't believe you used the spell to steal the remote?!" "I didn't .. I w-would never misuse magic like that." "But I couldn't move!" "That's called panic." Tara replied with a sly smile before flipping to another channel.

"They are kinda cute together don't you think?" Cordelia asked as she nipped at the slayer's neck. "Uh.. huh.." Was all Buffy could get out, trying her best to refrain from moaning at Cordelia's teasing.

They spent the next half an hour flipping through every channel known to mankind, two sets of eyes fixed on the screen and commenting pretty much everything they saw, the other two were otherwise engaged. Cordelia had, sneaky girl that she is, draped a blanket over them and was therefore free to roam her hands over Buffy's body without getting any attention. Buffy's gaze was fixed on the slight movements of the blankets as her hands moved underneath. Cordy on the other hand was having the time of her life, enjoying the newfound power she had over the blond. Because of that all she looked at were the tiny movements the slayer made as her hands kept exploring and teasing.

There was a knock on the door and Maria peaked inside. "Dinner is ready, please follow me." As the girls flipped the tv off, Willow looked over at Buffy. "Hey, you look kinda flushed, everything ok?"

"Y-yeah don't worry, you two go on ahead I have to talk with Cordy about something."

"Alright." Willow and Tara followed Maria, chatting all the while. The second the door snapped shut Buffy pounced Cordelia and started kissing her wildly.

Chase Manor, Kitchen

"I wonder what they talk about." Tara asked in between bites. "I guess Daria.. oh yes you don't know about that.. um.. ok it's like this. You know Cordelia's show right?"

"W-well yes, i-it's hard to miss."

"Hehe yeah, well.. it's not all a show.. you understand?" Willow said with a slight waggle of the eyebrows.

"O-oh.. so Cordelia is.. and she and Daria? Oh.." Tara looked a bit shocked and then confused. "Um.. o-ok but w-what does this have to do with Buffy and you?"

Willow looked a bit unsure at this point, glancing back the way they had come to make sure Buffy was not in earshot. "I kind of mentioned that I was going to call Buffy to ask why she didn't show up for classes that day a-and Daria must have overheard. So when I called Buffy .. Cordelia picked up sounding rather tired and confused. I-i must've said her name at that point. Then she cursed and there was some rustling before Buffy replied equally sleepy."

Tara gawked at that before starting to laugh. "W-what?! Hahahaha."

"That's not funny! Daria heard the whole thing and must've misunderstood the situation." Tara's laughing reached new heights as she heard this. "HAHAHAHA Yeah right! Misunderstood... HAHAHA." She almost toppled over as she kept laughing.

"Yes misunderstood cause Buffy and Cordelia were simply exhausted after the whole ordeal yesterday... Why are you laughing like that?!" The redhead demanded.

"Nothing hahaha, I-I'm easily amused that's all..." Tara calmed down enough to resort to giggling.

"Hey what's so funny?" Buffy asked as she made her way to the plate with the chicken sandwich, Cordelia trailing slightly behind, her hair looking a little .. off. Tara fell from her stool and after hitting the ground started laughing again. Willow on the other hand shrugged her shoulders. "I have no idea what's gotten into her."