As House left the examining room he called his team over for a quick conference, "Foreman, Chase and Cameron get these girls all established in rooms and make them comfortable."

"How do you want to treat them? What tests do you want us to run?" Cameron asked.

"Just keep them comfortable and out of pain, no tests right now. We'll start treating them later tonight."

"What's going on?" Chase demanded. "How are we going to treat them if we can't properly diagnose them?"

"Don't you worry your pretty little head about it. Things are under control." House strolled to the bank of elevators to spend the next couple of hours in his office relaxing knowing he needed time to reflect on the information he had been presented with.

Back at the hotel Buffy turned to Giles and asked, "What do you think Giles? Is he right? If we do this there will be no turning back."

"Unfortunately Buffy I think he is right which means it'll just be you and Faith again to face the darkness."

"At least the powers of darkness are going to take a hit too. It should be just normal vampires and demons we face instead of the super villains we have been seeing during the last year. But I'm so tired, Giles I'm tired of fighting."

"I know Buffy," Giles muttered as he rubbed her back. "At least now we have resources at our disposal which means you will have a car, accommodations, clothing and a living allowance plus discretionary spending money. You will still need to fight the forces of evil but at least you can look good doing it." He gave her a teasing jest.

Buffy turned around and gave her Watcher a hug. "I guess we need to once again make some plans with the SWC."

"That Dr. House is quite a character. Do you think we can retain him for future services?"

"I think his curiosity will prompt him to accept that offer. House does seem to see things from an unusual perspective. He will probably make an excellent Balance Demon." Buffy responded.

"You think he'll take Whistler up on his offer?"

"You don't?"

Willow knocked at the door. She was carrying a couple of grocery bags full of ingredients that she needed to invoke the spell. She spread a drop cloth over the empty space in the room. "I think this is enough space to draw the pentagram here. Buffy do you have the scythe?"

Buffy reached under the bed and pulled out the case that Willow had hid the scythe in, opened it and handed the weapon to her.

Willow lit a candle at each of the points and sat in the centre of the star. "Goddess hear me now. Please return the powers previously bestowed upon the newly awakened.

Reverto ops falx. Vigoratus orbis terrarum quod reverto pondera. Rememdium Potentials. permissum trucido versus reverto.* Undo the damage we have wrought. Return the power to the Chosen One and let destiny follow its course. Let my Will be done!"

While Willow was chanting Giles and Buffy noticed that the colour of Willow's hair faded until it was completely white. She appeared to glow momentarily and a bright light was cast out originating from the scythe and appeared to expand from the source like a supernova. Willow fell backwards with a blissful smile on her face.

"Did it work Giles?"

"Lets call Dr. House and find out," as soon as House picked up the phone Giles announced, "The spell has been cast how are the girls?"

"I'll call you right back," House responded as he hung up the phone.

Foreman, Chase and Cameron had all been sitting with their new patients and were just about tripping over each other to reach Dr. House first. "Some kind of weird shit has gone down," announced Dr. Foreman.

"Is that your professional medical opinion doctor?" asked House.

"All of the girls glowed briefly and a bright light emanated from them. They are now all responding to traditional treatment for their symptoms," offered Cameron.

House's smile could have lit up a room. "Perfect, now all we have to do is kill a blonde to set things right."

Cameron and Chase both took a step behind Foreman who looked at them impatiently saying, "Come on, you two can't you tell when he's joking?"

"Actually I'm not joking," he chuckled as he watched the look of horror cross each of his intern's faces, "but don't worry my little innocents, this doesn't have anything to do with you."

"Have you been taking too many Vicodin, Dr. House?" asked Chase.

"No, in fact I haven't taken any since having my first treatment earlier today."

"What's going on Dr. House and no joking around," demanded Foreman.

"Life is a mystery and today I learned that sometimes it is better to give people the benefit of the doubt. Now be off with you. The hospital's newest donors will be here soon and we would hate for them to not be impressed with the treatment we are providing their girls." House shooed them out of the room to allow himself time to process the day's events.

* Admittedly terrible translation but it sounded good.