A couple of weeks later, just after Thanksgiving, they celebrated Cordelia's twenty first birthday. Three weeks later, they celebrated Xander's. Then just a week before Buffy would have turned twenty one herself, she suddenly went invisible.

"Buffy have you been feeling neglected by us?" Willow asked, concerned. "I know we've been spending alot of time planning Xander and Cordelia's wedding, but we didn't mean to ignore you, I promise."

"Guys, chill. I haven't been feeling neglected, honest. I'm just as excited as the rest of you. No, someone did this to me. I went to get a haircut and I got hit with something. A bright flash, like lightening, hit me."

"Could it be Magic?" Willow asked, it still kinda bummed her out that she no longer had powers.

"Possibly." Amy said. "Some Magics do act like that. We should check out the area where this happened. Do some spells to track Magic."

The others agreed and Buffy told them where it had happened. "Let's not lose track of you, Buffy." Xander said. "Your clothes went invisible, too. Could you put your jacket on? It would help us out to know for sure where you are."

Once she had done so, they headed out. Anywhere else and a jacket walking down the street with seemingly no one in it would have freaked everyone out. Not in Sunnydale.

Xander abruptly tripped over something. He put his hand out. "Guys, there's something here." He traced his hand down it. "I think it's a traffic cone."

"Let's take to the Magic Box." Tara said. "Amy and I can do tests on it there."

"We're not finding anything." Amy said, frustrated. "I can't find any trace of Magic."

"Then maybe it's not Magic. Maybe someone was testing a scientific way of making things invisible." Xander suggested.

"That's possible." Willow said thoughtfully. "Just because we don't currently know of any way to make something invisible scientifically, doesn't mean someone couldn't have thought of something and figured out how to make it work."

Kari reached out and touched the invisible cone. "Gross." She said. "It feels like pudding. My hand went right into it."

The others quickly verified that.

"It's breaking down." Willow said. "Whatever process made this happen, isn't stable."

"Willow, can you hack the traffic cameras around that area? See where the flash of light Buffy saw, came from? We need to find out who did this. Buffy could start breaking down too. Good find, Kari. We've been concentrating on the Magics and ignoring the physical evidence. It could have been too late by the time one of us thought of it." Xander congradulated her.

Kari beamed at him.

Willow discovered the culprit. Three guys, one of whom, they recognized.

"That's Johnathan." Willow said. "Looks like they're arguing over it. It discharged accidentally. We need to find them. Hopefully, they remembered to create a reversal."

It didn't take long to track the three down, but there was still something for them to be surprised about.

"You intended to make me invisible?!" Buffy asked, astonished.

"Yes, I needed you out of the way, while I took care of something. Jonno over there objected to me shooting you with it."

"We don't even know what effect it has on inanimate objects yet. Hitting something living with it, is extremely dangerous."

"We can tell you what the effect on an inanimate object is." Xander said. "You hit a traffic cone too. It's breaking down, which means Buffy could too. So reverse it."

"Fine." The leader of trio of nerds said.

"Hey." Jonno said. "You've still got it on invisible." He reached over and flipped a switch.

Buffy was soon returned to normal.

Later, at the Magic Box.

"I hope we don't have any trouble from those guys in the future." Buffy said. "I also wonder what the lead nerd wanted me out of the way for."

"Hopefully, it wasn't anything bad. But I don't see Johnathan being mixed up in anything bad. He's an okay guy." Xander said. He'd later regret not pursuing the matter. They all would.

Not long after, they celebrated Buffy's birthday too and then Faith's and before long, it was time for Xander and Cordelia's wedding.

"God, Cordelia, you look amazing." Her father said, as he came to escort her down the aisle. "Xander's definitely going to be stunned."

"Good, that's definitely how I want him to be."

"You're happy, aren't you my little girl?" Her father asked, wistfully.

"Yes, Daddy. I promise, I'm happy. This is the right thing to do and the right time to do it. And Xander's the right man."

"You two fit. You just seem so natural together. Like that's how it's always been."

"Feels that way to me too, Daddy." As she tucked her hand into her father's elbow.

Charles Chase escorted his daughter, Cordelia Chase down the aisle to Alexander Harris and placed her hand in his. He sat down next to his wife and watched his radiant daughter as she and the man she loved, pledged their lives and their hearts to each other, secure in the knowledge that they were happy.

And except for Tony Harris getting drunk and embarrassing them, it was a beautiful wedding and fun reception.