eachdraidh | ~ One Magical Mishap ~ [Video,Open to both Courts.]

Huh. This is kind of neat- little magic and it acts like a-

[Focus Rosenberg. You're stranded in a mystical realm with imps and faeries and all sorts of bad things could be happening back at the castle-- because who decided that would work? Having a bunch of slayers in a house didn't work out too well, So the logical conclusion was putting them in a giant castle with lots of weapons! Brilliant Idea.]

Uh, Hey! I'm looking for a girl named Buffy- Or any of the slayers. Buffy- She's about yay-big [She gesters to about her height.] Blonde, superhuman strength with killer fashion sense and a penchant for puns? I really hope she's here. Or uh-. A sarcastic British guy named Rupert Giles? Or Xander? He's a guy with an eyepatch. Kind of dorky but in an adorable way- Sorry Xander. [she mutters to herself] I'd even settle for Spike.

[She takes a few deep breaths. This was getting a bit too panicky. Calm down, calm down.]

Sorry for all the word vomit- I'm Willow. Willow Rosenberg. I guess I'm the newest contestant on this island.
Does anyone know anything about the energy here? It's kind of... abnormal.

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A bit like Sunnydale, really. All this place is lacking is a decent television set.

[He used to spend his days without TV, really! But he is struggling with just doing NOTHING waiting for the sun to go down.]

I know how you love your stories.

[Dork.]

It's better than your primetime bollocks.

[That's just full of lame shows about vampires and stuff!]

Prime time we were mostly out doing scooby stuff!

[Hey. The Vampire stuff is cool because it's so wrong. Like watching films about witches.]

Like I know what that involves, besides you lot having me babysit the little bit.

[Which he didn't mind of anything, but it was always weird when Willow and the others had their secret outings.]

Normally defeating the demon flavour of the week. Or heading to the bronze when the bronze was still the bronze.

What, they go and change the name? [He knew he was behind the times, but really? That place was halfway tolerable.]

... Spike, it's a hole in the ground.

It's always been a hole in the ground. It gave the place a bit of charm.

[She stares at him with a look of how can you possibly be this dense.]

Spike, it's a literal hole in the ground. Like the whole of Sunnydale.

[Well he didn't exactly live to see it happen!]

Again, always been that way. I don't think you understand what the word literal means.

... Spike, Sunnydale was destroyed in the last apocalypse.

[The last apocalypse was Glory. Which Buffy had died in. Only Buffy was alive and not very chatty about what came next or even how she was alive aside from Willow doing it.]

What do you mean destroyed? It was fine when I was last there!

You... well. You died. Again- Closing the hellmouth which went Boom and destroyed Sunnydale.

[She runs a hand through her hair.]

You're alive again now though.

[Dead? In a heroic sacrifice? Spike wasn't sure why he'd do that. Perhaps he'd do it for Buffy, if it was his life or hers. He is convinced he would have made that trade when they had to deal with Glory. But closing the hellmouth? Destroying Sunnydale? It made no sense.]

'Just like that'. Heroic sacrifice and then I'm back, no harm no foul? Did you bring me back the same way you brought her back?

[He didn't know how Buffy had been brought back, only that Willow had been credited for it. Spike had not said much about it, but he'd been suspicious. He knew that reviving the dead didn't come easily. Buffy hadn't seemed different, but it still seemed that something might be wrong about her.]

It wasn't my doing.

[She isn't going to talk about that. He'd have to force her into that conversation.]

And you paid a price I think. We weren't there when you came back.

Buffy's not mentioned a sniff of this. Not how she came back, not how you did it, and not that I was bloody dead.

[Did she know he was alive? She'd reacted strangely when she first saw him. He was missing something, he knew. Buffy would keep her trap shut, but Willow had loose lips.]

How do you not remember this?

[She may have loose lips. But She ain't budging on the whole Resurrection debacle. She remembers how pissed he was the first time.]

[He's already becoming aggravated and it shows in his tone.]

Because it hasn't bloody happened! Buffy was dead. We all saw it happen. It had been months since she'd been dead, then one minute I was looking after the little bit, then I was here face to face with the not-so-dead Slayer. No crater and no self sacrifices.

That was years ago! Years.

[She's getting angry too- she's not going to talk about the resurrection and that's just final.]

Something funky is going on here and I don't like it.