Buffy sat on Willow and Tara’s bed in her old mother’s bedroom, “Willow I really need your help. Can you do a spell or something to find Dawn? A locating spell or anything like that?”
Willow looked skeptical, “Well I can ask Tara to help to make it more powerful but really I’d need something powerful that belonged to her.”
Buffy looked up from twisting her hands together, “My blood? It’s Summers’ blood. It’s the same as Dawn. Will that help?’
Willow shrugged, “Worth a try. Tara gets out of class now and is heading over. We will see what we can do.”
Buffy nodded and waited as Willow went outside to meet Tara. Buffy was worried. Who took Dawn and why? She was dying for some violence but she wanted to try this route first. She could do some damage tonight at nightfall. She hoped Spike was having more luck.
Spike tipped his glass to signal for more as Willy came over saying, “What brings you to my bar during the day? Usually I get demons or even humans during the day, not vampires who should be sleeping.”
Spike downed the whiskey followed by the blood, “I need information. Someone took the slayer’s kid-sis and I need to know who and where. Can you help?”
Willy looked surprised saying, “I wouldn’t fancy you for the type to do the slayer’s bidding, Spike. Rumor has it though you are in with her crowd. Are you doing it for money or you really pining for the girl?”
Spike thought fast, “Oh yeah, I was offered lots of bloody dough. So how about it? Know anything?”
Willy frowned and leaned closer to Spike, “Word on the street is that Buffy has a sister. A few nights ago a pair of green demons were sitting at the first table there talking about how they planned to use this sister as bait for some kind of ritual. They needed slayer’s blood but figured perhaps the sister had some in her as well.”
Spike rolled his eyes, “Nah the bit is a normal teenager, nothing fancy. They are wasting their bleeding time. Any idea where they might have taken her?”
Willy shrugged, “No idea. They ordered a few drinks. They laughed loudly and made a lot of racket so I threw them out. They were really a disorderly bunch.”
Spike frowned pushing his glass towards Willy for a refill, “Know what kind of demons they were?”
Willy shrugged again really not having much information to offer, “Perhaps a Davric demon. I don’t know for sure. I serve not mingle. Are you planning to pass this information along to the slayer? I don’t want to repeat myself to her. You sitting at the bar is enough of a scare for one day.”
Spike threw a $20 down on the bar, “I’ll pass it along. Hear anything else, let us know?”
Willy nodded still feeling a bit nervous at seeing Spike in his bar and watched as he threw the blanket over his head to make a dive for the sewer entrance outside the place. He sighed in relief that he escaped unmarked and went back to dealing with his demon customers.
Willow pricked Buffy’s finger and held Tara’s hands as she chanted over a map. The goal was to locate anyone in the area who shared blood with the slayer. The blood dropped at the house, which was Buffy, a graveyard, which was probably her mother. Another spot appeared in L.A, which was probably her father along with a few other drops. Buffy sighed, “How will I know which dot is hers?”
Just then another dot showed up right in Sunnydale near a graveyard. She watched the dot glow more and more than disappear as the map in that section started burning. Buffy jumped up stomping out the fire, “What does that mean?”
Tara frowned, “I don’t know.”
Willow looked at Buffy, “Dawn’s the key right??”
Buffy shrugged, “Well her blood used to open portals to other dimensions but I think we stopped that last year already. I doubt she can still do that.”
Tara put her hand on Buffy’s arm, “Are you sure it doesn’t still work?”
Buffy shrugged and then nodded, “I just assumed we put a stop to it when I died.”
Tara frowned, “I think it’s safe to say, that glowing light? It was a portal and that Dawn is no longer on this plane.”
Buffy stood up and looked around the room in shock and horror as she heard a pounding on the front door then the sound of pounding up the stairs followed by Spike standing at the doorway. Willow frowned still not liking this infatuation Spike and Buffy seemed to have with each other and definitely not liking the fact he had an open invitation and enough gall to just waltz in any time he pleased. He was acting awfully comfy around Buffy lately. Willow eyed Spike as he put a hand on Buffy’s arm and as Buffy said nothing only looked at him as he was talking. She heard Spike say, “Well Willy says there’s two demons who are interested in the half pint. They wanted her for some bloody sacrifice that needs slayer blood. They thought perhaps she had a tad in her blood, which would have been enough for whatever they were doing. Willy said that they were Davric demons.”
Buffy said in a strained tone, “Doesn’t matter. She’s not on this plane anymore. I’m guessing their brilliant little sacrifice opened a portal. They could be anywhere. How do you find someone in another dimension?”
Spike frowned, “Bloody Hell! No idea pet but you can ask Anya. She traveled them as a vengeance demon I’m sure.”
Buffy turned around with her eyes flashing, “I don’t want to ask some vengeance demon! I want my sister back!”
Spike sighed and put the blanket over his head and ran out to go talk to Anya since Buffy appeared incapable of thinking clearly.
Spike sat at the table with Anya. He was leaning back with his arms crossed behind his head and his legs crossed over the back of a chair. Anya was sitting at her register counting money as he asked, “So what do you know about dimensions, portals and stuff like that?”
Anya looked surprised someone was actually asking her for information but handled it well, “I used to travel between dimensions all the time. My home is in another dimension, well my vengeance demon home is anyway. It’s tricky business with magic. Takes a lot of power and a lot of work, why?”
Spike frowned, “The slayer’s sis seems to have opened one and disappeared into it and well we need to get her back. Bloody hell, why can’t anything be easy?”
Anya frowned, “There’s a spell to locate someone. Did you guys try that?”
Spike nodded, “I think I walked in on the end of that. Big burning map, candles and stuff. Can you locate someone in another dimension?”
Anya shook her head but said, “If you know the location the portal was opened, there’s a chance it wasn’t closed properly or that there is still energy there that might allow you to send a person or two there. Getting back is the problem.”
Spike shrugged, “We need to talk to Buff. She might know the location where the portal was opened. Come on Demon girl, we need your help.”
Anya reluctantly closed up shop for the day following Spike but insisting on meeting him back at the house rather than walking the sewers with him.