PART 15

Willow woke up startled, hearing a never-ending knocking at the door.
She looked at her watch, it was 1: 20 a. m… no way this was a courtesy visit.
She opened the door and found Buffy and Spike standing in front of her.
They were panting due to the run, more out of habit that because they needed to breathe and Buffy seemed to be really anxious.
” Justin... Schlecht... Dawn… gone. “
Willow looked at her worriedly, without understanding what Buffy was saying. Tara, who had woken up, too, due to the commotion, was standing next to Willow with a confused look on her face.
Luckily for them, Spike was there to translate his beloved’s unintelligible talking.
“We’ve found out that Schlecht is Justin, you know.. the new student in Dawn’s class. We tried to warn her, but she snapped and didn’t believe us, and then suddenly Justin appeared in her room and she chose willingly to go away with him.. well.. not very willingly, since that bloody bastard dominated her mind..” Spike tried to resume, as an almost recovered Buffy confined herself to nod at every word her Sire uttered.
“Oh, my God, that’s terrible!” the two witches exclaimed in unison.
“Yeah, but we don’t have time to despair, there’s no second to waste, you gotta help us!”
“How?” the redhead wondered.
“Don’t you remember? When Buffy ran away after telling you that you had pulled her out of Heaven, you did that spell to find her..” Spike reminded her.
“He’s right, honey!” Tara said.
“I got you, you want her to cast that spell on you and Buffy to find Dawn!” she went on, turning to the peroxide vampire.
“You’re smart, Wicca!” he smiled and she blushed.
“Ok, I can do it, don’t worry!” Willow reassured them.
“Just hug yourselves and...” she instructed them, but she immediately stopped as she realized what they were doing.
“There’s almost a tragedy going on, and you two manage to find the time to cuddle? I said ‘hug yourselves’, not ‘hug each-other’! Spike, don’t you remember what I did last time?” she accused, and the two blondes parted.
“You’re right, Red!” he said, closing his eyes and hugging himself.
Buffy mirrored his actions.
“ TAKE THEM WHERE THEY CAN FIND HER!” Willow exclaimed and the two vampires disappeared in a cloud of blue smoke.
“Now, the only thing we can do is pray for them..” Tara murmured, hugging Willow.

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Dawn sat on what seemed like a throne in an abandoned castle set in a out-of-the way glade in Sunnydale.
Justin sat on a bigger throne and smiled at her.
“I’m still wondering why you made me wear this dress!” she said, looking at her long black dress she wore.
He was about to answer, when they both saw a cloud of blue smoke appear from nowhere, and Spike and Buffy came out of it.
“How the hell?” the wizard exclaimed, getting up.
“Wassup? Do you think you’re the only one around knowing magic?” Buffy made fun of him.
She had come back to being her same old self when she had seen that Dawn was ok.
That was the point: Dawn seemed to be really fine, too fine.
“Buffy, Spike, what the hell are you doing here? Go away!” Dawn snapped.
“We won’t go anywhere, until you come back with us!” Spike stated, hurling towards Justin and starting a furious fight, and he seemed to come off better.
“There’s no bloody magic that would let you endure my kicks!” he said, kicking Justin’s face hard, lifting and smashing him against the wall.

In the meantime, Buffy had come closer to Dawn, taking her hand and going towards the exit, but the teenager resisted
“Buffy, let me go, I wanna stay here!” she exclaimed.
“Dawnie, now you’re under his influence, and the sooner I take you away from him, the better it will be!”
“ DAWN, DON’T LISTEN TO HER! She is just trying to fool you!” Justin yelled, setting himself free from Spike’s grip.
“Only with me you can be happy!” he went on, before Spike resumed attacking him.
“Dawn, you don’t know what he really wants, let’s run away before it’s too late!” her sister incited her again.
“ No! I.. I don’t know..” Dawn struck back, but she wasn’t as cold and determined as before.
Due to the fact that he was fighting against Spike, Justin had lost part of the control he had on Dawn.

Unfortunately, Justin had figured that out, too, and he had decided to pull out the big guns.
With the power of his thought the wizard smashed Spike against the wall.
Spike recovered immediately, although the blow would’ve probably pulp the spine of any human being.
“So, buddy, is that all there that so-called power you claim to have?” Spike teased him, reaching the exit with Buffy and Dawn.
But in that moment, a mysterious force pulled him and his Childe away.
“You two, STILL!” Justin roared and they were immobilized, unable to move their bodies.
“Can’t... move!” Buffy exclaimed, realizing that at least they could still talk.
“Me, too, that bastard! I never would have imagined that he could do something like this!”
“Anyway, Spike, you couldn’t refrain from teasing him?” Buffy blamed him.
“Bloody Hell, who knew that could cause * this *? I’m beginning to think that Angel may have hid some important stuff about him just out of spite!” Spike grumbled, rolling his eyes, because at least he could still do that.


“What the hell did you do to them?” Dawn snapped, coming closer to Justin, but he grabbed her by the shoulders.
“Baby, everything is ok!” he said, kissing her, and she tried to resist for a minute, but then she surrendered to him.
He put her on the throne again, turning to the two immobilized vampires who couldn’t anything but watch.
“See? You have lost the war! She is going to be my queen!”

TBC

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