Buffy slowly sat down on the nearest chair. "The young girl in the locket, her name Emmy. She was Spike’s little sister." Her voice was low and even, and she sounded like she was in shock. "Spike told me that she was his first love."
"His first love?" Xander asked. "That’s kind of… ew?" he asked.
"Not really." Buffy said. "Xander, you don’t have a little sister, so you wouldn’t understand. When you have a little sister, you love her like you’ve never loved anyone before or after. She is the only thing that you care about all the time and you do everything you can to protect her." Buffy looked at Dawn who now had tears forming behind her eyes.
"What happened to his sister?" Willow asked.
Buffy smiled a sad smile, "Well, she was 18. It was her 18th birthday. She had a great boyfriend, and she was supposed to get married the very next week. Life was going great for her. She was supposed to meet Spike, that night. He was late. By the time Spike got to where she was, he was to late. Some guy had stabbed her. She died in his arms."
"What year did this occur?" Giles asked.
"I don’t know. He didn’t say, and I didn’t ask. All I know is that he was supposed to turn 21 that year. Why?"
"Something about this. About a sister of a vampire." Giles thought for a moment, then asked. "May I use you’re phone, Buffy?"
"Of course. Go right ahead."
Giles left to make a phone call to the counsel.
(^..^)
A half-hour later Giles returned to the dinning room table with a piece of paper in hand. The Scoobies all had a piece of pizza and where talking about the recent revelation.
"There’s a book," he said as he entered the room. "The counsel is sending it here tonight. It should be here in the morning."
"A book?" Buffy asked. "What kind of book?"
"How are they about to do that? I mean, get things here so fast." Willow asked.
Giles looked at Buffy and said, "It’s called the "Book of Light". It will help us with out situation." Giles sat down in his seat and took a piece of pizza from the pizza box that was now sitting in the middle of the dinning table, and replied to Willow’s question. "They have they’re ways. They have contacts in many different areas."
"How can this book help?" Buffy asked.
"What?" Was Giles’s reply.
"How can this book help Spike? What kind of book is it."
"I’m not sure Buffy. I talked to the counsel, and they told me that they would send me this book. They told that they’re in a prophecy. They wouldn’t tell me anything more then that."
(^..^)
The Next morning, Buffy awoke in her chair by her bed that Spike was sleeping in. It was nearly 1 o’clock in the morning when she had gone up to her bedroom to check on Spike. Before sitting down in the chair, Buffy made sure that the curtains where tightly closed.
Willow had gone up to her room to check on Kennedy a half-hour before Buffy had gone up stairs. Xander had fallen asleep on the floor by the couch, Dawn fell asleep on the couch, and Giles fell asleep in the armchair. When Willow didn’t come back down from her room, Buffy went to check on her. She found Willow asleep beside Kennedy on her bed.
Buffy hadn’t realized that she had fallen asleep until this moment when she woke up. Spike was still asleep. Buffy gingerly touched his check. He was warm, and that frightened Buffy. Spike was a Vampire, and vampires were not supposed to be warm, they were supposed to be room temperature.
The sound of her doorbell stirred her from her thought. "The book," Buffy remembered and quickly left the room and went down stairs.
When Buffy had arrived downstairs she found Giles by the door with a package.
"Good Morning, Buffy. You’re up… well, late." He said.
"Late?" Buffy asked.
"Yes. It’s nearly 10 o’clock, Buffy."
"Oh. Is that the book?" Buffy asked gesturing towards the package.
"I believe so. It’s from the counsel."
Buffy and Giles proceeded into the living room where Buffy found Xander, Dawn, Willow and Anya. "Hi Anya," Buffy said, "I didn’t expect you to be here."
"Yeah, well," Anya stopped and looked at Xander, "I thought it would be best if I came to help."
"How Kennedy," Buffy asked, looking at Willow.
"She’s okay. She wasn’t feeling good, so she went to go lay down. We have her handcuffed to the bed, so she can’t do any damage. Just in case," Willow replied.
"Oh, she okay though?"
"Yeah."
Buffy nodded and then turned to Giles. "We should get that book out." Buffy hesitated, "Spike has a temperature."
"Spike has a temperature?" Xander asked, surprised. "Is that possible?"
"Yes," Giles said, placing the package on the coffee table. "That’s how it kills. Their body temperature rises to the point that it set’s them on fire, and kills them."
Giles opened the package as quickly as he could. From the packaged box, Giles pulled out a pure white book.
"Wow," Buffy said, "How do they keep it so clean?"
Giles opened the book, sat down on the chair her had slept in the night before and began to read as the others sat and waited for directions.
(^..^)
Giles must have spent and hour reading the book before Xander and Anya had gone into the kitchen, and argued about whom was the one that ate the last banana that morning. Dawn had picked up a book and started to read it. Willow picked up her computer and was typing something, While Buffy sat back and waited for Giles to say something.
"Here it is," Giles said standing up.
Xander and Anya came back into the living room, Dawn put down her book and Willow looked up from her Computer. Buffy stood up.
"What is it? What does it say?" Buffy said urgently.
"It’s a prophecy," Giles said.
"We know that already. What does the prophecy say."
Giles looked at Buffy, then looked back at the book and began to read:
"In the hour of the brother’s finale moment,
The sister shall arise.
The light shall bring her to the earth,
And light shall she bring.
A light kiss, for a love once pure,
She bring back the love she once new."
Giles stopped reading and looked at the group. Then added, "There’s a spell here as well."
"A spell?" Willow asked, "What kind of spell?"
Giles read a little bit more. "It looks like a summoning spell. We’ll need supplies."
"I’ll get them," Willow volunteered. "What do we need?"
(^..^)
It was nearly 7:30 at night when Giles and Willow had everything they needed for the spell. Xander had moved the coffee table out of the way so that Giles and Willow could have some extra room to do the spell. Kennedy had gotten up a little after Willow had left for supplies, and was now waiting for the spell to begin.
"Okay," Willow said holding the book. "I think we have everything. The candles, the chicken feet, the lost hair from a virgin," Willow looked at Dawn who blushed, "the herbs and the purified circle." Willow finished counting off everything they needed. Something was missing though.
"We need one more thing," Willow stated looking at Giles. "The person closest to him."
"I would guess that would be Buffy." Giles said.
Buffy looked from Willow to Giles, and asked, "What do I need to do?"
"We need you to stand in the center of the circle," Willow said.
"Now Buffy, I don’t know what’s going to happen, so be prepared for anything," Giles said, as Buffy walked into the circle.
"Okay," Buffy said.
"Are we ready?" Willow asked. Giles nodded his head, Xander, Anya, Kennedy and Dawn all stood within a foot of the circle, and Buffy stood in the circle facing Willow preparing herself.
"Okay, here it goes," Willow drew in a deep breath, then read from the book:
"From the powers above
and the powers that be
Let her come to me.
From the heavens above
to the earth below,
Let her presence be known.
From this earth,
We call to thee,
Let her love rain free."
As Willow finished the passage a white light illuminated the circle that Buffy was standing in. The light grew to just outside the circle. Then, without warning, Buffy was thrown out of the circle into Giles, knocking him down.
The light slowly reseated. When the light was completely gone from the room, in the circle stood a girl. She was beautiful. She was about 5 feet 3 inches tall, thin with long, wavy, brown hair.
"Dear God," Giles was the first to talk. The others where to shocked to say anything.
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(Authors Note: I know that there are a few misspellings... okay. A lot. But still...
As soon as I can I will go in and fix them. Thanks!