[ HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! I've been listening to love me not by emei on repeat and I can't stop thinking about spike and kitty ]
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[ 6.11 ]
An entire cleansing of all magical things was commencing in the Summers' house. Kitty got up extra early and came over to help put all of Willow's stuff in boxes so that they could either throw it away or store it at the Magic Box. Willow was sitting on her bed as Kitty tossed all the candles on the nightstand into a box.
"Candles?" Dawn asked in disbelief. With an arm in a sling, she was putting books away. "We can't have candles?"
Buffy shot her a stern look. "Dawn, it's magic clearance. Everything must go."
"B-but they're just candles!" she whined.
"Well, yeah, you know, to you and me they're just candles," Buffy said, sighing. "But to witches, they're... like bongs." Willow nodded sadly in confirmation, and Dawn sighed in defeat. "So, no candles, no charms, no—"
"Bird," Willow interrupted Buffy as she was walking to the bathroom to check.
They all looked at her, confused. "No bird?" Buffy asked, frowning.
"That peacock on the table," Willow said, indicating to a little figure on the side table near Buffy. "It has two crystals in it." Buffy opened it and saw the two crystals. "Tara, she... she left them."
"We'll make sure she gets them," Kitty told her. Since admitting out loud that her magic was the reason Tara broke up with her, Willow had hardly uttered the girl's name.
"I think all is clear in here," Buffy said, doing one last visual sweep.
"To the living room," Kitty told Dawn, leading her out the door. Buffy followed with more boxes to fill. It seemed there was something on every shelf and surface that they passed, and each item was dropped in a box.
"Dawn, do me a favor, can you grab the fertility god statue on the desk over there?" Buffy asked while clearing off the bookshelf that had lots of herbs and crystals.
"Kokopelli?" Dawn asked, clearly upset. "No! I love him! And he was Mom's. Why do we have to get rid of so many things I like?"
"Dawn, I explained this to you. Willow has a problem. The next few weeks are gonna be crazy hard on her as it is," Buffy told her, turning back to the shelf. "Any reminder of what it is that she's trying to stay away from could cause her to give in to temptation, and that would be bad."
Kitty shot Dawn a sympathetic look as she went to get the statue. Then she started digging in the couch cushions to make sure nothing had fallen through. Her hand hit something hard and small, but it wasn't a stray crystal. With a smile, she looked at the cigarette lighter that was Spike's. He must have left it the last time they were over and watching Dawn. She pocketed it, fully planning on making him work for it to get it back.
