A Slayer's greatest weapon- Book One- BTVS

The Witch- 5

A/N- There's going to be lines during the reversal spell because it is cutting from Catherine realising what's happening and Lucy with Giles, Buffy and Amy. Just so you don't get confused. Also I'm just going to be calling Amy and Catherine by their actual names rather than the body they're in.

We were sitting on the couch as Amy explained how Catherine switched them.

"I didn't know anything about her powers. I mean, when dad was here they would fight and yell and he would call her a witch and I mean, I would, just thought he meant... Oh, God, when he left I wanted to go with him. But she wouldn't even let me call." Amy mumbled, looking very distressed. "She went crazy, I mean, she'd lock herself upstairs for days, and she was always coming down on me, telling me I didn't deserve to have it so easy, and that I didn't know... how hard it was to be her, and... I guess she showed me, huh?"

"Amy, it's gonna be okay." Buffy told her while taking her hand.

"A few months ago, I woke up in her bed! I didn't know where I was, and then I looked in the mirror..."

"She locked herself upstairs?" Giles asked her.

"Yes."

"Where?"

Once Amy told us where the attic was Giles and I rushed upstairs while Buffy stayed on the couch. We got to the attic and I kicked the door in so Giles could hurry in and start looking around. As we were looking Amy tried to stop us.

"Don't! If she finds out I've been here she'll kill me!"

Giles, ignoring her walked around the cauldron to the rack with the dolls Catherine had obviously been using to cast the spells. One in particular seemed to catch Giles eye. There were two dolls bound together for the body-switching spell Catherine used on Amy.

"My God! I believe we can reverse your mother's spell. Well, all of them, in fact."

"You could? Really, you could?" Amy asked him, elated.

"We'd need to find her books. There'd be specific volumes she'd need for this kind of casting." I told her. "Dark magic."

We looked around some more until Giles spotted the trunk off to the side. As he began to take the off all the objects on top of it he turned to me and Amy. "Collect those dolls, and, uh, any other personal effects..." He trailed off as a black cat jumped out of the trunk. "Ah! Nice kitty..." He murmured while I glared at the little beast.

"Okay she is really pissing me off now. She is the reason why witches are stereotyped so much." I told him to which he replied with an exasperated look.

"Let's see what you were guarding. Ah, yes!" He said as he pulled out the books. "This is it."

We ran back down to see Buffy only getting worse.

"Did we find?"

"We found. Come on." I replied, putting her arm around my shoulders and carrying her out of the house.

"But where are you going?" Amy asked.

"We're going to school." He told her as I carried Buffy in my arms. "And you're coming with us."

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When we got to school, I placed Buffy on one of the lab tables while Giles and Amy started to set up for the spell.

"We're gonna stop this. I promise." I told her. She managed to look up at me but I could see she was getting weaker. "Just hang on."

"How is she?" Amy asked when I came over to help.