They all go to Buffy and Willow’s room. Arriving at the closed and locked door, they prepare a plan.

Buffy : " It’s in my room? God! Why? I slept elsewhere yesterday… I could’ve stop this thing if I had stayed in the room!"

Giles opens the book of black magic. He immediately finds the page he needs. He now places himself in front of the door and asks the two others to go stand behind him. He has one hand holding open the book and the other is ready to cast a spell.

Giles : " abditum"

The door opens without any resistance.Tara and Buffy look at each other, they don’t know what to say.They enter the room. It’s dark, almost black. They cannot see anything. Tara opens her hand palm towards the ceiling.

Tara : " lumos"

A pale bleu-ish fire is now dancing in her hand. They finally see something. They look at the closet, ray of light is coming from under the door.

Buffy : " I didn’t know that we had a Christmas tree in our closet!"

The two others look at Buffy with a strange look.

Suddenly Willow come out of there. Light, extreme sounds, noises. She is floating, eyes are black and wide open. You can see that she’s weaker than earlier.

Willow (still communicating with thoughts): " Help me Giles… Willow is fine with me… But I was expecting you Rupert!"

Giles asks the others to stay put, to be prepared to attack if he needed help. He stands in front of floating and dark, Willow. He closes the book and throws it to Tara. He opens his arms.

Giles : " ABDICARE SE SUO STATU, ABDICARE."

Willow : " Willow is proud to be with me, and she doesn’t want me to leave… Right Will?" (Tears are rolling down on Willow’s cheeks)

Giles : " LEAVE HER ALONE. Take someone your own size…"

Willow : " Okay Rupert! I’ll switch bodies with you… You’re more powerful anyway."

Buffy : " NO!!!"

Giles : " Shut up! Buffy."

The presence in Willow is abandoning her body to seek it’s way into Giles. A string of smoke is penetrating into Giles’ mouth. Willow drops dead to the ground. Tara goes to her and cries.