Tina: “why…?”

Willow: “your mind is busy fantasizing with Bette”

Tina: “hey…”

Louise: (smiling) “she has a point, honey”

Tina: “mom, do you think Bette will be fine, fighting the Uber-Vamps?”

Louise: “she is not alone, besides, she has there her luminous ball as the other girls have and she is as smart and stubborn as you baby”

Tina: “oh my God…, mom, this is my fear, she may not make it”

Willow: “don’t worry, Buffy and Faith are there”

Louise: “well in the meantime we could start discussing how we are going to prepare of new probes to make them able to cross the Hellmouth’s portal”

The professor and the girls start working on the probes, initially the possibility of anchor a probe in the boundary of the Hellmouth’s portal will require and additional source of energy to refrain the device to be suctioned or rejected by the force of the white or black hole, but that won’t be difficult for the team of research assistants that were helping Tina; even though the infiltration of probes inside the Hellmouth is going to be much harder, they knew they have to use all their abilities to modify the device turning it into a gadget that goes unnoticed in any unknown environment in the universe of evil creatures.

After being working for a while in the lab, Tina left for about two hours and came back.

Willow: “hey Tina, where are you going every afternoon when Bette is gone to the wormhole…, hmm, are you seeing someone?”

Tina: “what…?  Are you crazy? Of course not, I have private matters to take care”

However the blonde never provided any detail on her private business.

Somewhere in between space and time- probably early morning, maybe the same day.

The students in the current shift at the cabin are having breakfast while discussing how they are going to approach the conversation with the scoobies. Three days ago the board of the projects had an open meeting with the research assistants including Willow and Giles, and Louise made an update on the situation of the war, which included, the re-discovering of the main portal of the evil beings, the presence of a mole in Giles’ team, the technological challenges, and other minor tasks. Louise summarized her speech indicating that the source of evil aliens is clearly the Hellmouth and this should be the main objective of their attacks, she also pointed they are going to embrace a new strategy, which demands mainly two type of tasks, the logistic responsibility that would be assumed and developed by  the support group in the lab which has a trustable research capacity; and the military tactic, which has to be executed by the ’leaving group’ in the wormhole; nevertheless a requirement for success is to move their positions in the wormhole to a place closer to the Hellmouth; Louise also indicated that Dr. Rupert Giles had intended to convince the scoobies, to change location of their headquarters inside the wormhole to a new location in order to facilitate the direct confrontation with the evil beings and avoid to be distracted by fighting battles in distant portals instead of focusing on the core of their problem, the Hellmouth; but there were certain objections from some of the so-called ”allies” of the scoobies to his suggestion and he didn’t want to jeopardize Louise’s war plans by spreading too much information to every member of the gang and their friends, as well as, alerting the mole; Louise emphasized that this stalemate must be solved soon, before the evil aliens take the lead; and that the next step was in the hands of the next shift of students in the cabin, which was Bette’s group, so the board of projects has delegated to them, the task of convince the scoobies and specially Buffy on changing locations for their headquarters; and here they were, Bette, Helena, Jane, Maura, Lena, Stef and Angus, discussing how to talk to Buffy about the topic; Willow already offered her mediation, but Giles objected because the scoobies could think the witch was taking party for Louise’s team, and they wouldn’t be wrong; so the girls were alone in this task.