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Giles and Buffy had crossed out of Nevada just a few miles back. Both were entranced. Giles was in a waking trance. Deep under Buffy's power, he was instructed to bring her to San Francsisco. Buffy was deep in a state of self hypnosis, bringing herself back under Mesmotto's power.

Giles had been ordered to remain focused and clear while driving. That worked out good, since Buffy was

a thousand miles away. She was actually carrying out a post-hypnotic suggestion given to her while under Mesmotto's charge. The command was as follows: If Mesmotto's power over her should ever be broken, she would have a vivid dream on her first sleep after being freed. In this dream he would come to her, and retake her. She would then fall back under his power and begin the journey back to him. During the journey, she would go into a state of self-hypnosis, focusing on

falling back under his control. Back to where she had no will to fight back. No will to fight. No will to fight.

No will to fight?! Buffy's eyes jumped open.
"Damnit!", she exclaimed as she realized what happened. "Giles, where are we?"
"We just left Nevada"
"Are you hypnotized?"
"Yes"

"Stop the car"
Giles jammed on the brakes. Buffy realized she should have added the word 'slowly'.
"Listen to me, when I count to three you will awaken, do you understand?"
"yes"
"One, two, three - wide awake"
"Oh dear.....Where are we?", Giles asked.
"We just left Nevada. I was having you take me back

to Mesmotto in San Fransisco"
"You fell under again somehow I presume."
"Yeah, I had a dream, it was a really good dream, and then... well, we just left Nevada"
"Yes, well, apparently neither of us are as strong as we thought. Let's stretch our legs, as to avoid getting tired, or ... sleepy"
"Good idea. So, we don't really have a plan, do we?"
"Sadly, no. Although, maybe if you could keep from

hypnotizing every five minutes, we could form one.", Giles said, in a mock angry voice. It wasn't completely mock though.
"Yeah, right. I feel kind of weird about that."
"No need to, you can't help it. Now, enough about that, I think we are both just slightly embarrassed about the whole situation."
"Therefore, the best idea is to ignore it, and pretend it never happened.", Buffy suggested

"I'm going to have to agree", Giles said, "before you put me under, were you mentioning something about a witch?"
"Yeah. Phoebe. I helped take her right before you got to me."
"And she has clairvoyant powers?"
"Yes, I'm guessing that is how Mesmotto found Faith"
"I'm sure it is."
"I got more bad news."

"Oh dear."
"She has two sisters."
"Both of them have unstoppable power I presume?"
"Kind of. One can freeze time, the other is a telekinetic"
"Bloody Hell."
"Dido"
"Well, last we knew, Mesmotto was in San Fransisco still, no doubt acquiring all three witches."

"So are you saying we should continue on to San Fran and take him down?", Buffy said, not sure it was such a good idea.
"No, I don't think that would be wise. You're will isn't strong enough yet. You'd fall back under his power in an instant. Perhaps we should think about freeing the others first."
"Do we know how to free them?", Buffy asked.
"No, but getting them away from his contact is a good

start at least", Giles said.
"Agreed, do you think I am strong enough to resist them though? Willow already kind of put me under once.."
"I don't know. Probably not something that we can risk though. I may have an idea that could help us. We would need to visit with Spike without any of your friends seeing us first though."
"I think I know where this is going, are we gonna

have to steal one of his toys.", Buffy said
"Indeed. It will be essential to keep him quiet though, he can't tip off the others."
"How do we know Willow, or Tara or someone hasn't already gotten to him?"
"We don't, but we also don't have too many other options." Giles said, as the two got back in the car and headed towards Sunnydale.