It's now a few days after Xander saved Willow from destroying everything at the end of Season 6:
When Buffy and Dawn were fighting in the graves, Buffy finally realized that Dawn has already grown to be a couple of inches taller than her. As the older sister Buffy felt that SHE should be the taller one. Up till now, Dawn had always looked UP to Buffy. After their mother died this situation had meant a great deal more to Buffy. Not that she would ever admit it to anyone. Being a slayer and knowing that they NEVER have any children Buffy felt that this was the closest that she would ever be to becoming a mother. From time to time, Buffy still wished that there was someway that she could live a 'normal' life. Anyways, after Dawn had gone off to school Buffy casually mentions to Willow about Dawn now being taler than her. Willow then said, "Gee Buffy, Dawn's been taller than you for over 6 months now. Tara {she sniffles} noticed it first and told me about it. We even bet how long it would take you to notice. I guess she won {Willow's now near tears}. She even worked out a spell to learn how tall Dawn will eventually grow. That sure caused Buffy's eyes to bug out. I'm still surprised that you never noticed the past few months how much Tara has been talking about how beautiful Dawn's becoming as she blossoms into a woman. Buffy then said, "Well ya, it's just that I didn't really pay much attention to that. I did have other things on my mind, like the 3 Nerds." Buffy suddenly needs to know just how tall Dawn will eventually grow, so she asks Willow. "Willow dear, just how tall did Tara figure Dawn would end up growing?" Willow replied, "She said in a couple more years Dawn would be 5' 9", 5' 10" tops. Why Buffy?" She then says, "Well it's just that I would feel more comfortable around Dawn if I were the BIG sister. But at my age, it's not like I'm ever going to grow any taller."
Buffy then feels Willow embrace her real tightly as she says, "Oh ye of little faith [no not her]. Buffy when you have a world-class uber-witch as your best friend in the whole Universe, a request like that is easy to fulfill. How tall do you want to become?" Buffy's eyes then light up as bright as a super-nova. After a couple moments of thought she says, "Willow I think 6 foot even would be tall enough. I'd end up being a couple inches taller than Dawn and most of my clothes should still more or less fit me." "Hmmm" Willow said. They say that clothes make the woman. And you ARE a woman, Buffy. Buffy then said, "Well it's nice you noticed I'm a woman, Willow." (Then thinking about what she might of implied) Buffy said, "My bed's already warm enough now Willow. I don't need your help getting it any warmer." Willow gets a real big laugh out of that.
Nearly 3 hours later, Willow re-enters the living room carrying a very old and dusty book. "Took me a lot longer than I expected to find this sucker." Buffy now as giddy as a 6-year old on Christmas morning asks, "Are you sure this will work?" "Of course it will" Willow replied. "Now Buffy I can't guarantee that you'll end up exactly 6 feet tall. They didn't measure things in feet and inches back when this book was written. It'll take me a few minutes to translate 6 feet into their measuring system. So you might end up growing a _little_ taller than you expect." Now getting worried, in a very stern tone Buffy asks, "Alright Willow, out with it. Just how much taller could I grow?" Giggling a little Willow said, "Oh I wouldn't worry about that. You shouldn't end up more than an inch or two over 6 foot tall." Hearing that Buffy says, "Hmmm, 6 foot 2, eyes of blue. I could live with that, but absolutely NO taller. You hear me Will !" "Ya, Ya, Ya" Willow replies.
Willow then tells Buffy, "Oh incidentally, while I'm gathering up what I need to do this spell you should go get your favorite clothes. This spell allows the person's clothes to grow with them. This way, you'll save on having to buy replacements." Buffy does as she's told and in less than 2 minutes, nearly her entire closet and ALL of her lingerie is in the center of the living room. Buffy's now standing in the center of it all. Since it's now well past 12 noon, Willow suggests they get something to eat and Buffy agrees with the idea. So they go out for some food. A short while later Dawn comes home (this day was a short day schedule). Seeing the pile of Buffy's clothes in the living room, at first Dawn starts picking them up but then she decided to leave them all where they lie.(Except, of course, for Buffy's really cute pink-and white silk bra Dawn's wanted to borrow ever since Buffy bought it a couple of months ago.) After all, next time Buffy complains about Dawn's bedroom being messy she can remind Buffy about this mess. Dawn then sees the spell book Willow left open. Looking at the translation Willow had made Dawn notices an error. [It's in one of the ancient languages Dawn can both speak and read fluently.] Putting her school books away, Dawn's coming back down the stairs when Buffy and Willow return.
They enter through the kitchen door and so don't notice that Dawn is home. Getting right to the spell, Dawn walks in on them just as Willow goes into her windup. Dawn interrupts them by asking what's going on. Willow only says, "Buffy asked me try out a new spell." Dawn then asks, "You mean the one I saw on the kitchen table?" "Yes Dawn" Willow replies a bit annoyed. Dawn then says,"Well THAT'S a weird one to choose. I don't see how it's going to be much use to either of you." Now also getting annoyed with her little sister Buffy says, "Oh Dawn, let us women get on with our work. You're still too young to understand these things." "Fine" Dawn then yells going back to her bedroom. Willow then finishes casting the spell on Buffy. After waiting for more minutes then she thinks necessary and nothing has happened Buffy asks Willow, "why haven't I grown any taller?" Willow tells her that this spell takes a while to work. "Believe me Buffy, you'll feel it when it starts working." "Oh.... Ohhhhh, you're so very right I feel it starting to work now. Boy do I ever feel, feel you know Willow." Buffy faints right there from the intense feelings now flowing through her body as it starts to glow.
By now Dawn has calmed down and returned to the living room. Picking up the spell Willow had cast on Buffy, Dawn then asks Willow, "Why on Earth does Buffy want to make anything so big?" With her focus on Buffy Willow only says, "What Dawn?" Before she repeats herself Dawn notices that her sister is now glowing and passed out. Raising her voice to be heard over Buffy's moaning "I said, why does Buffy want to make something so big? And how come she's glowing like a gigantic firefly?" Not wanting to say anymore than she has to to Dawn Willow just asks, "Dawn you don't know what you're talking about. That spell doesn't make things gigantic." "Oh no" Dawn says back. "Then why does your translation read SIXTY? Willow tell me what's supposed to be sixty." Willow then says back, "Dawnie, Dawnie, Dawnie it says six not sixty." Dawn then told Willow, "You better look at that again. I know my numbers and there's no question but you have written 60 down not 6." With Buffy's moans now grown so loud they have to shout at each other, Willow says, "let's go outside and I'll show you you're wrong."
Outside a couple of minutes later, Willow has just re-translated the section about size and still insists that it's 6 and not 60. Dawn then reminds Willow that the Babylonians used a sexagesimal (60 base) system and not the decimal system we use today. Willow ponders on that for a few seconds and then a light bulb goes off in her head. She has just realized that Dawn is right! Willow then says, "Oh Oh. When she wakes up Buffy's is really going to be mad at me. Dawn help me drag her out of your house, while you still have one. Don't ask questions, just do it and then throw all of her clothes out in the back yard, too." So the two of them succeed in dragging a suddenly much heavier Buffy and all her clothes are outside before the spell really kicks in. Several hours later, after the sun has set Buffy's body starts rapidly expanding. As it does it begins squeaking like a balloon ready to burst. But fortunately for her, Buffy doesn't explode while she's growing to become a little over 60 feet tall. It's now late enough that no one will notice Buffy's new height until the morning.
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