Dawn takes Buffy inside the house. Buffy is still in shock. Buffy goes throughout the house, and up the stairs. Dawn takes Buffy into the bathroom to clean the dirt off her. Buffy walks away as Dawn is trying to button her shirt. Dawn tells Buffy that Giles left.

The front door opens and Spike is yelling at dawn upstairs. Dawn comes down, and Spike sees Buffy, and thinks that she is the Buffybot at first. He asks her what did she do. He notices her hands, and figured she clawed her way out of her coffin. Spike takes Buffy into the living room to take care of her hands. Dawn goes to get bandages.

Willow and the gang come in, and find Buffy. Spike leaves. They start throwing questions at her. Dawn realizes that they did this, that they cast a spell. Dawn tells them to back off. Buffy just wants to go to sleep.

As Xander and Anya are leaving, Spike is waiting outside. Spike is upset because they didn't include him. He questions Willow's intentions, and says that there are always consequences with magic. Spike takes off.

Buffy is in her room. Willow and Tara are getting ready for bed. Willow called Giles, and he is on his way back. Willow is a little worried, because Buffy isn't grateful they brought her back.

Buffy is in her old room, and sees the pictures of all her friends turn into skeletons. She closes her eyes and the pictures are ok.

Willow and Tara are awoken by Buffy yelling at them, and throwing glass at the wall, above their heads. Willow gets up to turn on the light, and there is no one there. There's no glass either. They check on Bufy and she's asleep. They see something moving under the walls, (like a little rat underneath the carpet) and decide to call Xander.

The phone rings while Anya is trying to wake Xander up. It's Willow saying they were just attacked by what they thought was Buffy. Anya gets up, and then walks back into the living room while Xander is on the phone. She is carrying a knife and scratching it across her face. Her eyes are white, and she is sadistically laughing. Xander sees her, and then she drops to the floor. The object scurries away.

The next day Xander and Anya are talking to Willow and Tara. Anya brings up that this object could be a hitchhiker that rode in with Buffy. Their plan is to kill the beast. Buffy walks over, and Anya tells her about the demon. Buffy tells them about the skeletons she saw. Xander says that they will fix it.

At the magic shop, they are investigating demons that can move trans - dimensionally. Buffy says she misses Giles, and leaves to go patrol. Dawn is telling Buffy that she'll be safe. Then Dawn's eyes turn white as she leaves.

Anya brings in coffee. Dawn turns around, possessed, talking about the blood of the lamb. She then breaths fire, and collapses. Xander puts out the fire. Tara checks on Dawn, and she comes too. The object scurried away.

Meanwhile, Spike is in his cave, punching rock. His knuckles start bleeding. He goes up to find that Buffy has come to visit him.

In the shop, Xander is trying to question Tara about Willow 's objectivity in raising Buffy. Then, Willow figures out that the demon is a Tara Genesis. This was a demon that was created when Buffy was brought back. The demon has no shape in their dimension, and does not have a body so it's borrowing their body. Willow says that the demon is linked to their spell and that they can't destroy it. Dawn starts getting upset, and says they can't take Buffy away from her.

Willow then reads that the demon is temporary, and says that it will dissipate and can't live unless it kills Buffy. The demon possesses Xander and says thanks for the tip then scurries away to get Buffy.

Buffy gets home and is attacked by the demon. It can hit her, but she can't affect it. It has no form. Xander is driving to Buffy's with Anya and Dawn, but is not driving fast enough. Willow and Tara are making a spell to make the demon more solid so Buffy can fight it. Xander , Anya, and Dawn run into Buffy's room and she tells them to take Dawn out. The demon becomes solid, and Buffy cuts it's head off while Xander, Anya and Dawn are still there. So it's over.

The next day Dawn is leaving the house and Buffy runs out to give her lunch. Dawn says that all the gang wants is to see Buffy happy. Buffy goes into the magic shop and tells the gang that she was in hell and thank you for bringing her back. Willow hugs her, and Xander joins in.

Buffy goes outside and Spike is in the shade. He is going to leave but can't because its daylight. Buffy tells Spike that she wasn't in Hell. She told him that she was in a place that was warm, and a place where she was loved. She was happy, and then her friends tore her out, and brought her back to this existence, where its hard to get through every moment, and that there's so much violence. She said she couldn't be able to ever know of what she has lost as she walks away. Spike sits in amazement.